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Let me start by introducing my main taxonomies which I developed
first in my book Theory of subculture (published in German
[1] and in Dutch).
Like the mainstream of cultural anthropology I understand
culture as the ensemble of norms, values, needs, objectivations,
institutions, modes of communication in a given society.
We all know that in almost every given society groups are
existing, which intend to deny the there existing ruling culture
"which live", as Herbert Marcuse pointed out, "in
the state of 'distinct negation' of the latter". These groups
I call >subcultures<. To define them more precisely, albeit
in an abstract way: subcultures are groups, which differ, concerning
their norms, values, needs, objectivations, institutions and
modes of communication in a significant manner from those of
a given society. It will be an empirical question, in a specific
investigation, whether or not the manner is significant enough,
whether or not values (and so on) are shared between a specific
subculture and the mainstream of a given society.
But (from my point of view, unfortunately) society does not
exist only of subcultures. Following C. Wright Mills, I call
the ruling, value-generating (or value-electing) group in a given
society the >establishment<. For our subject I consider
it important to point out that lots of people share the given
norms, values, and so on, accept the given institutions and modes
of communication without having the opportunity to participate
in the processes of ruling and generating values in accordance
with their own interests. Following the Norwegian playwright
Henrik Ibsen and the German philosopher Theodor Adorno, I call
this network of affirmative groups the >compact majority<.
In difference to the establishment, for the compact majority
to share the established norms, values, needs, institutions,
and so on is not so much a question of property, power, or vested
interests, in a lot of cases not even a question of a future
career, but usually a result of internalising in a long process
of socialization, fulfilled by a lot of agencies: parental education,
school system, pressure groups (for example churches), mass media,
peer groups. Nevertheless there exist great differences among
the groups, networks, class currents, which constitute the compact
majority: a whole galaxy of rabbit breeders, motorcycle fans,
wave riders, boy scouts, denominations, music-adoring youngsters,
gamblers, part-time machineries of established political parties,
adorers of old locomotives - to mention only a small segment.
Some authors (e. g. Alvin Toffler) tend to misunderstand these
groups as subcultures. I prefer to name them >partial cultures<
- groups which by and large share the norms, values, institutions,
etc. of a given society, generated, or elected by a given establishment,
but enriched by a set of special interests which create a number
of additional values, objectivations, modes of communications.
Now I come to the first main point of possibly controversial
discussion concerning the subject of our meeting: I do not think
that one can consider these "partial cultures", which
exist beyond doubt in a broad variety of life-styles, automatically
as "overlapping cultures". In the majority of receivable
cases the given set of values, needs, and objectivations is consistent
enough so that it does not to have to be considered as overlapping.
The classical example is the life-style of a rural village, where
surely moments of partial cultures could be recognized: the fire-guard,
the football club, the local rifle men, the preparatory committees
for traditional clergy events (usually the annual celebration
of the local saint), one or two taverns, the farmers cooperative
and its shop. The only significant overlapping fact in these
partial cultures results in the expectation - concerning especially
the male inhabitants of the village - to subscribe as a member
in each of these institutions, or at least in the majority of
them. Now one could say that I have named a far too traditional
network for our days, a possibly or even probably almost anachronistic
one, not fit for today's societal situation. I would deny this.
Seen structurally, I have no other impressions concerning the
partial cultures in megalopolitan urban areas.
I shall try to show this using the following examples: If
one of the central values of a given society has the almost imperative
content to watch television on average 2 or 3 hours after daily
work - the sanction for deviating from this norm being the growing
inability to participate in the small-talk of a majority peer-group
-, the special value of the received broadcast is of marginal
importance. To quote ironically the late Marshall McLuhan, is
the medium the value, and not the message. In analysing overlapping
cultures it makes no difference whether the additional values
and objectivations reflect themselves in watching commercialised
European folk-music reunions, well-designed soap-operas with
several hundred episodes, documentaries about the fauna of the
Australian desert, or open ended talk shows continuing long after
midnight - or even a mixture of all these, raising the strange
impression of post-modernism.
I know that this argument is in no way new - it reminds me
of a remark of Kingsley Davis that there would be complete freedom
in choosing razor blades or shaving machines (not to shave at
all, would have been a wholly subcultural perception for Kingsley
Davis). In the same vein it would be relevant to speak about
overlapping cultures of razor blade users and machinery shavers.
Nevertheless, surely overlapping cultures do exist. To contribute
to our common task of explaining the fact of overlapping cultures,
I finish my introductory taxonomy with my last not yet defined
term, the "pivot person".
Pivot persons are persons which are in continuous close interactions
both with subcultures and with the establishment and/or the compact
majority - or, in both cases, at least with parts of each. An
additional condition is, not to function only downwards in a
hierarchical way as an agent of integration to let subcultures
diminish. If the theory of cognitive dissonance, as set up by
Festinger and Heider, points to the trend to keep a balance between
societal reality and individual assumptions in dissolving a lack
of balance in the direction of the mainstream of ruling reality,
the pivot person is the idealtypical counterpoint to that attitude.
Its existence as pivot person depends on the ability to let the
cognitive dissonance undissolved - if necessary, for decades.
A pivot unit does not necessarily have to be a single person
- there are pivot groups and pivot institutions as well, which
tend to function in a similar manner. The term "pivot",
originating in French terminology of mechanics, was first used
by the famous French utopian Charles Fourier in a meaning, attached
to social sciences: to him "pivots" were knots in the
network between the members of diverse decentral working and
living units. In game theory the behaviour of the pivot player
is decisive for the result of the game.
In my use of the word a pivot person (as well a pivot group
or pivot institution) acts in a more or less extremely unstable
situation and is, therefore, in my view a nearly paradigmatic
figure for our subject of plural identities. For it seems impossible
to act for a long time in such an unstable situation without
effects on the acting person or group; it is necessary to live
this instability in the own person or, otherwise, in the group
identity of the pivot institution. This seems to be a very abstract
statement; as a matter of fact social reality is indeed full
of pivot units which are - at the same time - effecting subcultures
along established ways and enabling the survival (often enough
even in the material sense of the word) of subcultures: the lawyer,
defending politically deviant groups; the youth organizations
of political parties, churches or trade unions; the friends of
the Bohemia (the traditional subculture of artists, writers,
musicians), which earn their livelihood in a so-called serious
profession; the "wise men" (as Erving Goffman called
them), which intend to help the stigmatised involuntary subcultures
(e. g. the physically damaged; the mentally handicapped; the
unemployed; the homeless; subjects of the Poor Law), without
being stigmatised themselves, but familiar and compassionate
with the situation of marginalized groups; husbands and wives
of members of ethnic minorities. Dozens of other examples could
be given.
From integration to survival, the acts of pivot persons and
other pivot units differ widely: they include the function of
protection (e. g. advertising in newspapers for a fair treatment
of refugees); they include informal interventions in established
networks; they include, directly or indirectly, participation
in subsidising subcultures. To follow the structure shown above:
It would be possible to analyse in a similar way the interactions
between pivot persons, pivot groups and pivot institutions on
the one side, partial cultures on the other side. The expression
of "lobbyism", if not a mere euphemism for the influence
of rich men and affluent organizations and corporations on the
political system, denotes nothing else. As those between subcultures
and partial cultures: I have had the opportunity to meet members
of a rural subcultural community in the seventies, which joined
the local football club to avoid isolation in their new surroundings.
They could be named pivot persons between their subculture and
the local partial culture (fortunately, they did not choose to
join the local rifle men).
In the next step of argument, I intend to reach the field
of overlapping cultures, as constituted by pivot institutions.
Since I first formulated the above stated position on pivot units,
no structural changes took place. Nevertheless there were some
developments which allow me to give additional precision to the
notion of pivot units.
Here is no place to debate empirically the changes of subcultures
during last two decades. Indeed, as has been predictable, the
great bulk of the persons, who constituted voluntary subcultures
in the late sixties and early seventies, has reached the state
of pivot persons - if they are still living and if they did not
dissolve their cognitive dissonance by completely integrating
into the establishment or the compact majority. (When the twentieth
anniversary of the Woodstock festival took place in 1989 some
mass media people mocked that the lot of the former participants
has meanwhile moved into professions, like medical doctors, teachers,
or social workers. What else should they have done ?) (Despite
of that, in Germany as well as in Austria, a significant part
of these former subcultures took their place in the citizen's
movements and initiatives - it can be unequivocally stated that
the Green and Alternative political Parties in these countries
could not exist without the participation of such pivot persons).
When considered structurally, the appearance of pivot persons
as a mass phenomenon shows two main effects: the first is the
proliferation of pivot institutions - not only because of specific
historical situations did institutions get the function of a
pivot institution (e.g. the Lutheran church in the former German
Democratic Republic), but the increased number of pivot institutions
is also due to the fact that pivot persons wanted, voluntarily,
to join their forces in pivot institutions.
In the same process, the other effect takes place, which I
want to call the raising of the pivot person or the pivot institution
to the second, third, fourth (and so on) power. Human beings
are only able to communicate with a limited number of other human
beings; this is also true for groups and institutions. In the
relation, concerning all acts and contacts of communication,
the interaction to other pivot persons increases and diminishes
in one and the same act, the interaction as well to subcultural,
as well to established members.
In other words: There are situations in which pivot persons
exist, which are pivot persons between pivot persons and pivot
persons, instead of being pivot persons between subcultures and
establishment, as we have seen above. To illustrate: We all know
teachers, which have only interactions with teachers, trade union
activists, which have only interactions with trade union activists,
left wing intellectuals, which interact only with left wing intellectuals.
The same situation can be found among pivot groups and institutions.
Without any effort it would be possible to draw several clusters,
bundles, bunches, networks of pivot institutions in more or less
close contacts to each other - and only the outward oriented
knots have still intensive interactions either to the subcultures
or to the establishments. The final process could be imagined
easily - a state, in which the interaction to subcultures would
be vanishing completely: logically would be the meaning of this
process as well the dissolution of the pivot units (then: pivot
to whom?) as the fading into the establishment or to the compact
majority - as a partial culture, maybe still bearing the old
group name, but effecting nothing else (example given: the German
or Austrian student corporations, nowadays extremely conservative
and established, at the beginning of the 19th century a revolutionary
Examples for the clusters and networks of pivot institutions
mentioned above would be groups like Amnesty International, Greenpeace,
World Wildlife Fund - a large number of political, cultural,
human rights-centred, ecological, self-help-oriented organizations.
On the international level, to which should be at least referred
at a meeting arranged by the Austrian UNESCO-Commission, the
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and the International Non-Governmental
Organizations would be the structural equivalent of these so
called Meta-Pivot-Institutions.
Finally I want to refer to the Social Movements. They are
nothing else than clusters of subcultures, partial cultures and
pivot persons (institutions) (E. g. At the height of the US-American
movement in 1968 Hippies, Yippies, Bohemians, Students, the Black
Panther Party, parts of the Civil Rights Movement, some other
ethnic minorities, and independent radical intellectuals joined
into the Campaign against the Presidential election. The feminist
movement reaches from established housewives and female politicians
to pivot professionals, single mothers and lesbian subcultures.
The ecologist movement contains alternative technicians, the
biologically growing yeomanry, partial cultural single-issue-initiatives,
vegetarian pivot persons, spiritual subcultures, subcultural
activists against environment damages).
Mentioning the pivot groups and the social movements starts
to support the main thesis of this Expert Meeting. As I said
before, the given set of values, whether affirmed or denied,
does not guarantee "specific rules of behavior" "in
a variety of contexts" - therefore I would express a sceptical
attitude towards the idea "any human being lives in a variety
of overlapping cultures". Nevertheless the number of persons,
living in overlapping cultures indeed, still is growing - and,
as the main thesis tries to point out, not restricted to ethnic
multiculturality. Even statistically it could be considered,
that in most of the real existing given societies the total number
of marginalized persons, neglected groups, voluntary and involuntary
subcultures, specially repressed people, social movements and
pivot institution is likely to be higher than the number of privileged
and affirmative class currents - the late Italian psychiatrist
Franco Basaglia has coined the term of the "deviant majority".
And beyond the general set of affirmative norms, values, objectivations,
destitutions, modes of communications overlapping cultures have
been rising and developing. On the level of pivot persons the
lawyers mentioned have to present themselves almost at the same
time at court and at peer-group-meetings and demonstrations;
university teachers like myself have to handle administrative-law-centered
commissions (examinations included) and a grassroots-training
of knowledge enabling combinations between theory and practice.
On the level of social movements the overlapping effect is so
strong, that it was at several phases of contemporaneous history
hardly possible to differentiate elder remnants of the movement
of the late Sixties, and the ecologist, pacifist and feminist
movements - the biographical developments and the confluent values
narrowed the glimpses for the still existing contradictions.
On the level of the "wider objective of the Expert Meeting"
the extension across social and ethnic boundaries is remarkable,
as to be shown for example in a sentence like "Think globally,
act locally". Supported through engagements like that of
the Right Livelihood Award (1987), the Indian Chipko-Movement
is surely nearer to a German environmentalist than a German propagandist
for atomic power plants.
Surely it would be very fascinating to draw a context map,
on which the overlapping cultures of a given society would be
documented, as they show up empirically.
Concerning multiple identities, this seems more complex to
me. To state the existence of multiple identities, as the main
thesis does, is a historically authentic assumption at a time
when the French philosopher and psychiatrist Felix Guattari writes:
"Every human being is a group".
To fulfil this thesis, a whole book will be probably not enough,
to show the reasons. Following my subject, it would be an evident
statement, to consider the multiple identities of pivot persons,
including the pivot persons in social movements, in pivot institutions
in overlapping cultures, and in international or transnational
fields of interest. (Consider for example the international influences
among subcultures: the constitution of the white US-American
Beat-Generation out of black US-American Bebop, Japanese Zen-Buddhism,
the French author Marcel Proust - to name only few. The spreading
of the intellectual opposition movement from the USA to Germany,
from here to France and to Austria, meanwhile almost simultaneously
to Mexico, South Korea, Japan, Italy, Czechoslowakia and several
other countries of the world. The raising of Mods, Rockers, Punks,
Skinheads in Great Britain, partially a great laboratory of subcultures,
and their modifications in other countries, when the subcultural
values had been overtaken).
But I am afraid that these considerations of multiple identities
are not enough to describe the world-wide tendency. In a very
short run I only enumerate, in finishing my talk, some other
sources of the rise of multiple identities (in my point of view):
My basic assumption concerning societal evolutions until now
lies in the fact that - fulfilling the Marxian class dichotomy
between property owners and property-less persons - a huge differentiation
took place which resulted in a galaxy of, as I like to call it,
class currents (somewhere I pointed out some 120). The accumulation
and their effects, the permanent change of machineries and professions,
of employment and unemployment (causing that classical multicultural
paradigm we intend not to discuss here), the rise of qualification
processes and retirement intentions - and so on, and so on -
have driven forward a process of multiplication in which the
contemporary development of subcultures and partial cultures
is grounded. They are possibly overlapping, but not necessarily.
They multiply identities, surely, but not necessarily with a
happy end. They produce pivot persons, groups, institutions,
which live in or even as overlapping cultures, but not necessarily
with effects for those subcultures and partial cultures, which
they overlap. This is my modification of the main thesis - thank
© Rolf Schwendter
Rolf "Theorie der Subkultur", mit >Nachwort 7 Jahre
später<; Syndikat, Frankfurt am Main 1981


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I'm not sure why I haven't shared this little tid bit of information with all of you, because this is a pretty big piece of history that really does shed some light on the inner workings of my mind. I'm not exactly sure how it came back to me all of a sudden. All I know for sure is that somehow I got onto the subject of nicknames with someone, and after comparing some choice nicknames reviewers have given a lot of my fellow Fringe performers and I over the years, this story came screeching out of left field.
Between the first and second year of my massage career, we had our summer break. I was working as much as I could at the bars I was tending, trying to save enough to pay off my loans for second year. On my down time from working long hours into the night, I would usually unwind by watching a bit of TV before crashing for the night. As it happened, there was a rerun of the show "Friends" on when I got home one evening.
I don't remember many of the details but the major plotline was that one of the characters was getting ordained as a minister online so he would be able to perform the service for two of the other "friends". As soon as it left the actors lips, I had to give my head a shake. No, that can't be. That's not possible! To become a, (what a priest?) that took years of study and celibacy didn't it? This had to be TV make believe. But the idea wouldn't leave my mind. And when you are really bored and you can't find any decent porn on the internet, you begin to investigate these little notions.
So there I was on a summer afternoon, trolling online to find out if it was indeed possible to be ordained as some sort of leader in a religious faith online. It took one search. One.
There it was: Online Ministries of the Christian Faith.
Now to be fair, I did not consciously search out one faith. I simply typed in online minister or something and this site was the first one I got. After that I was too busy pissing myself laughing over the ridiculous idea that this was in fact possible. So there very well may be online Catholic/Jewish/Buddhist/Scientology/Mormon/Mayan faiths that do this as well. But no matter what the religion it was that I was reading about, what happened next was bound to happen any which way you slice it.
I have never subscribed to any one faith. This coming from a kid who spent a number of years in a Catholic school. Mind you that was only because they had a kick ass drama program, but that's beside the point. And because of the fact I have no definable faith, I really can't have a beef with any one religion or another, because in my opinion, they are all kind of silly. Not the people who are of whatever faith, just the institutions themselves. Some of you who have read my previous story on the Mayan Civilization know why I have distaste for religious faiths. And with that in mind, the idea that follows was kind of hard to escape.
I thought, "So…can ANYONE do this? I mean how do they know that I am a member of their faith? Do they do background checks? I could be a total nut job who got a crazy idea after watching an episode of "Friends" and is now going to totally fuck with the institute of Christianity just for shits and giggles for all they know."
Only one way to find out.
Question number one: Do you believe in a higher power?
Wow. That is such an open ended question. Nowhere did it say, "Do you believe in OUR higher power," just "A" higher power. And truth be told, I do believe in a higher power. If you break it down scientifically, the one thing that defines living from dead, that one little spark that no one can identify that makes us "turn on" for the first time and then evolves into a personality until death do you part? Whatever it was that made that little spark come on for the first time, be it happy accident or evolution, THAT is my definition of a higher power. What people call the human soul, whatever created that, is the higher power. Not some imaginary God that is wrathful or loving depending on what you do or do not eat in life.
So in short…yes I do!
Next Question: If you were to be ordained as a minister, what title would you prefer?
And then they listed a whack load of titles.
- Father
- Vicar
- Minister
- Reverend
- Parson
- Pope
Holy shit! I could be called the Pope!?!?
Just kidding.
So I thought, "Reverend sounds kinda bitchin'," so that ones the winner.
Next Question: Would you care to make a donation to the Christian Faith?
If I did make a donation, THEN I could have chose "Pope" as a title. It's like the equivalent of upgrading to the "Pro" mode for any computer program. So after the last question I had to fill out my personal information, phone number, mailing address and such. And after I hit the "send" button, I felt certain that someone on the other end of the Christian hotline was getting this request and some red flags would be going up. So I waited for the inevitable phone call to personally tell me that my application had been rejected and that I was going to burn in a lake of fire with all the other sinners.
But no phone call came. And two weeks later, a package arrived for me at my parent's house. I opened it up and pulled out a brown piece of parchment. In big huge script letters it said, "Jason Brasher…blah blah blah…hereby ordained as Reverend…"
Yes, that was my first decree upon being accepted into the Christian faith. After going over the documents, trying to find something that would make it clear that I had to send in some proof of person or some money that I owed one organization or another, I found nothing. There were some papers that gave me instructions on how to get started building my place of worship and how to go about gathering followers. Other than that I found one document that stated all of the powers I now possessed.
Two images hit me after reading the words "powers" and "possessed". Like the battle between good and evil, I had powers, (not unlike Superman) and yet I was possessed, (not unlike the Exorcist). My powers were limited when compared to superheroes though. My powers included the legal right to marry, bury or baptize anyone across Canada and within 48 states in the U.S. But the hell I could raise with this knowledge would be on par with the devil!
My first thought was to pack up the car and drive down to each and every one of those states and cities that ban same sex marriage and just start lining people up for my "mobile marriage". My God has no rules and regulations about who you can and cannot love! But something more sinister emerged after that brilliant idea.
As I said, I was bartending at the time, and I was paying my way through college. Now I am also skilled enough, (apparently) to have yet another source of income. I stood up and paced around the house for a good long while, and then it came to me. I am going to move to Las Vegas!!!
I was going to open a bar and call it, "Worst Hangover Guaranteed". The customers would come in and sit at the bar, where I would wow them with my juggling bartender skills and my mad mixed concoctions. After a few rounds they would get a proper buzz going, where upon I suggest heading to the back of the bar where I would have a spa set up. There they would get a nice relaxing massage, which would increase the amount of endorphins in their bloodstream, (which would get them high as kites). Feeling good and relaxed, and slightly pissed, it then becomes a no-brainer that the person they met at the bar that very night is the love of their life. Well wouldn't you know it, there is a chapel in this very locale!
The next morning they would wake up with a screaming hangover, a total stranger in their bed, a ring on their finger, but their sciatica would be gone! And I…would make a triple income!
Come September, I went back to school and met the gang from the year before. I listened to everyone tell stories about their adventures over the summer, places they went, things they saw, the tan lines and sunburns from a summer well spent. And then one of the guys turned to me and asked, "So what did you do Jay?"
"I found God and became a minister."
Naturally, this got the attention of everyone in ear shot. And after telling them the story I've just told you, it goes without saying that "The Rev." would become my nickname for the rest of the year.

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Saturday, March 30, 2013
Blessings in the midst of sorrow...
Thank you to every man who stepped up to offer comfort, your chivalry will not be forgotten.
I am a different person today, I am more mature, I have been tried and tested but I am not broken.
Your words are tangible comfort, when I feel like I can't breathe, I can go through and re-read every good wish, every good solace, and it is a balm for my soul.
I don't know how long the tears will flow, or when the pain will subside, but as my husband keeps reminding me, we will take it one day at a time. Thank you!
9 comments:
- Eliz Davis aka Tatknot said...
Your husband is a very wise man. Hugs to you all.
- March 30, 2013 at 10:52 AM
- Lace-lovin' Librarian ~ Diane said...
Give Miss P an extra big hug today... hubby too!
- March 30, 2013 at 12:38 PM
- Elizabeth said...
I am very sorry for your loss. Crying never hurts. It just makes your eyes red and your nose run. I used to cry in the shower when I was sad.
- March 30, 2013 at 2:05 PM
- Michelle said...
Please know that I am thinking of you and praying for your whole family.
- March 30, 2013 at 6:19 PM
- StringyDogs said...
I am so glad we helped. It is far to rough a road to go on alone.
Wishes for fast healing and good health to you all!
- March 30, 2013 at 6:22 PM
- Fox said...
Just saw this sad news. Thinking about you Sherry and sending you my thoughts and love.
- March 30, 2013 at 8:04 PM
- Margarets designer cards said...
Your husband is right one day at a time, they say time heals, I am not sure if it works, but I am glad you are posting.
Please give miss p a hug from me, and I am sending you a special hug
Take care
- March 31, 2013 at 1:59 AM
- Usha Murugesu said...
Its good to hear that you are better today...with the strength and love and comfort from those near and far...soon you will be able to see this entire incident from a different light. Just know that you are truly blessed with a wonderful husband and adorable daughter who love you to bits.
Take care.
- March 31, 2013 at 5:09 AM
- craftyjulz said...
Elizabeth, I'm going to use that as a quote!
"Crying never hurts. It just makes your eyes red and your nose run."
And I'm envisioning a nice handmade card, a small wooden hand painted plaque, a scrapbooking page, &/or some other crafty projects that I could use it perfectly on.
Maybe me using this to help someone else is the tiniest of positives that can come out of such a sad event as this.
- April 13, 2013 at 1:45 AM


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Should I stand on my soap box or not?
I started this blog so that it could be a story about my weight loss and so that I could share the recipes that I love along the way. I'm torn right now if it should be more than that though. There are so many ideas and thoughts that swim around in my head every night before I go to bed that it takes me almost an hour to get to sleep. I've decided I'll write this post and if I don't like it I won't post it but maybe it will help me to sleep a little better tonight!
So I'm sitting here trying to decide where to start. What is the most important thing to me? What is the most important to the world? Which topic or idea that I have would people be most interested in? I'm not sure, maybe that's why I haven't written about it before. Maybe I'm afraid to be laughed at for a being a silly woman that does know what she's talking about. Maybe I'm worried I'll offend someone that is close to me. I'm not sure what it is, but there is definitely a fear of upsetting someone close to me.
My husband... I love him dearly but he's very judgmental of all that I do. From taking care of our child to how I feel about current events. He doesn't agree with me a lot of the time and it takes its toll on our marriage. I think even though we seem to have a better relationship since the baby was born that maybe we've lost touch with each other, that we don't look at each other the same way. Maybe it's just me that feels this way, maybe it's not. He is a man of little expression. He's very hard to read, always has been. I don't think that anybody really knows the true him. I saw him at work once in his role as a manager and I was shocked... taken aback at how official and matter of fact he was. There was no room for joking he was there to do his job and that's it. I've never seen that part of him. I understand why now people think of him like a pitbull at work. Once he starts something he doesn't stop till it's completed to his satisfactory level. Thankfully that mentality doesn't come home with him! I never know if what I say he agrees with or not. He likes to bring up the other side of the topic and I think that's good but I don't think he does it for the right reasons. I think he does it to get a rise out of me and that leads to many heated discussions between us and unfortunately me feeling like I should have kept my mouth shut. It makes me resentful sometimes that I can't even discuss ideas with my husband... the person I should be able to share everything with completely and utterly.
So now I'm sitting here again wondering if I was too harsh and that I have made the wonderful man in my life seem awful. Maybe I have, maybe I haven't. Who knows what people will think? I'm not perfect and I'll admit it. I'm stubborn, opinionated, and pretty much any other word along those lines. So do I continue to talk about why I'm worried to express my opinion? Or do I just move on? There are many other people in my life that might be offended by some of my beliefs.
My Father said to my Mother a while back that I had been "jonesified". What he meant by this is that I have taken on the beliefs and ethics of my husbands family. When I first heard this I laughed because it was so preposterous to me that I could barely contain my amusement, I don't think it's true at all. I have thought about this for a few months now and have decided that it is silly and a way of coping with his daughter that does not see eye to eye with him or his ideas. Have I changed a lot since moving out? Absolutely! Are my opinions and beliefs different than they were ten years ago? Hell yes! Are they in line with my "new" family? No, I don't think they are. There are many topics I could go into now such as; religion or lack thereof, environmental causes, human rights, animal rights, and the big one that we are at completely different ends of a football field on, Money. I won't go into the nitty gritty of these topics but it gives you an idea of how many topics we disagree on. Should I take the chance of someone in my family seeing this and being angry at me for posting my opinion? I don't know, maybe that's why it's taken me so long to post about it.
There have been many things that have changed since I have had my son. I think for the better, I think having him has been the best thing I could have done for myself and for my husband. I'm not the selfish person I was, things that weren't important to me at all are very significant in my life now and I believe that they have made me a better person. My husband has benefited from having a child as well, I've seen a side of him I didn't know existed. He does things he never would have done before, I'm happy to see that he is very good with our baby. I trust him completely with my life and my sons. Would I have said that a year ago? No, I don't think I would have.
I think that I may have gotten a little off of what the topic for this post is supposed to be on. But like I said I have so many thoughts swimming around in my head and no one to share them with that you will have to be patient with me as I try and write them down in some coherent fashion. Maybe one day I will be able to keep on topic once I've gotten my thoughts from who knows how long written down and in order.
Back to the original question of this post? Should I stand on my soap box and express my opinion to the world? Or is there too much at risk? What is at risk I ask myself as I write this last sentence? My marriage no matter how strained it might be will always be there, we made a commitment and it's till the end, not when we give up. It took him 8 years to get up the guts to want to marry me, we didn't enter into this legal and religious bond without thought. I think my husband respects me enough that no matter how mad I may make him by what I post that he would never leave me. My parents? I've made them mad so many times before that really would another little strained discussion really be that bad? My in-laws? I don't know if I've ever made them mad... they've made me mad. Have I expressed that to them? No. Would I if confronted? Maybe, but I'm very good at avoidance. There are other people to think of too, my sisters, my brother and sister in law, my grandfather, my friends.
Does it matter to me that there may be repercussions for what I post on here? Yes and no, it's my opinion. I try very hard not to ridicule other people for their opinions. Sometimes I succeed and sometimes I don't. Do I think that everybody should be entitled to their opinion? Yes! Will I ask you to defend your point of view? Yes.
So with that I'm still no closer to an answer if I should use this to voice my own personal opinions. I'll guess we'll just have to wait and see if something happens that makes me want to express my opinion to the world wide web. Until then, it will be a blog about my personal struggle with losing the baby weight I gained and the fabulous recipes I find along the way.


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Working Mums: Career Advice from Digital Marketing Mum!
"Once you have children, life as you know it is over!" How many times have we heard that old chestnut? You, I, no doubt all women (even those without children) feel that you cannot progress in a career you love if you want to procreate. It's true, we have a responsibility for our children but why should that result in giving up on something we have spent our whole lives working towards? The answer…? It absolutely, categorically should not!
Frustratingly, women are made to feel inadequate, incapable of leading a team or advancing in their career, while raising a young family. Perhaps one of the toughest of careers to progress in as a young mother is digital marketing. According to new research, men are 40% more likely to be promoted into senior management roles than women (source). We caught up with working mum of two, Steph Briody, who against all odds is working as a Senior Account Manager at the leading London SEO Agency, Bigfoot Digital. Steph loves working at Bigfoot Digital as it has given her the flexibility to pursue her career goals and become an excellent mother.
Here are her top tips on how to have a successful career and be a good mother… all in a day's work:
1) Prioritise self-care
While finding time for exercise, relaxation and general 'me time' can be difficult, it's certainly not impossible. Setting time aside for yourself is essential when it comes to finding the perfect work, life, kids balance. In those moments alone, I plan, strategise and focus on my goals. Self-care, physical activity and sleep, for example – these are essential in keeping an open mind.
2) Don't settle in your job
When I started a family, my biggest fear was having that conversation with my boss. I have always worked hard and loved my job. Call me selfish, but I didn't want to compromise that and feared that my pending pregnancy was going to be the catalyst. I worked long hours, 60-70-hour weeks, including Saturdays. Part time work was certainly not an option, which is often a deal breaker for parents.
Moving to my current digital marketing job was the best decision I could have ever made. Don't get me wrong, I still put in hard work but the rewards are more time with my family and flexible working hours. We are a team of head-strong women and I absolutely love that about Bigfoot Digital. There's no gender divide or stereotypes; the same advancement opportunities are offered to everyone. I'd recommend working here to all digital mums out there!
3) Learn from your children
Personally, my children have made me more creative. They encouraged me to be more ambitious, fearless and ultimately determined to succeed. Not just for myself, but for them as well. They made me appreciate the time I had, particularly during pregnancy, in the most productive way. I spent time focusing on the next steps in my career. It's remarkable just how much can be done during nap times and despite your body aching and your sleep deprived mind.
3) Don't be afraid to ask for help
I love my children, but sometimes, I do need to reach out for support. Whether that's through work or in my personal life. I'm lucky to have friends, family and colleagues who are incredibly supportive. Be open and honest with your employer about your pregnancy from the get go. Every employer is different, and only you will know how much to share, but if you need to arrange flexible working hours or leave from work, then all you need to do is ask. Some will be parents themselves and, therefore, will understand the responsibilities of motherhood.
4) Build your confidence
Having a baby is exhausting, but equally can be a real confidence booster. You muddle through the first month of looking after your little one, struggling to keep a clear head as you come to terms with going back to work. You might feel overwhelmed at first, but your confidence will develop. Being a mother has taught me how to be more strategic with limited time and to manage difficult situations with a certain authority.
I'd like to say a big thank you to Steph for taking the time to speak with me today. I hope she has inspired you to take the next step in your career with a positive mind. From one mum boss, to another… power to us all!
*This post was published in collaboration with Bigfoot Digital.


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Chasing Redemption
In moments of crisis, Clark became very goal oriented. Panic was not an option. Lack of forward momentum even less so.
Lex swayed. He didn't make a sound, but his skin went the sort of pale you might expect on a corpse and his lips thinned out, tight with the effort not to betray weakness. Fool. Screaming might have helped. Clark would have screamed. He rather wanted to in that gibbering place at the back of his mind that he refused to allow access to the functioning part of his brain.
The stump wasn't bleeding, flesh and vessels neatly cauterized by Clark's heat vision. The hand itself lay warm and limp in Clark's palm. The bracelet still circled the unmarred skin above Lex's wrist. Clark fought back threatening nausea - - had to fight it back- - and snatched it and with the severed hand, super sped out of the chamber, down the tunnel to the little spring. He ripped off his shirt, and plunged it into the cold water, then wrapped the hand in the cloth. A burst of cooling breath and he chilled the bundle even more. If he could get them back home in time, there might be a chance the hand could be reattached. There had to be a chance.
He was back before Lex had opened his eyes, and pulling the threadbare blanket around Lex's shoulders. Amputation via heat vision aside, shock was a real possibility. A probability, most likely and there was only so much Clark could do to prevent it.
"Don't try and get up. Hear me, Lex?" he caught Lex by the shoulders, fingers biting down until Lex opened his eyes to look at him. Dilated pupils; pain clouding the edges of normal sharpness.
Clark didn't wait for an answer, he couldn't afford it. He left the bundle with the hand on the floor by Lex and sped out the door. Paused long enough to barricade it, taking the chance that nothing would happen to prevent him from returning over the one of someone deciding to slink back here to finish the job with Lex.
He started using serious speed then, flying through the tunnels to his familiar chimney shaft. He didn't stop this time, hundreds of yards from the surface, but sped up, the sonic boom of his passage dislodging rock as he did. He burst out into open air and kept going, piercing the layer of cloud cover before the bracelets could register that they'd gone beyond the perimeters of the prison mine.
The explosion rocked him, weakened as he was. It hurt and for a few precious seconds he welcomed the pain, a connection, sparse as it was, to what Lex had endured.
He had no time to wallow in it, though, barely pausing in his forward momentum and rocketing towards the thinner air of the outer atmosphere where the sunlight hit him undiluted. Strength flooded through him, washing away weakness and pain, the only reminder that he'd felt it at all, the black smudges on his skin from the exploding bracelets.
The planet below was dull brown, continents larger by far than the pale blue patches of ocean. Cloud cover obscured much of the surface, but it was no deterrent to x-ray vision. He took a moment to orient himself, to scan the surface for the outpost common sense told him had to be there. He found the skeletal remains of what might have been cities, long decimated and devoid of life. The planet itself seemed devoid of life as if some cataclysm had wiped out everything but the bare bones of what had been. The only thing living here was what had been implanted, deep underground in the mines. And sure enough, above those mines lay a cluster of stark structures surrounding the smoking hole where the main mining column lay. A few squat ships perched around what must have been loading ports, taking on refined ore.
Good enough. He had a target, once he'd secured his own weak spot.
Back down through the chimney then, dislodging more rock from his passage. He had one goal in this venture, and that was getting Lex to safety, getting Lex to the people that might be able to help him in time to save that hand. Dispensing justice was a far second on the agenda and a task better suited to the Lantern's anyway. But to get them back home, he needed leverage, and to get leverage he needed to seriously upset the powers that be and he couldn't risk Lex in the mine while he did it. Those other trapped souls within the tunnels were beyond his ability to evacuate, unless he went about a mass amputation spree.
He pushed that thought aside - - had to push it aside if he were to succeed in the things he was capable of - - and burst back into the machine room where he'd left Lex.
Lex leaned against the side of the dead flywheel, blanket clutched around him with his remaining hand, the other one held close under it, the damage concealed. He was pale still, strained around the eyes, the faint sheen of sweat making the ashen skin on his head shine.
"We're going," Clark said, and scooped him up, scooped up the wrapped bundle on the floor by Lex's side.
Lex made no comment, though Clark gave him a breath to do it in. Silence was no comfortable thing from Lex and it worried Clark. Made his gut churn with butterflies. There was no help for it. No help for anything but forward momentum.
Back out, slower this time in regards to fragile human bones and flesh. He found a place, a good solid jumble of rocks a hundred miles from the land where mines honeycombed the earth beneath. Sat Lex down and crouched down before him. Time was his enemy here more than the Magistrates.
"I'm going to get us home."
Lex blinked at him, the paleness tinged with a little green. Lex never had taken well to being flown about at teeth rattling speeds. And though Clark had been particularly gentle this time, compared to the other occasions he'd had to haul Lex Luthor bodily from one place to the next, Lex still looked a little nauseous. Or maybe that was more symptoms of shock setting in.
"How?" Lex ground it out, jaw ticking.
Clark shrugged. "I dunno. I thought I'd smash some things up and work it out as I went."
"God," Lex rolled his eyes and the look of disgust made Clark feel better.
Clark leaned in and kissed him. Soft lips that tasted a little of coppery blood. That tasted of Lex and he didn't think he could ever get enough of the flavor now he'd had it.
God help him.
He pulled back, still cradling Lex's skull in his big hands. "Trust me."
He had to leave. Absolutely had to or he might not have been able to leave at all.
He removed his hands gently, tore his eyes off Lex and took off. He was traveling five times the speed of sound before the rocky outcrops where he'd left Lex were out of sight. He made a beeline for the outpost, his sense of direction flawless, even at the speeds he traveled.
They had no warning; no hope of putting up defenses, even if they'd had any that could have repelled Superman in the midst of a seething rage. He tore through the hull of the closest ship - - in one side out the other - - on his way to the hub of the aboveground complex. The great cylindrical mechanism that bore deep into the earth, taking raw ore from the layers of mines and chewing it up, refining it as it traveled to the surface, was his target. He sliced through it, like a garrote through butter with a sweep of heat vision. Slammed into it, shoulder first and the severed cap of the thing toppled with a screech of protesting metal. Flames geysered up, explosions from the core of it.
He didn't hesitate to watch, heading for the other ship, zeroing in on the engines, digging fingers into the main structure and ripping the back portion of the vessel off in chunks and pieces.
Something hit his back. A pulse of energy that shivered over his skin and made his hair stand a little on end. They'd gotten their act together enough to try and fight back. There were people on the ground, guards in those faceless uniforms firing up at him. He ignored them. Finishing up the dismantling of the one ship, then hovering in the air above the outpost, scanning the buildings and ships. Seeking that center of activity that would by necessity be revolving around the Magistrate.
And he found him, the flat faced, grey skinned Magistrate that had passed sentence on them, in a chamber near the helm of the first ship Clark had gutted. He didn't bother with hallways, just took the direct route, tearing holes through bulwarks and pressure plating to reach his goal.
There were guards aplenty, minions running to and fro, and none of them expected Clark tearing into their midst. The Magistrate sat in a high backed chair elevated like a judge above a semi-circle of techs at their panels. There was a heartbeat or two of shocked silence at his arrival, before weapons were fumbled after and the Magistrate himself started reaching for what might have been a control to trigger a teleportational escape. Clark was on him before the first weapon fired, crushing a boney grey wrist in his hand, yanking the Magistrate out of his throne and out into the center of the floor.
"Go ahead," Clark said to the guards surrounding them. "Shoot. It won't bother me. He might have a problem with it."
A half dozen fingers froze on triggers. The sounds of boots shuffling towards them echoed up the passage. More of them rushing to the aid of their leader. A lot more.
"What are you?" the Magistrate gasped past Clark's fingers around his throat. The skin felt cool and leathery under Clark's hand.
"Justice," Clark growled in his ear, parroting the Magistrate's reply to Lex's demand for answers all those weeks ago when they'd first been brought here.
The com-units chattered with the frantic reports of the complex in disarray, of the refinery cylinder collapsing in upon itself one section at a time. The sister ship was lisping, burning in its berth across from this one. It had taken Clark less than a handful of minutes.
"You will," Clark said. "Return myself and Lex Luthor to earth by the same means that you brought us here. You will forget you ever heard his name and you will never lay foot on earth again, because if you do, I will make it my business to hunt you down and destroy you and there is no deep enough hole you can hide in or shield you can devise that will stop me. Do you understand, Magistrate?"
"Who are you to make such demands?" The old Magistrate had a certain degree of balls to ask the question, after seeing the wreckage Clark had made of his outpost. He had the loss of face to consider, being the center of attention for a good number of his subordinates.
Sometimes name dropping had its own dire effects. "I am Kal-el. The last son of Krypton." Which wasn't entirely true, but for all intents and purposes, it was a moniker that had served him well enough in the intergalactic community.
He felt the Magistrate tense under his hand. They might not recognize him on sight, but reputation was another matter altogether.
"Kryptonian." The Magistrate breathed, and the word whispered around the circle of onlookers. So they'd heard of the planet if not the man. Good enough.
"I'm about to loose my patience," Clark warned.
"Yes, " the Magistrate said. "You will be returned."
"Show me where from."
"The teleportation chamber is within the complex."
"The room where we arrived?"
Clark could find that. "Tell your men to expect us."
The Magistrate didn't hesitate to give that order. And as soon as the words had left his mouth, Clark tightened his grip and sped out of there, Magistrate clutched to his side. He had no intention of giving up his ace in the hole to a people that made a practice of perverting justice.
It took maybe a minute to return to where he'd left Lex. He let the old man stumble to his hands and knees on the rocky shelf and bent to his own next to Lex. Lex cracked his lids, lifting a brow at the Magistrate. Scowling.
"We're going home."
"Good." The word stuttered at the tail end and Lex clenched his jaw to stop the chattering of teeth.
Clark gathered him up as best he could with one hand, tucked the bundled severed hand under the blanket, then snared the back of the Magistrate's belt and took off back towards the mining outpost.
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Don't dilute the nutritional density of your foodDr. Cordain, referred to as the Godfather of the Paleo Diet, is widely-recognized to be one of the foremost experts on the benefits of the natural diet of our Stone Age ancestors for contemporary people. As the autor of more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles, Dr. Cordain's focus has been on the nutritional characteristics of the wild plants and animal foods consumed by foraging humans across the globe, and the ways in which such a diet can benefit the health of modern humans. Dr. Cordain is the author of The Paleo Diet, The Paleo Diet for Athletes, The Dietary Cure for Acne, The Paleo Diet Cookbook, and The Paleo Answer.
Through his years of research and publishing, Dr. Cordain has settled on the undeniable fact, in his opinion, that humans can do without the grains that make up the majority of everyone's diet. Based on his studies, Dr. Cordain was asked by Dr. O'bryan on what the level of importance was that Dr. Cordain would place on explaning to his grandchildren on whether they should consume grains in their diet. His answer was quite simple. Cereal grains dilute the nutritional density of the food consumed, so if you consume them, you are automatically reducing the vitamin and mineral content of your diet. So, unless you couldn't afford to do otherwise, why would you want to consume less nutritional food than you could? For vegetarians and vegans that rely on cereal grains and legumes for their diet, especially in India and Pakistan where people eat this way from birth, the statistics show that there is a higher liklihood of dying early from cardiovascular disease. So, in a long about way, Dr. Cordain's asnwer to the question is
"If you can afford to eat it, try to emulate the diet of our ancestors, the hunter-gatherers: fruits and vegetables and nuts and meat and fish, as close as you can get it to the wild state."
During the interview, Dr. Cordain goes into much greater detail on the science behind his studies. The Paleo diet is very popular nowadays, but rather than jumping into it blindly, it's important to understand the premise of the diet and lifestyle. This interview will provide just that. You can't get closer to the source than by listening to the Godfather of the Paleo movement! Listen to Interview
Did you miss my earlier summaries? If so, link to them at the Gluten 101 blog category .
Line Up for Day 6:
1. Loren Cordain, PhD, "Godfather" of the Paleo Diet
Wheat Germ Agglutinin: How a "Monster Molecule" Could Affect Every Cell in Your Body
Learn directly from the man who essentially founded and popularized Paleo as a way of eating and living.
- Grains that contain "anti-nutrients" designed to protect them from being eaten.
- 6 ways that consuming wheat can impair digestion.
- The MUST have vitamin for brain development and overall health.
2. Jeffrey Smith, Founder, Institute of Responsible Technology
OMG – GMO and its Connection to Gluten
Jeffrey shares the real definition of genetically modified foods (and how playing with the definition allows them to sneak GMO into our food supply).
- The REAL definition of genetically modified foods.
- The hidden toxin within GMO foods that causes intestinal permeability.
- The most commonly consumed yet dangerous gluten-free food.
3. Deanna Minich, PhD, FACN, CNS, Founder, Food & Spirit; Nutrition/Health Expert
Nutrition For the Soul: Moving Beyond a Gluten-Free Diet
Dr. Minich speaks about the beauty challenges caused by gluten consumption, including hidden sources of gluten in your beauty products.
- A simple fact most people don't realize: your skin "eats."
- Gluten that's hidden inside of your favorite beauty and personal care products.
- How hair loss can be resisted by switching to gluten-free products.
4. Sayer Ji, Founder of GreenMedInfo.com; Author, "The Dark Side of Wheat"
The Critical Role of Wheat Lectin in Human Disease and the Role of Gluten in Cultural History and Consciousness
Sayer explains scientifically why it's possible to eat gluten for years without any symptoms, and suddenly experience a variety of health problems.
- Why this "c"-word, which is a medical term, MUST be in your vocabulary.
- The VERY powerful "iceberg" metaphor.
- How wheat can be so addictive.
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I am fueled by "Paying It Forward in Health" on this site.My main driver in creating this website, alongside my family, is to share our ongoing family health journey in hopes of encouraging others to have the health epiphany that we have been blessed to experience.
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Grace following her art dreams
WHILE visual arts is a popular subject at high school, given its grim financial security, very few decide to pursue it as a profession once they graduate.
But not Grace Thorley.
The aspiring Woodford Island artist has taken the plunge and is working toward a full-time career as a professional artist.
"Art has always been in my life; it's all I ever do," she said.
Since launching her brand last year, Ms Thorley has gained attention on a national and international scale thanks to her social media marketing know-how.
Ms Thorley said Instagram had been the most successful platform for promoting her work, which is currently seen by more than 6000 followers.
The former McAuley Catholic College student said each of her colourful designs contained a deeper meaning designed to inspire the viewer, should they choose to look closer.
"People can either look at it and think, that's nice, or they can look at it and pick up on the subtle message," she said.
While some pieces can be quite dark, Ms Thorley said she hoped it would help young people going through a similar experience.
"I always knew school was not the be all and end all, but it's hard to get out of that bubble," she said.
"I just kept focusing on getting through and since I left school, I really wanted to show everyone, young people, that you can get through it."
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This story came up in my Facebook news feed and I could not believe my eyes. I wanted to swear I was so angry. Before I begin, take a look at the article and see for yourselves.
So basically the article is about a mother and daughter who claim £30,000 in benefits and both have state funded mobility scooters because they are 'too fat to work'. According to them, they deserve the money…
I CANNOT and WILL NOT believe that the 17 stone daughter needs a mobility scooter, even if she has recurring leg problems. I was nearly 22 stone and I could still walk easily. This is just laziness of the highest order. I am gobsmacked that these people are allowed to promote the lifestyle of 'I am meant to be this way' and so don't do any exercise.
How much more ill-informed can you be???
These people are claiming £30,000 a year in benefits because they openly accept the notion that they are 'simply too fat to work'. I am aware that The Mirror have written this in such a way that it comes across as shocking; well its worked on me! They EVEN have a car that is paid for by us, the taxpayer, so that's nice of us isn't it?
The daughter is disillusioned; she 'claimed she could not help being large because it's in the family genes – so decided not to fight it.' Now to me, this sounds like her mother has brainwashed her into believing that she cannot work because she weighs 17 stone. I know 17 stone is obese, but I know so many people who are or have been this weight or bigger (myself and partner included) who have held down jobs and moved about with little or no issue.
This bit shocks me the most:
The mother said: "There's no point in dieting, it doesn't make a difference. I've always been big and I'm too fat to work, so I have a genuine disability. I should be miserable, but I'm happy. I know this is the way I'm meant to be."
BEING FAT IS NOT A DISABILITY! I don't care what anyone says; I know why I'm fat and its because I ate too much and did no exercise.
From watching the 'What is the right diet for you?' programme the other day, I accept that being overweight can, in some cases, be in your family history/genetic makeup. However, I distinctly remember the programme also stating that you can still take steps to improve your health despite having a genetic pre-disposition to being overweight.
One thing I do agree with though (can't believe I just wrote that) is when the mother mentions the expense of healthier foods. She is partly right in the sense that higher calorie foods and junk foods like crisps, chocolate,etc do tend to be cheaper. But, on the same scale, fruits and vegetables can be cheap and affordable too, if you buy them frozen and budget correctly.
So in conclusion, after almost swearing all over my lovely blog due to these lazy people, I will say that you should not take any of their ideas as your own because they clearly don't understand the concept of wanting to live longer. These people have a very negative and warped idea about living healthy; they mention the word 'diet' a lot in negative sentences. It is clear, they have never tried to see life as living healthier and not a constant struggle of dieting.
The very fact that the mother was told 'that if she wanted to work she could lose weight' and she won a case and now gets £620 Employment and Support Allowance a month is laughable. She should not be entitled to this in my opinion because she has NO intention of looking for work and her support should come from her disability allowance and nothing else.
I may come across as cruel in this article but to be honest, I feel that strongly about it that I had to write this anyway.
People who decide that they can't help being fat (unless its glandular) are wrong. Please don't listen to them. You can help it. You don't have to make yourself miserable by dieting. There are so many ways to look at this but the most important one is to give yourself a chance before you even begin to think about it not being worth it.
It is always worth it.
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It's a great day to be lazy!
Your daily horoscopes are here, astrology lovers for Sunday, June 10th, 2018 for all zodiac signs in astrology. Taking a practical approach to life called for today.
We have a Sun in Gemini and a Moon in Taurus and it conjuncts Uranus in Taurus, trines Saturn in Capricorn and squares Mars in Aquarius.
When the hot air of a Gemini Sun hits the earthy quality of a Taurus Moon, do you know what happens? Everyone loves a bit of sunshine in their life, but when you think of Gemini, think breezy and when you consider the earth being moved by swift wind and heat, think... lazy.
Today, there's a lot to catch up with from the week, and perhaps even from the fun you had over this weekend already either by being super productive with a weekend work schedule, chasing kids or keeping up with friends. I know for me, I walked nearly 10 miles yesterday at an amusement park and I can feel the lazy hit me like a brick, too!
There are days when it's better to close up shop and let yourself unwind, and yes, you can do that all day long. There's no shame in doing things that help you to focus on your mind body and spirit. In fact, it's one of the healthiest things you can do.
RELATED: Daily Horoscope & Astrology Tarot Card Reading For June 10, 2018 For All Zodiac Signs
Since Uranus and the Moon both in the 2nd House of possessions under the zodiac sign of Taurus, you may be more aware of what you have and how to make it last or appreciate it before it's all gone.
When this happens, savor each moment, live in the now and if you're tired and need a little R&R, give your body the time it needs to sit, so when Monday comes, you're ready to run.
To find out more, look for your zodiac sign below to find out what's in store according to your astrological forecast and horoscope for today, Sunday, June 10, 2018.
ARIES (March 21 - April 19)
Tarot of the day: The Moon
Aries, add a little sweetness into your day with things that bring you back to earthy thoughts and sensual connections. Touch soft things. Smell pleasant scents and remember you were meant to live this life in spiritually deep waters and sunshine.
TAURUS (April 20 - May 20)
Tarot of the day: The Hierophant
Taurus, when you're too tired you can become cranky and negative. Like anyone else, you deserve so much more than that. Wear red today, power up your energy and remember that you are flesh and blood and need to enjoy some self-care too.
GEMINI (May 21 - June 20)
Tarot of the day: The Lovers
Gemini, there are things that come to you today but to receive them you'll need to release your cares and anticipate that good things are coming your way. They are!
CANCER (June 21 - July 22)
Tarot of the day: The High Priestess
Cancer, you are a leader and constantly giving of yourself to others. You don't mind because you do it out of love. But it's also wise to love yourself by doing things that keep you feeling beautify and nourished. This helps the people around you to know that it's okay to be vulnerable and it's okay to be strong.
LEO (July 23 - August 22)
Tarot of the day: The Fool
Leo, a miracle can come to you today but you can miss the joy of it if you're in too much of a hurry to see it happen. Look within but also look without. The world is opening up for you.
VIRGO (August 23 - September 22)
Tarot of the day: The Hanged Man
Virgo, reading good books, blogs, and listening to podcasts may not be your thing but there are lots of messages that can help you to grow into the person you want to be and give you new insight so you can ponder your next big move.
LIBRA (September 23 - October 22)
Tarot of the day: Strength
Libra, live in a space of love and hope. There's no better way to exist when there are so many needs and a concern for finding the time.
SCORPIO (October 23 - November 21)
Tarot of the day: Temperance
Scorpio, look for what you need and then take it. You don't always need permission to get what's yours and you don't need to wait for someone to give it to you, either. Take charge and just decide.
SAGITTARIUS (November 22 - December 21)
Tarot of the day: The Sun
Sagittarius, be of good courage and confidence that a choice you made this week was right and you can feel good about it. Hard calls are often good ones.
CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 19)
Tarot of the day: The Empress
Capricorn, play music today. Long ago, Kings would play music to lift their spirits but also to raise their petitions to the source of all light and love. You can do the same to get what you want out of life. Sing your heart out.
AQUARIUS (January 20 - February 18)
Tarot of the day: The Chariot
Aquarius, sleep heals. It heals the body, mind and spirit, and when you do too much and your body wants to sleep, it can make you vulnerable. Give in to your lazy side and let yourself take a long nap. Tomorrow, you'll be so glad that you did.
PISCES (February 19 - March 20)
Tarot of the day: The Hanged Man
Pisces, let your imagination run and think about the future. What do you see yourself creating? What are you dreaming the future will bring?
Aria is YourTango's Horoscopes & Zodiac's editor and the writer of your daily horoscopes readings specializes in love and relationships — and, that might be because her Scorpio rising sign just can't get enough of the subject. Her Aries Sun is quite the bossy type and when things are not in order in people's lives, she lets her Virgo Moon take over to nurture and create structure when things aren't the way they could be. Follow Aria on Facebook and feel free to send her your love and relationship questions via social media.


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'SAW' Came Out 10 Years Ago Today; Let's Take a Look Back…
Today marks the official 10th anniversary of James Wan and Leigh Whannell's Saw, which led to me digging through a decade of Bloody Disgusting content.
I was planning on spreading all of this out of the course of the month but I couldn't find the time to get my act together. October is fuckin' nuts here on Bloody!
Anyways, there's all sorts of goodies here from Adam's [Ghosts Of Gaming Past] A Review Of 'Saw: The Game' to these other editorials:
– 00′s Retrospect: 'Saw' Makes 2004 a Game-Changer
– Revisit 10 Most Memorable 'Saw' Moments!
– James Wan's 6 Steps To The A-List!!
– [Halloween Treat] "Living With Jigsaw" the Funniest 'Saw' Spoof Yet!
– Halloween Treat #8: Love The 'Saw' Theme? Now You Can Sing Along!
– Red Band Halloween Snack: 'Saw' Franchise Deaths!
– Special Feature: 'Saw Revisited: Jigsaw's Long Journey'
– The Full Interview With Tobin Bell And John Williamson On Saw 2 Flesh And Blood
– Theater Scares for 'Saw' Fans
In additional to years of content, we also have reviews of all seven films:
SAW (read the review)
Saw II (read the review, and another)
Saw III (read the review)
Saw IV (read the review)
Saw V (read the review)
Saw VI (read the review)
SAW 3D (read the review)
Next up are tons of images, as well as trailers for all seven films. We really went out of our way to dig up HIGH RESOLUTION images as well as HD trailers:
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The Chilling Effects of
Punitive Damages
"Despite evidence of punitive damages awards
on the rise, opponents of punitive damages reform have
argued that changes in the law are not needed, because
headline-grabbing awards are often reduced on appeal. For
example, one study funded by plaintiffs' lawyers has
suggested that there were only 355 punitive damages awards
in products liability cases from 1965 to 1990. The study,
however, overlooked the practical reality that actual
punitive awards represent just the tip of the iceberg in
regard to their impact. They are dwarfed by the amounts
paid out in settlements due to in terrorem effect of
punitive damages." (www.atra.org
ATRA Issues, Punitive Damages Reform)
"'[T]he availability of unlimited punitive
damages affects the 95% to 98% of cases that settle out of
court prior to trial. It is obvious and indisputable that a
punitive damages claim increases the magnitude of the
ultimate settlement and, indeed, affects the entire
settlement process, increasing the likelihood of
litigation'." (www.atra.org
ATRA Issues, Punitive Damages Reform,
quoting Yale law professor George Priest)
"Plaintiffs' attorneys tell us not to believe
the headlines; real courthouse practitioners know that
punitives are rarely obtained, and often reduced. There is
some truth to this, but even so, it is grossly misleading.
Most cases do not result in punitive damages for the simple
reason that most defendants are terrified of going to trial
under these rules. So they opt to pay the blackmail."
Hantler, "Seven Myths…" pp. 11, 12)
"The true cost of punitive damages, however,
does not lie in the occasional blockbuster award. That is
the tip of the iceberg. A more serious problem is the
increasingly pervasive presence of punitive damage claims.
Cases that previously would have been pursued as simple
breach of contract actions now frequently include an
additional claim for punitive damages. This trend has a
destabilizing effect on the legal process and the conduct of
legitimate business affairs." (www.wlf.org
Advocacy Ads, Ellis J. Horvitz, Horvitz & Levy, LLP)
"A claim for punitive damages introduces a
"wild card" by raising the financial stakes enormously. The
resulting uncertainty makes disputes more difficult to
settle. The important social goals of uniformity, stability
and predictability are subverted. And the costs of
litigation and excessive settlements are ultimately passed
on to customers in higher prices." (www.wlf.org
Advocacy Ads, Ellis J. Horvitz, Horvitz & Levy, LLP)
Impact on the Civil Justice
"Multiple punitive damage awards
undermine the integrity of the justice system by
transforming it into a lottery where a few people
collect arbitrary 'wins' at the expense of everyone
else – the company, its employees, its shareholders
and investors, and other consumers. With the
exception of those lawyers who reap windfalls from
repetitive punitive damages, nobody can seriously
argue that repeatedly punishing anyone for a single
act makes sense or benefits society."
ATRA Issues, Punitive Damages Reform)
"All has not been well in punitive
damages land, where the landscape has been dotted
with startling jury verdicts – occasionally in the
billions and not infrequently in the tens or
hundreds of millions – that reflect a system that is
too often out of control, a system in which one jury
might find no punishable misconduct while the next
imposes an eight- or nine-digit sanction for the
same product design defect or allegedly deceptive
corporate marketing practice."
L. Frey, No More Blind Man's Bluff on Punitive
Damages: A Plea to the Drafters of Pattern Jury
Instructions, Litigation, Volume 29, Number 4,
Summer 2003, p. 28)
"One cannot help but recall the words
of Justice Lewis Powell, who wrote:
'The grant of standardless discretion
to punish has no parallel in our system of justice .
. . a jury imposing punitive damages acts as a
legislator and judge, without the training,
experience, or guidance of either . . . the
plaintiff in a punitive damage case has every
incentive to seek to inflate the award in any way
possible, since the award will go into his pocket.
It is long past time to bring the law of punitive
damages into conformity with our notions of just
punishment, and with the tradition of other nations
that also protect their citizens against arbitrary
John H. Sullivan, New State Data
Confirms Runaway Abuse of Punitive Damages, citing
draft opinion circulated March 6, 1986 by Justice
Lewis Powell to his associates in Aetna Life
Insurance Co. v. Lavoie (draft in papers of
Justice Thurgood Marshall at the Library of
Congress, excerpts published in The Wall Street
Journal, Mar. 8, 1995, originally published in
The Legal Backgrounder, a publication of the
Washington Legal Foundation, February 7, 1997).
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