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"I've never thought Aldo's gets the attention it deserves. Some of that has to do with the firm opinions Baltimoreans form about restaurants they've never been to, especially when those restaurants happen to be in Little Italy.
Aldo's is not just a pretty good restaurant, all things considered. It's a great one, everything considered.
Aldo's was never a stuffy temple of fine dining, its formally dressed waiters and opulent setting notwithstanding. People have always enjoyed themselves at Aldo's. Wine flows, and so does laughter. As with most great restaurants, Aldo's never asks you to love it or admire it. Aldo's just wants you to have a wonderful dinner.
Either way, do not leave without trying a pasta dish. Try the orecchiette, an Aldo's classic, a savory dish of fresh pasta, broccoli rabe, homemade Italian sausage and Parmigiano-Reggiano. It's the kind of deceptively simple thing you could see yourself making — every night of your life — and never get quite right.
We go to good restaurants for things like this, and for the linguine with clams, which is an example of a right way of doing things — the clams are fresh but pulled from their shells and tossed with olive oil and seasoning. And especially we go for a new thing, like the just-introduced ravioli Piedmontese, firm pillows stuffed with rosemary coppa and tossed with Parmesan and tossed with pea tendrils, smoked speck and a puree of English peas. This was a startling little dish, with strong and surprising flavors.
There are moments at Aldo's when you think, oh, thank you. A fresh and aromatic minestrone is filled with squash and diced potatoes and herbs from ownerAldo Vitale's own garden. An eggplant Parmigiana tower is constructed from crispy slices of flash-fried eggplant, a zesty tomato sauce and the right amount of mozzarella cheese. Everything is marvelous in an appetizer of brown-sugar glazed pork belly, whose sweetness is set off with Swiss chard, a tomato jam and, best of all, a cannellini bean puree.
That pork belly is about as complicated as Aldo's food gets, at least on the surface. The main courses especially are as clear as day. When we visited, the kitchen was offering a branzino, the European seabass, stuffing it with rosemary and oregano, coating it with lemon, garlic and olive oil and grilling it whole. It arrived moist, flaky and delicious. Aldo's treats an old standard like veal tenderloin Francese with respect, battering it lightly, frying it cleanly and serving it with pretty wilted spinach and a terrific lemon-Chardonnay sauce.
Over the years, something of a cult has formed around Aldo's Tournedos Rossini, a grilled prime filet mignon, seared foie gras and a risotto of black truffles and porcini mushroom sauce. It's a wonder. But consider the double-cut Wisconsin veal chop, prepared Milanese style — butterflied, pounded, breaded and pan-fried golden brown and served with fresh arugula and chopped garden tomatoes. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing, this veal chop, and it tastes like your ship has come in.
Do you, after all of this, have to get dessert? Yes, you have to. The napoleon looks so daunting and big, but hidden in the layers of Bavarian cream are dark and sour Amarena cherries. Likewise, the bracing effect of berries spiked with grappa undercuts the richness of buttermilk panna cotta. When we visited, Aldo's was just trying out a new dessert — cornetti, an Italian version of croissants, flavored with Nutella and ready for dunking in an affogato, a gelato served in a broth of espresso and Sambuca.
"Aldo's is a great restaurant…it attracts a steady clientele of traveling gourmet diners who have heard others sing its praises. I like it enormously. I appreciate the obvious care taken with assembling choice ingredients, much of which are organic and locally purveyed, and the flawless preparations. And while I admire the plush feel of Aldo's variously splendid dining rooms—all of which were hand-built by Aldo Vitale, a carpenter in his native Calabria before coming to America and finding his calling as a chef—I most often dine at the dark front bar, where the company is good, typically other diners as satisfied with themselves as I am to have found such a special place.
This year, I kept a promise to myself and went with a friend to Aldo's on Christmas Eve to be a part of the restaurant's La Vigilia celebration. Observed by Catholic communities around the world but most famously in Italy, this tradition, which is marked by a massive seafood feast, has come to be better known in America as "the feast of the seven fishes." Aldo's restaurant version of La Vigilia is but a vestigial reminder of an annual ritual that would consume months of planning (acquiring, salting, and storing), days of preparation, and many, many hours of consumption. Accounts and memories of the feast and its attendant traditions varies widely in Italy from north to south region, wealthy landlocked village to impoverished seaport town, and even from family to family, with little posturing about which tradition is real or correct. The one common element is the emphasis on seafood on a day when red meat is proscribed from the table.
What I found so appealing about Aldo's version is how it so nimbly negotiates the terrain between respectfulness for old-world tradition and mindfulness of contemporary diners' expectations. A $65 tasting menu comprised four courses, with the main entrée a choice between a homey salted cod dish and the brazenly sumptuous branzino, or Mediterranean sea bass, a fish unlikely to be found on a peasant family's table, even for the most lavish meal of the year.
My dining companion, the son of an Italian woman who passed away between last Christmas and this one, was reassured by seeing salted cod, or baccala, on the menu—it signified authenticity to him—but chose the branzino instead, leaving baccala alla Calabrese to me. Even within this one dish, Vitale managed to satisfy competing expectations. Hunks of cod with potatoes and strong little Calabrese olives were cooked in a gently balanced tomato bouillon. While the dish looked appropriately modest, its taste was elegant. There's nothing reticent about the branzino that was served ripieno, supplemented—stuffed—with jumbo lump crab imperial, accompanied by lobster-saffron mashed potatoes. This dish was just all-out lavishness and lusciousness, pillowy textures and buttery tastes.
The tasting menu began with an antipasto of seared scallops with citrus beurre blanc and a fritto misto, or "mixed fry" of calamari, salted cod, smelts, and petite Gulf shrimp. Here again was a pleasing mix of plain and fancy. Just enough breading on the delicate fishes to provide snap and flavor, a massive scallop handled precisely, its own juices preserved perfectly inside.
Diners chose between a cold seafood salad and crab-and-shrimp chowder for the second course. The first simply mixed chilled, marinated Gulf shrimp, calamari, octopus, and sea scallops with arugula and mista field greens in a sprightly citrus vinaigrette, a good choice for its palate refreshment. The chowder, on the other hand, lavished the tongue with its generosity of silky crabmeat, sweet corn, and rich sherry flavor. The final course was a holiday dessert trio—a gorgeous panettone bread pudding, homemade tiramisu, and assorted biscotti and chocolate "ornaments." Among these last were little balls of Belgian chocolate coated in corn flakes, the perfect emblem for a chef and a meal whose guiding thought was to please and delight.
Congratulations! Your restaurant has been nominated for the North American Restaurant Association's highest award, the FIVE STAR AWARD OF EXCELLENCE. Within the past three months, Aldo's Ristorante Italiano was anonymously visited by a NARA trained inspector. Our inspector reported that the food and wine were absolutely superb, and the service, impeccable. From making the reservation to paying the check, it was a perfect dining experience.
The NARA FIVE STAR AWARD OF EXCELLENCE places you in a different category than other fine restaurants. Whether potential customers are looking for an intimate dining experience, a restaurant for corporate functions or other special events, the NARA rating will assure them of nothing less than the finest beef, the freshest seafood, and the best-cellared wines.


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June 6 – Why We're Here
By jdrysdale | June 6, 2011
Ken Buesseler pays his respects in front of Namiwake Jinja. The shrine was originally built on land that was spared during the Jogan tsunami of 869 A.D. Namiwake roughly translates as "split wave." (Photo by Ken Kostel, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
2:30 p.m. Japan Time
34.07N; 145.55E
We're on our way to the first sampling station. Now it's all about finalizing water budgets—making sure we get enough water at the right depths to meet the needs of all the different groups who will be doing work on the ship and back on shore. It's all about making sure the right samples get drawn and processed or stored properly and about making sure the biologists have enough time on station to trawl at the right depth. It's all about making sure everyone knows what they're doing and that we have the right people on duty at the right time. It's about countless tiny details.
But this is all about something else, as well. Something much bigger. We might be out here to do basic oceanography, but we are also here on the heels of an unprecedented geophysical event that has had massive human cost.
So Ken Buesseler and I took a shinkansen (bullet train) up to Sendai about 200 miles north of Tokyo to see for ourselves what remains the physical effects of March 11. With a population of one million it is the largest city in the Tohoku region that was most heavily affected by the magnitude 9 earthquake and tsunami. The epicenter of the quake was in the seafloor just 80 miles to the east of Sendai.
At first, I was hard-pressed to find any sign that even a small tremor had occurred. Having been to Kobe immediately after the 1995 earthquake, I knew to look for blue tarps on rooftops (traditional Japanese homes have heavy roof tiles that often shake loose and slide off during earthquakes) and cracks in walls, particularly in the corners of windows. But the other things that were common in Kobe—pancaked buildings, buckled streets, large areas of burned houses—were not visible.
We took a cab to a Shinto shrine I'd read about in the southeast part of the city. Namiwake Jinja was first built in the aftermath of the Jogan tsunami of 869 A.D. because the ground it now sits on was spared inundation. This time, as well, the tiny shrine building and the immediate neighborhood were largely unscathed. That's fortunate because, in addition to the community center next door and the many homes nearby, the area is also home to a large helicopter for the Japan Self-Defense Force from which relief efforts continue to be based.
Our cab driver, Mr. Sasaki, is from Sendai, but had no idea the shrine even existed. He thanked us for telling him about it and showed us how to pay our respects in the traditional way: two claps, two bows, one clap, and a ring of the bell.
Ken and I had originally planned to then make our way to the airport and walk the half mile or so to the ocean before catching a bus back to the Sendai train station. But then Mr. Sasaki said he could take us someplace where we could see the effect of a 15-meter tsunami—a "ghost town" he called it.
A few of the homes left standing in the town of Nattori near Sendai, Japan (Photo by Ken Kostel, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
From the highway, we could begin to get a sense for the nature of the destruction. Wide swaths of homes were stripped down to the foundations and the rubble strewn about in between. Boats and cars lay in jumbled heaps. Dead trees, poisoned by salt water, stood between untended and unusable rice paddies. But that was only on the left side of the car. The highway is built on a raised roadbed, so it acted like a long dike. Except for a few places where water surged through underpasses, the homes and fields on the right side were largely unscathed. In a way it was reminiscent of the way a tornado can rip through a town and leave one street unscathed while just a block away looks as if a buzz saw passed through.
We got off the highway at a town called Nattori—or rather we got off where Nattori used to be. Only a few houses still stand where there was obviously once a thriving little community. Work crews are already hard at work removing debris, but standing in the middle of an open and jagged horizon, it was hard to believe they could ever put such utter devastation back in order. People may want to move back there because that's what many people seem to do when their homes have been destroyed. Rebuild. But nothing will grow there for years. Rebuilding to something resembling what Nattori was will take even longer. And there will always be the memory of that day the ocean rose up and took the land.
We got out in front of a Buddhist temple and walked around a bit, but didn't stay long. The few houses remaining were split open and spilling their contents into the yard or the street. A few lone items were lined up in front of one as if asking: "Whose are these?" But who will come by to claim them?
We got back in the cab and drove to the airport in silence. Along the way we passed a woman squatting in front of the remains of her house, carefully picking through the mud in what was probably once her garden with a tiny hand trowel.
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Every time I look at a hot girl, I think about how happy she must be. It's sick and disgusting, but I figure if she's pretty, she must be happy. She has what others strive for, spend their years yearning and pining for.
She has the most important quality human beings seek in a mate. That's it... she's done; she can relax; she can enjoy her good fortune. How can she possibly be sad or worried about anything?
In reality, our sick and twisted society has created the ultimate trap: the prettier you are, the prettier you still could be. The more you get, the more you lose. Because when a woman looks in the mirror, she doesn't see everything you see, she sees everything she's not.
Why is that? Why is the pretty girl miserable? Why do we seem to gain insecurities with compliments? The conundrum behind the beautiful, yet insecure complex stems from a few theories, but I think the most obvious is the pedestal complex. When you put a woman on a stool, she's bound to get tired and fall off.
Once people have decided to judge you solely on your looks, that becomes the most scrutinized quality you have.
You're pretty, but not as pretty as she is. You're hot, but she's hotter. You're beautiful, but so is she. We've made it a competition rather than a camaraderie. We've made one type of pretty better than another, when in reality pretty is just... pretty.
We've made looks entirely too important and it's sad because our looks are something we can't control. We can't help how we look, but we can help what we think and believe. The things that we yearn to be idolized for and judged on take a backseat to the first and most "important" quality a woman is supposed to attain: beauty.
That's why women are so insecure. We're conditioned to safe guard this fleeting and elusive quality that we know will leave us one day. Our looks are our shady boyfriend who we think will cheat on us the second we close our eyes.
We're constantly paranoid and always comparing. We're ready to rip our curly, but not straight, hair out of our heads before we have a chance to wonder if another woman's is better.
Was she pretty? That's the first question we ask when hearing a story about a woman, isn't it? As if her looks will change the quality or effect of the story.
If she's pretty, then it's more interesting. Women know this and knowing this causes them to constantly wonder how people will describe their looks in their next story. Will her looks be enough to keep people interested?
If beauty is all she has, what happens when another girl is prettier than she is? Does that make her less of a person? If it's all about looks then what happens when hers start to fade? What happens when her breasts start to sag and her wrinkles start to show? Will you still love her?
If your devotion and obsession with her lies in something she could lose, will there be anything keeping you there when it's gone? When the most important part of you is the one you can't control, you become paranoid and obsessive, it's only natural.
She's not smart, she's beautiful and smart. She's not hilarious, she's "decent looking with a personality that makes up for it." The first adjective before any others is about her beauty. All her other qualities come second, as a definer.
When your entire life is based on a single adjective, you begin to think that's all you're defined by.
What's a gift if it's only temporary? Is it even a gift then? Having something that you know will leave you eventually isn't a comforting feeling, it's a terrifying one. If you get used to the idea that your looks are all you need, then what will you do when the thing you relied on is no longer there for you?
You have so much to say and you've grown so much from the person you once were. You're smart and honest and have ideas you want to share. All anyone judges you on, however, is the one thing you have nothing to do with, the one thing that you had no control over.
You know that they will eventually see the other sides of you, but the side they make such a fuss over is the one that's not been part of your growth and development as a human.
Those middle school years with braces, Scoliosis and bad skin will haunt them for the rest of their lives. Just because they blossomed into women who couldn't be more beautiful doesn't mean they don't remember the other side. They have scars from former years and their retainers are a reminder that they aren't perfect. They don't see how they are, but how they were.


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this is one of the most important topics and the production of this episode was excellent. Thank you for the good work you do.
There is a whole argument made here about semantics which evolves out of a statement that the right has begun referring to "troops" instead of the term soldiers. I don't deny the substance of the argument as presented, but I did want to correct the example; "troops" is a broad term which encompasses all branches of service performed by sailors, airmen, marines and soldiers.
The use of "troops" referenced here is, ironically, a more progressive language choice.
As always, thanks for the show, which I began listening to four years ago while tearing apart engines while serving in Japan.


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Albertans' appetite for cannabis third-highest in the country: Statistics Canada
By Elizabeth CameronStarMetro Calgary
Mon., April 30, 2018timer3 min. read
CALGARY — Whether we would admit to it or not, new data from Statistics Canada shows Albertans have embraced medical cannabis more than any province or territory in Canada.
And when it comes to cannabis use — regardless of how it was purchased —this province is the third-highest cannabis consumer in the country, with an average of 24.1 grams per person, per year.
Nova Scotia has the highest per capita usage, with 27.1 grams, and British Columbia is close behind with 24.6 grams.
Alberta accounted for more than a quarter of all legal cannabis purchases in Canada last year (25.1 per cent), according to Statistics Canada, although it's estimated just 10.4 per cent of all marijuana sold in 2017 was bought with a medical document.
"Canadians have an extremely high rate of use compared to other developed nations — looking at Alberta as a more consumer-based province, this does not shock me at all," said Dr. Ife Abiola, medical director of the 420 Clinic, which has locations in Calgary and Lethbridge.
He pointed out that while provinces such as Ontario and B.C. allowed illegal dispensaries to get a foot in the door, Albertans haven't had the same opportunities to self-medicate.
"Because our law enforcement did a great job of keeping (illegal dispensaries) out of our communities, people went through the proper medical routes instead of skirting those laws and going to a dispensary," Abiola said.
Consuming 20-plus grams of cannabis over the course of a year isn't excessive, according to Abiola, but it's enough to suggest that Canadians using cannabis are going beyond the occasional toke on a weekend.
"The average medical patient … will generally consume two to three grams every day," he said.
"So, if you look at it in that respect, (24 grams is) not really that much."
With recreational cannabis set to be legalized across the country this summer, both provinces and municipalities have been scrambling to prepare.
In the first week the City of Calgary was taking applications for cannabis retail store development permits, 256 were submitted — with 200 coming in the first 17 minutes of the application process opening.
Predictably, a large portion of the proposed store locations are clustered in the downtown core and the Beltline area.
Kensington's main street, 10 Street N.W., has nine proposed sites already, and Inglewood has eight — but not all of them will be approved, as the city's land use bylaw requires setback distances for cannabis stores near schools, vacant school parcels, liquor stores, emergency shelters and other cannabis businesses.
The specific distance depends on the land-use designation for the proposed location, but as a general rule, there will be a 300-metre buffer zone between cannabis retail stores.
After the federal government sets a date for legalization, the development permits will be approved or rejected in the order they were received, according to the city. In other words, the earlier an application was submitted, the better its chances of claiming an ideal location.
Once these stores open their doors, it's possible the stream of new medical patients in Alberta will actually slow, according to Abiola, because many will self-medicate.
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"This is something that's going to be ubiquitous … if you look at a place like Denver, Colorado, there's not a lot of people who are accessing (cannabis) through doctors or prescriptions simply because it could be accessed through brick and mortar locations in their community," he said.
"That being said, this doesn't change the fact many people are using it for medical purposes. (That's) never going to go away."
Elizabeth Cameron is a Calgary-based reporter covering Indigenous affairs, drugs and health. Follow her on Twitter: @e_s_cameron
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Kyujin Cho
RAS Geographic Region 3
E: ras.tab.vp@ieee.org
Kyu-Jin Cho received B.S and M.S. degrees from Seoul National University, Korea and a Ph.D. degree in ME from M.I.T. He was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory. At present, he is a professor of Mechanical and Engineering and the director of Soft Robotics Research Center and Biorobotics Laboratory at Seoul National University. He has been exploring novel soft robot designs, including a water jumping robot, origami robots and a soft wearable robot for the hand, called Exo-Glove Poly. The work on the water jumping robot was published in SCIENCE and covered by over 300 news media world-wide.
Talk # 1
Soft Robotics: A new paradigm for robotics research
Soft robotics is an emerging field of research that uses soft or compliant materials and elements to overcome the limitation of traditional robotics. Traditionally, robots have been used in an industrial environment with few unknown parameters. As more and more robots are used to interact with environments that are uncertain and vulnerable to change, a technology that can easily adapt to the changing environment is needed. Soft robotics deals with this issue by using soft and compliant elements in an intelligent way. In this talk, I will describe several novel robotic systems that uses softness to achieve shape control or stiffness control to provide a safe, lightweight and hopefully low cost solution. The key design principle is embodied intelligence or morphological computation which can reduce the complexity of the system while providing useful functionality.
Soft Robots with Physically Embodied Intelligence
Soft robotics deals with interaction with environments that are uncertain and vulnerable to change, by easily adapting to the environment with soft materials. However, softness requires controlling large degrees of freedom. Many soft robots use pneumatics which can easily distribute the actuation. If tendons are used for actuating a soft body, the large degrees of freedom of the material either requires large number of tendons or limits the controllability. Tendon drive soft robots can benefit from using the concept of physically embodied intelligence, first proposed by Prof. Rolf Pfeifer. By embodying intelligence into the design, better performance can be achieved with a simpler actuation. In nature, there are few example that exhibit this property. Flytrap, for example, can close its leaves quickly by using bistability of the leaves instead of just relying on the actuation. Inchworm achieves adaptive gripping with its prolegs by using the buckling effect. In this talk, I will give an overview of various soft robotic technologies, and some of the soft robots with physically embodied intelligence that are being developed at SNU. These examples will show that the concept of physically embodied intelligence simplifies the design and enables better performance by exploiting the characteristics of the material.
Fumiya Iida
E: fi224@cam.ac.uk
Fumiya Iida (SM'17) is a university lecturer at Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. He is also the director of Biologically Inspired Robotics Laboratory and a fellow of Corpus Christi College. He received his bachelor and master degrees in mechanical engineering at Tokyo University of Science in Japan, and Dr. sc. nat. in Informatics at University of Zurich in Switzerland. During his PhD project, he was also engaged in biomechanics research of human locomotion at Locomotion Laboratory, University of Jena in Germany. While he worked as a postdoctoral associate at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in USA, he awarded the Fellowship for Prospective Researchers from the Swiss National Science Foundation, and then, the Swiss National Science Foundation Professorship hosted by ETH Zurich. In 2014 he moved to the University of Cambridge as the director of Bio-Inspired Robotics Laboratory. His research interest includes biologically inspired robotics, embodied artificial intelligence, and soft robotics, where he was involved in a number of research projects related to robot locomotion, manipulation, and human-robot interactions leading to some start-up companies. He was a recipient of the IROS2016 Fukuda Young Professional Award, and Royal Society Translation Award in 2017.
Biologically Inspired Soft Robotics: Challenges and Perspectives
As the complexity of robotic systems enhances, it becomes increasingly more difficult for humans to design and construct them manually. In particular, soft deformable systems that have essentially infinite design parameters as well as degrees of freedom, are often intractable for humans to apply conventional design and fabrication methods. For this problem, we have been exploring a set of alternative technologies to design and construct complex soft robots, such as multi-material 3D printing, electrically conductive elastomers, and model-free design automation processes. With the recent rapid progress of these technologies, we are able to develop a family of new robots that we can characterised as "morphologically computing machines". We are exploring how such a new paradigm of design processes can be realised, though there are a number of known challenges such as the dimensionality problem, the scalability problem, and the reality gap.
Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio
New Haven, (CT) USA
E: rebecca.kramer@yale.edu
Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Yale University. She completed her B.S. at the Johns Hopkins University, M.S. at U.C. Berkeley, and Ph.D. at Harvard University. Prior to joining the faculty at Yale, she was an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. She currently serves as an Associate Editor of Soft Robotics, Frontiers in Robotics and AI: Soft Robotics, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, and Multifunctional Materials. She is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the NASA Early Career Faculty Award, the AFOSR Young Investigator Award, the ONR Young Investigator Award, and was named to Forbes' 2015 30 under 30 list.


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package org.lnu.is.extractor.user.group;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.lnu.is.domain.common.RowStatus;
import org.lnu.is.security.service.SessionService;
import org.mockito.InjectMocks;
import org.mockito.Mock;
import org.mockito.runners.MockitoJUnitRunner;

@RunWith(MockitoJUnitRunner.class)
public class UserGroupViewParametersExtractorTest {

	@Mock
	private SessionService sessionService;

	@InjectMocks
	private UserGroupViewParametersExtractor unit;

	private Boolean active = true;
	private Boolean security = true;

	private String group1 = "developers";
	private String group2 = "students";

	private List<String> groups = Arrays.asList(group1, group2);

	@Before
	public void setup() {
		unit.setActive(active);
		unit.setSecurity(security);

		when(sessionService.getGroups()).thenReturn(groups);
	}

	@Test
	public void testGetParameters() throws Exception {
		// Given
		Long groupId1 = 1L;
		List<Long> entity = Arrays.asList(groupId1);

		Map<String, Object> expected = new HashMap<String, Object>();
		expected.put("groupIds", entity);
		expected.put("status", RowStatus.ACTIVE);
		expected.put("userGroups", groups);

		// When
		Map<String, Object> actual = unit.getParameters(entity);

		// Then
		assertEquals(expected, actual);
	}

	@Test
	public void testGetParametersWithDisabledSecurity() throws Exception {
		// Given
		unit.setSecurity(false);

		Long groupId1 = 1L;
		List<Long> entity = Arrays.asList(groupId1);

		Map<String, Object> expected = new HashMap<String, Object>();
		expected.put("groupIds", entity);
		expected.put("status", RowStatus.ACTIVE);

		// When
		Map<String, Object> actual = unit.getParameters(entity);

		// Then
		assertEquals(expected, actual);
	}

	@Test
	public void testGetParametersWithDisabledStatus() throws Exception {
		// Given
		unit.setActive(false);

		Long groupId1 = 1L;
		List<Long> entity = Arrays.asList(groupId1);

		Map<String, Object> expected = new HashMap<String, Object>();
		expected.put("groupIds", entity);
		expected.put("userGroups", groups);

		// When
		Map<String, Object> actual = unit.getParameters(entity);

		// Then
		assertEquals(expected, actual);
	}

	@Test
	public void testGetParametersWithDisabledDefaults() throws Exception {
		// Given
		unit.setActive(false);
		unit.setSecurity(false);

		Long groupId1 = 1L;
		List<Long> entity = Arrays.asList(groupId1);

		Map<String, Object> expected = new HashMap<String, Object>();
		expected.put("groupIds", entity);

		// When
		Map<String, Object> actual = unit.getParameters(entity);

		// Then
		assertEquals(expected, actual);
	}

	@Test
	public void testGetParametersWithDefaultEntity() throws Exception {
		// Given
		List<Long> entity = Collections.emptyList();

		Map<String, Object> expected = new HashMap<String, Object>();
		expected.put("status", RowStatus.ACTIVE);
		expected.put("userGroups", groups);

		// When
		Map<String, Object> actual = unit.getParameters(entity);

		// Then
		assertEquals(expected, actual);
	}

	@Test
	public void testGetParametersWithNullEntity() throws Exception {
		// Given
		List<Long> entity = null;

		Map<String, Object> expected = new HashMap<String, Object>();
		expected.put("status", RowStatus.ACTIVE);
		expected.put("userGroups", groups);

		// When
		Map<String, Object> actual = unit.getParameters(entity);

		// Then
		assertEquals(expected, actual);
	}

	@Test
	public void testGetParametersWithDefaultEntityAndDisabledDefaults() throws Exception {
		// Given
		unit.setActive(false);
		unit.setSecurity(false);

		List<Long> entity = Collections.emptyList();

		Map<String, Object> expected = new HashMap<String, Object>();

		// When
		Map<String, Object> actual = unit.getParameters(entity);

		// Then
		assertEquals(expected, actual);
	}
}

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Jog up to the start.
Long middle ( I ran Brown ) at Haverthwaite heights. Such a great area. Shame I wasn't particulalry great. Not precise enough with direction on some controls ditto height judgement. Having said that, biggest time loss was one where they hadn't cut the circle and obscured a hill next to the one with my control leaving me quite confused.
Swansea Intervals. Trying to get these going again. Got Oscar, William, Iestyn, Catrin and Megan S along this week as well as us old gits. So a good start. Hope they maintain their enthusiasm. Should be easier when the clocks change and we get to run by Three Cliffs Bay.
For this week, Mumbles hill and relatively short - dark by the end, and a session like this a novelty for many of them - 4 * 2.10 - in terms of hard efforts. They all seemed to enjoy it.
SWOC street O from Canton. Made a bit of a fundamental error in forgetting to bring my headlight. It made reading the map, and clue sheet somewhat tricky.
Ashton Court from Keith's wth the Monday night crew.
A shocking bit of insubordination from some of the younger elements, when they declined the injuction to take the second Zig Zag in the woods, to allow Keith and myself to take a short cut.
Compass sport cup qualifier at Triscombe on the Quantocks. Really an M60 now - Green course. And a very underplanned Green at that. Won by Flurry (M18) in under 18 mins !
Very straightforward - point compass , look up and go. Minor hesitation on leaving the forest at the end. Map showing a patch of green , which was non existent on the ground as far as I could see. Other than that no problems. Happy to just beat Jamie's dad.


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The term "affirmative action" has its roots from the various public policies and initiatives that were executed to eliminate discrimination. Kowalski (2010) points out that, in the early 1960s, discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or country of origin was evident, especially, in America. According to him, this led to civil rights protest against discrimination leading to various constitutional amendments that were intended to help in the elimination of the past and present forms of discrimination. Further, he notes that US and the world viewed affirmative action as the legislation that advocated for equal human rights, particularly in the education sector and in the working environment.
However, Kowalski (2010) points out that affirmative action has still not fully captured the interest of the vulnerable people. He argues that even with equal participation, affirmative action has affected the women and other vulnerable persons like the disabled, whose performance is based on the general population performance. According to Kowalski (2010), this is what has triggered the societies to advocate for effective legislations that would device a way of realizing equal representations and participation. The work highlights the pros and cons of the affirmative action. It also highlights how affirmative action forms the basis of all the applied sociological theories.
Pros and Cons of Affirmative Action
According to Cosson (2010), public and private policies related to affirmative action were design to enhance special consideration towards the disadvantaged groups in society. He points out that these policies have both their advantages and disadvantages. Cosson (2010) notes that affirmative action policies have enabled the minority in the society to access basic requirements like education. He also argued that affirmative action has enabled students, especially those from the ethnic minority, to advance on their education. Additionally, Cosson (2010) writes that the policies provide a helping hand to the needy students enabling them to acquire advanced education offered by the higher educational system that they would never be able to access.
Cosson (2010) points out that affirmative action promote diversity among the minority both in education and work areas. He argues that, through this, affirmative action has helped instill individual's confidence allowing them to participate equally in any civic process. Acknowledging that diversity does not happen automatically, Cosson (2010) argues that it can be instilled in a population by acknowledging and respecting individual's diverse opinions and representation. He, therefore, points out that equal representation of the minority groups in the work place enables them to prove their capability to work just like the general population.
On the other hand, Cosson (2010) points out that affirmative action has given a rise to the discrimination, especially in education and workplace. His argument is based on the fact that the minority groups are discriminated in the work places because they are seen to have been helped in getting their positions. According to Cosson (2010), this affects the administrative obligations of the minority groups as their work capability is questioned by their corresponding colleagues.
Cosson (2010) notes that the adoption of affirmative action in education centers has lowered the education standards of the students from the minority groups. He argues that, because of the affirmation action, a number of policies favor students from the minority groups. They, thus, tend not to work as hard as their counterparts. This is happening because their entry into the higher education institutions is compromised by the affirmative action policies. The students, who enroll out of the affirmative action, do not perform well as they are normally unable to cope with the respective institution's demands. Cosson's underlying argument is that an individual normally feels satisfied with the success achieved from hard work and persistence rather than achievements based on sympathy and empathy as posed by affirmative action (Cosson, 2010).
How Social Theories Addresses the Affirmative Action
According to Hammond (2008), every internalized social behavior that is evident in a society, can be explained based on sociological theories. Key theories among the sociological theories that have been widely used to address wider societal aspects include Conflict, Symbolic Interaction and Functionalism. These theories have also contributed in the making of the policy framework for affirmative action. Hammond (2008) notes that, just like the affirmative action, the social theories also advocate for the need of equal participation and representation of the individuals in the society.
Hammond (2008) points out that the conflict theorists see the society as characterized by conflict that normally arise due to the competition for limited resources. Conflict theory explains the outrageous power that individuals in the society extensively use to get what they perceive as essential for their well being. The theory, therefore, addresses the discriminatory factors that have been evident in the society in terms of the wealthy, which it calls the bourgeoisies and poor, which it calls the proletariats. It, therefore, perceives affirmative action in terms of those policies that seek to address the concerns of the proletariats, who are normally exploited by the bourgeoisies. The proletariats are vulnerable due to their inability to access adequate resources. Cosson (2010) notes that just like affirmative action, the conflict theory addresses the need for equitable resources distribution to avoid societal conflicts.
According to Hammond (2008), the symbolic interaction theorists perceive the society as an avenue that continuously emulates individual's interaction and communication networks. He points out that the symbolic theory defines the need to acknowledge ones identity as it encourages the value of communication between two or more groups. This implies that the theory points out to the importance of embracing one's cultural identity.
According to Kowalski (2010), this theory also forms the basis of the affirmative action since affirmative action mainly advocate for equal representation and participation of the minority groups in various sectors not withstanding their cultural identities. Hammond (2010) admits that the symbolic interaction helps people to shape their understanding in different cultural points of view hence promoting good relationship. He notes that affirmative action plays an important role in initiating such communication networks as it enables the minority to interact with other groups in various sectors.
Functionalism theory explains the society's stability as primarily based on each and every individual's contribution in the society. According to Hammond (2010), the theory points out the various functioning elements of the society like socialization, economic recovery, and justice as tremendously contributing to the overall societal stability. He notes that the society is fragile, and a dysfunction of any one element can lead to its instability. This means that any unfair treatment of a section of the society symbolizes the dysfunction of at least one elementary function of that society. Kowalski (2010) points out that the affirmative action policy that enables and enhances diversity among the minority group in various sectors emulates the functionalism theory. He points out that affirmative action policies enable the minority group to exercise their ability to execute various job titles in a work place that, in turn, improves the society's economic recovery.
In conclusion, the write up has made it clear that affirmative action has both its advantages and disadvantages. For example, the policies framework of affirmative action is essential both to the society's economy and social well being as it enhances equal representation. Additionally, affirmative action instill self reliance among the community since the minority groups are allowed to educate and work, which, in turn, changes the moral and social aspect of the society. Affirmative action is also based on various social theories that define the society's social and moral behaviors.
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Rebekah Driggers, MBA, FASPR
Director, Physician & Provider Recruitment
Rebekah Driggers provides leadership for recruiting and retaining a medical staff of board-certified physicians and licensed advanced practice providers who are committed to providing patient-centered quality care for Cone Health. Rebekah has been with Cone Health since July 2000. She continues to transform the Provider Recruitment Division into a first resource for resident, fellowship, and practicing physicians in their career search nationwide.
As a certified Fellow of Association of Staff Provider Recruiters (FASPR), Rebekah demonstrates her commitment to continuing education and excellence in the discipline of physician recruitment. The Association of Staff Physician Recruiters (ASPR) is a professional organization exclusively for in-house physician/provider recruitment professionals and is nationally recognized as the leading authority on physician/provider recruitment and retention.
Growing up in North Carolina, Rebekah graduated from High Point University and earned her MBA from Wake Forest University's Babcock School of Management. She is a member of the Association of Staff Provider Recruiters and Carolina Association of Physician Recruiters.
Donna Talbert
Consultant, Physician & Provider Recruitment
Donna Talbert is a Cone Health Physician and Advanced Practice Provider Consultant and joined Cone Health in November 2017. Donna brings more than seventeen years of experience with recruitment and retention of physicians and advanced practice providers. Donna's driving force is recruiting quality providers to ensure excellent care is provided to our medical communities. She looks forward to establishing strong relationships and delivering high-level service to both internal and external customers.
Donna is a North Carolina native, studied Business Administration and is a member of the Carolinas Association of Provider Services, serving multiple terms as a Board Member.
Keith Sarich
Keith Sarich is a Cone Health Physician Recruitment Consultant and has been with Cone Health since July 2017. Keith earned his Bachelor's degree in Natural Science from Saint Xavier College and his Master's degree in Health Administration from Governors State University. Keith has served in multiple roles as a Medical Service Corps officer in the United States Navy. Some of the roles have included Director, Office of Managed Care, Director, Patient Administration, Director, Office of Healthcare Planning and Regional Director, Navy Recruiting Command. Upon leaving the Navy, Keith gained experience working as a global program manager within the defense industry.
Keith has attained "Certified Healthcare Executive" (CHE) status in the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Danielle LaMorte, MD
Danielle LaMorte is a Cone Health Physician and Advanced Practice Provider Recruitment Consultant who joined the Cone Health community in March 2018. Danielle was raised in South Florida. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor of arts in the Biological Basis of Behavior and received minors in Chemistry and Psychology. She then obtained her medical degree at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, TN. Since graduating from medical school, Danielle has applied her industry knowledge of the healthcare field to impart a uniquely clinical perspective in her career as a Physician & Provider Recruitment Consultant. She is a member of the Association of Staff Provider Recruiters.
Lashanda Jacobs
Lashanda Jacobs is a Cone Health Physician and Provider Recruitment Consultant who joined Cone Health in December 2018. She has been in the healthcare field for over a decade and has a background in Human Resources. LaShanda values Cone Health's brand promise and will be right here with you, to ensure all of your recruitment needs are met. She is a native of the Triad area in North Carolina and is a member of the Association of Staff Provider Recruiters.
Rebekah Then
Coordinator, Physician & Provider Recruitment
Rebekah Then (they/them) is a Physician and Provider Recruitment Coordinator who has been with Cone Health since 2019. Rebekah grew up in the Greensboro area and received their BA from UNC Greensboro. Rebekah values authenticity, empathy and inclusivity. They strive to provide values-driven interactions that center around connecting with people where they are and providing them at least one experience in their day that can make them feel more uplifted or confident going forward.
Kimberly Frazier
Kimberly Frazier is a Cone Health Physician and Provider Recruitment Coordinator who joined Cone Health in December 2015. Prior to her employment with Cone, Kimberly worked as an educator, teaching abroad and in the US. She is enthusiastic and personable, and will work tirelessly to ensure your onboarding experience is unequivocally positive. Outside of the office, you will find Kimberly practicing yoga, hiking the Blue Ridge Mountains, or relaxing with her two Shih Tzu companions.


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Amine Harit salary and net worth: How did the Midfielder make his wealth notable?
November 30, 2022 sweet Bio Net Worth Salary
Amine Harit is a midfielder for Ligue 1 team Marseille in the football league. He represents the national team of Morocco and was born in France. The Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup took place from November 20 to December 18, entirely crossing the wait for FIFA 2022, because currently it is going on. The World Cup is being held for the first time in the Arab world this year. Morocco V/S Canada in a potentially pivotal Group F match. Morocco entered the game on Thursday at 7:00 AM in the Stadium, with a determination to make a good first impression. Harit's contract with Schalke was extended for a another three years, or until 2024, on December 11, 2019. Get to know more about Amine Harit salary, net worth, contract, parents, relationship and other details:
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4 When and where the famous athlete was born? Early life, Age, Ethnicity, nationality, Injury
Amine Harit salary in 2022, net worth, career earnings, contract and all the way of boosting his wealth
Amine Harit salary: His net worth is in the millions. Harit talent and hard work have earned him a lot of money and recognition as a midfielder for Ligue 1 club Marseille for the Morocco national team. Amine Harit net worth is estimated to be more than $8 Million. The handsome footballer has also accumulated a sizable wealth, which includes game prize money as well as endorsements and partnerships. The athlete has also been a star on the field for a long time and is one of his team's highest-paid and most successful players. He has a current market value of €14.00m. Adidas is his brand endorsement. He has been playing professional football for almost more than 10 years. His last transfer was from Schalke 04 to Marseille in 2022.
Amine Harit is playing football sources:Instagram
Harit's contract at Schalke was extended for a another three years, or until 2024, on December 11, 2019. Harit re-joined Marseille on September 1, 2022, for a loan that would last a full season, with the possibility of a permanent transfer. For a sum of around €5 million, his transfer to OM was declared permanent on November 7. An obligation-to-buy provision in his contract was activated after he made his fifteenth appearance of the year.
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Amine Harit's €5 million salary will be paid for in part by Marseille and in whole by Schalke. As Schalke has now incorporated a buy option of €5 million into the agreement, the Moroccan international has joined the French club on a loan for a second consecutive season.
UEFA European Under-19 Championship: 2016
UEFA European Under-19 Championship Team of the Tournament: 2016
Bundesliga Rookie of the Year: 2017-2018
Mars d'Or (Moroccan Youth Player of the Year): 2018
Bundesliga Player of the Month: September 2019
How much will the 2022 World Cup champion receive?
On Monday, November 21, 2022, the Qatar FIFA World Cup 2022 will begin and end on December 18, 2022. Each team receives $2 million for practice and $10 million to enter the competition. The 2018 World Cup champion will then additionally collect $50 million. The winner will take home 62 million dollars in prize money alone. The money that FIFA pays clubs and national teams for each player's participation is then added.
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To participate in the competition, FIFA pays the teams a total of $209 million for the players. Include an additional 134 million dollars in insurance benefits. The winner of the World Cup 2022 will also gain direct qualification to the next FIFA Confederations Cup in addition to the prize money and the coveted World Cup.
When and where the famous athlete was born? Early life, Age, Ethnicity, nationality, Injury
Amine Harit was born on 18 June 1997 in Pontoise, France. However, nothing is known about Amine prior professional life, and he has also avoided letting the world into his personal affairs.
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He holds both French and Moroccan and is of Moroccan descent. His religious belief is in the Christian religion His star sign is Gemini. His preferred foot is Right. Harit jersey number is 77. He had a knee injury on November 13 that prevented him from competing in the World Cup.
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Mandatory online corporate responsibility self-assessments, completed by vendors, are now part of the company's qualification process. And Siemens is now using a defined set of criteria worldwide to monitor the sustainability-based development of providers.
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Love vs. Respect—Which is More Critical for Making Relationships Last?
By alnorani on 24/03/2019 • ( 1 Comment )
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I didn't respect my wife even though I loved her a lot. And even though my wife loved me back, because she respected herself, she eventually divorced me.
I never considered that my freely given unconditional love could ever not be enough. I never considered that my selective demonstrations of respect toward my wife could impact her love for me—both the emotional love one feels, as well as the psychological love one actively chooses to give to someone else.
Now, I showed a requisite amount of respect for my wife for most people—including her most of the time—to observe, think, and feel Matt respects his wife.
And that's the big secret in all of these complicated relationship conversations. They're so dangerously nuanced that most of us are capable of interpreting them multiple ways, or—perhaps more commonly—our interpretation is different than another person's interpretation, and then when discussing the disagreement, one or both people are horrible at navigating the conversation without damaging the relationship they have with whomever they're having a disagreement.
Often, that's a romantic partner or spouse.
Often, it's just one more paper cut on one or both of them that will eventually cause the relationship to bleed to death and die.
My newest coaching client asked me this morning: "What is your view of the relationship between love and respect? Can you love someone with whom you are inconsistent in showing respect? If you lose respect over time, can you recover and still love that person?"
The following is my answer.
Love is NOT All You Need
"Love is all you need," The Beatles sang over and over again in their smash hit from 1967 that all of us have heard dozens, perhaps hundreds, of times.
And I think I know what John Lennon and Sir Paul McCartney intended when writing the song. I'm not here to quibble with their lyrics.
But I am here to quibble with that idea in its most literal interpretation and in the most anal-retentive way possible, because it's the difference between whether your relationship survives ups and downs, or slowly withers on the vine and dies.
I love my son. Like, LOVE him. Intensely. And philosophically, I respect him. Like, I think and believe that I respect him.
But I think there's a chance he often feels disrespected by me. Maybe because of my tone when I say something to him, or because of how I react to some outrageous 10-year-old thing he says, instead of simply RESPECTING him.
I shower my son with praise.
I tell him regularly how much he's loved and cared for and valued. I tell him how proud of him I am.
And that's real. I FEEL those things, authentically, when I say them. In Dr. Chapman's 5 Love Languages terms, words of affirmation are my love language.
I don't know what that child's love language is.
Maybe his love language is "Hey Dad, show up on time for the last-ever Cub Scouts event of my life because you respected me enough to put it in your calendar and be sure you wouldn't miss it instead of forcing Mom to text you after it already started, which is the only reason you even showed up."
(That really happened. Two days ago. ADDitude Magazine should put me on their cover.)
I FEEL intense love for my son. It's very real to me. But what good does that love do if my son feels disrespected? What good does it do if my son grows up not trusting me with whatever he's dealing with because—from his perspective—I don't show him respect?
Maybe all my bullshitty Dad-talk feels to him like disrespectful, unsolicited advice, or worse—like criticism that I don't think he's good enough.
Maybe despite telling my son (and believing it) how smart I think he is, he doesn't FEEL as if I think he's smart, since sometimes I think he says bullshitty things, and act like it.
Life continues to humble me, and remind me that no matter how much I learn, I'm still as far away from being a finished product as I was when I was still doling out shitty husbandry like a nudie-card peddler on Las Vegas Blvd.
Romantic Love and Marriage is Even More Fragile Than Our Parent-Child Relationships
Kids don't really choose their living arrangement. But our adult romantic partners DO choose it. It's a volunteer activity, and if we want them to voluntarily choose us over every other possible option in the world, we should offer some type of value proposition in exchange for their voluntary commitment to being our partners.
I'm not a child psychologist, but our kids just sort of get born into our homes and families, and grow up without enough information to gauge how good or bad it is relative to other homes and families in the world.
So long as we're not horribly abusive and sadistic, I think our kids often hero-worship us in a lot of ways, even when we don't deserve it.
But not so much with our spouses or girlfriends/boyfriends.
The most common story of romantic love dying in a relationship is because RESPECT is absent.
What Does Respect Look Like?
I'm polite. Kind. Nice. Well-mannered.
And because I say please and thank you, and generally behave "respectfully," I always believed that I was demonstrating respect to others. Combined with that intense love that I felt toward my wife, any suggestion that I didn't love and respect my wife was met with total confusion.
Outrageous! How dare she! OF COURSE I love and respect her! She's the person I married and share all my things with and made a child with!
That is the 100% true and authentic (and tragically common) thought and feeling residing in the hearts and minds of one or both married/romantic partners that will paradoxically lead them to a messy and painful divorce or breakup.
Outrageous. That doesn't make any sense at all. I would have never married them or do X, Y, and Z for and with them for all of these years if I didn't love and respect them! They're just mistaken. But that's okay. All you need is love.
When you believe in your heart and soul that you love and respect your partner, then you're in no way motivated to change your behavior or mindset. Which leads to the exact same things happening over and over again. The exact same things that are leading to one or both relationship partners feeling disrespected and unloved.
Our INTENTION to respect others in no way guarantees that other people FEEL respected.
The math is simple enough.
When your partner doesn't feel as if they're respected, they will feel mistreated. They will feel uncared for. They will feel dismissed and marginalized.
A person in that situation has two choices—continue to feel beaten down and unloved, which often leads to a total loss of positive self-image, and a person who feels shitty all of the time ceases to be fun and attractive, so the PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DISRESPECT AND MISTREATMENT actually ends up having "legitimate" reasons to stop feeling attracted to their partner, commonly leading to affairs or a divorce/breakup.
The other choice a person has—and I'm so glad that my ex-wife chose it—is to stand up for oneself. To preserve your own internal self-respect, self-love, personal integrity, etc.
Because God forbid, my son's mother have turned into some beaten-down, self-loathing, joyless human incapable of demonstrating the kind of love and respect I wish for any child, but especially my son who I love so much and for who I wish so many good things.
"But Matt! What do you mean you didn't respect your wife? What does that even look like?"
That's the tricky part. That's the scary, sneaky part.
It's difficult to recognize. So, just in case you didn't see it above, this is what it looks like.
A semi-famous example from this blog and my marriage is the story of me leaving a dish by the sink, and how my habit of doing that led to my divorce.
I saw a dish by the sink. No big deal. I saw something virtually meaningless. Insignificant, at most.
My wife saw a blatant act of disrespect. A huge deal. And FELT it, emotionally, down where it hurts the most. She saw weekly, if not daily, reminders that her husband didn't respect her enough to do something SUPER-easy for her. She felt so uncared for, and so unheard, and so invalidated, that her choice was either:
Spend the rest of her life with someone who constantly makes her feel shitty through common, frequent acts of disrespect.
Choose a different option involving infinitely less pain, more hope, better health, and ensuring that she'd continue to be a person she could look at in the mirror and feel proud of.
It didn't matter that I didn't think her concerns were valid. It didn't matter that I disagreed with her.
Even in some magical universe where I was objectively RIGHT in those assumptions, it STILL wouldn't matter what was true to ME.
My wife felt pain, down in her gut, because she couldn't trust me to be her adult partner for the rest of her life.
And major change is scary. And facing a lifetime of pain is scary. Especially when a little boy is at the center of it.
Love is great. Love is paramount to humanity's survival. Love is a necessary and critical component of making marriage or any romantic relationship work.
But, which is MORE important? Which is MORE critical?
Love or respect?
It's respect.
Respect is something virtually every human deserves on a basic level.
But love? That's a choice. That's something we reserve for a select few for our own reasons.
Love is a choice people will no longer choose to make in the absence of respect.
If you're in a marriage or dating relationship that used to be full of love, but now feels heavy and empty? And you're wondering where that love and joy went?
I didn't respect my wife, and now I'm divorced.
I hope you'll make a different choice.
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Echo umbrella. $28. Old Navy trench. $49.50. Capelli New York rain boot. Only $22.50!
Clear umbrella. $16.99. Topshop Parka. $55. Capelli New York Rain sneaker. $22.50.
Obviously I can't get enough of the ruffle umbrella. This look is still bright but a bit more conservative. How cute is the trench? Would you die if I told you it was from Wal-Mart?!
Echo ruffle umbrella. $28. Norma Kamali for Wal-Mart trench. $35. Nomad flat rain shoes. 39.95.
Where can I get those black heeled rainboots?
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I don't often post on my blog about personal going ons, but our particular status affects my sewing space.
We are in the middle of an epic remodel. Well...it is really like we are building a new house!
Now we are moving again!!! Yikes.
I purchased those lovely fabric boxes from Target and they are a great way to organize my fabric. Organizing by color works best for me and my creative process.
and I will have a dedicated sewing space. I haven't had a sewing room for seven years!
Six more months (fingers crossed).
Do you have any tips for keeping organized? I'd love to hear them!
The Plan and progress so far.
What a beautiful place before the renovation! Gosh, can't imagine after the reno work! Patience is a virtue but in the end it will be all worth it and to have a dedicated sewing space once again is exciting! Good luck look forward to seeing your progress.
Thats exciting! I love the fabric boxes but have returned to boxes with lifs - no dusting.
Boy do I empathize with you! We have been remodeline for a year and a half (you can see the before and after pictures on my 2016 New Quilt Bloggers post) and are now really close to move in day! I actually packed all of my sewing stuff away (never dreaming it would take this long) so I had to start a stash all over from scratch and it is just piled by color on the top two shelves of a bookshelf. One of my blogging friends, Melva at Melva Loves Scraps is doing a linky party where we can share our sewing spaces and that's pretty much all I have to show at the moment! But in three weeks . . . I can't wait!! I'll bet your sewing space is going to be FABULOUS!
Oh my, what a beautiful house! Can't wait to see the after version!
It's lookin' good! Good luck We did a total kitchen remodel and paint this last winter. It is so nice when it is done!
That is going to be an amazing home!! Very exciting, hard too, but so worth it!!! Fabulous!!!!


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I have always considered myself to be a "professional writing" teacher.
I would argue, though, that in any community partnership course, there is a significant amount of writing that replicates the work of the traditional professional writing course. For instance, through community partnerships over the past year, my students have worked with local Syracuse residents as well recent immigrants to Syracuse. They have corresponded with individuals and students in Algeria, Tunisia, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. Collectively, they have produced dialogues concerning women's rights, educational access, and global conflicts.
The point is that community partnerships necessarily draw students into the genres which are the typical focus of a professional writing course. Yet to some extent, professional writing courses are considered distinct from the field's focus on community as well as community literacy. Nor have community writing/partnerships courses readily adopted professional writing as an informing and important source for their work.
My own sense for this seeming divide has to do with the politics associated with each set of classrooms. While community literacy might be critiqued for its noblisse oblige, such courses are often seen as being on a "progressive" side of our field. And while professional writing has deep roots in the non-profit world, I would argue it is too often seen in the service of corporate interests – too often, that is, its emergence in the field is seen as a sign of the corporatization of the university. Each characterization is necessarily a caricature, but one that carries weight in our field. And similar to our current political debate, there seems little space to draw these opposites into a constructive dialogue.
Ultimately, I would argue, this lack of dialogue, this disciplinary divide, hurts how our students understand the possibilities of writing – in all its forms – to inform and enable active public debate focused on real change.
While community literacy projects often produce quite a bit of writing, this writing also seems to vanish at the end of the term. With that in mind, departments might consider creating a digital archive of student work. Rather than be organized by project ("after-school literacy program"), the work might be divided by professional writing genre ("strategic proposal"). Such an archive has two immediate benefits. First, teachers are able to see the types of common writing that occur across their specific community projects. Second, professional writing teachers will have examples to their students of how "professional writing" can emerge in community projects. And perhaps more importantly, all teachers will begin to see how their work might both intersect and mutually support each other.
One common feature of community projects is that they exist within a particular teacher's classroom. As a result, most community projects fail to take full advantage of the resources within an entire department. It might be useful, then, to consider how one particular project might be integrated across a series of classrooms, such as a professional writing and advanced literacy course. Elements of the project could be divided among the classes, with several group meetings designed to show how seemingly different writing "genres" and "writing theories" when brought together enable a stronger set of work to be produced. If the first suggestion, the archive, was to highlight to teachers the ways their work might intersect, this suggestion is to help students see how the emphases of their coursework intersects.
Public events can also be used to work against a perception that professional and community writing are two different enterprises. Invite individuals who do work in community-based issues – such as gentrification, education, and the environment – to share all the ways in which they engage in "public writing." Here the idea is to show that the work being assigned by teachers has a "real life" purpose that can support students' civic or communal values. As with the other examples, the goal is to show that what are often seen as oppositional forces within a minor, major, or discipline have common ground that speaks to important public purposes.
Of course, I recognize that in the current political moment, fraught with divisive racist rhetoric and economic disparity, finding common ground between two courses, two elements of a field, might not seem the most important of tasks. Yet if we imagine such work as demonstrating to students how seemingly rigid boundaries can be brought together through nuanced engagement, then, perhaps, they might be able to transfer such work to the civic space, which is clearly in need of such lessons.


I am a psychologist who lives in Calgary with my beloved partner of 18 years and my mischievous Basset Hound, Jelly. I enjoyed a busy practice before my diagnosis with leukemia (CML) in August 2012, but I am now working only occasionally. My days are spent keeping well, often by cooking (and eating) healthy food, walking my dog, and practicing yoga.
My CML diagnosis followed a long history of other health challenges. Twelve years prior, I was diagnosed with polycythemia, a blood disorder believed unrelated to my leukemia. A few months later, doctors discovered an ugly blood clot just outside my liver, likely due to my polycythemia. My liver functioning has been compromised since, complicating treatment for my other health conditions. Over the years, I have gained considerable experience as a patient both in and out of hospital, and I have been graced with tremendous medical care, especially since my CML diagnosis. Don't knock Canada's public health care system 'til you try it.
Through this blog, I will share my experiences of living with chronic illness, both as a patient and as a psychologist. I've learned that sometimes being happy is hard work. Some days are harder than others but my focus here will be on worrying less and enjoying life more. No point sitting around waiting to die.
Glad you feel the blog is worth reading, Sonya! Thanks for your comment.
Hello – I am also a PCV patient, and I have an additional diagnosis called Budd Chiari (clots in the liver). I am really looking looking forward to reading your blog, I have only just discovered it. I am also blogging about my experience, albeit through a slightly different lens. Wishing you all the best with your on going treatment. P.s I also say hi to the Basset Hound!


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Maryam's mission
by Delma J. Francis
"Absolutely I'm a feminist. I am not a man-hater. That's not the point. It's the equality, allowing people to be all that they are."
Maryam Yusefzadeh spreads the truth about her native Iran
Maryam Yusefzadeh. Photo by Eva Studena.
Maryam Yusefzadeh remembers her teen years in the '70s with fondness. Wearing miniskirts and platform shoes, chattering with girlfriends, flirting with boys, she was just like any American teenager, except that she wasn't. Yusefzadeh grew up in Iran.
But it was not the Iran most Americans envision, she said. "I had never even seen a burka (the all-enveloping black garb worn by conservative Muslim sects)." As she speaks passionately about the country of her youth, a tiny gold cross winks at her throat. Oh yeah, she grew up Presbyterian.
Passion for Persia
Today Yusefzadeh, 51, is a woman on a mission: to teach Americans the true nature of the Iran she knew as a child and to explain how it came to be the repressive society we see today.
One of the ways she does that is through music. Her ensemble, Robayat, plays many kinds of music, in particular, Persian. Never mind that she's the only Persian in the group. The heart for beauty, peace and humanity that is infused throughout the music is what counts, she said. "It's the way I was brought up," she said, "to see the beauty in everything." Yusefzadeh started Robayat in 1988, "not only to play Persian music, but to have an open venue to explain to Americans that Iranians are people of heart, people of humanity. To provide some balance as to how Iran was perceived." It has worked, she said, "for those who are open to receiving it."
Yusefzadeh, of south Minneapolis, first visited the United States, Minnesota in particular, in 1968 to visit her older sister, a Macalester College graduate. Yusefzadeh returned every summer, liking what she saw. She moved here in 1975 to attend college at the University of Minnesota Duluth, studying fine arts and music with an emphasis on vocal performance.
"One of the biggest reasons for me being here is the Constitution. It's the closest thing to that of Persia in the beginning," she said. "The freedom, the human rights, the principles that this country were built upon, that is the reason I came here." To Yusefzadeh, it was to some extent like the Iran where she had grown up before the Shah was deposed and the fundamentalist Ayahtollah Khomeini returned from exile to grasp the reins of power-assisted by the machinations of the CIA, she said.
Humanistic religion
To sit for a while with Yusefzadeh, a petite whirlwind, is to receive a history lesson.
"The first human rights bill was written 3,000 years ago by King Cyrus of Persia," Yusefzadeh said, her voice warming with pride.
Another source of pride for Yusefzadeh: Persia was home to the first monolithic religion, Zoroastrianism. "Zoroastrianism didn't discriminate," she said. "All people were free to practice their own religion. All the Jews who had been displaced came to Persia. They were able to live any way they wanted. We even had a Jewish queen, Queen Esther."
Her family was part of a large bloc of Christians. Her 90-year-old uncle, Massoud Ershadi, is still a leader of Tehran's Presbyterian Church, a position of no small discomfort in the country where evangelizing any religion except Islam is subject to death. The Christian community was close. "We shared our church with Episcopalians and others, and we held Christmas together. When I moved here I was shocked by the divisions among the denominations."
Today, "In many ways I'm a practicing Buddhist. The essence of what Christ taught us is Buddhist belief: compassion for all, we're all created in His image, empowered by Him. We are complete in the image of God. We are all on our own journey; it has nothing to do with anyone else's journey, yet we are all connected. To gain wisdom, you have to shut up and listen to your heart."
Betty Boop & Me
Yusefzadeh's politics are no secret to anyone who's spent any time with her. "I'm a liberal's liberal," she says. "And absolutely I'm a feminist. I am not a man-hater. That's not the point. It's the equality, allowing people to be all that they are." Surprisingly, her feminist hero is the curvy, curly-haired cartoon character Betty Boop. "I'm a Betty Boop fanatic," she said. "Here's a voluptuous, independent female" at a time when most women weren't single by choice. "I grew up saying, 'That's the kind of woman I want to be.'"
Yusefzadeh grew up in an intellectual family, the baby of five children. "In six years my mother had four children. It was seven years after that before I was born. I was the oops," she said with a smile.
Her mother, Vajihen, was a teacher and her father, Habib, worked for the U.S. embassy, leading the Peace Corps office in Tehran. At a time when the average Iranian man had a seventh-grade education, her father held a degree in literature from an American college. Three of Yusefzadeh's siblings hold master's degrees, the fourth a Ph.D.; she holds an MBA.
International pain
In an ironic twist, the U.S. embassy that had provided her father employment and introduced her to America before she ever set foot on these shores became the scene of an international incident that led to one of the most distressing periods of her life.
Yusefzadeh was a college student when 70 Americans were taken hostage at the embassy on Nov. 4, 1979. On a day-to-day basis, life was difficult. "I couldn't tell people I was Iranian … I had to become someone else," she said because of the antipathy toward Iranians. With her caramel complexion, she called herself Greek or Italian, a humiliating situation for someone who possesses such pride of the country she carries in her heart.
After the hostages were released, the heat let up for a time. Yusefzadeh moved on in her career, working for IBM, a Big Four consulting firm and a dot-com company. She married her husband, Ira Keer, a Russian-American Jew. And she was able to reclaim her Iranian identity. Then along came 9/11.
"I was sitting there day after day crying, and just because Iran had been in the news recently," geography-challenged Americans confused the two I-R countries, linking Iran with the terrorist attacks rather than Iraq. "People would ask me, 'How are you handling this?' assuming I was part of the craziness. I'm neither Arab nor Muslim."
Then fear set in. President George W. Bush created the Department of Homeland Security, an agency designed to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States and reduce the country's vulnerability to terrorism. But outraged constitutional scholars railed against some of the methods of ferreting out terrorists, saying they went against the basic tenets of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. "I had to be so careful," Yusefzadeh said, the memory of those days fresh in her mind. "I could have been deported for saying anything against this [American] government."
Professional strain
When dot-com companies began to tank, Yusefzadeh was again in the job market. "I couldn't find full-time work with an Iranian last name," she said. Though she eventually found work as an independent contractor with several consulting firms, it came with a price. "I had to change my name to my husband's last name to even get people to look at my resume. I was an established businesswoman. Why would I change my name? It was a very difficult time." Eventually she was able to reclaim her name and to work as a consultant and IT strategist.
"What I do as an Iranian, every aspect of my life, is to expose Americans to the culture, history, arts, the poetry and what I call the essence of the people of Iran … that's all that I am about." And of course, there's Robayat; the group's first CD will be available next year.
Yusefzadeh hasn't been back to Iran since 1977, and says she would not want to live there again, even if the culture returned to what she knew as a kid. "I'm so Americanized I really don't think I could live with the limitations," she said. "I like being able to walk my dog (Bebe) at 10 at night in my shorts." Bebe, short for who else? Betty Boop.
For more information about the musical side of Maryam Yusefzadeh go to www.mymusicproductions.com. The profile appears in every issue of the Minnesota Women's Press. It reflects our founding principle and guiding philosophy that every woman has a story. Readers are welcome to submit suggestions for profile subjects. Email your ideas to [email protected].