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The Advocate Center of CASA provides information for everyone, whether you are signing up to become an Advocate or searching for information to help as you volunteer as an Advocate. This section has the following information for you:
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Monday, June 28, 2010
Seaglass Photography
A beach carnival of seaglass and seashells in bright red, orange, pink, yellow and purple!
Wedding white seaglass, seashells, corals and sanddollars arranged on lace!
Dream-like colors in English seaglass multies - send a card with this pic to get your friends hooked on collecting seaglass!
English red seaglass multies - dream of every seaglass enthusiast!
Typical of English seaglass multies, the mixture of blue, green and everything in between is magical!
Pool blue - a sea of blue English multies!
Opposite and Complimentary - super rare orange seaglass on a sea of cobalt blue.
Opposite and Complimentary - harmonious as black and white on a piano keyboard.
Opposite and Complimentary - what more need to say with a sea of hearts?
Seasons - Spring is here with pastel colored seaglass of all textures and shapes!
Seasons - Summer with the blazing sun and the blue blue sky!
Seasons - Winter. Snowball on my overcoat is actually English pure white seaglass!
Seasons - Autumn with its fiery colors!
In a frenzy of inspirations , beautiful images in my mind are put to reality with seaglass that I have aquired during years of beachcombing and tiredless online bidding! I have categorized them into 'seasons', 'opposite and complimentary' and 'English multicolors'. More are coming - I just can't work as fast!
These photos (in much sharper details) are available as blank greeting cards of 4x6 inches with white envelopes.
Labels: beach glass, blank, cards, colorful, english sea glass, english seaglass, greeting, hearts, note, occasions, photography, post, rainbow, seashells, seasons
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- Mermaids Purse said...
Great, Great Pics. Not sure if I want to look or eat them. Just want to reach in and grab a hand full. Thanks for posting.
Fair Winds and Calm Seas,
Deborah Leon
- June 28, 2010 at 10:07 AM
- By The Sea Jewelry said...
Man Tina, I would love to purchase some of these shots as note cards,,,,have you looked into that?
- June 28, 2010 at 10:42 AM
- Baroness Bijoutery said...
Outstanding pictures..thank you for sharing these with us.
- June 28, 2010 at 3:32 PM
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Thanks everyone! Yes, Linda, these are available as blank note cards in my etsy shop: http://www.ecstasea.etsy.com
Or scrolling to the bottom of the page :D
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- Oldest university in the world, University of Bologna, founded in 1088.
- America's baloney is somewhat similar to the Italian mortadella (a finely hashed/ground pork sausage containing cubes of lard.
- The statue in the square was considered so risque the church covered up his man bits
- Tortellini and ragù alla bolognese are from here
- The city has many porticoes (covered walkways). The reason they are so common is because they were primarily offered as a tax incentive to estate developers because it was considered a service to the town. Some of the richest families chose to build without porticoes to prove their status.
- It is informally the culinary capital of Italy, nicknamed -Bologna la grassa ("Bologna the fat")
- The market in the city center is one of the largest in Europe
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- Lasagna Verde alla Bolognese- Lasagna composed of green spinach pasta sheets with meat ragu and a cream bechamel sauce
- Mortadella- Pink Italian sausage often served in sandwiches or before meals
- Bollito- Boiled beef
- Zuppa Inglese- A colorful dessert of cake and cream
- Mascarpone- A very creamy and sweet cheese dessert
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However, on our walk back to our hotel several weird things happened:
- Persistant beggar that would not take "no!"for an answer
- Meditation on the steps of the cathedral (St. Petronio) held by American teen with translator
- Woman asks the classic "Do speak English?" and proceeds to tell us she needs money for an "exam"
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Elisabeth Vigée Lebrun, Selfportrait at 16, 1771.
This face seems to be straight out of a Madame de Lafayette or Balzac's novel. Elisabeth Vigée Lebrun in her self-portrait looks a lot like one of those girl, running after love in a classic story.
How many of you taking French Literature class were completely bored and fed up by Balzac, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Madame de Lafayette's novels? Don't tell me a thing, I know the answer, almost every single one of you. And even if I don't want to judge you, I am judging you. Ok, not really. Plus I can relate to the school context, and imagine your annoying teachers asking you tons of questions on your readings, but it is such a shame that does influe on our literature tastes! I understand this hate, this disgust created by school, courses, teachers and tests, and myself, as a literature lover, I had to face this problem so I get the point. But anyways, somehow, I became conscious that literature shouldn't be something you'll have to see only as a study subject, it is actually not the way to fall in love with classics. At school I used to enjoy reading all of those novels, short stories, classics and stuffs, but I hated it when my teacher was like "anywise this sentence" or "answer this question". At college, in Comparative Literature, it became way more interesting, and to read the 600 pages of Proust's novel wasn't a problem at all, I truly enjoyed it actually. As much as I enjoyed reading all of the other ones, trying to understand them better, to know more about the authors, and to discover the hidden sense of the story. I learnt a new way to appreciate reading classics. And this is why I am maybe part of the few persons that thank school/university for forcing me to read and ask myself questions on what I was reading, even if the high school system was far from the best. So here I beg you to read again, or fort he first time, those classics, from Zola to Maupassant and Flaubert, far away from school system, only for your personal pleasure.
Even though I love literature studies, I decided to go back to "reading for pleasure" during the summer after I ended my university degree. During this break kind of thing I read some books that I never had, like Eugenie Grandet by Balzac, or read for the second time some of my all time favorite as La Princesse de Clèves by Madame de Lafayette. Out of the school context, those novels are completely different, and those classics become your favorite books ever. Trust me, you have to give them a try! A train journey, a rainy afternoon or a waiting space or whatever else, every moment and every place will be a good one to start! And by reading for your own pleasure, it will become a hundred time better. You won't ask yourself a thousand questions, and you will only focus on the more important thing: the beauty of those stories and there writing. No need to look for style figures in Balzac's novels, only focus on his flawless descriptions, and Flaubert will not be interesting only for his vocabulary, but now for his characters so well described physically and mentally that they seem real, standing in front of our eyes. Madame de Lafayette won't be studied because in her book she brings some autobiographies content, but only because her love stories will make you dream of impossible loves and charming princes. Everything become better in literature when you start reading it for what it has been written: pleasure. You have to take your time, follow the story and just enjoy, nothing more is asked.
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The Fletcher Africana Conference is an annual gathering of students, professionals, policymakers and academics at The Fletcher School, Tufts University in Boston (USA). It is organized by the Fletcher Africana Club, a group of graduate students from Africa and around the world with a keen interest and work experience in the African continent.
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- A talk by the President of the African Development Bank, Dr Kaberuka on Inclusive Growth: Ensuring Prosperity Reaches Africa's Bottom of the Pyramid;
- and a discussion on Entrepreneurship and Business in Emerging Markets: The Obusai, Ghana Gold Mine.
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Feel free to click on the link and watch the episode first. (It's in three parts.) It's okay, I'll be right here when you get back.
Oh, the classic opening credits. Busy and Amanda are having fun and getting up to shenanigans in a photo booth. Not something you'd see this days -- it's all about camera phones now, baby. The "do you have money?" line of Amanda's at the very start of the theme song brings back about a thousand memories. In fact, this episode is one I remember so, so, so clearly. I'm pretty sure I only saw it the once, but it obviously had an effect on me.
The episode starts with Busy and Amanda hanging out in Busy's room making prank calls. Those were the days. Busy's looking up people with the surname "Dyck", and hopes that Mr. H Dyck's real name is Harry. Because then it would sound like "hairy dick." Do you get it? Do you? Oh, stop groaning, I bet you thought it was hysterical back then. Busy calls Mr. Dyck and asks him if his refrigerator is running. Okay, I'm pretty sure that even back in 1993, that joke was stale. Amanda and Busy think it's hilarious. Ah, to be young and brainless.
The phone rings, and Amanda freaks out, thinking Mr. Dyck has traced their call. Relax, Amanda; I don't think that technology has been invented yet. Busy answers it, and it's just some girl calling for her brother Dom. Hey, it's Dom! I loved Dom! He was always so cool, with his high school-ness and his pizza delivery job. (This whole episode is based around Dom's pizza delivery job, so you'll be glad I mentioned it later.)
The girls get hungry and go downstairs, where they run into Dom. Apparently he's an hour late for work, but still has time to say hello to Amanda. It's not noteworthy at all, except that I was an Amanda/Dom shipper. (You know, later in life -- I'm not that sick.) While Busy looks for something to eat, Amanda tells her that Chrissy, a popular seventh-grader, is having a slumber party, and the cool guys are going to crash it. She totally wants to go because she thinks it'll be fun. Busy totally doesn't because as she says to Amanda, "your idea of fun is painting your toenails geometric shapes." How strangely descriptive. And also, just plain weird. I'm not sure how that would even work.
Dom comes back looking for his car keys, and Amanda and Busy convince him to let them tag along. Which sounds even more boring than what they were doing before, but okay. Whatever floats your pre-teen boats. Oh, and for all you Buffy fans out there, you may recognise Dom as the guy who was supposed to take Buffy to the senior prom, but bitched out at the last minute. Which was okay, though, because then Angel came and they danced to 'Wild Horses'. Good times. Anyway.
Dom drives like a maniac. He explains to B&A that if the pizzas are delivered cold, they're free. Considering Dom's already an hour late (and maybe more by now), I'm gonna bet that he doesn't make a whole lotta money tonight. Busy and Amanda aren't helping things by eating the pizza. See Dom, this is why you don't take twelve-year-olds along on pizza deliveries. You'll learn the hard way, but you will learn.
The car pulls up at Chrissy's house. The fact that Amanda knows where Chrissy lives is a little stalker-esque. Dom complains that it's the girls' fault that he's late, "because I was driving too slow because I was worried you'd tell Mom." Hee! Amanda offers to deliver the pizza for him, and says that they were actually invited to the party, and Dom can pick them (and his money) up later. Dom, who apparently has had some sort of brain-fade in the last three seconds, agrees to this. No, Dom, no. Oh my God, why? This guy should not be allowed out.
Amanda decides that they'll deliver the pizzas and then sneak into the party. My, what a plan. B&A ring the doorbell, and Cool Chrissy answers the door. We know she's cool because she's blonde, mean and thirteen. I'm two out of three, so I guess I'm cool too. Yay for me. Chrissy says she's not paying because the pizzas are cold, and then slams the door in their faces. Hee! Busy's pissed 'cause she didn't pay. Amanda's pissed because she barely acknowledged them. These girls and their priorities. Need I remind you all that they're stranded on Chrissy's doorstep now? Of course I don't, because unlike these two, that's probably the first thing you thought of.
Amanda and Busy spy on the party through an open window. The girls are doing a seance, trying to bring Elvis back. I remember this bit so clearly, because, well, you just don't forget something like that. They offer Elvis pizza if he rises. Which, if I know my Elvis, is definitely a deal the big guy would go for. Busy makes some noise to spook the girls, and they're positive that Elvis's spirit is with them. Chrissy lifts the lid and sees that there's a slice of pizza missing. They're like, "OMG, Elvis ate the pizza!" Um, no. A world of no. It never crosses their mind that maybe the pizza delivery guy (or his sister) may have eaten it. No no, the most logical explanation is that Elvis's ghostly presence managed to remove a slice of pizza from the closed box without anyone noticing. Mmkay.
The Asian girl is skeptical. Probably because she's Asian. I'm just saying, even though the nineties were basically a decade-long We-Love-Racial-Diversity parade, they still stuck to the age-old stereotypes. Later on, when they're watching the token slumber party horror film, even money says the black girl will start yelling at the screen, "Don't go in there! He's behind the door!" Anyway, the Asian girl goes into the front yard and sees Amanda and Busy spying on them. Ruh-roh!
The seventh-graders bring Amanda and Busy inside and start cooking up their punishment. (There are only six of them, so I don't know how Amanda was going to sneak into the party and not be noticed, but okay.) One girl thinks they should have to eat all the pizza. Dude, if that's what they call a punishment, I'm so going over there and pretending to be Elvis tonight. Chrissy decides that they'll have to "babysit Charlotte, clean out the toilet, eat lemons...and then we'll shave their heads." Even before watching this episode, I could've told you what all those punishments were. That's how well I remember this episode. The head-shaving thing freaked me out. I was like, "But no! Amanda has such pretty long hair! Don't do it, Chrissy!"
Side note: the actress playing Chrissy looks pretty much the way I always imagined Stacey from The Babysitters Club would look if she was a real person. (Then the BSC TV show came out, and I was thoroughly disappointed.) Now that I think about, Busy would make a good Kristy Thomas as well; however, the Asian girl is too annoying to be Claudia. The black girl could be Jessi, though, because Jessi had no discernible personality whatsoever and could be played by anyone, so long as they're black. Moving on.
Before the girls can work out a suitable punishment for Busy and Amanda, the boys arrive. The pyjama-clad girls freak out and start screaming. Chrissy's like, "OMG, Justin, I can't believe you came!" in a way that makes me think she A) knew they were going to crash, and B) totally digs it. She has to change first, though. Justin and Chrissy aren't together yet, so I guess they have three episodes to hook up before they all go on band camp and Amanda tells everyone that they had sex. (Episode 9, 'Double Talk' -- watch it!)
The boys, unlike the girls, have actual characters and personalities, which I will helpfully outline for you now:
Justin -- the token cute boy Amanda's crushing on
Gus -- the token bad boy who wants to get drunk
Troy -- the token black guy who Busy's crushing on
Emory -- the token four-eyed loser, who no one's crushing on, on account of him being a loser
Justin sees Amanda and is like, "Whoah, what are you doing here?" Busy and Troy greet each other, and I do believe they'd make a nice couple. (IMDb tells me they get together later, but I have no recollection of that.) Justin uses one of the girls' seance candles to lip-synch a serenade for Amanda, and she is So Totally In Love. Personally, I think Gus is the better-looking one out of all of them. Plus, he's baaad, and if we've learned anything from Ship to Shore and Round the Twist, the baaad boys are always the most attractive. (Even if they're butt fugly.)
Busy talks to Emory, and he says that he and Justin have been best friends since kindergarten. I guess Justin's drifting. Sucks to be Emory, I suppose. Chrissy sees the two girls and tells them to go upstairs, call their ride and get out. I think we're meant to see her as being a bitch here, but I so don't blame her. Twelve-year-olds just aren't good company when you're thirteen. Plus, she doesn't even know them. It's weird. Amanda's weird for wanting to come. I think Amanda has a big ol' girl crush on Chrissy.
B&A go upstairs to the kitchen, where Chrissy's little sister Charlotte (of babysitting punishment fame) is upstairs eating cereal. Kind-of a weird time to be doing that, but okay. I eat cereal at all hours of the night, but I'm not a strict meal-planned seven-year-old. Gus, Emory and Justin follow them, because apparently Gus has already drunk all the liquor downstairs and is looking for more. Go, Gus! Wow, I just had a moment there where I was about to snark the boys for not bringing their own booze, before remembering that they're thirteen and not even close to being the legal drinking age. I feel so old now.
Gus hilariously says, "What kind of party is this without any brew?" Um, a slumber party. A thirteen-year-old girl's slumber party. All they wanted to do was eat pizza and call Elvis from his grave. It's not a party at all. Little Charlotte tells the boys that there are a bunch of bottles under the sink, because "my mom likes having a nice big drink to relax." Aw, some not-so-subtle alcoholic undertones. Nice. She also goes on to say that her mother is out with her new boyfriend, who smokes. Justin gets all patronising and says, "Smoking's bad for you, isn't it?" and laughs. Shut up, Justin. Gus may be a dick, but at least he's consistent. Don't try to be the good guy.
Gus mixes a bunch of liqours in a paper cup. Classy. Justin says, "This stuff is FINE!" and not ironically, either. That's actually how Justin talks. What a catch. He offers some to Amanda, and she smells it and declines. He pushes the cup in Busy's face, and she says, not missing a beat, "Go away. Far away." Justin backs away. Hee! Go Busy! She hangs up the phone, pissed because she can't reach her parents or Dom. Ah, the days without mobile phones. What did we do without them?
Chrissy comes in and goes psycho at Charlotte for being up past her bedtime. Then she goes psycho at the boys for drinking her mother's liquor. Then she goes psycho at Busy and Amanda for still being there. That's a whole lotta psycho from Chrissy. I hope Amanda's girl crush doesn't suffer from this little display. Gus forces Emory to "try some liquids", and then the boys laugh at him when he doesn't like it. In the words of Busy, "Nice friends." Busy is so awesome. I can't believe just how awesome she is.
In the living room, everyone's passing around this bottomless cup of nondescript alcohol. A certain long-haired dude is pretty interested in getting the black girl drunk. Because if you have greasy long hair, that's the only way girls will like you. That's a lesson we can all learn from. Apparently Gus is the Keeper of the Cup, though, because he takes it right off her after she's had a sip. Two girls in the corner vow not to drink, because "look at them!" Yes, look at them dancing and talking after getting sauced off two sips of booze! How rebellious! Amanda and Busy are watching this from the staircase, looking pretty unimpressed.
Chrissy turns off the music and announces that they're going to play Two Minutes in the Closet. I never played that growing up. It didn't help that I went to an all-girls' school and didn't know a whole lot of boys until Year Eight, but it's just not something we ever did. Amanda offers to let them borrow her red lipgloss, and Chrissy's like, "Fuck off, little girl." Justin invites the girls to stay, because he's so sensitive and stuff. My arse he's sensitive. He's a jerk with a good poker face, is what he is. Oh, and the Asian girl's name is Melissa. Good to know, because I'm tired of calling her the Asian girl. Justin tells Amanda that "it'll be you and me first." Amanda's So Totally In Love again.
Long-Haired Dude and Black Girl go first. Justin is such a shameless liar. Amanda gets to time them though, so she feels included. The nameless duo go into the closet and come out two minutes later with red lipstick all over their faces. OMG KISSING! Scandalous! Melissa chooses Gus to go in with her, and as it turns out, the dude's all talk. LOSER! They just stand there for two minutes. LAME! The others open the closet door, and Melissa says Gus didn't make a move. FAIL! Gus is like, "I did too; I just wiped all the lipstick off!" Again, I must go with the original LOSER!
Gus, being a major shit-heel, immediately turns the attention to Emory. He's like, "Get in the closet, you scared lame-o!" and Emory does, because peer pressure is a bitch. Gus calls Emory a "sucky-face nerd," which I think is just about the funniest trash talk I've heard in a long while. Chrissy reacts like it's the worst name she's ever heard anyone being called. They're all going to get a nasty shock when they reach high school.
No one wants to go into the closet to kiss Emory, because he's such a sucky-face nerd. Chrissy suggests that Amanda and Busy do it, as punishment for spying on the girls before. The sure as hell don't want to. Gus and Long-Haired Dude grab them and try to push them into the closet, and they struggle like it's attempted rape or something. How sad for Emory. Justin tells Gus that he's being a douche, but the second Emory comes out of the closet (literally, I mean), he's like, "Okay, we've got two of 'em puckered-up and ready to go, so go kiss 'em." Okay, first thing, Justin? That's not how the game works. The 'closet' part in the title loses all its meaning if you are not, in fact, in a closet. And secondly, YOU'RE A DICK! You'll never be anything but a dick, so stop pretending to be the good guy! At least Gus commits to his dickish ways.
Speaking of, Gus gives up on forcing Amanda to kiss Emory. He decides instead to pay him out for being a wimp to cover up his own insecurities. How psychological. They try to make Justin the good guy again by sticking up to Gus...and telling him that Emory'll do it. Um, no. Justin is a dick. Stop fighting it. Then Gus randomly tells Emory to strip. I have absolutely no idea why. I'm thinking maybe Gus is a bit gay. Everyone else apparently thinks it's a good idea too, and they start chanting, "Strip! Strip! Strip!" Emory gets hella upset, screaming at them to leave him alone. Gus eventually gets sick of this shit and rips off Emory's shirt. What the fracking frack? Gus is the weirdest.
Emory, who's a little bit on the chubby side, runs upstairs and puts on his jacket. Troy expresses his dislike of Gus's actions, then says to Justin, "Look at you, man, you're wasted." Yeah, wasted off of those two sips of alcohol. Justin's not wasted, he's just a dick. Why can nobody else accept the fact that Justin's a dick? Emory runs out the door, and Justin stumbles after him, because apparently he got more wasted in the last ten seconds or something. He's like, "Come back! You don't have to do it if you don't want to! I'm sorry!" Too fucking little, too fucking late, Justin. Then he adds, "It's not my fault!" BECAUSE HE IS A DICK! Then he throws up, because he's so wasted. Gah, this is pathetic.
Amanda and Busy are back in Dom's car. I guess he finally picked them up. Good lookin' out, big bro. He goes on about how wild their sleepover must've been, but they're so traumatised from the party that they don't say much. Busy tells Dom that they forgot to get the money for the pizza. Which is kind-of an unnecessary lie. The pizzas were cold, Chrissy was entitled to have them for free. Why is simply forgetting to ask for the money a better excuse? I don't get it. Dom goes nuts.
Emory is walking in the cold, and Amanda and Busy tell Dom to pull over because he's a friend of theirs. To quote Busy again, "Nice friends." They obviously care very little for his feelings, considering they were physically fighting to get out of going into the closet with him. They tell Emory they'll give him a lift, but he says that he'll walk. Dom tells him that it's cold out there, and Emory just turns around and keeps walking. End of episode. Yeah, I don't quite get it either.
I end this recap with a not-so-fun fact: According to IMDb, Jesse, Nilsson, the guy who plays Justin, is dead. Um, wow. That's kinda sad. Apparently he died in 2003 of pneumonia-related heart failure. And here I was all ready to make fun of his shitty post-RoN career, which is still a damn sight better than most RoN actors despite the handicap of being dead. So instead of snarking this tragically-dead-before-his-time actor's body of work, I'll just tell you that he was once in a movie called Teenage Space Vampires and let you do with that info what you will. Sound good? Okay then. See you next time.
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Who hath measured the waters in the HOLLOW of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him? With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding? ( Isaiah 40:12-14 )
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The term "child abuse" in this article should be understood as physical and emotional abuse. "Physical abuse of a child is when a parent or caregiver causes any non-accidental physical injury to a child". "When a parent or caregiver harms a child's mental and social development, or causes severe emotional harm, it is considered emotional abuse". The definitions of physical and emotional abuse have been burrowed from www.childhelp.org.
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The term "child abuse" in this article should be understood as physical and emotional abuse. "Physical abuse of a child is when a parent or caregiver causes any non-accidental physical injury to a child". "When a parent or caregiver harms a child's mental and social development, or causes severe emotional harm, it is considered emotional abuse". The definitions of physical and emotional abuse have been burrowed from www.childhelp.org.
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This story is partly based on my personal experience. It is intended to stir-up the outlook towards how our parents and the society in general are acting and behaving when it comes to children. Being a parent to two children and as a survivor of domestic abuse in my childhood, this topic is very close to my heart and mind. It has been a long-time coming and difficult to open up because it is so personal. I have long held it in my heart occasionally peeping into the skeletons in the closet. After all, I am a part of this society that has taught me to act like a man. I am supposed to be able to deal with these "trivial" matters that are part of growing-up. I have discarded many drafts of this writing for many years on paper and in my mind.
Children add a different dimension to one's thinking. I am no exception. I have finally gathered courage to write about this topic and be vulnerable by openly talking about it. Thanks to Dr. Brené Brown's book Daring Greatly, I have learned how to be shame resilient. I regret what has happened but I have learned the skill of not to be shameful about it any more. It is surprisingly therapeutic. I am at more peace with myself than I was when I had shut any avenues to it, including revisiting the flashbacks in my head. I sincerely hope at least the parents who read this will think twice and start discussing about the message. Instead of brushing aside, this needs to be a topic of discussion at every household, gatherings and policy level. It is time to bring domestic child abuse into active discussion and start taking actions at all level to tackle one of the worst social malaises before the cycle of abuse is transferred to yet another generation.
Once upon a time not so long ago, a dad (1st generation) got a little too carried away in "disciplining" his son (2nd generation). The 2nd generation boy is now in adulthood and also a parent himself. The 2nd generation boy, while growing up, somehow just managed to figure out how to heal the scars he had received in his childhood. He managed salvation only after many long sessions of deeper soul-searching. Sadly, our 2nd generation new parent is now finding himself perpetuating the cycle of abuse upon his little ones (3rd generation). The cycle of abuse has now become inter-generational. The methods and degrees may vary but it is still abuse. One only wonders, what happens with the 4th generation children of this family?
The 1st generation dad used to thrash his boy with cane or whatever random tool. Occasionally, the tool got as worst as puncturing the delicate young skin using nettle branches, mature branches wetted in cold water (sinsno paani) for maximum effect. Verbal abuse and passive aggressiveness, such as silent treatment, were the most prevalent method. Fe and far between the 2nd generation boy used to be thrown into confined dark space as a means to tame, punish and "teach a lesson".
The poor boy, now an adult, recently had a first hand experience of claustrophobia while visiting a cave. The cave experience was not only frightening for him but it was more painful to trace the source of the phobia – the feelings of fear and betrayal endured when he was thrown into confinement by the person who was supposed to love him the most. The skeletons and dark images still haunt him in his adulthood and it is difficult for him to contain the emotions associated with his childhood experience. One only wonders what happened once the lights went off in his childhood bedroom.
It is not that the 1st generation dad did not have good time with his son. There were often laughter and joy shared frequently like the ones that every parents share with their kids. However, they were blighted with the occasional incidents of horror. No one knows why the 1st generation dad did what he did. He must have his own demons to deal with.
The 2nd generation boy, on his journey to parenthood, had promised himself and in front of gods that there is not going to be any room for continuation of what he endured in his childhood. He was confident that he would make sure the cycle of abuse would end with him. Sadly with pressure of parenthood and life, or whatever excuses, the self-proclaimed strong man soon succumbed to the demons from his past. His dark demons started to creep into his parenting skills. He started to give into abusive behaviours. Though his choice of tools is non-physical such as shouting and shutting down, they are still abuse. His is the world of passive aggressiveness. Thanks to his childhood demons, he at times could get seriously withdrawn inside a silent black hole.
All this was a shock discovery to our 2nd generation parent. He considered himself learned and strong. But where did this "strange" personality come from? A serious soul-searching has begun. His conclusion after many rounds of reflection is that – we tend to do to others what we have endured ourselves. This is sadly true also in the case of domestic abuse.
Our 2nd generation boy was exposed to child abuse from a very young age until adolescence. Gradually it must have sunk in the boy's head that "this is how kids should be brought up – yell at them, beat them up, dismiss them, ignore them. Throw them in the darkness. Lock them in a confinement". Oh, my oh, what a tragedy of epic proportion in the making.
But there is hope. The silver lining is that the 2nd generation parent is aware about what is going on. He takes responsibility for his own actions and is taking steps to correct his behaviour. He wants to put an end to the cycle of child abuse in his family. He does not want this to be passed on to the 4th generation.
Practicing corrective behaviour has been a difficult task for our end generation parent. It daunts him that abusive behaviours have been ingrained in his DNA. To make the matter worst, he grew up amidst prevalent practice of abusive means in all institutions of the society – school, administration, politics; you name it.
At the heat of the moment, sadly, the default habit kicks in. Which sadly has its roots in his childhood experience. Our new parent has not given up and is continually motivated to correct the mistakes of the past. He has forgiven his dad for his mistakes. Although nobody knows if the two have had a heart-to-heart opening-up about what had happened in the past between them. One hopes that has been the case. Our 2nd generation parent is conscious of his actions and is open and willing to work on his problems. Let us wish our 2nd generation parent all the best and hope that this ugly cycle of abuse ends here. Let there be no room for this shameful practice in this family's 4th generation.
To all the children who have suffered physical and emotional abuse from their parents - May you have courage to overcome your shame and guilt of the feeling of being un-liked when your parents abused you in the name of disciplining. May you forgive and be forgiven. May your and your parents' journey towards the healing process reach a meaningful conclusion and closure. May you all have a happy and nurturing parenthood.
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Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Goodbye, Hilda
I hope to return to my original epistemological objection (as time permits), but I wanted to get this apology out in a timely manner.
Crow is a dish best eaten warm.
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Now that is a most gracious response. I am glad to see that civil discourse is not dead.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 7, 2013 at 9:52 PM
I'd like to second Peter. The willingness to put truth above personal victory is rare and precious–and all involved gain from it.ReplyDelete
Hat's off to you.
Classy response.ReplyDelete
I aprove.
It's good to see a point of disagreement settled, with graciousness on both sides.ReplyDelete
Opportunities for mutual misunderstanding abound in philosophical discussions. If there's to be any progress we must be constantly open to the possibility that we've misunderstood the other's position, and to the possibility that we haven't made our own meaning clear.
If you do return to the subject of Ross's argument, I suggest that you concentrate on what he has to say about "pure functions". I see that as the core of his argument. In fact I see the translation of this point into the language of determinacy/indeterminacy as a misleading distraction.
Thanks for your remarks, guys.. Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only blogger who ever admits he's wrong. At least it seems somewhat abnormal....ReplyDelete
Richard, I agree that is an interesting point. I wonder if you would like to write up your thoughts on it for a guest post. I'm currently still trying to catch up on my grading so I don't have a lot of time for the blog.
In my opinion, premise B will be found faulty in Ross's argument. The problem is neuroscience is not yet advanced enough to prove it. B doesn't appreciate the possibility that abstractions like "to add" are available to cortical processes in the brain. In other words, the cortical representation of "addition" will be about as determinate as any formal process ever gets or needs to be, will be found to be defined by neural processes that represent semantic relationships, and will be quite physical. If this is true (and IMO it almost certainly is) it would settle the argument against Ross. It may seems as if I haven't really said anything but pure conjecture, but at least it's focused conjecture. Ross's argument will fall if the brain is physically able to represent concepts like addition or subtraction. That's really all there is to it. That is an equivalent way to frame the problem. Now, how many "things" are required for that to be true, and is it really that outlandish to suppose that they are physical? "Not many" and "no" are the answers. When someone mentions "addition" your brain must have the capacity to register a concept. It must be able to carry out an operation congruent with that operation (and even that isn't really a requirement). These are really the only ingredients for making a formal operation physically determinate in a brain.ReplyDelete
If you're still reading, Prof. Oerter, I wonder if you might consider the following argument (I'm on your side, by the way):ReplyDelete
The Ross/Feser argument is vacuous because it provides no independent definition of "physical process." It claims that *all* physical processes are indeterminate, but gives us no independent criteria defining the class over which that "all" quantifies. All of Ross's examples rely implicitly on a "common sense" notion of the "physical" (basically a mechanical one). In fact, he avoids the issue, referring only to "Whatever the discriminable features of a physical process may be..." But it is perfectly sensible to understand as physical processes *any temporal events I encounter that show some sign of being governed by universal laws.* Formal thinking surely qualifies: it's a temporal event, I encounter it, and exhibits patterns that strongly hint at the universal. Given that explicit definition, the premise "no physical process is determinate" is simply false; the Ross/Feser argument has no force. I am free to investigate formal thinking *in the same way* as I investigate other natural phenomena. Should I discover that it shows no law-like behavior, I might again become skeptical about whether or not it is "physical" in any useful sense, but until then there is no reason not to include determinate phenomena amongst the physical.
The history of science shows that our notions of the "physical" and the "material" are subject to reevaluation and evolution. In the present example, I know of no independent argument to exclude a phenomenon from the physical simply because it is determinate. Neither Ross nor Feser provide one: in *assuming* as they do that all physical processes are simply all the non-determinate ones, it follows trivially that formal thinking is not a physical process. But that is a conveniently arbitrary notion of "physical." Of course, there's a huge difference between determinate and indeterminate phenomena, just as there's a huge difference between deterministic and non-deterministic phenomena. But the Ross/Feser argument provides no insight into whether or not both (or either!) deserve the label "physical."
What does and doesn't count as "physical" is a trivial part of the argument. The point is that there's a significant, indeed crucial, difference between "stuff" than can instantiate pure functions/operations/forms and "stuff" that can't, and the intellect is an example of the former while (what we usually call) mechanical systems are examples of the latter.ReplyDelete
You might as well criticize an argument that claims to show that God is beyond nature as vacuous because it assumes "nature" can't include god. The meaning of the word isn't the point.
@ Scott:ReplyDelete
What does and what does not count as "physical" is the topic of Ross's argument; it is hardy "trivial."
But I am glad to see that you consider intellectual stuff to be "stuff," for there could hardly be a more concrete yet general word than "stuff" to refer to the physical. Our pillows are stuffed with stuff -- as are our heads!Replies
@Natural MInd: "But I am glad to see that you consider intellectual stuff to be "stuff," for there could hardly be a more concrete yet general word than "stuff" to refer to the physical."Delete
Question-begging response of the year award! Whether all "stuff" is physical is precisely what is disputed, and yet you triumphantly declare that by using the word "stuff," your critics assume the physicality of the mind!
@Gene Callahan: there was no "triumphant declaration," it was a playful tease, don't you see.Delete
And I'd like to second and third all the posters above who congratulate Oerter on his intellectual honesty! I strive to admit mistakes myself, but I am not sure I do it all that well. But Prof. Oerter tops me here.ReplyDelete
@Unknown: " In other words, the cortical representation of "addition" will be about as determinate as any formal process ever gets or needs to be, will be found to be defined by neural processes that represent semantic relationships, and will be quite physical. "ReplyDelete
Are you really so poor at following an argument? The case is not about what neuroscience may discover: it is that no physical state can POSSIBLY determinately point to some meaning. To look to "future discoveries" is to completely miss the philosophical issue under dispute.Replies
Yes, I understand the argument. I just don't agree that it's sound. Boiled down, Ross's argument is that brains cannot handle abstractions of thought, like the "pure functions" of addition, etc. But of course, Ross doesn't think brains (and I'm using "brains" as shorthand for "physical processes of thought") can support any type of thought abstraction (working alone as physical processes), the "forms" that capture all infinite realizations of any function. He only makes use of formal thinking because that allows him use of incompossible functions, curve fitting, etc., in his argument.Delete
Well, sorry, I don't buy it, though admittedly you have me at the unique disadvantage of not being able to reference literature that really explains what brains are doing when they think about things like love, castling in chess, or addition. This is compounded by the fact that Ross doesn't preclude that thought is still coupled dependently to physical brain processes, so I can't even cite brain stimulation studies where surgical patients will recall thoughts and emotions when certain regions of the cortex are probed. Ross would simply take this in stride.
The only thing I can really tell you is to stay tuned. I'm quite sure the next few years and decades will be quite revealing.
@Unknown: In fact, Ross's picture collapses even if we *never* figure out how the neurons in brains do the work. All he is doing is asserting that indeterminate processes are "not physical." But it is natural inquiry which informs our concept of the physical, and it will be natural inquiry, not stipulation, that tells us whether indeterminate phenomena are physical.Delete
There are many domains of cognitive science in which quite a lot is known about the way the mind structures information, especially in the visual and language systems, even though we have little or no understanding of how any of it works neurologically. That doesn't make it any less "physical."
Yes, it is all a little vague, but first, unless I'm badly misunderstanding the original argument, you mean "determinate" in the first paragraph, not "indeterminate" (?)Delete
I actually think both propositions A and B can be attacked, though as above, I find it more fruitful to suggest that B is in error, that no physical process can be determinate. By this Ross and Feser must also mean all attempts at machine (artificial) intelligence, neural networks, semantic networks, and a whole raft of other research topics. In other words, all attempts to capture formal operations like addition at a conceptual level and not just the rote operation appear to them to be futile. That I find pretty presumptuous. Now, Ross was working twenty years ago, at least that is the time from which his paper dates, but of course Feser is modern day. He seems to dismiss all modern attempts to give machines conceptual, rather than rote, understanding of problem spaces, and indeed, it is at the conceptual level that we make operations (functions) like addition determinate. We don't conceptualize by enumerating inputs and outputs. If we have physical processes that do these things, they are processes that somehow capture addition and other formal processes at a conceptual level. Yet Ross and Feser don't grant that anyone will ever invent a way for machines to do something similar. All machines will ever be able to do is curve fit and spit out numbers. As I say, this is presumption.
All the same, I'm grateful that philosophers have made the point. To me this is philosophy at its most useful, pointing out contentious issues.


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Sunday, September 13, 2009
Austerity and the case of obedient neurons...
Neurobiologist Mark Changizi, an assistant professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and his research group have something new to say about our brains and cities.
Yes, you heard it right.
According to this group, just like evolution through the ages has shaped us and our brains into what we are, so have cities developed similarly based on the evolving efforts of entrepreneurs, developers and politicians.
As we evolve as a species, it's not just the size of the brain or the number of neurons that increase. Actually the connections between the neurons or the synapses grow in number and variety. As in a city, where simply doubling the number of roads won't work, unless we have interconnecting freeways, and exits and stuff.
All this is wonderful so long is it remains in the journal it is published in.
What worries me is the converse.
If peoples' brain-setups are to reflect the state of a city, , I fear for the people of Mumbai.
Think of a smart neuron trying to send a message, through the synapse, to another neuron several inches away. It swishes through the synapse, swiftly taking turns and choosing paths, and then all of a sudden feels sidelined by other neurons. They are all waiting to pass through a clogged synapse, suddenly narrowed, and there is one hefty thought blocking the path.
Or an obedient neuron, taking the path it has taken, for the last several years, millions of times a day, properly showing signals and stuff at every synapse crossing. It suddenly hits a swelling, that looks suspiciously like a Mumbai cop. Fine negotiating skills are on display, and the cop moves aside to let it pass , after papers are exchanged. The cop issues it a ticket where the fault is listed as "communicating wirelessly with the cerebrum while driving", and some other green colored pricey papers are acquired from the neuron.
Of course, these days, swellings here and there are a usual risk for the neurons, trying to transmit messages through the synapses. Sometimes the swelling is so bad, that the message never reaches the ankle muscles next to the brakes. And the super evolved human fails to brake before the pothole, causing a bump. Which of course, resolves the swelling, and the neuronal and synaptic traffic continues, with the hippocampus muttering obscenities under its breath.
Sometimes the brain gets used to BIG traffic. Some pushy neurons create their own paths, because the normal brain pathways are too small for them. These neurons also have some rogue followers, who hover around creating a synapse here, and a path there, and parts of the cerebrum get so excited, that they lose control over the ligaments and muscles, not to mention voice. That's when violence happens.
I am just wondering what diversion in the brain pathways gave rise to the planning and deployment of the Mumbai Sealink. Did some neurons simply go haywire, and run berserk around the temporal and occipital areas of the brain to make a running landing at the top of the spinal cord, bypassing the usual shove-shove-push-push synaptic travel ?
Do folks in Delhi have slightly more highly evolved neuronal activity ? Possibly better designed synapses, complete with graceful green neuronic roundabouts, around which most obedient neuronic messages travel, unless of course there is a red signal corresponding to Mother Neuronic Synaptic activity, at which point most ordinary neurons give up, stand still, and start cursing the grey matter.
A new school of thought postulates that some neurons are thinking of travel without the help of synapses and cerebral help. The idea is not to convey messages to anything in the real world, such as your hands, legs, eyes, or ears.
The message is directly conveyed to your pocket and someone else's pocket. These neurons never suffer the ignominy of pushing other neurons at clogged synapses, waiting in line to say their stuff, and falling into swellings here and there.
They simply fly.
Which is a revelation. Explains all the 5 star behaviour patterns of the "public servants", the minsters. The personal planes. The chronic inability to have unstarred meals. The insensitivity to declare that exercise needs the 5 star gym, when you can jog in Lodhi gardens along with your alphabetic plus plus security.
But even neurons have their bad days. Like when the Mother Neuronic Authority of New Delhi declares AUSTERITY to be the latest buzz word.
I wonder what the corresponding brain changes will be , given that there has been a clarion call for "Austerity", from the senior most of the cabinet ministers, supported by those who think austerity needs to be seen rather than practiced.
Hopefully, a clean wash of all the synapses, behaviour restrictions on neurons, and a life where priority is given to those that follow cerebral rules.
Time to say Jai Ho ?
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...which is why I live in a village :)ReplyDelete
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that is an awesome post... infact the austerity just got me scribbling tooo !!! lol...
but your angle is ultra brilliant ! loved it !!!!
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Abhinandan. :) I dont know about the relation between cities and brains but I sure know that your brain is unique. To make such a hilarious cum cynical post out of a news clip is something!ReplyDelete
Good fun reading. Looking forward to tangier tuesdays...
Congratulations on being selected for the Tangy Tuesday picks. You write the most creative blog that I have ever read and are very deserving of any award that comes your way.ReplyDelete
I love the way you relate the paths the neurons take to the traffic patterns. We don't have Freeways in Tucson (Except the one that goes through it) and our traffic must be a lot like Mumbai's.
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Great post! I'll join you in saying 'Jai Ho!'
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G Aabhaar ! You know now why Pune is the way it is. Same theory about brains and cities...:-)
Darlene Thank you. I've been to Tucson like for a total of 3 hours in the summer of 2007. (having lunch at the Univ, with a friend from 40 years ago ). I think I actually drove part of the freeway that passes through. I thought the traffic was good, and folks were following rules. We in Mumbai need to go a long, long way...
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CERN insider:
"Wikipedia removing the LHC history doesn't put us in a good light. That's why the edit feature is there, to make changes to the page, so there was no need to erase it's history. Wouldn't be surprised if people think Wiki was strong armed, or bribed to remove the history. Kind of makes me wonder myself."
Yeah, makes us wonder too. Well lets see why the LHC Wikipedia history was scrubbed, shall we. Using the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, 8 August 2007, under the topic "Safety concerns" it stated:
|"As with the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), people both inside and outside of the physics community have voiced concern that the LHC might trigger one of several theoretical disasters capable of destroying the Earth or even our entire Universe. Each advance in particle accelerator technology exposes the stability of the very fabric of the universe to more stringent tests. RHIC has been running since 2000 and has generated no major problems; however the Large Hadron Collider is set to create an environment significantly more exotic than realized in the RHIC, and therefore the probability of catastrophe is greater."
|"We find no basis for any conceivable threat. If black holes are produced, they are expected to evaporate almost immediately via Hawking radiation and thus be harmless."
The Safety concerns topic ends with a statement by John Nelson, professor of nuclear physics at Birmingham University who is leading the British scientific team at RHIC:
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Let me share just A FEW thoughts about the issues I care about. As I share these, feel free to email me, or post a comment directly to this page, and share YOUR issues with me. Together, we can set forth a powerful agenda for change across our state. By no means is this list complete. There are many other things I care about. At this point, they are very simply stated. If necessary, I will go deeper as time goes by. But, the list below gives you a gist of the issues I'm concerned about.
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My Laundry List Of Issues
Federal judges rule Alabama must redraw legislative districts http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2017/01/federal_judges_rule_alabama_mu.html
Alabama lawmakers begin plan to redraw racially gerrymandered districts http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2017/02/alabama_lawmakers_begin_plan_t.html
SIMPLY PUT: Voting is a RIGHT of EVERY citizen. Not a privilege. It's your RIGHT, and should not be tampered with, or otherwise manipulated in any way, shape form or fashion. The only way to stop this is to GO TO THE POLLS AND VOTE OUT THE OFFENDING PARTIES.
- Poverty, Hunger, and Homelessness.
- The Continuing Gender Wage Gap.
- Violence Against Women.
- Continuing Efforts to Whittle Down Roe v. Wade and Women's Reproductive Rights.
- Inadequate Maternal and Infant Health Care.
- The Absence of Laws Mandating Paid Sick and Parental Leave.
- Reasonable Accommodations for Pregnant Women.
- The Lack of Affordable and Competent Child Care.
- The Treatment of Women in Prison.
- Human Trafficking/Sex Slavery.
- The Severe Continued Under-Representation of Women in Political Life.
- Discrimination in Academia. The higher in terms of faculty rank, salary, prestige, and status—the fewer are the women.
- Under-Representation in the Justice System: As Prosecutors, Judges, and Police Officers.
- Inadequate Representation Among Those Who Run Our Top Corporations and Serve on Corporate Boards.
- Inadequate Representation and Unequal Pay for Actors, Writers, Directors, and Producers in the Entertainment Industry.
- Keeping Women in High-Tech Fields.
- Lack of Health Insurance.
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Pilots in the Midwest have received some good news amidst the rising cost of avgas in recent months. Both the Havana Regional Airport (9I0, Havana, Ill.) and the Park Township Airport (HLM, Holland, Mich.) started mogas sales in recent months.
With avgas prices averaging over $6 a gallon across the country, pilots in the Holland area are enjoying relatively inexpensive, 91 AKI ethanol-free, lead free mogas at $4.25. Demand for ethanol-free fuel comes not only from pilots: This article from TulsaWorld describes the newest location of the QuickTrip chain of convenience stores, which features ethanol-free fuel at all 20 of its pumps.
On page 9 of a recent study released by the AOPA on flying clubs, the biggest challenge facing general aviation today is seen as the cost of fuel, far more important to respondents than user fees, costs of aircraft, insurance, training, etc.
Airports that add self-service fuel systems and mogas are responding to this concern.
The GAfuels Blog is written by two private pilots concerned about the future availability of fuels for piston-engine aircraft: Dean Billing, Sisters, Ore., a pilot, homebuilder and expert on autogas and ethanol, and Kent Misegades, Cary, N.C., an aerospace engineer, aviation sales rep for U-Fuel, and president of EAA1114.


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Author: Kody Keplinger
Publisher: Poppy
Year Published: 2012
Pages: 291
Price: USD 8.13 (Bookdepository) // Rp. 118.000 (Opentrolley)
The story begins with Whitley waking up in stranger's bed. It was an after Graduation Day party, and Whitley was sure enough that the night before, she had had sex with a guy (an amazing one!). And yes, there he was, waking up beside her. A sexy brown-eyed guy named.. Uh.. What was his name? Whatever.. And when the guy asked her phone number, Whitley didn't gave it. It's not like she was gonna meet him in the future right?
Whitley had planned to spend her last summer holiday before entering University of Kentucky (UK) in her father's condo. Her father was a news anchor. He was popular and full of fun. So different with her mother who had never cared of Whitley and was still obsessed with her ex-husband after the divorce. Whitley had expected a fun summer nights, drinking vodka with her father and her father's temporary hot chicks. But what hit Whitley was the fact that her father finally decided to settle down. He had moved from his condo to this neat and cute suburban house, with his soon-to-be-wife and her two teenage children. And the most surprising of all, Whitley soon-to-be-stepbrother was a random guy she had had sex with on the after Graduation Day party. And his name was Nathan.
All the new situation pissed Whitley off. Living with perfect people like Sylvia, Nathan, and Bailey was certainly the opposite of what Whitley had expected before. How could her dad not inform this before? How could her dad change? Whitley then tried to channel her anger by attending parties and doing wild things. She drunk a lot, she hooked up a lot, and she appeared in social media a lot. Until she realized that maybe her new family were not as bad as what she had expected. Maybe her definition of "perfect summer holiday" had been wrong and now was her chance to finally feel what the "perfect summer holiday" was.
Could Whitley wake up from her Midsummer's Nightmare?
Once again.. Kody Keplinger has blown me away with her story. I love it so much! This is the second Kody Keplinger's book that I read after Shut Out and, like Shut Out, I also gave 5 stars to this book. A Midsummer's Nightmare surely brings different feel to me from Shut Out. While Shut Out brought more fun, teenage-ish feel to its readers, A Midsummer's Nightmare brought more serious issues and emotional feeling.
The main character, Whitley, is definitely not a good example for teens. She's wild. She partied a lot, she drunk a lot, and she hooked up a lot. She didn't do friend and she didn't care of what happened surrounds her. She's so cynical and selfish. If I met her in real life, maybe I would hate her so much. But even with this not-so-easy-to-love main character, I can understand the reason behind her behavior. Whitley was an example of a child who is trapped between her parents' problem. After the divorce, both Whitley's mother and father seems like trying to be easy to their kids (Whitley and her big brother, Trace, who had had his own family in this book) because they thought that the divorce process had been hurting the kids too much. But being free was not what Whitley need. She needed affection and she needed to be scolded sometimes after breaking the rules. Whitley's voice throughout the story was actually loud and clear enough so I could feel her true feelings and felt the empathy to her. I think Kody really did a great job in voicing Whitley's.
When Whitley was forced to spend her summer in a place she called nightmare, unexpectedly, she finally found her way to fix her problem. At first, she really looked down to her soon-to-be-step family because they were so contrary to her own family. And their attention to Whitley really made her sick. But throughout the summer, she learned that they were not as bad as she thought and that they could also be her family, not only her father's new family. I like Bailey and Sylvia. Bailey is the perfect definition of young sister. She was cute and she always looked up to Whitley for example, which was very wrong in this story, but so nice. And Sylvia.. Yes, at first she appeared like one of those Stepford's Wives but she was more than that. And most of all.. NATHAN!! OMG how I love this guy. He's definitely a good, polite, responsible guy but he also had his own past that he tried to fix. And the way he treated Whitley was so... genuine. He's not overly romantic but he's protective. And he cares. He found Whitley as special to him too. *major swoon*
And if I am allowed to mention one more of my favorite character: HARRISON!!! OMG how I love this guy. Too bad he's gay. His appearance always boosted up the mood. And yeah, if only he were not gay, I would totally support him to be with Whitley.
Overall, this book has an amazing story. It is entertaining, but most of all, the message it contains is great. For teenagers, it can help them to prevent themselves from being Whitley. And for the parents, from this book they can learn what kids really need their parents to provide.


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I have been working in the sun cutting grass, weeding and pruning shrubs, weeds are growing away with all the sun and the rain we have had
Working in the Sun15 Apr
Weeding all day in Hailsham31 Mar
I have been Weeding in Hailsham all day, garden looked very nice all with yellow flowers.
But the only thing was that they were celandine which are weeds,
when you lift them out of the ground there are lots of seed pods on the bottom,
which I must get out other wise there will be lots more plants next year.
And the other good point is the soil is clay and very wet.
But the weather was dry.
The Sun is out20 Mar
The Sun is out and the gardening work keeps coming in, I hope the leads keep coming,
today I have been weeding in one garden also in another I have put down Grass seed,
planted two fruit tree's, raking branches out of long grass and getting out moss from the lawn
The Sun is OUT12 Mar
The Sun is out and the work is starting to come in I now have two new jobs in Eastbourne and one in Hailsham here is hoping there is more to come
New Job8 Mar
I have a new job in Eastbourne, I have spent all day on my allotments Weeding and planting Onion sets
MARCH a new start to the year1 Mar
Now we are in March the gardening work is starting to come in from Trade catcher.
Hope the weather also gets better lots of dry and sunny days
I have booked my advertising in Trade Catcher for Hailsham and Eastbourne for the next three months, lets hope I can get some gardening work Grass Cutting, Weeding, Pruning,Jungles to Tame, in East Sussex.


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Under the high stress of being responsible for children's lives at a MUMC (Major University Medial Center) I have often dreamed of retiring or switching careers. But I have this sense of responsibility that I feel like I need to "transform the system so to speak" before I cut out :)
So this blog is my attempt to share ideas and problems and solutions so I that I can turn my hospital into the perfect place for sick children. Then you all can follow suit!
I have no children of my own but I have two nieces and I haven't seen a pedi hospital yet that I would feel safe having them in..and I have been at some of the so-called best in the nation..or make that world?
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Before I Retire
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I took the oath of enlistment today and has become a reservist of the Hungarian Armed Forces.
I hope I can start the five weeks long training program during the Parliament winter break and at the end of it I can take the oath again together with my comrades write Novák.
Starting today, I'm a member of the Hungarian Armed Forces - being the first ever sitting member of parliament; the position is compatible with my parliamentary representative status.
During military training and during my actual service in the army I refuse my monthly MP salary write Novák.
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