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Harold Pinter passes: the death of a great artist who hated us
I will never forget the first time I saw a Harold Pinter play. I was sixteen, spending the summer before my freshman year in college in London because I had the good fortune to have a high school friend who had a publisher father with a branch office there. That father put us both to work that vacation, allegedly stacking books in the stockroom. Actually - spoiled brats knowing we couldn't be fired - we spent most of our time gambling on the greyhounds at Wembley or attending shows on the West End. In those days you could stand in the back for about thirty-five cents.
It was 1960 - a great time in the London theater. Among the productions we saw that summer were Bernard Miles in Brecht's Galileo at the Mermaid, Ionesco's Rhinoceros starring Laurence Olivier and various productions at the Royal Court of John Osborne fame, not to mention several almost legendary Shakespeare performances at the National and the Aldywch with the likes of Ralph Richardson and Michael Redgrave. But standing out over all of them in my memory was Donald Pleasance in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker.
That was my introduction to Pinter - and I have been in awe of him as a playwright ever since. (And impressed with his screenwriting as well.) He took the Theater of the Absurd out of the metaphorical realms of Beckett and Ionesco and melded it with a reality that made it more immediate, somehow meshing with our daily lives. It also became more threatening and provocative as it became more real. His gift for dialog dwarfed everyone writing in English until the arrival of Tom Stoppard and was in a sense more original than Stoppard's (great as he is). Pinter's list of brilliant plays and screenplays goes on and on from The Birthday Party and The Homecoming to The Servant and the superb adaptation of Hartley's The Go-Between.


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Emotions can be hard to express and difficult to understand. Not only are you trying to manage your own emotions as a single mom, but you are aware of the emotions packed tightly into each of your children.
Hebrews 6:19 comforts us, "This hope we have as Emotional stability is important to m anaging the single mom life well. However, emotions can be unpredictable. Like theweather, our emTagsotinaol state an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast…" These are encouraging words that give security and stability. When you feel tossed about by the strong winds of emotions, breathe and rest in what is holding you steady – HOPE. This kind of hope is the only thing that will calm your soul regardless of how overpowering the storm is. This hope is the only hope that can withstand the earthquake of circumstances that will change the landscape of your life.
What is this hope? This hope is understanding that He never changes. Your Heavenly Father promises to "never leave you" (Hebrews 13:5). He can never un-see you. He is El-Roi, the God-Who-Sees-Me (Genesis 16:13). This hope is knowing you are the apple of His eye (Psalm 17:8).
This hope is resting in His omniscience. He is all knowing. He knows not only the emotions you feel and why you feel the way you do, but He also knows how to settle your soul. He knows you better than you know yourself (I John 3:20b). He knows what has happened in your past, and He knows your current situation. You don't have to fret over the future because He already knows that, too.
This hope gives perspective that will lead you to your next steps. Because this hope is "sure and steadfast", you can trust where it will lead you. "…When my heart is overwhelmed; lead me to the rock that is higher than I" (Psalm 61:2). You do not have to walk in fear because He has gone before you and He knows the path you take. "My steps have held fast to Your paths. My feet have not slipped" (Psalm 17:5).
This sure and steadfast hope births expectant faith, an immoveable faith. This assurance is the purpose of hope anchoring our soul, to be immoveable. Emotions, like the waves of the ocean, remind us to never underestimate their power. God, our anchor, is all-powerful and is more powerful than the emotions that can become unsteady. To be immoveable is the result of a faith that is anchored in hope, an expectant faith that thrives in complete security. "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" (Hebrews 11:1).
Whether your emotions are settled or in-the-midst of relentless storms, you are anchored with HOPE.
H – HE never changes
O- your OMNISCIENT Father will settle you
P – PERSPECTIVE that leads you to the Rock
E- EXPECTANT faith that is immoveable
Joy Anisa realized years ago that with a fabulous group of friends, a good pair of Spanx, a great cup of coffee, strong hair spray, and being deeply rooted in God's Word the storms of life could be passed through. If only life could be made of such simple ingredients… While fabulous friends are a treasure of life, being rooted in God's Word is THE necessity to weathering the storms. All the other things in life usually just help us feel good about ourselves.
Joy would have never dreamed that her life would be filled with such incredible sadness that comes with loss. She never would have imagined that she would experience the personal effects of emotional and mental abuse, the silent killer of the soul. She is in awe of how God is the keeper of her soul and He has kept what she committed to Him. He would not allow her soul to be destroyed!
Joy Anisa is married to Jeff, a bi-vocational pastor and they live in Conyers, GA. Their oldest daughter, Meighan, is serving for a year with the London City Mission in London, England. Their son, Caid, is a sophomore at Eagles Landing Christian Academy and plays football. A graduate of She Speaks with Proverbs 31 Ministries, Joy's story will inspire, encourage, and bring laughter through the tears.
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Prostate cancer is disease that effect one of the most important glands of man's body. Prostate is located under the bladder and urethra, a canal for passing urine and semen, goes directly through it. Prostate provides reproductive function producing liquid that together with sperm and some other liquids makes up semen.
Most forms of prostate cancer develop slowly and without any symptom till advanced stage. The main risk factor is ago. According to some sources prostate cancer effect as much as 80% of men but most of them died in older age never knowing they had prostate cancer. When prostate cancers starts revealing it, you may experience the following symptoms:
Many of those symptoms can relate to other diseases, so if you have some you better to see a doctor for through examination.
There are some specific tests for prostate cancer that help to reveal it early:
There are a number of classifications of prostate cancer but the main idea is to define severity of disease. Not all of prostate cancers lead to death and some of them do not require surgery. For some types watchful waiting is enough. Studying of human genome showed that men who have faulty BRCA2 gene tend more likely to develop aggressive fast spreading form of prostate cancer. Presently, Gleason Score is considered the best system to determine aggressiveness of prostate cancer based on patient's tests result. Gleason score higher than 8 is straight indication for immediate measures.
Prostate cancer can be treated in many ways both invasive and non-invasive. Your doctor will decide what kind of therapy is proper for you depending on your examination results.
Among non-invasive treatments for prostate cancer you could name:
Presently, radiation therapy is mostly used for advanced prostate cancer. Radiologic approach to cancer therapy has been developing for many years and nowadays it significantly differs from the methods used 20-30 years ago. Now radiologists use precisely focused radiation but not expose to X-ray large areas that allow not to damage neighboring healthy tissues. But despite innovative radiologic techniques, surgical treatment of prostate cancer is still in demand.
Radical prostatectomy is total prostate removal. It can be done with different method. If a surgeon performs open surgery, there are two types of approaches:
Another alternative is minimally invasive surgery:
Although prostate cancer is the most common among male population of the earth, its survival rates quite optimistic. According to cancer.org survival rates for prostate cancer are:
When we talk about 5-years survival rate that means that after 5 year a man diagnosed with prostate cancer is still alive. The same is right for 10 years and 15 years accordingly. As you see from above figures, prostate cancer survivors can win a competition for the most long living cancer patient comparing to the other cancers.
As prostate cancer is the less life treating among the cancers, many prostate cancer clinics consider their main goal is improving quality of patient's life. That means not only to live without pain and discomfort but also to preserve erectile function as much as possible. Though more than 50% of cases of prostate cancer are in age group after 70, it starts occurring in men from 45 and it is important for them to keep their sexual and reproductive function.
According to some researches erectile dysfunction which is one of possible complications prostate cancer therapy is less present in patients who undergone to radiation therapy rather those who had surgery. The team of Cancer Center Braunschweig continuously improves quality of our service and considers using innovative methods. We try to give you the best of our experience and the latest technologies.


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How Do You Connect With the College?
Members can tailor their interactions with the ACR more than ever before, based on interests, career path, subspecialty, and more.
Truly valuable organizations provide a community that allows dynamic access to information and interaction between members. The Internet has dramatically changed how all of us connect. And the ACR is keeping pace, offering members a variety of ways to interact in our College's digital space: websites, social media, ACR Engage community discussions, and of course, email.
Redesigned Website
The newest digital destination is our flagship member website — acr.org — which has undergone a major redesign guided by survey input from nearly 1,000 members and user analytics to show how members are interacting with the website. The updated site launched in December and is expected to attract more than 2 million visitors annually. I hope by now you have had an opportunity to experience some of the new website features: improved navigation, a robust search engine that "learns" from users, trending news updates, and an individualized "My ACR Dashboard," featuring ACR membership and CME status.
Social Media
The College maintains numerous Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram channels focused on a variety of topics and member interests. Dedicated social media channels share content for residents and fellows, early career and young professional members, attendees and alumni of the American Institute for Radiologic Pathology®, Image Wisely®, the JACR®, the Radiology Leadership Institute® (RLI), Mammography Saves Lives®, the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute®, Radiology Advocacy Network, and RADPAC. More than 19,000 followers interact with ACR monthly on Twitter, by retweeting, sharing, liking, and commenting on our posts.
In addition, the Voice of Radiology blog features news about advocacy and economics, the ACR Data Science Institute™ blog focuses on AI and machine learning topics, the JACR blog expands on journal topics, and the ACR Bulletin website hosts all magazine content plus bonus online-only posts.
Videos and Podcasts
The ACR YouTube channel features more than 500 videos that have been viewed more than 51,000 times. The RLI publishes a popular series of podcasts on timely subjects relating to the management and business of radiology. The JACR also produces the monthly Radiology Firing Line podcast, which brings in leaders in the specialty to discuss controversial topics.
Advocacy in Action, Quality Care News, and Case in Point™ are just some of the regularly published ACR e-newsletters that are available to members. You can pick and choose which emails you receive by updating your preferences via a link at the bottom of any ACR email. You can also keep web content personalized by updating your interest preferences on the website's "My ACR Dashboard."
Print Publications
The JACR and ACR Bulletin publish print and digital editions. Both host extra content online, in addition to all the print articles. Each publication brings timely, actionable content to members while also offering a forum for physicians to write and publish articles that further the dialog around the specialty. The magazine and journal offer resources to members far beyond the once-a-month issue arriving in mailboxes.
Engage Community
The ACR's online community provides members with a robust platform to discuss relevant issues and share information on topics affecting the profession. Since the launch more than 18 months ago, users have started more than 1,300 discussion threads across all the communities on Engage. In addition to the radiology-focused Open Forum, in the Breakroom section members discuss non-work topics, including travel tips, hobbies, and creative pursuits.
The most recent addition to Engage has been chapter-led communities that enable chapter members to connect in a space all their own.
Council Connection
In an effort to enable all members to connect with their Council representatives, acr.org now provides real-time information on Council members. Over the next few months, you'll be able to connect with your councilors and alternate councilors to share your input on resolutions to be considered at the 2018 ACR Annual Meeting and make your voice heard throughout the year.
The ACR provides its members a broad array of ways to interact with the College and chapter leadership, learn from colleagues, express their interests, and network with their peers. It is integral that members determine their interests within the College and select their desired level of participation, so that ACR communications rise above the background noise of the Internet. The Commission on Membership and Communications is committed to providing you the opportunity to connect in ways that are meaningful to you.
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The UK is selling record quantities of arms – including missiles, bombs and grenades – to countries listed by the Foreign Office as having dubious human rights records. Several have been accused of war crimes or suppressing popular protest.
More than £3bn of British-made weaponry was licensed for export last year to 21 of the Foreign Office's 30 "human rights priority countries" – those identified by the government as being where "the worst, or greatest number of, human rights violations take place", or "where we judge that the UK can make a real difference". Listed countries which last year bought British arms and military equipment include:
■ Saudi Arabia, which has been accused of perpetrating war crimes in Yemen;
■ Bahrain, which used troops to quell protests following the Arab spring;
■ Burundi, which is being investigated by the UN for human rights violations;
■ The Maldives, which in 2015 jailed its former president, Mohamed Nasheed, for 13 years following what critics said was a politically motivated show trial.
Figures shared with the Observer show that in 2014 the UK licensed just £170m of arms to 18 of the 27 countries then on the "priority countries" list. The massive increase in sales was largely attributable to sales of weapons to Saudi Arabia. The largest export licence granted was for £1.7bn of fighter jets, agreed in May 2015. In July 2015 the UK approved the export of £990m of air-to-air missiles. In September, it approved the sale of £62m of bombs to the country. All three sales took place after the bombing of Yemen began in March 2015, prompting concerns that civilian buildings have been targeted in widespread human rights violations.
In 2015 the UK also approved licences of £84m of military equipment to Egypt, despite concerns about the country's direction since the July 2013 coup that ousted its elected president, Mohamed Morsi. Figures show that in July 2015, a month after the UK refused export licences for the sale to Egypt of components for machine guns and training small arms ammunition, it approved the sale of sniper rifles, ammunition, pistols, body armour and assault rifles. "This is a clear case of the government saying one thing and doing another, and exposes the blatant doublespeak and hypocrisy that lies at the heart of UK foreign policy," said Andrew Smith of the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT), which compiled the export sales figures.
"These arms sales are going to countries that even the Foreign Office accepts are run by some of the most brutal and oppressive regimes in the world," he said. "The humanitarian situation in many of these countries is only getting worse, and yet the arms sales are increasing. They aren't just providing military support for human rights abusers; they are sending a strong political support too."
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Crimespree Interview with Susanna Calkins
Susanna will be signing books on tour including MAY 3rd at 7:00 Pm at BOSWELL Book Company in Milwaukee
Crimespree: With A DEATH ALONG THE RIVER FLEET you are now on your fourth book and book tour. Do you enjoy meeting fans?
Susanna : I love meeting readers. Not just those who read my book but those interested in reading crime fiction, historicals, and—let's face it—people who just enjoy reading. There's something really great about connecting with others who get excited about the same things you do, such as great plot twists or the most imaginative place to hide a body.
Do you enjoy doing the research for your books?
Susanna: I really do. It's why I pursued a Ph.D. in English history. I have always been inspired by the strange and odd things in history. Now as a writer, I just have so much fun incorporating these details into my stories. I mean, who wouldn't want to know more about murder ballads, scold's bridles (masks to keep women from talking), bloodletting techniques, eye portraits, and public executions?
How has the writing experience changed for you between book one and now?
Susanna: I wrote my first novel, A Murder at Rosamund's Gate, over the course of ten years, with multiple drafts, many re-writes, and a great deal of rethinking. I always joke that I wrote two hundred pages of that novel without even knowing whodunit! I understand how to structure a mystery now, and I think I do a better job with pacing and building tension. I can hardly believe it, but I wrote the first draft of my fourth book in only five months. I already had the world and characters in place; I just needed to think through the plot. And in those moments of self-doubt, it was definitely easier to look at the other three books on my shelf and say, "Hey you did it before, you can do it again!"
If you could go back in time and give 13-year old Susanna advice what would you say and would she listen?
Susanna: Well, that's a fascinating conundrum! The problem is that 13-year-old Susie was very rule-abiding, and I would go back and tell her to quit following all the rules. She would do it, of course, because I told her to, but her mind would be BLOWN. I think it would be good for her. But of course, her rule-abiding decisions did lead me to who I am today, so who knows what would have happened if she hadn't followed rules…. Now whose mind is blown?
Do you self edit after a first draft or look for outside eyes before you go through a second time?
Susanna: My preference is to wait until I have a decent first draft of the entire novel before letting anyone else read it. In fact, I didn't even tell anyone—not even my husband—that I was writing a book when I was working on my first one (which took me ten years to write!). But my husband proudly calls himself my "alpha reader;" because he is always the first to give me feedback from a reader's perspective. After I take his edits, I then send the manuscript to a trusted group of friends who give me additional feedback. At that point, I feel comfortable sending it on to my editor and/or agent.
What is your writing process like? Do you write every day? Have a target word count?
Susanna: I do not keep a very consistent writing schedule, mainly because of my day job and having two kids. So, I'm pretty psyched if I can write even one paragraph during the week (and that's total!). But this means I never have writer's block; by the time I'm ready to write, I've usually got a scene or two in my head ready to go. I write any time I can catch even 30 minutes free, or at night. When I get closer to my deadlines, I will start writing everyday though, in a panicky haze that usually seems to work for me.
What has been the coolest by product of being an author so far?
Susanna: It's been a thrill meeting authors who I've long admired, like Anne Perry and Charles Todd, and getting to be on panels with them. I've also gotten to do some awesome things, like speak to my son's English class about writing, speak to historians about historical fiction, and run a critique program for MWA-Midwest (an awesome organization!) Also, not only have I gotten to explore new cities by attending mystery conventions, but I've learned so much more about Chicago, Milwaukee and the Midwest more generally, from travelling to so many bookstores and libraries. I truly feel very lucky to get to do these things.
What is one thing that is ALWAYS in your refrigerator?
Susanna: Even when we don't have milk or cheese, we always have a crisper drawer full of beer and a few bottles of white wine. That sounds bad, doesn't it? I'm sure it's because we just go through milk and cheese so much faster than alcohol. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.


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Parental Rights in the State of Florida.
Rep. Michael Bileca has courageously undertaken our cause in the House of Representatives to sponsor Parental Rights Bill HB 737. In the Senate, Sen. Thad Altman has done the same with SB 1532. We are thankful for these legislators and their efforts. Please extend your gratitude to them by clicking their names above, and sending them a thank you note via e mail.
This is a huge development in the story line of advancing the cause of Parental Rights in Florida. This bill revises existing Florida Law to establish the right of a parent to make decisions regarding upbringing, education and care of their child AS A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT. It does so all the while while protecting kids at risk, because it continues to allow the state to protect children when they are truly in jeopardy. But this law requires specific findings to be produced to overcome the fundamental right parents would have. It takes away the leeway that currently exists for state agencies to act arbitrarily. To pass this legislation, it will require Passage through certain committees. The individuals who chair these committees decide what bills get discussed, and thus passed through to the house for a vote. So this next step is critical to the life of this effort for 2015.
CALL TO ACTION Contact the three Legislators below via e mail IMMEDIATELY. These three legislators chair committees that the 2015 Parental Rights Bill (HB 737) needs to pass through. Civil Justice Committee Chair: Rep. Kathleen Passidomo -R Email: [email protected] Judiciary Committee Chair: Rep. Charles McBurney - R Email: [email protected] Children, Families and Seniors Subcommittee Chair Rep Gayle Harrell - R Email: [email protected] What should I write? Here is some suggested Language for your e-mail. Add edits as needed to personalize if desired. But remember - keep it short and to the point. Lengthy e mails lose their power because they are not likely to be read by the Representative or their staff. Subject Line: Committee Chair - Please Support HB 737 Parental Rights Bill Body: Dear Rep. (Their Last Name), This e mail is to express my strong support for HB 737 - The Parental Rights Bill. I support it because I believe that Parents should have a fundamental right to direct the care, upbringing and education of their children. This bill has been assigned to the committee that you currently chair. I respectfully ask that you allow HB 737 (Parental Rights Bill) to be discussed and voted on in your committee. I look forward to seeing HB 737 Parental Rights Bill passed as Law in Florida this year! Sincerely, (Your Name) For The Cause of Liberty, Jim & Patti Sullivan Florida State Coordinators


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|The Quran is not a sacred and religious book, but a violent book, full of hatred and discrimination.
|The Quran is a horrible book which provokes a community it calls Muslims to undertake Jihad, kill innocent people and destroy the peace of the world.
|The Quran is responsible for all the terrorism we have seen in recent years in which thousands of people lost their lives.
|The Quran is a book which contains evil teachings and forces its believers to capture the entire world and total power at any price.
|The Quran is a book which legally permits and incites hatred and violence, and for that reason it is not compatible with the modern world, including Spain.
|The Quran is a book which directly discriminates between human beings.
|The Quran is a book which does not allow either freedom of expression or religious freedom.
|The Quran is a book which causes women to suffer and be tortured through the totality of its injustice and macho laws.
|The Quran is a book which, rather than teaching unity, teaches disunity, and in this way does not allow its believers to form friendships with those who are not Muslims, because in the eyes of Quran they are infidels.
|The Quran is a major threat to the free society of Spain. A book which clearly preaches the messages of jihad, killing, hate, discrimination and revenge. For that reason it cannot be compatible with the Spanish system in any sense. It is a book totally contrary to what the law and constitution of Spain say, and it incites hatred and violence in our country.


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Rebecca (Rebecca Hall), already established as a kind and long-suffering sort, sits before a man on a blind date. She offers a frank statement about growing up in New York, accepting the good of such an upbringing, acknowledging the drawbacks. With the words barely out of her mouth, the stock asshole sitting opposite her pours out his disdain for the city as a place to raise children. He then proceeds, printout in hand, to take issue with Rebecca's hair color, rankled at the perceived difference to the color indicated in the profile that he's holding. She politely points out that there really is no misrepresentation, but he will have none if it.
That rencontre, early in Nicole Holofcener's Please Give, is reminiscent of a scene in her 2001 film, Lovely and Amazing, the one in which the Emily Mortimer character, Elizabeth, asks the man with whom she's sleeping to critique her body, which be proceeds to do with dispassionate thoroughness.
Both scenes would seem to strike a chord with women who have had to suffer the cold scrutiny of men. The problem, as Ms. Holofcener proceeds (or regresses), with this, her fourth feature, is the power of any such insight or candor is divested of its power by the complete lack of nuance in the characters and the exchange. This continues to be a pattern with Holofcener; she increasingly writes not so much characters as strongly evocative types and sends them crashing into one another. She does generally create more fully rounded female characters, although I'm not sure that's the case here.
Rebecca later mentions her "computer date" to a patient. The problem is that people don't usually show up on such dates with computer printouts in hand. The problem is that the male half of the date might as well be a computer himself for human complexity with with he is imbued, which is to say none.
Faring only slightly better are Please Give's main cast of characters, Kate and Alex, two successful Manhattan antiques dealers, their daughter Abby, neighbor Andra (its her adjacent apartment that the couple own, not-so-secretly covet and will possess when the cranky old lady finally dies) and her two granddaughters Rebecca and Mary. The two granddaughters come in contact with the family in seeing after their grandmother, though it is the good Rebecca who does most of the work. Mary eventually stumbles into an unlikely affair with the older, schlubbish Alex.
Kate and Alex would seem to have a comfortable, if passionless marriage. The main source of discord on the home front is between Kate and daughter Abby. The battleground in the age-old dustup between mother and teenage daughter is a $200-plus pair of jeans. As Abby sees her mother raking in money, dressing in pricey clothes and liberally dispensing fives and twenties to people on the street, she begins to demand that charity begin, or at least make a stop, at home. Unfortunately, consumed in her own feelings of insecurity, Kate seems to have forgotten how utterly important are the right pair of jeans to a teenager who's whose got body issues and a complexion in revolt.
The two sisters, Rebecca and Mary (Amanda Peet) are essentially behavioral opposites and tellingly work in very different areas of beauty and health care. It's Peet's Mary, despite her preternatural orange permatan, that might be Please Give's most sympathetic would-be character. As the person assigned the role of truth teller, she's given virtually no tact, but her general honesty is refreshing in a film that seems unclear as to its own motives.
Catherine Keener, is as ever, Holofcener's main character, if not her stand-in. Keener has made a career creating an ever-interesting array of real, complex women, from the vaguely noble to the borderline psychopathic (her hilarious turn as the HR woman from hell in Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal). It's to her credit that she's able to wring something human out of Kate, as Holofcener hasn't given her a three-dimensional person to work with so much as a set of contradictory impulses, which seem to fall generally into a desire to live in monied comfort and the need to be absolved for it. Her habit of giving money to homeless people seems one aspect of the film's title, but her desire to help seems to extend no further than it takes ease her guilt.
Kate's need to feel better about herself, to address that guilt, blinds her to seeing the potential beneficiaries of her philanthropy as anything more than one-dimensional wretches (the apple of character not falling far from the writerly tree). Returning from dinner with her wife and husband, she taps an African American man on the shoulder and asks him if he would like the rest of her meal. A seemingly nice gesture, but the problem is that he's just a guy waiting for a table himself. Oops, awkward moment. Apparently, she's been studying at the Woody Allen/Larry David Institute For Racial Awareness; at least when this happens in Curb Your Enthusiasm, we get a laugh at the expense of the clueless white person.
I suppose one can credit Holofcener for having so many of Kate's self-serving attempts at philanthropy blow up in her face. But it's not pleasant to watch - never more so than when Kate takes a second crack at volunteering but leaves a gymnasium full of children (presumably with Down syndrome) in tears because she finds them all so sad, only to be comforted by one of the kids she found so pathetic - and it's not particularly enlightening.
The provenance of why we give, be it love or money, is usually much murkier and self-serving that most of us would care to admit. That, like a variety of interesting ideas and situations, Holofcener sort of throws on screen without fully or honestly examining them. Her trying penchant to bring forth some prickly topic and then take the easy way out amounts to a failure of writing, a failure of conviction, or both.
Mr. Computer Date is not the only cardboard cutout asshole in Please Give. The film is rich with them. There's even a motif of creeps calling out other creeps, unaware of the irony of the gesture, whether it's a hostile guy in the store referring to Kate and Alex as "ambulance chasers" for the predatory nature of their work, or a woman in a boutique screaming "LOSER!" at Mary when she realizes Mary has essentially been stalking her, trying to determine what she was "thrown over for" by the man they have in common.
The irony and hypocrisy of so many pots calling kettles black encompasses even Kate, as she discovers a table in another dealer's store that she sold him. She's chagrined that he's added a couple of extra thousand to the price, when her markup from the unwitting man who sold it to her was probably significantly more. Kate later expresses her frustration to Alex with the incident in more broad, philosophical terms, but it appears the same transparent discomfort with having money, how she came to get it and the fact that the same pattern might be used against her.
Even worse, but all too consistent with the director's ham-fisted approach, displays of people behaving badly are juxtaposed with fairly blissful moments starring the kindly Rebecca. She gazes out at a majestic swath of upstate leaves in all their varied, changing glory...cut to Alex taking Mary from behind while she looks at a small statue, clearly bored. Witness one of those unpleasant exchanges of jerk v. jerk and then cut sharply to Rebecca kissing Eugene against some building, a ray of sunlight across them like a benediction, piano notes falling like so many sensitively tossed rose petals. It's a straight out of film school attempt to telegraph a complexity which is not really there.
Our young and diminutive friend, Eugene (Thomas Ian Nicholas), by the way, is another of the writer/director's non-character male characters from these last couple of outings (including the previous Friends With Money). As a foil to stock asshole, he's stock sensitive guy. Having invested him with requisite decency, there seems to have been no thought to giving him a brain. He's given little to say and what little we do hear makes us grateful enough for it. At one point, during an initial date, he comments on Rebecca's job assisting women with mammograms as something of a male fantasy. Really? Most of Holofcener's men would seem to be in need a trip to see the Wizard, whether to pick up a heart, a brain, or a better bank account. She might well agree, although I suspect we would differ on the culprit.
And it's absolute nadir, Please Give has Kate sitting in her antiques store, talking up the tacky bookcases she has recently bought out of pity from a brother (another Holofcener vet, Kevin Corrigan, from the superior Walking and Talking) and sister out of pity. While the potential buyers comtemplate the bookcases, Kate looks over to an even more tacky chair from the same lot, remembering an earlier conversation about furniture being haunted. The brother had told her that the chair was the very one in which his mother died. A wry smile appears on Kate's face and I thought, "Don't do it."
But alas, Holofcener did. In a gesture not even worthy of a good made-for-television movie, the poor old woman's ghostly image appears long enough to be blessed by Kate and then evaporates back to the netherworld. Lucky, lucky dead woman. Though let us hope that she's not subjected to anything like the film's uber senstive piano and acoustic guitar score, which deserves to be releated to the purgatorial coffee shop or yoga studio whence it came.
I found myself watching Rebecca Hall, thinking I preferred seeing her when given a more complex character in Woody Allen's Vicky, Christina, Barcelona. Take a moment to chart Woody Allen's dispiriting representation of women (or humanity for that matter) for the past twenty years or so and consider the irony of that statement.
Or simply regard a brief scene late in Please Give in which Kate returns a vase to the man from whom she bought furniture at the beginning of the film. Her ever-mounting guilt has driven her to return what was thought to be a worthless vase that is actually worth hundreds of dollars. Of course, Kate doesn't return any of the thousands of dollars from the table acquired from the same clueless guy for a song. The man takes the vase with some incredulity and tells her that she's done something unusual. Kate walks away, guilt temporarily assuaged. Then we hear a crash. What's this? Before any ambiguity can mount, we immediately hear an expletive. He dropped the vase. And that is irony, Nicole-Holofcener-style. It crashes.


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My, oh my. How time flies. This little...er, big guy is growing by the second! But, yes. He is 8 weeks old today. Crrazzzy!
I mean, really. I don't remember life flying by this fast when I had Alex. And it certainly moved at a snail's pace when I had Andrew. But, luckily he is still a "tiny baby" for a moment.
Though he does think he is a big kid... He loves to play more and more these days.We are trying to do more tummy time since the Little Mister is not a big fan of it. It's good for him to gain that neck strength, but he is just not in the mood for it like my other two were.
And, speaking of being bigger...we are finally getting on a routine since be better again. Ugh, having 2 sick boys (Alex and Austin) and a sick husband is NOT fun - especially during Christmas. But, we are all well and good now. Thank goodness! He is up to eating his 6 oz per feeding again. Much, much better than 2oz last week. That was rough. But, again, thankful it is over. We are also almost done with out 2am/3am feedings - YAY!!
And on that sleep note...he thinks it's pretty nifty to be able to fall asleep anywhere.
At any time...even holding on to his binky...
And fall asleep in the Moby Wrap. Which is quite nice on cold days. Love that little snuggle bug!
Side note: I'm attempting to be IN the pictures more instead of BEHIND the camera. The sun was rather bright this day. You wouldn't know it though since it was a rather lovely 36 or some bologna that day.
Austin is pretty laid back compared to the
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Sometimes we just have to take things back to the basics. I follow Curly Nikki on Twitter, and noticed an interesting article she posted this morning about the pros and cons of washing your natural hair in both hot and cold water. This intrigued me because I'm the girl who showers in nearly scolding hot temperatures because I love the tinge it leaves behind on my skin (you can relate right?). Often times I wash my hair in the same temperature, so naturally I was curious to read this article on the benefits and setbacks of doing so.
Here's what I discovered while reading:
Hot Water
PROS: Rinses Away Dirt and Oil
-Hot water and steam naturally open the pores, which is great for exfoliating and removing the oil from your skin. Warm water allows the dirt and hair product that has accumulated on your scalp to escape the pores and be rinsed away.
CON: May Result in Overly Porous Hair
-Hot water opens up the pores and the cuticle of your hair shaft. That being said, rinsing your hair with hot water too often can leave the hair overly porous, causing it to be dry and brittle.
-Just as hot water helps to rinse away oil and dirt, it also strips your hair of its natural oils.
CON: Causes Frizz
-Heat causes frizzy hair, and hot water is no exception. No matter what your hair type, the hair needs moisture to stay frizz free. Because hot water can strip the hair of natural oils, moisture escapes the hair shaft and results in frizz. If your hair is especially prone to frizz, you might want to turn off the hot water.
Cold Water
PRO: Seals The Moisture In Your Hair
-Opposite of hot water, cold water closes the pores and prevents from entering and accumulating on the scalp. Not only does it close the pores, it also closes the hair cuticle, sealing in moisture from the conditioner that you applied to your hair.
-Don't forget, more moisture means less frizz! Cold water retains your hair's moisture, leaving your hair less prone to frizz.
PRO: Increases Shine
-Sometimes stylists like to finish blow drying with a blast of cold air because it leaves the hair shiny. The same concept can be applied to a cold water rinse. Cold water is known to smooth the hair by closing the scales of your hair cuticle, which in turn prevents frizz and adds luster to your locks.
CON: Flattens Hair
-Because cold water leaves the hair smooth, it can also flatten your hair if you have a naturally thin texture. If your hair lacks in volume, or if you live in a particularly arid environment, rinsing your hair with cold water might result in flat hair and curls with no bounce.
So what's the verdict? Hot or cold?
Curly Nikki says to use both. She says, "cleanse, condition, and detangle your hair with WARM water, not hot. You don't want to burn your skin and scalp." She also advises, "when you're ready to rinse out the conditioner, turn the dial to COOL and run it over your hair for a final rinse."
These are great informative tips from Curly Nikki! To check out the entire article, visit her site here.


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It's summer time and what better way to have fun than to ride a jet ski in the calm waters. If you've ever ridden a jet ski, you know what an exhilarating experience it can be. The faveable team has rounded up a list of best jet skis, personal watercrafts or a personal submarine (if that's your thing). Hit the link below to check out the best personal watercraft that excites you. On a related note, you can also checkout the 7 Best Electric Bikes this year.
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Centreville's Jong Duk Choi, 19, received probation and a stiff fine Friday in connection with the brutal, baseball-bat bludgeoning of Fairfax's Sea-Hwan "Sean" Chang, who died of his injuries.
Chang, 20, was approached by a group of men, March 3, in the 4700 block of Commons Drive in Annandale, and was beaten on the head with a metal baseball bat. He lay in a coma for three weeks and died March 28 at Inova Fairfax Hospital.
Before Choi's sentencing in Fairfax County Circuit Court, his attorney David Hall said that, except for this incident, his client had never been in trouble and had lived a "remarkable" life.
"He came here as an immigrant from Korea, dropped out of school but realized he couldn't go far without an education, so he got a GED," said Hall. "He learned computers and worked as a computer professional at two jobs, many hours a week."
However, added Hall, "That doesn't excuse his being there with that group. It's a tragic situation, all the way around."
Chang and some of those in the group had fought with each other, the night before the assault — and Chang won — so his attackers tracked down his car the next evening to vandalize it in retaliation. But when Chang came outside and saw the men near his vehicle, they quickly turned their attention from the car to him and another fight ensued.
But this time, Chang lost. Not only was he struck with a bat but, after he fell to the ground, four or five of his assailants closed in and kicked and hit him further. After his death, Fairfax County police charged Donnie Sunbo Shim, 19, of Centreville, with first-degree murder.
But after a two-day trial in Circuit Court, the jury was unable to determine for sure whether it was Shim's blow that killed Chang. So on Aug. 29 it found him guilty instead of the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter and recommended that he serve 24 months in prison. Shim returned to court Oct. 18 and, at that time, Judge Dennis Smith imposed the jury's sentence.
Meanwhile, Choi, of 14508 North Barros Court, also came under police scrutiny. After determining that he, too, was one of Chang's assailants and was involved in the young man's death, police arrested Choi on June 1 and charged him with assault by mob, a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum of a year in jail.
He pleaded guilty, Nov. 7, in Circuit Court to a reduced charge of simple assault (which carries the same penalty as the other charge). Choi then returned to court Friday before Judge Terrence Ney for sentencing.
"There's no evidence that he knew Shim had a baseball bat or was going to use it," argued Hall. "[And] there's no evidence that Choi struck the victim while he was down." But, countered Ney, "Choi did, in fact, strike Chang during that incident."
Actually, said Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Katie Swart, "The commonwealth was generous with [Choi]. The defendant has benefited by having a misdemeanor in this case. Three others were convicted of felonies."
The most serious of those, aside from Shim, was Chong Yi's conviction for manslaughter. He struck Chang with a metal pipe, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years in prison.
Contradicting Hall, Swart said Choi did participate with the others in Chang's beating and "there was evidence that they knew Shim had a bat. They were going to hit his car. [Choi] is the least culpable, but there's no reason to give him less than 364 days — the maximum sentence possible."
If he were sentenced to a full year — 365 days — Choi could possibly have faced deportation. By Friday, he had already served all but 90-some days of that time. Instead of jail, Hall suggested that the judge sentence Choi to a particular program designed to prevent criminals from repeating their offenses in the future.
"He hasn't had a lot of parental supervision throughout his young life, so put him on supervised probation for two years so he can complete the recidivist-prevention program — which would provide him with this supervision," said Hall. "This [crime] was a perfect illustration of the bad decisions young men make when left alone."
Choi then stood and apologized to the victim's family before the judge pronounced sentence. Calling Chang's death a "violent tragedy," Ney said he was "reluctant to have Mr. Choi serve 90 days and be out on his own."
The judge instead sentenced him to 364 days, suspended all that time and placed Choi on two years supervised probation during which he would "complete the recidivist program or a like program." Ney also fined Choi $2,500, payable in six months.
Afterward, Hall said the sentence was a "fair outcome" because it "would give the court two years supervision over [Choi]."


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Friday, December 15, 2006
Task Force a Light of Hope
The task Force made up of Citizens of Chesterfield demonstrated how people working together can create a plan to work for the community. The Task force proposed boundary changes for the new elementary school to open next Fall (Elizabeth Scott) in the Bermuda district. The changes will alleviate some crowding issues in all elementary schools serving the district. Could this be the model for Chesterfield. Get folks who are not running for office or raising money to run to determine the vision of the county and debate the issues and compromise on a suitable plan to benefit the county. I think we are on to something. Let the people solve it and the Board sign it.
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Enrolment: AutoEnrol
Maintained by Mark Ward, Roberto Pinna
Adds functionality to automatically enrol users onto a course, either as they log into your Moodle site or as they acess a course. This plugin is primarily intended for use on courses which you want all users to be able to access but can also be configured for more advanced purposes.
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When added to a course this enrolment plugin can enrol users onto a course automatically, either as they log into your Moodle site or as they click on the course. It is intended for use on site-wide courses such as "Moodle Help" or "Learner Voice".
In addition the plugin has advanced functionality to support autmatically grouping and filtering users based upon their attributes. Depending on how your user accounts are set
up this may help you to give access to certain user groups.
Configuration of the plugin is managed by two permissions which allow administrators to easily control who has access to the plugin.
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- Thu, May 2, 2019, 7:29 PMHi, had high hopes for this plugin and although it works nicely in M3.6 was sorry to find it only has very simple filtering rules ... that is you can only apply 1 filter. Do you have plans to develop this so multiple filters could be applied ... for example autoenrol only part-time AND students on a particular route code (data coming from 2 profile fields)?
- Fri, May 3, 2019, 5:11 PMHi Michael, the simple filter is used with white value to autocreate course groups. I think that is not easy to manage if multiple filter will used. Anyway multifilter is in the roadmap, I can't tell you when it will be released. I'm working on Reservation plugin for now.
- Fri, May 3, 2019, 5:35 PMHi Rob,
if I understand you had configured autoenrol to enrol users on site login.
This is a known issue but I can't solve because is a moodle core issue.
When the user login in he/she is enrolled in autoenrol courses but this is done after moodle setup user info so the user is enrolled but it's not shown in dashboard.
The user need to wait for sometime or logout and login again to get it in the dashboard.
- Tue, May 7, 2019, 6:43 PMHello!
I have the same problem, moodle 3.6.3, autorol configured to enrol on site login, and having the invalidsesskey message.
But in the configuration, when i put "Send course welcome message = NO" the error disappear.
- Thu, May 9, 2019, 8:52 PMHi Ricardo,
did you tested several times with "Send course welcome message" set to Yes and set to No?
Is the problem directly connected with "Send course welcome message" setting?
I'm ask to you a confirm because I tried to reproduce the problem with several user roles Student, Admin, Teacher but I can't get the invalidsesskey error message.
Please help me to catch the bug, give me a detailed report of what you do and with which plugin version.
- Wed, May 15, 2019, 4:58 PMIs it possible to amend/control the group enrolments so that if a group already exists of the same name that was created manually, the plugin adds the new enrolment to this group rather than creating a new group?
- Wed, May 15, 2019, 5:13 PMHi Edd,
groups are identified in autoenrol plugin by Group ID number so you can create groups manually but, when you add autoenrol plugin, you need to popolate the Group ID number with "autoenrol||" .
In this way autoenrol will use the old groups.
- Tue, Jul 16, 2019, 8:50 AMHello -
I recently upgraded to Moodle 3.6.3+, and I am running Auto Enrol 2.1. For the enrollment configuration I am attempting to filter by Department. I add the Department title to a user's profile, and the user does not get automatically enrolled upon login. I am not sure what else I can do. Any ideas what is wrong?
- Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 5:43 PMHello MAG II,
I think you have fallen in a know issue.
The moodle login procedure set the user status before the autoenrol plugin so you see the real enrolments when the user status is reload, tipically on next login.
- Thu, Aug 15, 2019, 8:34 PMGreat Plugin! Thank you.
Is it possible to enable auto enroll in all courses at once, or do I have to select every single course and add the auto-enrolment method?
- Mon, Aug 19, 2019, 4:00 PMHello Adam,
you can enable any enrolment plugins in all new courses in plugin settings. I think there is not a way to do it in old courses other than manually.
- Wed, Oct 2, 2019, 1:45 AMHi guys!
I'm trying your plugin and it looks to be good, but I get few questions:
1. Is it possible to delete this auto enrolment method?
2. Is it possible to manage this auto enrolment method?
3. Is it possible to stop this auto enrolment method?
- Wed, Oct 2, 2019, 2:34 PMHi Olivier,
you can add, delete, manage and disable autoenrol in any course.
Here you find all infos about how to manage an enrol method:
- Wed, Oct 2, 2019, 10:44 PMHi Roberto,
I know than I can manage enrolment method with the "Enrolment method" panel (edit and delete icons), but I didn't see the "auto enrolment method" in this panel. Do I have to do something to show the "auto enrolment method" in the "Enrolment method" panel? I already add this method to my course, I can edit it whem I created it, I can use it, but it didn't show in the panel and I can't see how many users signed with this method.
- Sat, Oct 5, 2019, 12:03 AMHi Olivier,
you need to enable the autoenrol plugin in the administration page:
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There are hundreds of pharmaceuticals in the United States. It can be difficult to know how to dispose of them all safely. There is a difference between proper disposal for over-the-counter medicines, controlled substances, non-controlled medications and hazardous waste pharmaceuticals. Disposing of drugs into the trash or down the sink can lead to environmental contamination
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Despite the pouring rain, 260 volunteers came together Thursday to build a new, colorful playground in El Cajon, and work on eight other community beautification projects.
City of El Cajon spokesperson Monica Zech said the newly-built KaBOOM playground spans a 2,800-square-foot area near the El Cajon Branch Public Library at 201 E. Douglas Ave.
Zech said volunteers began working on the playground around 8 a.m. and were determined to finish the project "rain or shine."
Zech said every KaBOOM! playground has a unique layout and is designed by children to cater to their special interests. Volunteers created this particular park's overall infrastructure in less than six hours, adding swings and other equipment where kids in the community will now play.
Zech said another KaBOOM playground was also being built simultaneously – all the way in Fort Worth, Texas, Thursday – and volunteers at both sites had themselves a little friendly competition to see who could complete their project the fastest while also documenting the progress of their projects via social media.
Throughout the day, points were tallied for each team. Leaders from each city, El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells and Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price also participated in the competition, Zech said, each vowing to wear a T-shirt with the other city's name on it if they racked up less points.
In the end, the volunteers at the El Cajon project site finished their playground an hour ahead of schedule and earned six points to Fort Worth's four points. Price will now wear a T-shirt bearing El Cajon's name and snap a photo to send to Wells.
Zech said volunteers worked eagerly throughout the day even as it rained.
"It rained the whole time - and no one really cared, they worked as if it wasn't raining - and finished in record time," she said, proudly.
Both playground projects were sponsored by the CarMax Foundation and the majority of volunteers were employees from the company.
In addition to the new play space, CarMax also presented the local non-profit organization, Friends of the Library, with a check for $10,000 that will help support the library and its programs for children.
Partnered with KaBOOM!, the CarMax Foundation plans to build 33 playgrounds by the end of 2018, reaching a total of 300,000 kids.
Zech said children should be able to play at this playground in El Cajon within the next week or so, after the cement dries and final touches are completed.


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Pinellas FL County courts find Real ID can be a "Willey" matter
BTC – Adrian Wyllie, the Chair for the Libertarian Party of Florida, has become a burr in the side of the Pinellas County criminal justice system. His offense? Driving without a Real ID certified license in the State of Florida. After over 2 months public provocation, the sheriffs department issued a citation.
Wyllie had his day in court- the results should surprise anyone. We are joined in a discussion with Mr. Wyllie over these current events.
The legal battle over Real ID certified licenses in the State of Florida will continue to be challenged in a recently sponsored Tallahassee based legislation, HB 109 (R-Larry Ahern).
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Libertarian chair faces Pinellas, FL court over Real ID citation
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Monday, September 5, 2011
READ THE PAPER: Microsoft's comment on NSTIC & Real ID
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Book gives managers a software testing reality check
Software testers and quality assurance managers know that perfect software doesn't exist.
Unfortunately their project managers, company executives and legal teams often don't, and these people have "unreasonable expectations," experience "constant disappointments" and make "disastrous decisions" regarding software testing, said Gerald M. Weinberg, author of many IT and software quality books, in our recent phone conversation.
Weinberg wants those people to read his new book, Perfect Software And Other Illusions About Testing.
"This book is designed for people who don't fully know what testing encompasses, but make decisions that affect how and how much software testing is done," said Weinberg.
The current economic downturn and resulting budget cutbacks in software development make informing decision makers and influencers about when, how and why software must be tested even more urgent. While it seems obvious to software testers that cutting software testing is a sure way to produce faulty software, it's not as obvious to managers.
"Management thinks of testing as what is done after the software is developed," Weinberg said. "They schedule testing at the end of the process, and that's the easiest place to cut if there's a cost overrun."
Naturally, that's when the QA manager should step in and explain why testing shouldn't be cut; but often the lack of funds defeats such arguments at the end of a project.
Establishing processes wherein software is tested early and continually is a better practice than testing at the end of development. "There should be more people wearing testing hats at each stage of development, because mistakes made early are very hard to find later," Weinberg said.
Reducing development costs by reducing testing is a penny-wise, pound-foolish approach. More and more, Weinberg said, software-related lawsuits and malpractice cases verdicts come down to what software wasn't tested adequately.
Another common management mistake is not putting software support on the same ledger as development.
"Accurate cost accounting takes into account post-release costs," Weinberg said. "Usually, the cost of fixing errors doesn't get attributed to development managers and project managers. It should be."
Weinberg hopes this book will help managers get "tuned into reality" about software testing. The key is getting it into the right people's hands, he said, noting that testers and QA pros may want to keep it handy to do just that.
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Made empanadas for a get-together last night. They were a hit; I think I'll try and make them again some other time now that I got the kinks out. In hopes that you can learn from my mistakes, here is a list of things I forgot to do:
- Thaw the puff pastry. I'd allow about 20-30 minutes for this.
- Roll out the pastry before you cut it into 4" squares. Luckily, if you mess up you can just have bigger empanadas, which is not too much of a problem. I don't know if pastry sheets are always folded into thirds, but ours were and each third seemed to roll out to about 4" wide.
- If you don't have non-stick baking pans, use Pam or something.
- Don't forget the vegetable oil on top; I think it just makes it brown up nicer, but that is a good thing.
I also didn't use a full 1/4 cup of oil in the filling. I just started with a tablespoon or two and added more as needed to keep the filling saute-ing (and not burning).
I also didn't make the salsa provided in this recipe because I am nervous about fruit salsas. Luckily someone had brought homemade salsa and that was a good thing. (The corners tend not to have much filling so salsa is nice with those bits.


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Expectant Parents | Professionals
Expectant Parents
In addition to teaching mindfulness practice, what topics are covered for childbirth education?
The topics are the same as those usually covered in childbirth preparation classes, such as the physiology of labor, positions for birthing, and breastfeeding. We also spend considerable time learning to engage the mind to work with pain, so that participants are prepared to use all their inner resources in labor, regardless of how their particular birth experience unfolds.
How much meditation do we do?
We learn a number of meditation practices, including yoga, and practice them at each class meeting. This childbirth preparation course is unique in that people who choose to enroll make a commitment to practice at home with meditation CDs. The true learning comes through one's own experiences with the meditation practices. Taking this course is challenging–but not as challenging as birthing and raising a child! Learning to rise to challenges is good preparation for birthing and parenting.
Does my partner learn the meditation practices too?
Yes. Partners are invited to learn the practice of mindfulness too. Partners are going through their own stresses in the process of becoming a parent and the practice of mindfulness can be of great benefit for them. Partners learn ways to be supportive of the mothers during labor and also discover how living in the present moment can help them in many aspects of work and family life. Many partners say that though their original purpose in taking the course was to learn how to support their partner, they also learned something extremely valuable for themselves. Often they are surprised and delighted to find themselves quite calm during labor and feel deeply satisfied that they were able to be truly helpful and present at their baby's' birth.
What if my partner or I have to miss a class?
Occasionally someone has to miss a class because of travel, illness or unexpected circumstances. As long as participants continue to practice at home, learning whatever the rest of the class is learning that week, there is no problem. We often talk by phone with people who miss a class so we can discuss how their practice is going and review what was covered in the class they missed.
I have to miss the all-day session. Should I not take the course?
Even if you are unable to come to the all-day session, or can only come for half of the day, we would still encourage you to take the course. The all-day session is a wonderful opportunity to deepen your mindfulness practice but even if you can't come you can still get much benefit from coming to the weekly classes.
Can I come to the course by myself?
Absolutely. Pregnant women are very welcome to take the course on their own; those who do have done so have found it very helpful. If you have a partner and they are unable to attend the full course, I encourage them to attend the Introductory Session if possible. This session provides some understanding of what we will be learning and what you will be practicing at home.
Can I come with someone other than my partner, such as a friend or family member?
Yes. Mindfulness can be of benefit to everyone. As long as the friend or family member wants to participate fully in the course and will practice at home with the CDs, they are most welcome. Pregnant women have attended the course with a doula, a sister or a close friend.
Is this class mainly for people who want a "natural" childbirth?
No. This is a course for people interested in learning mindfulness for childbirth and parenting. Mindfulness offers benefits to everyone, regardless of one's intentions regarding pain medication during childbirth. The truth is, no one can know ahead of time how the childbirth experience will unfold. It may very well be that using pain medication is a totally appropriate choice for a particular individual in a particular situation at a particular time. There is no one "right" way to birth a baby. Each of us must find our own way to birth, in the moment, according to the situation as it is. However, course participants often say that they experience a tremendous increase in confidence in their capacity to give birth. This confidence deeply impacts their choices around the use of pain medication.
I plan on birthing in a hospital. Is this the class for me?
People who take this course choose a variety of birth settings—hospitals, homes and birth centers. Although where you choose to have your baby is very important, knowing how to access deep inner resources to work with the experience of childbirth moment-by-moment is a skill that can truly bring great benefit, regardless of where you are choosing to birth.
Because of my situation I know I am going to have a Cesarean birth. Would this class still be appropriate for me?
Yes. A Cesarean birth is your experience of giving birth to your baby. It is an experience that you can be very much present for, fully welcoming your baby into this world. It is not unusual for women to have some post surgical pain after a Cesarean birth. The mindfulness practices can be very helpful for working with the pain, for enhancing your healing process postpartum, for breastfeeding and for the challenges of parenting.
When in my pregnancy should I take the class?
Most people take the course toward the end of their pregnancy. However, some people may want to start their meditation practice much earlier. These include people who simply seek the benefits of a meditation practice throughout their pregnancy, or who have a meditation practice and find it easier to maintain it in a group context, or who have lot of fear around childbirth, or who are experiencing a pregnancy complicated by other health factors, or are challenged by other stresses in their lives at home or at work. As many studies show, stress can be a contributing factor in a number of difficult pregnancy conditions, such as preterm labor or low birth weight. Those who want to begin mindfulness practice earlier are welcome to start the course at any point in their pregnancy.
How is this course different from Hypnobirthing and other mind-body approaches?
There are many ways to use the mind in childbirth, and hypnosis is certainly one of them. Throughout the 1980's, Nancy taught couples self-hypnosis for working with the pain of childbirth and knows it has a certain effectiveness. Although the practices we learn in the Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting course definitely teach us how to work with pain during birth, we can learn so much more. Mindfulness is about learning how to live fully in each moment. Through mindfulness we wake up to our lives as we live them, becoming more aware of our automatic reactions to life around us. We learn how we might make different choices, responding to the moments of our lives with greater clarity, kindness, patience and wisdom rather than automatically reacting to how things are. This is a life skill, one that we can call on not only for birth but as we parent. So much of parenting requires us to work with our children in the present moment, just as they are. The course prepares us for parenting and for living the birthing experience and life right now in all its fullness. As Nancy often says, "When your two year old is having a melt-down in the supermarket because you won't buy him/her the candy bar at the check-out stand, you don't need hypnosis, you need mindfulness!"
I took a childbirth class for my first birth experience and the birth was fine. Won't this course just be a repeat of things I already know?
Unless you already have a mindfulness practice, this course will not be a repeat of what you already learned. Rather, you probably will learn something quite new and helpful in the challenges of parenting two children. For those who already have a mindfulness practice, it is an opportunity to deepen an understanding of living with awareness and discover how to bring mindfulness practice to pregnancy and childbirth.
Another benefit for those who have previously given birth is that the course provides a way for a couple to spend time together as a couple learning something new, and focusing on the birth of their next child. Often we are so busy with our lives, taking care of our other child or children that we barely have time to focus on the miracle of the new child that is about to enter our family. Having a once a week "date" is often just what a couple needs to prepare for their expanding family. Another unexpected benefit commonly reported by couples who have other children is that the mindfulness practice greatly improves their relationship with each other and with their other child or children.
I had a very difficult birth experience with my first baby. I am looking for something that will help me have a different kind of experience with my next baby. Do you think the course will help me?
Those who have taken the class for a second (or third) birth experience have reported very positive results. By learning how to be in the present moment as it is happening, it becomes increasingly clear that the previous birth experience is simply a memory. Through practice, we are able to recognize memories as they arise, and come back to this moment, to this birth experience, right now. In fact, every moment is new; every experience is different. It is impossible to have a repeat of a previous birth experience. While we may understand this intellectually, it is only through practice that we can understand it experientially. The course can help us to be fully present for a totally new birth experience—and a totally new baby!
Why do you have a class after the birth?
The class after the birth is a time to meet each other again, to meet the new babies, and to share birth experiences. The after-birth or reunion class also gives participants an opportunity to reflect on what their birth experience taught them and how they are continuing to use their mindfulness practice to meet the joys and challenges of parenting their newborn.
In addition, people often feel quite connected and caring about one another as a result of sharing time and learning and practicing mindfulness together. They have formed friendships that last well beyond the childbirth course. Some mothers have formed new mother's groups from the women they met in the course. Others have continued to meet as a parent group, providing support, friendship and community as they move through their parenting journey together.
What if I can't find an MBCP class nearby?
If no one offers an MBCP course in your area, we recommend signing up for a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course and using Mindful Birthing: Training the Mind, Body and Heart for Childbirth and Beyond and the accompanying audio as your course materials. If MBSR is not available in your area, consider hosting your own practice group with other expectant parents in your community.
Mind in Labor
Why do you offer this weekend workshop?
Sometimes people would like to take the 9-week Mindfulness-Based Childbirth Education Class but are unable to do so for a variety of reasons, such as time, distance, finding out about the class too late or schedule problems. Yet they have heard about this approach, know about the power of the mind, and are looking for a way to learn these skills. This workshop has been developed for these circumstances.
How is this workshop different from the 9-week Mindfulness-Based Childbirth Education Class?
This workshop specifically focuses on how we can use our moment-to-moment awareness to work with physical pain during childbirth. It also provides a very good introduction to mindfulness practice. However, it is not possible to gain the depth of understanding of mindfulness, both its power and its potential for helping us in our parenting and our daily lives in just one day. That understanding may begin to come over time with consistent home practice and through learning with others as we do in the 9-week class. The other difference is that it is not possible in a weekend workshop to create the kind of friendships, connectedness and community that happens as people share experiences together over time.
Is this class for partners too?
Absolutely. Partners are strongly encouraged to attend. However, women are more than welcome to come on their own or with a friend or a doula. We each have our own journey into parenthood. A woman needs to find her own inner resources to work with her body/mind during the labor and birthing process. A partner needs to find how to be with the birth process. The skills learned in the workshop can help all involved.
How is this workshop different from what I am learning in other childbirth education classes?
The focus of this workshop is mindful awareness, something not usually taught in other childbirth education classes. Since the application of mindfulness is universal, this workshop can be an excellent complement to any childbirth education class, including refresher classes. It can also be helpful for those who anticipate a birth experience requiring special medical attention or for those who have had a difficult previous birth experience.
I am interested in using the MBCP Program in clinical research. How do I proceed?
For questions regarding research, please contact Larissa Duncan, PhD, Elizabeth C. Davies Chair in Child & Family Well-Being and Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: email@example.com .
How do I become certified as an MBCP Instructor?
At present (Spring 2018), an MBCP Instructor Certification Program is being developed by the Mindful Birthing and Parenting Foundation. For those who would like to begin taking steps with the intention to eventually become a certified MBCP Instructor, please consult our Background to Become a Certified MBCP Teacher document. While seeking teacher certification is admirable, the foundation for becoming an MBCP Instructor is the grounding in one's own personal mindfulness practice and the capacity to embody it in one's own life.
An excellent introduction to MBCP, including methodology and practices, would be to attend an Introductory Professional Training or Workshop with Nancy Bardacke, CNM or other MBCP Faculty Members. For those in the UK, please contact Eluned Gold, MSc, at email@example.com for any questions regarding MBCP.
More information on MBCP Teacher Training and Certification
If I have taken MBCP in my community, can I skip Level 1A/1B and just take Level 2?
Even if you have already taken MBCP in your community, we still encourage you to take Level 1A. Level 1A is an introduction to teaching MBCP where students watch a video recording of Nancy teaching a live MBCP course and then meet with faculty as a group to discuss and reflect upon their experiences. It is an opportunity to get more familiar with the curriculum, strengthen your daily practice, and become part of a community of other MBCP teachers-in-training from around the world who are beginning their year-long training together. However, if you have an established daily mindfulness practice, have taken an MBCP course, and want to skip Level 1A, this is a possibility. Please explain your request on your application. The faculty will consider such requests on a case-by-case basis.
Level 1B is essential for understanding the teaching of MBCP. It is a required component of the MBCP Teacher Training.
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The Welcome Leaflet for New Residents
The Welcome leaflet is distributed to new residents through our network of Magazine distributors and contains more local information; Welcome to Fittleworth.
If you have recently moved into Fittleworth or the neighbourhood, we welcome you and hope you will be happy here.
Please note that since the leaflet attached was written there have been these changes:-
- Information about the Evangelical Church can still be found from David Cresswell, but it is no longer a 'full' church. Instead it is a 'meeting group' called School Lane Evangelical Church.
- We now have Nomads mobile fish and chip van calling at the Village Hall car park on Tuesdays from 5.00 – 7.30p.m.
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My new shorter hair has helped me re-discover my love for headbands again (and honestly, headbands are the easiest go-to hairstyle). This headband is actually the belt that came with the dress I'm wearing (from SammyDress). The belt itself is laughably short (perhaps child-size?), but it does make a cute headband.
I wore it with my striped seersucker jacket by Sretsis, a brown belt, a gray clutch, and brown t-strap wedges.
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White and blue blouson skater dress (c/o SammyDress)
White and gray striped seersucker jacket (Sretsis)
Silver and brass bunny necklace (made by Katrina)
Gray leather bow clutch (My Flat in London)
Brown braided belt (came with another dress)
Brown t-strap wedges (Aldo)
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text: Jason Segel: "The Dumbest Thing You Can Do For a Kid" Posted on August 3, 2015 | by Lindsey Silken Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images In Marc Maron's recent podcast "WTF," he interviews Jason Segel (of How I Met Your Mother fame) at length and touches on his interfaith upbringing early on. (The interview itself begins at 14 minutes in, and the conversation turns to religion at about 15 ½ minutes.) Segel's father is Christian and his mother is Jewish, and he tells Maron, "Neither of them are religious. So they made this decision that they were going to let me decide, which is like the dumbest thing you can do for a kid. Because you don't really care [at that age]." He goes on to say, "At Christian school you're the Jewish kid and at Hebrew school you're the Christian kid. I think that's the nature of groups." It's not surprising that Haaretz picked up on the message that being a "half-Jew" (their words, not ours—we do not promote this term) equaled "outsider" for Segel. Being brought up with two religions does not work for everyone, and perhaps having parents who Segel did not consider religious themselves, he didn't have the necessary context for religion at home that is necessary to form a religious identity. Susan Katz Miller takes issue with Haartez's framing of the interview: "Clearly, by leading with this idea [of interfaith equals outsider], the intent was to use Segel's story as a cautionary tale, warning parents away from dual-faith education, or from interfaith marriage in general." The argument that raising children in an interfaith family can lead to them not identifying as Jewish is nothing new. And Katz Miller makes some good points in response to this assertion, including: "Yes, it is essential for interfaith children to have support for integrating two (or more) cultures in their families, rather than bouncing back and forth between two separate religious worlds." Katz Miller touches on the danger in simply being dropped into two different religious institutions without enough context at home or awareness within the religious institutions themselves about interfaith families. We don't know exactly what Segel's religious life was like at home, but it sounds like there might not have been much reinforcement of what he was learning outside the home. At InterfaithFamily, we try to educate parents and offer many ways to boost their knowledge of Judaism and how to do Jewish at home, so that a child has a framework for what they are learning and why it's important to their family. And we work to help Jewish organizations create a welcoming environment where kids will feel they belong–regardless of their background. About Lindsey Silken Lindsey Silken is the editorial director of InterfaithFamily based in Newton, MA. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. View all posts by Lindsey Silken →