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The Holy Trinity and the Law of Three – Excerpt

EXCERPT: This is the Introduction chapter from The Holy Trinity and the Law of Three: Discovering the Radical Truth at the Heart of Christianity, by Cynthia Bourgeault – Published by  Shambhala Publications, July 9 2013.

My first challenge in writing this book will be to persuade you that there is anything here worth considering at all. With so many urgent practical issues facing spiritual humanity, why waste time with the Trinity, a doctrine that most of the world (and even much of Christianity) regards as contrived and irrelevant?  It takes a real stretch of the theological imagination to claim that it was ever a part of the original Jesus teachings or that it does a single thing to clarify or enhance these teachings. In fact, the eminent twentieth century theologian Karl Rahner has claimed that if the Trinity were to quietly disappear out of Christian theology, never to be mentioned again, most of Christendom would not even notice its absence!

By way of a circuitous response, let me offer you a story which was told to me by my longtime friend and teacher, the Abkhazian dervish elder Murat Yagan.

In the years immediately following World War II, Murat recounts, he spent a time ranching in a remote corner of eastern Turkey. There he became friends with an elderly couple, with whom he frequently shared a meal. Life had been good to them, but their one sadness was that they missed their only son, who had left some years before to seek work in Istanbul. Though he indeed had become a successful businessman, they had infrequent contact with him and missed him greatly.

One day when Murat appeared on their doorstep for tea, the old couple were bursting with pride to show him the new tea cupboard that their son had just shipped them from Istanbul. It was indeed a handsome piece of furniture, and the woman had already proudly arranged her best tea set on its upper shelf.  Murat was polite but curious. Why would their son go to such expense to send them a tea cupboard? Why, for a piece of furniture whose ostensible purpose was storage, was there such a noticeable absence of drawers and cabinets?  “Are you sure it’s a tea cupboard?” Murat asked them. They were sure.

But the question continued to nag at Murat. Finally, just as he was taking his leave, he said, “Do you mind if I have a closer look at this tea cupboard?” With their permission, he turned the backside around and unscrewed a couple of packing boards. A set of cabinet doors swung open to reveal inside a fully operative ham radio set.

That “tea cupboard,” of course, was intended to connect them to their son. But unaware of its real contents, they were simply using it to display their china.

To my mind,  that is an unsettlingly apt analogy for how we Christians have been using  the Holy Trinity. It is our theological tea cupboard, upon which we display our finest doctrinal china, our prized assertion that Jesus, a human being, is fully divine. This is not necessarily a bad thing, just as it was not a bad thing for the elderly lady to set forth her prettiest teacups on the new piece of furniture. But what if, unbeknownst to nearly everyone, inside it is concealed a powerful communications tool that could connect us to the rest of the worlds (visible and invisible), allow us to navigate our way through many of the doctrinal and ethical logjams of our time, and place the teachings of Jesus in a dynamic metaphysical framework that would truly unlock their power?

It’s simply a matter of turning the tea cabinet around and learning how to look inside. That’s what this I’m proposing to do in this book.

In a nutshell, I will claim that embedded within this theological formula which we recite mostly on automatic pilot (“In the name of the Father, the Son, and Holy Spirit”) lies a powerful metaphysical principle that could change our understanding of Christianity and give us the tools so long and so sorely needed to reunite our shattered cosmology, rekindle our visionary imagination, and cooperate consciously with the manifestation of Jesus’ “Kingdom of Heaven” here on earth. That principle is called The Law of Three, and the metaphysics that derive from it can be called “ternary metaphysics.”

The Law of Three is, I believe, Christianity’s hidden driveshaft, and its presence so far has been only intuited, never explicitly identified by theologians. It is distinctly different from the speculative formulations of Patristic theology, or even from the well-worn metaphysical roadmaps of sophia perennis (the “perennial philosophy”) in which Wisdom alternatives to doctrinal orthodoxy are nearly always couched.  Comprehensive, profoundly original, and like all driveshafts concerned with forward motion, it is Christianity’s authentic temperament, the key in which theoria and praxis come together, in which all its teachings begin to hang together.

Trinity SymbolBut this principle is almost entirely unheard of—not because it is particularly hidden or buried, but because the conversation about it has so far gone on within circles that have been considered strictly off limits to traditional academic and theological inquiry. It does not belong to any body of knowledge that theologians generally consider germane to their studies. It is not a part of patristic theology, or the neo-Platonic underpinnings on which that theology rests. It is not a part of classic Christian hermeticism, or of the great tradition of sophia perennis. And while inklings of it can be discerned in certain Christian mystical streams (particularly those flowing through Jacob Boehme and Teilhard de Chardin), it was articulated only in the early twentieth century by the Armenian-born spiritual teacher G.I.Gurdjieff, and until very recently it has been studied and transmitted exclusively within that stream of contemporary esotericism known as the Gurdjieff Work.

That is about as far off limits as one can get.

Admittedly, the times changing. Only a generation ago the term “Gurdjieff Work” would have evoked well-nigh universal blank stares. Now that the Work has finally begun to come above ground (“outed,” to a large degree, by the contemporary enneagram personality typing movement, with which it shares a considerably overlapping body of esoteric material), people are looking with newfound curiosity at the eclectic and wildly original metaphysics that this one-of-a-kind spiritual genius G.I. Gurdjieff  (1866-1949) claims to have synthesized from Wisdom Schools he discovered, after a long search, in Central Asia.

The Law of Three, according to Gurdjieff— together with its companion piece, the Law of Seven—comprise what he calls the foundational “Laws of World Creation and World Maintenance.” The interweaving of these two cosmic laws is depicted in the symbol of the enneagram, whose nine points reveal (to those properly initiated) the direction and energetic dynamism through which the world maintains its forward motion. During the ten years I participated in the Work, we studied these laws assiduously, applied them to the solution of both ordinary problems and cosmic mysteries, and danced their laylines in the famous Gurdjieff movements. We even heard in passing that the Law of Three had had its origins deep within the oral traditions of the Eastern Orthodox Church and that the mysterious prayer “Holy God, Holy the Firm, Holy Immortal, Have Mercy on us” might indeed reflect a vestigial awareness of the primordial forces in the Law of Three. But no one I met in the Gurdjieff Work seemed particularly interested in reintegrating this powerful transformative principle into Christianity (most seemed to feel that Christianity was beyond salvaging), and certainly most the Christians I knew from my daily rounds as an Episcopal priest and retreat leader were totally wary of anything that smacked of esotericism.

So for a long time, I simply kept these two streams separate, allowing the knowledge I’d gleaned from my years in the Gurdjieff work to inform my personal efforts at inner awakening. While I wondered from time to time whether there might really be a connecting link between the Trinity and the Law of Three, it all seemed too tenuous and fraught with difficulty to pursue.

What broke me out of this holding pattern came from an entirely unexpected quarter: a surprising discomfort I noticed myself experiencing around one of the more popular theological initiatives of our time, the effort to reclaim the Holy Spirit as “she.”  Motivated by a sincere desire to recover the “divine feminine” within Christianity, the groundswell has steadily built toward this feminine re-imaging, which indeed has a certain linguistic justification as well as a strong archetypal appeal.  As a woman priest generally identified as being on the progressive end of the theological spectrum, I was surprised to find myself digging in my heels. But something from my days in the Work was evidently clicking in as I kept realizing that the whole notion of a “feminine dimension of God,” belonged to binary metaphysical system, based on the cosmic balance of symmetrical opposites, whereas the Christian metaphysical milieu, by its very Trinitarian lineage, belonged to a ternary metaphysical system. I didn’t know quite what that meant yet, but I knew that in this apparently harmless accommodation to gender equality, contemporary theologians were making a seriously wrong turn, risking the loss of a far greater metaphysical treasure.

My attempt to give voice to some of these concerns bore fruit in an article called “Why Feminizing the Trinity Will not Work, ” which appeared in the Christmas 2000 issue of the Sewanee Theological Review. It is essentially the seed of this book. With heart in mouth, I formally introduced the Law of Three into the Christian theological conversation and tried to suggest a strategy by which Christianity’s “missing” feminine might be found simply by loosening our fixation upon the three persons and allowing the Trinity to flow into new configurations according to the inner dynamism of the Law of Three—rather like turning a kaleidoscope. Since then many people have asked me to develop these ideas further. This present book is an effort to draw together the teaching and writing I have done on Trinity and the Law of Three over the past dozen years and hopefully, to create a unified overview of how the Law of Three works, why I see it as the metaphysical driveshaft of the Trinity, and why it is so important to reclaim it.

The book does not intend to be a comprehensive study of the Trinity or an attempt to dialogue with traditional theological understandings. As our exploration unfolds, I will offer a brief survey of some of the more exciting developments in contemporary Trinitarian theology (which might indeed cause Karl Rahner to take heart), but I do not intend to build on them in any formal way. While it is indeed encouraging to see that some of Christianity’s most persuasive thinkers are embracing the Trinity in terms more closely in line with the inherent dynamism of the Law of Three, my task here is to contribute the one piece which is uniquely mine to bring to the table.

To the best of my knowledge, no one has ever written specifically about the Trinity and the Law of Three, no one has yet attempted to interweave Christian metaphysics and G.I. Gurdjieff, and most certainly, no one has ever attempted to demonstrate how the Trinity, when “rotated” according to the Law of Three, does indeed yield a magnificent roadmap of divine becoming in which mystical vision, cosmology, evolution, history—and yes, Christianity’s missing feminine—all come together in a seamless tapestry, which indeed looks something like the classic archetypal vision of “the seven ages of man,” but on a far vaster scale. That is what I hope to unfold here.

This book is basically in three parts. In the first, I will introduce the Law of Three  (starting from that original article in the Sewanee Theological Review), explore its basic principles with the help from some recognized reference points in the Gurdjieff Work, and show you how to work with it on a practical basis. For the Law of Three is indeed intended first and foremost as a practical tool! Its domain is not just cosmology and metaphysics; it is equally at home solving interpersonal problems, affecting political outcomes, and navigating through impasses of every shape and form.  We will also be learning some of the core principles of ternary metaphysics, which will come into play in the final section of the book.

In the second part of the book I will tackle the more difficult question: Why do I think this Law of Three has anything at all to do with the Trinity? The case is admittedly hard to make from a historical standpoint, since Trinitarian theology predates Gurdjieff’s articulation of the Law of Three by a good sixteen centuries. But I will attempt to flesh out my argument on the grounds of dynamic affinity more than linear causality. My hunch is that Christian metaphysics has always been inherently ternary (precisely because of the Christ event at its epicenter) and that the core notion of the Trinity arose out of the collective imagination of the early Christian fathers to hold the space for this realization until its actual working principles could be more fully articulated. For all its notorious doctrinal sticky wickets, it nevertheless held the line against a certain gnosticising tendency inherent in Christian theology from the start and insisted on the centrality of the incarnation and the spiritual principle of kenosis—self-emptying, or descent— as the fundamental touchstones of Christian self-understanding. In this section I will unpack some of these intuitions in more detail, then call on Jacob Boehme, that most magnificent of medieval visionary cosmologists, to help me build a bridge between the outermost known reference points in traditional Christian mysticism and the Law of Three.

The third part of my book will be the most challenging—partly because it is so very personal, and partly because it is, frankly, a world unto itself. I would probably describe it a “metaphysical prose poem”— more art than theology— and the best way to get into it is the way you get into a turning jump rope: you simply leap into the middle and start jumping to its rhythm. I apologize in advance if this will leave some readers behind in its admittedly eccentric conflation of mystical vision, metaphysical “math,” and quasi-cosmology; you may wonder what realm of reality I think I’m describing here. I wonder the same thing myself. But it is for the sake of this final section that I am really writing this book.

I have to confess that this prose poem, (if that’s what it is) emerged, pretty much “as is,” from a single, very intense spate of visionary seeing not long after I had completed that original essay on feminizing the Trinity. In the final paragraph of the article, as you’ll shortly see, I issued the challenge: “The solution is not to abandon the ternary principle, but to apply it, permitting the Trinity to flow again.”  One afternoon I found myself taking myself up on that challenge. What did it mean to “permit the Trinity to flow again”? What would happen if I applied the basic tenet of the Law of Three—“the interweaving of three separate forces creates a new arising on a new plane “—to set the familiar static triangle of Father-Son-Holy Spirit in motion, generating new patterns of itself?

Whoosh! That’s really all I can say. In less than an hour the conventions governing this “turning” of the Trinity all fell into place with that a kind of mathematical elegance that confirmed I was on the right track. What emerged over the next couple of weeks was a breathtaking glimpse of the journey of divine Love into time, through time, and out of time—from Alpha to Omega, from origin to final “Consummatum est.” In the vastness of that canopy I could finally taste the spaciousness out of which had emerged that profound Pauline hymn of Colossians 1:12-20:

He is the image of the unseen God

And the firstborn of all creation,

For in him were created

All things in heaven and on earth:

Everything visible and everything invisible

Thrones, dominations, sovereignties, and powers—

All things were created through him and for him.

Before anything was created, he existed

And he holds all things in unity;

He is, moreover, the head

Of the body, the Church.

As he is the Beginning,

He was first to be raised from the dead,

So that he might be first in every way;

For in him the complete being of God

By God’s own choice came to dwell.

Through him God chose to reconcile

The whole universe to himself,

Everything in heaven and everything on earth,

When he made peace by his death on a cross.

At long last I could see how this great cosmological hymn was not merely an ecstatic raving or an antiquated Christocentric hymn now relegated to the status of “mythology” after the Copernican revolution six centuries ago knocked Christianity off its cosmological footings. It is our Christian charter and birthright. For truth, real truth, is seamless and indivisible. Christianity is either Christocentric or it is not; Christ is either literally the one in “whom all things hold together,” or he is not. A claim thatfundamental must be consistently and reliably true; it cannot be true in one realm (the realm of “faith”) and false in another (the realm of empirical reality.)  Modern and post-modern Christianity’s schizophrenic attempt to live in both realms has gradually sapped its strength and blurred its vision. But how in the name of intellectual integrity could one do otherwise? Suddenly I could see the resolution to that impasse.  It simply required the full wingspan of Trinitarian space/time—unlocked by the Law of Three—to assign each of Paul’s visionary truths to their proper cosmic domain so that faith and cosmology could reunite in a single visionary whole. My map was showing me how to do it. I emerged from that period of intense “download” with my Christian mystical imagination rekindled and my confidence renewed.

For the next dozen years that vision percolated beneath the surface as I gradually found my place as a spiritual writer and teacher. It was with me as I wrote my other books: The Wisdom Jesus, Mary Magdalene, Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening,Chanting the Psalms.  It was there as I led workshops and established Wisdom Schools; it was in the back of my mind whenever I found myself quoting that marvelous quip from G.K. Chesterton: “Christianity isn’t a failure; it simply hasn’t been tried yet.” But I could never see any way to speak directly about what I was seeing; it was so far outside the usual stream of theological conversation. Who would ever have the patience as I wove the pieces together? Among my Wisdom students, we began joking about it my “posthumous book.”

And if truth be told, I was content with that verdict.  But a glimmer of hope that I might yet live to see the sprouting of this vision was rekindled last year when a group of my most senior students volunteered themselves as guinea pigs to see if the material could actually be taught. So the grand experiment began, in a three-session Wisdom School following more-or-less the layout of this book. In the first two sessions we laid the groundwork with a thorough study of the Law of Three and the basic ternary predisposition of Christian metaphysics (including a crash course on Jacob Boehme.) Then, in the third session, we began to unpack the vision.

Cynthia holding Holy Trinity bookThat session will long remain in my heart, not simply as an accomplishment, but as the gift of a life task fulfilled. And it is at the urging of these dear friends and intrepid wisdom seekers that I have returned to the task of putting the material in publishable form. “If thirty-five of us can get it,” one of them said, “Why not the whole world?”

So there you have it. I will do my best to make the ride as smooth as possible. But in the end, my commitment is to getting there, because I know beyond all personal doubt that there is indeed a ham radio concealed inside this Trinitarian tea cupboard. And in the midst of this long winter of our Christian discontent, when spiritual imagination and boldness are at an all-time low and the church itself hovers at the edge of demise for lack of an animating vision, perhaps now more than ever the time is ripe to remove the packing boards from this tea cupboard and release its contents.

Copyright © Cynthia Bourgeault

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Barn Destroyed, Farm Animals Die in Fire

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FALLS TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- A barn was destroyed and several farm animals were killed when fire swept through the place in Wyoming County Friday morning.

It broke out around 7:30 a.m. on Blacksmith Drive in Falls Township.

Fire crews said the barn was a "ball of fire" when they arrived.

The assistant fire chief said six piglets in the barn were killed. All the other cows, calves, and pigs were able to get out.

No one was hurt.

The chief said the fire is not considered suspicious.

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    “The assistant fire chief six piglets in the barn were killed” ???
    “The assistant fire chief SAID six piglets in the barn were killed.”I am supposing that’s what you meant to print?

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DSC_0206Wolves men’s soccer finished the season last night. Due to it being the last game they payed a tribute to the seniors before the game. Families decorated the stands with the cups of each seniors numbers.  Each player was walked onto the field by family and was given flowers and gifts. Each family had a speech along with the players. Sadly West Clermont ended up losing last night 6-0 to Turpin.

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5 Cool Things That Could Make the World a Better Place

Everyone wants to make the world a better place. With new technology advancing every year, and electric cars being introduced, entrepreneurs are predicting big things for the year of 2030. Bullying, sexual abuse, public education, and many more are some examples of things that need to be changed as we grow up.

Some social entrepreneurs are ” tackling a range of daunting issues: child sexual abuse on the internet, youth unemployment, mental health crises, counterfeit drugs, and lack of access to medicine. (” Many people are trying to fund groups that can make a profit to stop these things that are happening in our world today. It would be a big step if social entrepreneurs could help decrease those problems we are having. Although, they are going to try to take it one step at a time.

The first step is to make young unemployment come way down. Many kids across the world that are high school students or graduates are working so that they can have the money they need. However, ” in South Africa, every year 1.1 million young people graduate from high school or college — or else they drop out. (” Some of the kids that are still in high school or graduates that are trying to go to college , find a job but over in South Africa, it is a very low number. It is very hard to find a job over there because some of the places that hire are looking at specific things like their work ethic, how well they can speak English and how well they can work with people at public venues.

A nonprofit group called Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator is in effect so that kids that can’t land a job, are able to have one. It is basically training and assessments for kids so that they can be able to perfect their language portion of the job; as well as a stronger work ethic and people skills. If all goes well their prediction is that by 2030 kids who are unemployed and who want to work will get a job when they graduate high school.

The second step is for kids who are feeling depressed. A helpline will be created so that their can be people for kids to talk to when they are feeling helpless, lost, or very emotional. It’s a great way for teens because of how much they are on their phones. A simple text to the Crisis Text Line can really make a huge difference if their are kids out there who are struggling and don’t have anyone to talk to about how they are feeling.

The third step is making sure African pharmacies don’t run out of medicine. To ensure that, ” Rockson came up with a company called MPharma so that there can be negotiation for lower prices because of people buying large quantities of medication. (” With that, Africans will be able to get what they need at a reasonable price.

The Fourth step is to have no worries about buying fake drugs. In Africa, buying fake drugs or medicine is a big problem. Bright Simons had made a company called mPedigree to ” give consumers confidence that medicines and seeds they buy are the genuine article and not poor quality knockoffs. (” He is hoping that by 2030, people will be able to trust the system so that they can get what they need and not have to worry about it being a knockoff.

The fifth and final step is no more child sexual violence in online images. Social media has taken over teens way of life. Sexual abuse has occurred over the internet and in the U.S it is illegal. However; there are still reports out there. “Cordua the CEO of Thorn, has developed software to help social media companies find the user generated  images and take them down and has created software to assist law enforcement agencies as they try to find the children in abuse materials. (” She hopes that by creating this, it will completely diminish child sexual abuse everywhere.

U.K Regulators Propose Social Media Regulations

Since the creation of Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram and other social media apps, there has been an increase of cyber-bullying taking place all over the world. It is effecting teens tremendously because they are growing up with low self-esteem and more anxiety. It’s happening more and more because when teens feel bored they get on social media and stay on there for hours at a time. All over the world, there has been issues of online harm that has been occurring.

In the U.K, “terrorist groups using the Internet to spread propaganda, criminal gangs inciting violence over social media, and sexual predators going online to groom children for exploitation. (” The U.K is working on trying to reach out to the social media groups so that they can work on being more alert when it comes to violence online. Communication online can get very vigorous as well. Many teens hear bad language and then apply it online. Continue reading U.K Regulators Propose Social Media Regulations

More Migrant Families Arrive at Border

Over the years, the U.S has had problems with illegal immigrants entering the country. Since Trump was elected as President of the United States in 2016, he had this plan of building a wall to keep all illegal immigrants out. The wall is a total of 1,954 miles between the United States and Mexico borders.

Since the beginning of the construction, it has made it a lot harder for immigrants to reach their destination. They have tried going in pairs, singles, and even in families. None of those have worked recently. “The U.S Border Patrol apprehended more than 66,000 migrants at the southern border in February” ( It was the highest in almost a decade. Many people’s reasons for leaving their home country is simply so they can feel more safe and encounter more freedom in the U.S.

Over in Central America, there is more crime, poverty and gangs than what we see here in the U.S. People that don’t want any part of that try to flee so that they can be in better living conditions. Many families don’t want their younger children to grow up in that environment so they send their children off first and then later on hopefully join them.

The Border Patrol officials say they haven’t seen anything like this in many years. Usually it is single men that are trying to get across the border not loads of families arriving in busloads. They worry that the design of the wall will not keep all these families from arriving. They are already reaching the maximum capacity of immigrants in custody and it is so far causing a lot of problems.

The biggest problem is trying to provide medical attention and food to those families that are in custody, waiting to be released. “Many humanitarian groups near the border say the surge of migrant families is straining their resources, too” ( The people that are in charge of these groups that help the families and children in custody say that it takes a lot of effort to provide all the materials these immigrants need.

Trump says that the wall borders need to extend further, but many people have argued that it’s not the wall, it’s the people that are trying to get in. They say that the wall does no good, yes it keeps people out but there are still parts to where people have gotten in when there is still fencing of old ways to keep them out. “Migrant advocates counter that the Trump administration has made the problem at the southern border worse by allowing just a few migrant families a day to cross at legal ports of entry” ( By them doing that, it can really cause a problem and overflow to the population over time.

Worlds Biggest Bee Spotted

The bee has been known for producing the honey that you may eat with biscuits, and beeswax that can be incorporated into many essentials that we use in our everyday lives. At one point they have been in the running for becoming extinct and many people had to be careful when seeing one to make sure they did not harm it. Luckily, that is no longer a concern. They are out of the danger zone and back to where they need to be. But, have you ever wondered, do bees come in different shapes and sizes? The answer is yes. There are about 16,000 species of bees that are known.

With having a variety of different bee species, have you ever thought to yourself, is there a kind of bee that is the biggest? Well let me tell you this, there is! Over in Indonesia, the Megochile Pluto was spotted for the first time since 1981. It almost quadruples the size of the average honey bee. Now that’s a big bee! The Megochile Pluto measured at least an inch and a half long with a tongue of close to an inch.

These winged creatures were first discovered by Alfred Russel Wallace, a British naturalist and explorer who was known for the evolution of natural selection. Wallace would travel everywhere, ranging from the East Indies, and Brazil. While in Indonesia, he stumbled upon a unknown species that later became known as the Megochile Pluto. These bees were later named ‘Wallace’s giant bee’ because of their unbelievable size in appearance.

Many people would be frightened to see this kind of bee. However, others think it is fascinating to see “this ‘flying bulldog’ of an insect that we weren’t sure existed anymore — to have real proof right there in front of us in the wild” ( What’s intriguing is they are not just unique when it comes to there size, but how they build there habitats. Normal bees build their homes out of beeswax in which they produce themselves. Inside their homes, are hexagonal cells that contain pollen, nectar, and honey. Megochile Pluto’s use use “resin and wood to create tunnels and cells in existing nests, carving out their own living space away from the termites” (

Even though these bees have reappeared back into our generation that we live in now, they are still one of the rarest kinds of bees. It is crucial that scientists keep an eye on them so that they can keep reappearing and are able to be here for more generations.

Saudi Woman Who Hopes to Inspire Others

On January 12, 2019, a young woman by the name of Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun fled her country, leaving behind her family. But, she was able to make it safely to a secure asylum in Canada. However, she left her family behind for distinct reasons. She was disowned by her family due to her not following her culture correctly. The reasons that follow were not her fault. She had allegedly said that they abused her and was only allowed to do certain things only by the permission of a male relative.

In Saudia Arabia, women do not have the kind of freedom they have here in the U.S and Canada. Saudia Arabia “has a male guardianship system where the woman needs permission from a male relative for major life decisions like marriage, work and travel” ( Over there, women have no independence. Everything they do has to be approved by a male and it makes them not feel as equal to men. The result of that includes Saudi women starting movements and later on them being arrested. Continue reading Saudi Woman Who Hopes to Inspire Others

Why Teen Girl and Boys Don’t Have Equal Access to Phones

All over the world, teen girls and boys are big users of phones. But, you may not have heard that girls in boys in 25 countries have been surveyed. The survey “found that for every 15 boys who own a phone, only 10 girls do” ( It was very shocking to hear because boys and girls nowadays are receiving phones earlier and earlier in age. Continue reading Why Teen Girl and Boys Don’t Have Equal Access to Phones

Indonesia’s Relief Effort

On September 28, 2018, a deadly tsunami and earthquake hit Palu, Indonesia. Thousands of people were killed as well as numerous people were injured. The tsunami destroyed houses and buildings, making people be dramatically affected. People had no choice but to sleep on the streets because they had nowhere else to go. A vast relief effort is in progress to help rehabilitate so much of what was lost. Many people are trying to come together to help and support this tragic disaster that took place. Organizations are trying to aid with helping people and providing supplies all at the same time. Continue reading Indonesia’s Relief Effort

Homecoming 2018

On September 29, 2018, West Clermont High School held their second homecoming. The theme was “A Night in the City” and a lot of students really enjoyed all the decorations that went along with it. All the decorations were spectacular and set up very well. Students had said that the music that was played was not very good but the decorations and fun experiences with hanging out with friends and socializing really made up for it. People were laughing, dancing, and most importantly having the best time of their lives. That really went well with the theme A Night in the City because in the city everyone has a good time and at WCHS it really portrayed that well.

Current student at West Clermont High School Alexis Pride said “Homecoming was so fun with my friends, the DJ only played a few good songs. But overall it was a good time”. Senior Jack Towell also a current student had said “Homecoming was fun but also sad because it was my last one. A lot of people came and a lot of people disliked the music the DJ played”. They were not the only ones that said that. A lot of other students had said the music was not good but still had a great time. Students still showed up with all smiles and had an amazing time there. It was really a night to remember.

Continue reading Homecoming 2018

Serena Williams Controversy

On September 9th 2018, Serena Williams was being punished for displaying arguable wrath. It all started when the umpire accused Serena’s coach for using illegal hand gestures. Serena told the umpire that she did not cheat and asked for an apology. Later on in the match she had lost a serve and the umpire Ramos gave her a one-point penalty. She then showed wrath because she called-out the umpire for showing sexism on the court and demanded that she get the point back. “Williams’ got penalized with a $17,000 fine, $10,000 remarks her umpire” (Love). Continue reading Serena Williams Controversy


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As you all know, I recently returned from vacation.  The initial plan was to fly from Philadelphia to Venice and board a ship for a cruise of the Greek isles.  However, due to an issue with American Airlines and a canceled flight, we instead had to fly to Corfu, Greece and intercept the cruise ship on Day Three of the cruise.  We arrived in Corfu on Monday, July 23rd and were instantly blown away by its beauty.  This place is amazing.  Here are some of the photos we took of the city and its famed Old Fortress.

The Old Fortress . . .

The streets of Corfu at night.  It was absolutely enchanting.  And, yes!  That's a McDonald's on the right.  LOL!  Notice there are no golden arches.

Here's a look at our hotel- Hotel Cavalieri.

Sunrise from the balcony of our room at the hotel.

The entrance into the "old" section of town.  Spectacular!

A view of the Old Fortress through the fountain!

An American stud in Greece.  LOL!

I love this pic.  We were standing inside the grounds of the Old Fortress.  I took this photo from the base of the church looking up the cliffs to the lighthouse.

The church at the Old Fortress.

I love this shot too.  To me, that apparatus screams "The Lord of the Rings!"

The clock tower at the Old Fortress.

The view of parts of the city and harbor from the Old Fortress.

The view of the other side of the city from the Old Fortress.


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Today’s Wonder of the Day was inspired by Blake from Boston, MA. Blake Wonders, “How do horned lizards shoot blood from their eyes?” Thanks for WONDERing with us, Blake!

We were walking through the Wonderopolis desert the other day when we came across a bobcat and a horned lizard in a showdown:

Bobcat: Mr. Lizard, I'm going to eat you now.

Lizard: Umm…I'd prefer that you didn't, if you don't mind.

Bobcat: Well, I'm really hungry and you look really tasty, so…

Lizard: I actually don't taste anything like chicken, if that's what you've heard.

Bobcat: Nevertheless, I think you'd make a great meal.

Lizard: If you come one step closer, I'll shoot blood out of my eye into your face.

Bobcat: No way! Can you really do that?

Lizard: Try me.

The bobcat sauntered off at that point. We immediately started WONDERing about their encounter. Was the lizard merely bluffing?

As it turns out, he was not. There are 17 species of horned lizards that live in dry, desert areas from Guatemala and Mexico up through the western United States and even into southern Canada.

They have a wide variety of predators, including bobcats, wolves, coyotes, foxes, snakes, and hawks. As a result, they have developed some unique defense mechanisms.

Their first line of defense is camouflage. Although the various species differ in coloring and the exact number and placement of horns, they usually blend in very well with their desert surroundings. When predators approach, they usually try to stay still to avoid detection.

If they are detected, they may or may not try to run away. They have wide, flat bodies with short legs, so they're not very fast. Some predators, such as rattlesnakes, don't usually chase their prey, so they may run away from these predators.

Many predators can easily outrun and catch a horned lizard. When caught, horned lizards will often stretch out and puff themselves up to appear as large as possible. They do this to deter predators who eat their prey whole. If the predators can't get the whole lizard in their mouths, they may move on.

As a last resort, horned lizards may use one final defense mechanism that's particularly effective against predators like bobcats, wolves, and coyotes. They shoot blood from their eye sockets! This usually frightens predators enough to make them flee. Fortunately for humans, horned lizards rarely shoot blood at people.

How do they do it? Horned lizards can contract the muscles around their eyes, cutting off blood flow back to the heart. Blood continues to flow into the eye area where it fills the ocular sinuses with blood.

They then continue to contract those same muscles rapidly, increasing pressure on the thin sinus membranes until they rupture, releasing a stream of blood that can shoot up to four feet from the eye! Scientists call this process auto-hemorrhaging.

If necessary, horned lizards can repeat this process several times within a short period. It also has a practical use beyond defense. In the areas where they live, it's common for them to get dirt and dust in their eyes. They can carefully control the auto-hemorrhaging process to remove irritating particles from their eyes without fully rupturing their sinuses.

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If you’re sleepy, tomorrow’s Wonder of the Day will definitely help you wake up!


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My Granny

Granny’s 90th Birthday

My granny. The impact she had on my heart and soul when I was younger has not yet been surpassed by anyone and I highly doubt that it ever will.

Every Sunday, growing up we went to lunch at Granny’s. It was the highlight of my week as a kid. I was deathly afraid of my granddaddy, until later in life, but getting to see my granny squelched those fears.

The whole family would gather. Aunts, uncles and my cousins, Jennifer and Amanda. We would dine on the finest grub. I miss the dishes granny made. She was the first Pioneer Woman!

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The kids: myself, Stacy, Jennifer and Amanda always supped at the “kids table.” I yearned for the right of passage to transition over to the adult table. The transition to the adult table never happened at the house off Mykawa Road in Pearland, however. Granny and Granddaddy moved to Trinity before I was considered “adult table worthy.” Probably not really “adult table criteria” even today, truth be told. I’m OK with that.

After lunch us kids would head outside and climb trees and play with Granny’s cats.

When I was in 4th grade, I had one desire for Christmas, a pair Gloria Vanderbilt corduroy jeans. “Every body had them.” Of course I just had to add my name to the list of fashionistas! Typing that sentence made me gut laugh. I am so far from a fashionista it isn’t even funny! Just ask my buddy, Lisa dubbed by Stuart as “Lisa, the fashionista.”

Apparently, I also wanted a pair of roller skates that Christmas also. They were white with baby blue stoppers in the front and laced up. Note to self, and anyone who needs a reminder, Gloria Vanderbilt’s should not be worn when taking roller skates for their virgin roll. Let me just say, a driveway, a klutz and a pair of roller skates are the components of an accident waiting to happen. Add a pair of pink corduroy Gloria V’s and well, you can only imagine the scene that unfolded. I had worn them a total of maybe three minutes before they were ripped, both knees, all the way across.

I cried and cried. My parents berated me, as they probably should have and I knew what had to happen next. I would have to tell Granny. Disappointing Granny was akin to being on Santa’s naughty list. Ya, just didn’t want to be there. Not because I was afraid of her wrath but the thought of being less than in her eyes terrified me.

The dreaded day arrived. Probably the only day in the history of Sunday’s at Granny’s that I was apprehensive.

We sat down together in the room that had the piano that all of us kids played chopsticks on, not really sure if it was a den or dining room. I started to cry. I told her of my encounter with the pavement and how irresponsible it was of me to skate with the expensive pair of jeans on. In her soft spoken voice, with that gentle nature that all granny’s should possess, she said, “it’s OK.” That was it. No lecture. No condemnation. Just “it’s OK.”

Forth grade year was an eventful year for me. I had the hiccups for eight weeks straight. Yep, you heard me, eight weeks straight. Some of you reading may remember. I was considered a “disturbance” in the classroom and sent home most days. I spent those days with Granny. Some days I just went straight to her house. Upon arrival I would go back to sleep on the couch in the living room. I got there pretty early since my mom had to work. Granny had a charming daily routine of talking to her twin sister Toby on the telephone. I still remember Granny’s phone number. It was 485-1317. I can’t remember life altering events that occurred during childhood but I have a knack for remembering the goofy crap, do I not?

Twins, Tiby and Toby, had a connection like I’ve never seen. Maybe it was because they were twins. Maybe it was because they grew up during the depression. Whatever the reason, their relationship was precious. Being as I was under Granny’s care during the day, I would often accompany she and Aunt Toby to Safeway for their weekly shopping trip. I was a lucky girl, hiccuping all the while.

Lunch at Granny’s was pretty much the same. I begged for Ramen soup, chicken flavored. I would then take a handful of TidBits and drown them in the soup. If I eat Ramen now, I put Cheetos or CheezIts in the bowl. Hard to find TidBits these days. I swear there hasn’t been a bowl of Ramen devoured in which I haven’t thought of those days.

I learned basic sewing and crocheting from Granny. The crocheting skills she taught me all those years ago, have turned out to be a pretty lucrative craft. I am now the proud owner of a pair of scissors that I was privileged to use as a kid under her tutelage. They were only to be used to cut material. I cherish them. unnamed (16)

When Granddaddy retired and decided to move my granny away, my heart broke. Although not a death, it was the first loss I had experienced. Trinity was a good two and half hour drive from Pearland. I just knew that I would never see her again.

We no longer had Sunday dinner with her. Our visits were frequent at first and then more spread out as time passed. The highlight of my summer was getting to spend a week with Granny in Trinity. Stacy and I would make some amazing memories in Trinity, Texas.

Tales of pond boogers and the Trinity Hatchet Man, concoctions of my Aunt BB, terrified and entertained us simultaneously.

Granddaddy taking us for rides on the old blue tractor was a crowd pleaser for sure. He used to let me mow with the ole red Snapper. On one such occasion, Granny told me to stay in the shade, as Trinity temperatures reach well over 100 in the summertime. Granny and granddaddy both got a good chuckle when they came outside and saw that I had stayed in the shade, literally. I mowed in the shade of the big oak trees on the property. I can only imagine what they thought when they saw perfectly cut grass along the tree shadows. I was still hearing about that one into my late teens.

Stacy, Granny and I  would all get to sleep in the big poster style bed. This bed had a decorative headboard with a hole in the middle. The hole was the perfect size for a curious kid to stick their head through. Yep, I was that kid. Yep, it got stuck. I don’t remember how we got me out of that situation but we did. Mary Beth said she did the same thing when she was a kid.

After the lights went out, for no reason at all, us three “girls” would start giggling. We would giggle so hard that we knocked the slats out from underneath the bed. Granddaddy would holler from the other room something like,”it’s time for you girls to go to bed.” Granny would often giggle louder when he hollered at us.

My Granny had a duck pond full of catfish. BIG catfish. We called it “the tank.” A morning ritual while on “summer vacation” was to feed the catfish. We did take a dip in “the tank” a time or two with Uncle Lloyd. Would I do it now? No freaking way. He probably wouldn’t either.

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The Tank

One morning, I was sitting in a lawn chair on the bank of the pond feeding the ginormous catfish. What seemed liked a thousand begging bottom feeders emerged as soon as soon as they heard the rattle of the old Folgers coffee can. What happened next is etched in my mind for life. The lawn chair folded up on itself with me in it and I, well you can just imagine. Actually, you probably can’t! It was a scene straight out of a sci-fi movie. It felt like it took me ages to climb up the muddy back to safety but I’m sure it was only a matter of minutes. Funny thing is, my granny can’t swim. She was no help but she did cheer me on from the bank.

That pond holds some other fond memories for me.

I had an ole yellow lab named Khaki. She was named after one of my dad’s dogs he had at one time or another.

Let me set the scene. Freaking cold in February. If Trinity is the hottest place in Texas in the summer, I’d venture to say, in my limited travels, it the coldest place in Texas in the winter.

Remember those ducks that I told you about? Well, Khaki found them most entertaining. She jumped right in that pond, 30 degrees outside didn’t phase her. Granny  was squealing from the bank, “Julie, get your dog, she’s gonna eat my ducks!” I called and called as Khaki and the ducks swam from one end of the tank to the other. She paid no mind to me. You guessed it, I had to jump in that frigid water so my granny didn’t witness the shredding of her fine feathered friends.

After my parents divorce, I lost touch with my dad’s side of the family for many years. Aunt Mary Beth would still come see me. In fact, she took me shopping on my birthday every year until my early teens. She bought me the coolest purple parachute pants and took to me to see Huey Lewis on my 13th birthday. Mary Beth is a special lady. One that I admire for a multitude of reasons but that story is for another day.

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Aunt Mary Beth & I

Once Stuart and I got married and lived about 45 minutes from Trinity we would pop in every now and then. Corey caught some big catfish out of the pond and had to hear all about the Trinity Hatchet Man and the Pond Boogers, again another story for another day.

Granny lives with Mary Beth and her family near Austin. She stays busy. Gets her hair done weekly if I’m not mistaken and pals around with Mary Beth. I love how Mary Beth loves her momma and I will say I am a tab bit envious.

Mary Beth & Granny

Granny is a treasure. If asked what quality I admire most about her I couldn’t answer with one. She taught me to be creative, to appreciate the art of crochet and made me feel special. She never raised her voice at me. She read to me and let me sit in her lap until I wouldn’t fit anymore. Three little kittens lost their mittens… I can hear it like it was yesterday.

She has the prettiest blue eyes. They glisten but you can also tell that they have seen a lot. Maybe too much.  Soft spoken with the sweetest giggle. Once she gets going it’s hard to stop her.

That precious woman is everything I aim to be when I have grand-kids of my own. She has set the bar high.

She has outlived all of her siblings, my granddaddy and one of her sons. I think God is keeping her here because he wants others to see what an amazing woman she is. I wish I could see her more often. I do however have a lifetimes of memories that I will hold close to my heart forever.

Granny, thank you for being a woman I could look up to when such a figure was lacking in my life. I love you.

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Employers of young apprentices are set to save thousands of pounds after the government abolished employer National Insurance contributions for apprentices under 25 years of age.

The change, which came into effect on 6 April 2016, will make hiring an apprentice even better value for employers across the country.

This exemption will apply to both existing employers with apprentices and those taking on a new apprentice.


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Qualifications of an Aeronautical Engineer

by Aurelio Locsin
Some aeronautical engineers specialize in space machines.

Some aeronautical engineers specialize in space machines.

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Satellite TV, trans-Pacific passenger flights and cruise missiles are only possible because of the efforts of aeronautical engineers, who design, build and manage the production of aerospace equipment. Because the field combines expertise from several physical sciences, advanced mathematics and practical applications, it mandates qualifications that can be in-born and learned.

Certain personal qualities can provide the foundation of a successful aeronautical engineering career. Engineers must have the ability to identify and eliminate design flaws, and convert issues into requirements through critical thinking. They also need good calculus and trigonometry knowledge to analyze and troubleshoot designs. With good business sense, they can meet federal government standards and follow commercial law. Finally, because engineering projects only fly off the ground with the collaboration of many people, professionals must work well with others and have the good writing skills to communicate their ideas persuasively.

Aspiring engineers develop their skills during the four years it takes to complete a bachelor’s degree. Preparation can begin in high school, however, with courses in physics, chemistry and advanced mathematics, such as trigonometry and calculus. College programs cover such subjects as general engineering principles, propulsion, stability, structures, aerodynamics and mechanics in the classroom, field and laboratory. The courses of study require approval by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. Some universities require an internship or cooperative education, so students learn how the working world operates.

Licensing is not necessary at the entry level. However, once aerospace engineers gain more experience and greater responsibility, they must attain a professional engineer designation. The credential requires a degree from an accredited college program and relevant work experience. Applicants also need to take two exams. The first, available immediately after graduation, is the Fundamentals of Engineering test. Passing it grants the title of engineer in training or engineer intern. After gaining work experience, interns can take the Principles and Practice of Engineering test, which grants the professional engineer title. Some states also specify that continuing education is needed to maintain licenses.

As of May 2012, salaries for the top tier of aerospace engineers exceeded $147,000 per year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Wages averaged an annual $103,870. The largest employer of aeronautical engineers was aerospace and parts manufacturing, where more than a third of the professionals worked to make a mean $96,740 yearly. top salaries came from management, scientific and technical consulting services, averaging $115,780 per year.

About the Author

Aurelio Locsin has been writing professionally since 1982. He published his first book in 1996 and is a frequent contributor to many online publications, specializing in consumer, business and technical topics. Locsin holds a Bachelor of Arts in scientific and technical communications from the University of Washington.

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Youth Advocate Jobs

by Rose Mathews

Those employed in youth advocacy work on behalf of the well-being of minors can help children by working for foster care agencies, youth in damaging home situations, or kids who may be involved with drugs or alcohol. Youth advocates may also help children with positive social development and life skills training.

Child and Family Social Workers

If a child is in a family situation that is physically or psychologically damaging, a social worker may intervene. A social worker evaluates the situations, and in some cases recommends a new living situation for the minor. In cases where a child is having problems with drugs or exhibiting violent behavior, a social worker may help the parents find appropriate professional help, and will develop a plan for parents to maintain a healthy environment for their child.

Legal Advocates

A legal professional can lobby to enact laws that protect the rights of children. In addition, a lawyer can choose a specialty that represents children or children's advocacy groups in the courtroom. A "guardian ad Litem" plays a parental role by representing a minor in court who may not have a legal guardian. Another way to work as a youth advocate in the legal system is as a family court judge who presides over cases involving parental custody and other domestic disputes.

Child Welfare Caseworkers

These human services professionals deal specifically with children who have been abused or neglected. They determine whether kids should be placed in the foster care system, and once in the system, they visit the child and monitor his progress. In addition to case management duties, caseworkers must attend court hearings, execute administrative duties, serve as a mediator between family members, coordinate family business, and step forward in crisis management situations.

Youth Development Organizations

A variety of nonprofit organizations specialize in educating and empowering youth. Big Brothers and Big Sisters are organizations that match volunteers with at-risk youth, and Boy and Girl Scout organizations teach camping and team-building skills that promote confidence and independence. Adults can work as volunteers in these organizations, or can work in a variety of roles for an organization, including chief executive officer, volunteer coordinator, fundraising professional or program manager.

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Arena da Baixada, Curitiba

City: Curitiba, capital of the State of Parana.

Capacity: 42,000 attendants.

Official name: Estádio Joaquim Américo Guimarães.
Origin of name: Joaquim Americo Guimaraes was the founder of Internacional Football Club, which later would become today’s Clube Atletico Paranaense, owner of the stadium.
The stadium is much more commonly referred to as Arena da Baixada. “Baixada”, in Portuguese, means “the low areas”; when Joaquim Guimaraes first thought of building a stadium, back in 1912, he purchased an area in the then distant, lower, wet suburbs of Curitiba, called “Baixadao da Agua Verde”; today, Agua Verde (which means Green Water), where the stadium is located, is one of the noblest areas of Curitiba.

Owner of Stadium: Clube Atletico Paranaense (Brazilian champion of 2001, several times champion of the State).
Arena da Baixada is one of the two privately owned stadiums of the World Cup 2014; the other one is Beira-Rio, in Porto Alegre.
Thanks to professional management, Arena da Baixada is considered one of the most modern stadiums in Brazil (it was the first to offer free wi-fi, and one of the few with a central surveillance system).
On the other hand, because the stadium is less subject to political exposition, there are fewer information (such as cost of investments, photos, etc) about the progress of the works; Atletico is spending their own money, so they have less obligation to provide information to the public.

Design and architecture: Carlos Arcos and  many others.

Constructors: CYD, Schlaich Bergermann und Partner and others.

Estimated cost: R$ 180 million.
This is the lowest budget of all venues of the World Cup 2014, and again it has to do with the fact that the stadium is privately owned.
Atletico must think on the return of investments (for example, to take loans, to hire contractors, etc); there once was a possibility that, for being so cautious with investments, Arena da Baixada would be discarded from the Cup.
Most of the original stadium (which had undergone complete renovation about ten years ago) was preserved, and just an expansion is planned; today’s capacity is 25,000, which should jump to about 42,000.
Atletico had for a few years a naming rights contract with Kyocera; the contract should be renovated in 2008 (when Brazil had already been announced as the host of the World Cup 2014), but Atletico was so sure that Arena would be a stage of matches that it decided not to renovate it.

Matches and teams: Curitiba will host only four matches of the World Cup, all in the first stage.
It is certain that Brazil will not play in Curitiba.
Possible candidates: Curitiba has a cold climate in June, which could attract countries looking to escape the hot weather, such as Sweden or Norway. Besides, the State of Parana has communities of immigrants from Japan, Italy and Poland, whose teams could feel a bit more at home in Curitiba.
Dates of matches:
June 16th (Monday):
June 20th (Friday):
June 23rd (Monday):
June 26th (Thursday):

Map of Arena da Baixada, Curitiba:

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Photo above: the Arena in 2008; even with the missing parts, the stadium was fully working.

Photo above: February 2012.

More information:
» World Cup in Curitiba.
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Netanyahu and Gantz both declare victory; Bennett, Feiglin predicted to miss threshold

As voting stations in Israel close, exit polls show the parties of Netanyahu and Gantz nearly neck and neck, while newer upstart parties appear to have missed the threshold to enter the Knesset.

By World Israel News Staff

As the polls officially closed on Tuesday evening, Israel media outlets predicted a tight finish for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party and his primary challenger Benny Gantz’s Blue and White faction.

Netanyahu claimed victory, tweeting, “The right-wing bloc led by the Likud won a clear victory. I thank the citizens of Israel for their trust. I will begin forming a right-wing government with our natural partners tonight.”

Blue and White also declared victory, posting, “We won! The Israeli public has had its say!”

According to Israel’s Kan news’ exit poll, Likud will take 36 seats, while Blue and White will end up with 37 seats.

Meanwhile, Channel 13‘s poll showed Likud capturing 36 seats, and Blue and White also garnering 36 seats.

Finally, Channel 12’s poll showed Gantz’s Blue and White taking 37 seats, and Netanyahu’s Likud getting only 33 seats.

One of the biggest stories of the evening was the predicted failure of two new parties, the New Right, headed by Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked, and Moshe Feiglin’s Zehut party, to meet the minimum threshold of votes needed to enter the Knesset. If the final tally proves that exit polls were correct, this means the New Right and Zehut will be left out of the next government, regardless of who is tasked with forming the government or who is named prime minister.

Notwithstanding poll numbers, Bennett expressed hope his party would make it into the Knesset after IDF soldiers’ votes are tallied.

“We have always taken care of the soldiers and now they will take care of us,” Bennett commented, according to the Jerusalem Post.

“The New Right will pass, and it will pass very nicely, we just need to be patient,” Bennett said. “We believe in our path and we will succeed,” he added.

Feiglin’s party, Zehut, had been a juggernaut during the campaign, with its leader even being dubbed a potential “kingmaker.” Pre-election polls gave the libertarian, pro-cannabis party a possible five seats in the Knesset.

“Nobody knows this evening whether Zehut is in or out, and it’s possible that even tomorrow we won’t know,” said Feiglin after voting stations closed on Tuesday, the Post reported. “I request that, despite all the confusion, keep the faith and don’t give up on the counting of each and every ballot slip until the very end.”

As of Tuesday evening, votes were still being counted and final results had not been announced.


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What terrible news if someone passed away. my best wishes to all friends and family.

He brought me my love tot wow and to the BM hunter back, i am so thankfull for all your help….

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Installing WordPress Plugins

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Whilst we’re showing you HOW to download plugins from the WordPress repository, we thought we’d take the opportunity to show you a few of the basic plugins that we often use when first setting up a new WordPress website.

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My Chemical Romance guitarist Frank Iero has toiled in several projects over the years, but he's ready to reveal his new group. Frank Iero and the Future Violents just unleashed their new video for "Young and Doomed," the lead single from their forthcoming album Barriers.

The clip for the raucous track finds the five-piece outfit performing while often being shot in silhouette or shadowed partially by projected imagery. Joining Iero in the band are Evan Nestor, Matt Armstrong, Tucker Rule and Kayleigh Goldsworthy. Take a look at the Steve Pedulla-directed video, which also features childhood photos of the band members, in the player above.

For Iero, this is the continuation of his solo career, having previously released recorded under the monikers Frank Iero and the Cellabration and Frank Iero and Patience. “I never expected to do one solo record in my lifetime, let alone three," states Iero. "Every time I start a new record, I say to myself ‘This is it. This is the end. This is the last one.’ It got me thinking about how we set up these obstacles around ourselves. Sometimes they’re for protection and sometimes they’re to keep people out, and sometimes we even set them up so that we fail and we find solace in that failure. But whenever I find something that scares the shit out of me, that’s when I know I have to do it! And so these songs are about experiences that were either walls I wanted to break down or walls that I’d built up around myself in order to protect myself. But these songs were also things that I’d never attempted before but had always wanted to try.”

The Barriers album is on track for a May 31 street date, and fans can now get the "Young and Doomed" single via digital service providers and streaming services. “Barriers is a record that I still can’t believe I made and I’m so incredibly proud of it,” Iero reflects. “I can’t wait for other people to be shocked and appalled and inspired by it. Hopefully it scares the shit out of them.” To check out the artwork and track listing for the new album, take a look below.

In other news, Iero and the Future Violents are starting the touring support for their new album. They're currently on tour with Taking Back Sunday and have headlining dates and a number of festival appearances running from late spring into early summer. See all of their stops listed below.

Frank Iero and the Future Violents, Barriers Artwork + Track Listing

1. A New Day's Coming
2. Young and Doomed
3. Fever Dream
4. The Host
5. Basement Eyes
6. Ode to Destruction
7. The Unfortunate
8. Moto-Pop
9. Medicine Square Garden
10. No Love
11. Police Police
12. Great Party
13. Six Feet Down Under
14. 24k Lush

Frank Iero and the Future Violents Tour Dates

With Taking Back Sunday

March 25 - Houston, Texas @ House of Blues
March 26 - Houston, Texas @ House of Blues
March 28 - Austin, Texas @ Emo's
March 29 - Austin, Texas @ Emo's
March 30 - Dallas, Texas @ House of Blues
March 31 - Dallas, Texas @ House of Blues
April 1 - Lubbock, Texas @ Charley B's
April 3 - Albuquerque, N.M. @ Sunshine Theater
April 4 - Phoenix, Ariz. @ Marquee Theater
April 5 - Phoenix, Ariz. @ Marquee Theater
April 6 - San Diego, Calif. @ Observatory North Park
April 7 - San Diego, Calif. @ Observatory North Park
April 9 - Bakersfield, Calif. @ 1933 Event Center
April 11 - Los Angeles, Calif. @ Palladium
April 12 - Los Angeles, Calif. @ Palladium
April 13 - San Francisco, Calif. @ Warfield
April 14 - San Francisco, Calif. @ Warfield

April 24 - Lima, Peru @ CC Festiva
April 26 - Santiago, Chile @ Club Subterraneo
April 27 - Buenos Aires, Argentina @ El Teatrito
April 28 - Sao Paulo, Brazil @ Fabrique Club
May 1 - Monterrey, Mexico @ Cafe Iguana
May 2 - Mexico City, Mexico @ Sala
May 29 - Philadelphia, Pa. @ The Foundry
May 30 - Baltimore, Md. @ Baltimore Soundstage
May 31 - Hamden, Ct. @ The Ballroom at the Outer Space
June 1 - Pawtucket, R.I. @ The Met
June 2 - Boston, Mass. @ Brighton Music Hall
June 4 - Harrisburg, Pa. @ The Capitol Room at The Harrisburg
June 5 - Pittsburgh, Pa. @ Rex Theater
June 6 - Detroit, Mich. @ El Club
June 7 - Cincinnati, Ohio @ Bogarts
June 8 - Louisville, Ky. @ Mercury Ballroom
June 10 - Atlanta, Ga. @ Terminal West
June 11 - Birmingham, Ala. @ Saturn
June 13 - Tampa, Fla. @ The Crowbar
June 14 - Orlando, Fla. @ The Social
June 15 - Jacksonville, Fla. @ 1904 Music Hall
June 16 - Columbia, S.C. @ The Senate
June 18 - Charlotte, N.C. @ Amos Southend
June 20 - Virginia Beach, Va. @ Elevation 27
June 21 - Washington, D.C. @ Union Stage
June 22 - New York, N.Y. @ Rocks Off Cruise

June 29 - Atlantic City, N.J. @ Atlantic City Beach [Warped Tour]
July 5 - Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic @ [Rock for People]
July 13 - Upcote Farm, U.K. @ [2000 Trees]
July 18 - Patchogue, N.Y. @ [Great South Bay Music Festival]
July 21 - Mountain View, Calif. @ Shoreline Amphitheater [Warped Tour]

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Trump administration moves to toughen work requirements for food stamps

If Congress won’t make more food stamp recipients work for their benefits, the Trump administration will.

The US Department of Agriculture unveiled a proposed rule Thursday that would expand work requirements in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, as the food stamp program is formally known. The proposal comes on the same day as President Donald Trump plans to sign a farm bill that had a similar provision that was eventually eliminated

The overhaul marks the administration’s latest effort to impose work requirements in government assistance programs. In an unprecedented move, it has started allowing states to mandate that Medicaid recipients find employment. Administration officials point to the nation’s low unemployment rate as a reason to push more Americans to self-sufficiency.

“A central theme of the Trump administration has been to expand prosperity for all Americans, which includes helping people lift themselves out of pervasive poverty,” said Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, noting it will save $15 billion over 10 years. The proposed rule “restores the dignity of work to a sizable segment of our population, while it’s also respectful of the taxpayers who fund the program.”

The food stamp program already requires non-disabled, working-age adults without dependents to have jobs. They can only receive benefits for three months out of every 36-month period unless they are working or participating in training programs 20 hours a week.

But states can waive that requirement for areas where unemployment is at least 10% or there is an insufficient number of jobs, as defined by the Department of Labor. Already, some red states, including Kentucky and West Virginia, are phasing out or eliminating their waivers.

The proposed rule would make it harder for states to receive those waivers by tightening the definition of areas where there are insufficient jobs, curtailing states’ ability to “bank” exemptions for future years and limiting waivers to only one year instead of up to two, among other changes.

There were 3.8 million Americans who fell into the target category in 2016, the latest federal figure available. Some 2.8 million of them were not working.

The agency’s move could result in hundreds of thousands of beneficiaries losing their assistance, according to the left-leaning Center on Budget & Policy Priorities. Typically, one-third of Americans live in an area where the work requirement is waived.

The proposed rule would cut the number of areas with waivers by three-quarters, according to the agency.

Many low-income people can’t find a good job with steady hours, even in today’s robust economy, said Rachel West, director of poverty research at the left-leaning Center for American Progress. That volatility, combined with the challenge of documenting one’s hours, will result in many folks losing their benefits.

“In low-wage jobs, there is significant churn week-to-week, month-to-month, in hours,” West said. “So many people cannot control their hours in today’s labor market.”

The farm bill passed by the House called for many food stamp recipients to be locked out of the program for up to three years if they fail to work or enroll in job training. The legislation would have also expanded the work requirement to those in their 50’s to work and extended it to parents with school-age children.

The final version, however, did not contain these changes.

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What are the symptoms of OCD?
How OCD works for most people

Experts have come up with a bunch of different models for the way OCD works, and it varies from person to person. But here are the basics:

  • Trigger
  • Intrusive Thought
  • Catastrophic Assessment
  • Obsession
  • Distress
  • Compulsion

This process can happen so quickly that it seems instantaneous. You might skip steps, or there may be extra steps in your case. But let’s go through each of them to find out more.

What’s a trigger?

Tons of things happen to us throughout the day. Certain things we barely even notice, while others make us feel happy, angry, sad, or however else. A trigger is one of those things in our environment– or sometimes in our own minds– that cause us to experience a certain thought or to feel a certain way. For instance, if you’re recovering from the grief of losing a loved one and you begin to feel sad when you hear their favorite song on the radio, that song is the trigger for your emotional state.

A trigger doesn’t exactly cause the feeling, because there are other things contributing to this process (like the way you already felt, or the thoughts that might come in between the trigger and the feeling), but it’s still the trigger in that moment. It’s important to note that the trigger is not always easy to identify. Someone might have a lot of unpleasant thoughts and feelings for seemingly no reason at all– but often they were triggered by something, just outside of their awareness.

What are intrusive thoughts?

An intrusive thought is a thought, image, or urge that seems to pop up in your mind out of nowhere. Sometimes these thoughts seem completely random, and other times they might be traced back to some type of trigger. Intrusive thoughts sometimes seem really harmless. But other times they’re confusing, frightening, or even debilitating.

Here’s the big secret about OCD: these thoughts that bother people so intensely? Everyone has them.

Surveys of people without OCD reveal that they experience many of the same thoughts that completely derail people who have OCD. It’s hard to say whether or not people with OCD have these thoughts more often, but what we do know is that people with OCD react to these thoughts very differently. We’ll talk more about this in the next section, but let’s start with just a few examples of intrusive thoughts.

Intrusive Thoughts: Some Examples
  • I’m about to jump in front of the train
  • I could grab that cop’s gun and shoot myself
  • I could just kill myself
  • I should walk over and push that person
  • I should insult this person I don’t know
  • I could cut myself with this kitchen knife
  • I should jump off this bridge right now
  • I could push my friend off this bridge
  • I could kill my child right now
  • I’m going to punch my brother right now
  • I want to see my sister naked
  • I want to kiss my uncle
  • I could steal from this store right now
  • I could grab the money from that tip jar
  • I probably got HIV when I got a blood test
  • I’ve messed up everything in life
  • The person I’m dating isn’t right for me
  • There’s someone better for me
  • I’ll just tear my clothes off right now.
  • I’m more attracted to that person than to my partner
  • Life has no meaning
  • My niece is attractive
  • That child is attractive
  • I could be gay
  • I could be straight
  • I’m living a sinful life
  • I’m not a good person
  • Breathing is strange, I should stop breathing
  • Blinking is weird, I don’t like that people blink
  • Images of the above (you “see” it happening)
  • My family will be murdered
  • I could suddenly vomit in class
  • I should drive off the road right now.
  • I could run that person over right now.
  • Why not crash into that barrier?
  • I should just scream right now.
  • I’m going to tell my boss he’s an idiot right now.
  • I might dump this coffee on my boss’s head.

What's the catastrophic assessment?

Everyone has had some of these intrusive thoughts, or similar ones: they pop into your head, and they’re strange or alarming. Most people might think for a few seconds about the unpleasant thought and then go on with their day. What’s different for people with OCD is their inability to just let the thoughts pass by. Someone with OCD will have an intrusive thought, vastly overestimate its importance, and spiral into obsession.

Many people use intrusive thought and obsession interchangeably, but they’re not quite the same. As we saw above, everyone has intrusive thoughts. Like everyone else, people with OCD experience all different types of intrusive thoughts; only some of these become obsessions. This helps us understand why someone with OCD can be unbothered by most intrusive thoughts but completely derailed by others. Just because someone has OCD, does not mean they’re bothered by everything.

Let’s look at a common example: you’re driving along the highway, and you have the thought: I should drive off the road and smash into that barrier over there. Someone without OCD thinks: Wow, that was weird. Of course I don’t want to do that. And then they drive along and forget it ever happened. But someone with OCD might think: Oh god, not this again, I’m going to drive off the road, this means I want my life to be over, I don’t really want my life to be over, I need to make sure I don’t drive off the road, but maybe I do want to drive off the road?

The intrusive thought is the same for both, but the assessment of that thought is different. Unable to just move on, the person with OCD makes a catastrophic appraisal of the thought– that it's important or dangerous and requires their attention– and so the obsession begins.

What are obsessions?

In the above example, the person with OCD feels an almost unbearably strong need to prove to themselves that they don’t actually want to drive off the road. Obsessions emerge from people’s strong feeling that they always need to be vigilant to different negative possibilities. In this case, it feels like the thought must mean that the person really does want to drive off the road, and so if they let their guard down their mind will take over and drive them off the road into the barrier.

Once an intrusive thought takes hold and starts becoming a source of distress, it has become an obsession. Obsessions are unwanted and repetitive thoughts, urges, and images that quickly spiral from an initial disturbing thought and usually lead to a lot of distress. While closely linked to intrusive thoughts both in theme and nature, obsessions only arrive after the initial thought has been assessed in a certain way. In a way, a central problem of OCD is the belief that every thought is meaningful.

Let's look at another example of this process:

How Obsessions Get Started
Sam is babysitting his neighbor’s kids on a Friday night. As usual, the kids need to take a bath before bed. They’re young enough that Sam needs to help them.
The kids begin to get undressed for their bath.
Suddenly Sam thinks: I could be sexually interested in these kids.
(Sam’s belief that every thought points to something real and important)
Oh no, could I really be sexually interested in young kids?
Am I the type of person who would be like that?
Could I really be a pedophile?
Are these kids in danger when I’m around?
How can I be sure that I’m not like that?
I need to make sure that I’m not really that kind of person.

We use the word “obsessed” in our culture to describe things we’re really interested in. He’s obsessed with her, she’s obsessed with checking her Instagram. But that’s not really how an obsession works for someone with OCD. They’re not interested in their obsession in a typical way. Rather, they tend to feel forced to think about it over and over. This makes sense, as an intrusive thought tends to become an obsession because it’s the most disturbing thing their minds could've thrown at them. And disturbing things can be hard to just accept or ignore.

Since obsessions are closely tied to the initial intrusive thought that brings them on, they can really spin out in any direction from any thought like the ones listed on the previous page. Just as there are infinitely many intrusive thoughts, there’s no limit to the obsessions that people experience. However, people with OCD aren’t really bothered by every thought that pops into their head. Instead, their obsessions usually emerge in response to intrusive thoughts within just a few themes at any given time.

What kind of distress can occur?

Emotional and physical pain in people with OCD is by no means limited to the obsession stage. The pain might momentarily be soothed by compulsions, but it usually comes back even worse. And compulsions can create new types of distress, too. Distress is present throughout the obsessive-compulsive cycle, but we’re talking about it here because the main goal of compulsions is to get rid of the distress that obsessions cause.

Because people with OCD spend most of their day feeling like they have to make sure something bad won’t happen, a number of emotional symptoms can arise. Among the most common are trouble focusing, irritability, anger, frustration, jumpiness, guilt, shame, feelings of dread, and a sense of hopelessness.

People with OCD also experience a wide variety of unpleasant physical symptoms. Remember how you’ve felt right before taking an exam in school or getting test results back from a doctor? That feeling of being “amped up” is similar to what a person with OCD feels almost all the time. Their brain says “Time to be alert!” and their body responds by feeling constantly on edge. This can lead to exhaustion, an inability to sleep, digestive problems, muscle tension, dizziness, shortness of breath, and much more.

Sometimes the emotional and physical symptoms work together in another kind of vicious circle– you begin to worry, notice you’re feeling worse, and then worry about feeling worse. Many people with OCD also develop symptoms of other psychiatric disorders, like depression and substance use, and then they have to manage multiple conditions at once. These tend to occur at significantly higher rates in people with OCD than in the general population, perhaps because of the amount of distress they experience.

People can also end up with any number of bodily symptoms from their compulsive behaviors. Someone with a hand washing compulsion can destroy the skin on their hands over time. Another person, refusing to eat because of an obsession about choking or contamination, may become extremely thin and develop medical complications.

People are typically aware, to varying degrees, of the irrationality of their thoughts and behaviors. Many people with OCD know that their thoughts aren’t real and that their behavior might seem strange to others, but they can’t stop despite these insights. But others do believe that their obsessions might come true, and that their compulsions are preventing this. It’s important not to be too quick to say, “Your thoughts don’t matter! You just need to learn to sit with them," because many people do feel like their thoughts are important. Plus, many people have had the same symptoms for years. It takes time to feel alright about letting your guard down for a bit.

What's a compulsion?

When their distress gets overwhelming, people with OCD will often engage in compulsions: repetitive activities aimed at getting rid of distress and regaining a sense of control. Compulsions develop over time, and sometimes they have nothing obvious in common with the content of the obsession. Anything that relieves distress is reinforcing, which means it’s going to seem more appealing the next time that distress shows up.

Eventually, a behavior can become almost automatic because it’s been done so many times; once this happens, and it’s hard to do anything else, it has become a compulsion. This helps us understand why certain “bizarre” compulsions seem to help people feel better short-term even though they have no logical connection to anything else: because this behavior helped the person feel better at one point in the past and developed into a compulsion via reinforcement.

Here are just a few examples of compulsions:

Compulsions: Some Examples
  • Excessive hand-washing
  • Constantly checking in with people to ensure their safety
  • Making sure things are neat and/or symmetrical
  • Checking locks, stoves, light switches repeatedly
  • Repeatedly counting or saying a word in your head
  • Checking trash repeatedly to make sure you aren’t throwing something valuable out
  • Looking for mistakes over and over when writing an essay or paying taxes
  • Looping back while driving to see if you’ve hit someone
  • Google Searching
  • Mentally replaying situations to make sure you remember them completely
  • Getting reassurance about things from other people
  • Visiting different doctors to see if you have an illness
  • Repeatedly apologizing to someone or asking if they’re okay
  • Keeping yourself away from kitchen knives because you get thoughts about stabbing someone
  • Staying away from kids because you get sexual thoughts about them
  • Refusing to visit public places because you’re afraid you’ll catch an illness
  • Avoiding crowded areas

Compulsions might provide a temporary sense of relief, but the anxiety quickly returns. You can never outrun your own mind, and anything designed to keep a certain thought out of your head is actually, perversely, guaranteed to make that thought pop up more often. This is the part in your psychology lecture when the professor says, “Whatever you do, don’t think of a big pink elephant.” By trying not to think of something, you’re already thinking about it, and the obsession tends to get stronger.

So compulsions only work for a bit, and the distressing thoughts start coming on more often as you try to get keep them away. This process begins to spiral, and the obsessive-compulsive cycle can start to take up the better part of your day. The more you perform compulsions, the less you trust yourself and the more you believe that you should be afraid of your own thoughts. And you never find out what would happen if you didn’t do a compulsion, and just let things happen.

Of course, many people with OCD don’t think about their experience in these terms, and simply feel like they have to do the compulsion for some unknown reason. Others are aware of what’s going on but still feel like the compulsion will either prevent something bad from happening, or help them feel better for a while. Many engage in avoidance of situations that might bring about their obsessions again; this avoidance, too, can become a compulsion.

A common misconception about OCD is that people want to perform their compulsions. We see people washing their hands over and over, or refusing to leave their house, and assume that it’s part of their personality or a reflection of their interests. In reality, most people know that their compulsions don’t make any sense but are still unable to stop doing them. And even the people who don’t know this still aren’t doing the compulsions because they want to, but because they feel completely sure they have to.

In some cases, OCD symptoms can become so severe that people consider suicide. If you ever consider suicide, please call your local emergency number or go directly to a hospital. In the United States, you can also call the Suicide Hotline at 1-800-273-8255
These resources were developed with:
Michael A. Jenike, MD
Founder, OCD Institute at McLean Hospital Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Christopher Pittenger, MD, PhD
Director, Yale OCD Research Clinic
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and in the Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine


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