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Venue: St. Albans, Radford
Date: Saturday, January 13, 2018
Time: 6:00 PM - 04:00 AM
Event Types: Miscellaneous, Speaking Engagements
Ghost Stories and Public Paranormal Investigation: $25.00
All Night Investigation: $75.00
All Night Investigation: $75.00
St. Albans and Soul Searchers Paranormal Investigations presents Step Into Darkness: Ghost Stories, Public Investigation and All Nighter on Saturday, January 13, 2018.
• 6:00-6:30 pm: Ghost Stories
• 6:30-11:30 pm: Public Paranormal Investigation
• 12:00-4:00 am: All Night Investigation
Enjoy ghost stories, a public paranormal investigation and the All Nighter Investigation if you dare.
Chuck Griffin of Soul Searchers Paranormal: "I've seen and heard things in this building that are unbelievable. This building is not for the weak hearted. If you've ever wondered if ghosts are real, here's your chance."
Tickets for the Ghost Stories and Public Investigation from 6:30-11:30 pm are $25.00 each. Tickets to include all events including the All Night Investigation ending at 4:00 am, are $75.00 each.
Tickets are limited and can be purchased online, by phone at 540-260-3111, or in person at registration.
To purchase tickets online, visit: http://www.stalbans-sanatorium.com/guest-investigations/.
Recommendations: The building is very cold this time of year. Dress in layers and please wear comfortable shoes. There is a lot of walking and many stairs in our building. Please bring a flashlight. You are also welcome to bring equipment with you to investigate — recorders, cameras, K2 meters, dowsing rods, etc.
To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.imgur.com/7iu2Fgw.jpg.
For more information, visit: http://www.stalbans-sanatorium.com/guest-investigations/ or https://www.facebook.com/events/813225508869505/ or http://stalbans-virginia.com or https://www.facebook.com/pages/St-Albans-Sanatorium/227599350608608 or call 540-260-3111.
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text: Guide to Rooting Android 2.1 on a Motorola Droid | Droid Life: A Motorola Droid Blog After a lot of thinking and a pretty nervous decision making process, I followed that thread to the T and was able to root my stock 2.1 Moto Droid. After that I purchased premium Rom Manager from Clockwork Mod. Can I download BB V1.0 ESE81 to PC, place it in root of SD Card and install that ROM directly from CLockwork Mod Rom Manager? My main purpose for the moment is to overclock, anywhere from 800-1000. I hope I provided enough info for you to help me out. Thanks a lot, Dave

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With more than 50 charrettes completed around the world New Urban Water Works has been involved in many award winning projects. Whether the project is large or small, by using the charrette method and the tools and strategies recommended by the National Charrette Institute, the goal is to develop a community-based plan that is realistic, cost-effective, and above all else, implementable.
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For teachers of English or other languages, and for students of English or other languages
Sunday, May 14, 2017
3184. Resting as Necessary Too for Teaching!
And today some time for spending with the family, and for resting and relaxing, before the week starts again, with the big exams around the corner. If we seek a profound work as teachers we also need resting, and it's kind of some obligation. But the mind goes to my students and I remember them and pray for them and their families. God bless them all. The lessons are already planned: I hope they will help my students!
Oh, by the way: if we want to take some care of our students' families we should take care of ours. Firstly and independently. / Photo from: Jay Graham Photographer
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Using a grill adds great flavor and texture to potato wedges. The grilled potato wedges recipe from Martha Stewart is quick and easy since it only requires russet potatoes, coarse salt, extra-virgin olive oil, sea salt and black pepper.
Start by cutting five large russet potatoes into wedges, and then boil the potatoes in a pot of salted water. Once the potatoes are tender, drain the potatoes and dry them thoroughly with a towel. Next, brush the potatoes with olive oil and grill them over medium-high heat, turning occasionally, for approximately eight minutes. Finish the dish by seasoning the potato wedges with sea salt and pepper.


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Posted by Kayode Okeyode on August 10, 2017 in Canon EOS 5D Mark II, photoblog
Tags: London, photography, photos, Pictures, Westminster
August 10, 2017 at 8:33 pm
August 11, 2017 at 5:15 am
Thank you 😊
I am Kayode Okeyode and this is my photography blog.
London is my favourite city to photograph and my focus has been on photographing its interesting landmarks in all weather. However, I have also been encouraged to introduce human elements into these landmarks as well.
Thanks for visiting and please leave a feedback.


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In an ode to her daughter Cleis, the Greek poet Sappho wrote, "A girl whose hair is yellower than torchlight should wear no headdress but fresh flowers." Otomo no Sakanoue, an eighth-century Japanese poet, wrote about a mother's love for her daughter, and also about the sorrow of separation.
"A Newborn Girl at Passover" by Nan Cohen speaks of the mother's elation when her daughter is born, and of the countless pleasures they are likely to share together as the girl grows up. Sylvia Plath wrote of her experiences as a mother in a poem called "Balloons," in which a daughter is compared to a balloon, just as cheerful and light.


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The time has come to lay my money down. On storage, that is. Real storage, not home-made hodge-podge RAID arrays that I've built myself throughout the years, just to save some money. Yes, it's saved me a lot of money, but now that my current workstation has only Thunderbolt and no internal eSATA support (obviously it's an iMac), the time has come to invest in a proper Thunderbolt RAID system.
At first I had been using an old Drobo 4-bay enclosure as my storage array, but of course that wasn't fast enough to edit video. It was just used as an archive. Then I started making RAIDs out of various inexpensive external enclosures, until now. Currently, I am using two Vantec HX4R 4-bay enclosures with 8TB each on board, configured as RAID10. The HX4R is an eSATA device, but since the iMac doesn't have eSATA ports, I had to hook them up through a LaCie eSATA>Thunderbolt hub.
The LaCie hub is a bit of a mixed blessing. On one hand, it is super-fast and works very well, when it works. For the most part, it's fine, but it has a tendency to cause drives to unmount spontaneously. Of course, this is no good when you're trying to work. To its credit, it never did it when the unit was under heavy use; only when it was mostly idle. But still, it's not good for drives to be spontaneously ejected, of course. Lately, it's been causing problems with one of my RAIDs, in the form of corrupted directories. It spent the last 48-hrs refusing to mount correctly, so I figured it is time for a change.
Tomorrow I will put my money down for a new Promise Pegasus R6 RAID array loaded with six 3TB drives. When searching for Thunderbolt RAIDs, the Pegasus kept coming up tops and the specs are good, so I figured it is worth a gamble. It's expensive, but if it holds it end of the bargain, it will save me that much more money in wasted time. I will write a review of the Pegasus R6 after I've had some time with it.


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Address: 40721 N Bradon Way
Sold Date: 12-18-2018
Courtesy of: Revelation Real Estate
Amazing Tempe home with NO HOA! This home features 2 very large master suites with attached bathrooms and third incredibly large bedroom plus a bonus space currently being used as an office! Featuring an open floor plan, a bonus room w/ patio access, Low E Dual Pane windows, newer roof, newer hot water heater plus an additional solar hot water heater and tile throughout. Ceiling fans in all rooms plus 2 large covered patios, big 15' x 6' workshop w/ electric, pull-down attic stairs in garage, RV gate w/ large parking slab, no HOA so you can actually park your RV! No two story homes nearby for maximum privacy and no neighbors behind the home. This one will not last long at this price, one of the biggest homes in the neighborhood!


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A scheme to turn a former car showroom into sheltered housing for the elderly will be resubmitted in the new year.
Plans, initially for 63 apartments to replace the former Benfield Motors site on Deighton Road, were submitted to Leeds City Council (LCC) in August 2013.
In December 2013 an appeal for non-determination was launched by applicants Churchill Retirement Living Ltd, which was dismissed by a government inspector in September 2014.
Now, agents from Planning Issues Ltd dealing with the development are planning to resubmit an amended application in January 2015, after working with the council.
A spokesman said: "Since the dismissal we have been working closely with the planning and design officers at LCC to overcome the concerns that were made in respect of that dismissed scheme.
"We are looking to submit an amended scheme in the first week of the new year, commencing January 5.
"Essentially that will have a reduced scale and massing, a simplified design, and use of materials to correspond with those concerns."
A report published by government inspector Wenda Fabian who dismissed the appeal said: "The proposed building would have a much greater height, mass and visual presence, in particular when seen from within the conservation area where its materials, height, massing, form and detailed design would taken together produce a dominant appearance at odds with that of the conservation area and its surroundings."
The inspector concluded at the appeal that the proposal would harm the character and appearance of its surroundings and the setting of Wetherby conservation area.
It is these conclusions that the applicants have been working with LCC planners to overcome with the new plans for about 56 dwellings.
According to a spokesman, the development would provide 'specifically designed housing for local elderly people - a recognised housing need'.
He added: "It would contribute to the vitality and viability of Wetherby town centre, and reduce the burden of health services and a more efficient use of public resources.
"It would also provide high density housing in proximity to services and shops, thereby reducing the need to travel by car."
LCC was approached for a comment but a spokesman said a statement could not be provided at this time.


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Your beginning fitness program
Anyone can get into better shape with a little effort, even you. And the good news is that you don't need expensive equipment or a gym membership to get started (and you get to avoid those knowing looks of the fitness freaks working out harder than you can even dream of). All you need is time, and a certain amount of willpower.
First of all you need to decide on a time of day for your workout. Try to stick to the same time every day so that it becomes part of your routine. If you're the sort who needs a lot of encouragement then train with a friend, otherwise start out alone and surprise your friends with your new fitness levels later on.
Start out gently. Do a few gentle stretches to loosen up – touch your toes (or as close as you can get without hurting), do some sideways leans and reach up as high as you can. You know the sort of thing. And then add a few gentle star jumps to get you warmed up.
Now we can get down to business. For an all round basic workout we will do just four exercises: push-ups, sit-ups, leg raises and burpees.
For the push-ups, lay flat on your stomach, toes on the floor and hands flat on the floor under your shoulders. Push up with your hands and raise your body and legs off the floor till your arms are straight. Slowly lower yourself down again (try not to rest on the floor) and repeat. If you can't raise everything, don't worry. Start off just raising your upper body. And if you need to rest between raises that's fine too. Try to do five repetitions to start with.
Next are the sit-ups. Lay flat on your back with your feet under a sofa and your hands beside your ears. Now try to sit up by raising your shoulders until your back is vertical. Then lower yourself back down again. If you can't get all the way up, just get as far as you can. Repeat five times. Make sure you don't use your hands to pull your head up as this could hurt your neck.
For your leg raises, lay flat on your back with your arms tucked in at your side and the palms of your hands on the floor. Raise your feet about six inches off the floor, spread your legs, bring them back together and lower them again. Repeat five times.
Finish off this part of your program with some burpees. Begin by standing straight and then drop into a squat. Place your hands on the ground and extend your feet backwards so that you are in a push-up position. Immediately bring your legs back to the squat position and return to the original standing position. Repeat five times. Each burpee should be done in a single smooth action.
After a short rest, repeat the four exercises. As you become fitter increase the number of repetitions and, when you feel really good, add another full cycle. If you are tired but want to increase the number of cycles, remember that you can reduce the number of repetitions in the last cycle. I would aim at around fifteen repetitions of each exercise and three cycles.
Well, that's your warm-up. Just kidding. Have a short break, congratulate yourself and then get your walking shoes on. Take a walk for about fifteen minutes. Don't push yourself but try to move reasonably quickly. Start off on a flat circuit but if you can include a couple of hills so much the better. I'd avoid jogging at this stage because you can hurt yourself with shin splints and joint injuries.
There you have it; a reasonably simple exercise regime that will get you on the way to fitness. After a few weeks of this type of exercise, you should be ready for the next stage – if you want to take it further. Try your local gym. They will be able to give you an exercise course tailored to your needs and you know you will be able to take it on without embarrassment because you have already got yourself into better shape.
Please note a word of warning, however. If you haven't exercised for a while, it is always wise to check with your doctor first. And, if you feel anything not quite right during or after your exercises, stop and call the doctor.


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Engine Cooling Fan by Spectra Premium®. Spectra Premium Radiator Fan Assemblies are engineered, developed and validated to meet Original Equipment (OE) requirements, to ensure a durable and quality product. The assemblies are also designed to reduce noise during operation to ensure a quieter environment.
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Normal immunoglobulin E, or IgE, levels in children are 10 international units per milliliter for 1-year-olds. These levels increase to 100 international units per milliliter by the age range of 13 to 16, according to the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
As Lab Tests Online points out, testing for IgE levels is done to screen for allergies and to identify specific substances to which a person may be allergic. Increased IgE levels above normal indicate that the person being tested has some sort of allergies but does not on its own indicate what allergen is involved. Multiple allergens may be involved when high IgE levels are present.


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The last three were built a couple of years back after a trip to GW HQ for a sculpting masterclass, but I never got around to painting them for one reason or another, so thanks to Curt for running the challenge to hep clear the backlog! The figures use parts from the Vampire skeleton kit, some Empire Greatsword bits and some greenstuff. These three will be higher level skeletons... be it sergeants, wights or something... else.
The Sculpting masterclass was run by some real legends... Aly Morrison, Trish Carden and Aragorn Marks. Aly and Trish are GW mainstays and should be familiar to many, Aragorn's name might not be so well known, but some of his models should be. Before joining GW he worked for Rackham, sculpting their Dirz line as well as freelancing for the likes of Sodapop and Privateer Press. It was a very entertaining day that taught us some useful skills. I really fail though as I've not really tried sculpting anything since. One day...
On the day we were given a built skeleton built in a similar manner to the ones I did above. We were then taught how to do cloth, fur, chainmail, scalemail and chains
The year before we'd done a masterclass with the 'Eavy Metal team. This is my model from that day. In both cases I can't bring myself to do anything else to the models for fear of messing them up. Plus they are good memories in their own right


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My thoughts...4.5 stars
MY SOUTHERN JOURNEY is a collection of articles and essays on a cornucopia of subjects particular to the South. As anyone who's blessed enough to be from or live in the South can tell you it's much more than a geographic area; it's a way of life, a mindset you take with you even if you're living in the frozen tundra. As Mr. Bragg says in his Afterword, MY SOUTHERN JOURNEY is a love song to our unique, colorful, beloved South.
As a Georgian living in
I find myself drawn to books by Southern writers and or set in the South. It's
soothing and eases the bouts of homesickness that hit outta the blue.
I savored MY SOUTHERN JOURNEY like I would one of Ma's biscuits. What I wouldn't give if I could only have one again. The world around me may have been whizzing by but I was moseying on dirt back roads, fishing, wading in a creek, and enjoying fish fries, BBQ, and food like you can't get anywhere else. In my head the dulcet drawl of the words, along with the images and memories they conjured, were comfort food for my mind and soul.
MY SOUTHERN JOURNEY is told with love, humor, and a "warts and all" honesty by a man who truly loves and understands the South. I highly recommend it for displaced (often misunderstood) Southerners, those who love the South, and even those still there. A keeper.


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"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
- Elie Weisel
With Holocaust Remembrance day beginning on April 15 at sundown, I have been wondering how the Holocaust is discussed in the classroom and even if it is discussed at all. As Weisel's quote suggests, studying the Holocaust, or any genocide, for that matter, provides the opportunity to engage students in meaningful discussions not only about tolerance but also about moral action.
Although delving into complex, meaningful topics like the Holocaust, is an essential part of a rigorous curriculum, it can still be an intimidating topic for teachers to address. To learn more about how schools can teach genocide studies in an impactful and approachable way, I turned to 2013 National School of Character, Hanover Park High School District, winner of a Promising Practice for their Genocide Gallery Walk.Read More


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Screencaps of Tahmohs cameo in Robson Arms
Thanks to Chamalla for these screencaps of Tahmoh's cameo on Monday night's episode of the Canadian series, Robson Arms, where he gallantly comes to the rescue with an umbrella. In the episode, titled "Positivity" (3.04), Tahmoh is said to be one of the stars of "Battlestar Metallica" and has a Whistler-esque headshot to show for it.
See a couple more shots from the episode over at the all.about.tahmoh flickr.


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Roanoke, VA. (April 28, 2015) – In 2014, RIDE Solutions broke records with its annual Clean Commute Challenge, removing over 70,000 miles from the region's roads as people across central and southwest Virginia were encouraged to carpool, bike, walk, take transit, or telework instead of driving alone.
This year, RIDE Solutions is hoping to continue the trend, with higher goals and new ways for people to participate.
Each year, RIDE Solutions, the region's popular commuter service program, challenges area commuters to take the Clean Commute Pledge, a way to explore their commute options at least one day during the month. Commuters can take the pledge online at www.ridesolutions.org/cleancommute.
To make the challenge more exciting, RIDE Solutions has opened it up to trips that aren't exclusively work-related. "While commute trips have a huge impact, we know that most trips a household takes are not related to the daily commute," says Program Director Jeremy Holmes. "We want people to try carpooling, biking, walking and transit for all kinds of trips – whether it's carpooling to lunch with coworkers, riding a bike to see a movie, or walking to the store instead of driving."
In addition to taking the pledge, participants can get more involved by logging their clean trips throughout the month. Each trip logged gives participants an entry into weekly prize drawings. Finally, participants can start or join an existing Clean Commute Team, counting each logged trip towards their team performance and earning bigger and better prizes.
"Using a clean commute option, even one day a week, has immediate benefits for both commuters and our communities," says Holmes. "It's a simple way to enjoy the region's many outdoor amenities, make our communities stronger and cleaner, and actually have fun getting to work."
The Clean Commute Challenge is one of a number of events organized by RIDE Solutions to celebrate Bike Month. A full calendar of events can be found online at http://ridesolutions.org/bikemonth.
RIDE Solutions is a service of the Roanoke Valley-Alleghany Regional Commission, the New River Valley Planning District Commission and Region 2000.
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This exceptional antique George II Irish sterling silver cup has a bell shaped form onto a circular spreading foot.
The lower portion of this magnificent cup is embellished with applied water leaf decoration.
The upper portion of the cup is plain apart from a heavily decorated bright cut engraved coat of arms, (ermine a bend) to one side.
The foot of this George II cup is embellished with a band of fruiting vine and opposing scroll chased decoration.
This fine cup is fitted with two impressive scrolling handles.
Each handle is ornamented with a leaf decorated thumbpiece, a volute scroll decorated upper terminal and a pendant drop decorated upper socket.
This antique cup is an exceptional gauge of silver, exceptional quality and in excellent condition.
There are some minor blemishes and scratches to the surface of the cup as would be expected and it remains in fine condition in keeping with age.
The bright cut engraving is very sharp.
Full hallmarks struck to the surface of the cup are very clear except for the makers mark which has not been perfectly struck.
The cup displays an exceptional set of hallmarks for such a piece.
Reflections in photography may detract from the true representation of this item.
Height 18.2cm/7.2"
Diameter of top 14.6cm/5.7"
Diameter of base 11cm/4.3"
Width across top 24cm/9.4"
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Ensuring that all students have someone to help them carry those heavy bags is no easy task, because it isn't always just about supporting the student; it is also about helping their family and community navigate these issues too.
United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County is not tackling this issue alone. In fact, we are clear that no single individual or organization can accomplish wide-scale community change by themselves. Instead, United Way is serving as the lead coordinator, the backbone organization, to a group of organizations that are all committed to the same thing: student and family success.
We need your support.
Below are a few ways you can help us move this work forward in four school districts: Asheville, Enka, Erwin and Owen. Fill out this interest form and Ben Moser will be in touch to discuss how your support can help move this work forward.


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English Language Day 2017 — Indian English
The English Project and Indian English
In November 2016 the UK government announced that 2017 would be 'UK-India Year of Culture' and unveiled a number of cultural activities and exchanges to celebrate the 70th anniversary of India's indendence. As part of this cultural activity the English Project has seen a welcome opportunity to explore one of the most interesting varieties of English; that spoken (to some extent) by perhaps 300M people in India and its surrounding countries. A population which dwarfs that of the UK and rivals the number of English speakers in the US. The close proximity of English with many local indian languages since the days of the East India Company has resulted in both a unique variety of English (some see IE as more than a single variety) and it has also had a marked effect on the vocabulary of English as it is spoken in the UK.
Throughout the course of the year we aim to explore several linguistic, cultural and sociological aspects of Indian English, the 'Indianisation' of English and the role that English plays in the society of India today. We shall publish occasional articles through this website and will organise events and lectures including our flagship annual lecture which will happen on or around English Language Day (13th October).
If you have any suggestions or wish to express an interest in Indian English, do contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com .


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The 2018 Sanitary Sewer Management Plan (SSMP) is intended to update the City's 2009 SSMP, to be in compliance with the GWDR which require that SSMP's be updated every 5 years. The 2018 SSMP was approved by City Council on February 21, 2018 and is the guiding document to ensure regulatory compliance for sanitary sewer system management. In developing and approving this plan, the City is indicating its commitment to managing the sanitary sewer system in a manner to protect water quality and public health as appropriate.


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(Note: Most of the links don't work, but if and when I get the time I'll fix them.) This is the introduction to a book that will never be written.
(Note: Most of the links don't work, but if and when I get the time I'll fix them.) This is the introduction to a book that will never be written.
There isn't anything the matter with world civilization, except that humanity is viewing it through a vision impaired in a cataclysmal war. Poise has been disturbed, and nerves have been racked, and fever has rendered men irrational; sometimes there have been draughts upon the dangerous cup of barbarity, and men have wandered far from safe paths, but the human procession still marches in the right direction.
's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality. America
—Warren G. Harding, post WW I
My mother, always my severest critic, laughed at me the first time I used the word "normalcy" to talk about what she would have called "normality." She was thinking of Warren G. Harding's widely ridiculed 1920 call for the "return to normalcy." Harding believed that although men had behaved like beasts, they would now return to a civilized existence just as in the good old days and none the worse for their experiences. Such assertions on the brink of the great changes that occurred in the
in the 20th Century seem absurd in retrospect. U.S.
This kind of thinking also colored the exterior of life in post WW II Germany, but the façade was very brittle. There were too many losses, too many bitter memories. While things appeared to be normal, those who had lived through dreadful experiences in the Nazi state as victims and/or perpetrators were often obsessed with past traumatic events. Likewise, in the actual Nazi period, many tried to uphold notions of normality in a world gone mad. Not least of these entities trying to create "normalcy" was the
itself, as Detlev Peukert documents in Inside Nazi Germany. Nazi State
Actually, I think that normalcy is a useful word, like "truthiness," Stephen Colbert's coinage used to describe G.W. Bush's take on the truth. I am defining "normalcy" to mean the appearance of normality in situations where everyday life is under enormous strain, as well as the mass media depictions of everydayness in films, advertisements, etc. Not least were the normalizing attempts of a criminal state to uphold the appearance of an ordinary, if stressed, society where people could work, play, spend, and bring up their families in peace while their rulers attended for them to matters of state. The Nazis did not engage in overt warmongering at the beginning of their regime but rather enticed the public with promises of peace, prosperity and a restoration of German national pride.
The attempts at normalcy in the Third Reich are a clear example of the phenomenon understood in the way I have defined it above. Normalcy also describes the mental state of postwar Germans who demanded the appearance of normality while often feeling very abnormal inside or suffering from severe neurosis.1
It is difficult to understand how anyone living in the conditions of the Third Reich could have carried out the routines of daily life as if nothing substantive had changed after the Nazi takeover. And yet this is exactly what the majority of Germans seem to have done or tried to do.
In German terms, postwar assertions of normalcy could be seen as a protective device for a people thoroughly discredited for losing a war, for exterminating the European Jews, and for causing the deaths of tens of millions of Russians and others. This is a matter thoroughly discussed in several essays gathered together in The Work of Memory, ed. Confino and Fritsche. This collection stresses the ideas of normalcy as they were refined in the minds of Germans after the war to create a certain kind of narrative about German national life and personal life, a narrative which would tend to exonerate Germans both specifically and generally for everything from lapses of conscience to out and out murder.
Since I wrote my Master's thesis in the early 90's, research in social psychology has taken great strides in clarifying the issues of memory and forgetting. Much of this kind of work as it pertains to
before WW I through postwar Germany can be found in Colfino and Fritsche's anthology,The Work of Memory: New Directions in the Study of German Society and Culture. And I was delighted to find in the popular online video service, You Tube, a brand new and wonderful resource for the social historian. A trailer I found for the 1975 made for TV film by Eberhard Fechner, Tadellöser & Wolff , is based on the fictionalized autobiography by Walter Kempowski of the same name, the work I studied and wrote about for my MA thesis This clip in not much more than two minutes running time dramatizes the strains of "normalcy" on a family where Gleichschaltung demanded the full participation of all members in the Nazi state. (see the clip here [in German]) 2 Germany
Tadellöser & Wolff, the novel, treats of a normalcy where Father went out in his uniform every day to supervise his crew of Russian slave laborers. Where Mother, a banal Hausfrau, fussed and fretted about the price of groceries while scheming and flattering her daughter's way out of
, getting her married off to a Danish youth. Where the older son came back from carnage on the Russian front to a nice Christmas holiday at home. Where in the aftermath of the war, the son was commandeered into running family errands and was eventually imprisoned for espionage in Germany , spending seven years of his youth locked away, as is recounted in Kemposwski's memoir, Im Block. East Germany
This sounds like a terrible time for all concerned, and it was, which might lead one to believe that things ended very badly for the little Kempowski family; however, that is not correct. In postwar
, they have been very successful, regaining the glory of his family name through the writing genius of the son Walter, who is a much respected figure in German letters. Germany
While not aristocrats, the Kempowskis were once important in
as shipbuilders. His mother came from Rostock aristocracy. For the Kempowskis, the loss of their material base, both after WW I and WW II, was a huge tragedy. The death of the paterfamilias on the Front as WW II was ending forced Walter and his brother to become guardians and protectors of their mother and of the family name. Their losses impacted their notions of their very worth in life, leaving them humiliated and degraded in their own minds. His mother was particularly affected, and her grief was what put Kempowski on his life course.3 With enormous effort, Walter Kempowski was able to restore their sense of righteousness. He now owns a huge house filled with memorabilia lovingly cared for. His massive project, Echolot, (Soundings) is a Studs Terkel-like attempt to archive every bit of information from those who lived through the Nazi years and to compile it into a grand narrative. This kind of effort-- to make the past concrete through tangible objects, through possessions-- is quite characteristic of European aristocrats and not something we Americans really understand. We can sell off Grandma's silver and go adventuring without impacting our most essential sense of self. Hamburg
Furthermore, restoring a sense of a past under the control and with the understanding given to the memories of the people through aristocratic mediation is how a person like Kempowksi would understand his obligation to his homeland and his class. As Marcus Funck and Stephan Malinowski explain in "Masters of Memory: The Strategic Use of Autobiographical Memory by the German Nobility," (TWM) the German nobility have a "culture of memory" that consists not just of personal and family memories but which demands material evidence: the old family house and woods, the church, the cemetery with the family names, and so on. This is nothing an American like me, a typical hybrid of European heritages, can understand except as an idea. For the Kempowskis, these matters affected them at the deepest level.
In this regard, Kempowski goes to extremes: he demands the restoration of his sense of ownership of a whole life world 4 Kempowksi angrily rejects any interpretation but his of his work. It is his property. And he cannot accept loss but instead compulsively clings to what he regards as his main form of property: his memories and the memories of everyone who lived through the Nazi times. 5
How do these memory devices: of compulsive memory, of denial, of self-serving narratives of suffering and injustice, serve to protect the Nazi past from interlopers? In his indispensable essay, Hildesheim in an Age of Pestilence" On the Birth, Death, and Resurrection of Normalcy," Andrew Stuart Bergeson identifies normalcy as a historically determined denial strategy the Germans have used to fend off inquiries into the misdeeds of ordinary citizens of the Third Reich. That is, normalcy is not just "what is normal" but a whole set of assumptions about who owns the past and how the past plays into the present.
In Tadellöser & Wolff Kempowski's mother expressed this refusal well when she said that
did not really lose the war but really had won, because the good people won: the aristocrats, the "good Germans" in other words. This woman re-constructed herself as a covert freedom fighter doing her best by those she loved while war waged around her. She was not the only one to use such a maneuver to evade her personal responsibility for Nazi horrors. Germany
As Bergeson says, .".we need to historicize normalcy as a category of experience produced in and through specific customs of everyday life." He shows how the Nazis re-defined "Geselligkeit," which he translates as "conviviality" in a way that allowed ordinary Germans to feel that they were leading normal lives in the midst of the most grotesque abnormalities. For example, Kinder Küche Kirche propaganda allowed women to believe that they were fulfilling their social obligations by meeting the needs of their families and by attending church services, even as the synagogues were burning and their neighbors were being carried off to be tortured and murdered.
How could Germans have accepted such a state of affairs? Yes, things were very bad for the Germans after WW I, there is no denying that. True, there were periods of prosperity, but it was boom and bust.
was culturally exciting. However, there was much political ferment, especially regarding the hangover from the German defeat in WW I and extreme right-left polarization. And there was the resentment about reparations, which right wing politicos played for all it was worth. Gangs and militias roamed the streets, terrorizing the citizenry. Every single aspect of German life and culture was disputed.So a German looking at the mess his country was in in 1931 might say, "How could it get any worse?" The Nazis might have seemed to the man in the street, or as the Germans put it, the Klofrau von Hannover (the woman who supervises public toilets) as the ideal solution to their problems. Berlin
In Hitler and the Collapse of Weimar Germany the historian Martin Broszat lays out the essential details of the years from 1929-1933, when the Nazi push to power finally succeeded in its goals. Years of preparation were behind what could appear to have been a sudden collapse of democracy. But the problems had been there from the inception of the
. The German nobility and President Hindenberg had never liked parliamentary government and felt it to be a great imposition. To them, the governance of Weimar Republic was clearly their prerogative. They expected to rule as their ancestors had done. They had a long history of stifling dissent. They knew their enemy, or so they thought. City life, especially the city life of Germany then, was corrupt, decadent. For them, all was well and life was good on their massive holdings in Berlin , where they felt that their true souls resided. The old man Hindenberg must have longed to return to his estate (partly purchased with illicitly obtained German tax money) and was no doubt relieved to hand over the reins of leadership to a dynamic man like Hitler, whom he despised as an upstart but yet felt he could control, as did his ally, Papen. If these men had had any feel at all for democracy or the rights of the people, the situation might have been salvaged. But unluckily they were a spoiled, selfish and willful group. East Prussia
Thedore Fontana's novel, Effi Briest, explores the mentality of this class of men 6 They would have liked a return to the monarchy.Their worldview had not changed at all from the time of this novel's setting. To them, everyone and everything had a place. The affairs of business and the state drew them reluctantly away from their preferred country environment. In a country where most people lived in cities as laborers or on small farms or in small towns, their attachment to this pastoral vision was quaint.
The great pity was that democracy had so few defenders in Post WW I Germany. but was thought of as a imposition foisted on Germans by the victorious allies. It was regarded on the right as an alien ideology imposed on a people who preferred a simple way of life based on trust, obedience, and the good will of the rulers and the ruled. The people to be excluded from this idyll would be the urban Jews, Communists, and any enemies of the bourgeoisie and the nobility. These Germans had more years of misery ahead of them before they learned their lesson on the wisdom of trying to create such a regressive society. And unfortunately, to the Communists, democracy was the Trojan Horse of capitalism, and so they tragically played their part in destroying the
; they failed to stand as a bulwark against the Nazis. And the people in the middle, the democrats, seemed weak and vacillating . Weimar Republic
It took another world war and another defeat to teach them their lesson. Today, German democracy is so solid that it has even withstood the strains of the Wende, the re-unification. The current chancellor, Angela Merkel, a middle of the road politician from the former
, presents a picture of Bürgerliche common sense moderation to the world. Although racism and anti-Semitism still cause problems today, especially among alienated young men in the broken down industrial areas of Prussia, who in this way do not differ much from similar youth in Poland, these disturbances are no worse than such events in "the world's oldest democracy," the United States, or in many other places. East Germany
has become a "normal" country. Few active participants in the Nazi state are still living. Only the victims and their descendents seem to think much about that era these days. So why not move on and forget about all this? It is because fascism remains a threat to democracy and therefore and needs to be carefully analyzed and understood. Germany
I want to say up front that one of my aims here is to attempt an analysis of how the devices used to protect the German reputation after the war resemble American tendencies in this direction. Critics who cry "Nazi" and "Fascism" at right wing attempts to curtail civil liberties and take away other American freedoms are often accused of going too far. But I want to use the historical advantage, the 20/20 hindsight that the failure of the
can give us. I am specifically interested in the attempts at normalizing bizarre phenomena such as born-again Christianity, analogous to the Hitler cult, the unprecedented takeover and "privatization" of public goods and institutions, akin to Gleichschaltung, and the perpetual mobilization for war competing with the need to provide a comfortable way of life for the masses in order to fend off effective dissent. I will have more to say about Gleichschaltung later in connection with Bush's attempts to bring all aspects of American life into conformity with his agenda. Nazi State
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has today is normalcy on the home front vying with the interminable war in U.S. . After all, isn't a safe and prosperous existence at home, even with the ever-present orange alert warnings in airports and the general air of alarm promulgated by the mass media and the constant refreshing of memories of 9/11, a bit strange? This war that is damaging the reputation of the Iraq and causing billions of dollars and hundreds and thousands of lives? That is destabilizing the U.S. Middle Eastin ways that may never be set right?
Certainly, leftists as well as returning soldiers have long been aware of the cacophony. Today, most Americans as I write this in this summer of 2007 are at least worried and concerned about the direction this country is going in. But the proverbial American lack of historical perspective works against us.
Take for example the convenient forgetting of the horrible Gulf War I, which I'll wager very few Americans today give more than a passing thought to. We have put that destruction so far into the past-- the highway of death, the burning oil fields-- that it could have happened 100 years ago, and yet the buildup and the war took place in 1990-91, practically yesterday. And here we are again, waging another war on the same people. How did this happen? And how can any American believe in normal life considering the situation we live in today, where the strains are so obvious but not talked about? Or at any rate not understood in any profound way? This is what my concern will be here.
How, then, to imaginatively re-create the lifeworld of Nazi Germany in order to get some perspective on the tendencies toward fascism, masked as normalcy, which are affecting us today in this country? What are the resources at hand?
Broszat, Martin.
Hitler and the Collapse of
Weimar . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Germany , 1984. Munich Tr. Berg St.Martin's Press, , 1987. New York
Confino, Alon, Fritzsche, Peter, eds.
The Work of Memory: New Directions in the Study of German Society and Culture. Board of Trustees of the
, 2002. Universityof Illinois
Fontana, Theodore. Effi Briest
Peukert, Detlev J.K.
Volksgenossen und Gemeinschaftsfremde: Anpassung, Ausmerze, undAufbegehren unter dem Nationalsozialismus. Bund Verlag Gmbh, Cologne.
Tr. Inside Nazi
: Conformity, Opposition, and Racism in Everyday Life. B.T. Batsford Ltd; Germany Press, Yale University , 1987. New Haven
Kempowski, Walter.
Tadellöser & Wolff. Revised edition, 1978 (?) Goldman Verlag,
. Munich
1 An example: I once knew German man who had been put on the front lines just as the war was ending, at age 14. He was obsessed with his neck. He felt it was very large and ugly, so he kept it covered with a scarf at all times. This notion interfered with his ability to have a normal relationship. Although he desperately wanted to marry and have a family, he was sure no woman would want him because of his disfigurement. Of course, there was nothing at all unusual about his neck.
2 I must confess that I find this depiction repellant in the extreme and the people impossible to sympathize with. It is a masterful piece of reconstruction, one of the most telling portrayals of people living a lie that I have ever seen. I did not feel that way about these people as depicted in Kempowski's novel, however. Somehow he hooked me into a certain sympathy for their narrow, fear dominated lives. I was not so sure that living when and where they did I would have behaved any differently.
3 At the psychological level I discern a man who tried to please his bleiche Mutter, risking his life in the effort, spending all those years as a young man in prison. His relationship to woman must have suffered greatly. His pure mother, who would never let him kiss her on the mouth, contrasts with the seductive or rejecting girls and women he encountered outside the family. His one true love was his sister, Ulla. Klaus Theweleit discusses the bleiche Mutter and her relationship to fascism in Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies.
4 There is a terrific set piece in Tadellöser & Wolff of the young Walter at dinner with his old maternal grandfather, whom he describes in off putting detail, as if to restore this relic, a man long dead.
5 I believe his sense of loss also has to do with his inability to win his mother's love. But I am avoiding psychological interpretations here.
6 And public life in
was exclusively a "Männerwelt." Women barely existed in the public sphere. Under an 1851 Prussian law, woman had been expressly forbidden from attending political meetings or participating in any kind of poliical activity. They were granted the vote in 1918 but for reasons of custom and the general attitudes of the day toward women, few became politically active. Germany
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Mrs. Rajashree Birla, Chairperson, Habitat for Humanity India, spoke at an interactive session on "Affordable Housing", highlighting the organisation's goals and road map for the future. The event was organised under the aegis of the FICCI-Aditya Birla CSR Centre of Excellence in Mumbai on 19 August 2010. Here is an excerpt from Mrs. Birla's speech.
A decent roof over one's head is the most minimal need of a human being. A home gives a tremendous sense of security, spurs education, lays the foundation of a sustainable livelihood and builds a fine family. In India, the housing scenario is a matter of concern. We need 50 million houses in India, of which, 25 million units are required in urban India alone. We, at Habitat for Humanity International, endeavour to bridge this gap, albeit in a very small way. We are committed to cross the 100,000 homes for the homeless-mark by 2015," said Mrs. Rajashree Birla, Chairperson, Habitat for Humanity India, at a function organised under the aegis of the FICCI-Aditya Birla CSR Centre of Excellence, in Mumbai
Habitat is a world-renowned organisation. Its basic objective is to help provide affordable houses to the underprivileged. To date, Habitat for Humanity has built 370,000 houses across the globe. Of these, 35,000 are in India.
"In India, at the corporate level, Habitat started its innings with the Aditya Birla Group almost a decade ago. At the time, 'Habitat for Humanity' was a relatively unknown entity in corporate India. We tied up with them as an experiment. The Aditya Birla Group began with just 110 houses in Renukoot in Uttar Pradesh, near Hindalco's plants. Over the years, the Aditya Birla Group has supported Habitat financially and in kind, to the tune of US $1.5 million. They've helped build over 3,000 houses. Today, they pledged support for building 1,400 houses as a beginning." Mrs. Birla acknowledged the tremendous support received from Citigroup, Dow Chemicals, ASK Financials and HDFC, among others. "Alongside the dedicated team of Women IndiaBUILDS led by Mrs. Sheila Kripalani, Habitat celebrity champions like John Abraham, Maddy (R. Madhavan), Jacqueline Fernandez, as well as scores of other friends have bolstered our efforts," remarked Mrs. Birla.
Highlighting the road map for the future, Mrs. Birla mentioned the launch of Habitat's 'World of Hope' campaign. This campaign solicits funding and volunteer engagement, both of which are essential to rocket a project of such scale. She also informed the gathering that Mr. Ron Terwilliger, one of Habitat's greatest patrons in the US, who is also the Chairman of the World of Hope Global Campaign, is rooting for India. He will reach out to Ivy League CEOs of Indian origin in the United States, as well as the Ivy League alumni in India. He will directly ask for their commitment and funding for Habitat Homes for the homeless.
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Aims to help students invent and analyze new forms of computer-based art, gaming, social media, interactive narrative, and related technologies. Students participate in a range of new and ongoing projects that are designed to hone skills in research, development, design, and evaluation. Topics vary from year to year; examples include cognitive science and artificial intelligence-based approaches to the arts; social aspects of game design; computing for social empowerment; and game character, avatar, and online profile design. May be repeated for credit with permission of instructor. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.
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Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Illness and Illumination
The last 12 days have been challenging and interesting indeed.
Starting on 10th March, when our car burst into flames on the highway and carrying on through our inability to get the car started again, a battle to find a rental car service which didn't require a small ransom of a hold on our credit cards- not to mention the little matters of Libya and Japan -I'm hardly surprised that I haven't actually performed the ritual of Rushing Dark Water yet.
Well, actually it was more down to a sudden and vicious bout of 'flu which grabbed me, shaking and shivering , on Sunday night and saw me delirious and in pain until this morning.
I have made up the incense, put aside golden candles and marked the ritual passage in my Book of Shadows, so I suspect that I'll be out in the circle tomorrow night at the latest.
In the meantime, I have gathered a sense of what life is going to be like when none of us can afford petrol anymore. Walking to the garage for milk and bread through our delightfully life-rich suburb with children playing in the streets, families walking back from church and belligerent dogs left to roam outside their owners' properties is a worthwhile education in itself, and taking the hour-long hike to the nearest small supermarket -through the bush and across the river on stepping stones- opens your eyes to some details of other peoples' lives indeed. The metres of electric cable covering abandoned on the bush path near our substation in particular provided insight into lives far more desperate from our own, and the constant cheery greetings from fellow bush-whackers underlines perhaps the more humanising effect of not always going everywhere in a damned car.
Then again there was the precious illumination granted so often to us when we are severely ill: an effect noted by many others over the years. There I was, on Sunday night, using psychic techniques to dull the pain in my kidneys and muscles, shivering and sweating and unable to fall asleep, staring up at the join in the ceiling boards in the dark. The line blurred and fuzzed, and I felt my consciousness as a field extending quite some way from my physical body. The top of my head seemed to open wide, and I knew again that I was an experience module in a larger field, outside of which there is Nothing and within which is Everything.
This experience of remembering who we are comes from time to time - not often, but frequently enough to remind me, that I should not forget in this lifetime. I treasure the remembering, for it is perhaps the only thing of which I am really sure. That we are, as Hecate puts it :Goddess pouring Goddess into Goddess, and that's All it is, and that's more than enough.
Now that I'm on the mend and we have the use of a rental car for the week I'm going to find time to say something about combining Juniper and Buchu as a sovereign remedy for aching kidneys. Maybe tomorrow.
Pic: Jessica . I'm waiting for the source from Jacurutu, and I will then attribute it.
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Children's Laureates Chris Riddell and Michael Rosen combine here to create a beautiful collection of ebullient poems for the very young. Michael Rosen's close and affectionate observation of small children and the way they think is brilliantly captured in poems such as You Can't See Me and Let Me Do It. There are also plenty of opportunities for the very young to join in with poems such as Tippy-Tappy and The Button Bop which they are guaranteed to want to hear again and again! Chris Riddell's illustrations created an equally warm-hearted view of the early years and capture the spirit of the poems perfectly.
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Two of the biggest names in children's publishing, Michael Rosen and Chris Riddell, come together in a new poetry collection.
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Most of my adult life, I've been a freelance writer, teacher (of sorts), journalist, performer and broadcaster. I visit schools doing my one-man show, and support Arsenal Football Club.
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Miracles can happen. No, not that I've seen one recently. But I heard a story on the radio this morning (from NPR's Story Corps) about a little boy whose life was saved. It was told by a man who had been the little boy, the story of a time when he leant out of his family's five-story window a little too far and lost his grip, a fall he never would have survived, except for the barber neighbor who had come home from work early that day and was at the door to the building just at that moment. In the right place at precisely the right time. He quickly ripped off his jacket, reached out, and caught the boy (who was presumably only about 5.5 ft from the ground by then). He saved the little boy's life, and it became the most important moment in his own life, as well. A miracle for both of them, this unfathomable chance of random events coming together.
This is the kind of miracle I can believe in: the wonder and amazement of the what-ifs, the literally fantastic luck of timing. When the tragic action (of a car, of a slip or fall, of a cell, of a clot) is caught by the reaction of someone with a jacket, who just happened to be there at the right time. Where there is simply an action and a reaction, and no claim of one or the other without its partner. This is the kind of miracle that isn't there for so many, all the people who wonder "Why me?" or "Why her?" So many opportunities for a different fate, missed by miles or by hairs, the extent is no comfort because the outcome is the same.
This is how I feel right now: I have been walking, trying to run, down this street towards the building, watching her fall inexorably and slowly for more than three years like time is molasses. I don't even have a jacket on, and it took so long to process what I was seeing (and denial is so powerful), and I wasn't there at the window and I wasn't there to see the hand slip and I wasn't there to grab it. And nobody else was there either: the doctors guarding the windows failed in their jobs to watch over and test the windows against this possibility (was it their hubris? ignorance? or the age-old problem of who is going to pay for it?). Why do some of these goddamn windows have so many guardians and others are barely noticed? Some very, very good people have tried in vain to reach out and catch from other windows along the way down, like her parents running from floor to floor to floor. Good people set up experimental superstrong magnets that they are trialing to see if they can use to slow the fall or even stop time. But none of these things have worked. We needed either for the windows to be better guarded or for someone to have been there with a jacket at the very first fall of the very first cells going wrong and pumping out cortisol THAT WAS THERE IN HER BLOOD FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE IF ANYONE HAD JUST LOOKED. There would have been the time to catch her, and change the course of history.
So here we are now, there is still room for hope. Hope that at the most, the fall is slowed enough to give her time to look around and enjoy the feeling of flying, the beautiful sunshine outside, and all the people down there reaching out their ineffectual arms wishing they could catch her with the sheer force of their love. And at the very least, hope that with the here and now, our unique position in history, that we are on the cusp of something better. We have the opportunity and are beginning to develop the understanding to create tools to be there, at the right place and the right time, when they need it and before it is too late. All we can do is hope for the miraculous: that we are there, with our jackets out, ready to catch people.


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A lot of people are dealing somehow with depression. Some people are in this trouble since long ago and a few have just fall prey to it. But irrespective of the time of starting suffering from, depression impacts really bad effect on mind and body. Everyone want to live a healthy and happy life therefore it is really crucial to know about the ways to deal with low mood and avoid depression and if for instance you are already fighting with depression then still it would be great help for you to read this piece of writing.
Firstly, say no to negativity. Avoid negative people and negative thoughts because they affect the attitude towards life and pessimism and negativity leads to depression, ultimately. Secondly, regular exercise and meditation are the best way to keep your mind and body in shape. It not only helps you burn the extra fat but also regulates the hormone levels that control the behavior and thoughts. Thirdly, keep yourself busy in some healthy activities. If something bothers you then do not get panic instead indulge in something that relaxes you like listening music, reading book, swimming and dancing etc.
Live a goal oriented life. It adds a spark in life and gives you the reason to strive. Moreover, eat healthy food and try to enjoy every moment of life. But if you still feel helpless then you really need to consult a professional psychotherapist or a psychiatrist because professional help is the ultimate solution. Anyway, if you need support of a Danish psychotherapist in treating depression, you may check her therapy process that is called terapi Fyn in Dutch.


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Until the Flags of the Galaxy series, Star Wars fans were unaware of what each planet's flag might look like. However, thanks to this artistic project, each fictional place is given its own symbolic emblem.
Art director -- and obvious Star Wars fan -- Scott Kelly is the creative genius behind the Flags of the Galaxy series. For this interesting project, the artist created distinct flag designs for each planet mentioned in the sci-fi saga. Kelly even goes as far as categorizing each planet based on location, while also providing an in-depth description as to what each flag symbolizes.
From the Core Worlds' Aaeton to the Mid Rim's Togoria, Star Wars fans can pursue these flag designs on the Flags of the Galaxy website.
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Re-Imagined Sci-Fi Posters
Epic Sci-Fi Series Mash-Ups
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Opinion: Immigration Reform at a Standstill
Advancing immigration reform by executive action, the trouble with corporate responsibility, and the latest on the three Israeli teenagers were murdered in the West Bank. Plus, the continuing violence in Eastern Ukraine.
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I ... thus shortage him ... the cost Republicans to pass a darn bill ... is bad for our security is bad for our economy ... does that for future ... welcome to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... the bomb as says he was taking Zach and action on immigration reform ... if House Republicans dollars ... political diary editor and Fox News contributor Jason Riley the author of less than in joins me now Jason ... what exactly is the president proposing to do ... it's not clear what is proposing to do aam other than to take matters into his own hands to we can't do executive authority ... of course this trials up the Republican base which is claiming this is very reason we can't work with them ... because no matter what law we pass he will use executive authority to get around to hold on they have a Boeing thought they haven't made the point is the justification although I will say that the idea that they can work with them on this issue because of that reason means no immigration reform as long as the Bombers president ... which is a depressing thought given that the crisis we see on the border now and and and in matters like that flaring up from all out as the crisis on the border change the politics the side of these tens of thousands of children streaming and you know it hasn't really changed the politics that's the problem I think both sides think they have something to gain ... politically Obama likes to point the right is racist ... is worried about minority turnout in November because he is not on the ballot ... and this isn't an issue ... to to go after those voters with ... and the Republicans think that this issue works for them politically they don't want to give Obama victory just before the November election so they're reluctant to rethink ... and they also think this issue brings their base ops but also lose writes Jason Hill has more to lose ... while the country has everything to lose because we have a problem with the immigration system it's broken unaccompanied minors coming across ... your people here working without papers that are open to exploitation of their human smugglers making tons of money their dead bodies in there the other ... is for the Republicans have more to lose here are obtained losing the Hispanic vote to Democrats ... is it that they do that I think Republicans do have more to lose the status quo ... that's Democrats because it gives them the issue to continue pounding away ... at a voting bloc that Republicans probably need going forward if they were continuing line is that the president right that the House GOP ... has advanced anything as of the bill on the four has no ideas here ... the house has not ... done with the Senate has done the damage that the Senate passed a bill last year the houses done nothing ALM so there is the point there that ... me and again I think it's because the GOP in part ... says we can't build this present in impart likes this is an issue ... so what's going to happen nothing until November it doesn't look like anything's going to happen to love them and that the Republicans into the work nothing will happen as long as the Bombers present to cook it in the country suffers ... clinical diary editor and Fox News contributor Jason Riley thank you so much for joining us ... the Supreme Court's decision to exact some companies from Obamacare's contraception mandate ... a lot of people on the left very riled up when you're looking at some of those headlines right now ... but in particular ... very upset about the idea that corporations may have rights due date ... the best of the Web Today columnist James to ransom joining me now James ... so our corporations people do they have rights ... well this idea that you keep traded corporations are people reflects a certain sort of illiteracy ... confusion over ... for a cynical cynical attempt to foment confusion ... between ... five idiom added language and legal language but we've got the Justice Alito peer who has ... a one line explanation he says ... no non understanding of the term person includes some but not all corporations can write on this already is what he what he is responding to their as Justice Ginsburg argument in the defense are in the dissent rather ... that by ... non profit religious corporations blogs traditions which are corporations under the law ... are entitled to protection of their free exercise rights by for profit companies are she's trying to drop this distinction ... by ... that of course not all persons that is individual human beings are ... and Alito is making the point that size you fury you know you have that definition as the water onto the natural persons or it's all legal persons which includes the CA da here that a corporation is just a legal entity that includes a lot of people and those people have rights ... OT know there's something more to it than that if a corporation or not a person a legal person you would not be able to sue a corporation a corporation adopt able to defend itself in court ... by ... then of course the most controversial case before this where you read the struggling with was made with Citizens United which had to do with the free speech rights of corporations ... but the courts of big ticket free speech rights of corporations all the time remember the famous case of New York Times Company vs solve in nineteen sixty four with all of us travelers ... I thank goodness for because it makes it hard to what harder to sue us ... thought that was the case in which the New York Times was defending its corporate free speech rights ... and by the way people forget I was a case about a political ad to go ahead but they do or that it was journalism red coral cars also another point here about corporations that they organize ... not just to make money but also sometimes to invent certain ideas for certain Whirlpool ... yes and it's fascinating that you all and you usually hear people on the left say they want corporations to act conscientiously there was corporate social responsibility ... here you have a corporation with a conscience hobby lobby didn't pursue this lawsuit in order to bolster the bottom line ... but they pursued it because of the sincerely held beliefs of the honor ... of the leftists I know ... it's terrible corporations can have a conscience well if that's what the left truly believes in they don't believe that corporations like hobby lobby should have those that right to object consciously objects to this mandate ... than one hour they just pass along Congress and say ... let's do away with refried that law that protected minorities like I do well and would it be desperate to repeal the religious freedom restoration Act nineteen ninety three law that was a dead issue here ... all that ... Congress would of had to do when the tonight Obamacare what's include a clause saying ... that by the end it's upset by that sector of Health and Human Services shall not be covered by the religious and live in Rigby that widening connections well they bite out of five events and if they have thought of it they would invariably get it through because by Obamacare at the end depending on a man and parts to pack a congressman from the upper Peninsula of Michigan ... and a group of other opera life Democrats who basically agreed ... to buy the vote for Obamacare under the shots that would cover abortion rights of the likely it would have been too hard they try to do a term mandate McCourt said now that's to practice now said he'd this but it is a betrayal of the ... best of the Web Today columnist James Taranto ... thank you so much for joining us ... Bret Stephens is next states ... welcome back to Opinion Journal I'm Mary Kissel ... Israel is mourning the murder of Tami teenagers the very same teenagers ... whose kidnapping Hamas cheered ... global view calmness Bret Stephens joins me now Brett ... I ... what's your reaction ... not just a bit of the murder but a Hamas cheering the kidnapping in the first place well I mean it's it's characteristic of the most part of its charter calls explicitly ... cites the inverse of the Koran calling explicitly for them for Jews to be killed ... so um ... and the prime suspects in the case according to Israeli government of both ... a Hamas activist Hamas ... disavow All's ... responsibilities but nonetheless applauds the ... the kidnapping so ... and it's the it's grotesque behavior by a terrorist organization that every day reminds us that ... it should have no place in any kind of perspective Palestinian government which is precisely what's happening ... in the case of this to remember is realists to look up to seven million people smaller ... population wise them at all to New York in these these stories are intensely fell ... I lived in Israel for a number of years when I was editor of the Jerusalem post ... and ... I can almost remember every single ... suicide bombing terrorist act and to them as it ... has its own unique signature in terms of the depravity of the act is this was the tragedy for the victims ... I think is oh came together an extraordinary way hoping that there would be a good outcome ... for these for these three teenagers were just trying to get ... hitched a ride ... and ended in a tragically United a shallow grave so illustrates coming of the moral distinction between the the Israeli reaction ... and of the Palestinian reaction like commander called everybody today it's up on the beest dot com ... um Hamas also in a separate incident fired rockets into Israel on Monday ... Qantas Benjamin Netanyahu response ... not just that act a bit to these murders ... well ... you know he has promised they Eastern response ... to ... to go ... to Hamas ... and I think of the tragedy of America of of Israel's policy ... is that it always seems to be waiting for an atrocity that happen in order to acting of Hamas remains very much entrenched ... in the Gaza Strip from which it did inspire firing rockets by limits remember that ... Israel vacated the Gaza Strip completely of all settlements in settlers in two thousand five ... and when the cut was more war ... I'm not war ... not more piece ... has appeared in today's rule as it was to make wishes doesn't wanna live with a terrorist organization ... of ride on its side with its formally a member of government ... or not ... or or doesn't want orders of one of the wonder ... low-cost Hamas and I think it's some point you you have to stop pretending ... that that the situation can go on to the Secretary of State John Kerry is a lot of time trying to get peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians ... is that ... absolutely dead than anything the U S should respond well I mean it was a farcical effort it was predictable that was going to fail I think even commentators score well to the left of me were scratching their heads as to why we ... were investing our diplomatic ... capital investments this if you ... for them in every pass Secretary of State has failed so why should you know why should John Kerry ... give it a try one of really like to see is an American diplomacy that says to the Palestinians look they're a lot of other peoples in the world who don't have states ... the current stock of a state that Tibetans don't state the titles don't have the state ... so presumably a state that is not an entitlement you have to do something to earn it ... in a culture that celebrates has to offer the Palestinian Coulter does ... the kidnapping and murder of young up of young children ... is not one that seems to need to be entitled to an automatic presumption that that that that ... that it deserves the state Palestinians on the show ... that it did if they do get estate it's going to be a net contributor to human civilization so far and that's not what the Dumb lock thought certainly lots of friends and family of the victims global view calmness Bret Stephens thank you thank you for joining us ... Ukraine is on the offensive can they win the war against couldn't Matt Kaminski joins us next ... welcome back to Opinion Journal I'm Mary Kissel ... Ukraine launched an offensive against pro Russian militants in the country's east today ... can they win a war what happens if they don't ... got editorial board member Matt Kaminski Mac ... in Ukraine win this battle ... it has to try and says I mean it in in the news that happens a ceasefire last week there was talk about the stocks but basically ... it's impossible to have a negotiation with the ... rebel force in eastern Ukraine which is not armed ... and financed ... by by Moscow ... and the Russian president from Ukraine ... whose ultimate goal in Ukraine is to essentially prevent Ukraine becoming a normal democracy ... aam and so does we very little time to negotiate and push until the new president ... of says it'll have to do in their house that this launch ... people or essentially of Russian occupiers and put a picture for us now where are these militants ... and ... they are the advancing like an army would advance or they basically tucked away in people's knows their own thing if significantly own large chunk of ... the next which is the big city out in eastern Ukraine ... and the gynae scoop sauces city of ... umm over half a million ... and the regions around that it's it's it's it's a discrete area ... it's the area are right on the Russian borders so you can have a few ... begin arms and people come across very easily ... it's also the former strongholds of ... former President Viktor Yanukovich was ousted in February so are they hiding in people's homes had hit dislodge these militants ... but the hard for me I think ... you know this business because of a counterinsurgency operation the sense ... is that the bill would with with heavy weapons in their thousands of them as the clear how many ... in that some of the city's they are ... on the other lady in ... your their snipers Knesset apartments the really mingle with the civilian population ... says is Britain's varied interests of Ukraine government is really do want to avoid civilian casualties might we see civilian casualties Matt might we see some very heavy fighting in the future ... what can we do forty had more than four people killed in eastern Ukraine since April ... on anytime you have to arm ... very well armed groups come to see each other you have the potential for Bush and ... Midori thing is that you today I just said that they would not impose sanctions on ... Russia does this or third wave ... on the US is doing very little to help or not sending a new weekly so there is debate on their own intestines problem on Ukraine on its own ... scary as it were a board member Matt Kaminski ... and that ... you can follow us on Twitter or email us at Opinion Journal why that WS J dot com ... I'm Mary Kissel with The Wall Street Journal editorial board ... thanks for watching ... I


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I like the sound of the world Salbei. It turns so softly from aa to ei, like there was butter on this word.
It reminds me of a soft cloud in front of an evening sky radiant in rose and golden colors of the setting sun.
It feels like I have control, you know. I started gardening 4 months after my divorce from my husband of 12 years.
I was left alone with my daughter.
It was as if at 41 I realized that all my world, all my life that I had built around me was false. I felt like I had made it happen but in reality, it was more like life had happened to me, while I was sitting pretty and watching it.
I had wasted 20 years of my life in thankless jobs which didn't give me any kind of satisfaction, except a low paycheck.
The divorce was like clouds had parted from my life.
Finally letting in sunshine.
I started freelancing from home, giving more time to build the home, to life, to raising my daughter, to myself…and in effect, earning more money.
I needed to do everything myself. Get my hands in the dirt. Weed out powerlessness. Nourish the possibilities. See. Smell. Taste. Smile. Watch my work grow into life. And then nourish me back. This purple prosperity-colored Salbei brought me back into an awareness, and it does every morning with its leaves blessing & fragrancing my warm cup of tea. Just holding it with both my hands, reassures me that I can control. And I do.
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Northrop Grumman has named two new executives in its Aerospace Systems sector.
Kenneth L. Bedingfield was promoted to vice president of business management and chief financial officer for the sector, where he will lead business management and ensure the integration of sector financial and business strategies in support of corporate objectives.
He replaces Chuck Wands, who announced his plans to retire later this year. Bedingfield comes from Northrop Grumman's headquarters, where he was corporate vice president and chief accounting officer.
Before Northrop Grumman, Bedingfield worked at KPMG LLP for over 17 years.
Peggy Nelson was named vice president of engineering and global product development for the sector, where she will lead a efforts to deliver more reliable, sustainable and affordable products.
Nelson was formerly vice president and program manager of the company's advanced mission programs business area.
She has also held a number of other positions at Northrop Grumman, including lead executive for mission assurance, quality systems, engineering capabilities and university alliances for the company's former space technology sector.
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Ah, kids. I wrote about this urban legend blogospheric eons ago. As a commenter pointed out here then, it's possible it has its origins in Marilyn Frye's essay, Oppression:
"The door-opening pretends to be a helpful service, but the helpfulness is false. This can be seen by noting that it will be done whether or not it makes any practical sense... The gallant gestures have no practical meaning. Their meaning is symbolic. The door-opening and similar services provided are services which really are needed by people who are for one reason or another incapacitated – unwell, burdened with parcels, etc. So the message is that women are incapable... The message of the false helpfulness of male gallantry is female dependence, the invisibility or insignificance of women, and contempt for women."
I took a handful of women's studies courses back in the early '80s [at the first University to offer a major in women's studies, btw] and I'd never heard of Frye or this essay until last January. Maybe I ditched and went surfing the day it was covered. Is it widely taught?
Or, more to the point, has there ever been an angry mob of protesting feminists who refuse to have men open doors for them? Does anyone have the time to register the gender of someone opening the door for them? Or is this simply yet another instance of taking the opinions and/ or actions of the fringe and attributing them to a larger group in an effort to render the larger group or cause perjorative in the mainstream?


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