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In this episode I am joined by professional chef and father to biological, adopted and foster children, Chef Kibby. You'll hear how he uses the kitchen to help his children learn to trust and work through their trauma. And we'll walk you through what goes on in your child's brain when they engage in these activities.
All parents can use the 3 step process we'll discuss to help you connect with your own children, regardless of whether they've experienced trauma or are just looking for a fun way to connect with you. Getting your kids cooking and sharing meals together provides you with a wonderful opportunity to strengthen and deepen your parent-child relationship.
Chef Kibby (00:00):
Because I think you can look at almost anything that you do in the kitchen and look at it as a way of connecting with your child.
Dr. Sarah (00:11):
I'm really excited about this episode for a few reasons. One is that it touches upon an issue that is really relevant right now, as we're facing the one and a half year mark of this pandemic, which has left a lot of us struggling with feelings of isolation, loss, and a lot of change. In this episode, we talk about how my guests took a unique and personally life altering approach to the changes that his life underwent as a result of the pandemic and how he found some profound insights about parenting along the way that I think would be really helpful for others to hear. Another reason is that we get into some unexpected ways of applying my own personal belief – that connection with our kids can be the vehicle for navigating so many different parenting challenges. My guest in this episode goes by Chef Kibby. He's a professional chef, caterer and dad to biological adopted and foster kids.
And he found that some of his primary identities really risked being completely upended by COVID. We talk about the creative and deeply personal ways that he handled this transition and how he ultimately found out some important truths about himself, his children and human connection. Chef Kibby now has a vibrant social media platform that he uses to help families learn how to cook and eat together as a means for building meaningful connections with their children and all the benefits that flow from that connection. In this episode, we're going to get into a bunch of different ways to utilize these strategies from addressing trauma, to bolstering self-esteem, whatever challenges you might be trying to address, making quality time with each other, to feel connected, to create opportunities for modeling, to build trust, and make your children feel loved and safe has boundless benefits and are the pillars of creating secure attachment relationships.
In this episode, we'll talk through three steps that you can take to help you connect with your children in the kitchen. It starts by feeling attuned to yourself. Then it requires a bit of a mindset shift and it's followed by the creation of a game plan to predetermine the moments when your kids can really join in. At the end of the day, we all want to feel connected and attuned to our children and cooking together is a great way to build and strengthen those relationships. So sit back and enjoy this episode and then head into the kitchen and whip up some fun with your kiddos.
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Speaker 3 (04:09):
Hi, I'm Dr. Sarah Bren, a clinical psychologist and mom of two. I've built a career dedicated to helping families find deep connections, build healthy relationships, repair attachment wounds, and raise kids who are healthy, secure, resilient, and kind in this podcast. I've taken all of my clinical experience, current research on brain science and child psychology and the insights I've gained on my own parenting journey and distilled everything down into easy to understand and actionable parenting insights to help you understand the building blocks of children's social, emotional, and cognitive development. So you can tune out the noise and tune into your own authentic parenting, voice confidence, and calm. This is Securely Attached.
Hi, I'm so excited to welcome our guest today, Chef Kibby. I found him in the funniest way and I'm so grateful because your Instagram posts are like so hilarious. And like, honestly, the work that you do is so amazing and interesting, and frankly, it's just really refreshing to see a dad talking about this stuff in the way that you do. So I'm just so grateful that you're here. So welcome.
Thank you so much for having me on the show. I've been a follower of you as well on Instagram and, and a subscriber to the podcast as well. So the feeling is mutual. I really respect and appreciate the things that you're doing and the way that you're helping me to be attuned and present in my own family. So thank you.
Oh my gosh. I'm grateful for that. Can you share a little bit, you know, with us like your backstory, how you got to be doing this work?
Well, the work I'm doing for those that haven't followed me yet, I am a chef and a culinary instructor, a content creator, social media influencer. I wear a lot of hats, but really it all comes down to, I am a trauma informed parents, biological, foster, and adoptive. And I've come to learn specifically over the last couple of years about the effects of trauma and how my ability to invite my children into the kitchen with me has allowed me to communicate trust and connection in a way that so many other areas of my life have struggled. And it's made me a better dad. I'm just a better person overall. And I feel the need to share that, that technique, that mindset, that framework with other parents, because I know that there are other folks out there that are struggling with figuring out how to connect with their children, to help them to manage behavior and to work through the issues that come with children, who've experienced trauma early on in their lives. And that's the whole idea behind this cooking is connecting mentality and everything that I'm trying to share through my podcast and through upcoming content that's to come. And so that's kind of who I am in a, in a nutshell.
And I, like, one of the things that you have talked about that I think is one of the reasons why I was like, oh, I like get you. And I feel like I love the work you do so much is because of the idea of like the trauma informed parenting piece. Like, because I don't actually think you need to have a trauma, your child doesn't need to experience trauma to be a trauma informed parent, but obviously, you know, if your child has, and I ended up, you know, I'm very curious to hear sort of how you sort of understood, came to understand the lens of trauma informed parenting.
Definitely. I think I am a biological parent as well, and I do believe that understanding trauma and the effects of trauma on young people has helped me to just be a better person overall. I mean, first of all, who hasn't experienced some level of trauma over the last two years with the pandemic, with the the, the social economic kind of, you know, justice calls that we've seen over the last couple of years, especially in the United States who hasn't been affected in some way and had their lives kind of turned upside down and had to kind of reframe their perspective on things and understanding the, the effects of trauma has helped me to better understand people and why people react the way they do when they're experiencing things that have them unsettled. How that came about it came about as a result of the pandemic.
Because before that, I would say life was looked pretty good on the surface. I mean, I had, we had a family catering business, we had a small event center. I was a culinary instructor. I was doing cooking demos at the farmer's market, doing a hands-on kitchen sessions with students and families and groups of parents and children together. I was an online content creator already. I had the Cooking With Kibby podcast was already a thing back then. And I was also at that point, a biological foster and adoptive dad living in a four generation household, a very strong faith based to all of the life that we were living. And so we really felt that we were living out God's calling on our lives. And so on the surface, everything looked really, really good. And I had a lot to be grateful for, but underneath that, if I'm being completely honest, there was a lot of internal struggle that I personally was facing.
And in all of the validation that my career should have been providing to me, what it was really doing for me was kind of offering me a little bit of an escape away from the struggles that we were dealing with at home, because I really felt in over my head we felt like God had called us to be foster adoptive parents and to invite children into our home. But the, the behaviors, the tantrums, the disconnection that we were feeling with these children, it was too much for me as, as, as a male, like you'd mentioned, there's not a lot of dads out here in this space because I think it is harder for us men, the way we are wired to to adapt and to come to this mindset of being able to handle really challenging relationships. And it hit me pretty hard.
And so my career was kind of becoming an escape for me to just kind of hand it off to my wife and the rest of the members of family to try and handle the, the behavioral issues. And when the pandemic hit, I no longer had that escape route because catering kind of disappeared overnight. There was, there was no more large groups of people eating together. And so that business pretty much died instantly. And so we had to close the event center, sell off the catering business, and that was a huge blow to my, to my ego, to my self esteem, to my ability to validate my, even being able to call myself Chef Kibby. If I didn't have these things, could I really still be this person who I'm telling everybody that I am, and it was a big blow faced a lot of depression.
And I was, I was back home. And so I can no longer escape from the relational issues that was facing either. And so that's when I, I did two things as a result of this. I, first of all, I came back to the kitchen, my own home kitchen, because I felt like a place where I had some control in this out of control world around me. And so that was kind of a place where I could find some comfort and also be able to…
Yeah, it was an anchor. It's like a…
Oh, yeah, absolutely. And I know not everybody has that kind of anchor. And so I felt very fortunate and blessed to have that, and also to be able to spend some time cooking and eating with my children as well, because I knew that it mattered to me that they learn about food and cooking and things of that nature. At the same time, I was also going through the process of beginning to educate myself and to fully embrace that there was something going on relationally that I wasn't figuring out that I, that I hadn't tuned into.
And I fell back into TBRI, which my wife and I, several years prior had gone to an empowered to connect a workshop training. And I came back to it. I found the old booklet. I found our copy of The Connected Child, and right around that same time, The Connected Parent also came out. And I tell you what Dr. Sarah, if anybody in your audience has not picked up that book and read it cover to cover, they need to do so because the connected parent really helped me not only understand my child, but understand myself and how my presence and attunement to my own emotional needs and the, the way that I'm interacting with my children is affecting them and affecting their ability to, to receive love and support and felt safety and trust. And between understanding trauma and inviting, you know, a TBRI licensed practitioner into our home and getting really just digging in deep to understand the, the neuro-biological effects of trauma and how that was getting in the way of being able to relate in a healthy way with my children, while at the same time, cooking together with them, it all just kind of came together.
And it really came together in a really unique and interesting time. It came in a specific moment. And I actually have a picture of this moment that I had with one of my children in the kitchen, where she came up to me and asked me if she could chop my vegetable scraps. And at the time it seemed like a really weird thing for a child to ask. You know, I mean, it was scraps that we were going to feed to the chickens. There was, there was nothing to that that would have added to my ability to put food on the table that evening. And there was so many things in me, so many ways that I could have said no to that request, but in that moment, the attunements, the training, everything was starting to process in my mind. And so I was able in that moment to push all those nos aside and just say, sure, kid, let's get you an apron.
We'll get you a cutting board and knife that is appropriate to her level of skill at that particular time. She asked for a bowl because she was going to chop up these vegetables and put them in a bowl and kind of make the salad that she was going to feed to the chickens. And it was a light bulb life-changing moment for me, because in that moment, I saw the connecting power of cooking and eating together. And it wasn't anything profound from a culinary standpoint. It was just profound in how that little yes, and the, the invitation of a child and a parent to be together in the kitchen to, to model behaviors, to to invite connection, to have communication and the trust that is inherent in the kitchen, it is such a powerful tool. And what I also love about that example is that again, there's nothing from a culinary standpoint that you or anyone else could not do in order to begin today, tonight, the next time that you're in the kitchen, to be able to use that, that mindset, to be able to begin to see the connecting power of cooking and eating together with our children.
And that's why I'm just so fired up about it.
Yeah. And it's, you know, it's actually that, that, that story really illustrates to me something that I talk about all the time with parents, which is focusing on the process rather than the product. Like if your daughter is sitting there being like, I want to make this, you know, I want to chop the scraps and your mind goes to, well, that's not the goal of the cooking right now. We're trying to make dinner and we're trying to get this thing accomplished. And we're focused on that product versus that process. And what is the process? One might say, you know, the process for cooking is how you make the meal. But I think what you're really tapping into here is actually the process is connecting. The process is sharing space with someone modeling to get really like technical modeling, knife skills and kitchen safety and things like that, but also modeling compassion and curiosity and patience – that's process, right?
That's the stuff where all the magic happens. If we are always focused on the end result, which, you know, we live in a world that kind of makes us kind of focus on that more than we may be, would like to, but then our kids learn to focus on that too. And so I think by flipping that on its head and saying, I don't, it's not about getting dinner on the table. It's about helping my daughter find a way to like bond with dad and feel like she can do something that she's watching me do and internalize that sense of herself as capable in the kitchen, because she watches you do that. And to build that connection, like that's beautiful. And that's what helps her to feel confident and safe and loved.
And I'm not saying that that process is easy and that, I mean, that's a process that had to happen in my life and it took a pandemic in order to make that happen. I mean, there are, I can look back on my career as a professional chef, like in the industry, working with other culinary professionals and see my lack of trust and my lack of ability to even be kind of vulnerable enough to, to trust other people that I'm working with to be able to, you know, handle projects or procedures or practices, because I felt like I could do things better or faster or safer or whatever the case may be. And so to get to that point where I'm able to do that, then with a child, let alone a child from a trauma background who already has kind of, you know, safety issues and things of that nature.
It, it took a lot. And I, and so I don't want to sit here and make light of it because it is a process. And there are parts of myself in, in cooking that I kind of had to let go of a little bit, because even for me, the process of cooking and providing food to my family was a sense of personal pride and affirmation that I would receive. You know, there's something very satisfying of having this Instagram worthy plate that I'm setting on the table. And while all those things are good and healthy and natural, to be able to replace all of those things, the bad and the good, like you said, with the process and with the connection, those are the things that we're going to be able to look back on and take so much more pride in than, you know, how many people liked it on Instagram, or, you know, pinned it on Pinterest or anything of that nature. Or, and even the struggles we can, we can look past those and see that when we did it together from the lens of connection, it was totally worth it. And it brought us even closer.
Yeah. And it's not lost on me that the place where this sort of abdication of control and your parenting took place happened to be a place where you almost were desperate to hang on to, because it was the one control you had. So not only were you giving up control, you were giving up control where you kind of desperately wanted that control to exist. Like you were saying, like, I lost all this, this stability. And I went back to the kitchen because it was my anchor. And now here you are in that safe place for you abdicating control to connect with your child. Like that's really hard to do.
It takes a lot of vulnerability to bring to that place. And I think oftentimes when we're dealing with children who have hard to manage behaviors, a lot of times it is in our nature to kind of to harden a little bit, because there's a little bit of a fight flight freeze that we experience, especially when those behaviors are really big, you know, when we're getting into the tantrums and the, what, you know, we would, you know, on the surface considered to be maladaptive behaviors, but are actually actually adaptive behaviors to kind of needs that. They're not able to express. I'm sorry, I'm getting into interpersonal neurobiology here, but anyway,
No, but that's my favorite thing to talk about. We should definitely pivot there.
Oh, I know. I, I'm sure you're picking up what I'm throwing down, but there, when our children are misbehaving or behaving in a way that kind of sets us off the tendency for us, and I say that for myself, and this still happens to me, the tendency is to kind of to harden and not want ourselves to get hurt. And it's where the real work happens in our, in this struggle to be attuned with ourselves and to be vulnerable and allow ourselves to really to connect on a deeper emotional level. And it's, and the thing that I've had to learn, especially as a, as a dad and as a dude, is that emotions, aren't just this kind of woo woo sort of thing. There's a neurological component to all of this, that there's there's logic and brain function that's that happens in relationships. And that even I can have more attunement to my own emotional feelings and my own felt needs so that I can be better present for my kiddos. And the result of that ends up being better for everybody.
Yeah. And I think like we should break this down a little bit because I imagine some of the people listening don't know what TBRI is. So it's, trust-based relational intervention. And it's from my understanding of it, it's very similar to a lot of the work that it's not called TBRI, but it's, you know, this interpersonal relational, like neurobiology that you're talking about that, which is a lot of what I talk about here, which is that our nervous systems are communicating with each other. Our parent nervous system is communicating with our child's nervous system. And that is co-regulation right. When we get dysregulated, when our kids are having tantrums, it's like pouring gasoline on a fire, it makes them more dysregulated when we can come in calm when we can be sort of coming from that place of the parasympathetic arousal, which is your down regulator, our calm, nervous system, while our child is melting down, we can help down that dysregulation for them by helping communicate safety, which turns off the part of their brain. That's basically a fire alarm. So, you know, there's a lot of different ways to get to this place, but it's all kind of the same. We have different language for it, but it's all really the same stuff. We're all really just talking about the equipment we were born with.
Yes. And I, yeah TBRI has been a great vehicle of communicating that to our family. The Connected Parent, The Connected Child. It led me down this kind of rabbit hole of trauma informed care, which led me to the work of Dr. Dan Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson with The Whole Brain Child and The Yes Brain. And then from there getting into you know, the work by Robin Gobbel who was another podcast, or who's doing some amazing, amazing content around adaptive behavior and interpersonal neurobiology and brain chemistry. But yeah, it's all about the same thing. It's how do we imagine, how do we not imagine that, how do we react to the things that are happening in our lives? There's kind of a spectrum of, of kind of of impulses and sensory experiences and inputs that we can handle.
And there comes a point in time where it becomes too much, and we ended up kind of flipping our lid or, you know, going in the red, you know, again, there's kind of lots of different vernacular to, to explain that, but there comes a point where something happens and we're no longer able to think logically. And we come out of the, the logic parts of our brain and drop down into kind of the the less evolved parts of our brain, the, the flight fight, freeze and faint falling down the polyvagal ladder, if you will. And for me, not only understanding those things, but understanding that a child who has experienced trauma, whether it be, you know, a one-time trauma or just periods of extended neglect or abuse, their ability to regulate themselves when their needs aren't being met, or when they're having things that are triggering them, they have such a smaller range.
They have such a smaller ability to regulate those things. While at the same time, they are too young to have the, the emotional language, to be able to communicate that to us as caregivers. And so all we see are kids behaving poorly and we don't know why our discipline or our consistency in expectations, isn't having a change. And it's been that, that eye opening experience that I have had over these last couple of years of understanding how to kind of see the needs behind the behavior to see that there are needs for felt safety and, and trust and knowing that their needs are going to be met. And that I can use my ability as, as a dad who is attuned to my own emotional state to invite my children into the kitchen, to begin to meet those most basic needs that they have like, well, food being one of them and being a huge trigger for a lot of children from hard places. And to turn that, that area of anxiety into a place of empowerment where not only do they know that they're going to get food, but they know where the food is going to come from who they're going to get it from and begin to see that they can actually have a role in feeding themselves and the rest of their family. And that's a such a powerful tool.
Yes. Oh my God. Yes. And I think, you know, again, like we were saying before, like there's trauma comes in all shapes and sizes, there's sort of like the capital T trauma, like this very clear, bad thing, scary thing that happened. I can put my finger on it. I can name it. Then there's like the lower case T trauma there's that, that subtle, insidious pervasive misattunement things not needs not being met. That chronic sort of sense of I'm not safe in the world. And that can come from so many different things. COVID being one of them, which is, you know, COVID was kind of both a capital T and a lowercase T trauma for a lot of families, but you don't need to have these profound. I could put my finger on it traumas necessarily to benefit from trauma informed parenting, because really what trauma informed parenting really is, is parenting that understands the nervous system, right?
Understands that when my child is losing it or is completely out of control it's, I understand what is actually happening in their brain and body. I'm not threatened by it. I understand it makes sense. And I have tools to actually come in and help them manage it from like this sort of comforting containing external way. And that skillset is beneficial to absolutely any parent, no matter what your child's life story is. Cause everybody gets dysregulated. Everybody has a nervous system that sometimes good we're raising our hands. Nobody can see that, but we're both like, yeah, like me, like what we were human beings, who, like you said, the lid gets flipped. And that is a reference to the frontal lobes turning off because the amygdala is blasting a fire alarm throughout the brain saying we're not safe. We're not safe, abort, abort, you know, like, and then the frontal lobes go offline.
And that's where the thinking, you know, usually lives. So we're running on instinct, we're running on impulse, we're running on reaction and like, you know, reflex. Hard to parent from a place of reflex. So I kind of want to take this back to this, like, okay, every parent can benefit from this mentality. Every parent can benefit from cooking with their kids. Like how can we, like, if you're listening to this podcast and you're a parent, what are some things that you could do like right now to integrate some of these ideas into your life with you?
I think going back to what you said earlier, I think it starts with the mindset. It starts with changing your idea around the kitchen around what are the negative things that you already think or feel or believe around the kitchen. And what are the positive things you feel about, about food and cooking in the kitchen and how do we kind of either replace them or add to them by looking at them from a frame of connection. Because I think you can look at almost anything that you do in the kitchen and look at it as a way of connecting with your child. I cannot tell you the times when I've had a child do the smallest thing from bringing in the groceries or scrubbing some potatoes or peeling, you know, hard cooked eggs to putting the dishes out on the table. It doesn't matter how small it is that they've participated.
They will take credit for the whole meal. You know, they will say I helped. It doesn't matter how small they will internalize the idea that they helped. And it's more than just helping with, you know, the laundry or with washing the dog. I mean, all those things are good and can be connecting as well. But there's something really special about food. Because again, getting back to this idea of vulnerability and trust, I don't think that there's any more trust that you can put into another human being than to allow them to give you something that you are going to put into your body and in a kind of a strange sort of metaphysical sort of way, it's going to become a part of you. And what you put in your body has a, has a strong impact on your body. It's a sensory experience and within moments and within minutes and hours, your body changes, you know, some foods make you feel really good and other foods make you feel really bad.
And especially kids from hard places are very attuned to their sensory experiences. And so even if they can't express it in the same language that you and I are expressing these things, now, I firmly believe that they get it, they get it. And they understand that by participating in the act of cooking and eating together with their primary caregivers, with their siblings, with the people that they are closest to in relationship, that that is impactful, that that is important, that that is trust giving and trust receiving. And, and it's so powerful. And again, it doesn't have to be complicated. It doesn't have to be hard. It doesn't have to be something that is so distracting to you, that it makes the process of cooking something, anxiety providing to you. You know, there are ways that you can kind of work yourself into it little by little and begin to frame this process from a different perspective, a different point of view. And the results are just tremendous.
What you were saying reminds me of this book that I was just reading. It's called The Strange Situation by Bethany Saltman. And she talks about this, how like a bird who's feeding at a bird feeder. If you walk up to that window, the bird is faced with this critical dilemma of do I flee or, and survive, or do I eat? And you can't do both at the same time. You cannot nourish yourself and eat. If you are threatened and scared, there's like two, those are two of the base biological processes and they can't happen simultaneously. It's one or the other. And so eating, you know, feeding one another, we do this understanding it's dangerous, you know, like going back to our primitive cave people days, like you had to go and make sure you were in a safe place to be able to actually eat the food that you had.
And so I think that's kind of just a beautiful way of connecting to what you're doing with kids is like, when we're eating, we're safe and that, and even just like, you know, when we feed our children, when they're babies, like there's some, that's so intimate and so vulnerable and so connected. And that's like, you know, I talk a lot about taking time during meal times to really be present with our kids and other like caregiving moments and the rest of the time, just kind of let them play, let them do their thing, let them lead. But within those moments of deep vulnerability and connection, be there fully. And I think, you know, this idea that making mealtimes, even with older kids, like let's capitalize on how safe we can make all of our, all of the, you know, all of us feel while we eat.
And it doesn't even have to be a meal that you've prepared together. You can take advantage of that aspect of, of food and cooking, even if you've brought in, you know, dine in or carry out or gone out to eat, getting into that practice of attunement during the cooking process, I think inviting them into the kitchen and that part of the process just multiplies that idea of connection to the meal that they were enjoying together. And in some cases, you know, it can make them, you know, if you have children who have issues with eating and picky eating or things of that nature, it can actually have the potential to encourage them to try things that they may not have done. So otherwise, because they feel a connection to the meal because it is something that they helped to prepare. And and to your point about the, the felt safety I think that this is not a, I understand that this is not something that we can do from a reactive standpoint.
It's not going to be something that's going to help you bring them down from a tantrum. It is something that we have to do while they're in a regulated state and while they're receptive to our input and our feedback. And so if you have a child who's dysregulated, you're probably not going to be inviting them to be chopping onions. But I think by making this a regular practice, whether it be once a week or twice a week, or whatever is most comfortable, the more often those experiences are happening, the more the connection takes place. And the hope is that in the building of the connection, the, the more you're expanding that realm in their brain emotionally, where they're able to handle things more. And the, the tantrums, the blowups, the flare ups, the, the flipping their lid will hopefully happen less and less as a result.
Yes, it's outside of the hot moments where the brain actually gets rewired the best. If we want to help our kids learn to increase their ability to regulate their emotions, to stretch that capacity for distress tolerance, we have to do that in the calm moments, because that's where the, the neural circuits will start to get rewritten. So I love that. I think that's so true. So making this a regular practice can actually reduce tantrums.
Yes. And it just, it connects everything. I love this idea of connection because cooking, I mean, it connects the logical part of our brain with the artistic part of our brain. You know, there's, there's kind of left brain and right brain activities that help young minds to kind of integrate it in involves different academic pursuits, like math and science and chemistry and history and language arts. It integrates that with you know, just kind of you know, aspects of ourselves like how to manage ourselves, how to manage time, how to manage finances, how to communicate and problem solve. There's just so many different aspects of our lives that can be integrated together in this activity of cooking that, you know, when people think, well, you know, cooking is just cooking. There's just so much more to it that the benefits will hopefully kind of spill out into other aspects of their life, whether it be through school or at play, or just the, you know, the day to day lives that they're experiencing. And as they grow older, you know, there's gonna be so much that they're going to be able to take from those experiences and apply, even if they don't decide to be a chef, which I don't necessarily recommend to everybody because it's not nearly as glamorous as they make it out to be on food network. But there are ways in which the, the knowledge that they are getting and the experience that they're getting in the kitchen will have impacts in other areas of their life as well.
Right. It's a really rich place to start. And I'm thinking like, okay, you're listening to this podcast. You maybe you're not, you're not a chef. You, you know, maybe you don't even really feel so confident in the kitchen yourself as a parent, but you're, you're hearing this. And you're like, okay, you know what? This is speaking to me, you've already sort of, we've talked about changing the mindset about thinking about the process, not the product. So it's not about like getting a gourmet meal made. It's not even about getting like a good dinner on the table. It's just about connecting with your kid. What would be like the next step? What would we be one place parents could sort of start to try to do this.
So once you've worked on the mindset, once you've gotten past and kind of forgotten things that you thought you knew about the kitchen and replace them with the perspective of connection, then it's kind of coming up with a game plan and starting to look at the things that you already do in the kitchen, whether it be the, the creation of a menu to doing the shopping, to doing the actual process of creating food for your family and looking for opportunities to invite your children into those processes in order to, to bring about connection. So your listeners can check out my Cooking Is Connecting 20 day challenge. It's an email sequence that goes through a framework that was developed by the search Institute called the developmental relationships framework. And in it, they lay out 20 different actions or activities that we as caregivers can use with our children to communicate different developmental assets that our children need.
And what I loved about that framework was that each of those 20 actions and activities could be done through the shared act of cooking and eating together. And so I created this email challenge and then transcribed that into a sequence of podcast episodes as well, to go through the different areas and aspects of parenting that our children need from us and giving parents a few very simple things that they can do in and around the shared act of cooking and eating together to begin to implement those things. And it's not about recipes, it's not about dishes. It's about again, reframing and looking at the things that we already do or could be doing from a lens of connection and inviting our children into the process with us. So I think that would be a great place to start. And even now I'm continuing to develop some more content kind of behind the scenes right now.
And hopefully in the very near future, I will be releasing and unveiling. What I'm calling kind of my, my cornerstone course, the cooking is connecting program where parents can take this program and begin to not only get their mindset change around the kitchen, but to have some really practical steps, you know, kind of ABC here are the steps that we need to take to really begin to put this methodology and this mindset into action, because it is a process. And it's a process that I have had to go through myself, even though I am a chef and I'm still going through it. And I want to share that in a way that parents can, can have it in their hands or available at any time online and be able to put it into practice in their family's life.
Oh, what an awesome resource. I like didn't even know you did that when I asked you that question. So that's perfect. Okay. So we'll put that. We should put that in the show notes, for sure. How can people get in touch with you or find out more about what you're doing so they can like take this to the next level?
Well, Cookin' With Kibby is the name of my personal brand. It's cookin with Kibby. I had to leave off the G because it was too many letters for Twitter. So cookinwithkibby.com is my website. Like Dr. Sarah has done, you can slide into my DMs on Instagram. I'm pretty active over there. And from there, you can also find links to to my email list. And the Cooking is Connecting 20 day challenge. And I also do have one online course already available to parents because one of the biggest hangups for a lot of families around inviting their children into the kitchen is the handling of knives. Because rarely do you find a recipe where you don't have to handle knives and they can, that can be very anxiety ridden for a lot of folks. And so I've created a 10 week course called Knife Skills for Busy Families. And it goes through all of the basics on how to safely and effectively handle kitchen knives, and to teach those things to your children as well. And I've integrated it into a 10 week program where every week you're actually cooking something together as a family, as a way of practicing the knife skills that I'm teaching you along the way. So it's really practical, really easy to just kind of weave it into your normal weekly routine.
That's so cool. Awesome. Well, thank you so much for coming on here and talking about this stuff. This was wonderful. Thank you so much. And we'll see you soon, I think.
Awesome. Thank you so much for having me.
I hope you enjoyed this episode. I love how Chef Kibby uses his passion for cooking to bring levity and love to a heavy parenting situation – working through behavioral issues in children affected by trauma. I'd love to hear from you too. What is an activity that you do to connect with your own child? Is it playing a sport together, gardening, crafting? At the end of the day, if we're focusing on the why sort of being present and invested in strengthening our bonds, the where, and the what doesn't really end up mattering that much. And if you're interested in checking out some more resources to help guide you on your parenting journey, visit my website, drsarahbren.com. There you'll find everything from articles about navigating childcare transitions, to support for growing families, to understanding the neurological and psychological causes of fight or flight mode. There's lots there for you to explore at drsarahbren.com. That's drsarahbren.com.
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Cyclone Catégorie 7 : Tempête mondiale ou Catégorie 7 : La fin du Monde au Québec (Category 7 : The End Of the World) est téléfilm américain réalisé par Dick Lowry. Cette production de , en deux parties, fut diffusée en 2005 sur la chaîne CBS.

Synopsis
Le film démarre où Cyclone, catégorie 6 : Le Choc des tempêtes s'était arrêté : la super-tempête a détruit Chicago et s'étend maintenant à une échelle globale et prend de plus en plus de force et d'énergie. Au programme, la destruction de Paris, de l'Égypte, de New York etc. par des tornades.

Mais cette fois-ci, ce n'est plus une tempête de catégorie 6, mais de catégorie 7, car la super tempête croise un cyclone tropical de catégorie 5 sur son passage et s'unit avec lui juste au-dessus de Washington D.C. pendant qu'une bande de délinquants kidnappe un groupe d'adolescents. Les météorologues continuent de chercher la solution pour arrêter rapidement cette terrible tempête qui risque de faire des dégâts incroyables.

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Cyclone Catégorie 7 : Tempête mondiale est la suite exacte du Choc des tempêtes, , c'est pourquoi les graphistes ont ajouté des scènes de destruction impressionnantes, comme quand la Tour Eiffel est arrachée de son socle.

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Distribution
 Gina Gershon (VF : Danièle Douet) : Judith Carr, directrice de la FEMA
 Cameron Daddo (VF : Éric Legrand) : Ross Duffy, météorologue
 Shannen Doherty (VF : Anne Rondeleux) : Faith Clavell
 Sebastian Spence (VF : Thierry Wermuth) : Agent Gavin Carr
 Andrea Lui (VF : Annabelle Roux) : Melody Chang
 James Brolin (VF : Pierre Dourlens) : Donny Hall
 Randy Quaid (VF : François Siener) : Tommy Tornado Dixon
 Lindy Booth (VF : Dorothée Pousseo) : Brigid
 Robert Wagner (VF : Dominique Paturel) : Sénateur Ryan Carr
 James Nichol Kirk (VF : Pascal Grull) : Stuart Carr
 Rachel Skarsten (VF : Edwige Lemoine) : Lyra Duffy
 Suki Kaiser (VF : ?) : Gayle Duffy
 David Alpay (VF : Maël Davan-Soulas) : Billy Chamber
 Tom Skerritt (VF : Bernard Tiphaine) : Colonel Mike Davis
 Adam Rodríguez (VF : Didier Cherbuy) : Pilote de l'Air Force
 Nicholas Lea : (VF : Guy Chapellier) : Monty Veers
 Kenneth Welsh (VF : ?) : Alan Horst, directeur de cabinet de la Maison-Blanche
 John Kapelos (VF : ?) : Jim Roberts, Secrétaire d'État à la sécurité intérieure
 Swoosie Kurtz (VF : Cathy Cerdà) : Penny Hall
 Michal Grajewski (VF : Geoffrey Vigier) : Dan
 Jim Codrington (VF : ?) : Capitaine Tergesson
 Jane McCarthy (VF : Juliette Degenne) : elle-même

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Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Cyclone, catégorie 6 : Le Choc des tempêtes
 Échelle de Saffir-Simpson

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Téléfilm diffusé en 2005
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Dr. Lan Ma has many years of working experiences with world leading multinational companies. In her last role, she was the global marketing director at DuPont in the Photovoltaic business, based in Shanghai, China. In her 11 years with DuPont, she held roles of manager at DuPont corporate marketing & sales, AP strategic planning manager at DuPont performance coating and China country leader at DuPont Photovoltaic Solutions.
Before joining DuPont, Dr. Ma was a consultant - marketing specialist in Asia-Pacific marketing practice of McKinsey & Company, based in Singapore. She worked with clients in various industries across Asia Pacific on strategic marketing issues including branding, pricing, channel, consumer insights, segmentation, go-to-market strategy, etc.
Prior to joining McKinsey, Dr. Ma was marketing manager at Estée Lauder in New York. Before that, she spent four years with Procter & Gamble as Product/Market Researcher initially for the Far East based in Japan and later in a global role out of the US.
Dr. Ma received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Boston College in the US and B.S. in Chemistry from Beijing University in China. She is a fluent English and Mandarin speaker with Japanese language knowledge.
Dr. Ma was an Adjunct Professor with Singapore Management University for three years from 2010-2012 where she taught Strategic Marketing to the MBA class. She is an Adjunct Professor at New York University Shanghai starting January 2018 teaching management related topics. She is frequently invited to teach at China European International Business School, speak at business conferences and conduct corporate trainings.
Dr. Ma currently serves as a senior advisor for several companies and is active on company boards.


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ANZ Bank was recently ordered to pay a worker $600,000 damages because she tripped on electrical cables under her desk as she got up from her chair. Despite the obvious first thought that individuals have some responsibility to keep their own work area clean and tidy, and therefore no loose cables near her feet, the court in this case found that the employer had the primary duty of care and that reasonable precautions were readily available and not burdensome. In particular the employer should have ensured cable ties were used to secure all cables out of the way so they did not pose a trip hazard.
In the second case Monash University avoided a $1.3m damages claim in the Supreme Court when Justice McDonald found a garden path where a person fell and was injured was acceptable despite obvious hazards and deficiencies. In part the court found the path was sloping with variable surface and exposed to all weather conditions, but had been safely used by the injured person and others for years without incident.
This is somewhat confusing as sometimes we hear in judgements that the low likelihood of an incident or injury is no proof of safety, and then another case uses apparent similar logic to conclude a circumstance is safe.
Notwithstanding this situation, you and I need to know what constitutes an unacceptable trip hazard now, and not find out after someone falls over something that hundreds of other people safely traversed possibly for many years.
What are the standards for trip hazards?
Is a 3mm or 5mm lip OK or does a 15mm lip pose an unacceptable trip hazard?
Australian Standard AS 1657: 2013 – Fixed Platforms, Walkways, Stairways et al offers guidance in relation to fabricated floor components. The standard requires* fabricated floor surfaces to be evenly laid with the maximum vertical lip between; floor boards, plates or panels to be less than 5mm.
What about public footpaths and unsealed surfaces at workplaces? What is an allowable lip irrespective of whether someone trips and falls or not? Clearly, public footpaths and unsealed yards and trails cannot satisfy the tight standard of 5mm lip as for fabricated flooring.
There is some research that suggests that lips greater than 1cm high will more likely cause a trip and fall incident, as many people may initially stumble on lower lips, but their foot releases as it rotates over the lip and the person usually recovers. When the lip is higher than 1cm the foot is more likely to be held as the person moves forward and cause them to trip and fall.
Unsealed yards and trails would need a wider variation again to allow for things like pot-holes, undulations and loose stones, and may require warning signage (e.g. loose surface) and possibly PPE standards for workplaces e.g. high ankle boots to minimise twisting an ankle and falling.
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Menopause Does Not Create Difficulty Sleeping
Jan 28, 2015 | Aging, Sex | 0 |
Women in their late 30s and 40s who have trouble sleeping are more than three times more likely to suffer sleep problems during menopause than women who have an easier time getting shut-eye, according to a new study by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Only 25% of women who had reported no earlier sleep problems developed moderate or severe insomnia or other sleep disturbances during a 16-year period around menopause. What's more, the researchers say that these sleep woes did not appear to be caused by menopause itself, which may quell common fears about symptoms associated with this phase of life. The study, published in the journal Menopause, is among the first to document long-term sleep patterns in women in the years before, during, and after menopause.
"Sleep problems are a major issue for women approaching mid-life, particularly for women who have moderate or severe sleeping problems before reaching menopause as they are likely to experience increased issues throughout the transition," says lead author, Ellen W. Freeman, PhD, research professor in the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Perelman School of Medicine, in a release. "A small subgroup of women with only mild sleep disturbance prior to menopause also experienced worsening sleep disturbance during the transition, but our results show that for the majority of women, menopause does not further exacerbate existing sleep problems or cause new ones."
The study assessed annually the sleep patterns of 255 women participating in the Penn Ovarian Aging Study who reached natural menopause during a 16-year period (1996-2012). At enrollment, all women were aged 35 to 48 years and premenopausal, with 28% reporting moderate-to-severe sleep disturbances, which is similar to the prevalence of insomnia symptoms among adults, and 56% reporting no sleep disturbances at all. Over the 16-year period, 82% of the sample experienced moderate-to-severe issues with sleep, while only 7% had no poor sleep.
The study also found that hot flashes are strongly associated with poor sleep as expected, but a large proportion of poor sleep in menopausal women occurred without hot flashes. The finding, Freeman says, indicates that sleep difficulties in the transition to menopause in generally healthy women should not automatically be imputed to ovarian decline.
"Our study raises the question of why a significant increase in poor sleep should surface for a group of women who experienced only mild sleep problems earlier, but not among women who had moderate or severe sleep problems," Freeman says. "This is an area for future study and many potential factors should be considered, such as hormone fluctuations or changes, stress, anxiety, relationships, life events, and health problems."
Freeman adds that clinicians should be alert to the strong possibility that poor sleep in women approaching menopause is not simply caused by menopause or hot flashes.
"Possible reasons for poor sleep instead may include health problems, anxiety, and stress," she says, advising that clinicians should ask patients whether they had problems sleeping before midlife as well as obtain information on the level and duration of earlier poor sleep patterns to devise the most effective treatments.
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Aug 7, 2017 – Montreal is the driving force behind a stellar year for the Quebec economy, with unemployment in the city at its lowest level in over a decade.
Statistics Canada figures show unemployment has plunged 1.7 percentage points in a year, from 7.8 per cent in July 2016 to 6.1 per cent in July 2017.
Of the 124,000 jobs created in Quebec over the last year, 115,000 were in Greater Montreal, compared to 44,000 in Toronto and 37,000 in Greater Vancouver. Experts say the figures represent the return of Montreal as the economic powerhouse of Quebec. More people now work in Montreal than the rest of the province combined.
Progress in Quebec is now channeled through Montreal, according to key officials, who say business confidence in the city has come on considerably in the last 18 months. Large construction projects and tourism are key growth areas.
Despite the progress, Montreal still has ground to make up. The unemployment rate is still far behind Quebec City's 4 per cent for July, which dropped from 4.4 per cent in June.
Experts put this down to the faster aging population in the provincial capital, while Montreal attracts the majority of new immigrants to the province, who normally take some time to find work.
Province-wide figures showed Quebec added 4,700 jobs in July, mostly in full time work. In the last 12 months, the province's unemployment rate fell a significant 1.2 percentage points to 5.8 per cent, the lowest since records began in 1978.
If the trend continues, Quebec could start to see a reversal of the traditional out-migration it has seen to the rest of Canada.
The results were part of an excellent month for the whole of Canada, with the unemployment rate dropping to its lowest since before the 2008 global financial crisis.
Unemployment fell to 6.3 per cent in July 2017, a fall of 0.2 percentage points from the month before and the lowest rate since October 2008.
Employment also slightly increased by 0.1 per cent, or 11,000, the latest Canada jobs report shows.
Demographically, women aged 55 and older saw the strongest employment gain of 14,000, while other groups remained effectively unchanged.
The overall employment growth for 55 to 64-year-olds has grown by 2.9 per cent in the last 12 months, as the Canada jobs statistics support evidence of the country's aging population.


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Valentino Rossi To Travel To Aragon And Attempt To Ride
Submitted by David Emmett on Wed, 2017-09-20 14:27
Valentino Rossi is to travel to Aragon and attempt to race in the fourteenth round of MotoGP at the Motorland Aragon circuit. After evaluating his fitness on a Yamaha R1M at Misano on Monday and Tuesday, the Italian had his leg assessed by Dr Pascarella, who performed the surgery on his broken tibia and fibula. After that examination, Rossi decided he was fit enough to travel to Aragon and attempt to race.
Rossi faces one more hurdle before he is allowed to race. He will be subject to a further assessment by the circuit doctors at the Motorland Aragon track, who will have to evaluate whether he is fit enough to race. Rossi will have to demonstrate that his leg is capable of bearing the strains of riding a MotoGP bike, which will mean standing on the broken leg, and being able to jump and land on.
Michael van der Mark will also travel to Motorland Aragon, as originally planned, but the Dutchman will initially be on standby in case Rossi can't ride. Yamaha have until two hours before qualifying to replace Rossi, so in theory, Rossi could ride in FP3 and assess his fitness immediately after that session. In practice, he is more likely to know whether he can actually race either directly after FP1, or on Saturday morning, after his leg has had a night to recover from the rigors of practice.
If Rossi does ride the bike in FP1, then pulls out, that will take some of the pressure off Van der Mark to score a result. With very limited time on the bike, expections on the Pata Yamaha WorldSBK rider will be very low indeed.
There is also a chance that Yamaha decides not to put Van der Mark on the bike at all if Rossi rides the first day. The precedent for this would be Loris Capirossi at Assen in 2008. The Italian suffered a nasty puncture wound in his right arm after crashing in FP2 at Assen, and Ben Spies, who had traveled to Assen to replace Capirossi should he decide not to start the race after returning from a broken hand picked up at an earlier round in Barcelona. As Capirossi had started the round, Suzuki were free not to replace him. That will also be the case if Rossi rides FP1, and decides he can't continue.
Below is the press release from the Movistar Yamaha Team:
Movistar Yamaha to Attend the Aragon GP in Full Force
The Movistar Yamaha MotoGP Team arrives in Spain for a very special 14th round of the 2017 MotoGP World Championship. Not only is the Gran Premio Movistar de Aragón the last European round before the overseas races and Maverick Viñales' home Grand Prix, but it's also a home race for the team's title sponsor, Movistar, and the scene for either Valentino Rossi's return from injury, or Yamaha WorldSBK rider Michael van der Mark's MotoGP debut as a replacement rider.
At the previous race in Misano, Viñales flew the Movistar Yamaha MotoGP flag alone. His fourth place at a very wet San Marino race was labelled as good progress by the Spaniard, as it was his first time trying the 2018 chassis in these conditions.
He currently holds third place in the championship standings, 16 points behind the joint leaders and - as the 2017 season has four more rounds after this weekend and there are still 125 points up for grabs - the number 25-rider has all to play for. This weekend he will focus on getting his Yamaha set up for the elevation changes and multiple flowing corners at the Alcañiz track as soon as possible on the Friday, so he can make another step forward in his championship challenge in Sunday's race.
The young gun has stood on the podium in Aragón three times before, thanks to a third place in 2011 in the 125cc class, a Moto3 second place finish in 2013 and a Moto2 victory in 2014. Last year he just missed out on the premier class podium, securing a best MotoGP placement in Alcañiz of fourth position. This year he fancies his chances to secure a place in the top-3.
After 17 days of recovering, Rossi got his first laps in at the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli last Monday and Tuesday, before undergoing a medical examination today. Following the check-up, the Italian decided to make his way to Aragón in order to try to participate in this weekend's race. He will have to successfully complete a mandatory physical check by the MotorLand Aragón Chief Medical Officer to be declared fit to take part in the Grand Prix weekend.
Despite missing the previous race due to injury, Rossi arrives at the 14th round holding fourth place in the championship, 42 points from the top of the standings. While his leg hasn't fully healed yet, the nine-time World Champion is happy he might have the opportunity to attempt riding his YZR-M1 again and greet the Spanish fans in Alcañiz, where he stood on the podium three times before (three third places in 2013, 2015 and 2016).
Yamaha WorldSBK rider Van der Mark will still attend the Gran Premio Movistar de Aragón as a replacement rider, in case Rossi is declared unfit or if he feels he can't compete in Sunday's race after any of the Free Practice sessions. Should he be stepping aboard the YZR-M1 this weekend, he will do so without any prior testing. Nevertheless, he is looking forward to the challenge and to taking in as much information as possible, should Rossi not be able to ride.
The MotorLand Aragón is situated near the town of Alcañiz in Northern Spain and is only a few hours' drive from Barcelona. The circuit was added to the MotoGP calendar in 2010 and was given the IRTA Best Grand Prix of the Year award that same year, reflecting the riders' and the fans' appreciation of the venue. The fast and challenging 5.1km long track has ten left and seven right corners and a 968m longest straight. It draws thousands of fans, especially as it's the last European race before the triple header overseas, making it a round motorsport enthusiasts don't want to miss.
Maverick Viñales
Championship: 3rd - Points: 183
"I'm very happy to head to Aragón because for us it's like a second home Grand Prix and we know that we can do a good performance there with the M1. It's one of my favourite tracks because of its lay-out, in Aragón we can be very fast. We are 16 points behind and we need to close that gap as soon as possible. For that reason, it's very important to push and believe that we can do it. In Misano we made a big step and I'm sure that we will do another important step this weekend. It's very important to stay focused."
Championship: 4th - Points: 157
"Fortunately, yesterday I had a good test with my YZF-R1M in Misano. I tried also the day before, but the rain stopped me after a few laps. Yesterday I managed to complete 20 laps and find the answers I was looking for. Eventually, the test was positive and I want to say thanks to Dr. Lucidi and his staff, who helped me find the best solutions to feel the least amount of pain possible in my leg when I'm riding. Obviously at the end of the test I was in a little bit of pain, but this morning I went to Dr. Pascarella for a medical check, and it came out with a positive result. At the end I decided I will leave for Aragón and will try to ride my M1 this weekend. If I will be declared fit to ride, I'll have the real answer after FP1, because riding the M1 will be a much bigger challenge. We'll see. See you in Aragon!"
Michael van der Mark
"Though it remains uncertain if I will get to ride the YZR-M1 this weekend, I'm still looking forward to it. While I would like to get to step aboard the YZR-M1, I'm also fully supporting Valentino making his return. I'll either get to make my MotoGP debut or, should I not be able to ride, I will get to see Valentino live in action as he makes his comeback. As I said earlier, I've not been able to ride a MotoGP bike before the Grand Prix kicks off so, if Valentino ends up withdrawing from the Aragón GP, I will have to jump in at the deep end at the start of the next session and just try my best. However, after securing my first WorldSBK podium of the 2017 season in Portimão, I'm having a good momentum to step up to the challenge. I want to thank Yamaha again for giving me this opportunity. I'm sure it will be a good experience either way."
Massimo Merigali
Movistar Yamaha MotoGP - Team Director
"First of all, the team is looking forward to welcoming back Valentino and his crew in the pit box! The Aragón GP is very special for the team as we share the title sponsor with this round of the MotoGP championship, and we are very happy that we might get to start the event with a 'complete' team and rider line-up. It remains to be seen if Valentino feels he can complete the entire race weekend, which is very demanding, especially at a circuit like MotorLand Aragón, with big elevation changes. Should Vale feel that his injury is causing him too much discomfort, then Michael van der Mark will step in as the replacement rider. If that is the case, the team will put in maximal effort to help him adapt to the YZR-M1 as quick as possible. He didn't get the opportunity to test the bike before, so it would be a very exciting but also interesting weekend for him. As for the other side of the box, we are fully engrossed with the fight for the championship. Maverick is 16 points behind the joint leaders, with five races to go, so we are as determined as ever to get a top result and decrease the margin to the top in the standings. He really likes this circuit and, as it's also his home race, he will be pushing hard this weekend to confirm his status as a key protagonist."
Motorland Aragon, Spain
I have not hidden my dislike
mtiberio replied on Wed, 2017-09-20 15:22
I have not hidden my dislike of VR the person on this and other web sites. I have never bought into the 'mugging for the camera' persona. I obviosuly have to acknowledge his titles and greatness, just not a fan of the man. Given this, I have to temper my criticism of his actions on the leg. I remember when he came back early, back in 2010, I thought, a desperate move. I'm glad it worked out for him (no lasting injury). I hope this current move also works out for him. Rebreaking a bone with a rod (or plate) in it, can make a mess of things, just ask Sheene or Lorenzo. As to the why, we can only speculate. Greater drive and ambition are certainly reasons, but is it also ego? To what degree is it a desire to win this years title? To what degree is it a desire to stay the center of attention (both with fans, the media and the team)? I for one don't know what the percentages are, but given my bias, I expect the latter reason is a non-trivial percentage.
v0dka123 replied on Thu, 2017-09-21 01:22
A bunch of plausible reaons behind his attempt to come back at Aragon:
- He's a pro, maybe he wants to try and act like one
- Along the same lines, he's a contracted rider and wants to do the best to honor his contract
- As theoretical as it is, he's still with a mathematical shot a the title in a season that's already proven to be unpredictable
- A chance to ensure that he beats Pedrosa?
- A chance to ensure that he beats Lorenzo?
- Along similar lines, in generic terms, to finish as high in the points as possible?
- To help Yamaha score more points in the constructors battle
- As unrealistic it is, maybe to help his team mate? (haha yeah right)
But no - you had to pick something like 'a desire to stay the center of attention" over and above all that?
And people tend to think that Rossi fans are voilatile illogical quantities.
Simple fact is that the Rossi haters are the obnoxious internet crowd at the moment. The Rossi fans tend to stay (relatively) quiet (perhaps only because Rossi is not winning much).
Either way both are fundamentally the same breed. It's about being blind with emotions when logic takes a back seat.
duraliving replied on Wed, 2017-09-20 20:51
I can't help but just be grateful that this man ever existed. That's hokey no doubt, but whatever. I suspect long ago the outcome or possibility of another championship became irrelevant even for Rossi. It's like a pretext that exists for the sake of playing out the fable.
For many people motorcycles are trivial things. Racing them, even more so. All of it was going according to plan when something clicked around 58's passing. And since then the answers to a conversation Rossi had with himself created what we are now witnessing.
It's not about ego. It's not about money. It's not about glory or g.o.a.t.ing. It's not about anything at all really. It just is. It's just what has to be. It's clear, simple, and elegant.
And having the opportunity to observe this mere mortal play out the consequences of his choices is more rarefying than all his stats or accolades. Like a testament to the heights of human achievement we are witnessing the chapters bookending a storied life. Mountaintopping - in a word - for it doesn't really matter now. That's my take on it anyway. That's what I'm cashing in on. Thank you Mr. Rossi for your choices. Not that you're perfect. Not even close.
JamesInMiami replied on Thu, 2017-09-21 23:05
Eloquently put, I too feel privileged to live in the VR era. We will miss him when he's gone.
Fitness test?
DC replied on Thu, 2017-09-21 20:58
Jumping up and down on a recently broken leg to prove fitness? Sounds like something out of the dark ages, surely modern medicine and physiotherapists have a better way of determining strength and fitness to ride. At any rate hopefully above all the right decision is made.
No way to hide
2ndclasscitizen replied on Thu, 2017-09-21 21:24
If you try to mechanically or physically manipulate a limb there's always a chance someone could grit their teeth and push through it. If they have use their own strength there's no way to fake it. You'll be able to do it, or it'll give way and you'll be on the floor.
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Q: Can't see output when PAMName is enabled in systemd unit files I'm using systemd to start geth:
[Unit]
Description=geth for %i network
DefaultDependencies=no
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=work
Group=work
PermissionsStartOnly=true
TimeoutStartSec=0
RemainAfterExit=yes
WorkingDirectory=/home/data/

ExecStartPre=bash -c 'openssl rand -hex 32 > /var/lib/geth-jwtsecret'
ExecStartPre=install -o work -d /home/data/eth-%i
ExecStart=geth \
    --syncmode full \
    --datadir /home/data/eth-%i \
    --%i \
    --http --http.api personal,eth,net,web3 \
    --http.corsdomain '*' \
    --authrpc.jwtsecret=/var/lib/geth-jwtsecret

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

When I add PAMName=work to the unit file, I'm unable to see the stdout via journalctl -u XXXX anymore.
Does anyone know why?

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Posted by Dracophile Posted on June 13, 2011
In last week's article I took a look at some of the most ridiculous Xbox achievements out there and in the article I detailed just how much I hate sports titles. Of course, I used the platform of "worst online achievements ever" to levy my complaints but from an honest and critical standpoint…?
I fucking hate sports games.
Do we really need a new sports game every single year? Do we really need an annual football game when EA, the developers, hold exclusivity rights with the NFL to ensure there is no competition within the market? The obvious answer here is no. No, we don't need any more goddamn sports games now or ever. How about instead of an annual release EA and 2K Games actually try putting some effort into their turds and make a sports title that can stand on its own for the life of a console with roster updates and other functionality provided as DLC? Or is that idea too obvious for "AAA" developers like EA to figure out? It must be, because I almost failed college-level business classes but even I know a retarded idea when I see one. Sports titles are a worthless waste of money and after only a matter of months aren't even worth the plastic they are printed on so how do they hold up against the rarest and most valuable games of all time?
As you might imagine, releasing a sports title each year significantly decreases the value of the preceding years. Sports titles are worthless to collectors and they're literally the only other games other than pack-in titles that collectors avoid like the plague. Even in that case, however, the games that came included with classic consoles (Super Mario World, Sonic the Hedgehog, etc) are still sought after by nostalgic gamers, there is still a market for them. Collectors don't want pack-in titles and nostalgia buffs don't want a one-of-a-kind prototype of some obscure game but both types of people can agree on one thing: fuck sports games. You can sell a copy of Final Fantasy and you can sell a copy of Intelligent Qube but if you're left with a copy of Barkley Shut Up & Jam then you better have a wobbly table that needs fixing because you have better odds of winning the lotto by picking the same number six times than you do of ever selling that game.
To put this into perspective, sports titles are so worthless that the only conceivable usage one collector found for them was making a fucking urinal out of them.
Just for the hell of it I decided to analyze the values of various titles in an assortment of sports game franchises (Madden, NBA Live, etc) using a number of different video game pricing guides, none of which unfortunately go below $0.50 in terms of the lowest values given. This means that almost every copy of these games displayed as 50 cents in value. Regardless, I settled on NBA Live for this experiment just because out of all of the franchises I looked at this one ran the longest (1995 – 2010) with the least amount of "collector's edition" and special releases to mess up the average value of each installment. I took an average of each annual release that combined all of the values for each console it was released on and decided to make a graph to track the nosediving worth of each game.
Math just called. They said "blow it out your ass".
The numbers don't lie. After the first year of release the value of each game goes down in value with the first drop being the steepest (the new worth only 25% of the most recent game's value). I was upset that the graph stopped at $0.50 so I decided to find out just how worthless the original NBA Live 1995 really is. Warning: Math content follows. After omitting the first giant drop in value I decided to calculate each subsequent drop in price since they seem to be strangely uniform. On average each time the value of these games goes down the new worth is approximately 73.4% of the total value of the game before it. With this in mind I started with NBA Live 2009, worth $2.43, and began multiplying it by .734 for each year until I got down to 1995. The result?
NBA Live '95 is worth two fucking cents.
It probably costs more than two cents in electrical bills to turn your SNES on.
For an investment that cost about $50 brand new the return on it is mere pennies and just barely pennies plural. Not every game is able to break its original price tag with its collectors' value but none of them sink as low as sports titles in terms of how disproportionate their worth is to their original price. All, not just some, of the worst games of all time are worth more than NBA Live '95. All of them. Any game you can possibly think of that doesn't involve putting an inflated ball through a hoop or into a net is worth more than this game. Every. Single. One.
See why I hate sports games now?
But how does that match up to the rarest and most valuable games ever? Just how many copies of this crappy basketball game would it take to equal the value of just one copy (and in many cases the only copy) of the most sought after games out there? Let's find out.
The first game in our list isn't actually a game at all but a programming tool for the Atari 2600. Magicard is one of the few titles produced by the company CommaVid, an Atari 2600 developer that specialized in making their games needlessly difficult to obtain. Magicard, for example, was only available through a special mail order form direct from CommaVid and another one of their games (Video Life) was available only to people who purchased Magicard. Marketing was not their strong point. Technically, then, Video Life is more rare than Magicard but the value of this particular cartridge reaches "Jesus Christ" proportions when you have it complete with its 100+ page manual and keyboard controller overlays. Magicard lets you create simple programs using your Atari (since Atari's in-house game Basic Programming was a load of crock) via an assembly language. Needless to say with its incredibly boring and hard to understand premise plus a manual that's about the length of a short novel Magicard is one of those titles whose playability caters only to the incredibly technologically savvy among us; to everybody else Magicard is just an inconveniently-sized blank check waiting for someone to cash it in at the National Bank of Game Collectors. Even if you find a copy loose (that is, without its manual, overlays, and sample programs) the game will still fetch enough to help extinguish the credit card debt incurred from buying this thing.
Magicard is worth 338,334 copies of NBA Live '95. This many copies of NBA Live '95 is equivalent to the weight of seven fully grown African elephants.
Before the death of VHS and the advent of Netflix, Redbox, and rampant DVD piracy there was actually a point in time when Blockbuster Video was sitting pretty and raking in the super big bucks. At one point in time they were acquired by Viacom… but ultimately when profits began to falter Viacom had the smarts to throw Blockbuster out into the deep end and let them struggle for a while presumably while the Viacom CEO relaxed in a hot tub of liquid money and watched. This game is a relic of Blockbuter's better times.
Blockbuster World Championships II is a special promotional cartridge that was utilized in various Blockbuster stores during a contest they held to see who could get the most points in their two challenge games. The games included on the cartridge are truncated versions of NBA Jam and Judge Dredd. Judge Dredd was such an awful movie that if you stare at the theatrical poster and say "Sylvester Stallone" three times it will come to life and kill you in your sleep. Despite what I previously said about basketball and sports games, however, NBA Jam is one of those few sports titles that are genuinely fun to play. Why? Because it's full of wacky twists, flaming slam dunks, the phrase "BOOMSHAKALAKA", and a huge assortment of hidden characters ranging from The Beastie Boys to President Bill Clinton. I hate sports games but I love NBA Jam. Everybody does.
Unlike Blockbuster's previous "championship" games (such as Donkey Kong Competition Cartridge and StarFox Super Weekend, which sounds more like a furry porn marathon than a contest game) BBWC2 has a minimalist and ugly label; it's just boilerplate copyright text about the cartridge contents. This label, ugly as it is, actually helps determine the value of each copy of this game. Remember those silver "VOID IF REMOVED" stickers that Blockbuster used to place on their games? Sometimes when new games came in you'd have an incompetent bastard behind the counter who would place the void sticker directly over the front of the label making it so if you tried to remove the sticker it would destroy the label of the game. If your copy of BBWC2 is one of these then sadly your game won't fetch the mythical 8G's but it's still a valuable game; however if you have a pristine copy (with its original box) cash that sucker in and pay off that junker of a used car you're driving around.
Blockbuster World Championships II is worth 400,000 copies of NBA Live '95. This is enough copies to give one to every US soldier wounded or killed in the Vietnam War.
Gammation is one of those independent Atari developers who came and went relatively fast in the marketplace, the kind who don't stick around long enough to produce a full library of games or products. Gammation's only real claim to vintage gaming fame was a device called the Fire Power 100 which can arguably be hailed as the first controller mod ever offered in the gaming market. The FP-100 required you to plug your joystick into a device that would then let you customize a rapid fire option to a speed that suited your preferences. Gammation was also rumored to have at least one game in development, Gamma-Attack, that never saw the light of day for almost thirty years. Until now.
"Phantom", as he likes to be called, is a member of the Atari Age community who enjoys the sport of hunting for rare games in the wild at flea markets and garage sales. On a whim one day he purchased a large box of Atari 2600 stuff which he almost didn't buy because he thought he was overpaying (according to an interview). What he didn't know, though, is that he just made a purchase that would forever alter the history of classic video games. Amidst a bunch of crap sat a solitary black cartridge stamped only with a "Gammation" label and no other means to identify the game as the famed Gamma-Attack. Phantom seriously took one look at the game and almost wrote it off as a worthless homebrew. I'd like to imagine that he shit his pants the second he punched "Gammation" into Bing and was greeted with the prospect of having found what is now considered to be the rarest Atari 2600 game in existence. Phantom had, in his possession, the only known copy of this game to ever exist.
So he listed it on eBay for $500,000. It didn't sell. A man can dream, though, right?
The eBay listing, according to Phantom, was just a gag because he literally had no other way to get the news out there that he had found this game. Where do you go to release this kind of news? Sure, channels like Fox News air stories on bears stuck in trees when it's a slow news day but not even they would care about the impact this find would have on the gaming community. Using eBay as his platform Phantom was also able to get some feedback and serious offers from other serious collectors inquiring about his copy of Gamma-Attack. The end result is a value estimated to be around $9,000.00 for this one-of-a-kind game, the release of which led to a series of faithful reproductions offered to the collecting community.
Gamma-Attack is worth approximately 450,000 copies of NBA Live '95. This is enough copies that when stacked on top of each other (standing up like it was in the system) the tower of games will be as tall as the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world at 2,717 feet… if the building was stacked on top of itself forty-eight times.
Yes, that's an actual game in the picture there even though it looks like the aftermath of someone disassembling their console and thinking they could put some sw33t haxOr modz in it. Nintendo Powerfest 1994 is the rarest of all competition cartridges for the Super NES outranking the likes of the previously mentioned Donkey Kong Competition Cartridge and StarFox Super Weekend. Blockbuster Video was pretty careless about how they handled their contest merchandise but the ones coming straight from Nintendo were watched by the company a little more closely; 33 copies of this "cartridge" were created and all but one were returned to Nintendo to be "recycled". The lone competition board, the last of its kind, has been valued at approximately $10,000.00.
The reason why the cartridge looks like a busted up piece of crap is because the board itself appears to have sockets for EPROMs that can be switched out to change the order of the games included or the actual games themselves. If there was ever a decorative top for it the piece has long since been lost or destroyed; the only pictures available of Nintendo Powerfest 1994 show it without a top. The entire array itself sits on top of the Super NES console like a serving tray for robot overlords or a piece of decorative nerd art. The games included in this competition cartridge are Super Mario: Lost Levels (from Super Mario All Stars), Super Mario Kart, and Ken Griffey Jr Basebell. Why they shoved Griffey in there and not another Mario game is beyond me but I guess having a shitty sports game on a competition cartridge is the only way to really separate the casual "good at Mario" gamers and those who really do master every single game out there.
Nintendo Powerfest 1994 is worth 500,000 copies of NBA Live '95. If each cartridge were a brick this is enough of them to build almost twenty-eight average American homes.
Something I've realized while doing my research for this article is that the rarest games in the world really don't have much in the way of labels. Those that do have labels either have a cheap typewriter sticker or just have something that identifies the company who produced it. Tetris for the Sega MegaDrive (the name of the Genesis in international markets) is the only game in this list that has a proper label, box, and manual. If you manage to have all three of them you're well on your way to an estimated $16,000.00.
Tetris is a game that is more common than anything else on the planet. It has been released for every single console ranging from the Atari 2600 to the Xbox 360 and never once has the formula for the tetrominos changed. If the game is so painfully common, then, what makes this the Holy Grail of Russian block stacking? Take a look at the header graphic; this game was never released. Sega was producing this game along with Tengen, a company notorious for causing all sorts of legal shitstorms with the developers of the platforms they released their games on. It seems that every time Tengen touches the Tetris franchise there is money to be had. The officially licensed version of the game for the NES is common and mostly worthless but Tengen's unlicensed version of the same exact game is worth boatloads more (maybe because it has two player simultaneous Tetris, who knows). In the midst of creating their games Tengen lost the publishing rights to Tetris likely because when they weren't creating unlicensed titles Tengen was busy falsifying documents to receive patent details on Nintendo's "NES10" lockout technology so they could reverse engineer it. They were basically expert trolls.
When Sega lost the publishing rights to the Russian puzzle game they were ordered to destroy their stock of it which they sadly did. Somewhere along the line, however, a single box of cartridges made it through the destruction. Inside this box were the last ten copies of this game in existence. Whether or not these games were intentionally saved by an employee we may never know but one thing is for certain: Tengen are a bunch of dicks.
Tetris is worth 800,000 copies of NBA Live '95. This is enough cartridges to create 15,120,000 square inches of real estate, either the equivalent of 2.4 acres of land or enough room to play 105,000 simultaneous games of chess on an average-sized board.
This is it, the most valuable game of all time, and yes it's another competition cartridge. Not only is this the most valuable game in the world, having a recorded sale price of over twenty thousand dollars, but its origin story is one for everybody who dreams of someday coming across that big haul in the simplest of places: NES Campus Challenge '91 was found at a garage sale in New York.
Rob Walters is a video game collector just like you and me but when he stumbled upon a seller asking $40 for an assortment of sealed and rare Nintendo products, a seller who also said "I have more stuff that I'm not selling", Walters found the strange occurrence far too surreal to pass up. He bought the $40 lot, netting him five copies of StarFox Super Weekend in the process (because fuck you everybody who gets hyped about finding one "in the wild"), and later paid the man a visit to find out more about this "more stuff". The man showed him all sorts of one-of-a-kind rare items ranging from other competition cartridges to this very game. The seller was an ex-employee of Nintendo who had personally saved these relics from destruction; he said "I'm not allowed to sell them". Walters offered the man $1,000 cash.
A transaction was made.
NES Campus Challenge '91 is worth over one million copies of NBA Live '95. If you lined these games end to end they would stretch for 85.6 miles (137.7km). If you took this road of games and pointed it straight up it would extend into the Thermosphere and there's a chance you might knock the goddamn International Space Station out of orbit.
One thing I've learned from writing this article is that the rarest games out there look like utter garbage. Some of them look like broken and dismantled products inadvertently created from the accidents of people tinkering with things they know nothing about but that appearance is just a fallacy, they are worth thousands of dollars. NES Campus Challenge '91 looks like a busted up jury-rigged cartridge that wouldn't work in a million years. It's so big that to play it you have to remove the top half of the NES and its loading deck. It's such a bizarrely sized and shaped cartridge that it doesn't even work like the rest of the NES games out there but that's to be expected considering that Nintendo Powerfest 1994 was a giant tray that sat on top of the Super NES. Rob Walters' story is truly one of the greatest finds in collecting history and the sheer fact that this game was obtained because of a visit to a mere garage sale is enough to spark the inspiration and dreams of everyone around the world. This wasn't a game recovered from an inner-company filing cabinet, this was one collector meeting an ex-employee who had the smarts to hold on to these important relics of history.
– Dracophile
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