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by Mike Masnick
Fri, Dec 4th 2009 6:50pm
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Shocklee points us to an awesome little app that lets you type in whatever lyrics (or, well, words) you want, hit play, and whatever you type will be sung for you, using clips from various famous songs. It's a really fun little app (though, I was amused that they have no clip for the word "lyrics" despite the service being all about lyrics) and can get pretty addictive. In fact, if you want to hear this entire post sung outloud via this system, just click here (please note, this will take a really long time to load, but it's totally worth it). However, like with many other cool music projects, I'm left wondering whether or not some would consider this to be copyright infringement. All of the clips are tiny -- one word, or in many cases, less than a full word, but they do seem to come from various popular and well-known songs. It's not hard to identify some of them. I have no idea if the company behind this service cleared all the licenses (it's possible), but if that's the case, you'd have to imagine that this service would get ridiculously expensive very quickly. If a simple lyric of, say, 8 words, involves a dozen clips, with royalties needing to be paid for each, such a service would quickly become impossible. Doesn't it say something when copyright law would effectively outlaw an awesome and fun app like this one?
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Anonymous Coward, 4 Dec 2009 @ 6:53pm
Please Sir, May I have some More?I just wanted to be the first commenter on Mike's 21st story he's posted today.
As for the story, I'd like to ask why do all the cool things come from Sweden?
ChurchHatesTucker (profile), 4 Dec 2009 @ 7:04pm
Re: Please Sir, May I have some More?"As for the story, I'd like to ask why do all the cool things come from Sweden?"
I asked this elsewhere. Consensus seems to be "Long Winters."
Anonymous Coward, 4 Dec 2009 @ 8:04pm
Re: Please Sir, May I have some More?Has to be the meatballs.
gixxer, 5 Dec 2009 @ 9:18am
Re: Re: Please Sir, May I have some More?They are good(the meatballs).
Isn't this covered by fair use?Seeing as they're only taking bits of words, wouldn't this be covered under fair use? I mean in all honesty here this is a good idea, and fairly close imho to a mix tape.
Anonymous Coward, 4 Dec 2009 @ 9:43pmIt's clearly fair use, and when similar things have been done in the past (similar in the sense of combining short pieces I mean--I know of no previous program that does this automatically) no one has taken the bait and tried to sue.
Anonymous Coward, 4 Dec 2009 @ 10:11pm
Probably not fair use.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Upright_Music,_Ltd._v._Warner_Bros._Records,_Inc.
http://en.wi kipedia.org/wiki/List_of_copyright_case_law
Anonymous Coward, 4 Dec 2009 @ 10:18pm
Sample trolls.Sample trolls will feast on this app :)
Tor (profile), 5 Dec 2009 @ 1:10am
No fair use in SwedenThere is no such thing as fair use in Sweden. I mean, we of course have exemptions from copyright for quoting text, but other than that and the fact that there seems to be some tolerance for satire (although I doubt that there is actually any basis for that in the law) the laws are very strict. The main reason we still manage is that we're not a very litigious people.
Works that are protected by the full copyright (life+70 years) need to reach a certain standard in order to be protected by the law. However, recorded works like movies and music don't have any such requirement. So if you make a very strict interpretation of the law here even a very short clip would be covered by copyright and represent an infringement unless you have the permission of the rights holder to publish it.
It's interesting how this relates to file-sharing via bittorrent btw. I suspect that if you share an e-book then someone would need to prove that those exact pieces of the book that you shared meet the standard needed to be covered by copyright. But if you share an audio book in the same way the proof burden is much lighter since every piece that you share is copyrighted (assuming that it's big enough to be unique for the song at least).
Anonymous Coward, 5 Dec 2009 @ 3:45amDoesn't it say something when copyright law would effectively outlaw an awesome and fun app like this one?
Yes, it says that you can't make a profit off the backs of others, same as it always says.
Nice attempt at another moral outrage stand.
Anonymous Coward, 5 Dec 2009 @ 4:44am
Re:Odd. The whole world seems to run off of "making a profit off the backs of others". Last I heard, there aren't too many big, single-employee businesses around.
Perhaps you were referring to something else?
Anonymous Coward, 5 Dec 2009 @ 5:50am
Re:I know, this completely free app is just making so much profit off other folks. Out of curiosity, can you name on person in the RIAA who *doesn't* make money off the back of others? I'm not even being sarcastic. They make money off of other people's work. Their entire business model is based on it. Did you think the president of the RIAA writes and performs the music? Think they get paid a flat fee for producing? No. They get royalties just like the artist.
Nice attempt at being an idiot, you succeeded. seriously, did you even think about that comment before you said it?.
Robert Ring (profile), 5 Dec 2009 @ 7:17am
Re:"you can't make a profit off the backs of others"
Oh? So every business exists in a vacuum?
Anonymous Coward, 5 Dec 2009 @ 9:23am
Re:Besides the stupidity of that statement (see the other comments)...that's not even what copyright law says or has ever said.
Dementia (profile), 7 Dec 2009 @ 3:54am
Re:Enough with the bullshit moral outrage charges towards Mike and Techdirt. The only moral outrage here is your stupid opinion.
Anonymous Coward, 5 Dec 2009 @ 7:21amIf a simple lyric of, say, 8 words, involves a dozen clips, with royalties needing to be paid for each, such a service would quickly become impossible.
Imagine the panic that will ensue when someone uses the app to sing words from copyrighted material.
jezsik (profile), 5 Dec 2009 @ 9:56amAm I so in the minority? That was really, really awful! How about an auto-tuned text-to-speech application instead?
Swedish guy, 5 Dec 2009 @ 10:13amThis is from the Swedish state (public broadcasting) radio. Fair use aside, as a broadcaster they already have their licensing and payments managed. However, since it is available outside of Sweden they must have checked fair use issues. It is worth mentioning that they regularly strip out whole music pieces from talk radio programs.
DRG, 6 Dec 2009 @ 12:20pm
Novelty songs and Carol BurnettDuring the early 70's it was common on radio to hear comedy novelty songs that were built on short clips of current hits. Also, Carol Burnett once did a skit with under thirty seconds of each song they sang because they couldn't afford royalties. Would they be sued today?
Johan, 17 Dec 2009 @ 11:18pm
Swedish Radio can do thisTwo points making this possible in Sweden: 1. The sampling level that this entails would be allowed in Swedish courts (has been tried before, actually).
2. The Swedish Public Radio, who seems to behind this, _HAS_ cleared all the licenses. All of them.
They do actually have a database of all the music they ever played, too, so creating this was probably a rather fun excercise.
Just another note: The problem in the US does not actually seem to be so much was with the copyright law itself, as the way your courts interpret it. And they of course do it as the lawyers ask in the lawsuits. It's not copyright or copyright law that stifles innovation, it is the litigation culture...
PS: I have to agree on the quality of the clip.


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Is God's name Jehovah? Sooner or later, every person will encounter a Jehovah's Witness, since their door-to-door and street evangelism is so thorough. They usually make an issue about knowing God's name, even to the point of calling themselves a Jehovah's Witness. This fact sheet will help the Christian answer them. It would also be a good idea to run off copies of this teaching and pass it on to any Jehovah's Witness you may know so they can learn the answer to Is God's name Jehovah? May God be pleased to use it to bring many to true salvation.
Is God's Name Jehovah?
In the New World Translation (NWT), the Bible of the Jehovah's Witnesses, we read the following:Therefore, the foremost feature of this translation is the restoration of the divine name to its rightful place in the English text. It has been done, using the commonly accepted English form "Jehovah" 6,973 times in the Hebrews Scriptures and 237 times in the Christian Greek Scriptures.(1)Why isn't the NWT consistent to use Jehovah every time Lord is found? Their reasonings are as follows:By determining where the inspired Christian writers have quoted from the Hebrew Scriptures. Then he must refer back to the original to locate whether the divine name appears there. This way he can determine the identity to give to ky'ri.os and the.os' and he can then clothe them with personality. Realizing that this is the time and place for it, we have followed this course in rendering our version of the Christian Greek Scriptures.(2)
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Since one of the outstanding features of the NWT is their abundant usage of the word Jehovah, how can they elsewhere admit that Yahweh is the more correct way to render God's name?
Jehovah is Not the More Correct Way!While inclining to view the pronunciation "Yah.weh" as the more correct way, we have retained the form "Jehovah" because of people's familiarity with it since the 14th century.(3)Why then did the NWT forfeit accuracy to use the word Jehovah, which began to be used in the 14th century? Their answer is because of people's familiarity with it. That is another way of saying that they have upheld the traditions of man's inventions since the 14th century at the expense of truth and accuracy, which they knew about. Notice how many times this was done in the NWT:It has been done, using the commonly accepted English form "Jehovah" 6,973 times in the Hebrews Scriptures and 237 times in the Christian Greek Scriptures.(4)How can the NWT claim that Jehovah is the restoration of the divine name to its rightful place in the English text, since they openly admit Yahweh is more correct? Shouldn't they rather have stated that knowingly they have omitted the more correct name for God, that is Yahweh, and substituted a different name which began to be used in the 14th century -- Jehovah. Furthermore, how can they claim that God's name Jehovah should be vindicated?For many centuries, particularly after the days of Jesus and his apostles, the meaning of the name Jehovah has been lost to sight, and even the very name has been pushed into the background. Only in very recent years has God caused his name to be brought forth again to the light and its meaning to be made known to his faithful servants, because it is the due time and the vindication of his name Jehovah draws near. Let none now ignore that name!(5)
Yet a different piece of Watchtower literature states the same embarrassing information about the word Jehovah, but elaborates as to its Catholic origin in 1270:
The Usage of Jehovah Came From CatholicismBy combining the vowel signs of 'Adho.nay and 'Elo.him' with the four consonants of the Tetragrammaton the pronunciations Yeho.wah' and Yehowih' were formed. The first of these provided the basis for the Latinized form "Jehova(h)." The first recorded use of this form dates from the thirteenth century C.E. Raymundus Martini, a Spanish monk of the Dominican Order, used it in his book Pugeo Fidei of the year 1270. Hebrew scholars generally favor "Yahweh" as the most likely pronunciation.(6)Please note: Hebrew scholars generally favor "Yahweh" as the most likely pronunciation.
Bruce Metzger, who criticizes the KJV's misusage of Jehovah, gives additional information:(7)The form "Jehovah" is of late medieval origin; it is a combination of the consonants of the Divine Name and the vowels attached to it by the Masoretes but belonging to an entirely different word .... (1) The word "Jehovah" does not accurately represent any form of the Name ever used in Hebrew. (2) The use of any proper name for the one and only God, as though there were other gods from whom the true God had to be distinguished, began to be discontinued in Judaism before the Christian era and is inappropriate for the universal faith of the Christian Church.(8)Remarkably, the Watchtower has exalted in their own literature the usage of the inaccurate name for God, Jehovah, to a salvation issue:Have you been taught to use God's name, Jehovah? If not, your salvation is in jeopardy, for "everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved"! -- Acts 2:21; compare Joel 2:32.(9)So if one takes in accurate knowledge about God's name and uses that accurate knowledge, as opposed to using the name Jehovah, then he will risk his own salvation, that is, if one accepts what the Watchtower Society declares about this.
Should a person call on Jehovah for salvation, which no one ever heard of until the 1270 or should he call on a different name? Let's allow the Apostle Paul to answer this for us, as he too refers to Joel 2:32. Paul wrote:
Salvation is Found in Only One Name!That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. As the Scripture says, "Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame." For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile - the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved" (Rom. 10:9-13).In Rom. 10:9-13, Paul explicitly stated: (1) that Jesus is Lord; (2) Jesus richly blesses all who call on him and (3) that these truths refer back to Joel 2:32 in that same passage where YHWH is found in the Hebrew, but here applies them to Jesus! Either the Apostle Paul is wrong or the Watchtower Society is wrong! They can't both be right, since Paul taught we are to call on JESUS for salvation and the Watchtower, in contradistinction, is teaching we are to call on a hybrid name for God which didn't even exist for 13 centuries - Jehovah! By the way, the NWT is not consistent at Rom. 10:9 with the Greek word by rendering it Jesus, unlike they did at Rev. 4:11, where it is also used and translated Jehovah. If they had been consistent at Rom. 10:9, their NWT would read Jesus is Jehovah, which they would never allow.
Shockingly, the WS contradicts their own teaching about Joel 2:32 and Rom. 10:13 and their own NWT in the latter reference where they elsewhere write about the Son:There are verses in the Hebrew Scriptures about Jehovah that are quoted in the "New Testament" in a context speaking about the Son. (Isa. 40:3--Matt. 3:3--John 1:23; Joel 2:32--Rom. 10:13; Ps. 45:6, 7--Heb. 1:8, 9) This is understandable, for Jesus was the Father's foremost representative.(10)
Paul was not alone is teaching this way about Jesus' name. The Apostle Peter stated the same truth in different words and perhaps in a more clear fashion:
Salvation Is Found in No One ElseThen know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. He is "the stone you builders rejected, which has become the capstone." Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved" (Acts 4:10-12).In first century Christianity, the ones who were in the truth taught we are to call on Jesus for salvation. There is no other name, as the Apostle Peter taught! This fact, however, has been brushed aside and replaced by the Watchtower Society with a different name to call on for salvation, which no one knew of for over 1,000 years!
In harmony with other Scriptures that exalt the name of Jesus, Paul and Silas taught:
Believe On Jesus For SalvationThey replied, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved - you and your household" (Acts 16:31).Note: God's servants did not say, "Believe in the Lord Jesus and the Father and you will be saved." See also Jn. 3:16.
The Greek word believe (pisteuo) means:pisteuo, pist-yoo'-o; from 4102; to have faith (in, upon, or with respect to, a person or thing), i.e. credit; by impl. to entrust (espec. one's spiritual well-being to Christ): believe (-r), commit (to trust), put in trust with.(11)Dear reader, if you aren't extending a trusting-submitting faith in Jesus for your salvation, then you aren't saved, regardless of your zeal and good intentions, according to Scripture. Furthermore, nowhere are we told in Scripture to trust in any organization for our salvation. Call on Jesus now, the one who has the only name under heaven in which salvation is found (Acts 4:12). Please don't be deceived by a Bible translation which inserts and removes words without Greek justification for the support of fabricated doctrines produced by a Bible-defined false prophet.
To the surprise of many, the Lord taught one can read the Scriptures and still be without salvation. To get life one must come to JESUS, according to the Lord himself:
Come To Jesus For LifeYou diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life (John 5:39,40).The Watchtower Society (WS) doesn't allow their followers to come to me [Jesus] for the purpose of getting life, since they think he is merely a part of creation. They also deny that we should pray TO Jesus, by changing John 14:14. The WS has come out in their publications and boldly taught the same error:Prayer is part of our worship and for this reason should be directed only to the Creator, Jehovah .... Jesus did not teach them to pray to himself ....(12)In contrast to the WS, the same eternal truth as found in John 14:14 is reiterated at John 4:10 and linked to salvation:Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water" (John 4:10).The reason Jehovah's Witnesses don't ask Jesus for living water, as Jesus taught, is because they don't know about (1) the gift of God or (2) that it is Scriptural to pray to the Lord Jesus, the one was speaking to the woman at Jacob's well. Unfortunately, the Jehovah's Witnesses have been misled to believe that Jesus is merely Michael the archangel and hence one should never go to him for living water. Friend, the Watchtower Society has deceived multitudes into believing something about Jesus that isn't true and the NWT has helped in this great deception.
Who has the name in which forgiveness is found? According to first-century Christians the answer is simple:
Forgiveness is Found ONLY in Jesus' NameHe was not seen by all the people, but by witnesses whom God had already chosen - by us who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one whom God appointed as judge of the living and the dead. All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name (Acts 10:41-43).Clearly, Jesus is the one who has the name in which forgiveness of sins can be found. We are told to believe in him. After Cornelius heard that eternal truth, he instantly became a Christian. What an important key truth that is for salvation, but that is not what the WS teaches! NOTE: Jehovah is NOT the name in which forgiveness is found, as you might be believing. Consider also the following two Scriptures:He told them, This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem (Luke 24:46,47).
Therefore, my brothers, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. Through him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses (Acts 13:38,39).
In support of John 14:14 is Acts 9:14-21:
Call On JESUS Like The Early ChristiansAnd he has come here with authority from the chief priests to arrest all who call on your name. But the Lord said to Ananias, "Go! This man is my chosen instrument to carry my name before the Gentiles and their kings and before the people of Israel. I will show him how much he must suffer for my name." Then Ananias went to the house and entered it. Placing his hands on Saul, he said, "Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit." Immediately, something like scales fell from Saul's eyes, and he could see again. He got up and was baptized, and after taking some food, he regained his strength. Saul spent several days with the disciples in Damascus. At once he began to preach in the synagogues that Jesus is the Son of God. All those who heard him were astonished and asked, "Isn't he the man who raised havoc in Jerusalem among those who call on this name? And hasn't he come here to take them as prisoners to the chief priests?"Saul of Tarsus persecuted Christians, both men and women, who are described in the above passage as those who would call on [Jesus'] name. The same truth about early Christians praying to Jesus is found elsewhere in Scripture:(Rom 10:12) For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile - the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him,Rom. 10:13, which is both immediately before and after two Scriptures that refer to the Lord Jesus is fallaciously rendered in the NWT as:
(Rom 10:14) How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?
(1 Cor 1:2) To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ - their Lord and ours:
(2 Tim 2:22) Flee the evil desires of youth, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.For 'everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved.'Moreover, a footnote in the NWT wrongly connects the Lord of 2 Tim. 2:22 to Jehovah. Hence, it should be apparent that the NWT is fatally flawed and distorted to where one's salvation can be jeopardized by it. Friend, call on Jesus for salvation. Believe on him [Jesus] for your salvation. This was part of the message of the early Christians, who also recognized Jesus as the Apostle Thomas addressed him to his face: "My Lord and my God" (John 20:28).
In contrast to the facts, the Watchtower Society will continue to publish the following about their own NWT, to the spiritual detriment of those that will believe it:
The Lie Continues To Go Forth... the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures richly enhances accurate Bible knowledge by means of several distinctive features such as the marginal (cross) references, an extensive footnote apparatus, a concordance (Bible Words Indexed) and an appendix(13).A corrupted Bible translation, even if it has the above distinctive features, is still flawed and distorted in helping readers learn God's precious truths and learning the answer to the question: Is God's name Jehovah? ANSWER: Absolutely not. God's name is not Jehovah.
1. What is the foremost feature of the NWT?
Questions Regarding The Name Jehovah
2. Is Yahweh the more correct way to render God's name than Jehovah, according to the Watchtower Society?
3. Why then does the Watchtower Society, who claims to be our spiritual mother, use Jehovah instead of Yahweh?
4. When did people first become familiar with the word Jehovah?
5. Did any Christians before the year 1270 use the name Jehovah?
6. Does Jehovah come from the Latin?
7. Does Yahweh come from the Hebrew, the language of the Old Testament? 8. Who was Raymundus Martini?
9. Does Jehovah Come From Catholicism?
10. Has the Watchtower exalted the usage of the inaccurate name for God, Jehovah, to a salvation issue?
11. Is it true that the word "Jehovah" does not accurately represent any form of the Name ever used in Hebrew?
12. So if one takes in accurate knowledge about God's name and uses that accurate knowledge, as opposed to using the name Jehovah, will he risk his own salvation, that is, if one accepts what the Watchtower Society declares about this?
13. Should a person call on Jehovah for salvation, which no one ever heard of until the year 1270 or should he call on a different name?
14. According to Rom. 10:9-13, who should we call on for salvation?
15. Salvation is found in only one name, according to Acts 4:12. Is that name "Jehovah" or a different name?
16. What name should we believe upon to be saved, according to Acts 16:31?
17. Is that name "Jehovah"?
18. What does the word believe mean in the Greek?
19. To the surprise of many, the Lord taught one can read the Scriptures and still be without salvation. To get life one must come to JESUS, according to Jesus. Is this true or false, according to the Bible?
20. Did Jesus teach we could pray to Jesus? (John 14:14 KIT, Greek)
21. Does the Watchtower Society teach we should pray to Jesus?
22. Did early Christians, like Stephen, pray to Jesus? (Acts 7:59)
23. Forgiveness of sins is found in only one name. According to Acts 10:43 what is that name?
24. The Apostle Thomas was "in the truth." Since the Watchtower Society claims to also be "in the truth," but teaches differently, can they both be in the same "truth"? See John 20:28.
25. Should we believe what the Lord's Apostles believed about Jesus or should we believe a Bible-defined false prophet, who teaches the opposite?
26. If you were wrong, would you change?
1. New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures with References, Revised 1984, p. 6.
2. The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures, 1969, pp. 18,19.
3. Ibid., p. 23.
4. New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures with References, p. 6.
5. The Truth Shall Make You Free, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, 1943, p. 34
6. Aid to Bible Understanding, Watchtower Bible And Tract Society, 1971, pp. 884, 885.
7. The KJV makes the mistake of using Jehovah at Ex. 6:3; Psa. 83:18; Isa. 12:2 and 26:4.
8. The New Revised Standard Version Bible, Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1989, To The Reader.
9. The Watchtower, August 15, 1997, p. 6.
10. The Watchtower, May 1, 1978, p. 12.
11. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1976, Greek dictionary, p. 58, number 4100.
12. The Truth that leads to Eternal Life, 1968, p. 152.
13. NWT, p. 6.
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Après le déluge, a deluge of wickets. Given the apocalyptic nature of the morning rain, getting any play on Friday seemed unfeasible, but when it did begin it was spell-binding, as England threw away a commanding position, looked to be taking control again and ended the second day with the game in the balance.
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Ginger tea with honey, apple cider vinegar and coconut oil. Slice a clump of fresh ginger and placing the slices in a covered pot of water. Bring to a boil, remove from heat and cover, allowing the ginger to steep for 15 minutes. Once cool, pour into a container and refrigerate. When you feel congested, heat 1 part ginger water in 2 parts water. Add 1 spoonful raw honey, 1 tablespoon raw apple cider vinegar, and 1 teaspoon coconut oil. Kathy Herrmann swears this recipe clears her sinuses within two hours.
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Holden Bill To Provide S.T.E.M. Courses In Underserved Communities Passes Key Committee
Sacramento – Under legislation proposed by Assemblymember Chris Holden (D-Pasadena), students in underserved communities throughout California would have access to advanced coursework in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and Computer Science classes.
The bill, AB 252, passed Assembly Education Committee late Wednesday on a vote of 5 to 1. The measure is aimed at increasing the number of minority, female and low income students who often do not have access to advanced courses at their high schools.
"In many areas of California, disadvantaged students who have the potential to succeed in AP courses never get the chance," testified Assemblymember Holden. "Increasing access to AP courses in the STEM fields, especially for underrepresented minority students, ensures that California's workforce will be diverse and well-prepared for the developments that spur technology."
AB 252 creates a grant program to help school districts meet the costs associated with creating Advanced Placement (AP) courses in the STEM fields. According to the National Science Foundation, women only make up a quarter of the workers in the STEM industry, while Hispanic, African-American, and other minority ethnicities make up less than twelve percent.
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I used totally ancient papers for today's layout. LOL!
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The title is made up of Thickers in Daiquiri. Such a pretty gold chunky glitter. And the sub-title is OA Mini Markets in Sherbet.
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Leonardo DiCaprio: Mobbed By Fans on 'Wolf' Set
Leonardo DiCaprio gets mobbed by fans while walking down 52nd Street on the set of his new film The Wolf of Wall Street on Wednesday (August 29) in New York City.
The 37-year-old actor is reportedly set to go nude in an explicit scene for the film, according to the New York Daily News.
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At my internship in our IOP, we offer a new class on spirituality, meaning and values. The clinicians around us were a little skeptical about offering a class to patients that would most likely be talking about religion, faith and spirituality. A couple of us were (and still are) convinced that spirituality cannot be overlooked when addressing someone's overall mental health. So, we advocated for this material to be offered to our patients. And we couldn't be happier with the results. Patients were given time and space to discuss their spiritual lives; anything from how religion has been hurtful, how they use prayer/quiet time/meditation as a coping skill, how places of worship have offered community and how they view themselves as spiritual beings; if not, what that means for recovering in a treatment program. Patients were calm, reflective, respective of their differences and appreciative of their similarities. Even our atheist patients with two PhD's were engaged in the conversation. We transitioned from conversations on spirituality to conversations on meanings and values. We challenged our patients to think about what gives their life meaning and what do they consider to be their values. Some patient's struggled to keep their lists to a minimum of 10 important things while others struggled to come up with even one or two values. One of the most heartbreaking, yet noticeable things from this discussion was observing patients who were unhappy with the things they discovered about themselves, specifically the things they value or find give meaning to their lives. Our conversation was full of honesty, authenticity and cathartic moments. Following the class, we heard many patients say, "That was the best group I've had here" or "that was the turning point for me in my therapeutic healing." I'm excited to share the results of the class because it shows that our patient's really needed the time and space to be allowed to talk about such topics. Through tears, one patient said she was thankful for the space to be able to open up about these things, with a group she feels supported by and clinicians she trusts. Our program is in a secular, hospital setting. We aren't faith based and we don't advertise clinicians who are experts in spirituality. But we are a group of clinicians (we are all groups of clinicians) who need to allow time, space and comfort for our patients and clients to discuss these tough, life changing and very important topics.
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Want to learn more about what kinds of content are available in DigiNole? Curious about what new functionality has been implemented in the past year? What about priorities for future development to meet new use cases? This session will address each of these questions through a guided tour of DigiNole collections and objects. We will also discuss ongoing efforts to implement FSU's campus-wide open access policy, including workflows for harvesting and soliciting faculty-authored articles at scale and the development of web services to integrate DigiNole and FEAS. Come out to learn more about your institutional repository and provide feedback based on the needs of researchers in your subject areas!
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This website is aimed at researchers who are interested in obtaining brain samples. The NBB has an open access policy and researchers affiliated to universities, other non-profit organizations, and pharmaceutical companies from all over the world can apply for samples. A scientific committee reviews all applications based on scientific quality and feasibility. This website provides information about how brain samples are obtained from brain donors, what types of samples are available, and how researchers can request samples.
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Youth and Music Holland
Youth and Music Holland is a division of the worldwide network JMI, Jeunesse Musicales International. Over 45 nations are part of it. Our goal is to develop diverse cultural activities aimed specifically at young musicians and a young audience. Festivals, summer programmes, courses, and concerts are all tools for reaching this goal.
On Sunday October 8 last, the group Liyana from Zimbabwe (
) gave a concert in the town hall of Amsterdam and thereby festively kicked off the new Youth and Music foundation Holland.
It is a new foundation, but one that carries a name already in use for many decades and is well-known in both Holland and the international music world. It came into being after the ending of WWII when Belgium and Luxemburg initiated 'Youth and Music'. By bringing youths in contact with music, either actively as a musician or passively as a spectator, the founders wished to make a contribution in creating and maintaining world peace. The Netherlands soon embraced this idea and joined the international music organisation Jeunesses Musicales International (JMI -
). By now, nearly fifty countries have become members of JMI.
The foundation of Youth and Music Holland developed rapidly: various local divisions were set up. Although initially there was a focus on classical music, soon there arose divisions that aimed to produce modern sounds, like the Youth and Music Zealand division, from which the New Music Festival originated, and the Youth and Music Amsterdam division that focussed among other things on improvised music, pop music, and school concerts.
Various national projects were also set up; take the National Youth Orchestra and the Riccioti Ensemble for instance. In the early Eighties the national association was dissolved for varied reasons. Nevertheless, projects like the NYO and Riciotti were continued with great success.
Youth and Music Amsterdam was restyled into the JAM foundation in the Seventies. Its goals have widened ever since: its activities now span across youth and music reaching out to all age groups and as many art disciplines as is possible (see
Until recently, not JAM, but a separate organisation maintained contact between JMI and the Netherlands. When contact petered out, JMI's board requested that the JAM foundation explore the possibilities for founding a new organisation in the Netherlands. This organisation was both to maintain, organise, and coordinate contacts and projects internationally, and initiate and arrange projects and activities on a national level.
It was this request that lead to starting up Youth and Music Holland
What does Youth and Music envision?
The Netherlands offer a great deal of musical activities to its youth. Many children and adolescents attend music schools, play in ensembles, participate in drum bands, brass bands, or sing in choirs. It holds a great number of youth orchestras - headed by the internationally operating National Youth Orchestra - that cater to a wide range of audiences. There are thousands of pop musicians who rehearse in basements and garages. The various music academies Holland counts are of international renown and fortunately there is a growing interest in primary and secondary education for music in the curriculum. There is much happening already, then. But Youth and Music believes it can add to that, working by the following three pillars:
Although many activities will need further processing, mostly in consultation with other organisations, below you will find a number that are currently already under construction:
Imagine Festival
A festival that features youth music groups. All music styles are welcome: from classic to pop, from world music to rap. The festival takes place in an appealing location for a broad audience and is broadcast on television. Leading up to this festival are local preliminary rounds, in association with, say, local music schools.
An expert jury will judge the groups. Prizes are to be won, like taking part in youth music festivals in Belgium, Sweden, and Africa.
Youth & Music Festival
There exist many (cross-theatrical)music productions aiming for a young audience, shows which are performed in schools, theatres, and concert halls. At the moment, the various impresarios hold presentation days. JAM wants to bundle these presentation days, in the Autumn-break for instance, to ensure that as many groups as possible get a chance to present themselves centrally to both the mainstream audience and customers from educational and cultural institutions. It is an excellent opportunity to meet one another, expand one's network, and partake in various workshops and lectures. Where initially Dutch groups and productions will be invited, in the future we will also welcome foreign productions. We intend to model our festival after the former Youth Theatre Festival in Den Bosch and the present Flemish Festival Earwax.
Tours of winners of the yearly Music Crossroads Southern Africa
Organising the tours will proceed in close cooperation with Festival Mundial of Tilburg.
Music Crossroads is a yearly event in southern Africa. Winning groups will tour in Europe and visit the Netherlands.
The concerts are held in concert halls as well as in primary and secondary schools. In these schools, workshops will be given and educational material will be handed out containing information on Africa and the group's native country.
Around the World in Six Hours
A pilot project in cooperation with Stockholm, Marseille, Brussels, and Amsterdam.
Youths from different areas in the city travel to other city areas by public transport and visit local theatres or schools to attend concerts by musicians from that specific area. An example: Kids from the south-east district travel to the Mosaic stage in the western Bos and Lommer district to visit a concert by a Moroccan music group. They traverse the river to the northern district where the Music centre will present them with western music. After this, they head to the Muiderpoort theatre in the city's eastern part to see a Turkish music group. In the end they head back to their home district to experience a Surinamese band in the Krater theatre, ending their 'journey around the world'. Previous to their journey, preparatory information will be made available on both the performances and the different cultural backgrounds.
In short: a musical journey with an introduction to various cultures.
Groups depart from the different districts. On each day 600 children can participate. At the basis of this day lies the Arts school day, a 'tour de culture' for all the twelve year-olds in Amsterdam's primary schools.
Much can be improved communication-wise: which concerts can be attended and where, which orchestra or choir is looking for reinforcements, when and where will music camps take place, when and where can be participated in national and international auditions for the various orchestras, such as the World Orchestra of Jeunesses Musicales International and the World Youth Choir, etc. etc.
Everyone should have access to this information. This means that various websites for a range of target groups will be created. These sites do not only provide information but also offer a platform for children/youths to share their criticism, comments, and advice with the world.
For all of the above-mentioned projects cooperation on a national and international level is vital. Cooperation on a national level consists in working together with educational institutes, theatres and concert halls, impresarios, music groups and ensembles, festivals, you name it. On a global level, cooperation will be formed between JMI-sister organisations in nearly fifty nations.
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Music is not the end of everything
The Sapping June heat doesn't seem to perturb Neil Nongkynrih and his choir members as they perfect their octaves in Gurgaon's plush Heritage City apartments, close to a mall. Occasionally they walk across to catch evening shows at the multiplex.brunch Updated: Jun 09, 2012 22:05 IST
The Sapping June heat doesn't seem to perturb Neil Nongkynrih and his choir members as they perfect their octaves in Gurgaon's plush Heritage City apartments, close to a mall. Occasionally they walk across to catch evening shows at the multiplex.
Comfortable in tee and shorts, Nongkynrih, 42, has discovered an indulgence other than music. He plays tennis every evening. "It's to get back to being fit," he says with smile, even as he chews on a mouthful of organic betelnut called kwai in Khasi.
His kwai fix, packed neatly in a steel container, is kept right next to him so that he can easily reach out for it every now and then. In the same room, stacks of sheet music and music books are piled up on tables. The choir members are busy. The girls are preparing lunch while the boys are tidying up their rooms.
Nongkynrih has just been invited to represent India at the World Choir Council, an apex body of choral music made up of delegates from more than 70 countries representing at least 1,20,000 choirs. And the man who founded and conducts the Shillong Chamber Choir, India's most popular choir, is clear about his agenda.
"In some ways, my role will be to make sure that India, at some stage, hosts the World Choir Games, considered the Olympics of choir music," he says. This July, the Shillong Chamber Choir has been invited to sing at the closing ceremony of the Games, in Cincinnati, USA. "Nothing would have been possible without our prayers," he says. The choir members, by the way, pray together every Wednesday and Sunday.
These days the choir is also working on four albums. Despite the heat, they make regular trips to the recording studio in Noida, and don't miss a single practice session.
The four albums include Gospel (in six languages: English, Hindi, Khasi, Telugu, Malayalam and Tamil); a patriotic album that will incorporate Nongkynrih's version of Vande Mataram; a Khasi album with their famous song inspired by Indian trains; and a 60-minute album of his compositions.
Musically, Nongkynrih loves to experiment. He is recording live with an audience to bring out the soul of music. "The beauty of music is to hear a slice of humaneness. Recording with a live audience has its charm," says Nongkynrih, "Otherwise, what you get is synthetic."
Music in his veins
Born in Shillong in 1970, Nongkynrih learnt to play the piano at three. The youngest of five siblings, he grew up watching his sisters play the piano and took to playing the instrument without formal training.
He was considered a child prodigy and he made his musical debut in Shillong in 1976 at age six. (One of the people in the audience was Bhupen Hazarika, the late musical legend from Assam). After studying at St Edmunds School in Shillong till 1984, followed by two years at the British School in Delhi, Nongkynrih attended the Delhi School of Music to learn how to read notes. There, he jumped grades and in one year was promoted from grade one to eight.
At 15, Nongkynrih won a national level piano competition in Pune. He went to the venue to listen to contestants and had no intention of participating. But a friend wrote down his name as a contestant and he was called in to play. All that he remembers after being called on stage was that he played badly. The next day, he was surprised to discover that he had been declared the winner. It was then that his bureaucrat father was finally convinced that Nongkynrih needed a piano to practice in Delhi.
In London, Nongkynrih studied at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Trinity College, between 1988 and 2001. "I started with St James Piccadilly with a solo recital but I was never happy just playing the piano," says Nongkynrih who even scripted a musical that was staged. "But one thing was clear: I never envisaged myself as a choral conductor," he adds.
In 2001, the choir was formed and it grew organically over the years. "I never imagined that we would go this far. It has been a blessing," he says. Having performed in many parts of the world, including singing for the visiting American president Barack Obama in 2010, the choir's journey has been remarkable; 2010 is also the year the choir won the television reality show India's Got Talent, their first national-level victory.
Mentor at work
Nongkynrih's role isn't limited to showing choir members the right musical path. "I can't stand arrogance and I can smell it from a distance. Music is not the end of everything," he says. "They must grow up to be good human beings. I have to be their example. I cannot say one thing and not do it. I take the role of their parents. My concern is also to get the elder ones married off."
His seven-bedroom Shillong home resembles a gurukul where students learn a holistic way of life. Ask soprano singer Ibarisha Lyngdoh, one of the youngest members. She came as a nervous 12-year-old who gave her audition on a rainy day. Today, at 19, she has travelled the world singing under her mentor's guidance in different Indian languages as well as in foreign tongues. Similarly Ryan Lamin, 17, who joined the group at 14, is now a prominent bass singer with his deep voice.
With success, the choir has grown in confidence. Though the members are from a non-Hindi speaking region, they took audiences by storm when they sang in Hindi.
"In the beginning, I was unwilling to try it," says Nongkynrih. "But once I did, there was no problem," he admits. Interestingly, the experiment took place during India's Got Talent. They had come prepared with English and Khasi songs and were told to sing in Hindi. "We learnt in an hour's time. Then I realised that we could do well-known Hindi songs. But I took that as a leitmotif to create a choral sound around it," says Nongkynrih. "I would never do anything just like that. You have to go deep into the subject."
It's time for another round of kwai.
Others who won the west
* Vishwa Mohan Bhatt: Best known as the creator of the Mohan Veena, he won a Grammy in 1994. The slide guitarist's winning album was A Meeting By the River with American guitarist and composer Ry Cooder.
* Zubin Mehta: The pioneer. He conducted the Vienna New Year's Concert in 1990, 1995, 1998 and 2007. He has also made a recording of Ravi Shankar's Sitar Concerto No. 2, with Shankar and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
* AR Rahman: The composer, singer-songwriter and musician has won two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe and four National Film awards. This includes the Best Compilation soundtrack Grammy for Slumdog Millionaire in 2009 and best song written for a motion picture – Jai Ho – in the same film.
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Here we are, mid-December and the sun is out and it is really warm! When I say really warm, it's 10ºC in the shade but brilliant sunshine! Strange things happening in the garden, we haven't had a frost here and the grass looks like it needs mowing. The moles are still active under one of my lawns and I have to keep scooping up the fine soil left behind in their molehills. We now have a Rhododendron in flower with more blooms to come. I think the mild weather has confused it!
Exciting times here this week. A friend of mine asked if I would go with him whilst he mended the roof on his cottage. Thankfully, it only has a ground floor and he was working at about 3m (about 12 feet) off the floor when the roof ladder he was using gave way and he slid down the roof, with the ladder and landed flat on his back! Fortunately, he landed in the neighbours vegetable patch but he lay unconscious for a minute or so. I was just dialling for the emergency services when he came round and insisted he was OK. Obviously he was slightly concussed and didn't remember what had happened. I had to drive him home in his car and he gradually came back to normal. A trip to the hospital showed no damage apart from pulled, and now stiff, muscles.
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The main reason we did it today was that some of my husband's family were visiting from interstate. None of his family live here and we don't get to see them often. We decided to dedicate him while they were in town so that they could come. Once the date was set, I panicked. Completely. To the point where I wanted to call it off because I didn't think I was ready and I didn't want to do it unless I meant it. I went back and forth for what seemed like forever (probably only a week!) before I decided that yes, I did want to do it and I did want to do it publicly at church. We had considered doing it with just close family and friends as I didn't know if I could handle the emotion of doing it in front of so many people at our church. Don't get me wrong, I love my church but I didn't know I was ready to be so emotionally vulnerable in front of them! Then one Sunday, as I was taking Levi into the creche, I heard part of a sermon about the importance of testimony and sharing our stories. If there's one thing I have, it's a pretty remarkable story of how God blessed us with Levi after the tragedy of losing Ariella. It was decided. We would dedicate him at church and I was going to share some of our story.
As adamant as I was about what we had decided to do, I still got to this morning and wanted to cancel! I was so nervous - I couldn't even read through what would be said without tears streaming down my face. How could I stand there in front of everyone, yet alone speak? And to top it all off, the last song sung before the dedication was In Christ Alone. That song has been sung at many significant events for me (our wedding, the funerals of friends) and happened to be playing in our car as we drove to the hospital knowing Ariella had likely died. Needless to say, it's not a song I can hear without crying. As it started, I shared sympathetic looks with a few other people who feel similarly. Was this really happening? Did they have to play this song? But then I thought...it played at our wedding. It played for Ariella. And today it played for Levi. Maybe it wasn't so bad after all (no matter what the tears in my eyes implied)!
We chose Psalm 121 for Levi.
I lift up my eyes to the hills.
From where does my help come?
My help comes from the LORD,
who made heaven and earth.
He will not let your foot be moved;
he who keeps you will not slumber.
Behold, he who keeps Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.
The LORD is your keeper;
the LORD is your shade on your right hand.
The sun shall not strike you by day,
nor the moon by night.
The LORD will keep you from all evil;
he will keep your life.
The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in
from this time forth and forevermore.
The first section has been very significant to me since Ariella died. Those verses were read aloud at her funeral and I think of them often when I visit her, as you can see the hills from her grave. The rest of the Psalm summerises what we believe for Levi: God will keep him and protect him. Marcus read the Psalm out, while I shared a bit of our story. I had warned our pastor that he might need to read it for me, but with much shaking and a few deep breaths, I managed to share it myself.
"Whenever I think of Levi, there is one Bible verse that springs to mind. It's from 1 Samuel verse 27, when Hannah is talking to Eli and says "for this child I have prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition that I made to Him". For those who don't know, we have a daughter named Ariella who was born almost 2 years ago, but she died just 2 days before her birth day. That experience meant that my pregnancy with Levi was the most terrifying experience of my life so far, because I didn't know if he would live or if he would die like his sister. There wasn't a day when I didn't pray for him, begging God that He would keep Levi alive until he was born and safely in our arms. I'm so very grateful that God answered that prayer and we've had the honour of raising Levi for the last 11 months. And even though I would do anything to keep him safe, I know that he is safer in God's hands, not mine. And so that's why we are here today. As Hannah said in verse 28 of 1 Samuel 1, "now we dedicate him to The Lord. From this time on he is dedicated to the Lord".
If I was being judged on my public speaking abilities, I'm sure I would have failed. I could barely look up from the page, my hands were shaking (perhaps my voice too) and I don't know how expressive I was. I was much too busy concentrating on getting the words out! Although it was quite hard to do, I'm glad I did it. I wanted Ariella acknowledged and I wanted to share how God had answered our prayers. I'm so glad I did, as two women came up to me afterwards to thank me for sharing and to tell me about their children who had also died. It was an honour to hear their stories and to have them share their children with me. Overall, this morning was a very emotional time; I haven't felt this emotionally exhausted in quite a while! But I'm so glad we decided to do it in the way that we did.
|At home before the service. Levi in one of his many lion tops!


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Happy Birthday young lady!
Hi Crilly,
Thanks for your welcome. I'll do that (and hope I don't fall flat).
Hi Crilly
Thanks for your welcome. You have been fortunate, sound like you have a lovely growing family. Visiting Australia is on my things to do list
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There is so much more to say, but here is what we believe.
Jesus Christ is God the Son, born of Virgin Mary and who became man. There are two natures in Jesus, the Divine nature of God and he Human nature of man. We believe that Jesus became man to free us from sin and open to us the way to Heaven and everlasting life with God. The name 'Jesus' means 'Saviour'.
'In the beginning was the Word' (John 1:1)
'the Word was made Flesh and dwelt among us' (John 1:14).
Jesus Christ is the heart of Catholic Tradition and Christian life. Catholics celebrate the Mass, learn the Eight Beatitudes, read the Bible, and receive the Seven Sacraments. In the Mass we share in the one Sacrifice on the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, as we await his Second Coming. In the Eucharist the Church is as it were at the foot of theCross with Mary. Receiving Holy Communion with others during the Sacrifice of the Mass brings unity of the Church, the Body of Christ.
We learned in the Baltimore Catechism that the reason God made us was to know, love, and serve him in this world and be with him forever in the next. Three of our favorite prayers are the Lord's Prayer, the Our Father, the Hail Mary (or Ave Maria), and the Rosary. The Our Father is the prayer of hope given to us by Jesus himself in the Sermon on the Mount, recorded in the Gospel of Matthew (6:9-13). The Scriptural basis for the Hail Mary is from the Gospel of Luke (1:26-42). The Blessed Virgin Mary is the Mother of Jesus Christ, the Son of God (Mark 1:1, Acts 9:20, Romans 1:4). As Jesus is both God and man, Mary is the Mother of God (Luke 1:43). Her intercessory role in the second part of the prayer is based on her mediation at the wedding feast of Cana, recorded in the Gospel of John (2:1-12). The Rosary is a Biblical account of the life of Jesus.
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This is the second part of what would have been a lengthy post – if you haven't read the first part yet, you might want to do so here.
After more time had passed, though, I started to consider that maybe I could want and have friends again, but I told myself it wasn't safe. I lied to myself saying that my world was too catastrophic and chaotic and anyone who came near me would just get hurt. It was (and is) all bull shit, of course, but I was still too afraid to acknowledge that the reason I wasn't reaching out was because I was focused on all the differences between me and everyone else and was terrified of facing rejection and shame.
In psychological research (and, really, in most forms of research), there is an ethical danger called 'congruence bias.' It exists outside of research as well, and in every day cognition. It means that you find what you're looking for simply because you're looking for it; or, conversely, you don't find what you're looking for because the idea you have in mind is too specific. The thing is, it backfires both ways: 1) Frequently, we have very specific ideas as to what we're looking for, and when we don't find exactly that, we conclude that whatever "it" is, isn't there. For example, let's say you were looking for a screwdriver and it happened to have a red handle. You pull out the tool/junk drawer and start tossing things every which a way, and you cannot find the screwdriver. Then someone else comes along, opens the same drawer, and says that the screwdriver is right there, handing you one with a black handle. You would probably swear up and down that there was no screwdriver in that drawer 30 seconds ago – because you were looking for the red one. 2) Similarly, if you're looking for and expecting people to behave a certain way, you'll interpret all their behavior to match your thinking. Let's say you think that everybody doesn't like you. So when you walk into a group of people and someone happens to leave at the same time, you conclude they left because they didn't like you even though that wasn't necessarily the situation at all. Maybe they'd had to pee for the past hour but one of the other people in the group kept running their mouth and Mr. I-need-a-potty-break-NOW! was only able to escape because your arrival caught Ms. Mouthy's attention and she shut up for a half a second giving Mr. Potty-break the escape he needed. Make sense?
I don't remember when I realized I had been doing this with my life exactly, but at some point in the last month and a half, I did. The Universe had been sending me little signs – showing me people who I would never think had seen and experienced the same kinds of things I had (not necessarily in the specifics, but general themes anyway), but they did. I'd been so focused on finding the differences between me and everyone that I encountered that I could not see the ways in which we were alike, the things we had in common, how we were connected. On a drive from (or to – doesn't really matter) work, it coalesced in my space. What connects us (all) is ultimately more powerful than anything that can divide us. It is simply a matter of perspective.
Does this mean that the possibility of my being rejected by anyone who I decide to trust with some choice pieces of my history and experience has suddenly diminished? Maybe, but not necessarily. Maybe because of the new perspective I intend to take, I will draw people to me who would be accepting. And maybe not, but it doesn't matter either. It certainly wouldn't shock me. I recognize that a lot about me is a bit "out there" for most people, and that's okay. What matters is that I breathe in the Truth of the power of our connection and live in that space. Whether others choose to see that or not is not my responsibility. We all behave from who we are, not at or to anyone around us. If someone I encounter is in such a place that they cannot recognize what I have recently discovered, I have a choice. Because I was in that space so very recently I remember distinctly how absolutely miserable it made me, I can choose to have compassion for them.
Thus, when I read of one of my new favorite blogger's recent experience with discrimination, I was not surprised. Sadly, "A" has not yet come to learn what I recently have. I have been, at earlier times in my life (and still occasionally, though I try not to be), judgmental or intolerant in some way. And I've learned that I make my life and myself the poorer for it when I am. So while I empathize with Ollin, having experienced similar discrimination, I also have compassion for "A" because she probably has no idea of the internal consequences of her decision in her own space, not to mention that her blog will be all the poorer for the contribution she denied Ollin the opportunity to make. And I have compassion for her because of that loss of which she might not even be aware. What I found interesting was that when I was reading through all the comments Ollin's readers made to his post in which he recounted this experience, I noticed that the comments that I interpreted as a little snarky toward "A" had me shaking my head in compassion for those individuals as much as hearing of "A's" own action did. Perhaps its simplistic (not to mention unpopular) to think so, but at its root, I think the energy of those kinds of comments is as divisive as "A's" action was.
I finally finished reading Eat, Pray, Love the other day, by the way. I had set it down for a while and it just seemed time to pick it up again. I'm sure that all this embracing of compassion has everything to do with what I've taken away from that book. I'm interested to see what else I've garnered from it, to watch it unfold in my space and my mind. The father of a mentor of mine used to finish every workshop he did by telling us that we were taking away and had received far more from our time together than we understood in that moment. I think the same is true for this book for me.
Moving forward, I realize that I have allowed the experience of these crises to result in an extreme and negative change for and in me thus far. I'm done with that now. From this point on, I intend to strip myself like a shameless menopausal woman in the midst of a personal summer of this fear and pain that I have been harboring and, instead, continue cultivating this new perspective on connectedness and compassion.


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Executives at Citizen Watch Co., one of the companies slated to manufacture SPOT watches, also said Friday that they may pull out of the partnership and not ship a SPOT watch at all.
The watches were originally supposed to ship this fall, according to a speech made by Microsoft's chief software architect, Bill Gates, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this past January. Partners, including Citizen, Fossil Inc. and Suunto said they were working with Microsoft to develop and commercialize the new technology...
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