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Rerouting History (February 15, 2016)

Posted in Civil War, Dollar - World's Reserve Currency, Iran, Race, Slavery, Society, South, Southern Strategy, Uncategorized on February 15, 2016 by

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K          “Any GPS system will take you to the intersection of Ronnie Reagan Road and Saddam Hussein Highway without hesitation or reflection.”

J          “Or irony or regret.  But Quantrill was a domestic terrorist whereas Hussein threatened the supremacy of the U.S dollar as the world’s reserve currency and was not nice in an area with many not nice people.  We Americans should celebrate our own.”

K          “Our own what?”

. . .

K          “Changing the names of streets and schools does not rewrite history, it changes the names of the individuals who are celebrated on streets and schools.”

J          “I have found that those people who want to keep William Quantrill Circle are also those people who claim that the Civil War was about state’s rights rather than about slavery.”

K          “Streets and schools should be named after heroes not villains.  The history books should be written to reflect the actual history including the actual exploits of the heroes and the villains.”

. . .

K          “Not only are Stuart and Lee going down the road, Washington and Jefferson also will be sent down a trail renamed after someone else.”

J          “Rename the ‘Washington Monument’ on the Mall as the ‘George Washington Carver Monument’?”

K          “Then we could still refer to it generically as the ‘Washington Monument’ on the Mall.”

. . .

[See the e-commentary at The Confederate Flag:  What Does It Mean To You? (July 6, 2015) and Columbus And The Redskins (October 14, 2013).]

[See the e-commentary at Has Scalia Gone Feral (March 4, 2013) and One Gun Per White Adult Male?  A Flintlock Musket?  The “One Man, One Gun” Decision (October 4, 2010).]

Bumper stickers of the week:

Happy Presidents’ Day

Celebrate heroes on streets and schools; chronicle the activities of the heroes and villains in the history books.

The Confederate Flag:  What Does It Mean To You? (July 6, 2015)

Posted in Politics, Race, Slavery, Society, South on July 6, 2015 by

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1          “It means that Blacks are second class citizens.”

2          “It means that voting rights should be denied.”

3          “It means that discrimination should be allowed.”

4          “It means that lynching should be legal.  For Blacks, I mean.”

. . .

Bumper stickers of the week:

E          “All of the above.”

It’s mean?

Midterms 2014: A Verdict On Race (And Concerted Ineptitude) (November 10, 2014)

Posted in Blue States / Red States, Citizens United Decision, Civil War, Dollar - World's Reserve Currency, Elections, Marijuana, Minimum Wage, Race, South, Southern Strategy on November 10, 2014 by

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M          “The election came down to the Republicans putting an elected official who was not even running for office on every ballot in America.”

L          “And putting him on trial.  This race was about race.  American politics is a perennial battle between fear and hope.  The midterm elections were a verdict on whether a Black man should be President of the United States.  And the verdict is in.  Those American people scared into voting are more than uncomfortable with a Black man and his very Black woman in the House for Whites.  And then toss in Ebola and ISIS or ISIL or whatever it is and fear cripples the citizenry.”

M          “In recent decades, every President who has won a second term and had a Senate majority to lose has lost the Senate majority.”

L          “The Republicans could not say that a candidate is in the same party as the ‘n-word’ guy.  ‘Reggin’ and ‘monday’ are too blatant.  They unleashed a cacophony of dog whistles. ‘Romney – Obama Care’ passed as the ‘Affordable Care Act’ and was excoriated as ‘Obamacare.’  Republicans accused all incumbent Democratic Senators over and over and over and over of casting the deciding vote for ‘Obamacare.’  ‘Obamacare’ is the socially acceptable substitute for the ‘n-word’ today.”

M          “Money carried the message and the day.  They say the sword is mightier than the pen, but the pen that writes the campaign checks is mightiest.  Justice Roberts’ plan in Citizens United is unfolding like a carefully choreographed chess game.”

L          “It is always about money.  Obama won in 2008 in substantial part because he rejected public financing and substantially outspent McCain.  Americans were fearful then, but in the perennial battle between fear and hope, hope triumphed over fear.  Bush had made such a mess of the economy and foreign affairs that a continuation of Bush was frightening.  The fear of another Bush combined with the hope espoused by Obama was right for the times.  In this race, spending by the mega PACs bought the elections for Republicans by appealing to race and avoiding any concrete policies.  Few of the Republicans were honest enough to concede that the Republicans have used all available resources to stymie legislation and then blamed Obama.  The public voted against what they were told is ineptitude in Washington.”

M          “In 2008, in their gut, many devout Republicans said they simply could not stomach ‘President Palin’ at the helm.”

L          “Many pundits proclaimed that America was ‘post-racial’ then, yet America was and is still very involved in the racial mix and maelström.”

M          “When the finals are held in 2016, virulent racism will not be on the national exam.  Gender is much less incendiary.  America is much closer to a ‘post-gender’ electorate.”

. . .

M          “Maryland and Massachusetts are lapis lazuli blue and yet both elected Republican governors.  At some point, citizens tire of taxes and regulations.”

L          “I was heartened to see that four red states – Alaska, Arkansas, Nebraska, and North Dakota -–adopted provisions to increase the minimum wage.  And the blue city of San Francisco joins the Emerald City in adopting a minimum wage.  You cannot spend money if you do not have money.”

M          “Oregon, Alaska and the District of Columbia adopted more rational and realistic marijuana policies.  Reduce civil rights violations, increase tax rolls and cut spending on prisons.  Regulate marijuana like alcohol and discourage and dissuade the use of both.”

. . . .

L          “Save your Confederate dollars.  The South is rising again.”

M          “Will they substitute as the world’s reserve currency?”

. . .

[Fall of the Berlin Wall:  Yesterday – 25 years]

Bumper stickers of the week:

Deal race, buy votes

Save your Confederate dollars.  The South is rising again.

Lee surrendered.  I didn’t.

The New Confederacy – Same Old Same New

The New Confederacy – Same as it ever was

King Daze (January 20, 2014)

Posted in Hypocrisy, Race, South on January 20, 2014 by

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A          “King’s birthday has become a day for some people to undertake very visible and well publicized ‘public interest’ activities.  A day on not a day off.”

B          “The activities are advertised and publicized the way the Soviets announced spending on consumer goods.  Make a big announcement before spending money, make a big announcement while spending money, and make a big announcement after spending money.”

A          “I am more interested in how one leads his or her life yesterday and tomorrow.”

. . .

A          “Lawyers also undertake very visible and well publicized pro bono publico activities.”

B          “Secular redemption for activities undertaken during the rest of the week.  I am more interested in what they do on all of their days off not on their day on.”

. . .

A          “Doing something if desirable.  The Civil War did not end at Appomattox, they just called a truce, changed the uniforms from gray fatigues to white sheets, and privatized the terrorism.  Celebrating King’s birthday is part of the long road and the slow process to end America’s enduring Civil War.”

B          “We still have a long way to go.  Virginia still celebrates Ku Klux Klan Day.”

. . .

Bumper stickers of the week:

The world is my country; Doing good is my religion

Justice and Truth do not have on and off days

Virginia celebrated Ku Klux Klan Day last Friday

The Conservative Solution To Affirmative Action (October 15, 2012)

Posted in Affirmative Action, Constitution, Courts, Race, Schooling, South, Supreme Court on October 15, 2012 by

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CL1      “So the Supremes are going after affirmative action again.”

CL2      “Hostile Rich White Boys are not the most neutral arbitrators of opportunity.”

CL1      “In the American selection process, their kids can get into any college and law school just by calling up and then showing up.  ‘Justice Jerry’s son here.  See ya’ in September.’”

CL2      “The dispute comes down to the one last spot between the White kid from an unconnected family who does not otherwise appear to be a profitable prospect for the academic institution versus a Black kid who may be 43 SAT points short yet has attained in the face of limited opportunity.”

CL1      “Too many Americans refuse to acknowledge the impact of slavery and the Great Hundred Year War Of Terror in America from 1865 to 1965.  The epicenter was in the South but touched all of America with lasting effects today.”

CL2      “In 2003, Justice O’Connor and friends suggested an awkward but workable solution that is working awkwardly but solubly.  And gave it twenty-five years.  A shelf life on an exception to address what hopefully was an exceptional time in our history that was not exceptional.”

CL1      “Between you and me, I understand the anxiety spawned when the country’s highest court interprets the country’s most important document to allow for a remedy such as affirmative action which is at odds with the very right that is at issue.”

CL2      “Business, academia and other institutions have accommodated to the awkward modus vivendi without too much fuss in the last nine years.”

CL1      “The Supreme Rich White Boys, a gang that includes Thomas, have no business messing with precedent, tradition and settled practice.”

. . .

Bumper sticker of the week:

“White is right, Brown can stay around, but Black better get back.”  United States Supreme Court, June, 2013

Dixie Visited (September 17, 2012)

Posted in Civil Rights/Civil Liberties, Civil War, Political Parties, Politics, Race, South, Southern Strategy on September 17, 2012 by

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H1          “One hundred and fifty years ago today, Northern immigrants battled Southern serfs in Western Maryland.”

H2          “And they could not even agree on the name of the skirmish.  The Northerners named battles after nearby bodies of water and Southerners after nearby towns.  Antietam versus Sharpsburg.”

H1          “Given the outcome, the United States refer to it as Antietam.  They still don’t agree on the name of the Great Campaign.  The War of Northern Aggression or the War of Southern Terrorism.”

H2          “The war was always about slavery not state’s rights in the South.  The stalemate in Miller’s cornfield and on Burnside’s Bridge was enough to cover for Lincoln to expand the endeavor from saving the Union to starting the abolition of slavery in the South and new states in the West.”

H1          “As they always say, tactically inconclusive but strategically significant.”

. . .

H1          “A person and a society are measured by whether property rights are protected or human rights are cherished.  In the South, property rights were exalted; human rights were actively and systematically violated.”

H2          “Humans want to be free with perhaps some societal restraints to guide behavior, yet humans instinctively desire to colonize property and to enslave others.  True to form, the colonists stole property from the Red man and denied liberty to the Black man.  Civilization emerges when those impulses are restrained by mutual consent.”

H1          “You mean government.  The colonists in America rebelled and obtained independence, yet slavery in many incarnations continued unabated.”

H2          “The caste system and class condescension continued in the South.  The descendants of the English continued the subtle oppression of the descendants of the Irish and the Scots.  Southern society was an extension of the rigid social and economic hierarchy in the British Isles.”

H1          “Blacks were slaves and three fifths of a human, the most perverse mathematical formula in the history of humankind.  Most Whites in the south were indentured servants, share croppers, peasants and serfs.  Servitude served up along a continuum.  Despite their lower-class status, poor Whites could take comfort in their legal superiority over Blacks.  That was a great palliative and motivator.”

H2          “From its adoption in 1791, the Bill of Rights rarely protected lower class Whites south of the Mason-Dixon line.  The Thirteenth Amendment changed the laws on the books, but the Hundred Year War of Terror raged in the South from 1865 to 1965.  Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1965 changed the legal landscape somewhat, although events on the ground changed slowly.”

H1          “Americans have tolerated Made In The U.S.A. terrorism on her soil for over two centuries.  The South ante bellum and post bellum was and perhaps less so today is an aristocracy and oligarchy operated by and for a small elite.”

H2          “And nothing threatens ignorance like education.  High schools and higher education in the South were reserved for wealthy white males.  By contrast, in the North education is exalted.  At the bequest and behest of Benjamin Franklin and others, the University of Pennsylvania was open to all citizens.”

H1          “Religiosity is provided to supplant free thought and ratiocination.  Religion provides pat answers and precludes probing questions.”

H2          “The South also reveres the military because of the need to maintain internal discipline by force and fear and to repel threats and challenges to its medieval system.”

H1          “Lincoln and his fellow Republicans sought to maintain the Union over any other goal.  For both strategic and humanitarian motives, he emancipated the slaves in two phases.  His conviction and efforts maintained the Union.  Now the Republicans campaign in the South and exploit anti-African American racism and fears of lawlessness among White voters.”

H2          “If the South had won the rebellion, the United States of America would have fewer stars and perhaps fewer stripes for the departed former colonies on its flag.  The United States of America Sans The South would be a Blue Nation.  Without all the government subsidies from the Blue States to the Red South States, the United States S.T.S. would have a less unbalanced budget.  The South would be a White Mexico today.”

H1          “Funny how life turns out.  The ‘Southern Strategy’ is an ironic development.  The old Republicans freed the slaves and the new Republicans play on the fear of the freed slaves.  In this election, the Southern Strategy is now the National Strategy.”

H2          “And look at wage rates.  The public relations guys have a clever slogan – the ‘right to work.’  What they should say is the ‘right to work for a pittance.’  Keep them enslaved in subtle ways.”

H1          “Leaves you wondering whether anything really has changed.”

H2          “Demographics are destiny.  Black and Brown are slowly trumping White.”

H1          “Old times there are not forgotten.”

H2          “Look away.”

. . .

[H1 = Historian 1; H2 = . . . ]

[September 17 is the one year anniversary of the Occupy movement and the four year anniversary to the day (Monday, September 15, 2008) when even those in power had to acknowledge the economic charade and chimera that was on the verge of collapse.]

[See the “e-ssay” titled “The Great National Dissolution: Resolving The Great Civil War (April 18, 2011)“]

Bumper stickers of the week:

Old times there are not forgotten; look away!

Mankind’s Motto:  To Colonize And To Enslave

How many Virginians does it take to change a light bulb?  Five.  One to call an electrician, two to mix drinks, and two to talk about how good the old bulb was.


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Turtle Season in South Carolina

Back in 2011, I had occasion to visit Isle of Palms in South Carolina, and I wrote this post about what a great visit that was.  Especially memorable were the loggerhead sea turtles that nest on those beaches, closely monitored by the South Carolina DNR and dedicated teams of volunteers. Today, I’m reporting that the 2014 turtle nesting season is well underway.  Check it out!

Volunteers comb the beach for evidence of new nests laid the night before.

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Daily Links: Online Matchmaking with Dogs as Dates

daily_links_1Today’s interesting finds:

Online Matchmaking, but With Dogs as Dates (NYT) – Glad to see our furry friends getting online. I think this is a great idea!

Apple’s Tim Cook: No-one Wants An iPad-Mac Hybrid (TechCrunch) – What *is* the ideal user experience? Can we really replace the PC/laptop?

Smartphone owners value banking data over their nude pics, survey says (Ars Technica) – This is kind of fascinating…

The FCC’s Unforced Error (ReCode) – Internet freedom and neutrality is a lot more complicated when you try to put it into practice.

Tipsy, a simple Chrome extension, bets on readers who want to pay a little for the content they consume (Nieman Lab) – I am really hoping someone finds a good paywall alternative for newspapers. Is this it? This has a reports feature that looks interesting.

Amazon has a limited time offer for $30 off the Fire HD 10 tablet. I am a Prime member and I am also seeing an option to pay in 5 monthly payments of $40. 🙂

Daily Links are interesting links I discover as I go about my online day. The frequency and number of links posted depend upon the daily news. I also post other, different links of interest on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.

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tmbreck: Bonnie and Caroline, time travel fic (Leave a Light On)
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Title: Leave a Light On: Let It Go, Let It Change
Author: [personal profile] tmbreck / eclectic_tongue / [info]eclectic / [archiveofourown.org profile] Lilbreck
Beta: velvetwhip
Characters: Bonnie Bennett, Caroline Forbes, Elena Gilbert, Sheila Bennett, Stefan Salvatore, Tyler Lockwood, Vicki Donovan
Rating: FRT
Word Count: 3,673
A/N: A huge thanks, as always, goes to my wonderful beta velvetwhip. This time more so than others, since she's being forced to read fanfic for a show she has no interest in watching. Though I list just about every character it seems, and some of them actually do get dialog, this is all primarily from Caroline's POV with a tad bit of Vicki's POV thrown in. Hope you enjoy!

Caroline toyed with the corner of the foam board birthday sign on her locker. One of these years she was going to give up waiting for other people to plan her birthday parties for her. She went all out for her friends, and she was happy to. However, she got a decorated locker two days after her birthday. Okay, it would have been kind of hard to give her a decorated locker on her birthday this year since it was on a Saturday. It wasn't really the lack of a big party that upset her though, it was the fact that they knew she loved parties, but they didn't even think that she would want someone to plan a party especially for her.

If she were being honest with herself –and it was something she had been trying to be—her mood wasn't really about her birthday or the level of give and take in her friendships. Getting out her morning books and closing the locker, she had to admit to herself that she was feeling overwhelmed. She knew there were things she was forgetting, something important that she had overlooked. She had pored over her notes endlessly this past week, though that was mostly in a bid to fight off the newbie vampire cravings, and she still hadn't figured out what it was that she was missing.

So far, she had been lucky. While she had realized she couldn't turn in her own home, she hadn't really planned on how to get an invitation in without it seeming suspicious. Thankfully, her mother had come home while she was sitting on their porch trying to figure out how to get in. Seeing the expression on her daughter's face, Liz had assumed something was bothering her. She had told her daughter to come in, have some ice cream, and they could talk about it.

While it had felt good to talk to her mom about how her friendship with Bonnie seemed to be on rocky ground –without any real details, of course—she knew that they couldn't rely on her being lucky all the time. She had to be more proactive in figuring out all the information Bonnie didn't, or couldn't give her before sending her back.

Hearing the unmistakable sound of Elena and Bonnie coming up behind her, she made a quick decision: She needed more help, so it was time for other people to be let in on the secret. Well, let in on some of the secret. She'd keep the time traveling to herself for now. Spinning around with a beauty queen smile firmly in place, she put her plan into action.

"Just the two I wanted to see. Given the severe lack of party in my birthday celebrations so far, you owe me. Tonight, meet me at my house, and I'll let you know where we're going from there."

Caroline could see Elena preparing to weasel her way out of it. However, she was not above guilt tripping her friend. What was the point of having a mean girl attitude in your arsenal if you didn't occasionally use it to get your way?

"I'm sorry, Caroline, I can't come. I'm supposed to be going over to Stefan's. We have some things to talk about."

As much as Caroline was all for Elena and Stefan's epic love, some things were more important than date night.

"I'm sorry, Elena, who is it that has been planning your birthday party every year since forever and has yet to have her friends plan her one?"

While the people pleaser in Caroline wanted to sooth away the guilty look on both her friend's faces, she was on a mission and couldn't afford to be merciful. The Queen of Mean had to take over.

"You both owe me. Tonight, after school, my place. And, since I'm so understanding, you can bring the boy toy along."

Both girls nodded in somewhat reluctant agreement and turned to leave. However, before Bonnie could get far, Caroline grabbed her hand to get her friend's attention. Leaning in close, she spoke low enough so that the other students in the hall couldn't overhear.

"Call your Grams and let her know we're coming over after school. It's time we started letting some people know what's going on."

Before Bonnie could ask what had brought this on, Caroline gave a large grin, waved, and strode off to her first class. During that class –and all the other classes as well—Caroline couldn't keep her mind off who she would be telling about her vampire status, and who she wouldn't be telling. While her mother had come around before, there was no guarantee that would happen this time. Of course, there were key parts of their plans that hinged on her mom being in the know, so there wasn't really a choice.

Waiting at her house later that afternoon with Bonnie, Caroline could admit to being a bit nervous. Of course, given that both of them knew about vampires –Stefan being one was a plus in this situation—and neither of them were vampire haters, this would probably be the easiest confession she would have to make. That didn't mean she didn't still have memories of Elena being too busy to be there for her. Yes she had good reason at the time, but it still stung.

Looking over at Bonnie, she reassured herself that, like with Bonnie, her relationship with Elena would not hit that big of a snag. Caroline chose to ignore the fact that Bonnie was still a bit cold to her. Again, with reason but painful nonetheless. Who it was that Caroline was supposed to be killing in Bonnie's vision was still a mystery, and the witch wasn't really comfortable talking about it yet. Taking a deep breath, Caroline did her best to remember that she was trying to be patient with her friend.

Hearing Elena's SUV pull up in front of her house, she motioned to Bonnie and headed to the door. When they got to the porch, Elena and Stefan were just beginning to get out of the vehicle.

"Get back in the car, losers, we're going to granny's house."

She could see Stefan come to a dead stop and watched as a mild look of panic crossed over his face. Much like when she told him once upon a time that wasn't going to happen now, this one didn't really stray far from his 'hey, it's Tuesday' look either.

"I, uh… I can't really go. I was just going to stop by and say a quick hi. I've got some stuff I have to take care of."

As excuses went, it was lame. Of course, if she didn't know why he really didn't want to go, she would have thought it was nice of him to make his excuses in person. However, he wasn't going to get out of it that easy.

"Sorry, Stefan, you're going to have to take care of whatever it is some other time. Grams is expecting you."

While he did seem confused and suspicious, Stefan got back into the passenger's seat and didn't try to talk his way out of the visit any more during the ride. The only person in the vehicle that didn't seem tense or nervous was Elena. Of course, once she found out what was coming for her, she would be more tense and nervous than all of them put together.

For a moment Caroline entertained the fantasy of going back in time and stopping Klaus' mother from cursing him in the first place. How many lives would be saved? How many would be lost? Of course, if there was no curse, Katherine would never have been a vampire on the run, and would never have turned Stefan and Damon. There would have also been no one turning her. It was all pointless to wonder about anyway. It took a lot of power just to send her back this far, it would probably take more power than they could get hold of to send her back a thousand years.

Caroline was pulled out of her thoughts when the ignition cut off. Putting on a wide smile, she stepped out of the vehicle and made her way to the front porch. After knocking on the door, she turned to hurry the others along. Stefan, of course, was bringing up the rear. When Sheila opened the door and saw Caroline's bright smile, she gave a small smirk in return. As she made her way to one of the chairs Sheila had brought into the front room for the occasion, she heard the witch make a point to invite Stefan in.

When everyone was in the house, Sheila sat in the chair next to Caroline, while Bonnie, Elena, and Stefan all sat on the couch. The latter two looked extremely confused, so Caroline decided to take pity on them and get started.

"As you can probably tell, this isn't exactly a birthday party. It's more like a supernatural roll call slash 'oh, by the way, some vampire heavyweights are going to be making their way to town' kind of a meeting."

Even before she finished, Bonnie was widening her eyes and mouthing her name.

"It's like pulling off a Band-Aid, Bonnie. It's less painful if you do it quick and all at once."

Turning to back to Elena and Stefan, Caroline continued, "Bonnie and Grams are witches, Stefan and I are vampires, and Elena is a doppelgänger."

With each person Caroline spoke of and gestured to, Elena's eyes got wider and her jaw began to drop a little in shock. Stefan's face had gone blank, though. He hadn't lost his voice, nor his ability to connect the dots.

"That's why Sheila wanted my blood: She wanted to turn you. But why turn you, and how long exactly have you been a vampire?"

Grateful that they were starting with the easy questions first, Caroline answered with a smile.

"Sheila needed a vampire she knew she could trust because, as I said before, there are some very dangerous vampires on the way. As for when… I turned around the beginning of the month. Shortly after Sheila got the blood from you and I stole the pocket watch from Jeremy's room."

At this, Elena shook free of her stupor, moved forward to the edge of her seat on the couch, and began her questioning.

"First off, doppelgänger? Second, what do you mean you stole the pocket watch from Jeremy's room? Why would you do that?"

Before she could try to defend her minor foray into criminal behavior, Sheila stepped in to explain what was going on, minus a few bits here and there. Caroline sat back in her chair and nodded along, as if everything had been Sheila's plan to begin with. When she, Bonnie, and Sheila had discussed how things were going to go, they decided that until Klaus and Elijah made their appearances –or they decided to let everyone know about Caroline's back to the future experience—it would be easier for everyone to accept that Sheila was the one who had gotten all the information and set everything into motion.

It took hours to get them both to believe what was going on and to believe that there was a good plan in place to make sure no one died and stayed dead. After a small moment of panic, though, it was easy to assure Elena that no one was planning on turning her into a vampire. Caroline only had a small twinge of guilt over the fact that, even though they told Stefan and Elena that there was an elixir to bring her back after the ritual, they neglected to tell them that they hadn't actually found the elixir yet. She was able to keep from blurting this out by remembering that, if worse came to worst, Elijah had the elixir they needed. She really didn't want to rely on him, though.

What she wasn't able to keep herself from blurting out, though, was the fact that Elena was adopted. There were days where she thought that her blunt and straightforward approach to most things was an asset. This was not one of those days. Given that she had just thrown that out there without any smoothing over or preparation, she felt that Elena handled it damn well. There were some hugs, a few teary apologies, and then Sheila let them know that there was still more than needed to talk about.

Elena was only too happy to hand over the necklace Stefan had given her in exchange for a new one –also filled with vervain, of course—once she learned that a witch that had been dead for a thousand years might use it to try and come back to kill off all vampires. Even thinking that, along with everything else that was going on, made Caroline feel like she was in a cheesy B-grade horror movie.

It was dark before the discussion began to wind down. As Stefan helped Sheila gather up the cups they had been drinking from, Elena started to question Caroline about how being a vampire was different from being a human. While she answered readily enough, she began to wonder if Elena had ever put these same questions to Stefan. Before she could give in to her urge to ask, Sheila walked back into the room, followed closely by Stefan.

"Saturday, I'll be heading to North Carolina. There's a witch there who knows the location of something we can use as a bargaining chip with Klaus."

She turned to Bonnie, her expression softening slightly, and asked, "Are you wanting to come with me?"

Bonnie's expression, unlike her grandmother's, was almost stony. She shook her head in reply. Caroline reached out to hold her hand, knowing that it was too soon for her to confront her mother, even knowing now why her mother had left. Caroline thought that it possibly hurt worse, knowing that her mother had left because she was without magic, as if her daughter wasn't enough of a reason to face living with the memory of that magic. She could only hope that Bonnie and her mother had a chance to bond this time around without any dire circumstances or vampirism involved.

Shortly after, Elena drove Bonnie and then Caroline home. Caroline had a feeling that Elena would either be inviting Stefan home with her, or staying at the boarding house that night so they could talk more about what was going on. She, however, had no plans to think about it anymore that night. She didn't think about it anymore for most of the week either, despite Elena's obvious attempts to steer conversations in that direction.

Friday morning, however, she did think about it. Watching from beside a parked bus, she waited for Tyler to pull away from his fellow jocks and make his way back to the school. As he passed by her, she quickly grabbed him and pulled him out of the view of other students, moving too fast for any of them to see what had happened.

"I'm sorry, Tyler, but this is something I have to do."

While he looked confused and a bit annoyed, he didn't look at all afraid. Caroline sent up a quick thank you to whatever it was in him that made him either dismiss the fact that he had just been moved faster than humanly possible or miss it happening all together. Before he could question what she was doing, Caroline made eye contact and compelled him to skip class with her and head back home. Following Tyler in her car on the way to Lockwood Mansion gave Caroline time to contemplate the fact that she didn't really feel all that guilty for compelling Tyler so that he could show her where the moonstone was located.

This was her life now. Caroline reasoned that she had to let go of certain levels of guilt in order to survive and function in a manner that would help her friends. It was this urge to help those she cared about that made her decide that she was going to do everything she could to ensure that Tyler's werewolf gene was never triggered, and that he never got involved in all of this supernatural business.

She realized that this meant that she and Tyler would never be together and he would never fall in love with her, however, he would have the possibility of a happy and normal life, free of painful changes and sire bonds. As her eyes began to tear up, Caroline realized that she had never contemplated what she would lose with this plan. She and Tyler were supposed to finally have a chance to be together but, in order for that to happen, she would have to open him up to a world of pain and suffering. She couldn't do that to him, she had to let him go. It was for the best.

By the time they arrived at Tyler's home and Caroline opened her car door, no one would have been able to tell that she had been on the verge of crying. When necessary, she was very good at pushing down everything else in order to get done whatever needed to be done.

Listening carefully for any sound from inside the house as Tyler unlocked his door, Caroline found that, thankfully, both of his parents were away from home. While Tyler had told her about finding the moonstone, she had never thought to ask where the hiding spot had been. It hadn't really crossed her mind that she would find herself sent back in time and needing to get her hands on the moonstone before anyone else did. After the front door had closed, Caroline turned to Tyler and caught his eyes once more.

"Tyler, is there a secret hidey-hole or safe your family would keep very important family heirlooms in?"

Tyler stopped and thought for a moment before he nodded his head and said in a nearly monotone voice, "There's a safe hidden in the floorboards."

Ignoring the creepy feeling she got at his tone –this was all for the best, after all—she smiled and took his hand.

"Take me to the safe and let's see if we can open it."

Luckily, it turned out that Tyler knew the combination. The first box that Caroline opened –its scrimshawed starburst gleaming dully against the aged ivory—didn't contain the moonstone. Instead, she recognized what she found inside as part of the compass Damon had her use to find a vampire the first time around. God, she was an idiot. She should have realized that the pocket watch she had taken from Jeremy's room didn't look the same; it was missing a piece. Slipping the device piece into her purse and replacing the box, Caroline continued rifling through the floor safe until she came upon the last possible hiding place for the moonstone.

Lifting the square wooden box with its engraved heraldry on the lid, Caroline sat back and sent up a small prayer to whoever would listen that this would be it. When she opened the box she found the moonstone resting in a nest of fur –how appropriate and yet tacky. Slipping the rock into her purse, she then placed everything back in the safe and closed it up.

Standing up and walking over to Tyler, she looked in his eyes and gave him one last order.

"You won't remember I came here. If someone asks and implies that they know I was here, you'll suddenly remember that I cornered you and nagged you until you were forced to bring me here so I could check something out that was supposed to help me with the planning of some town function or something. If they press you, you'll tell them you don't remember exactly what it was because you honestly didn't care, you only brought me to shut me up."

As Caroline drove back to school, she was feeling very good about her plans. So far, she had everything she needed. Now she just needed to take the moonstone, find Emily's grimoire, open the tomb, make sure only Pearl got out, and then wait for John Gilbert, Isobel, and Katherine to show up. Thank god she wasn't doing this alone, because when she actually thought about all that had to be accomplished, it seemed like an impossible task.

Caroline was both so cocky from her success thus far and so engrossed in what she still had to do that she missed the fact that she and Tyler had been followed. In a car idling a short distance from the mansion, Vicki Donovan sat gripping the steering wheel tight and fighting back tears.

She had followed Tyler at the school, hoping to get him alone to try and convince him that they should get back together. For a second she had lost sight him, but then she saw him talking with Caroline Forbes. When they made their way to the parking lot, she decided to follow, trying to convince herself that it wasn't what it looked like. Watching them enter Tyler's home and watching Caroline leave with a large grin on her face, though, she couldn't lie to herself. Caroline was just the kind of girl his family would embrace. He wouldn't hide her or refuse to take her to town functions.

Driving down the street, Vicki headed away from the school. She couldn't face going back there knowing that Tyler had moved on to a girl who could give him everything she couldn't. Needing to get rid of the mental image of them together, she decided to head into the woods where she knew there would be a few people willing to share something to help her stop thinking. Maybe later she would text Jeremy and he could remind her that she wasn't always being rejected.

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one of the Largest Hotel Groups to Commit to Green Globe Certification

Moevenpick Hotels & Resorts is to become one of the Largest Hotel Groups to Commit to Green Globe Certification for all Properties Worldwide. With the new Partnership the Swiss Hotel Company underpins its Ambition to set an Example for the Industry. The Strategy is Part of a Company-wide Programme to Establish a Common and Global Approach to Environmental, Employer and Social Sustainability.

Moevenpick Hotels & Resorts is aiming to set a new benchmark for sustainability by committing to a certification partnership with the internationally acclaimed Green Globe. The aim is inspiring: to certify 20 per cent of operating Moevenpick hotels, resorts and cruises by the end of 2011 as well as all properties of the company over the following 24 months. In cooperation with Green Globe, clear and measurable objectives for environmental sustainability are set.

Environmental awareness is nothing new to Moevenpick Hotels & Resorts. With Swiss heritage and values at its heart, the company celebrates practices that demonstrate environmental responsibility. So far, several properties of the hotel group have been awarded for their commitment to sustainability with local and global prizes.

“Now more than ever, we believe it is time to not only increase awareness with regards to sustainability in Moevenpick Hotels & Resorts and share best practice, but also to more effectively measure our progress towards a sustainable future”, declares Jean Gabriel Peres, President & CEO of Moevenpick Hotels & Resorts.

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The origins of the Green Globe organisation can be traced back to the United Nations Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992, where 182 heads of state from around the world endorsed the Agenda 21 principles of sustainable development. Two years later, the Green Globe membership was established. The Green Globe brand represents the best in sustainable practice within the travel and tourism sector and provides certification, training and marketing services in 83 countries. For information visit

About Moevenpick Hotels & Resorts Moevenpick Hotels & Resorts, an upscale hotel management company with over 12,000 employees, is represented through over 90 hotels existing or under construction in 27 countries with a concentration on its core markets in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. The hotel group is owned by Moevenpick Holding (66.7%) and the Kingdom Group (33.3%).

It is important that all eco friendly green hotels and resorts follow green policies and proceedures. Appropriate certification is also important. They also need to have environmentally responsible furniture, furniture  that is FSC certified,made from reclaimed, recycled and earth friendly materials.

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Having served as Missions Director for 12 years in our home church at the time (Victory Chapel Baptist Church) as well as serving, supporting missions and missionaries for over 25 years, I felt the call to start Mission Ready Ministries in December of 2013.

Mission Ready Ministries is a multi-faceted ministry whose primary purpose and function is to aid and assist missionaries with mission teams, financial assistance through fundraisers, to aid and assist with mission projects, help to promote missions, educate churches on proper ways and means to participate in missions and mission trips. We help churches with the desire to start biblically based mission ministries (ministries not programs).

We are also specifically trained and specialize in church security. We use that particular training and set of skills to help churches and missionaries on the field to keep their facilities, families and staff/personnel safe.

My wife Kelly and I are members at Mount Pisgah Baptist Church in Easley, SC where Pastor, Rev. Chad Campbell is on the Advisory Board of MRM.

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Fan Group research provides a high-fidelity technology demonstration of how you can use radiative sky cooling to passively cool a fluid and connect it with cooling systems to save electricity.
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2010 Stainless Borders

Stainless Borders: Deconstructing Architectures of Control

Industrial pole fixtures in the urban landscape such as handrails, sign posts and gates most commonly function as disciplinary guides and constraints on the body. Unaware that our bodies are dictated by these architectures of control around us, we move monotonously, efficiently and mechanically in the urban landscape. These industrial structures control and manipulate human traffic and individual movement.

In pole dancing the vertical stainless steel pole is used as a prop to dance around on and to perform advance physical maneuvers similar to gymnastic. The body in pole dancing is challenged to go beyond its horizontal orientation towards possibilities of moving and expressing in a vertical plane using the pole as its apparatus. This movement construction enables and empowers the body to move creatively in a vertical dimension. The movement vocabulary of pole dancing is continually being constructed and reconstructed under different contexts.

Stainless Borders: The Deconstruction of Architectures of Control is a project that merges the urban landscape and pole dancing. Its a series of public interventions that moves the practice of pole dancing to the public landscape using urban fixtures as sites for play. These architectures of control strategically placed as constraints and disciplinary objects is transformed into playground fixtures for movement exploration. The pole dance vocabulary is used as a starting point to initiate other possibilities of moving in a given site with urban fixtures. I tag and document each public intervention, in the process mapping the fixtures in the urban landscape. The public intervention intends to provide an alternative practice and a different perspective towards how our bodies move within the urban landscape.

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LV-1664 Snakewood & Bocote Acorn Trinket Box, Keepsake, Jewelry, Ring Box-SCREW CAP

LV-1664 Snakewood & Bocote Acorn Trinket Box, Keepsake, Jewelry, Ring Box-SCREW CAP

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This is a very pretty acorn shaped box made out of Snakewood (Piratinera guianensis) Bocote (Cordia elaeagnoides) cap. Snakewood is also known as Letter wood, Speckled wood, and Leopard wood. Considered to be the world’s rarest commercially available species and also the hardest timber. It is a lustrous wood with a unique Viper-like pattern, hence the name.  This piece was made out of a gallery grade stock of the timber, special and beautiful. The figured Bocote cap adds visual interest to the already striking acorn. Limited

A nice box for your valuables. The screw-on cap makes this nature inspired box extra special and ensures that your content is secured, good for jewelry, keepsake... Through the ages, people has given out acorns as a symbol of prosperity and luck. This one is a unique gift.

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Goliath: The Most Under-Utilized Name

If I am ever persuaded to have children, it will be contingent that if we have a boy his name will be Goliath. After randomly browsing a list of all the names contained in the Bible it was observed that, although some were obscure, there are many still common today. However one name on the list stood out as very well known but seldom usedGoliath. This begs the questions of why. Continue reading


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Basilar Artery Thrombosis Medication

Updated: Oct 18, 2017
  • Author: Salvador Cruz-Flores, MD, MPH, FAHA, FCCM, FAAN, FACP, FANA; Chief Editor: Helmi L Lutsep, MD  more...
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Medication Summary

The medications used in the treatment of patients with basilar artery thrombosis include thrombolytic agents, anticoagulants, antihypertensive agents, and antiplatelet agents. Some patients, particularly those with severe and active comorbid conditions, such as an acute myocardial infarction, require inotropic agents and vasopressors.

Several new oral anticoagulant medications are in the final stages of clinical trials for use in the prophylaxis of ischemic thromboembolic stroke. Once approved for use, the potential of such drugs in the arena of stroke treatment is significant.

Antihypertensive agents

Class Summary

These agents control severe hypertension. They are recommended for patients considered candidates for thrombolytic therapy who have a systolic blood pressure of greater than 185mm Hg and/or a diastolic blood pressure of greater than 110mm Hg.

Nicardipine (Cardene)

Nicardipine relaxes coronary smooth muscle and produces coronary vasodilation, which, in turn, improves myocardial oxygen delivery and reduces myocardial oxygen consumption.

Labetalol blocks beta1-, alpha-, and beta2-adrenergic receptor sites, decreasing blood pressure.

Nitroprusside sodium (Nitropress)

Nitroprusside sodium produces vasodilation and increases inotropic activity of the heart. At higher dosages, it may exacerbate myocardial ischemia by increasing the heart rate.

Enalapril (Vasotec, Epaned)

Enalapril is a competitive inhibitor of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE). It reduces angiotensin II levels, decreasing aldosterone secretion.

Class Summary

The potential benefits of thrombolytic therapy for the treatment of thrombosis include fast dissolution of physiologically compromising pulmonary emboli, faster recovery, prevention of recurrent thrombus formation, and rapid restoration of hemodynamic disturbances.

Alteplase (Activase)

Alteplase is a tPA. Its safety and efficacy with concomitant heparin or aspirin during the first 24 hours after symptom onset have not been investigated. It is the only drug approved for use in patients within 3 hours of onset of acute ischemic stroke.

Anticoagulant Agents

Class Summary

The rationale for the use of these agents is to prevent recurrent embolism or extension of the thrombosis.

Heparin augments the activity of antithrombin III and prevents the conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin. It does not actively lyse but is able to inhibit further thrombogenesis. Heparin prevents reaccumulation of a clot after spontaneous fibrinolysis.

Enoxaparin (Lovenox)

Enoxaparin is a low–molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) produced by partial chemical or enzymatic depolymerization of unfractionated heparin (UFH). It binds to antithrombin III, enhancing its therapeutic effect. The heparin-antithrombin III complex binds to and inactivates activated factor X (Xa) and factor II (thrombin). LMWH differs from UFH by having a higher ratio of anti–factor Xa to anti–factor IIa.

Enoxaparin does not actively lyse thrombi but is able to inhibit further thrombogenesis. It prevents reaccumulation of clot after spontaneous fibrinolysis. Its advantages include intermittent dosing and a decreased requirement for monitoring. Heparin anti–factor Xa levels may be obtained if needed to establish adequate dosing. There is no point in checking the aPTT; the drug has a wide therapeutic window, and aPTT does not correlate with anticoagulant effect.

Desirudin (Iprivask)

Desirudin is a highly selective thrombin inhibitor. It inhibits fibrin formation, activation of coagulation factors, and thrombin-induced platelet aggregation. This results in prolongation of activated partial thromboplastin time.

Warfarin (Coumadin, Jantoven)

Warfarin interferes with the hepatic synthesis of vitamin K–dependent coagulation factors. It is used for the prophylaxis and treatment of venous thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, and thromboembolic disorders. Tailor the dose to maintain the INR in the range of 2-3. Warfarin is used for long-term stroke prophylaxis.

Dabigatran (Pradaxa)

Dabigatran etexilate is a selective thrombin inhibitor that inhibits thrombin formation by binding to the active thrombin site of free and fibrin-bound thrombin. It inhibits thrombin-induced platelet aggregation.

Rivaroxaban (Xarelto)

Rivaroxaban is a selective and reversible inhibition factor of Xa (FXa) in the intrinsic and extrinsic coagulation pathways. This interrupts the blood coagulation cascade, which in turn inhibits thrombin formation and thrombus development.

Apixaban (Eliquis)

Inhibits platelet activation and fibrin clot formation via direct, selective, and reversible inhibition of free and clot-bound factor Xa. Factor Xa, as part of the prothrombinase complex, catalyzes the conversion of prothrombin to thrombin. Thrombin activates platelets and catalyzes the conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin.

Antiplatelet Agents, Cardiovascular

Class Summary

Antiplatelet agents inhibit the cyclo-oxygenase system, decreasing the level of thromboxane A2, a potent platelet activator.

Aspirin (Bayer Aspirin, Ascriptin, Bufferin, Ecotrin)

Aspirin inhibits prostaglandin synthesis, preventing the formation of platelet-aggregating thromboxane A2. It may be used in low doses to inhibit platelet aggregation and improve complications of venous stasis and thrombosis. Aspirin is used for long-term stroke prophylaxis.

Clopidogrel (Plavix)

Clopidogrel selectively inhibits the binding of adenosine diphosphate (ADP) to the platelet receptor and subsequent ADP-mediated activation of the glycoprotein GPIIb/IIIa complex, thereby inhibiting platelet aggregation.

Aspirin 25 mg/dipyridamole 200 mg (Aggrenox)

This drug combination has antithrombotic action. Aspirin inhibits prostaglandin synthesis, preventing the formation of platelet-aggregating thromboxane A2. It may be used in low doses to inhibit platelet aggregation and to improve the complications of venous stasis and thrombosis.

Dipyridamole is a platelet adhesion inhibitor that possibly inhibits red blood cell uptake of adenosine, itself an inhibitor of platelet reactivity. In addition, dipyridamole may inhibit phosphodiesterase activity, leading to increased cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) within platelets and the formation of thromboxane A2.

Ticlopidine is second-line antiplatelet therapy for patients in whom aspirin is not tolerated or is ineffective.

Class Summary

These agents augment coronary and cerebral blood flow during the low-flow state associated with hypotension. If the MAP continues to be low despite fluid management, vasopressors such as dopamine, dobutamine, norepinephrine or phenylephrine should be used.

Dopamine stimulates adrenergic and dopaminergic receptors. Its hemodynamic effect depends on the dose. Lower doses primarily stimulate dopaminergic receptors that produce renal and mesenteric vasodilation. Higher doses produce cardiac stimulation and vasoconstriction.

Dobutamine is a sympathomimetic amine with stronger beta effects than alpha effects. It produces systemic vasodilation and increases the inotropic state. Higher doses may cause an increase in heart rate, exacerbating myocardial ischemia. Dobutamine is the pressor of choice in patients with congestive heart failure.

Norepinephrine (Levophed)

Norepinephrine is a naturally occurring catecholamine with potent alpha-receptor and mild beta-receptor activity. It stimulates beta1- and alpha-adrenergic receptors, resulting in increased cardiac muscle contractility, heart rate, and vasoconstriction. Norepinephrine increases blood pressure and afterload. Increased afterload may result in decreased cardiac output, increased myocardial oxygen demand, and cardiac ischemia.

Norepinephrine is generally reserved for use in patients with severe hypotension (eg, systolic blood pressure <70mm Hg) or hypotension unresponsive to other medication.

Phenylephrine (Vazculep)

Produces systemic arterial vasoconstriction, which in turn results in dose dependent increases in systolic and diastolic blood pressure and reductions in heart rate and cardiac output, especially in patients with heart failure. As a second-line treatment, phenylephrine (Neo-Synephrine) may be added to or substituted for dopamine.


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The social media websites that I use are Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Skype. I use Facebook to share pictures, create invites to groups for parties and events, and stay connected with my friends and family.

I love that Facebook makes it easy to send a message and reach large amounts of people quickly.  I am always inviting people to join groups, especially when my sorority is hosting an event to create awareness and raise money for Ronald McDonald House Charities.

My Facebook has also helped me keep in touch with friends from high school and my family members while being away at college.  It can be challenging to have phone conversations with so many people because I am so busy.  There just isn’t enough time in the day to talk on the phone for hours.

The easy way that I stay connected with my friends and family is by exchanging messages back and forth. By looking through my pictures, they can all see the fun that I’m having at Florida Southern.

Skype is another way that I communicate with my friends and family. I mainly use it to talk to my cousins in Israel because I don’t get to visit often. It is nice to be able to see them on the computer!

I recently made a Twitter account, but I don’t tweet often because I don’t ever know what to say.  I love to follow celebrities like the Kardashian sisters, Chelsea Handler, Lauren Conrad and Ellen DeGeneres!  I follow one NBA basketball team, the Orlando Magic and a couple companies like HSN, Bravo TV and People Magazine. I want to learn more about Twitter and what it has to offer because it is becoming more popular everyday.

I found this video on YouTube about Twitter sweeping the nation. It’s pretty funny, so be sure to check it out!

I use YouTube to listen to music and watch entertaining videos that people post. Whenever I am on YouTube I’ll look through the “most popular” videos that are under the entertainment and music section, but that’s about it.


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Connections that demand to be made

Sometimes we have to work hard to establish a connection with the unknown, be it a person, a place, or a situation. Sometimes, less often, the unknown reaches out to us, demanding that a connection be made. We can ignore it, or we can work with it, to let whatever it is find us. I’ve been thinking about that, today.

Some years ago, I went on a trip to Thailand with my friend S. I was meditating regularly at the time, and my mind was clear and open (for me, at least). As the day of departure drew near, a certain knowledge took root in my mind. I knew, like I knew my own name, that in Bangkok I was going to find a statue of Buddha, one that would be unique, and special importance to me.

We arrived in Bangkok, and found rooms in a cheap hotel in Bangalamphu. That evening, we took a stroll down Khao San Road. As we went, I noticed a small hole-in-the-wall shop, apparently selling statues. As I saw it, I knew that my statue was inside, so I asked S. if we could go in.

Inside, the shop was packed, floor to ceiling, with shelves full of statues, of all kinds of styles, subjects and sizes. S., being a friendly type, was soon happily chatting with the sales attendant, while I roamed around, looking for the statue I could sense was there. My attention was increasingly drawn to one particular area, but I couldn’t see anything interesting. I paced back and forth, and eventually triangulated on one specific spot on the floor. I stood there, but I still couldn’t see anything. In my mind, though, the sense of connection was blaring like a klaxon. Whatever I was looking for, it was there, and it was trying to show itself to me.

So, I tried to clear my mind, and to really see what I was looking at. Lo and behold, behind a larger statue, I could just barely make out a small part of something else, a smaller statue. Whatever it was, this was it.

It was so well-hidden, I had to get the assistant to get a ladder to extract it for me.

It turned out to be a beautiful seated Buddha, carved in a Burmese style. It radiated calm and detachment. I’ve never seen another one like it. I still have it.

How could all of this happen? How did a statue of Buddha establish that connection with me across time and space, so that I could tangibly feel it and use it navigate across a city, around a crowded shop, like a beacon in my mind? Science, to the extent that it’s currently in, couldn’t explain it – but I assure you, it was real.

I’m sharing that story because it’s so specific, but I want to use it to explain my life. As I felt that statue calling me from far away, for most of my life I’ve felt something in my future calling me. I haven’t known what it was. I still don’t. But, just as I felt myself being narrowed down to one shop in Bangkok, then to one spot within that shop, by a future connection that was demanding to be made, so I feel that I’m finally narrowing it all down. So many pieces have fallen into place.

Time, perhaps, to clear my mind again, to let the future show me where it is.

How about you?

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With the recent boom of life coaches, I am sure your thought is, “Not another one!  It seems like they just hand that certification out these days.” The question then becomes how do you know I will give you the quality you are seeking with all these other choices?

My journey of becoming a coach sprouted after being a therapist for several years. I was tired of the barriers in traditional therapy practice which stopped a lot of people from receiving the help they needed. Coaching has allowed me to break these restraints and I have now been able to work with clients all over the world with a variety of backgrounds. My growth in this field has also led me to create and develop interventions, which have proven successful, that provide my clients the success in their athletic, academic, professional and personal lives.

Why should you trust me?
This is a great question, as there are a lot of coaches out there looking to help, so what makes me different?
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Everyone views and manages stress in their own unique way. One person may view stress as missing a bus; another may define stress as not one but the accumulation of several events. Some of us conquer these obstacles with ease, whereas others crumble amid adversity. But despite the variance between our views and methods, there are two common factors that we must consider when facing stress: mind wandering and cortisol.

Mind wandering is when one’s thoughts shift away from a current task to another topic, and it most often involves personal goals or concerns. While we are prone to mind wandering in some form or another (e.g., zoning out while driving), it is one of the worst things an athlete can do while experiencing adversity in the gym.

When dealing with a stressful situation, mind wandering offers us the opportunity to escape our current predicament; however, it does so at the expense of task completion and performance. It takes us out of the present and focuses our attention to past or future events. As previously mentioned (see “The Three Things You Should Be Doing at the Gym” – published 21 August 2017), failing to ground ourselves in the present allows for negativity and doubt to creep in—especially since we cannot control anything outside of the present. The more we find ourselves focused on what was or what could be, the more likely we will experience heightened anxiety, leading to reduced performance in high-pressure situations and cognitive tasks (Beilock, 2008).

In addition to mind wandering, cortisol also poses a threat to our performance if not managed correctly. Biologically speaking, our adrenal glands release cortisol in response to stress as part of the body’s “fight or flight” mechanism; however, this reaction not only impair

our memory but also increases our propensity to distraction and mind wandering (Elzinga & Roelofs, 2005). This situation has the potential to lock us into a dangerous cycle: stress leads to heightened cortisol levels, which lead to a loss of control, which increases anxiety and—therefore—exacerbates our stress.

Once our level of stress reaches a peak, our working memory, which is responsible for decision making and controlling our attention, will shut down to defend against stress-related impairments. In essence, our working memory does the only thing it can to enact a semblance of control amid despair: it allows our mind to wander. This process refocuses our attention and energy elsewhere, it is only a temporary solution. It is worth noting that decreased performance is not always the result of this reaction, but the combination of increased cortisol levels, anxiety, and stress detract from our end goal: success.

Stress (and cortisol) in manageable doses can be a performance enhancer, specifically in terms of building resiliency; however, taken to an extreme, stress and its associates (i.e., mind wandering and cortisol) have the potential to severely degrade our performance, our experience, and our attitude.

So how do we address stress?

Identifying and controlling stress outright may not be feasible since it typically involves a combination of factors, and the same issues apply to managing cortisol levels. But let’s focus on what we can control: mind wandering.

The inability to concentrate on a task or stay grounded in a moment—inadvertently moving toward past or future thoughts—is indicative of mind wandering. Upon realization of the activity, we first need to consider our mental status: What is our current level of anxiety and how is that level affecting our thoughts? Where is our attention focused? Why are we thinking these thoughts? Do we feel stressed, distracted, or pulled away from the present?

Resolving these questions may help reveal the cause of our mind wandering. For instance, an athlete engaged in a particularly difficult training session may be more fixated on what is happening later in the day than a current task. This lack of presence may create frustration with the training session or anxiety when developing future tasksl. However, the lack of focus increases opportunities for error, which contributes to decreased performance and increased stress—feeding the vicious cycle.

In addition to identifying the act of mind wandering, we need to develop a process for pulling ourselves back into the present. This process requires us to consider what is in our control and to believe that we can control the situation. In the example above, the athlete could search for  lessons or positives associated with the training. A frustration caused by improper technique may mean the athlete should spend the session working a basic element to refine technique, letting other frustration go. Something the athlete can control, learn from, and view positively. In this manner, the athlete’s attention reverts from a focus on external factors to internal, allowing them to control present state.

Stress is not something we can avoid or try to bury. We all fall prey to mind wandering, anxiety, and even degraded mental states; however, dealing with stress is less about avoidance and more about developing effective approaches to handle it. Specifically, if we can identify the present stressors and redirect ourselves before stress becomes unmanageable, we can use that stress as a performance enhancer.

Banks, J. B., Tartar, J. L., & Tamayo, B. A. (2015). Examining factors involved in stress-related working memory impairments: Independent or conditional effects? Emotion, 15(6), 827–836.

Beilock, S. L. (2008). Math performance in stressful situations. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17, 339–343.

Elzinga, B. M., & Roelofs, K. (2005). Cortisol-induced impairments of working memory require acute sympathetic activation. Behavioral Neuroscience, 119, 98–103.

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Iguazu Falls, Iguassu Falls, or Iguaçu Falls (português. Cataratas do Iguaçu Шаблон:Pronounced; español. Cataratas del Iguazú, Шаблон:IPA) are waterfalls of the Iguazu River located on the border of the Brazilian state of Paraná and the Argentine province of Misiones. The falls divide the river into the upper and lower Iguazu.

Their name comes from the Guarani or Tupi words y (IPA:[ɨ]) (water) and ûasú (IPA:[wa'su]) (big). Legend has it that a god planned to marry a beautiful aborigine named Naipí, who fled with her mortal lover Tarobá in a canoe. In rage, the god sliced the river creating the waterfalls, condemning the lovers to an eternal fall. The first European to find the falls was the Spanish Conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca in 1541, after whom one of the falls in the Argentine side is named. The falls were rediscovered by Boselli at the end of the nineteenth century, and one of the Argentine falls is named after him.

Iguazu Falls was short-listed as a candidate to be one of the New7Wonders of Nature by the New Seven Wonders of the World Foundation. As of February 2009 it was ranking fifth in Group F, the category for lake, rivers, and waterfalls.

The waterfall system consists of 275 falls along 2.7 kilometers (1.67 miles) of the Iguazu River. Position is at latitude (DMS): 25° 40' 60 S, longitude (DMS): 54° 25' 60 W . Some of the individual falls are up to 82 meters (269 ft) in height, though the majority are about 64 metres (210 ft). The Devil's Throat (Шаблон:Lang in Spanish or Шаблон:Lang in Portuguese), a U-shaped, 82-meter-high, 150-meter-wide and 700-meter-long (490 by 2300 feet) cataract, is the most impressive of all, and marks the border between Argentina and Brazil. Two thirds of the falls are within Argentine territory. About 900 metres of the 2.7-kilometer length does not have water flowing over it. The edge of the basalt cap recedes only 3 mm per year. The water of the lower Iguazu collects in a canyon that drains into the Paraná River in Argentina, shortly downstream from the Itaipu dam.

The falls can be reached from the two main towns on either side of the falls: Foz do Iguaçu in the Brazilian state of Paraná, and Puerto Iguazú in the Argentine province of Misiones as well as from Ciudad del Este (Paraguay) on the other side of the Parana river from Foz do Iguaçu. The falls are shared by the Iguazú National Park (Argentina) and Iguaçu National Park (Brazil). These parks were designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1984 and 1986, respectively.

On the Brazilian side there is a long walkway along the canyon with an extension to the lower base of the Devil's Throat. The Argentine access is facilitated by the Шаблон:Lang (Rainforest Ecological Train), which brings visitors to different walkways. The Paseo Garganta del Diablo is a one-kilometer-long trail that brings the visitor directly over the falls of the Devil's Throat. Other walkways allow access to the elongated stretch of falls on the Argentine side and to the ferry that connects to the San Martin island.

The fall area provides opportunities for water sports and rock climbing. Шаблон:Wide image

Comparisons to other famous falls

Upon seeing Iguazu, the United States' First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt reportedly exclaimed "Poor Niagara!" Iguazu is also often compared with Southern Africa's Victoria Falls which separates Zambia and Zimbabwe. Whilst Iguazu is wider because it is split into about 270 discrete falls and large islands, Victoria is the largest curtain of water in the world, at over 1600 m wide and over 100 m (350 ft) in height (in low flow Victoria is split into five by islands; in high flow it can be uninterrupted). The only wider falls are extremely large rapid-like falls such as the Boyoma Falls). With the flooding of the Guaíra Falls in 1982, Iguazu currently has the greatest average annual flow of any waterfall in the world.

The water falling over Iguazu in peak flow has a surface area of about 40 Ha (1.3 million ft²) whilst Victoria in peak flow has a surface area of over 55 ha (1.8 million ft²). By comparison, Niagara has a surface area of under 18.3 ha (600,000 ft²). Victoria's annual peak flow is also greater than Iguazu's annual peak—9,100 m³/s versus 6,500—though in times of extreme flood the two have recorded very similar maximum water discharge (well in excess of 12,000 m³/s). Niagara's annual peak flow is about 2,800 m³/s, although an all-time peak of 6,800 has been recorded. Iguazu and Victoria fluctuate more greatly in their flow rate. Mist rises between 30 and 150 m (100 and 500 ft) from Iguazu's Devil's Throat, and over 300 m (1,000 ft) above Victoria (sometimes over 600 m).

Iguazu, however, affords better views and walkways and its shape allows for spectacular vistas. At one point a person can stand and be surrounded by 260 degrees of waterfalls. The Devil's Throat has water pouring into it from three sides. Likewise, because Iguazu is split into many relatively small falls, one can view these a portion at a time. Victoria does not allow this, as it is essentially one waterfall that falls into a canyon and is too immense to appreciate at once (except from the air).

As of July 24, 2006 a severe drought in South America had caused the river feeding the falls to become parched, reducing the amount of water flowing over the falls to 300 m³ (80,000 gallons) per second, down from the normal flow of 1,300 m³/s to 1,500 m³/s (350,000 to 400,000 ga/s). By early December, the flow was spectacular again, according to visiting tourists. This was unusual, as normally dry periods last only a few weeks.

Iguazu Falls in fiction

Шаблон:Trivia Some movies/TV the Falls were featured in:

  • Shock Corridor (1963) (16mm color footage of the falls appear for a stylized effect in this black and white film)
  • Moonraker (1979), James Bond film
  • The Mission (1986)
  • Happy Together (1997), by Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai
  • Mr. Magoo (1997)
  • Miami Vice (2006)
  • Smallville (2006) TV Series, episode "Zod"
  • Godzilla 3D to the MAX (2007)
  • Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

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Tips & Hints

Visit Argentina
Visit Argentina 21 February 2011
The purpose of this park is the preservation of the majestic Iguazú Waterfalls - one of the most important natural phenomenons in the world -, as well as the biodiversity surrounding them.
Visit Argentina
Visit Argentina 22 February 2011
Vote for Cataratas. New 7 wonders of the world
SAAD 16 June 2015
Get ready to get wet so wear something sporty and comfy shoes! 💦🙆 The Macuco Safari boat trip is a MUST! 😍🚣🌊
Cataratas del Iguazú - Iguazú Falls, Argentina
For the movement of visitors throughout the area around the Falls we have made one of our most innovative additions to the park: an ecological train which runs on natural gas.
Ciaran Quinn
Ciaran Quinn 19 July 2014
Pot of gold... In the boat?
Emel Topsakaloglu
Emel Topsakaloglu 28 February 2013
High trees,interesting animals, magnificent falls, a great rain forest.I love this place
Visite Foz do Iguaçu
Visite Foz do Iguaçu 2 October 2011
Ponto turístico do lado Argentino
Letis D
Letis D 30 May 2013
Não deixe de visitar e não acredite nos guias brasileiros: o lado da Argentina é muito lindo e vale um dia de passeio se quiser fazer todas as trilhas e descer na ilha ( passeio gratuito).
Roni de Andrade
Roni de Andrade 11 February 2012
Parabens para o retardado q cadastrou as cataratas no centro.
Bá Zunino
Bá Zunino 13 December 2013
Vá no fim da tarde. A luz do sol deixa a vista muito mais bela!
Ivan 22 August 2013
Красотища неописуемая!
Ger Ber
Ger Ber 3 January 2014
Excelente lugar... colosal. Muy bueno el paseo en la lancha que te hacen hasta abajo de las cataratas. Es muuuy bueno
Juan Seguí
Juan Seguí 8 April 2013
Probablemente el lugar más bonito del mundo.
VacazionaViajes 30 August 2012
Es un sitio espectacular que no puedes dejar de visitar si vienes a Argentina. Las imponentes caidas de agua como la garganta del diablo que atrapa por el gran caudal y ensordecedor ruido
Fabiano Trindade (SU6)
Fabiano Trindade (SU6) 16 May 2015
Do primeiro mirante até a Garganta do Diabo a vista vai ficando cada vez melhor e impressionante. O passeio demora, então chegue com tempo e esqueça o mundo afora.
Priscilla Baccin
Priscilla Baccin 16 April 2015
Perfeição! É tudo que me vem à mente. Lugar maravilhoso, contemplar isso tudo é um grande privilégio. E a sensação de paz é indescritível. Não tem arrependimento algum em vir até aqui. Aproveite!
David Lisboa Lobos
David Lisboa Lobos 3 January 2014
Disfrútalo. Deja la cámara de lado por un buen rato. Olvídate de la gente que lo considera una atracción más. Cierra los ojos. Escucha. Viaja. Si puedes en compañía, mucho mejor. No hay igual. :')
Yut Zil
Yut Zil 21 May 2013
Hermoso lugar!!!! Si viajas a Brasil,es uno de los lugares que obligatoriamente tienes que visitar.
Cristopher Castillo
Cristopher Castillo 23 November 2012
Sí quieres hacer todos los circuitos debes llegar temprano al parque, haces primero la caminata a la Garganta del Diablo, luego el circuito superior y por último el circuito inferior.
Wanderley Costa
Wanderley Costa 14 February 2011
É realmente uma das maravilhas da natureza, todo mundo deve conhecer, imperdível, do lado argentino você tem uma visão diferente.
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1.70 - 1.98V
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Overvoltage Protection 2.16 - 2.88V
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Conducted Noise -
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Others Dimensions (WxHxD) 57.9x12.7x61.0mm [2.28x0.5x2.4 inches]
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Cooling Method Conduction cooling (e.g. heat radiation from the aluminum base plate to the attached heat sink)
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