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Bethenny Frankel's Journey to a 'Place of Yes'
Bethenny Frankel shares ten rules to live by in new book "A Place of Yes."
March 22, 2011 -- Bestselling author and "Skinnygirl" Bethenny Frankel's new book "A Place of Yes: 10 Rules for Getting Everything You Want Out of Life" is a revealing account of her road to success and obstacles she faced along the way.
"I've worked really hard and I had many 'no's' thrown at me throughout my career," Frankel said today on "Good Morning America." And, she said, "I really did always come from a place of yes."
To Frankel, "a place of yes" doesn't always mean being positive or agreeing with others.
"It means that you go for what you know you can have in your gut," she said. "I'm not a yes-man by any stretch of the imagination. Right now...I say 'no' to a lot more than I used to because that's saying yes to myself."
Now a successful businesswoman, Frankel, 40, is a mom to daughter Bryn and wife to husband Jason Hoppy.
"It took me a long time to get there," she said. "Another chapter in the book is 'All Roads Lead to Rome.' I took a circuitous path, but...if you stay on the road and you're always moving forward, you will get there. Even if it's later."
In the book, Frankel candidly discusses her family, her varied business endeavors and even her failed relationships. She says she developed a thick skin and, more important, ten rules, which are the basis of book.
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Who I Am, What This Book Is About, and What You Need to Know Before You Begin
My parents make me crazy. I'll be stuck in this job for the rest of my life. I can't stop spending money. I'll never find the perfect guy so I might as well just settle. I don't care if I end up single, I'd rather be alone. Why do I get so irritated at my husband? I can't stop eating. I'll never get in shape, so why bother? I don't spend enough time with my kids, am I a bad mother? Why can't I get organized? I can't sleep. I have no self-control. Did I sell out? My life is not what I once thought it could be. Maybe I should just accept that I can't have it all.
Does any of this sound familiar? If you have any of these thoughts, if you look at your life and you think, "Is this as good as it gets?" or even if you don't really want to look under your hood because you're afraid of letting thoughts like this come out, then this book is for you.
A Place of Yes is about how to stop saying no and start saying yes to your own life. It's about how to get unstuck and start moving forward with vision and a plan and the guts to tackle any obstacles that get in your way. It's about looking, really looking at your life, then rolling up your sleeves and getting your hands dirty and making it into the life you really want.
It's easy to say no, to say "I can't," to expect the worst, and doubt yourself. Expecting the worst feels safer because when you fail, you won't be disappointed.
But your life can be better than "just good enough." It can be amazing. You can be more successful, more fulfilled, healthier, and happier than you are right now. I know what it's like to think some of these negative thoughts and worse. Believe me, it has been a long road to where I am today. I've cried, pounded the pavement, picked myself up and brushed myself off time and again.
I know what it's like to doubt myself and feel out of control. I know what it's like to go for weeks without a good night's sleep. Many times, I've just wanted to give up. But I have also figured out how to conquer the noise in my head that holds me back and tells me I don't deserve everything good in my life. I've learned to listen to the voice inside that shows me the path forward and gives me a push. I've learned how to come from a place of yes, and it continues to be a worthwhile struggle every day of my life. Make no mistake—it is hard, but it makes my life better. It has made my life what it is today.
Fear, doubt, and defaulting to no are the reasons why so few people end up where they really want to be. Life is easier when you settle for less than your dreams, but "good enough" is not good enough for me. Is it really good enough for you? Most people don't bother trying to go all the way with their lives. They are afraid, or they just don't believe they can have anything better than they have now.
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But you are reading this book, so I already know you want to come from a place of yes. I already know you want something more than settling for just okay.
A Place of Yes is your road map to changing the way you do things and to taking action when "good enough" isn't good enough. Coming from a place of yes can color everything else you do. No matter who you are and what you do in life, it will transform you. It's like upgraded software for your life. It will change your world.
My name is Bethenny Frankel, and you might know me from my first book, Naturally Thin, or from my second book, The Skinnygirl Dish. You might know me from The Real Housewives of New York City, or from Martha Stewart: Apprentice, or from my own shows, Bethenny's Getting Married? and Bethenny Ever After. Maybe you've seen me on Skating with the Stars, or tried my Skinnygirl cocktails, or seen my column in Health magazine, or seen me on the cover of a magazine.
Or maybe you've never heard of me at all but picked up this book because the title intrigued you and your interest was piqued by the promise on the cover. Frankly, it doesn't matter whether you've heard of me or not. You're here, and I'm here, and if you are reading this, we're in this journey together. We may not have started in the same place, but we can walk together for a while, and I bet we'll all be better for the company.
This book isn't a memoir. I'm not Barbara Walters. I haven't lived long enough to write my autobiography. I can't yet look back on my life with that kind of wisdom because my life is, in many ways, just getting started. I've still got a lot to do, and I'm the first to admit that I am still very flawed.
This is just my story so far, coupled with my advice to you, because while my life isn't over yet, I've come a long way, and I've learned a lot, and I hope to inspire you and help save you from some of the mistakes I've made in the past. So, while I will share my story with you, I do so with the knowledge that my story isn't nearly finished.
Not only is my story not finished, but it keeps changing, right out from under my nose, just as yours will. I wrote this book not once, not twice, but three times. I threw one version into the BBQ because it wasn't me. It didn't reflect me anymore. My life had changed so drastically, as I was writing it, that I needed to start all over again.
But that's also exactly in keeping with my story, and with the rules I've developed for getting what you want out of your own life. Sometimes you do have to start again, and you can do it over and over. When you find you are off track or your actions aren't in line with your true nature, you change course. You start again. It's never wrong. It's just what is.
I started this book again, and this is the new result. I wrote this book for all of you, as a way to thank you for all the love and support you've given me over the years. I've come a long way, in my fortysomething years, but you've helped me to be a better wife, a better mother, a better person. You've inspired me in ways I never could have imagined, so I feel humbled and grateful to have this opportunity to share my experiences with you.
You've showed me yours. Now I'll show you mine.
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I believe that some of what I've learned can help you. I have some issues you probably don't have, and you probably have issues I don't have, but the ten rules I give you here can help anyone with whatever issues they face. Life evolves, and I keep learning and changing. I'm always in flux, and you are, too.
There is no final resting place. Life is vibrant and in motion, always changing, throwing you off or clearing the way. Sometimes life will be difficult, and sometimes life will be easy, and at every moment, you have a choice. Which way do you want to go? Where are you going? How do you want to get there? Who are you becoming? Those are the questions you can answer best if you come from a place of yes.
I've gone through a lot of pain and climbed over a mountain of obstacles. Today I'm married to a man I adore, I'm a new mom head over heels in love with her baby girl, I'm a bestselling author and a television personality, and most important, I feel better — physically and mentally healthier — than I ever have in my life. I'm calm, centered, energized, and happy. Ten years ago, I never would have believed I would be here now.
And it came from a place of yes. One by one, goal by goal, I've managed to achieve the things I wanted to achieve to the best of my ability. It's been one step at a time, one goal to focus on and reach before setting my sights on the next one. It's been a process of closing doors and then opening new ones. You can do this, too. To show you how, I have put together ten rules that describe what I do every day to keep moving forward. These rules have helped me break the cycle of self-defeating behavior and that inner noise that tries to hold me back. They apply to everything health, money, work, friends, family, love, eating, dieting, and anything else we all struggle with in life. You can use these rules to break the cycles that limit you and stop the noise in your head that tells you no. Each chapter in this book will tackle one rule, showing you how I've used it in my life, and how you can use it in your life. The rules are:
1. Break the Chain
2. Find Your Truth
3. Act on It
4. Everything's Your Business
5. All Roads Lead to Rome
6. Go for Yours
7. Separate from the Pack
8. Own It
9. Come Together
10. Celebrate!
No matter who you are, these rules can work for you. Anyone can practice them, at any stage of life. Your dreams don't have to be out of reach, no matter what has happened to you before. You can move forward, one step at a time, if you focus on the next step and just go. I didn't always think I'd be able to do it. Sometimes I wanted to give up, but I didn't. I always kept coming back to myself and moving myself forward, and I believe that my success so far in life has been because of that internal drive to say yes instead of no.
I get many letters, emails, Facebook messages, and tweets from fans, and you ask me a lot of questions. You say that you relate to me, and I am here to tell you that I relate to you, too. We all have our obstacles, our pain, and our challenges. I've dated all sorts, run from happiness, endured bad jobs, suffered from bad friends, tortured myself with bad diets, all of it. We all get in our own way sometimes trying to move forward and get what we want.
I hear you. I read your messages and I know that many of you struggle with the same things that have plagued me — issues with body image and weight, relationships and family, money and career, beauty and self-esteem. Some of you are single and searching, some are newly married and struggling, some have new babies and are navigating those waters, some are struggling to get a better job, more supportive friends, a better life.
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I get it. I'm right there with you, and that's why I'm sharing my story and the lessons I've learned so far. Whoever you are, no matter your circumstances, no matter your age or status or plans for your own life, I welcome you to A Place of Yes. This is the story of how I climbed out of a bad place (many times) and back into my own life, where I could finally achieve everything I had ever dreamed of. Sometimes it got worse before it got better, but it always got better, and it keeps on getting better every day. Because of a place of yes, I know it always will.
This is also a guide for your life, a guide that will show you how to do the same thing I have done: Say yes. With the ten rules in this book, you can take back control of your life and make it into whatever you want it to be. Use them to figure out where you are now, who you are now, where you are going, and how to get there from here. These are "point-A-to-point-B" rules that clear your path for your bigger, better, brighter future.
Unpacking a Place of Yes
Before I get into the ten rules that will teach you how to come from a place of yes in your life, let's define a few terms that will be integral to understanding the rules. First, let's talk about what a place of yes isn't. Coming from a place of yes isn't just having a positive attitude, being an optimist, or being cheerful all the time. You don't have to see the glass as half full every second of the day. You don't even have to consider yourself an agreeable person. Hell, I'm in a crappy mood half the time, I'm a pain in the ass, and nobody would describe me as cheerful or agreeable.
And don't worry, it doesn't mean being a "yes man," agreeing to everything when you don't really agree, or saying yes to everything, like in the Jim Carrey movie Yes Man. In fact, sometimes, you have to say "No!" to come from a place of yes.
I'm not the kind of person who goes along with the crowd, nods and smiles, or compromises to avoid conflict. In fact, I try not to go along with crowd, I don't always see the silver lining, and I consider myself a realist. I'm definitely not a glass-half-full kind of person. Actually, I can sometimes be a shattered-glass kind of person. I guess I'm known for the occasional sharp or snarky comment (and that's an understatement), or taking the cynical perspective, and that's something I continue to work on in my life. However, I often walk the line between appropriate and inappropriate (my husband, Jason, says I dive right over it!). Oddly, that is a place of yes for me. It is my particular sense of humor, and also usually a reflection of what I really think.
The point is, the Optimist Club is not calling me to become an honorary member anytime soon. And that's fine. Coming from a place of yes is not the same as being an optimist.
Everybody has issues, problems, doubts, fears—and some people are just naturally more positive than other people. That has nothing to do with this. Even if you tend to be shy or abrasive or insecure or overly cautious or people often tell you to quit being so negative, you can learn to come from a place of yes.
A place of yes is an "It-will-happen-because-I'll-make-it-happen" kind of an attitude. And this is an "It-will-happen-because-you'll-make-it-happen" kind of a book. You won't always be in a place of yes. Bad things will happen. You'll get angry or depressed or negative. You'll doubt yourself and you'll sometimes be afraid. Occasionally, I utter the words, "I hate _____" (fill in the blank). Don't tell me there aren't days when you wake up and you just want to smack someone, and it would give you real joy to do it. I will not take the joy of thinking about it away from you.
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I know what it feels like when your husband or your boyfriend leaves you all weekend to play golf or lies there like a corpse on the couch, his lazy ass watching football while you are cleaning the whole house. Does he sit in bed eating and farting, or flip the channels for twenty minutes, only to stop at the Victoria's Secret commercial as you sit next to him, eight months pregnant with hairy armpits? (Hmm, that sounds awfully familiar . . .) I've been annoyed by the loud breathing from someone behind me in a checkout line, by the instrumental music in a department store, by nosy people, rude waiters, or a coworker's mere existence. Frankly, sometimes I come from a place of go-screw-yourself.
This book isn't about being perfect, or even about being nice. It's about getting through your life in the best possible way for you, and learning how to stop getting in your own way. It's about making your life better, no matter what kind of person you are naturally.
It's about learning how to have and do and be anything you want.
It's important to understand that a place of yes isn't somewhere you are all the time. It's somewhere you always go back to. It's your home. It's the real you. The negativity you sometimes hide behind is just a protective shell you've built around yourself — a digression and a distraction from what you really want to be doing. Self-doubt is a bad habit. Fear is an excuse and a shield. Irritation is a sign of stress. Those things that keep you from saying yes and getting things done are habits you've learned, and habits can be broken. It's Not a Secret
A few more things a place of yes is not: A place of yes is not the power of positive thinking or the law of attraction. It's not a "secret." I understand the power of positive thinking and the law of attraction, and I believe in what those things are about. I agree that being positive and focusing your energy does attract good things to you, but not because of a mystical process involving some conscious universe that doles out the good and the bad according to who has the best attitude.
Thinking more positively changes how you relate to the world, but a place of yes is not some kind of mystical magical spiritual process where you just think something and it comes true. If you're not the type to meditate or chant or visualize yourself richer and thinner for three hours every day, don't sweat it. That's just more pressure. It's just one more thing you don't have time to do. Coming from a place of yes is about getting right down to business. It's active, not passive. Yes gives you something to do: a mission, a purpose, a goal.
If you don't have an athletic bone in your body, coming from a place of yes is not going to make you an Olympian, just because you will it to be so. You are not going to turn into an Elle Macpherson look-alike just because you wish to be a supermodel. You aren't going to become an astronaut if you aren't willing to go through the training, if you have vertigo or bad vision. Coming from a place of yes is not going to give you naturally supple 34C breasts or your husband a twelve-inch penis. It's definitely not going to bring Prince Charming on a white horse holding a sack of cash to your front door, just because you imagine it happening.
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If you are a size 12, it's not going to transform you into a size 0 by tomorrow (or ever, necessarily). But it can help you love your size 12 self, or inspire you to get down to a size that is more healthy for you. It's not going to raise your IQ, fire your obnoxious boss, solve global warming, or "fix" your parents, but it can help ease your anxiety and obsession and self-destructive behavior that may stem from your feelings about any of those things. Coming from a place of yes will not make your crazy best friend suddenly see the light and stop choosing the wrong men — but it can help you stop choosing the wrong men. A place of yes has nothing to do with anybody else. It's only about you.
When you choose yes, your whole attitude will change, no matter who you are. You can be a born optimist, pessimist, realist, anarchist, whatever, and still come from a place of yes. You can be a meditator, a yogi, a kick boxer, a triathlete, a couch potato, and still come from a place of yes. You can be sixteen or sixty-six years old and come from a place of yes. No matter what you've done or haven't done or hate to admit you've done, you can come from a place of yes.
A place of yes is a way to get through things when you feel it is impossible to do so.
Your mind creates the landscape of your life. Your perceptions about everything that you've ever done and everything that has ever happened to you all come from your mind. Change your mind, and things change. However, coming from a place of yes goes a step further. You change your mind, and then you act on it. You don't wait for someone or something else to do it for you. No excuses. No luck. No passing the buck.
A place of yes is about taking responsibility for moving forward, even if you have to climb over a mountain of obstacles. You are in charge, nobody else. A place of yes is your engine. Your energy changes, and people around you sense it. They want it to rub off on them, and it does. Incredible opportunities start happening and people start reacting differently to you. The world around you changes, not because the universe suddenly decides you are worthy, but because you change it. You stop being a victim and you start being the ruler of your own destiny. And that, my friend, is the point and purpose of coming from a place of yes.
The bottom line is that when you come from a place of yes, you don't wish something to happen. You make it happen. You are driving. You don't daydream in the passenger seat of life; you don't hand over the work you need to do to somebody else and then sit back, waiting to reap rewards that never come. You don't wait.
Instead, think about the things that you wish would happen to you in your life. Are you waiting for them to happen? Deep down, do you think they won't happen? This can apply to anything—getting a job, finding love, losing weight, making more money, getting organized, making more time for family, whatever it is. How proactive are you being in reaching that desire? Coming from a place of yes is hard work, but it's the work of a lifetime, your lifetime.
Your Noise, Your Voice
Another important concept to understand is the difference between noise and voice.
I first heard the term "noise" years ago, from Breck Costin, a life coach who teaches a course called Absolute Freedom, about how to clarify what you are doing with your life. He used the term in a different way, but it resonated for me. I've thought about it over the years since then, and developed the idea into something that works for me.
To me, noise is what gets in your way. It's a self generated obstacle, the negative talk inside your head that keeps you down, too afraid to go for what you want.
There are many types of noise, and in each chapter of this book, with each new rule, I'll also talk about a specific kind of noise that tends to crop up along with that rule. Noise can come in many forms—food noise, money noise, beauty noise, relationship noise, family noise, call it what you will—each person develops personalized noise, but in general, noise is that feeling you get that you aren't good enough, or you don't deserve what you want, or you'll never be able to be the person you wish you could be. Noise holds you back. It psychs you out. It distracts you and blocks you and makes you believe there are insurmountable obstacles in your path.
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Most of us have noise about something, but knowing this doesn't mean you'll automatically be able to make it stop. If you have noise that you don't recognize and can't control, and I say to you, "All you have to do is come from a place of yes," what you hear is, "All you have to do is quit your job and get a new one" or "All you have to do is eat less and exercise more" or "All you have to do is leave him" or "All you have to do is push this two-ton boulder up this mountain." We all know that doesn't work. It's too hard. Noise makes it too hard.
You can't do it because you don't know how. You're too overwhelmed. The noise in your own head is too loud. As much as you want to change things, noise is the elephant in the room that makes something achievable into something seemingly impossible.
Noise tells you to eat a bag of cookies when you are trying to lose weight. It tells you not to ask for a raise because your boss will laugh at you or tell you that you don't deserve it. It tells you that you won't ever be in shape enough to be seen at the gym so you might as well not bother exercising at all. It tells you that nobody good will ever fall in love with you. It convinces you that you are predetermined to live the life your parents are leading or led, or that you will never live up to what they expect, or that you can't really be who you want to be. Noise convinces you that you don't really deserve love, that you will never make enough money to stop worrying, or that you are just one of those people who can't be happy. Noise bullies you until it gets its way. In fact, if you feel bullied by other people, you are probably actually being bullied by your own noise, which can make you feel like a victim.
I'll never forget the night I was lying in bed with Jason discussing our future. We didn't agree about everything we wanted in our lives, so I immediately thought that meant we had no future. I hadn't yet learned that two people can build goals together, and that our desires can evolve. Before I met him, I had almost given up — I had assumed that I could have some of the things I wanted, but not all of the things I wanted. I had come to terms with the idea that my career came first so that was what I would get — a great career. Maybe I would find a way to have a baby and raise it myself. I was resigned. Even after meeting him, I didn't think I could have it all.
So even when Jason told me that he wanted a commitment and a family, I didn't consider that as a real option for me. It seemed impossible. I couldn't believe it.
My noise was wrong — as noise always is.
Noise comes out of past experiences where you were hurt or scared or just didn't learn how to believe in yourself. It can start from one comment someone made to you years ago that you believed, or it can come out of years of abuse or neglect. Noise makes you give up, settle, accept less than you wanted, or never try for the thing you want the most.
Without recognizing your noise, you won't be able to come from a place of yes. Noise is strong and has power. Your noise might be in a different category than my noise, or you might have noise in all the same places. There is childhood noise — the noise that repeats all those stories that you have learned about yourself based on what your family told you, that holds you back from growing up. There is career noise — the noise that tells you that you don't deserve to get ahead, that you aren't qualified to be where you are, or that you'll never be able to have the job that makes you happy. There is food noise — the noise that urges you to binge or starve or beat yourself up if you were "bad." There is exercise noise that keeps you on the couch because what's the point. There is beauty noise that tells you that you won't ever be beautiful because of this or that feature. Imagine if Lauren Hutton, with the gap in her teeth, or Cindy Crawford, with her beauty mark, or Barbra Streisand, with an imperfect nose, had listened to beauty noise? Thank goodness they didn't change a thing about their beautiful faces.
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There is money noise — the noise that tells you that you might as well charge your credit card to the limit because you are so far in the hole that it doesn't matter, or that you better not dare spend anything on yourself because you are scared to death that you might not have enough money for something else. There is relationship noise — the noise that encourages you to endure horrible relationships, or attracts you to the wrong men, or tells you that you should get married now or you might never get another chance, or tells you to run whenever a relationship gets serious. Your noise will change as your life changes. Now that I have a baby, I have parenting noise and sleep noise and breast-feeding noise. Sometimes I lie awake and wonder, am I doing it right? What if I mess up my daughter? This noise is totally new for me but there it is — noise can come and go according to what is happening to you right now.
You might have other kinds of noise, too. Friendship noise, sibling noise, sex noise, clutter noise, body noise, cooking noise— whatever your issues are, whatever holds you back or stresses you out, that's where your noise is.
Fortunately, like the devil on one shoulder and the angel on the other, your noise has a counterpart: it is your voice. Your voice knows what's good for you and right for you and what is authentic to who you really are. It tells you what to do, why you are good, and why you deserve the best. It shows you the map for reaching your dreams, and when you learn to hear it and ignore the noise, the noise gets quieter and the voice gets louder. This is the key to unlocking the best parts of yourself.
When you are used to your loud, rude, clamoring noise, your voice can be hard to hear. But it's in there. A Place of Yes is about how I found mine, and how finding your voice and learning to listen to it can allow great things to start happening to you. Because you'll stop getting in the way.
Sometimes your noise will be louder than other times. Sometimes you'll listen to it and go the wrong way. You'll make mistakes. That's life. Part of coming from a place of yes is to accept that you screwed up and move on. Forgive yourself and don't dwell in the past. It's okay because it has to be okay. It's what happened. If you can make something good out of a mistake or learn something from it, you are coming from a place of yes. If you keep moving forward, despite your mistakes, and if you keep trying, even when you fail, your voice will lead the way and you can always find your way back to your path forward.
If you have read my books or watched my shows, you know I'm not perfect and I don't have life totally figured out and under control. I will never pretend to have all the answers. I'm just someone who has learned how to stop getting in my own way more often than not. I'm on a path just like you are, but I'm managing my noise and I've learned how to make things happen in my life. I've finally found my voice.
My Story and Yours
I've put my experiences into a framework of rules, to make my personal lessons relatable and to help encourage you to go for yours. I show you how I climbed out of an unhappy childhood, dealt with the aftershocks of a dysfunctional family, built my business despite the obstacles, and got healthy and fit. I say what I mean and honesty matters to me, so don't expect me to dress it up for you or make it look pretty—it isn't always easy to go for your dreams, and life can get messy sometimes. It can even break your heart. I have given up a lot to get where I am today. I've worked harder than I ever thought possible, practically killing myself to achieve my dreams. I've taken on too much, broken down in tears—it has not been easy. But I got through the bad parts and so can you. There will always be more challenges ahead—but now you have the tools to tackle them.
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No matter how hard your life gets, you can put yourself back together and come out stronger than you were before, if you learn how to come from a place of yes. Part of me has always said yes to my own life, even when the yes was nearly drowned out by my noise. That yes inside me was the part of me that recognized when something was a career opportunity or a life opportunity. That was the part of me that recognized Jason and the part of me that recognized that I didn't have to settle or give up anything I really wanted. Thank goodness I listened. Are you listening to your voice?
Because I learned to listen to my voice instead of my noise, I have gone from unemployed actress to sometimes-successful entrepreneur to personal celebrity chef to television personality to bestselling author, and that's just a partial job history. I've also gone from food-obsessed to healthy, money-challenged to comfortable, commitment-phobic to blissfully newlywed. I still struggle with noise, I don't always make good decisions about what to eat and drink, Jason and I get in fights just like any other couple, and I still have anxiety about money. I've suffered a lot, worried a lot, wasted a lot of time, stressed myself to the point of breaking, endured tragedy, but I've finally found some peace . . . even, dare I say, happiness.
Take It or Leave It
The last concept I'd like you to understand before we start with the rules is one I'll refer to often throughout this book. I call it take it or leave it. You can apply this to relationships, family, career, money, or any other aspect of your life — even cooking. In fact, I first came up with the concept in the kitchen while renovating recipes.
Here's how it works. If, for example, I'm creating a healthier cookie recipe, I might find that the cookies are not just healthier but taste better when I replace white flour with oat flour and white sugar with raw sugar. I'll take it—those are changes that work, so I carry them forward into my next cookie experiment. If, however, it doesn't work to remove all the fat—maybe the cookies are too dry or tasteless—then I'll leave it. I'll discard that idea and bring some of the fat back next time. Take it or leave it—you take the good and build on it; you leave the bad, in favor of a new idea. Most important, you keep moving forward, never settling for what doesn't work.
This applies to any area of your life, and it represents how you can learn from your own experiences. Successes are victories that teach you how to get what you want. Mistakes are opportunities to do something different next time. What worked and didn't work in your last relationship, job, diet, financial endeavor? You can always choose to take it or leave it. Unfortunately or fortunately, life is an obstacle course. You succeed at one thing and then you move on to the next. When an obstacle is tough, you try harder. When an obstacle is insurmountable, you change course. But you never sit down and refuse to finish. And when you do get over each hurdle, it's the best feeling—you're stronger and wiser than before you tried it, and you're even more ready to tackle the next one. The fact that there always is another obstacle can seem overwhelming sometimes, but then again, that's the good news. Life never gives up on you, either—it always has a new challenge, something more that you can succeed at achieving. And if you fail? One more lesson learned.
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COAL CITY — Backstage in the Coal City High School auditorium, Pat Halloran put on his wig and beard.
"It's been a lot of fun," he said. "It's just nonstop action and dancing."
Halloran will play Jacob in the Small Town Theatrics production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," which runs Friday through Sunday — with a special VIP performance Thursday — at Coal City High School.
At a dress rehearsal Monday evening, Halloran displayed a side of himself he doesn't typically show in his day job as superintendent of Morris Community High School Dist. 101.
He danced, he sang, he cried out — all while clad in the iconic characters' earth-toned robe and long gray hair and beard.
"It's really great playing the father to this group of sons," Halloran said. "It's kind of a fun role to play."
Halloran is no stranger to performance.
As a high school student in Dwight, he did several plays and was even in a garage band called Mountain Chill.
Throughout his career — first at schools in Coal City, then in Morris — he has continued to participate in productions.
His most recent, with the Small Town Theatrics, was as the voice of the sinister plant in "Little Shop of Horrors."
"That was a lot of fun," Halloran said.
He got involved in "Joseph" after being recruited by Jack Micetich, a social studies teacher at Coal City Middle School who plays the musical's titular character, and Co-Director Jane Swinney.
They had been having trouble casting the role of Jacob — Joseph's father who gifts him with the colorful coat.
"I said, 'Call Pat,'" Swinney said. "I really saw him in this role. I knew he could do this."
He accepted, and — between school board meetings and the other demands of his day job — found time to practice his role.
Practice began in early June, and Halloran attended as frequently as he could. On occasions he couldn't, he practiced at home.
It shows.
As Jacob, Halloran hits the right balance of honest emotion and over-the-top humor. His characters' son, Joseph, is sold into slavery by his other sons and Jacob is told that he is dead.
Much of Jacob's time on stage is spent in sadness — the trick for an actor is toeing the line between funny-sad (as when Halloran lets out a deep bellow at the mention of his son's name) and sad-sad.
It's something Halloran does well.
"It's been fun to be up on stage with him," Micetich said. "He's done a great job with the role."
Part of that stems from the connection he shares with others in the production.
He and Swinney know each other from the days they both taught in Coal City. Swinney teaches chemistry at Coal City High School and directed Halloran in "Little Shop of Horrors."
Halloran also has a connection to Micetich, who also directs plays at Coal City High School.
Micetich's grandfather, Halloran said, helped land him his first teaching job in Coal City.
"It's kind of neat to see the success of people like [Micetich]," Halloran said. "I play his father in the musical, and it's certainly not hard to get into that role."
And for him, that's been the best part of working on the current production: getting to share the stage with a great cast and crew.
"It's a very impressive show," Halloran said. "It's a top-notch cast, crew. It's very well done."
Small Town Theatrics is a summer theater company that draws its cast and crew from the Grundy County area.
A full preview of the production will run in the Friday edition of the Morris Daily Herald.

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"Our enterprise X-Architecture for x86-based servers and solutions delivers high performance and the highest customer satisfaction in the industry, making us number one in high-end x86 systems," said Adalio Sanchez, general manager for IBM x-86 and PureSystems Solutions. "We continue to innovate and deliver leadership performance, reliability and investment protection for mission-critical workloads with X6."
Clients are rapidly adopting analytics for greater business insight and moving critical workloads like ERP, analytics and database to the cloud for increased efficiency and lower costs, and x86-based systems are the first choice for many. The X6 architecture represents IBM's continuing R&D investment and industry leadership in x86-based systems, and is specifically designed to provide new levels of performance and resiliency for enterprise applications. For memory-hungry applications, X6 delivers three times the scalable memory of current competitors' and IBM x86-based systems to support cloud and analytics. [1]
The X6 architecture is:
· Fast, with integrated eXFlash memory-channel storage -- an industry first, this DIMM-based storage provides up to 12.8 terabytes of ultrafast flash storage close to the processor, increasing application performance by providing the lowest system write latency available, essential for analytics applications. X6 can provide significantly lower latency for database operations, which can lower licensing costs and reduce storage costs by reducing or eliminating the need for external SAN/NAS storage units; [2]
· Agile, with a modular, scalable design that supports multiple generations of CPUs
-- another industry first -- and can reduce acquisition costs, up to 28 percent in comparison to one competitive offering. [3] X6 provides stability and flexibility through forthcoming technology developments, allowing users to scale up now and upgrade efficiently in the future. Fast set-up and configuration patterns simplify deployment and life-cycle management;
· Resilient, with features that can help extend cloud delivery models to mission-critical applications. Memory and storage increase virtual machine capacity to allow SaaS delivery of applications. Autonomous self-healing CPU and memory systems maximize application uptime by proactively identifying potential failures and taking action to correct them. In addition, Upward Integration Modules can help reduce the cost and complexity of system administration by allowing operators to perform management tasks through virtualization tools.
Server models supported by this new architecture currently include the System x3850 X6 four-socket system, System x3950 X6 eight-socket system, and the IBM Flex System x880 scalable compute nodes. IBM also is introducing the System x3650 M4 BD storage server, a two-socket rack server supporting up to 14 drives delivering up to 56 terabytes of high-density storage -- the largest available in the industry. It provides 46 percent greater performance than previous comparable IBM System x servers and is ideally suited for distributed scale-out of big data workloads. [4]
New Solutions for X6
Clients moving enterprise applications to cloud models and adopting analytics for quick business insights require integrated solutions for fast deployment, efficiency and performance. To help clients achieve these results, IBM is announcing new solutions for its X6 architecture for analytics, database and cloud deployment, including IBM System x Solution for DB2 with BLU Acceleration on X6 for accelerating analytics, IBM System x Solution for SAP HANA on X6 for analytics, and System x Solution for VMware vCloud Suite on X6 for infrastructure-as-a-service capabilities.
New Storage for cloud, analytics
IBM has announced the general availability of the new IBM FlashSystem 840. The new system provides nearly double the bandwidth and double the performance -- 1.1M IOPS -- of its predecessor, the FlashSystem 820 -- making it ideally suited for analytical databases, virtualization infrastructures, and public and private clouds. [5] Supporting up to 48 terabytes of usable capacity in a 2U unit, the all-Flash array also features IBM MicroLatency technology that significantly speeds data access times from milliseconds to microseconds (less than 135 microseconds) giving organizations faster actionable insights from real-time data analytics. In addition, a new management GUI - as well as datacenter-optimized features such as hot-swap components and concurrent code load - enable fast installation and easy management.
IBM also is introducing the FlashSystem Enterprise Performance Solution, which bundles the FlashSystem 840 and IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) technology. The solution includes a suite of advanced data management features ranging from Real-time Compression, snapshots, thin provisioning, VAAI, and application aware copies, to FlashCopy, and storage virtualization with IBM Easy Tier.
New SDE capabilities for cloud
IBM is strengthening its software defined environment (SDE) portfolio with the introduction of IBM Platform Resource Scheduler for private and hybrid IBM SmartCloud clients who want to accelerate time-to-results, improve infrastructure flexibility and reduce operating costs. IBM Platform Resource Scheduler provides a fully virtualized, open and programmable architecture that ensures enterprises are taking advantage of all available IT resources -- from application software licenses to available network bandwidth.
Integrated with OpenStack, this dynamic resource management tool provides a comprehensive set of intelligent, policy-driven scheduling features that automatically allocate the right resources to the right job, balances workload demand with infrastructure supply and ensures adherence to service level agreements, improving overall application performance and efficiency. The open and extensible architecture also allows enterprises to easily reconfigure and add customized policies to meet their specific sharing and scheduling needs.
Financing for cloud and analytics
IBM Global Financing has announced new financing offerings today to help clients quickly adopt new cloud and analytics solutions by helping reduce upfront costs and speed return on investment. Credit-qualified clients can obtain Fair Market Value leasing when acquiring X6 architecture solutions. Other offerings announced include 0-percent financing and deferred payments for 90 days when they acquire IBM PureSystems, SDE and Storage technology.
Also, IBM's new mobile financing application can help IBM Business Partners close more business with their clients, allowing credit-qualified clients to acquire financing to deploy solutions for analytics, mobile computing, social business and Smarter Planet technologies quickly.
IBM Systems and Technology Group offers a full range of offerings supporting public, private and hybrid cloud implementations that integrate with IBM's cloud software and services. This Systems portfolio includes IBM System x racks and BladeCenter, NeXtScale, PureFlex, Power Systems and System z servers, and IBM Storage solutions. For more information on IBM Global Financing, please go here.
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[1] Triple the memory capacity (Up to 6TB in 4S system; up to 12TB in 8S system) and support up to 24 DDR3 DIMMs per socket and up to 64GB LRDIMM density, based on published Intel specifications, compared with x86 competitors with offerings based on Intel's current processors.
[2] 5-10 microseconds write latency for eXFlash DIMMs in preliminary testing vs. 15-19 microseconds latency for PCIe-based flash storage from Fusion IO, Micron, and Virident, and 65 microseconds latency for Intel S3500 and S3700 SSDs. (Pending final IBM performance testing.)
Using internal eXFlash storage reduces or eliminates the need for external SAN/NAS storage. Less SAN hardware means fewer software licenses.
[3] 28 percent acquisition cost savings based on pricing of x3850 X6 at announcement on 2/18 vs. current pricing of a comparable x86 based system that includes 2 x Intel Xeon E7-4820 (v1) processors, 1TB of memory (16GB RDIMMs) 3.6TB of HDD storage, and Dual Port 10GBe SFP+ controller. x3850 X6 includes 2 Compute Books, 2 x Intel Xeon E7 processors, 1TB of memory (16GB RDIMMs), 3.6TB of HDD storage, and Dual Port 10GBe SFP+ controller.
[4] Compared to HP two-socket servers supporting a maximum of 48 TB storage with 12 x 3.5" drives, and Dell two-socket servers supporting a maximum of 51.2 TB storage with 12 x 3.5" and 2 x 2.5" drives.
46-percent figure based on Intel Internal Test Report #1310, using SPECjbb*2013 benchmark, July 2013.
[5] The performance data discussed herein is presented as derived under specific operating conditions by IBM. Actual results may vary.
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Treatment of complex developmental trauma in children and youth
Children and adolescents in foster care and institutional settings often face complex developmental trauma related to multiple or continuous traumatic experiences. However, successful clinical interventions are difficult to implement because of barriers to accessibility, time constraints, insufficient diagnostic criteria, and other limitations. A new, open access study in Child & Youth Services explores the benefits of Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI), a program designed for caregivers working closely with traumatized children.
Developed at the Texas Christian University Institute of Child Development, TBRI trains caregivers in building safe, nurturing environments and responding effectively to behavioral issues. TBRI assumes that caregiver training is essential to improving the child's response to everyday challenges and uses the guiding principles of empowerment, connection, and correction to enable positive development. Unlike traditional clinical interventions, TBRI is adaptable to multiple environments and provides programming for a variety of structural and relational needs, including nutrition, physical activity, relationship-building, and caregiver response.
The authors, led by Karyn Purvis, PhD, describe the benefits of the intervention: "Holistic in nature, cost effective to implement, and developmentally respectful of the impact of trauma, TBRI appears to hold significant potential for creating positive impact in the lives of children and youth who have come from the hard places." TRBI is a promising program for children and youth who cannot access clinical care or who require a greater level of support in their daily environment. In its unique design, TBRI is one of the only programs effective in treating complex developmental trauma, as opposed to acute trauma, in children and youth.
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Cooking from the Glossies: Creamed Broccoli with Parmesan Recipe
Creamed spinach from Boston Market is quite possibly one of my favorite things in the world. The key is to mix it with the corn, mashed potatoes, and gravy sides to create the über side dish. Anyone else do that? Anyway, I had a craving for creamed spinach, but sadly there is no Boston Market near me. When I came across this Creamed Broccoli with Parmesan from the March issue of Gourmet, I figured I'd give it a try and perhaps it would satisfy my creamed spinach craving.
Boy, was I wrong. This should really be called mashed broccoli, because the broccoli isn't smooth, but coarsely mashed. Apparently, you're also supposed to be able to mash the cooked broccoli with a potato masher, but that was not going to happen anytime this century. After a couple of futile mashes, I resorted to using a blender and that was fine. I also substituted some milk for the 1 cup of heavy cream that the recipe originally called for. I like to save most of my daily heavy cream allotment for whipped cream. The result tasted great, but I would advise against using only milk as I think it wouldn't taste creamy enough. I also doubled the amount of parmesan cheese since a scanty 3 tablespoons didn't seem like nearly enough. So, I didn't fulfill my creamed spinach dreams, but this was a solid side dish I would make again.
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- 1 bunch broccoli
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 3/4 cup 2 percent milk
- 2 garlic cloves, smashed and peeled
- 1/4 teaspoon grated nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 6 tablespoons grated Parmesan
Peel broccoli stems, then coarsely chop stems and florets. Cook broccoli in boiling salted water (1 1/2 teaspoon salt for 4 quarts water) until just tender, 4 to 6 minutes. Drain in a colander and run under cold water to stop cooking.
Simmer cream, milk, garlic, nutmeg, salt, and pepper in a medium saucepan, uncovered, until slightly thickened and reduced to about 2/3 cup, about 10 minutes.
Add broccoli and simmer for a couple of minutes. Using an immersion or regular blender, process the broccoli mixture until coarsely mashed. If using a regular blender, fill the blender only 1/2 full and make sure the cover is secure before processing in order to prevent broccoli burn. Return coarsely mashed broccoli to pan and stir in Parmesan. Simmer further if broccoli mixture is not thick enough.
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In a call discussing Activision Blizzard's recent quarterly earnings, Activision Publishing president Mike Morhaime announced that over 2 million players took part in Diablo III's "stress test" open beta last month.
The company previously revealed that the servers peaked at 300,000 simultaneous users in the weekend test, during which many players saw periodic problems logging in. In a recent pre-launch FAQ for the game, the company warned that players may see login delays of up to 40 seconds during the game's May 15 launch, as it adjusts the login rate to maintain stability.
Activision Blizzard also revealed some mind-boggling statistics for the record-breaking Call of Duty franchise. Over 10 million people are now signed up for its premium Call of Duty Elite service (up 40 percent since the end of January), including 2 million annual members (up 33 percent since January). Those players have logged over 1.6 billion hours playing Modern Warfare 3, and the franchise as a whole currently sees 40 million active players each month.
Other stats from Activision Blizzard's earnings call:
- Skylander: Spyro's Adventure has now sold over 30 million toys over its lifetime.
- World of Warcraft has stabilized at 10.2 million subscribers, equal to the number reported last quarter but down from 11 million reported a year ago.
- 1.2 million players have signed up for a World of Warcraft annual pass and taken part in the Mists of Pandaria beta.
- The company recorded $1.17 billion in revenues, down from $1.45 billion from the year before, but beating the expectations of both analysts and the company itself.


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'Grand Bargain' Budget Deal Elusive
There will surely be several more "decisive moments" in the seemingly never-ending negotiations between the White House, President Obama's fellow Democrats and Republican leaders over raising the federal debt limit, cutting federal budget deficits and generally putting the nation's fiscal books in order.
The weekend certainly brought its share.
As NPR's Ari Shapiro reported today onMorning Edition, those talks took a critical turn Saturday when House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said the deal that he and the president had hoped to strike to cut $4 trillion from projected federal deficits over the next decade couldn't pass the House because Obama and his fellow Democrats were asking for too much in the way of taxes.
The White House responded that it was seeking a "balanced approach" to debt and deficit reduction.
Sunday, the president met with Boehner and other leaders at the White House to see if some life could be pumped back into that "grand bargain." But as Ari reports, if there was any progress made during that meeting "neither side said so publicly."
So now, there will be meetings every day — at least between staffers. They're pushing to reach some sort of agreement by July 22 — the day the White House says a deal needs to be reached if the legislation is going to be written and passed by Congress before Aug. 2, when the government will run out of ways to keep borrowing and could technically default on its debts.
The president will be holding a news conference to talk about all this at 11 a.m. ET today. We'll live-blog it.
Meanwhile, check out some of this morning's headlines about where things stand:
-- The Wall Street Journal:" Deficit Negotiators Hit Reset."
--The Washington Post: "Debt Reduction Talks In Limbo As Clock Ticks Toward Aug. 2 Deadline."
-- The Hill: "Obama, Lawmakers Fail To Reach Breakthrough At White House."
-- The Financial Times: "Obama Applies Pressure On Republicans."
-- The Daily Caller:"Obama Seeks 2012 Victory Via Debt Talks."
-- The Huffington Post:"Obama Tries To Re-Sell Republicans On A Grand Debt Ceiling Deal."
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YANKEES: Derek Jeter placed back on the disabled list
NEW YORK -- Derek Jeter is back on the disabled list.
The Yankees placed their captain on the 15-day DL on Friday. He strained his right quad in his first game back with New York last week after being out all season with a broken left ankle.
The Yankees had waited to make a decision, using the four days of the All-Star break for the shortstop to receive treatment. But with New York set to open the second half of the season against the Red Sox in Boston on Friday, the team announced the move.
The Yankees also signed infielder Brent Lillibridge from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
The 39-year-old Jeter singled on his first pitch in a major league game this year as the Yankees beat Kansas City on July 11, but he left in the eighth inning when his quad tightened in his third at-bat.
At the time, Jeter said he hoped the strain was "not a big deal."
He missed the weekend series against Minnesota but hoped to avoid the DL.
"It's frustrating. I don't know what else you want me to say," Jeter said in a statement a day after the injury. "I worked hard to get to the point of rejoining the team yesterday. It's not how you draw it up, but hopefully I'll be back out there soon and help this team win some games."
After just four rehabilitation games, the Yankees pushed up the star shortstop's return one day after Brett Gardner and Travis Hafner got hurt. Jeter had been telling the team he was ready to return, and general manager Brian Cashman said reports from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre were positive.
So Jeter came back to a huge ovation and beat out an infield hit in his first at-bat. He also scored a run and had an RBI on a groundout that ended in a close play at first. He was pinch hit for in the eighth inning.
Jeter joins Mark Teixeira (wrist surgery), outfielder Curtis Granderson (broken pinkie) and catcher Francisco Cervelli (broken hand), who have been hurt and then had setbacks or second injuries.
Teixeira returned briefly before season-ending surgery. Cervelli developed a stress reaction and is shut down for now. Granderson broke his forearm in his first at-bat in spring training only to be hit again after eight games back.
Alex Rodriguez is set to join Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on Friday, likely the final stop in his rehabilitation from left hip surgery before he returns to the Yankees as early as Monday.
Despite all the injuries, the Yankees were 51-44 at the All-Star break, six games behind first-place Boston but sitting in fourth in the tough AL East. They were three games out of the last wild card spot.


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There are many successful business women out there, but I guarantee that their success did not come easy. There is a lot of pressure placed on women in the world today, and life runs at a much faster pace. We are expected to be able to juggle both being a mom and a career woman. To achieve this, many women are starting their own home based businesses. Here are a few traits of successful business women that I believe are the key to success in their own home based businesses.
An Entrepreneurial Spirit:
In order to be successful in your home based business, you must be a go-getter and understand that it takes a lot of effort and perseverance to start your own business. You must understand that building your own business takes a lot of creativity and a lot of advertising. You must have the proper mind set to understand how a home business works, and that it takes time to make a business profitable. Your success truly depends on how hard you are willing to work for it. You must have a strong desire to succeed.
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You don't have to be an overly outgoing person to have self confidence. As a home business owner, you will experience many bumps in the road, and these are the times when self belief will come in handy. You will also have to learn to sell yourself, both in person and on paper. Whether you are hosting at home meetings or parties to sell your products, or utilizing social media tools, it takes confidence to advertise your business properly.
Excellent Writing Skills:
Whether you are using article marketing, blogging, social media, newspaper ads, or flyers to advertise your business, you must have up to par writing skills. If you have terrible grammar or misspelled words, you are going to lose a tremendous amount of credibility. Make sure that your writing is as close to perfect as humanly possible. Find someone to proofread, read your material out loud to yourself, and don't rely solely on your spell check.
These qualities are just a few traits of successful business women in relation to a home based business. To master all of the traits of a successful business woman takes life experience, successes, and failures along the way.


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Kyiv poster exhibition calls for peace in UkraineComments
Posters carrying strong messages calling for peace in Ukraine line a street leading to Kyiv's Independence Square. The colourful display faces onto the barricades that still stand at Maidan.
Organised by Voices of Peace, a Ukrainian designers and artists collective, this open-air exhibition in Kyiv has gathered posters created by graphic designers from 41 countries.
Hanna Mikheeva, poster campaign supervisor, explained about the popularity of the exhibition amongst artists: "You can see 60 posters, but actually we received more than 200 posters from all over the world."
"We received pictures from Belarus, the USA, Russia, Ecuador and Iran," Mikheeva added.
One visitor didn't think the posters, "will prevent Russians from invading Ukraine, but these pictures may keep up spirit of Ukrainian people!"
Some posters were made into postcards carrying a simple message: "No War," one of which was mailed to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Voices of Peace exhibition runs until April 12 in Kyiv.


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Immortal Malware Domains
We recently revalidated about 800 long-lived, "immortal" malware domains.
These are domains which were identified as malicious anywhere between 90 and 360 days ago. but according to google safebrowsing, are still actively involved in badness.
Some of these domains have been on the DNS-BH List for YEARS.
Of these 800 domains, 55 were removed. That means that 745, or over 93%, are still actively associated with malware.
List of removed (non immortal?) domains: removed-domains-20120104.txt
List of "the immortals: immortal_domains.txt
A "psychohistory" of these long-lived malicious domains would be interesting and we'd be happy to help with any of those research efforts.


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International Healthcare Worker Safety Center
The International Healthcare Worker Safety Center at the University of Virginia Health System is dedicated to the prevention of occupational transmission of bloodborne pathogens. Under the direction of Janine Jagger, M.P.H., Ph.D., the Center has been a leader in conducting epidemiological research on needlesticks and blood exposures and advocating for a safer healthcare workplace since 1994. The EPINet surveillance system was developed by Dr. Jagger in 1991 to provide healthcare facilities with a standardized system for tracking occupational blood exposures; it is now used by over 1000 hospitals in the U.S. The Center collects data from approximately 70 hospitals using EPINet (referred to as the "EPINet network"). You can print out a variety of EPINet data reports by clicking on "About EPINet," above.
For information on accessing electronic versions of articles from the Center's publication, Advances in Exposure Prevention, click here.
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The basic instruments for transmitting information in international trade are aligned trade documents based on internationally accepted standards and best practices. These play an important role in the efficiency and security of international trade transactions.
To simplify the documentary requirements for international trade, the United Nations developed the United Nations Layout Key for Trade and Transport Documents (UNLK) together with related standards that define the layout of trade documents, the presentation of data, the semantics of trade/data, and the related code lists. The UNLK is applicable to all trade forms used in the commercial transactions sector, in the payment sector, in the transport and related services sector such as forwarding and cargo handling, transport, insurance and in the official controls sector. This Guide aims to support trade facilitators in developing aligned series of trade forms. The process described in the Guide facilitates later development of electronic documents for use in paperless trade and Single Window. The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) have developed a UN Trade Documents Toolkit , which complements this Guide and provides simple electronic tools to design aligned trade forms.
The Guide describes the design of paper trade documents aligned to international standards, with a view to later automation through electronic exchange of trade documents and automated information processing (paperless trade). Chapter 1 provides a short introduction into the history of the UNLK. Chapter 2 presents the formatting and physical design aspects of the UNLK. Chapter 3 details the functional design of forms, and the use of semantic repositories, code lists, and Box Completion Guidelines to develop an aligned and efficient system of trade documents. Finally, Chapter 4 gives an outlook on how aligned paper forms can be further enhanced to obtain electronic trade documents.
Download the full publication: UNNExT Guide for the Design of Aligned Trade Forms for Paperless Trade (ECE/TRADE/372)


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NEA stresses the importance of foreign languages and global competence
WASHINGTON - July 20, 2010 -
To thrive in today's global and interdependent society, America's students need to become more proficient in world languages and become more aware of global issues. That was the theme of Language Learning for a Global Age, a policy summit hosted on Capitol Hill today. National Education Association (NEA) Executive Director John Wilson and leaders from the business, education, security and intelligence communities discussed strategies during the half-day event.
"We must prepare students with the skills they need to compete in a global economy," said Wilson. "They can graduate from high school with advanced levels of proficiency if they start learning languages in the early grades."
NEA, the Asia Society Partnership for Global Learning, Committee for Economic Development, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, and Joint National Committee on Languages hosted the summit. It featured panels on various topics, including the importance of learning foreign languages and understanding how this knowledge affects businesses and competitiveness. Experts discussed how the lack of language proficiency can impact national security and global diplomacy, and they shared examples of programs and initiatives that are working across the country.
Rep. Rush Holt (NJ-12) joined other members of Congress to talk about the steps policymakers can take to push the issue of global competency to the forefront. In the coming weeks, he is expected to introduce the "Excellence and Innovation in Language Learning Act," which would stimulate excellence and innovation in national, state and local policies and programs in the teaching and learning of foreign languages at the K-12 levels. It would provide more learning options for students and professional development opportunities for current and future foreign language teachers.
"Global horizons are broadening while curricula in the U.S. are narrowing," added Wilson. "High-stakes testing and sanctions-based accountability have resulted in an almost exclusive emphasis on reading and math. While these subjects are critical, schools must also ensure students are prepared to enter college and the workforce by providing global knowledge and language skills."
To read NEA's policy brief on Global Competency:
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Christmas is next week! I just can't believe it - It is really sneaking up on me fast! I can't wait to see my family open their gifts from under the tree!


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Tom Braithwaite
Financial Times
April 26th, 2010
The US is preparing to pivot from domestic regulatory reform to a push for a tough new international capital regime after the weekend's G20 and International Monetary Fund meetings glossed over differences between leading economies.
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Tim Geithner, US Treasury secretary, met Mario Draghi, chairman of the Financial Stability Board, on Sunday to discuss the contours of a system that would decide the safety and profitability of banks for decades to come and could eclipse the arguments over bank taxes and regulation.
But the different positions of senior central bank and government officials from several countries expressed to the Financial Times on the sidelines of the G20 meetings in Washington suggested that a final international agreement remains a challenge.
The G20 communiqué on Friday said: "We recommitted to developing by end-2010 internationally agreed rules to improve both the quantity and quality of bank capital and to discourage excessive leverage."
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Feb. 7, 2012 -- About 90% of us get too much sodium every day, and most of it comes from common restaurant or grocery store items, the CDC reports. The No. 1 culprit? Bread and rolls.
Ten foods are responsible for 44% of all of the sodium we get. These include:
- Breads and rolls
- Luncheon meats such as deli ham and turkey
- Pizza
- Poultry
- Soups
- Cheeseburgers and other sandwiches
- Cheese
- Pasta dishes
- Meat dishes
- Snack foods including chips, pretzels, and popcorn
Too much sodium can contribute to elevations in blood pressure levels. High blood pressure is a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke.
The average person gets about 3,300 milligrams (mg) of sodium per day, not counting salt added at the table. The U.S. dietary guidelines call for less than 2,300 mg of salt per day. The amount is even lower -- 1,500 mg per day -- for people aged 51 and older, African-Americans, and anyone with high blood pressure, diabetes, or kidney disease.
Slashing the sodium intake of these 10 foods by 25% would lower the amount of sodium in our diets by 10% and could help prevent up to 28,000 deaths a year, says CDC Director Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH, in a news release.
Some manufacturers are taking the lead, he says. For example, "Kraft Foods has committed to an average 10% reduction of sodium in their products over a two year period, and dozens of companies have joined a national initiative to reduce sodium," he says. "The leading supplier of cheese for pizza, Leprino Foods, is actively working on providing customers and consumers with healthier options."
The findings appear online in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.


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Virginia Berninger, Ph.D., presents the results of assessment, instructional, brain, and genetics research on writing instruction and describes an approach to instruction and standards that takes into account individual differences in teaching and learning handwriting for spelling, a morphophonemic orthography, and composing.
A Meta-Analysis of the Effectiveness of Teaching Handwriting
Tanya Santangelo, Ph.D., presents the results of a meta-analysis conducted by Santangelo and Steve Graham, Ed.D., of true- and quasi-experiments examining the effectiveness of handwriting interventions.
Benefits of an OT/Teacher Model for First Grade Handwriting Instruction
Jane Case-Smith, Ed.D., presents the study results of a twelve-week program that utilizes a co-teaching model in which occupational therapists and teachers collaborate to provide handwriting/writing instruction.
The Relationship of Transcription Speed and Other Cognitive Variables to Note-Taking and Test Performance
Stephen Peverly, Ph.D., presents his recent research on the cognitive processes that underlie note-taking (primarily in lectures) and the relationship of notes to test performance.
Kinematic and Clinical Correlates of Handwriting in Elementary School Children
Gerry Conti, Ph.D., presents kinematic and clinical findings of legible and illegible handwriting in healthy third and fifth grade children.
The Neural Correlates of Handwriting and Its Affect on Reading Acquisition
Karin Harman James, Ph.D., presents the results of a series of studies using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) that suggest that self-generated action, in the form of printing letters by hand, is a crucial component in setting up brain systems for reading acquisition.


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*Inspired by Shirley MacLaine's assertion that the best parts for actresses fall into one of the above categories.
This week in Hollywood casting announcements: plenty of potential victimization for Tinseltown's bold-faced beauties. (Victim characters, of course, are easy to spot: They're usually described as "troubled" or have a "tortured past," have "suffered" a "crisis," are "surviving" and "learning to move on" from their rape/brutal attack/illness...take your pick!) After the jump, take a look at the newest roles for Angela Bassett, Nicole Kidman, and America Ferrera and see how they stack up on the actress-cliche scale.
• Angela Bassett, ER: Bassett will be playing a troubled doctor who comes back to Chicago after doing tsunami relief in Indonesia. Her arrival promises to "shake County General's ER to the core." Verdict: Well "troubled" usually translates to "victim," although a victim usually doesn't shake a television series to it's "core." She might be playing a shrew as well.
• Nicole Kidman, Dusty Springfield Biopic: Novelist Michael Cunningham (The Hours) has revealed that Kidman will star in the upcoming Dusty Springfield biopic he's writing. The film will explore Springfield's tortured, drugged, and depressed years, as well as her successes. Verdict: No one does victims quite like Cunningham, and Springfield's biography is not lacking in victimized and depressed elements.
• America Ferrera, An Invisible Sign of My Own: Ferrera will star in this coming-of-age film about a 20-year-old loner who turns to math for salvation when her father becomes ill. [Uh, isn't that a play called 'Proof'? -Ed.] When the character becomes an adult, she must teach math to students using her crisis as inspiration. BO-RING. Verdict: All of the victim keywords are here: "crisis" "salvation" and "ill father," but the character might overcome her own victimization in the end, so we will have to see how the movie plays out. The only thing that is unfortunate about this is the talented Ferrera starring in another snoozer.
• Shenae Grimes, Beverly Hills, 90210: Former Degrassi: The Next Generation star, Grimes, will play Annie in this 90210 remake on the CW Network. The Annie character will be based on the character played by Shannen Doherty in the original. Verdict: Although Doherty was a decent character on the show, off-set, she was generally too busy victimizing people to be a victim herself.
Angela Bassett Makes Rounds For Last ER Shift [Reuters]
Nicole Kidman Playing Dusty Springfield In Biopic, Says Michael Cunningham [NY Mag]
America Ferrera Joins Invisible [THR]
90210 Cast Continues To Grow [Variety]


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Alex has come a long way from the cocky, yet sometimes inept intern from the old days of Grey's Anatomy.
In a never-before-seen deleted scene from the Season 9 finale, Alex (Justin Chambers) shows his bedside manner while helping out the parents in the NICU — something Jo (Camilla Luddington) definitely takes notice of.
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Fortunately, Grey's fans will be able to check out all the deleted scenes and other fun features when Grey's Anatomy: The Complete Ninth Season arrives on DVD on Tuesday. The Season 9 DVD also features an extended season finale, outtakes and spotlight featurettes on Arizona (Jessica Capshaw) and Webber (James Pickens, Jr.).
Check out an exclusive sneak peek at the deleted scene below:
Grey's Anatomy returns for a two-hour Season 10 premiere on Thursday, Sept. 26 at 9/8c on ABC.


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Remember the other week when Top Gear was traveling from Las Vegas to Southern California in some wonderful supercars? Of course you do!
Well, the guys from Top Gear America are about to do something super sweet today. If you're in Tampa, FL, get to the Gandy Bridge right now.
According to reports from local news, the Gandy Bridge in Tampa, FL will have rolling lane closures from 9 AM until 3 PM today due to the filming of Top Gear. While a tweet from Jeremy Clarkson originally gave us reason to believe that he would be performing this stunt, it actually looks like it's Top Gear America and Rutledge Wood.
It appears that Rut will be taking a Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse — the convertible version of the 1,200 horsepower Super Sport— across the bridge, which is famed for street racing.
The keen eyed among you will also recognize that this is the same Grand Sport Vitesse that was recently at the USGP in Austin, TX.
From recent Tweets, it looks like Jeremy Clarkson may actually be in or around Finland and it sounds like he's doing something insane today as well.
If you're in Tampa (or Finland), send your Top Gear pics to tips at jalopnik dot com. And if you see Rutledge (or Jeremy), say hello.
UPDATE: Top Gear USA had to cancel the shoot they planned on the Gandy Bridge due to "crowds and chaotic conditions." They are now looking for a totally different location to film the Veyron.
(Thanks for all the tips!!!)
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