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Sunday, August 25, 2013

Writing Picture Books--Simply Difficult, part 1/Call for Submissions

This blog is the first in a series focused on writing picture books, taken from the how-to article, WRITING PICTURE BOOKS—SIMPLY DIFFICULT, I wrote for a national newsletter.

A 400-word book has to be easy to write, right? As readers, picture books appear simple to create; as writers, we find the task simply difficult. Writing picture books takes a unique set of skills, so try these 10 key points to improve your manuscript:

1.  Short text. Picture books are based on a single idea. When I first began writing professionally twenty-four years ago, the average picture book text was 1,000-1,500 words. Not anymore. The sweet spot according to many editors is about 450 words. Deleting unnecessary words is a must in today’s market.

 2.   Audience. Most picture books are designed for young children up through age five. As adults read the words, children read the pictures. The text should be age appropriate for the audience both in language and interest. A five-year-old has a larger vocabulary and is much more likely to be interested in dinosaurs than a two-year-old. Children age six and up are typically exposed to beginning chapter books.

This article will be continued in next week’s blog.

Call for submissions for adult writers:

Suddenly Lost in Words has reopened submissions. This ezine is for readers ages 13+ and is a paying market.

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Sunday, August 18, 2013

Idea Overload, part VI/Call for Submissions

This is the last blog in this series.

If you have more story ideas than you know what to do with, try these tips:

There is no magic fix for any story. You simply have to keep writing and revising to get the story polished. Good writing comes from rewriting. Sometimes we want to abandon a manuscript for a new idea because we don’t know what to do with the one we’re working on. This happens all the time. Focus on the characters and plot. Concentrate on one idea at a time and how that idea can move the story forward.

Don’t fall in love with your writing. All writing can be improved upon. Instead, fall in love with completing your writing. Getting sidetracked undermines your goal of getting a story completed.

When you finish the manuscript to the point that you have done as much as you can with it, ship it to potential publisher; then begin another project with a shiny, new idea.

Call for submissions for adult writers:

From October 1st, 2013 to December 31st, 2013, The Jim Henson Company and Grosset & Dunlap of the Penguin Young Readers Group will be accepting writing submissions to find the author for a new novel set in the world of Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal. This author search is open to all professional and aspiring professional writers.

This new Dark Crystal novel will be a prequel story set at the time of the Gelfling Gathering, between the Second Great Conjunction and the creation of the Wall of Destiny. We will be placing all known lore from this era on, the definitive home of The Dark Crystal. There you will find all the knowledge available for you to shape and build your story—and all we ask is that you share your stories with us.

Your submission should be an original story set in the era outlined above. The final novel will be upwards of 50,000 words, but please send in 7,500-10,000 words that represent the story you would tell in a full-length Dark Crystal novel. It can either be the first chapters, final chapters, a collection of middle chapters, or a short piece that would form the inspiration for a novel-length story.

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Sunday, August 11, 2013

Idea Overload, part VI/Call for Submissions

If you have more story ideas than you know what to do with, try these tips:

Make a “Writer’s To-Do List.” If you’re working on a manuscript, plan for the next writing session. When you finish for the day, briefly write “continue with chapter 2” or something specific to the plot, such as “loses key.” When you return for the next writing session, you’ll see the to-do note and hopefully, that will keep you focused on the continuation of chapter 2 or writing a scene about losing a key. Know what you’re going to do during the session as soon as you begin.

Work on one manuscript at a time. If you hit a roadblock, try different scenarios to keep the story flowing. The key is to stay focused. Force yourself to complete the manuscript. Four half-finished manuscripts does not equal one finished, polished story. A story cannot be polished unless it’s finished. Editors want a manuscript to be finished before a contract is offered, especially with writers who are not published.

Call for submissions for adult writers:

FrostFire Worlds is a quarterly magazine for younger readers published by Alban Lake Publishing in February, May, August, and November. The first issue was released on 1 August 2013.
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Sunday, August 4, 2013

Idea Overload, part V/Call for Submissions

If you have more story ideas than you know what to do with, try these tips:

Talk with a critique group or writing club. Explain how the story has bogged down and you don’t know how to get the character out of the situation or don’t know how to inflict more problems upon the character. Writers often receive excellent feedback from such groups.

Abandoning manuscripts decreases a writer’s efficiency. Rather than permanently shelving a manuscript, shelve it temporarily while you consider different options for the characters and plot.

Review the story ideas folder. Maybe you can consolidate some ideas by tapping into an idea or two and using them in the manuscript you’re working on.

Next week, I’ll continue the series.

Call for submissions for adult writers:

Theme: What’s the bravest thing you’ve ever done? Whatever your story, share it with us. Winner is published in Real Simple Magazine and receives $3,000. Limit 1,500 words. Deadline
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Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Pulling Out the Card

With less than a month to go in the Presidential Election, Romney is on the offensive, gaining ground, and the Lefties are screaming foul.   If what he says makes sense, he must be lying according to these pundits of leftest propaganda.
The gloves will be coming off as Romney gets depicted as a despicable human being, incapable of the truth......   a Lying, Racist, Low Life Mormon.  You watch how this plays out.
The Dems have to endure a performance by the Vice President, Joe Biden, who could douse their cause with gasoline and light it up with one of his classic, facts be damned gaffes.
What's your favorite Biden Gaffe?
Mine is the classic below...
"When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened." –Joe Biden, apparently unaware that FDR wasn't president when the stock market crashed in 1929 and that only experimental TV sets were in use at that time, interview with Katie Couric, Sept. 22, 2008 (Watch video clip)
I love the way Biden just reaches reaches deep and pulls shit right out of his ass to use as facts.  This is the Vice President of the United States, a heartbeat away from the most powerful position in the world.  But then again, we have a community organizer who currently has that job, so how bad could Biden be.
It will be quite remarkable if our unstable second in command doesn't plunge the Dems a little further down in the polls before BO has to face another debate without teleprompter soon.
I almost feel bad for those unbiased folks over at MSNBC.  They are so close to popping  a vein.  And Peeps ..... they will be rolling out the race card big time pretty soon.  This is coming or I'm not a Rough, Tough, Hard to Bluff, and Damn Good Lookin' Mountain of a Man.
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Dedicated to exposing, and resisting, the all pervasive nanny state that is corroding the way of life and the freedom of the people of Britain.

Wednesday, March 06, 2013

Netmums' Everlasting Childhood

I see that Netmums website users are complaining that children are under pressure to grow up too fast. They cite the fact that girls are made to worry about their appearance, and that boys are pushed into "macho" behaviour at too young an age.

The website's co-founder Siobhan Freegard is quoted by the BBC:
"The pace of modern life is so fast that it is even snatching away the precious years of childhood.

Children no longer want to be seen as children, even when as parents we know they still are.

There needs to be a radical rethink in society to revalue childhood and protect it as a precious time - not time to put pressure on children to grow up far too fast."
In one respect Netmums have a point, there is undue pressure on kids wrt their appearance (both in terms of what they wear and their physique). However, that applies to society as a whole, not just kids.

Thanks to the impact of mass media we, as a society, have become obsessed with our appearance and the antics of vacuous airheaded z list celebrities who have done nothing worthwhile or tangible other than becoming famous for being famous and have thus become role models for adults and kids to naively follow.

However, regarding growing up too fast, loyal readers are only too aware that there are many "adults" who thanks to the cotton wool treatment in Nanny's schools and by over protective parents are still mentally and emotionally stuck in childhood; they are selfish, greedy, lazy and irresponsible.

Pre Nanny state, children were forced to become responsible at a very early age (or starve) by having to go out an work or join the forces (my own grandfather ran away to join the Royal Navy when he was but a child).

Whilst clearly it is not acceptable to return to the days when children were forced to work, in order to avoid starving, it is clearly also unacceptable to trap them forever in a cosseted existence that shields them from the realities of life and that prevents them from growing into mature, level headed and responsible adults.

You do the kids, nor society, any favours by wrapping kids in cotton wool!

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  1. Mumsnet get on my wick.....They think they are the first women to have children......They need to get over themselves they are, after all, doing the most natural thing a human can do, after shitting and eating, by having kids.

    One suggestion: stop asking kids what they want the family to have for dinner......I have heard modern mothers asking their children about what we (the family) should have for dinner that night when the kid is less than five years old......When I was that age, I was just given what I was going to have for dinner, because I was too young to make up my own mind or to take responsibility for such a decision.

    I think too many modern parents are forcing kids to grow up too much by trying to be their best friend and treating them like little adults.


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I started to entertain the idea of becoming a professor when I was in high school. I suppose it was a loosely figured dream at that time, just a vague “this could be cool” fantasy. I knew that I liked books once I spent a summer at Cornell after having taken a particularly enlightening English class. The Cornell program was only for three weeks, and I had no idea that I had actually signed up to take a specifically German literature class (in translation, of course), but it was at this point, in the beginning of both my intellectual and racial “awakening,” that I began to focus my attention on the fact that I was not like everyone else. When I read certain texts, I felt a deeper connection with them than did my classmates, and the depths of this connection demanded that I advocate for these works in ways that I did not understand in high school. I felt hailed – interpellated – to speak on behalf of these works, not because of their arbitrary literary merit, but because they represented the lives of the people with whom I shared a mutual, deprived condition. In works like A Lesson Before Dying and Their Eyes Were Watching God and, to a certain degree, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, I began to see myself, my image – the image of a collective other – etched into a description, into a mannerism, into stylized dialogue, and therefore felt the need to defend them to a class of students who nonetheless found these works obscure and difficult to understand, who could not see beyond a veil that I had to live within. It was at this point that I began to understand the vastness of our constellation of identities; the students in my classes were an array of bodies organized within according proximity to several political points, and while they all seemed to orbit the same bodies, some a little further out, some dangerously close to their parent star, I was somewhere else, having to scream across the void to make my experience known.

I have been trying to find the words to write this blog post for several months. It is bizarre and a little uncomfortable to write, mostly because it requires that I be frank with the reality of the world in which I am attempting to carve out a home. I have never been afraid of being a token, as I’ve already discussed in other posts. There is, of course, this pressure in occupying the token position, of being the other. The microaggressive comments which are lanced at you, the ways that your presence is hardly acknowledged, but your absence is always apparent; these are the realities of the persons of color in each history class, the transwoman in the woman’s studies class, the Native student in the American Studies course; the anomalies struggling to figure themselves into an epistemology, into an intellectual tradition. The understanding that you are in fact ahistorical – that you must fight to plug yourself into the collective chronology. This is the sort of pressure which exists for the others in school. They must endure not necessarily a bombardment of expletives designed to immediately wound, but death by one million small lacerations, a killing which you do not realize until you are too weak to move. Not everyone feels this way. Some people are okay with their tokenhood, see themselves, through the eyes of the dominant order, as images of progress. They look themselves in the mirror of identity and say “My cotton-picking, rubber-tapping, cocoa-farming, porch-sweeping, orange-yanking, tea-plucking, child-rearing, rice-winnowing, swamp-draining, cane-chopping  ancestors would be so proud to see me among all these white folks, learning, being civilized.” And this is not wrong. Our ancestors are looking down on us with smiles on their faces because there has been some progress, because our lives are better than theirs were. But the burdens of tokenhood linger in the mind like a miasma; it sickens you, breaks you down, weakens your trauma immune system.

Part of applying to grad school has been looking for professors interested in the same research as me. In particular, I’m interested in postcolonial theory, which is, in a nutshell, making sense of “emancipation” as a historical truth and an ideological fallacy. A relatively sexy topic in literary and cultural studies, postcolonial studies allows the subaltern to understand their identities as produced by 18th and 19th century notions of personhood, citizenship and civilization. It centers the critical perspective on uncovering and examining their identities, although it still finds itself deeply rooted in a Western and therefore oppressive framework of thought. Nonetheless, this is what I want to do, at this point in my life. Whether that is subject to change is something for an older, wiser X to figure out. I bring this up because in looking for specialists in postcolonial thought, I’ve had to come to terms with a crushing reality in the discipline of comparative literature; there are very, very, very few Black people. And even fewer African-Americans. Now, I suppose that this doesn’t come as a surprise. Anyone aware of higher education will tell you that there is a dire dearth of minorities in the institution outside of a certain narrow set of niches; Chinese professors teaching Chinese language & literature, women teaching women’s studies, African-Americans teaching African-American studies, and all the intersections which occur at the intersections of disciplines (African-American women teaching Black feminist theory, for example). Comparative literature is not one of these niches. The study of comparative literature has its roots in European thought and it is still quite entrenched there. It is a way of understanding literature as a historical and sociological exchange of ideas across cultures, but these cultures are of course tightly figured around the latitudes of Western Europe. There are tens of comparatists comparing French and German cinema or Early Modern Spanish and Italian poetry or Old English and Norse legends, but when we bringing in “subaltern” literatures, the numbers grow thin. Where are the specialists in South East Asian and Melanesian literature? Where are the comparatists seeking to draw ties between Feudal Japan and Feudal Russia? Are these specialists destined to represent the communities who cherish these literatures? Is it possible to break free of one’s race and culture in academia, to become something other than the Asian Literature person in your department?

The answer seems to be no. There is a systemic issue at play. In the interpellation process through which token undergrads decide to become token graduate students, there seems to be a push to further the niche study of one’s identity, so as to better understand one’s self and one’s history as contributing to the interplay of the world. This is a valiant effort; without this process, we wouldn’t have any ethnic studies at all. But the process by which this happens is a problem, for it dictates subconsciously that these studies, and that these specialists, function to integrate a space which otherwise doesn’t give a shit about them or their histories. The notion that the token must make their space safe for their personal and intellectual development means that the institution shows no interest in doing so. The token carries with them an identity which the academic institution sees as a hostile *foreign* entity; its antibodies of ideology and history and objectivity are deployed so as to subdue this body, to place it in a niche in which it can be understood and studied from a distance. This is why ethnic studies, gender and sexuality studies, and area studies are considered niche. They have their box, they have their tools, but they exist in their own institutional category, separate from all else, that which in its very nature is designed to curate objectivity, to take into consideration all of that which is of relevance to the academic institution, on which academe is founded.

Going into grad school, I am somewhat apprehensive of being the only Black person in my cohort, and this is the first time that I have ever had such feelings. As of right now, I am the only Black man in both of my classes, and likely the only one in the comparative literature program at Swarthmore, and this barely bothers me at all. Yet, the prospect of becoming the “postcolonial studies” guy, or the “African literature” guy, or the “black studies” guy or the “theory of colonialism and otherness” guy is deeply troubling, for it signifies the process of being rendered into a niche, the likes of which may relegate my work both in grad school and beyond nonconsequential to my immediate colleagues. I can imagine being a professor at __________ College or University, having to speak up as one of my colleagues in the department makes a questionable remark, or better yet, being eyed nervously, being called upon to validate their opinions on a subject matter which their grad program at Yale or Harvard or Brown believed was niche and apocryphal and therefore perfunctory to their development as a scholar. While I have to struggle through Molière and read copious amounts of Bourdieu, you can get your comparative literature PhD without having ever picked up the works of Albert Memmi or Ngugi wa Thiong’o.

This is why I am against canons, although it is impossible to really put up a fight against an institutional process so large as is canonization. Even the authors I have given as examples of “non-canonical” in literary studies, are canonical in their own small, othered niches. Nonetheless, the idea that there is a chronology of thought, an epistemological history, starting with Plato and ending with Derrida, excluding all of but a few women and POC, the likes of which were only accepted into the intellectual pantheon in order to diversify X and Y syllabi, ignoring all the other others who have constantly called for inclusivity, for qualification, for acceptance, is a problem that is far larger than myself, as the little black kid with his copy of Aimé Césaire in hand. It is a disheartening problem, and I feel as if I am being called on by the mass of the unheard and unseen to integrate a space which is perhaps more hostile to my presence than any other.

But I am doing so for my ancestors, to conjure their spirits back into the history books, to ground lofty theories in a world of experience. Some people have the privilege to live their lives as abstract notions, but my ancestors didn’t and neither do I. I wrote before that I do not exist to reaffirm white comfort, for my existence alone makes some shrink in their seats. I ruin the false image in their minds with my presence at their seminar table, and every time I say “let’s think about this in more concrete terms” I make them come to terms with the fact that their theories have real world ramifications, the likes of which are further away than they can imagine, but impact people’s lives in ways they wouldn’t believe. I have accepted this, not because I believe in nominal notions of diversity, but because it is important that I learn from the ignorance of the past so as to continue to develop a more progressive and inclusive future. I am not doing this for the students belonging to the dominant orders in my programs, for the future scholars of comparative French and Spanish drama or Prussian and Flemish poetry – I’m doing this for my Senegalese host mother and for my own mother, to figure them into the ways that we think about literature, and the ways we think about knowledge.

And so I must enter a niche and make a prison a home.

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Saturday, February 21, 2015

Audio Bible for February 21

Today's Audio Bible chapters are Numbers 24-26

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The main objective of the fellowship is to promote the importance of social, cultural and environmental awareness among the youths by field experience, research and voluntary works in different parts of the country.


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Saturday, 14 June 2014

Doh! Little Did I Know! Love Locks!

Ok, this morning, my fiance (by the way I'm getting married in August 2014) was looking at random things on his cell phone while I worked on my Weebly website. He showed me an image of bike locks with initials on them. I'm like, "hey! I took a photo like that at Whitby Harbour and used it for a wedding save the date item!" He proceeded to mention that there is a famous bridge that is literally Covered in pad locks and that he wanted to see it online. So, I did some investigating and who would have Known that this cool idea I thought I had with the pad locks on the railing along the path at the pier was a 100 or more year old trend called Love Lock! There are tons of objects, trees, fences, etc. being covered with locks. They'd need to be cut off to be removed. So much for it being My original idea for symbolizing locking ones' lives together, eternal love, etc. Doh!

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Join Adriene for this sweaty cleansing Yoga For Detox practice! This detox yoga sequence is designed to make you sweat as you build strength and twist it out. Massage the internal organs, tone the body and shed weight with this mindful yoga flow for detoxification and digestion!

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Frequently, people’s plans to lose weight fall by the wayside because they simply don’t know how to go about it. In this article, you’ll find a number of tips that will help you keep your workouts entertaining.

Listening to workout music can get your heart pumping and make you push yourself further. You will discover that your body moves naturally with the rhythm of the music. As the Law of Inertia states, once in motion, objects continue in motion until exterior forces are present. Start dancing and you will not be able to stop! Dancing is a superb way to work out your body.

Ask a friend if they would be interested in exercising with you. When you are having fun socializing with your friends, your exercise time will pass by much faster. Talking to friends will keep your mind off of the hard work you are doing.

Exercise videos are a great way to change up a boring exercise routine. There are many types available. Keep an assortment handy so your workouts stay fresh. Good music and interesting visuals have a way of driving you on even when you are feeling tired and sore!

Clothing has a lot do with your motivation, if you have athletic clothing on you will feel the need to fit the part. Dressing for success in weight loss follows the same formula as when you are trying to get a new job. Weight loss clothing can help you feel more committed to exercising. You may find that specialized exercise clothes are costlier, although the wide range of items currently available helps make workouts more fun and less difficult.

Try to avoid too much repetition. Make sure you spice it up! You are going to slow down over time if your workouts become boring to you. If you aren’t motivated, then you might stop working out. Changing a workout routine around regularly is a good idea to keep things fresh. This will ensure that you can remain engaged when you plan on working out over an extended period of time. If you stop working out, you will risk losing all of the progress that you have already made.

Once you accomplish your goal, no one will criticize you for rewarding yourself. After you have reached a specific goal, provide yourself with motivation so you can reach your next goal. You can treat yourself to a small portion of your favorite dessert, or perhaps buy a new exercise outfit that you have always wanted.

Luckily, exercise is not actually a dirty word that means only suffering and hard work. It can also be a fun diversion to an otherwise ordinary day. With the tips that are outlined below, you will be able to make exercising a fun experience.

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  1. I'm a little late to the party here, but whenever I go into that squat, I really feel some pain in my hips. Does anybody have any advice or thoughts on what I may be doing wrong?

  2. New to yoga, so my question is with Shavasanna should our backs be flat into the mat or should there be space between our lower back and the mat?

  3. I needed this. Thank you (:

  4. Lee DeCook says:

    Hi Adriene, I have been doing yoga on & off for 20 years now and at present I have not been going to any classes (for financial reasons).I thought why not do classes online, I hunted for a good teacher & waalaa I found you! I love your classes, you have a good way of explaining things. I feel like your almost in the room with me and guiding me. I particularly like this detox workout it really gets your blood flowing & feel alive after. Thank you so much for guiding us all who follow you. Namaste all the way from New Zealand x

  5. This was a great session! I feel the burn in my legs and so glad I was able to do the full video without giving up. New yogi here!!! So happy I found your channel.

  6. Hehehe adriene is so cute
    "So put on your yoga clothess"

  7. Cen Ben says:

    Hi! I deeply enjoy your videos!! However, I do wish you would take some time in between certain movements to really hold them. I almost feel rushed while transitioning. Also towards the end of your videos, you should try to incorporate a longer shavasna that's longer. I'd appreciate it! But stay wonderful!

  8. I love this flow. But does anyone else struggle with Warrior foot placement? I NEVER know how to position my back foot. It always feels awkward, and like I'm not doing it correctly. It makes me feel like I'm not getting all of the benefits of the posture.

  9. Léone says:

    Damn I felt that heat

  10. Anne Belle says:

    It's only 20mins but I really did sweat

  11. Love it, just what I needed today. Thank you!!

  12. Jon Cobb says:

    super grateful for your channel. this was my introduction to yoga.

  13. Kate Cone says:

    Thank you Adrienne! I'm 63 years old and out of shape, but my intention was to "stick with the video throughout," and I did it. Oomph. Love your practice.

  14. I'll need this once I run out of weed, I'll come back then.

  15. Wow, that roll on the spine really felt like it cracked all the right things back in all the right places. I feel great especially after that pose.

  16. I've been following your yoga videos for a few months now trying all different ones. Firstly I have to say thank you!! Your practice has really allowed me to come into my yoga own! Also this has got to be one of my favorite videos you've done!! Maybe I just really needed the release today, but there was something extra special about this particular practice. So thank you thank you thank you!!

  17. What park is this in Austin, TX?

  18. What are some good postures to help one gain weight?

  19. These series of postures were great!

  20. Dess says:

    I was so close to quitting at 13 minutes but told myself there's only 7 minutes left. So glad I stuck with it!!

  21. My neck is no longer rickety as it was in June from too much work and not enough flow. I've increased my time on the mat to almost daily starting with Adrienne's 30 days of yoga series. So helpful. Thank you, Adrienne!! You're a life saver! 🙏🏼

  22. I love this video so much <3 Adriene, you're the best!

  23. As usual I love the flow and twists. The only issue I have with binds are the random tugs I get from abdominal scar tissue. Are there any yogi tips/special poses/practices to help those of us who've had extensive abdominal surgeries and issues?

  24. Casey J says:

    Hi Adriene or anyone who knows a lot about yoga, I sometimes get a little bit of pain in my lower back from cobra or up dog. What can I do to prevent this?

  25. This was great. thanks Adrienne!X

  26. Loved this workout this morning – thank you x

  27. really amazing. I'll have this on my favorites vids

  28. Decided to do this yoga sequence cause I was feeling really gassy and uncomfortable this morning. I was ten minutes in, feeling really good! Then, with no warning, I threw up on my yoga mat. I thought it was pretty funny. Just had my gaul bladder removed last month, so I don't blame you, Adriene XD

  29. sacred406 says:

    A sweet quicky for the morning. A longer savasana would have benefited. As it is I was startled into the next video.
    Grateful for your offerings.

  30. All the moves were focused on right was not balanced with same moves on the left leg..especially at the beginning till the mid.

  31. Allie Shaw says:

    Really liked that one!

  32. Made me sweat a lot, awesome moves thanks for posting here

  33. Klubnika says:

    One of my absolute favorites!

  34. Jules vS says:

    Namastay on the yoga mat at the end … 🙂

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Friday, March 20, 2009

Still Working, And Still Really Pregnant

The prime commandment is: Thou Shalt Not Blog From Work. This has, alas, prevented me from communicating with you fine people, because I am either at work, or tired.

Work is fine. I have not-too-boring things to do while I am waiting around to have a baby, which are also things nobody else wants to do, so everyone's happy. These things can be put down with a moment's notice. This is because I work with smart people.

My mother always says, when you can't bear to be pregnant for one more minute... you have a week or two left.

Monday, Dr. S and his lab went out for farewell-to-departing-postdoc drinks. I went along, chatted, and played with someone's dog; then we went out to dinner. I was cheerful and sociable.

Tuesday morning I woke up and thought, "I don't like this any more." I had a backache, a footache, and a rib ache (where the baby keeps whomping me with its pointy, pointy little knees). There was crankiness. There were frequent trips to the ladies' room. There was a feeling like Pumpkin was snuggling up on my bladder and then bouncing.

Thursday I went to the midwife, who did a (fun and exciting) internal exam because she could not find the baby's head. This was because the baby's head was all the way the heck down into my pelvis. I appear to be 90% effaced, among other things. Which explains that feeling.

My mother will be here this Thursday. I kind of hope Pumpkin doesn't show up before then. And then part of me kind of hopes Pumpkin will show up TOMORRROW.


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October 01, 2016

The Changing Colours: Grey

I remember one weekend in August, during which I came home late for two days in a row. Very late, in fact, that the day almost changed. They were two different nights where I spent my time in two different places, with two different groups of people, and involving two different activities and  conversations. But the most peculiar thing was, they led me to the same conclusion. That night, I realised it wasn't only Blue that made my life miserable. Indeed, it was also because of the existence of another colour, Grey. When I talk about Grey, I refer to a colour in which everything seems like 'in between'. Between black and white. Between no and yes. Between here and there. A colour that represents the feeling of unfamiliarity to something that is actually familiar. To my surprise, Grey is also defined as something that 'without interest or character; dull and nondescript'. That is. Because everything seemed in between, it eventually made them uninteresting. When Grey appeared, I’d lose my interest in almost everything and everyone in my life.

It was on Friday night, when I spent a few hours with my friends at some bar. To be honest, it was the first time since I moved to Rotterdam that I went to places which I would never visit if it wasn't because of other people - wellI would never visited a bar just for my own sake . The first time I had long, random conversations with people I just met for less than a month. From love stories to PhD life to electro music to the rumour that Google bought military robots. The first time I had trouble catching my breath in order to adjust my pace with theirs. The first time I decided to cycle in the middle of the night. The first time I chose to kiss my own fear rather than letting myself overwhelmed by it. Then, the following night, I met two of my old friends from college. We went to a restaurant that I had previously visited twice, but we got lost because I could not remember the direction until I finally resorted to Google Maps to guide us. I have always been easily disoriented even in cities that I live in for years, but this time, it was worse. Not long after that, we watched fireworks from a little island across a bridge that I had actually visited couple of times, though I had never realized it up until that point. I did not even know the name of said island. It wasn't my first time seeing Rotterdam at night, but only during that time when we were walking through the city, seeing all the lights from skyscrapers illuminating the city, that I was amazed at how pretty it was. It was then when I realised I never really paid attention to this city.

They would not have been the same nights if I hadn’t smelled this scent. It was still summer, but on those two particular nights, the rain fell in Rotterdam and left this kind of scent. The typical scent that only lingers in the cold air or after raining. The scent that always makes me want to take a really deep breath, absorbing all of its energy until there is none left. And that was when this feeling appeared in my heart. A comforting feeling. The scent that suddenly reminded me of Bandung, London, and Bournemouth. Three places that have touched my heart; places that I have missed; places that I can safely say as 'home'. A sense of belonging. Attachment. Feelings whose existence I have almost forgotten. Eight months had passed and I got nothing. It was still the same as the first time I had arrived. I hardly knew the people. I hardly got used to work in the office room. I have hardly understood the language. I have hardly remember the street. I hardly adjusted with the system and the culture. Not to say that I don't like the city. I'm very grateful to live in this city. Otherwise, last year I would have accepted the offer from a university in England. But I don't. I don't want to live in the same place anymore. I'm one who wants to get new experience, to meet new people, to fall in love once again with new place that I may someday call home. I just don't expect that this time since it's very difficult for me to adapt with this kind of life.

But you know what? That was not the most surprising thing. On top of everything that had been going on, I felt unfamiliar with the life I have been living for twenty five years. The city I was born. The people I have known. The office where I worked in the past two years. The dreams that I have built. Everything felt so unfamiliar and unattached. I felt plain. It felt like I have been living for nothing and for no one. I felt lost. There was nowhere to escape. I tried to recall. And then I suddenly realised one thing; that even when I was in my own country, surrounded with people I know, understand the language, am used to the system, remember the streets; I had always ignored the fact that this feeling of belonging had been gone since a long while. That time, I realised that I had become someone who liked building this high wall around myself; to keep the distance from anyone and anything. I was used to it. I didn't mind at all. But now, with the presence of Grey, it suddenly made me realise how much I was disconnected with the world I have been living in. And for the first time in a long while, this loneliness had successfully brought me down into the deepest, darkest hole.

One good thing for having Grey is that it is an in-between. That means I still have a chance to choose. Whether I want to stay in the dark with Black, or stand under the light with White. After all these months and years I have spent my time with unfamiliarity, all I want now is to live my life with the feeling of attachment. Because I am sure that it's better to feel pain and sadness from saying goodbye or seeing the changes in my life rather than the absence of it. Because only by doing so that I may have another chance to see other colours in my life. And here I am; walking out of a dark tunnel towards a bright light.

  1. Aku kok sedih baca ini. :') Semangat Kak Ozu ;)

  2. Hahaha aku udah tenang kok sekarang, makanya bisa nulis semuanya disiniii. Makasih yaa Erny :D


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Russian investigators looking into every possible cause of crash, including terror

Russian rescue workers attend the scene of the crashed plane at a pier just outside Sochi, Russia, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2016. Russian ships, helicopters and drones are searching for bodies after a plane carrying 92 people crashed into the Black Sea. The plane was taking the Alexandrov Ensemble, a military choir, to perform at Russia's air base in Syria when it went down shortly after takeoff. (AP Photo/Viktor Klyushin)

SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Backed by ships, helicopters and drones, Russian rescue teams searched for victims in the Black Sea after a Russian plane carrying 92 people to Syria crashed Sunday shortly after takeoff from Sochi. Investigators said they are looking into every possible cause for the crash, including a terror attack.

All 84 passengers and eight crew members on board the Tu-154 plane operated by the Russian military are believed to have died when it fell into the sea two minutes after taking off in good weather from the southern Russian city. Emergency crews found fragments of the plane about 1.5 kilometers (less than one mile) from shore. By Sunday afternoon, rescue teams had already recovered 10 bodies.

Asked if a terror attack was a possibility, Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov said in Sochi that investigators were looking into every possible reason.

The plane belonged to the Defense Ministry and was taking its world famous army choir, the Alexandrov Ensemble, to a New Year’s concert at Hemeimeem air base in Syria’s coastal province of Latakia. Those on board also included nine Russian journalists and a Russian doctor famous for her work in war zones.

Russian President Vladimir Putin went on television to declare Monday a nationwide day of mourning.

“We will conduct a thorough investigation into the reasons and will do everything to support the victims’ families,” Putin said.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev described the crash as a “terrible tragedy.”

More than 3,000 people — including dozens of divers — worked from 27 ships and several helicopters to search the crash site, according to the Defense Ministry. Drones were also flown over to help spot bodies and debris. About 100 more divers were being flown in from naval facilities across Russia, and powerful spotlights were brought in so the search could continue around the clock.

Magomed Tolboyev, a decorated Russian test pilot, said the circumstances of the crash indicated that all on board had died.

“There is no chance to survive in such situation,” he said, according to the Interfax news agency. “The plane gets instantly blown into pieces.”

The Tu-154 is a Soviet-built three-engine airliner designed in the late 1960s. More than 1,000 have been built, and they have been used extensively by carriers in Russia and worldwide. The plane that crashed was built in 1983, and underwent factory check-ups and maintenance in 2014 and earlier this year, according to the Defense Ministry.

Senior Russian lawmakers had ruled out a terror attack, arguing that the military plane was tightly secured. But Sokolov, the minister overseeing the rescue efforts in Sochi, said investigators are considering all possibilities.

Some experts noted that the crew’s failure to report a malfunction pointed at a possible terror attack.

“Possible malfunctions … certainly wouldn’t have prevented the crew from reporting them,” Vitaly Andreyev, a former senior Russian air traffic controller, told RIA Novosti, adding that it points at an “external impact.”

Russian planes have been brought down previously by terror attacks.

In October 2015, a Russian passenger plane carrying mostly Russian tourists back from vacation in Egypt was brought down by a bomb over the Sinai, killing all 224 people aboard. Officials said the explosive device was planted in the plane’s luggage compartment. The local affiliate of the Islamic State group claimed responsibility.

In August 2004, two Russian planes were blown up in the skies over Russia by suicide bombers, killing 89 people. A Chechen warlord claimed responsibility for the twin attacks, which happened on the same day.

The Russian military has repeatedly flown groups of Russian singers and artists to perform at Hemeimeem, which serves as the main hub for the Russian air campaign in Syria. New Year’s is the main holiday for most Russians.

The passenger list for the Sochi plane released by the Defense Ministry included 64 members of the Alexandrov Ensemble, including its leader, Valery Khalilov. The ensemble, often referred to as the Red Army choir, is the official choir of the Russian military and also includes a band and a dance company. The choir sang “Get Lucky” at the opening of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games that Russia hosted in Sochi, becoming an instant online sensation.

The damage to the choir was reported to be extensive. Viktor Yeliseyev, head of the rival choir of the Russian National Guard, said “most singers of the choir have died.”

Also on board was Yelizaveta Glinka, a Russian doctor who has won wide acclaim for her charity work, which has included missions to war zones in eastern Ukraine and Syria. Her foundation said Glinka was accompanying a shipment of medicine for a hospital in Syria.

Putin presented Glinka with an award earlier this month.

“We never feel sure that we will come back alive,” she said at the Kremlin award ceremony. “But we are sure that kindness, compassion and charity are stronger than any weapon.”

In recent years, Russian airlines have replaced their Tu-154s with more modern planes, but the military and some other government agencies in Russia have continued to use them. While noisy and fuel-guzzling by modern standards, the plane has been popular with crews that appreciate its maneuverability and ruggedness.

“It’s an excellent plane, which has proven its reliability during decades of service,” veteran pilot Oleg Smirnov said in televised remarks.

In April 2010, a Tu-154 carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others crashed while trying to land at a sporadically used military airport in Smolensk in western Russia, killing everyone on board. Investigations by both Polish and Russian experts blamed pilot error in bad weather conditions, but Polish authorities have launched a new probe. provides commenting to allow for constructive discussion on the stories we cover. In order to comment here, you acknowledge you have read and agreed to our Terms of Service. Commenters who violate these terms, including use of vulgar language or racial slurs, will be banned. Please be respectful of the opinions of others and keep the conversation on topic and civil. If you see an inappropriate comment, please flag it for our moderators to review.

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Lazaro Arbos is a season 12 “American Idol” contestant. (Photo/Courtesy Michael Becker for FOX)

“American Idol” fan fave Lazaro Arbos wins during Hollywood Week despite getting called weakest link

Lazaro Arbos may have a difficult time communicating well because of his severe stutter, but his beautiful voice speaks for itself, helping him survive during eliminations during Hollywood Week at “American Idol.”

This year, Hollywood Week began a bit differently than seasons past, with males and females competing separately. The guys – who will be whittled down to 20 contestants – took to the stage Wednesday first in solo acapella elimination rounds. Then, in an “American Idol” first, the males were assigned to groups for a second round of eliminations (contestants are usually allowed to select their team mates).

Arbos, 21, did have a tough time explaining his decision to sing Robbie Williams’ “Angels” during the solo round but once he began, judge Nicki Minaj made it clear that he was headed straight through to the group round.

And that’s when the real trouble began. Arbos was assigned to sing with Josh Stephens, 19, Scott Fleenor, 21 and Christian Lopez, 17, and the group hit some roadblocks when it came to choosing a song.

“We were having trouble at first deciding what would be a good one for Lazaro to learn super fast since he kind of has a problem with our type of music because he didn’t grow up in America,” said Fleenor.

It’s a stinging comment for Arbos, who emigrated from Cuba at 10 years old. He admitted that he had never heard of the Beach Boys and patiently endured cruel comments from band mate Stephens.

“He’s kind of holding us back,” said Stephens.

“Sometimes I feel I can’t communicate well, sometimes people take that as not being smart,” said the Naples, Florida resident when asked about his difficulties practicing with the group.

But once Super 55 took to the stage, it was clear that Arbos was the competition to beat. The moment he began his solo, judges Urban and Randy Jackson beamed ear to ear – a reaction decidedly much different from the lukewarm reception team mates Stephens and Fleenor received during the group performance of “Wouldn’t It Be Nice.”

Arbos and Lopez were selected to move on, while the remaining group mates were sent home. An effusive Arbos thanked the judges, crying as Lopez gave his teammate a hug.

In this case, it looks like he who laughs last, laughs longest — an attitude that may very well take Arbos far in “American Idol.”

And don’t underestimate the Latino presence by the guys at Hollywood Week: Matheus Fernandes also made it through the night’s solo and group rounds, proving that Hispanic talent is making the 12th season of the FOX hit show its best ever.

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Friday, 24 October 2014

A damp quiet day

It's been a day for taking it quietly. The weather's been quiet as well, but a bit damp all day, not persisting down, or not very often, but constantly mizzly. As a result, we've spent most of it indoors, getting bits and pieces done but not achieving anything very dramatic.

Sheila's largely recovered from the effects of her flu jab, I'm pleased to say, and has been mostly getting on with her crochet. We did go round to the Farm Shop in the morning, buying meat, including pork escalopes for tonight, and a loaf of bread. I got some IT jobs done when we got back, so as not to feel totally bone idle.

This afternoon we managed a walk right round the marina without getting too wet. We called into the office to discuss displays for the Christmas Fair stand and inevitably chatted to one or two fellow moorers and lodgers on the way.

I had intended to take some photos of the new signs, but forgot the camera or iPad until we were on our way round. I planned to go back out with the iPad later, but it started raining more seriously, so I'm afraid you'll have to wait until tomorrow.

One revelation came through just now though; we've been mystified for quite a while by an occasional sound of suddenly trickling water in the wee small hours (those over 60 know what that term really means). It only comes once in a while and never more than once per night.

We've had all sorts of hypotheses; rain building up on the roof then running down through the gap in the handrail, a tap draining, water running out of a drain on the boat next door, but none have stood up to investigation.

Then, as I was idly playing a game of Canfield on the iPad, it came to me – the dehumidifier. During the winter, we have a compact dehumidifier running in the engine room during the day. It makes that space ideal for drying stuff that can't be tumbled and it reduces the condensation that otherwise tries to occur in the comparatively unheated space.

Now, a dehumidifier is, of course, a sort of inside out fridge, with a cold plate and a fan to blow the air over it. The plate shouldn't frost up particularly, but there's always the possibility of an odd bit of frost collecting in the corners. With the beast switched off over night so as not to disturb us, any such bits of frost will melt and run down into the reservoir, trickle, trickle.

You can sometimes see the same thing under a car with air con that's been parked up for a while.

Ah well, one less thing to worry about in the middle of the night...

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AUGUSTA, Ga. -- There were no green jackets handed out. But UCF picked up a big, momentum-building victory in Augusta on Sunday.

No. 6 UCF entered the final round of the 3M Augusta Invitational tied with No. 19 Texas. The Knights edged the Longhorns by one stroke Sunday at the Forest Hills Golf Club to take the one-shot victory. The Knights topped 13 other squads as well, en route to their second consecutive victory -- and fourth of the season.

The 3M Augusta Invitational featured five Top 20 teams and 12 Top 50 squads, including No. 13 Virginia Tech, No. 9 Illinois and No. 27 Baylor, which rounded out the top five finishers in the event. UCF also defeated No. 8 Houston, No. 22 New Mexico, No. 23 South Carolina, No. 28 Clemson, No. 42 Purdue, No. 43 Tennessee and No. 46 TCU.

“What a fantastic win for UCF,” Knights head coach Bryce Wallor said. “This was clearly the best of the 15-team tournament victories we’ve had in the last five seasons. I’m so proud of the total team effort this week. Every player made an important scoring contribution. This is positive momentum going into the postseason.”

In addition to the Knights’ second consecutive team victory, UCF picked up individual medalist honors at the 3M Augusta Invitational.

After Ricardo Gouveia won last week, senior Greg Eason stepped up this week. Eason was 11-under for the tournament. He opened with a red-hot 66 Saturday to grab the lead and he never relinquished it. Eason followed up with a 71 in the second round and was 4-under with a 68 Sunday. Eason birdied four of the last nine holes Sunday to pull out the win, his six career victory and his second this season.

Gouveia was solid once again this weekend, as well. He finished sixth at 7-under for the tournament. Of the 75 players entered, only seven were under par in each round. Eason and Gouveia were two of them. Gouveia fired a 1-under 71 Sunday.

Senior Kyle Wilshire also managed a top-10 finish. He rebounded from a rocky first-round 75 to post scores of 67 and 70 in the final two rounds. That left Wilshire 4-under for the tournament and tied for eighth.

“Our three seniors stepped up big this week,” Wallor said of Eason, Gouveia and Wilshire.

Freshman Federico Zucchetti and junior Linus Vaisanen rounded out the UCF lineup. Zucchetti tallied a 1-over 73 Sunday to finish 5-over and tied for 40th place. Vaisanen was tied for 63rd, going 10-over for the tournament.


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Nevada Center for Missing Loved Ones, a non-profit organization, will help search, locate and reunite, regardless of age, reported missing loved ones with their families.

We will use our resources and volunteers to assist local and national agencies to search, identify and return persons missing with special attention given to the elderly and those suffering from Alzheimer's and Dementia.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

NCMLO Reports their First Annual Charity Golf Tourney was a huge success!

Our first charity golf outing was held on August 15, 2008 with huge success. Promptly at 7PM the event commenced with enjoyment of appetizers and a raffle with over 25 prizes.

We had 57 golfers teeing off. First place went to a team sponsored by Classics Landscape. Second Place went to a team sponsored by Silver Lining Construction. Third place went to a team of four friends from Henderson. Closest to the pin went to a team sponsored by Aquatics Creation. A great time was had by all who attended.

We would like to thank all the sponsors, all those who played, and all those who volunteered. We would like to give a special thanks to all members of the golf committee.

Frank Mahoney

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Book Review: Hypoallergenic Diet- A Complete Guide

Stacie Deyglio, ND

hypoallerenic diet scanAfter reading this book, I was inspired by how often naturopathic physicians advise patients of health that can be achieved by dietary modifications. I took a moment to put myself in the patient’s role, remembering that what I as an ND perceive as a simple diet change may sometimes be interpreted as overwhelming or confusing to a patient. I have always found it helpful to guide a patient through a dietary change by counseling them in a pleasant, simple and organized way. Saeid Mushtagh’s book accomplishes just that.

The essence, the details and the facts about the Hypoallergenic Diet are presented by Dr. Mushtagh with a clear understanding. This book is an excellent resource for patients, medical students and natural enthusiasts who are either contemplating the hypoallergenic diet or are on it and are searching for recipes that fit the diet’s guidelines. The book was inspired by one of Dr. Mushtagh’s patients, who he was treating for irritable bowel syndrome.

The Hypoallergenic Diet book is broken into five parts. Part one relates the underlying principles of the diet and how it works physiologically to prevent illness: “Food allergies and sensitivities begin when undigested food particles, mainly proteins, bypass damaged mucosa and enter the blood circulation.” The discussion of part one also includes an explanation of how food allergies and sub-clinical food sensitivities manifest into physical conditions. The details of part one conclude with how maintaining the diet will both heal and prevent these physical conditions. In this way, Prevenire is the naturopathic principle best embodied by Mushtagh’s text. The book emphasizes the appropriate intervention of diet that is a foundation for common chronic conditions seen within Western society. By educating patients on how to take care of their physical conditions, the body’s innate ability to heal itself takes over, preventing the ailment: “During the course of the hypoallergenic diet, the body will get a chance to gently cleanse the system from food particles. As a result, inflammation subsides and the affected tissues heal.”

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Part two of the book discusses how to employ the diet. This is an ideal component, as it relays the information simply, employing tables and lists. Shopping tips are included to help fine-tune the details of the diet when shopping for specific meats, produce and vegetables. Part three includes rationale behind the elimination of some main food groups. Part four contains very yummy recipes, such as Buckwheat pear cake and Ruby chickpeas and yam with quinoa. Part five concludes with scientific evidence that supports the use of the hypoallergenic diet.

deyglioStacie Deyglio, ND received her baccalaureate degree in biology with a minor in chemistry from the College of Mt. St. Vincent in New York. Personal health issues paved her way to discover naturopathic medicine in 1999. Resonating with the philosophy and principles of naturopathic medicine, Deyglio graduated from the University of Bridgeport College of Naturopathic Medicine in 2003. As a medical student, she was actively involved in student government, fundraising and the generation of two successful student-run health fairs. Currently residing in Arizona, Deyglio is an avid bookworm who is actively creating her practice after a three-year sabbatical taken to raise her son.

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Lorenzo Fabbri

The Domestication of Derrida: Rorty, Pragmatism and Deconstruction

Lorenzo Fabbri, The Domestication of Derrida: Rorty, Pragmatism and Deconstruction, Continuum, 2008, 150pp., $130.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780826497789.

Reviewed by Elizabeth A. Sperry, William Jewell College

Profound disagreement can be more comfortable for interested parties than a family resemblance between broadly similar approaches. Where there is a shared bloodline, more complete alignment seems within reach, if only the other side would wise up on a few details. Derrida and Rorty are just such philosophical siblings. Each appreciated the other, but expressed puzzlement at aspects of the other's work. The puzzlement was all the more vexing because seemingly irresolvable, despite Derrida's and Rorty's shared project of questioning philosophical absolutes.

Lorenzo Fabbri passes judgment on this scene of sibling strife in The Domestication of Derrida: Rorty, Pragmatism and Deconstruction. Adjudicating a dispute over fine points requires care: it demands an accurate portrayal of each account and a thoughtful sifting of differences. Unfortunately, Fabbri routinely fails to demonstrate such care. Nevertheless, The Domestication of Derrida may prove useful to some non-Continental philosophers, given its accessible treatment of Derrida. Juxtaposing Derrida and Rorty enables Fabbri to piggyback some of Derrida's ideas on Rorty's, a device that could be helpful to American readers already familiar with Rorty.

Fabbri sets himself three tasks: first, to explore areas of agreement between Derrida and Rorty; second, to present Rorty's failings as an interpreter of Derrida; and third, to expose Rorty's own philosophical shortcomings. Fabbri's title initially suggests a primary focus on Derrida, but in fact Fabbri is largely occupied with assessing Rorty. This is no bait and switch: it makes perfect sense given Derrida's and Rorty's overlapping intellectual territory.

Fabbri writes in a continental style, as befits a monograph in the Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy Series. While pursuing his three aims, Fabbri expostulates on Benjamin, Harold Bloom, De Man, Foucault, Habermas, Hegel, Heidegger, Husserl, Kant, and Nietzsche. Analytic philosophers might consider these discussions to be unfocussed digressions; continental philosophers may see them as interesting intellectual back-story. Still, it is surprising that a book announcing Rorty's shortcomings finds so much time and space for so many other thinkers, when so little time and space is devoted to independent textual analysis of Rorty's oeuvre.

Fabbri explains that as an undergraduate he found "Rorty's interpretation of deconstruction fundamental for orienting me in Derrida's apparently senseless writing" (Fabbri, 1). Derrida, like Rorty, denies that we ever "meet the pure world" (Fabbri, 29). Instead, for Derrida, all attempts to refer to reality are already structured in advance by the workings of our language. Even one's self is partially constituted by others' language. Deconstruction aims to show the instability of this language and of the metaphysics it instantiates by "exhibit[ing] its own impropriety and non-independence" (Fabbri, 35).

Despite Rorty's value as a first approximation to Derrida, Fabbri ultimately finds Rorty's approach to Derrida flawed. In a passage that also provides a sense of his rhetorical approach, Fabbri writes that Rorty tries to "domesticate Derrida and to make him pacific, restrained, inoffensive. To turn a monster into a pet. A puppy." (Fabbri, 126) This "domestication" has two fronts: Rorty interprets Derrida as anti-metaphysical, and Rorty limits Derrida's work to the private sphere, despite deconstruction's political intent. Rorty ought instead to have read Derrida as using metaphysics to challenge metaphysics from within, and as an active political agent undermining concepts that support state power.

Rorty misrepresents Derrida, on Fabbri's view, but he also advocates terminally flawed positions of his own. Metaphysically, Fabbri explains, Rorty is self-referentially incoherent; politically, his views are abhorrent. Hence Rorty's own flaws connect with his presentation of Derrida: he sees Derrida as metaphysical because he cannot think clearly about the metaphysical, and he sees Derrida as apolitical because his neopragmatism is apolitical.

Despite family resemblances, there are important differences between Derrida's and Rorty's handlings of metaphysics and of the relationship between philosophy and politics. Fabbri's book, however, ignores the conceptual reasons for these differences, so that his analyses often turn on equivocation. This difficulty is particularly apparent in Fabbri's treatment of the metaphysical question.

When Rorty attacks metaphysics, he is trying to understand human experience without the intellectual backdrop originally provided by Greek philosophy, particularly its notion that we can know intrinsic natures of things. Relieved of traditional essentialism, truth and rationality reduce to workability and usefulness, and no longer purport to mirror reality. We continue to speak of everyday objects, but no longer believe ourselves to have plumbed their eternal natures.

Derrida's attack on metaphysics, on the other hand, references a broader and more pervasive problematic: the very words we use commit us to a way of understanding the world, a way of understanding which we cannot evade except at the cost of abandoning language altogether. Language itself is irreducibly metaphysical. Our vocabulary imports its own presuppositions, meaning that any talk of everyday objects shapes our orientation toward those objects. Since we cannot do without language for very long, and certainly cannot do without language in philosophical and literary analysis, we must retain our language -- and hence our metaphysics -- while interrogating it on its own terms. This is a vexed strategy, but there are no alternatives.

The distinction between Derridean and Rortyian "metaphysics" is problematic for Fabbri, because he shows no evidence of having noticed it. If one assumes the Derridean concept, Rorty's work will appear incoherent, because Rorty aims to eliminate metaphysics. For Derrida, eliminating metaphysics would entail eliminating language, but Rorty continues his language use.

Fabbri considers Rorty a stealth metaphysician. Rorty is ultimately a metaphysician because he seeks an underlying reality (Fabbri, 67), and because he "is incapable of avoiding a hidden reference to something extratextual … power, or coherence" (Fabbri, 64). But if assessing the workability, usefulness, power, and coherence of our ideas renders them metaphysical, this is not immediately apparent simply because these criteria are "extratextual." Fabbri must provide an argument. He fails to do so because he assumes the Derridean conception of all language as irreducibly metaphysical, and hence begs the question against the different, Rortyian notion of metaphysics as essentialism.

Fabbri has not only misunderstood Rorty; he has also missed an opportunity to consider the relative merits of alternative postmodernisms. But pursuing this opportunity would require first giving each alternative its interpretive due. Had Fabbri properly assessed Rorty's attack on metaphysics, he might have been able to explore the comparative merits of Rortyian non-essentialism and Derridean self-interrogating metaphysics, and perhaps even mounted a credible argument favoring the Derridean strategy.

A similar difficulty arises in Fabbri's account of the Derridean and Rortyian approach to political action. Derrida, as Fabbri explains, works to change the vocabulary that makes us overly comfortable with continued human suffering, a project I will label philosophical politics. Rorty argues, especially in Achieving Our Country, for the importance of working directly to alleviate human suffering, a project we could call active politics. A careful reading of Rorty's work shows that he does not denigrate philosophical politics in its own right; it is a project he engages in himself, and appreciates in Derrida (see "Habermas, Derrida, and Philosophy," where Rorty approves of Derrida's usefulness for showing "how the creation of new discourses can enlarge the realm of possibility." Truth and Progress, 310). But Rorty does disparage any pretensions on the part of philosophical politics to constitute active politics, particularly where philosophical politics becomes an impediment to active politics (see Achieving Our Country 14, 37, 78, and 96-7). Why? Because the most immediate need of the starving, the tortured, and the oppressed is for food, for peace, and for justice. Philosophy may ultimately conduce to the provision of food, peace, and justice, but it is not food or justice. This is why Rorty says of Derrida that he does "little to justify the choice of such a utopia or to hasten its arrival" ("Habermas, Derrida, and Philosophy," Truth and Progress, 310).

Accordingly, there is legitimate disagreement between Rorty and Derrida concerning the value of philosophical politics, and careful consideration of this disagreement requires an understanding of Rorty's actual views. It does not help simply to accuse Rorty of expecting "too little politics from Derrida" (Fabbri, 51) without noting Rorty's argument for a distinction between active and philosophical politics. The distinction has at least prima facie merit, but Fabbri does not see it. In fact, he claims Derrida does "philosophy as a political practice of civil disobedience" (Fabbri, 99). I agree with Fabbri that philosophy can be powerful, but I cannot see how to equate it with blocking the streets.

Unhappily, Fabbri's failure to consider thoughtfully the implications of disagreements between Derrida and Rorty is not the central problem with The Domestication of Derrida. The central problem, instead, is that Fabbri consistently upbraids Rorty for views Rorty does not hold. Probably the most stunning instance of misinterpretation in this book is Fabbri's contention that Rorty favors near-fascism to suppress social critique. Fabbri writes that "Rorty clearly asserts the possibility of resorting to violence to eradicate the philosophical threats to democracy" (Fabbri, 123) and that "Rorty does not hesitate to summon the brutal intervention of the police to enforce the social status quo" (125). Fabbri bases these claims on a passage in Rorty's "The Priority of Democracy to Philosophy." In that passage, Rorty says that a liberal democracy "will use force against the individual conscience, just insofar as conscience leads individuals to act so as to threaten democratic institutions" (Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth, 183). Fabbri ought to be aware that Rorty argues throughout his corpus in favor of free, unfettered society-wide discussion as a prerequisite for social and conceptual progress. Fabbri also ought to have understood that this passage is about the Unabomber and his ilk: they must be restrained if the rest of us are to be able to go about our lives. Fabbri simply assumes that by "threats to democratic institutions" Rorty understands "open discussion" as a threat, when Rorty's real concern is preventing acts of violence that make open discussion impossible.

Nearly as egregious is Fabbri's contention that Rorty does not care to "desubjugate" minorities (Fabbri, 116) and wishes instead to leave the dispossessed in conditions of oppression. Fabbri claims Rorty maintains that "We can survive only by forbidding the Third World's inhabitants all the comforts we enjoy… . There is no reason for him to care about the 'not-we'" (Fabbri, 119). Again, this ignores Rorty's repeated calls to "imagine [ourselves] in the shoes of the despised and the oppressed" ("Human Rights, Rationality, and Sentimentality," Truth and Progress, 179) and to "stay on the lookout for marginalized people -- people whom we still instinctively think of as 'they' rather than 'us'" ("Solidarity," Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, 196). Rorty explicitly exhorts Western democracies to expand our sense of "we" so that we begin to care for the needs of people beyond those we have considered thus far.

Fabbri makes other blunders of this sort. For instance, he claims that Rorty, the author of "The Contingency of Language," "The Contingency of Selfhood," and "The Contingency of a Liberal Community" (all in Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity), opposes a focus on "the radical contingency of the current now" (Fabbri, 118). He attributes to Rorty a "ban" " (Fabbri, 117) on non-intellectuals assessing their own social shaping. (Rorty imagines a descriptive scenario in which non-intellectuals are "commonsensically nominalist and historicist" without caring to pursue further philosophical inquiry, but nowhere suggests the scenario is prescriptive. See "Private Irony and Liberal Hope," Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, 87.) As before, Fabbri's claims are enabled by readings that take Rorty's sentences out of their original context, and isolate them from his persistently stated themes. It is unfortunate that such hermeneutic irresponsibility occurs in a book hoping to show that Rorty's use of Derrida rests on a misinterpretation.

Is language itself ineradicably metaphysical, or can it be pragmatically repurposed without an essentialistic foundation? Do we make concrete, political improvements in our lives when we destabilize the language in which we understand ourselves, or do we merely clear the way for subsequent concrete, political improvements? These questions are not so oppositional as the choice between, say, Platonism and postmodernism. But for anyone interested in postmodern theorizing, they are important questions nonetheless. Family disputes are best resolved with careful attention to the legitimate claims of all parties. Readers in search of such an approach are advised to look beyond The Domestication of Derrida.


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Monday, May 11, 2009

Mother's Day

This picture was taken on Mother's Day last year (also Morgan's Confirmation Day). No, I didn't wear the pink Crocks to church; they were a Mother's Day gift. Laugh all you want--they're COMFORTABLE!
We had a nice Mother’s Day. My kids are so special, and it’s such a blessing to be a mom. When I got up this morning and went into my office, there was a small remote control on my desk, with a note that said, “turn to the right,” “press power,” “ENJOY!” Cody and Morgan had gotten me a CD player/radio for my desk, and Cody had it all set up and ready to listen to. It was so nice of him to get it out of the box and all unwrapped and hooked up for me.

Later in the afternoon we went to the graduation party of a good friend of ours, and I got to see some of my mom-friends I know through cattle showing.

It is hard to believe that Cody will be graduating from high school next year! We will certainly miss him when he goes to college! But we also know that it’s our job as parents to raise our children to be independent, productive members of society. On the way home from the graduation party, Cody (who has been to several other graduation parties of friends) and I started a list of the things he would like at his graduation party next year. It was fun to start planning—I’m sure the year will go very fast.

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October Paper Pumpkin

The October 2016 Paper Pumpkin Kit is really fun to make!  You get to make 8 Fall Shaker Cards.  I pretty much followed the instructions.  There were enough Foam Adhesive Strips to divide the sequins for each leaf.  Just remember to attach the window sheet behind the leaves first.
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Thursday, August 30, 2007

Night with the Legend

It was a night worth to remember a spectacle i shall never forget. Mr. Tony Bennet was in town for a 2hr concert, it was my first live solo performance experience here in the states so i just feel like sharing it to everyone. I'm a music lover mostly oldies coz i grew up listening to it, this was really a treat if you know what i mean. Plus his not getting any younger, this could be first and last glimpse of the him. That's why Richard did not hesitate to get tickets for us when i saw the promotion from our local grocery store. So concern to miss the event we held them(tickets) hostage for a month. I told him that i can watch it alone if he choose to stay home but he happen to like him, surprisingly he even have some of his songs loaded on his ipod so I figured he'll tag along and even bought another ticket for his dad. Another bonus is that he got the best seat the closest i can get to take a decent picture of him. Can you imagine my excitement? really it's tremendous.

The night started with dinner at the same building, fine dinning which i'm not really fond of, food and service was excellent for the price we paid ,it better be good, right folks? The place was packed with people of all ages, mostly on their 40's and above lol. It's a solo night but he brought along a surprise for us, his daughter singing one of my favorite of all time standard song "The Nearness of You". I could not help whisper the lyrics in the air lol. I know i'm not supposed to do that, i just missed performing a lot that's all. Some favorites like The way you look tonight, Shadow of your smile, For once in my life, Boulevard of broken dreams, I left my heart in san fransisco, and the popular "Fly me to the moon by Frank sinatra as he pay tribute to his bestfriend was among the selection. It's so wonderful and refreshing to hear these songs live from a legend. I couldn't ask for a better pre-birthday treat than this. He was magnificent, little dance steps here and there, short chats in between made me feel like i've known his life a little bit. I didn't know Bob Hope gave him his name tony bennet, his original name was quite long so the comedian thought it's best for him to get an american short name, that's how it all started. What a memorable wonderful 50 years career he had he said and still wishes to continue to sing for everyone. Him saying that really inspired me. I will truly be a big fan of yours Mr. Tony Bennet. More years to come for you and your music.....

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Sunday, August 05, 2007

Eight months and home alone again

7and a half monnths photos of mattie

It's challenging to be left alone with a hyperenergetic infant in tow, though i dislike it a lot before the baby when hubby travel out of country, now i must admit i'm not as bored and irritated as i used to. Because at least i get to play and do more chores with the little one if i don't feel like going out thus requires moving around doing something to be entertained. Just perfect for my personality, coz it makes me feel productive and useful. I think i know where my son got all his energy lol. Hubby coudn't agree more either lol. Mother son bonding definitely fill in the hours of my mundane day to day existence. Honestly, it's more of like my favorite hobby now. Fun and interesting, also a learning exploration of my childs growth and development. Each day is like another day of newfound skills ready to be unfold to the world, it's amazing. It's like a sequence in the movie only i get to watch it live all the time lol. Truthfully, this is the stage that i'm so looking forward to, we interact and me on the other hand playing foolishly like a clown to match up with him. I couldn't ask for a better playmate.

So what's new with my 8month old hyper boy lol? He crawls and scoots(combat crawl)half and half, ends up with the latter most of the time. He can climb up to the sixth stairway now unsupported while me watching him at the near side below. He can manned his walker back and forth easily, sometimes he couldn't figure out how to get out when stuck on the edges of the kitchen cabinets, besides that he is cruising fine when there's no obstruction. So far these are the major ones. Other minor silliness like pulling the stopper cap behind each doors and eat it, he have a fetish with anything that has tags exposed on it(clothes, rags, toys,cables). More fascinated with our cat buddy that he wants to go after her when he sees her coming. He recognizes her meows too that he would stop instantly in whatever he does to find the object that's making the sound. Attentive and curious, i wouldn't be surprise if he becomes an investigator in the future. I got a daily report from the daycare people saying he has been a bully lately, stealing other babies toys. There are times too that some female babies left with him in the afternoon pulling his foot backward so he couldn't crawl. They said he hated it so much that he end up screaming furiously loud enough to get their attention lol.

Video my mattie on his walker:

affair with my belly folds......

Now that im back to my pre pregnancy weight i coudn't help to get annoyed with my little flabs. I am now wearing my old clothes but could not enjoy the looks of it. I know i shouldn't be whining right considering that it only took me 8mnths to shed it? But heck i don't have the guts to flaunt the extra piece of skin when i wear lowrise bottoms. Grrrrr, i can't let this stay for long, it has to go away otherwise it's very unlikely for my skin to get back to normal according to some doctors. Speaking of cocobutter, since early in my pregnancy i've never stop using it. I really hope it holds true to it's purpose of reducing stretch marks.... i do have a few on my left lower side only that needs help lol. I'm so vain when it comes to this(tsk tsk shame). My hair and body is what makes me feel good and confident, forget about materials stuff that covers it..... those weighs less to nothing to my whole being. Alright, time to hit the floor for some crunches i mean serious 15-25minutes of sit ups/crunches starting this week.

Meanwhile, i decided to play golf today with mattie riding along, we'll see if i survive without daddy's company to switch him around. Some fresh air and sun is much needed booze today to prepare me for this second week of being home alone with my shortie. We were suppposed to go spend our weekend at the lake 2hrs outside of Houston with my inlaws, but too short of a time and a lot of moving around with the little one to be worth a road trip going there and flying over to get back here in SA. So i decided for us to stay home, i'm a little sad. But it's ok we'll survive.

P.S. he finally got some teeth, two sharp ones lol.

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It’s Canadian Thanksgiving!

In honor of Canadian Thanksgiving weekend, I want to highlight my favorite Canadian blog,!

I made these pumpkin squares this weekend and they are delicious! What I love about these bars is that they call for pumpkin, which is delicious and easy on our digestive systems. I have cans ready year round for my dogs to have as meals when they’re not feeling well. It ALSO uses gelatin, packing a double bunch of gut healing food. It had been so long since I had bone broth that I convinced myself I need some powdered gelatin in my life (any excuse for sweets, right?) I use maple syrup instead of honey and almond flour in place of the arrowroot powder in this recipe. Still turns out delicious, but I do suggest letting it set overnight.

This is a great addition to your Thanksgiving celebration this year! Stay tuned for more harvest  recipes this month!

Pumpkin Pie Squares (Paleo, AIP)
Author: Martine Partridge
Recipe type: Treats
Serves: 12

         For the crust:

  • ¼ c coconut flour
  • 1 tbsp. arrowroot flour
  • pinch of salt
  • ¼ c coconut oil, dry measure then melt
  • 1 tbsp. maple syrup or honey
  • 2 tbsp. water
  • 1 tsp. vanilla extractFor the pumpkin layer:
  • 2 c pumpkin purée
  • ¼ c maple syrup or honey
  • ¼ c coconut oil
  • 1½ tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp ginger
  • ¼ tsp cloves
  • 2 tbsp. coconut flour
  • 1½ tsp gelatin + ¼ c water
  1. In a mixing bowl, combine coconut flour, arrowroot flour, and a pinch of salt. Make a well in the centre.
  2. Add the melted coconut oil, maple syrup or honey, water, and vanilla into the well.
  3. Stir until thickened and a dough forms. Press into an 8×8 pan.
  4. Bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes until golden on the edges.
  5. Remove from the oven and cool.
  6. While the crust is cooling, prepare the pumpkin layer.
  7. In a small sauce pan, sprinkle the gelatin over the water and allow to soften for 5 minutes. Turn heat to low and stir to melt gelatin completely. Remove from heat.
  8. Add the gelatin mixture to the pumpkin puree, maple syrup (or honey), coconut oil, vanilla, pinch of salt, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and coconut flour.
  9. Combine all ingredients and process until smooth.
  10. Pour the pumpkin mixture over the cooled crust and place in the refrigerator to chill for several hours or overnight.
  11. Cut into squares and serve with whipped coconut topping, if you fancy that!

Autumn Favorites: More Paleo Lovers Recipes

autumn favorites paleo

We had a rainy fall weekend here in NC, which is one of my favorite types of weather! We went on two long runs with our dogs and I finally got to whip up one of my favorite fall recipes: Bison & Acorn squash Chili. My recipe was featured on Mind Body Green this year, so go on over and check it out on my favorite health blog.

We were supposed to go apple picking this weekend, but our outing and my paleo apple bread got rained out. Instead, I whipped up some Paleo Pumpkin-Banana/Peach bread with the 8 brown bananas I had frozen over the last several months. I went a little crazy with the cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger, but this definitely tastes like fall, so I recommend to all! This is my own recipe, and if you haven’t noticed, I like to keep it simple with the measurements and ingredients. We are not all Chefs out there and I don’t think that arrowroot powder or palm and coconut sugars benefit my digestion. So if you ever have questions  about steps or ingredients because of my focus on simplicity, please comment! I will respond quickly!

Autumn favorites Paleo

1/2 cup Almond Flour
1/2 cup Coconut Flour
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
Lots of pumpkin pie spice or: cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, and ginger
3 eggs
1/4 cup maple syrup
1/3 cup melted butter
1/2 cup organic pureed pumpkin
3-4 ripe bananas or peaches ( I made a loaf with each and left out maple syrup with peaches)
* Walnuts would be excellent in this bread! I just have an allergy 🙂

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  2. Mix your first 4 ingredients in a bowl (dry ones)
  3. Mix your last 5 ingredients 9wet ones) in a separate bowl until smooth
  4. Combine all ingredients into one bowl and mix until all is incorporated evenly
  5. Pour into bread pan and bake for 35-45 minutes.
    Disclaimer: Traditionally, this should take 45, but I have a hot oven and take everything out early! Know thy Oven!! And know thyself: I like REALLY moist bread that falls apart.


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Attack on titan posters

The cast has been announced for the live-action film version of Attack On Titan and we have been provided with some spectacular looking shots of each of the characters. We have noticed that some of the Japanese names are not actually part of the Manga or Anime, so this has left us assuming that liberties have been made in the script. Furthermore, in the manga and anime, Asians are practically extinct with the character of Mikasa being considered exotic – due to her kind being rare.

Producer Yoshihiro Satou offers more information on the casting front when chatting with, and he pitched in with this little tidbit:

“We weren’t concerned about casting people on the basis of whether or not they looked like their character in the manga. After many discussions with Isayama-sensei, we cast people only on the ability to carry over the spirit of the character.”

So it appears that acting ability was a major priority in the casting department (which kind of makes sense if you really think about it!).

According to, director Shinji Higuchi had many discussions with the cast members before they started shooting:

“They carried out their roles splendidly. One part would have no less than three costume meetings, camera tests, etc. Details on the 3-D gear and costumes were custom made so that each character matched their manga counterpart.”

Higauchi elaborated on the seriousness of getting the cast into character (…military drills …pretty hardcore eh?!):

“Isayama-sensei was a bit embarassed when came to the set and saw the military drills for the first time with the cast in costume. He gave them his stamp of approval.”

Check out some of the costume designs in our gallery bellow:

Via – and 0takomu

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