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- 11/26/02 01:27 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)
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Full text: bin Laden's 'letter to America'
Online document: the full text of Osama bin Laden's "letter to the American people", reported in today's Observer. The letter first appeared on the internet in Arabic and has since been translated and circulated by Islamists in Britain.
Observer Worldview
Sunday November 24, 2002
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful,
"Permission to fight (against disbelievers) is given to those (believers) who are fought against, because they have been wronged and surely, Allah is Able to give them (believers) victory" [Quran 22:39]
"Those who believe, fight in the Cause of Allah, and those who disbelieve, fight in the cause of Taghut (anything worshipped other than Allah e.g. Satan). So fight you against the friends of Satan; ever feeble is indeed the plot of Satan."[Quran 4:76]
Some American writers have published articles under the title 'On what basis are we fighting?' These articles have generated a number of responses, some of which adhered to the truth and were based on Islamic Law, and others which have not. Here we wanted to outline the truth - as an explanation and warning - hoping for Allah's reward, seeking success and support from Him.
While seeking Allah's help, we form our reply based on two questions directed at the Americans:
(Q1) Why are we fighting and opposing you?
Q2)What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you?
As for the first question: Why are we fighting and opposing you? The answer is very simple:
(1) Because you attacked us and continue to attack us.
a) You attacked us in Palestine:
(i) Palestine, which has sunk under military occupation for more than 80 years. The British handed over Palestine, with your help and your support, to the Jews, who have occupied it for more than 50 years; years overflowing with oppression, tyranny, crimes, killing, expulsion, destruction and devastation. The creation and continuation of Israel is one of the greatest crimes, and you are the leaders of its criminals. And of course there is no need to explain and prove the degree of American support for Israel. The creation of Israel is a crime which must be erased. Each and every person whose hands have become polluted in the contribution towards this crime must pay its*price, and pay for it heavily.
(ii) It brings us both laughter and tears to see that you have not yet tired of repeating your fabricated lies that the Jews have a historical right to Palestine, as it was promised to them in the Torah. Anyone who disputes with them on this alleged fact is accused of anti-semitism. This is one of the most fallacious, widely-circulated fabrications in history. The people of Palestine are pure Arabs and original Semites. It is the Muslims who are the inheritors of Moses (peace be upon him) and the inheritors of the real Torah that has not been changed. Muslims believe in all of the Prophets, including Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon them all. If the followers of Moses have been promised a right to Palestine in the Torah, then the Muslims are the most worthy nation of this.
When the Muslims conquered Palestine and drove out the Romans, Palestine and Jerusalem returned to Islaam, the religion of all the Prophets peace be upon them. Therefore, the call to a historical right to Palestine cannot be raised against the Islamic Ummah that believes in all the Prophets of Allah (peace and blessings be upon them) - and we make no distinction between them.
(iii) The blood pouring out of Palestine must be equally revenged. You must know that the Palestinians do not cry alone; their women are not widowed alone; their sons are not orphaned alone.
(b) You attacked us in Somalia; you supported the Russian atrocities against us in Chechnya, the Indian oppression against us in Kashmir, and the Jewish aggression against us in Lebanon.
(c) Under your supervision, consent and orders, the governments of our countries which act as your agents, attack us on a daily basis;
(i) These governments prevent our people from establishing the Islamic Shariah, using violence and lies to do so.
(ii) These governments give us a taste of humiliation, and places us in a large prison of fear and subdual.
(iii) These governments steal our Ummah's wealth and sell them to you at a paltry price.
(iv) These governments have surrendered to the Jews, and handed them most of Palestine, acknowledging the existence of their state over the dismembered limbs of their own people.
(v) The removal of these governments is an obligation upon us, and a necessary step to free the Ummah, to make the Shariah the supreme law and to regain Palestine. And our fight against these governments is not separate from out fight against you.
(d) You steal our wealth and oil at paltry prices because of you international influence and military threats. This theft is indeed the biggest theft ever witnessed by mankind in the history of the world.
(e) Your forces occupy our countries; you spread your military bases throughout them; you corrupt our lands, and you besiege our sanctities, to protect the security of the Jews and to ensure the continuity of your pillage of our treasures.
(f) You have starved the Muslims of Iraq, where children die every day. It is a wonder that more than 1.5 million Iraqi children have died as a result of your sanctions, and you did not show concern. Yet when 3000 of your people died, the entire world rises and has not yet sat down.
(g) You have supported the Jews in their idea that Jerusalem is their eternal capital, and agreed to move your embassy there. With your help and under your protection, the Israelis are planning to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque. Under the protection of your weapons, Sharon entered the Al-Aqsa mosque, to pollute it as a preparation to capture and destroy it.
(2) These tragedies and calamities are only a few examples of your oppression and aggression against us. It is commanded by our religion and intellect that the oppressed have a right to return the aggression. Do not await anything from us but Jihad, resistance and revenge. Is it in any way rational to expect that after America has attacked us for more than half a century, that we will then leave her to live in security and peace?!!
(3) You may then dispute that all the above does not justify aggression against civilians, for crimes they did not commit and offenses in which they did not partake:
(a) This argument contradicts your continuous repetition that America is the land of freedom, and its leaders in this world. Therefore, the American people are the ones who choose their government by way of their own free will; a choice which stems from their agreement to its policies. Thus the American people have chosen, consented to, and affirmed their support for the Israeli oppression of the Palestinians, the occupation and usurpation of their land, and its continuous killing, torture, punishment and expulsion of the Palestinians. The American people have the ability and choice to refuse the policies of their Government and even to change it if they want.
(b) The American people are the ones who pay the taxes which fund the planes that bomb us in Afghanistan, the tanks that strike and destroy our homes in Palestine, the armies which occupy our lands in the Arabian Gulf, and the fleets which ensure the blockade of Iraq. These tax dollars are given to Israel for it to continue to attack us and penetrate our lands. So the American people are the ones who fund the attacks against us, and they are the ones who oversee the expenditure of these monies in the way they wish, through their elected candidates.
(c) Also the American army is part of the American people. It is this very same people who are shamelessly helping the Jews fight against us.
(d) The American people are the ones who employ both their men and their women in the American Forces which attack us.
(e) This is why the American people cannot be not innocent of all the crimes committed by the Americans and Jews against us.
(f) Allah, the Almighty, legislated the permission and the option to take revenge. Thus, if we are attacked, then we have the right to attack back. Whoever has destroyed our villages and towns, then we have the right to destroy their villages and towns. Whoever has stolen our wealth, then we have the right to destroy their economy. And whoever has killed our civilians, then we have the right to kill theirs.
The American Government and press still refuses to answer the question:
Why did they attack us in New York and Washington?
If Sharon is a man of peace in the eyes of Bush, then we are also men of peace!!! America does not understand the language of manners and principles, so we are addressing it using the language it understands.
(Q2) As for the second question that we want to answer: What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you?
(1) The first thing that we are calling you to is Islam.
(a) The religion of the Unification of God; of freedom from associating partners with Him, and rejection of this; of complete love of Him, the Exalted; of complete submission to His Laws; and of the discarding of all the opinions, orders, theories and religions which contradict with the religion He sent down to His Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Islam is the religion of all the prophets, and makes no distinction between them - peace be upon them all.
It is to this religion that we call you; the seal of all the previous religions. It is the religion of Unification of God, sincerity, the best of manners, righteousness, mercy, honour, purity, and piety. It is the religion of showing kindness to others, establishing justice between them, granting them their rights, and defending the oppressed and the persecuted. It is the religion of enjoining the good and forbidding the evil with the hand, tongue and heart. It is the religion of Jihad in the way of Allah so that Allah's Word and religion reign Supreme. And it is the religion of unity and agreement on the obedience to Allah, and total equality between all people, without regarding their colour, sex, or language.
(b) It is the religion whose book - the Quran - will remained preserved and unchanged, after the other Divine books and messages have been changed. The Quran is the miracle until the Day of Judgment. Allah has challenged anyone to bring a book like the Quran or even ten verses like it.
(2) The second thing we call you to, is to stop your oppression, lies, immorality and debauchery that has spread among you.
(a) We call you to be a people of manners, principles, honour, and purity; to reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling's, and trading with interest.
We call you to all of this that you may be freed from that which you have become caught up in; that you may be freed from the deceptive lies that you are a great nation, that your leaders spread amongst you to conceal from you the despicable state to which you have reached.
(b) It is saddening to tell you that you are the worst civilization witnessed by the history of mankind:
(i) You are the nation who, rather than ruling by the Shariah of Allah in its Constitution and Laws, choose to invent your own laws as you will and desire. You separate religion from your policies, contradicting the pure nature which affirms Absolute Authority to the Lord and your Creator. You flee from the embarrassing question posed to you: How is it possible for Allah the Almighty to create His creation, grant them power over all the creatures and land, grant them all the amenities of life, and then deny them that which they are most in need of: knowledge of the laws which govern their lives?
(ii) You are the nation that permits Usury, which has been forbidden by all the religions. Yet you build your economy and investments on Usury. As a result of this, in all its different forms and guises, the Jews have taken control of your economy, through which they have then taken control of your media, and now control all aspects of your life making you their servants and achieving their aims at your expense; precisely what Benjamin Franklin warned you against.
(iii) You are a nation that permits the production, trading and usage of intoxicants. You also permit drugs, and only forbid the trade of them, even though your nation is the largest consumer of them.
(iv) You are a nation that permits acts of immorality, and you consider them to be pillars of personal freedom. You have continued to sink down this abyss from level to level until incest has spread amongst you, in the face of which neither your sense of honour nor your laws object.
Who can forget your President Clinton's immoral acts committed in the official Oval office? After that you did not even bring him to account, other than that he 'made a mistake', after which everything passed with no punishment. Is there a worse kind of event for which your name will go down in history and remembered by nations?
(v) You are a nation that permits gambling in its all forms. The companies practice this as well, resulting in the investments becoming active and the criminals becoming rich.
(vi) You are a nation that exploits women like consumer products or advertising tools calling upon customers to purchase them. You use women to serve passengers, visitors, and strangers to increase your profit margins. You then rant that you support the liberation of women.
(vii) You are a nation that practices the trade of sex in all its forms, directly and indirectly. Giant corporations and establishments are established on this, under the name of art, entertainment, tourism and freedom, and other deceptive names you attribute to it.
(viii) And because of all this, you have been described in history as a nation that spreads diseases that were unknown to man in the past. Go ahead and boast to the nations of man, that you brought them AIDS as a Satanic American Invention.
(xi) You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto agreement so that you can secure the profit of your greedy companies and*industries.
(x) Your law is the law of the rich and wealthy people, who hold sway in their political parties, and fund their election campaigns with their gifts. Behind them stand the Jews, who control your policies, media and economy.
(xi) That which you are singled out for in the history of mankind, is that you have used your force to destroy mankind more than any other nation in history; not to defend principles and values, but to hasten to secure your interests and profits. You who dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan, even though Japan was ready to negotiate an end to the war. How many acts of oppression, tyranny and injustice have you carried out, O callers to freedom?
(xii) Let us not forget one of your major characteristics: your duality in both manners and values; your hypocrisy in manners and principles. All*manners, principles and values have two scales: one for you and one for the others.
(a)The freedom and democracy that you call to is for yourselves and for white race only; as for the rest of the world, you impose upon them your monstrous, destructive policies and Governments, which you call the 'American friends'. Yet you prevent them from establishing democracies. When the Islamic party in Algeria wanted to practice democracy and they won the election, you unleashed your agents in the Algerian army onto them, and to attack them with tanks and guns, to imprison them and torture them - a new lesson from the 'American book of democracy'!!!
(b)Your policy on prohibiting and forcibly removing weapons of mass destruction to ensure world peace: it only applies to those countries which you do not permit to possess such weapons. As for the countries you consent to, such as Israel, then they are allowed to keep and use such weapons to defend their security. Anyone else who you suspect might be manufacturing or keeping these kinds of weapons, you call them criminals and you take military action against them.
(c)You are the last ones to respect the resolutions and policies of International Law, yet you claim to want to selectively punish anyone else who does the same. Israel has for more than 50 years been pushing UN resolutions and rules against the wall with the full support of America.
(d)As for the war criminals which you censure and form criminal courts for - you shamelessly ask that your own are granted immunity!! However, history will not forget the war crimes that you committed against the Muslims and the rest of the world; those you have killed in Japan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Lebanon and Iraq will remain a shame that you will never be able to escape. It will suffice to remind you of your latest war crimes in Afghanistan, in which densely populated innocent civilian villages were destroyed, bombs were dropped on mosques causing the roof of the mosque to come crashing down on the heads of the Muslims praying inside. You are the ones who broke the agreement with the Mujahideen when they left Qunduz, bombing them in Jangi fort, and killing more than 1,000 of your prisoners through suffocation and thirst. Allah alone knows how many people have died by torture at the hands of you and your agents. Your planes remain in the Afghan skies, looking for anyone remotely suspicious.
(e)You have claimed to be the vanguards of Human Rights, and your Ministry of Foreign affairs issues annual reports containing statistics of those countries that violate any Human Rights. However, all these things vanished when the Mujahideen hit you, and you then implemented the methods of the same documented governments that you used to curse. In America, you captured thousands the Muslims and Arabs, took them into custody with neither reason, court trial, nor even disclosing their names. You issued newer, harsher laws.
What happens in Guatanamo is a historical embarrassment to America and its values, and it screams into your faces - you hypocrites, "What is the value of your signature on any agreement or treaty?"
(3) What we call you to thirdly is to take an honest stance with yourselves - and I doubt you will do so - to discover that you are a nation without principles or manners, and that the values and principles to you are something which you merely demand from others, not that which you yourself must adhere to.
(4) We also advise you to stop supporting Israel, and to end your support of the Indians in Kashmir, the Russians against the Chechens and to also cease supporting the Manila Government against the Muslims in Southern Philippines.
(5) We also advise you to pack your luggage and get out of our lands. We desire for your goodness, guidance, and righteousness, so do not force us to send you back as cargo in coffins.
(6) Sixthly, we call upon you to end your support of the corrupt leaders in our countries. Do not interfere in our politics and method of education. Leave us alone, or else expect us in New York and Washington.
(7) We also call you to deal with us and interact with us on the basis of mutual interests and benefits, rather than the policies of sub dual, theft and occupation, and not to continue your policy of supporting the Jews because this will result in more disasters for you.
If you fail to respond to all these conditions, then prepare for fight with the Islamic Nation. The Nation of Monotheism, that puts complete trust on Allah and fears none other than Him. The Nation which is addressed by its Quran with the words: "Do you fear them? Allah has more right that you should fear Him if you are believers. Fight against them so that Allah will punish them by your hands and disgrace them and give you victory over them and heal the breasts of believing people. And remove the anger of their (believers') hearts. Allah accepts the repentance of whom He wills. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise." [Quran9:13-1]
The Nation of honour and respect:
"But honour, power and glory belong to Allah, and to His Messenger (Muhammad- peace be upon him) and to the believers." [Quran 63:8]
"So do not become weak (against your enemy), nor be sad, and you will be*superior ( in victory )if you are indeed (true) believers" [Quran 3:139]
The Nation of Martyrdom; the Nation that desires death more than you desire life:
"Think not of those who are killed in the way of Allah as dead. Nay, they are alive with their Lord, and they are being provided for. They rejoice in what Allah has bestowed upon them from His bounty and rejoice for the sake of those who have not yet joined them, but are left behind (not yet martyred) that on them no fear shall come, nor shall they grieve. They rejoice in a grace and a bounty from Allah, and that Allah will not waste the reward of the believers." [Quran 3:169-171]
The Nation of victory and success that Allah has promised:
"It is He Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad peace be upon him) with guidance and the religion of truth (Islam), to make it victorious over all other religions even though the Polytheists hate it." [Quran 61:9]
"Allah has decreed that 'Verily it is I and My Messengers who shall be victorious.' Verily Allah is All-Powerful, All-Mighty." [Quran 58:21]
The Islamic Nation that was able to dismiss and destroy the previous evil Empires like yourself; the Nation that rejects your attacks, wishes to remove your evils, and is prepared to fight you. You are well aware that the Islamic Nation, from the very core of its soul, despises your haughtiness and arrogance.
If the Americans refuse to listen to our advice and the goodness, guidance and righteousness that we call them to, then be aware that you will lose this Crusade Bush began, just like the other previous Crusades in which you were humiliated by the hands of the Mujahideen, fleeing to your home in great silence and disgrace. If the Americans do not respond, then their fate will be that of the Soviets who fled from Afghanistan to deal with their military defeat, political breakup, ideological downfall, and economic bankruptcy.
This is our message to the Americans, as an answer to theirs. Do they now know why we fight them and over which form of ignorance, by the permission of Allah, we shall be victorious?
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Re: Osama's letter to the west.
- 11/26/02 01:49 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)
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That's an interesting letter which almost got me to feel a bit sympathetic. But he made a terrible blunder. He closed the letter by threatening the United States if we don't change our ways. That's just dumb. No one in this country will ever change as a result of a threat. Period. He should know better.
Just stating my thoughts, not trying to offend
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- 11/28/02 04:21 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)
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I give up OSAMA!!
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Re: Osama's letter to the west.
- 11/28/02 10:49 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)
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fuck islam.
"And I don't care if he was handcuffed
Then shot in his head
All I know is dead bodies
Can't fuck with me again"
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Re: Osama's letter to the west.
- 12/02/02 09:46 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)
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fuck chistianity
People think that if you just say the word "hallucinations" it explains everything you want it to explain and eventually whatever it is you can't explain will just go away.It's just a word,it doesn't explain anything...
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Re: Osama's letter to the west.
- 12/02/02 10:00 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)
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He's super pissed. I now see why.
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Re: Osama's letter to the west.
- 12/02/02 03:08 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)
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Because he's a religious kook?
"America: Fuck yeah!" -- Alexthegreat
"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day."
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The greatest sin of mankind is ignorance.
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- 12/02/02 03:19 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)
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that he is but if you look at american society probably half the population are religous kooks. Christianity in particular.
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Re: Osama's letter to the west.
- 12/02/02 06:50 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)
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Howzabout- Fuck Religion.
What if everything around you
Isn't quite as it seems?
What if all the world you think you know,
Is an elaborate dream?
And if you look at your reflection,
Is it all you want it to be?
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- 12/02/02 08:12 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)
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I think Osama's letter is nothing but great american propaganda, to piss americans off.
I really doought Osama is at war with the largest country in the world over CONVERSION, to islam!
And the gameshow host rings the buzzer (brrnnntt) oh and now you get a face full of face!
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Christian Children Arrested in Egypt for Insulting Islam
Two Christian Coptic children, aged 10 and 9, were arrested for Insulting Islam this week. The two children were accused of tearing out pages from the holy Koran.
Israel National News reported:
Two Coptic Christian children, aged 10 and 9, have been arrested for insulting religion in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Beni Suef, Ahram Online reported on Wednesday.
According to the report, the two children were arrested on Tuesday after the imam of their local mosque filed a complaint against them.
By order of the prosecution the two boys, Nabil Nagy Rizk and Mina Nady Farag, are now being held in the Beni Suef juvenile detention pending further investigation on Sunday, said the report.
Ibrahim Mohamed Ali, the village imam, has accused the children of tearing up pages of the Koran. An Ahram Online reporter in the area said Ali initially took the children to the church and requested that the priest punish them.
Unsatisfied with the church's decision not to castigate the two boys, Ali, together with three other villagers, turned to the courts.
Nabil's father Nagy Rizk defended the action of the boys in a public statement, explaining that they are illiterate and therefore did not know the content of the papers which they found in a small white bag, as they were playing near a pile of rubbish in the street.
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The National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) saw a need to shift the conversation from a bias toward highway designs that simply don't meet the complex needs of cities toward building more sustainable streets. NelsonNygaard collaborated with NACTO staff to develop national street design guidelines relevant to cities. The Urban Street Design Guide is a blueprint for designing 21st century streets where people can walk, bike, drive, park, take transit, and socialize.
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Seattle has ambitious growth plans, and despite traffic congestion throughout the city, there are no plans or opportunities to add motor vehicle capacity. To help Seattleites understand its future mobility needs, Nelson\Nygaard led an intensive stakeholder process that examined a broad array of corridors and used a multiple account evaluation approach to prioritize those that offered the greatest opportunity for high capacity transit service. The Transit Master Plan identified land use and programmatic changes necessary to make transit successful, including coordinated bicycle and pedestrian improvements. This data-driven, outcome-focused, stakeholder-led approach resulted in an unprecedented level of consensus on Seattle's mobility future. The City is now moving forward on alternatives analyses in preparation for construction.
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The ADA paratransit service of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), The RIDE provides nearly two million door-to-door trips each year in the greater Boston area. The MBTA hoped to control costs while meeting the MBTA's minimum obligations under the ADA and locally established service quality standards. Nelson\Nygaard identified a set of cost-reducing strategies that could be implemented without having to change the current service delivery structure (and contracts), and then explored two suites of strategies that would likely involve a change to the service delivery system. Several of these assessments led to recommendations which have since been implemented.


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NORTHEAST GLENDALE — Power bats and slick fielding weren't just the norm for the Crescenta Valley Major All-Star baseball team throughout the District 16 tournament the last five days.
Those hallmarks were also present in Tuesday afternoon's championship game versus host Burbank, as Crescenta Valley scored five of six runs via the long ball and came up with some clutch defensive plays in a 6-3 victory at Babe Herman Field.
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Samantha Geimer speaks about for the first time about her life changing encounter with Roman Polanski as a child. In her book she delves into the repercussions, and how her life was impacted by the events. She shares her version of the events that happened on March 10,1977 and the aftermath of that fateful night. She begins by sharing her background and how she ended up doing a photoshoot with Polanski at 13-years-old. In this book Geimer comes out of the shadows and proves she is not a victim.
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Coming into this, I knew that attachment theory had reframed a lot of thinking for people like Daniel Siegel and Allan Schore, both of whom were trained in the psychoanalytic tradition (which seems true of many psychiatrists), and both of whom have shifted their studies to affective neurobiology.
While those people worked with the more objective realm of attachment and neuroscience, many other people had been influenced by the profound shift initiated by Heinz Kohut's Self Psychology model, which redirected psychoanalytic thinking from Freudian drive theory to Kohut's self theory.
Foundational to Kohut's model was the idea that infants have various attachment needs that are experienced as "selfobject needs." This is a crucial idea to modern psychoanalytic thinking, so here is a defintion from Wikipedia:
Selfobjects are external objects that function as part of the "self machinery" - 'i.e., objects which are not experienced as separate and independent from the self.'[13] They are persons, objects or activities that "complete" the self, and which are necessary for normal functioning. 'Kohut describes early interactions between the infant and his caretakers as involving the infant's "self" and the infant's "selfobjects"'.[6]Kohut initially identified three major selfobject needs that, when not met developmentally, become forms of transference in therapy - mirroring (having our feelings validated through an other reflecting them back to us), twinship (the sense that you are like me and that I am not alone), and idealization (the need to see a caregiver or other as ideal and to model our own sense of self on that person). Modern Self Psychologists have added several other needs, but these three remain the core.
Observing the patient's selfobject connections is a fundamental part of self-psychology. For instance, a person's particular habits, choice of education and work, taste in life partners, may fill a selfobject-function for that particular individual.
Selfobjects are addressed throughout Kohut's theory, and include everything from the transference phenomenon in therapy, relatives, and items (for instance Linus van Pelt's security blanket): they 'thus cover the phenomena which were described by Winnicott[14] as transitional objects. Among 'the great variety of selfobject relations that support the cohesion, vigor, and harmony of the adult self...[are] cultural selfobjects (the writers, artists, and political leaders of the group - the nation, for example - to which a person feels he belongs).'[15]
If psychopathology is explained as an "incomplete" or "defect" self, then the self-objects might be described as a self-prescribed "cure".
As described by Kohut, the selfobject-function (i.e. what the selfobject does for the self) is taken for granted and seems to take place in a "blindzone." The function thus usually does not become "visible" until the relation with the selfobject is somehow broken.
When a relationship is established with a new selfobject, the relationship connection can "lock in place" quite powerfully, and the pull of the connection may affect both self and selfobject. Powerful transference, for instance, is an example of this phenomenon.
One other idea is also crucial - Kohut saw the therapeutic relationship as based entirely on the therapist's ability to experience empathy for the client - if we cannot get inside their experience, we cannot understand where their development has been derailed and what is needed to get it moving again. For Kohut, empathy was as much an exploratory tool as it was an experience. Again, from Wikipedia:
Kohut maintained that parents' failures to empathize with their children and the responses of their children to these failures were 'at the root of almost all psychopathology.' [9] For Kohut, the loss of the other and the other's selfobject function (see below) leaves the individual apathetic, lethargic, empty of the feeling of life, without vitality, in short, depressed. [10]Kohut was not the first to identify the importance of empathy in therapy, but he was the most important in shifting psychoanalysis from the Freudian objective stance to the emerging intersubjective stance.
For the infant to move from grandiose to cohesive self and beyond, meant a slow process of disillusionment with phantasies of omnipotence, mediated by the parents: 'This process of gradual and titrated disenchantment requires that the infant's caretakers be empathetically attuned to the infant's needs'.[6]
Correspondingly, to deal in therapy with earlier failures in the disenchantment process, Kohut 'highlights empathy as the tool par excellence, which allows the creation of a relationship between patient and analyst that can offer some hope of mitigating early self pathology.'[11]
Kohut describes human empathy as a therapeutic skill. When a patient acts in a certain way, "put yourself in his/her shoes" - and find out how it feels for the patient to act in this manner.
Using the skill of empathy, the therapist is able to reach conclusions sooner (with less dialogue and interpretation), and there is also a stronger bond between patient and therapist, making the patient feel more fundamentally understood. For Kohut, the implicit bond of empathy itself has a curative effect; but he also warned that 'the psychoanalyst...must also be able to relinquish the empathic attitude' to maintain intellectual integrity, and that 'empathy, especially when it is surrounded by an attitude of wanting to cure directly...may rest on the therapist's unresolved omnipotence fantasies.'[12]
The conceptual introduction of empathy was not intended to be a "discovery." Empathic moments in psychology existed long before Kohut. Instead, Kohut posited that empathy in psychology should be acknowledged as a powerful therapeutic tool, extending beyond "hunches" and vague "assumptions," and enabling empathy to be described, taught, and used more actively.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, as Kohut was finally becoming better known in the psychoanalytic world, Robert Stolorow, Donna Orange, George Atwood, Lewis Aron, Bernard Brandchaft, Daniel Stern (mostly in the developmental realm of infants), and Stephen A Mitchell, among many others, were developing an intersubjective model of therapy that owes a debt to Kohut's empathic model, but also to the emerging postmodern models of relational experience.
The paper I am sharing here (only the beginning, as it is too long) is by Stolorow, from 1997, but it offers a good introduction to the ideas of dynamic intersubjective systems theory as it is applied to psychoanalytic work.
Robert Stolorow, R. (1997). Dynamic, Dyadic, Intersubjective Systems: An Evolving Paradigm for Psychoanalysis. PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOLOGY, 14(3), 337-346.
Read the whole essay.An Evolving Paradigm for Psychoanalysis
Robert D. Stolorow, PhD
Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles
Abstract:A new scientific paradigm has been evolving from the investigation of phenomena that have variously been called dynamic, nonlinear, self-organizing, or chaotic systems. With origins in physics, chemistry, and mathematics, this new perspective has been applied to the study of complex biological systems (von Bertalanffy, 1968; Waddington, 1977) and is being employed in the search for common principles underlying the behavior of such diverse phenomena as chemical reactions, clouds, forests, and developing embryos and children. Dynamic systems theory (Thelen & Smith, 1994) is centrally concerned with conceptualizing the process of developmental change—that is, the generation of "emergent order and complexity: how structure and patterns arise from the cooperation of many individual parts" (p. xiii). In accounting for the "messy, fluid, context-sensitive" (p. xvi) nature of the developmental process, this framework is exceptionally well suited to serve as a source of guiding metaphors for psychoanalysis.
Dynamic systems theory is a source of powerful new metaphors for psychoanalysis. Phenomena such as conflict, transference, resistance, and the unconscious itself are grasped from this perspective as dynamically emergent properties of self-organizing, nonlinear, dyadic, intersubjective systems. The conception of development as evolving and dissolving attractor states of intersubjective systems richly illuminates the processes of pattern formation and change in psychoanalysis. Effective interpretations are seen as perturbations of the therapeutic system that permit new organizing principles to come into being.
In this article I present an overview of some basic tenets of dynamic systems theory, drawing heavily from the work of developmentalists Thelen and Smith (1994). Interspersed throughout the discussion are examples of how systems theory has already infiltrated my thinking about fundamental psychoanalytic issues. I conclude by applying the principles of dynamic systems to a conceptualization of the process of change and resistance to change in psychoanalysis.
Within a general systems philosophy (Laszlo, 1972; Sucharov, 1994), any living system is part of a hierarchy. Each system contains subsystems, or elements, that constitute the whole. Two or more systems interacting cooperatively form a suprasystem. Conceptualizations of psychological development that focus on the child's mental activity as the system under study (e.g., Thelen & Smith, 1994) highlight the exquisitely context-dependent nature of the child's self-regulatory processes as these influence and are influenced by exchanges with caregivers. Other formulations (e.g., Sander, 1985) enter the living hierarchy at the more encompassing level of the child-caregiver suprasystem and emphasize the ongoing processes of reciprocal mutual regulation within the dyad. Self-regulation and mutual regulation always occur simultaneously and are inextricably interrelated (Beebe & Lachmann, 1994). One or another will predominate as a function of the level of the living hierarchy targeted by the investigator. Because psychoanalytic investigation is concerned with comprehending the process of change within the patient—analyst relationship, the level of the hierarchy most relevant to psychoanalysis is the dyadic system. Furthermore, because the focus of psychoanalytic investigation is always psychic, or subjective, reality—the particular dyadic systems formed by the reciprocal interplay between worlds of experience (i.e., intersubjective systems) constitute the unique domain of inquiry of psychoanalysis. Therefore, I have chosen the phrase dynamic, dyadic, intersubjective systems to capture the nature of a new, evolving paradigm for psychoanalysis.
To summarize, I am concerned here with systems concepts existing at three levels of abstraction and generality. The most general and inclusive is the overarching concept of dynamic systems, and the application of principles of dynamic systems to psychoanalysis is the central aim of this article. A specific category of dynamic systems comprises systems formed by the interaction between two human beings (dyadic systems). More specific still are those formed by the interplay between two subjective worlds (intersubjective systems), the unique domain of psychoanalytic inquiry. The concept of a dynamic, dyadic, intersubjective system mends the long-standing false dichotomy in psychoanalysis between intrapsychic and interpersonal theorizing because it brings to focus both the individual's world of inner experience and the embeddedness of this world with other such worlds in a continual flow of reciprocal mutual influence (Stolorow & Atwood, 1992, p. 18). From a dynamic systems perspective, the very distinction between one- and two-person psychologies is obsolete because the individual and his or her intrapsychic world are included as a subsystem within the more encompassing intersubjective suprasystem. For this reason, I have sometimes quipped that perhaps my theoretical viewpoint is a "no-person psychology," concerned as it is with how worlds of inner experience and intersubjective fields mutually constitute one another.
A cardinal feature of the dynamic systems approach to development is that it categorically rejects teleological conceptions of preordained end-states toward which developmental trajectories are presumed to aim. Accordingly,
development does not "know" where it is going from the start.... There is no end-state other than the end of life itself.... Development is the outcome of the self-organizing processes of continuously active living systems [italics added]. (Thelen & Smith, 1994, p. 44)Also rejected is the idea, prominent in much psychoanalytic developmental theory,
that development unfolds according to some predetermined schema or epigenetic
master plan:
Although behavior and development appear structured, there are no structures. Although behavior and development appeal' rule-driven, there are no rules. There is complexity. There is a multiple, parallel, and continuously dynamic interplay of perception and action, and a system that, by its thermodynamic nature, seeks certain stable solutions. These solutions emerge from relations, not from design. When the elements of such complex systems cooperate, they give rise to behavior with a unitary character, and thus (:o the illusion of structure. But the order is always executory, rather than rule-driven, allowing for the enormous sensitivity and flexibility of behavior to organize and regroup around task and context. ... [Such organization is] emergent and not designed [italics added], (Thelen & Smith, 1994, p. xix)Rejection of teleological thinking and of the notion of preestablished developmental programs has been a hallmark of what has come to be known as the intersubjective perspective in psychoanalysis (Stolorow, Atwood, & Brandchaft, 1994). Psychoanalytic inteirsubjectivity theory is a field theory or systems theory that seeks to comprehend psychological phenomena not as products of isolated intrapsychic mechanisms and fixed intrapsychic structures, but as forming at the interface of reciprocally interacting worlds of experience (Stolorow & Atwood, 1992). From this perspective, intrapsychic determinism gives way to an unremitting contextualism for which "a dynamic [systems] account provides a biological rationale" (Thelen & Smith, 1994, p. xxi). With regard to psychological development, my collaborators and I, along with Sander (1985) and Beebe and Lachmann (1988), proposed that the organization of the child's experience must be seen as a property of the child-caregiver system of mutual regulation and, further, that it is the recurring patterns of intersubjective transaction within the developmental system that result in the establishment of invariant principles and themes that unconsciously organize the child's subsequent experiences. The forging of such principles and themes within the child-caregiver system is an example of dynamically emergent form, of "pattern formation without a program" (Thelen & Smith, 1994, p. 71). In this view of psychological development, we, like Stern (1985), eschew traditional psychoanalytic assumptions about universally occurring developmental phases dominated by innately preprogrammed imagery and crises. Contrary to Kohut's (1984) idea that a self possesses an inherent design awaiting a responsive milieu that will enable it to unfold, it is our view that the trajectory of self-experience is shaped at every point in development by the intersubjective matrix in which it crystallizes (Stolorow & Atwood, 1992). In harmony with the dynamic tenet that "all mental activity is emergent, situated, [and] historical" (Thelen & Smith, 1994, p. xxiii), we hold that any psychological constellation can be grasped only in terms of its unique intersubjective history, the relational systems in which it originated and is continuing to be maintained.


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Last month, I had the pleasure of traveling to Coahuila, Mexico for a wedding, where I had the most amazing time. I think - especially to us Southern Californians - Mexico has a pretty poor traveling reputation, which makes it a bit underrated as far as destinations go.
While local tap water still is bad to drink, for example, most resort dining, restaurants, and hotel kitchens use filtered water for every step of preparation. As for crime, many tourist-heavy parts of the country are well-patrolled, making shopping, heading to the beach, and other attractions much safer than you'd think.
One of my favorite parts of being in Mexico is, of course, the food. If you check out HappyCow's list of vegan/vegetarian Mexican restaurants, you'll find that they're surprisingly quite abundant! During my trip, I fell in love with street tacos, pan dulce, and Micheladas.
The Michelada, a beer-based cocktail, is salty, spicy, and refreshing, making it the perfect accompaniment to a regional plate of food. Dress up your Corona, Pacifico, or Modelo in an authentically Mexican way - veganized just for Vingle.


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This is a source collection of the packages used in the first release of the Sane frontends and backends for AmiCygnix. Sane is a scanner driver software. All included packages are provided as diff files. You need to download the original archives and patch them with the corresponding diff file. In the following summary all packages are listed together with a link, where I downloaded the original archives. In every package you can find two amigados scripts called "amicygnix-configure-local.bat" and "amicygnix-configure-system.bat". Use the first script to configure as a local package and the second to configure it as a replacement of the original AmiCygnix packages. I included the makefiles and config files created by configure. Some of them are modified by hand. You CAN'T compile the packages with these files, you must reconfigure the package. IMPORTANT: Please copy your projects to "Cygnix:Development" or "Cygnix:CygnixPPC/local/src" and not to "Cygnix:CygnixPPC/src" and use the prefix "/Cygnix/CygnixPPC/local" for configure! Included packages: ------------------ Package name Download link ------------ ------------- sane-backends-1.0.20.tar.gz ftp://ftp2.sane-project.org/pub/sane/ sane-backends-1.0.20/ sane-backends-1.0.20.tar.gz sane-frontends-1.0.14.tar.gz ftp://ftp2.sane-project.org/pub/sane/ sane-frontends-1.0.14/ sane-frontends-1.0.14.tar.gz How to patch: ------------- Example: Patch the sane backends 1.0.20 package: * Download the original archive and unpack the archive to (for example) "ram:" Afterwards a directory called "sane-backends-1.0.20" is located in "ram:" * Copy the corresponding patch file "sane-backends-1.0.20.diff" to "ram:". * Open a shell and cd into "ram:". * Type into the shell: "patch -p1 -u -dsane-backends-1.0.20 --verbose <sane-backends-1.0.20.diff" and press return. The patch command is included in the AmigaOS4 SDK.
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Partnership provides new incentives for Arkadelphia High students
— Dr. Steve Adkison, Henderson provost and vice president for academic affairs, explains the new initiative at Arkadelphia High School Jan. 29. Also pictured are HSU President Glen Jones and AHS Principal David Maxwell.
Arkadelphia High School students who earn advanced diplomas will have the opportunity to earn a new type of scholarship at Henderson State University starting with the university's fall 2016 entering class. Henderson will also provide AHS students with the opportunity to receive early college credit as of the 2016-2017 school year. READ MORE


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This is a demoralizing book. Not only the fact that Ravensbruck was a death camp where ALL the prisoners were women; nor that the detainees were not only Jews but drawn from 22 countries across Europe, from Russia to the Channel Islands and every ethnicity in between.
This was the camp that beta tested many of the most evil deeds committed by the Nazis, including medical experiments, extreme food rationing (at one point less than 200 calories a day) and the first gas chambers.
Nothing was done by the German Red Cross, for it had been co-opted by the Nazis early in its regime. Nor was anything done by the International Committee of the Red Cross who turned a blind eye to that and other death camps, and when it did make visits were shown "show barracks" that suggested idealized conditions, thus getting the stamp of approval.
Perhaps most shocking was the role of Siemens who set up a slave labour camp within the grounds, making component for German war planes - something the company today barely acknowledges. (It's worth noting that those prisoners who were Jehovah's Witnesses refused to work at the plant, citing their pacifism.)
That this particular story of the Holocaust has gone untold for so long is shameful to say the least. But Sarah Helm has done careful research (at times frustratingly so due to lack of records) in telling the tale and is to be commended.
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Happy Labor Day
Have you ever had the chance to ride in a hot air balloon? Though I have not done this, and I'm not sure I would be brave enough to, I imagine it to be a magical experience. Life is full of these experiences and today's card is for one of those times.
I started with a simple background stamped lightly with the Stacked Blocks from Just For Fun Rubber Stamps. This was layered on some brightly colored decorative cardstock.
I stamped JFF's Flower Balloon directly on the card front and then a second time on a separate piece of white cs. I colored the second image with coordinating colors, then cut out the balloon and basket and layered them on the first image.
The sentiment, Life is a Journey, also from JFF, was layered on multiple layers and adhered to the front.
What magical moments will be part of your life's journey?
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No matter where people live, if they don't brush, floss and visit a dental health professional on a regular basis, then chances are they will end up experiencing tooth decay and gum disease. However, some areas of the U.S. have higher rates of dental issues than others. For example, the California Center for Rural Policy states that individuals living in rural areas may have difficulty finding dentists who practice nearby.
Recently, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that there are a growing number of dental hygienist schools in the Georgia area to meet the demand of the aging population. Georgia also has many rural areas that may need more dental health professionals.
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All the greatest designers know that the way to a woman's heart is to nip in her waist! Classic waist-defining details appeared in Fendi, Gucci, Marni, and Versace. Designers brought in the peplum in Bottega Veneta, Robeto Cavalli, and Etro. Prada, never one to follow the crowd, decided that the best way to accentuate a woman's waist is to bare it: her designs featured slits at the waist (similar slits featured on the Stretch Crepe Shift Dress from Factory By Erik Hart), designed to show off the slimmest part of a woman's figure. For flattering feminine shape with a casual but progressive print, you're bound to love the The Frolic Dress from Stolen Girlfriends Club.
Metallics, patent leather, and all things light-reflecting came back in a big way in Milan. Whether it was a silver jean jacket by Blumarine, a metallic dress at Gianfranco Ferre, or the patent leather jackets that showed up at CNC Costume National, Fendi, Gucci, and Marni, it was decidedly noted that matte and muted colors are for the faint of heart. If you're feeling in need of some glitz check out the ever dynamic Vivienne Westwood Lady Dragon VII in Pink with Mirror Heart from Melissa.
Runways abounded with shaggy fur, loads of feathers, and long silky mink – and sometimes all together. It was all about taking fashion's loudest, most beloved textures, and not letting them fade into the background.
Those 70's, Ozzy-esque glasses showed up at both Marni and Prada and things got trippy! Wild circular frames hark back to a simpler and more bohemian era, and paired with something luxe like fur or studs they can really deliver that "effortless" chicness. We are super excited about our new Henry Holland for Le Specs eyewear. Check out the ultra classic Lennon, futuristic Circle the Mesh, and super coveted Muffin Top.
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Christina Georgina Rossetti
Who Shall Deliver Me? - Poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti
God strengthen me to bear myself;
That heaviest weight of all to bear,
Inalienable weight of care.
All others are outside myself;
I lock my door and bar them out
The turmoil, tedium, gad-about.
I lock my door upon myself,
And bar them out; but who shall wall
Self from myself, most loathed of all?
If I could once lay down myself,
And start self-purged upon the race
That all must run ! Death runs apace.
If I could set aside myself,
And start with lightened heart upon
The road by all men overgone!
God harden me against myself,
This coward with pathetic voice
Who craves for ease and rest and joys
Myself, arch-traitor to mysel ;
My hollowest friend, my deadliest foe,
My clog whatever road I go.
Yet One there is can curb myself,
Can roll the strangling load from me
Break off the yoke and set me free
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1991 Lancia Delta HF Integrale stretched limousine – Click above for image gallery
With the popularity of the Subaru WRX and Mitsubishi Evo, it'd be easy to dismiss the likes of the Lancia Delta HF Integrale as a relic of the past. But make no mistake about it: The roadgoing version of this Italian rally machine is as exotic and desirable as any supercar to come from the same country. All the more reason, then, to be appalled at this unfortunate conversion job.
It appears that some garage in Italy has taken an Integrale (possibly two, according to reports), chopped it up and stretched it into a limousine. If you're thinking that an all-wheel drive hot hatch is the worst possible candidate for limo-ification, we're with you. Whether the conversion job retains the all-wheel drive system remains a big question mark, however, with power coming from either the Integrale's eight-valve 2.0-liter turbo four or the Evo's 16-valve version.
Oh, and the best part? It's for sale, courtesy of Italian classifieds site Autoscout24, for the princely sum of €99,000 (or about $136,000 by current exchange rates). Have a look in the gallery below, just don't expect to see one of these popping up at the local Chrysler dealership with a Pentastar on the nose.
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An open-air stadium packed with as many as 95,000 mourners, and thousands more surging to get close. On the inside, four presidents of the United States — together overseas for what appears to be only the second time in history — and the leaders of most of the world, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
The memorial service for Nelson Mandela on Tuesday will be the biggest security event in recent memory, and all planned on just five days' notice.
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South African police said that thousands of officers would be in place to direct traffic, protect the masses and help the bodyguards that the world's dignitaries bring with them. High government officials, mostly presidents and prime ministers, from at least 88 countries and world bodies will be there, according to an official list from the South African government.
"We will be on hand to make sure people are able to grieve in a safe environment," Lt. Gen. Solomon Makgale, a spokesman for the police, told The Associated Press.
He said that a task force of police, diplomats and intelligence personnel have been making plans and talking to foreign delegations who are on their way to Johannesburg for the memorial.


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Well, now if these just aren't the cutest things I've seen in a long time...
check out these adorable Thumbtack Balls. Pretty sure I can think of a million places to put these and in a million different colors (blush & bashful, anyone?) I think a few metallic ones would look cute with the other decorative balls in my front room. DEFINITELY a craft to do SOON.
Anyone else have a stash of colored brads from old-school scrapbooking days? I bet they'd work too (and then you wouldn't have to paint them!). So glad I stumbled across Landee See, Landee Do - what a darling blog... and thanks for the inspiration!!
May 26, 2011
Thumbtack Balls - Vase Filler
Posted by ificould at 5/26/2011
Labels: craft, decorating
2 comments:
- The Tiny Team said...
Oh my gosh! I would have never thought of that, and if I did, I would never imagine they would turn out this cute!! WOW!
- June 2, 2011 at 11:43 AM
- mel said...
wow, those are really cool! and you're right, i do totally have brads from back in my scrapbooking heyday.
thanks for sharing!
- June 9, 2011 at 8:22 AM
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So many changes in my life this past year.
I had my 10 month gastric bypass check up on Friday. Dr Price says I am an excellent patient and that everything looks perfect. I can't help but wonder, What the heck is perfect?
I know I am somewhat of a worrywart. I want things to be normal but I know they never will be. But then what is normal?
See how my mind works? LOL
I know I am not the brightest bulb in the lamp sometimes. I would just like to feel secure once in awhile.
I make lots of stupid choices and make lots of dumb mistakes. But I am me and that's all I know how to be.
I am just amazed that I have any sanity left after the last year and a half. Or do I?


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What a smart idea! Thanks for sharing it.
fabulous easy project! love it michele!
catching you!
Great idea! Now I have to find my chalkboard vinyl that I lost…how does one lose a bunch of vinyl?
I never thought about using a punch! What a great idea. Now I have lots of labeling to go do! Thanks for sharing.
I found your blog from Sugar Bee Craft's Take a Look Tuesday! I'm' loving this easy trick! I've not yet ventured into the world of vinyl, but I am itching too, and now I know I can (b/c I don't have a die cut machine!) Thanks for the tip!!
Now following you via Bloglovin!!
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i love those drawers. you could use them for anything. chalkboard makes them just that much cuter!
So easy, so cute, and so organized! My three favorite things! I didn't know there was chalkboard vinyl. I'll have to get me some. Thanks so much for sharing! Have a wonderful day.
These are so cute. I'm going to have to find some chalkboard vinyl ASAP! I featured you on my Friday's Five Features. Stop by and feel free to link up other projects! http://diy-vintage-chic.blogspot.com/2013/08/fridays-five-features-no-3.html
Very awesome. I'm over from Hookin Up with HoH. I'm pinning these.They are THAT cute. Thanks so much for the inspiration. Come share at What to do Weekends also. A new linky will be open tomorrow night. Thanks, Linda
Michele, this is genius! Buying a roll of chalkboard vinyl and using a punch would save SO much money. Those chalkboard stickers are pricey. Thanks for sharing this tip.
Katie @http://www.thecasualcraftlete.com/
super cute! I love labels for things that you can't see inside… such a time saver when you are looking for something. I love your big punches too!
You are soooooo smart!! I love this – it seems so much faster than hauling out the Silhouette – especially if you only need one or two labels! I need to go punch shopping I think!
Great tip!! Thanks for sharing
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I recently posted a query on the peripheral hardware forum about a problem I was having with a Cherry G84-4100 USB keyboard that would not work on my desktop PC but would work on other computers, including my laptop which has same version of FreeBSD on it. The thread can be found here:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=28503 The final reply, from wblock, was that the problem was a USB one and should be posted here. In fact, I decided to leave it and just use another keyboard. However, Santa kindly brought me a Cherry G80-3000 for christmas and this does nor work either; exactly the same problem occurs with the device not recognised. These are quite expensive keyboards: not at DAS or Filco prices but retailing for over £60 in UK and using expensive Cherry switches, so not some bit of cheap junk that might not cause all that much surprise by not working. They are also quite popular so it's hard to believe I'm the only person using one. I have got it to work by connecting it to the PS/2 port via an adaptor so it's not the end of the world. However, these are unlikely to be supported for much longer so it would be better if it would work via USB port. As I said in the original forum posting, every other USB keyboard I have tried has worked, both from boot and hot plugged. This is the only time I have ever used a PS/2 connection. I can only assume it is something to do with whatever controller Cherry use within the keyboards. Is there any way I can solve this problem? O/S is FreeBSD 9.0 RC1 amd64. (I would leave this till running the final production version except that the other Cherry keyboard would work with the laptop running exact same O/S). In case it matters, the motherboard is a Abit - not sure of exact model but it is 2 or 3 years old. Thanks Paul _______________________________________________ email@example.com mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-usb-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"


text: MTV Unplugged is a DVD, released in 2002 by the band Staind. The DVD's main feature is Staind's unplugged performance, recorded at MTV studios at Times Square, New York. The show was recorded just before the band's third album, Break the Cycle, was released. The show was unique as it showcased how many of Staind's heavier songs suit the acoustic format. Of special note is the song "Can't Believe", (one of the heaviest songs found on Break the Cycle) a song full of heavy guitar riffs and loud screaming has now been turned into a quiet, melodic song full of sorrow. The unplugged show was so successful that Staind decided to use the acoustic format more often. While touring the 14 Shades of Grey album, Staind would often switch from an electric format to acoustic format. Aaron Lewis (Staind's vocalist and rhythm guitarist) also ventured on a small amount of solo shows, with only his acoustic guitar.


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The Problem Management process flow is the sequence of steps that are followed to handle a problem.
1. Inputs to the process - The inputs to Problem Management can come from a number of sources. These include Incident Management, Event Management and the Service Desk. Additionally, proactive Problem Management may identify Problems. Suppliers and other processes such as Release Management, Capacity Management and Availability Management may also become aware of Problems.
2. Problem detection - Problems can be detected in many ways. The Service Desk may believe that one or more Incidents are being caused by a particular Problem. Second-line support areas may identify a Problem when conducting Incident handling. Problems can also be detected automatically by the Service Management tools in use. Proactive Problem Management will identify problems often before any Incidents occur. Likewise, other processes such as Release Management and Availability Management will become aware of Problems.
3. Problem logging - It is crucial that the full details of the Problem are recorded. This will allow analysis to take place and will enable comparisons to be made between Problems. All Incidents caused by the Problem should be linked to the Problem record allowing the scope and scale of the impact to be ascertained easily. The date and the time that all Problems are logged must be recorded within the Problem record.
4. Problem categorization - It is important to categorize Problems and it is recommended that the same system is used as adopted by the Incident Management process for any particular organization. Correct and meaningful categorization will allow helpful metrics to be produced and enable proactive Problem Management to identify areas to concentrate on.
5. Problem prioritization - Problems should be prioritized in the same way as Incidents. For ex: A High urgency problem raised by senior management will be priority 1. Most IT Service companies have a matrix that they use to arrive at the priority of the problem taking multiple factors into consideration. They would be:
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o Urgency of the Problem
o Who raised it
Target Problem resolution times will be assigned to each Priority level. These will have been agreed with the business and recorded in the SLA. One factor that will feed into the impact and urgency of Problems is the rate of reoccurrence.
• Problem investigation and diagnosis - The aim of the investigation and diagnosis phase is to ascertain the root cause of the Problem. The priority allocated to the Problem should drive the number of resources working on the investigation and diagnosis. Priority should be reassessed during the lifetime of the Problem to ensure that it remains correct.
The figure below explains the Process Flow:
Problem Records must remain open when a workaround has been identified and the workaround should be detailed in the Problem record. Permanent fixes should still be progressed. However, there may be reasons why workarounds remain in place for some time.
These reasons include:
• A permanent fix is too risky• Raising a Known Error Record - The Known Error Database is an important source of information for the Service Desk and Support groups handling Incidents and Problems. A Known Error Record should be raised when the diagnosis has been completed and especially when a workaround has been identified.
• A permanent fix is too costly
• The business impact of the Problem is not significant enough to justify further diagnosis at this time;
• The Problem will be permanently fixed by a new Release that is currently being planned.
• Problem resolution - Once a permanent fix has been identified, it should be implemented as soon as possible. However, there may be good reasons why this is not possible. The reasons are similar to the reasons why organizations live with workarounds and include cost and risk. Additionally, an immediate fix may require a service outage which is not justifiable in the short term. A Request For Change (RFC) should be raised and progressed for any required Change identified.
• Problem closure - Problem Records should be closed once a Change has successfully been applied. It is important that the Problem Record stays open until it is certain that the Problem has been resolved. Checking that the Problem has been resolved should be undertaken via testing. It may take some time to ensure that a fix has been successful, for example it may be the next time a particular process is used such as end of day, end of month, end of quarter, year-end or end of tax year.
• Major Problem Review- Whenever a Major Problem has occurred, a Major Problem Review should be undertaken. Each organization will have its own definition of a Major Problem based on the impact and urgency. It is crucial that these reviews look at lessons learnt rather than becoming 'allocation of blame' sessions. The output from a Major Problem Review ought to include what went well, what went badly, what could be done better in the future, how could the Problem have been prevented and how could the impact of the Problem have been reduced.
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I would like to thank picklebums for coming up with the great idea of Hexi Cards a colour matching game. She even has it ready to print.
We took the game one step further. We printed the sheets and cut them out. Then we decided to add some numbers. Some of the Hexagons we wrote numbers in some of the sections others we left blank.
The original game was to match the colours. We do this but then we bring in the maths. If you match a Hexagon you get one point but if you manage to Match a triangle with a number you get that many points.
In this sample the player matched two red triangles and a 4 so he got 4 points. Players take it in turns to take the next Hexagon of an upturned pile and then have to find somewhere they can place it.
Sometimes you might be able to match two colours at once. This time the player played the blank Hexagon. He got two matching the red with the 2 and 1 for matching the yellow.
Each time a player goes they add their new points to their total as they go along. Great chance for kids to practice writing numbers.
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Glimpse the inside of a star's home! See how Mickey lives as you take a self-guided tour through his living and work spaces packed with artifacts from his daily life and brilliant career.
Drop in for a visit to see that her house is as charming and cute as Minnie herself. If you're in the mood for food, cake's already rising (and falling!) in the oven. And whisper what you want at her Wishing Well — Minnie's voice returns good wishes to all!
The Disney Junior Dance Party! event stars characters like Doc McStuffins and Sofia the First at Disney California Adventure Park at the Disneyland Resort.
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