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Topic Page: Freud, Sigmund (1856 - 1939)
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was an Austrian physician and the founder of psychoanalysis. His discoveries about the mind and his clinical investigations shaped how Western peoples conceive of human beings, their personal and collective histories, and their role in the universe. According to Freud, no matter how mature or sophisticated persons are, their infancy and childhood experiences undergird their adult lives. Poets had long noted that the "child is father to the man." Through brilliant clinical reports and a lifetime of writing, Freud showed how this was true. After him came generations of child psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors, teachers, and others who charted the subtle ways in which developmental histories shape adult character. Because each culture tells its members how to raise children, how to control sexuality, and how to become an adult, Freud's discoveries intrigued anthropologists who had long studied these features of culture. For these reasons, Freud influenced the past 100 years of anthropology. While contemporary anthropologists cite him less frequently than did their counterparts from the 1930s to the 1980s, Freud remains an essential figure in the history of anthropology.
Trained as a neurologist in Vienna, Austria (then the center of the medical world), Freud took up the study of mental illness around 1890. Treating upper- and middle-class Viennese men and women (mainly Jewish, like himself), Freud initially studied what the physicians of the time labeled "hysteria." Patients had problems like sudden fainting, loss of speech, or paralysis, which were not caused by identifiable medical conditions. In the language of 19th-century medicine, their problems were not caused by lesions—visible scars or damage—in their brains or their bodies.
If these problems were not caused by brain lesions, Freud and other physicians deduced that they must be caused by "mental lesions"—that is, by conflicts in their patients' minds. From around 1890 to around 1980, psychiatrists and psychologists studied hysteria and other maladies (like drug and alcohol addictions, sexual problems, obsessional actions, and numerous other disorders) as manifest behaviors whose latent causes were to be found in the early-childhood experiences of their patients. Therapists tried to discover patterns between these symptomatic actions and their patients' early experiences. For example, do women who manifest hysteria around sexual matters have developmental histories in which sexual contact between them and older people occurred? Do men who stutter and are afraid to speak in public have problems controlling their private sexual lives, especially the urge to masturbate? Do religious and ethical strictures on adolescent sexuality, a dominant theme of late-19th-century European and American education, cause what Freud called "modern nervous illness"?
Jean Charcot, an influential French physician, had shown that not only were psychiatric symptoms "lesion-less"—that is, not caused by anomalies in the brain—but that they could be induced or produced in normal subjects. Using hypnosis, Charcot demonstrated that otherwise healthy people would manifest hysterical blindness or paralysis if he suggested these behaviors to them. This meant that mere "ideas" could produce physical maladies. Charcot asked, "How did this leap from the psychical to the physical occur?" If mere ideas could cause hysterical symptoms in normal people, did similar, unconscious ideas cause hysterical symptoms in his clinical patients? Freud assumed that if psychiatric symptoms could be produced in normal subjects— who had neither physical lesions nor traumatic histories—then perhaps the patients who came to him had a psychological basis for their symptoms. In other words, perhaps persons diagnosed as "hysterical" suffered real pain but their pain was based on memory or other psychological processes. In Freud's terms, hysterics suffer from ideas (or more accurately, fantasies). How was this possible?
Freud's answer was that the mechanisms that produced hypnotic phenomena and hysterical symptoms were unconscious and not controlled by conscious reasoning. Joining philosophers like Friedrich Nietzsche and Karl von Hartmann, Freud reasoned that a large part—perhaps the largest part—of the human mind was unconscious, shaped by preverbal experience, and could be known only by its emanations. Because normal subjects could manifest the same (or similar) behaviors seen in his neurotic patients, he held that everyone had a similar psychological structure—that we are as a species united in our psychological organization.
Freud's notion that all humans had a similar psychological structure was in line with the cultural anthropology of his day. Freud considered himself an "archaeologist of the mind," and he was familiar with the work of prominent evolutionists such as E. B. Tylor and L. H. Morgan, whose unilineal theories of evolution were based on the doctrine of psychic unity.
The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) was Freud's most important book. In it, he extended clinical models generated in his work with psychiatric patients to study dreaming. In Dreams, Freud published a 15-page interpretation of one of his own dreams that he called "Analysis of a Specimen Dream" (pp. 106-121). The promise and limitations of Freud's theory originate in this notion of specimen. Specimens are things, like fossils or tissue samples or pottery shards, with material histories and more or less fixed structures. If we find specimens of bone, teeth, and tools, we can deduce a great deal about the lives of people who came before us. Similarly, Freud saw dreams as artifacts from peoples' earlier lives. The dreams in Freud's 1900 book are illustrations of how he (and his patients) talked and thought about behavior we call "dreaming." As clusters of behavior, dreams are products of an individual's body, mind, culture, and unknown random elements. Freud created brilliant ways to "read" dreams as the products of mental mechanisms he called the "dream work." This is the set of devices the mind uses to create the dream; among them are condensation, displacement, and symbolization. If I dream about my father as a policeman who looks like the U.S. president, I am condensing my thoughts and feelings about all three men into this one image. If I dream about the smell of gasoline and through associations come to feelings about my father (who worked on gasoline engines), I am displacing my complex story and feelings about him onto this simpler item. If I dream about a huge bison about to run me over and my associations take me to images and feelings of my father as a "force of nature," I am symbolizing my father and my feelings about him. Thus, for Freud, dreams demonstrated an essential kinship between moderns and primitives and between normal people and psychiatric patients. In this sense, dreams are specimens of a universal human psychology. Mid- 20th-century anthropologists such as A. L. Kroeber, who rejected Freud's attempts to reconstruct actual human history, found value in Freudian concepts such as repression, regression, and the centrality of childhood experience, dream symbolism, and similar clinical generalizations.
Freud's brilliance as a writer and his ability to give scientists and humanists new ways to read old texts, current dreams, and neurotic patients' actions, and to discover their hidden meanings, excited generations of intellectuals. Freud led the way by interleaving his works with illustrations taken from European classics, especially the Greeks, Shakespeare, the Bible, and folklore, because in his view these illustrated earlier stages of human psychology and psychological development.
In these literatures, he found support for his clinical theory that sexuality in its various modes, ranging from intense "libidinal" sucking in newborns to adult sexual intercourse, provided a motive force for culture, and at the same time, culture—represented by paternal, religious, and governmental authorities— sought to control it. This dialectic seemed revelatory to people who read him in the early part of the 20th century. In many ways, Freud and his followers championed the possibility of a new kind of freedom of sexual life and sexual honesty. He contributed to the modern view that sexuality is not inherently evil, dangerous, or to be controlled at all costs.
From these clinical observations, Freud derived the psychoanalytic technique. Deformations of memory weaken the ego; it loses sovereign access to each of its domains. Once the ego is weakened, patients live a divided life. Rather than know their wishes and make conscious, mindful choices, patients act them out. The technique provides methods with which we help patients repair the rent in their memory. By studying the manifest effects of unconscious processes, we help them discover, name, and confront their actual wishes with increased selfknowledge and deliberation.
Anthropology plays at least three roles in Freud's thought. First, anthropology and its affiliated discipline, archaeology, gave Freud a model for investigating the prehistory of his patients. Just as archaeologists uncovered evidence of past civilizations and groups, so too did psychoanalysts investigate the origins of their patients' lives in hidden, what Freud called "repressed," fantasies. Second, anthropologists' findings about nontechnological peoples (whom 19th-century authors called "primitives") offered to Freud and other psychoanalysts test cases against which they could compare clinical discoveries made with European and American patients. In this regard, Freud was particularly interested in indigenous religions. Third, Freud felt that his hard-won insights into childhood and its aftermath pertained to children of all groups and all cultures.
Educated people were fascinated when Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890), an amateur archaeologist, uncovered convincing evidence that Troy, the ancient city described in the Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, was real, not merely a legend. These discoveries, much commented on by breathless reporters in the 1870s, excited Freud when he read about them as a boy. Thirty years later, when he began to probe his patients' memories for their "buried past," Freud felt that he was repeating, in a way, Schliemann's great adventure. This analogy became more than a metaphor. By the late 1890s, and ever afterward, Freud wrote extensively about psychoanalysis as an archaeological investigation.
In more technical terms, Freud used archaeology as a model. It helped him describe both his subject matter (repressed, long-buried personal secrets) and his method (the slow digging, recovery, and reconstruction of personal narratives and memories.) By 1889, he was describing his work with patients as analogous to Schliemann's discovery of Troy. Because he hoped to make psychoanalysis a general psychology, and not merely a method of medical treatment, Freud needed to show its applicability to anthropology, literature, theater, and religion. The latter became especially important. In Freud's words, religion alone was the great antagonist to psychoanalysis. Religious authorities that dominated European history, shaped its politics, and sought absolute control of human sexuality were squarely opposed to Freud's discipline and his philosophy.
From 1907 onward, Freud expended a great deal of his intellectual capital investigating religion in so-called primitive groups and in its contemporary instances. The first appeared in Totem and Taboo, a set of articles that Freud published in 1912 and 1913. Its subtitle declares Freud's thesis: "Some Points of Agreement Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics." In brilliant, often persuasive accounts, Freud shows surprising parallels between the beliefs and actions of his Viennese patients and those reported by anthropologists working in various contexts. Freud's terms, such as savages, offends modern ears because it evokes for us the horrific facts of European crimes against indigenous peoples. However, Freud was no fan of war or crimes against defenseless peoples. On the contrary, his more radical thesis is the psychic unity of human beings—that the sophisticated European is not "higher" or superior to persons and groups dominated by European armies and navies. The refined German banker, for example, had aggressive and sexual wishes that so-called savages enacted, or at least were said to enact according to Western anthropologists.
Freud also examined contemporary religious institutions, such as the German Catholic and Lutheran churches, as organizations designed to "sublimate"— that is, channel—an individual's aggressive and sexual forces, what Freud called the libido. He called this an "economic" tax that civilizations extract from their subjects. Like income tax, this libidinal tax must be paid to fund the efforts and ambitions of the modern state. However, it can be burdensome and so onerous for some that it results in neuroses, as he argued in Civilization and Its Discontents (1930).
In his last major work, Moses and Monotheism (1939), Freud summarized his clinical and anthropological theories by seeking to uncover the long-buried truth of Moses, who legend said rescued his fellow Hebrews from the Egyptians, crossed the Red Sea, and led them to the Promised Land. Using an assortment of texts drawn from highly selected histories of Egypt as well as the Hebrew Bible, Freud argued that the latter was like a manifest dream about a traumatic and long-denied past. While he noted that his efforts to discover this supposed trauma were novelistic, he did not waiver. Few professional historians and Egyptologists agreed: Like Kroeber, they found Freud's "reconstructions" of what might have happened to Moses unscientific poetry. Alongside these faults, Freud's stubborn, brilliant, and courageous virtues as investigator and observer appear in this last great book.
Freud was prominent in anthropology from the 1920s until finally losing favor with the national character studies of the 1950s. However, during that period, anthropologists at Harvard, Yale, the University of Chicago, and similar American research universities used versions of psychoanalytic theory to study how child-rearing techniques produced "modal personalities." For example, Erik Erikson, at Harvard, studied how one American Indian group produced warriors while another group produced quiet farmers. Other anthropologists, like Margaret Mead at the American Museum of Natural History and Columbia University, examined Pacific Island groups that produced adolescents and young adults whose notions of sexuality and ethics differed markedly from those of middle-class, midcentury Americans. Similarly, Mead's colleague Ruth Benedict examined the personality characteristics of the Japanese during the Second World War.
Some anthropologists became clinicians and did psychotherapy with their subjects. Going the reverse direction, some argued that native cultures had their own versions of psychoanalysis. Claude Lévi- Strauss, for example, argued that the shamans of South American cultures were structural equivalents to New York City psychoanalysts. Freud would have affirmed Lévi-Strauss's claim. He believed that his insights into the ubiquity of repression, sublimation, and other unconscious devices pertained to each of these domains: societal, group, and personal. He generalized his clinical model of the mind to the study of groups—historical and prehistorical societies—and so-called higher civilizations, like those of 20th-century Germany and the United States.
Looking at Freud 100 years later, this may seem commonplace. We live in a world saturated with sexual jokes, movies, TV shows, and a nearly infinite supply of pornographic narratives and images. Freud became world famous because he forced medical experts and lay persons alike to see more clearly that sexuality is central to human development, to culture, to ethical discourse, and especially to religious instruction. Complex historical events, such as the rise of industry, urbanization, increasing freedom for women, mass communication, the demise of traditional powers, and World War I, among others, created a context in which Freud's ideas were exciting, revolutionary, and persuasive. By the 1920s, anyone with claims to intellectual sophistication, whether in Europe or the United States, talked about Freud and his creation, psychoanalysis.
See also Bachofen, Johann J.; Benedict, Ruth F.; Chodorow, Nancy; Culture and Personality; DuBois, Cora; Dundes, Alan; Frankfurt School; Frazer, James G.; Hall, Edward T.; Kardiner, Abram; Kroeber, Alfred L.; Lévi-Strauss, Claude; Lyotard, Jean- François; McLennan, John; Mead, Margaret; Myth, Theories of; Psychological Anthropology; Sacrifice; Smith, William Robertson; Spencer, Walter Baldwin, and Francis James Gillen; Spiro, Melford; Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology
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SQL 2008 R2 Standard for Small Business is supported for installation in a small business domain,
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Yin Yoga Weekend Immersion
Yin yoga is a wonderful way to develop a more introspective and mindful awareness of our physical, energetic, emotional, and mental planes and to cultivate overall health and well-being. This 10-hour weekend Yin intensive has been designed for both students of yoga who wish to increase their understanding of Yin yoga and for teachers aspiring to increase their knowledge of Yin as a philosophy and practice. We will discuss and examine topics such as chi, Taoism, yin/yang, anatomy, Chinese meridians, chakras, and meditation. Practicum will explore how to move through postures in a way that will help you go deeper in your own practice and adapt it to the personal needs of students. This will include working with modifications and variations, as well as building sequences around the seasons, anatomical features, and Chinese meridians.
The foundational aspects of this training include:
- Anatomical & energetic sequencing
- Coming safely in & out of poses
- Use of props, modifications, & variations
- Assisting & massage
- Counter poses
- Contraindications
- Teaching & embodiment of Yin philosophy
- Use of themes to connect with truth
- Holding space that supports healing
- Use of silence & stillness
Connect ~ Yin Yoga Massage
Experience the bliss of using your hands to serve others through the healing act of conscious contact. This open-hearted practice of giving and receiving is an offering of presence and acceptance.
Join James to confidently and intuitively connect with others using compassionate touch and active listening while deepening your energetic awareness through breath connection, partner yin yoga and elements of Thai Yoga massage. Together we will co-create a safe environment and cultivate trust by seeing and supporting the goodness in one another.
Yin-troduction to Transformation
Yin yoga is a meditative practice in which poses are held for an extended time with relaxed muscles and deep breathing. This stillness allows the body to soften and the postures to stimulate connective tissues, fascia and ligament, as well as affect bone density, joint mobility, and the overall health of the internal organs. The yin practice complements dynamic, muscular (yang) styles of yoga and other exercises that emphasize internal heat through the lengthening and contracting of muscles. These poses help create space in the body, particularly the hips and low back, as well as develop a more introspective and mindful awareness of one's physical, energetic, emotional, and mental equilibrium.
This workshop is intended to introduce the yin practice and deepen students understanding of the theory and application of this transformative approach to yoga. Students will leave with a greater awareness of their breathe and body mechanics that will support a lifelong practice and that can be applied to all yoga.
We will:
- Cover yin poses from an anatomical perspective to help students make their practice more personal
- Explore use of props, modification, and how to safely come into and out of a pose
- Introduce concepts of Taoism and Chinese medicine that have contributed to the development of this practice
- Discuss yin and yang as philosophies and as styles of exercise
- Examine how yin yoga affects connective tissue anatomically and energetically through modern meridian theory
- Work collaboratively to examine anatomical differences and how that relates to our practice
- Practice yin yoga with the application of our discussions to explore our personal practice
Chakras, Meridians & Your Path to Bliss
The reward of yoga through awakening our Chakras, or transcending attachment at that level, is infinite happiness or bliss. Chakras, or energy centers of the central nervous system, our brain and spine, are associated with nerve plexus and endocrine glands that govern much of the hormonal and nervous system. Exploring the governing principles of our Chakras, this workshop introduces and explores how our happiness is connected to the functioning of our energy at a physical, emotional, and mental level. It is intended to equip students with practical ways to connect with and open themselves at many levels through yoga postures, breathing techniques, and acts of spiritual compassion and integrity. We will:
- introduce each Chakra and discuss its anatomical location and correlation to other functions of the bodies systems, sense organs, and glands
- examine dysfunctional characteristics of each Chakras at the physical, emotional, and mental level
- explore what Meridians are governed by which Chakra and what yoga postures and breathing techniques can help bring balance to these energy bodies
- discuss karma and reincarnation and the affect Chakra health has on cause and effect
- practice poses, breathing, and mediation exercises to connect with our own experiences in these place
The Art of Flying: Arm Balance & Inversion Workshop
Are you looking to refine your gravity defying? Join James as he guides you through a playful exploration of arm balances and inversions. This workshop will begin with some wrist therapy to tonify and prepare the hands and a warming sequence to connect with breath, find inspiration and soften the heart. From this place of courage we will explore different approaches, modifications, and transitions to access these poses. So leave your doubts at the door and come defy gravity as you play, laugh, & explore!
Discovering Your Dharma: A Discssion on the Bhagavad Gita
Explore the practical teachings of India's most read scripture & the paths of yoga that aid intranscendence. Together they integrate balance into your practice and provide a guide for how to continue down the spiritual path with your unique constitution and beliefs.
- Karma – Action, Selfless Service, Heart Chakra
- Bhakti – Faith, Devotion, Mantra, Kirtan, Worship, Throat Chakra
- Jnana – Knowledge, Wisdom, Third Eye Chakra
- Raja/Ashtanga – Meditation, 8-Limbs, Crown
The Bhagavad Gita has more commentaries written about it than any other book in the world. So rather than offer another narrative, this workshop is intended to help students of yoga by offering them tools to deepen their personal practice with information and experiences that support their understanding of yogic techniques. We will introduce the Mahabharata, India's longest poem, of which the Gita is a part, and explain some of the historical and symbolic importance of the characters in this epic. Then, we will discuss the meaning of dharma and how to understand and apply it to our life. Finally, we will explore how these yoga paths can be and already are incorporated in our daily live will be supported though the practice of yoga postures, partner work, chanting, and meditation.
Celebration of the Divine Feminine: A Winter Solstice Workshop
Winter, with its cold weather and darkness, is a time of mystery, urging us to go inward and reflect. This nurturing and supportive energy is an opportunity to connect with the feminine within ourselves and around us. Yet turning inward can be difficult and tends to bring up fear, so we must tap into the unconditional love of the warrior within and open our hearts to what scares us.
The non-dualistic Tantric traditions encourage practitioners to move past the pairs of opposites and bring every aspect of their daily life into the spiritual realm, realizing nothing exists that is not Divine.This workshop will include a yoga practice and discussion to embrace the fearlessness of the goddess and compassionate heart of the mother as well as a dialogue with handouts on ways to care for your body this winter with Ayurvedic and nutritional insights. Join me at this time of global shift and intention, embrace your feminine side, and honor yourself by taking time to care for and listen to your divine, inner Nature.
Yoga 101 Workshop
Join James as he introduces many aspects of the yoga practice in an environment that is supportive and interactive. This workshop will explore fundamental poses, alignment, modifications, and differences that we experience because all our bodies are unique. This is a great way to become more familiar with the yoga postures and to gain knowledge and experience in your personal practice.
This workshop will cover
- What yoga is and common misconceptions
- Introduction to comfortable seated positions and meditation
- Discussion about the 8-limbs of yoga
- Exploration of breathing exercises and their purposes
- Demonstration and practice of fundamental yoga postures
- Connection of linking breath with movement
Things to consider . . .
- Wear comfortable clothes that will allow for free range of motion
- Please arrive several minutes early so you can sign in and get acquainted
- Refrain from eating for at least an hour before practice
- Bring a water bottle, a towel, and a yoga mat (if you don't have a mat you can borrow one)
Body and Life Detox for Spring Equinox
Spring is a time of new birth, energy, and inspiration, and like the natural world around us, we must shed, purify, and cleanse to experience lightness and ease. The Vernal Equinox represents a point of balance as we move from the colder, wetter months of winter towards the warmer, dryer months of summer. Just as our Mother earth is going through Her cycle, so too, we have our natural rhythm.
This workshop will include an energetic, detox flow with rhythmic breathing to move prana, create inner heat, and stoke digestive fire. We will focus on twists, side bends, and hip openers to support liver and gallbladder health. This allows for good space, or sukha, to exist in the body by cleansing and purging any weight and heaviness that has accumulated in our bodies and lives. We will conclude with a discussion on Ayurvedic techniques that support your body's detoxification and allow more light and freedom into your life!
Yintimacy ~ A Journey of Self Discovery
Embark on a yin yoga ceremony to heal your physical temple, listen to your Spirit, reflect on the depth of your experiences and integrate the wisdom you intend to bring with you. This practice will be an offering of the heart and exploration of the soul as you unite who you are, with who you know you can be. Allow yourself to be, to be breathed and to be an offering to what you love, as you receive the alchemical effects of yin yoga and the preciousness of being present. Your willing to authentically connect with yourselves supports the ease you will find connecting with others.
From Warrior Pose to Guardianship Flow
Have you ever found yourself in warrior pose wondering what all the training was for? Guardianship is the integration of this work through your connection to the whole and your intuition in every moment of your life. We have all had our trust broken and felt the degree to which focusing on individuality creates separation. And we know when we have been called to rebuild trust, becoming responsible for our individual power and be of service. Each individual voice adds a unique perspective providing us a way to protect and guard our collective unity. Guardianship is about safeguarding what is most important to us individually and collectively, where the personal needs and the needs of the group come together to shape and guide the collective whole.


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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Time Warner Cable Inc. and Comcast Corp. may block the New York Mets' owners from selling their stake in SportsNet New York (SNY), a jointly owned regional cable channel, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz, owners of the baseball franchise, want to sell a minority stake in SportsNet to help cover their costs for the next two seasons. If their partners refused, it would complicate the sale, the Journal said.
The Mets owners are trying to raise roughly $200 million by selling a stake in SNY.
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Wilpon, Katz and their associates are being sued for more than $1 billion by the court-appointed trustee recovering assets for victims of disgraced U.S. financier Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme.
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As Ghana marks its fiftieth year as an independent country, more and more African Americans continue to travel there, and in some instances, settle there.Saidiya Hartman was born with a different first name, Valarie. She changed it in part to spite her parents, and also because she wanted to be and feel more African. Yet when she traveled to Ghana years later, she found that she was an outsider to people she'd previously hoped would be like long-lost members of her family. Also in this episode: Marcus Mann has a parallel, but different story than Saidiya's. He found his true home in Ghana.
Mai Mclean had just turned 17 when she married an American soldier she met while working at an air base near her village in Vietnam. He was the first person who ever showed her any kindness. Mai left her village with her new husband. But leaving her mother was particularly wrenching. Mai faithfully sent money to her family in Vietnam every month until her husband abandoned her and she had to work 3 jobs to support her children. In February 2007, and for the first time in 40 years, Mai Mclean returned to her village in Vietnam to reconnect with the family and country she left behind.
Catherine and Kathleen McAuley are expecting a baby boy next week. They've been together for 6 years; about 9 months ago, Catherine got pregnant through artificial insemination. Both moms are joyous, but the most typical reaction they encounter in other people is confusion: "How did you decide which one of you would get pregnant?" or "How will you explain the gay thing to your kid?"
Leili Pritschet's family descends from Iranian royalty. As a young girl, Leili learned to dance. Her training took her abroad, but she returned home to teach classical Iranian dance to the children of foreigners, principally Americans, living in the country. Then came the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Also in this episode, a grandmother tests her granddaughter's lunch box for lead, and listener Linda Powell.
On Monday, Dick Gordon talked to Shaun Goode, who is 9, and his grandmother, Deborah. Shaun is obese and is now trying to become healthier.
Today, Dick talks to Daphne Logue. Daphne's child, Sarah Peters-Logue, is 6 years old. Daphne knew her daughter was becoming obese, but her family doctor said that Sarah would "grow into it." In desperation, Daphne rejected her doctor's advice, and eventually had to face the fact that the problem was not her child, but herself.
Parents of autistic children often hear they have only a limited window of opportunity to act before their children could be "lost to autism." Dave Spicer didn't learn he was autistic until he was forty-six. Dave's son, Andrew, was tested and diagnosed as autistic. It was during Andrew's testing that Dave found the similarities of his son's condition and his own experiences to be uncannily similar.
Like many Americans who are now middle-aged, Maggie Steber has to provide care for her aging mother. Complicating the matter is Maggie's profession: she's an award-winning photojournalist who's often traveling abroad. Another complication is that Maggie has always had a troubled relationship with her mother, Madje. And their relationship only got harder once Madje developed dementia. But after her mother's mental health started to decline, she tells Dick Gordon that something surprising happened. Dementia gave her the mother she always wanted.
Beverly McIver is an award-winning artist. Her paintings are exhibited in collections across the country. Many of them draw on the discomfort she felt growing up black in North Carolina and living through the Greensboro Massacre.
Beverly also grew up resenting her mentally-disabled sister, Renee, who commanded much of her mother's attention. When Beverly later created portraits of Renee, she found herself scratching Renee's face out with her brush.Years later, when Beverly's mother was dying in a hospital, she painted the scene complete with tubes and monitors.
Jil Williams is a Chicago-based dentist who knows firsthand what it's like to live with race front and center in her life. Jil describes herself as a "brown-skinned black woman. " Her husband and children have even lighter skin. Despite their complexions, they still found themselves not fitting into an all-white neighborhood where they once lived.
Yet they've also experienced racism in less predictable places: within their own urban black community. Her daughter was born with blonde hair and blue eyes, and her son is often mistaken for someone from the Middle East.
Ana Benitez Graham crossed the border from Mexico with her family when she was 13. Because the journey cost so much money, Ana and her siblings all had to get full-time jobs, even when they were in school.
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I was thrilled when I was first introduced to the I CAN community engagement project because it involves survivors of domestic violence who share their experiences, statements and stories. When I began to learn about the A Window Between Worlds art workshop the project is based on, "Funeral of I Can'ts," I immediately thought about the dome or mound structure that reoccurs in my personal artwork. I see the dome shape as having contradictory meanings: death and rebirth, the inevitable condition of life.
The dome, or half sphere, is a common three-dimensional form we see in our lives. To me, the shape is special, as it is the form of a grave mound in Korean traditional culture. Also this round and protruding form is the pregnant belly of expectant mothers.
For the exhibition held at SPARC in March & April of 2012, I installed two mounds: one for I CAN and one for "I Can't." The colorful I CAN had a monitor inserted on top of the mound with moving images of paper boats floating in water. The boats represented peace, hope and embarking upon a new journey. The "I Can't" mound was white and covered with shredded "I Can't" statements from 700 survivors of domestic violence and community members. In my native country of Korea, the color white means death. The intent of the "I Can't" mound was to burn painful memories and feelings of weakness in order to move past the trauma of abuse, leaving nothing but ashes behind.
When a person falls into the deepest darkness, it can be difficult to build strength to find hope and light for their lives. I CAN: Requiem for I Can't is about the journey from the darkness into the light. I did not meet everyone who wrote the statements in this project, but I was inspired as I read their personal I CAN and "I Can't" thoughts. As a result, I tried to incorporate the text written by the participants as much as possible in the video and sculptural elements of the art piece.
It was an honor to work with artist Barbara T. Smith, whose energy and innovative thinking helped to guide the project. Preparing for the public presentation was a challenge for me, but I am glad that I CAN take an active part in the mission of A Window Between Worlds and use art to help bring an end to domestic violence.
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Washing is vital when it comes to maintaining beautiful and healthy skin throughout your life. However, you need to understand that if you do not wash your face correctly, you actually can cause harm to your skin. This particularly is the case if you are suffering from acne.
When not done as it should be, face washing can make acne breakouts more severe. In addition, inappropriate face washing can occasionally even spread acne.
Through this article you are presented with basic tips you need to follow in order to properly wash your face.
Eliminate all make-up from your face. You need to make certain that you do not leave any makeup on your face at the end of the day. You should use a cotton ball and moisturizing cream when removing makeup to avoid damaging your skin.
Make sure the water is warm. You should avoid using too hot or too cold water when cleaning your skin. By failing to use warm water, you can cause damage to your skin.
Avoid bar soaps cleansers on your skin. Strong bar soaps actually can end up drying your skin and stripping off natural lipids. The majority of cleansers on the market contain water, oil and surfactants. If you are going to use soap as a cleanser, you should select soap that is mild. You can always choose to use cleansers that are soap-free, non-comedogenic, and mild, including products like Cetaphil or Neutrogena. The key is to find the correct mix of oil on your skin. Too much oil on your skin will clog pores. Too little oil will dry your skin out.
Massage face. When washing your face, you will want to make smooth, rotating, upwards motions with your fingertips. Keep in mind that hard rubbing will do more harm than good to your skin.
Rinse face well. It is vital for you to rinse your skin thoroughly to remove all residue of soap or cleanser. Leaving residues behind can clog your pores and damage your skin. Splash warm water on your face until there is no residue left anywhere on the skin. Take your time to make sure all residues are removed.
Dry your face using a clean and soft towel. When you are done cleaning or washing your face, avoid contaminating your skin with bacteria by using a clean and soft towel. Never rub your face with the towel as that can irritate and damage your skin.
Be sure to choose a toner without alcohol. It is important to use a toner without alcohol because alcohol dries out your skin. Astringents and toners with glycolic or alpha hydroxy acids work better for toning the face and are recommended. These acids in fact can decrease the pore size, and help avoid ingrown hairs which can cause serious problems when it comes to your skin.
End with a moisturizer. The final step of your face cleaning regimen is the use of moisturizer. Moisturizer is necessary to replace the natural oils that have been lost through the cleansing process. A basic law of skin health is that everyone, no matter the skin type, needs to moisturize. The only exception is those with acne. In cases of acne, using a light moisturizer product with the least amount of chemical additives is the best. For an intensive moisture treatment use pure vitamin E, or aloe vera oil. Be careful not to over moisturize because this can cause clogged pores.


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Our main goal, here at S.W.A.T., has always been to motivate and celebrate creativity. Therefore, we are changing how we select our Featured S.W.A.T. Artist. Going forward, we will be selecting one participant from all S.W.A.T. entries for the month.
Drill # 9 Cool Colors
Summer has started and so has the Heat, so, here is a cool color combination challenge for you.
And, to get you motivated, we have this great prize pack up for grabs!
Now let's take a moment to see what the S.W.A.T Team has created to get your mojo flowing!
Now it's your turn! We can't wait to see what you create! Make sure you link up your project to the right of this blog post under Drill#9 by June 28th.


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China's cement producers are higher on hopes for strong demand after the government speeds up the construction of social public housing in the second half, say analysts. The State Council said Thursday that China had began construction on more than 50% of the 10 million public housing units it has pledged to build this year as of the end of June. The reading is up from 30% as of May.
"The sector may still have some upside due to expectations of strong 1H earnings growth," says Huatai Securities analyst Zhou Lin, who adds that the government's commitment to slash obsolete cement output capacity also lends support to cement prices.
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Our investment in making the business partnerships work is second-to-none in the Cloud Computing industry, and covers both technology, joint pre-sales, and in some cases joint business development.
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There is no doubt today that Cloud Computing is a major shift in the IT Industry, which cannot be ignored. Several years ago, when Cloud Computing was in its infancy, many IT Service providers considered it as competition and tried to convince their customers that on-premises managed services are safer and better for them. The market trends today prove that it is critical for IT Service Providers and MSPs to embrace the cloud and integrate it in their solution portfolio.
ATScloud offers MSPs and IT Service Providers the opportunity to build their own Cloud Offering, brand it, and keep the end-customer relationship. We take care of the high capital investments needed in building a robust cloud infrastructure, provide the training and pre-sales support to our partners, and even help them build their pipeline (if they are interested).
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Leadership Development: Choose Resiliency
Many things are easier said than done when it comes to leadership development and resiliency. Recovering from a set back is one of those examples. "Dust yourself off and start again". It's incredibly easy for me to write, but as people we focus on the less than glowing performance review with management or the errors in the data in a presentation to customers. I am here to tell you that resiliency is a muscle, we must use regularly. Resiliency stops us from spiraling downward and focusing on the little things.
We all have dreams and goals, those should capture our attention not replaying past events.
It's not easy to move forward, but we can and we must. A few practical steps can assist in achieving progress. Leave perfection and ideal outcomes at the door. Tough times call for calculated small steps.
There are 4 steps I want you to consider to power your leadership development.
Review your values. They are your compass and will anchor you in times of trouble. Don't skip this step, it lays the foundation for progress. Values remind you of your "why".
I love the work of Joseph Campbell. His Hero's Journey research is gold for personal transformation. I want you to consider where you are in the process. Just identify your current step and use the model to engage the next step. (Google for more information but here is a video that explains it in 2 minutes. https://vimeo.com/140767141)
In times of trouble, where do you want you be? What do you want? Where were the gaps, threats and weaknesses? What are your opportunities to capture the learnings? What would have made today extraordinary?
What resources do you currently have to assist in meeting the gaps, weaknesses and threats? What additional resources or knowledge do you need? When can you start the acquisition process? I mean in the next 24 hours. The first action begins and the chain reactions start.
Your time to bounce back with resilience and grace starts today. Assess each event for the learnings and then move forward. Failing forward is a muscle that we all need to exercise to build resiliency.
Today is a perfect day to start your Leadership Redesign.
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The Manhattan – Perfectly Updated
"The Manhattan" is one of the great cocktails of all time. The story goes that it originated, in New York City back in the 1870s as part of a social event, the term "Manhattan" stuck as part location, part social status.
Traditionally made with whiskey, bourbon or rye whiskey, this great cocktail is simple to make and even for non-whiskey drinkers, can be a real treat. When I sip on on one, I feel like I should be in a tweed jacket, a scarf, or maybe slowly puffing on a cigar…it has that kind of effect.
There are lots of great places to get this drink, but one recent discovery I made, was none other than the newer Lot No. 3 from the Purple Cafe folks in downtown Bellevue off of 106th.
Making these at home are a great way to establish yourself as a "throwback" bar keep and host, not some new fangled hipster from Vegas. These are the kind of drinks a man needs in his repertoire for sure.
- 3 oz bourbon (Maker's Mark is good, or try a local bourbon when you can find it)
- 1 1/2 oz sweet vermouth (Italian)
- 2 dashes bitters
- 2 drops maraschino cherry liquid
- Frozen cherry
- Add a handful of ice to your martini glass while prepping the drink (this will chill the glass).
- Add bourbon, vermouth, bitters and cherry liquid (from maraschino cherry jar), and a handful of ice to your cocktail shaker.
- Give it a good stir (not shaken), or swirl like you used to make your vanilla lattes or mochas.
- Remove ice from martini glass. Place frozen cherry at the bottom.
- Pour drink through strainer and serve at once!


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Martinez: I want to stay with Wanderers
Western Sydney Wanderers midfielder Nicolas Martinez would like to stay at the A-League club beyond this season despite only being on loan from Olympiacos.
The Argentine playmaker has been arguably the Wanderers' best player of 2016-17 after joining the Red-and-Black in August.
Martinez has scored three goals - behind only striker Brendon Santalab (8), notched four assists - behind only Mitch Nichols (5), and leads Western Sydney for successful dribbles with 47.
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The 29-year-old has also created 29 chances this season - level with captain Dimas and only behind Nichols (37).
Martinez was particularly impressive in the Wanderers' 3-1 win away to Wellington Phoenix last week - setting up the opening goal and scoring the second - and looks to be getting stronger as the A-League campaign progresses.
"I'm very happy here with the club. I'm happy with the life here in Australia," he told reporters on Tuesday.
"It's amazing - the quality of life. No complaints at all."
Can Martinez match Ono at Wanderland?
But Martinez is aware he doesn't control his own destiny as the current plan will see him return to Olympiacos at the end of 2016-17.
"I have two more years in Greece but maybe not to return to this. But they [Olympiacos] are the owners of me," he said.
"I have two more years contract… I'm focused on this season.
"Now we're in the top six and we have the [AFC Champions League] and this is the best part of the season.
"We must be focused and try to work hard because we're going to play every three days. It's going to be tough but nice."
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Martinez joined Olympiacos in July 2015 after an impressive 18 months with Panetolikos but the ex-Velez Sarsfield youth product has never played a senior match for the Greek Superleague giants.
Having moved into the A-League finals berths with their win over the Phoenix, Western Sydney will look to strengthen their position with consecutive home matches against Central Coast Mariners and Sydney FC before the AFC Champions League (ACL) begins later this month.
The Wanderers' opening ACL clash will also be at home against Urawa Red Diamonds on February 21.


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1980 Chevrolet El Camino - Matching #s 305 Auto - Good Ride & Drive
Price: - Item location: Farmington, Arkansas, United States
- Condition: Used
- Make: Chevrolet
- Model: El Camino
- SubModel: Rat Rod Dlux
- Type: Coupe
- Trim: V8 Auto
- Year: 1980
- Mileage: 184,962
- Color: Red
- Engine size: 305 ccid
- Number of cylinders: 8
- Power options: Air Conditioning, Cruise Control
- Fuel: Gasoline
- Transmission: Automatic
- Drive type: RWD
- Interior color: Red
- Vehicle Title: Clear Want to buy? Contact seller!
1980 Chevrolet El Camino V8 Auto1980 Chevrolet El Camino
Original 305 V8
Original 3 speed Automatic Transmission
Car starts right up and runs great - runs smooth - does not smoke
Transmission shifts out smoothly
Front end feels tight - has some slack in sector but not excessive
These early ones were my favorite... Bootlegger bay and all... I traded this car here locally. Owner had recently replaced carburetor and bought an a/c compressor (laying in bed) - will go with car. Fun car to drive. Glass is all good. Floor pans and bed floor is solid. some rust pockets in lower quarter in front / behind wheels. Tailgate & handle operates smoothly. Would be a great base for builder, donor, or even pretty nice rat rod as is. I have been holding on to it for 6 months but too many projects going (wife says) and I have decided to sell. Clear title in hand. Please call if I can answer questions. Thank you
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2009 Aston Martin V8 Vantage carves a distinct niche in the ultra-luxury sports car class with panache and power.
The 2009 Aston Martin V8 Vantage sits in a unique niche in the sports car world—: a bit more expensive than the Porsche 911, Audi R8, and Maserati Gran Turismo, but a bargain compared to supercars from Ferrari and Lamborghini. Offered as a two-seat roadster or coupe, it's hand-built in Great Britain and is offered from a base price of about $130,000. For 2009, it's been improved with more power and finer interior details. TheCarConnection.com's editors drove a new Vantage provided by the manufacturer to write this road test summary.
First impressions are critical in the supercar world, and the Aston Martin Vantage's initial vibe is "stunning." A two-door coupe or roadster, the Vantage's shape is sleeker than that of Porsche's 911, and more technical in appearance than that of the Maserati Gran Turismo. Coupes are hatchbacks by design, while Vantage Roadsters sport a fabric soft top that folds invisibly under a cover. Either shape telegraphs to other drivers, that the Aston Vantage is something affordable on an unearthly budget—it's a speed-seeking missile from its projector-style headlamps, to its gently curved haunches, to the LED taillamps. It's these details that give the Vantage a techno appeal, particularly inside, where every detailaccessory—a crystal-capped key, available piano-black trim, controls like those on high-end audio equipment—lends a James Bond air to the car that's actually transported him to safety on the silver screen. It's exquisite, even without the Sports Pack, which adds five5-spoke or 20-spoke wheels.
As a street performer, the Aston Martin Vantage excels in unexpected ways not expected. It's just a touch less earth-shattering than the 911 Turbo and GT-R, but copious power and deft, connected handling turn in a thrilling performance at most any speed. Aston reports a 0-60 mph time of 4.7 seconds and a top speed of 180 mph. That's a second slower than a 911 Turbo—and 1.5 seconds off the Nissan GT-R's 0-60 mph time of 3.3 seconds—but the Aston's crisp exhaust bark and suave road manners make up for that marginal shortfall. The 420-horsepower, 4.7-liter V-8 engine pours on powerbrawn through an automated manual shifter with paddle controls or a six-speed manual transmission. The former gearbox, which TheCarConnection sampled, is an older style of shifter that's not as smooth or quick to shift as a dual-clutch transmission like that found in the Audi R8. Dash-mounted buttons shift the Vantage from Park to Drive and Reverse. Fuel economy for the automatic-equipped Roadster rests at 13/19 mpg.
Once you're engaged, the Aston responds neurally:; steering is sharp in either the Comfort or Sport modes, and it's easy to make smooth transitions in corners and through lanes. We prodded exit ramps and canyon-to-coast roads, but this mega-GT is best exercised on a track if you're looking for the edge of its amazing performance envelope. Ride control is smooth even in Sport mode; an optional Sport Pack adds tighter tuning, 20-spoke 19-inch wheels, and more sporting shocks. Compared to the hefty feel of a Porsche 911, the Aston Martin Vantage is a lighter, point-and-shoot driving experience.
It's a sumptuous life inside the Aston Vantage cabin. With either Coupe or Convertible, the stout bonded-aluminum body yields a good amount of passenger room for two—though luggage and in-car storage is minimal. Leather swaddles the interior, where foot room and head room are par for the class. Seat comfort is above the average, though the lumbar placement is a bit high. Trunk space is minimal—a couple of weekend bags are about its limit—and interior storage behind the seats could fit a few magazines or atlases at most. Cowl shake is minimal, but the rearview mirror vibrates along with the premium audio's bass output. Stunning interior materials start with the heft of the console lid and the LED lighting on the glove box button and contribute to a strong quality feel. Optional piano-black trim has the gloss of a Steinway, the chrome buttons are cool to the touch, gauges are trimmed in polished and textured metal, and available red stitching lends a hip, high-tech feel to thea cabin that's utterly modern.
The 2009 Vantage has a complete set of safety equipment. Though the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) hasn't crash-tested one—and likely won't ever test it—crash-tested one, the Vantage does offer dual front and side airbags, anti-lock brakes, and stability and traction control. Visibility might be the biggest safety issue, even with front and rear parking sensors. It's the feeling of driving alongside a Scion xB and looking up at it. The Vantage lacks some cutting-edge safety features--—a rearview camera or blind-spot detection--—that might help drivers get a clearer view of the road.
With a long list of standard features, the Aston Vantage also leaves much up to the owner's choice. TWe tested hea Roadster testedthat sported a base price of $134,800 and paid a gas-guzzler tax of $1,700. The base Coupe is priced from $119,000. Standard features include power leather seating; a 160-watt audio system with a six-CD/MP3 player and integrated iPod connector and USB; and automatic climate control. Options on the test car included Bluetooth (which pairsed more quickly than any car tested by TheCarConnection thus far); a navigation system that's not easy to use with the controls provided; satellite radio; and memory and heated seats. A 700-watt audio system is available, though steering-wheel controls for it are not and would be a useful upgrade. With those options and custom trim, the Vantage tested here camecomes to a total of $152,465.
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The 2009 Aston Martin V8 Vantage is the embodiment of automotive sex appeal.
If your mouth waters at the sight of an Aston Martin Vantage, you're not alone. Whether in coupe or convertible iterations, the styling of the Vantage is touted among all reviewers. Even though the only change in the 2009 model is the addition of 19-inch forged alloy wheels, the Vantage is, unquestionably, one the sexiest modes of modern-day transit.
"It's a good thing that for 2009, the baby Aston's exterior retains the fluid yet muscular look," says Road & Track. "Aston really didn't need to change a thing as the V8 Vantage already was blessed with near-perfect proportions and amazing road presence. Inside, there is change but the additions are far better in theory than execution," comments Automobile Magazine.
"I state unapologetically that the new V8 Vantage is the most beautiful car currently being made," gushes a reviewer at Automobile.com. "And funny thing, I know so many people who have never driven this car, yet still want it on looks alone." Motor Trend quips, "There's no denying the Vantage's rarity and beauty (lined up with the 911, it looks like a leopard next to an ostrich egg)."
It's the inside, especially the center armrest, that draws criticism. "We feel that it's a case of the styling department leading the show and not the engineers," says Automobile Magazine. "Chief designer Marek Reichman told us that anyone who is bothered by armrest should just order the improved but still slightly clunky paddle-shift sequential manual transmission. We don't like that answer."
Otherwise, the interior of the 2009 Vantage is just as intoxicating as its exterior. "Stepping into the driver's seat of the Vantage, you are greeted with hand-stitched leather and suede," notes NADA Guides. "The dash finishes range from bamboo, ash wood and mahogany to glossy piano black. Unusual details include Aston's signature counterclockwise tachometer, a crystal capped key fob (so drivers can carry a small piece of automotive jewelry when they're not behind the wheel) and a spring-loaded Lamy pen that tucks into the dash. Good show," reports Popular Mechanics.
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The 2009 Aston Martin V8 Vantage can't match its own coupe's speed and handling, but it's fast and capable on its own terms.
With increased displacement and improved suspension, the performance of the 2009 Aston Martin Vantage matches its handsome good looks. Enthusiastic driving accompaniment is provided by the Vantage's symphonic V-8.
"There [aren't] many engines on the planet whose exhaust note alone can convince you that $136,630 is an entirely reasonable sum to pay for an automobile," says Motor Trend.
"The engine has grown from 4.3 to 4.8 liters, and output has leapt by 40 ponies to 420 hp, just as torque has climbed by 44 lb.-ft. to 346," reports Popular Mechanics, adding, "those larger pistons are also lighter, and the effect is magnified when they're spun to 7000 rpm. The engine mods result in an improved zero-to-60 times of 4.7 seconds, plus a top speed of 180 mph."
Automobile Magazine says, "Aston engineers added power exactly where it was missing. Midrange punch is vastly improved and the pull up to the 7200 rpm rev limiter is strong. We pushed the new V8 Vantage past 160 mph on the Autobahn with little effort, making Aston's claim of a 180 mph top speed seem accurate." "Amazingly, the engine is able to deliver 77 percent of its power at just 1500 rpm which means you are in for tire squealing, tachometer thumping, driver crying levels of excitement while behind the wheel," remarks a NADA Guides reviewer.
"The transmission's clutch and flywheel have been upgraded to cope with the increased power," notes Popular Mechanics. "The Sportshift gearbox benefits from a revised control strategy, which enables the transmission—not the engine—to determine torque delivery during cog swaps. New software offers finessed off-the-line acceleration and shifts that happen in 200 milliseconds."
Not all was rosy with the Vantage's new transmission. Motor Trend reports, "Around town and in spirited driving, the auto-clutch transmission was no match for the full manual, proving both sluggish and clunky. And now the really bad news: The auto-clutch car wouldn't allow an aggressive track launch. Instead, it simply attempted to roast its clutch. Opting to spare the car from self-flagellation, we recorded no additional timed runs."
When it comes to handling, Automobile Magazine finds that, "where the old car always felt outshined in outright handling by a Porsche 911 and in ride quality by the Jaguar XKR, the new car is an improvement in both areas. It still has a stiff low-speed ride, especially with the sport suspension fitted, but it's perfectly in line with the character of the car. All these revisions turn the Aston into a real back-roads weapon."
"The V8 Vantage Roadster managed each corner with controlled poise and each straight with unbridled enthusiasm, its engine revs kept high and response to throttle input immediate and thoroughly enjoyable," observes Automobile.com.
In the braking department, Popular Mechanics says, "strong stops require firm pedal pressure, and though the ventilated four-piston Brembos offer potent deceleration, a more aggressive setup (or perhaps optional carbon ceramics) would feel better suited to this car's abilities."
2009 Aston Martin Vantage
Comfort & Quality
As beautiful as the 2009 Aston Martin V8 Vantage is on the outside, there's room for improvement inside the cabin.
The quality of materials in the 2009 Aston Martin Vantage is on par with its price tag, but there's a question about the comfort level not matching the car's upgraded performance.
"The moment you sweep open the V8 Vantage's 'swan wing' doors, you know you're about to climb into something special. The Vantage's interior, generously swathed with soft leather and buttery Alcantara, was put together with great care. It's sumptuous," declares Popular Mechanics.
About the convertible, Automobile.com reports that, "with the top down the wind can be felt, but the V8 Vantage Roadster is very well isolated compared to some of its premium rivals." Popular Mechanics says "there's a bit of road noise that makes it into the cabin at highway velocities" of the coupe, "but never enough to make the Vantage feel noisy, or worse, uncivilized."
It's the Vantage's seats that leave some reviewers in discomfort. "One improvement we'd like to see is more supportive seats to match the upgraded performance," suggests Automobile.com. "Aston offers aggressive yet cosseting one-piece carbon-fiber sports seat in the DBS in Europe but they aren't available in the USA due to the lack of side airbags." Motor Trend agrees, saying, "the sport seats are so spine-unfriendly they should come with free massage coupons." However, NADA Guides finds the seats to be "supportive under hard-driving yet still comfortable."
Automobile.com reports the cockpit is much nicer than the 2007 model "with leather just about everywhere that aluminum and high-quality matte-finish plastics aren't." "The center console is easily within reach and thus affords quick access to the radio, optional Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Satellite Navigation and Bluetooth phone system," asserts NADA Guides.
Motor Trend has issues with the column-mounted shift paddles, saying they "are so small that with the wheel turned only slightly you have to move your hands to reach them."
NADA Guides contends "the ride of the 2009 Aston Martin V8 Vantage is stiff like you would expect a proper sports car to be; however, it was never jarring or uncomfortable."
2009 Aston Martin Vantage
Despite the lack of crash-test ratings, the 2009 Aston Martin V8 Vantage scores well due to its excellent safety features.
The 2009 Aston Martin Vantage has not been tested by either the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) or the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS)—and most likely never will be. Safety is not the primary concern of those purchasing this car.
However, Aston Martin doesn't disregard safety. The Vantage comes equipped with anti-lock disc brakes with brake assist, traction and stability control, side airbags, and rear parking assist.
Visibility might be the biggest safety issue, even with front and rear parking sensors. "Its thick pillars and low-profile windows hamper visibility and tend to make occupants feel hunkered down," says Edmunds.
Another safety-related complaint comes from Automobile Magazine: "The stability control system is slightly over eager to come into play when driving the V-8-powered Aston quickly. The DBS offers a sportier, more tolerant stability control mode and this feature would be a welcome addition to the V8 Vantage as well."
2009 Aston Martin Vantage
A long list of features accompanies the 2009 Aston Martin V8 Vantage, allowing owners to upgrade and personalize as they choose.
The base price of the 2009 Aston Martin Vantage coupe is $119,000 with these included standard features: power leather seating; a 160-watt audio system with a six-CD/MP3 player and integrated iPod connector and USB; and automatic climate control. Those familiar with BMW's iDrive system will understand Automobile Magazine's statement: "Switching between the integrated iPod interface, the navigation system, and Bluetooth makes BMW's iDrive look impressive."
Vantage options include Bluetooth, a navigation system that's not easy to use with the controls provided; satellite radio; and memory and heated seats. "The flip-up nav screen shows only nav info; audio functions are relegated to a small LED display," says Motor Trend, adding "a new Hard Disk Drive Navigation System allows for faster route processing, improved graphics, and additional features."
A 700-watt audio system is available, though steering-wheel controls for it are not and would be a useful upgrade. "The radio features an in-dash 6-disc changer and when matched with the optional 700 watt Aston Martin Premium Audio System, the sound is amazing," says NADA Guides.
"Interesting touches like a crystal ashtray complement what might be the most coveted key fob in history, an electronic device also made of crystal that lights up in its center-dash-mounted slot," notes Automobile.com. "The ignition key—er, 'Emotion Control Unit'—looks impressive but it's no 'smart key' (it can't open the doors automatically or start the engine from your pocket), and it's tricky to insert into the dash for a proper engine start," retorts Motor Trend.
According to one reviewer, Aston Martin has been astute in addressing some faults from the past. Untactful switchgear that was difficult to use has "been revised in the new car with a completely restyled center stack—constructed from die-cast zinc alloy and finished in graphite silver—containing new controls designed to be easier to operate than their predecessors," says Motor Trend.
Autoblog is impressed with the "delightfully simple button on the dash allows the driver to choose from either 'Sport' or 'Comfort' gearbox maps." The reviewer explains that "the computer remembers what transmission setting you were in last, so you can hop in and head out without having to navigate through endless menus.


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Hi there! This is just a quick hello to before closing the book on 2016.
I wish I had more time atm to do a proper reflection, but so far nothing major has particularly happened, except I've wrapped up a first-draft translation of an old friend to the blog, The Adventures of Robin Lloyd! Esper saw me make a few tweets in the game earlier this month as I finished translating an old trashy dump I made years ago and he surprised me with proper insertable text dumps of his own, so starting next year I will most likely be rewriting that bad boy from scratch before we can dig out the menus/UI text and test play the little sucker.
Someone posted on RHDN that they are looking for a translator for the itty bitty AC1: Cardcaptor Sakura on PSX so cross your fingers for me~♡


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How Do Americans View the Rising China?
Journal of Contemporary China, 2014 (Jie Lu and Liu Kang)
"Polarization and Ideology: Partisan Sources of Low Dimensionality in Scaled Roll Call Analyses"
Political Analysis pp. 1–22, 2014 (with Jacob M. Montgomery and David B. Sparks)
Revisiting Media Effects in Authoritarian Societies: Democratic Conceptions, Collectivistic Norms, and Media Access in Urban China
Politics & Society 42: 253, 2014 (with Jie Lu and Tianjian Shi)
"Blame, Responsibility, and the Tea Party in the 2010 Midterm Elections
Political Behavior, July, 2013.
"Richard Fenno's Theory of Congressional Committees and the Partisan Polarization of the House"
Congress Reconsidered, 10th ed.
(with Brittany N. Perry and David W. Rohde)
"Consequences of Electoral and Institutional Change"
in New directions in American political parties
edited by Jeffrey M. Stonecash
Routledge Press, 2010 (with David W. Rohde)
"Comparing Strategic Voting Under FPTP and PR"
Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 43, No. 1, 61-90, 2010 (with Paul R. Abramson, André Blais, Matthew Diamond, Abraham Diskin, Indridi H. Indridason, Daniel J. Lee and Renan Levine).
"Turnout as a Habit"
Political Behavior, 1-29, 2010 (with Jacob M. Montgomery and Wendy Wood).
"Bifurcated Images of the U.S. in Urban China and the Impact of Media Environment"
Political Communication, Vol. 28, 357-376, 2011 (with Tianjian Shi and Jie Lu).
"One D Is Not Enough: Measuring Conditional Party Government, 1887-2002"
in Party, Process, and Political Change in Congress: Further New Perspectives on the History of Congress
edited by David Brady and Mathew D. McCubbins
Stanford University Press, (with David W. Rohde and Michael Tofias)


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Tests and examinations for bowel (colorectal) cancer
Diagnosing bowel (colorectal) cancer usually requires an examination followed by certain tests such as a simple examination of your abdomen (tummy) and your bottom - a digital rectal examination (checking for lumps or swelling within reach of a finger). If the GP feels there is reason to investigate further they will refer a person for referred for further tests and more than one investigation may be needed to confirm or exclude a diagnosis of bowel cancer. Tests can include:
- a flexible sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy
- colonoscopy (examinations of the bowel using instruments inserted into the back passage) or
- a computerised X-ray examination (CT colonography) and sometimes
- a gastroscopy endoscopy (examination of the stomach with a special instrument).
In the past a barium enema X-ray was the standard test for bowel cancer, but it has been replaced by flexible sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy and CT colonography in most parts of the UK.
If you are diagnosed with bowel (colorectal) cancer you may also have an ultrasound scan, a CT scan or an MRI scan which provide your doctor with more detailed information about the size and position of the tumour and whether it has spread to other organs. Detailed descriptions of these examinations are available on from Cancer Research UK and Macmillan Cancer Support.
Most people who underwent diagnostic tests for bowel cancer found them uncomfortable or embarrassing rather than painful. Many were relieved to be undergoing tests because they were anxious to know the cause of their symptoms. Several people who faced a long wait for a test such as a colonoscopy paid to have it done privately because they feared the consequences of delaying diagnosis and treatment. Since 2000, the "2 week wait" system for suspected cancer referrals in the UK means all patients should be seen by a specialist within two weeks of referral if their GP suspects cancer.
This man describes his experience of a barium enema.
- Age at interview:
- 76
- Sex:
- Male
- Age at diagnosis:
- 66
It's a tube into the rectum and they push it in with air and it does, it is uncomfortable, but it's not painful, it's uncomfortable and you have to lie at different, different angles and the machine itself goes up at different angles.
But there are two nurses there all the time looking after you, they will turn on that side, "Yes, you'll need to turn on this side. You will need to sit up and the thing will go straight up, it'll go back down that way."
And um, the only thing is that after, when they've finished they said "Right, now go to the toilet but hold it within yourself 'til you get to the toilet to get rid of the barium meal."
The difficulty is that as with, when you've got rid of it in the hospital, you think you've got rid of all of it, you haven't, because it was what, about two days, two or three days after that every time you went to the toilet it was lying in the bottom of the toilet like concrete! It was.
Huh, a souvenir.
A souvenir, yes a souvenir that you brought home with you, that's right. But after that it was OK, but there was no problem with it as I say. Uncomfortable yes. Not an experience you'd want to go through everyday sort of thing.
No. But uncomfortable rather than painful?
Oh it was uncomfortable, it wasn't painful as such, no, no.
How long does the whole procedure take?
Oh a couple of hours I think.
A couple of hours of lying on the table?
No, from going into the hospital to coming out, so it, about an hour on the table.
A woman explains what it was like having an endoscopy (examination of the stomach).
- Age at interview:
- 77
- Sex:
- Female
- Age at diagnosis:
- 68
Then I had to go and have the camera put down my throat, down there and it was after I had that done, because once again I was scared out of me life because I'd never had nothing like that you know.
So, the nurse there, you know, they was all lovely and she said um, "Do you want the," thing that sort of you know puts you out the way for a little while you know like the local anaesthetic, "or you can have a throat spray."
So I said "What would you have?" So she said um "Oh you know well I can't tell you really," she said "but I can tell you the difference. If you had the like little injection thing you've gotta stop in a couple of hours afterwards till it wears off. But if you have the throat spray, when it's finished you can go straight away." So I said "I'll have the throat spray." I thought well I can go then, you know.
Anyway, so I had the throat spray, I had that. Once again, didn't hurt but it was a funny sensation but it, it really, I mean they, they were so nice with it and they was explaining to me all the time you know and as long as I've got a tissue in my hands, like the doctor says like, "bite the bullet" with me, I must have, and...
What's the tissue for?
I just hold it.
You just hold the tissue?
Yeah, I can, they can do anything with me as long as I've got a tissue in my hand. I don't know why, I just, just something, I wouldn't mind even if it was somebody to hold, like I could hold their hand, I wouldn't mind that even, but I must have something.
These people describe their colonoscopies.
- Age at interview:
- 53
- Sex:
- Female
- Age at diagnosis:
- 39
- Background:
I think, I think I was fairly well prepared for that, um I, I did not enjoy the days leading up to it and it isn't a very pleasant experience, to have to clear one's system.
How do you do that?
I was given sachets of, of a, a liquid to mix, a drink to clear my system and that is, I think, uncomfortable as time goes on, but I think I was reasonably well prepared for that.
Everybody was very kind, I was very sore this time by the time I had cleared my system.
And then I had fluid pumped into my bowel from the outside, from the rectum and I remember feeling, putting, being moved on a, on a bed and tipped and I remember that being quite a peculiar feeling and feeling quite sort of sea sick I think. And feeling quite strange about that.
Is that so they could see different angles?
Yes, and I was shown the results of that I, they were told that I could see the results and I was, so I felt I was a bit more involved by then, and I was quite happy to see that. I mean I could see there was something misshapen and then I, just waited for the results of that. But that was done very quickly, I saw, I went back to my specialist very quickly after that.
Was it painful?
No, I think it was weird. I think the feeling was weird and I think I felt, I felt a little out of control when I was being moved on a bed and I felt a little bit strange, it was a bit like being on a fairground ride I think, but not a very pleasant one. I don't think that bothered me particularly.
So, and I think again, when I think back to that period of my life I think I was quite glad that somebody was taking seriously something that was worrying me.
- Age at interview:
- 70
- Sex:
- Male
- Age at diagnosis:
- 68
- Background:
I had to go to the hospital which was an outpatients department. I'm trying to remember, I think, in fact I'm sure, that I'd had to take some medication beforehand to clear the bowel out. So I'd sort of spent I think 12 hours without food and most of that time, popping backwards and forwards to the loo after you'd taken these powders to clear you out.
You went to the, the hospital, everybody was very nice and kind. You were shown into a room, I think it was only, just simply trousers and underpants that had to come off. And you climbed up on to the, sorry, and you climbed up on to the table on to one side, up with your knees. They told you that they were going to insert a tube in, into your rectum and that it would be a bit uncomfortable. Which it was. It was uncomfortable, but it wasn't painful.
They then sort of inflate you a little bit and, and that is probably the worst part of it because it's a, it sounds very much like blowing up a tyre on a bicycle! You can hear the air being pumped in and you get a distinct urge to, to want to go to the toilet but you know, you know you can't and you know you're not likely to either. And it's all over in a few minutes.
Do they give you any, did they give you anything to relax you or?
No. No.
No. No medication.
No, no, no medication, no, no. No medication, no the only thing that was used apart from the, the instrument which, which I asked to see, I said "Can I have a look at it?" to see what it is and they showed it me willingly.
What is it like?
What did it look like? It looked like a piece of garden hose.
People who had CT or MRI scans did not generally find them a problem apart from one man who is claustrophobic. He explains how he had his scan assisted by the nurses.
- Age at interview:
- 73
- Sex:
- Male
- Age at diagnosis:
- 73
The one that really worried me when I was down and the professor said he wanted the MRI scan. Now I did know a bit about an MRI scan, that you almost went into a tunnel sort of thing and uh, that absolutely frightened me, that was the worst thing I felt throughout the whole of this six or nine months.
For two days before going down my, my wife, she said I wasn't fit to live with. I was really worried because I felt I wasn't going to be able to uh undertake this.
And I phoned them and from home two days before and explained my problem. I presumed they must have had this before and she said "Well, don't worry," she said "We'll help you, we'll sort it out." She said "We'll put you feet-first in so that you don't have to go right through the tunnel um, and I'll send you a leaflet about it." and what have you. This was the nurse in the MRI section. So this, this information came and I read it, I still felt very uncomfortable.
This nurse came to lead me to get undressed and to put the uh smock on. Now she said "Don't you worry," she said "I'll hold your hand all the way." And she said, "In fact we'll probably bring you a gin and tonic you know, to keep you, to keep you going." So of course that was her humour.
So I got into this machine, I was lying on it, very apprehensive and I went through and I could see they sort of check, you know, "are you going to be alright?" And fortunately my head uh did come out of this area and I was in the open of the room, but this machine was just above me like that, but I could see the ceiling and I could see around me so I said "I think I'm going to be alright."
They pulled me out of the machine and I was glowing, I felt wonderful, it was like going on holiday almost, it was over and I'd coped and as it happened it was a good thing I had coped because the professor got a lot of information that he needed from the results of that scan.
Some people did find it painful to have a biopsy taken. This woman describes what she experienced.
- Age at interview:
- 37
- Sex:
- Female
- Age at diagnosis:
- 34
- Background:
Oh God yeah, I remember it well. When I went in the, I didn't know, really know what it entailed you know. I had to lay on my side, he then proceeded to put this tube up my rectum which was, bearing in mind I was bleeding and I was quite sore down there anyway you know. So he done that, I didn't have any sort of injections to freeze the area or anything like that.
No pain relief?
No pain relief, nothing. And he put the tube inside, then he started to fill it up with air so it separated everything so he could see more clearly, apparently.
What, fill your gut up with air?
Yeah, my bowel yeah, around that area and then he proceeded to put the knife in and cut a bit off the tumour to take away to be looked at under the microscope. For me it was really painful, really, really painful and I wouldn't like to have it done again - well I can't have it done again because it's all gone now.
How long did it take?
Oh about 15 minutes maybe, but it, it was total shock, total shock to the system and after that point just, embarrassment just doesn't come into it you know. I never get embarrassed about anything now, it just doesn't bother me.
Yeah, it was horrendous, I wouldn't lie and say it was easy because it wasn't, not for me. But whether that had something to do with because I was quite sore there anyway, I don't know.
Last reviewed August 2016.
Last updated August 2016.


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|Meat from Lobo, the Wolf. Extremely rare and valuable.
|—In-game description
Lobo's Meat is an animal item found in Red Dead Redemption.
It is one of three items that can be obtained by killing and skinning Lobo the Wolf. As with all items from Legendary Animals, it fetches a very high price when sold to merchants. It is grouped with Lobo's Heart and Lobo's Pelt, as all three are awarded when Lobo is skinned.
- Note: prices listed on this page are based upon the player having neutral honor and playing the game on Normal difficulty. If the player has high honor, the selling price will be Increased by 50% everywhere except Thieves' Landing. Low Honor decreases selling price by 50% everywhere except Thieves' Landing. While playing the game on Hardcore difficulty, money is more scarce and the base, neutral honor price of each item will be slightly lower.
In Singleplayer, Lobo can be found near Aurora Basin, in the Northwest end of Tall Trees in West Elizabeth. He must be killed and skinned to complete Master Hunter - Rank 10, along with Gordo the Boar and Brumas the Bear.
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Here are some examples of genres I read:
- Dystopian
- Young Adult (YA)
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Brand :OPSON
Product origin :Xiamen, China
Delivery time :10 days
Supply capacity :50 tons per day
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Product description:
Why choose Opson granite paint?
1. Pure water formula,environmental friendly,no radiation pollution,Own the SGS certification,MSDS report etc;
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6. Stable quality by QC, the life span more than 15 years;
7. Provide the free sample;
8. Port: FOB Xiamen;
9. Lead Time :20-45 days. It depends on item and quantity as well;
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1. After the completion of the cement mortar scraping, maintain for more than 15 days, the wall is smooth and dry;
2. The aluminum slot are fixed on the wall and protected with masking tape;
3. According to the aluminum slot's depth,we use cement mortar and coarse anti-cracking putty with gridding cloth for leveling on the wall;
4. Tear off the masking tape,brushing alkali-resistant seal coating on the wall;
5. Spraying colored primer and uniform distribution;
6. Spraying granite paint (twice) until the wall is uniform in color and need to be dried for more than 48 hours;
7. Aluminum slot be polished smooth with coarse sandpaper,spray the top coating;
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Product ingredient chart:
Seal Coating
Color Primer
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Top Coating
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Resin emulsion,Color pasta,Titanium dioxide,Protective gum,Assistant material&Water
Silicon a crylic-acid emulsion,Glycol, Coalescing agents,Wetting agent
Theoretical Coverage
0.6-0.8㎡/kg(2mm dry membrane thickness)
Drying Time
Tack-free=2h; hard drying=12h
Tack-free=4h; hard drying=12h
Tack-free=4h; hard drylng=48h
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Another great WSJ article by Jilian Mincer, as the recession deepens, employees are limiting their contributions to their 401(k)s which means you too might have to limit yours. WHAT!?! Yes that is right federal rules require that 401(k) plans not favor highly compensated employees, those earning more than $105,000 in 2008. Higher wage employees can't contribute more than 2 percentage points more than their lower paid colleagues.
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