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FALLEN POLE CAUSES HAVOC
A three-car accident around mid-day on Monday sent a electric pole to the ground and caused a two-hour backup for traffic on both sides of Lee Burbank Highway.
A southbound pickup struck another vehicle around 12:48 p.m. on Monday, and careened into another car. They went into a pole that carried power lines.
That sent the pole down onto one of the vehicles. It also sent the pole and the power lines down onto the roadway – blocking both the northbound and southbound lanes.
There were no injuries and no one was sent to the hospital. However, traffic was tied up on the highway for more than two hours.
FBI IN THE PINES
Revere Police have confirmed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was in Revere last Wednesday, July 10th, in the evening conducting an investigation at a home on Rice Avenue.
A call to FBI officials for more information was not immediately returned.
However, locals on the scene said they were told that the investigation involved a large sum of cash that was under review in the western United States. That was about it for the details.
DEVELOPER DEVELOPMENT
A popular local real estate developer was arrested after he attacked family members and employees trying to remove him from the Squire Lounge early Sunday morning.
Police said an off-duty State Trooper – who was related to the suspect as a brother-in-law – attempted to go to the Lounge and remove the suspect, Robert Marley, 54, of Lynnfield, around 12:05 a.m. Sunday.
The family member Trooper was concerned about his ability to operate a motor vehicle. However, it erupted into an argument.
As the brother-in-law escorted Marley out, he allegedly dropped a BB gun in his possession, swung a knife at two doormen employed by the Squire and then picked up the replica BB gun and put it to the head of a Winthrop man standing outside.
Police were able to locate the weapon in the back bed of the Trooper brother-in-law's truck. The knife was allegedly found in Marley's pocket.
No one was seriously injured.
Marley was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, disorderly conduct, violation of the knife ordinance, and two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon.
HAMMER ATTACK ON B-WAY
A purported gang member went on a hammer attack frenzy early Saturday morning on Broadway.
Around 1:30 a.m., officers reported to the Domino's Pizza where an employee told police that three men had picked a fight with him and one brandished a hammer.
As police were taking the report, another man walked by and told officers that three young men had tried to beat him up with a hammer in front of D&L Liquors.
The suspect had allegedly come up to the man and said, "Who you with" – meaning which gang are you affiliated with.
The suspect was identified and was highly intoxicated.
Ariel Velasquez, 20, of 52 Abruzzi St., was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, disorderly conduct and receiving stolen property under $250.
SOMETHING HAPPENED, BUT WHAT?
Revere Police are trying to sort out a possible armed robbery at a Broadway apartment last Wednesday, July 10th.
Officers responded around 9:19 p.m. and found a man on a bicycle with no shirt on who was bleeding from a head wound.
A second party was also on scene and shaken up a bit.
Officers went to the apartment at 510 Broadway. They were told that the three victims were in the apartment and three males barged into the apartment with a firearm drawn.
They told all three men to get face down on the ground, hitting one of the victims in the head with the firearm.
They allegedly stole wallets, phones and car keys.
Police said the stories amongst the three were not consistent, so they are trying to figure out what's going on.
"We obviously believe something happened there, but we're not sure yet just what that is," said Lt. Amy O'Hara.
The three robbers were described as being a short, white male with freckles, a tall black male and an Asian male with a baseball cap.
STABBING IN BEACHMONT
Two men involved in a domestic disturbance ended up assaulting one another, with one being arrested for attacking the other with a broken beer bottle.
Officers arrived at 134 Bellingham Ave. around 12:51 a.m. on Friday morning and found the victim with cuts to his left arm, back and fingers. The suspect was apparently trying to convince the victim to stay, but the victim did not want to do so.
An argument broke out and then the suspect allegedly attacked the victim with a broken bottle, causing several lacerations.
Officers responded with a large contingent, alerting many neighbors in the area.
Mario Matos, 25, of 134 Bellingham Ave., was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (bottle) and assault to commit a felony.
APARTMENT IN SHAMBLES
Two people were arrested after allegedly breaking into and destroying the apartment that a family member lived in.
The victim told police that her mother had passed away recently and she had taken a vacation for one month. After she left, she reported that her daughter and boyfriend had used a ladder to break in.
When she returned, she found the apartment completely destroyed and the front door destroyed.
James McAllian, 33, homeless, and Amy Weiner, 29, of 502 Beach St., were charged with breaking and entering for a misdemeanor.
OUI ON MCKINLEY STREET
A 52-year-old McKinley Street woman was arrested last Wednesday, July 10th, after getting in an accident and fleeing the scene – allegedly intoxicated.
The victims of the accident told police that they were rear-ended at the intersection of Beach and North Shore Road around 7 p.m. The victims and the suspect both got out to look at the damage.
However, the suspect quickly bolted the scene.
The victims were able to get a license plate number and a description of the car.
Police followed up on the matter and traced the car to McKinley Street.
Officers reported there and found the woman getting in the car.
She was allegedly intoxicated when they encountered her. Isabel Gasca Perez, 52, was charged with operating under the influence of liquor, leaving the scene of property damage, and negligent operation of a motor vehicle.
James McAllian, 33, listed as homeless, was arrested on a charge of breaking & entering with intent to commit a misdemeanor.
Amy Weiner, 29, of 502 Beach St., was arrested on a charge of breaking & entering with intent to commit a misdemeanor.
Loren Fields, 52, of 259 Lantern Rd., was arrested on a charge of assault & battery.
TUESDAY, JULY 9
David Bryan, 50, of Everett, was arrested on an outstanding warrant and on a charge of illegal possession of a Class A controlled narcotic substance with intent to distribute.
Brian M. Adams, 24, of Tewksbury, was arrested on a charge of assault & battery.
Thomas G. Haney, 42 of 69 Alden Ave., was arrested on charges of assault & battery and assault & battery by means of a dangerous weapon.
Isabel Gasca Perez, 52, of 32 McKinley St., was arrested on charges of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of liquor, leaving the scene of an accident after causing property damage, and negligent operation of a motor vehicle.
Carlo Corrado, 36, of Everett, was arrested on an outstanding warrant.
Mario Matos, 25, of 134 Bellingham St., was arrested on charges of assault with intent to commit a felony and assault & battery by means of a dangerous weapon.
Ariel O. Velasquez, 20, of 52 Abruzzi St., was arrested on charges of assault by means of a dangerous weapon, disorderly conduct, and receiving stolen property.
Ermes M. DelCid, 23, of Lynn, was arrested on an outstanding warrant.
Juan D. Ramirez, 30, of Boston, was arrested on an outstanding warrant and on charges of operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license. He also was cited for the civil motor vehicle infraction of being a motor vehicle operator and refusing to identify himself.
Robert P. Marley, 43, of Lynnfield, was arrested on charges of assault & battery by means of a dangerous weapon, disorderly conduct, illegal possession of a knife in violation of the city ordinance, and two counts of assault by means of a dangerous weapon.
Weekly Crime Report
House Breaks: (1)
Pratt Court
Commercial Breaks: (2)
Broadway – Master Auto; and Oak Island St. – Green Acres
Motor Vehicle *Thefts/Breaks: (3)
Central Avenue; Endicott Avenue (plate); Squire Road – 4 Points.
Motor Vehicle Accidents: (21)
Brown Circle; Rice Avenue; Ward Street; Waite Street; Broadway; Dix/North Shore Rd; Lynnway; American Legion Hwy; Broadway; Washington Avenue; Washington Avenue; Squire Road; Boulevard – St. Georges; American Legion Hwy; North Shore Rd; Broadway/Cummings; Salem Street; Squire Road – Stop & Shop; Broadway – Walgreen's; Revere/North Shore Rd; and VFW.
House Parties/Loud Stereo Complaints (after 9 p.m.): 13
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StarShipSofa No 448 Hugo Nominee Part 1 Brooke Bolander
Week 1 of Hugo Nominees
This story is nominated for Best Novelette
Main Fiction: "And You Shall Know Her By The Trail of Dead" by Brooke Bolander
Originally appeared in Lightspeed, Issue #57. Audio produced by Skyboat Media.
Brooke Bolander is a chaos-sowing trickster of indeterminate employment, half-tornado, half-writer. Originally from the deepest, darkest, swampiest regions of the southern US, she attended the University of Leicester from 2004 to 2007 studying History and Archaeology and is a graduate of the 2011 Clarion Writers' Workshop at UCSD. Her work has been featured in Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Nightmare, and several anthologies, including Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016. A finalist on this year's Nebula, Hugo, Sturgeon, and Locus ballots, she currently resides in New York with her partner, their pets, and a small but growing army of haughty house centipedes.
Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir
Gabrielle de Cuir has narrated close to one hundred books and many dozens of short stories, specializing in science fiction, fantasy, humor and titles requiring extensive foreign language and accent skills. Her "velvet touch" as an actor's director has earned her a special place in the audiobook world as the foremost director for best-selling authors and celebrities. Short list of those directed: Ray Bradbury, Carl Reiner, Deepak Chopra, Eric Idle, Nancy Cartwright, Michael York, Ed Herrmann and Joe Mantegna. As director/producer (and talent), Gabrielle has helmed the Skyboat Media productions of ENDER'S GAME ALIVE, LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE'S WOMEN DESTROY SCIENCE FICTION, 30 YEARS OF TREASON and most recently the Kickstarter-funded recording of Harlan Ellison's THE CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER.
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Why me? The Power of Grief!
Grief comes to everyone in many forms, there are no exceptions to this rule. Grief teaches that the piercing arrows of tears can plunge deep within without warning . Grief takes us beyond the sentimental tear of the heart to the dark bottomless place in our soul where tears seem to continually fall silently. As humans, we are brought into this world with the first sounds of our crying and when we leave this world it will be the last sounds we understand. As we get older, we run into grief unexpectedly it is not taught to us and we must find our own way through this darkness. Grief does not come with a set of instructions and many times without a warning sign. Everyone's experience with grief is unique and personal it is the one thing that we can share but, not give away. Grief is not something we can outgrow with age or overcome by learning a set of principles or even methods. Grief has a specific purpose it clarifies our vision and redefines what is important to us. It causes our soul to bleed, our hearts to break which allows us become tender ground again in order to replant seeds of faith and awaken our soul to realize that life is unpredictable. We may plan our lives out and accomplish many things but, grief is the intruder that comes without invitation that disrupts our plans. Unfortunately, grief is inevitable and everyone is going to experience grief many times throughout their lives.
How we react to grief when it comes into our lives will lead us to become wiser if we choose to embrace our grief as a teacher of mourning, loss and pain or we may pivot to the other end of the scale where grief makes us cynical, cold blooded and hard hearted then we push grief aside, turn ourselves away and avoid it's pain at all costs. When grief arrives the choice will eventually come to each of us and we will have to decide which fork in the road we will take.
If we choose not to embrace our grief then we risk our ability to feel life fully and genuinely. This leads us to contract and suppress who we really are binding our soul's voice and eyes leaving us lost. Many who have taken this path have found themselves shipwrecked on the rocks of their faith and have lost their ability to love. Eventually, this journey will affect their lives on every level, even affecting their health and costing them painful experiences in the relationships they have with others close to them. In order to live our lives fully and balanced we must learn to embrace grief as our teacher, accepting the beautiful with the u gly, the storms with the rainbows, the dark with the light and piercing pain with happy pleasures of joy.
It is at these dark moments in our lives when grief strikes like lightning bringing chaos unexpectedly that we begin to see and feel with defined clarity and raw emotion the frailty of life, the unknown factors that can change our plans at any moment, and the value of what is truly important to us allowing the chaff of the unimportant blow away in the wind. Grief is the Divine pruning tool that reveals to us what is special and important to us. It opens our eyes to give us the chance to change our attitudes about life, deepen the paths to our soul, love more intensely, speak more honestly, give more freely, and learn to appreciate what we have been given showing sincere gratitude in return.
Grief opens our heart to others feeling compassion for them, shedding our self absorbed mentality. We begin to start a shift within that we are not just here to live for ourselves but, for others as well. Going through the storm of grief we will begin to see the sun in the distance and gain an awareness that so much of what we thought was "ours" is temporal, continually changing and we begin to focus on the spiritual connections of our lives. Grief is deeply woven and multi faceted , it's intensity can be a mirrored magnifying glass that will reveal to us what could take decades for us to see allowing us to grow while giving us new vision through our struggle and pain. It is through this powerful magnifying glass of the soul that what was out of focus is brought into full distinct view and we find ourselves facing the mysterious writing on the walls of our heart with Divine interpretation.
As odd as it may seem grief is a sorrowful gift, odd in it's appearance, cloaked in sadness and as brutal as it may feel it grants us the ability and gifts necessary to fulfill our destiny while defining our truth, intentions and understanding that regret unlike mistakes in life cannot be changed. Although, grief can be extremely painful and unfair grief is not an enemy in fact, grief is apart of life without any distinctions. This is not to be mistaken that grief is a game of odd's or Divine roulette as though, God and the Universe were throwing darts at us. There are reasons for everything that happen or there are no reasons and nothing makes sense. When in the worst of circumstances we despise those sickening words that others say to us even if they maybe true and well meant, still no one wants to hear in their dark hour, " There is a reason for everything" or " Be positive and concentrate on the good".
If we surrender to the pain and embrace our grief we most likely will find ourselves crying our souls dry leaving us paralyzed, numb and feeling empty. As difficult as this may be it is not a bad thing , tears hold great power as medicine for the soul. Our tears have the ability to wash the windows of the heart when we have lost our vision. If we can find the inner strength through our trust in the Divine, we may still not find all the answers to our questions but, we will sooner or later absolutely find the purpose of our grief. We can learn how to take the dark ugly coal that we have had to dig through much blood, sweat and tears, perplexed with questions and unearth from our soul from the coal of pain diamonds of wisdom that hold within them the power of resurrection.
Gaining the understanding that when grief comes, like all things " this too shall pass', branding us with tender scars but, not without giving us the gift of a deeper faith. It is our faith in God in the middle of the uncontrollable events of life that becomes the rock that we hold onto. It is a extremely conflicting moment within when we come to the valley of decision to trust God when you feel betrayed, wounded, confused or even feel abandoned. Although, I have a " religious" background I speak now from the "spiritual experience" I have had to face in my life that we all must come to the valley of our decision.
We are all spiritual eternal beings having a human temporary experience that we call life. I find comfort through those who have gone before us that have endured unsurmountable hardships and yet, have conquered against all odds accomplishing great things. One person who I look to is Jesus who used His life to accomplish a Divine destiny and to free those from the delusions of religious hypocrisy. Jesus was just a man, although He was the son of God in flesh, as it is written in the Bible He lived His life on the Earth just the same as you and I, He was born into this world as we were and He died just like we all will. Jesus knew He was born with a Divine destiny and purpose just as each of us are as well, which did not save him from experiencing deeply moving moments of grief, betrayal, confusion and pain. Let's think about this for a moment, lets take away the "religious" super hero and look at Jesus, the man. Jesus was a man and yet, in all respects He was the Christ according to the Bible and Jesus was not spared grief to the point of being so confused that it would lead him to feel lost and doubt, crying and sweating blood in the darkest moments of His destiny. Here is a spiritual leader of His time and He was beat, spit on, brutalized, and carried His cross down the streets of Jerusalem just like any ordinary man. This human man had to drag the instrument of his own death which spiritually held all mankind's grief that was written by the unseen hand of God.
As Jesus hung on that cross He experienced grief, doubt and even felt abandoned experiencing that moment that was all this pain worthy and was He mistaken about His own destiny. So many of us have experienced those moments in our lives where we all find ourselves in our deepest, darkest and distressful dark night of the soul sensing we are alone. The confusion we feel after we have given, prayed, trusted God, had faith and followed all the " rules" when we are faced with grief lead us to a deeper understanding that faith and trust are very different in definition. I look at Jesus and his life because He is a factual person and the events of His life are verifiable. As Jesus hung on the cross He spoke very little, He insured that His mother was cared for, He cried out in front of his accusers and believers the question that expressed his great doubt in greatest moment of grief that He felt He was abandoned by His Heavenly Father God, and finally at the end withHis last breath Jesus held fast to His Divine purpose and vision by saying, " Father forgive them for they know not what they do".
Even Jesus this man had to see through his pain, sorrow, confusion and embrace His pain to trust God that the ordinary was powerful enough to become extraordinary and regain His vision and purpose for this undefinable grief. Studying even this most powerful life that performed such great acts of faith, still even at that moment of grief had to embrace his cross, pain and grief to regain a deeper and greater vision.
All of us have a Divine destiny and purpose, even Judas, we all have a part in this story we call life. Embracing our grief gives us the opportunity to see that there is a Divine purpose to life. We must learn to trust the plan of the Divine to see through the pain of our grief and take the hand of God as we walk through the valley where we will begin to see the lily's along the way. It is a huge spiritual step of progress to realize that faith is not trust and surrender to God's plans for our life even when it appears to us and feels as though we are being destroyed accepting that there is a purpose for everything.
When we begin to realize that in life we are given spiritual teachers that each one has a purpose to teach us something only it can and giving to us the gift only it carries. These teachers are not the ones with degrees hanging on their walls, or spiritual gurus or mentors which we all need spiritual support throughout our lives. These Divine teachers of grief, sorrow, forgiveness, brokenness, loss and joy, peace, love, faith and trust are all sent to us many times throughout our life. Our attitude is to be willing to embrace the teacher and learn the lesson which always leaves a gift. This is true spiritual growth and all the books, classes or studies one can do could never teach the soul these lessons. One may teach the mind but, it is the soul where we wrestle with God that we find true spiritual growth and wisdom.
I have been on a quest, a journey, a spiritual expedition one might call it for some time now…. I cut the rope from the dock of all that I knew to be my belief system and trusted that God was bigger than the dock and stronger than a rope. God was (GOMU) God of my understanding because I had to confess that what I thought I knew about God was like an ant saying it understands quantum physics. It was more than a "leap of faith"; it was so much more and required blind trust. I guess one could summarize it as when a child who cannot swim who is standing at the edge of the pool and the parent says to the child "jump!"… And the child jumps towards the parent. The belief that God's love and grace is greater to protect me and keep me from these winds of uncertainty is all that I could take with me. I think we are afraid to let go because we think if we let go we will end up in "hell" or some place of darkness and disillusion. It was a very difficult action to take but… I came to a place in my life where I knew that I could not go any further in the Spirit if I did not let go of the past and all that I knew to be faith as I knew it. The past did not just include the bad things but, the good as well. I know that is probably very hard for some to hear, believe me I wrestled with it like Jacob wrestled with the angel for more than just a night!
It has been a very intense and tumultuous journey but, I know now that I have made the right choice. I have come to the place where I moved into a different dimension with my faith and who I am. I have gazed into the cosmic mirrors of self-realization and where there was once no reflection – I now see. Being the person that I am today I guess you could say that my spirituality is like a diamond with many facets. With colors constantly changing as the light hits each one like dancing lights, fluidity is the movement and constancy is its life.
As you move forward on the journey into the unknown you realize that there are many who have gone before you and that you are not alone. This journey is a path that the further you travel on it, the less you can take with you. There has been so much baggage I have had to throw overboard. Unforgiveness, resentments, hatred, arrogance, ignorance, prejudice, fear, self-pity, pride, beliefs, systems, ideas, dreams, ego, habits and memories. I have had to even throw overboard some of those "bags" that I thought were filled with "good", as well.
We are such creatures of habit that it is almost impossible for God to get us to let go of the side of the pool to learn to swim. We would rather hold on to the side for the rest of our lives because it "feels" safe than learn what we must do to "be" safe. I had to let "go" and it was one of the hardest things I have ever had to do.
Spirituality is a mediator and religion is a divider. I have realized that to grow and to move in this dimensional existence that I must maintain the mind of mediation. My faith is living, breathing and moving… I walk in it and it is in every breath that I breathe. I am not here to judge or be judged. I am not here to convert or be converted. I am here to connect and share, to give and respect all things in love and truth. Ghandi said "I like your Christ… but I don't much like your Christians", what a statement…. I am sure Ghandi could have said that about me at one time in my life. Religion is a state of mind and spirituality is a state of being. They are at such opposite ends of the spectrum. One is a big block of cement and the other is a river – the best analogy I can come up with. For so long I carried my faith like a heavy block of cement or marble… I carved out a beautiful sculpture with all I had experienced and learned. It was gorgeous! But boy was that "icon" hard to pull around! But at least I could show it off and it looked so beautiful! It is amazing to realize that it was the heaviest and first thing to be left at the dock when I left on my spiritual expedition!
Faith is now like a river of energy that I exist in and it exists in me. It is not an object, a medal, a reward or something that is inanimate. It is constantly fluid and moving it keeps me in the state of being. It is the place where there is clarity, focus, and balance. It is the place of purpose and peace, being in the moment. I think that has been one of the hardest things I have had to release my mind and focus it on is "THE MOMENT". I have always lived my life "in the past" or "in the future" but… hardly ever "NOW"! That in itself is liberation to know that the past is gone and tomorrow never comes. To be here "NOW" realizing that if I relinquish myself to "NOW" that what I am called to do, my purpose will draw me and place me where I need to be at every moment. Living each moment as a Divine appointment!
God, the Universe and Creation have given us so many tools. There are so many spiritual abilities and senses that we are not utilizing that are available to us "NOW". We are not here on this earth just so we can get through school to die and move on. We are here for a reason and we are in agreement with that call and purpose. Many of us feel "stuck" and frustrated because we are trying to move our mountains with spoons when there are 100 bulldozers parked right behind us or we may be pulling our beautifully carved sculptures behind us. This is the most amazing reality is that we are not utilizing all these wonderful tools that we have been given to help us help others and to answer the questions "who am I and Why am I here?" There is a question that people ask "Do you want to be happy or right?" usually that question is asked when people are quarreling! I guess the question today is "Do we want to live in a state of mind or a state of being?" These states are two totally different ways of existing right "NOW".
There are three words that keep running through my mind… The first is "faith", the second is "trust" and the last is "no guarantees… Okay that was two words! All religions teach us to have faith… faith in God, Jesus, Allah, Buddha and so on. We even make the effort to have faith in one another although usually and quite often faith in others is quickly understood as the "wild card".
I have struggled with these three words continually in my life and always have found myself coming to a place where I have felt that they have failed me at a time when I thought for sure that they would pull me through. I am not saying that faith or trust have never carried me through some tough times in my life because that would be so far from the truth. I am expressing the times in my life when I absolutely thought that I was holding onto these ideas and thought I was "safe" and then found myself completely devastated.
What I have to come to understand, at least up to this point in my journey is that there are "no guarantees"… Wouldn't it be terrific when something does not work out in our life for us we could take it back to God and say this is not working I would like my money back or an exchange please". But, unfortunately that is not how life works.
One can be the master champion of faith and trust but this does not relieve anyone from having to endure trouble, heartache, pain and loss. In fact, when you study those who had great faith they endured more suffering than I would care to sign up for.
So what is the answer to this dilemma of having faith and trust but with no guarantees? What is the purpose of faith or trust if they do not at least have some reliability in this life that will help us when enduring trouble? Is it just the crutch that we use to get through a rough spot until it passes? Is just having a belief in a power (God) that is greater than us who sees everything and we believe that he is in control? What benefits do we derive from having such Nobel qualities?
I have known many mothers who had great faith in God that have lost children to sickness and accidents. Did their faith and trust not protect them from such terrible devastating circumstances? In the end we have to conclude that faith and trust do not guarantee us that we are going to escape the "bad" in this life.
I have faith and trust in God, the Universe and the Power of Creation… I have to come to realize that I must make choices that can affect my destiny in different ways bringing different results. My part in this drama of life is to seek conscious contact with a power greater than myself and to realize that I have been given gifts and talents that are to be used to create synergistic energy in this world that will facilitate the change that it was destined to bring about. My faith must be utilized and transformed into the idea that it is there not to just believe in a Person, or an Energy, but it is there to perform an action for the greater good . Faith without works is dead… Trust without commitment is useless…. The axiom is to come to the understanding and the process of taking those past experiences that made us question faith and trust and look at them through the microscope of self introspection.
No guarantee! Would you believe in God or a Power, Energy greater than yourself if you could not gain anything at all? Why do we say we "love" God? Have we really asked ourselves the "raw" faith and trust questions that need to be asked? Most of us believe in God because we don't want to go to hell (fear)… to love someone because you are afraid of punishment… sounds like an abusive marriage. Some believe in a sacrifice of love that paid for their sins but, although this is a Nobel sacrifice the bottom line is that the sacrifice was made in order that we do not go to hell. Why do you believe in eternity? Why do you believe that there is a spiritual realm? Does believing in these ideas bring a valued benefit to your life?
We must come to the place where we build the bridge between the idea of faith and trust over the waters of understanding to the other side where we actually gain the benefits of why we have faith and trust and the purpose they are suppose to carry out in our lives. They are not to be worn as medals of accomplishment on our sashes of spirituality.
Can we take everything that we believe in and lay it out on the table and examine it thoroughly? After examination is it possible that if there was something (anything) that you realize could be questionable that you would put it aside and come to the conclusion that this must be re-evaluated. Re-evaluating my understanding of what I thought was true does not change the value of what is Truth. All it means is that I must start on journey, a spiritual quest of discovery to gain a new understanding without walls or limitations. I think it is extremely hard for us to really "Let go and let God"… in that phrase, I mean that we have been trained and indoctrinated to the point of a fearful existence. We actually believe that God, the Universe, or GOMU ( God Of My Understanding) would be slighted and actually get bent out of shape or worse yet, we would drift away from Him or It ( whichever the case maybe be) and we would be lost in the black hole of spiritual darkness only to plummet into the abyss of hell. I pose this question….
How primitive we are in our faith and trust of an all knowing, all powerful and Infinite Love that we actually believe that is what would or could happen to us for seeking the truth. Fear! This is the enemy that paralyzes us from moving out and expanding our spiritual connection to Truth. FEAR! Is the stumbling "mountain" not a small stumbling block that tells us we had better not change our ideas and beliefs because then we will be heretics? If I burned the Bible would that kill Jesus or Jehovah? The Bible is a book… not a religion. It is a guide… the "Word" that was in the beginning (Genesis 1:1) is not the word on a piece of paper that will disintegrate in time. There are so many of these false systems of belief that we hold onto for dear life that have kept us from moving forward.
I think it can summed up in these words, " The joy is in the journey and if we are not on a journey of discovery then we are stagnate in a land of frustration and boredom" Having faith can be equated to being an inventor or a scientist of spirituality… there are always new discoveries that are not really " new" just new to us because we were willing to look for them that can bring greater clarity and knowledge to our questions and understanding of what we now ask "Why?" which happens to be the most common question.


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by Asa Tapley | 5/22/02 5:00am
Dartmouth's second freshman lightweight eight had the best performance at Sunday's Eastern Sprints Regatta at Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Mass., taking fourth place in the Grand Final. The Varsity crews had respectable races, but were unable to prevail against a strong field of competitors.
After qualifying for the Grand Final in the morning heat, the second freshman boat beat the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University with a time of 6:54.23 down the 2,000-meter course, but was unable to maintain contact with the Naval Academy, Cornell University and Harvard University, who claimed the top three spots, respectively.
The sixth-ranked second varsity lightweight boat also qualified for the Grand Final, recovering from a crab at 300 meters to go. In the final, however, the rowers gradually gave up seats to their competitors after a strong first 500 meters, finishing sixth with a time of 6:07.19.
"We took a solid move at the 1,000-[meter mark]," John Hertzer '04 said. "But it was not enough to get within striking distance of Harvard, the next closest crew."
While no other crews qualified for Grand Finals, Dartmouth eights won three Petite Finals: the first freshman heavyweights, the second varsity heavyweights and the first varsity lightweights. The first varsity heavyweights and first freshman lightweights finished second and third, respectively in their Petite Finals.
The second varsity heavyweight boat, seeded ninth, almost caused an upset in the heats when the crew led third-ranked Princeton University through half the heat and missed qualifying for the Grand Finals by a mere second, behind Princeton and fourth-ranked Northeastern University.
"At 1,000-[meters] down, Princeton took a big move, making up three seats and eventually moving out ahead of Northeastern," Jared Klarquist '03 said. "Our sprint was characteristically fast, but we only made up about two seats on Northeastern, who ended up two or three seats up on us."
Despite the disappointing heat -- the second Varsity heavyweights' fourth season loss by less than two seconds -- they rallied in the afternoon to win the Petite Final and beat Yale by almost a boat length, a team that had defeated them earlier in the season.
After a strong season with several close races, the defending silver medallist and fifth-ranked varsity lightweight eight was upset by Rutgers University's strong performance in the morning heats, finishing fourth and failing to clinch a berth in the Grand Final.
"It was all very close," lightweight captain Ty Garland said after the race. "By 1,250 they [Rutgers] were up three seats We started our sprint a little earlier than usual to try to catch Rutgers and ended up making up a few seats, but it just wasn't enough."
The eighth-ranked Rutgers edged out the first varsity lights by .12 seconds, with a time of 5:55.98 to Dartmouth's 5:56.1.
In the afternoon Petite Final the varsity lightweights had some vindication when they beat out Georgetown University to win the race and thereby qualify for the National Championships in June.
Despite having failed to qualify for the Grand Final in their morning heats, the first varsity heavyweights demonstrated poised and aggressive racing as they defeated Brown University in the afternoon. The eighth-ranked varsity eight finished second in the Petite Final with a time of 5:50.32, defeating by a boat length seventh-ranked Brown, to whom the crew suffered an early-season loss. Navy won with a time of 5:49.14
"Nobody in the boat had ever beaten Brown before, so when we started to move halfway through the race, I think it was driven by a hunger to finally dig into those guys," Jay Conner '03 said.
"They got up on us along with everybody else on the start, but we just kind of hung with them through the thousand and then we started smelling blood and made our move."
The first varsity lightweights and the first and second varsity heavyweights are now back in training, preparing for the Intercollegiate Rowing Association's National Championship on Cooper River in Cherry Hill, N.J., which runs May 30 through June 1.
The Dartmouth crews expect to build off their experience this past weekend and reverse their fortunes at Nationals.
"The results weren't what we had hoped for, but we raced our race and were able to beat a lot of great crews," Garland said. "Two weeks from now we'll see a lot of the same crews. They have peaked and will be spinning their wheels over the next couple weeks, but we know what we have to do to put ourselves in the position for a medal. And we'll do just that."
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Julian Assange's case as pandemic unfolds
Posted on July 27, 2020 by Caro	Leave a comment
Assange has been at the Belmarsh prison since May 2019. His lawyers and family say his mental and physical health are deteriorating dramatically. A group of 60 doctors have stated in a letter to UK authorities that Julian Assange could potentially die in prison. They "have serious concerns about Mr Assange's fitness to stand trial in February 2020."
Video Credit: Belmarsh prison footage by Carolina Lupanciuc
and footage by Ruptly at https://www.facebook.com/Ruptly at the Westminster Magistrates court
For more than 10 years protesters demand for Julian Assange to be freed. We can see them back in January 2020 in front of the Belmarsh Prison chanting. A group of protestors called the Gilets jaunes came all the way from Paris to support the movement.
As the global pandemic unfolds, journalists and Assange supporters alike are continuing their efforts to spread the message of Assange's condition. The British government states that mass gatherings should not take place.
There aren't strict regulations that prohibit citizens from protesting, however the UK government has issued an advice note for people participating in protests that you could read here :
http://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/20201105_stac_advice_note_-_participating_in_protests.pdf
"The current advice in the UK is that due to the coronavirus, mass gathering events should not take place."
"If this case goes forward, any reporter attempting to cover the most important stories of government wrongdoing, from corruption to war crimes, would fear extradition and prosecution."
— @freepress on the danger of the US moves to prosecute #JulianAssange pic.twitter.com/WNJm0slvul
— John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) July 27, 2020
The right to protest is imbedded in many international treaties as a human right. Many consider that Jualian Assange's case is also tied to our freedom of expression. Our foundational freedoms are currently being defied by a public health threat on a global scale. The question remaining is, how this threat will shape the future of democratic governance?
Featured Image credit: Spanish protesters wear masks of the 'Anonymous' group and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Photograph: Jon Nazca/REUTERS
Live music industry under major threat
In 2019 the music industry was worth £5.2bn to the British economy and the live music sector was breaking the £1bn barrier.
Revenues from different sectors in the music industry from Report Music by Numbers 2019 by Music UK https://www.ukmusic.org/assets/general/Music_By_Numbers_2019_Report.pd
The chief executive of UK Theatre and the Society of London Theatre, Julian Bird communicated that in their "latest survey (…) 70% of theatres or production companies, both, would run out of cash and go out of business by the end of this year. That was consistent whether you looked at London, the rest of the UK – whether you looked at subsidised organisations or commercial organisations. It was consistently around 70% for everybody."
In an open letter, more than 1400 artists are calling on the UK government to come up with solutions against the total collapse due to the coronavirus pandemic. Biggest names in rock and pop music such as Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, Radiohead, Muse, Eric Clapton, Iron Maiden, Bring Me The Horizon, Ed Sheeran, Rita Ora, Coldplay, Annie Lennox, The Cure, Phil Collins have decided to unite their voices and spread this message in the music world. They are warning that a lack of support and continued uncertainty is having a devastating impact in one of the world's biggest live music market.
Life without music is absolutely dreadful. A solution needs to be found so that the #livemusic industry doesn't die completely. #letthemusicplay
A post shared by My 🌍 chronicles (@carolina_ldn) on Jul 2, 2020 at 3:32am PDT
In the joint letter, the artists say:
"UK live music has been one of the UK's biggest social, cultural, and economic successes of the past decade. From world-famous festivals to ground-breaking concerts, the live music industry showcases, supports, and develops some of the best talent in the world – on and off-stage. As important as it is, our national and regional contribution isn't purely cultural. "
For Muse, playing live and having the opportunity to connect with you is so important. We are so grateful for the experiences and memories that live music gives us all. The government must step up and show the industry the support it deserves in these difficult and challenging times #LetTheMusicPlay
A post shared by MUSE (@muse) on Jul 2, 2020 at 2:10am PDT
Artists urged their fans to post pictures and videos of the last shows they attended before lockdown using the hashtag #LetTheMusicPlay.
#letthemusicplay The last gig i went to was something I'll never be able to forget. Quite litterally an outer body experience. When it gets to that stage I can tell it's a special show. We had to stop the whole gig at some point, one guy was feeling super ill. Insanity. Fucking sweat, bruises, i can still feel them 😁 gosh i miss it. I'm happy i was there. Can't wait to relive it again. @jmerlet17 i was glad to meet u. Again! 😂 @andtherattlesnakes @ho99o9 @cleopatrickband y'all are fucking legends in my book🖤👩🏻🏫 #shivers #frankcarterandtherattlesnakes #h09909 #cleopatrick #brutal #calltheparamedics
During the lockdown, artists have found alternative ways of sharing their craft such as livestreams and digital content. In regards to this matter, Bird also mentioned that the in the streaming model it's not the musicians who are put first. Majority of them are surviving on hardship funds.
As the fourth largest music market in the world, the appeal notes that state support for live music is way behind many other European countries. France and Germany for example have used public money to kickstart their concert industries post-Covid19.
The UK music industry is asking for more information concerning the reopening of venues, big and small and without social distancing. Once these venues reopen, businesses demand a full VAT exemption on ticket sales. In the meantimes, a comprehensive business and employment support package and access to finance. The package should include a government backed insurance scheme with rent breaks for venues to allow them to reopen and financial support for lost box-office income.
Artists are wondering what the landscape is going to look like on the other side of this crisis. Many of them are afraid that if the government doesn't step up "vital aspects of the british culture will be lost forever" says Emily Eavis, the organiser of the Glastonbury festival. A long term impact could be indeed, devastating.
(Featured Image credit: UK Music)
5G networks under attack
Posted on May 7, 2020 by Caro	Leave a comment
At a time where mobile connectivity is needed the most, masts around the UK are targeted and destroyed. Unfounded conspiracy theories are spreading like wildfires over the internet linking the Covid-19 pandemic and 5G broadband technology.
EE, the network operator told The Guardian that they are investigating the attacks but it looks like the work of arsonists.
A quick search on Facebook will reveal plenty of 5G groups. Earliest reports of the dangers of 5G exposure, appeared in a Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws back in January 2020.
It took a week for the rumour to spread and fact checking sites were debunking claims about the validity of those rumours. Social media quickly found a connection between the rise of 5G and the pandemic outbreak.
The infrastructure attacked is vital to health workers and emergency services. As of yesterday 77 cell phone towers have been set on fire due to these theories.
(Featured image: Miguel Á. Padriñán / Pexels)
By Carolina Lupanciuc
De-escalation process: France
On Wednesday May 6th, France's prime minister announced the measures that would be taken to initiate the process of de-escalation.
From now, until May 11th, it is imperative to identify Covid-19 patients and all the people they came in contact with, test them and isolate them.
According to numbers provided by French prime minister, Edouard Philippe, 3000 people would be infected every day after the deconfinement.
In the meantime, they will meet another 25 individuals, which makes an additional 525,000 suspected cases that might potentially need testing and isolation.
Questions arise if it is too early to initiate the process of deconfinement at this stage.
New decrees have been implemented to facilitate work at home for public service workers and magistrature.
Trips abroad will be compromised for the next few months. More detailed information will be given on the 2nd of June.
Cristophe Castaner, the Minister of the Interior of France, declared that the borders within Schengen will remain closed until further notice.
All individuals arriving from abroad will be subjected to a 14 day compulsory confinement, except for individuals coming from the EU, the Schengen area or the United Kingdom.
Featured image: Toa Heftiba/Unsplash
Pandemic causing suicide rates to increase
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The Journal for American Medical Association (JAMA) released a report for the month of March expressing concern for the potential increase of suicide cases. Governments are urged to act now to prevent a bigger risk of suicide. The consequences are likely to appear later and last much longer than the actual pandemic.
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When it's getting too much, what you should remember
Many surprising events happened this year that humanity never thought it would have to face. Our society and its progress have been stopped in its tracks, forced to step down and limited to essential tasks. It has brought a new perspective to life and what it means to be a human.
Everyone is walking with no apparent business. Nobody is rushing anywhere, except for delivery drivers. We might encounter the same people, two or three times on our path. We come home and the day eclipses in a matter of seconds.
After the panic, the fear, the stress and anxiety, we might be in the last stage of lockdown which is in a stage of acceptance and hope.
We can learn from those who survived during wars, famine and economic crises. We can't control the state of the world but we can improve in what's happening around us.
Helping a neighbour or calling a friend that you think might be struggling. We can develop resilience and become stronger mentally when we face our fears directly.
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When we feel like the energy is being sucked out of ourselves, when we get tired of the news and the negative influx of information, it's normal to decide to shut down from the world. The attention might be going inwards where we are faced with internal issues and questions that we might never have had the time to see before.
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It's our chance to practice mindfulness to ground ourselves in the moment and appreciate whatever is in front of us.
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If you feel alone or trapped, lay down your fears in writing and create space by imagining something new. In a world of constant pressure, choose to disconnect from the world a day or two and connect with your feelings.
Finding things, big or small to be grateful for is always possible. Remember to count a few things or people to be grateful for each day to ease the anxiety.
Things are ugly and some days are really gloomy. What we have to remember is that we are going to get through this together. We are alone together.
(image source: Unsplash, @fynnnyc)
Posted on April 1, 2020 by Caro	Leave a comment
With all the live events and music shows being shut down left and right, artists everywhere have had to make the tough decision to postpone their concerts until further notice.
Our favourite artists are trying to come up with creative ways to keep music alive and keep us entertained in these gloomy times. While in the previous years music lovers would start planning for the festival season by now, there are very little signs or hope for a normal summer season at all. If you're tired spending your days on the couch, turn the music on, open the windows and dance all your worries (and calories) away for a minute or thirty.
Tame Impala released a new playlist playlist on Youtube called "The Slow Rush in an imaginary place". In the background the listener can hear people cheering and having fun. If you miss live music dreamy atmosphere, grab a pair of headphones and immerse yourself into this Tame Impala psychedelic goodness. Travel into the past, or maybe the future. You decide.
Coldplay's front-singer and a many other artists delighted their audience on Instagram with live at-home concerts. Chris Martin spent thirty minutes playing his best tracks on piano encouraging other artists to do the same. His live has been viewn over 4.7 million times and inspired people to share their own version of their #ToghetherAtHome over 58.000 times.
Chris played a mini gig at home earlier today on IG Live. @glblctzn @WHO @JohnLegend #TogetherAtHome
A post shared by Coldplay (@coldplay) on Mar 16, 2020 at 5:21pm PDT
Sam Smith has also shared three performances singing by himself live, all the way from his living-room. Due to the recent events Smith decided to postpone the release to his third studio album and change its title.
Hope everyone is keeping well and safe. Sending love and strength to you all xx
A post shared by Sam Smith (@samsmith) on Mar 30, 2020 at 12:09pm PDT
The english indie rock band Nothing but Thieves have been meaning to realease new material for a quite a while. Their new song "Is everyone going crazy?" seems to have been written exactly for our times and relates to out current struggles. It's a great catharsis song, recommend 10/10 for headbanging and aimelessly jumping around the living room.
"Is anyone else feeling lonely?"
Social media use has increased drastically and we've seen many musicians' new ways to have fun and engaging with their fans. #Quarantinekaraoke, live-at-home-concerts, virtual festivals and gaming twitch streams… We can't help but wonder, what's next?
As we wait for the new wave of digital music interaction incited by the quarantined musicians worldwide, people have turned to music to feel less lonely in their homes.
What might seem like a catastrophy for the night economy could become a transformation of the music industry itself. New platforms for music broadcasting are emerging.
#DigitalFort is a two day event showcasing over 100 artists. This is meant to be an online festival to help raise money for those hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.
SPECIAL UPDATE: #DigitalFORT is now a two day event! We had so much amazing content come in from artists that we couldn't narrow it down. Tune in today AND tomorrow for your festival fix 😉 LINK IN BIO LETS DO THIS!
A post shared by The FADER (@thefader) on Mar 31, 2020 at 7:42am PDT
Just got my ticket to #DigitalFORT 😁😁😁 (via: @pablo.rochat)
One can have fun and be of service at the same time. Hopefully you have a good internet connection and you're even luckier if you have some nice neighbours… the party can finally begin!
Julian Assange case & Freedom of the press during lockdown
Posted on March 20, 2020 by Caro	Leave a comment
Campaigners and supporters of Wikileaks' founder, Julian Assange have been the ones at the forefront of multiple significant militant actions. Over a month ago, a powerful light was shone on the Houses of Parliament and the Belmarsh prison with the message "Don't extradite Assange!".
The message was followed by an invitation to the march in support of Assange, on the 22nd of February leading to the Parliament Square in London.
Thousands of people have gathered in protest of his extradition. Former Greek Finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, editor in chief of WikiLeaks Kristinn Hrafnsonn and Pink Floyd star Roger Waters were among the high-profile names at the protest.
To recap briefly, Julian Assange has been involved in some of the most controversial matters of our time. In 2010, Wikileaks published in concert with other news media organisations video footage of a US military attack on Iraqi civilians in Baghdad and diplomatic cables revealing crimes involving the US government.
London today! Thanks everyone for showing up! See you again on Monday! @thedeacampaign
A post shared by WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) on Feb 22, 2020 at 6:00am PST
The rally in London was only the beggining of a massive wave of protests. All over the world, people gathered to support Julian Assange and demand his imminent liberation.
"He has committed no crime, he published something, he's a journalist, he did what journalists are supposed to do. There was no threat to national security," Waters said.
Global Protests to mark the beginning of Julian Assange's Extradition Hearing – February 24 2020 #DontExtraditeAssange #AssangeCase #FreeAssange
At the beginning of the week of Assange's extradition hearing, campaigners again have gathered from very early in the morning.
People came from as far as Paris, Brazil and Germany to protest at the Belmarsh Prison. Inspite of the awful weather, the "Gilets jaunes" came in prepared and motivated the rest of the protesters all day long.
With the multiple restrictions that are being imposed upon Londoners nowadays, the question arises of not only the freedom of the press, but people's right of movement, expression and ultimately the right to protest as a human right.
Many questions arise as this unprecedented situation unfolds in front of our eyes. Now, that the first part of the London hearing to decide whether WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange can be extradited to the US is over, the second half is delayed until May.
Are journalists allowed to cover news stories on the ground? Under what circumstances? What about the citizens that are supposed to stay at home but refuse to do so.. What if they choose to go out and protest?


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By R. J. Palacio
Read by Kaya McLean, Lila Sage Bromley, Dariana Alvarez, Santino Barnard, Ry Chase and Madeleine Curry
Part of Wonder
Feb 14, 2012 | ISBN 9780375869020 | Middle Grade (8-12)
Feb 14, 2012 | ISBN 9780375869020
About Wonder
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Millions of people have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face—who shows us that kindness brings us together no matter how far apart we are. Read the book that inspired the Choose Kind movement, a major motion picture, and the critically acclaimed graphic novel White Bird.
And don't miss R.J. Palacio's highly anticipated new novel, Pony, available now!
I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.
August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid—but his new classmates can't get past Auggie's extraordinary face. Beginning from Auggie's point of view and expanding to include his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others, the perspectives converge to form a portrait of one community's struggle with empathy, compassion, and acceptance. In a world where bullying among young people is an epidemic, this is a refreshing new narrative full of heart and hope.
R.J. Palacio has called her debut novel "a meditation on kindness" —indeed, every reader will come away with a greater appreciation for the simple courage of friendship. Auggie is a hero to root for, a diamond in the rough who proves that you can't blend in when you were born to stand out.
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"What makes R.J. Palacio's debut novel so remarkable, and so lovely, is the uncommon generosity with which she tells Auggie's story…The result is a beautiful, funny and sometimes sob-making story of quiet transformation."
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"It's in the bigger themes that Palacio's writing shines. This book is a glorious exploration of the nature of friendship, tenacity, fear, and most importantly, kindness."
"Full of heart, full of truth, Wonder is a book about seeing the beauty that's all around us. I dare you not to fall in love with Auggie Pullman."
– Rebecca Stead, Newbery award-winning author of When You Reach Me
"It is the deceptive simplicity and honesty of the work that make Wonder so memorable. Every single character seems real and well drawn and oh-so human…This book is beautiful." – Christopher Paul Curtis, Newbery award-winning author of Bud, Not Buddy
"A beautiful story of kindness and courage. There are many real and well-developed characters, and they each have their shining moments. Of course, Auggie shines the brightest." – Clare Vanderpool, Newbery award-winning author of Moon Over Manifest
"Wonder is a beautifully told story about heartache, love, and the value of human life. One comes away from it wanting to be a better person." – Patricia Reilly Giff, two-time Newbery honor-winning author of Lily's Crossing and Pictures of Hollis Woods
"Wonder is a shining jewel of a story that cannot help but encourage readers of all ages to do better, to be better, in how they treat others in life. I'm totally in love with this novel." – Trudy Ludwig, anti-bullying advocate and author of My Secret Bully, Confessions of a Former Bully, Better Than You, and Just Kidding
Starred Review, Publishers Weekly:
"Few first novels pack more of a punch: it's a rare story with the power to open eyes–and hearts–to what it's like to be singled out for a difference you can't control, when all you want is to be just another face in the crowd."
Starred Review, Booklist:
"Palacio makes it feel not only effortless but downright graceful, and by the stand-up-and-cheer conclusion, readers will be doing just that, and feeling as if they are part of this troubled but ultimately warm-hearted community."
Starred Review, School Library Journal:
"Palacio has an exceptional knack for writing realistic conversation and describing the thoughts and emotions of the characters…A well-written, thought-provoking book."
Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews:
"A memorable story of kindness, courage and wonder."
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Ultimate Fighting
Extreme Cage Fight War (photo: Ticketmaster)
Prize fighting is a metaphor for life. At least it's one of the metaphors and it's probably the metaphoric quality that accounts for its popularity. The same can be said about mixed martial arts, a sport which takes place in cages (the Ultimate Fighting Championship is significantly the name of the company that promotes many of these events) and jiu jitsu. Of course other sports like football offer the same possibility for enticement through their potential to create empathy. How may times have you heard someone who is going to undertake a challenge refer to "carrying the ball?" But fighting requires an especially high level of preparedness and the combat is the most individual (outside tennis or mountain climbing) and brutal. You fight to the finish with a win sometimes rendering the opponent senseless. A prize fight is not like a cockfight since it's ultimate goal is not the death of the loser, but annihilation is certainly on the table. The victory exhausts the defeated party and breaks his or her will. But if there is an animal quality to fighting it also exhibits some of highest elements of the human spirit to the extent that it represents an aspiration of the consciousness to overcome bodily limitations. It's no accident that writers like Hemingway, A. J. Liebling, Mailer and most recently Joyce Carol Oates have all exhibited a fascination with boxing since those who are prone to articulate the lot of the creative artist frequently equate it with over the top challenges, which sometimes involve the sacrifice of life. Whether it's the marlin in The Old Man and the Sea or the great white whale in Moby Dick, the person who attempts to emblazon his inner life on reality faces a Herculean and sometimes Sisyphean task. The only difference between the fighter and the artist is that the battle the artist is waging is more solitary. His or her opponent is the self. But the whole fascination with fighting as a metaphor poses still other questions. Is all of life a battle? Should people fight for the things they want the way some patients fight against cancer. And is full-fledged combat the best way to fight cancer--or depression for that matter? Leni Riefenstahl's film was Triumph of the Will and it was a consummate piece of Nazi propaganda.
Labels: A.J. Liebling, Ernest Hemingway, Joyce Carol Oates, Leni Riefenstahl, Norman Mailer, Triumph of the Will, Ultimate Fighting Championship
jylle benson-gauss September 25, 2014 at 1:04 PM
I think this is your best blog yet, and that's saying a lot. Metaphors are fine, but they can be used to create a false dichotomy of choices. Finding our way through life is more a question of balance, rather like walking across a slippery log, something which practicing tai chi has enabled me to do...
Interestingly, my observations agree with your comments on violent sports; my most peace-loving women friends harbor a (shamefaced) love of brutal sports like football, hockey or boxing. I do, myself. I claim that it is the choreography of football that I enjoy, but the crunching of bones and the exhilaration of watching a team refuse to give up, dig deep and achieve victory is also intensely cathartic. I don't know why.
Francis September 25, 2014 at 1:48 PM
What I'm taking from what you're saying is that you get off on the metaphoric aspects of challenging sports but de facto that kind of poetry does't always translate as the best path to take existentially. Do I have this right?
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NDA è un singolo della cantante statunitense Billie Eilish, pubblicato il 9 luglio 2021 come quinto estratto dal secondo album in studio Happier than Ever.

Descrizione
NDA è l'acronimo di Non Disclosure Agreement ed stato musicalmente definito dalla critica specializzata come un brano elettropop, hyperpop e rock alternativo, mentre il testo descrive tutti i lati negativi di quando si diventa superstar, come la quasi totale assenza di una vita privata e la mancanza di fiducia verso altri. Nel ritornello la cantante fa uso di autotune per descrivere la tossicità di una sua relazione nel contesto della sua enorme fama.

Video musicale
Il video musicale è stato diretto dall'artista stessa e girato in un unico piano sequenza in cui Eilish cammina in mezzo a una strada buia, quando a un tratto delle auto illuminano improvvisamente la scena e le corrono pericolosamente vicine.

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Singoli prodotti da Finneas O'Connell

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Tricentis Delivers 3rd Year of High Double-Digit Growth as Demand for Software Testing Transformation Surges
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 16, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Tricentis, provider of the cloud's #1 Continuous Testing platform, today announced that 2018 was their third consecutive year of high-double-digit growth, adding 400+ new clients this past year. This news follows another major milestone for the company: the closing of its merger with QASymphony—adding qTest open source testing, Agile test management, and predictive test analytics to the growing Tricentis portfolio.
The merged organization provides the most modern platform for transforming software testing to keep pace with digital transformation. For Agile teams, Tricentis qTest adds a suite of software testing tools designed to improve speed, efficiency and collaboration throughout the software testing lifecycle. These new Agile Dev Testing capabilities complement the company's flagship Tricentis Tosca continuous testing, which provides resilient end-to-end regression testing across any architecture or application stack (150+ technologies). Additionally, Tricentis Flood integrates with both Tricentis Tosca and Tricentis qTest, giving developers and testers instant access to cloud-based performance labs for on-demand load testing.
With digital transformation initiatives permeating the CIO agenda and triggering unprecedented DevOps and Agile adoption, enterprises are reaching a tipping point for software testing. As companies demand more software faster, software testing emerges as the greatest bottleneck to delivery speed. Despite the drive towards digital transformation, software testing remains a predominantly manual activity that delays releases and consumes 30-40 percent of an organization's application budget.1
"More and more Global 2000 organizations are recognizing that they must start transforming testing now in order to achieve their digital transformation objectives," explained Tricentis CEO Sandeep Johri. "We're proud to have helped leading companies reinvent testing—enabling them to accelerate innovation while reducing business risk and lowering costs. Just adding test automation tools doesn't achieve the desired results. You also need to change the culture, address core practices like test case design and test data management, as well as orchestrate tests across a broad array of technologies."
Tricentis COO Dave Keil added, "Replacing HP QC and UFT is a distinct contributing factor to Tricentis' strong revenue growth. Digital transformation initiatives are forcing development teams to adopt more modern architectures and 'shift' testing both left and right. At the same time, IT leaders are looking to de-risk their software DevTest portfolios, moving away from unstable vendors like Micro Focus and CA (now Broadcom). In response, many organizations are now scrutinizing their existing testing portfolios and deciding that it's time to move on—to a modern, innovative solution that's built for the new speed of business."
About Tricentis
With the industry's #1 Continuous Testing platform, Tricentis is recognized for reinventing software testing for DevOps. Through agile test management and advanced test automation optimized to support over 150+ technologies, we provide automated insight into the business risks of your software releases—transforming testing from a roadblock to a catalyst for innovation. The result is accelerated software delivery speed, improved cost efficiency, and reduced business risk.
Tricentis is the only vendor to achieve "leader" status in all three top analyst reports (i.e., the "Triple Crown.") This honor is based on our technical leadership, innovation, and a Global 2000 customer base of 1500+ companies, including global enterprises such as Allianz, ANZ Bank, Cisco, Dolby, Experian, First Data, HSBC, Merck, Office Depot, Samsung, Swiss Re, Starbucks, Telstra, UBS, Vodafone, Whole Foods, and WorldPay. Customers rely on Tricentis to achieve and sustain test automation rates of over 90 percent—increasing risk coverage while accelerating testing to keep pace with Agile and DevOps.
Tricentis has a global presence in Austria, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, India, Netherlands, Singapore, Switzerland, Poland, United States and the UK. To learn more, visit https://www.tricentis.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.
1 Capgemini, HPE, Sogeti, World Quality Report: https://www.capgemini.com/service/world-quality-report-2017-18/
Noel Wurst
n.wurst@tricentis.com+1 904.673.4427


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This Tibetan incense is hand manufactured based on the principles of Buddhist medicinal system.
Bhakta aromatic incense is prepared from natural flower oils. Therefor itis fre e from any toxic substance ofchemicals. Bhakta guarantees that no child labour is involvedin the production.
Bhakta Aromatic incense is prepared from natural flower oils. Therefor it is free from any toxic substance of chemicals. Bhakta guarantees that no child labour is involved in this product.


In this case, X really does mark "The Spot," a place created by a local man to introduce his daughter to the outdoors. Tucked along a tributary of Gold Mine Run, near Pine-Meadow Trail, "The Spot" offers a spark of civilization in Stony Valley. It's a great place for children to experience nature, with a shallow trickling creek in the section, as well as the surrounding wilderness over small hills.
DIRECTIONS: Park at the Pine-Meadow Trail Trailhead on Gold Mine Road (2.6 miles south of Route 325, or 4.5 miles north of Route 443). Continue through the gate on Pine-Meadow Trail, a logging road, for approximately 1.1 miles. An unnamed trail (road) will appear to your right. (Pine-Meadow Trail will vier towards the left and descend into Small Valley at this point, so make sure you take the other road!). Continue on the unnamed trail on your left for another 1.2 miles. At this point the trail will split again, joining with the Old Stagecoach Road. Take the left fork of the Old Stagecoach Road, contine approximatly 0.4 miles into "The Pines." A coal mound with the trail atop it, will appear on your lefthand side. Follow the trail, but before you reach the top of the coalmound, make a right (an easier trail awaits in this direction). The Spot is at the end of this trail.


Since most of the people had stopped their installments due to the ongoing court cases of Bahria Town, this policy will help them get their surcharges waived off if they pay their outstanding dues within given time.
Earlier, the last date to avail surcharge waiver was 5th of April 2019, however it has now been extended. You can pay off your outstanding dues by or before 10th of April 2019 to avail 100% surcharge waiver.
This policy may further be extended, however it is better to avail this opportunity within the given date if your plot lies in the safe zone/legitimate land.


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Find sources: "1563" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (April 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
Year 1563 (MDLXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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Chinese calendar 壬戌年 (Water Dog)
癸亥年 (Water Pig)
Tibetan calendar 阳水狗年
(male Water-Dog)
阴水猪年
(female Water-Pig)
1563 marks the start of the Northern Seven Years' War
February 1 – Sarsa Dengel succeeds his father Menas, as Emperor of Ethiopia.
February 18 – Francis, Duke of Guise, is assassinated while besieging Orléans.
March 19 – The Edict of Amboise is signed at the Château d'Amboise by Catherine de' Medici, acting as regent for her son Charles IX of France, having been negotiated between the Huguenot Louis, Prince of Condé, and Anne, duc de Montmorency, Constable of France. It accords some toleration to the Huguenots, especially to aristocrats. It officially ends the first phase of the French Wars of Religion, and the combined Huguenot and royal armies then march north to besiege the English in Le Havre.
May 25 – Elizabeth College, Guernsey founded, by order of Queen Elizabeth I
May 30 – At Bornholm, the Danish fleet fires on the Swedish navy, leading to a Danish defeat and precipitating the Northern Seven Years' War.
July 28 – The English surrender Le Havre to the French after a siege.
August 13 – Northern Seven Years' War: War against the Kingdom of Sweden is declared by Denmark–Norway and the Free City of Lübeck.
August 18 – Merchants from the Bungo Province destroy the Portuguese settlement in Yokoseura, Japan
September 4 – Northern Seven Years' War: King Frederick II of Denmark, advancing from Halland, takes Älvsborg fortress from Sweden.
December 4 – The Council of Trent (opened December 13, 1545) officially closes. It reaffirms all major Roman Catholic doctrines, and declares the Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament to be canonical, along with the rest of the Bible. Chapter 1, Session 24, promulgates the decree Tametsi, stipulating that for a marriage to be valid, consent (the essence of marriage) as expressed in the vows has to be given publicly before witnesses, one of whom has to be the parish priest.
Emperor Wanli
Saint Francis Caracciolo
January – Penelope Blount, Countess of Devonshire, English noblewoman (d. 1607)
Johann Christoph von Westerstetten, German bishop (d. 1637)
Martin Becanus, Belgian Jesuit priest (d. 1624)
January 19 – Leonhard Hutter, German theologian (d. 1616)
January 29 – William Slingsby, English army officer (d. 1634)
January 30 – Franciscus Gomarus, Dutch theologian (d. 1641)
March 5 – John Coke, English politician (d. 1644)
March 29 – Sir Miles Sandys, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1645)
April 15 – Guru Arjan Dev, fifth Sikh leader (d. 1606)
May 9 – Frederick IV of Fürstenberg, German noble (d. 1617)
June 1 – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English statesman and spymaster (d. 1612)
June 4 – George Heriot, Scottish artist (d. 1624)
July 19 – Lamoral, 1st Prince of Ligne (d. 1624)
September 4 – Wanli Emperor of China (d. 1620)
September 15 – Elisabeth of Anhalt-Zerbst, Electress of Brandenburg (d. 1607)
September 18 – Agnes of Limburg-Styrum, Abbess of Elten, Vreden, Borghorst and Freckenhorst (d. 1645)
September 21 – Henri, Duke of Joyeuse, French general (d. 1608)
September 27 – Thomas Freke, English politician (d. 1633)
September 30 – Enno III, Count of East Frisia, Count of Ostfriesland from 1599 to 1625 from the Cirksena family (d. 1625)
October 4 – Dorothea of Saxony, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d. 1587)
October 13 – Francis Caracciolo, Italian Catholic priest (d. 1608)
October 14 – Jodocus Hondius, Flemish artist (d. 1633)
October 28 – Berlinghiero Gessi, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1639)
October 30 – Sophie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Duchess of Hunters Village (d. 1639)
November 5 – Countess Anna of Nassau (d. 1588)
November 8 – Henry II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1624)
November 19 – Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (d. 1626)
November 20 – Sophie of Württemberg, German noble (d. 1590)
November 28 – Hosokawa Tadaoki, Japanese daimyō (d. 1646)
December 2 – Mutio Vitelleschi, Italian Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1645)
December 19 – Lord William Howard, English nobleman (d. 1640)
December 20 – Juan Fernandez Pacheco, 5th Duke of Escalona, Spanish noble and diplomat (d. 1615)
Yi Su-gwang, Korean scholar (d. 1628)
Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devonshire (d. 1606)
John Dowland, English composer (d. 1626)
Michael Drayton, English poet (d. 1631)
Scipione Gentili, Italian legal scholar (d. 1616)
Anna Guarini, Italian virtuoso singer (d. 1598)
Hosokawa Gracia, Japanese noblewoman (d. 1600)
Marcin Kazanowski, Polish nobleman (d. 1636)
Zygmunt Kazanowski, Polish nobleman (d. 1634)
Robert Naunton, English politician and writer (d. 1635)
Joshua Sylvester, English poet (d. 1618)
Jean Titelouze, French organist and composer (d.1633)
Louise Bourgeois Boursier, French Royal midwife (d. 1636)
Heo Nanseolheon, Korean poet (d. 1589)
Francis, Duke of Guise
Sebastian Castellio
January 4 – Elisabeth of Hesse, Countess Palatine of Zweibrücken, later Countess Palatine of Simmern (b. 1503)
February 1 – Emperor Menas of Ethiopia (fever) (b. 1559)
February 4 – Wilhelm von Brandenburg, Archbishop of Riga (b. 1498)
February 24 – Francis, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (shot) (b. 1519)
March 2 – Ercole Gonzaga, Spanish Catholic cardinal (b. 1505)
March 17 – Girolamo Seripando, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1493)
March 19 – Arthur Brooke, English poet
March 24 – Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (b. 1514)
March 28 – Heinrich Glarean, Swiss music theorist (b. 1488)
April 15 – Bernhard VIII, Count of Lippe (b. 1527)
April 30 – Henry Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford, English baron (b. 1501)
May 21 – Martynas Mažvydas, author of the first printed book in Lithuanian (b. 1510)
June 9 – William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (b. 1506)
June 24 – Prince Yuri of Uglich (b. 1532)
August 11 – Bartolomé de Escobedo, Spanish composer (b. 1500)
August 18 – Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (b. 1530)
August 30 – Wolfgang Musculus, German theologian (b. 1497)
September 17 – Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier (b. 1526)
October 31 – Anthony Kitchin, British bishop (b. 1471)
John Bale, English churchman (b. 1495)[1]
Ioan Iacob Heraclid, ruler of Moldavia (b. 1511)
December 1 – Yi Gwang-sik, Korean politician and general (b. 1493)
Sebastian Castello, French theologian (b. 1515)
Thomas Naogeorgus, German playwright (b. 1508)
Odet de Selve, French diplomat (b. c. 1504)
Elizabeth Seymour, Marchioness of Winchester, English noblewoman (b. 1513)
^ "John Bale | English bishop and author". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved April 28, 2019.


You will have an attractive home when the roofing is excellent. Therefore, when you want the roof of your home to be made, it is vital that you look for a roofing company. You will have the project dome accurately through engaging a professional roofing company. Below are the factors to put into consideration when hiring a roofing contractor.
You should start by looking at the credentials of the roofing company. You need to ensure the roofing contractor has been licensed. You also need to check if the roofing company has been insured. The necessary coverage the contractor should have obtained is the worker compensation insurance and even the liability insurance. You need to request the roofing firm to allow you look at their documents. Through calling the insurance provider, you can know if the insurance owned by the roofing contractor is valid. When you have worked with a company that has insurance, and you will have peace of mind since you will be provided with the coverage for what will be damaged.
You need to choose the roofing firm that serves within your locality. When you choose the company from your home area, it makes it easy for you to get in touch within the company. In addition, through choosing the roofing contractor from your home area, it allows you to get the warrant services, for instance, you can get the roofing repair or replacement from the contractor with a fee that is less or without any charges. Make sure that the contractor you have selected has a good reputation.
Quality is a significant consideration when hiring a roofing company. With the right roofing contractors, they will not ask for a fee for the consultation. Consider working with the company that shows interest in listening to your ideas while not forcing you to make the decision. In addition, you should ensure that the roofing company will effectively communicate to you.


Winter is slowly fading away here in NYC and as spring approaches, we have some exciting news to share with you.
Submissions for our 7th annual group show of our students work is open. If you have attended any of our classes, you are eligible to participate. For more info, please see right side bar.
Parents are also starting to sign up their children for our summer camp sessions. Seating is limited so be sure to view our calendar for dates. See right side bar for more information.
As always, many many thanks to those who have recommended friends and family to attend our private/group photo classes, and to those who have purchased prints.
The deadline to submit your photos is May 13th. Please click here to see the submission information and details about the show. If you have taken any of our classes or workshops in America, or one of our workshops in Europe, we look forward to receiving your submissions!
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Sometimes fears are silly. Sometimes they're not.
I used to be afraid of getting lost. I worried I'd lose my parents, and they'd lose me. I'm not really afraid of that anymore.
I used to be afraid of swimming pool drains... the big drain at the bottom of pools that's covered by a grate. I worried there was a water snake or an alligator or a hairball down there and they would get me or touch me while I was swimming. I'm not worried about the water snake or alligator anymore.
I used to be afraid of the movies Pinocchio, Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz. When I was eight, I tried to watch Pinocchio again, sure that I was old enough to handle it. I only made it ten minutes in and had to turn it off... WAY too scary. I'm not afraid of them anymore either.
I am still afraid of touching dirty dish water, showering in tubs that don't drain very well, and putting my hands down sink drains to fish something out of the garbage disposal.
Luckily, all I have to do is leave a note and "someone" takes care of it.
hahaha!! I am not afraid to fish anything out of the garbage disposal but I am afraid of dirty dish water and water that drains too slowly in the shower. I am a water waster when it comes to doing dishes. I do not plug the sink and wash all my dishes in the water, i just let it keep running and running until my dishes are washed. it seriously is so gross to plug your sink. or at least I think so!! So I will keep wasting water!
I think this fear of yours is the funniest. You don't squirm at body fluids and semi-fluids, you don't squirm at bugs. You squirm at so little, but if the dishwater is left in over night you won't touch it without a glove. You crack me up. I'm glad you've learned the power of a note to go along with the power of a glove.
i hate tubs that don't drain well. i don't mind dirt and i don't mind water...but mix the two and i hate it.
Oh I remember our fear of hairballs.....I remember going to Lagoon and not wanting to go to the waterpark because of hairballs......then I went to Wellesley.....yuck.....hairballs.......HA! Love you!


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