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A city-state is a sovereign microstate that usually consists of a single city and its dependent territories. Historically, this included cities such as Rome, Athens, Carthage, [1] and the Italian city-states during the Renaissance. As of 2020, only a handful of sovereign city-states exist, with some disagreement as to which are city-states. A great deal of consensus exists that the term properly applies currently to Monaco, Singapore, and Vatican City.

A number of other small states share similar characteristics, and therefore are sometimes also cited as modern city-states—namely, Qatar, [2] [3] Brunei, [4] Kuwait, [4] [2] [5] Bahrain, [4] [2] and Malta, [6] [7] [8] [9] which each have an urban center comprising a significant proportion of the population, though all have several distinct settlements and a designated or de facto capital city. Occasionally, other small states with high population densities, such as San Marino, are also cited, [4] [10] [11] despite lacking a large urban centre characteristic of traditional city-states.

Several non-sovereign cities enjoy a high degree of autonomy, and are sometimes considered city-states. Hong Kong and Macau, along with independent members of the United Arab Emirates, most notably Dubai and Abu Dhabi, are often cited as such. [4] [10] [12]

Historical background

Ancient and medieval world

Historical city-states included Sumerian cities such as Uruk and Ur; Ancient Egyptian city-states, such as Thebes and Memphis; the Phoenician cities (such as Tyre and Sidon); the five Philistine city-states; the Berber city-states of the Garamantes; the city-states of ancient Greece (the poleis such as Athens, Sparta, Thebes, and Corinth); the Roman Republic (which grew from a city-state into a great power); the Mayan and other cultures of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica (including cities such as Chichen Itza, Tikal, Copán and Monte Albán); the central Asian cities along the Silk Road; the city-states of the Swahili coast; Venice; Ragusa; states of the medieval Russian lands such as Novgorod and Pskov; and many others. Danish historian Poul Holm has classed the Viking colonial cities in medieval Ireland, most importantly Dublin, as city-states. [13]

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The Republic of Ragusa, a maritime city-state, was based in the walled city of Dubrovnik

In Cyprus, the Phoenician settlement of Kition (in present-day Larnaca) was a city-state that existed from around 800 BC until the end of the 4th century BC.

Some of the most well-known examples of city-state culture in human history are the ancient Greek city-states and the merchant city-states of Renaissance Italy, which organised themselves as small independent centers. The success of small regional units coexisting as autonomous actors in loose geographical and cultural unity, as in Italy and Greece, often prevented their amalgamation into larger national units.[ citation needed ] However, such small political entities often survived only for short periods because they lacked the resources to defend themselves against incursions by larger states (such as Roman conquest of Greece). Thus they inevitably gave way to larger organisations of society, including the empire and the nation-state. [14] [ need quotation to verify ]

Southeast Asia

In the history of mainland Southeast Asia, aristocratic groups, Buddhist leaders, and others organized settlements into autonomous or semi-autonomous city-states. These were referred to[ by whom? ] as mueang , and were usually related in a tributary relationship now described[ by whom? ] as mandala or as over-lapping sovereignty, in which smaller city-states paid tribute to larger ones that paid tribute to still larger ones—until reaching the apex in cities like Ayutthaya, Bagan, Bangkok and others that served as centers of Southeast Asian royalty. The system existed until the 19th century, when colonization by European powers occurred. Siam, a regional power at the time, needed to define their territories for negotiation with the European powers so the Siamese government established a nation-state system, incorporated their tributary cities (Lan Xang, Cambodia and some Malay cities) into their territory and abolished the mueang and the tributary system. [15] [ need quotation to verify ] [16] [17]

In early Philippine history, the barangay was a complex sociopolitical unit which scholars have historically [18] considered the dominant organizational pattern among the various peoples of the Philippine archipelago. [19] These sociopolitical units were sometimes also referred to as barangay states, but are more properly referred to using the technical term polity . [19] [20] Evidence suggests a considerable degree of independence as city states ruled by Datus, Rajahs and Sultans. [21] Early chroniclers [22] record that the name evolved from the term balangay , which refers to a plank boat widely used by various cultures of the Philippine archipelago prior to the arrival of European colonizers. [19]

Central Europe

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The Free imperial cities as of 1792.

In the Holy Roman Empire (962–1806) over 80 Free Imperial Cities came to enjoy considerable autonomy in the Middle Ages and in early modern times, buttressed legally by international law following the Peace of Westphalia of 1648. Some, like three of the earlier Hanseatic citiesBremen, Hamburg and Lübeck – pooled their economic relations with foreign powers and were able to wield considerable diplomatic clout. Individual cities often made protective alliances with other cities or with neighbouring regions, including the Hanseatic League (1358 – 17th century), the Swabian League of Cities (1331–1389), the Décapole (1354–1679) in the Alsace, or the Old Swiss Confederacy (c. 1300 – 1798). The Swiss cantons of Zürich, Bern, Lucerne, Fribourg, Solothurn, Basel, Schaffhausen, and Geneva originated as city-states.

After the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, some cities – then members of different confederacies – officially became sovereign city-states, such as the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (1806–11 and again 1813–71), the Free City of Frankfurt upon Main (1815–66), the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (1806–11 and again 1814–71), the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck (1806–11 and again 1813–71), and the Free City of Kraków (1815–1846). Under Habsburg rule the city of Fiume had the status of a corpus separatum (1779–1919), which – while falling short of an independent sovereignty – had many attributes of a city-state.

In the 20th century West Berlin, though lacking sovereignty, functioned from 1948 until 1990 as a state legally not belonging to any other state, but ruled by the Western Allies. They allowed – notwithstanding their overlordship as occupant powers – its internal organisation as one state simultaneously being a city, officially called Berlin (West). Though West Berlin maintained close ties to the West German Federal Republic of Germany, it never legally formed a part of it.

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Italy in 1494, after the Peace of Lodi

Examples: Republic of Venice, Republic of Genoa, Republic of Amalfi, Republic of Florence, Duchy of Milan, Papal States

20th-century cities under international supervision

The Free City of Danzig was a semi-autonomous city-state that existed between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) and nearly 200 towns in the surrounding areas. It was created on 15 November 1920 [23] [24] under the terms of Article 100 (Section XI of Part III) of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles after the end of World War I.

After a prolonged period where the city of Fiume enjoyed considerable autonomy under Habsburg rule (see Corpus separatum (Fiume)), The Free State of Fiume was proclaimed as a fully independent free state which existed between 1920 and 1924. Its territory of 28 km2 (11 sq mi) comprised the city of Fiume (now in Croatia and, since the end of World War II, known as Rijeka) and rural areas to its north, with a corridor to its west connecting it to Italy.

The Shanghai International Settlement (1845–1943) was an international zone with its own legal system, postal service, and currency.

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The international zone within the city of Tangier, in North Africa was approximately 373 km2 (144 sq mi). It was at first under the joint administration of France, Spain, and the United Kingdom, plus later Portugal, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States. The international zone was initially attached to Morocco. It then became a French-Spanish protectorate from 1923 until the 29 of October 1956 when it was reintegrated into the state of Morocco.

The Klaipėda Region or Memel Territory was defined by the Treaty of Versailles in 1920 when it was put under the administration of the Council of Ambassadors. The Memel Territory was to remain under the control of the League of Nations until a future day when the people of the region would be allowed to vote on whether the land would return to Germany or not. The then predominantly ethnic German Memel Territory (Prussian Lithuanians and Memellanders constituted the other ethnic groups), situated between the river and the town of that name, was occupied by Lithuania in the Klaipėda Revolt of 1923.

The Free Territory of Trieste was an independent territory situated in Central Europe between northern Italy and Yugoslavia, facing the north part of the Adriatic Sea, under direct responsibility of the United Nations Security Council in the aftermath of World War II, from 1947 to 1954. The UN attempted to make the Free Territory of Trieste into a city state, but it never gained real independence and in 1954 its territory was divided between Italy and Yugoslavia.

Under the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine of 1947, Mandatory Palestine was to be partitioned into three states: a Jewish state of Israel, an Arab state of Palestine, and a corpus separatum (Latin for "separated body") consisting of a Jerusalem city-state under the control of United Nations Trusteeship Council. Although the plan had some international support and the UN accepted this proposal (and still officially holds the stance that Jerusalem should be held under this regime), implementation of the plan failed as the 1948 Palestine war broke out with the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine, ultimately resulting in Jerusalem being split into West Jerusalem and East Jerusalem. Israel would eventually gain control of East Jerusalem in the Six-Day War in 1967.

Modern city-states

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Monaco, known for its casino, royalty and scenic harbour
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Singapore, modern city-state and island country

The Principality of Monaco is an independent city-state. Monaco-Ville (the ancient fortified city) and Monaco's well-known area Monte Carlo are districts of a continuous urban zone, not distinct cities, though they were three separate municipalities (communes) until 1917. The Principality of Monaco and the city of Monaco (each having specific powers) govern the same territory. Though they maintain a small military, they would still have to rely on France for defence in the face of an aggressive world power.

Singapore is an island city-state in Southeast Asia. About 5.6 million people live and work within 700 square kilometres (270 sq mi), making Singapore the 2nd-most-densely populated country in the world after Monaco. Singapore was part of Malaysia before it was expelled from the federation in 1965, becoming an independent republic, a city and a sovereign country. The Economist refers to the nation as the "world's only fully functioning city-state". In particular, it has its own currency and a full armed forces for deterrence to safeguard the nation's sovereignty against potential aggressors. [25]

Vatican City

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Vatican City, a city-state well known for being the smallest country in the world

Until September 1870, the city of Rome had been controlled by the pope as part of his Papal States. When King Victor Emmanuel II seized the city in 1870, Pope Pius IX refused to recognize the newly formed Kingdom of Italy.

Because he could not travel without effectively acknowledging the authority of the king, Pius IX and his successors each claimed to be a "Prisoner in the Vatican", unable to leave the 0.44 km2 (0.17 sq mi) papal enclave once they had ascended the papal thrones.

The impasse was resolved in 1929 by the Lateran Treaties negotiated by the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini between King Victor Emmanuel III and Pope Pius XI. Under this treaty, the Vatican was recognized as an independent state, with the Pope as its head. The Vatican City State has its own citizenship, diplomatic corps, flag, and postage stamps. With a population of less than 1,000 (mostly clergymen), it is by far the smallest sovereign country in the world.

Non-sovereign city-states

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Hong Kong, the world's most populous city-state

Some cities or urban areas, while not sovereign states, may nevertheless enjoy such a high degree of autonomy that they function as "city-states" within the context of the sovereign state to which they belong. Historian Mogens Herman Hansen describes this aspect of self-government as: "The city-state is a self-governing, but not necessarily independent political unit." [4]

Stadtstaaten of Germany

Two cities in Germany, namely Berlin and Hamburg, are considered city-states (German: Stadtstaaten). Additionally, the state of Bremen is often called a city-state although it consists of the two cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven, which are separated by the state of Lower Saxony. Together with thirteen area states (German: Flächenländer) they form the sixteen federal states of Germany. [4] Hamburg and Bremen are "Free and Hanseatic Cities".

Generally, the city-states have no other rights or duties than the other states. Through the financial redistribution system of Equalization Payments in Germany (German: Länderfinanzausgleich), they do receive more money because of their demographic characteristics. The city-states are most distinctive due to the names of their state organs: their governments are called Senate, the prime ministers 'mayor' (Governing Mayor in Berlin and First Mayor in Hamburg) or President of the Senate (in Bremen) and also the expressions for their state parliaments differ from the other states.

In the 18th century many German cities were free imperial cities (German: Reichsstädte), without a principality between them and the imperial level. After the Napoleonic era, in 1815, four were still city-states: Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck in Northern Germany, and Frankfurt where the Federal Convention was located. Frankfurt was incorporated by Prussia in 1866, and Lübeck became a part of Prussia during the national socialist regime in 1937 (Greater Hamburg Law). After 1945, Berlin was a divided city, and the Western part became a German quasi-state under (Western) Allied supervision. Since 1990/1991, the reunited Berlin is an ordinary German state among others.

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Today I have fallen for this strappy monokini by Montce Swim, because it makes me feel like a superhero and I’m kinda down with that. Plus, let’s face it, if I was going to fight crime, I would probably need an awesome bikini like this one to wear with my magic mermaid crown (obviously). You can find this pretty little number by clicking HERE.

Off in inspiration land, I stumbled upon this quote earlier in the week and it sparked a train of thought that really moved me… dreams

Sometimes on my blog, I’m unable to share the side of me that doesn’t involve clothing, photography, or arts & crafts. Not because I don’t want to, but because I’m often so extremely busy with orders and e-mails that I simply don’t have the time to write down all the things I think about during the week. I’ve always wanted to actively change that, because there is a lot more to me (and to Wild & Free) than people may see on my social media or infer through my photos.

Probably the number one thing about me, that certainly defines a good portion of my philosophy on life, is that I’m a bit of a hopeless romantic. Ever since I can remember I’ve dreamed about finding love, and not just love in a romantic partner, but love throughout all aspects of life. I want love in friendships, love for myself and love in anything I encounter in terms of “work.” For me, love has always translated into the epitome of happiness and I used to build dreams about finding the perfect type of love.

The funny thing about building dreams, is you can spend so much time envisioning the way they’re supposed to be, that sometimes, you forget to live in the moment and experience them as they unfold.

Let’s take romantic love as an example.

I’ve dreamed about finding my soul mate. I always imagined we would meet, and we would both “just know.” I would see him walk into the room and suddenly time would stop and I would realize he was the person I’ve been waiting for. We would talk and hit it off and everything would be so effortless and easy.

I want that fairy tale type of love. That sweep me off my feet, head over heels, obsessed with you, kind of love. What I never accounted for, is that sometimes, great love can blindside you. Instead of watching it arrive in that slow motion, movie entrance kind of way, it hits you with full force when you aren’t looking and you end up so incredibly stunned that for a while, you don’t even know what’s going on.

Maybe, this kind of stunning, out of the blue, surprising kind of love, could be better than anything you ever dreamed. The problem is, you would never know unless you learned to give up the imagined storyline of your dreams and instead experience life as it unfolds into your dreams. A full, and honest surrender to the present.

Ultimately, Fitzgerald inspired me. His quote reminds me that it’s important to dream, but more important to remember that dreams don’t always unfold exactly the way you expect. So dream with your head in the clouds, but don’t forget to come back down and enjoy the view on earth.


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Music City!!

Well, it's been two days here at Murfreesboro and Neverlyville Studios. We've made some progress and are just goin back in to work on some more stuff. I'm gonna hate to see the end of this trip. I really like this part of the country.

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Lack of funding for hearing impaired children

My daughter is hearing impaired and on a wait list for a Bonebridge surgery that will restore her hearing.

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My daughter is hearing impaired and on a wait list for a Bonebridge surgery that will restore her hearing.

However, we have been informed that OHIP does not cover the external device needed after surgery. Nor does OHIP cover hearing aids.

We live in a country with universal health care, yet being able to hear is not deemed a necessity by the very system my taxes pay into? Disability will not help as we exceed their income bracket and assistance for devices only covers hearing aids.

There is seriously something wrong when our social programs deny a child the funding to hear but allow mass abuse of the system locally. There’s a problem when there is funding for grown adults to take the bus, go to school and not work but no funding for a child who can’t hear!

Parents are left with the financial burden of buying hearing aids and surgery and device costs which in our case will be $5,500 and our government has no program in place to help with those costs.

Since when was hearing something that only money can buy and not something that every person is entitled to when we have the technology to attain that?

We are a working family who have paid into this system and when we reach out for help, we are denied? I am more than angry.

We see the lack of funding not only in the health sector of this but also in education. Where are the hearing impaired teachers in Windsor?

Where are the intenerates for the hearing impaired and how are our children being put on the back shelf when they are hearing impaired? There are numerous programs for autism but no provincial funding for hearing impaired children – like they are less important than other children with disabilities.

This system must change and I plan to be the change it needs and fight that no child or their parents ever have to worry about the costs of giving their child something as precious as the gift of hearing.

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Annette Blair Glass Blower and Artist

I am a sucker for glass art, not the trinkets that they sell to tourists in Venice, although, I did get a little glass monk when I was there 30 odd years ago which I liked, but proper art like Chihuly and a fabulous local Annette Blair , the glass blower who made the lights for our lounge and dining room.

Last weekend Annette had her annual showing. So Jo, Callum and I went along and we didn’t leave empty handed. Which was a forgone conclusion really as our passion for glass is only surpassed by our passion for books. We really love how Annette paints portraits on glass bottles, painting a 2 dimensional picture on a 3 dimensional surface is amazing especially when you stand close and move slowly back and see a picture come together before your eyes.

We got one of her waney edge bowels in a lovely 1950’s green. I tried to show it off by taking the picture on a red blanket which sort of worked, I am no Kalyna Harasymiv, who I have mentioned before, though by any stretch.

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Create a WTO-equivalent to oversee the internet, recommends new report

The internet needs an international World Trade Organization (WTO)-style body to protect and grow it as one of the world’s unique shared resources: a communications infrastructure that is open, free, safe and reliable, concludes a new report published today.

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Delta Airlines pulled the plug on its hub at Memphis International Airport Tuesday, affecting 29 non-stop flights and 200 people who are now out of work.

"Most of the people affected there were Delta ground services folks," said Laura Hine, the deputy director of business services at the city's Workforce Investment Network.

Out of the 230 people who lost their job, around 50 were full-time. The rest worked 20 hours a week.

Hine said she's helping the former Delta employees find new opportunities.

"We can provide them training and tuition reimbursement. As well as connect them with any job postings we are working on," Hine said.

Many of Delta's check-in counters are empty, and little is listed on the departure board.

The airline is down to about 60 flights a day.

Before Delta merged with Northwest, the two airlines offered four times that.

Airport Authority President Larry Cox says there is a silver lining, because new jobs will open up when new airlines move in.

Southwest is set to open in November with nine flights a day.

Cox said he is working to recruit others.

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Neighbors said they're relieved the man accused of shooting a Memphis police officer is behind bars.

"I was back here working, we heard two shots, came up,  we saw a cop fly by and then we saw like one of the police cars behind him and then the next thing we know we heard the gentleman holler twice down there," said one neighbor.

Some neighbors said it was hard to tell where the shots came from, but it didn't take them long to find out.

They came outside to crime tape and several Memphis Police officers outside their home.

"When they shoot a police officer you know what they'll do to us," said a neighbor.

The officer shot in the leg on Hester Street was Robert Armour with the Organized Crime Unit.

He started following Daniel Jefferson after reports of drug activity.

Investigators say when Armour identified himself, Jefferson started shooting.

"So we thought he had died because we didn't hear nothing else but then next thing we know, here they come, all of them came down there to his rescue," said one neighbor.

"Chaos, crazy, unsafe, just so much," said another.

Neighbors said it's generally a quiet neighborhood.

They weren't afraid to come outside of their homes until this happened.

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Hello, my name is Joe but everyone that knows me call me Truth. I’m new to the pen pal website and figured I’d give it a try. I’m a single, 41 years young, 5’9”, 225 pounds (muscular), African American/Italian/Jamaican/Indian (feather not red dot), originally from the New York/New Jersey area, relocated to Richmond, Virginia where I reside.

I love to laugh and have fun and listen to good music. I enjoy cooking and even more, eating good foods of all kinds, exercising/working out/staying healthy and fit is a priority for me. I read a lot of history books and autobiographies about prominent people. I enjoy writing and learning new things, especially about ways to make money (stocks, real estate, business and all sorts of entrepreneurial endeavors).

Prior to incarceration I wore many hats. I was a traveling disc jockey, a part-time personal trainer, I’ve owned and operated numerous businesses (retail music store, barber shops, restaurant, music studio, clothing boutique, promotional music company) and a few others. I’m very smart and ambitious, funny, full of life, single and ready to mingle.

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Prison Quotes

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Total votes: 33

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

Marcus Porcius Cato
Total votes: 31

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

Total votes: 29

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

Total votes: 33

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Total votes: 26

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Victor Hugo
Total votes: 29

No crime has been without a precedent.

Total votes: 31

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Mary Wollstonecraft
Total votes: 28

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

James Connolly
Total votes: 20

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

Sir Henry Wotton
Total votes: 31

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.

Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
Total votes: 30

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

Mr. Prophet
Total votes: 41

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

Daniel Webster
Total votes: 34

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

Mitchell Burgess
Total votes: 27

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

Bertrand Russell
Total votes: 66

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

Graham Greene
Total votes: 37

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”

Father James Keller
Total votes: 30

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

Robert Mitchum
Total votes: 25

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

Philip Emeagwali
Total votes: 27

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

Sir Philip Sidney
Total votes: 22

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

Oscar Wilde
Total votes: 38

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

George Bernard Shaw
Total votes: 27

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

H. L. Mencken
Total votes: 47

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

Lech Walesa
Total votes: 36

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

Germaine Greer
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Face Your Fears

August 2, 2016
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face your fears, fear, afraid, scared, self confidence

This post is part of a 14 ways to help rebuild self-confidence series.  We are working our way through the letters of SELF CONFIDENCE with this week’s focus being on the F in Confidence.  Previously covered are Self Compassion & Self Care, 10 Ways to Enjoy your Life, Learning, Love & Laughter, Finding your passion & your happy place, Clear your schedule of activities that don’t serve you, Open-Minded – The way to go and the way to grow!, and Neutralise Your Inner Critic & Self-Doubter.

If we let fear control us, we are not free to be the best version of ourselves.  If we don’t feel free we can’t feel confident.  If we want to feel confident, we need to conquer our fears.

There’s a couple of quotes that really resonate with me.  This one (by Doe Zantamata):

“Don’t let the fear of what could happen make nothing happen.”

If we let it, fear will paralyse us!  We could have great ideas that never progress, great potential that never gets realised, so many goals that never get achieved – all because we let fear control us.

And then there is this quote said by Darren Rowse at the Problogger Event last year:

“Courage is not a feeling you wait for before you take action. Courage is DOING it scared.”

It’s true.  You can’t wait until you feel like a big courageous lion before you move forward with whatever it is that you are fearful about, because you could be waiting a long, long time!  You have to accept being scared and having fears and do it anyway.

So how can we accept our fears? What might be a way to help manage them?
  • The first thing to realise is that you are not alone.  Everyone has fears.  Everyone!  The difference is that some people are willing to work through their fears in order to get where they want to be and others let their fears control and paralyse them.
  • The process of facing fears is called EXPOSURE.  Exposure is pushing on and bit by bit easing yourself into that space that you fear, until your anxieties lessen.  Lean into your fear!
  • Write it all down.  Make a list of your fears.  Name them and list what are those dreadful things you think MIGHT happen.  Then list all those wonderful things that COULD happen.  How much do want those wonderful things and how likely are those dreadful things going to happen huh?
  • Believe in yourself.  We are our own worst critics.  You deserve success and good fortune just as much as anyone else.

Fear and self-doubt go hand in hand, so you might also be interested to read this post.

So what is fear stopping you from doing?

Ciao for now,

Linking up with Kylie Purtell for #IBOT

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  • Reply Jody at Six Little Hearts August 2, 2016 at 7:22 am

    Such a beautiful post. I love the first quote especially. It’s important to drop all the ‘what ifs’ in order to push ourselves forward.

    • Reply Min August 2, 2016 at 12:50 pm

      Thanks Jody – yes we can be champions at coming up with the ‘what if’s’ can’t we?! 😉

  • Reply Amy @ HandbagMafia August 2, 2016 at 8:49 am

    I think Darren was paraphrasing John Wayne, who said : “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway”
    Either way, very true sentiment.

    • Reply Min August 2, 2016 at 12:51 pm

      Ahhh yes most likely. I knew it must have stemmed from another quote as it seemed a little familiar. Like you, I love it though either way! 🙂

  • Reply Ingrid @ Fabulous and Fun Life August 2, 2016 at 8:56 am

    Great useful post! Fear is such a powerful paralyser like you said IF we let it be.

    I always try to ask myself what is the worst that can happen and will I care about it in a months time if it does actually happen. Quite often this allows me to overcome my fear and take action.

    • Reply Min August 2, 2016 at 12:53 pm

      Thank you Ingrid! I’ve let fears hold me back many, many times. I realise now though that everyone has fears (not just me!) and that you just need to push on regardless. Everything usually turns out better than you thought it would. 🙂

  • Reply alicia August 2, 2016 at 2:50 pm

    My word or mantra for this year is ‘brave’, to tackle the feelings of fear and failure. To be brave and just do it! It’s uncomortable at times, but it’s working for me so far and I am feeling much better about myself for it.

    • Reply Min August 2, 2016 at 9:36 pm

      Brave is a great word Alicia! I’ve had to try and be brave many times lately in order to push on and do stuff that I have fears around. It helps knowing that it is quite normal and that almost everyone has fears, so I’m not alone. I’m so glad you’re feeling better for being brave and just doing it! Go you! 🙂 xo

  • Reply Nicole @ The Builder's Wife August 2, 2016 at 3:12 pm

    I’m not always successful at it, but I try not to let fear hold me back. I acknowledge the fear and try and push past it. I am actually not good at trying new things, and ProBlogger for me was a huge new thing, I have been doing other little new things since then. I am already feeling nervous about ProBlogger again this year, so many faces, and names I cannot remember, but will push through and face another fear. xx

    • Reply Min August 2, 2016 at 9:39 pm

      Oh I’m not always successful at it either Nicole but I’m getting better at it. I never would have known you were nervous at ProBlogger last year. I wish I were going this year. I just can’t justify the expense unfortunately. I can see that I will be suffering FOMO soon! Good on you for booking and going regardless of your fears. I’m sure all will be ok and you’ll feel so much better about yourself after. 🙂 xo

  • Reply Kit August 2, 2016 at 4:23 pm

    It is so hard to face your fears at times Min. I struggle with this everyday. But I know it is important to do if I want to change.
    Big hugs Min xoxo

    • Reply Min August 2, 2016 at 9:42 pm

      I know it can be hard. Real hard sometimes! There are some fears that I can’t conquer just yet but then there are the ones that I accept and push on through. For me it really helps knowing that even the really successful people have fears that they have to push on through. Main thing is to keep trying. The more you conquer, the better you start to feel about yourself and the braver you become. Big hugs back at you Cathy! 🙂 xo

  • Reply Sammie @ The Annoyed Thyroid August 2, 2016 at 5:06 pm

    Oh I love those quotes and you’re right, Min, fear is only as paralysing as you allow it to be. I have been venturing a little outside of my comfort zone the past year or so and facing some of my fears. It’s very liberating and not nearly as scary as I imagined it to be. What an ace series!

    • Reply Min August 2, 2016 at 9:43 pm

      Good for you Sammie, and thank you! 🙂 xo

  • Reply Denyse August 2, 2016 at 8:04 pm

    I do try to be less fearful about what I fear and on some days it works, on others not. The quote I know from Dr Russ Harris, who wrote The happiness trap and about becoming confident goes long the lines ‘the doing is the act of confidence, the feeling of confidence comes later’. Great to see the posts series and I hope to be back for more, Min!

    • Reply Min August 2, 2016 at 9:47 pm

      You’ve been doing great lately Denyse (just my observations from afar) – you’re incredibly creative and artistically talented and creating such amazing work. You also seem to have settled where you’re living now and appear to be feeling much more content. I’ve read ‘The Happiness Trap’ – think I even wrote a post about it once. I agree with that quote. It’s sort of like “fake it till you make it”. Act confident first. Feel confident later. Thanks Denyse! 🙂 xo

  • Reply Renee Wilson August 2, 2016 at 9:40 pm

    I love the courage quote. I’ve never thought about things that way. Thanks Min xx

    • Reply Min August 2, 2016 at 9:47 pm

      It’s great isn’t it. My pleasure. 🙂 xo

  • Reply JF Gibson August 2, 2016 at 9:58 pm

    My word for last year was fearless. And I confronted my fears head on. It wasn’t that I leaped out, full steam ahead without fear, but I simply made myself concentrate on fearing-less. It wasn’t easy, but I know I wouldn’t be where I am today if I hadn’t. And it’s a continual process. The biggest fear, I’m still challenged most by is putting myself in social situations.

    • Reply Min August 3, 2016 at 10:12 am

      Well done Jodi – you’re right that it’s not easy but it is the only way to move forward towards where you want to be and there’s a real sense of achievement when you get there! I understand your fear around social situations. I’m ok in small groups but get overwhelmed in large social situaitons. ProBlogger last year is a great example of me facing my fears. There were nearly 800 people at that event – very confronting – but I did it! (I made sure I had a room all to myself to retreat to when I needed to though) 🙂

  • Reply Jo @ You had us at hello August 3, 2016 at 3:09 pm

    I think some of the best moments of your life are usually when you faced your fears and went for it! You’re so right that fears can paralyse you from achieving something you’re very capable of doing, you just need the confidence and supportive nudge to get there. My current fear is giving up chocolate. We are smashing through half a block each night, just me and Farmer. I know come Spring that bad habit will need to STOP! Nooooooo! But it will be for the best I just know it 🙂 #teamIBOT xx

    • Reply Min August 3, 2016 at 4:19 pm

      I just met an old friend for lunch who faced her fears and self doubts and is now living her dream! So, you’re right in saying that the best moments of your life can be found when you face your fears and go for it! Ahhhh choccy – yum – not easy to give up! Good luck! 😉 xo

  • Reply Grace August 8, 2016 at 1:56 pm

    Ah, my old friend, Fear. Sometimes, I don’t realise how detrimental fear is to achieving my goals. Rather than sweep the feeling away and never do what I want to do, I know it’s better to face fear and deal with it. Darren Rowse always comes up with great quotes – especially about fear.

    • Reply Min August 9, 2016 at 9:56 am

      Some fears are easier to face and deal with than others. Darren sure comes up with some beauties! 😉 x

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A PCL86 SET kit with chassis from the DIY Audio Store

The DIY Audio Store (part of the diyaudio.com forums) is now selling the Elekit TU-8100 PCL86 kit:

At only $275, this 2W output kit is about as low an entry point to all-in-one well-documented tube kits as you’re likely to find. It includes two inputs (rear and 1/8″ front) and is powered by a 12Vdc power brick. This keeps the amp small enough for even desktop usage (5.5″ square). According to the ad copy, SMD components (DC booster, etc) come pre-soldered.

The PCL86 is a 9 pin triode + pentode roughly equivalent to a 12AX7 and EL84 in a single envelope. See a datasheet here. It’s used in the Elekit in a traditional two stage cap-coupled single-ended arrangement. The output transformers are rated as a 7k primary and the circuit employs global feedback to squeeze some extra linearity out of the high gain input stage. See the Mighty Cacahuate for a similar design (no feedback and 6CG7 instead of 12AX7).

If you’re hoping to find a tube kit under the tree this year, add this one to your Christmas list. Elekit puts out some very cool products and purchasing through DIY Audio Store helps support one of our hobby’s precious resources.

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Confessions of a Shopaholic

Confessions of a Shopaholic

2009 | P.J. Hogan

A college grad lands a job as a financial journalist in New York City to support where she nurtures her shopping addiction and falls for a wealthy entrepreneur.

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Classic chick-flick. Girl meets boy, boy likes girl, girl lies to boy, boy get mad but still likes girl ind the end.
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This past Mother’s Day saw the Core Team hosting a family brunch. Three phases of motherhood were represented in Sara, the beautiful mother of my beautiful children, my own mother, and my sister-in-law, Ursula who is a mother-to-be. To honor our guests, maternal and otherwise, I tried a fancy new recipe for Bananas Foster French Toast. Bananas Foster is a decadent New Orleans dessert crafted from butter, brown sugar, cinnamon, dark rum, banana liqueur, and of course bananas. This delicacy is often ignited in front of eager diners and served over ice cream. For breakfast, I dispensed with the liquor, flames, and ice cream, yet this luscious dish went over extremely well, so well in fact that I want to share it. The original recipe comes by way of Kehoe House, a B&B in Savannah, Georgia. However, I made some modest adjustments based on my experience:

Bananas Foster French Toast

Whisk together:
6 eggs
2 cups milk
1 cup heavy cream
3/4 teaspoon vanilla

1/4 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon

Other ingredients:
6 tablespoons butter for Bananas Foster, 2 tablespoons for french toast skillet
4 ripe bananas sliced lengthwise then in half
8-10 slices bread 3/4 inch thick (I recommend challah for extra egginess)

To make french toast, dip bread into egg-milk mixture and cook on a hot, buttered skillet. Turn once, making sure toast is golden brown on both sides. Undercooked french toast is very soggy in the middle.

To make Bananas Foster, melt butter in a saute pan. Add the brown sugar to form a creamy paste. Let this mixture caramelize over medium heat for about 5 minutes. Add bananas, and cook for a few minutes more.

Plate French toast, top with bananas and sauce. Serve with maple syrup. Enjoy!

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    WILMINGTON, NC, March 06, 2019 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Award winning author Donna Fletcher Crow has announced that she will serve as a panelist at Mystery Fest 2019 on Saturday, March 9, 2019. The event will take place at Portsmouth Central Library, Guildhall Walk in Portsmouth, UK.

Portsmouth Bookfest presents a series of literary events for readers and writers, adults and children, covering most genres. The long-running annual event is organized in part by the University of Portsmouth and local area writers and historians. Notable authors associated with Portsmouth include Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells. This year's event will feature a talk by former MP and bestselling author Alan Johnson. Guest of honor, Simon Brett, will be the luncheon speaker.

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Crow says, "I am very excited for this opportunity to connect in person with my many readers in England. I'm especially delighted to meet in person with Lizzie Hayes and other members of the wonderful Mystery People organization which does so much to support excellence in crime and mystery writing.

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Donna Fletcher Crow is the author of 45 books, mostly novels of British history. The award-winning 'Glastonbury' is her best-known work, which received the prestigious First Place, Historical Novel, award from the National Federation of Press Women. Readers and reviewers have raved about 'Glastonbury', calling it "The best of its kind," "richly fascinating," "beautifully researched,", "gloriously evocative," and "panoramic." One Amazon reader said, "WHAT a work! Every reader can be enveloped in the sheer scope and quality, every historian be constantly nodding at the precise detail and accuracy, and every Christian can rejoice in the fullness of scripture. For me it is simply beyond descriptive praise. I would urge all who value truth to treat themselves to a feast."

The Lord Danvers series is an Amazon bestseller in the British Detectives category. Books in the series include 'A Lethal Spectre', 'A Most Inconvenient Death', 'Grave Matters', 'To Dust You Shall Return' and 'A Tincture of Murder'. Donna provides a no-charge download of 'A Tincture of Murder' for those who sign up for her newsletter. More information is available at her website.

The Monastery Murders are contemporary clerical mysteries with clues hidden in medieval history. Titles are: 'A Very Private Grave', 'A Darkly Hidden Truth', 'An Unholy Communion', 'A Newly Crimsoned Reliquary', and 'An All-Consuming Fire'.

The Elizabeth & Richard Mysteries is a literary suspense series using literary figures as background: Rudyard Kipling in 'The Flame Ignites', Dorothy L Sayers in 'The Shadow of Reality', Shakespeare in 'A Midsummer Eve's Nightmare', and Jane Austen in both 'A Jane Austen Encounter' and 'A Most Singular Venture'.

The Daughters of Courage, 'Kathryn', 'Elizabeth' and 'Stephanie' is a pioneer family saga based on the stories of Crow's own family and other Idaho pioneers in the Kuna, Nampa and Boise area.

Donna Fletcher Crow's work has received a number of high-level industry honors. These include:

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Professional Achievement Award, Northwest Nazarene College
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