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by Sierra Bright
Natural Living Ideas
Essential oils offer a wide range of benefits for your health, beauty, household cleaning and more – there's a reason so many people use them. In fact, it may seem like every other friend on your Facebook feed has been touting their miracle abilities.
But, beware, before you haphazardly slather on one of your friend's favorites, that just because they're natural, that doesn't mean they don't come without some risks. Essential oils do have lots of amazing powerful therapeutic properties, and there are lots of scientific studies to back that up, but they aren't 100% safe. There are also more than a few essential oil resources online that give some blanket advice about their use that could potentially be dangerous.
Essential oils are very highly concentrated. Just a tiny amount of an essential oil typically has the quality of many cups of herbal tea from the same plant. For example, just a drop of peppermint oil is equal to roughly 26 cups of peppermint herbal tea. You'd probably never ingest that much tea, right? That's a clue that it's important to think carefully before consuming that equivalent amount of essential oil.
Before you start using essential oils on yourself, your family, or your pets, keep these dangers in mind, and note how to best avoid them.
1. Increasing photosensitivity
Certain oils can make your skin more sensitive to the sun, which can set you up for a sunburn, even with just minor exposure. Before heading to the beach or spending any time outdoors, make sure you don't have a photosensitizing oil on your skin. If you do, you could end up with a reaction that can range from slightly red skin to a blistering burn.
The oils that are considered to be photosensitizing generally citrusy types of oils and include:
- Lemon essential oil
- Lime essential oil
- Grapefruit essential oil
- Orange essential oil
- Bergamot essential oil
2. Not all essential oils are considered safe while pregnant or nursing
You're careful about what you eat and drink while pregnant or nursing, and would never consider chugging down a shot of Jägermeister, we hope, but you may not realize that you also need to take extreme care when it comes to using essential oils. That's because the oils can cross the placenta, and get to your baby. In utero, the effects of essential oils may be compounded, so it's crucial that you research every type of oil before use.
While there are many oils that are considered safe during pregnancy, particularly following the first trimester, checking with a professional is a must. Some oils that are considered to use, can be harmful to certain women. As some oils have effects on hormones, they can even cause a dangerous hormone imbalance during pregnancy.
The National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy (NAHA), recommends that pregnant women avoid the following essential oils:
- Wintergreen essential oil
- Sage essential oil
- Mugwort essential oil
- Tarragon essential oil
- Birch essential oil
- Aniseed essential oil
- Camphor essential oil
- Hyssop essential oil
- Parsley essential oil (seed or leaf)
- Pennyroyal essential oil
- Tansy essential oil
- Thuja essential oil
- Wormwood essential oil
3. Pay attention to potential medication interactions
If you take a prescription drug, it's important to find out if the essential oil you plan to use may interfere with it. If you're uncertain about whether to use the oil with a medication you're taking, don't use it. And, you may need to avoid all essential oils if you're taking multiple medications as doing so is said to "exponentially increase the chance of a drug interaction."
According to Aromaceuticals, as sourced from a December 2008 Denver, Colorado presentation, Drug-Essential Oil Interactions: Risks and Reassurances, persons with liver or renal disease, a compromised immune system, or those taking multiple medications, should consult with a qualified, professional aromatherapist before attempting to use essential oils.
How do you know if you've found a true expert? Brent A. Bauer, MD, an internal medicine doctor and director of the Mayo Clinic Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program says that you'll need to do your homework as there are currently no national standards. That includes looking into where the practitioner was trained, how many hours of class time and supervised practice was completed.
4. Using essential oils on children or babies
You should never take advice meant for an adult and apply it to a child, and that's especially true when it comes to essential oils. Children have much thinner, more delicate skin than adults, and tend to be extremely sensitive to their potency. Most experts recommend that the oils should never be given internally to a child, or used undiluted on the skin. If used at all, they should always be diluted twice as much than they would be for adult application.
Generally, oils such as orange, lemon, lavender, chamomile and frankincense are considered safe for use on children when diluted, although it's still advisable to check with a doctor first, and then perform a skin test. There are also certain oils that should never be used around a young child or baby, like wintergreen, eucalyptus, rosemary and peppermint. Those oils contain compounds that can actually slow breathing, or even stop it in those who have respiratory problems.
Additionally, you should always treat essential oils like you would any type of medicine, and keep them out of reach of children – oils like wintergreen can be fatal if swallowed.
5. Essential oils and pets don't mix
While humans may enjoy the aroma of herbs, flowers and spices from essential oils, along with their benefits, your four-legged friends have a different biology. Not only do they have super sensitive noses, but the oils can be toxic to them. There have been numerous reports of animals harmed, even dying, from essential oils.
Pennyroyal, for example, is often used by well-meaning pet owners to rid their animals of fleas, and while it's very effective, it's considered to be a toxin to an animal's kidneys and liver. Tea tree oil is another common oil used on pets to treat dermatological problems like scratches and bites, but many pets have ended up taking a trip to the vet's office after exhibiting signs of toxicity like tremors, weakness, vomiting, depression and ataxia.
Sometimes the oil can cause a gradual buildup of toxins in an animal's system (particularly in cats but sometimes in dogs as well) causing a slow onset of organ failure. Bottom line? Don't use essential oils on your pets!
6. Using essential oils internally
While there is a lot of controversy as to whether or not essential oils can be taken by mouth, Roz Zollinger, certified aromatherapist, instructor and founder of the Heal Center in Atlanta, says that "Unless you're an expert or consulting with one, it's best to stick to external use." She cautions that, as mentioned earlier, the oils are highly concentrated and have various levels of toxicity if not used properly.
Zollinger says that she's even heard some essential oils marketing reps advise their clients to add drops of citrus oil to drinking water, but that can actually cause burning of the esophagus.
Remember, the effects of some oils can range from being highly irritating to fatal when swallowed, like wintergreen as stated previously. While there are some that can be consumed very sparingly, the biggest mistake one can make is to use too much, or too often. Treat essential oils like you would a medication – and, be sure to consult an expert.
7. Skin irritation
Just like everything else, some oils can cause skin irritation in certain people, even when used properly. You should never use an undiluted essential oil on the skin as it can lead to problems that range from a mild irritation to a blistering rash and even permanent loss of skin pigmentation.
Always dilute your essential oil with a carrier oil like jojoba, coconut or almond oil. The general rule is to dilute the essential oil in a carrier oil in a 3 to 5% solution – or, 3 to 5 drops of essential oil per teaspoon of carrier oil.
To find out if you may be sensitive to a particular oil, combine a drop of the essential oil with a half teaspoon of a carrier oil. Rub it onto the inside of the upper portion of your arm and wait for a few hours. If no irritation, itching or redness develops, you're likely not sensitive to that oil.
When used properly, high quality, organic essential oils, can be a fantastic, and safe, natural remedy.


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Friday, March 07, 2008
Killing Culture
[The following discussion took place at UFOB in June 2006.]
The economics of graduate education are messy. Education is paid for by the
government, the parents, various foundations and endowments, by the students
themselves (in part by their low-paid labor), and by the undergraduate students and
their funders. The beneficiaries are the faculty, the researchers, and the students
themselves. One of the peculiarities of humanities graduate schools is that their
main products are of interest only to themselves: new humanities research and new
But the new PhD's, while potential beneficiaries of the PhD monopoly of college
teaching jobs, are also effectively competing with their teachers for whatever jobs
there are. This leads to tension when grad students and adjunct PhD's notice that
some tenured faculty are either over the hill, or else are using their jobs mostly to
finance a nice lifestyle while doing only the minimal research required to keep their
jobs. (For some, scholarship is the reason they went into the profession; for others,
it is just the price you have to pay for a cushy job).
Posted by J. Alva Scruggs
I've written previously about my difficulties with the gatekeepers of academia in my
pursuit of doctoral work and faculty positions. In these earlier posts, I mostly
focused on the apparent non-compliance factor in my rejections: having considerable
experience, recognition, and acclaimed publications to my credit actually worked
against me.
What I overlooked, though, was the age barrier. I'm only 53.
But in a recent conversation with another highly creative intellectual--who just
happens to have been rejected at the same institution where I did my graduate studies
--I discovered that over 50 is indeed considered a liability there, not because of
diminished energy or brilliance, but because it conflicts with the college's
marketing brand of being young and hip.
Posted by Spartacus
I can't count anymore the number of people I know who should be and could be teaching
, who are hanging in there under pressure, and who were driven out or pushed aside.
Back when getting a formal education was an option for me, I had a friend who was
hired at a great place to work, a sweet architectural design firm, with a degree in
philosophy. His employer, he said, wanted someone with an education, who could also
still think. I was young enough to be blown away by that.
It's not just academia, either.
Several years ago, a wealthy Bostonian became interested in the problem of drug
addiction. A foundation colleague helped introduce him to a well respected drug
counseling and treatment center. The wealthy gentleman was impressed with its work,
so he decided to make a large donation to the organization. My colleague was taken
aback when the donor stipulated that his gift not be used for salaries and other
"overhead" expenses. Not knowing how else to respond, she told the donor that drug
counseling and treatment are salaries and overhead expenses.
Compare this process to the way the wingnut borg is handling the building of its
culture. Phil at the Gift Hub has mentioned many times the process of funding and
hiring that makes an intellectual/propaganda network possible. It is taking over the
philosophically liberal structures where an education is increasingly difficult, but
still possible. The obsessive monetization turns learning into a race to the bottom
for acquiring qualifications and place, with a harshly limited outlook for being able
to pursue it full time. Able people start to look elsewhere, and acquire skills,
which is not necessarily a bad thing, but they are not going to be replaced by people
who have decades of experience and the teaching they can still manage is impromptu. I
read a lot of blogs that are a close equivalent to hedge schools, published by people
who have everything it takes to teach, except for a marketable quality.
posted by J Alva Scruggs
For those who might ask what's the big deal?, I refer you to the right-wing coup of
the Southern Baptist Convention and its extensive assets. University and government
treasuries are no less formidable when deployed in the cause of fundamentalism now
merged with organized crime.
Posted by Spartacus
In talks with right wing religious people, I've found that they're often quite upbeat
, even happy, and that being part of something with some very clear precepts has made
them enthusiastic about sharing the good news. They have apocalyptic ups and downs,
but those are generally fairly shallow. Only the deeply damaged are obsessive, and
they come to dominate because they have what it takes to wage attrition through
unreasonableness. Eventually, it's easier to let them have their way. They're not
especially grand manipulators. Just persistent.
Quite a few of the religious righties I've spoken to are not suffering from a false
consciousness in any way. Things I consider terrible sacrifices are worthwhile
trade-offs for them. They were very, very unhappy. Now they're not. The bullying
wingnut cretins are a minority, who drag them into rotten activities through peer
pressure, relentless unpleasantness and the cheap thrill of getting away with being a
Kurt Vonnegut wrote about psychopathic personalities whose decisiveness is unhampered
by empathy or considerations of decency. That state of mind is very attractive to
people who are unhappy. I've felt that way myself: if only I were free of thinking
I'm a jerk for doing X, Y or Z. Then I could be effective. I can say I would pass on
the promise of that, and support in my efforts to achieve it, because I tried it once
and couldn't hack it. A little voice in me cried, "bullshit", and I couldn't drown it
with drugs, liquor or anything else. The pitch I got was: come, let us be uncertain
and struggle together. It appealed to me because I had all these nagging doubts and
wanted company. The certainties of it were veiled. They were, as I alluded in the
previous post, a test of my willingness to go along. That's the big step.
I find my community now among the rejectionists, the pariahs, the endlessly fucked
over and the people who are scared of being fucked over again. Membership in that is
not a lot to offer people.
Posted by J. Alva Scruggs
I don't know. I had a neighbor whose exuberant dogs I walked in junior high who would
have probably qualified as one of those upbeat Christian types. Once I was present
for a theological conversation between her and her husband. I think it had to do with
a local church whose minister was letting the parishioners perform baptisms on
themselves rather than presiding Dadlike over the ritual himself. Neighbor lady was
taken aback by this anarchy. Husband, marginally more sympathetic, said it could be
seen as "the priesthood of all believers," solid Protestant-citizen material, you
know. In the end the neighbor lady expressed her skepticism about such interpretative
license by shrugging that she supposed it was an instance of "the fires burning
What she meant by this--I know because I'd heard her say it before--was that the
ambiguity of the doctrine was a deliberate test set out by God, a kind of bait or
entrapment, and if the mark interpreted incorrectly, he would suffer all the more
howlingly in hell to have been so close, as it were, to have been so lucky to have
had the correct answer there in his vicinity but to have missed it nonetheless.
The whole of my objection to the desert religions rests in that anecdote. I think the
woman who said it would have counted as one of the "moderates," one of the upbeat and
not obviously sociopathic exemplars of the faith. But the violent, infantilized
authoritarianism and cruelty is so deeply inbred in Christianity that I'm very
skeptical that even the "nice" ones escape being fundamentally shaped by it. Here's a
woman who looks at the people sitting next to her at the PTA, or selling her
groceries, and she can serenely contemplate them screaming in torture forever over a
trivial point of doctrine--not just that, but triumph that they got tricked.
Pwned by God! And it's active torture we're talking about, forever. I heard a lot of
stuff like that growing up--it was so normalized that even long after I was an
atheist it didn't dawn on me for years just how morally abject, how grotesque and
inhuman that vision really is. Yet if you subtract from Christianity all the people
who would reject the doctrine of hell, I'm not sure who that leaves you with besides
a few freethinking Episcopalians and Unitarians and a gaggle of assorted New Agers.
Upbeat good cheer and intratribal hugginess is compatible with unspeakable cruelty
and casual, utterly inhuman retractions of fellow feeling--not just for strangers and
others but for the people one sees or works with every day. For that reason the
anecdote also expresses the whole of my objection to the authentic happiness crowd,
who are a secularized version of the same anti-ethical form of life.
Posted by T.V.
T.V., the satisfaction the doctrinally correct get from the thought of others
suffering seems less religiously based to me than it does class based. Secular
wingnuts of that class like torture too, and in this world. I do think the desert
religions lend themselves very well to infantilized authoritarianism, but I've seen
the same gloating in people of other faiths. What they had in common was frustrated,
and sometimes insatiable, managerial ambitions. I think a good bit of religion is
ginned up to meet that desire, in much the same way as crank philosophy. It provides
a respectable cover. It's something that can get space on the NY Times op ed page.
I went a little batshit after the Abu Ghraib story broke and I found secular liberals
solemnly discussing the morality of torture. Perhaps they've never hurt anyone or
been hurt, but the ghoulishness of deciding how much and what kinds of torture are
acceptable, from the lofty absraction of blogs and published journals, seems an awful
lot like the satisfaction of the fires burning hotter woman. I had expected more than
revulsion followed by, "yes. . . but. . ." So not quite as overt and not quite filled
with false piety, but the abdication to a remote force that would handle it without
making their nice houses messy was still there.
There's a different quality to the sadism of the doctrinally correct than the
incoherent hatred of the less well-schooled. It takes a college experience -- I
hesitate to say education -- to give someone the ammo to be an adept cretin. Some of
this is class based.
The upbeat people among my formerly completely broken religious righties refuse to
think about ugly or cruel consequences. They do a weird shift if they absolutely have
no choice but to see it. They cope with screaming fits, breaking things, looks of
profound shock and tears, followed by accusations of being hated by the people who
have forced them to look. Dobson and his fellow travelers make a pretty penny
conditioning them into being able to do it themselves.
In the absence of religion, wingnuts and managerial ghouls, nominally liberal or
pseudocon, still look for that element of personal sanctity that makes hurting others
acceptable and even a pleasurable duty, provided they don't have to get too dirty
themselves. Social Darwinism works for the secular.
Religion looks more like a tool for something to me than a cause. The culture of
limitless control is my culprit.
Posted by J. Alva Scruggs
T.V., that's why I find the image of Jehovah as a thoroughly damaged, warped, even
evil fragment of the true godhead so...appealing. The apologists have never
successfully answered the Question of Evil if they assume that Jehovah is somehow
pure and good. So...what if he is not, what if he is a mad, gibbering, flawed piece
of a greater deity?
Gnosticism does have a lot of craziness associated with it, but not as much as
orthodoxy, imo.
Posted by Brian Miller
Mr. Scruggs, a worthy essay, One of my favorite "other" blogs is the relentlessly
secular Butterflies and Wheels. I think, frankly, they lose site of the very reality
you summarize so well. A link to your post will be worthwhile, tomorrow, methinks.
Posted by Brian Miller
Hi there Mr. Miller. I'm not completely convinced that my cultural culprit is not a
product of the Christian culture. It's hard to disentangle, as religion is also very
much a means of governance and a philosophy of goverance. It's incredibly useful to
be able to say He said.
Hmmm. What I'm groping towards is saying I still have a chicken and egg problem.
Posted by J. Alva Scruggs
Further thoughts on this.
Younger people's intellects are easier to weaponize, both and students and
instructors. Militarization runs deep in our society. Hence the disdain for Spartacus
,among others, who are too old, too individuated and too rounded to be comfortable
turning out hyper-specialized students.
Desert religions evolved alongside a constant flux of uncertainty, famine, war and
forced migrations. A lot of the efforts at ethical thinking in the literature
concerns the proper use of violence, control hierarchies, duties and massive cruelty.
Religion gets adapted to meet people's needs at the time. Schisms are constants as
are evolving intepretations within the orthodoxy. The happy camping religion of
broken people is not the same as the punitive hellfire of the doctrinally correct
managerial class, even though they're both called Christian. They're both different
from the free thinking Episcopalians, whose ways and thoughts are very much in line
with social democracy.
The psychopyrotechnical goo of the Zizek devotees provides a different kind of social function for
cover. I've been invited to view it as a symptom, but it's really just a
manifestation of a desire to be an asshole in a respectable way.
Assertive victimology and a right to provocation have no place in the freethinking
Posted by J. Alva Scruggs
I don't think Jehovah is even a fragment of the true godhead, although there are
regions in which whole groups of people have miniaturized things around such a
thought, which is not very bright because they also think it's a large and
comprehensive thing (even). The aim should be to get all the way away from 'true
godhead,'including forgetting about the 'true Christianity' or the 'true [any]
religion, because those flute notes from Arjuna to Krishna were few in number--they
were probably just some nobleman playing the flute for somebody else, and a scribe
made up the story--still sold in Hare Krishna stalls the world over! Then your
cultural culprits might have bolder outlines--like the closing of the Kilgore
classical music station in favour of selling to shit Christian-pop bullshit as
reported in NYTimes today.
That niceness of the moderate Christians who aren't full-time hateful is the
trickiest of all. Thanks for the warning, as I need to have this as a kind of
re-indoc thing at least weekly, because I have to deal with some of these and they
are sore afraid that they might not overturn me. It may also be important, if we talk
about sadists enjoying suffering, to be able to learn how to enjoy watching sadists
suffer. I really don't think there is any choice. This could be circular, but it
could also be a way of keeping the juices flowing--doesn't matter about the critique
about hypocrisy that will be inevitable from the put-upon now-powerless neocons, just
so long as they're penned up.
Posted by email@example.com">new york pervert
Mr. NYP, the critique of the neocons I'm going with for now is that they hit the
jackpot at a time when there was a need for their brand of snake oil aggression. The
need looks likely to shift to the Kristof and Tom Friedman brand next. The desire for
aggression hasn't gone away. It does need better branding. The genius, such as it is,
of the DLC types lies in peddling a warmed over version of Papa Doc Bush's kinder,
gentler aggression. I have no doubt it will eventually sell well.
Posted by J. Alva Scruggs
Mr. Scruggs, I love your writing. "kindler, gentler aggression indeed." Why invade a
country when a few infusions of cash and targeted "removals" can do?
What too many forget is the murders and genocides committed by our oh so kind and
gentle Democratic Party. I'm sure the Serb villagers driven out of their ancestral
homes by KLA Criminal Syndicates are forgiving of the Great Empathicizer's little
bombing war of liberation in the Balkans. At least there was some competence, less
outright looting, involved, no?
Posted by Brian Miller
I was merely alluding to the opportunistic nature of the merger between these two
inbred lineages of American conservatism. The all-out culture war that resulted from
this arranged marriage has plenty of fuel, but needs to consolidate its shallow
ideological gains by ousting all opposition.
Theocracy cannot abide academic freedom, only the pretense of it.
Posted by Spartacus
'What too many forget is the murders and genocides committed by our oh so kind and
gentle Democratic Party.'
Then they should shut up talking about how wonderful Bill Clinton was--even if he was
. I don't think anybody thinks the Democratic Party is 'kind and gentle' and I don't
think anybody is kind and gentle--just look at saints, they're all sadists too.
Aggression is all right, one needs a subtler narrative to combat inertia, except when
inertia suffices (I like it for brief periods of each day.)
Posted by firstname.lastname@example.com">new york pervert
Or rather, I shouldn't say 'aggression is all right,' but it is not going to always
suffice as the 'first theme' of everything. People have tried it and it has never
worked, because everybody is aggressive.
Posted by firstname.lastname@example.com">new york pervert
Fair point, Mr. NYP. It seems like too much trouble to say "unprovoked aggression as
constant policy", but that's what it should have been.
Posted by J. Alva Scruggs
I missed your second comment until just now, Spartacus. I agree with the conclusions.
Posted by J. Alva Scruggs
I think your class-first argument is mostly compelling. Religion at its worst does
seem to follow fractures of class or race that would have been played out even
without supernatural justifications. I think where I balk is at the stories for the
children. If you imagine a safe and settled culture, free of the sedimented strife
that would train up kids in obviously grotesque hatreds, and imagine the kids
imbibing the usual Sunday school tales...well, I think the themes of raw, grovelling
authoritarian submission & grandiose S&M power relations are far worse than the
militarized kid's-channel TV stuff I try unsuccessfully to keep my son from being
immersed in, and I think they could twist people who would otherwise be untrained in
social cruelties into accepting them as justified. They're not like reading Harry
Potter, or the original rather nasty Grimm's tales, either, because kids who imbibe
those tales are told that they're real. That's a crucial categorical distinction for
kids. Nathan asks that all the time. Is magic real? Are dinosaurs real? Is a laser
real? Is heaven real? As Brian says, Jehovah deserves to be treated precisely as the
Gnostics treated him, as a crazed megalomaniac villain on Power Rangers. Teaching
kids to bow down before that is horrible, and I confess I think there's a connection
between such early training and something like Abu Ghraib even if I can't prove it
sociologically. While one can make a very plausible case that cruelty would run our
monkey world with or without religion, I think one can also make a case that religion
is the originary source of the implant that makes it possible for gentle people who
would otherwise be appalled by torture to consider it thinkable, even acceptable, if
carried out by the proper authorities.
If I had to choose between kid's books about suffocating giant mother squirrels and
books in which the entire human race is drowned out of spite and prophets who call
down murderous bears on children for laughing at them, I'd choose the former while
holding out for something better than either of these Hobson's choices.
Posted by T.V.
TV: I just want to say "excellent." I think Arthur Silber has an excellent series of
articles summarizing how our child-rearing practices, including "religion" lead to
the very cruelties and corruptions we see throughout history.
Posted by Brian Miller
Jesus, with the children at his knees, was not talking of hell burning hotter; he was
talking about humility, kindness, and mildness. The Gospels, I truly think, are the
best source for many of the anti-Pharissaical sentiments expressed on this blog.
Being "anti-Christian" is not a great stance for winning hearts and minds in the
heartland. But reading the Gospels might be.
Posted by Tutor
Read the passage in context, liberal. It was after the Pharisees were trying to trip
up the Lord on matters of divorce and physical relations between a man and woman.
It's clear as day the gospel is showing us that abortion is wrong. Anything else is
fancy city talk.
Try that sort of thing in the church were I worship and we'll show you the chains,
liberal. And then you'll weep—but I won't. I'm forgiven.
Posted by Captain Blowtorch
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12. Announcements • Next Bicyclist-Pedestrian Subcommittee Meeting – June 12, 2017, 9:30a.m., Rm B and C • Next TPC Meeting – June 23, 2017, 9:30 a.m., Rm B • Public Meetings – Regionally Coordinated Transportation Plan (RCTP) o June 21, 2017, 2:00p.m., Harris County Transit, Baytown City Hall, 2407 Market Street, Baytown, TX 77520 o June 27, 2017, 5:30p.m., City of Pearland City Hall, 3519 Liberty Dr., Pearland, TX 77581 o June 28, 2017, 5:30p.m., Connect Transit – League City, 400 W. Walker St., League City, TX 77573 • Next TAC Meeting – July 19, 2017, 9:30 a.m., Rm B
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One Wish Away
By Kelley LynnBlurb: Be careful what you wish for…
Lyra has always been ahead of the curve. Top of her class in school, a budding astronomer, and with a best friend like Darren she barely has time to miss the mother who abandoned her family years ago. She's too busy planning to follow in her father's footsteps, and to become the youngest astronomer at Space Exploration and Discovery.
When a star goes missing Lyra is determined to get to the bottom of it only to discover her braniac dad is the mastermind of a top-secret government experiment. They promise to build a perfect world, one galaxy at a time, but with every tweak of the present, a bit more of the future starts to crumble.
Lyra has to go undercover to reveal the truth and let humanity decide if the consequences are worth more than wishing on a star.
Genres: Young Adult, Romance, Science Fiction
Publication Date: November 24, 2014
Pages: 213
Series: N/A
My Rating: 2 stars
I received a free copy of this book via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
As I started to read One Wish Away, I was quite sure that I would love it. And then...I read some more. And slowly, I realized that it would not be a lovefest like I had assumed. The characters turned from awesome to frustrating, and the author didn't manage to make the plot seem believable.
At first I was quite sure I would be able to relate to the protagonist, Lyra. She seemed a little awkward, but super smart,and I was like, hey! the bookish world needs more characters like this! But then she kept making stupid, stupid, stupid decisions. She sneaks in to her dad's workplace, then gets caught. (Shocker.) Then, her dad saves her from getting sent to jail or worse, but she is warned that she can't reveal any of the secrets she learns while there. Well, guess what she does. Tells all the secrets to the boy that she has a slight crush on. And then, to add a bit of hypocritical-ness to the poor decision making, she judges someone else when they get caught for telling someone about the super-secret machine that grants wishes from stars. Like she hadn't done the EXACT same thing.
My reaction:
Bennett's character was the second-most disappointing character. His character development near the end was just unbelievable; and I do not mean that in a positive way. It was just a little unbelievable; kind of like the rest of the storyline.
Second, I couldn't help wondering, as they were again and again pondering making wishes happen because the "White House wanted it done"...why don'tcha just wish the White House didn't know about the project? Then we wouldn't need to sit through these conversations about if the scientists should make the wish or not. This bugged me throughout the story, and is really what made me not be able to fully buy the storyline.
This book, while promising--I mean, it is super different then most books out there--didn't properly deliver. I never really was able to suspend my disbelief or connect with any of the characters, and the rating suffered due mostly to this. It was a disappointing read.


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I get a lot of questions about workflows and SharePoint Designer. You will see that I did a series of blog posts on that topic:
Creating a SharePoint Workflow
You've read the blog posts now see the video:
Hopefully, all these will show you how easy it is to get into workflows for SharePoint Online.
As with most areas with technology, the rabbit hole goes as deep as you want it. SharePoint Designer is a very, very powerful tool that can create some really amazing things when it comes to workflows and SharePoint site design. Best of all SharePoint Designer is free.
So if you have been meaning to get your feet wet with automation in SharePoint Online, hopefully all this material will get you off the blocks to a flying start.


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Virginia, dubbed 'the birthplace of a nation' is also the birthplace of many universities. The small state features over two thousand colleges and universities, including community colleges, technical schools, trade schools, career colleges, and other institutes of higher education. These include the University of Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson, and one of the most prestigious colleges in the state. The College of William and Mary is the second oldest college in the nation.
Colleges named after famous leaders, or their wives, fill the beautiful countrysides in Virginia, where eight of the U.S. presidents were born. James Madison, George Mason, Mary Washington, and several others clinch the names of some of the top four year colleges, all offering a variety of degrees to potential students.
Virginia offers the highest concentration of government jobs in the nation, and to supplement those jobs with skilled workerws, there are several trade schools all across the state with numerous training programs:
These trade schools, spread out across Virginia, open up the educational opportunities to the over half a million students at the collegiate level in the state.
The cost of living varies greatly across Virginia, depending on which area you choose to live. The median annual household income in 2009 was $59,300. High school graduation rates in Virginia are 85.8 percent, and with over 33 percent of the state having received a bachelor's degree or higher education, and over half a million students enrolled each year in Virginia, this state, in the middle of the Blue Ridge Mountains, offers great educational and occupational opportunities to its residents.
Education and health services have been on the rise over the last year in Virginia, and most of the four year colleges offer degrees in these fields to match the trend. One of the largest employers in Northern Virginia is INOVA Fairfax Hospital, which employs over 6,000 people.
A Verizon education industry is also located in Northern Virginia and employees over 5,000 workers. George Mason University and Fairfax Hospital also employ about 5,000 people each.
Since Washington D.C. is located at the tip of Virginia, many commuters find work there and at other government institutes in Virginia. The unemployment rate in Virginia is only 6.5 percent, almost three percent lower than the national average. In addition to government jobs, which lead the job market, Virginia also has a large portion of its eight million residents employed in trade, transportation and utilities, as well as professional and business services.
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aTube Catcher allows you to download videos from your favorite video websites like YouTube, Dailymotion and more and covert them to different formats. To download videos with aTube Catcher just paste the address of the video in the correct field and select the format you want to use. It's that simple. And if you want to convert FLV video format, the process is very similar, just select the video, set the format and start the conversion process. In short, aTube Catcher is a great solution to download videos from the web and watch them as many times as you want without connecting to the internet.


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The fairytale seemed so wonderful: ABBA, four young and unknown people, who took the whole world by storm within five years. ABBA turned into an enterprise with perfect performances, well-planned tours and records that made the charts, every single one of them. But the fairytale seems to have ended now. Recent developments in the group make insiders expect that everything will start going downhill pretty soon. The big tour, that will take them to our country this week, might in fact be a farewell visit.
"Björn and I didn't see a future together any longer," blonde Agnetha stated almost a year ago in Paris, "and that's why we decided to go our separate ways. But this won't have any effect on the group. I still see a future with him as a musical partner. So it won't have any consequences at all for the group..."
Agnetha seemed to be right. ABBA kept going after Agnetha and Björn's divorce, as if nothing had happened. Still, new troubles started to arise in the group. But this time it's about the other half of ABBA, Benny and Anni-Frid. The red-haired singer and the blonde, bearded singer of ABBA got married last year in all secrecy. Because when Björn and Agnetha's relationship started to deteriorate, the attraction between the other couple increased. Manager Stig Anderson tried everything he could to control the increasing rivalry between the two female singers as much as possible. But it all seems to be in vain.
Red-haired Anni-Frid, who already had a big career as a solo singer before ABBA, allegedly prefers to continue alone with her husband. Contractual obligations have to stop her from doing that now. But nothing was standing in her way to work on her own future apart from ABBA. And she makes the most of it now.
"Luckily, I'm free to do whatever I want in that respect," says Anni-Frid. "For instance, I played the leading role in a new Swedish movie recently. I thought it was great fun to be able to act. Oh well, as long as the audience still likes ABBA's music I will probably continue working with the group. But that doesn't mean that I will occupy myself with ABBA exclusively. Because apart from a possible solo career I have my family to take care of as well. My son Hans and Benny's son Peter are living with us. And then there's my daughter Lise-Lotte and Benny's daughter Helene who respectively live with their father and mother, but often visit with us too. And then Benny: he is the best thing that ever happened to me and not ABBA!"
Agnetha has a hard time coping with all of this. Björn only occupies himself with composing songs. Anni-Frid is dreaming about a solo career with her Benny. So what remains for blonde Agnetha...?


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Grove City
Religion Department
Study Religion?
Study religion or as they
call it at Grove City College ... Christian Thought?
Why? Maybe those going to seminary might think of
such a thing but what about the average ordinary
committed Christian?
We are actually excited about our
program for any and all students at the College.
Some Colleges and Universities have a Religion or
Religious Studies program that focuses on the
"phenomenon" of religion itself -- the comparison of
different religions, the psychology of religion, the
sociology of religion, the philosophy of religion, and
the like. While GCC has classes like this, in our
Religion Department, we orient the focus of our major
around a Biblical-Theistic worldview and the
implications of this for our lives.
In fact, that's why we call it Christian Thought.
Students study Biblical, Church Historical, and
Theological issues in the classes we offer. We
desire to challenge both students and professors to
refine views by valuing analytical, contextual, and
logical thinking with the Scriptures as the final
In terms of design, therefore, we have three types of
student in mind:
Students who simply want to study Christian
Thought with a desire to be enabled to become more
effective in whatever vocation to which they are
called. Many students in this category
actually like taking Christian Thought as a second
major with a first major in fields such as Business,
Communication, English, History, Psychology,
Sociology, and others.
Students going into professional ministry
positions right out of college (non-seminary bound)
-- positions in para-church ministries, mission
agencies, and churches. Students get more
grounded in the faith and thus get equipped to teach
in such situations.
Students planning on seminary take
this major, although we also encourage them to look
into possibilities like Communication, English,
History, Psychology, or Sociology. Such
students desire to gain a handle on basic skills
while developing solid critical thinking skills.
While the Department
encourages all students to take classes in the
Biblical languages, Hebrew and Greek, we especially
deem it important that pre-seminarians do so.
Taking at least if not both of the languages during
College will make Seminary a much more enjoyable
learning and training experience.
So, we hope that you will think about how a Christian
Thought major at Grove City College could help you have
a center in Christ for all of life's adventures.
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New British Singer Jessie J Is UK's Most Popular New Export12:31 - Sunday 10 October 2010 - In Categories UK Entertainment, UK Videos
Keep an eye out for British singer/songwriter Jessie J who is fast becoming one of the country's most anticipated new artists.
Essex-bred Jessie, 21, is signed worldwide to Universal Music Group, and has inked a deal with Lava/Universal Republic Records and Island Records in America.
Her portfolio includes writing songs for Chris Brown, Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake and penning Mylie Cyrus's No 1 Billboard hit, Party In The U.S.A.
She's also toured with Macy Gray, Girls Aloud, Jools Holland and Taio Cruz.
Jessie's first single, Do It Like A Dude, is currently causing an internet buzz, and according to her official website, a debut album is soon to follow.
She says: 'I feel like my album is an example of what exists in the world of music right now.
'It's like my album is an iPod… it's like when you go clubbing these days, you don't have a pop room and a separate RnB room, they're all together. People just appreciate great music.'
i love jessie j!
Do it like a brother
Do it like a dude!!
Love IT
omg i love u buti really love the song do it like a dude! <3


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Crack Head Phil Gets a Slap from Peggy in Eastenders00:06 - Wednesday 18 August 2010 - In Category UK Entertainment
The drama continues on Eastenders this Friday, when alcoholic-turned-crack-head Phil Mitchell gets slapped up by mum Peggy.
The BBC recently defended Phil's crack cocaine storyline, saying it represents today's society.
Yet, we're still yet to see the E20 teenagers smoking skunk or anyone in Albert Square using a washing machine at home.
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Top Level Ontologies for OEPI
An overview of top level ontologies
Ontologies are mostly created for a specific purpose as for OEPI that is the creation of an ontology for environmental performance indicators. Apart from these specific ontologies there are also more general ones that are called top level or upper ontologies. They serve as a kind of superstructure above the specific domain, task and application ontologies. Its purpose is to provide the possibility to integrate specialized ontologies into a generic semantic context that is levelled above them. Examples for such ontologies are those that provide proper integration of concepts into the earth system, common time and space knowledge or just proper mapping to a multilingual dictionary or thesaurus.
During the development of OEPI's ontology for environmental performance indicators, several top level ontologies have been reviewed. This is part of the ontology design process as by that it may be avoided to create an own comprehensive top level ontology which is a complex and lengthy task. The basis for the research done was a comprehensive review done by Mascardi, V., Cordì, V. and Rosso, P. (2007): A comparison of upper ontologies, Proceedings of Conf. on Agenti e industria: Applicazioni tecnologiche degli agenti software, WOA07, Genova, Italy, pp. 24-25. They developed a set of criteria to evaluate several ontologies. By that we could have a better understanding of the most important top level ontologies that exist.
The evaluated ontologies are in detail:
- The Basic Formal Ontology (BFO)
- The Cyc Project
- The General Formal Ontology (GFO)
- The PROTo ONtology (PROTON)
- Sowa's ontology
- The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO)
During our review we found that most top level ontologies have common agreements of top level issues like objects, world, properties, events or processes. Nevertheless many of the evaluated ontologies are already geared toward specific purposes like for example the medical domain, natural sciences or language processing. So it will make more sense to have the OEPI ontology mapped to existing abstract concepts of one or several of the ontologies from above.
If you know of additional top level ontologies that may be added to this list, please let us know and we might include it here.


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A new version of the iFuntastic application is rumored to be release within days. While the current version provides exceptional functionality, allowing Apple iPhone owners to add custom ringtones and changes virtually any image or text, it also lacked one or two features that would make iFuntastic an even better application.
What single feature would provide the most bang for the buck? Opinions vary but the first feature that comes to mind is the ability to upload or add files to the Apple iPhone. This single feature would allow additional look/feel customizations (a.k.a. "skinning") and the installation of applications. Whether it's done by browsing, as with the current file management abilities, or through a drag-and-drop interface doesn't matter, just as long as the ability is there. With this functionality, being able to add an 'icon.png' file to the DemoApp (which sets the wallpaper for the Home Page) or upload the new version of SuperNES would become a breeze.
Another feature that many people are asking for is support of PowerPC based Apple computer systems. The current version of iFuntastic only supports the newer Intel based Apple computers. Content for the iPhoneWriter.com web site is predominantly created using an Apple iPhone, but a lot of graphic work and editing takes place on our Apple MacBook, which is also the system we use to synch our Apple iPhone. Given that our MacBook is Intel based, we'd rather see file uploading more than support for PowerPC's.
Oh well, if there is any truth to the rumors, we'll soon find out what the iFuntastic team has planned.
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The only thing Trent's best friend has ever asked of him is to keep an eye on his twin sister while he's deployed. Keeping her company on her birthday shouldn't be too hard. He just has to remember the promise he made to himself in college to keep his hands off her.
Ever since Mara walked into her brother's dorm room freshman year and came face to face with a shirtless Trent, she's known he was The One. He's been right there with her twin brother as her biggest supporter or shoulder to cry on, whichever she needs most.
The problem?
Trent has no idea how she feels.
Well, it's her first birthday without her twin and Trent's coming over to keep her company. It's the perfect time to tease him a little. A skimpy yoga outfit and a few glasses of wine later, she plans to finally have Trent exactly where she wants him.
In her bed, for as long as she can keep him there.
If Mara has her way, she'll get a whole lot more for her birthday than a Hallmark card.
**Novella / 11k words / 50 pages
Nice story about two friends who have been attracted to each other for years, but have stayed away from each other because her brother is his best friend. What happens when one of them decides to do something about it explosive. While there is a lot of sexy time in the book, Malone finds a way to make sure there is plenty of story in this short story.
MATURITY RATING - 18+ VERY steamy
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She's now a full-time writer and spends 99.8% of her time in her pajamas. Her contemporary romance series THE ALEXANDERS has sold 1/2 million + copies since 2011.
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In 1972, Detroit's Burnett Sisters were singing mostly standards and pop songs locally, when their distant relative Wardell Montgomery invited the four siblings to help him bring to life selections from Teen Age Widow--his self-published poetry chapbook--at the RAPA community theater. Crucial to the execution of "I Meant Every Word" is Dave Hamilton, whose crew at TCB studio made the recordings and instrumentation possible. Montgomery would continue working intermittently as a songwriter for Hamilton?s production company, but his four relatives have disappeared entirely.
Pressed in a quantity of 200 and issued in conjunction with Third Man Records, this single was only available at our Detroit Factory Outlet on April 15, 2017.


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4 ways your credit card can boost happiness
Are you spending, but unhappy? You're not doing it right
Can your credit card buy you happiness? Experts say yes -- as long as you spend your money on the right things. And here's a hint: Splurging on the latest high-tech gizmo or to redecorate your family room aren't on the list.
"Money is a tool. It's there to be used to build a better, happier life for you and the people you care about," says Laura Vanderkam, author of "All The Money In The World: What the Happiest People Know About Getting and Spending." "But most people are spending their money on big-ticket items like super-sized homes, expensive jewelry and cars, rather than the things that really make them happy."
So what should you be pulling your credit card out to buy? First and most importantly: Stick to stuff that you can afford. If buying something adds to your debt, Vanderkam says, then it's going to cause more stress than happiness in the long run. But if you have your spending under control, here are some spending practices that a review study in the Journal of Consumer Psychology found are most likely to boost your happiness level:
1. Buy experiences,
not stuff
If you're trying to decide between a Caribbean trip and a new flat-screen TV, buy the plane tickets. A slew of studies have found that people are happier when they buy experiences rather than material purchases. In one study, for example, more than 1,000 Americans were asked to think of a material and an experiential purchase they had made with the intention of increasing their own happiness. Asked which made them happier, 57 percent said the experience brought them more happiness, while only 34 percent named their material purchase.
Why the difference? For one thing, studies show that we quickly get used to new material goods, so the pleasure we thought they would bring quickly disappears. We're also more likely to second guess those purchases and negatively compare them to other options. Maybe you go to a friend's house and they have a much bigger TV with a better picture; suddenly, you don't feel as good about your new TV.
Experiences, on the other hand, are harder to compare, and the pleasure they bring tends to last. "Experiences are really like a triple whammy for happiness," Vanderkam says. "First, we anticipate the fun of an experience. Then we enjoy experiencing it in the moment, and when it's over, we can remember it."
Danny and Jillian Tobias took that idea to the extreme when they got good jobs in Washington, D.C., after graduating from college. The couple dreamed of traveling the world, so they rented a cheap apartment and saved their money as they planned their adventure. "We still saw people and we still socialized, but what made us most happy was knowing that we were working toward our goal," recalls Danny Tobias. In five years, the couple saved $60,000, enough to travel the world for two years, and "now we'll have those memories forever," Tobias says.
2. Give to others
Imagine you're walking along and a stranger hands you a $5 or $20 bill, along with a note telling you to spend it on yourself by the end of the day. Now imagine instead that the note tells you to spend the money on someone else. It may seem counterintuitive, but researchers who did that on the University of British Columbia campus found that those who spent the money on others were happier than those who bought for themselves.
Other studies have also found that the more giving you do, the happier you are, says Timothy D. Wilson, a University of Virginia psychologist who co-authored the Consumer Psychology journal study. "Humans are social creatures, and giving is a way to build our connections to others," Wilson says. "Doing things for others also makes us think better of ourselves."
Wilson says using your credit card to donate to your church, buying a gift for someone and taking a friend to lunch all fall into this category, but he notes that the lunch date may give you more happiness bang for your buck simply because social connections are also linked to happiness.
3. Buy many
small indulgences instead of a few big ones
Thinking about cutting out your morning latte or your weekly pedicures to save money? Not so fast, say happiness researchers. When it comes to happiness, frequency is more important than intensity. So while buying a house and buying a latte may both make you happy, Vanderkam says, you can buy a house only every so often, but you can buy a latte three times a week, and you'll enjoy it every time. Lots of small, pleasurable purchases bring more happiness than a big-ticket item you'll quickly get used to.
Research also shows it's best to break up large purchases when possible, because we typically experience the most intense delight during the first few minutes of an experience. In one study, for example, participants predicted they would enjoy one 3-minute massage more than two 80-second ones with a 20-second break in the middle, but it turned out that those who experienced the two briefer massages experienced more pleasure than the other group. Another paper found that participants derived more pleasure from eating two 6 oz. cookies on different days rather than one 12 oz. cookie in a single sitting.
How does that apply to your life? That it might be better to watch one episode per night of your favorite television series DVD instead of all of them in one sitting, or to buy just one or two pieces of clothing in a series of shopping trips rather than a season's worth in one spending spree.
4. Plan ahead
(and pay in advance)
Credit cards can be a helpful tool if they're used correctly, but the idea of buying something on credit with "no money down" and paying for it later runs counter to the quest for happiness, Wilson and his colleagues say. First, it leads us to buy things we can't afford and go into debt, potentially ruining lives. And when it comes to happiness, getting an item immediately eliminates the joy of anticipation, a "free" source of happiness, Wilson says. Research shows you can get a lift simply from looking forward to something pleasurable, even if the event itself ends up not being that great.
So use debit cards when you can, and pay off your credit card balances. Waiting until you have enough cash to buy something will give you an extra boost of happiness when you eventually purchase it, Wilson says.
Vanderkam recommends looking over everything you've spent money on over the past month, thinking about which experiences made you happiest and putting more of them on your calendar. "Try to figure out if there's a way you can increase your spending in those categories, and then trim the items you don't care as much about," she says.
Luciana Bonifazi, 27, a standup comedian in Chicago, went through a similar exercise a few years ago. "It dawned on me that I wasn't getting a lot of happiness out of the designer shoes I was buying, and knowing that I spent so much made me feel guilty and sad," she recalls. "So I cut a lot of that stuff out of my budget and focused my spending on things that put me in touch with family and friends. And I have to say, I'm happier now. I can go back and look at pictures and retell jokes from those moments, and that brings me happiness for months and months to come."
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Peace, Love & Wi-Fi is in all the bookstores now. It holds a year's worth of Zits strips between those groovy tie-dye covers, and it would make an awesome Holiday gift. Just saying'…
5 thoughts on "The New Book Is Here!"
Love the strips with the VW Bus. (Even if its not a Vanagon)
Is the new book or any others dedicated just to the strips with the Microbus?
Hey Mr. Scott and Mr. Borgman! I've been a fan of Zits since high school and I wanted say you guys did an absolute stellar job with Zits. I've been hooked ever since the barbecue strip when Jeremy was in the backyard with the massive crowd and the girl was on her phone!
The strips inspire me to do my own strips. (I'm an aspiring cartoonist myself.) I the presentation of Zits. It's like reading a political cartoon but it's a gag strip and there is so much creativity in each strip. You guys are a comedic sensation for a new generation of comic strip readers. =D
I bought a copy of Chillax (finally) and read it in like two days. I loved it and I gotta say sweet dudes. The book inspired me to write again after like my last rejection. XD.I don't know what it was about Chillax. It just had so much energy and momentum. I just couldn't stop reading. I was imbued a passion for cartooning and literature like no other. I think I might have to get to work on my book after I type this message. XD
Anyways thanks for creating such an awesome comic strip. You guys are my favorite cartoonists because you guys are an inspirations to cartoonists everywhere. =)
P.S. "Today's my b-day and my twin said he was gonna get a gift for me. I plan to send him a link to "Peace, Love and Wi-Fi" as well as "Shredded". XD Oh and I have a question. Are you guys still doing sketchbooks or is it just treasuries now?
i am a Zits fan!
Are you familiar with my son Bill Hicks? Your cartoon 12/14/13 was very similar to one of his bits.
I know a Bill Hicks in real life. Probably not the same guy 😛
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Although I posted a Tome Topple TBR I ultimately decided not to participate due to a lot of university deadlines. I did not want to stress myself out even more. However, I do promise to read some of the books mentioned in that TBR in December. These are the six books I did read in November.
1. A Shadow Bright and Burning (Kingdom on Fire, #1) by Jessica Cluess
This book reminded me of so many other books, it did not feel original in the least. Review to come! 2,5 stars.
2. Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco
Sadly, I didn't enjoy this one all that much, it started out so great but later on it got boring. 2 stars. Review to come.
3. Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
Absolutely LOVED this book! If you are looking for a great feminist classic, you should definitely check this one out! I was actually reading this on the 11th of November, which is of course Armistice, it was quite an experience as I never before felt the importance of that day as much. 5 stars!
Did not like the movie at all, though!
4. Summer Skin by Kirsty Eagar
This book is described as a must read feminist love story. That was all I needed to know in order to buy it. However, after reading Testament of Youth, the feminist part of the book felt lacking and I do not enjoy angsty romance. 3 stars, but I'm considering giving it 2,5 stars.
5. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
I read this book in between other things, which was a mistake. Required university reading kept getting in the way. I do feel like my fragmentation of this book is one of the reasons I didn't enjoy it as much. I may need to reread this one in the future, in order to really decide what I think of it. 3 stars.
6. Across the Black Waters by Mulk Raj Anand
This novel is about Indian soldiers in the First World War and I absolutely enjoyed it! 5 stars!
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A Mother's Pain: Jackie Peterson Weighs In
This is a partial transcript from "On the Record," February 19, 2003, that has been edited for clarity.
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GRETA VAN SUSTEREN: Joining us here "On the Record" for the first time since Laci Peterson vanished is Scott Peterson's mother, Laci's mother-in-law, Jackie Peterson. Jackie joins us on the phone from San Diego.
Welcome, Jackie.
JACKIE PETERSON, SCOTT PETERSON'S MOTHER: Hi, Greta. Thank you for having me.
VAN SUSTEREN: Jackie, how are you doing tonight?
J. PETERSON: Oh, OK. It's miserable.
VAN SUSTEREN: Yes, I know. I know it is.
Have you had a chance to talk to Scott today?
J. PETERSON: I have talked with him today. I think he got his car back. He's supposed to by now.
VAN SUSTEREN: How is he enduring the pressure of this? I mean, this has been going on since December 24.
J. PETERSON: Well, we just put that all aside and try to look for Laci, try to do something every day to help find her, and we're just so concerned that nobody's looking for her anymore, that this has been the total focus, and people have decided she's not worth looking for. She's still pregnant. She's still out there. There's still a reward. And yet everything's involved in this thing with Scott, and it started from the second day. This is the third time they've searched his home. He opened his home to them the first day she was gone -- his home, his office, his cars -- let them go through anything they wanted. They came back the next day with a warrant.
VAN SUSTEREN: Do you understand why it is that he is, you know, the focus of the investigation? I mean, there are the problems with, of course, that he had the relationship with Amber Frey, for instance, and there are some questions out there. Do you understand why he's the focus?
J. PETERSON: Well, the only thing is the affair, and the police said that Amber had no involvement in Laci's missing at all, and he knew that girl for a month. Two of those weeks he spent with us. So I don't know how much of involvement you could get in two weeks, when you were gone every other week for a full week.
VAN SUSTEREN: Do you have any doubt about whether or not your son is involved in the disappearance of Laci?
J. PETERSON: I have no doubt that he is not involved. Absolutely not. It's not even in his nature. He doesn't have a mean bone in his body.
VAN SUSTEREN: Have you asked him straight up do you know anything about Laci's disappearance?
J. PETERSON: No. I don't have a need to ask him that.
VAN SUSTEREN: Do you feel that the investigation is unfairly -- I read one quote that said that you thought that he was being harassed.
J. PETERSON: Well, I do at this point you know, they took his car, and, you know, I know they have a job to do. But they took his car. They took his computer. He had to go by a new computer. He had to get a new car. He couldn't work. Now they come and take his new car and his new computer and his work-related papers.
He has a job. That's all he has to keep himself going. And it's interfering with his earning a living. And they had total access to his house already. They still have his other car. What could you look for in a new car? It just doesn't make any sense at all.
VAN SUSTEREN: Early on, you know, there were all sorts of things that are being floated in the press. One thing, for instance, that some blood might have been found in his truck that they seized early on. Do you know anything about that?
J. PETERSON: It's total press. It's total speculation. The police have never mentioned anything like that. The two statements they have made is that he's not a suspect and that he's cooperated.
And, in the beginning, there was the dog found with his leash and their hound dogs found that she had gotten into a car in the middle of the street, and they followed the scent out to a rural area, out of town, and people have lost sight of that total picture.
VAN SUSTEREN: Jackie, what do you think happened?
J. PETERSON: I think someone just took her. I think maybe they knew her, maybe they watched her. They knew when the baby was due. I really believe somebody took her for the baby because I don't know of any other crimes that are committed on pregnant women. And there have been several pregnant women abducted in that area.
VAN SUSTEREN: Until Laci's disappearance, I assume you had a pretty good relationship with Sharon Rocha and Laci's family?
J. PETERSON: Well, I don't feel like our relationship is bad. Both of us want Laci home. They're mad at Scott because he had an affair. That's basically the problem.
VAN SUSTEREN: And in terms of Laci, since we don't know Laci. What's she like?
J. PETERSON: She's wonderful. She's like the sparkle in the family. We all just couldn't wait for her to come and be around us, and we visited her as often as we could. She's just delight, and everybody loved her. The grandkids are nuts about her. The siblings adore her. She just makes everything wonderful for people. She's just the nicest person you'd ever want to meet.
VAN SUSTEREN: Any hope left for you that this story is going to turn out good and not bad?
J. PETERSON: If people will continue to look, there's a pregnant lady out there. I know she won't be out walking the street, but someone could see her somewhere, if they would look at every pregnant lady that -- she's five foot with brown hair -- and call their local police if they think they see her.
There's still a chance. Her actual due date was Monday, and usually the first baby doesn't come when you're due. I talked to a woman yesterday. Hers was three weeks late.
VAN SUSTEREN: All right, Jackie. Thank you very much. We appreciate you joining us this evening.
J. PETERSON: Thanks, Greta. Thank you.
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Monday, November 3, 2014
My mother's entire ancestry is Polish, yet it is also the side of my family that I know the least about. My mother only has one brother but her mother was one of 10 children and her father was one of 9 children. You would think that would give me some contacts.
Of course, I was thinking of none of this when I received a friend's request on Facebook at the end of July. I did my typical thought process -- Does the last name sound familiar? Did I go to high school with this person? Is she a fellow UCLA Bruin fan? Well, all those answers came up "no". I am happy to report that she was persistent and the next day I learned that we were relatives. How come there are so many relatives that I don't know about?
It seems that Sally and I share great grandparents -- Charles Stachowiak and Anna Szukalski. Yes, that is them in the above photo. Thank you, Sally, for that photo! My maternal grandfather Leonard Stachowiak was the younger brother of her paternal grandfather Eugene Stachowiak. An added bonus, was that I got to meet her sister Chris online. Okay, that has never happened before and I can tell you meeting 2 cousins at once is even better than only meeting one!
So, now are not only Sally, Chris and I friends on Facebook but we have also shared photos and stories. I don't think I had ever seen a photo of my great grandparents until Sally and Chris shared several with me.
I have done a ton of genealogical research these past 15 years but the highlights have definitely been finding or more typical in my case "being found" by new cousins, either through Facebook or one of my blogs.
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I'm one of your distant cousins too! My grandmother is Helen Stachowiak. She was the youngest daughter of Charles and Anna. The youngest child was Chester. He never married or had any children. Helen married William Wertz and had two boys, William "Bill" Jr. and Paul. Paul is my dad. I've tried to work on my family tree too. You have given me a lot of great additional information. THANK YOU!!!ReplyDelete
Stacey, so very happy to meet you! I don't think I ever met your grandmother Helen. I did meet Chester and Clara on several occasions since I grew up in Van Nuys. I have been sort of ignoring my Polish genealogy and focusing more on my German and Irish ancestry. I need to get back to the Polish side. You are so very welcome for any information you might have gotten from my blog. I also have public trees on Ancestry.ReplyDelete
I am Stacey Elledge's dad. I can probably wear you out with family anecdotes, i.e. as a boy I used to sit in the sun parlor with Grandma (Anna) and play Chinese checkers with her. I don't participate in Facebook, but you can reach me at firstname.lastname@example.com. I probably am missing it somewhere here, but what is your name? And, are you aware of my first cousin, ret. astronomer Dr. George Preston, who lives in Pasadena?ReplyDelete


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The building, located immediately to the north of the new concourse at King's Cross station, will range in height from 7 to 11 storeys, and will incorporate sustainable design concepts and flexible working environment for Google employees. The headquarters will sit above retail units providing a diverse range of shops, cafes and restaurants.
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Consider the instant messaging landscape in 1999. ICQ had blazed a narrow trail through a small community, and AOL Instant Messenger was the dominant player (carrying over 430 million messages a day). Yahoo was making good headway, and even Microsoft was throwing their hat into the fray with MSN Messenger.[*] All four major systems used proprietary, non-interoperable, unpublished protocols. AOL was engaged in a war with what they considered "rogue" clients, vigorously blocking any attempts at interoperability.
The entrenched players had little interest in a standard protocol. Only Microsoft -- the upstart -- was promoting the concept of a standard protocol.
In the intervening 8 years, XMPP and SIMPLE have gained significant market and mind share, and it's not hard to imagine eventual interoperability between every viable instant messaging system within the next decade or so.
It's the same curve followed by just about all popular communication technologies: proprietary versions emerge first, and prove that the market exists. Eventually, a standardized protocol for the technology is defined, and the market slowly migrates to the standard. (To see how this plays out in a longer timeframe, consider the slow but complete migration of email from isolated, proprietary islands to fully-interconnected standards-based servers over the past 25 years).
That's what XCON is doing for conferencing. I understand that it's hard seeing the curve from this end, and it's difficult to imagine what impact we might have over the next 5, 10, 20 years. But it all needs to start somewhere, and we think this is as good a start as we can come up with right now.
[*] Yes, there were important predecessors in spirit, like zephyr, talk, and their ilk. I'm trying to stick with the UI modality represented by currently popular instant messaging systems.
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Algeria is regarded as one of the most culturally advanced countries of the African continent. A peep into the history of Algeria offers you interesting insights into the different events and incidents that shaped the country's cultural and historical identity. The land was once considered to be the transit of trade and business between the African and the European nations.
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The surrounding land of Algeria was known as Magreb, and the early inhabitants of the central Maghreb survived mainly on different kinds of hominid occupation dating back to 200,000 B.C, especially found near Saïda. Neolithic civilization which was developed in parts of the Sahara and Mediterranean region, between 6000 and 2000 B.C, attained great success in the relevant years. Also towards the ends of 5th century BC, the indigenous tribes of northern part of Africa were came to be invaded by different invaders, however, the most prominent among them were ---Phoenician, Roman, Vandal, Byzantine, Arab, Turkish, and French. Phoenician merchants arrived on the coastal regions of North Africa at around 900 B.C. and established a new land which was known as Carthage at 800 B.C. During the classical period, Berber civilization grew at a faster rate and subsequently its impact was felt on agriculture, manufacturing, trade and even political organization was decentralized to a great extend.
Further more, trade links between the inhabitants of Carthage and the Berbers who also tremendously focused on territorial expansion of the two countries. The Islamic invasion by the Arab rulers, truly transformed the social and ethnic identity of the land, thereby creating a new revolution. The religion and language also introduced changes in social and economic relations, thereby establishing links with the other powerful nations of the world. It's interesting to note that for nearly 300 years, Algeria under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. Never before in the political history of Algeria, there was such a phase of growth in spheres of trade and business. Turkish was accepted as the official language, by then. Although Algeria continued to be a part of the Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman government in the later half started to lose its hold over the land.
The French conquest in 1830 was met with great resistance from different sections of the society. Subsequently with the establishment of French rule in Algeria, the French made it an integral part of their rule and thus, thousands of settlers from France, Italy, Spain, and Malta moved in to the Algerian coastal plain and settled there permanently. In the year August 1947, the French National Assembly approved establishment of Organic Statute of Algeria, which drafted the proposal for creation of an Algerian Assembly. The Algerian War of Independence continued for a long period beginning from1954 to1962. Finally after years of struggle and bloodshed, France declared Algeria an independent nation on July 3.
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