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The day we got EU parliamentarianism. Juncker, how many votes did you get in the last European elections?

JENS-PETER BONDE, EU Observer 15 July 2014

Parliamentarism means that a parliament elects a country's prime minister and decides its laws. A majority can turn against the prime minister, in which case the government must resign or call an election.

The essence of democracy is that we can go to the polls and elect a new majority, a new government and new laws. This democratic essence is now guaranteed in all EU countries. A country must be democratic in order to join the EU.

But the EU itself is not a democracy.

This year, 2014, was when the EU underwent a systemic change - as yet incomplete and still remote from citizen voters.

Today, 15 July, the European Parliament is set to vote in Jean-Claude Juncker as European Commission President.

Thus European parliamentarianism was born, but it was not felt as such by citizens. Juncker was elected, but without voters choosing him directly.

What will the new EU Commission President say when he lectures China about democracy and the question is put to him: How many votes did you get in the last European elections?

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One of the units developed as part of the "Around the World" exploratory language program in South Carolina, this unit on Japan aims to develop in students an awareness of Japanese culture through experiential language and cultural activities. The guide has the following components: (1) a list of general and special interest books, and films; (2) suggestions on room decor, which include brief discussions of and instructions on setting up displays of Japanese signs and symbols; (3) the language section, which includes guidelines for the teacher on Japanese pronunciation and structure, and the script of the dialogue and structure videotape; (4) historical and cultural information on Japan in the form of an introductory essay and suggested activities; (5) a detailed activity sheet on writing Japanese; (6) traditional and popular games in Japan; (7) Japanese crafts with activities on flower arranging, tray landscapes, and origami or the art of paper-folding; (8) an introduction to Japanese cooking; (9) discussion of Japanese music and the Japanese national anthem; and (10) five cultural component activities on the "Kamishibaya Man," the tea ceremony, Haiku, gestures and emotion, and money and hard work. (AMH)
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This material is the result of 1 year of experimental work during the 1976-77 school year with pupils at the fifth-grade level. Once a week students participated in half-hour, small-group sessions in addition to their regular classroom mathematics period. It is felt that the activities described might be appropriate for additional grade levels. It is hoped that teachers who wish to direct part of their energies to improving the quality of life for weaker students will be stimulated to experiment with some of the ideas included here. The focus is on games, puzzles, and detective stories that are grouped under: (1) Hand Calculator; (2) Minicomputer; and (3) Detective Stories. (MP)
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The influence of two sources of individual differences in acquiring knowledge from maps was studied: abilities and learning procedures. Twenty-five undergraduate students provided verbal protocols while attempting to learn two maps, and six effective learning procedures were identified: partitioning, imagery, memory-directed sampling, pattern encoding, relation encoding, and evaluation. Visual spatial ability was highly correlated with recall of spatial attributes of the map and with overall learning performance, while associative memory ability was most correlated with verbal attribute recall. Subject-selected procedures for encoding spatial information and assessing learning progress also distinguished the behavior of successful and less successful learners. However, subjects of high and low ability differed little in the study procedures they chose. Although both ability differences and procedures were important contributors to performance, a direct comparison indicated that abilities are most predictive of map learning. It was concluded that the use of effective study procedures can influence map learning performance and that high-ability subjects benefit more from the use of these procedures than low-ability subjects. This report includes 27 references and an appendix detailing learning procedures observed in the protocols. (LMM)
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When handled well, description can give poetry and prose a quality of immediacy and accessibility by creating a dramatic context in which the writer's ideas and feelings can be shared by the reader. The use of perception stimulation can aid the student in producing effective images that lead to this dramatic context. To begin this learning process, students need to develop into accurate and sensitive perceivers by realizing, first, that people often do not perceive carefully enough and, second, that they perceive differently. A number of exercises can demonstrate these points. One exercise tests the students' ability to read carefully by asking them to follow a series of directions. Another exercise asks the class to reproduce a geometric configuration through verbal directions. After students realize that people perceive differently and often not well enough, exercises can be used to encourage them to strive for accurate and sensitive perception, which leads to effective images--images that are specific, concrete, and unique, and that create a clear picture of an object as well as convey an attitude or impression toward it by using figurative language and connotations. Finally, the Zen perspective on perception can be used to help students acquire and use the skills just learned by focusing the quality of their observations. (Sample exercises are included.) (HOD)
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A study examined the distinctive communication phenomena which occur on computer bulletin boards, focusing on the Usenet bulletin board system which is estimated to have over half a million readers worldwide. Most universities and research organizations, all over the world, are capable of exchanging information over computer networks through the electronic mail system. Different Usenet groups have distinctive emerging norms and conventions and their own distinctive styles. Perhaps the most striking communication phenomenon on the Usenet is the frequent occurrence of extreme verbal uninhibition (aggression and self-disclosure). Results of a content analysis of 600 articles indicated a high frequency of "face threatening acts," and suggested that reduced inclination to protect others'"face," low perceived sanction, and the self-perpetuation of existing (uninhibited) interaction patterns, may be responsible for this phenomenon. These communication phenomena pose interesting topics for future empirical study, such as the prevalence and severity of verbal aggression across different forms of computer-mediated communication. (One table of data is included; 17 references and an appendix are attached.) (PRA)
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This handbook describes a high school dropout prevention program that integrates academic education, vocational education, and a support system in order to provide students with multiple options for their future careers and personal lives. The following information is provided: the program's philosophy; major components (vocational education, applied academics, counseling, employability skills training, life-coping skills, and physical education); guidelines for planning and implementation; and support elements. The following support elements are discussed: staff selection and training; student selection, recruitment, and orientation; flexible scheduling; instructional procedures, such as computer-assisted instruction, tutoring, cooperative learning, and on-the-job experiences; student management; monitoring the program; and administration. The appendices contain the following: addresses of two resource centers, a project profile, a student questionnaire, worksheets about information sources, program components and their use, site visit reports, an interview/observation schedule, an interview guide, and a classroom observation guide. Twenty references are provided. (CML)
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Category Archives: Maston Jones

"Weird" cello groups

A “weird concert alert” about an upcoming Rasputina radio gig in Albany.

The story also has a link to a MySpace fan page for Maston Jones, a group with two cellist/vocalists. The page describes the group in the past tense, so I don’t know if they are still together. Probably not; a quick search didn’t turn up any recent links.

Middle-aged rant: I find most MySpace pages visually confusing. I don’t know if it’s an aging-boomer thing, or that they are just visually confusing. Dark blue links against a darkish gray background? I couldn’t read them even with my glasses on.

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Just returned from vacation with the hot husband and the kids… behind on everything now, but that’s how the cookie crumbles.  Emails to answer, blog stuff to catch up on, writing to do and oh yes, cruise pounds to lose.  So, if you are waiting on me, rest assured, I’ll get there, promise.

In true grade school form…

What I Learned Over Spring Break 2012

Texas is a land of strip malls, churches and porn stores… oh, yes, and wires, lots and lots of wires.  It’s a huge place, so I’m sure there are plenty of gorgeous places, too, I just haven’t seen them yet. (I can’t wait for the “Don’t Mess With Texas” comments.)

Just a lot of wires... a lotta, lotta, lotta wires.

It takes approximately twelve minutes for the caffeine and sugar in a coke to hit the blood sugar of a twelve-year-old boy.

Dolphins are, like, awesome at surfing the wake of cargo ships.  Like, so awesome.

There are very real reasons why there exists a stereotype of an American as a loud, rude, fat jerk.  Like every stereotype it’s wrong, unkind and not true, yet there is a reason it exists.

The Hunger Games Book #1 is worth the hype, so few things are.

Little sisters are still tattletales.

My busy, busy girls... their poor brother!

All I really need for a great vacation are: a cold beer with fresh lime, the whisper of the waves, the laughter of my children catching the wind, soft sand under my toes and, of course, Eric.

“All You Can Eat” is a terrible thing to do to a body.

It just takes ONE Lay’s potato chip to create an angel fish feeding frenzy.

One potato chip=lots of FUN!

Caribbean white sand is magic.  You’ll never get it all out of your swimming suit. Ever.

For word on the anger level of the Texans, how the other two Hunger Games books stack up and whether I ever get all the sand out… well, I’ll let you know.  In the meantime, have a truly wonderful, stellar and otherwise blissful day.

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By definition…

cameo role. a minor part played by a prominent performer in a single scene of a motion picture or a television play.

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  1. farid Says:

    Are you talking about Arnold?

  2. Mike Says:

    I posted this on the other thread, but i’ll repost here

    as for using arnold/bruce in promotion…I do Not think they should be on the poster as they are small roles…but they SHOULD have a “few seconds” in the trailer…I mean if they are going to feature mickey rourke in the trailer(whom from all accounts has a small role) then they might as well show arnold/Bruce…but nothing more…we dont want to be misleading…rourke, arnold, bruce have very small roles..

  3. Potro1980 Says:

    ¿?¿?¿? and so? Stallone´s words are that Arnold and Bruce have something more than a cameo… 5 minutes given for a long scene eh? or for a few scenes along the film…

  4. Potro1980 Says:

    Well, anyway, see the three together will be amazing 😀

  5. Kev Brock Says:

    5 minutes is still a minor part, it’s not like they are throughout the entire movie.

  6. Potro1980 Says:

    Yeah Kev, it´s clear, but for example, it´s not the same that Terminator Salvation, that the Arnold´s cameo was a few seconds of his digital face… this is much more and better than that.

  7. DUTCH Says:

    In the end, Sly makes the rules. Sly came out and said Arnie and Bruce are more than a cameo, so it shows you he was hearing some of the more idiotic fans out there that think Arnie and Bruce will be only seconds on screen. If Sly says they are more than a cameo, it also means he might want to add his ex PLANET HOLLYWOOD buddies in the promotion of the film. Why keep them excluded when that 5 minute scene is so bad ass. Some of you guys need to open your minds more and see that Sly just shut you up. Like I said, STALLONE MAKES THE RULES and he just shut up the fans out there that said Arnie had seconds on screen…END OF STORY!!! Trench, Church and Barney are three characters not to be ‘F’ with!

  8. Kev Brock Says:

    Um, Dutch, Sly never said Arnie and Bruce are more than a cameo, said only 5 minutes of screen time, it’s still a cameo. 5 minutes is very short and will go by fast.

    Bill Murray’s cameo in “Zombieland” was about 5 minutes long, same thing. Of course, when it comes to Arnie, Bruce and Sly…delusional fans will think it’s a leading role.

  9. Potro1980 Says:

    Aghhh!! always creating polemic! always!… who cares?? call this cameo, call this short secondary role, call this as you want! but enough please…:(

  10. DUTCH Says:

    I’m done! In Sly I trust!!!

  11. Potro1980 Says:

    This can read in your link Kev: “Stallone says that big scene with Willis, Schwarzenegger, and himself would amount to more than a cameo or a stunt in the final cut of the film. ´It’s probably going to be about 5 minutes of screen time´.”

    Well, any doubt yet??… Arnold and Bruce have a brief appearance in the movie, call this as you want, guys.

  12. Potro1980 Says:

    Personally, I would want to know that if the scene/s with Bruce and Arnold is only at the beggining or in more parts of the film… it would be a great detail by your part Sheryl… 😉

  13. Potro1980 Says:

    Ahhh, by the way, in another blog of internet there are a “alleged” full script of the Expendables since some time ago… I don´t know if this script is true or not, but I don´t want read, I prefer wait for the movie and see the spectacle, he he he 😛

  14. Kev Brock Says:

    “This can read in your link Kev: “Stallone says that big scene with Willis, Schwarzenegger, and himself would amount to more than a cameo or a stunt in the final cut of the film. ´It’s probably going to be about 5 minutes of screen time´.”

    Well, any doubt yet??… Arnold and Bruce have a brief appearance in the movie, call this as you want, guys.

    I read that…but you guys are taking Sly’s comment out of context. He clearly said they would either “amount to more than a cameo” or just a stunt at the end of the movie. Which means they could either. 5 minutes of screen time is not long at all.

    If they were to be considered a leading role, that’s more than a cameo, it would be more than 15 minutes. If Bruce and Arnie said they would amount to more than a cameo, more than 15 minutes, they would do it, but they just did whatever was on the script and I remember Sheryl saying it wasn’t that long.

    I know it probably hurts you guys and pisses you off that it’s not a leading role with Arnie and Bruce, but this is something you’ll have to learn and get over it. You need to understand the truth.

    I just don’t understand Arnie fans. First you complained that you didn’t want Arnie playing himself which you got. Now your complaining that he may or may not be getting enough screen time in the film.

    What about looking forward to the entire film itself?

  15. Kev Brock Says:

    On a side note, I wouldn’t want Arnie and Bruce throughout the entire movie anyways. They are bigger stars than the other guys and I think Dolph, Jet, Mickey, Terry, Stone Cold, etc. deserves more screen time and get a chance at recognition and not have Arnie and Bruce overshadow them.

    I can’t wait to see the Dolph and Jet fight scene. I also can’t wait to see Sly and Stone Cold kick each others asses. I look forward to seeing those scenes more than the Arnie and Bruce cameo, honestly.

    The entire movie itself looks great entertainment fun. We need to look forward to that and not obsess with the Bruce and Arnie scene too much.

  16. Potro1980 Says:

    What???… Kev, really, are you normal? I have no words… And read well the link, man: “Stallone says that big scene with Willis, Schwarzenegger, and himself would amount to MORE THAN A CAMEO OR A STUNT in the final cut of the film.” So, why is not clear?? I said previously that Bruce and Arnold have a brief apperance in the film, are you agree with me or not?

  17. Kev Brock Says:

    Yeah, he said, “more than a cameo or a stunt” which means they could have done either one. Either do more than a cameo or just a quick action stunt at the end of the movie. They had two choices, Sly didn’t say which choice they made, I think Sly could be giving us a hint that they had more screen time, but he really wasn’t clear if they had more screen time or not.

    I understand what Sly is saying completely, but unfortunately you don’t get it yet.

  18. Fake Church Says:

    If i could roll my eyes i would…YAWN!

  19. johnwalanp Says:

    Aintitcool news has a spoiler article directly from Sly’s mouth about the scene and its content!

    OMG this sounds sooooo cool!!! August 2010 is too far away……..

    • Kev Brock Says:

      Yeah, it was a copy and paste from the same article I just posted (just like most of their news stories are copy and pastes from other sites), same article from Entertainment Weekly. Sly didn’t say they definitely made the scene more than a cameo. All he said was, “to amount to”. That doesn’t mean it’s definite. He said it’s probably 5 minutes. Common sense will do you good, kids.

  20. Mark Says:

    Kev, you are a boring little boy! Stop trying to make Arnie and Bruce seem like nothing to THE EXPENDABLES film! You bore us all with your bable about Arnie’s cameo and how non important it is to the film. Sly surely doesn’t see it that way and if you open your tiny little judgemental mind, you will see the big picture that Church and Trench are characters designed for a sequel. Bruce isn’t governor so he could have been a main star in the film, but Sly has a plan and it’s for Arnie and Bruce to headline II with himself. You’re boring kid! Go get a job…

  21. Mark Says:

    By the way, this is Dutch…but I’m using my real name now!

  22. Andrew Says:

    Kev, you are a child! You seem to live in your own world. First it was just get use to the fact Arnold will be playing himself. THEN YOU WERE PROVEN WRONG. Then it was just get use to the fact Arnold’s role will be a walk by. THEN YOU GOT PROVEN WRONG AGAIN. You love conflict on this site and if you can’t provide it YOU try again and again.

    I am equally a fan of Arnold as I am of Sly and can’t wait to see ONE OF THE GREATEST ACTION FILMS EVER made with THE EXPENDABLES featuring both ICONS. You need to get your mind frame to that place.

  23. ethelmae Says:

    ok kids I am declaring the topic of cameo officially dead. I posted the definition of a cameo role because it best described Arnold and Bruce’s roles in The Expendables. A cameo is a minor part played by a prominent actor in a single scene. End of story people. It was one scene – not two, not a scene that can be cut and bookended…none of that. These are pros – they aren’t going to do anything cheezy – the scene delivers 100%. as for Sly’s quote about it not being a cameo or stunt he was saying it has substance and that it isn’t just the three of them gratuitously in a scene with someone walking through the frame. So no more crap about the cameos…ok? can we play nice please?

  24. Andrew Says:

    I was formerly known as FAKE CHURCH now going by my real name as well.

  25. Mark Says:

    Well said Sheryl. All I wanted was a 3-5 minute scene with Arnie involved. I got it, So I’m happy. Kev loves to belittle Arnie and I’m not ok with that. Sly and Arnie are best friends so show some RESPECT dude!

  26. Andrew Says:

    Everyone here knows it’s 3 to 5 minutes and I love that. I’m not thinking it’s a 45 minute role. I just can’t wait to see this puppy next SUMMER (multiple times).

  27. Kev Brock Says:

    The nonstop attacks I get here are pretty hilarious. Just shows how immature most of your readers here are, Sheryl. And I was nothing but nice and honest, correcting the mistakes that people were saying that were wrong. I wasn’t bashing Arnie or Bruce at all as I’m a fan of both actors. What I was saying is, they don’t need to be hogging too much screen time as the other actors deserve more. Say or think what you guys want about me.

    If Arnie and Bruce were throughout the entire movie, imagine what Dolph, Jet, and Stone Cold look? It would make them look like second class citizens and would hold them back, not getting any recognition ’cause the star power is all on Bruce and Arnie.

    Get my point now?

    Just one small scene is good enough for Arnie and Bruce. They don’t need to be throughout the entire movie at all. The end.

  28. Andrew Says:

    re: If Arnie and Bruce were throughout the entire movie, imagine what Dolph, Jet, and Stone Cold look? It would make them look like second class citizens and would hold them back, not getting any recognition ’cause the star power is all on Bruce and Arnie.

    THAT MIGHT BE TRUE, but it doesn’t make your point any less BOGUS. That is a moot point. You can’t blame ARNOLD and BRUCE for their STAR POWER!

    • Kev Brock Says:

      If you think about it this is why Sly, Bruce and Arnie never starred in a movie together over the years ’cause they knew that “EGO” and “Star Power” would get in the way with other actors. The guys admit it too. The only reason they are doing this now ’cause it’s the right time.

      Honestly though, I really think Arnie and Bruce aren’t really needed for the film at all ’cause it was doing fine before they were announced for the film. I like the direction of the Expendables. The action, the story, the cast, etc.

      Let Arnie, Bruce and Sly, star in the leading role in a different film someday, just not this one. I’m just dissapointed to see that the fans should be concentating on the entire film overall, and all they could think about is the Bruce, Arnie, Sly scene and ignore the rest of the film. That is what’s happening here.

      It’s just my opinion, relax, everyone has the right to be entitled to it.

  29. Mark Says:

    Oh poor Dolph and Jet Li etc…Like Andrew said, Arnold and Bruce are MEGA STARS…icons. Of course they will overshadow anyone in the film except Sly. The most talked about scene is the cameo, period. It doesn’t have to be an action scene and when people walk out of cinemas next August, the scene most talked about will contain STALLONE, SCHWARZENEGGER and WILLIS! Live with it and stop saying “poor Dolph, Statham and Li”. You really make no sense! Whats your argument again???

  30. Kev Brock Says:

    It’s kind of funny that you guys would reveal your real names after Sheryl calling you out, and realizing that some of you guys were banned from the Stallonezone, and now you’re bringing your childish behavior here ’cause you have no place else to do that on? You’re the ones living in your own worlds here. I’m only speaking the truth as I see things in Hollywood.

    Sly is giving Dolph, Jet, Statham, Rourke, Stone Cold, more recognition and giving them a shot at star power, now you guys are saying they are nothing. What’s wrong with that picture? Those guys are good actors in the action genre, they will become mainstream stars after this movie is released.

    This movie will especially help Dolph get out of his straight to video career as well.

  31. Potro1980 Says:

    Woow, here there are quarrels eh?…Well, now we know the details about the cameo, only I hope that this scene fit well in the film, because see Bruce and Arnold at the beginning and not more in all the rest of the film I think that it could seem a bit rare, but… let´s trust in Sly, anyway, the scene will be amazing sure.

  32. Potro1980 Says:

    And all the people would want Expendables 2 with Sly, Arnold and Bruce and nobody more, this would be orgasmic ha ha, well perhaps could have a place for a repentant Van Damme (ayyy what a fool man, reject the Sly´s invitation…), and perhaps to a repentant Seagal too (another that has rejected a role…) dying at the first minutes of the film xDD and finally another place for Chuck Norris as a boss, this would be genial, ahhh and Wesley Snipes would be great too! 😉

  33. Mark Says:

    The icon known as SCHWARZENEGGER is on Leno tonight. He might mention THE EXPENDABLES so watch it!

  34. Mark Says:

    When did Sheryl call Andrew and myself out? And on what??? Wake up pal, because you are dreaming. You say Dolph, Jet, Statham and Stone Cold will become mainstream stars???????????????? You just proved how little you know with saying that. And you say Dolph will get out of dtv action films?????????????? Get real man, GET REAL! This topic is BORING now. I’m done!

  35. Mark Says:

    Arnold did not appear on LENO as scheduled:(

  36. Andrew Says:

    Kev, YES, please refresh my memory as to when Shery “CALLED US OUT”? LMAO, you are one weird guy that’s for sure.

    The names Dolph and Stone Cold and the word STAR POWER do not go hand-in-hand. Do you know what you are talking about? Both of them are going to still end up in direct-to-dvd movies after THE EXPENDABLES hits BIG.

    And Mark is right, the MOST TALKED ABOUT SCENE in the film will be the OPENING SCENE. I guess Dolph, Jet, Statham and Rourke better pack up and leave HOLLYWOOD.

  37. Potro1980 Says:

    I know that many people (not Sly´s fans) going to go to the theaters to see the film ONLY for the scene with Stallone, Willis and Schwarzenegger. this is a fact.

  38. Andrew Says:

    I guess only a few of us live in a fairy tale world on here according to Kev.

  39. Mark Says:

    Sheryl, do you wanna help point STEVE KASAN in the right direction of Arnolds with this. He’s asking for help:

    They can do a Commando 2 but in the style of Rambo 4.
    Imagine this, Jenny in the peace corps, something military related. She is working with a crew in some bad country in Africa–where else–and her group gets held up in some camp. Matrix, now retired, hears about this from Kirby who is still in the service.
    Goes at it alone to get Jenny out safely. He does get Jenny out but Matrix leaves her friends behind. Jenny pleads with her dad to get her company out. Matrix hesitates but decides to do it because, they’re US soldiers after all.

    Matrix and Jenny both tear down the camp bullets blazing and finally get to see Arnie get on an M40 and re-use a big-freaking-chain-gun!
    Etc.-Etc.-saves the day, hooray, fun for all.

  40. Potro1980 Says:

    Haha Commando is a very bad fil,, but I like it a lot! I want Commando 2 with Arnold!

  41. Potro1980 Says:

    a very bad film I wanted to say 😛

  42. Andrew Says:

    COMMANDO is an 80’s classic. It’s a product of its time. How can you not love it?

    And before Kev comes on here and says I called COMMANDO a classic on THE GODFATHER’s level, I didn’t 🙂

  43. Potro1980 Says:

    Ha ha I love Commando, but this film in its time was a copy of Rambo with the objective to launch Arnold to the stardom, in this period Stallone was the number one of the action, and Arnold only was an imitator of Sly yet, but time after, when Arnold was a star already, this film became a cult film by the Arnold´s fans. Let´s be serious, objetively, Commando is a bad film, but I love Commando, it´s very funny hehe, the first time I saw this movie I was a child with 6 years old, and I keep a great memento of that, then I have seen Commando 10 or 15 times more, viva John Matrix! 😄

  44. Potro1980 Says:

    Its the same like Rocky III, Rocky IV, Rambo III etc… all of us know that these are bad films, but are GREATS!! ha ha, 80´s films for ever! 😉

  45. Andrew Says:

    None of those are BAD films…they are just less dramatic than previous installments. They took a different direction.

    Commando included.

  46. Potro1980 Says:

    Andrew, for example, First Blood is a very good movie, I think that this movie would have deserved to win several Oscars; Rambo II and Rambo III not are good films, but this two movies(especially Rambo II) created a mith, an icon of the history of the cinema, independently of his quality cinematographic.

  47. Andrew Says:

    Potro1980, hence they are important films 🙂

    re:but this two movies(especially Rambo II) created a mith, an icon of the history of the cinema, independently of his quality cinematographic.

  48. Potro1980 Says:

    Yeah, of course, are the best in category of action films, and are some of my favourite films too, hehe 😉

  49. Mark Says:

    THE EXPENDABLES should join the list of “one of the greatest action films ever made”!

  50. Andrew Says:

    Sheryl, when can we expect the trailer in theaters as well as the one-sheet?

  51. Potro1980 Says:

    I hope Mark, but let´s wait and see… I wouldn´t bet my money eh? but I hope I´m wrong…really.

  52. Mark Says:

    Potro1980, IN STALLONE I TRUST!

  53. Mark Says:

    Imagine THE EXPENDABLES trailer to this awesome rock song!

  54. Andrew Says:

    Sheryl, you might not know this or maybe you have heard about us…but both MARK and myself are known on the net and to the major movie web sites such as AICN, DARKHORIZONS, IGN etc. as ABking -the BIGGEST STALLONE and SCHWARZENEGGER fan ever- and we help promote both actors and their films in a good light. We want them to be successful and to continue that success until they retire. Just lettting you know how passionate we are. 🙂

  55. Andrew Says:

    sheryl, what is your email….I have some info I have to ask you about and do not want to post it on here……….

  56. Potro1980 Says:

    Good song!

  57. Potro1980 Says:

    Ha ha 🙂 http://www.kungfucinema.com/lundgren-in-talks-to-appear-in-conan-11463

  58. Andrew Says:

    Lundgren WILL not be playing CONAN. Sheryl any thoughts on this news?

  59. Potro1980 Says:

    Of course, as much he would play a small role xD

  60. Andrew Says:

    The new CONAN still seems like it will be small without ARNOLD.

  61. Potro1980 Says:

    Umm, I don´t know, if they make a Rated R film could be a good film perhaps…

  62. Andrew Says:

    CLASH OF THE TITANS looks like crap. Maybe CONAN will too.

  63. Potro1980 Says:

    Clash of The Titans going to be trash sure! like Troy hehe, and Conan may be too 😉

  64. Potro1980 Says:

    Look this! http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/11/12/sylvester-stallone-updates-on-rambo-5-saves-monster-plot-for-unrelated-film/

  65. Potro1980 Says:

    Eooooo, nobody say anything?…

  66. Andrew Says:

    Sheryl, do you like the new RAMBO 5 plot?

  67. Potro1980 Says:

    It looks like the old plot, the orginal story that talked for Rambo 4 few years ago, is more realistic than the savage hunt, I think that this story is more appropiate for Rambo´s saga.

  68. Potro1980 Says:

    And the savage hunt will be another film out of Rambo I think that it´s great, don´t you think?

  69. Mark Says:

    Sheryl, have you heard that Arnold might pop up in PREDATORS…aka Predator 3…if he agrees to film a legendary Dutch Shaefer cameo? You know Arnie best so is there a chance he’ll actually say yes to Robert Rodriguez? I know Arnie did THE EXPENDABLES for his great friend Sly, but Rodriguez is no Sly!

  70. Potro1980 Says:

    Rodriguez wanted Arnold to make Dutch role, it will be in the predator´s planet, the kidnapped humans in some moment meet a man who has survived many years alone in this planet fighting the predators, and this man would be Dutch… but this role it would be more than a cameo I think, so I doubt that Arnold will play this role, but another shorter… may be

  71. Andrew Says:

    I doubt Arnold will do it unless it is from SLY or CAMERON.

  72. Mark Says:

    The PREDATORS cameo sounds like a nice 5 second set up for Schwarzenegger to be the main star in PREDATOR 4. Regarding RAMBO V and the Mexico story, it sounds like a real winner in the vein of Rambo. Stallone is a great writer and I hope he puts RAMBO V in the summer like RAMBO II and RAMBO III.

  73. Mark Says:

    Sheryl, is Arnie talking to JAMES CAMERON about making another action film once 2011 comes? Tom Arnold has said this numerous times in the past.

  74. Andrew Says:

    RAMBO V is going to rule just like whatever SCHWARZENEGGER makes next — TRUE LIES 2 😉

  75. Andrew Says:

    Sheryl, any word on if the still of Sly/Arnold/Bruce might come out the day before x-mas as a gift to fans 😉 ?

  76. baseballstas Says:

    Marky & Andy – looks like Sheryl doesn’t want to talk with you either.

    HO HO HA

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Declutter Your Life by Decluttering Your Thoughts

Decluttering Your Thoughts

Upon starting my blog, I wrote a post on how to declutter your life. In that post, I shared the general life decluttering tips that helped me overcome anxiety disorder and panic attacks and transform my thoughts from negative to positive. Today, I would like to share some more specific steps that I took in the thought decluttering part.

Regarding decluttering your thoughts, the most important aspect to begin with, is getting your life more peaceful in a short period of time. You need your brain to realize that life is actually not as hectic as it has seemed. Life is probably already peaceful, odds are that you just didn’t know it before because of the many distractions constantly running in the background of your life.

Although some steps that I mention below might seem insignificant at first, everything I list was actually very helpful for me personally and some of the steps even worked wonders. Although I took many of the below given steps simultaneously, I think they will also work if you try them out one at a time.

Please note that these steps do not come with any guarantees. They might not have the same effect for others as they had for me, so I recommend making your own decision if you wish to try any of them or not.

Also, I think I should make this disclaimer just in case– it would be best to give your first try at these steps during your day off from work, because they are probably not fit to be included in your current typical work day.

Thought Decluttering Steps

So here goes, some of the detailed thought decluttering steps that I took, were the following:

1. Remove all wall clocks from your home – firstly, loosing the habit of constantly checking the time, can make you more relaxed very quickly. It will also make you enjoy living in the moment more.

You really do not need to know the time during every second of the day. You will also still have other types of clocks at hand (on your phone, computer, a wrist watch etc), so there is no need to fear that you will be late everywhere or miss out on something.

Wall clocks are the „loudest“ preachers of „you are late“, „you should be doing this and that instead of what you are doing now“, „start moving yourself already or you will be late“ etc. Removing these loudest forms of timekeepers will instantly make your life seem quieter and more peaceful.

2. Stop watching and listening to mass media news – just turn off the TV and radio for at least one day and also don’t read any of the mass media news on the internet.

You don’t actually need to know everything that is going on in the entire world. Everything you truly need to know for your life to run smoothly (at least during the day you are trying out this step), you already know. So don’t be afraid, nothing will happen if you take this step.

3. Stop watching the TV and listening to the radio entirely – this would be a good step to take for at least a couple of days. This step will demonstrate to your brain, how much negative influence actually pours into it daily from these mediums.

4. Watch only movies, series, shows with positive effects on you – by this I mean, stop watching things that make you mad, sad, frustrated, angry, depressed, stressed out etc.

Only watch things that make you feel happy, joyful and good. The best choice would be to only watch things that make you laugh. The more positive influences you add to your life, the better.

5. Only listen to music that has a positive effect on you – by this I mean, stop listening to music that makes you mad, sad, frustrated, angry, depressed, stressed out etc.

Only listen to music that makes you feel happy, joyful and good.

6. Spend time alone with your thoughts – do this as much as you can (depending on your specific life situation of course).

This allows you to focus your thoughts in the most efficient way. Any minute spent doing this step will benefit you greatly.

7. Take walks in the nature or just sit silently somewhere in the nature – connecting with nature removes worries and gives you strength and courage.

8. Meditate – I will note (in case there are people reading this post, who have not heard it before) – there are more ways to practice meditation, than just sitting in one place. For example, moving meditation can be done while dancing or walking.

There are many resources that introduce the different ways of meditation. I will not recommend anything specific at this point. I am sure that everyone, who has a wish to find a personally suitable meditation technique, will find it. Once you learn a bit about this topic, you will see that meditation is not that tricky as you might have thought.

9. Listen to silence – find a room in your home, where you can be alone, turn off every technological gadget that makes a sound and just listen to the silence. If you cannot „produce“ silence in your home, then try to find another place where you can be in silence (a library would be one possible choice).

By listening to silence you are again letting your brain know that life is not as hectic as it might have seemed before.

10. Do something that YOU love to do – life should actually be a series of things that we love to do, have and be, but if you are just starting out with thought decluttering, then I’m guessing it’s not the case for you yet. So just start by giving yourself the permission to do the things you love to do for at least one day.

When deciding what to do, do not ask for anyone else’s opinion about it. Decide for yourself, what you will be doing exactly. This is important because deciding by yourself will raise your self-confidence level and make you feel good about yourself.

If you cannot take a day, take half a day, a few hours or less, but just do it. Once you feel the awesome feeling of doing what you truly love to do, I’m sure you will find more time and ways to continue to multiply this feeling as often as possible.

With this step, I feel that I need to mention once more that I am not referring to egotism, narcissism or selfish behavior in any way. Loving and respecting oneself is not selfish. (I have written more about this in one of my previous posts „Say „I Love You“ … to Yourself“.)

11. Listen more than you talk – for at least one day, dedicate yourself to really listening to others. Talk as little as possible during this day and when you are listening to someone, really listen. By this I mean, turn off your own thoughts while listening to them.

This will give your thoughts/ brain a chance to rest for a while, thus also having a similar effect to meditation. This step will probably also give you a new perspective on life and how little we actually listen to each other during an average day.

12. Sleep – sleep as much as you can.

I believe that many illnesses and problems in this world arise from sleep deprivation. So give yourself a chance to sleep as much as you feel like it. Do this step as often as possible.

Also, don’t think of long sleeping hours as laziness! This has nothing to do with being lazy.

13. Use alarm clocks as rarely as possible – these little gadgets are just plain annoying. So try to give yourself as many days off as possible from using these things.

14. Stop thought criticism towards yourself and towards others – this means that you do not think badly about yourself and you do not criticize anything you do.

The main focus is on getting your thoughts decluttered (and positive) of course, so focusing on criticism towards others is not that important here. But unfortunately it is very difficult to stop criticizing yourself, when you are just starting out with thought decluttering (because we are so used to criticizing ourselves), so it helps if you don’t allow yourself to criticize anything/ anyone during this step.

15. Only say positive things to yourself and others – just train yourself to think before you speak and always stop if you want to say something negative. Only give yourself the permission to say your thought out loud if it is positive.

It is likely that at first you must force yourself a bit to follow this rule, but again it must be said that by following it you will gain a lot more than you lose. Also, it will become automatic at some point, so the force effect is only temporary.

16. Keep away from as many negative outside influences as possible – this includes people, situations, things, etc that make you feel badly about yourself. Eliminate as many negative aspects from your life as you can. People are probably the most difficult question in this point, so take your time to consider the effects of your different relationships (family, friends, acquaintances etc) before you make any decisions and actions regarding anyone.

17. Be kind to yourself – allow yourself to live your life in the way that feels right and good to you. As long as you live with a kind approach to everything, you cannot go wrong.

Decluttered Clouds © Eva Tenter

This is it for today. 🙂 I will probably get back to this topic also in the future, since keeping thoughts decluttered is a continuous process.

As with life in general, the whole topic of decluttering your life is very personal and should be done with careful consideration, so do not feel like you have to rush with anything against your will. You have to feel comfortable with every choice you make.

This whole process is meant to make your life better and more joyful, so take as much time as you need with every step. Also feel free to modify the given steps and create your own steps that work the best for you in your specific situation.

To sum this post up in a very general way – it’s all about balance. Find your unique balance (regarding everything) and your life will be decluttered.

I would be very interested to learn about the effective steps that you have discovered for yourself regarding the thought decluttering topic. So please feel free to comment and share your ideas below.

74 thoughts on “Declutter Your Life by Decluttering Your Thoughts

  1. Great blog! Especially point number 2. Mass media should not be the influence it is. I do not listen to most newscasts because I am tired hearing about murder and mayhem. Listening to silence where ever it is found is very healing. Again, a great blog!

  2. Taking TV out of my life has helped immensely, and I’m excited to try some of these new ideas. I love the idea that life is already not hectic, we just need to perceive it that way. Sharing this for sure!

    I think the biggest challenge is sleeping. It’s so distressing to wake up and find how much time has just disappeared! But I’m getting better at it.

    1. Thank you, Rachel! I agree, the sleeping part can be tricky. I think the best way to go about it, is again focus on the balance. Just sleep longer, when you feel like it and sleep less when you feel like it. Allow yourself to do what you feel like doing regarding as many things as possible. Feeling good is the main goal anyway. 🙂 Many blessings! 🙂

  3. I actually had the opportunity to do all of those steps in August because I took all of my vacation time from work for the entire month. It’s amazing how rejuvenating it was, I felt like I had added years to my life and created a form or serenity that I never knew existed. I recommend everyone try this, it’s the best thing you can do for yourself. Great Post!

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  6. Great post! Super information and suggestions. I love the idea of removing wall clocks. I have to have an alarm, but I changed it from the annoying buzz to gentle chimes. Makes waking up a much more pleasant experience. Thanks for visiting and following my blog. I appreciate it.

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  17. Great list! I agree- many of these ideas have been in place, with great success, in my own life for years. I look forward to integrating the rest! Very helpful indeed. Thanks for sharing what has helped you in order to help others. Cheers.

    1. Anna

      I have taken off all watches/clocks/adson tv+ no Tv for me,but my husband who is sick with cancer/chemo/by pass operation last month ago,has trouble with hearing & spends time on foxtel a lot,so I got him headphone , so there is Silence in the home.Yes Decluttering your mind is very important.I meditate & find time to be in nature,do praying, helping others with positive thoughts.Its Great .Keep Going Guys .Best of Luck!!!

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  47. Good advice Eva – I have implemented some of these in my life – I hardly watch TV anymore and when I do it’s shows I love. I’m working on getting more sleep, listening to people more than talking. Getting negativity out of your life can be hard but I’ve recently made tough choices to rid of negativity including ending a friendship because the chaotic, negative energy that was coming from this person. The negativity and chaos was entering my life as well as my family. I know it was the right choice because since the end of this friendship – I’ve noticed for myself and family that quite a bit of the negative energy is gone.

    1. Excellent! 🙂 I’m happy for you! 🙂 The negativity really does fade away once the negative influences have been removed. It’s definitely the most difficult with friendships, but I really do believe that if a friendship is extremely negative or toxic, then it wasn’t a real friendship to begin with, so the only good choice is to let it go.

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Charlie Bumpers vs. the squeaking skull / written by Bill Harley ; illustrated by Adam Gustavson.

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Summary, etc.: "Meet Charlie Bumpers, a fourth-grader who is always coming up against embarrassing worst-case scenarios. He keeps trying to make the best of bad situations, but things don't always work out the way he'd planned! In Charlie Bumpers vs. the Squeaking Skull, Charlie is looking forward to the big sleepover at Alex's house on Halloween until he finds out the entertainment will be watching the scariest horror movies ever!"
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Jacob C. White, Jr. "What Rum is Doing to the Colored People" Speech

What Rum is doing for the Colored People

We are all familiar with the effects produced by intoxicating liquors. We hear temperance lectures plainly setting forth the evils of intemperance and admonishing the youth to beware lest they should fall into the net which surrounds them on all sides, and become less than worthless to Society. Notwithstanding the admonitions which are daily given to our young men, we find them frequenting these earthly hells, not only throwing away the time which might be improved with great advantage both to them themselves and to the people at large; but also throwing away their money for that which brings unto them nothing but want, misery, death, and eternal torment. A vast amount of good might be accomplished if the money spent by our young men, for liquor was employed for the purpose of elevating our people and promoting the cause of education among them. Aside from this the Respectable Groggeries are ruining the very class of our people to whom we are to look as warriors who are to fight for our liberty, and our rights, when the heads of our Fathers shall be laid low in the silent tomb, and wrapped in the cold embrace of death. (shall be those who are now so earnestly pleading for suffering humanity, and their immortal souls have taken their flight to receive the recompense for the deeds done in the service of their people.) If True is any people who have a good reason for advocating the passage of the “Maine Liquor Law”, or some other kind of prohibiting liquor, law, it is the Colored people of this country; if for nothing but a matter of policy. So that they should have men to fight their battles and contend with our enemies for our rights, which state of things cannot possibly exist if the grog shops are not suppressed or some measures taken to reclaim our young men who have been so unfortunate as to become addicted to the habit of drinking rum. Let us then do all that we can, to eradicate this evil, and put forth all our energies for the purpose of having the youth trained in such a manner that they will be fitted for usefulness when they grow up to be men + women. When this is accomplished we will see a marked difference in the Colored People of this country, in a political and social point of view.

Jacob C. White Jr.

Phil. Mar. 24th 1854

Background Information

Jacob C. White, Jr., a proponent of education, detailed the ill effects that rum had on African Americans. In this speech, he notes that legal measures needed to be enacted to prevent the sale of intoxicating liquors.

Image: "American Negro Historical Society, December 30, 1852 - September 14, 1854," Leon Gardiner Collection [0008B], Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

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On Negro Delinquent Children of Virginia
A Great Thing for our People

On Negro Delinquent Children of Virginia

John Henry Smythe, May 1898

Mr. John H. Smyth was asked to speak on the negro delinquent children of Virginia.

Mr. J. H. Smyth, ex-United States Minister, and Consul-general to Liberia, W.A. — Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Conference, — As I am but a one-thousandth part of the Conference, representing one-ninth of the population of the country, I may content myself to speak from my place on the floor. My purpose is to give you information which you may not have with reference to negro children and youth in Virginia, whence I am.

The need in every Southern State — now that the black race is free, and possessed of citizens’ rights — is a reformatory.

Slavery was most destructive of morals in this, that the parents of negro children were not permitted to exercise parental restraint and control over them. This enforced denial of natural right and guardianship conducive to filial obedience and love was the beginning of the end, — moral wreckage of the young of the race.

The severe discipline of slavery, which made the slaves efficient and valuable as a labor class in the South, had the effect upon negro parentage — free and enfranchised — which caused them to dislike and revolt from the exercise of an exacting discipline over their children born during the last thirty years. This sentiment and unfortunate practice of laxity were born of ignorance. These causes, coupled with the poverty of the natural guardians of negro children, account for the jails and penitentiaries of the South having more negro inmates in them between the ages of seven and twenty years than between the ages of thirty and forty years.

But I am here to speak of Virginia’s needs in particular, to pick the beam out of her eye rather than the mote out of the eye of the South.

Virginia has a population of nearly 1,000,000 whites and 700,000 blacks, with a present penitentiary enrolment of 1,325 negro felons between ten and thirty-five years of age as against 310 white felons above their majority, because there is a reformatory for white boys.

For fourteen years there has been a steady increase of criminality among negroes, — from 210 in the penitentiary in 1882 to 1,325 in 1896-97. These delinquents cost the State in 1896-97 $378,000 for their support. The whites cost $72,000, while the blacks cost $306,000. The cost for negro child and youth vagrants, disorderlies, and misdemeanants, was greatly in excess of this amount, which fell upon one hundred county governments and some six city governments. From all sources of negro taxation, capitation, personal and real property, only $116,000 was received by the State in 1896. So that for every dollar expended for the imprisonment of negroes in the penitentiary, there was necessity for the State to supplement the deficit by two dollars, leaving out of the reckoning commitments to jails of counties and cities of felons.

With a legal machinery which makes it possible for police officers, magistrates, and other court officials to profit by the arrests, trials, and convictions of children and youths of the black race for any and every grade of offence, where and when is criminality among this class to stop?

Worse than this is the fact that a custom as old as the State, of herding men and women, boys and girls, in the same compartments in the jails, Virginia, unconsciously, is graduating — under the common and statute laws, annually — thousands of child and youth criminals of the black race.

There is no middle ground, no house of refuge, correction, or reformatory for the black boy or girl who, from defective and from no training, has taken the first step downward; and, as a consequence, crime is accelerated and increased by law.

The motherhood of the black race in Virginia is being tainted in its childhood by jails and a penitentiary. The boyhood and youths are made criminal by means designed for punishment of wrongdoing, but which are destructive agencies of the morals of a large class of the race.

Through the influence of a few earnest negro men, moved by humane and Christian sentiments, the Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia came into corporate existence June 11, 1897, with a negro board of directors and an advisory board of seven white Virginians, with the purpose of rescuing and reforming this class through a reformatory.

Though there is a reformatory in Virginia for white boys, in the eighth year of its existence, neither a negro child nor youth may enter its portals, though there is not a word or sentence in the charter of the Prison Association of Virginia restricting its beneficence to whites nor prohibitive of its influence to blacks.

We who live in the South know that thirty years are not years enough for a people to outgrow their prejudices of race. We know that time is of the very essence of good relations between different races, and that insistence upon the exercise of rights has often to be postponed until men’s intelligence and humanity are developed to a recognition and accord of them. Virginia is fresher in her prejudices to blacks than the North, the East, and the West.

Virginia is not able to do this work of reform for the delinquent young of the whites, and therefore is not able to do it for the blacks.

The State gives the white reformatory, or Prison Association of Virginia, the same compensation for care of the inmates of the reformatory as it gives the superintendent of the State penitentiary for the inmates of that institution, and the same amount the counties give their jailers, — 25 cents a day for the food and $10 a year for the clothing of each inmate. The Prison Association of Virginia would not be a refuge and a reformatory for white boys, had Major Robert Stiles not left his law office and appealed to public charity for the money with which the site was bought, and upon which the buildings are erected, never having received from the State treasury but $22,000 in seven years in aid of the reformatory, aside from the appropriation of 25 cents a day and $10 a year for food and clothing of the inmates.

The Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia has undertaken to purchase a farm of 1,804 acres of ground in the county of Hanover, the erection of dormitories, and two workshops for trades teaching. The cost of the land is $14,432, the cost of the buildings $60,000, making a total of about $75,000.

That the institution shall not be an annual pensioner upon its friends and the public, farming in all its branches, blacksmithing, carpentry, and instruction in the domesticities of the home, are designed to be taught, that the institution from the start shall be self-supporting, with the State’s aid in food and clothing of the inmates.

The rudiments of English learning will be taught, and moral training will be the object.

Virginia, by the ravages of war, was the greatest sufferer of the Confederate States. Every industry was either destroyed or paralyzed. Virginia in three years hence will add 3 per cent. to the interest-bearing obligations of the State, increasing her indebtedness annually for an indefinite time by $180,000.

Virginia is carrying on as good a public-school system for whites and blacks as any other Southern State. Virginia is caring for quite one thousand mentally enfeebled and insane negroes, at an expense of $85,000 annually.

Virginia would gladly support reformatories for both races if the effort were not fraught with the present certainty of bankruptcy, the loss of honor in not meeting her obligations to her creditors.

It would be better to kill the unhappy children of my race than to wreck their souls by herding them in prisons with common and hardened criminals.

Virginia has a loyal white and black citizenship now.

Virginia has always been pre-eminently American. In a nation’s need nothing is more valued than patriotism.

A major-general in the person of Fitz-Hugh Lee, of a line of illustrious American soldiers, is on his way to “the front.”

Her black citizens point with pride to ninety thousand of their kith and kin who

                          “Gave their spirits out,
Trusted the end to God,
And on the gory sod
                     Rolled in triumphant blood”

for the preservation of the integrity of this Union, the glory of Americans, the admiration of Britons, and the envy of Celtic Europe.

The negro race has increased from four to eight millions of souls in thirty years, — 100 per cent.,— and has become an important part of the nation. The race’s moral character is, therefore, a constituent part of the moral character of the nation. The nation cannot with safety be indifferent to the negro in the light of its civilization and Christianity.

Background Information

Institute graduate John Henry Smythe gave this speech at the 25th Annual National Conference of Charities and Correction, held in New York City from May 18-25, 1898. In his speech, he stressed the need for a reformatory program for African American delinquent children. The lack of one, Smythe claims, has resulted in children being housed with adult prisoners, which only increased their chances of becoming criminals themselves. Smythe also describes the efforts of his organization, the Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia, to establish such a reformatory for children of color.

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