"Some people's are by their very nature too ignorant and savage and backward to be allowed to govern themselves or form a democracy."
Funny that you said "ignorant and savage and backward" and then spoke like you came from the 17th century...
"Do you consider Aristotle to be unintelligent?"
A wise man once said "there are no authorities". The greatest minds can also be wrong/mistaken. Einstein didn't get the Theory Of Relativity right in one sitting, and in fact, it was wrong the first times, and it's still not taken to be fully correct and may be revised in a near future.
Aristotle could be wrong.
Here is a list of dictatorships that the United States has backed, for various reasons.
Non sequitur? The US also backed (backs) up extremist/terrorist groups. Does that make them ok for any reason?
"Dictatorships don't inherently come to power through bloodshed, and not everyone has effective freedom to elect their own leaders within democracies."
How exactly? Everyone has all the freedom to vote in whoever they see fit. There might be room for improvement, but whatever flaws the system has, it's not oppressing anyone regarding their freedom to voice/act on their opinion.
Also, there's no way one person can have their will imposed on everyone else without at least stepping on some people's feet a few times. So, in a way, you can't ever have a dictator without at least some figurative bloodshed.
"It's important to remember that our concept of individual rights is incredibly new within the context of human history."
Our concept of the scientific method is only 400 years old (incredibly new!). Yet it did considerably more for us in those 400 years than anything else did in the prior 9600 years of recorded history. Is there any dispute as to it being the best method of study and reasoning?
The people in other ages knew better than to live anarchically, but no better than to live in non-democratic systems. If they had thought of it, or if they had been able to make it happen, they would've.
No matter how benevolent a dictator might be, his individual opinions are imposed, thus most other individual minds will always have certain necessities being oppressed. We are not ants, we have individual agency. Ancient societies ought to be aware of that, even if they had no concept of it or if it was taboo; they might be illiterate ignorants, but not devoid of individual brains and emotions and wants and needs.
Decisions in that kind of political system are not taken by that one elected person. That's not likely to be the case in dictatorships.
In a dictatorship you might not even be able to complain about it.
That said, it's one flaw in democracy. One that should be addressed, that the people should be able to revoke their election by means of another majority voting.
Flaws don't make it worse, though. No system is perfect, and surely democracy isn't either. That does not take away from it being by all means superior to dictatorship.
Can you provide a significantly greater amount of examples of beneficial dictatorships that existed throughout history? Can you provide any, at all?
A dictatorship removes agency from individuals. Even if a dictator has a good heart that doesn't get corrupted by delusions of power, nearly ever single other individual will have certain wants and needs suppressed/repressed/oppressed.
Democracy is inherently better indeed, since it removes the enforcement of one individual's opinions over every other. It allows anyone to do as they please, and the only thing you need to enforce is that no one infringes on each others' well being.
Democracy is as fair as it can get (at least so far). Dictatorship is the antithesis.
Is it not a rare sight to see conservatives agreeing with liberals? Or teaming up?
Again, the road to fanaticism, fundamentalism, extremism, etc, is hardly one with T-junctions where conservatives might stop to decide they'd merge ideas from both parties. That's not to say it doesn't happen. That's one way we get new religious sects, for example. But usually the derivation includes a great majority of the original ideals, and not a heterogeneous mix.
I can accept those nuances, but they're not really relevant in this regard. Even if moderate conservatives were just as likely to become extreme liberals as they might be of becoming extremist conservatives, the question I'm asking is, essentially, how likely are they to become extremists at all, and what I contend is that it only depends on the type of propaganda they are exposed to, if any.
This looks like a website where people have fun, but also where people can share what they know and perhaps learn something from each other.
You told me nothing new, insightful, useful, or funny.
"So, in that case then, would you say that abortion is murder?"
I think the reason planets don't affect us is more because we're too small (little mass) to be affected. I have not corroborated that, it's just what it seems to me. Flies are as close to the earth as we are and couldn't care less about its gravity, and in reality the planets gravitational pull does reach this far and does have a certain effect.
For example, the sun itself gets pulled by Jupiter, which causes it to wobble slightly. The pull from the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy also reaches here and beyond.
Either way, gravity might not be the force that affects us. It's the only one of the four known forces in physics that could, but doesn't. It's up to astrologers to prove the existence of a fifth force. :)
What facts do you see for it?
If you enumerate facts, it might help to illustrate its importance.
Is it important to astrology that the sun rises alongside a given constellation?
Moderates are no different from fundamentalists/extremists.
Does Astrology account for animals too, or is it just applicable to humans?
What tools have we to format our posts?
Better to prevent than to regret?
Why is creationism ridiculous?
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The start of a new school year is always busy.  Setting up a classroom, writing lesson plans, getting used to a new schedule, learning new names, establishing routines with new students; it all takes time.  When I first heard about ExitTicket in September, I didn’t think I had the time to learn how to use a new tool.  Turns out, ExitTicket is really easy to set up and use!
In just a few minutes, I was able to create classes and compose a few tickets for each class.  The next day, I had my students sign up using a class code and then complete a Lauch ticket before I taught that day’s lesson.  Before the end of the period, I assigned an Exit ticket to check for understanding.  Using the Teacher View I was able to watch (in real time) how my students were doing.  I could easily identify which students were struggling and also which questions seemed to stump my students.  Earlier this week, I assigned a Practice ticket before a quiz.  Then, I looked at the Intervention Hot List to see which students might need extra support during the quiz.
ExitTicket does it all!  Pre-assessment, check for understanding during and at the end of class, compare class and student performance week to week, identify your class superstars and those in need of help.  I am so glad I took the time to learn about ExitTicket, it is proving to be an invaluable tool!
It's been quite a while since my last blog post - a whole summer, in fact.  I'm a typical teacher...I check my school bag and computer at the door on June 22nd and don't crack it open again until late August (or if the weather is REALLY nice, early September!).
Just because I haven't blogged doesn't mean I haven't been learning about new technology.  I spent two amazing weeks in Göttingen, Germany with 15 other German teachers from 14 different countries.  During this time, I was collecting some web resources for German teachers and also learning about new technology used around the globe.  I even met a teacher from Brazil who is interested in setting up a Skype relationship with some of our classes!  We will be able to learn a little bit about Brazil which communicating in German!  I'm very excited to get that started!
It's also time for me to start thinking about what tools and resources I can show other teachers in my district.  I've already scheduled myself for 9 hours of teaching and 2 hours of learning in the first 2 months of school.
Here's to the start of another new, exciting, and technology filled school year!
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I have done two Prezi assignments with my students and I have to say, I wasn't 100% sold on using Prezi instead of Powerpoint or Google Presentation.  Sure, it's fun to be able to zoom in and out, spin around and jump all over the page, but sometimes all of those bells and whistles can take away from the presentation...especially if 7th graders are creating the presentation!
The main problem I had with Prezi were the preset templates.  The options seemed very limited and didn't fit with the theme of my projects.  The students would normally adjust the templates to work with their project or create their own template from scratch.  I have never been that fond of how those self created projects looked.  They always seemed to be missing that certain something.
I do have to say, I have to give credit where credit is due...I did have one student that always created a really interesting Prezi by hiding the texts and pictures in a word.
I just signed into my Prezi account to create one for my FDU summer class and I am really impressed with the options for pre-created templates.  I think I may be warming up to this Prezi thing...
Stay tuned for my Prezi about Screencasting and Blogs...
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She says she's not a photographer...
...but rather that she just likes to take pictures.  I really struggle to believe that she is not a photographer.  Look at the picture below - it is one that she took of herself, on her own camera, by herself!!
She set up the shot, figured out where to place the camera and where she needed to be in the picture, set the timer, and then posed for this magnificent picture.
There are so many things that a right about this picture.  First, the black and white coloring of this shot makes it so mysterious.  Is she happy, sad, lonesome, or pensive?  Would you know that this girl has just received her confirmation?  Second, look at the rule of thirds happening.  Not only horizontally, but vertically, too!!  Third, she breaks up the lines of the grass, side walk, street, and tree branches with a parasol!  Stunning!  Forth, even though she is not walking fast, she still managed to capture the action coming into the frame.  It's as if the photographer just happened to stumble upon a young girl out for a walk.  I don't think you would ever guess that the subject of this picture was also the photographer.
Oh, and did I mention this "lover of taking pictures" (photographer, if you ask me) is only 13 years old!
Thank you, young photographer, for sharing your beautiful pictures with me!
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Steven from SmartTech software support is my favorite person!!  As soon as I learned how to make fun and interactive activities using the Smartboard software, I was hooked!  But, as you know from my previous post, my Epson Interactive Whiteboard was not playing nice with my Smartboard software.  I called software support to see what could be done and Steven gave me 2 great options.
1.  I can use the web version of the Smartboard software by going here.
2.  I can download version 2.0 of the Notebook Interactive Viewer and run that program to open my already created Notebook files.
Awesome!!  I can create activities using the full version of the software, and then when I'm ready to present them the class, I can open the Interactive Viewer and view my presentation sans watermark!
I can't wait to surprise my students with the missing water mark when I use Smartnote software to present a fun and engaging 3 day unit on farm animals!!
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I have 2 more credits to complete before I can apply for a certificate from FDU to be an Instructional Technology Specialist and I'm really excited to do both of these credits virtually!  I hope to learn a few things, no only about Wikis, Blogs, Podcasts, Google Apps, and Cloud Computing, but also about teaching and learning virtually.  Flipping the classroom is still something that interests me greatly and something I'd like to spend more time learning about.
I'm ready for this new adventure as a virtual student!
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My Not So Smart Interactive White Board
I had such high hopes - I thought with my FDU issued SmartBoard license, I could make my interactive white board smart.  Not so much.
I created attendance sheets for my periods 1-3 classes and the kids are having SO MUCH FUN moving their suns or ice cream cones or popping their balloons.  The problem is, I have this HUGE error message in the middle of the screen:
I'm trying to find a solution to this problem!  I have designed a really cool 3 day interactive lesson to do with my 8th graders before we head to Hershey on the 13th...so that gives me 8 school days to figure this out...the race is on!


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Who am I and who are You? / Nastasya
There were moments that Alice had to go outside and become familiar with the city of Oak. Especially if there was something going on in your mind and you might needed to be able to run away as soon as possible or anything like that. It was not a great day, it was raining and thus Alice was holding on to an umbrella to make sure she wouldn't get more soaked to the bone than she already was, thank god she was wearing closed boots instead of open heels or even worse peeptoes.
With a sigh she continued to walk and get to know the city. She had started with the guild, walked into the centre of the town and stared at the Church for a moment, maybe she could hide in there. Maybe she shouldn't be such a coward and just write a letter to Selena, to ask where she was and run or simply run to Era. Was she getting some sort of brain wash and stuck into Oak forever? Stuck inside Phantom Lord? She shivered and pulled her leather jacket a bit closer before she would continue to walk.
Her right hand was holding the umbrella while her left was holding on to her purse, she bumped into someone with her left shoulder and dropped her purse, same as the woman she bumped into, "Sorry," she said before she grabbed hers and continued to walk around the town again. Damn today was gloomy.
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She was so tired of a lot of things and well it wasn't working that it was day. Of course, it was also mainly because it was during the day and the weather wasn't really nice, it was raining. Not thick drops no the sort of rain that made you soak through the bone in a matter of seconds. She didn't have an umbrella and thus was cloaked up and hid her face with a hoodie and hunched her shoulders upright. Victoire was running around for cover but it wasn't really working well. A white fox with mud, she was more like a brown fox at this point. At least from the bottom.
She couldn't really see where she was going and felt someone bump into her shoulder. She dropped the purse she was holding and grabbed it quickly, the other woman (apparently that's who it was) said sorry and Nasty muttered something the same and hurried along to take cover. She found cover near a stall on the market that would sell her some good food, so she grabbed the pursed opened it and stared at an empty content.. "What?" a flash went through her mind, that chick.
Off she went to find her and that wasn't difficult, in the dark streets because of the rain with one chick that had red hair. She grabbed her right wrist and pulled her into an ally and pushed her against the wall with her hand for her mouth, "I don't like people that steal my belongings." She hissed.
Before Alice knew it her normal: getting to see the town was disturb by someone that pulled her right wrist, out of surprise she even dropped the umbrella and hobbled along after the person that pulled her along. Since she was covered from head to toes into black clothing including hood, she had no idea what was going to happen, but she let it pass, sure that she wouldn't just let herself be robbed.
That's when she was slammed into a wall and got a hand in front of her mouth. The woman opposite her said something about stealing, well for once Alice hadn't done any stealing at this moment so it was a bit weird that this woman accused her. That's when she saw the same purse in her right hand as Alice was holding into her left. She tried to speak but the hand was too close on her mouth to really speak and that's when there was only one option that she didn't like, she simply kicked in front of her and tried to hit the other woman her shin. If that did work and her hand would sweep away from her mouth, Alice would first take a few steps to whatever side was the smartest, she took the left and tried to catch her breath, she was sure the other woman wouldn't be very happy with this.
"Wait, wait. Let me explain." She pointed at the purse that she was holding and showed the own in her left hand, "We have the same, we bumped into each other. We can just switch." She held out the purse that she was holding on to. She didn't even have to switch.. hers was for show. All the money was hidden in her bra.
Nastasya her eyes were dark, she was hungry but she didn't feel like drinking in the rain, so that was a good thing for this red head. She was carrying an umbrella, but she was now soaked because the umbrella must be dropped when Nasty caught her and pulled her in the ally. She felt a pang in her shin, it didn't hurt as much as when she was alive but it surprised her and she let go and looked at Victoire, or well the now almost brown mud fox.. That's when the red head took a few steps away from her and explained what was happening or more what had happened. She even lifted the purse she was holding and Nasty could see it was indeed the same. Maybe for some small details it could be different but she simply stretched both her hands to take it. Right at that moment, too fast for her to notice both things at the same time. She heard Victoire make a high noise, that's where her eyes turned to, someone was behind them. She felt the purse leave her hand but not in the way she was expecting, so she quickly turned her eyes back on it, it didn't go to the red head, it went up and she tried to look at the roof, protecting her eyes from the rain but only saw a silhoutte, "Dammit." She turned to look how she could reach the roof and remembered to look back at Victoire and lift up the muddy fox in her arms, this time, she didn't care. She would find a cleaner, she looked at the red head, whose purse was gone too, "Let's work together and get them back."
Also Alice her purse was stolen and she couldn't really care less, it would be too much trouble to go after it and it was empty. But the girl opposite her, cloaked in complete black, showed her face as she held on to her brown fox, it was probably suppose to be white. The woman opposite her, although she couldn't be much older, asked her to work together and get their stuff back. It might be a good thing to do but again: why? "Yes, let's go." the words were out of her mouth before she knew.
Alice followed the woman, whom seemed to know the streets a lot better than she did and tried to find the person, the silhoutte that caught their belongings and from which one of them had hurt the fox. Alice wasn't sure why she didn't see the person as her eyes had been on the woman and the fox had been behind her. It was probably just too dark and the rain was obviously annoying too. Alice didn't even know the name of the woman. She simply followed and tried to get quick glances at the person on the roof. He or she jumped off and the woman in front of her took a dash into that street but the street was empty, "What's going on?" Alice said not entirely sure. The hood of the woman was dropped off and she looked at a pale person with long dark coloured hair.
Nastasya could smell something, she thought it was blood. She looked left and right, her hood had fallen off and she stared at the red head that came into the alley. "I think I know where the person is. My name is Lilja by the way. Lilja Oswald." She waited for the other girl to introduce herself too. She looked at Victoire and muttered to watch her, "Wait here." She climbed on the wall and pulled herself up on the roof and followed the scent of the blood, the person must have hurt himself or herself during the drop. She found the person, killed him and took the purses back in the rain. It was a nice way to feed when no one was looking and well it would have been nicer if it wasn't raining. You couldn't have everything.
She made her way back to the red head and handed the right purse to her. The empty one. Why actually do such difficulty for an empty one. It didn't matter now. "It was nice meeting you." and with that she and the white fox left.
The whole situation was weird and she didn't know what to say until Lilja got their purses back and introduced herself as well, "Oh, my name is Alice Baskerville." She was waiting patiently although that thing was empty, she looked at the white fox and wasn't entirely sure what to do but Lilja got back and left her soon after that, "Yes goodbye." she muttered before running away to try and find her umbrella and heading back to the guild.


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To the church in Rome, the Apostle Paul said: "Remember that y."
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For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a pleaser. When things got shitty in my family, I was the peace maker. When things were good, I was easy-going. I was whatever anybody needed me to be at any given time. I followed directions, I tried to do well in school, and for the most part, I stayed the straight and narrow. I wanted to be liked. I wanted to conform. I wanted to make everyone happy. I would stop at nothing to make sure that happened. All at the expense of myself.
When you’re a pleaser, people reward you for that. They tell you you’re the nicest person they’ve ever met. They tell you you’re so giving and so thoughtful. And because pleasers just want to be liked, they begin to believe that they have to portray this part, and only this part, or else people might jump ship’ve pretended to be happy when I wasn’t. I’ve pretended my feelings weren’t hurt when they were shattered. I’ve put on a smile when all I wanted to do was scream. I’ve agreed with someone’s ridiculous opinion instead of challenging it. All because I knew I could handle my uncomfortable emotions and wanted to save somebody else from their’s.
It doesn’t mean that I’m not still super nice. It doesn’t mean that I’m not still incredibly thoughtful and giving. I am all of those things. I’m just not those things all the time like people want me to be. In fact, like most humans, I have a wide range of emotions. I even have a temper (gasp!), and it can come out pretty easily if I’m comfortable around you.
Say you’ve been looking forward to some down time all week. The moment has finally come when you’re going to do whatever you do during that down time. But the minute you get to that moment, your phone rings. It’s that person. The person who wears you out every time you talk to them. The person who takes and takes and rarely gives anything in return. You know they’ve been struggling lately, so you feel guilty for not answering. So what do you do? Well say you don’t answer right away. You let it ring. But then they call back, and this time they leave a voicemail. Okay, fine. You’ll just listen to the voicemail just to make sure everything is okay. They sound so sad. They just need to talk. They need you. So what do you do?  Your down time has just flown out the window and any energy you had left goes right along with it.
People pleasers who are also moms have to stop doing this. We have to get off the train. Put our foot down. Stop trying to serve everybody else besides our little people who need us. Why?
1. It Sucks.
I mean, what else do I need to say about it?  And you know that no one takes care of you the way you take care of other people, so you get the absolute short end of the stick. Every time.
Our well-being depends on us taking a break and taking care of ourselves.
2. It’s Draining.
Aren’t we tired enough?  We’re exhaustedwe spread ourselves so thin to the point of resentment and exhaustion, it’s for one reason and one reason only: because we think we should. It’s rarely (if ever) because we want to.
As moms we already do too much. We must stop doing too much.
3. Losing Your Mind Isn’t Fun.
4. Boundaries are Good!
Boundaries are super duper hard to establish. They take work and self-awareness and those don’t always come easy. No one likes when you start taking away pieces of yourself that were beneficial to them. You may hate it at first too, because you’re gonna start feeling all guilty for saying “no,” or “I can’t help you,” or “stop sucking the life out of me.” But once the boundaries are established, your life will get sooooo much easier.
5. You’re Already Fabulous.
Look, I get it. As pleasers we try to please because we want to keep the peace. Wes mad or hurt or inconvenienced. And we want people to like us because our self-worth may be wrapped up in that. But let me tell you this (which is also something I’m telling myself on this people pleasing recovery process): YOU’RE FABULOUS! And you don’t need anyone’s approval or appreciation except the people who already approve of and appreciate you. The people who don’t?
One last thing. If this thought has ever come up, “But if I don’t do XYZ, nobody else will, and everything will fall apart,” well, then you especially need to find a new way. It’s not easy, and it takes work (sometimes a looooot of work). But when you shift, it forces other people to shift too. So I don’t know. It might be worth giving a try.


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The lingering Spanish influence on Cuban desserts is also seen in their flan look-a-like dessert tocinillo de cielo ("little bacon from heaven"), a sweet treat of the region since the arrival of Columbus. It is simply made with egg yolks, sugar, citrus, and water—rather than the flan's whole eggs, milk, or cream (but usually both). It is lighter and sweeter than the classic Spanish flan. Tocinillo de cielo originated in the sherry-producing capital of Jerez de La Fronteta, in the southern Spanish province of Cádiz of the Andalusia region, where vintners used egg whites to clarify their world-famous Jerez wine, which is generally known to the world as sherry. The inventive Cádiz natives used the leftover yolks for tocinillo de cielo, thus creating their now well-known dessert. Citrus, itself a characteristic feature prominent in and of the early Andalusia region and brought to the Spanish Caribbean at the end of the near 800-year occupation of the Andalusia region of the Iberian Peninsula by Muslim peoples, punctuates the hallmark sweet. Modernday tocinillo de cielo can be almond-flavored, rather than citrus, another flavor favorite of Muslim Andalusia. No one really knows where or how the name "little bacon from heaven" originated, but the dessert itself dates back at least to 1324 when it was a noted sweet treat created by the nuns of the Convent of the Holy Spirit of Jerez de La Frontera. Columbus set sail from the city of Cádiz on his second and fourth voyages, suggesting a long presence of tocinillo de cielo in the Spanish Caribbean. Today, the Jerez de La Frontera region is still famous for the dessert, and its transplanted version in Cuba remains popular, although in recent years Cuban austerity programs have made it a less frequently enjoyed sweet treat than in pre-Revolutionary days.
Cubans today more often enjoy a sweet potato paste quite unlike most North American desserts. It is a very sweet, smooth, custardy cream pudding made from boniato (batata), the "Cuban white sweet potato." Less mysteriously named than the "bacon from heaven," the Cuban treat is simply called boniatillo, "white sweet potato paste pudding." It is made using the delicately flavored boniato tubers, which were in Cuba when Columbus arrived, having been domesticated with other potatoes originating in South America some 10,000 years ago. Boniatillo is a favorite holiday sweet treat, uniquely Cuban, made with the cream-colored flesh of the Cuban white sweet potatoes, dark sugar, water, heavy cream, cinnamon, citrus, and—in typical 16th-century Andalusian fashion—egg yolks and sherry.
Sweet potatoes are a main ingredient in desserts in the Spanish Caribbean, and for most sweet potato sweets-loving natives, there is simply no substitute for the boniato. It remains the favored ingredient for sweet potato pudding, sweet potato rum cake, and other similar desserts. In the Puerto Rican cocina criolla cuisine, a favorite version appears as nisperos de batata, sweet potato balls with coconut, sugar, cloves, and cinnamon. Cubans make a well-loved sweet potato cake. They likewise make a special typically Cuban sweet treat called cafiroleta, a sweet dessert of boniatillo covered with coquimol, a coconut milk custard sauce. Cubans especially enjoy coquimol on their cake. Coquimol is a sweet custard-like coconut cream sauce, also typically Cuban, made with coconut milk or coconut cream, sugar, egg yolks, vanilla, a touch of nutmeg, and light rum.
Cubans enjoy rum in things such as banana rum custard tarts, Cuban coconut rum flan (flan de coco y ron), rum and banana donuts, rum and raisin bread pudding, their version of tres leche cake, and, of course, their famous Cuban rum cake. Puerto Ricans, of course, also join in on the sponge rum cake, bizcocho de ron, with much of their attention often focused on the type of rum one chooses rather than the cake itself. Rum cakes are popular throughout the Caribbean, especially for the Christmas holidays, although, some suggest, these are a descendent of the English holiday puddings brought to the islands by mid-17th-century English settlers.
With the Cuban Revolution of 1959, Fidel Castro promoted the slogan "everyone eats the same" and, as embargos resulted in de facto compulsory locavorism, the bountiful tropical fruits and sugarcane became a renewed core of sweet treats in Cuba. However, in tropical locations throughout the world fruits fresh and dried have always been a major part of sweet treat traditions. And as many have suggested, sometimes the best sweet treat is a fresh fruit cocktail. Today folks in the Spanish Caribbean continue to enjoy the fruits Columbus came to know for the first time in his early voyages, as well as those he and subsequent explorers brought with them from Europe and neighboring Latin American countries. Today, the Spanish Caribbean fruits and the other sweet treats reflect the history of the islands. Today one readily finds coconut, pineapple, mango, papaya, passion fruit, breadfruit, guava, bananas, plantains, grapefruit, citron, and guanabanas (soursops). And, of course, one finds important ingredients and flavorings like vanilla, sesame seeds, cinnamon, pumpkin sweet potatoes, sugarcane, molasses, rice, and coffee. These fruits and other bounties combine in Spanish Caribbean unique desserts and traditional preserves, jellies, desserts, and cakes. Guava, pineapple, or strawberry jam, for example, often delightfully fills little thumb-print dimples in classical treats like Puerto Rican mantecaditos, shortbread sugar cookies popular at Christmas time.
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Fever Dream is cleverly structured as a dialogue between Amanda, who cannot see and is apparently lying in a hospital bed, and the eerily precocious David, who implacably urges Amanda on towards a confrontation with the unknown but apparently terrible event that has brought her here. David’s disembodied voice is chorus, prompt and guide, increasing the dreadful menace that builds as Amanda tells her story. He is also a strict editor: “None of this is important,” he chides her at one point. “We’re wasting time.” When she asks him, “Why do we have to go so quickly, David?Is there so little time left?”he replies, “Very little”. When Amanda doubts whether any of this is happening, or really happened the way she remembers it – a seed Schweblin plants variants of throughout the book – he is quick to get her back on track: “It’s happening, Amanda. IThe way Fever Dream is written invests every scene with suspense – will this be the moment we discover where Nina is, or what that reference to worms really means?


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It's Historical? (C'mon Oprah!)
In the promotional spots for the shows Oprah will be hosting from Washington DC in honor of the Inauguration of Barack Obama, she has been shouting "It's historical!" Now, she is not the only person who has made this mistake. I heard DC mayor Adrian Fenty say it, as well as too many local newscasters to count.
It's historic. That's what you mean, people.
I suppose I might understand the confusion, if you were reading the words, or even writing them, perhaps. Historic and historical are both adjectives and they both have to do with history. But I don't quite understand how, once you've said it out loud, you don't hear the error. Doesn't it sound wrong to your ear? Would you go visit an historical home? Or an historic home?
An historical event, when you get right down to it, is anything that has happened in the past. The typing of this sentence now qualifies as a historical event, because it was an event, and it happened in the past. The typing of that sentence, however, is not destined to be remembered by history. It was not an historic event. An historic event is when the tide of history changes, when something dramatic, lasting, and important happenhistoric event. The bombing of Pearl HarborOr September 11, 2001.
An historic event is one we look back on, as the marker, the turning point, the beginning of a new era, a new So, the Inauguration of Barack Obama will be a historical event, in the sense that it will take place in a certain moment in time, and that moment will pass into history. It will be an historic event because it will be the first time an African-American man has taken the Presidential Oath of Office, and it will be remembered in history for that. But maybe, just maybe, it will become an historic moment because it will mark a turning point in our country's history, as we turn away from the course we have been on the last eight years and embark on a new way of looking at, and being in, the world.
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PSGifford January 20, 2009 at 8:54 PM
Brilliantly said! I have heard that mistake also.
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Did you know there are such things as Ethereum and Ethereum Classic? And can you see
In today’s world, a place where digital currencies are set to continue growing their market share, this is precisely the sort of knowledge that you should know, so we have helpfully provided you with a complete lowdown. Let’s read on to find out more.
To explain what Ethereum is, could get somewhat complicated- after all this is new technology, the likes of which has not been seen before. At its most straightforward concept, Ethereum is a
If you are not sure what blockchain technology is, allow us to explain in brief. The blockchain is a revolutionary and ingenious invention – the brainchild of the brilliant and utterly anonymous Satoshi Nakamoto – the pseudonym behind Bitcoin itself. Since its design, it has grown and evolved into something even more amazing and its implications for the way we work and the way we will work in the future, are astounding.
Imagine a vast spreadsheet full of records of transactions and other data. Imagine that this worksheet is not stored on one computer and shared as a file between millions of people, instead imagine that the spreadsheets are on Google Sheets (in the cloud) and it exists on an infinite number of devices, and each time it is updated, it automatically updates on every other version.
Basically, the blockchain database and all of the information contained on it is not stored in any single, centralised location and this means that the records are entirely public and verifiable meaning it cannot be hacked, corrupted, stolen, or destroyed. As it is hosted by literally millions of computers all at the same time, the information it contains is accessible to anyone at anytime from anywhere. The great thing about blockchain is that it cannot be changed, edited, tampered with or disrupted in any way.
Now, back to Ethereum. It is similar to Bitcoin in some ways that it is a part of  the purpose and what they are both capable of.
With Ethereum, miners work to earn something called Ether which is a type of crypto-token which makes the network work. Apart from being a form of useable and tradeable cryptocurrency, Ether can also be used by developers of applications to fund transaction fees and various services on the Ethereum network.
In a nutshell, “”. But what is a smart contract? A smart contract is a bit of computer script which works to facilitate, enforce, and verify negotiations or the performance of a contract. They were created by Nick Szabo way back in 1996 before the blockchain or cryptocurrencies were a “thing”.
The idea is that a smart contract contains one, or some contractual clauses that can be entirely self-executing, partially self-executing, self-enforcing, or a combination of them all. The aim is that a smart contract provides an unparalleled level of security that is entirely superior to traditional arrangements and can also reduce the costs that are associated with other forms of contracting.
An example of this would be in a property transaction where several parties have to complete several actions for the money to be released and settled- the smart contract would only fulfil the obligation of paying the money, once other parties have completed their clauses of the deal. Smart contracts are used with different cryptocurrencies, but they are most prevalent with the Ethereum blockchain where they are referred to as a decentralised application, or DApp.
The most famous of these smart contracts was The DAO, a decentralised autonomous organisation for venture capital funding. It ran on Ethereum and was launched with US$250 million in crowdfunding in 2016. However, it was hacked and then drained of over 3.6 million ETH just three weeks later.
The DAO was a digital decentralised autonomous organisation which was a crowdfunding venture capital fund. Its objective was to provide a new business model, decentralised in nature, to facilitate commercial and non-profit enterprises. It was started on the Ethereum blockchain and had no traditional management, structure, or any authority overseeing it such as a board of directors, as you would find with a conventional structure.
Created from open-source code,country, and as a result, it raised many issues regarding how government regulators may go about attempting to regulate a stateless fund.
The code behind the system was written by a programmer called Christoph Jentzsch and was promptly released on GitHub. Then on 30th of April 2016, a website was launched with a 28-day crowd sale to raise money to fund the concept. The sale of tokens raised a whopping US$34 million in just ten days along with more than US$50 million of Ether just two days later. By the 21st of May, the fund’s Ether value was an impressive US$150 million from only 11,000 investors. By the end of the month, the DAO held around 14% of all the Ether tokens that had been issued to that date.
The DAO Attack and The Consequences of It
The DAO raised significantly more money than its creators expected and this, of course, brought it a lot of attention. Some people had already highlighte because there were concerns that the code had specific vulnerabilities, leaving it open for attack.
Once the crowd sale was over, there was much talk around the vulnerabilities and how they should be addressed. One of the creators of the DAO, Stephan Tual announced that a bug had been found but that it posed no risk to the funds in the DAO. While the Ethereum network doesnt’t, and didn’t, have any bugs in it, all networked systems are vulnerable in varying degrees to some attacks.
While DAO programmers were working on fixing the bug, and some other identified issues, an unknown hacker began to start draining the DAO of Ether currency that was collected through the sale of tokens.
By the 18th of June, the hacker had managed to syphon off over 3.6 million Ether into a subsidiary account, otherwise known as a child DAO which had the same structure as the original DAO (which saw the value of Ether drop from just over $20 to under $13).
Several attempts were made to split the DAO to stop more Ether from being stolen, but these efforts failed due to the individuals not being able to get the necessary votes in such a short period.
Due to the popularity of the project and the enormous amounts of money invested in it, the Ether were all stored on one single address which is not preferable for a project of this size and was generally a bad idea. It is believed that the volunteer stopped the attack voluntarily due to the action which was later taken known as the fork. However, another attack was possible at any time.
While over $50 million worth of Ether had been stolen, it was just sat in a child-DAO meaning that it wouldn’t be taken out or accessed due to the DAO smart contract stating explicitly that any funds in a DAO structure, must remain there for 28 days. With this considered, the Ethereum community came up with a wonderful idea.
Creation of Ethereum Classic
There were three options available to the team – do nothing, a soft-fork or a hard-fork. It was argued that making any changes to the system went against the very principles of blockchain and Ethereum, considering the adage that “code is law”. This, however, was voted on and the majority of the community voted on the hard fork option.
oncept of a hard-fork when referring to Ethereum is that it is a branch which separates from the main blockchain at a specified point, in this instance, it would stop at the point right before the hacker gained access to the system.
Until that end (block 1920000), the old and new chain would be entirely the same, however, after the hard fork, the two chains become entirely mutually exclusive entities. The new chain was given the name Ethereum, and the old chain was named Ethereum Classic.
The purpose of the hard fork option was to completely refund all of the money that had been syphoned from the DAO and put into the child DAO which was under the control of the hacker. It was done through a refund smart contract which had the only function of “withdraw”.
Therefore, every 100DAO, 1 Ether would be given back to the DAO token holders. It goes without saying that this idea caused a fair bit of controversy and the once united community was divided. Some were anti-hard fork and decided to remain with the old blockchain and refer to it as Ethereum Classic, and others moved to the new blockchain and referred to it merely as Ethereum.
This battle and divide are still raging within the community to this day- centred around both ethics and ideology, it has been dubbed as ”.
How Is Ethereum Classic Different to Ethereum
The answer is something of a philosophical one and has its roots in the battle against financial corruption. Users of ETC place a lot of importance on the fact that blockchain was supposed to be unchangeable and resilient against the wishes of humans.
There are, however, some issues with ETC and these centre around the fact that it is incompatible with the Ethereum Hard Fork. Anyone that is part of the ETC is unable to access any of the future updates that were and are offered by ETH. Another failing is that many believe that ETC is a negative force that serves to attack the concept of Ethereum in the way that it is nothing more than an orphan chain that should be considered illegal.
The good point of ETC is that it honours and sticks to the original concept of Ethereum – something that cannot be changed at the will of a human, or anything else.
Of course, there are problems when it comes to ETH- we have already mentioned the issues around immutability and the philosophy and adage of “code being law”. The other significant point that was pinpointed was that, how can one be sure? What happens if, on a human whim, one decides to make multiple hard forks and therefore creates various versions of Ethereum?
Such a move would massively devalue and destabilise the cryptocurrency, and the concept of cryptocurrency in general. With hundreds or evenit would be a total disaster.
ETH is now growing at an impressive rate and has the backing of all the key players that were involved in the original creation of Ethereum. The initial hack was reversed, and everyone that lost money in the DAO hack has been refunded. Due to fears over security, a great deal of care is now taken to keep it regularly updated, and it is now backed by a large and very powerful group of over 2000 corporations known as the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, which desires to use the blockchain to implement smart contracts at Fortune 500 companies. Esteemed members include JP Morgan, Microsoft, Toyota and ING.
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“Miss Laurie Ann is straight up old school and has the chops to prove it. If your thing is American Music you must have this record”
Vincent Bator – The Springfield Indie Music Examiner
One doesn’t typically think of Irvington New Jersey as a source for Roots song-writers. But when your Daddy raised you on a steady diet of Hank Williams records along with various swing and blues artists of the time, and your Mama played steel guitar, it’s gets in your blood fast. Miss Laurie Ann started writing songs at an early age and has developed an extensive collection of tight, well crafted songs that tell stories of love, come and gone. Much in the tradition of The Blasters and The Paladins, her musical style is “American Music”, combining elements of 50’s rhythm & blues, rockabilly, traditional country and swing.
The second album from Miss Laurie Ann & The SaddleTones, entitled Ease My Mind, showcases her American Music influences. Produced by legendary guitarist and songwriter Dave Gonzalez of The Paladins and The Hacienda Brothers, the album covers a wide range of roots styles including country, swing, rockabilly and the blues. The album was recorded and mixed all analog utilizing vintage recording equipment and techniques such as a RCA 44BX ribbon microphone, Otari MX70 8-track recorder, EMT model 140 plate reverb, and tape-to-tape slapback echo. It was recorded live in a “big room” setting to capture that vibe so prevalent in the recordings of the 50’s, 60’s, and early 70’s.
Miss Laurie Ann has been performing with her band, The SaddleTones, for almost ten years now. The SaddleTones include Joe Brensinger on guitar, Ira Spinrad on guitar, Jimmy Beckerman on keys, Howard Girao on upright bass and Davie Lee Ross on drums.They continue to perform at honky-tonks, theaters, festivals and many other events along the east coast. Along the way they have shared the stage with artists such as Wanda Jackson, The Blasters, Reckless Kelly, Dale Watson, Wayne Hancock, Dave Gonzalez, Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys, Nikki Hill, Jittery Jack and others.
“Miss Laurie Ann & The SaddleTones really are rock-boppin country, walking that fine line between 40’s honk-tonk and 50’s rockabilly. ”    Mark Gamsjager  – The Lustre Kings
” Good music made by good people. Ease My Mind will ease yours”  Jerome Clark – Rambles. Net
“Miss Laurie Ann & The SaddleTones are proud purveyors of a Rock-Boppin Country sound that is nothing short of infectious. Lead vocalist, and song-writer, Miss Laurie Ann, has a voice that is pure classic country in the vein of Kitty Wells meets Wanda Jackson.”
“Take a good amount of country, add a touch of western swing, and just enough rock n roll and you have Miss Laurie Ann & The SaddleTones.”
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“Every song on this album could be in steady rotation on a truck stop diner jukebox when my Uncle Gene drove his big rig and cb radios weren’t around yet.”


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Added by Dennis NicklausOAC envisioned would have three parameters that drive combinations of the circuits for the desired effect: horizontal correction, vertical correction, or skew quadrupole. Each of these circuits can be driven at +/-2 Amps, so if one coil of the magnet is already at its limit, it will be up to the OAC to prevent tuning that would require it to regulate at any greater magnitude. The circuits are being laid out in a clockwise configuration so that the the upper left coil from the beam's perspective is coil 1, the upper right is coil 2, the lower right is coil 3, and the lower left is coil 4:
A vertical adjustment requires adjusting coils 1 & 2 opposite 3 & 4
A skew quad adjustment requires adjusting coils 1 & 3 opposite 2 & 4
Does this sound reasonable? If so I can get you a complete list of the combined function circuits that we'll need to control. If you have any other questions or legwork I can certainly try to help. The individual circuits aren't in the database yet, but I'd expect them to be going in in the next few weeks.
#1 Updated by Richard Neswold almost 2 years ago
Are these magnets being controlled by the networked power supplies I'm working on for Mike Kucera? If so, I would think high-level logic could be in my front-end rather than an OAC.


Brief Psychotherapy Research Program Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders Center
Zirinsky Mood Disorders Center Anxiety and Trauma Center
This dedicated to clinical research because we recognize it’s importancand behavioral disorders. Our innovative research encompasses a wide range of psychiatric disorders—from persistent and more widespread behavioral disorders such as social phobia, anxiety, and psychological trauma. Equally diverse is our research into different treatment modalities, including trials of novel psychopharmacological treatments and innovative non-pharmacological psychotherapeutic modalities such as brief psychotherapy.
All research in the department is approved by the Institutional Review Board. Funding sources include federal granting agencies ), pharmaceutical companies, and private granting agencies. The Department has six dedicated Research Divisions: The Division of Biological Psychiatry, the Clinical Research Center (CRC), the Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders Center, Zirinsky Mood Disorders Center, Anxiety and Trauma Center and the Brief Psychotherapy Research Program, all of which are described below. Division of Biological Psychiatry
The Division of Biological Psychiatry, located withiBeth Israel, is dedicated to high quality research into the critical questions of contemporary psychiatry. One of it’s major areas is broadly defined addictive behaviors—including traditionally defined chemical addictions (i.e. opiate dependence) and behavioral addictions such as excessive and deviant sexual behaviors. Other areas of research have included schizophrenia, mood and anxiety disorders, impact of education on cognitive functioning, negative symptoms and apathy, and research integrity. The chemical addiction research focuses primarily on opiate abuse, while addictive behavior studies focus on pedophilia. Past opiate addiction research included a NIDA-funded PET investigation of negative mood and attention in methadone-maintained and abstinent opiate addicted individuals. Associated studies included extensive descriptive studies on neuropsychological, personality, and neurosensory abnormities in opiate abuse. Current research studies focus on mood disorders in opiate abusers in protracted abstinence. These include fMRI studifMRI Imaging Center, of negative mood induction, as well as treatment studies of opiate abuse associated dysphoria. Past pedophilia studies have investigated the personality, neuropsychology, childhood abuse history, phallometric response, and brain function (as measured by FDG PET) of male pedophilia. At present we are continuing our investigation of personality and cognitive profiles of pedophiles with the goal of eventually identifying those with the highest risk of recidivism. As part of this study we are also investigating recently compiled public databases of sex offendersy funding and outcomes in clinical research and the analysis of the effects of education on the fuctional neuroanatomy of attentional processes. In addition the division is conducting a joint research program with the Brief Psychotherapy Program to study attachment behavior. The division is using fMRI to study brain function in attachment and investigating central nervous system changes during the process of psychotherapy.
Division personnel include Igor Galynker, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Lisa Cohen, Ph.D., Associate Director, James Prosser, MD, Instructor, and 15 additional staff members, five of whom are full-time. In its eight-year history, the Division has obtained more than 20 grants, totaling about 2 million dollars, from outside funding agencies, including NIHIn addition, the Division has produced approximately 30 published papers and 100 presentations.
From its inception, the Division of Biological Psychiatry has been centrally involved in training. Trainees from Beth Israel’s psychiatric residency, university psychology departments, and medical schools, as well as foreign-trained doctors applying for American residency programs, have all participated in research. Many have had, whether it involves obtaining a prestigious research fellowship or entering a psychiatric residency or a psychology doctoral program.
For more information on the Division of Biological Psychiatry, please call (212) 844-1598.
The Clinical Research Center (CRC), in collaboration with clinical divisions, conducts pharmaceutical trials w ithin the Department. Both multi-center and investigator-initiated drug trials have been sponsored by numerous pharmaceutical companies. The investigational drugs studied targeted symptoms of schizophrenia, depression, anxiety and panic, dysthymia, dementias, and other disorders. The center is staffed with clinical research coordinators and raters, who are trained in the administration of psychometric scales and data management, and are inter-rater reliable. A single centralized database is maintained for all studies. The CRC is integrated with the teaching programs in the Department. Trainees from the Beth Israel psychiatry residency training program, foreign and graduate and undergraduate students have all participated in research. Most have used their training experience to progress to the next level in their clinical and research careers.
For more information on the Clinical Research Center, please call (212) 844-2204.
Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders Center This Centerassesses the use of novel treatments (medications, psychotherapies, rehabilitation) for the schizophrenia spectrum disorders. We are investigating factor influencing adherence to treatment and designing new methods to improve treatment adherence. Other research projects address capacity to consent to research and to understand the informed consent process.
Zirinsky Mood Disorders Center The Zirinsky Center specializes in research of bipolar illness and individuals with these conditions. The center also conducts state-of-the-art, clinical trials. Recent research projects include studies of treatment adherence and health behaviors, and development of new methods to improve both of these issues. Other projects address the relationship between anxiety, panic, and suicidality. Plans are underway to develop a family centered research and treatment program for bipolar patients and their families. top
Center for Anxiety and Trauma Disorders The Center for Anxiety and Trauma Disorders engages in treatment and research into new medicationfor patients with anxiety and trauma disorders. The main focus of the Center is on the relationship between panic, dissociation, PTSD, and suicidal and dangerous behaviors. The Center also conducts a number of treatment groups for trauma and anxiety disorder patients. top Brief Psychotherapy Research Program
The Brief Psychotherapy Research Program conducts innovative studiesigned to shorten the therapy process, brief psychotherapy focuses on very specific problem areas and involves high levels of therapist activity. A major focus of our brief psychotherapy research is the patient/therapist relationship. These studies investigate the process of forming a therapeutic alliance, maintaining it, and repairing ruptures in the alliance. The Brief Psychotherapy Research program offers specialized treatment for adults who suffer from and/or interpersonal problems. If thorough evaluation indicates that short-term treatment is appropriate, a therapist is assigned to the patient. Treatment consists of 30 psychotherapy sessions and involves a number of different psychotherapy models. An NIMH funded study is investigating the training of therapists in an integrated brief psychotherapy, cl/relational approaches.
In addition, the Brief Psychotherapy Research Program is engaged in collaborative research with the Division of Biological Psychiatry studying the process of attachment (see section on Research in the Division of Biological Psychiatry).
For more information on the Brief Psychotherapy Research Program, please call (212) 420-3819.
Research in Addiction Psychiatry:
The Addiction Psychiatry Division conducts research in 3 areas -- in collaboration with the large, multimodal substance abuse treatment facilities of the Chemical Dependency programs of Mount Sinai Beth Israel. First, we conduct descriptive studies to characterize the prevalence and nature of dual diagnoses and secondary substance use in patients with identified primary substance use disorders. Second, we conduct treatment studies to develop new approaches to improve retention and outcome among patients entering Chemical Dependency programs, who are readily prone to early drop-out. These approaches include psychopharmacologic and behavioral treatments. Third, we conduct services research studies to identify patterns, as well as barriers to and promoters of, adherence to treatment. top
ResearchClinical research in this field of psychiatry looks at the different psychological and psychiatric manifestations of and reactions to medical-surgical illness. Past research efforts have looked at "Psychiatric Diagnosis Among Women with HIV/AIDS", "Psychological Outcomes of Ambulatory Mastectomy", "Drug-drug Interactions Between Protease Inhibitors and Psychotropic Medications", and "Personality Styles Among People Attending a Diabetes Clinic" to name a few. The Division's interests remain strongly influenced by issues connected to HIV/AIDS, Oncology, and Delirium. New research projects are currently being developed in these areas. Examples include studying the psychological implications of lipodystrophy among women with AIDS, and identifying potential risk factors or vulnerabilities for the development of delirium.
GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH PROGRAM
1. Geriatric Depression
The division is currently involved in a study treating depression in elderly womenvitamin supplementation.
Current research work in Parkinson’s disease (PD) looks at the effects of surgical treatment of PD on mood and the effect of PD on olfaction.
Research interests in dementia include treatment of cognitive impairment in vascular dementia and the treatment of
4. Training in Geriatric Psychiatry
Research focuses on the usefulness of home-visits to mentally ill seniors as a tool for teaching systems-based practice to medical students and residents.
5. Sexual Function in the Elderly
The division is studying the effects of neurological and psychiatric illness on sexual health in the elderly. A further goal is to determine the sexual functioning of sample elderly in the community.