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Chronicles of Love & Resentment by Eric Gans
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No. 194: Saturday, January 15th, 2000
Rodney Cotterill's No Ghost in the Machine (London, 1989) is a scientist's attempt to prove that there is no such thing as a soul. I often wonder exactly what people who write this way think they are arguing about. These Enlightenment arguments resemble like a photographic negative the claims of believers as to the existence of supernatural domains like Heaven and Hell. First, an "immaterial," "supernatural," "transcendental" form of being (or Being) is described; then it is said (not) to "exist." But arguments about existence all wind up referring to something like the material conditions by which we recognize existence in our own world. Thus the soul is said to be immaterial, but to inhabit the body and leave it at death, which is to say, to behave just like a physical body (e.g., the breath-psyche). Heaven is said to be supernatural, yet we conceive it as a place where the blessed reside.
GA avoids this kind of language by explaining it and offering an alternative to it. The model for all transcendental entities is the linguistic sign, which does not "exist" in the spatio-temporal world. Words are not mortal, but they do not "inhabit" their speakers and need no Elysian fields on which to disport themselves. Nor is this linguistic reference merely a more sophisticated version of the Enlightenment denial of the spiritual. Language is not merely a cognitive operation of our brains; it is a source of sacralization that arises in order to defer mimetic violence. To represent by means of a sign is to cut off from worldly action. The supernatural quality of what is designated by the sign does not arise from the formal reality of the sign's existence in a different world from that of things; it is rather this formal difference that arises from the the human community's "absolute" need of putting the desired object beyond the reach of its potentially contentious members.
Thus the first word is the name-of-God that both designates the object of desire and at the same time does not signify merely this mortal object but a sacred Being that will subsist after the object has been destroyed (in the simplest scenario, divided up and eaten by the group). The animal that the word designated is no more, but the word and its peace-bringing power remains, and God, or the sacred, is what it means. The word's "immortality" contrasts with the worldly mortality we depend on to support our appetites.
The major bugbear of Cotterill's book is "dualism," understood as the Cartesian doctrine that mind is separate from body–in particular, the brain. But this way of stating the problem merely perpetuates misunderstanding. Mind as "the ghost in the machine" has no possible material referent, yet is derided for lacking one. The image conjured up in the reader's mind is of some kind of preternatural ectoplasm, that is, once more, a "supernatural" substance that is not of this world yet manifests itself in it. It is easy enough to dismiss such concepts as obscurantist holdovers from primitive times.
But if we think of dualism as the doctrine that signs are not things (not even "one thing substituted for another"), then these objections vanish. A word is not a thing, but neither is it some kind of ghostly emanation. It is an atemporal form, not some kind of immortal substance. Nor does it "exist" in my brain. This is a point that deserves some clarification.
Recent research into the workings of the brain, some of which has been remarked on in these Chronicles, has gone far toward understanding how language functions in the individual language-user. But the fact that the word "tree" in my brain is instantiated by a set or "node" of neurons connected on the one hand to mental images of trees and on the other to the sounds [t], [r]… and the letters T, R… does not mean that the word is a "thing" in my brain. The very nature of the circuitry makes the word more a "disposition" than a thing; but the crucial point is that a sign cannot be understood as existing à la Herder in a single mind. As soon as its existence is thus defined, it becomes no more (pace Chomsky) than a Skinnerian association. What makes language more than a reflex is that it exists as a mode of communication among separate individuals. On this point, I am happy to cite a prominent theoretician of mimesis and language origin–one who, sad to say, seems unaware of GA:
The integration of morphophonological addresses [i.e., sound patterns] into a larger descriptive [i.e., lexical] system is an inherently social activity, and one is tempted to predict that this process could not be confined within the isolated brain; that is, one should not expect to find the 'language acquisition device' that Chomsky predicted entirely inside the individual brain. Rather, the emergence of language depends on a community of brains in interaction.
(Merlin Donald, "Preconditions for the Evolution of Protolanguages," in The Descent of Mind, Michael Corballis and Stephen Lea, eds., Oxford UP, 1999), p. 150)
To the extent that the word "tree" "exists," it does so not in my brain but within the collectivity of English speakers. Any private associations I may develop with the word can become part of the word's meaning only if they are communicated to and repeated by others. There is no simple limit to what a word communicates; even the most rigorously defined meanings are "fuzzy." That is the result of the way signs exist: changes of meaning in one mind do not instantly propagate themselves to other minds. For this reason, Locke warned of the danger of assuming that others use words with the same meaning as ourselves. But the point of language is not to arrive at absolute transparency but to defer violence; the originary sign designates not a rigorous concept but the sacred source of this deferral.
Materialists are likely to tax this conception with mysticism. There is, they claim, no such thing as "the word 'tree,'" only individual sounds and marks–and trees. That a group of people associate a set of these sounds or marks with mental images of trees is no different from Pavlov's dog associating the bell's ring with dinner.
What is my answer to these objections? That ontologies–monist, dualist, or what have you–are not determined objectively on the ground; they reflect whatever distinctions the ontologist considers essential to his model of the world. Just as human beings are "just" collections of quarks, so words are "just" sounds. But the materialist dismissal of dualism jettisons, along with the ghostly soul, the specificity of human language and culture. This is less easy to do when one has made the connection between, on the one hand, the soul and the family of ideas associated with the sacred, and, on the other, the phenomena of language and "secular" culture. Just as ideas are now thought to reside in the brain not in specific neurons but in interactions among neurons, so do the signs of language and culture exist not in individual minds but in the interaction among human beings.
Let me clear up a possible objection. The existence of categories as opposed to individual beings did not begin with language, or even with life. What then is the difference between saying the word "tree" is atemporal, since it does not depend for its existence on any given instantiation, and saying the same thing of the category "proton"? In Saussurian terms, "tree" is part of the langue even if no one speaks or thinks it, but is not the langue itself just a set of nodes in the brain, or in a community of brains? My answer is: yes, but the point is not to show that words are "immortal," but that they have a different relation to temporality than things, one that is the basis for our concept of immortality. Gods too may be considered mortal in the sense that when their believers are gone, they are no longer "real" gods, but this form of "death" is not directly comparable to the decay of the flesh. An electron can "know" the category "proton," but not even a chimpanzee can reflect on the non-mortality of the sign, because no sign has ever been necessary to preserve his society from mimetic violence.
It is only after explaining why human communities have a stake in the existence of the signs of language and culture that one can explain why these communities create the idea of the soul, of God, the sacred, mana, karma, and so on. I wonder how long will we have to wait before the dialogue des sourds between science and faith gives way to an anthropological science fully cognizant of the specificity of its human subject-matter.
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The Mimosa Ensemble was formed at MusicWorks in the summer of 2002 and worked on Schoenberg's early masterpiece, Verklaerte Nacht, on the course a year later. Such was their fascination with this work that they went on to make their own translation of the Richard Dehmel poem on which the work is based and to produce paintings based on the piece (both included with this CD).
The group went on to play concerts together in several music societies and to promote their own concerts so it seemed obvious that they should have the chance to record the work and James Boyd produced and recorded the first MusicWorks recordings in 2004. Ten years later, all these musicians continue to be friends and to work together in different ensembles.


Both supporters and opponents of constitutional changes offered by Morocco's king have protested in their thousands, indicating debate over the country's future sparked by the "Arab Spring" uprisings has not ended.
Sunday's opposition protests organised by the youth-based February 20 Movement took place in three cities and passed off without any clashes. The movement is a loose national network that was inspired by uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.
The biggest show of strength by the opposition was in the northern city of Tangier where witnesses said about 12,000 marched to press the 47-year-old king for deeper reforms.
King Mohammed, a staunch ally of the West, is expected to hand over some of his powers to elected officials under a new constitution, which was approved in a referendum earlier this month.
But he will still retain a say over strategic decisions.
Led by dozens of Muslim clerics and students of Islamic schools, the backers of the reform chanted "We have one king, Mohammed VI!" Two of the students said they were bussed to Rabat from the southern Souss region especially for the protest.
Abdelkabir Belto, 19. "The local authorities brought buses for all the pupils of religious schools in Souss,"he said.
The February 20 movement has not garnered the kind of support that overthrew longstanding leaders elsewhere in the Arab world, in part because the king is respected by most Moroccans, but it has generated Morocco's biggest anti-establishment protests in decades.


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Santa María del Mar (officially Santa María del Mar - El Puerto) is one of eight parishes (administrative divisions) in Castrillón, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

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Recommendation to Modify NC Community Stakeholder Definition
Proposed by Doug Fitzsimmons on February 17, 2016
Motion failed to be adopted by a majority of Councils before the November 2016 deadline
Passed by
Bel Air-Beverly Crest Neighborhood Council
South Robertson Neighborhoods Council
Westside Neighborhood Council
Westwood Community Council
Westwood Neighborhood Council
To recommend to the Board of Neighborhood Commissioners and the Los Angeles City Council that the City administrative code be amended to define Neighborhood Council stakeholders as such:
Stakeholders shall be defined as those who live, work, or own real property within the Neighborhood Council boundaries. With the approval of the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment, Neighborhood Councils may—and are encouraged to—expand this definition within their bylaws to include other defined groups of stakeholders.
Some years ago, the original definition of who qualified as a stakeholder in the Neighborhood Council system was changed by the City Council at the suggestion of the Neighborhood Council Review Commission (NCRC), a group chartered in 2007 to fine-tune the NC system.
The thinking was that the original "live, work or own property" definition tended to limit NC participation. In their final report, the NCRC said: "…because the neighborhood council democracy model is meant to reach more deeply into the community than traditional outreach models, the goal of diversity must be pursued aggressively." They therefore recommended that it also include "those who declare a stake in the neighborhood and affirm the factual basis for it."
Problems with the very broad "factual basis" definition became quickly apparent. Suddenly, anyone could vote in an NC election with as little proof as a receipt from a local coffee shop. Some NCs were taken over by outside groups who, in at least one case, bussed people in to vote for candidates who favored a particular development project.
In response, the Board of Neighborhood Commissioners (BONC) officially recommended/required that each council reserve one at-large seat for factual basis stakeholders. That a single token at-large seat was thought to be an acceptable and necessary compromise demonstrated how deeply flawed the language was.
In 2013, a new NC reform initiative again took up the issue of stakeholder definition. Of the three working groups, 2/3 proposed removing factual basis stakeholders all together. All three recommended allowing each NC to once again have a hand in defining their own stakeholders.
At the final meeting to find compromise language, a last-minute proposal (with little basis in the prior work of the groups) was put forward and adopted with little debate:
"Stakeholders" shall be defined as those who live, work or own real property in the neighborhood and also to those who declare a stake in the neighborhood as a community interest stakeholder, defined as a person who affirms a substantial and ongoing participation within the Neighborhood Council's boundaries and who may be in a community organization such as, but not limited to, educational, non-profit and/or religious organizations.
This confusing syntax substituted the open-ended and un-verifiable "substantial and ongoing participation" for "declare a stake in the neighborhood" without defining "substantial" or "ongoing." It did add a provision for being "in a community organization"—but here again, it did not define what being "in" meant and was so open-ended as to be meaningless. It was a marginal improvement, at best.
If the goal is to include non-residents who are nevertheless legitimately invested in the community, we have to have some verifiable measure of that activity. But that exercise is doomed to failure: it is impossible to craft language that would cover every eventuality.
Moreover, it's debatable whether any of these changes were needed at all. Before the 2007 change, most NCs had expanded the basic stakeholder definition on their own, tailoring it to their community: in fact, a study before the definition change showed that 88% of NCs had broader-than-required stakeholder definitions. For example, SORO NC had created special seats for schools and community organizations.
The authors of the City Charter felt that Neighborhood Councils should be tailored to their own communities and stakeholders. The proposed language below allows Neighborhood Councils the opportunity to broaden the base stakeholder definition to suit their own particular needs and character. It does not preclude "community interest" stakeholders if the Neighborhood Council wishes.

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Wracked: Book 1 of the Saga of Ukumog is a dark fantasy novel written by the American author Louis Puster III.
Wrack awakes in a shallow, mossy grave with no memory of how he got there or who he is. Shards of his former life return in brief flashes of color, as Wrack traverses a bleak world, where seemingly immortal creatures with godlike power—the Doomed—wage war on each other and the living alike. A power awakens within him, and with it, a dark hunger. Wrack and his unexpected companions—the beautiful warrior Brin and clever Avar—each seek something different: answers, vengeance, stories. Their disparate goals are more entwined than they ever imagined, and the three soon find their fates may be inextricably bound through prophecy.
"Wracked - The Saga of Ukumog Book 1 by Louis Puster III is the story of Wrack who finds himself in a mossy grave. He has no clue about how he got there. Lying there, pieces of his past life flash through his monochromatic life. He sees larger-than-life creatures there and suddenly he senses a power and a hunger awakening inside him. Wrack has some unexpected companions, Avar and Brin, on this journey. All of them are looking for something different but their goals lie entwined together. The book is an amazing tale of vengeance and dark stories and will excite readers, especially those who like dark fantasy.
The author narrates the story in the present where the person has lost his memory and to know about this readers are taken to his past. The flashbacks in this book create another plot which the author has blended well with the main plot. The mystery angle, the intrigue and the suspense that comes with it make it an gripping tale. The plot has been written and developed well, along with some powerful characters. The clever plot keeps the readers engaged in the book till the very end.


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Q: QTKit audio mute and Stream Buffering status message  I'm muting volume in QTkit like this:
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    [mMovieVolumeSlider setFloatValue:0.1];
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The problem is the volume attenuation is sudden and abrupt. How can I implement a fade effect to the volume attenuation?
Also - my app runs .pls audio stream files. I have the .pls files embedded in the bundle. When selecting a stream within the app, a short delay is common before the stream begins to play. I want to display some sort of status message ("Buffering" or Connecting") during this short delay prior to connecting. When the stream begins the status message would end. Any idea's on how to approach this?
thanks for the help.
-paul.

A: I'll just outline my answers to your two questions as suggestions:

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*What you want to accomplish sounds much like a good fit for NSAnimation (either through subclassing or delegation — animation:valueForProgress: will probably be your friend here).

*Open the QTMovie asynchronously and listen for the QTMovieLoadStateDidChangeNotification.

HTH
Daniel

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Q: Cant pass a variable from Controller to the View , Zend Framework 2 I have a controller like this:
namespace Application\Controller;
use Zend\Mvc\Controller\AbstractActionController;
use Zend\View\Model\ViewModel;

class IndexController extends AbstractActionController
{
    public function indexAction()
    {
        $this->view->myvar = "Hello";
    }
}

and index.phtml view part:

  <title></title>

<body

<?php echo $this->myvar; ?>

For some reason I am not able to see Hello word on view.. and the Error is this i get:
Warning: Creating default object from empty value in C:\xampp\htdocs\myZend\module\Application\src\Application\Controller\IndexController.php on line 19
I can see that something with assinging the variable in controller is the problem but i dont why, is this the correct way to assign a value into a variable... Am I missing something else??
ThNKS

A: The correct way in zf2 to set variable and pass to the view:
           return new ViewModel(array(
           'varName' => $value,
         ));

Then retrieve it in your view:
          echo $this->varName;

A: public function indexAction()
{
   $view = new ViewModel ();
   $view->myvar = "Hello";
   return $view;
}


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Saltärna är en ö i Ronneby socken och kommun.

Saltärna bestod ursprungligen av flera mindre öar som kallades Saltöarna eller Saltaröarna, Troligen för att man saltade fisk på öarna. På grund av landhöjningen kom öarna under 1700-talet att växa samman till en ö. Saltöarna ingick i de gods som danske kungen måste köpa in och överlämna till svenske kungen som ersättning för Bornholm vid freden i Köpenhamn. Fast bebyggelse fanns på Salttärna i början av 1700-talet. I slutet av 1700-talet byggdes en fiskefyr på ön. Omkring 1800 bodde omkring 50 personer på vilket på 1880-talet hade stigit till det dubbla, omkring 100 personer. Runt sekelskiftet 1900 inleddes stenbrytning på ön och befolkningen ökade ytterligare, men började kort därefter minska snabbt igen. 1920 fanns endast 28 fastboende på ön. Under andra världskriget revs fiskefyren i samband att militära anläggningar uppfördes på ön. 1957 drogs elektricitet till Saltärna. 1987 såldes den sista boskapen på Saltärna, ungefär samtidigt upphörde yrkesfisket. Då hade det 1985 funnits kvar fem bofasta på ön. Ön har sedan haft en liten men kontinuerlig bofast befolkning, 2012 fanns tre fastboende.

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 Sveriges öar, 3:e upplagan 2013, Anders Källgård s. 169.

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I finally get to see one of my favorite paintings in person! The Frick is exhibiting Girl with a Pearl Earring and fourteen other excellent paintings from the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis in the Hague! YAAAAY! I saw the poster for the exhibit this morning when I was walking through Chinatown to get to my optometrist (and don't you love that fresh-new-contact-lens feeling?).
When I was in Amsterdam I went to the Rijksmuseum, and wouldn't you know it, most of the museum was closed for renovations! BOOO! I still got to see a little of it, though. Then I ate half a bag of hallucinogenic mushrooms and went to the van Gogh museum, which I do not recommend. The museum was great, but it was way too crowded, which made my trip uncomfortable. I ended up leaving early and going for a long walk around town. Amsterdam was very beautiful and the people were very beautiful, and friendly, too! Everyone looked like a Barbie or Ken doll, and they were very tall. It was the first time in my life where I was not an unusually tall woman.
I learned a few Dutch phrases in order to be polite, but the language was very challenging.
I can't wait to go to this exhibit! I'll take photos and post them on the blog.
Went to the Rijksmuseum and saw the Vermeers about 15 years ago before it went out of service for a refit that took many years and was controversial. I spent half an hour looking at 'The Kitchen Maid' such was its magic. I remember being surprised at how small it was.
I also have wonderful memories of 'The Glass of Wine' (on loan from a German museum at the time). His capacity to render the transparency of crystal in paint was mindblowing.
Amsterdam is a great place for kink, fetish shops and the like. Remember seeing a guy walking down the Kalverstraat in outrageous regalia without anyone turning a hair.
I LOVE art ZOMG love love love! Every time I went to Europe–only a handful of times, really–I made a point to visit the major art museums. I spent a whole day at the Louvre, morning till close, aching feet and all, and I only saw a fraction of it. Like the Met, it's too vast to see in a day, or even a week…and I don't know about you, but after 4-5 hours, I develop "beauty fatigue." I keep going because I want to see as much as possible, but I don't appreciate it the way that I do when I'm fresh.
You have to come to New York and see the Met. It is a magical place. I go about once a month, and I still haven't seen it all yet.
Funny you should mention 'The Kitchen Maid.' My mother has had a framed print of it on her bedroom wall all my life, and my mother doesn't know or care about art…but she knows what she likes, and she liked that painting.
Painting or drawing or sculpting is like magic to people who cannot do it.
Finally: Amsterdam, as you know, is famously tolerant. I went to a few fetish stores there (I was with my ex, John). Typically European, they were big on the latex, but WOW, the selection of merchandise!
I like Amsterdam very much. Some people find it boring, but I think it's wonderful.
Paris is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen, though…but I haven't been to Italy yet!


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Further, the app offers advanced features such as access to personalized recommendations when you sign in with a Google account. You get a list of users who have downloaded the app that you are interested in. So, it helps you evaluate the app's popularity. Users can also shop in Google Play through this app.
The app is multifunctional. In addition to helping you decide on the right apps, it also works as your personal app store manager by managing apps that are already installed on your device. So, you can decide which ones to keep and which to delete. For users who store hundreds of apps on their devices with several of them being used very sporadically, this app can be a great solution.
The app is easy to use. Shortcut menus can be accessed by tapping or sliding on the screen. Recently, the app was upgraded and the design was completely revamped for tablet compatibility. The home screen performance is much better and faster now. User interface has been improved and minor bugs that caused small troubles in usability have now been fixed.
According to the makers, the search engine of the app is not as thorough as the one on their website. Nevertheless, provision of different kinds of filters does make the app functional to a large extent.
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With the holidays swiftly approaching, you and your child are likely to find yourselves facing many changes in your daily routines. Trips to visit family, changes in eating habits, busy schedules with early mornings and late nights — all of these things may make your child's everyday activities change significantly.
And because a child is still learning to embrace life skills such as flexibility and resilience, having long periods of time off for the holidays may initially take your son or daughter by surprise. But with planning, you can make the most of the holiday break from school, have a lot of fun as a family, and watch your child bloom as they head back to school refreshed and ready to learn.
We all need breaks! Short breaks during activities can greatly benefit your child's learning. After long periods of focus, the brain is depleted of neurotransmitters like dopamine and serotonin. A shift in focus to rest and replenish is necessary and healthy.
A longer break, such as several days for holiday celebrations, can allow you and your family to get needed sleep and rejuvenation in the form of entertaining activities like shopping, cookie making, and visiting relatives and friends.
Of course, as Montessori teachers well know, regular daily activities that children can count on help them develop a sense of confidence and exploration, within understandable boundaries. But as parents know, holiday schedules can play havoc with regular activities.
Create a bucket of 10-, 20-, and 30-minute activities that you can invite your child to engage in — the more, the better. Then as you focus on your own tasks of cooking, card writing, online shopping or other activities, encourage your son or daughter to pick their own activities out of the bucket and do them.
When your child grows restless, invite him or her to switch to a new activity. This mimics the schedule of a Montessori school day, which may help your child navigate their free time more smoothly.
Move – Stretch, take a brief walk, do a yoga move or two, or shake and wiggle your body.
Use music – Turn on a favorite song and dance to it. Or sing a song or two with your child, clapping to keep time.
Draw – Pull out a notepad and doodle. Choose something in the house or yard to draw. Pull out the crayons and color a page or two in a coloring book.
Watch a short video – Find and watch a 5-10 minute fun video that has nothing to do with what you and your child have been working on.
Breathe deeply – Mindful practices like deep breathing are relaxing. It's also a great way to teach children to be less reactive — a useful tool for later in life.
Play a quick game – Charades, twenty questions, or a similar game that moves fast is a fun way to switch things up. And it keeps your child engaged in discovery — another way to bring in the Montessori approach at home.
Read a book with your child. During the holidays, you get the bonus of having more time for reading. Pick a long book, like Charlotte's Web, and read a chapter or two nightly before bedtime. Or invite your child to pick a book they can read to visiting relatives, which is fun for everyone!
Listen to books in the car. That long drive to Grandma's house doesn't have to be filled with mindless videos. Play a book your kids will enjoy instead. Take breaks between chapters to talk about it and speculate what might happen to the characters next.
Practice math skills in the kitchen. While you're cooking holiday meals, invite children in to practice fractions, adding and subtracting. Have them count the cups of flour poured into the mixing bowl, or count equal numbers of cookies into gift bags.
Invite discovery while shopping. If you do holiday shopping, engage your child in a game of discovery. Encourage them to closely examine artistic items at a craft fair, telling you about the colors and materials they notice. Let them describe objects that catch their attention.
All these activities are related to the holiday and can be fun, while also allowing your child to continue their Montessori learning. This way, they'll be ready to step back into school once the holiday is over.
One final thing to do before student holiday breaks end is to prepare your child to return to the routine of the classroom. By doing so, you make their transition easier and help them ease back into the learning process successfully.
Sleep — Make sure your child gets plenty of sleep. Ideally, keep them on their regular sleep schedule so they won't be dragging on school mornings.
Eat breakfast — With holidays, our eating habits may go out the window. But keep your children in the habit of eating a nutritious breakfast.
Get organized — Before school starts back up, make sure your child's school supplies and clothes are clean, organized, and in place.
Unlike traditional schools, Montessori educators actively engage you and your child in ways to learn and grow all the time — in and out of the classroom. Student holiday breaks don't have to interfere with the learning process. That's the Montessori advantage!
Learn more about our Montessori curriculum for your child, or call us to schedule a tour and see for yourself how Primary Montessori Day School empowers children and equips them for lifelong success.


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Jean-Paul Dubois, né le  à Toulouse, est un écrivain français.

Le , il reçoit le prix Goncourt pour son livre Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon.

Biographie

Jean-Paul Dubois a suivi des études de sociologie. Il a été journaliste au service des sports de Sud Ouest, au Matin de Paris, puis grand reporter au Nouvel Observateur.

Il a publié une vingtaine de romans, un essai, deux recueils de nouvelles et deux recueils d'articles ; il a préfacé un livre de photographies consacrées aux pins Bristlecone, quadrimillénaires, les plus vieux arbres du monde, et un recueil de nouvelles proches de ce qu'il écrit lui-même. Il collabore parfois à des périodiques.

Dans un entretien réalisé en 2005, il se définit comme libertaire : écrire, c'est sa façon à lui de . Comme pour rappeler qu'il y a , des gens qui dominent et d'autres qui sont soumis et que  Selon lui,

Il reste un auteur particulièrement discret.

Œuvre
Jean-Paul Dubois ne sacralise pas l'acte d'écriture (« pas plus important qu'un match de rugby »). Il considère que le métier d'écrivain a l'avantage de laisser du temps libre pour ne rien faire, simplement pour vivre, en essayant de comprendre un peu le monde :

Il pose dans ses romans et nouvelles un regard désabusé et distancié sur le monde et les rapports humains.

Il est hostile à l'idée de domination, que ce soit au travail  ou dans la société. Il critique notamment la violence de l'autorité religieuse telle qu'il a pu la subir dans son enfance.

Il expose clairement dans son œuvre son athéisme. Et il écrit :

Le fait de se sentir étranger à toute forme de métaphysique, de spiritualité ou de sacré peut d'ailleurs aussi servir de point d'appui à certaines des situations les plus drôles inventées par le romancier. Dans Kennedy et moi, le héros participe à une cérémonie en mer ayant pour fonction de rendre hommage au beau-père de la fille du héros (Paul) qui s'est noyé un an plus tôt ; dès l'hommage terminé, Paul se déshabille et plonge à l'eau au milieu des fleurs en poussant des petits cris de joie.

De même, au début des Accommodements raisonnables, la cérémonie d'incinération de l'oncle du héros donne lieu à une scène extrêmement cocasse : le frère du mort distribue ses cendres à d'autres membres de la famille qui les recueillent, qui dans une tasse, qui dans des sachets en papier. Ce type de désacralisation, propre d'une vision de la vie radicalement sans illusions, est caractéristique de l'art romanesque de Jean-Paul Dubois.

Il a déclaré à la sortie de ce livre que ce roman pourrait être le dernier :

L'écrivain publie néanmoins un nouveau roman en 2011, Le Cas Sneijder. Le personnage principal y poursuit la vie névrosée des héros de Dubois, son attention se portant cette fois sur les ascenseurs et les chiens.

Les références
Les références littéraires de Jean-Paul Dubois sont John Fante, Emmanuel Bove, Cormac McCarthy, Philip Roth, Charles Bukowski, Jim Harrison.

Il reconnaît cependant plus volontiers John Updike comme un de ses maîtres : « l'écrivain qui m'a le plus appris et le plus fait réfléchir à la manière d'écrire une histoire c'est indiscutablement John Updike ». Il a d'ailleurs consacré deux articles à cet écrivain, dont « il a lu les trente-six livres, y compris les chroniques de golf » (sport dont il parle souvent mais qu'il n'a jamais pratiqué).

Jean-Paul Dubois reprend souvent dans ses interviews ou textes les deux citations suivantes, qu'il affectionne particulièrement :

L'Amérique
Jean-Paul Dubois a écrit pour le Nouvel Observateur une série d'articles sur les États-Unis dont une sélection a été publiée dans deux recueils, L'Amérique m'inquiète et Jusque-là tout allait bien en Amérique. Le mode d'écriture de ces articles se rapproche de la nouvelle. Plutôt que d'informer sur l'actualité immédiate ils racontent le plus souvent une histoire édifiante, une vision d'une certaine facette de l'Amérique, individualiste, dure aux faibles, violente économiquement et dans son système judiciaire. Le regard que Dubois y porte sur les États-Unis est plutôt négatif et incrédule.

Il lui est arrivé d'insérer dans ses romans des épisodes décrits dans ses articles pour le Nouvel Observateur, comme celui du Kombucha, champignon élevé dans Les Accommodements raisonnables et qu'on retrouve dans L'Amérique m'inquiète.
Si le personnage principal des romans de Dubois est toujours originaire de Toulouse, il est aussi souvent attiré par l'Amérique, que ce soit par les États-Unis ou par le Canada.

Le cinéma
Kennedy et moi est le premier roman de Jean-Paul Dubois à avoir fait l'objet d'une adaptation au cinéma, pour laquelle l'auteur ne montre pas un grand enthousiasme. Un article de Jean-Paul Dubois est également au départ du film À l'origine de Xavier Giannoli en 2009. Celui-ci avait déjà adapté une nouvelle de Dubois pour un court métrage, Dialogue au sommet, en 1995.

Jean-Paul Dubois peut par ailleurs se laisser volontairement inspirer par un film.

Hommes entre eux est le titre d'un film finlandais attribué au réalisateur Niemi que le personnage principal du roman, Paul, voit au cinéma. L'auteur fait également de Paul un inconditionnel de films n'offrant pas d'issue comme Aguirre, la colère de Dieu, Hana-bi (はなび), Yi Yi, La ligne rouge, De beaux lendemains, Les Affranchis, Sarabande, Alexandra's Project, Element of Crime. Dubois a déclaré avoir écrit le livre comme un film et imaginé Nick Nolte et Daniel Duval comme interprètes des personnages.

L'atmosphère du roman qui se déroule dans le Canada enneigé de North Bay fait penser à celle du film Affliction, tiré du roman de Russell Banks, dans lequel joue justement Nick Nolte.

On retrouve Nolte dans Les Accommodements raisonnables à un dîner organisé par un producteur. Pour le narrateur, l'acteur symbolise d'abord le personnage qu'il a interprété dans Affliction, faisant écho à Hommes entre eux.

Dans Les Accommodements raisonnables, Paul est script doctor, il aide à la rédaction d'un scénario au sein d'un studio hollywoodien. Le film de Robert Aldrich Le Démon des femmes (1968) est cité dans ce roman et paraît avoir été une inspiration pour un des éléments de l'histoire, la forte ressemblance physique entre une collègue de Paul, qui deviendra sa maîtresse, et son épouse Anna.

Dans Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon, la mère du héros hérite du cinéma Arts et Essai de ses parents prématurément décédés dans un accident de la route. Après une période faste au tournant des années 60 et 70, la salle dérive progressivement et devient un cinéma porno, qui fermera lui-même dans les années 90.

Thèmes récurrents
Les romans de Dubois frappent par un certain nombre de constantes, parmi lesquelles les prénoms de Paul pour le héros (à 10 reprises) et d'Anna pour son épouse (8 fois). Toutes les thématiques répétitives ne sont pas nécessairement cohérentes au niveau de la totalité de l'œuvre : le héros peut adorer ses enfants dans un roman et les détester dans un autre ; il peut être dépressif, mais cela peut être aussi, ailleurs, le cas de son épouse. Le trouble que suscitent ces répétitions fait finalement partie du charme de l'œuvre de Dubois ; le lecteur régulier éprouve une sorte de soulagement et de jubilation lorsqu'il est enfin question de tondeuses à gazon.

La tondeuse à gazon
« J'ai toujours aimé tondre les pelouses. C'est une de mes douces perversions ». La tondeuse se retrouve comme titre de deux instantanés dans Parfois je ris tout seul. Le père est fondateur ou propriétaire d'une entreprise fabricant des tondeuses dans La vie me fait peur et Les Accommodements raisonnables. Dans Une vie française, Paul, le personnage principal, peut aussi se réinsérer dans le monde actif en devenant jardinier et propriétaire de tondeuse permettant la tonte du gazon selon des règles immuablement respectées.

Le rugby
Le sport préféré de Jean-Paul Dubois est le rugby et on le retrouve souvent dans ses écrits. Ce peut être dans son roman Tous les matins je me lève où le personnage principal se rêve en grand joueur à la manière d'un Fitzgerald dans Veiller, Dormir, ou dans Les Accommodements raisonnables dans lequel le personnage de Tricia Farnsworth emprunte son nom à Viv Farnsworth, joueur de rugby australien du début du . Ou encore dans Une vie française où Paul se trouve un point commun avec son psychiatre confident.

Le rugby est encore le thème d'une nouvelle écrite pour l'Équipe magazine, La moitié du neuf est avec le dix, ou l'objet de chroniques rédigées pendant le mondial 2007.

Jean-Paul Dubois considère le rugby comme un « sport obscur, austère, rigoureux, régi par des lois tourmentées et subtiles établies de toute évidence par un pasteur anglican rigide, compulsif, ombrageux et vraisemblablement malheureux en ménage ». Il voit l'éclosion du rugby à la professionnalisation des années 1990 et son évolution actuelle comme trop brutale et excessive dans les concessions faites à l'ère du spectacle.

Accidents maritimes, accidents d'avion
La mort chez Jean-Paul Dubois est souvent brutale. La mer est le premier élément venant perturber le quotidien par des accidents tragiques. Ainsi, dans Tous les matins je me lève, Paul sauve-t-il de la noyade un chien (tout comme dans La succession), mais ne peut qu'assister impuissant à sa disparition dans Vous aurez de mes nouvelles. L'épouse, Anna, manque se noyer dans Kennedy et moi et se noie dans Hommes entre eux. Entre ces deux romans elle perd une main, sectionnée par un hors-bord en faisant du ski nautique. C'est  le père qui se noie dans un lac au cours d'une partie de pêche. Dans la dernière nouvelle de "Vous aurez de mes nouvelles", le narrateur raconte son propre suicide par noyade.

Si donc la mer n'est pas tendre avec les personnages de Dubois, il faut constater que l'avion ne leur réussit pas davantage. On apprend au début de Si ce livre pouvait me rapprocher de toi que la mère de Paul est décédée dans l'accident de son Cessna ; son épouse Anna trouve la mort dans des conditions absolument identiques dans Une vie française.

Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon ne déroge pas à la règle, ici aussi un accident intervient pour tordre le destin.

Les voitures
La voiture peut être considérée comme un personnage récurrent de l'œuvre de Dubois. Elle est le refuge dans lequel le narrateur se coupe de la réalité qui lui échappe. Elle est souvent considérée comme une compagne réconfortante, un jouet prolongeant l'enfance.

Dans Tous les matins je me lève, la Karmann cabriolet de Paul « se tue » dans un accident. Elle sera remplacée par une Triumph. On retrouve d'ailleurs ces deux voitures dans La succession. Dans Parfois je ris tout seul, la voiture rend Heureux. Elle sert au narrateur à quitter volontairement la vie dans Prends soin de moi.

Elle est aussi le symbole de la liberté et héroïne d'une scène de roman de Jim Harrison, Entre chien et loup, régulièrement citée par Dubois en interview et recopiée par lui dans Si ce livre pouvait me rapprocher de toi : le personnage se met debout sur son siège, passe la tête par le toit ouvrant, et roule cheveux au vent.

On peut encore noter que le père de Paul est garagiste et concessionnaire Simca dans Une vie française ou que l'oncle du narrateur meurt au volant d'un coupé à l'arrêt dans une concession Mercedes au début des Accommodements raisonnables.

Enfin deux autres voitures traversent son dernier roman : Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon : la déficiente NSU Ro 80 à moteur Wankel du père de Paul et la Citroën DS 19 dans laquelle se tuent ses grands-parents maternels.

Jean-Paul Dubois a déclaré avoir envisagé un livre racontant l'histoire des voitures qu'il a eues, en les reliant à l'époque sociale du moment.

L'amour et le sexe
Les couples dans les romans de Dubois sont souvent déliquescents. L'amour laisse toujours place à une vie commune laborieuse et décevante, dans laquelle chacun s'éloigne progressivement de l'autre. Dans ce contexte, l'infidélité est considérée comme normale et acceptable. La découverte de la double-vie sentimentale d'un personnage est considérée avec parfois de l'étonnement, mais toujours de la bienveillance. La vie à deux est perçue comme une façon de combler la solitude de chacun.

Les rapports sexuels sont abordés avec le même pragmatisme. Il est normal de faire semblant d'éprouver du plaisir par « respect conjugal, par politesse ». Paul considère la simulation comme un accommodement raisonnable, un dédommagement des efforts de l'autre. Ce peut être un moment de solitude de plus dans un couple.

Selon Kieran Read une des connaissances de Paul, le héros de Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon "satisfaisantes et fréquentes relations sexuelles" est l'argument massue face aux tribunaux des États-Unis pour obtenir la meilleure indemnisation possible en cas de perte du conjoint. L'amour et les sentiments ne sont pas seulement évoqués.

Le dentiste
Le dentiste revient régulièrement dans l'œuvre de Dubois. Ce peut être la profession du père du narrateur. Ce peut encore être une figure pédante et détestée, que Paul va jusqu'à mordre. Il peut enfin s'appeler Edgar Hoover comme l'ancien directeur du FBI, être dépressif et avoir des « pratiques désaxées ». Jean-Paul Dubois explique cette vision négative de la profession par le surnom du dentiste qui le traitait enfant, le «  Mengele ».

Dans Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon, Horton, le compagnon de cellule du héros, souffre de la phobie du dentiste, il retarde jusqu'à l'insupportable, la visite chez le praticien qui ne pourra faire autrement que d'arracher la dent.

Maria est morte et Hommes entre eux : romans-miroirs

Dans deux de ses romans, Maria est morte et Hommes entre eux, l'auteur raconte la même scène, située dans le premier cas en Inde, dans le second au Canada : un combat organisé, d'une extrême violence, auquel le héros est convié à assister par un homme qui a vécu avec sa femme et qui doit lui révéler où elle se trouve actuellement. Même si le récit est réécrit (il est plus long dans le second roman), on peut dire que l'on a affaire à deux récits quasi identiques qui ne peuvent que troubler le lecteur attentif. De nombreuses répliques sont littéralement répétées d'un livre à l'autre, placées comme autant d'indices adressés aux lecteurs qui connaissent l'ensemble de l'œuvre : oui, il s'agit bien du même récit placé au sein de deux ouvrages qui multiplient par ailleurs les points communs (un homme qui recherche sa femme, qui découvre qu'il ne la connaissait pas vraiment, qui séjourne longuement dans un hôtel tenu par un homme qui ne cesse de se plaindre des clients, etc.), à commencer par la mise en sourdine de tout ce qui fait habituellement la drôlerie des romans de Jean-Paul Dubois. C'est peut-être précisément en lisant ces deux romans qu'on expérimente le mieux, mais au négatif, ce qu'est la vraie veine romanesque, voire la vraie poétique de Dubois : le romancier est vraiment lui-même lorsqu'il est drôle dans la tragédie, lorsqu'il rend cocasses des situations qui sont objectivement tristes.

Publications

 Compte rendu analytique d'un sentiment désordonné, 1984
 Éloge du gaucher dans un monde manchot, 1986, Éditions Robert Laffont, 224 p.,
 Tous les matins je me lève, Éditions du Seuil, 1988
 Maria est morte, 1989
 Edgar P. Jacobs, La marque jaune, Labor, 1989
 Les poissons me regardent, 1990
 Vous aurez de mes nouvelles, Éditions Robert Laffont, 1991
 Parfois je ris tout seul, Éditions Robert Laffont, 1992
 Une année sous silence, Éditions Robert Laffont, 1992
 Prends soin de moi, Éditions de l'Olivier, 1993
 La vie me fait peur, Éditions du Seuil, 1994
 Kennedy et moi, Éditions du Seuil 1996
 L'Amérique m'inquiète, Éditions de l'Olivier, 1996
 Je pense à autre chose, Éditions de l'Olivier, 1997
 Si ce livre pouvait me rapprocher de toi, Éditions de l'Olivier, 1999
 Jusque-là tout allait bien en Amérique, recueil, Éditions de l'Olivier, 2002
 Une vie française, Éditions de l'Olivier, 2004
 Vous plaisantez, Monsieur Tanner, Éditions de l'Olivier 2006
 Hommes entre eux, Média Diffusion, 2007
 Les Accommodements raisonnables, Média Diffusion, 2008
 Le Cas Sneijder, Média Diffusion, 2011
 La Succession, Éditions de l'Olivier, 2016, — Sélectionné pour le prix Goncourt
 Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon, 2019, Éditions de l'Olivier
 Une belle vie avec Charlie, 2020, nouvelle parue dans 13 à table ! 2021, Pocket n° 18254,
 Dag Hammarskjöld, 2021, nouvelle parue dans 13 à table ! 2022, Pocket n° 18272

Récompenses et distinctions

Prix littéraires
 Prix de l'Humour noir Xavier Forneret 1991 pour Vous aurez de mes nouvelles.
 Prix France Télévisions 1996 pour Kennedy et moi
 Prix Femina 2004 pour Une vie française
 Prix du roman Fnac 2004 pour Une vie française
 Prix Alexandre-Vialatte 2012 pour Le Cas Sneijder
 Prix Goncourt 2019 pour Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon

Adaptations de son œuvre

À l'écran
 Le Condamné, 1993, réalisé par Xavier Giannoli (court-métrage)
 Kennedy et moi, 1999, réalisé par Sam Karmann
 En chantier, monsieur Tanner (téléfilm), 2009, inspiré de Vous plaisantez, monsieur Tanner, réalisé par Stefan Liberski
 La Nouvelle Vie de Paul Sneijder, 2016, adaptation du roman Le cas Sneijder par Thomas Vincent, avec Thierry Lhermitte et Géraldine Pailhas
 Le Fils de Jean, 2016, inspiré du roman Si ce livre pouvait me rapprocher de toi, réalisé par Philippe Lioret, avec Pierre Deladonchamps et Gabriel Arcand.

Au théâtre
 Vous plaisantez, monsieur Tanner, 2008, adaptation, mise en scène & scénographie de David Teysseyre. Interprétation par Roch-Antoine Albaladéjo ; lumières de Vincent Lemoine ; son de Sébastien Cannas (Studio Capitaine Plouf).
 Le cas Sneijder, 2017, au théâtre de l'Atelier, avec Pierre Arditi, mise en scène de Didier Bezace.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Prix Goncourt 2019

Liens externes

 Pour en savoir plus sur l'auteur (une longue interview audio de Jean-Paul Dubois) dans laquelle il affirme malicieusement :

Naissance à Toulouse
Écrivain français du XXe siècle
Écrivain français du XXIe siècle
Nouvelliste français du XXe siècle
Nouvelliste français du XXIe siècle
Journaliste français du XXe siècle
Journaliste français du XXIe siècle
Auteur publié par les éditions Robert Laffont
Auteur publié par les éditions du Seuil
Auteur publié par les éditions de l'Olivier
Auteur de la collection Spécial Police
Lauréat du prix Goncourt
Lauréat du prix Femina
Lauréat du prix Alexandre-Vialatte
Lauréat du prix du roman Fnac
Collaborateur du Nouvel Observateur
Collaborateur de Sud Ouest
Personnalité gauchère
Naissance en février 1950


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This idea for a beet pastrami originated as a "smoked salmon" substitute for my everything bagel and herb & garlic cream cheese recipe, but it didn't quite fit. And it also seemed like a waste of a perfectly great recipe! So I made it into its own sandwich, and I think this is a much better way to eat your beets.
And no, I don't plan on making carrot lox anytime soon either. Have you seen the carrot dog video?! Oh, brother.
Anyhoo, focus! These sandwiches have it all – sweet, savory, spicy, tangy, creamy, and crunch! You're going to melt when you sink your teeth into these. If you're looking for the thousand island dressing, I took it straight outta the hot for food cookbook, but you can also find a similar version here.
Check out how to make them in the video below or keep scrolling for the recipe.
These sandwiches have it all - sweet, savory, spicy, tangy, creamy, and crunch! You're going to melt when you sink your teeth into this.
In a mortar and pestle, crush the mustard seeds and then add to a bowl with the rest of the spice mix.
Brush 1/2 teaspoons of oil on each beet and place in foil. Create a foil packet by placing all the beets in the foil and wrapping tightly to cover completely. Roast for 45 minutes for small beets or longer for larger beets (time may vary).
Open up foil carefully, as hot steam will be coming out. Beets should easily be punctured by a fork. If not, continue roasting in the foil packet.
Generously brush the liquid that has pooled in the foil packet over the beet skin to get it wet, then generously cover in the pastrami spice on outside of the beet so it's covered evenly. Keep them spaced apart on the foil, but you don't need to wrap them again. Roast for another 15 minutes so the moisture evaporates and the paste sticks.
Remove the beets from the oven and slice very thinly.
Spread 4 pieces of bread with vegan butter on the outside and thousand island dressing on the inside. Top with vegan cheese and 1 sliced beet per sandwich. Then top with sauerkraut, more cheese and top with a piece of bread with thousand island on the inside and more butter on the outside.
Get a grill pan heated over medium heat and press the sandwich on the grill pan for 2 to 3 minutes per side. Use a sandwich press or another small cast iron to press the sandwich.
Let it rest for 5 to 10 minutes before slicing and serve with pickles if desired.
Made these last night for dinner. Absolutely brilliant. Impatiently gobbled up the beet coins out of the oven without the bread, and topped with the dressing and kraut. Later, topped the beets on toasted rye with some vegan pepper Jack, as per your recipe (and some added avocado), and found it transcendent. Thank you for taking the time to create something so delicious and for having the generosity to share it. Perfectly delicious.


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Navy releases funds for V-22 procurement
PATUXENT RIVER, Md., Dec. 18 (UPI)
Funding for a second-year procurement of Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey aircraft for the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force has been executed by the U.S. Navy.
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I bought the oil just because that is my preference.
Today I started with x2 drops (approx 10mcgs) inside elbows.
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I noticed that the perfume I used to cover, though already a favorite, seemed extraordinarily amazing and I couldn't inhale deeply or often enough!
I felt very, hmm, normal, lol. No aggressiveness, though I think I've been a tad more serious than my usual self.
Unfortunately I didn't get to interact with as many people as I hoped. We're having a winter storm here and a lot people have called out so I pretty much have been introspective about affects (good but still wishing I had guinea pigs...) The one co-worker I've been with, male, has had positive reactions. We've been sharing mutual entertainment between work, silly things on our phones, stories, etc., good comraderie/rapport.
It's been 10 hrs and I just gave myself a little swipe behind each ear and a dab under my nose, just to see what happens when I get home to Mr Right...got that little buzzed feeling on that tiny application, but it passed more quickly. Hmm.
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The Love God has become one of my top 3 now. It's very dangerous in dates.
Hmm, do I need to order that one to, to compare with xs193....?
I almost feel like I might be wasting it testing at work. I think it may shine best in an intimate setting (for obvious reasons, lol).
The struggle is real, my dear.
x2 TLG at inner elbows, plus a 2 inch strip along each side of my jawline hoping for more noticeable selfies.
I wasn't as layered up today after initial application, so that may have affected my selfies as well.
I didn't have that strange buzzed feeling today but I noticed my mood was elevated after application, in spite of having to rush to pack up lil Nu and get to work.
My sitter offered me something to taste while I was there and asked my opinion on how she might make it better (this has never happened before soooooo? And she has never tasted my cooking so why trust my opinion lol???) It was unusual.
Like I said we had poor weather and again there were few targets, but the encounters I had were playful and fun.
I noticed I am more laid back when I wear TLG, not quiet, not ever hahaha! Ok, occasionally quiet, but there's definitely a contentedness. Is there A1 in this? I had a focus on productivity when something needed completed but was still laid back and able to have fun with co-workers as time allowed, which made for an enjoyable night's work.
So TLG gives out a signal of one being better at things than one really are in a way?
I think it can be a everyday wear mix too. It has this mate bashing, water-mouth effect, and VIP vibes like what others reported. You can be the workplace love goddess.
I'm thinking status, and yes, a kind of assumption of competence/knowledge.
Without knowing my cooking experience, (with the exception of perhaps my husband having mentioned something? or it could be because she knows we like fine dining?), she believed I could offer her suggestions for improvement. But this is something she does as a business, so I was surprised and flattered that she would ask.
Ok, so my initial application before going home to Mr, was 10 hours prior. So I swiped approximately a 2 inch strip behind each ear and gave myself a dab under the nose. This seems to be plenty to soften up Mr after a long day.
He, he, he, TLG seems like a nice blend.
Did you get the normal TLG one or the one with extra two drops of cops added?
You are in danger, girl.


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A-1 Self Storage Charity Spotlight: Whispering Winds Catholic Camp and Conference Center
July 21, 2020 |by A-1 Self Storage
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Since 1978, the Whispering Winds Catholic Camp and Conference Center has provided a safe, supportive environment, where anyone can grow in their relationship with Christ. The team at A-1 Self Storage is proud to support this incredible organization!
Located about an hour drive from San Diego near the historic town of Julian, California, Whispering Winds is comprised of 161 secluded acres in the Cleveland National Forest. When the camp was founded, there were no lodges or meeting halls, just RVs and tents set up among the mountain shrubs. The original cafeteria tent was infamous for being ice cold in the winter and sauna hot in the summer.
Whispering Winds' growth from these humble beginnings was due in large part to private donors who facilitated construction projects ranging from barracks-style housing with multiple bunks to lodges with private bedrooms and bathrooms.
Today, Whispering Winds has everything you would expect from a typical summer camp. There are a wide variety of outdoor activities to enjoy including zip lining, horseback riding, rock climbing, swimming, and hiking. What makes camping at Whispering Winds different from other summer camps is the way that faith is incorporated into the programming. During each Whispering Winds run program, there are a number of scheduled masses and prayer times. Confession is even offered.
"It's an environment where God is always spoken about, yet it's still fun. Making faith fun is not a bad thing. Jesus said, 'Let the little children come to me.' He loved children and I really do believe that the family that prays together stays together. I also believe that the family that plays together stays together. Here we do both and it's a really good balance," said Paula Bott, Director of Programs for Whispering Winds.
More than 10,000 people (many of whom are part of guest rental groups) participate in various programs at Whispering Winds each year. Each program is uniquely designed to engage the spiritual needs of a specific group. These groups include families, middle school students, Confirmation candidates, foster children, and those who have lost a loved one in the military. There are also programs for adults aged 55 and older. The camp makes a great effort to serve the needs of not just children, but the entire community.
Paula estimates that more than 90 parishes from around the Southwestern part of the United States are represented at camp each year. She says that the accepting atmosphere and unique chance to experience God through nature keeps campers coming back year after year.
"At Whispering Winds, you can find quiet moments in a world where silence and tranquility are very rare," said Paula. "We're very welcoming. Some of the families who come to camp go to church three times a week and some families haven't been to church in a couple months. We want people to learn and grow in their faith, so we want to be non-judgemental. We want people to feel loved and comfortable when they come to camp. We provide a place for them to grow where they are. It's a place where God can speak to you wherever you are on your spiritual journey."
Paula has spent every summer since she was a child attending programs at Whispering Winds. Her parents, Frank and Bernice Mascari, helped found the camp and also started the Family Camp program in 1993. This summer marked the 25th consecutive year that a member of the Mascari family was a part of the team which ran Family Camp at Whispering Winds.
"I was up there getting the camp ready and doing things as a little kid, climbing trees and playing. It became kind of like our second home," Paula said. "Now I run the Family Camps as well, so I have taken the baton from my parents and have been in charge of the Family Camp for 10 years."
That baton is likely going to stay in the Bott family for quite some time as Paula's two daughters joined the team at Whispering Winds for the first time this past summer.
"Being raised in a place like this has been the most important thing in my life. For me, it's a huge blessing, because it keeps my family's faith alive. Camp is different. It's a place where you can experience God in nature, which isn't all that common anymore," Paula said. "My parents saw value in it and now my children choose to work at camp. There's no greater gift to a parent than being able to experience that. Whispering Winds obviously impacted my life as a child, now it's impacting my children. It's just an amazing legacy that the founders and my parents left our community."
There are four Family Camp programs each year, one of which is reserved for families of children with special needs. According to Paula, Whispering Winds is the only camp in Southern California that offers programming which provides for special needs children, their siblings, and their parents. Each family is paired with a one-on-one aide for the weekend called a "Buddy" who is a trained volunteer responsible for being with the special needs child throughout their time at Whispering Winds. Last year, 42 special needs children were able to attend camp.
"Due to a very kind donation from Brian Caster, we've been able to provide a Military Family Camp for active duty military members this year. Military families attended any family camp for only $100," Paula said.
Growing Faith in Nature
With the hustle and bustle of modern life, things can start to feel pretty crazy. Technology keeps us tethered to a constant stream of information. Notifications, messages, calls, emails, and other forms of communication demand our attention on an unpredictable schedule.
According to Paula, there's something about nature's beauty that can separate us from that craziness and make it easier to connect with the Almighty. Being on the mountain makes people feel like they become part of the environment, calm and relaxed. During the many years she's attended camp at Whispering Winds, Paula says she has seen many people make incredible discoveries about themselves, their loved ones, and Christ.
"I feel super blessed because I get to see that marriage that's falling apart that ends up sticking it out and making it. I get to see the wife who ends up getting baptized because she came to camp and experienced God in a way that she never had before and now she wants to be in fullness of the faith," Paula said. "Our donors don't really get to see that, so I want them to know we are so grateful to them for what they've done to make a difference. I want to remind them that it's not just a building that they've contributed, but what's happening in those buildings has made the biggest impact."
Thank you to everyone at Whispering Winds for the opportunity to help you bring more people into Christ's love. A-1 Self Storage is honored to provide support for your life-changing programs!
Bonus Interview with Terrence Caster
Peter Soto: How did you first become involved with Whispering Winds?
Terrence Caster: We became involved with Whispering Winds during a retreat we attended in the 1960's. The camp was founded for Catholic Families to hold retreats and celebrate Mass at the camp.
Peter Soto: Why is supporting Whispering Winds important to you?
Terrence Caster: Supporting Whispering Winds is important to us because we want to bring people to Christ; the camp holds many retreats throughout the year which provide that platform to make that personal connection with Christ. The camp is hidden in the hills of Julian and we veterans of the camp refer to it as "the mountain." When you are on the mountain; you disconnect from the daily hustle.
Peter Soto: What programs have you attended at Whispering Winds in the past?
Terrence Caster: We are involved with Cursillo San Diego. It is a weekend retreat which focuses on your relationship with Christ. Whispering Winds also hosts a Senior Moments Retreat, Women's Retreat, Family Camp, Military Family Camp, and Special Needs Family Camp. This is in addition to the retreats held for confirmation into the Catholic Church and Youth Ministers Retreats. They are busy and we like hearing the buildings we invested in are full of people who seek our Lord.
Peter Soto: Do you have any fond memories from your time at Whispering Winds?
Terrence Caster: When I first went on my Cursillo retreat, I really didn't want to go; on the first night I called my wife Barbara and gave her instructions on how to get to the camp after about half an hour of explaining the directions she firmly informed me that she would not be picking me up as we had waited to be on retreat. I hung up and talked to God; I told him "Ok, God; if I am supposed to be here for three days, give me all you got." Almost instantly I felt the Holy Spirit; it was the most perfect, peaceful and powerful experience of my life. I started a deeper relationship with Christ. That was well over 30 years ago.
Peter Soto: Has Whispering Winds been a positive influence on your family? If so, how?
Terrence Caster: Yes, Our son, Brian, and his family are involved with Cursillo and the camp.
Peter Soto: This is not your first donation, nor the first building you have helped to construct with a donation, did you think you would help Whispering Winds grow this much when you first became involved?
Terrence Caster: We always believed in the camp because of the experience we have had on the Mountain. The camp took a beating during the Cedar Fires in 2003 and we knew we wanted to be involved somehow with the rebuild.
Peter Soto: Do you have future plans for Whispering Winds?
Terrence Caster: We hope and pray that the camp continues to be filled with persons who are looking for and experiencing a deeper relationship with Christ.


When triggered by the desire to reduce unwarranted variation in practice and provide patients with benchmark quality care, adherence to clinical guidelines can often improve patient safety. But turning guidelines into legal standards would be bad for both patients and doctors.
That, in contravention of good medical judgment, the basic rules of Medicare (payment only for services that are medically necessary), threats of the potential for False Claim Act (prescribing, referring, where medically unnecessary), physicians will, as a group, act in ways which are possibly contrary to the interests of their patients, certainly contrary to reimbursement and related rules, under a theory that excessive or unnecessary prescribing and referring will insulate them from medical liability.
As a physician, the first problem I face is what does it mean to say a test is "unnecessary." The term suggests that tests live in two categories, those that are helpful and those that are not, but in reality what we're really dealing with is a continuum of probability.
While we wish doctors and hospitals had a better record preventing errors, clearly most physicians order tests and procedures because they are trying to be as accurate as possible. At least this is what they legally certify to Medicare and Medicaid. Perhaps some doctors do commit Medicare fraud, and clearly Medicare's "fee-for-service" medicine creates a perverse profit motive for providers to do too many tests and procedures. (See, e.g. here, here.) But it certainly is the lesson of history that even if you remove litigation as a factor, the extent of tests and procedures ordered will not necessarily change.
Incredibly, though, the medical lobbies want more.
So there's a "new" concept making the rounds. This new idea (actually a bad old idea, as explained below) is to provide immunity, or presumed immunity, to doctors who follow "clinical guidelines." Clinical guidelines would become the legal basis for deciding if patient harm was the result of negligence, essentially kicking the concept of individualized medicine out the door. Steven Brill talked about this in his recent Time magazine health care cover story. Citibank vice-chair Peter Orszag has been pushing the idea for a long time, and is now citing for support a Center for American Progress report, which our organization thoroughly debunked here. The goal is significant health care cost savings, even though, in over 30 years, medical malpractice premiums and claims have never been greater than 1% of our nation's health care costs and, as Dr. Hyde succinctly put it, "The costs, if any, of defensive medicine are trivial, in comparison to the cost of health care." In other words, it won't save money.
As I said, this is not a new idea. It was part of health care policy discussions in the 1990s. It was considered by President Clinton's White House Task Force on Health Care Reform. Several states even tried it out on an experimental basis. So what happened?
To call this idea a flop would be generous. The Clinton Task Force said "no." None of the state laws were renewed. (See more in this fascinating new law review article by Case Western Reserve University School of Law professor Maxwell J. Mehlman.) And the people who killed the idea weren't attorneys, as Brill cynically and incorrectly suggests. It was doctors.
Achieving [guideline] unanimity would require designating some entity, presumably a governmental agency, as the sole arbiter of what is acceptable medical practice. That is practically and politically inconceivable ... Knowledgeable, respected professional groups can, and often do, come down on opposite sides on a particular treatment issue ... Accepting that there will almost certainly be multiple guidelines for many conditions, courts will have to engage in a process of deciding, when guidelines conflict on a material point, which one to treat as authoritative, or more authoritative.
In other words, litigation could escalate.
In fact, as guidelines are written for "average patients" and cannot encompass the huge variation in how patients present, there may be good clinical reasons to vary from a guideline's recommendation for a patient. Even experts firmly committed to evidence-based medical practice recognize that there may be benefit to avoiding a "one size fits all" approach.
You cannot restrict physicians to one procedure or series of procedures for a specific condition ... No two patients are exactly alike and no two conditions are exactly alike. What we must do is provide physicians with parameters that give them the flexibility to utilize their own skills within an acceptable range of options.
Now, some may say that guidelines today would be better, more "evidence-based" than they were in the 1990s. But whose evidence? Specialty medical societies? It is already generally recognized that conflicts of interest and specialty bias are inherent problems in the development of current guidelines. It would be fundamentally unfair for patients to have their cases judged by liability standards chosen by medical and specialty societies, especially since they are written with the knowledge that they will help exculpate fellow physicians. If medical societies are allowed to participate in writing guidelines they know will exempt their members from liability, conflicts of interest and bias will escalate.
How about guidelines written by the government, the main goal of which is cost-cutting? Noted the former head of the AMA in Mehlman's article, "Effectiveness, appropriateness, necessity -- to the federal government those are euphemisms for cost control and rationing." Saving money becomes the goal rather than articulating appropriate standards of care. And because cost-cutting goals are non-safety-related, these kinds of guidelines could make patient safety worse. This article goes a step further and proposes that the government, i.e. politicians or bureaucrats, be granted divine authority to immunize a provider for anything it does. This is all so ironic, given how loudly the medical lobbies complain that the government should not be meddling in health care.
Even if a guideline is based on a clinical trial that was conducted on the relevant patient population, the results of the trial may not hold true for specific patients. It is a truism of medicine that patients differ in how an illness affects them (assuming that they actually have the same illness) and in how they respond to treatments, based on factors such as their genetic makeup, the way their bodies function, and environmental conditions that researchers are only beginning to understand. Clinical trials often do not take this into consideration, and therefore nor would guidelines which were based upon them, with the result that recommendations in the guidelines would not necessarily comply with the standard of care for that patient. (footnotes omitted).
Inevitably, guidelines would become stale or obsolete, and then what? Under this proposal, doctors will have little choice but to follow an outdated guideline just to get the benefit of the safe harbor provisions. In that case, the incentives work squarely against patient safety.
In sum, when triggered by the desire to reduce unwarranted variation in practice and provide patients with benchmark quality care rooted in science, adherence to clinical guidelines can improve patient safety in many situations. But turning guidelines into legal standards would be bad for both patients and doctors. For patients, allowing guidelines (particularly those developed by biased specialty societies or the cost-cutting government) to immunize a negligent physician or facility, is without any justification and is fundamentally unfair. For doctors, turning such guidelines into legal standards would restrict their ability to practice individualized medicine and has no business being part of important discussions about health care today.
For more by Joanne Doroshow, click here.


The Edinburgh Festival kicks off this weekend when the Fringe gets under way on Sunday.
Over the coming four weeks, the world's biggest arts extravaganza is hoping to present its best year yet with acts from around the world promising something for everyone.
So with all that choice, if you're wondering which stand-ups to sit down to or which plays will please you, look no further than our festival 2001 highlights round-up.
He's played to sell-out audiences over the past three years and this festival will prove no exception. Edinburgh's favourite 'middle-class ponce' is back with more stories, jokes and half-baked theories. 'Downright hilarious,' cried the critics last year as he reduced crowds to helpless laughter.
The double act who won the Perrier Best Newcomer award last year are back with a brand new show. Can they improve on their 'inspirational' performance of last year? Check out these situationists to find out.
Candid Indie comedy about two teenage girls who hand around with ageing slacker Steve Buscemi. Starring American Sweetheart Thora Birch and directed by Terry Zwigoff, who directed Crumb.
Dominic Savage's BBC-backed drama illustrates the impact of poverty on modern-day children and family life. A 12-year-old ups sticks from her alcoholic mother and flees her life in the north with her neighbour who goes to look for his mother in Hastings.
'Thrilling and unnerving' was how the London Evening Standard described this production during its recent run in the capitol. An adult re-telling of the Hans Christian Anderson tale which is sure to keep you on the age of your seat.
Scottish playwright Shan Kahn won the Verity Bargate Award for new drama for Office, his first stage play. Here it's given its world premiere by the Solo Theatre Company. The drama takes a look at modern morality and the placing of business above love and relationships.
Award-winning author Zadie Smith makes a public appearance - a rare occurence for this fledgling author who's kept a low profile since the publishing of her debut novel White Teeth, written when she was only 23.
Your chance to meet Zadie and quiz her on the secret of her success.
Your chance to see these two luminaries of British science fiction in conversation. With plenty of jokes along the way.
A showcase of the company's future new works. Includes ballets from the NYCB's new choreography The Diamond Project. A unique opportunity to see the ballet's work outside of New York.
Scottish Opera's Das Reingold which opened last year's festival was universally hailed as 'a triumph' by critics. This year they're back with Wagner's Die Walkure. With production times running over five hours, a picnic supper interval will be held between performances.
András Schiff's programme includes Beethoven's The Emperor, Bach's exuberant third suite and Haydn's sparkling Symphony No.88.
A must-experience event featuring a programme of American music, including works by Copeland, Bernstein and Barber.