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Being popular all over the world, you can imagine that Mexican food is a huge topic and in fact, the attempt to try everything kept me quite busy for five months. I was pretty overwhelmed by the food guides I found - most of them using words and ingredients I´ve never heard of before and all of them praising Mexican food to the highest. I decided to approach the topic step by step while featuring an ambivalent view, so that you can make the most out of your stay. Because to truly experience Mexico, trying its food is simply a must (like it´s the case for every country, I think)!
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5 dishes you cannot miss when in Mexico and the reasons why
There´s a Mexican in basically every European city, right? So why pressure yourself to try every dish in Mexico, when you can as well easily have it back home? For two reasons: Either it just tastes completely different there or you simply don´t get it outside Mexico. Here´s an introduction to the dishes I think you really shouldn´t miss when in Mexico!
Mexican drinks you will want to be exported
In Mexico, there´s a whole culture around drinks, both alcoholic and anti-alcoholic. There´s a big number of Mexican beers, of which "Corona" is the only one that´s actually well-known in Europe as well and their whole tradition around Tequila and Mezqual will make you rethink your possible reluctance to drink them. So here´s a quick guide to the drinks you will definitely encounter at some point and I think you´ll like.
Your gapless Mexican street food guide
Mexican street food is one of those things I started missing the moment I wasn´t in Mexico anymore. There´s a food stand at basically EVERY corner and the selection of both sweet and salty snacks seems to be never ending. Here is a gapless guide to the most famous Mexican street foods you definitely shouldn´t miss trying.
The 7 best places to eat in Guadalajara for every taste
If you are into food, I think you will like Guadalajara. As a big city it offers a huge variety, from best Mexican cuisine to all kinds of international dishes! And no matter if it´s a simple taco stand or an upper-class restaurant, in Guadalajara you´ll get an unbeaten value for money. I would even say the city would be worth a visit JUST for the food! During my time there I aimed to try every recommendation I got and, as an outcome, here are - only and exclusively - my absolute favorites.
7 weekly events in Guadalajara where you´ll be the only tourist
Guadalajara is an amazing place if you really want to experience modern Mexico, a little less touristy, a bit more authentic. Here are some events taking place in Guadalajara weekly, where you´ll barely find any tourists.
Your ultimate guide to Guadalajara
The city of Guadalajara has its own unique charm and loads of places to discover while tourism is pretty low. Because it´s one of the destinations not everyone visits, you won´t have a hard time avoiding the masses to discover a very authentic modern Mexico.


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BESIGHEIM, Germany — Barack Obama in traditional German lederhosen? It may be hard to imagine, but researchers in the U.S. say they have located documents that prove the president has German roots dating to the 1700s.
According to parish records uncovered by experts at the genealogy Web site Ancestry.com, Obama's 6th great-grandfather Johann Conrad Woelflin was born Jan. 29, 1729, in Besigheim, a small town north of Stuttgart on the Enz river where it feeds into the Neckar.
He sailed aboard a ship called "Patience" in 1750 to America, changing his last name to "Wolfley" upon arrival and eventually settling in Middletown, Pennsylvania, according to head genealogist Anastasia Tyler, who oversaw the research.
In Middletown, he married Anna Catherine Schockey in 1756 and had at least six children, including Ludwig Lewis Wolfley — Obama's 5th great grandfather — who was born in 1766, Tyler said.
The investigation was started by the Web site, which determined in 2007 that Obama had Irish ancestry, after researchers decided a few weeks ago it would be fun to try and prove or disprove rumored German ancestry ahead of the president's visit to Dresden on Friday, Tyler said.
"We'd proved the Irish, so we just wanted to see if there was any truth to the rumors of German heritage," she told The AP in a telephone interview. "People supposed a few different lines that went to Germany, and the one that seemed the most plausible was this Wolfley line, so that's the one we concentrated on."
Tracing the ancestry of Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, the investigative team linked Obama back to Wolfley relatively quickly. But it wasn't until last Friday when a researcher was poring over microfilmed documents at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, that they got the breakthrough documenting Wolfley's German ties, Tyler said.
Better than simple birth papers, the document — a so-called parish "Seelenregister" or "register of souls" — gave detailed information not only about Wolfley, but also his parents and grandparents.
"That was the absolute key piece to the puzzle," Tyler said. "Not only did it tie Johann Conrad back to Germany ... but it gave us his parents names and these great details."
Among other things, the documents suggest Obama's family involvement in politics began centuries ago — the parish Seelenregister indicates Johann Conrad Woelflin's grandfather, Conrad Woelflin was mayor for 30 years of Orsingen or Oefingen, both towns south of Stuttgart. The old script makes it difficult to read the name of the town exactly, but the Family History Library says a baptism record for one of Conrad Woelflin's sons lists Conrad as a "member of the court" in Oefingen, so that seems most likely.
The documents also show the current U.S. Commander in Chief has something of a military pedigree.
Johann Conrad's father, Johann Martin Woelflin is listed as a military field surgeon, born in 1690. According to the Seelenregister he was involved in much of the tumult of early 18th century Europe power struggles, fighting in France, Sicily, and what is today Romania.
During the 1716-18 Austro-Turkish War he was involved in the famous siege of Temesvar, in which Habsburg Imperial armies led by Prince Eugene of Savoy took the last important Ottoman-Turk stronghold in Hungary, which is today the Romanian city of Timisoara. During the siege, the document notes that Woelflin was injured with an arrow shot from the fortress.
Married to Maria Margaretha Woelflin in 1722, the couple had nine children of whom Obama's ancestor Johann Conrad was number four. The family appears to have moved around a lot; primarily in the Stuttgart area.
Besigheim deputy mayor Klaus Schrempf told APTN he was "very surprised" that Obama could have a connection to his city. But he tracked down a copy of other local church records himself, and located Woelflin's name.
"If this turns out really to be the case, we will extend an invitation to Mr. Obama and if he would come and visit at some stage, it would be a great joy for the city and for the people," he said.
The quaint city dates back to at least 1153 and today has 11,400 residents. Rivers surround the town on three sides, and two medieval towers and a late-Gothic church give it a picturesque silhouette.
At the time of Johann Conrad's birth, it was part of the duchy of Wuerttemberg.
Bernhard Kober, who runs the Cafe zum Hirsch in the old city center, said he always thought Besigheim was "something very special."
"I took it for granted that some great person came from Besigheim," the 47-year-old told APTN. "That it is Barack? That is great for us."
Several other presidents have German backgrounds — perhaps most famously Dwight D. Eisenhower, who as Supreme Allied Commander Europe during World War II directed the western effort to defeat Nazi Germany. The White House did not respond to requests for comment on Obama's German link.
But Ancestry.com spokesman Mike Ward said the site decided to pursue Obama's ancestry purely out of interest.
"We use these types of stories as opportunities to highlight how interesting family history can be — that everyone has an interesting story to tell," he said.
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- I'm a total newb to FW/1.
- There is most likely a better, or built in way to do this.
Still with me? Ok. Here is the specification for this little ditty:
- The site I'm working on is mostly static.
- It is required (perhaps legally, definitely procedurally) that every page of the site must have a last modified date in the footer.
- The site is built using FW/1 (which is awesome).
Here are the cliff notes of what's about to go down:
- I have a footer that is included in every page.
- In the footer view Im going to look at the current page's action in the request context (rc) and figure out what the corresponding "view" is based on the action
- I'm going to use cfdirectory to find the lastmodifieddate of the view file from step 2.
Without further adieu:
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My boy, Gunnar, just had his first birthday and he's in impeccable health <3 However, we took him to the vet recently because of a gross discharge he was having from less than pleasant areas. We thought it might be a UTI or something, but it turns out that he's just SO fertile that he's having a buildup of sperm in his tract. He's producing so much that his urine sample looked like a sperm sample.
What I'm wondering is, might there be a hormone imbalance that's causing this? Also, its a long shot, but might a hormone imbalance be the cause of his anxiety and apparent depression? He's always been a low energy dog, but has also always had problems with his mood, no matter what we do. It was suggested by a friend that getting him neutered might help with his hormone levels.
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'Carrie Diaries': Charming study of a beloved character
- USA TODAY review%3A * * * stars out of four
- Show premieres Monday at 8 p.m. ET/PT
- AnnaSophia Robb stars as a young Carrie Bradshaw
Whoever she is, she's a charmer.
It's clear who the writers of this new CW teen soap want you think the title character is: a 16-year-old, circa-1984 Carrie Bradshaw, a would-be writer who will grow up to be the heroine of Sex and the City.
That poses two, related problems: Will those who know the woman Carrie became believe this is the girl she used to be? And will those who don't know the older Carrie — and many in CW's target young audience may not — find the younger version compelling enough on her own?
Odds are viewers will find it easier to say "yes" to the second question than the first. And for CW purposes, one yes is enough, particularly since the second "yes" is the one the network really needs.
We meet Carrie (a very appealing AnnaSophia Robb) as a Connecticut high school student dreaming of life in Manhattan. But rather than try to draw us into this story through Carrie's pursuit of that too-obvious, premature goal, the show instead introduces a deeper emotional hook: Carrie has just lost her mother to cancer, and is dreading her first day back at school.
In efficient but not perfunctory fashion, the show quickly establishes Carrie's three different worlds. There's the home she shares with her unhappy younger sister (Stefania Owen) and her supportive but grieving father (Matt Letscher). There's the high school social strata, which is split in typical fashion among her friends, Mouse (Ellen Wong), Maggie (Katie Findlay) and Maggie's boyfriend Walt (Brendan Dooling); the hot new boy Carrie likes, Sebastian (Austin Butler); and the mean girl (Chloe Bridges) who becomes Carrie's rival for Sebastian's affections.
And then there's Carrie's new life in Manhattan, where she spends one day a week as a law firm intern, thanks to her dad. She's instantly, if not exactly convincingly, taken under the wing of Larissa (Freema Agyeman), a magazine style editor who just as instantly recognizes Carrie's budding fashion sense.
Their sudden friendship leads to a New York romp that provides Carrie with a bit of character insight that, if too obviously set up, is a smart step for the show to take.
For now — and through no fault of Agyeman's — Larissa is more of a contrivance than a character. She does, however, serve as a perfect illustration of the show's sometimes-warring dual nature. Larissa is the show's link to '80s social and fashion excess, a link only adults are likely to appreciate in a character only children are likely to buy.
And so the show goes. While the allusions to Sex can be amusing, they can also feel forced and unfocused. When Carrie makes a horrible pun about losing her virginity to a "Man: Manhattan," are we supposed to think that's evidence of the writer she'll become, or proof of how far she has to go?
As fine as Robb is as Carrie, you do wish CW did not feel the need to constantly feed its young audience a fantasy view of the world where every single teenager is the epitome of physical beauty.
We know what Carrie looked like in Sex and the City, and we know what she looked like as a teenager, because we saw (or can look up) star Sarah Jessica Parker in the '80s sitcom Square Pegs. What we saw was an unconventionally attractive woman who created her own form of glamour through a sense of fashion and a strong sense of self. It would be nice to see that person on CW's air, but then, this is a network that thinks putting a small scar on a hunk's face makes him a Beast.
Still, that's unlikely to make much difference to the show's target teenage audience, who will probably be happy with Carrie as she is — and very happy with the bright young star who plays her.
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Suzanne Stewart, Austin painter, has joined the blogging world. It seems such a stretch, but I would like to share some insights I have gained. My painting experiences have formed a new and exciting path. Please share your comments with me. What will survive of us is love.
"Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul." Vincent Van Gogh
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Well, it's Tuesday, in the United States at least, and you know what that means... IBM Announcements! I am actually down under in Sydney, Australia, and it is Wednesday already as I write this. I feel like a time traveler.
IBM announces their latest disk system, the [IBM System Storage DCS3700], designed for high-performance computing (HPC), business analytics, video broadcasting, and other sequential workloads. The "DCS" stands for Deep Computing Storage. IBM already has the DCS9900 for large enterprise deployments, so this smaller DCS3700 is targeted for midrange deployments.
In a compact 4U package, the DCS3700 packs dual active-active controllers and up to 60 disk drives. The controller drawer can support two additional expansion drawers, of 60 drives each in 4U drawers, for a maximum total of 180 drives in 12U of rack space. Packed with "green" 7200RPM energy-efficient 2TB drives, a system can have up to a 360TB raw capacity. The system supports RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, and 10.
The system comes with the latest 6Gbps SAS connections for host attachment, but you can choose 8Gbps Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) instead, allowing the DCS3700 to be managed by SVC or Storwize V7000.
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Why J/24? The Legacy & The Challenge
After racing in the 20th Anniversary Midwinters, Jeff Johnstone looks back over two decades of sailing J/24s the boat that "started it all" for his family's company. (reprinted from Sailing World Magazine)
"During the summer of 1975, we had an oft-repeated conversation around the dinner table at our house in Stonington, Conn. Our dad, Rod Johnstone, would try to convince the boys (myself, Phil and Al, teenagers at the time) to help him sand the bottom of the 24-footer in the garage. "Look boys:' he said, "whoever helps me more on the boat will get a larger share when I sell it." As it turned out, brother Phil was very good at sanding and applied himself diligently to the task, logging at least double the hours of his two brothers. The 24-footer became Ragtime, then later the master plug for J/24 production, suddenly turning what had been a family hobby into a family business.
Things really took off with the first J/24 Midwinters in 1978. Twenty J/24s came to Key West, Fla., for the event that would unofficially rocket the J/24 into its 20-year orbit. It was the first time the boat had been put under the microscope of such prominent dinghy, big boat and Olympic sailors as Scott Allen, Bob Barton, Gordy Bowers, Vince Brun, Augie Diaz, Neal Fowler, Rick Grajirena, John Kolius, Larry Leonard, Mark Ploch, Jim and Charlie Scott, Dave Ullman and Gary Weismann.
"We didn't know how these guys would react to a boat with no adjustable jib leads, a fixed headstay length and very few other things to fiddle around with " said J/24 designer Rod, recalling the first Midwinters. "But when the week was over, everyone told us, 'don't mess around with the boat, you've got a great thing going here."' This good advice was followed, and J/24 racing today remains the same battle of skill it was in 1978, only now with another 5,000 boats to sail against worldwide.
The challenge in 1978 was getting to Key West. Trailering was adventurous, as the old bridges connecting the Keys were 6 feet skinnier than they are today. You needed a co-pilot just to call "inches from the curb," and more urgently, to warn of oncoming Winnebagos. J/24s also came to Key West by water via the Ft * Lauderdale-Key West Race. Times were different then. People didn't think twice about sailing 170-mile overnight races in J/24s, figuring since they were already sleeping on the boat, they might as well sail, too.
As for that first Midwinters, each race was won by a different team, and mid-regatta the fleet was sent on a 40-mile distance race around the tower at American Shoals. A large breaking wave at the tower sent some boats airborne. The series was capped off with a final race shoot-out with Ploch out-gunning Kolius and Brun.
"I remember good sailing, beautiful skies, good friends, and what a great idea it was to go to Key West for a week of sailing" said Brun, when I saw him this year at Yachting's Key West Race Week. The idea was popular enough that the J/24 Midwinters returned three more times to Key West on the heels of the Lauderdale Key West Race, a tradition now upheld by Yachting's Key West Race Week.
This past January, the J/24 class returned to Key West to celebrate its 20th Midwinter Championship. In what has become true J/24 spirit, 98 boats and 500 sailors converged for a week of memorable racing. It was both a reunion and a renaissance. Nearly half the participants were first-time attendees of the Midwinters, and while many of the best J/24 stories were retold by class veterans, everyone came away from Midwinters XX with new hair-raising tales. The promise of Key West wind was delivered twice-fold, with only one day producing moderate enough winds for the No. I genoa. The rest of the week offered up rip-roaring easterlies with big waves, resulting in two days of canceled racing during the five-day event.
The reunion of sailors had everyone recalling their earliest J/24 experiences. It was tough to pre-date John Gjerde of Lake Minnetonka, Minn. On March 13, 1977, before the first production boat was off the line at Tillotson-Pearson, Gjerde and four fellow Minnesota sailors formed J/24 Fleet No. 1, buying five of the first 20 boats built. "Now I'm here 20 years later, and I feel like I've discovered J/24 sailing all over again; and yes, this March we're having our own reunion party of that first-ever J/24 meeting." (As if wanting to prove that their trend-setting ways were no fluke, the same Lake Minnetonka crowd also started J/22 fleet No. I in 1983.)
Tony Parker of Annapolis (Bangor Packet) recalled first seeing J/24s off Newport in 1978. "One day there was a beautiful southwest breeze of 15 knots. We saw a huge fleet of boats looking like they were doing starting drills. It was the first J/24 North Americans on that famous day where they had nine general recalls and no racing. When I came ashore, I said, 'I'm going to buy one of those boats."' Once word of -that day spread throughout the race committee grapevine, the reputation of J/24s for pushing the starting line was forever cemented.
Changes through the years
When asked about the biggest change he'd seen after 20 years in the class, Brun said, "That's the beauty of it, there's been very little change. You don't have to change for sailing to be fun. It's the people involved, and the evenness of the boats. If the speed difference between the top five and bottom five is small, that's the key.
"While the spirit of camaraderie and competition remains, few would argue that the J/24 is sailed the same. After winning the first two midwinter championships, Ploch penned these tips in the first "From the Experts" article on the J/24: "For total crew weight, I think the lighter the better." "The whole rig should be very tight." "We set the spinnaker from the lifelines just forward of the cockpit:' Today, the top boats sail with maximum permitted crew weight, relatively loose rigs, and spinnakers hoisted out of the companionway.
Art Dufresne (U.S. J/24 president in the early '80s) points to the changing role of the crew as the most significant improvement in J/24 sailing. "The early J/24s had all the sail controls led back into the cockpit. There was nothing for the two forward crew members to do, except jibe the pole. Then in the early '80s, a wealth of information came into the class on how to better organize a team effort. The deck layout changed so that everyone had a job on the boat. This made the boat easier and more efficient to sail in much tougher conditions. Then as a class we started recognizing all the crew at the trophy ceremonies."
The early sail shapes were all over the place. Some advocated full mains and flat genoas, others flat mains and full genoas. Designs seemed to change with every regatta, often depending on the expected conditions. When the conditions were opposite of what was predicted, certain sailmakers could be seen bringing up the rear. The fastest I remember being in a J/24 was in 1978 when we sported a Horizon mainsail from Dave Curtis, an Ulmer genoa from John Kolius, and a Bill Shore spinnaker.
"Those days, nobody knew exactly how to trim the boat," commented Brun. "Today, it's much more sophisticated. People know how to set up the mast, how to set up the sails; it's more scientific. Probably the biggest change was in 1984 with Ken Read [working for Bill Shore at Shore Sails]. Ken was a little bit ahead of his time. He figured out that the boat sails a lot better with forestay sag. Shore was building sails to absorb the headstay sag. Before that, everyone was sailing with a tighter headstay."
While the experts continued to push the envelope, testing both the class rules and the resolve of the class to administer the rules, the class managed to avoid the common trap of "catering to the vocal minority." Important changes in the late '80s allowing Mylar in the genoa, a new crew weight of 400 kilos, and a dry weight to replace flotation marks, were thoroughly debated and voted on by class members. The Mylar issue alone took four years before passing unanimously. A three-person Technical Committee of Dennis Ellis, John Peck and Rod Johnstone was kept quite busy.
Hank Killion was International J/24 Class chairman from 1986 to 1992, seeing the class through its most challenging years. When asked about his attraction to the class, Killion replied, "The J/24 class was more about people than anything else. The boat brought us together as a group with similar sailing interests. It was the camaraderie of the people at both the local and world level that made the class so much fun. This and the willingness of top people in the class like Curtis, Read and Dick Tillman to openly share their ideas with less experienced sailors. I felt we were part of a 'we' generation instead of a 'me' generation."
Into the future
With a major evolution in rules and regatta management behind it, the J/24 class is rediscovering its roots. Midwinters XX kicked off a series of events resembling a Rolling Stones reunion tour. The great sailing venues that helped launch the class are again featured for the upcoming championships. San Francisco plays host for the 1997 North Americans and 1998 Worlds. The 1997 U.S. Nationals are going to Corpus Christi, Texas. Newport, R.I., will serve up the big homecoming at the 1998 North Americans and the 2000 Worlds.
With boats entering their 20th season, the class is coming to grips with how best to monitor the reconditioning of older boats to stay within class specs. The availability of competitive used boats in the $8,000 to $12,000 range has enabled the class to generate a steady influx of new sailors, who otherwise couldn't afford to compete.
"I've seen a big change in the class in the last year," said Chris Larson, winner of Midwinters XX. "A lot of people are buying boats because it's cost effective, and a good organization. This regatta has 40 to 50 percent new faces. There's a whole new generation of J/24 sailors."
Brun concurs: "For about $15,000 and a little bit of work, you can get into a J/24 and have a boat as good as Chris Larson's or Terry Hutchinson's. It's a very good return for your investment. The low cost gives you the variety of sailors and lets the younger people sail."
I'm often asked what happened to the original Ragtime. Before answering, I ask people not to tell brother Phil, who good naturedly still inquires about Ragtime and his elusive "share." In 1978, when TPI production hit a high of five boats a day, room had to be made in the back lot; and so RAGTIME was unceremoniously chain-sawed to pieces and thrown into a dumpster.
Some 12 years later, when measuring local boats in Newport, I spotted a strange looking elliptical rudder on the transom of what turned out to be J/24 hull No. 2. A closer inspection revealed the rudder to be cored in mahogany. Knowing no TPI rudder had ever been made from mahogany, I called Rod. He immediately identified it as the original garage-built rudder from Ragtime, which he'd given away in 1977 as a spare. As you'd expect, the rudder was grandfathered for class racing. I'm now thinking it would make a perfect present for Phil."
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This entry was originally written by Marsha Hoffman Rising, CG, FUGA, FASG and Dwight A. Radford for Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
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• 1860, 1870, 1880
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The Nebraska State Historical Society has copies of the federal schedules and the 1860 to 1880 agriculture, industry, and mortality schedules.
Territorial and State
The Nebraska State Historical Society has the original enumerations for the territorial censuses. Territorial censuses are available for 1854, 1855, and 1856 and are indexed in Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Records and at www.ancestry.com subscription databases. A few counties were recorded in censuses taken in 1867, 1874, 1875, 1878'79. Lancaster County was indexed and published in the Historical Records of Lancaster County Nebraska, Series 3, vols. 1'13 (Lincoln, Nebr.: Genealogical Records Committee of the Deborah Avery Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution [DAR], under sponsorship of the Nebraska State Historical Society, 1939).
Microfilm copies of the 1885 state census are at the Nebraska State Historical Society, the National Archives, and the FHL. Schedules include names of all members of the household and agricultural, industrial, and mortality schedules. An index is included in the 1890 Census Substitute database on www.ancestry.com.
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Holding our leaders accountable for saving our oceans
In an earlier blog, I started (threatened?) to dialogue with you about the principles necessary to save the Earth. I haven't expanded on them because I've been almost totally consumed by something we and our allies at Sylvia Earle's Mission Blue released on May 29 called SeaStates 2013 (http://seastates.us/). Happily, this blog is an opportunity for us to discuss both SeaStates 2013 and the first of the principles.
The cover of SeaStates 2013 says what we really care about: Our families and our oceans.
SeaStates 2013 is our way of announcing that we're watching the state governments we pay for, specifically, watching their performance in protecting our oceans. Without carrying a placard, throwing an insult, filing a lawsuit or firing a shot, motivated by self-interest in having a healthy planet, by community spirit and by love for the Earth, we and Mission Blue decided to step up by shining a light on how well governments are protecting our stake in healthy oceans. With deep commitment to the oceans, to scientific integrity and to our fellow citizens, we are holding our governments publicly accountable. Not everyone would agree, but that seems pretty revolutionary to me.
Why, you might ask? A very wise person once said:
"Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman."
They were the words of Louis D. Brandeis (1856–1941) when he was a United States Supreme Court Justice. We and Mission blue take Justice Brandeis' advice. SeaStates 2013 shines a light on the people who govern us.
We want people to read SeaStates 2013, so it's no dull tome fated to collect dust on some little-used bookshelf. Rather, it's our way of using our expertise to hold our elected, appointed and career government officials accountable for their performance on oceans.
When Marine Conservation Institute President Lance Morgan first charged me with realizing his vision for SeaStates 2013, he forced me to contemplate why government effectiveness is so important us if we're going to save the Earth.
Here it is: For better and worse, people treat the land and sea differently.
We can all see that the land is a mosaic of places (this one is on the island of Mauritius), but yet we treat the sea as if it's all the same, as if it doesn't have places. As marine ecologists, Lance and I know this is a big mistake.
Even more important, laws in most countries allow people to own land, but the sea is essentially all managed by local, state and national government agencies. So if you want to save the sea, you have to deal with government. There's no getting around that.
And when it comes to protecting the ecosystem mosaic in coastal and offshore waters, governments have traditionally operated in the darkness, free from public scrutiny. Their unilluminated labors haven't always been good for the oceans. A number of US government programs celebrate our oceans, even as they watch the oceans continue to decline. We at the Marine Conservation Institute certainly like seeing our governments celebrating seas, of course, but we want them to focus more on actually conserving them.
I don't want to tell my grandchildren what elkhorn corals, Nassau groupers or blue whales were like. I want my grandkids, your grandkids, our grandkids, to see them for themselves. In that sense, I'm a selfish guy.
In 2013, a lot of people (not only ones on the Far Right) seem to be hating government. But as my mother used to teach, "Hatred is a sickness."
What I think she meant is that it's symptomatic of a person who has given up on using politics (interpersonal interactions) to get what he or she wants. Hating means deciding not to cooperate no matter how much not cooperating hurts the hater. Hating is emotion that defines the philosophy of the suicide bomber.
Suicide bombers are human failures who, unlike most people, can't get their way through politics (again, this means interpersonal interactions, from those in in a marriage or grocery checkout line to those in Congress or the UN General Assembly). After all, we humans are political animals. Those who aren't hermits or insane must constantly navigate the maze of human relationships, sometimes skillfully, sometimes not. Suicide bombers are people who fail at human relationships, vent their frustration on their victims (usually finding reasons to blame harmless ones), and endeavor to get noticed to make their point (effective suicide bombers must be good at PR!).
But suicide bombing is the clearest indicator of a losing or lost cause. It's so corrosive because it nihilistically ignores its more difficult but much more human alternative, namely succeeding through politics. Getting people to do what you want.
Humans like getting our way, and I'm human. Quite specifically, I want to save our oceans, and—as embarrassing it to say this—it would be really good for everybody if I actually get my way on this. We really do need living oceans. And we don't have much time to dither.
Moreover, being a human, I get that hating is sometimes an understandable mindstate to be in, and perhaps, sometimes, very occasionally, even usefulin the short-term.
But hating is always, always, always the wrong mindstate to have in the longer term. Hating is the one feeling that—if not quickly abandoned—always kills both the hater and its victim. Even faster than despondency.
And even when there is more than enough justification to hate (and, people being people, there will be always be lots of justification!), we shouldn't succumb to hatred because it will kill us all. As Jim Morrison said, "No one here gets out alive." Hating is a dead end.
There has to be a better way.
If we want to win—if we want to save the Earth and survive—we (part-time and fulltime, amateur and professional) EarthSavers have to understand why people behave as they do so we can reshape people's unsustainable behaviors.
The Marine Conservation Institute's work—saving the Earth—is about people even more than marine life. If the right people don't decide—and very quickly—to do the smart thing for them, us and the oceans, we humans are all on a rocking boat, standing the end of a plank that we didn't have to make ourselves walk. We won't like how this story ends unless we change things. Threatening the oceans threatens ourselves. Sylvia's right on in calling the ocean "the blue heart of the planet." And only we—you, me, all of us who are cognitively and ethically alive right now—can save it. It's a choice. It's a choice we'd better make.
We can't do it alone. We need help from our friends. But it's not going to happen without us.
To Lance and team, deciding not to destroy our planet, maintaining a biologically diverse, productive, livable Earth is the ultimate act of patriotism. It is the willingness to sacrifice for our people in a cause far more important than we are. Our Red, White and Blue needs to add Green. And the biggest green thing of all is actually blue. The ocean. Our playing field. It's much older and much bigger than us. We had better not kill it. We live on this Earth thanks to our ocean, which is a lot of why we are dedicated to safeguarding it.
Yes, all of us at the Marine Conservation Institute right now are Americans. But our country's boarders are no longer isolating us from weather patterns, ocean currents, microorganisms, and economic flows. Whether we like it or not, we are now connected with the entire world. What we do affects them, what they do affects us. That's why if we're really patriotic, we need to understand that our country is the Earth. Not just a piece that some particular government controls. The whole Earth. If you love your country, you've got to love the Earth.
It's ours to ruin or save. And just to remind us again, that means ruining or saving ourselves.
The Marine Conservation Institute is here to take in information, think intelligently about it, diagnose problems, propose solutions and then help people do what it takes to save life in the sea. It is a special privilege to be doing this work.
This is by far my longest blog, and I beg your indulgence. Because I wanted to bring SeaStates 2013 to your attention, I didn't want to take all the time needed to say this all more succinctly. I humbly apologize.
And since you've waited this long, you deserve some positive reinforcement, so here it is. Here's the first principle (drumroll, please!):
1) There is still opportunity to save the sea (and us). Ours is not yet a lost cause. If the sea is important to us, our biggest problem is getting enough of the right people to accept that it's in trouble andthat we can still succeed in saving it. We have to get people from the ends of the continuum between "We're aren't causing problems!" to "The world is going to end no matter what we do!" Lance and our team are somewhere in the middle and have to motivate the people in the middle. Extremism isn't going to save the sea. We have to get humankind to think and feel the rightness of the idea that people need healthy oceans so they'll do what it takes to save the sea. To do that, somebody really needs to get people's attention. The biggest problem marine conservationists face is that we don't have people's attention yet.
The first principle I want to offer you: It's not too late. Time is short, very short, but there is still opportunity to save the sea.
I seek your reasoned comments on this principle; we do notneed a flame war here. We need to find a solution that works. Fast. And we and our Mission Blue allies are starting by holding the people of our government accountable for protecting our oceans.
Hence SeaStates 2013.
Elliott Norse, Founder and Chief Scientist, Marine Conservation Institute


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Grilled Matambre
Matambre (literally, "kill the hunger") is a classic South American meat dish. Every family has its own favorite combination of ingredients for the filling — some use vegetables, eggs, and nuts; others use ground pork, calves' brains, and spinach. We kept it simple and went with spinach and carrots.
Traditionally, this dish is poached, but we decided to grill ours. After testing this recipe on both gas and charcoal grills, we found that we prefer the flavor that charcoal imparts to the dish. We used a 22 1/2-inch kettle grill, a large chimney starter, and a 10-pound bag of hardwood charcoal.*
Active time: 2 1/2 hr Start to finish: 3 hr
- Yield
- Makes 6 servings
- 4 medium carrots, cut crosswise into thirds
- 6 bacon slices, cut crosswise into 1/2-inch pieces
- 1 cup fine fresh bread crumbs
- 1/4 cup finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 teaspoon finely chopped fresh oregano
- 2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon ground clove
- 1/8 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
- 1 (2 1/2-lb) flank steak, trimmed
- 1/2 lb spinach, stems discarded
- Special equipment: kitchen string
- Cook carrots in a saucepan of boiling salted water until barely tender, 6 to 8 minutes, then drain (carrots will continue to cook as they cool). When cool, cut each section lengthwise into 3 pieces.
- Cook bacon in a skillet over moderate heat, stirring, until crisp, then transfer with a slotted spoon to paper towels to drain, reserving fat. Stir together bacon, bread crumbs, parsley, garlic, oregano, salt, pepper, clove, nutmeg, and 2 tablespoons fat in a bowl until combined well.
- Put steak on 2 overlapping sheets of plastic wrap (each about 2 feet long) with a short side of steak nearest you. Holding a sharp knife parallel to work surface and beginning on a long side, butterfly steak by cutting it almost in half horizontally (not all the way through), then open it like a book.
- Turn steak so a long side is nearest you, then arrange spinach evenly over steak, leaving a 1-inch border along edge farthest from you. Top spinach with carrot pieces, arranging them parallel to long side and spacing them evenly, then sprinkle evenly with bread crumb mixture.
- Beginning with side nearest you and using plastic wrap as an aid, roll up steak, gently pressing on filling (do not roll too tightly or filling will slip out from ends), then tie steak crosswise with string at 3/4-inch intervals. Season with salt and pepper.
- To cook steak using a charcoal grill:
- Open vents on bottom of grill and on lid. Light a heaping chimneyful of charcoal and pour it evenly over 1 side of bottom rack (you will have a double or triple layer of charcoal).
- When charcoal turns grayish white (15 to 20 minutes from lighting) and you can hold your hand 5 inches above top rack for 3 to 4 seconds, sear steak on all sides on lightly oiled rack over coals until well browned, 8 to 10 minutes.
- Move steak to side of grill with no coals underneath and cook, covered with lid, turning once, until an instant-read thermometer inserted diagonally 2 inches into thickest part of steak registers 125°F, 15 to 20 minutes total.
- To cook steak using a gas grill:
- Preheat all burners on high, then adjust heat to moderately high. Sear steak on all sides on lightly oiled rack over flames until well browned, 8 to 10 minutes.
- Turn off burner directly below steak and cook, covered with lid, turning once, until an instant-read thermometer inserted diagonally 2 inches into thickest part of steak registers 125°F, 25 to 30 minutes total.
- Carve steak:
- Transfer steak to a cutting board and let stand, covered loosely with foil, 20 minutes. Beef will continue to cook as it stands, reaching 130°F (medium-rare). Discard string, being careful not to unroll steak, and cut steak into 1/2-inch-thick slices with a sharp knife.
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Cook's notes:
·Steak can be rolled and tied 1 day ahead and chilled, wrapped in plastic wrap.
·If you aren't able to grill, steak can be seared in a 12-inch heavy skillet (ends of roll will come up side) in remaining bacon fat or 1 tablespoon oil, turning, 8 to 10 minutes, then transferred to a roasting pan and roasted in middle of a 350°F oven 20 to 25 minutes.
·If you aren't able to grill, steak can be seared in a 12-inch heavy skillet (ends of roll will come up side) in remaining bacon fat or 1 tablespoon oil, turning, 8 to 10 minutes, then transferred to a roasting pan and roasted in middle of a 350°F oven 20 to 25 minutes.
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- Calories533
- Carbohydrates19 g(6%)
- Fat28 g(44%)
- Protein48 g(96%)
- Saturated Fat11 g(53%)
- Sodium741 mg(31%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat3 g
- Fiber3 g(12%)
- Monounsaturated Fat12 g
- Cholesterol148 mg(49%)


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Tasha Fierce wrote an incredibly personal essay As Fat As I Wanna Be, which was picked up by Jezebel and has touched off a bit of a dust up in the comment section. If you value your Sanity Watcher points I strongly suggest you avoid reading the comments.
Tasha Fierce says:
When someone is fat shamed, the person doing the shaming often justifies it as them being concerned for the fat person's health. Of course we know that's bullshit. Fatphobia has nothing to do with health, if someone was really concerned they wouldn't harp on it to the detriment of fat people's self esteem. And a ton of fat people can attest that they eat healthily and exercise. I however, cannot. So is the health argument justified in my case? Well, no, because fat also has nothing to do with health. It's the food I eat that's the issue. It's the fact that I eat when I'm definitely not physically hungry. It's my lack of exercise.
Tasha's passage here echoes much of the conversation regarding false good fatty/bad fatty dichotomy. While the most vitriolic of commenters on the Jezebel repost scanned as nothing more than garden variety concern trolls, it would be reductive to suggest there wasn't a bit of the sentiment coming from within the Fat Acceptance movement as well.
Leslie of Fatshionista shuts it down like this:
This divide is unworthy of any size acceptance movement because in the real world, we all straddle these lines, and trying to create a homogenized group of "acceptable" fat people only further marginalizes the fat people who, for reasons both within and outside their control, can't fit into that category. Not everyone can afford a gym membership or fresh produce; not everyone has time to cook healthful balanced meals from whole foods, or to spend an hour running to nowhere on a treadmill; and not everyone can stave off health problems, no matter how virtuous their habits may be.
Marginalized groups must work to resist the tendency to devalue or bristle over any member whose actions might be viewed as "making the rest of us look bad". The work to end all forms of oppression does not involve policing group members to ensure they are "on message". Ending oppression – be it fat or racial or gender or whathaveyou – requires an active commitment to resist any cultural messaging seeking to frame one member of a marginalized group as representative of all members – regardless of whether the framing presents the members in a negative or positive light.
This can sometimes be difficult to deal with as a person who often feels uncomfortable when I see other women of color behaving in ways I feel are counterproductive to the struggle to end racist, sexist oppression. That said, if I really value being seen as an individual first, rather than my gender, size, race, then I must accept that other women are also free to make choices about the way they lead their lives as well. More importantly, I must actively work to ensure their ability to make choices I might not personally make is free of sexist, transphobic, classist, ableist, homophobic, racist and sizeist oppression. After all, they are my sisters – regardless of whether or not my own lived experiences mirror theirs or I agree with their life choices.
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You can find out what's on librarians' lists for the "2007 Best of the Best From the University Presses" on C-Span2 Book TV, Saturday, July 28, at 12:00 PM (Eastern time, US). (You can always view archived programs on the Book TV website later on.)
It is a broadcast of a program from this year's American Library Association Conference.
Just one of my favorites is John Fabian Witt, Patriots and Cosmopolitans: Hidden Histories of American Law (Harvard University Press, 2007). This is an interesting book to think about for course adoption, especially for an American legal history survey, since the scope of the book takes you from law at the founding to 20th century tort law and the administrative state, always with an eye on the relationship between law and national identity. If you haven't yet revamped your teaching materials to "globalize" your American legal history course, this book will help with that. Witt takes up just four broad-ranging stories, which could be taken up at various points during a semester. And it's an elegant read. An excerpt is here.
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|The Boy Who Didn't Know Who He Was (Teen Obsessions About Homosexuality)
The Boy Who Didn't Know Who He Was
By Fred Penzel, Ph.D.
When I first saw Michael, I couldn't help but notice just how depressed he looked. The red-haired strongly-built seventeen year-old could hardly hold his head up. His parents said that he had been really down for several weeks, but no one knew why, and he wasn't helping either. He couldn't seem to come up with the energy to get to school, and preferred to stay in his room, alone. He had been a good student, enjoyed playing on his school's lacrosse team, and was heavily involved in student government. At a time when he should have been thinking about choosing colleges to apply to, he seemed to have dropped out of life. Some possible clues were his parents' report that he had suddenly thrown away his prized collection of bodybuilding magazines, and the fact that he seemed to be avoiding all contact with his guy friends. Another clue was that his father suffered from OCD, which was particularly interesting to me, as the disorder sometimes appears to run in some families. Finding out what was going one here would be my first, and probably most difficult task, since he was the only one who could help solve this mystery.
Michael and I sat across from each other, with him slumped forward in his chair, his head down, and his hands clasped together. I tried to engage him in some small talk to break the ice. All I got in return were some one-syllable answers. "Is there anything you want to tell me?" I asked. "Nope," was the reply. His whole manner seemed to say that he was also really anxious. Maybe it was the way he chewed his lips and drummed his foot.
As we therapists sometimes do, I decided to take a chance and act on intuition just take a shot in the dark based on what evidence I had. I knew it was risky, because if I was wrong, he might refuse to talk with me any further. I thought I had it right, though, based on the clues I had. "Michael," I said suddenly, "Are you worried that you might be gay?" With that, he jumped back in his chair, his eyes wide. It was as if someone had given him a jolt of electricity. "What? How did you know that?" he gasped. "Nobody knows that. Nobody!" I went further. "Is that why you threw out your magazines?" I asked. He nodded at me. I had seen many cases like this over the past twenty-odd years, so I decided to pull out all the stops and really get things moving, now that I had his attention.
"Let me guess," I said, leaning forward. "One day you were doing something you always do, and suddenly you started to pay attention to yourself in a different way. As you focused on yourself, the thought suddenly came into your head, "Maybe this means I'm gay. How do I really know I'm not?" I kept on, "Since then, you keep checking yourself, you know, like looking at guys or girls and trying to see who you're attracted to. Maybe you watch the way you talk, or walk, or move your hands, to see if you do these things the way a gay or straight person would. How am I doing so far, Mike?" He stared at me and answered, "I feel creeped out, like you're reading my mind."
I went on to explain that I definitely didn't have ESP (as far as I knew), but that he was suffering from a very common form of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (also known by the abbreviation OCD); one that doesn't get talked about very much, and certainly not a lot by people his age. Many people with obsessive sexual identity thoughts shared the particular symptoms I had outlined, so they weren't very hard to guess at. I related to him that at one time, a few years ago, I actually found myself treating six different people at once for this type of OCD, and that we had even held a support group meeting just for this group. I added that these thoughts weren't confined to heterosexual people, and that I had even treated a gay patient who was troubled by obsessive thoughts that he might be straight.
Michael went on to confirm that his doubtful thoughts of being gay came on suddenly one day when he was looking through one of his bodybuilding magazines. He remembered looking at one picture in particular and thinking, "I wonder if I find this guy attractive?" With that, he suddenly became very anxious and horrified that he could have such a thought. He also found that in the days following, he couldn't get the thought out of his head. What made things worse, was that the other guys in school had a habit of teasing each other about being gay, a not unusual occurrence. Remarks that he used to shrug off now became very frightening. "What if they really can tell?" he remembered asking himself. He found himself avoiding his usual crowd. He threw away the bodybuilding magazines. He stopped going to school. Nothing helped. It seemed like the harder he worked to avoid thinking about whether or not he was gay, the more he would think about it. "But I'm not gay," he emphasized, "I'm not attracted to guys, so why am I thinking this? I've never been attracted to guys!" He paused for a moment. "But the thoughts seem so real."
I explained to Michael that these obsessive questions were not "real" questions, and the thoughts were not "real" thoughts. These things that seemed so real were the result of problems with his brain chemistry, and that there were no real answers to his doubts, so no matter how hard he checked himself and his behaviors and thoughts, he would not be able to erase the doubt. The OCD (once known as "The Doubting Disease") would not let him. I told him that the thoughts were, after all, just thoughts, no matter how creepy they were, and that they really had no power to make him anxious. The truth was that he was actually making himself anxious. The proof of this was that even people who recovered from OCD would still report unpleasant thoughts, but also add that the thoughts no longer made them anxious. Why? Because with the help of therapy, they had faced the thoughts and built up a tolerance for them, to the point where they no longer produced a reaction. "The real problem is not the thoughts," I said, "The problem is what your attempts to control your anxiety are doing to your life and your ability to live it." Another thing I tried to emphasize to him was that it was not unusual for people to sometimes get doubtful thoughts about their sexuality, but that people without OCD were better able to decide how they really felt about these things, and could eventually put the thoughts aside. "Our goal," I told him, "will be to learn to gradually face the thoughts and resist doing compulsions long enough for you to learn the truth about all this. You will have to face a lot of doubt and feel as if you are taking risks at times, but if you stick with it, you will gradually become desensitized to the thoughts, and they will no longer seem to have any power over you." This was clearly a lot to think about, and Michael would need the next few sessions to really digest all this.
One of the really maddening qualities of OCD is that it can make a person doubt the most basic things about themselves things no one would ever normally doubt. Even their sexual identity could be questioned. Sufferers will go to great lengths to overcome this doubt even ruining their lives through their desperate actions. Doing compulsions, such as repeated questioning, avoiding things, looking for reassurance, and checking, can be rewarding in the short run, and this is what keeps the problem going. By staying away from the things that make them anxious, sufferers only keep themselves sensitive to these things. Also, this only helps for a little while, and before long, the doubt returns, as it always does. Fortunately, this process also works in reverse, or as a favorite saying of mine goes, "If you want to think about it less, think about it more."
Michael had been attempting to control his anxiety chiefly by avoiding throwing out his magazines, avoiding his friends, and not going to school. He also kept double-checking his own thoughts to see if he really believed them. He eventually revealed that he also would alternately look at other boys and then at girls, trying to decide whom he was more attracted to. He, himself, admitted that even when these things did work (and often they only raised more questions) the relief only lasted a short time.
After learning much more about Michael and his life, we began to prepare to do the behavioral therapy that would be the main part of our treatment. The specific type of therapy we would be doing is known as "Exposure and Response Prevention." In this type of behavioral therapy, the person voluntarily and gradually exposes themselves to greater levels of the things that bother them, and at the same time, agrees to resist doing the compulsive activities that they have been using to make themselves less anxious. The purpose of all this is for them to learn that if they just stay with what makes them anxious long enough, they will come to see the truth of things that these are only meaningless thoughts, and that the anxiety will gradually diminish even if they do nothing. The ultimate goal is for a person to be able to tell him or herself, "Okay, so I can think about these things, but I don't have to do anything about them."
As a first step in treatment, we identified all of Michael's various obsessive thoughts concerning being gay, and then all the different compulsions he was using to try to control the anxiety that resulted from the thoughts. Next, we listed all the situations we could think of that would make him anxious. These included such things as being around his friends, having his friends joke about being gay, hugging another guy friend, going to a movie with just another guy, looking at pictures of attractive guys or girls, watching romantic scenes in movies, just hearing the word 'gay' or similar words, seeing gay characters on TV or in movies, looking at gay magazines, visiting gay websites, etc. We then tried to assign number values, from 0 to 100 to each of these situations, to help us to see what was worse than what. I told Michael that together, we would create a program especially for him, using the items on this list. We would start with challenging situations that he rated at about a 20, and work upward from there. I helped him pick several lower level items, and also recorded an audiotape for him to listen to several times per day. I explained that this was an Exposure Tape, designed to raise his anxiety to a moderate level, and to get him to "Think about it more." He laughed a bit when I told him, "You can't be bored and scared at the same time." The tape was a two-minute recording of me, talking in a general way about how some people couldn't be sure of their sexual preferences, and turning out to be different than they thought they were. He found this definitely caused some anxiety, but he believed he would be able to listen to it. He would keep listening to it until it became boring. Later tapes would actually tell him that he possibly was gay, and even later ones would tell him he definitely was. I planned for him to eventually record his own tapes, in which he would agree that he was gay, and would soon 'come out' and go public. I also stressed that it would become increasingly important for him to agree with his thoughts. This would probably be the single most important assignment we would do, and that we would be doing it all through the therapy. As I sent him on his way with his first list of assignments, I told him that he would see that it wouldn't be as bad as he feared. I added that the worst day of the therapy was the day before you start.
Michael seemed truly surprised at the end of the first week when he came in and told me that the tape really had become boring, and that he was ready for a new one. He seemed somewhat less anxious overall, and proud that he had made it through the first round of homework. Week by week, he worked his way through the list. He gradually became more able to say things he feared to say, to look at pictures he disliked looking at, to listen to words he feared to hear, and to imagine things he really didn't want to imagine. Some things were a struggle for him to stay with, as they represented his worst doubts. To his credit, he stuck with them, and refused to give up, even when he didn't get instant results. He was developing trust in what he was doing. I could tell that he was improving when he was finally able to joke about his thoughts. At one session, he came wearing a pink shirt. "Do you know why I'm wearing this?" he said, raising his eyebrows. "Why?" I asked him. "Because I'm gay," he answered, with a grin. "Didn't you know?" I knew we were winning.
The day finally came when we had arrived at the end of Michael's list. He was no longer avoiding anything, and the worst things on his list no longer seemed to have any effect on him. He could tolerate all of them, and didn't feel the need to run away or avoid them. I showed the list to him to remind him of where he had started out. As he looked it over, he said, partly to himself, "I can't believe these things made me nervous." He added, "I really didn't enjoy doing some of the things you had me do, but I'm glad I did them. I don't have all that nasty stuff filling up my head." I told him that the job was only half done. "What do you mean?" he asked, looking puzzled. "Now you have to stay this way," I answered. "Consider yourself officially in recovery," I announced. "But your work isn't over. This means that you will have to do maintenance from this point on. When thoughts on the topic of being gay come up (and they will), you will have to continue to agree with them, and not go back to doing any of the things you used to do before the ones that only made things worse. People who go back to those kinds of solutions wind up with a relapse. Like the therapy, doing maintenance will get easier as time goes on. It will become second nature." I tried to leave him with the idea that this next phase would be just as important as the first one was. I stressed that OCD was a chronic problem, which means that even though you can recover, you are not "cured." In a way, it's kind of like having asthma or diabetes. "The people who relapse," I told him, "are the ones who think they are cured." "Don't worry," Michael replied, "I worked too hard to just give it up like that." He was as good as his word. He went off to college not long after, and several e-mails he sent me indicated that he had learned his behavioral therapy well. Even the pressures of school couldn't get him to go back. As of his last message, things were fine.
If you would like to read more about what Dr. Penzel has to say about OCD, take a look at his self-help book, "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders: A Complete Guide to Getting Well and Staying Well," (Oxford University Press, 2000). You can learn more about it at www.ocdbook.com .
Please Note: Then information in this site is presented as a public service to our patients and friends. It is not a substitute for a careful evaluation by a qualified mental health professional. If you are already under treatment, do not make any changes in your regimen without consulting your doctor.
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- The Boy Who Didn't Know Who He Was (Teen Obsessions About Homosexuality)
- Acceptance and OCD
- Acceptance and OCD
- But I Love My Kids (Parents With Thoughts of Harming Their Children)
- Call Me Irresponsible (OCD and hyperresponsibility)
- Coming To Terms With The Lost Years
- Contamination and OCD ("Stronger than Dirt")
- Do-it-Yourself Therapy: Self-Directed Treatment
- Fight for Your Rights: Getting Insurance to Pay for an OCD Specialist
- Getting the Right Treatment (Finding proper CBT treatment for OCD and BFRBs)
- Here's Looking At You, Kid: People With OCD Who Notice Things Too Much
- How Clean is Clean? (Compulsive cleaning and ordering)
- How Do I Know I'm Not Gay? (Homosexuality obsessions)
- How I Treat Violent Obsessions
- How Much Is Too Much? (Taking a more humane approach to behavioral therapy)
- How to Manage Your Parents When You Have OCD (a guide for teens)
- In Search of the Elusive Behavior Therapist
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- Intensive vs. Self-Directed OCD Treatment
- Langley Collyer: The Mystery Hoarder of Harlem
- Let He Who is Without Sin (Religious obsessions)
- Loves Me? Loves Me Not? (Relationship obsessions)
- Morbid Obsessions
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- Obsessive Love (When People Become "Obsessed" with Other People)
- Panic Disorder (General information)
- Samuel Johnson: A Patron Saint of OCD
- Saving the World (Compulsive Hoarding)
- Teens With Morbid Obsessions
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- A Touching Story (Touching and movement compulsions)
- Treating Morbid Obsessions
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- What Do You Say After You Say You're Sorry (Coming to terms after you recover from OCD)
- What The Heck Is "Obsessive Slowness?"
- When Epidemics Collide: OCD and AIDS
- Your Number is Up! ("Magical" numbers and OCD)
- Advice for Significant Others (Dealing with a TTM sufferer)
- Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Trichotillomania
- Coming to Terms With Your Child's Hair Pulling
- Childhood Trichotillomania (Dealing with the reluctant child's pulling)
- Fight for Your Rights: Getting Insurance to Pay for Your Treatment
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- A Stimulus Regulation Model of Trichotillomania (Why people pull)
- Trichotillomania (General information)
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- What Cognitive Therapy Can Do for TTM
- Skin-Picking and Nail-Biting - Related Disorders
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- Common Questions, Myths and Misconceptions About Psychiatric Medicine
- Medications that Treat OCD and OC Spectrum Disorders
- OCD and Managed Care
- PANDAS: The OCD - Strep Connection
- Depression: from Children through Adults
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- Living With Your Loved One's OCD: Some Advice For Significant Others
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- To Be Or Not To Be. That Is The Obsession: Existential And Philosophical Obsessions
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- My Parents Don't Believe I Have OCD
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Tailor-Made Custom Liner size XL (between 38 - 42.5 cm)
This is a custom made handbag liner.
The Tailor-made model for XL includes:
- 4 - 5 inside pockets
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Measurements: The maximum length for XL is between 38 - 42.5 cm. For smaller size order size L and for larger size choose XXL. Please note that the depth for this model needs to be at least 10 cm if you select the bottle pocket.
Material: 3mm polyester felt
When ordering, it is important to measure the handbag correctly to make sure the liner will fit perfectly.
- Please measure the length and depth for the liner from the inside bottom of the handbag. Taking the measurements inside of your handbag is vital - this ensures that the liner will fit and is not too large for your bag.
- Keep your tape measure straight to make sure the measurements are correct. Please also compare the inside measurements to the outside measurements to make sure it is not too big.
- In case your handbag is narrower from the top than the bottom, please inform two depth measurements: one for the bottom and one for the height you have wanted. By these, I will be able to make a correct size liner.
- For the height, please make sure you will be able to closure your handbag while the liner is inside. The perfect height is e.g. usually up to the level of an inside pocket.
Color options for the liners
When ordering, you can choose the color for the liner from ten color options.
|Bright red
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Please note, that the color might appear different on screen, depending on your resolution settings. The colors are named as accurate as possible to create the idea of the fabric's color in reality. Also, there might be some variations to the shades of the colors as well as to the texture of the felt depending on the fabric batch.
Need more color?
In case you do not find a suitable color for you, please do not hesitate to send me a message. Other colors outside the color options might be possible to use - however then it will be a custom made liner.
Care instructions
The liner products are hand washable. In order to keep the liner clean, please follow these instructions. Overall, the used felts have been examined that no color transfer should appear to your handbag when using the liner. Note that due to the nature of the fabric, the liner might lose some excess lint inside the bag, but this can be vacuumed easily.
- To remove the excess dirt inside the liner, you can use the vacuum cleaner.
- In case there is excess lint on the liner, you can carefully use scissors or lint remover
- Start by removing the removable metal parts (metal loops, keychain's locks, premium zip pulls).
- Soak the liner in lukewarm water and use mild detergent clean the liner.
- Rinse the liner carefully and fully to make sure there is no detergent left in the fabric.
- Let the liner dry out upside down for on a drying rack. Note that due to the nature of the fabric, the felt absorbs a lot of the water when washing. Thus, when you put the liner to dry it will leak water for some time. Placing the liner upside down will let the liner dry faster.
NOTE: I have tested machine washing with standard liners. Liners without metal parts can be washed inside the washing machine in wool program (delicate wash 30 degrees) with wool washing detergent (do not use too much). Please use a washing bag inside the washing machine if possible.
When ordering a Tailor-made or Tailor-made + liner, you are able to add an extra:
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All of the liners are manufactured, packed and shipped with love from Vantaa, Finland. They will arrive in a parcel to protect the shape of the liner. The shipping fee includes packaging and postage expenses.
The order can also be collected from Enni's Collection (01400 Vantaa). You will receive an email with instructions once the order is ready for pick up.
Shipping fees to Finland
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Shipping fees to other countries
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|12,90 €
Estimated delivery time
The delivery time depends on the ordered items. Made to order and custom made liners will be prepared for each order individually, and thus the delivery time is longer. If you order multiple items in one order, it will be shipped as one parcel and delivery time will be according to the longest estimate.
Please note, that these delivery times are estimates under normal circumstances and the holiday seasons or availability of the product may affect. In addition, Enni's Collection cannot be held responsible for delay or failure to perform, if the delay or failure to perform is caused by circumstances beyond its reasonable control (i.e. force majeure).
|Ordered items
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|8 - 20 business days
|2 - 10 business days
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|5 - 15 business days
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|2 - 10 business days
|2 - 10 business days
Issues regarding faulty items or damages during shipping
We encourage you to examine the delivery package and received items within a reasonable period of time after the delivery. Please check that the delivered order is complete and that the items are in good condition. In case the delivery is incomplete, or the items are otherwise defective or are not the items you ordered, please contact immediately by email at enni(at)enniscollection.com.
In case the package have been damaged in transportation please make a reclaim to the service provider (Posti/Matkahuolto) immediately.
We hope you are happy with your purchase. When shopping at www.enniscollection.fi or www.enniscollection.com, returns and refunds are made in accordance with Distance Selling Regulations (see more).
Return terms
- Once you have received your package, you have 14 days to make your final purchase decision.
- If you wish to return any items, you need to send a return statement email clearly indicating that you wish to make a return to enni(at)enniscollection.com within the 14 days.
- The return statement email should include your name, the items you wish to return as well as the original order number and date or purchase to your email. The order confirmation will serve as a certificate of the purchase date, and thus it is recommended to keep it in your records for further need.
- To be eligible for a return, your item must be unused and in the same condition that you received it. The item must also be in the original packaging. Any item not in its original condition, is damaged or missing parts for reasons not due to our error will only be partially refunded.
- Please note that custom made liners are customized products and therefore they are non-returnable.
- After sending the return statement email, you should return the items at your own cost without unnecessary delay or at least within 14 days. Any item that is returned after the return policy period will not be refunded or exchanged.
- Items returning to us due to non-collection from the pick-up point are not the same as a return. In these cases, a fixed fee of 15,00€ will be deducted from the returned amount.
Refunds (if applicable)
Once your return is received and inspected, we will send you an email to notify you that we have received your returned item. We will also notify you of the approval or rejection of your refund.
If your original order contained multiple items and only partial return is made, the original shipping cost will not be returned. If you make a full return, the original shipping cost is also refunded.
If you are approved, then your refund will be processed, and a credit will automatically be applied to your credit card or original method of payment, within a certain amount of days.
Late or missing refunds (if applicable)
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If you have done all of this and you still have not received your refund yet, please contact at enni(at)enniscollection.com.
Exchanges (if applicable)
Unfortunately, we only replace items if they are defective or damaged. In this case, also send an email to enni(at)enniscollection.com first.
If you wish to order another model or size, please return the purchased item and order the new item online yourself. We will refund your money for the first buy as soon as we receive the parcel.
Gifts (If applicable)
If the item was marked as a gift when purchased and shipped directly to you, you'll receive a gift credit for the value of your return. Once the returned item is received, a gift certificate will be mailed to you.
If the item wasn't marked as a gift when purchased, or the gift giver had the order shipped to themselves to give to you later, we will send a refund to the gift giver and he will find out about your return.
Shipping for returns
In order to return your product(s), you should mail them to: Enni's Collection, Markuntie 3c, 01400 Vantaa, Finland.
You will be responsible for paying for your own shipping costs for returning your item. Return shipping costs are non-refundable. If you receive a refund, the cost of return shipping will be deducted from your refund.
If you are shipping a liner, you should consider using a trackable shipping service. We do not guarantee that we will receive your returned item. Depending on where you live, the time it takes for your returned product to reach us may vary.
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Understanding the liner sizes
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Our liners are designed to align with the gum seal of the envelope and extend down to the bottom of the envelope, stopping approximately 1/8 inch - 1/4 inch from the bottom of the envelope.
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