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Do I Need a Sponsor if I am in a Residential Program?
Do people in residential recovery programs need "sponsors" in the support groups in which they participate?
Most support groups encourage recovering people to find a sponsor. "Mentorship" is a solid Biblical concept. The relationship between Paul, the seasoned veteran apostle, and Timothy, the young, gifted, upstart preacher is an excellent example.
Still, it is best to delay the process of finding a sponsor until the residential program participant is nearing graduation. While still in the program, the staff serves essentially as the "sponsor". Having an outside sponsor too early in the program can actually be counterproductive, especially if the sponsor gives guidance that is at odds with what the program's staff. It can also place the staff in a difficult situation in regard to confidentiality.
As I have often said, the primary goal of the rescue mission recovery program is to "work ourselves out of a job." In other words, we succeed with troubled people when they no longer need us. As we begin the process of planning an individual's exit from a structured long-term program, careful aftercare/discharge planning is vital. There must be a formal plan that includes church and support group participation, educational, housing and employment arrangements. Finding an outside program sponsor can actually be a reasonable expectation for graduation from a residential recovery program.
How can we benefit from having a sponsor?
A. Establishing Accountability - Having another man in my life who knows enough about me to ask the hard questions has been a vital dimension of my personal walk of recovery. To be honest about it, there are times when I've actually walked away from temptation more because I did not want to be embarrassed by confessing it to a sponsor, than because it was the right or best thing to do.
B. Keeping Pride in Check - Ego, grandiosity, and self-centeredness are all issues with recovering people. The Bible is full of admonitions about this - "Pride goes before a fall, and God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble, etc." Ultimately, a sponsor helps me to keep from getting trapped by my own false sense of "powerfulness" and keeps me in reality (which is another word for "humility").
C. Staying Honest - It's really easy to fool others, and even myself. I've learned how to look really good outwardly, while I'm doing terribly inwardly, even in support groups. Here again, if I've been open with my sponsor about my personal issues, he will hold me accountable and "nail me" when I've slipped into dishonesty. It is my firm conviction that no one with a clear conscience ever relapses.
D. Maintaining Objectivity - "Stinking thinking" is a real trap. Having a person committed to being a "sounding board" for me gives me someone who can say stuff like, "I don't think you are perceiving that correctly" or "Have you considered this might be what's really going on?" This is especially helpful in the always difficult area of relationships in which all recovering people struggle. Most others in our lives have some "vested interest" in how we behave or how well we do in our lives. It's hard for these folks to be very objective. So, we need someone outside of our primary family, work, etc. relationships who doesn't have as much at stake to help us to steer a clear course.
E. Finding Encouragement - I find I am apt to get down on myself at times, often because of things over which I have little or no control. Having an objective, supportive person who understands the process of recovery helps me keep a healthy perspective on things. Usually, I find I'm doing better than I might think. And, even when I'm not doing so well, my sponsors have provided the hope and support I've needed to move forward and do the often difficult things that are necessary to keep growing.
Finding a Sponsor
Look for a person who is:
- Of the same sex (an absolute must!).
Growing and solid in his/her own personal program of recovery.
Trustworthy and able to keep what is shared confidential.
A good listener and non-judgmental encourager.
Available when they are needed. This usually means able to meet at a set time on a weekly or bi-weekly basis.
A good starting place for finding a sponsor is to look for people at support group meetings who seem to be solid and take an interest in newcomers. It might be wise to find out who other participants in the meetings see this person.
Since establishing a sponsorship relationship is really an informal arrangement, it starts by simply asking a trusted individual - "Would you be my sponsor?" And, it's perfectly acceptable to fire" a sponsor if the arrangement does not seem to be working out. So, there are definite advantages to starting this process while still in the program so staff members can provide support and feedback until a suitable sponsor is found.
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Copyright by Michael Liimatta. All Rights Reserved.
Mr. Liimatta is the past President of Christians in Recovery®
and currently serves on its Advisory Counsel. He has been instrumental
in the program of Alcoholics Victorious for over 20 years. He is a Social Entrepreneur,
Consultant to Nonprofit Organizations with OneAccord, Chief Academic
Officer at City Vision College and has been involved
with drug and alcohol counseling and recovery education for 30 years.
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The latest phone in the market is the Samsung Galaxy A7, and to make sure that you enjoy its amazing graphic quality it is important that you couple it with the latest accessory, that is the glass screen protector.
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…in which Delilah and Selim track down an ancient city buried beneath layers of mystery and secrets, all while fighting off a determined villain
Having survived a close shave in England, where she was falsely accused of spying for the French, Delilah has set out with her companion Selim for more agreeable adventures in central Asia. But when she stumbles on an artifact that may be a clue about the location of the legendary third pillar of Hercules, Delilah and Selim are drawn back to Europe on an Indiana-Jones-style archeological caper that pits her against a ruthless enemy . . . and forces her to team up with the most unlikely partner of all time: her sworn enemy, Jason Merrick, the man who framed her for espionage!
From vast forgotten underground cities to an elaborate and shocking double-cross, Delilah Dirk and the Pillars of Hercules brings all the drama and excitement that fans of the series crave.
"Cliff's art is striking in both action scenes and in the choice of color palette, used to convey place, tone, and mood." —Kirkus Reviews
"Compelling writing combined with colorful illustrations makes this a book that is sure to delight." —School Library Journal
Tony Cliff—a lifelong resident of Vancouver, British Columbia—began his comics work as a contributor to the Flight series of anthologies. His first major published work, Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant, is a New York Times bestseller and a Publishers Weekly Best of 2013, and was nominated for Eisner, Shuster, and Harvey awards. Delilah Dirk and the Pillar of Hercules is the third book in the Delilah Dirk series, following 2016's similarly well-received The King's Shilling. He is strongly opposed to bios that conclude with one quirky attempt at humor.


text: Alexander: "Amendment Should Strengthen Oak Ridge Pension Plan" Amendment Would Avoid Cutting Programs and Jobs to Pay for Losses Caused by Stock Market Slump Posted on April 3, 2009 WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said today that Senate passage of a bipartisan amendment should strengthen the pension plan of current and former Department of Energy (DOE) employees at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge) and Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12), making up for shortfalls caused by stock market losses. Without this amendment, additional funding for the pension plan could be taken from cleanup and defense programs at Oak Ridge and Y-12, resulting in job losses at both facilities. "The amendment should not only help protect retirement benefits, but it also would help preserve funding for research being done at Oak Ridge and Y-12," said Senator Alexander. "This is a priority of mine and will continue to be." Due to the market downturn, DOE pension plans are not meeting funding levels required under the Pension Protection Act. The amendment that passed the Senate, offered by Senators Bob Bennett (R-Utah) and Alexander, makes room in the Fiscal Year 2010 budget for legislation that could correct these pension losses without forcing DOE to cut jobs and research at their facilities.


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Gerald Dempsey "Buster" Posey III is an American professional baseball catcher and first baseman for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball. He stands 6 feet 1 inch and weighs 220 pounds. He bats and throws right-handed. Posey grew up in Leesburg, Georgia. He played four sports in high school; when playing baseball, he excelled at hitting and pitching. He attended Florida State University, where he began playing the catcher position. He won the Golden Spikes Award in 2008 and was selected by the Giants with the fifth overall pick in the 2008 Major League Baseball Draft. Posey made his major league debut on September 11, 2009. After beginning the 2010 season in the minor leagues, he was called back up to the major leagues in May. He played first base when he came up, but became the Giants' regular catcher at the end of June. As a rookie, he finished with a .305 batting average, 18 home runs, and 67 runs batted in. He was named the National League Rookie of the Year. He caught every inning of the playoffs as the Giants won the 2010 World Series. In 2011, Posey missed most of the year after he was severely injured in a collision with Scott Cousins at home plate.
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text: Valacyclovir (generic for Valtrex) is a medication approved by the FDA to treat different types of herpes infections including HSV-1 and HSV-2. It is also used to treat shingles (herpes zoster), which is caused by the Varicella Zoster Virus (VZV). There are four different ways that herpes medications can be used to treat genital herpes (HSV-1 and HSV-2): 1. To Treat Or Abort An Outbreak When There Are Early Symptoms (Prodrome): For both genital and oral herpes, people can take medication when their specific prodrome tells them an outbreak is about to occur. The medication will stop an outbreak cold (often) and when it does not, it can shorten the outbreak and make it milder than it might have been otherwise. To Prevent Outbreaks When There Are No Symptoms But Outbreaks Are More Likely: Patients also learn the life circumstances or behaviors that lead to more outbreaks. 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In a previous post I talked about rules and how they ultimately restrict you and make your work very repetitive. Please, if you haven't done so, go back and read that one. If not, you may miss some context.
Repetition is the evil step child of rules. The technical term for this is boring. The point of being an artist is creativity. The death knell tolls when artists mimic themselves, consciously or not. I refer to this as the " what would I do, if I were me" syndrome. It's the twilight zone straddling personal style and self imitation.
A major pet peeve rule, for me, is the one pertaining to edges. It goes like this: Squint at your subject matter. Where you see high contrast, paint those edges sharply and where the values are close together, soften or blur those edges. I'm sure you've heard this one ad infinitum. Edge handling is the most misunderstood term in the painters lexicon. Greatness and edge mastery are inexorably linked. This is but the first of many blog posts dedicated to the subject. Edge handling, at it's best. has the potential to be poetically innovative while subtly enhancing the illusion of reality and orchestrating the movement of the viewer's eye. Why throw away the potential for superior picture-making by adhering to some limiting dictum? Unfortunately, far to often, edges fall under the curse of the formulaic and heavy-handed.
I object to this rule for many reasons. It fuels robotic repetition. But the biggest problem for me is you can easily wind up with a sharp edge around the contour of your form. Since sharpness comes forward, the edge of the form will come to the front? If you want to create the illusion of depth and space in a painting, you need to understand visual perception. If the contour of a form has the sharpest edge, the form flattens. Juxtapose a soft edge with a hard one and the hard edge comes forward. The softer of the two always recedes. Sharp edges on contours gives a photographic look because a camera has only one eye (the lens). Since we view the world through binocular vision contours of rounded objects appear softer. Photographs are intrinsically flat. So even though something is painted with vigor, the resulting painting will still have a photographic look.
On the other hand, if you want to have a painting that simulates illusionistic space, simulate human vision. In this example, a detail of a portrait painted of Herman Doomer by Rembrandt, you can see how the interior forms of the face are painted more sharply, and–as the form turns away–the edges become relatively softer. Compare the sharpness of his right eye and nose, with the softness of his right ear. Interestingly, look at the super hard edge on the contour of the cape he's wearing, on his left shoulder, in the full image. (See top of article.) See how it comes forward. In later paintings this rarely happened. Even Rembrandt wasn't hatched fully formed.
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"Odyssey," the latest film adaptation of the legendary Monkey King story, is enjoying success at the box office and fueling waves of nostalgia among Chinese audiences.The fantasy-action film directed by acclaimed Hong Kong actor Stephen Chow took in 123 million yuan (19.7 million U.S. dollars) when it debuted in theaters on Feb. 10, the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year, setting a new record for single-day earnings at the Chinese box office.The movie was adapted from the 500-year-old Chinese classic "Journey to the West," or "Monkey," the story of Monk Xuanzang's pilgrimage to India with the Monkey King and two other disciples.
A microblog devoted to China's top leader Xi Jinping wowed netizens early this month by releasing information on the Chinese leader's inspection tour of Gansu Province even before official media reports emerged.Entries on the "Xuexifensituan" ("Learning from Xi Fan Club") account are often written in a tabloid style, with brief, declarative statements tracing the movements of the general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.
Migrant workers who used to worry about getting paid before heading home for the Spring Festival may find their status much higher now. Many companies are making every effort to attract workers and make them feel wanted. Some distributed cash ranging from 200 yuan (31.85 U.S. dollars) to 500 yuan to parents of employees who promised to come back after the holiday. Others offered a 15-percent pay raise in the new year.
The United States' sanctions on Chinese enterprises have harmed international trade order, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said on February 13.Shen Danyang, an MOC spokesman, said that China strongly opposes sanctions that have been imposed on Chinese military firms and individuals based on U.S. domestic regulations and without any evidence for them.
In China, ivory ornaments and tools dating back 7,000 years have been found. Ivory carving boomed as a mature art in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).Ivory carving was classified as a form of national intangible cultural heritage in 2007. In the meantime, Chinese also believe that ivory smuggling should be further cracked down upon and urge better efforts to improve public awareness of illegal ivory.
China's decades-old family planning policy has had the effect of shrinking family trees over time, leaving younger people with fewer relatives.However, the rules that dictate which titles are used to refer to different relatives are still boggling the minds of these same young Chinese.A poll of 489 people conducted by the Xinhua News Agency from Saturday to Tuesday found that 72 percent of respondents could not address their relatives properly.
The government will require new urban buildings to reach mandatory energy-saving standards, as well as renovate existing buildings, to make them more environmentally friendly by 2015, China's top economic planner has said.China currently has more than 40 billion square meters of existing buildings, with about 2 billion square meters being added each year.
Tick tack, the sound of Chinese homemade watches' movement has never stopped, although it is still in hard time.
Wang Jun, a salesman for the Tianjin Sea-Gull Watch Group Company, is proud of the watches his company manufactures, even if they aren't as well-known as their Swiss counterparts.
After being demolished and disposed of over a decade ago, a century-old iron bridge in north China has been rediscovered with the help of web users.
Jintang Bridge, or Chin Tang Bridge, was built in 1906 by invaders from the Austro-Hungarian Empire over the Haihe River in Tianjin as one of the earliest swing bridges in China.


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Previously on Faking It, when Liam had a momentary lapse in his lack of morals and refused to aid and abet Karma cheating on her fake girlfriend, Karma brazenly suggested a threesome. Liam's moral divining rod said heck yeah to that. Amy, however, was not quite so game.
Her response to Karma's kasual suggestion was a very appropriate: F— NO!
Having some doubts about her decision, Amy ran to Obi Wan Shane for advice. He tells her to go for it because totally straight girls don't just casually suggest three ways with their BFFs, unless they are having doubts about their sexuality too. He dubs Karma's suggestion a Bisexual Batsignal and tells Amy to go for it and if she doesn't want to touch skanky old Liam, she doesn't have to. How does Shane have so much intimate knowledge about threesomes? Because at theater camp he "fiddled more than just the roof." Has he earned his Gay Best Friend merit badge yet? Amy tells Karma she'll do it and Karma promises it won't be weird at all. That may be the biggest lie Karma has ever told.
Meanwhile in Lauren's subplot du jour, she has transformed Shane's yoga room into a dance studio to rehearse for a city-wide dance competition. When he tells her to remove her bigoted behind out of his personal space, she tells him she's not anti-gay, just anti-him. It's all just foreplay, though, because the second Lauren's out-and-proud dance partner shows up to rehearsal with a broken foot, a chiseled jaw and a painted-on school uniform, Shane jumps at the chance to show the man his moves even if it means hanging out with Lauren.
When Amy and Karma tells Liam the Good News, he passes through the five stages of threesomes: Disbelief, Panic, Assuring Them That's He's Not A "Hetero-normative Jerk Who Will Brag To His Friends", More Panic and, finally, Scheduling. Amy and Karma assure him that lesbians never joke about threesomes. Liam promises to bring the condoms, but when he goes to pick them up from the nurses' office, he inadvertently announces the plan to some bros, who decide to help devise a master plan.
Shane is doing his best Maks Chmerkoskiy impression in order to woo Pablo, the dance master. Their shared love of GOOP may be enough to get Shane past the fact that Pablo is an honor student Our Lady of Perpetual Chastity who loves Jesus and Lauren in that order. When Lauren glares that he and Pablo will never happen, Shane accuses her of being afraid of losing her best gay friend to her best gay enemy.
All this rehearsing, means he misses the panicked phone calls from Liam and Amy desperate for advice.
Turns out Karma wants to rehearse, too. She dons some lingerie and a trench coat and strip teases for Amy, with emphasis on "tease." Just as Amy is getting into the idea, Karma, ever the narcissist, reminds Amy to come up with a good excuse to leave the threesome early so she and Liam can take care of their business solo. Amy didn't think they were really going to have a threesome did she? Amy smiles, no, but the smile doesn't reach her eyes and makes her excuse to leave and go cry in the closet, literally and figuratively. Amy still can't reach Shane, so she talks herself into just going for it and seizing her destiny and her Karma.
Meanwhile, Liam is getting some motel room staging advice and a pep talk from his bros. But there's no pep talk that can properly prepare him for Karma's konniving and Amy's Agent Provacateur reveal.
At the dance competition, Shane and Lauren fight and bond and then team up to "Black Swan those bitches." They come in third. Which is better than anyone placed at the threesome.
Amy gets the party started, stripping to her skivvies and then kissing Karma, according to plan.
Karma can't kope with Amy's interest in her (or maybe she can't handler her own feelings for Amy) and when Liam tries to join the party and kisses Amy, Karma panics and runs. As the bumper sticker says, karma's a bitch.


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If you want to break down a task into even smaller steps or add a checklist to it, you can turn on the subtasks strategy.
Each task can now have its own list of subtasks.
Subtasks are part of the task and always stay with the task (just like little chicks stay with their mom)
If you want subtasks to be their own tasks, with their own dates and properties, turn the task into a project instead.
When to use sutbtasks
Since it is best practice in Marvin to keep tasks relatively short and to use projects for larger multi-step to-dos, subtasks are often used to serve as checklists for tasks.
Break down larger tasks
Subtasks can also be helpful when a task is a bit too large and unpleasant and you want to break it down into smaller steps so it is easier to get started on it.
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After you are done typing your subtask and press enter to save it, another subtask automatically gets created below it. If you press enter without typing anything, the empty subtask goes away.
Inserting subtasks in between other subtasks
You can also click on the plus icon on a subtask to insert another one right below it.
Reordering subtasks
Subtasks can be reordered by drag and drop.
Deleting subtasks
Hovering over a subtask reveals a trash icon which can be used to delete the subtask.
Collapsing subtasks
You can collapse/expand the subtasks by clicking the arrow on the left of the task title.
Subtasks are not like tasks
It is important to understand the limitations of subtasks.
Subtasks are not independent tasks and are always attached to a task. They can't have their own labels, time estimates etc.
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The annual performance review, which can determine if an employee gets a raise or merely gets to keep his or her job, isn't the most optimal way to monitor performance. Why wait an entire year for bad habits or inefficient tactics to take hold when you could deliver critical feedback within days, hours, or even moments? Surely an employee will work better performance is reviewed sooner rather than later. Right?
That's where Rypple, a performance management service recently acquired by Salesforce, comes in. Rypple enables supervisors and employees to create clearly defined goals and discuss or rate the efforts that go into achieving said goals. And since so much of business is conducted on mobile phones today, Rypple has branched delivered a new Android app to manage teams and performance.
"A huge amount of our traffic was already coming from [mobile phone browsers], so we realized we needed an app," said Rypple VP of Product Management Maksim Ovsyannikov.
"We kind of reached out to managers and end users to figure what was triggering their request to use the application from their mobile device. The answer was really simple: if you want recognition to be real-time, the only real way to do that is through mobile. Whether you're on the run, in a meeting, or not at your desk at the time, which most of us aren't always, it became necessary to support Android devices."
And so Rypple is now here to make feedback more frequent, consistent, and documented. The app creates a work center that a team or company joins and then focuses on collaboration and productivity in key areas.
- Social Goals are the objectives that employees work towards that managers can monitor in real-time. A supervisor can see when a specific goal is being worked on and when benchmarks are reached.
- Meaningful Recognition is when a manager acknowledges a goal has been achieved. There are badges created that seem a little over the top, but Rypple keeps track of these achievements over an extended period of time. Ovsyannikov tells us that this can come in handy when you're looking for someone within the company who has certain skills, which may be validated by the recognition portfolio.
- Real-time feedback creates a dedicated space when employees can ask coworkers or supervisors questions, get tips on how to accomplish something, or be nudged away from potential mistakes.
- Continuous coaching has notes from meetings and goal tracking to monitor progress.
- Multi-channel access to Rypple from any kind of device, including the newsfeed that displays your progress and that of your co-workers. There's also a tab to focus simply on your content or the goals to which you are connected.
Rypple sees Android as a key part of plans to "transform the social feed into a productivity feed," according to Ovsyannikov. That's why the app incorporates features like photo sharing content and integrating with the calendar. In the future, the service could become even more powerful with integration to other services from Salesforce. When asked how the acquisition could expand Rypple's capabilities on Android, Ovsyannikov had this to say:
"Not yet, but it's something we're planning and building. There will be multiple integration points – some of the natural ones are Chatter and the service cloud and sales cloud of the CRM product. We have an integration of it in beta right now with an integration of Rypple recognition…it's being used by a few customers already."
As for tablets, Rypple also has that in its plans. The current app was built for Android 2.1 and higher devices in mind because the company wants to focus on delivering a quality product for the high volume of users who already access Rypple on their mobile devices. A strategy for supporting tablet, be it through an HTML5 app wrapped in a native container or a tablet-specific app built from the ground-up, has yet to be determined.
Rypple is available for free in the Android Market. It requires accounts that range from free with basic capabilities, Premium for $ 5, and Phenomenal for $ 9 per month. More information on the features and structure of these accounts are available at Rypple.com.
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Gary Mason will head to Cadwell Park with a realistic chance of qualifying for the championship showdown after a successful weekend at Brands Hatch.
The MSS Colchester Kawasaki rider made the correct tyre choice on Saturday to finish third, his second podium of the year, but an accident in Sunday's opening race threw away a possible top ten result. Race three of the weekend saw a strong response as the Lichfield man claimed seventh.
Mason trails sixth placed Ryuichi Kiyonari by 20 points ahead of another triple-header at Cadwell Park, including the rescheduled race from Oulton Park, and the 32 year old knows another strong weekend is required.
"It has been a good weekend. Everyone is pushing so hard out there at the front and we need to sort out a couple of issues with the tyres and bike to get those last few tenths. At the end of the day we beat the World Superbike guys fair and square and that's amazing. It would have been good to beat Kiyo and Rutter but I saw Brookes had a DNF which helps our chances for the Show Down. I'm really happy to get another podium, but I want to do better at Cadwell and get in that top six."
Teammate Alex Lowes endured a miserable weekend that unfortunately yielded no points. The youngster from Lincoln sacrificed race one by switching to slicks in an attempt to secure a good grid slot for race two but an off-track excursion undid that hard work.
Lowes could only manage 16th in race three to compete a weekend to forget for the 20 year old, but he is still looking with optimism towards the next round at Cadwell Park.
"All in all it was a bit of a rubbish weekend but I tried 100% and now I know where I need to improve. I'm not that far off the pace, when I was in seventh in the first Sunday race I was feeling good, but I made a mistake. Despite the results I enjoyed the racing this weekend and we have identified what it is about the bike we need to concentrate on to make it better, so I'm confident for Cadwell."
Howie Mainwaring also took his first win of the year in the National Superstock 1000 race, giving Team Owner Nick Morgan the perfect birthday present to mark the weekend.
"Gary had some excellent rides this weekend, we just need to get the bike working for him towards the end of the race a bit better and we need to get behind Alex. At the moment it just isn't going his way, that happens and it's up to us to help bring him back up. He has proved he can do it, we just need to get him to do it consistently. At the end of the day we are leaving Brands with two rostrums, keeping our record of at least one at every round this year, and I'm going home smelling of champagne on my birthday!"


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With his hands, David Duarte muscles a smooth blob of dough the color of a pencil eraser. The dough amoebas as he rubs it into a ball. Filled and baked, the ball will become a bao bun. Duarte makes his pink bao buns using a strange shortening: wagyu fat.
Wagyu meatballs. Wagyu ramen. Wagyu shank Bolognese made from his mom's recipe (a pinch of cinnamon). Wagyu raw. Wagyu briefly torched. Wagyu macarons with jelly and foie gras filling.
David Duarte cooks many things at his new restaurant, Finestre Modern Gastronomy, which exists fully inside of The Market at Jennifer's in Arcadia. Duarte specializes in riffing with elite Japanese beef.
"I am the only one in town who has whole steer wagyu," Duarte says. He goes through a San Francisco source, obtaining large segments of wagyu.
This allows him to cook with all kinds of cuts. Wagyu strip. Wagyu plate. Wagyu brisket, short ribs, and shank. Wagyu fat, carved from meaty hunks and used to sauté vegetables and to flavor all his desserts.
Duarte's intensity with wagyu seems unlikely given his background. After a career in firefighting in Anthem, he went to culinary school in Calabria, Italy. He then moved to Paris to learn pastry. In metro Phoenix, he has served as executive chef at Pane e Vino (Scottsdale) and Arrivederci (Scottsdale). He learned the esoteric ways of wagyu after bumping into Steve Brown, a wagyu-obsessed Southern California chef, while cooking at an event at the Versace Mansion in Miami. A friendship took root.
Duarte opened Finestre in March 2018. He and Jennifer Russo of The Market by Jennifer's share a kitchen, as well as a dining room on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, when both restaurants are open. Duarte has a tiny nook of the walk-in. Into this nook he packs wagyu, pork from Arcadia Meat Market, produce from superlative farms like Twisted Infusion and Blue Sky. Duarte uses this to power his modern American restaurant, where you can order a la carte dishes like corn ravioli or wagyu creme brûlée, or opt for three-course vegetarian, three-course wagyu, or five-course wagyu tasting menus ($50, $80, and $150).
"My mind doesn't work like normal people's," Duarte says. "I'm always thinking of how I can change something."
Japanese wagyu, sliced into thin slips, looks little like workaday beef. With American beef, even prime beef, the flesh looks vitally red and dense and has a blood-metal smell. Japanese Wagyu looks about half white with fat, snowed through with a hue that makes you question what you are looking at. Its smell is more of a faint, sweet perfume. Kobe beef, the Champagne of wagyu, has so much ivory it looks like lardo.
Both Japanese wagyu and Kobe beef have such a massive butteriness that, as they melt in your mouth like hot salty custard, all you can do is smile.
Duarte draws a sharp line between Japanese wagyu and other wagyu. He only uses Japanese. "There's a lot of places selling wagyu, but they're not using Japanese," he says. Asked about American, Duarte quickly replies, "It doesn't line up."
Why not? Duarte points to the strictures governing Japanese production, and the lack of American oversight.
Japanese wagyu is webbed with 30 to 40 percent fat in its muscle cuts. A limited number of cattle breeds can be used for wagyu, breeds that lived over the decades in isolation. Wagyu cattle are typically raised for three or more years, whereas American cattle are generally rushed to slaughter. Like squares and rectangles, all Kobe beef is wagyu, but not all wagyu is Kobe beef. Kobe beef is wagyu but even more alien. Kobe, a crown jewel of the carnivorous world, comes from Tajima black cattle raised in Japan's Hyogo prefecture. Only a few thousand animals are raised per year.
Duarte may cut some true Kobe as part of his wagyu tasting.
He shapes meatballs from 100 percent wagyu beef. When testing the recipe, he stumbled early. "It wouldn't hold because it was so fatty," he recalls. "So if you're going to put this in the oven, you have to mix it with the other meat. I came up with a way not to."
Duarte, who admits to cooking with foams, gels, and airs, found a solution. He sous vides meatballs for 90 minutes, keeping them whole. He serves them in their own jus with truffle cream.
His five-course tasting menu begins with wagyu surf and turf. It moves into a wagyu raviolo (single ravioli), wagyu bao bun, wagyu Bolognese lasagna, and ends with a tableside wagyu tasting, raw and torch-kissed cuts razed from the animal by the blade of the chef himself. All wagyu Duarte serves is A5 wagyu, the highest grade. He has "A5" tattooed in bold red on his left hand.
This November, Duarte has been invited by Japanese wagyu forces to go on a tour of the wagyu-centric parts of Japan. He will observe farms. He will absorb history. He will learn from a master, and, if plans and reality merge, he will get certified in wagyu butchery.
There are other places to get Japanese wagyu in the Valley. Roka Akor has a Kobe certification from Japan's Kobe Beef Marketing & Distribution Promotion Association. Sel plates some wagyu. Binkley's offers a wagyu add-on to its marathon tasting. But nowhere will you find wagyu as maniacally prepared and as wildly remixed as at Finestre.
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Lasagna, a food entrenched in tradition, shows Duarte's full creativity. Duarte rolls sheet noodles from scratch, which he boils and fries. Done part in the traditional style of Emilia-Romagna, part in the style of his mom, part with his own flair, his wagyu-charged ragú hews closely to the original lasagna sauce (Bolognese). Tableside, Duarte finishes the pasta by using liquid nitrogen to create tiny spheres of buffalo mozzarella that he gets from Campania, mozzarella capital of Italy.
"Finestre" means "windows" in Italian. A wide window looks into Duarte's kitchen from the dining room. Duarte believes that his wagyu-driven food gives customers a window into how he cooks and lives now that he owns his own restaurant, a window into him, a way to "see a little bit inside me."
Like wagyu fat simmered into a pasta sauce, or melted into a fluffy pink bun, the windows enrich the Phoenix dining scene.
Finestre Modern Gastronomy. 3603 East Indian School Road; 602-295-3964.
Thursday to Saturday 6 to 11 p.m.; Monday and Tuesday 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.; closed Sunday and Wednesday.
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Isn't amazing how symbolic some dates can be? On the very day that we celebrate the hundredth anniversary of International Women's Day, Hollywood's Film Academy bestowed, for the first time in its 82-year history, the directing award on a woman (and I'm not playing with dates since with the time difference between the West Coast and France, the two events took place almost simultaneously.) And in the process they sent that vacuous film, Avatar, packing. For once the Academy membership got things right, even if I was a bit disappointed that that perennial nominee, Meryl Streep, didn't win for a terrific performance in Julie & Julia. Isn't it astonishing that the greatest actress in the world hasn't won an Oscar for over a quarter-century. Well, the record-holder, Katharine Hepburn, did wait 35 years between her first award (in 1932) and her second one (in 1967.) So I have no doubt that la Streep will go on to win a couple more.
But let's get back to Bigelow's win, breaking one of the ultimate glass ceilings (and how poignant that it was given to her by Barbra Streisand who was snubbed in the early 1980's with Yentl.) In spite of all the hoopla and studio marketing, the better movie won showing that sometimes talent is all you need. More shocking was the quality press parroting 20th Century Fox's marketing slogans: "the highest grossing movie of all time," a meaningless phrase if there ever was one. Haven't they ever heard of inflation? A million dollars in 2010 bears little relation to a million in 1990. That's why even other media sectors, such as publishing or the music industry, talk in units: records (CD's) or books sold, since one book in 1930 is still one book in 2010. Have you ever heard of any other company in any other industry talking about "our best sales figures of all time"? Of course not, only Hollywood, with its predilection for creative accounting, engages in such hyperbole. But what is shocking is that the quality media, such as the BBC or The New York Times, reports those extravagant claims with no respect for truth or their viewers who deserve to be given news with perspective.


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Yandal Resources Limited (ASX:YRL) plans to list on the ASX and managing director Lorry Hughes will outline the company's plans for its WA gold projects during the Proactive CEO Session in Melbourne on Tuesday, November 20.
The company plans to raise $5 million in an IPO at 20 cents per share and this will support exploration at its suite of projects in multi-million-ounce greenstone belts.
It hopes that the IPO will be completed before Christmas.
Within Yandal Greenstone Belt
Yandal's projects are along strike or adjacent to known gold deposits.
Three projects - Ironstone Well, Barwidgee and Mt McClure – are within the Yandal Greenstone Belt, which continues to host new large-scale gold discoveries.
A fourth, Gordons, is 16-kilometres north of Northern Star Resources Ltd's (ASX:NST) large Kanowna Belle gold mine in the prospective Kalgoorlie region.
Ironstone Well and Barwidgee are southeast of Wiluna and south of another major Northern Star operation, Jundee, which hosts more than 10 million ounces.
Yandal has 55-kilometres strike of contiguous mining tenements over prospective Yandal Greenstone Belt rocks, in which more than 20 million ounces have been defined to date.
Near Orelia deposit
At Mt McClure, Yandal holds prospective mining tenements containing 20-kilometres strike of shear and contact related mineralised trends.
This project is 1-kilometre south of Echo Resources Limited's (ASX:EAR) 1-2 million ounce Orelia gold deposit, and 10-28 kilometres from the Bronzewing mill.
The Gordons tenements directly surround the operating Gordon-Sirdar underground gold mine and are along strike from the historic Mulgarrie Gold Mine.
Market cap of about $10.7 million anticipated
Yandal expects to have a market cap on listing of approximately $10.7 million
Its initial goal is to rapidly commercialise deposits within economic haulage distance of a number of third-party processing plants.
Register for the CEO Session today to find out more.
Melbourne details, Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Also featuring in Melbourne will be Blackstone Minerals Ltd (ASX:BSX), Great Boulder Resources (ASX:GBR) and High Peak Royalties Ltd (ASX:HPR).


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Virtual Personal Assistants (VPA) and Smart Advisors use Autonomous Agents and Smart Machine technology to enable an Ambient User Experience for applications and services. VPAs are used in communications and commerce scenarios to improve customer experience, operational costs, and lead to new business opportunities.
Leading companies offer VPAs that rely upon Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to provide contextual communications and next generation User Interfaces (UI) including conversational and haptic solutions. While initial benefits are seen in consumer-facing industries, VPAs are anticipated to provide substantial direct and indirect benefits across a wide array of enterprise segments and industry verticals.
Key companies listed in the Virtual Personal Assistants (VPA) Market report are 24ME, AIVC, ALFRED, AMAZON ECHO, ANDY, APPLE SIRI, ASSISTANT.AI, AWESOME, BLACKBERRY ASSISTANT, BRAINA, BUDDY, CHARLIE, CLARA, CLOE, CUBIC, DENARRI, DRAGON GO, EASILYDO, EVA, EVI, FACEBOOK M, GOBUTLER, GOOGLE NOW, HELLO ALFRED, HOUND, HTC HIDI, IBM WATSON, INDIGO, JARVIS, JEANNIE, JIBO, JULIE DESK, MAGIC, MALUUBA, MICROSOFT CORTANA, MOTION.AI, MYCROFT, MYWAVE, NUANCE, OPERATOR, PENNY, POSTMATES, QUIP, RESERVE, RILEY, ROBIN, S VOICE, SILVIA, SIRIUS, SKYVI, SPEAKTOIT, UBI, VLINGO, VOICE ASSISTANT, VOICE MATE, VOKUL, WONDER, WUNDERLIST, X.AI, and IRTUAL .
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• Assessment of VPA challenges and opportunities including growth drivers, SWOT, and PESTEL analysis
• Analysis of the key market players including their products, solutions, strategies, M&A, and partnerships
• Evaluation of VPA and autonomous agents in all major market segments, business functions, and industry verticals
• Assessment of emerging technologies: AI, Machine Learning, Autonomous Agents, Chatbots, Natural Language Processing, Image Recognition, Voice Recognition and Real Time Operation
The report includes analysis of AI technology integration, VPA applications, and use cases across leading industry verticals. The report also includes detailed forecasts such as VPA revenue by AI technology (Speech Recognition, Text-to-Speech Recognition, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Perception & Learning).
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• Consumer VPA revenue in North America will reach $296B USD by 2021
• Leading industries to integrate intelligent agents include automotive, banking, and healthcare
• More than 65% of individuals and 75% of enterprise will use VPA and autonomous agents by 2021
• Six percent of US workers will lose their jobs to AI, VPA, Chatbots and related technologies by 2021
• Lost jobs (mostly in call centers and other customer focused areas) represent lost wages of $262.7B annually
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• Identify industry leading companies, apps, and solutions
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• Understand the economic impacts of AI, VPA, and Chatbots
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2 Executive Summary
3 Overview
4 Ecosystem and Market Impact
5 Technology, Applications and Industry Use Cases
6 Regional Market 2016 – 2021
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8 Company and Solution Analysis
9 Conclusions and Recommendations
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Figure 1: Global Intelligent VPA and Smart Advisor Market 2016 – 2021
Figure 2: Global Intelligent VPA and Smart Advisor User 2016 – 2021
Figure 3: Attention Stream of EVA
Figure 4: Intelligent VPA and Smart Advisor Ecosystem
Figure 5: Perception of Internet User and VPA User towards VPA Service 2016 – 2021
Figure 6: Intelligent VPA and Smart Advisor Adoption Ratio among End Users 2016 – 2021
Figure 7: Global Economic Impact of Intelligent VPA and Smart Advisor 2016 – 2021
Figure 8: Intelligent VPA and Smart Advisor VC and R&D Investment Trends 2016 – 2021
Figure 9: Chabot Architecture
Figure 10: Chabot Ecosystem
Figure 11: Maturity Stage of Intelligent VPA and Smart Advisor Application: Static to Transactional
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Today, Apple unveiled its Apple Watch Series 4, and tech health observers are noting that the latest Watch improvements provide a strong signal that Apple is taking concrete steps toward becoming a true mobile health provider.
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Dr. Ed Risden
Fall 2015, Freshman Year
- In-Class Written Exams
- Final Paper
- Final Take-Home Essay Exam
The course led up to the final paper assignment which revolved around three time periods: Medieval, Renaissance, and Neoclassical. We were to pick works that spoke to us or fit an overall theme that carried throughout time and explicate it. I wrote about the theme of love in Judith, King Lear, and Oroonoko. I have a paragraph in each section summarizing the work, studying the writing elements used, and then making a claim on what the work consists of.
Final Paper
Throughout English culture, literature and stories have been important to people and how lessons were taught to them about life. Judith taught that people can rise above their conquerors with the right encouragement (and divine help). Volpone reminded people of what happens to cons and how justice finds a way to make everything equal again. Gulliver's Travels poked at society and tried to show what needed to be changed in a fun light. These are only a few examples that English literature has. The works that exemplify their respected periods are The Lover's Confession, King Lear, and Oroonoko: The Royal Slave. These works all have one major theme in common: love. As the English culture's literature evolved, love stayed central to the conflict.
1. Lover's Confession by John Gower
The medieval times had a main focus on didactic teachings of morality and chivalry. John Gower sought to teach morals by taking on an old tale and reviving it. Creating the Lover's Confession, Gower used his writing talent to show the king he was not done with his tales. The Lover's Confession epitomizes the middle ages. Within the short poem, elements of the supernatural Gods, love, and the importance of chivalry take place. Important aspects of the medieval culture are alluded to and showcased in this poem.
Adapted from Ovid's Metamorphoses, the Lover's Confession rejuvenates the old tales for a new audience. John Gower was driven morally and politically to writing this tale ("John Gower" 4). The King asked him to retell a tale to teach the people. Genius is the narrator as he tries to advise Amans, a man who is stricken by love, how to overcome his emotions and not be conquered by them. The tale Genius narrates is about two princesses named Progne and Philomene, Progne being the oldest. Progne is married to a knight named Tereus, who is not as honorable as he appears. Tereus rapes Philomene when he is sent to bring her to Progne. He cuts out her tongue, so she can never tell what he did to her. Despite his attempt at silencing her, Philomene weaves her story into fabric and sends it to her sister who then rescues her. Together, the two kill Progne's son and feed his body to Tereus. When Tereus tries to harm them, the sisters pray to the gods who change them into birds. The tale itself is set mainly in Tereus and Progne's palace in the turn of Ancient to Medieval. From the point where Tereus rapes Philomene, the mood is horrific.
The syntax of the piece stays the same throughout. The tale is told with long, winding sentences. Most of the sentences are long declarative sentences that set up background, show length of time passing in the story, and what is happening to the sisters. Compound sentences are also used in dialogue and to describe the setting and events. Prepositional phrases clarify to who the action is occurring, and where the emotion is being directed, especially in Philomene's rape. Appositive phrases are used to describe when the three are turned into birds. The tone is objective and didactic. In the tale, it is written in couplets with a rhyming scheme of aabbccdd, etcetera. This was a familiar rhyming scheme also found in The Canterbury Tales. Most of medieval literature did not have this rhyming scheme. However, alliteration is present in the story, especially near the end. Alliteration was widely used throughout the medieval period. With the use of alliteration in this tale, it showed the brewing action against Tereus and the adrenaline brewing. Symbolism is shown in the bird forms that they are changed into. Philomene is changed into a nightingale, a bird known for its beautiful singing. Progne is changed into a swallow, which is a representation of familial love and affection. Tereus is changed into a lappewinge (also called hoopoe), a bird that signifies tapping into ancient wisdom ("Animal Totems: Dictionary of Birds" 36). These symbols would have been recognizable in their day.
The plot of the Lover's Confession is told in objective third point of view. The plot is made up mostly of description of events with a sprinkle of dialogue. The theme is a focus on the consequences of chivalry. When knights break the code of chivalry, justice finds a way to punish them. During the medieval ages, chivalry was important to the idea of knighthood. Many tales in the medieval ages focus on how knights try to follow their code and what horrific events happen to them when they do not follow their code. Tereus is only another example of this. He broke the code of chivalry and rapes his wife's sister. Because of his dishonor, he ends up eating his son, which is another disgrace to himself for ingesting his own blood. Blood relationships were important in this time as people went to war to avenge their fallen relations.
The Lover's Confession defines the medieval period. Through its theme of fallen knighthood, it captures the importance of following a code of honor and staying loyal to family. The literary devices are similar to other works in the medieval period, such as The Canterbury Tales. The overall piece is complete with a teaching of morals and supernatural flare to keep the audience's attention.
2. King Lear by William Shakespeare
The Renaissance period was filled with romance and tragic plays. Through comedies, tragedies, and romantic plays, the people of the Renaissance would engage in a cathartic event. The events they would see would help them purge emotions they usually do not feel or indulge in. A play that purged their tears and frustration was King Lear by William Shakespeare, the master of plays fueled with emotion. With the success of emotion in King Lear, it defines the time period.
Shakespeare found inspiration from a real event that happened during his time. A court case took place for Sir Brian Annesley when he wrote King Lear. Sir Annesley's daughters had tried to remove him from power by having him certified as insane. His youngest daughter tried to protect him. King Lear's story is similar. In Shakespeare's rendition of the event, King Lear asks his daughters how much they love him. Cordelia, his youngest daughter, says she loves him like a father after her sisters exaggerate their love for their father. For her 'unloving' nature, King Lear banishes Cordelia and a servant named Kent who stands up for her. Also in Shakespeare's King Lear, a parallel plot follows the story. Gloucester, an earl and friend of King Lear, has two sons named Edgar and Edmund, Edmund being Gloucester's bastard son. Edmund is jealous of Edgar and frames him for a plot against Gloucester. Edgar is forced to exile himself. King Lear's elder daughters then plot to remove their father from the throne because he is starting to go insane. Gloucester tries to be an ally to King Lear, but for his alliance, Edmund, King Lear's daughter Regan, and her husband, Cornwall, pluck out his eyes and leave him for dead. Edgar, in disguise, rescues his father and tries to help him. Kent returns to King Lear's side in disguise as a beggar servant. Cordelia is allowed back to King Lear after he finds out about the plots against him from his other daughters. Goneril, King Lear's eldest daughter, and her husband, Albany, move against King Lear and capture him and Cordelia. Cordelia is hanged, her sisters poison each other, and Edgar kills Edmund in a duel. In the end, King Lear dies of a broken heart.
The work is told through a variety of devices. In true Shakespeare fashion, King Lear is written in iambic pentameter. To demonstrate his knowledge, Shakespeare uses allusions to the Roman gods in speeches about love and war, especially with Edmund. Complex sentences are used to convey the abstract emotional depth as more and more betrayal is revealed. The use of simple sentences is not as abundant as the complex or compound sentences. Shakespeare used simple sentences in answer to questions people asked and when a servant was speaking to show their lower status. With the plotting scenes of Edmund and the two sisters, Shakespeare used cruel and blunt words and sentence structures to show the ferocity that they were plotting (Maclean 19). In the fool's songs, a variety of rhyming schemes appear, some being of ababcc and others aaaaaabbbb. With each of his songs, the fool picks at King Lear and critiques what is happening. He refers to King Lear as nuncle and continuously compares him to a child and idiot for banishing Cordelia. Metaphor is evident in the fool's words as well as others. The metaphors help breathe more into the play and keep the speech rich. Not only does it serve the plot, but the use of the fool offers tragic relief from the story to bestow some sense of ease onto the audience (Maclean 23). Alliteration is most heavy in the end when Edmund speaks to show his single-minded ways. Prepositional phrases are used to introduce metaphors and direct the conversations.
The story of King Lear is told in play format. With this format, the plot is moved through dialogue and people describing what is happening. The theme focuses on ill directed love and its consequences. King Lear wanted to be flattered by his daughters. Because of his pride, he sent his loyal child away and kept his viper daughters too close. Gloucester wanted to keep his sons close to him and acknowledge his bastard child. Instead, he allowed himself to be deluded from his true son, Edgar, and be maimed by his bastard child. Even King Lear's daughters experience the consequences of ill directed love. Both Goneril and Regan wanted Edmund to take them as his wife despite being married and freshly widowed. In search of his hand, they end up killing each other. Through these horrific events, people are reminded to cherish the love they have.
King Lear exemplifies the Renaissance period. Through the theme, people experience sorrow, frustration, and lost love from watching the performance. This catharsis helps relieve people in life as they leave room to experience other emotions. Shakespeare uses many of the Renaissance's themes and new styles to write his plays. As King Lear lingers in their mind, the people try to remember the cost of pride and wrong love.
3. Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
The Enlightenment was full of new ideas, experimentation in literature, and revolutionizing humane rights. Narratives popped into popularity in works such as Gulliver's Travels, Equiano: The Interesting Narrative, and many others. These narratives satirized and revealed problems in the society. One of the greatest narratives that came from this period was Aphra Behn's Oroonoko: The Royal Slave. From her narrative, she drew attention to the horrors of slavery life and being taken from home. Through the narrative of Oroonoko, the heart of the Enlightenment is shown.
Many people wanted to ignore the problems of slavery. People would not look too hard into where a slave came from or saw slaves as anything more than a tool. Aphra Behn shed a different light on slaves. Set somewhere in the 1600's of her life, Behn places the narrative mostly in the West Indies after traveling from Africa. The narrative focus mostly on Oroonoko who is an African prince, though it is not told from his view point but a British woman. Oroonoko was raised by his grandfather, the King of Coramantien. In secret, Oroonoko marries his love, Imoinda. Sadly for him, the king notices her too and takes her for himself, ignoring the fact that she's already married because Oroonoko never asked permission. While Oroonoko is at war, he becomes drunk and is tricked onto a slave ship. He tries to starve himself, but the captain of the ship promises that he will not become a slave. Once the ship is ported, Oroonoko and the rest of his people are sold into slavery, making him realize that the white people are not to be trusted or their god. While in slavery, he finds Imoinda also has been sold into slavery in the West Indies. Together again, they consider themselves man and wife and become pregnant. Oroonoko tries to help his people escape slavery by taking advantage of the white people becoming drunk and leaving. He is captured and punished. After he heals, Oroonoko vows vengeance and kills Imoinda, so she will not be harmed in retaliation. White men discover him and his murder which leads them to cutting him to pieces to show an example out of him. He is still seen as a noble, honorable man among the slaves and the narrator.
Behn conveys the narrative in a straight forward manner. Almost all of her sentences are compound, complex, or compound-complex. Through this use of sentences, she shows her educated background and has an easier time showing the confusion and elaborate thought that Oroonoko's situation causes. Also with this use of sentence structure, she helps create credibility to her audience as an educated writer. Symbolism is evident in her narrative through the renaming of Oroonoko. When he is sold into slavery, Tefry, his owner, renames him Caesar, who in history was a Roman Emperor who was betrayed and stabbed a number of times. The name also can be seen as foreshadowing as he was betrayed by his owner in the end and cut to pieces while alive. Irony is also evident in how Oroonoko leads his uprising when the white men were drunk and incapacitated, which is similar to how they tricked him into slavery.
The story is told in an epistolary format as the narrator opens with a message of herself and then primarily focuses on Oroonoko. Because of this, the narrative is told from first person as the narrator comments on what is happening and mentions her meeting Oroonoko. Because the narrator is obviously female, Behn also creates controversy in the social aspects of slavery (Nestvold 1). She is sympathetic to the plight of the slave but still participates in the act of it. With the use of the epistolary format, Behn mixes romance with the contemporary of the day, experimenting with new formats (Nestvold 3). There is very little dialogue in the piece. When there is, it is important as it reveals something about the people and Oroonoko as well as moves the action. Otherwise, the narrative is mostly description of what is happening to Oroonoko and those around him. The theme of the story shows how the savages are not the slaves taken from their homes. The white men that took Oroonoko from Africa went back on their word and called on their God in the promise, showing Oroonoko that promises mean little. When he tries to find freedom, he is taken back and whipped bloody and broken. In the end when he is caught for the last time, the white men slowly cut him to pieces while he is alive until his heart gives out. Oroonoko did not die until after they cut of his genitals, ears, nose, and arms. He never did anything savage to them. The murder he did commit was out of love and protection for his wife and unborn child.
Through Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, the Enlightenment and its issues of slavery and savagery is brought to light. She lends a voice to slaves' horrors so people could no longer ignore the brutality. As narratives grew in popularity during this time, Behn showed her mastery despite being a woman.
4. Conclusion
Throughout English literature, love and honor has been a focus. The style has changed over time from poetry tales, to emotion driven plays, and then to narratives. Each age attempted to teach the audience morals and the importance of looking at emotion as necessary to humanity. Ideas were conveyed through the words of storytellers and poets. The people that lived during this time were bettered through their literary experiences.
Works Cited
"Animal Totems: Dictionary of Birds." Animal Spirit Totems Dictionary of Birds. Lecticom Services, n.d. Web. 15 Dec. 2015. <http://www.starstuffs.com/animal_totems/dictionary_of_birds.html>.
Aphra Behn. "Oroonoko: The Royal Slave." The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Ed. Stephen Greenblatt, et. al. 9th ed. Vol. C. New York. Norton. 2012. 2313- 2358. Print.
Gower, John. "The Lover's Confession." The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Ed. Stephen Greenblatt, et. al. 9th ed. Vol. A. New York. Norton. 2012. 348-358. Print.
"John Gower." John Gower. Harvard. 12 May 2000. Web. 15 Dec. 2015. <http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/authors/gower/>.
Maclean, Norman. "The Madness of Fear." Norman Maclean. University of Chicago. 1952. Web. 15 Dec. 2015. <http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/maclean/nmr_lear.html>.
Nestvold, Ruth. "The White Mistress and the Black Slave." The Aphra Behn Page. Lit-Arts Net, 1995. Web. 15 Dec. 2015. <http://www.lit-arts.net/Behn/racism.htm>.
Shakespeare, William. "King Lear." The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Ed. Stephen Greenblatt, et. al. 9th ed. Vol. B. New York. Norton. 2012. 1255-1339. Print.


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Taking Legal Avenues For Studies Of Controlled Substances
Today on Hempresent our host Vivian McPeak is joined by Brad Burge about the success of MAPS' Legalizing Psychedelic Therapy campaign raising funds for MAPS research. Burge speaks about MAPS' current psychedelic and marijuana research program, highlights the various accomplishments of MAPS' crowdfunding efforts, and details the results and progress of MAPS' clinical research into MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD. MAPS is a non-profit, private donation funded organization.
They discuss how MAPS takes legal avenues for studies of controlled substances. They envision a world where psychedelics and marijuana are safely and legally available for beneficial uses, and where research is governed by rigorous scientific evaluation of their risks and benefits. They currently have an Indiegogo campaign for legalizing psychedelic medicine.
MAPS is currently raising funds for Phase 3 clinical trials of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD and people can learn more at www.maps.org.


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