If you are unable to carry a pregnancy to term, working with a gestational carrier may be an option for your family. If you choose to try this, the embryos implanted in your carrier's uterus can be formed by combining your eggs and your partner's sperm. It is also possible to work with donor eggs or donor sperm if necessary. Gestational carrier arrangements can have a very high success rate, but it is important to understand the pros and cons before deciding to move forward with the process.
There are several reasons you might want to work with a gestational carrier to achieve pregnancy. If you have a chronic medical condition such as significant heart or lung disease, carrying a pregnancy may put your health at risk. Working with a gestational carrier will allow you to have a child without putting yourself in danger. A gestational carrier arrangement may also be beneficial if you do not have a uterus, your uterus is atypical, or you have been unable to conceive pursuing IVF with your own uterus.
You can choose a friend or family member as a gestational carrier, or you can work with an agency who will match you with a carrier. The ideal gestational carrier is a woman between the ages of 21 and 40 who has carried at least one uncomplicated pregnancy to term. Potential carriers undergo extensive medical and psychological screening. Gestational carriers are screened carefully for infectious diseases. They must agree to a healthy lifestyle during pregnancy, including avoidance of smoking, illegal drugs, and alcohol.
If you decide to work with a gestational carrier, it is important to meet with a reproductive attorney to draft a contract addressing this arrangement. The contract should include provisions for fertility treatments, pregnancy, and birth. You will work with an attorney even if you choose a friend or family member as a gestational carrier. Your attorney will help you draft a contract that helps everyone understand what to expect throughout the pregnancy and after the birth of your baby.
If you decide to work with a gestational carrier, pregnancy success from the embryo transfer depends on several factors. One of the most influential factors is the age and quality of the eggs used to make the embryo. If you are not able to use your eggs for this process, you may have better results working with eggs from a donor.
Many people use the terms gestational carrier and traditional surrogate interchangeably, but the two are slightly different. A gestational carrier is not related to the baby in any way. She volunteers to carry the pregnancy, but her eggs are not used to create the embryo. Traditional surrogates are biologically related to the babies they carry. They donate their eggs and then carry the resulting babies to term.
There are many steps in the process of using a gestational carrier. For best results, it is important to work with an experienced reproductive medicine specialist. If you want to work with a gestational carrier, call Atlantic Reproductive Medicine Specialists. We will explain the process to you and help you collaborate with attorneys and reproductive psychologists, giving you the best chance of achieving pregnancy.


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A Big Island landowner is planning to add about 940 homes to the Puna community of Keaau, an area in need of housing after lava flows destroyed hundreds of homes in neighboring areas.
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Home Suffragists in Massachusetts
Suffragists in Massachusetts
Eleanor Calnan, Methuen: Picketed the White House in 1917, arrested, tried, sentenced, and incarcerated.
Josephine Collins, Framingham: Demonstrated at Wilson's return to port of Boston in Feb. 1919, served eight days in Charles St. Jail.
Betty Connolly, West Newton: Demonstrated at Wilson's return in port of Boston, served eight days in Charles St. Jail.
Ella Findeisen, Lawrence: Picketed the White House in 1917.
Martha Foley, Dorchester: Demonstrated at Wilson's return to port of Boston in Feb. 1919, served eight days in Charles St. Jail.
Abby Kelley Foster, Worcester: radical abolitionist and suffragist she worked tirelessly, lecturing and traveling.
Francis (sp?) Fowler, Brookline: Demonstrated in Boston in Feb 1919, arrested and served eight days in Charles St. Jail.
Mrs. J. Irving Gross, Boston: Charter member of Massachusetts branch of NWP. Demonstrated in Lafayette Square in 1918, jailed 15 days. Demonstrated at Wilson's return to port of Boston in Feb. 1919, served eight days in Charles St. Jail.
Julia Ward Howe, Boston: She helped to establish the New England Woman Suffrage Association in 1868 and later worked with the American Woman Suffrage Association and the General Federation of Women's Clubs International. Was a poet and song writer.
Louise Mayo, Framingham: Picketed the White House in 1917, arrested, tried, sentenced, and incarcerated.
Katherine Morey, Brookline: Picketed the White House in 1917, arrested, tried, sentenced, and incarcerated.
Agnes H. Morey, Brookline: Chairman of the NWP Massachussetts branch, member of NWP Advisory Council. Picketed White House in 1917 and a "Suffrage Special" speaker.
Lucretia Mott, Nantucket: Called for 1848 convention with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others.
Maud Wood Park, Boston: Led NAWSA congressional campaign for suffrage amendment.
Sarah Remond (1826-1887(?)), Salem: An African American and anti-slavery advocate who with her brother, Charles, spoke at the national woman's rights convention in New York City in 1858. A member of the American Equal Rights Association she was a guest lecturer and toured the Northeast campaigning for universal suffrage. Discouraged by the split in the woman suffrage movement after the Civil War, she moved to Italy in 1866, where she studied medicine. Her departure from the US suggests the hopelessness she felt about African American women ever achieving equality in the US.
Rosa M Heinzen Roewer, Belmont: Demonstrated at Wilson's return to port of Boston in Feb. 1919, served eight days in Charles St. Jail.
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842-1924), Boston: A journalist and noted abolitionist before the Civil War, a member of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association in 1875, and American Woman Suffrage Association, and Black woman's club leader. She was the wife of George L. Ruffin, one of the woman suffrage representatives from Boston in the state legislature. In 1895, she convened the first conference of the National Federation of Afro-American Women, probably the first national organization of Black women, in Boston, thereby becoming a leader in the Black woman's club movement. She was personally discriminated against when seeking to represent her club at the 1900 convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, leading to the virtual segregation of Black and white women's clubs.
Lucy Stone, Unknown City: Speaker on abolition and women's right to vote. Led American Woman Suffrage Association.
Camilla Whitcomb, Worcester: Chaired the Fourth Congressional District of Massachusetts NWP. Picketed the White House in 1917, arrested, tried, sentenced, and incarcerated.

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AMIGOS Act
Published: Tue, May 1st 2018 @ 4:10 pm EDT
Sponsored by: Rep. David Cicilline [D-RI1] in the 115th congress
To include Portugal in the list of foreign states whose nationals are eligible for admission into the United States as E-1 and E-2 nonimmigrants if United States nationals are treated similarly by the Government of Portugal.
Read more about AMIGOS Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Judy Chu [D-CA27] in the 115th congress
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to promote family unity, and for other purposes.
Small and Seasonal Business Relief Act
Published: Thu, Nov 16th 2017 @ 12:55 pm EST
Sponsored by: Rep. Jack Bergman [R-MI1] in the 115th congress
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reinstate the returning worker exemption for H-2B visas, and for other purposes.
Read more about Small and Seasonal Business Relief Act
KIWI Act
Published: Mon, Aug 28th 2017 @ 2:38 pm EDT
Sponsored by: Rep. Darrell Issa [R-CA49] in the 115th congress
To include New Zealand in the list of foreign states whose nationals are eligible for admission into the United States as E-1 and E-2 nonimmigrants if United States nationals are treated similarly by the Government of New Zealand.
Read more about KIWI Act
Emergency Nursing Supply Relief Act of 2017
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for the admission of certain health care workers as immigrants, and for other purposes.
Read more about Emergency Nursing Supply Relief Act of 2017
Paperwork Reduction for Farmers Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Trent Kelly [R-MS1] in the 115th congress
To streamline the application process for H-2A employers and for other purposes.
Read more about Paperwork Reduction for Farmers Act
E-2 Visa Improvement Act of 2017
Sponsored by: Rep. John Rutherford [R-FL4] in the 115th congress
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit certain E-2 nonimmigrant investors to adjust status to lawful permanent resident status.
Read more about E-2 Visa Improvement Act of 2017
Tibetan Refugee Assistance Act of 2017
To provide for the admission to the United States of certain Tibetans.
Read more about Tibetan Refugee Assistance Act of 2017
STAPLE Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Erik Paulsen [R-MN3] in the 115th congress
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize certain aliens who have earned a Ph.D. degree from a United States institution of higher education in a field of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics to be admitted for permanent residence and to be exempted from the numerical limitations on H-1B nonimmigrants.
Read more about STAPLE Act
DAIRY Act of 2017
Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Duffy [R-WI7] in the 115th congress
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to expand the H-2A worker program to include certain additional laborers, and for other purposes.
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For more family resources, visit our webpage on "Resources for Coping During the Pandemic."
Consecration to the Holy Family
Entrust Yourself to the Holy Family: Understanding Consecration
If there was ever a time when families need more support, it's now. The COVID pandemic has increased the amount of stress--spiritual, economic, physical, and mental--that families are under. Our parish has responded to these needs in a variety of ways.
On Sunday, December 26th--the Feast of the Holy Family--our Knights of Columbus council invited families to consecrate themselves to the Holy Family. Families who participated prayed a special prayer of consecration at the close of the Masses on that weekend.
Consecration to the Holy Family prayer card
But what does it mean to be "consecrated?" Consecration is a word the Church uses in many ways. We speak of certain objects--such an altar in a church--being consecrated. We also speak of the bread and the wine at the Eucharist being consecrated as they become the Body and Blood of our Lord.
The common thread that unites these different uses is transformation. When we pray a prayer of consecration, we are offering something to God--in this case our families--and asking Him to transform them so that they become a means by which His love and grace flow out into the world.
But why be consecrated to the Holy Family? As Catholics we believe in the Communion of Saints, who both inspire us and offer us their prayers and support. We often develop a special relationship with saints whose struggles mirror our own. Jesus, Mary and Joseph certainly understand the challenges of living family life under stress. It is natural and appropriate for our families to entrust themselves to the Holy Family's care and protection.
What does consecration to the Holy Family mean in our daily lives? Consecration to the Holy Family is more than just saying a prayer on a single day of the year. It is an expression of a commitment, as a family, to draw closer to God day by day and truly becoming a "domestic church." A family should prepare for this commitment before the Consecration by talking and praying together as a family.
Consecration to the Holy Family leaflet
Even more important than preparation, however, is how a family lives out its consecration going forward. This could include a commitment to regular prayer as a family, reading the Bible together, or finding ways to serve the parish or the community together. The Knights of Columbus booklet The Family Fully Alive has a number of prayers, meditations and activities that can help you grow closer to God month by month throughout the liturgical year.
As a final note, this would be a particularly appropriate time to consider this form of consecration. We have just concluded a year-long celebration of Saint Joseph proclaimed by Pope Francis to mark the 150th anniversary of his being declared the Patron of the Universal Church by Pope Pius IX in 1870.
Consider consecration for your family!


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Posted on December 1, 2016 by mbacigalupo • 0 Comments
As I may have mentioned, my fiction covers a number of genres, including so-called women's fiction, fantasy, and horror. This month I'd like to give you an early holiday present by sharing "Serena's Hound," a horror story inspired by a sublime Francis Thompson poem, called "The Hound of Heaven," in which a benevolent beast serves as an unshakable companion. Read the poem (it's a gem), then the short story. The double reading should give you a sense of the creative process: how an idea or image (in this case a hound) plants a seed, and how that seed germinates and mutates to form a different existence entirely.
Here, then is my story:
Serena's Hound
Her feet keep a steady beat through blood-orange sunrises and blue-black nights, through wastelands of whistling winds that swallow her wails and pastures with speckled wildflowers that mock her mourning. Her spirit haunted, she wanders unheeded through global tundras, cursing the dawn and condemning the dusk, obsessed with the hunt, doing daily battle with despair.
Once, though, Serena knew hope. She began the journey of life in due time and in happiness. "Please, Mama," she said, "let me test my design talent where it counts, in New York."
Her widowed mother feared for her only child. "Stay, Serena," she said. "Here community constraints deter evil; there its seeds are scattered abroad, only to sprout when you least expect them." But she yielded to her daughter's dream, and gave it her blessing.
Serena rented her first apartment in a picturesque building with a river view. When heavy rains soaked the floor, she covered the wood rot in the sleeping alcove with an artful rug. Serena knew that only the thinnest sheet rock divided the rental warrens, but she was not overly distressed by the sounds —lovers' spats and vehement altercations, raucous guitar chords and sweet violin strings, parrot chatter and dog vocalizations. Every tenant seemed to own at least one dog, many had two or more. It was not uncommon for Serena to be shut out of an elevator by a young dog walker wrangling five or six charges. All breeds were represented: toy, terrier, sporting, working, herding, and hound.
She met the single hound on her way to work when dawn was breaking. The startling silver sheen of its coat, moonlit in the twilight, captivated her. Drake, the animal's sweat-suited escort, was an exercise trainer, he said, who walked the dog daily before heading for the gym. He saw her staring at the dog. "Brutus is a Thai ridgeback, ancient breed, good hunter hound and watch dog." One look at the pointed snout, perpendicular ears and wary eyes left Serena no doubt of the beast's slaughtering and safeguarding versatility.
"It's strangely beautiful," she said.
"Southern girl?"
"Fulton County, Georgia."
"Nice. See you around, I'm sure." He picked up his pace, the dog at his side.
The one time that the hound breached bounds, it was her fault. She was waiting for the elevator when the beast approached. With bent head, it sniffed her ankles and calves, learning her scent. She saw the mark of its ancient breed—the nap of silver pelt streaked in reverse down the length of its back—and could not resist stroking the ridge with the tips of her fingers. Before she understood what had happened, the dog snapped its head back and nipped her hand, drawing a single drop of blood.
Drake offered a lazy apology: "He doesn't like to be touched by strangers." She rubbed her hand and held her peace. Drake was her neighbor, after all. She should try to get along.
The next day she spotted the studded leash in the hall. The hound's eyes, full of heat and yearning, locked onto hers. Why, she wondered, was her upstairs neighbor waiting for an elevator on her floor? She took the stairs.
Man and beast were waiting for her in the lobby.
"I'm having a building party Friday night to celebrate the start of winter. Wine and tapas. Starts eight-ish. Hope you can make it."
"Sorry, I promised a friend I'd have a drink with her on Friday."
"Bring her along. I have enough to feed and water a football team. If you're worried about the dog, don't be. I'm boarding Brutus for the evening."
"I'll let you know," she said.
After a day of slogging through rough layouts, she thought, why not? Her nonexistent friend would catch the flu, the hound would take a leave of absence, and she'd get a chance to socialize. Serena was having trouble meeting people in New York. Everyone was busy or distracted or both. It had been much easier in Georgia.
She got home by six and rang her host's bell. When he cracked the door, the hound lunged toward her. She reeled back, landing on her tailbone. A pandemonium of growls and grunts broke out before party guests managed to pull the beast inside. Drake closed the door behind him, at the same time extending his hand to help her to her feet.
Embarrassed, hurting and furious, Serena had second thoughts about attending the party.
"You came to say you're coming on Friday, right?" He forestalled her excuses: "Brutus was escaping, not attacking. You were never in danger."
She hesitated a second. Inside the beast was battering the door.
"The dog won't be here."
She took a breath. "Yes, I'll come."
An awkward silence followed. "I'll see you in a few days, if not sooner," she said.
He watched till she turned into the stairway.
The hound appeared to go into hiding the rest of the week. She neither saw nor heard it. After work on Friday, she zeroed in on the tub, splashed it with bath oils, set her iPod to light jazz, and basked in the luxury of warm water and perfumed bubbles. An hour later, relaxed and looking forward to the evening ahead, she blow-dried her lush chestnut hair, a secret source of pride. After applying a touch of powder to her perfect skin, then mascara and lipstick, she slipped into a pair of black slacks and a white silk blouse. A pair of silver strands around her neck completed the outfit. She looked into the mirror. Good to go.
At 8:20, her best guess at defining "eight-ish," she pressed the bell of 13D. Drake pecked her cheek in greeting, handed her a glass of red wine, and led her to a table laden with sandwiches and spreads. Opposite the buffet and a bare window, a red wall, meant to camouflage a Murphy bed, supported a makeshift bar. Rock music blasted through floor speakers and the odor of male sweat permeated the room. Faces darted by, and she caught only fragments of names. Serena could see, however, that men eyed her with appreciation. Their approval bolstered her confidence.
She sipped her wine and tried to make small talk above the din. A middle-aged guy with a paunch and tobacco-stained teeth used what she had come to recognize as the New York opener. "What do you do?" he asked. "Graphic design." He nodded and she excused herself. A nearby ad executive shared his wisdom with another guest: "Vampires and sexy women bring in the bucks. That's the bottom line." As her eyes roamed the room, Serena thought she recognized one or two building tenants—the newly married accountant, the elderly parrot keeper.
The realization came with a shock: she was the only female in the room. Shaken, she resolved to leave immediately. Disentangling herself from a buyer, she made her away across the room to say goodnight to her host. Ambient conversations grew distinct:
"…Not here tonight."
"Then it's off?"
She felt someone brush past her.
"Drake, is it off?"
"No, we'll start a few minutes later, that's all."
In the airless room her breathing became stressed. She found a window and cracked it open, drawing in deep breaths. When she checked her face in a wall mirror, she was appalled to see her eyelids drooping. She needed to lie down. She thought she could make it to her apartment before collapsing.
Serena opened her eyes. She lay sprawled on a Murphy bed looking up at a red wall. Brutus sat on the floor beside her in stoic vigil, the amber eyes signaling caution. She could turn her head but she could not move a single limb, though she willed each one in turn to stir, and then willed her panic to subside. How long she lay there naked, shivering, counting the hexagons in the patterned ceiling she had no idea. It might have been five minutes or five hours.
The hound's snout roused her. She sidled across the bed, her torso hanging over the edge, her head lolling, and lost her balance. The beast yowled as she landed face down on the floor, striking her nose with force. The bridge cracked. Stunned, Serena struggled to catch her breath. The area rug should have buffered her fall. No. She had never made it home. She was still in Drake's apartment. She tried to make sense of her situation. She had drunk only one glass of wine, not enough to pass out.
She slept fitfully. Once she woke to icy drops striking the back of her neck and spilling down her spine. Another time a scraping on the wood floor woke her. She turned to see the beast nosing a metal bowl across the room. Water! She tried to hurtle her body toward the bowl, wrenching her neck in the effort. Her nose throbbed. Her gullet felt gravel-lined. She produced no saliva, but the swallow reflex flayed her throat. Had she been in an accident? No, she'd be in a hospital, not in this red-walled room on a Murphy bed with a dog standing guard. If she was dreaming, she needed to wake up.
Wake up! Wake up!
It was a long time before Serena could lap up the water in the bowl from her prone position. She had to rest on her shoulders. Her hair got in the way, but no matter. She slurped the bitter-tasting water through the soaked strands. Then she laid her cheek on the hard wood and slept.
And woke.
And slept.
Serena dreamt she was devouring live chickens, gagging on gore and feathers. The broken nose obstructed her nasal passages, and she struggled for breath. She opened her eyes to blind darkness. In her sleep she had chewed on her tongue, and it was mush in her mouth. Slime slid down her chin. Slime slid down her thighs. The room stank of herself and something else, something she couldn't identify. Her knees jerked to her chest in felt, though phantom, motion. Real spasms racked her body as she digested the obvious: in paralysis she retained sensation.
She heard her mother calling her. You were right, Mama. A nest of vipers. They sprang without warning. Poor Mama would die alone now while she, at least, had the hound for company.
Polly loves Charley! Polly loves Charley! Polly loves Charley! The parrot chatter penetrated the blackness. How long had she lain face down on the floor? A frigid light streamed through the window, carrying a vision of the frozen river. The glint of the cold sun assaulted her eyes. She turned her cheek, but heaved at the sight under the bed. The desiccated remains of a small animal lay decomposing. She clamped her eyes shut.
They sprang open when the hound's padded paw grazed her lids. Moonbeams scattered diamonds on the beast's shimmering coat. How could she have feared her hound? She prayed for the animal and for herself. Her prayers were groans, her cries strangled yelps.
She was being starved. The empty bowl lay in a far corner of the room. The pain in her stomach had disappeared, but her gums bled into her mouth, and the liquid stimulated her thirst to exquisite sensibility. She banged her head repeatedly against the floor. The violence of her tremors forced her legs apart, and one foot now rested against the cold metal leg of the bed.
Serena sensed the transfer of air above her head. She looked up to see Drake at her head looking down, the hound in front of him. Flanking her tormentor on each side stood a line of vaguely familiar male figures. One with a round belly overhanging his belt smiled down at her. Another—the ad executive?—raised his hand to her in greeting. From a long way off, as though across eons, came voices:
"It won't be long now. The water's kept them alive, but if they don't feed, they'll both be dead in a day, two at the most."
She strained to puzzle out the meaning of the mouthings, the taunting tones and discordant din.
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"I'm laying three-to-one odds in the beast's favor. Time to ante up or get out."
Someone else spoke, but the words got lost in a time drift until, again, the first voice pierced the present:
"By weighing assets and liabilities. Both can barely move. The girl's smarter, but she'll hesitate till it's too late. The dog won't be so squeamish. In my book he'll do what it takes to survive."
Drake used his foot to turn her over on her back. He yanked the necklace strands and grabbed a hank of hair. "Let's see how we're doing," his eyes, inches away, scanned her face. "Nasty bit of acne there." She couldn't focus. Her eyes shuttled side to side without her volition. He snorted.
"Can barely hear you, Honey."
"What? Oh. Because it's fun. The fact is, we like to gamble, a lot, on anything and everything. We used to do the usual stuff—ball games, horse races, dog fights, cards. But that grew dull after a while, so we, I, got creative. For a bigger bang we kept the dog and added a girl. Except for the runaway, you were the easiest to reel in. Then—my stroke of genius—we starved them both and made book on what would happen. Would the dog devour the girl alive? Even money. Would the dog wait for the girl to die before feasting on her? Ten to one. Would the girl cannibalize her own body? Fifty to one. Would she find a way to feed on the dog? A hundred to one. Would each die of starvation without attacking the other? A thousand to one. Hasn't happened yet.
She spat in his face but her output was only a burst of air that sounded like a sigh. A moment of clinical observation, then he leaned in, hawked, exploded a ball of phlegm at her left cheek, and monitored its trajectory. It oozed from the corner of her eye, down the side of her nose, oh, God, over her lips. Her tongue sprang out and lapped it up before the moisture was lost to her.
He released her head, letting it drop with a thud. Then he picked off the straw-like strands stuck between his fingers. He appraised her spread-eagled body, the skeletal structure visible, threatening to puncture the skin. Under the scrutiny of a dozen witnesses, she endured his fingers running over her torso and abdomen.
"Nice. You'll have a downy cover soon."
When he probed her recesses, she opened her mouth to scream, but produced only a dry bark.
"Don't cry havoc just yet," he said. "We're leaving. But Brutus might get a little cranky. I've stopped feeding him."
Her nightmares staged a theater of the macabre. Long-armed shadows reached for her. Gargoyles with basilisk eyes seared her flesh, their legs straddling anterior tails. She lay helpless in the swelling vortex: fantastic forms circled her, whirling, swirling, descending, sucking her soul into the void.
Fewer and fewer times would her lids open, and when they did, there sat the hound, scanning her face. She saw in his eyes the need to feed, the self-defying devotion. She heard from him the strangled sounds of distress.
"Friend," she whispered, with effort extending her arm, "what little flesh is left I have no use for. Save yourself.
Heedless, the hound sat fixed near the mistress of his heart.
"Why do you love me?" she whispered, as if her friend could voice an answer, as if an answer to the query could be voiced.
Days passed. Still on her back, still on the floor, she lost track of them. The ice melted. The river flowed. From time to time she heard a beagle's whine, a bulldog's chuffing, a schnauzer's snores. Her hound made no more sounds. Its pelt hung in bruised flaps. Its amber eyes burned with fever.
The newlyweds were quarreling: not the time for babies he said, never the right time she said.
The incubi revisited her. They penetrated her, shredding delicate, secret tissues, rending her spirit. Again and again. Till they returned no more.
Her agony consummated, she began her withdrawal, delaying only long enough to proffer her arm to the fast fading hound. It knew the precise moment of her leave-taking and accepted the sacrament only then. But nourishment came too late. The beloved lost, the hound bayed through the long night. In the morning the beast blinked; death quenched the amber light.
In the limbo shadow world the dead linger, restless till they witness retribution. Here Serena's spirit seeks out her tormentor. The hound at her side, she haunts the land of the living, ranging over shores veiled in mist, traversing waves that clash in cosmic rhythms, treading miles of desert in search of the hell where Drake dwells. Serena measures time with the metronome of her unhealed heart, the years consumed day by day, the days hour by hour, minute by minute . . . till her wait ends, and a blood-red hole rends open time.
Serena descends into the timeless abyss of the damned. In the dense depths she finds him, befouled in noxious vapors, surrounded by fiery-eyed denizens exacting justice. Their razor talons flay him neck to legs: the dripping strips hang loose at his ankles.
Her hound appears in time to devour the bloody pulp, tearing away muscle and sinew, crunching bone with primal purpose. As the flesh regenerates, the talons reach out anew. Frenzied shrieks rend the darkness. Contrapuntal notes—the howling of the hound and Serena's shrill laughter—rise in exultation.
Anguish extinguished, demons quelled, they rest serene at last, Beauty and her Beast.
I hope you enjoyed "Serena's Hound." It might be fun to compare it to "The Hound of Heaven": How are the story and poem alike and different (focus on character, setting, point of view, tone, and narrative content).
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Quickly, name the elements of fiction. You can probably tick them off on your fingers: character, setting, plot, theme, point of view. Writers immediately recognize these terms but some, I suspect, rarely think about how they function in a given work. This month I thought I'd use my novella, Ninth-Month Midnight, to show them interacting… Continue Reading


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Q: What is difference between compensate and recompense? As far as I know from dictionary that both words compensate and recompense are same in meaning .But are those actually same or is there any precise difference?

A: No, they are not the same, although in some cases they may be interchangeable.
If you recompense something, you pay back expenses that have been incurred. So I paid for something, and you pay me back for it. This is a for of compensation!
To compensate for something (notice also the difference in use!), you may recompense expenses. But there are many other options.
Someone may compensate for a lack of knowledge with a great ability to look things up.
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Q: scp-ing while ssh'd into remote machine? My desire:
ssh into a remote machine, take a peak around, and then copy a file from from that remote machine into my local machine using a Linux command.
My frustration:
From what I've seen in the documentation, I can't be ssh'd while using the scp command. I must simply be a user on my local machine and specify the the connection info and the file location (ie. scp user@remotehost:copyFrom.txt /myDir/copyHere.txt).
I could alternatively use SFTP:
$ SFTP user@remotehost
$ $ get remoteFile.txt /myLocalDir/localFile.txt

but SFTP isn't quite as fast as SSH.
Is it possible to use scp while already sshd into the remote machine?

A: No, it is not possible, if you don't have public IP and sshd server running on your workstation (if you have, there is nothing easier than to run scp file localmachine: from remote session).
The speed is not significant. It can be one or two percent on large files, but using sftp, you will gain much more, because you do not have to initiate ssh the connection for each scp command, but only once and every get command is "cheaper". For normal files over normal network you will not notice difference.


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Q: Docker build fails on mkdir I use a Dockerfile to create an apache2 ubuntu image. When it haves to create the directories it fails saying that some of these directories already exists, but in fact not at all.
Dockerfile :
FROM ubuntu:latest
    MAINTAINER Bernard Tapis
    RUN apt-get -yqq update && apt-get install -yqq apache2

WORKDIR /var/www/html

ENV APACHE_RUN_USER www-data
ENV APACHE_RUN_GROUP www-data
ENV APACHE_LOG_DIR /var/log/apache2
ENV APACHE_PID_FILE /var/run/apache2.pid
ENV APACHE_RUN_DIR /var/run/apache2
ENV APACHE_LOCK_DIR /var/lock/apache2
RUN mkdir p $APACHE_RUN_DIR $APACHE_LOCK_DIR $APACHE_LOG_DIR

ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/sbin/apache2"]
CMD ["-D", "FOREGROUND"]
EXPOSE 80

The error I get when executing docker image build -t quentinneves/apache .
Step 11/14 : RUN mkdir p $APACHE_RUN_DIR $APACHE_LOCK_DIR $APACHE_LOG_DIR
 ---> Running in 1d72a8fd64c0
mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/log/apache2': File exists
The command '/bin/sh -c mkdir p $APACHE_RUN_DIR $APACHE_LOCK_DIR $APACHE_LOG_DIR' returned a non-zero code: 1

But when I use ls -lsa /var/log/ :
root@VIR1-DOCKER:~/Docker/Apache# ls -lsa /var/log/
total 1576
  4 drwxr-xr-x  5 root root   4096 Jun  1 13:42 .
  4 drwxr-xr-x 11 root root   4096 Jun  1 13:35 ..
 16 -rw-r--r--  1 root root  13515 Jun 13 07:33 alternatives.log
  4 drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Jun 13 07:33 apt
 12 -rw-r-----  1 root adm    8773 Jun  6 15:17 auth.log
  4 -rw-------  1 root utmp    768 Jun  6 07:06 btmp
 76 -rw-r-----  1 root adm   70771 Jun 13 08:05 daemon.log
108 -rw-r-----  1 root adm  107936 Jun  6 07:05 debug
268 -rw-r--r--  1 root root 269141 Jun 13 07:33 dpkg.log
  8 -rw-r--r--  1 root root  32032 Jun  6 07:05 faillog
  4 drwxr-xr-x  3 root root   4096 Jun  1 13:39 installer
356 -rw-r-----  1 root adm  363005 Jun 13 08:05 kern.log
 12 -rw-rw-r--  1 root utmp 292292 Jun  6 15:09 lastlog
252 -rw-r-----  1 root adm  255033 Jun 13 08:05 messages
428 -rw-r-----  1 root adm  435499 Jun 13 08:05 syslog
  4 drwxr-x---  2 root adm    4096 Jun  6 07:01 unattended-upgrades
 16 -rw-rw-r--  1 root utmp  15744 Jun  6 15:10 wtmp

Surprise it's not there ! Before that it was /var/lock/apache2 that caused this issue, but it somehow passed and now /var/log/apache2 just won't be created.
If I delete this folder creation and create it manually, would it works for creating a new image for docker ? And do you know why it thinks that there's already a folder like that ?

A: Your problem is that you're creating directories without protecting against already-existence of them.
You've defined APACHE_LOG_DIR = APACHE_RUN_DIR, so, your RUN mkdir p $APACHE_RUN_DIR $APACHE_LOCK_DIR $APACHE_LOG_DIR command try to create it twice and it fails.
When you check directory existence, probably you're accesing a container started from another image different than you've tried to build with this docker.
To protect that, add exit 0 at the end of RUN mkdir, or change one ENV:
ENV APACHE_LOG_DIR /var/log/apache2
ENV APACHE_PID_FILE /var/run/apache2.pid
ENV APACHE_RUN_DIR /var/run/apache2   <--- the same than APACHE_LOG_DIR
ENV APACHE_LOCK_DIR /var/lock/apache2
RUN mkdir -p $APACHE_RUN_DIR $APACHE_LOCK_DIR $APACHE_LOG_DIR; exit 0


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NEW YORK — Apple briefly surpassed Exxon Mobil as the most valuable company in the U.S. Tuesday afternoon before settling back slightly lower.
But the two are now so close that the change of guard is likely to happen soon.
Apple Inc.'s stock gained 5.9 percent to $374.01 on Tuesday, bringing the iPhone and iPad maker's market capitalization to about $347 billion when the market closed.
Exxon Mobil Corp. shares, meanwhile, closed up 2.1 percent at 71.64. That gives the oil company a market cap of $348 billion as of the market's close.
Other big-name corporations, such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and General Electric Co., don't even come close. Apple overtook Microsoft, the previous No. 2, just last year.
Exxon Mobil, which set a record in 2008 for the highest quarterly earnings by any company, has limited growth prospects. Its growth is driven by oil prices and discovering new oil.
By contrast, Apple has been on a roll with the soaring popularity of its iPad tablet computer and strong sales of the iPhone. Apple's growth is limited only by innovation. Investors expect it to grow as long as it keeps making products that people want. So investors are betting on Apple's stock even though it currently makes less money than Exxon.
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Exxon Mobil, meanwhile, posted a 41 percent increase in its second-quarter earnings to $10.68 billion, the largest since it set a record of $14.8 billion in the third quarter of 2008. Its revenue grew 36 percent to $125.5 billion.
Apple, which is based in Cupertino, Calif., has a higher price-to-earnings ratio than Exxon Mobil, but not by much. They are both lower than that of the average of the S&P 500 index.
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This is an easy craft project that can be done with younger children. It's also a fun way to prepare for holiday craft projects.To get yourself started, you may not want to visit a craft store even,because all the things which wanted for this crafts are easily available at home,so you can save your money,instead of book paper can use magazine papers or news papers.According to your creativity you can decorate your angel with glitter and sequins, the sky is the limit.
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from ..devices.base import WinkDevice

class WinkLightBulb(WinkDevice):
    """
    Represents a Wink light bulb.
    """

    def state(self):
        return self._last_reading.get('powered', False)

    def brightness(self):
        return self._last_reading.get('brightness')

    def color_model(self):
        return self._last_reading.get('color_model')

    def color_xy(self):
        """
        XY colour value: [float, float] or None
        :rtype: list float
        """
        color_x = self._last_reading.get('color_x')
        color_y = self._last_reading.get('color_y')
        if color_x is not None and color_y is not None:
            return [float(color_x), float(color_y)]
        return None

    def color_temperature_kelvin(self):
        """
        Color temperature, in degrees Kelvin.
        Eg: "Daylight" light bulbs are 4600K
        :rtype: int
        """
        return self._last_reading.get('color_temperature')

    def color_hue(self):
        """
        Color hue from 0 to 1.0
        """
        return self._last_reading.get('hue')

    def color_saturation(self):
        """
        Color saturation from 0 to 1.0
        :return:
        """
        return self._last_reading.get('saturation')

    def update_state(self):
        """ Update state with latest info from Wink API. """
        response = self.api_interface.local_get_state(self)
        return self._update_state_from_response(response)

    def set_state(self, state, brightness=None,
                  color_kelvin=None, color_xy=None,
                  color_hue_saturation=None):
        """
        :param state:   a boolean of true (on) or false ('off')
        :param brightness: a float from 0 to 1 to set the brightness of
         this bulb
        :param color_kelvin: an integer greater than 0 which is a color in
         degrees Kelvin
        :param color_xy: a pair of floats in a list which specify the desired
        CIE 1931 x,y color coordinates
        :param color_hue_saturation: a pair of floats in a list which specify
        the desired hue and saturation in that order.  Brightness can be
        supplied via the brightness param
        :return: nothing
        """
        desired_state = {"powered": state}

        color_state = self._format_color_data(color_hue_saturation, color_kelvin, color_xy)
        if color_state is not None:
            desired_state.update(color_state)

        if brightness is not None:
            desired_state.update({'brightness': brightness})

        response = self.api_interface.local_set_state(self, {
            "desired_state": desired_state
        })
        self._update_state_from_response(response)

    def _format_color_data(self, color_hue_saturation, color_kelvin, color_xy):
        if color_hue_saturation is None and color_kelvin is None and color_xy is None:
            return None

        if color_hue_saturation is None and color_kelvin is not None and self.supports_temperature():
            return _format_temperature(color_kelvin)

        if self.supports_hue_saturation():
            hsv = _get_color_as_hue_saturation_brightness(color_hue_saturation)
            if hsv is not None:
                return _format_hue_saturation(hsv)

        if self.supports_xy_color():
            if color_xy is not None:
                return _format_xy(color_xy)

        return {}

    def supports_hue_saturation(self):
        capabilities = self.json_state.get('capabilities', {})
        cap_fields = capabilities.get('fields', [])
        for field in cap_fields:
            _field = field.get('field')
            if _field == 'color_model':
                choices = field.get('choices')
                if "hsb" in choices:
                    return True
        return False

    def supports_xy_color(self):
        capabilities = self.json_state.get('capabilities', {})
        cap_fields = capabilities.get('fields', [])
        for field in cap_fields:
            _field = field.get('field')
            if _field == 'color_model':
                choices = field.get('choices')
                if "xy" in choices:
                    return True
        return False

    def supports_temperature(self):
        capabilities = self.json_state.get('capabilities', {})
        cap_fields = capabilities.get('fields', [])
        for field in cap_fields:
            _field = field.get('field')
            if _field == 'color_model':
                choices = field.get('choices')
                if "color_temperature" in choices:
                    return True
        return False

def _format_temperature(kelvin):
    return {
        "color_model": "color_temperature",
        "color_temperature": kelvin,
    }

def _format_hue_saturation(hue_saturation):
    hsv_iter = iter(hue_saturation)
    return {
        "color_model": "hsb",
        "hue": next(hsv_iter),
        "saturation": next(hsv_iter),
    }

def _format_xy(xy):
    color_xy_iter = iter(xy)
    return {
        "color_model": "xy",
        "color_x": next(color_xy_iter),
        "color_y": next(color_xy_iter)
    }

def _get_color_as_hue_saturation_brightness(hue_sat):
    if hue_sat:
        color_hs_iter = iter(hue_sat)
        return next(color_hs_iter), next(color_hs_iter), 1
    return None


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Everybody knows that dogs are human friends. Many people love them as pets. Regardless of size or breed, all domestic dogs share several particular characteristics that will help us understand their behavior and way of life a little better.
The dog is a direct descendant of the wolf, socialized though, for centuries. In the same group of canids, we can find the coyote, dingo, or fox. Did you know that they all have the same origins?
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Dogs share the same senses as humans, namely touch, sight, smell, hearing, and taste. However, their feelings are not comparable to ours since their vision. For example, it is a little different from that of a human.
The sight of the dogs does not allow them to see all the colors; it is so that we become an example, how to have daltonism. That is to say, some colors like red and green look the same.
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Its hearing system does not fall short either, which for a human would be an invaluable sound; a dog can hear it without any problem.
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Dogs are a descendant of the wolf, and it is understood that the dog has always been a wild animal. However, for centuries it has been socialized working with humans in hunting and guarding.
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Initially, wild dogs fed on the prey they hunted, being carnivorous animals. However, with the passing of time and domestication, more food has been introduced into their diet.
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Medium and large size dogs have a shorter life expectancy, ranging from ten to thirteen years on average. They can be older, depending on their health and care.
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Handbook of Programming Languages (4 Vol Set)
reference; languages
This set of four volumes gives me considerable problems as a reviewer. On the one hand I might give it an excellent review for what is in it but on the other hand I could give it a very mediocre review because of what is not.
Let me take you through a few facts. The four volumes vary considerably in size. Volume 1 (Object Oriented PLs) is by far the largest. In just under 100 pages it covers a general introduction (rather too superficial to my mind as it does little to cover the substantial differences between the different versions of object orientation) and then has articles (some reprints from elsewhere) on Smalltalk (3 chaps.), C++ (3 chaps), Eiffel (1 chap) Ada 95 (1 chap), Modula 3 (1 chap) and Java (3 chaps).
Each chapter is written by a World class authority on the language concerned. So we have Bjarne Stroustrup contributing a chapter on the history of C++ and Andy Koenig contributing chapters introducing C++ and detailing traps and pitfalls.
The chapter on Eiffel is contributed by Bertrand Meyer. The chapters on Java are interesting. James Gosling, Bill Joy and Guy Steele contribute chapter 12, which is less than 1 full page of text. Ken Arnold and James Gosling collaborate to produce chapter 13 which is about 25 pages reprinted from the 1996 edition ofThe Java Programming Language. The final chapter is over 100 pages from the keyboard of David Flanagan reprinted fromJava in a Nutshell (2nd Edition). As chapter 12 is also a reprint we have 'Java, write about it once, reprint it everywhere.' OK that may be a fairly cheap crack, but the other contributors to this volume did at least write specifically for it even if they were sometimes rewriting material they had prepared earlier.
While C++ is covered in over 250 pages we get just under 150 on Smalltalk and under a hundred on Eiffel.
What is definitely missing from this volume is any form of objective assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of each of the languages covered. The better informed reader will know that there is a massive difference between the essentially dynamic binding version of OO that is Smalltalk and the default to static binding of C++. It would have been a great help space been dedicated to this. By all means have an overview of each language from an expert on that language but a book such as this would greatly benefit from a comparison written by someone who had a clear understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of each. Indeed one point is entirely missed by the classification applied by the series editor and that is that C++ is not a pure OOPL. While OOP maybe the commonest way the users (think they) program in C++ it is far from the only way that C++ can be used.
The 450 pages of Volume 2 (Imperative PLs) is dedicated to Fortran (1 chapter), C (2 chapters), Pascal (1 chapter) and Icon (1 chapter). The volume also includes a brief, confused and largely pointless chapter on intermediate languages (such as pcode for Pascal, JavaVM for Java and Diana for Ada).
I think that this is by far the worst of the four volumes. Its coverage of the topic area is superficial, Pascal being represented by a chapter on 'Turbo Pascal'. The chapter on Fortran is fine for someone with a degree of familiarity with versions of Fortran prior to Fortran 90. Of course any reader can spot a host of imperative languages that have been excluded. Like it or not, why is there nothing covering any version of BASIC? I could go on but I found this volume profoundly unsatisfying.
In some ways volume 3 (Little Languages and Tools) is much the most satisfying of the four volumes. It, too, misses out many candidates for inclusion but in the 700 pages it does drag the readers attention to the variety of tools around. Ian Cargill might be pleased to find SQL in these pages. I was happy to spot Python and I guess Silas Brown might enjoy the chapter on Little Music Languages. In this chapter we have an example of what the whole could have been, a comparison between the features of a group of languages aimed at a similar task.
Finally in Volume 4 (Functional and Logic PLs) we have a small volume of just over 250 pages dedicated to what should be a very interesting area of programming languages. Of course we have a problem in that so few programmers have any clear grasp of these programming language types. The representative languages are well chosen (LISP, Scheme, Guile, CLOS and Prolog) but considering the low level of understanding of these types of language a good clear introduction would have been advantageous. Instead we have a single page from Peter Salus which is miss-titled in the Table of Contents. Overall this volume looks like a token representation. Perhaps the series editor does not consider them important.
Now apart from the lack of any form of over-view of programming languages we have some notable omissions. Those that know me will guess that I am not well pleased to find no coverage of Threaded Interpreted Languages of which Forth is the most widely known. Then where is the coverage of mathematical languages (from APL to Mathematica). I realise that it is hard to know what to include and what to leave out but I have a distinct sense that the series editor sat down and listed the languages he was aware of and then commissioned material from relevant experts. How any book on programming languages can completely ignore COBOL is hard to fathom.
In summary, what is in this book is good, written by authors who know there material and generally know how to write about it. The major fault with this book is what is not in it. Responsibility for that must be laid firmly with the Series Editor in Chief. The contents are neither comprehensive nor objective. The contents do not even sensibly sample the full range. With deep regret I have to conclude that the complete omission of COBOL, Basic TILs to name but three makes these volumes inadequate as references. The lack of comparison between the languages covered makes the books much less valuable to the reader trying to get a grip on the broad scope of programming languages.
The books are neither chalk nor cheese which is very sad for those individual contributors who have put so much careful writing into their individual chapters. They did what was asked of them, a pity those responsible for the whole have, in my opinion, let them down.


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In looking at the free agents on the board from AZ, who would be interested in starting up a team. 50+. I am in the process of getting my senior card. I play 1B/3B or C. Used to pitch but prefer not to. I prefer to play 1B/C. Shoot me an email at Frischd44@outlook.com with where you are from and position. I am from Chandler, AZ. I would be interested in either coaching or co-coaching the team.
I would be interested in playing I will contact you per your request.
Looking to get 50's players together in AZ please post on here or my post. I know there are guys out there. I think we have 5 or 6 guys already after talking with Frishd44 and Lokahi on this post. Here is my number also 623-693-8582.
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What you thought you knew might not be true.
When an older couple divorces, perhaps after many years of marriage, theories and rumors may swirl around them as extended family, friends, co-workers, neighbors, and casual acquaintances all struggle to make sense of the split.
Not long after a lifelong friend of mine left his wife of more than 40 years, a mutual friend was quick with assumptions and questions. "Are you going through a belated midlife crazy?" he asked. "Is there another woman? Are you getting a red sports car?" And he laughed uneasily, amazed that our friend, a devoted family man, would do such a radical thing on the verge of turning 70.
There is a long list of things that people supposedly know about gray divorce: that the rate of those over 50 who are divorcing has doubled in less than 30 years, that such divorces happen in the wake of midlife craziness or after the nest has emptied or that only those rich enough to start over are willing to risk divorce later in life.
But according to some recent studies, the facts about gray divorce are somewhat different.
1. The gray divorce rate has doubled since 1990, but is still less common than divorce among those under 50. Many couples of our parents' generation white-knuckled it through decades of unhappiness rather than endure the stigma of divorce. The Baby Boomers, who started turning 50 in 1996, haven't been quite so reluctant to divorce — either in youthful marriages or in mature marriages. That may explain, at least in part, the increase in gray divorce. In 1990, 5 out of 1,000 married people over 50 divorced. By 2010, it was 10 out of 1,000. But the divorce rate for those over 50 is still less than half the rate for those under 50. Roughly, only one in four divorces in 2010 involved couples over 50.
2. The biggest risk factor for gray divorce is not a life transition (like an empty nest), but one's marital past. According to a recent study, those who have been divorced before are more likely to divorce again, and those in marriages of shorter duration are more likely to divorce. Baby Boomers have aged into the gray divorce zone, having been more likely to have divorced in their youth. For those over 50, the rate of divorce for those who are in remarriages is 2.5 times higher than for those in first marriages. And those in remarriages of less than 10 years duration are nearly 10 times more likely to divorce than those married 40 years or more (28.6 divorced persons per 1,000 versus 3.2 per 1,000).
3. Relative wealth can be a protective factor against gray divorce. This goes against a long-held belief that a lack of resources keeps many unhappy couples together. While many of us have seen couples who can't afford to divorce or even to live apart, studies of gray divorce show that those who divorce are less likely to have college degrees or to be working. One study stressed that unemployment not retirement was present in many older divorcing couples. It may well be that the financial stresses of job insecurity and unemployment can tear some midlife marriages apart. It may also be that more affluent couples have more to lose in a divorce, or that the absence of financial woes can keep a less-than-ideal marriage viable. It may be, too, that those with more resources have more options — options like marriage counseling or building essentially separate lives with busy work schedules.
4. When a long marriage ends, the seeds of the marital failure may have been sown decades before. As my dear friend contends, long marriages rarely end on a whim.
For other couples, a festering resentment or issue unresolved for decades may be at the heart of a late-in-life divorce.
5. Kids struggle with the reality of a parental divorce — whatever their ages. While many couples stay together until the children are grown, divorce is tough on kids of any age and can negatively impact parent and adult child relationships. One study found, for example, that adult daughters may tend to blame fathers for a gray divorce, and that changing family dynamics — like newly divorced mothers becoming more dependent on their children — also can negatively impact parent and adult child relationships.
6. Grief can linger long after a marriage ends, even when both agree that it's better to part. After an older divorcee begins to get past some of the anger that propelled him or her out of the marriage, that person still may grieve what was good — even if there's no inclination to go back.
7. There can be positive outcomes to late-in-life heartbreak. Sometimes improved health and happiness in a new and different life is the positive ending. Sometimes the relief and peace of ending a tumultuous relationship is its own reward. And sometimes finding love again is the positive result of a painful process.
Many years ago, a college friend I'll call Jenny broke up with her high-school sweetheart Mike, because her parents strongly objected to his Catholicism. Jenny and Mike were heartbroken, but moved on with their lives. After college, they both married, built families and lives with other people.
They reconnected more than 40 years later — after his wife died, and she had divorced after a long and troubled marriage to an emotionally abusive alcoholic. A year after rediscovering each other, they married and recently celebrated their seventh wedding anniversary.
Susan L. Brown, et.al. Age variations in the divorce rate: 1990-2010. Family Profiles, NCFMR, FD. 12-05.
Lin, I-F, Brown, S.L., Wright, M.R. Antecedents of gray divorce: a life course perspective. Journals of Gerontology 13, Psychological Services and Social Services: 1022-1031. August 14, 2018.
Brown, S.L. and Lin, I-F. The gray divorce revolution: rising divorce among middle-aged and older adults 1990-2010. Journals of Gerontology, Series B, Psychological Services and Social Services, 67, No. 6: 731-741. October 9, 2012.
W.S. Aquilano. Later life divorce and widowhood: impact on young adult assessment of parent-child relationship. Journal of Marriage and Family 56 (1994): 908-922.
Nobody, NOBODY loves an old woman. It is physiologically impossible for a man. And men get a lot of grief in the prestige economy of marrying younger and younger if they stay with their old wife, "beta men" that they are. Trump would not be president if he had a wife his own age! The old woman by his side would be like a giant "L for Loser" walking next to him! I hardly know any post-menopausal women who have not been left by their husbands, and society is okay with it; good for them, they say.
I know the author is trying to make it about the character of the woman and is going out of her way to describe men who left their wives for women their wives' age, but I don't actually know a single case like that. There would be no point.
I want to add, it's also super unfair to the children. My own father, who is 75, dumped my mother and is now together with a 55 year old.
So with that, he dumped the old wife on my brother and me. She was a housewife for most of her life and is somewhat dependent on help, maybe also experiencing some mild cognitive loss. After cleaning up after him for 50 years, she can now go "suit herself"; now that there would maybe be something for him to do for her, nah, he's out the door and got himself someone new for service and entertainment.
GET OVER YOURSELF! Your parents have the right to split up and be happy by themselves or with others. You need to get a life.
Your father will get his when his new love decides he is too old and wont take care of him. He may get sick eventually.However,I disagree with you saying no one loves and old woman. A 75 year old can be in good health and look much younger. You mother needs her own life. You should encourage her to see people and have hobbies.
've noticed that people are calling this black magic and its wrong; here's the thing....if your husband or wife is screwing around on you, you have every right to do what is necessary to stop it. You aren't harming anyone....they are the ones doing the harm and have it coming. My situation was hopeless me and my husband was on the verge of divorce. I was in a awful state and felt that I was not able to cope with life any longer. I found out about this Dr Lawrence and tried him. Well, he did return and now we are doing well again, more than ever before. Thank you so much drlawrencespelltemple @ hotmail.
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Kaymera Technologies, Developers of Enterprise-Ready Mobile Security Solutions, Announces Addition of Dan Halutz, Former Israeli Defense Forces C
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TEL AVIV, Israel, Nov. 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Kaymera Technologies [http://www.kaymera.com/?utm_source=pr&utm_medium=prnewswire&utm_campaign=DanHalutz], providers of the first fully enterprise-ready mobile security solution, announced the addition of General Dan Halutz to their team. Halutz is the former Chief-of-Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces and served as Commander of the Israeli Air Force. He will now be joining Kaymera, serving as Chairman of the Board, and will help further shape the direction and identity of the company.
Established in 2013, Kaymera has vast knowledge in providing all types of organizations, ranging from enterprises to government agencies, with fully secured mobile experiences. Today, despite the fact that usage of mobile devices to conduct highly sensitive business activities is essentially obligatory, professionals and organizations are at exponential risk to threats targeting devices and their operating systems. With Kaymera, users benefit from enterprise ready mobile security that protects critical business IP and trade secrets, while ensuring digital and personal privacy.
With the addition of Halutz to the stellar team of experts which includes Oshri Asher, former Head of The Cyber Security Department at the Israeli Prime Minister's office, Kaymera will be further positioned to help diverse organizations overcome the countless risks posed by evolving mobile threats. Halutz's extensive experience in defense is a great asset in today's mobile threat environment where attackers seemingly have a perpetual advantage. According to Halutz, "I've spent years considering how attackers think. Under my guidance, my army units learned to anticipate the unexpected. Physical adversaries and digital ones have many similarities and the key to beating mobile threats lies in preparing for the unknown. I'm excited to bring this experience to Kaymera."
Additionally, the company has closed a successful funding round from various investors and will use this latest infusion to continue expanding business operations on a global scale. To be released in the upcoming months, Kaymera will feature enhanced technology and will enable the establishment of new business channels and partnerships.
"It's an exciting time to be a part of this incredible company," says Asher. "The addition of someone of Dan's caliber is representative of the impressive things taking place here at Kaymera today."
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The Assumption High School Band will be stepping out in style this Saturday as they take part in the annual Chamber of Commerce Christmas Parade. The band has grown substantially over the last year thanks in part to the enthusiasm of band leader Ashley Wright. As well as performing at Assumption talent evenings, the band recently performed for members of the Mieco Beach Yacht Club on the afternoon of their Thanksgiving dinner at RRE Hotel's Mon Bokanake.
See more Assumption band photos in the December 11, 2015 edition of the Marshall Islands Journal.