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Modern Love and the Flawed Theory of Common Interests
Illustration: Sushant Ahire
By Parthshri Arora Dec. 26, 2017
Someone's taste in TV -- "Is he/she not smart enough to enjoy Rick and Morty?" -- or current events -- "I wonder what she has to say about Shashi Tharoor's latest tweet?" -- is the most imperfect way of looking at love.
"I'm a chaisexual," Sagar said, nearly causing me to spill my drink. Drunk Delhi winters can get weird, but this was still out of the ordinary. "I don't think I can date people who prefer coffee over tea, it just doesn't work for me." Now Sagar is a super smart dude with a super smart job — smart enough not to use his real name when being quoted in stories — so this level of specificity in potential romantic partners threw me off. He clarified that this was just an extension of the "common interests" phenomenon, a notch above "what are your hobbies?", but my mind was already buzzing.
Sagar was not off the mark, if only in helping me understand how millennial love works, and how far it skews from love from the Binaca Geetmala generation. So many of us base our romances based on monocultural milestones, i.e. things we all consume together over Netflix and Amazon, making our connections extremely specific?
Back in the day, connections were forged over whether you had a stable job at Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, from where you could retire after 35 years of service, ideally after your home loan EMIs were paid for. Now, of course, you have to find someone who definitely agrees that Ross and Rachel weren't on a break. As this generation, born in the early nineties, which has some affection for Just Mohabbat and Baadshah and Race, went from Limewire to Torrents, the shared interest became even more sacred.
I remember being stumped by this girl in school, who was into Jeffrey Archer's Kane and Abel, even more than I. In college, as my tastes refined a bit, I was even more dumbfounded by another girl who agreed with my closet take that Once was a better depiction of modern romance than Richard Linklater's Before series. Both of us were absolutely floored to the point of "How can this be", when we realised we might've been the only two people in the world who had the first Rhye record downloaded on their phones, with the song "Open" being the most played. We obviously talked, found more similar interests, and boom: Perfection.
The specificity made us special, we thought, and were drawn to each other like puppies to a tennis ball. Like all good romances, though, this came with built-in obsolescence.
The problem though, with placing shared interests in such high regard, is that apart from making the small talk easier, it doesn't really function well as an indicator of a relationship's overall health. Being able to argue passionately about a scene in Mad Men won't matter when the problem is managing a day job or your father-in-law's burgeoning expectations.
Compatibility is an achievement of love; it must not be its precondition
I understood this a little better when I watched High Fidelity.
In the film, Rob (played by John Cusack) recounts his collegial relationship with Catherine Zeta-Jones' Charlie, who is bright and attractive and says "smart things" about things he cares about, like Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being. She's artistic, he's mesmerised by her, by her ability to dazzle with a conversation, highlighting an inherent youthful snobbery in him. But she dumps him for a less needy dude, and it takes him a revisit after over a decade to understand that when Charlie spoke, she mostly spoke of nothing. This pushes him back to his current love, who doesn't say anything spectacular, but is "just good. But really good." It isn't as if the current love, Laura, replaces smarties about shared interests with inherent goodness; it's just that she believes that Rob is more than just a quote from a book, more than a remembered lyric from an obscure song from the '60s.
This idea is laid out most eloquently in the deeply insightful and viral essay, "Why You Will Marry The Wrong Person," by British-Swiss author Alain de Botton. He makes a case for finding not the right person, but a person who isn't "overly wrong" for us. "The person who is best suited to us," writes de Botton, "is not the person who shares our every taste (he or she doesn't exist), but the person who can negotiate differences in taste intelligently — the person who is good at disagreement. Rather than some notional idea of perfect complementarity, it is the capacity to tolerate differences with generosity that is the true marker of the 'not overly wrong' person. Compatibility is an achievement of love; it must not be its precondition."
I keep going back to that last line. Someone's taste in TV — "Is he/she not smart enough to enjoy Rick and Morty?" — or current events — "I wonder what she has to say about Shashi Tharoor's latest tweet?" — is a most imperfect way of looking at love.
Why then do we continue to google "Why shared interests are important in relationships" only to come up incorrect and inaccurate answers, when there is a plethora of research that advises us against it? Stephanie Coontz is a historian who has spent decades researching about marriage, who says here that, "It's not so much the case that couples must share hobbies and interests. But it is essential to be interested in your partner, to experience joy in their joy."
I wanted to tell my friend Sagar that gauging people on their choice of beverage, might work for him in the initial few days. But if one of them cheated on the other due to miscommunication, the agreement over chai would be cold comfort. And that he should leave room for the fact that a coffee-lover was just as capable of being kind and thoughtful and caring, and just might set his heart aflame.
A cup of chai, or a song, or a movie, is after all, just a red herring, trying to dissuade us from real love, which is already a kind of socially acceptable insanity. And when Sagar, and I, and you, aren't going to be rational anyway in romance, why look for it at all?
Parthshri Arora
Lover of baby animals, Arsene Wenger, Damien Rice, Peggy Olsen and overly long podcasts. Tweets at @parthsarora.
Confused about most stuff. Writes things.
Love and Sex Even the Pope Has Progressive Views on Same-Sex Unions. What About India's Churches?
Pope Francis recently spoke about a civil union law that allows for same-sex marriage. But his progressive views aren't echoed everywhere. The Kerala Catholic Bishops Council dismissed a documentary featuring the Pope's comments as "misleading", and said there had been no change in the Church's stance on same-sex marriage.
Love and Sex Meet Kavita Arora & Ankita Khanna, the Couple Fighting to Have Same-Sex Marriage Recognised
India's LGBTQ citizens could witness a great leap forward in their quest for equal rights due to two petitions filed in the Delhi High Court, seeking to have same-sex marriage recognised. One of the couples is Kavita Arora & Ankita Khanna, who have sought the right to be married under the Special Marriage Act.
Love and Sex Pyaar Ka Pandemic: How Indian Women are Redefining the Rules of Lockdown Sex
Over months of India's extended lockdown, devoid of the excitement of casual Tinder-ing and Bumble-ing, many women have explored alternate routes to channel their sexuality. New vocabularies are building, toys are being explored, conversations about previously private topics like "pleasure" are coming to the public fore.
Love and Sex Fantastic Bisexual Characters and Where to Find Them in Indian Cinema
Watching queer characters on screen helped me alleviate some of my queer anxiety. Radha and Sita from Fire, are not the only bisexual characters portrayed on Indian screens. There's the almost-marriage in Four More Shots Please! and Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety is as queer as they come.
Love and Sex Atma Nirbhar Bharat! Sale of Sex Toys Up by 65% During Lockdown
The pandemic may have wrecked people's social lives, but their sex lives are still just as active. Online sales of sex toys have spiked by as much as 65 per cent during the lockdown with Maharashtra topping the list.


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Downregulation of lncRNA SBF2-AS1 inhibits hepatocellular carcinoma proliferation and migration by regulating the miR-361-5p/TGF-β1 signaling pathway
Figure 3. Relationship between miR-361-5p and TGF-β1. (A) Prediction of the binding site of miR-361-5p and TGF-β1. (B) Luciferase reporter assay verified the direct binding effect between miR-361-5p and TGF-β1. (C) The effect of AMO-361-5p on miR-361-5p in HepG2 cells. (D) The influence of AMO-361-5p on miR-361-5p in Hep3B cells. (E) The influence of miR-361-5p knockdown on TGF-β1 mRNA levels in HepG2 cells. (F) The influence of miR-361-5p knockdown downregulation on TGF-β1 mRNA levels in Hep3B cells. (G) The influence of miR-361-5p knockdown on TGF-β1 protein levels in HepG2 cells. (H) The influence of miR-361-5p knockdown downregulation on TGF-β1 protein expression in Hep3B cells. The obtained data were expressed as mean ± SEM. * P < 0.05, ** P < 0.01 vs. si-NC; n=3.

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April showers bring May flowers. And what do May flowers bring? My spring and summer wardrobe out of the basement! It also provides the perfect opportunity to donate the items that no longer bring me joy and to find a few new items that do.
Throughout most of my life I've gone back and forth between extremes of not caring much about my wardrobe to doing full hair and makeup every day.
Over the past year or so I've been experimenting with having a minimalist capsule wardrobe as a sustainable solution to balance my need to feel like I put some thought into my appearance every day without actuallying having to put that much thought into my appearance every day.
While the frustration of not being able to go a week without doing laundry quickly got old, the idea of having a well-designed closet stuck with me.
It turns out that putting some thought into your wardrobe in advance makes it a lot easier to look effortlessly put together on a daily basis. Now when I shop, I look for a mix of classic and statement pieces and I always evaluate the versatility of each piece and how it will add to my overall wardrobe.
This past weekend our family headed to the mall to do some spring shopping. In all, I purchased four dresses, three pairs of jeans, two t-shirts, and three necklaces.
This outfit is the perfect grab and go casual look. I'm always a sucker for a good striped shirt. The stripes add a bit of interest to what otherwise is a basic t-shirt, while still maintaining versatility. Add some light wash distressed denim, a pair of flats/sandals/sneakers, and a cute pendant necklace and this look is done.
The jeans were a surprising find. I wear a size 16 pant so I typically don't tend to find my size in stores and usually have to order them online. But even better than finding my size, was finding a pair of jeans that fit perfectly. The jeans are solid and well-constructed. Despite their thickness and barely-there stretchyness, they don't gap at all at the waist. I'll definitely be trying out more of LOFT's curvy jeans in the future.
During the warmer months, I lean towards wearing more dresses and skirts. There's nothing simpler than just throwing on one item of clothing, a pair of flats, maybe a necklace, and heading out of the house. And if you want to go minimalist, all you need is 25 dresses to have one month's worth of outfits with no repeats during the work week.
A black swing dress has been on my to-buy list for quite some time. I love that this one has sleeves, which means it can be worn without a cardigan. The material is nice and thick, which takes its dressiness up a notch. The dress can easily be dressed up with some heels and some jewelery. But it can also be dressed down with a jean jacket and sandals. Plus it will carry nicely through cold weather with a cardigan, tights, and boots.
My closet is sorely lacking in the red department. So when I saw this dress with its figure-flattering empire waist, I had to snag it. I love a good statement dress that doesn't need anything beyond a cute pair of earrings to make an outfit.
This dress is cotton so it leans a bit casual. My office dress code goes to casual (yep casual, not business casual) during the summer so this dress plus a pair of sandals will make for a easy stylish combo. If my office was more formal, I'd add a cardigan or blazer to dress it up. A jean jacket would also work great with this.
Okay, I am in love with this shirt dress. Each of my recent purchases makes me feel awesome in them (because why buy anything that doesn't?) but this dress is my favorite. The drawn waist is very figure flattering. Small details like the imperfect polka dots, soft gathers in the shoulders, and slight puffs on the 3/4 sleeve really take the style factor up on this staple.
I'm really happy with these new additions to my spring/summer wardrobe. I don't see myself adding too many more items, though I am still on the hunt for the perfect trench coat, a pair of while jeans, a cute but functional pair of sneakers for my commute, and a versatile jean jacket (though I'm eyeballing this one).
All of your pieces are so cute! I really like the shirt dress; it looks great on you! I've never shopped at Loft…looks like they have nice, quality pieces.
I love dresses, too. They are so easy to pair with different shoes and accessories. I recently purged my clothes (with the KonMari method) and hardly have any clothes left! Definitely need to add some pieces.
I like jeans, but have such a hard time finding jeans that fit. I'm 5'9″ with a pear shape, so most jeans are too short, too tight in the hips, and gape in the waist. I'm trying to find jeans that don't cost $100 a pair!
Really like your Spring/ Summer outfits!
Thanks Malika! I'm 5'8″ and am more of an hourglass but tend to have the same issues as you. I have had excellent luck with bot Loft and Gap's curvy pants in tall. I like to catch on clearance or when they are 40% off.
i really like the outfit ideas. I am also a healthy lady and always worry about what to wears. This write up make my life easy . Now its i can easily chose something to wear.
These are the awesome outfit styles. I am so excited to try them. Thanks a lot for sharing.
I love the way that polka dots dress looks on you.
That blue polka dot dress looks great on you.


I never would have dreamed that I would open a box of tarot cards to find myself inside – and especially not a deck as luminous and magical as this one.
I remember somehow finding Star Child Tarot's Instagram account through following the golden filaments of energy through different posts. When I saw her page I leaned a little closer to my screen… "How does she know what my inner world looks like?!?" I said to my phone.
Tarot card collaboration with Star Child Tarot and In Her Image photography.
Flash forward after a whole avalanche of likes and comments – to one day when I opened my IG account to see a DM from @starchildtarot! She was sharing that she was making a new deck and wanted to feature some of the healers and teachers she knew, and asked if I'd be down to share some images with her for the deck. Ummm… yes please! So we began the process of working with the fabulous ladies of In Her Image Photography who had taken the original shot.
After months of collaborating and conversating – THIS beauty shows up on my door! And all of it was made possible through following the threads of light (the Energetics) on Instagram! I am sooooooooo deeply grateful for this online community and everyone in the #magictribe! Seriously my heart BURSTS thinking of all of the magic we are rippling out into the world! THANK YOU for being here!
When you surround yourself with your tribe, it is easier to allow yourself to be vulnerable. You can let your guard down, and share your true self – or even the self you are just beginning to explore. And THIS is your magic. The braver you are with sharing who you are right now, and were you are right now, the more magnetic you are.
I am so honored to be able to support Danielle and be a part of all the magic she is making in the world!
"The newly revised deck is imbued with magic, archetypal symbology, and fresh perspectives on how to use the Tarot throughout your day-to-day life. With additional keys to support your learning, inner-healing and intuition, each card comes with a complete write-up along with reversed meanings and more!
And to learn more about how you can create similar cosmic connections through Instagram, click here.


THE LADY SCRAPPERS RANS BY BIG TIKI AND THE SCUTTERFIELD CLIQUE WAS AGAINST THE NEW CHICAGO GIRLS RAN BY CHRISTY WHITTEN AND RON-RON. BUT MR.WHITE STOOD ON THE TRACKS WIT STRAP AND MADE EVERYONE GO HOME!
I REMEMBER WHEN I SCORED 54 POINTS IN JUNIOR HIGH GIRLS BASKETBALL GAME AGANIST WESTSIDE. THEY KEPT ASKING JAN HOW MANY SHE GOT NOW. OF COURSE WE WON 58-8 OR 13. MY POINT 54 OF THOSE POINTS WERE MINE AND I WASN'T HAWKING!I WAS JUST ON FIE!!!!!!!!
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Failure of immunization with the HIV-1 envelope to induce broadly neutralizing antibodies against conserved epitopes is a major barrier to producing a preventive HIV-1 vaccine. Broadly neutralizing monoclonal antibodies (BnAbs) from those subjects who do produce them after years of chronic HIV-1 infection have one or more unusual characteristics, including polyreactivity for host antigens, extensive somatic hypermutation and long, variable heavy-chain third complementarity-determining regions, factors that may limit their expression by host immunoregulatory mechanisms. The isolation of BnAbs from HIV-1-infected subjects and the use of computationally derived clonal lineages as templates provide a new path for HIV-1 vaccine immunogen design. This approach, which should be applicable to many infectious agents, holds promise for the construction of vaccines that can drive B cells along rare but desirable maturation pathways.


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VEHICLE IMPOUNDMENT AND CRIMINAL VIOLATIONS
10.33.010 Removal by police officer.
10.33.020 Towing and storage.
10.33.030 Administrative fee.
10.33.040 Owner of impounded vehicle to be notified.
10.33.050 Redemption of impounded vehicles.
10.33.060 Post-impoundment hearing procedure.
10.33.070 Rules and regulations.
10.33.080 Severability.
A. Whenever the driver of a vehicle is arrested or cited for a violation of RCW 46.20.342, 46.20.345, 46.61.502 or 46.61.504, which sections have been adopted as a part of the city's Model Traffic Ordinance pursuant to Chapter 308-330 WAC as adopted through Chapter 10.04 BLMC, or subsequent amendments thereto, the vehicle may be subject to summary impoundment at the direction of a police officer. Any officer directing an impoundment pursuant to this chapter shall issue a uniform written notice clearly denoting the agency's authorization to impound, the form of which shall be approved by the chief of police and may include a law enforcement notice of infraction or citation.
B. If the vehicle was impounded because the driver was arrested for a violation of driving while license suspended (DWLS) in the third degree, as defined in RCW 46.20.342(1)(c), and the records of the Washington State Department of Licensing (DOL) show the driver has no prior convictions of RCW 46.20.342 or other similar local ordinance, the impounded vehicle may be released as soon as all requirements of BLMC 10.33.030 and 10.33.050(A) are met.
C. If the vehicle was impounded because the driver was arrested for a violation of DWLS in the third degree, and the records of the DOL show that the driver has one or more prior convictions of a violation of RCW 46.20.342 or similar local ordinance within the past five years, the vehicle may be impounded for 30 days.
D. If the vehicle was impounded because the driver was arrested for DWLS in the first or second degree, as defined in RCW 46.20.342(1)(a) or (1)(b), and the records of the DOL show that the driver has no prior convictions for a violation of RCW 46.20.342 or similar local ordinance within the past five years, the vehicle may be impounded for 30 days.
E. If the vehicle was impounded because the driver was arrested for DWLS in the first or second degree, as defined in RCW 46.20.342(1)(a) or (1)(b), and the records of the DOL show that the driver has one prior conviction for a violation of RCW 46.20.342(1)(a) or (1)(b) or similar local ordinance within the past five years, the vehicle may be impounded for 60 days.
F. If the vehicle was impounded because the driver was arrested for DWLS in the first or second degree, as defined in RCW 46.20.342(1)(a) or (1)(b), and the records of the DOL show that the driver has two or more prior convictions for a violation of RCW 46.20.342(1)(a) or (1)(b) or similar local ordinance within the past five years, the vehicle may be impounded for 90 days.
G. When an arrest is made for a violation of RCW 46.20.342, if the vehicle is a commercial vehicle and the driver of the vehicle is not the owner of the vehicle, before the summary impoundment is directed, the police officer shall attempt in a reasonable and timely manner to contact the owner of the vehicle and may release the vehicle to the owner if the owner is reasonably available, as long as the owner was not in the vehicle at the time of the stop and arrest and the owner has not received a prior release under this subsection or under BLMC 10.33.050.
H. If a vehicle driver is arrested for a violation of RCW 46.61.502 or 46.61.504, driving under the influence or having physical control of a vehicle while under the influence, as adopted by the Model Traffic Ordinance in WAC 308-330-307 through Chapter 10.04 BLMC, the vehicle shall be impounded, unless the vehicle is a commercial vehicle or farm vehicle as identified in subsection J of this section.
I. A vehicle impounded pursuant to subsection H of this section may not be redeemed within a 12-hour period following the time the impounded vehicle arrives at the operator's storage facility, unless there are two or more registered owners of the vehicle or there is a legal owner of the vehicle that is not the driver of the vehicle. A registered owner or legal owner who was not the driver of the vehicle at the time of arrest may redeem the impounded vehicle after it arrives at the facility. Any other party redeeming the vehicle may do so after the 12-hour period has elapsed and the party has complied with the requirements of BLMC 10.33.030 and 10.33.050(A). All other procedures for notice, redemption, storage, auction, and sale shall remain the same as for other impounded vehicles under this chapter.
J. When an arrest is made for a violation of RCW 46.61.502 or 46.61.504, if the vehicle is a commercial vehicle and the driver of the vehicle is not the owner of the vehicle, before the summary impoundment is directed, the police officer shall attempt in a reasonable and timely manner to contact the owner of the vehicle and may release the vehicle to the owner if the owner is reasonably available, as long as the owner was not in the vehicle at the time of the stop and arrest.
K. A police officer directing that a vehicle be impounded when the driver is arrested for a violation of RCW 46.61.502 or 46.61.504 may leave a vehicle after placing a completed impound order and inventory inside a vehicle and securing the vehicle by closing the windows and locking the doors if:
1. The officer has waited 30 minutes after contacting a dispatcher to request an operator and the responding tow truck operator has not arrived; or
2. The officer is presented with exigent circumstances, including being called to another incident or being required to return to patrol due to limited available resources.
The city and its officers shall not be liable for any damages to the vehicle or for any theft of the vehicle or its contents that occurs between the time the officer leaves the vehicle and the time that the tow truck operator takes custody of the vehicle.
L. A rental car business or a motor vehicle dealer or lender with a perfected security interest may immediately redeem a vehicle it owns that has been impounded pursuant to this section by payment of the costs of removal, towing and storage. Upon such payment the vehicle will not be held for the period of impoundment stated in this section. (Ord. 1427 § 1, 2012).
The chief of police is authorized to prepare specifications for towing and storage of vehicles, including instructions to towing companies, containing such provisions as the chief of police shall deem advisable and not in conflict with this chapter. Such specifications shall require any tow truck operator performing impoundments authorized under this chapter to comply with all provisions of Chapter 46.55 RCW and Chapter 308-61 WAC. The specifications shall be subject to the review and approval of the city administrator. (Ord. 1427 § 1, 2012).
A. If a vehicle is impounded pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, an administrative fee of $100.00 shall be paid prior to the redemption of the vehicle as provided by this chapter.
B. The administrative fee shall be paid to the Bonney Lake finance department, and shall be redeemed to the finance department in the manner directed by the finance director. The administrative fee shall be for the purpose of off-setting, to the extent practical, the costs to the city for implementing, enforcing and administering the provisions of this chapter. (Ord. 1427 § 1, 2012).
A. Not more than 24 hours after impoundment of any vehicle, the tow contractor shall mail a notice by first class mail to the last known legal and registered owners of the vehicles, as may be disclosed by the vehicle identification number, and as provided by the DOL. The notice shall include the name of the impounding tow firm, its address, and telephone number. The notice shall include the location and time of the impound, and by whose authority the vehicle was impounded. The notice shall include the written notice of the right of redemption and opportunity for a hearing to contest the validity of the impoundment or the amount of towing and storage charges.
B. If a suspended license impound is ordered, the notice required in subsection A of this section must also state the length of the impound, that a person who desires to redeem a vehicle must pay a security deposit to the tow truck operator of at least half of the applicable impound storage rate for each day of the proposed suspended license impound to ensure payment of the costs of removal, towing, and storage, and notification that if the security deposit is not posted within five days of the impound the vehicle will immediately be processed and sold as an abandoned vehicle pursuant to RCW 46.55.130(1). The notice must also state the requirements of BLMC 10.33.050 regarding the payment of costs of removal, towing, and storage and proof of satisfaction of penalties, fines, and/or forfeitures prior to redemption. The notice must also state that the registered owner is ineligible to purchase the vehicle at the abandoned vehicle auction, if held.
C. If the date on which a notice required by subsection A of this section is to be mailed falls upon a Saturday, Sunday, or postal holiday, the notice may be mailed on the next day that is neither a Saturday, Sunday, nor a postal holiday.
D. Similar notice shall be given to each person who seeks to redeem an impounded vehicle, except that if a vehicle is redeemed prior to the mailing of notice, then notice need not be mailed.
E. The Bonney Lake police department shall give written notification to the last registered and legal owner that the investigatory hold has been removed, except that if a vehicle is redeemed following notice by telephone and prior to the mailing of notice, then notice need not be mailed. In addition, the police department shall notify the towing contractor, by telephone, fax or in writing, of the authorization to release such vehicle.
F. As provided for in RCW 46.55.120(4), as now stated or hereinafter amended, notwithstanding the statements contained in the notice described above, the legal owner of a vehicle or personal property subject to impound under this section may redeem such property before the start of an auction by payment of the applicable towing, administrative and storage fees, as well as all applicable or necessary fines and interest. (Ord. 1427 § 1, 2012).
A. Only the legal owner, registered owner, a person authorized by the registered owner or the vehicle's insurer, or one who has purchased the vehicle from the registered owner, who produced proof of ownership or authorization and signs a receipt therefor, may redeem an impounded vehicle. A person redeeming a vehicle impounded pursuant to this chapter must, prior to redemption, establish that he or she has a valid driver's license and is in compliance with RCW 46.30.020. A vehicle impounded pursuant to this chapter can be released only pursuant to a written order from the police department or a court.
B. Any person so redeeming a vehicle impounded by the city shall pay the towing contractor for costs of impoundment (towing and storage) and shall pay the city an administrative fee prior to redeeming such vehicle. Such towing contractor shall accept payment as provided in RCW 46.55.120(1)(b), as now or hereafter amended. The administrative fee stated in BLMC 10.33.030 shall be paid to the Bonney Lake finance department. If the vehicle was impounded pursuant to this chapter and was being operated by the registered owner when it was impounded, it may not be released to any person until any penalties, fines, or forfeitures owed by the registered owner have been satisfied.
C. The chief of police or designee may authorize release of a vehicle impounded pursuant to this chapter prior to the expiration of any period of impoundment when:
1. The spouse of the operator, through his or her own petition, establishes that he or she will suffer economic or personal hardship as a result of the unavailability of the vehicle. In authorizing a release under this subsection, the chief of police or designee shall consider the threat to public safety that may result from release of the vehicle, including but not limited to, the driver's criminal history, driving record, license status and access to the vehicle. If such release is authorized, the person redeeming the vehicle still must satisfy all other requirements of this section; or
2. The owner of the vehicle was not the driver, the owner did not know the driver's license was suspended or revoked, and the owner has not received a prior release under this section or under BLMC 10.33.010.
Other than for the reasons expressed above in subsections (C)(1) and (C)(2) of this section, the chief of police or designee shall deny early release of an impounded vehicle in all other circumstances without discretion in order to avoid discriminatory application.
D. Any person seeking to redeem a vehicle impounded pursuant this chapter has a right to a hearing, before the police chief or designee as the administrative hearings officer, to contest the validity of an impoundment or the amount of towing and storage charges. Any request for such a hearing shall be made in writing, signed by the person requesting such hearing, and be received by the chief of police within 10 calendar days (including Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays) of the date notice was given to such person by a registered tow truck operator pursuant to RCW 46.55.120(2)(a) or the date the notice was mailed to such person pursuant to BLMC 10.33.040, whichever is later. Such hearing shall be provided as follows:
1. If all the requirements to redeem the vehicle, including expiration of any period of impoundment under BLMC 10.33.010, have been satisfied, then the impounded vehicle shall be released immediately, and a hearing as provided for in BLMC 10.33.060 shall be held within 90 days of the written request for hearing.
2. If all of the requirements to redeem the vehicle, including expiration of any period of impoundment under BLMC 10.33.010, have not been satisfied, then the impounded vehicle shall not be released until after the hearing which, pursuant to BLMC 10.33.060, shall be held within 10 business days (excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays) of the written request for hearing.
3. The police chief or designee shall notify the registered tow truck operator, the person requesting the hearing if not the owner, the registered and legal owners of the vehicle or other item of personal property registered or titled with the department, and the person(s) authorizing the impound in writing of the hearing date and time within five days of receiving request for a hearing.
4. Any person seeking a hearing who has failed to request such hearing within the time specified in this section, may petition the chief of police for an extension to file a request for hearing. Such extension shall only be granted upon the demonstration of good cause as to the reason(s) the request for hearing was not timely filed. For the purposes of this section, good cause shall be defined as circumstances beyond the control of the person seeking the hearing that prevented such person from filing a timely request for hearing. In the event such extension is granted, the person receiving such extension shall be granted a hearing in accordance with this chapter.
5. If a person fails to file a timely request for hearing, and an extension to file such a request has not been granted, the right to a hearing is waived, the impoundment and the associated costs of impoundment are deemed to be proper, and the city shall not be liable for towing and storage charges arising from the impoundment.
6. In accordance with RCW 46.55.240(1)(d), a decision made by the police chief or designee, as administrative hearings officer, may be appealed to the Bonney Lake municipal court for final judgment. The hearing on the appeal, under this subsection, shall be de novo. A person appealing such a decision must file a request for an appeal in the municipal court within 15 days after the decision of the administrative hearings officer, and must pay a filing fee in the same amount required for the filing of a suit in the Pierce County district court. If a person fails to file a request for an appeal within the time specified by this section, or does not pay the filing fee, the right to an appeal is waived and the administrative hearings officer's decision is final. (Ord. 1427 § 1, 2012).
Hearings requested pursuant to BLMC 10.33.050 shall be held by the police chief or designee, as administrative hearings officer, who shall determine whether the impoundment was proper, whether the associated towing and storage fees charged complied with posted rates, and who is responsible for payment of the fees.
A. At the hearing, an abstract of the driver's driving record is admissible, without further evidentiary foundation, and is prima facie evidence of the status of the driver's license, permit, or privilege to drive and that the driver was convicted of each offense shown on the abstract. In addition, police officers may testify as to whom they believe to be the legal or registered owner of the vehicle and the basis or source of the information upon which they base this belief. The police chief or designee, as administrative hearings officer, may consider a written report made under oath by the officer(s) authorizing the impoundment in lieu of the officer's personal appearance at the hearing.
B. If the impoundment is found to be proper, the police chief or designee, as administrative hearings officer, shall enter an order so stating. In the event that the costs of impoundment (towing, storage, and special fees) have not been paid, or any other applicable requirements of BLMC 10.33.050 have not been satisfied, or any period of impoundment under BLMC 10.33.010 has not expired, the administrative hearings officer's order shall also provide that the impounded vehicle shall be released only after payment to the city of any fines imposed on any underlying traffic infraction, satisfaction of any other applicable requirements of BLMC 10.33.050, after payment of the costs of impoundment to the towing company, and after the expiration of any period of impoundment under BLMC 10.33.010.
C. If the impoundment is found to be improper, the police chief or designee, as administrative hearings officer, shall enter an order so stating, and order the immediate release of the vehicle. The city shall be liable to the operator for any towing, storage, or impoundment fees and to the registered and legal owners for any administrative fee paid and reasonable damages for loss of use of the vehicle during the period of impoundment. If the costs of impoundment have already been paid, the police chief or designee, as administrative hearings officer, shall enter judgment in favor of the person who has paid such costs. If an impoundment arising from an alleged violation of RCW 46.20.342 or 46.20.345 is determined to violate this chapter, the city and its officers shall not be liable for damages if the officer relied in good faith and without gross negligence on the records of the DOL in ascertaining that the operator of the vehicle had a suspended or revoked license.
D. No determination of facts made at a hearing, under this section, shall have any collateral estoppel effect on a subsequent criminal prosecution, and shall not preclude litigation of those same facts in a subsequent criminal prosecution.
E. An appeal of the administrative hearings officer's decision in the municipal court shall be subject to and conducted according to the procedures of this section. (Ord. 1427 § 1, 2012).
The city administrator, in consultation with the finance director and the chief of police, shall promulgate rules and regulations consistent with this chapter to provide for the fair and efficient administration of this chapter and to provide for the fair and efficient administration of any vehicle impoundment, redemption, or release or any impoundment hearing under this chapter. (Ord. 1427 § 1, 2012).
If any portion of this chapter or its application to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of the chapter or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected. (Ord. 1427 § 1, 2012).


One of the autumn/winter trends on runway this year is fur, although this time designers found an interesting undiscovered way to use it. From the full fur sleeve, to a half fur sleeve to a furry cuff detail fur sleeves and cuffs are definitely one of the biggest trends this season.
I really like any kind of fur application or complete usage to the garment, I just makes them look more glamours in my opinion, of course it depends on the type of the fur.


News is changing. When was the last time you actually picked up a hard copy newspaper? And statistics show the younger you are, the less chance of that actually occurring.
Just because the method for getting the news is changing doesn't mean the necessity for news events is changing. In fact "news" articles are needed more than ever. We no longer have one newspaper for one community. There are dozens of tools and resources that write up and look for news related content on a daily basis.
Let's break it down, and look at ways you can start growing your business by using publicity, and find resources that will make your job even easier.
Don't you hate it when the first question out of a potential customer's mouth is "How much for an 8×10?" Yet that same question is relevant in every industry.
Before you move forward and look for resources in the public relations industry, you have to know your budget. Can you afford to hire a publicity firm? Can you hire people to write press releases for you? How about hiring a virtual assistant to send things to editors and writers on a regular basis – and to keep you on track every month?
The only way to determine how much work you can have done for you is to determine how much you can spend.
You can also talk with more than one person in the industry, and get a better feeling for what is possible. Just because you can't afford it now doesn't mean you won't be able to in the future. Learn what things are, discover the lingo within the industry, and research costs. Then put together a plan of things to do over the coming months.
Publicity firms – These companies can create an entire campaign for you, and gain exposure in a variety of sources on a constant basis. Publicists usually specialize in an industry, so check around and make sure they understand photography, the creative arts, and have the resources to reach the appropriate people for your campaign.
Publicity coaches – The typical firm does the majority of the work for you. A publicity coach is someone that teaches publicity along the way so you can do more of the work yourself. It's a great alternative when you are a young company looking for the big break in your business.
Press release writers – I've written dozens of press releases for both myself and for clients. If someone knows how to write a press release, you have a greater chance of it being picked up. For example, one of my clients has a business here in Denver, and has had articles in newspapers, magazines, even a European holiday catalog that is still bringing in a dozen or so sales every day.
Press release distribution – If you write press releases regularly, I would highly recommend PRWeb. Their services are one of the best in the business, and I've had a ton of luck with exposure and getting stories written up in all sorts of publications, online and off. This is your best bet if you want to write your own release and send it out to the widest audience.
Once you find a few resources you think are a good fit for you, your budget and your ideas, check them out thoroughly. Never sign up with a firm on a long term contract. Instead, research and look at their referral sources, and work together for a few weeks to see if you like the direction they are taking. Ask for regular updates, and check in often. With one publicist I worked with, we met every other Friday for coffee to go over plans, results and agendas. She always came to the table with great ideas, and I knew I was getting value in the way she pursued everything she did for our company.
Even if you've never worked with a publicist before, you can quickly tell how good they are by the way they present themselves. What is their background? What clients have they worked for? What ideas do they have?
I've never judged based on experience alone. In today's world, someone with 30 years of experience may not have what it takes to succeed in the online world. They may still rely on personal contacts, a fax machine and a phone call. If they don't get the Internet, that can hurt your chances at exposure.
Instead, look for a real go-getter. Someone who has a lot of ideas, and you resonate well with. You may be able to do some of the work yourself, relying on their ideas, and paying more of a consulting or coaching fee instead of a "work" fee. There are always options and opportunities; don't be afraid to ask what the possibilities are. You'll learn a lot along the way, and it will only help you down the road.
3. Be willing to try different things.
There's a saying in the marketing world that only 50 percent of all marketing works; if you could just figure out what the 50 percent is, you could avoid a whole lot of pain.
When you own your own business, it's about trying, experimenting, learning, risking, and doing it all over again.
I've created products, mailed out thousands of cards, put my heart and soul into the marketing process for months, and had very little sales. That's discouraging.
Then I've created the next product, and with very little effort it sells on a daily basis. You can't stop the phones from ringing, or the email orders from flying in.
The same applies with everything you do. Start small. Find someone who you resonate with, and find out how to work together on a limited basis. Do they offer classes, coaching or other self-help products where you can learn about PR? What's the next step – can you purchase small amounts of publicity help along the way? Can you grow to a full time program down the road?
The world is full of opportunity. You just have to know how to find it, and how to work together with the right person for you.
Is It Social Networking, Or Is It Publicity?
Is there anyway to get publicity without spending a fortune?
Yes, you just have to do more of the work yourself. Find lists of reporters, write your own press releases, and start submitting. As with marketing, its money or your time. If you have more time than money when you're just starting out, do more of the work yourself.


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'Gilmore Girls': The 7 most important episodes from season 6
by Samantha Swank, Community Featured Contributor	 @samsvirtuallife
In season 6, weddings are planned and postponed. Jess reappears, dogs are adopted, and children are discovered.
'Gilmore Girls': The seven most important episodes from season 4
I relived that trip to Martha's Vineyard, Paris' descent into madness, and Anna Nardini, all so that I could narrow down season 6 to the seven most important episodes. And I've done this painstaking work just to prepare you for Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, premiering November 25th on Netflix.
So refill your coffee, charge your Sidekick, put on your fight face, and clutch your Birkin bag closer, because here's season 6.
Episode 1, "New and Improved Lorelai" (Aired Sept 13, 2005)
Luke and Lorelai are officially engaged. Elsewhere, the judge for Rory's hearing wants to make an example of her, so she gives her a huge community service sentence. Lorelai doesn't show up for the sentencing, and Rory realizes how serious their estrangement is.
Episode 5, "We've Got Magic to Do" (Aired Oct 11, 2005)
Rory takes over the planning of a big DAR event, and when Mitchum and Shira arrive, Emily and Richard find out that everything Lorelai said about them — the terrible things they told Rory at dinner and after her internship — were all true.
Episode 8, "Let Me Hear Your Balalaikas Ringing Out" (Aired Nov 8, 2005)
Rory gets a surprise visit from Jess. Then Logan intrudes on their dinner plans and is a total jerk (shocker). Jess storms out (as does Rory), and Jess gives Rory a reality check: She should be at Yale. This isn't her. Rory's wake-up call causes her to clash with Emily in the middle of a DAR function.
Back in Stars Hollow, Lorelai has a breakdown about being a bad mother to a sick Paul Anka, and even Luke knows it isn't really about the dog.
Episode 9, "The Prodigal Daughter Returns" (Aired Nov 15, 2005)
Rory moves in with Lane, causing Emily to freak out because she lost Rory like she lost Lorelai. But Lorelai promises she didn't lose either one of them. And later, Rory — who's turned her life back around — reunites with her mom.
Meanwhile, 12-year-old April Nardini (Vanessa Marano, Switched at Birth), shows up to the diner for a sample of Luke's hair to see if he's her father. Luke stops by the science fair and discovers that, apparently, he has a daughter.
Episode 16, "Bridesmaids Revisited" (Aired Feb 28, 2006)
Lorelai watches nightmarish Gigi for Christopher and tells him he needs to stop spoiling her or her behavior will never improve.
Rory goes to Logan's sister's wedding, and finds out that Logan hooked up with half of the bridal party over the holidays when they were "taking some time," so Rory dumps him.
Elsewhere, Zack proposes to Lane in the middle of Luke's, and Hep Alien is back together.
Episode 20, "Super Cool Party People" (Aired April 25, 2006)
Rory is the only person at the hospital for Logan after he nearly dies during a stunt for the Life and Death Brigade.
Luke brings in Lorelai for reinforcement when the birthday party he throws for April is a disaster. But when her mom, Anna (Sherilyn Fenn), finds out, she's furious and blames Luke.
Lorelai goes to talk to Anna and clear the air, but Anna doesn't want Lorelai seeing April at all until she and Luke are married.
Episode 22, "Partings" (Aired May 9, 2006)
Stars Hollow is overrun with troubadours after the regular town troubadour books a big-time gig. Logan finally graduates, so Rory throws him one last blowout before he leaves for London to start working for his father.
An unhappy Lorelai finally confronts Luke. She wants to elope now. She's been waiting, and she wants to get married; it will solve everything. She gives Luke an ultimatum, and when Luke says he doesn't want to elope, Lorelai leaves and ends up in bed with Christopher.
Honorable Mentions and Personal Favorites
Episode 7, "Twenty-One Is the Loneliest Number" (Aired Oct 25, 2005)
Lorelai and Rory are both (separately) bummed that their big plans for Rory's 21st birthday aren't happening, but they talk at Rory's birthday party, so things might be on the mend.
Meanwhile, Richard is finally on board to make Rory go back to Yale, but Lorelai says it has to be her own decision. Emily and Richard move Rory into the main house after they discover she and Logan have been having sex.
Episode 10, "He's Slippin' 'Em Bread … Dig?" (Aired Nov 22, 2005)
Christopher comes into a LOT of money after his grandfather's death, so Rory asks him to pay for Yale so that she doesn't have to rely on her grandparents.
Hep Alien has the chance to perform for a record label, but Zack completely loses it, and lets down the band and Lane (who dumps him).
Rory finds out that apparently she and Logan have broken up after talking to his sister.
Episode 12, "Just Like Gwen and Gavin" (Aired Jan 17, 2006)
Logan tries to woo Rory back, and Luke starts hanging out with April. Lorelai discovers Luke's secret when she stops by the diner unexpectedly during one of April's visits. Luke asks if they can postpone the wedding until he figures out all of this new fatherhood stuff.
Episode 13, "Friday Night's Alright for Fighting" (Aired Jan 31, 2006)
Rory's evening with Logan is interrupted when she stops by the newspaper office, only to find out that Paris' reign of terror has caused almost everyone to quit and nothing is getting done. She takes over to make sure the paper goes out on time, with a little help from Logan.
Friday Night Dinners are officially reinstated, and the four Gilmores spend the evening eating, drinking, laughing, and fighting about everything that has every bothered them.
Episode 18, "The Real Paul Anka" (Aired Apr 11, 2006)
Luke chaperones April's class trip to Philadelphia, and they stop by an open house for Jess' gallery/small press while they're there. Rory also stops by the open house (since Logan is out of town and there's still lots of tension between them), and she and Jess kiss.
Other Important Tidbits
Lorelai adopts Paul Anka (the dog, not the man), and Rory finds out about the engagement from Luke in "Fight Face" (season 6, episode 2).
Rory is named editor of the Yale Daily News when Paris is ousted, and a betrayed Paris kicks Rory out, forcing her to move in with Logan in "You've Been Gilmored" (season 6, episode 14).
Logan and Rory make up, but Rory is still avoiding him, and Lorelai finds out that her parents have been looking at houses in Stars Hollow in "I'm OK, You're OK" (season 6, episode 17).
Lorelai gives a drunken toast at Lane's wedding, lamenting that she's never getting married, and Logan is injured on his Life and Death Brigade trip in "I Get a Sidekick Out of You" (season 6, episode 19).
Liz announces she's pregnant, and Emily offers to buy Lorelai and Luke a house as a wedding gift in "Driving Miss Gilmore" (season 6, episode 21).
What are your favorite moments from season 6? Let me know in the comments. I'm trying to figure out how to make a time machine so that last scene never happened.
All 7 seasons of Gilmore Girls are streaming on Netflix.


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The Knights of Columbus is the world's largest lay Catholic organization, with more than 1.8 million members around the world. The order was founded 130 years ago in 1882 by Venerable Father Michael J. McGivney at St. Mary's Church in New Haven, Connecticut. The original intent to provide welfare and security for families during times of sickness and death has grown so that last year, Knights donated more than 70 million hours of volunteer time and $158 million to charity.
Lenten Fish Fries
Help prepare, serve or clean up after meals that are a major fundraiser for the organization.
Help raise funds for the disabled.
Fifth-Sunday Brunches
Help prepare, serve or clean up meals that raise funds to support special causes.
Nationals Race Parking
Assist in taking money and supervising lots during Nationals events.
Please contact Jim Brees at (641) 842-3594 for additional information on becoming a Knight.
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Dracula is undead. Dracula defied God.
Hopping Vampire is undead. Sun and moon spirits animated his exposed corpse. Dracula cannot go to China. If he did, sun and moon spirits would animate his corpse too. He'd still have defied God, so he'd still be Dracula. Only, now he'd be Hopping Dracula. It's too embarrassing!
Zombies are undead. Traditional zombies are people who just think they're dead. Modern zombies actually come back from the grave to eat people's brains or defy thermodynamic laws. If they ate Hopping Dracula's brains, he'd be even more embarrassed. He'd have to hop and drool. No one would be seduced.
Bunnies are undead. Shops sell bunnies to children. The bunnies bite the children. The children turn into bunnies. The parents give the bunnies back to pet shops. That's how the pet shops profit! Bunnies won't bite Hopping Dracula. Since he hops and is undead, they think he's already a bunny.
Bunnies live in pet shops. Pet shops keep bunnies in the back. They're not safe in sunlight. The bunnies wriggle their noses. They eat carrots. They think about eating human souls. Pet shops handle bunnies with special holy gloves. The gloves are blessed by a priest. This keeps the pet shop personnel safe. If you have blessed gloves, you can handle a bunny. You can also handle bunnies safely if you can make the symbol of the cross with your index fingers. You cross one finger over the other. This makes the bunny remember Jesus' sacrifice upon the cross. The bunny hisses. It withdraws. The bunnies still blame the Romans for that. If you don't have index fingers, the bunny will devour your soul. Count your fingers before confronting a bunny!
Jesus' sacrifice seems to have been good for sinners but bad for the undead. It's not clear. Bunnies and vampires aren't reliable in matters of theology. No one knows why they fear the signs of God. Maybe they're not scared of the sacrifice on the cross. Maybe they're thinking of James. James was the strongest bunny hunter ever. He also hunted vampires. He beat them up with a giant depleted uranium cross. He left a trail of blood across Europe. This was from the bunnies, not the vampires. When he killed vampires, there was no blood. Vampires do not bleed when they die. Instead, they turn into insects.
James killed bunnies. This made them bleed and fear the cross. He also killed vampires. This made them fear the cross and turn into insects. Then James would squish the insects. The insects turned into paste. This is how James invented peanut butter. He gave the credit to his good friend George Washington Carver. No one would eat peanut butter if they knew a vampire hunter invented it. People have a weird investment in the origin of their food. Once it's dead, it's just protein, carbs, and fat. Vampires are dead. That's why they're just food. If they were alive, they'd be better for testing pharmaceutical products on.
Peanut butter has a lot of fat. This is because the peanut butter farms overfeed their vampires. They do not give them good quality blood. They give them only the blood that they can't feed to real people. Also, they give them a lot of peanut butter made from the bad parts of other vampires. Stink bugs! It's very gross. Then the vampires are herded to a special room. Bang! An automated depleted uranium cross hits them in the head. They die. Bugs run everywhere. You should only eat free range peanut butter. That's more humane. The vampires roam happily in airy crypts. They eat only the healthiest blood. It's taken from people who don't have anything better to do. Then the vampires are humanely killed using Buffy. Vampires love getting killed by celebrities. It makes their eternal night.
That's exactly how it happened; and if you watched the History Channel, you'd know this stuff too.


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The GSD Police Dog
Perry Ahlgrimm
A PSD's job has underwent a drastic change:
•	Either it is a part of the K-9 Team involved in Search and Rescue missions in rural areas, or
•	Part of a specialty unit involved in apprehension of armed suspects on the run in an urban are, or
•	Somewhere in between the two!
Throw drugs, explosives and a myriad of modern ways crime is committed today and you end up with a range so diverse that the modern GSD finds difficult to breach.
A Sorry State of Affairs
It is traditional to choose canines bred as working dogs as PSDs, which has created a huge demand for GSDs, Malinois, and Dutch Shepherd varieties from countries, like Holland, Germany, and Belgium. Unfortunately, the increased demand has in no way increased production of serviceable German Shepherds. Plummeting numbers of GSDs as PSDs tell the story all too well!
Theories abound for this failure. Some of them are mentioned as follows:
•	The GSDs are now primarily being bred for the show ring with not much attention given to presence of working traits in the breeding stock.
•	Sport's failure in weeding out the less desirable characters from the gene pool.
•	Less than optimal selection in the Korung:
lack of fighting instinct, absence of play drive evaluation, or Schh scores used to qualify a breeding candidate.
GSDs Lose Their Status
The once sought after GSDs are being passed over by handlers in face of the demand from many agencies for alternate breed PSD's. This has occurred mainly due to two reasons:
•	Few individual GSDs now have sufficient drive that enables them to excel at duties of a PSD.
•	Additionally, diverse environments and a variety of tasks now involved with PSDs has made things complicated. We expect the PSD to work with SWAT Teams. In such cases, small security deficiencies, minute changes in sound sensitivity, as well as, the changing nervous threshold can lead to huge prices being paid.
Demand for Control
Society, today, demands the PSD be controlled and the handler — and other concerned parties — be safe while in pursuit of armed/violent suspects on the run from the law. This had led to increased demands made over the temperament of the PSDs, as well. A controllable canine is the result of more than just training, it also requires the animal in question to be tough and brave, — all of which used to be synonymous with the GSD in the past.
A Need to Evolve
Scent training now incorporates areas, which had not been required of a GSD previously.
•	Learning to differentiate between the suburbs and urban areas is one such area. The GSDs must be able to search uneven terrains, as well as, maneuver through crowded areas and be able to pick a scent from the multitude of smells in such areas.
•	Other new things to learn for the GSDs were sniffing out drugs — storage, import or even distribution —, body dumpsites, suspected arson etc.
•	Recreational areas in the wilderness have also added to the load of the GSDs since people who take off to these areas often require rescuing.
•	Worldwide threats — whether precipitated by natural disasters or terrorist attacks have further extended the list of things to learn.
However, scent work through training has not yet been standardized. Producing a progeny trained in this type of work is thus difficult. I have heard that the German Police has considered addition of retrieval exercises to the Korung for breeding candidates; however, a corresponding test has yet to be added by the SV. Such a test would have a wide range of applications.
Solution to the Plight of GSDs
Working Show-dog supporters insist that all trained dogs must be on par with the standards of the show they are running. On the other hand, breeders insist that will damage the GSD stock even further. Once we have come to accept that there is a problem that requires solving, we can see both sides of the picture. Let us examine possible solutions:
•	Follow the German Police, Northrhine-Westfalia's lead. Development of breeding programs for both GSD, as well as, the unregistered Malinois dogs from out of Holland. With the common aim i.e. provision of well-bred and healthy PSDs, the state now breeds the lion's share of PSDs currently in use. In the U.S., though the local law enforcement relies too much on the products of imports or the result of hobby breeders.
•	Max V. Stephanitz introduced the GSD only because of its working ability. Candidates chosen to be included into the ranks of PSDs should be strictly checked. Animals that do not meet the mark should be rejected, even if that means all the GSDs are declared unfit for the job!
GSDs in Danger
The GSD make excellent:
•	guide dogs for the blind,
•	search and rescue dogs
•	protectors of homes
•	companion dogs
However, their pièce de résistance has always been their excellence in the police canine arena. Other breeds traditionally used to herd cattle may be much better at their job than the GSD but nobody beats them at police work. With demands of appealing physical appearance flooding in, the entire picture could change! Law enforcement might give up on GSDs entirely, turning them into lapdogs for the wealthy and eccentric which is entirely against the German Shepherd Dogs nature.


Stay at a Branson West, Missouri bed and breakfast as your lodging alternative to a hotel. Branson West, known as the city at the crossroads, is situated on The Wilderness Road of the Ozarks which became a favorite campground for wagon masters and drovers hauling freight and livestock to market in Springfield.
Brothers named Yocum settled in the area and gave birth to the legend of the lost Silver Mine. The only "lost treasure" that materialized has been the businesses and attractions that have capitalized on the legend.
Take your family on a cruise aboard the Showboat Branson Belle on the crystal clear waters of Table Rock Lake and journey past lush Ozark Mountain views. Dogwood Canyon Nature Park is another great location for family fun with biking, horseback riding, kayaking, and fishing, etc. You can go on a self-guided walking or biking tour or a guided tram tour.
Whether you are on a family vacation or a romantic getaway in the Branson, MO region, choose a member of the Bed and Breakfast Inns of Missouri for inspected and approved lodging accommodations.


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At War's End: Behind-the-Scenes Part 3
Part 3 of a five-part series.
I'm a student in the education field, with English and history as teachable subjects, which means that I have very little experience with theatre. The rehearsal process was something new to me when we began a few weeks ago. My role in organising this year's Guided Spirit Walks is production assistant. Essentially, I am on hand to help with tasks such as proofing the script, collecting materials, and having the rest of the team bounce ideas off of me. I'm also certainly here to learn how the theatrical and historical elements of this production come together and I'm excited to see it happen.
We met with the entire group of actors for our first rehearsal and read through the script together before visiting the cemetery to walk the route of the tour. I was thrilled to find as many people with such a high level of enthusiasm in one place. Every person had a smile on their face, and was laughing, chatting, and enjoying themselves from the start. Some of them have been performing for six or seven seasons so far! These individuals have a love for the art of performance and for history, and the combination of these two elements is really what our Guided Spirit Walks are all about.
From my perspective as a student of English and history, I am interested in telling stories can impact the audience. I want everyone to leave this program with a new perspective and a new emotional connection to those who served at home and on the front during World War One. I became invested in each one of these characters as I researched them over the passed few weeks. I found many personal connections such as the fact several of these people would have been close to my age during the war. Our directors, Sara and Adrian, did a fantastic job casting each actor to their role. I began to glimpse the theatrical elements of "At War's End" when I heard each actor read his or her lines, or when I stood by the graves of these people during our walkabout with the cast.
Armand Romagnoli as Major General Sir Frederick William Benson in the 2014 Guided Spirit Walks
The team meets twice a week for rehearsals, calling actors by scene respectively. Last week I watched Armand present his interpretation of Lt. Col. Dr. William Hamilton Merritt (grandson to the famous Welland Canal builder). We ran through the scene several times and after each made notes on what could be altered. The directors made most of their suggestions for the sake of characterization. Each of Armand's readings were exceptional, but we made adjustments based on how Dr. Merritt might have sounded were he to read this letter that he wrote one hundred years ago. Perhaps a change in pacing or emphasis in a certain section would better represent Merritt's tone. When I say that "we made adjustments" I mean directors and actor together. Adrian and Sarah traded ideas with Armand and gave him freedom in how he saw the character he was learning to play. Again this week with Brittani, Fraser, and Des, I watched Adrian and Lauren collaborate with the actors, often asking questions like "thoughts?" or "how did that feel?" after each run-through. I believed that this process would help our actors get more in tune with their characters and produce a better theatrical piece. However, given my limited dramatic experience, I sat down with Adrian, one of our two directors, so that he could inform me a bit more on the ins and outs of the rehearsal process.
I wanted to know how exactly the Guided Spirit Walks rehearsal procedure worked. Adrian explained to me that, "We begin with casting. We try to find who would best fit the part based on the characters that we've chosen." Once the cast is set the rehearsal process follows these three steps: "We work on the mechanics of the script; delivering the right words with proper pronunciation and style. Next is blocking; these are all of the physical elements of the production including where to stand, the use of props, and other movements." Lastly, Adrian addressed characterization as the most important: "The tone, speed, and emphasis of the actors' delivery determines how the historic person is portrayed to the audience. We work together with the actors to find how to deliver the role as well and as respectfully as possible. It really is a collaborative process." That certainly seemed to be true based on my observations in rehearsal.
When I asked Adrian what made these rehearsals different from a regular stage production, he emphasized that one of the only differences that scene transitions are performed by the audience. They walk from scene to scene through the cemetery, so that staging takes care of itself. We need to prepare the actors for the natural elements to ensure that voices are projected over the sounds of wind and passing cars. Lighting, sound, props, and costumes are all much more simplified than a regular stage production. Everything is reduced because of access to resources like electricity, and so that actors do not have to carry and set up an excess of equipment. "Those staging elements are taken care of by being in the cemetery," he told me. "We couldn't do this kind of production on stage. There is too much exposition and not a lot of visual drama. But the benefit is that the audience is with us. They get to feel what it's like to be in the cemetery with these "spirits", and they have time walking between scenes to think about what they've just watched." He also described why rehearsals are so important, saying, "This is a historical walking tour, not only a drama piece, but we want it to be more than just a textbook "live". The audience is only a few feet away from the actors, so characterization has to be believable. And actors have to have their lines memorized. By the time we are "on set" in the cemetery at the end of August everything has to be well rehearsed so that we can focus providing an emotional and respectful experience."
Nick MacLaurin as Pte. Ernest Jones in the 2014 Guided Spirit Walks
The last thing that Adrian told me was that, "Regardless of what production it is, a cemetery tour like the Guided Spirit Walks makes history more palatable. The theatrical elements of the program make information more accessible to an audience who may not have the same interest in researching or reading about history as we do. I hope, too, that it allows the audience to appreciate the work the museum does to store and preserve so much information, which, when presented in a way that can be entertaining and enjoyable, the audience should be able to see the value in."
That's what I am interested in. I'm not a theatre expert, but through my role in this production I've been able to see the work that goes into this program from our directors, managers, and actors. I agree with Adrian's hope that the community will come out to witness this spectacle that not only teaches historical facts, but brings the audience closer to real individuals that lived and died in this city one hundred years ago.
Click here for Part 4 of this behind-the-scenes series.
Volunteer Actors
"I have always loved to perform, even as a child, but it wasn't until late in life, that I got my chance. Through a women's centre I have had a few stage performances, they got me involved with the St. Catharines Museum. In April I was excited to be a part of the In the Soil Festival and now I am looking forward to being in the Spirit Walks. "
– Jackie Conway
"I see Guided Spirit Walks as a chance to portray someone who may have been forgotten by the passage of time. As I have no formal acting training, GSW also helps my own development as I take on a different personality, doing and saying things I would not normally do or say. I have been involved with GSW for 6 years now and each year I feel more and more at ease in taking on a role, due to excellent direction and writing. While a Guided Spirit Walk involves fantasy as the dead speak, it raises history from the dead and puts life into it."
– Armand Romagnoli
"My passion for acting and enjoyment of local history is why I love doing the GSWs.
Wonderful costumes, a unique stage and talented people to work with keep me coming back year after year."
– Brenda Schultz
Brenda Shultz as Lady Catharine Welland Merritt in the 2016 Guided Spirit Walks
Guided Spirit Walks run September 7th, 8th, 14th, and 15th at 6pm and 7pm at Victoria Lawn Cemetery. Tickets go on sale August 1st.
For more information visit our website:
https://www.stcatharines.ca/en/experiencein/MuseumEvents.asp
Chris McGivern is the Museum's summer Program Assistant and is studying Concurrent Education at Brock University.
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By Jitendra
Last Updated: Tuesday 25 August 2015
The world has missed its target of reducing hunger by half since 1990, according to the biennial report released by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). While the number of hungry people fell by 216 million, South Asia saw the lowest decline in the number of people facing hunger in real terms.
According to the report, Indian and Pakistan registered an increasing trend in hunger whereas Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka registered only a minuscule decline.
There were 1.1 billion undernourished people in the world between 1990 and 1992 when the UN Millennium Development Goals were set. It has now come down to below 795 million.
In South Asia, the number of undernourished people declined from 291.2 million to 281.4 million. The rate of decline is one of the lowest in the world.
Undernourishment is when a person is not able to acquire enough food to meet the daily minimum dietary energy requirements, over a period of one year. FAO defines hunger as being synonymous with chronic undernourishment.
The report states that the number of undernourished people in India increased by five million in the last five years. The proportion of undernourished in total population in 2014-16 is 15.2 per cent.
Period Number of undernourished people
1990-92 210.1
Source: http://www.fao.org/hunger/en/
Seventy-two of 129 countries monitored by FAO have achieved the MDG target of halving the prevalence of undernourishment by 2015. In addition, 29 countries have met the more ambitious goal laid out at the World Food Summit in 1996, when governments committed to halving the absolute number of undernourished people by 2015.
Some regions, such as Latin America, the eastern and southeastern regions of Asia, the Caucasus and central Asia, and the northern and western regions of Africa have reached the target, as they made fast progress in reducing undernourishment.
The progress was slow in regions like South Asia, Oceania, the Caribbean and southern and eastern Africa.
Lessons from the MDG experience
While the report outlines that there is no one-size-fits-all solution to contain hunger, it suggests some important measures such as cash transfers, increasing agriculture productivity and fast economic growth.
It recommends improving agricultural productivity of small and marginal farmers and encouraging family farming. "High performers on that front in Africa met the MDG hunger target while those that made slower progress did not," the report states.
With the respect to economic growth, the report says, "While economic growth is always beneficial, not least because it expands the fiscal revenue base necessary to fund social transfers and other assistance programmes, it needs to be inclusive to help reduce hunger."
The report recommends cash transfers for vulnerable households. At the same time, it also talk about health insurance and school meal programmes which are linked to guaranteed procurement contracts with local farmers.
"Some 150 million people worldwide are prevented from falling into extreme poverty thanks to social protection, according to SOFI (State of Food Insecurity report)—but more than two-thirds of the world's poor still do not have access to regular and predictable forms of social support. Transfers help households manage risk and mitigate shocks that would otherwise leave them trapped in poverty and hunger," the report states.
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014
Global food security index 2014: an annual measure of the state of global food security
Gender and food security: towards gender-just food and nutrition security
Web edition Web edition News News News World Food Summit undernourishment Millennium … Hunger Food Security Food and Agriculture … Down to earth
One in every nine persons in the world goes hungry: UN State of Food Insecurity Report
India ranked poorest in south Asia on hunger index


One among quite possibly the most typical electrical wiring issues is regarding how to wire a change. Even though working with switches in your house is fairly simple, wiring one may well not be that quick for everyone. An ON-OFF switch is in fact quite simple to wire. You can find different kinds of switches, but for this example, let us say you are installing a single-pole toggle switch, an exceptionally common swap (and the most straightforward).
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In these last few months, it's felt like I've spent more time in the air than I have on land! So I teamed up with Puma and Bloomingdales to talk about my 5 tips on traveling comfortably while still looking chic! It's safe to say that I have my comfortable yet chic travel outfit down. Since my flights are usually international, comfort is key. There used to be a time when I wouldn't dream of wearing sweatpants and sneakers on a flight, but now – they're my absolute best friends! Keep scrolling to read my tips!
I'm SUCH a sneaker girl right now, and these from Puma called The Sleek Muse make me feel like I'm walking on a cloud. Not only are they stylish but I'm really loving that they're super easy to slip on and off even though they have laces as well! Which is perfect for getting through that airport security as quickly and stress-free as possible!
For long-haul flights, sweatpants are a must. But when I look for sweats, I always try to find some that are a bit more fitted with a tapered leg. They're just as comfortable and something about being a little more fitted makes it look a little bit chicer and put together.
Layers are lifesavers! I always wear a t-shirt and a hoodie when I travel and if I'm going somewhere colder, I bring a heavier jacket or coat with me on my carry-on! It's also great to have something a little heavier to cuddle up with to dual as a blanket on the plane!
There's nothing that will mess up your skin quite like wearing a full face of makeup on a flight. So if you're up to it- go make up free or at least go minimal (no concealer and foundation as those will really clog up your pores in-flight). Another tip I have is to rock some faux frames (not pictured) to help hide my tired eyes.
There's nothing worse than traveling without socks on a plane. First of all, it's gross, and second- your toes get so cold! I'm a firm believer in fuzzy socks on the plane, but I also usually wear no-show or invisible socks. That way you still have on socks but you don't notice them under your sneakers!
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Q: how to write nested array in Firestore using flutter Building a shopping app I added a cart item in my 'users' collection.
cart stored in
and after the user purchase those item I wanted to store those cart items in other collection 'orders'. but when I tried to store those cart items in my order collection firebase throws Invalid data. Nested arrays are not supported.
what is my mistake here?
Here is my Code
onPressed: (){
                //orderItem(cartItem);
                getData() async {
                  return await FirebaseFirestore.instance.collection('users').where('id', isEqualTo: FirebaseAuth.instance.currentUser.uid).get();
                }
                getData().then((val){
                  if(val.docs.length>0){
                    //print(val.docs[0].data()['cart']);

                   // Map map = val.docs[0].data()['cart'];
                    var list = [val.docs[0].data()['cart']];
                    // map.entries.forEach((e) {
                    //   list.add();
                    // });
                   // List items = [val.docs[0].data()['cart'].toList()];
                    FirebaseFirestore.instance.collection('orders').doc().set({
                      "userId": FirebaseAuth.instance.currentUser.uid,
                      "userName": FirebaseAuth.instance.currentUser.displayName,
                      "orders": FieldValue.arrayUnion([[val.docs[0].data()['cart']]]),
                      "price": cartController.totalCartPrice.value
                    });
                  }
                  else{
                    print("Not Found");
                  }
                });

              },

A: I think the problem is trivial. You accidentally put list inside list.
"orders": FieldValue.arrayUnion([[val.docs[0].data()['cart']]]),

I think you can skip one pair of [ so you have this:
"orders": FieldValue.arrayUnion([val.docs[0].data()['cart']]),

Also... if val.docs[0].data()['cart'] is a list you'll probably need to skip another pair to this:
"orders": FieldValue.arrayUnion(val.docs[0].data()['cart']),

A: Arrays in a Firestore documents cannot contain arrays so you cannot have have something like:
[
  [orderId: 1, orders: [...orders]],
  [orderId: 2, orders: [...orders]],

  //This is possible
  {orderId: 3, orders: [...orders]}
]

If you try adding a document from the console itself, you'll notice the same.
The best you can do is store the orders as a string, [JSON.stringify(ordersObject)]. Then when you fetch the data back you can parse it into as JSON again..
Second option is restructuring your data, it would have ideal to have a separate collection for orders. Then you can use .where() queries to fetch orders of a specific user. However this'll be more expensive (but ideal) because you will be fetching 12 documents (12 reads) if user has 12 orders.

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A csomagolás általános feladata egy termék vagy anyag befogadása és védelme. Ezen túlmenően az azonosítás, a szállítás és a tárolás könnyítése.

A csomagolás magába foglalja a csomagoló anyagot, a csomagolás folyamatát és az elkészült struktúrát. A csomagolással szemben széleskörű követelményeket támasztanak, ezeket az alábbiakban részletezzük.

Csomagolás jellemzői
A csomagolást jellemzi: rendeltetés, anyag, önsúly, áru súly, külső és belső mérete, maximális halmozhatósága, gépi kezelhetőség, tartósság, ellenálló képessége, tájékoztatás és azonosítás tartalma és formája.

Azonosíthatóság
A csomagolás fontos eleme, hogy a becsomagolt termék azonosítható maradjon. Ezt kóddal, címkével vagy kísérőlappal oldják meg. Veszélyes anyagok esetén követelmény a feltűnő szabványos jelölés (2001/59/EK irányelv). A gyors gépi olvashatóság megkönnyítéséhez vonalkód vagy QR kód alkalmazása elterjedt. Gyakran részletes szöveges információk is feltüntetésre kerülnek, különösen ha műszaki cikkekről van szó.

Kezelhetőség
A csomagolás alapfeladata a könnyű kezelhetőség biztosítása, különösen ömlesztett vagy sérülékeny anyagok és termékek esetén. A csomagolási egységek úgy kerülnek kiválasztásra és kialakításra, hogy emberek vagy gépek megerőltetés vagy rendkívüli figyelem nélkül is mozgathassák és kezelhessék. Fontos a csomagolás stabilitása, egységessége és azonosíthatósága a hatékony kezeléshez.

Halmozhatóság
A csomagolás gyakran nagy mennyiségű áru kezelhető egységekre bontása. Egy nagyobb szállítmány vagy össz mennyiség esetén helytakarékosság miatt elterjedt a csomagolt termékek egymásra halmozása. Ilyenkor lényeges a csomagoló anyagok megfelelő kialakításának és épségének ellenőrzése. A halmozhatóságot polcrendszerek alkalmazásával lehet tovább növelni.

Szabványosság
A globalizáció magával hozta a termékek és áruk rendkívül sokféle forrásból való megjelenését. Az áruféleségek gépi kezelhetőségéhez lényeges hogy a csomagolások paraméterei ismertek és adaptálhatóak legyenek. Iparágaktól és világrészektől függően sokféle csomagolási szabvány létezik. Magyarországon a legismertebbek az Euro raklap, Euro doboz.

Újrahasznosíthatóság
A csomagolás újrahasznosíthatósága két külön szempontot takar. Egyrészt a csomagolás tárolóvá alakításával az önköltsége megnő, viszont a több szállítási/tárolási ciklus révén az ára hamar megtérül. Másrészt a csomagolás élettartamának végén a keletkező hulladék semlegesítése is lényeges, hiszen a hulladék külön kezelést és tárolást igényel, ami költségnövelő tényező.

Vevőbarátság
Sok csomagolás a készterméket tartalmazza, melyek áruként eladóterekbe, piacokra kerülnek. Itt a jelölések, egyedi megjelenés, kibontás egyszerűsége, minőségi követelmények kiemelt szerephez jutnak, hogy a vásárlók figyelmét felkeltsék és kielégítsék.

Források
 Nyirő Ferenc gépészmérnök: Csomagolás fogalma, célja, feladata
 Proidea.hu: Euroméretű dobozok áttekintése

További információk
 Hogyan csomagoljunk? Megjelenés: Budapest : Hullámpapirértékesitő R.T., 1931
 Kis hibák – nagy károk / Balázs Pál ; közrem. Haidekker Miklós et al; Budapest : Közgazd. és Jogi Kiadó, 1957
 Csomagolástechnikai ismeretek / összeáll. a Csomagolástechnikai Intézet szakelőadóinak munkaközössége ; kiad. a Főv. Szállítási Váll; Budapest : Főv. Szállítási Váll., 1959
 Csomagolástechnikai ismeretek raktározók számára / Somogyi Róbert; Budapest : Felsőokt. Jegyzetell., 1961
 Csomagolástechnika / írta Berlai Rudolf, Vaja László; Budapest : Közgazd. és Jogi Kiadó, 1965
 Csomagolás a gépiparban / Ružička, Vrabec ; ford. Füredi Nándor ; átd. Somogyi Róbert; Budapest : Műszaki Kiadó, 1965
 Csomagolástechnika / Somogyi Róbert; Budapest : Tankönyvkiadó, 1976
 Csomagolástechnikai kézikönyv / szerk. Otto Rockstroh ; az eredeti könyv szerzői Helga Allwang ... et al. ; fordítók Börzsönyi Péter ... et al. ; a magyar kiadás munkatársai ... Somogyi Róbert, ... Varsányi Iván ; átdolgozták és kiegészítették Börzsönyi Péter ... et al.; Budapest : Műszaki, 1979
 A csomagolási tevékenység helyzete az iparban 1980-ban / közread. a Központi Statisztikai Hivatal; Budapest : KSH, 1982
 Tartósítóipari csomagolástechnika / Varsányi Iván; Budapest : Kertészeti Egyetem, Tartósítóipari Kar, 1984
 Élelmiszeripari csomagolástechnika / Varsányi Iván; Bp. : Mezőgazd., 1985
 Veszélyes anyagok csomagolása / szerk. Vágó Katalin / Koronczay László et al.; Bp. : OMIKK, 1989 Bp. : OMIKK (Csomagolástechnikai füzetek)
 Bevezetés a csomagolástechnikába / Kerekes Titusz Kiadás: 2. mód. kiad; Budapest : Papír-Press Egyesülés, 2000
 A csomagolás és a csomagolási hulladék kezelése; Budapest : Öko-Pannon, 2005
 A csomagolásról / Maczó Péter ; közread. a Papír- és Nyomdaipari Műszaki Egyesület; Budapest : PNYME, 2007
 Csomagolás és design : stancolt kiadványok és csomagolástervek / ill. Jane Waterhouse ; ford. Götz Edina; Budapest : Scolar, 2008 + CD-ROM (Scolar design)
 Csomagolás : trendek és kérdések / Tiefbrunner Anna; Budapest : Complex, 2010
 Raktározástechnika, csomagolástechnika, raktárgazdálkodás : tankönyv / Szegedi Zoltán ; közread. a Nyíregyházi Főiskola; Nyíregyháza : NYF, 2010
 Raktározástechnika, csomagolástechnika, raktárgazdálkodás : munkafüzet / Duleba Szabolcs ; közread. a Nyíregyházi Főiskola; Nyíregyháza : NYF, 2010
 Csomagoljam? A papírcsomagolás története; szerk. B. Nagy Anikó, Sziray Zsófia; Kiscelli Múzeum, Bp., 2013

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How to build a peaceful fortress of tolerance and forgiveness.
"Imagine your loved ones being killed or hurt. Picture several different scenarios. As you did when you were visualizing yourself being harmed, distinguish between the cases in which you have some defense or recourse and those in which you have none. In the worst-case scenario, when you can do nothing but stand by and watch your love ones die, feel the waves of nauseating sadness and disbelief wash over you. But then rehearse not hating even the most heinous perpetrator, the murderer of your beloved children. How many times throughout human history has someone killed another person's children, and then the victim has immediately turned around and killed the murderer or his children? This cycle of violence continues to grow worse and worse, often going on for generations and generations, and the victims multiply. What's more, if you get angry and feel vengeful toward the harmer, you become obsessed only with doing him violence and you forget about helping your harmed beloved. You turn unloving and withdraw from bliss, abandoning your lost loved one in a state of confused suffering, whether alive or dead and floating in the between-space before entering a new life.
"Next imagine your cherished property being ruined. Vandals have come upon your lovely home. They laugh and sneer as they shoot out the windows, destroy your furniture, and trash your memorabilia. Try to imagine this scene very vividly, so that even in your meditative state you feel startled and shocked. But continue practicing until you can fully understand not reacting with hatred. Finally, imagine the vandals desecrating your most sacred image — a Jesus on the cross figure, a Buddha statue, an Allah calligraphy, a picture of your favorite mentor, or a painting of a saint. Stay with the visualization, critiquing the rising anger and sense of outrage within you. Think about how the real Buddha, Jesus, Allah, wise person or saint — none of them is even remotely destroyed by the foolish vandals' bad behavior. In fact, they themselves would not have grown angry over their own images being ruined. You will soon be able to feel sympathetic toward these poor vandals who are earning for themselves a large wave of negative evolutionary momentum.
"Your meditation along these lines, your rehearsal practice for daily encounters with persons and events that habitually make you angry, will definitely progress over time. But you will know you have achieved a major breakthrough when you find it imaginable to feel sorry for the people who do you harm. Your enemies — who are under the influence of the real enemy, anger — will seem blind, their actions crippled by habit. In fact, you will even start to appreciate them for giving you the opportunity to develop your heroic armor of patience. They inspire in you the strength to build your peaceful fortress of tolerance, where nothing can disturb you. They help you fly the joyful banner of forgiveness, which articulates the bliss of your freedom from all bitterness."


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