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Action Alert: Funds needed for a student in #Gaza

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I Must Be Dreaming

Countless nights were spent looking for the perfect course in the perfect university. Because I had many friends in the UK, I thought it would be the perfect place for me since I am a people-oriented person. The mission of finding the best university wasn’t easy because of the endless available choices. Many universities were contacted regarding courses, fees and other unstated information.
The University of Westminster was the university I’ve chosen amongst over a hundred universities in the UK. Furthermore, it was very pleasing to me finding a course of my interest. A course I believed that I would do my best at. A course that will greatly improve my skills, pushing them beyond the imaginary edge I have put for. I couldn’t find a better course that from the very first moment I thought was tailored for ambitions, my needs, and me.
For over two weeks, I collected all the necessary documents for the admissions application, which I was all hope of getting. It took the university over 2 months to finally email me with an unconditional offer to pursue my MSc Business Intelligence and Analytics, which brought joy to my heart like nothing before. I would never forget how I felt that day upon reading the offer email.
Though the email came 4 days later the Palestinian European Academic Cooperation in Education (PEACE) Scholarships. But thanks to one of my closest friends, Shoruk, who had helped me so much, calling many different people in different offices around the University and Canvedish House. Without her help, applying to the scholarship with an exception to apply via email wouldn’t be possible.
I applied to the scholarship four days late because the admission came out late as I mentioned earlier and I was all hope that it works with me right for once and for all. It was the only opportunity for me to pursue my dream and get my masters degree from one of the prestigious universities in the UK, the University of Westminster, and see the world (or at least London) for the first and probably the last time in my life.
Living in Gaza is a challenge in itself. The ultimate challenge to anybody on earth would be to live in Gaza, and most importantly survive. Endure endless collective punishment reaching out to over 1.5 million citizens in the biggest-in-history open-air prison. Long-period long-term power cuts, polluted drinking water, which is not suitable for human use, severe shortage in medical supplies, and the list goes on forever.
Upon submitting the scholarship application via email, the scholarships office at the University emailed me back confirming receipt of the scholarship application and that results will come out in late July. Submitting the application in early June meant that I would have to wait for two months before I hear from them regarding the scholarship.
Two months were the longest I’ve ever lived till this moment. Two months full of mixed feelings. Anxiety, worrying, hopes, dreams, ambitions, and a major life turning point. Countless sleepless nights, and nightmares (when I could sleep for a few hours). A period of time I never wish even my enemies to live or experience.
I anticipated the unknown time at which the university will email me regarding the scholarship on which, almost everything-if not all- was dependent. Imagine the possibilities available upon being able to pursue your higher degree and all the things associated with it.
Not receiving any email from the university as the end of July approached started to feel creepy. The closer then end of the month becomes, the creepier the feeling gets. But in spite of all of that, never did I lose faith and hope in getting it.
July has ended, and we are in August already, counting days away from the period in which, the university was supposed to contact me regarding the scholarship. Things started to feel creepy and more worrying by the minute. Till a dear friend, Emma, told me that she would gladly call the university and ask them regarding my matter. Emma’s call was relieving, Alhamdulillah. They told her that they would reply today or tomorrow.
The day ended and it’s time for iftar now. Twenty minutes later, I followed my instinct and went to my computer to check my email to find that the university has finally sent me an email. I was very happy by then.
I open the email to read the most shockingly devastating email I have ever read:
Dear Nader,
I regret to inform you that the Scholarships Committee, after great deliberation, has not been able to award you a scholarship for the September 2011 intake. The committee met over a number of days and each case was carefully reviewed. We had a great many applications, over 2500, for a limited number of scholarships, so the competition was particularly intense this year.
Please be assured that every application was given due consideration. I am sorry that we have to disappoint you and wish you every success in your future.
Please note that all decisions made by the Committee are final and not open to re-consideration.
Devastated and broken is how I felt (and still do) after reading such a catastrophic email. Now that the major life turning point opportunity has gone, fundraising remains the only option for me. Without
enough funds, I would never be able to pursue my masters degree, nor achieve my dreams.
Nader K.

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The CW has finally found its Carrie Bradshaw, the role originally made famous by Sarah Jessica Parker in the HBO hit “Sex and the City.

After months of speculation, the lucky actress playing Bradshaw in the CW prequel, “The Carrie Diaries,” is AnnaSophia Robb, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Robb, 18, is perhaps best known for her role in 2007’s “Bridge to Terabithia.”

Based on the novel by Candace Bushnell, “The Carrie Diaries” focuses on a young Carrie Bradshaw — before the Manolo Blahniks — as she grows up in a small town during the 1980s, learning about love, sex, friendship and family while still balancing the day-to-day drama of high school.

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Bring It!

Heres the deal.

Those of us who can identify as SRBT's* grew up in situations and circumstances that often left us...

Feeling "different"

As though we are "figuring things out" as we go

Less than others

More than others

As though we don't have a clear sense of self and can become ...

A chameleon to situations and circumstances.

Some of us have unfortunately sought "help" only to be told we are

And in general....

That our life sucks

Because we suck....

We aren't doing it right enough.

We aren't good enough.

If we tried harder..

Didn't try quite so hard.

Even todays new "trauma informed care" model is telling us very often that

"Oh shit. You are broken forever and will never be more than you are and you are (fill in the blank)."

We walk away from this kind of "help" being brainwashed

once more

by someone else's limited understanding and beliefs.

How do I know this?

Because I bought into this kind of "help"...

that really was not helpful

for a very long time.

And you know what I discovered?

Is that in their good intentions...

The ignorance of those who have not BTDT*...

(Or maybe they have been there but they have't done the work to resolve their own issues and now share their own limiting beliefs with others....)

Simply reinforced what I knew all along and had been told from the beginning of time...

That I was worthless, powerless and there was no hope for me.

That I was broken.

Damaged goods.

And would be

And it was only when I decided to no longer listen to those who had not BTDT and

I began to listen to those who had traveled this path before me and emerged...

Not unscathed, mind you...

But emerged in their fullness, their power and

owning the crap out of their power...

That I discovered the truth.

What was that truth?

My truth.

Not "their" truth.

My truth.

The truth that set me free.

The truth that became the knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt....

That while I will never

be what I

could have been

had I not been

I will always

be more than what those who told me I would never be more than what I had experienced.

You got it going on:)

Shake it off.

Thats it...

Bring it....

Own the crap out of your power...

Game on!

You da bomb!

*SRBT's = Survivors of Really Bad Things (are the most amazing people on the face of the earth!)

*BTDT = Been There Done That:)

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Mike Haitch said...

Oh yes!

"We know you"
"No, actually you do not, you've never seen me well."

After SRBT, when we "bring it" it's an entirely different game! Having some fun ITRW as it slowly sinks in - It's not me that needs to up my game :-)

Susan said...

You GO Mike! are so doing this thing!

Mike Haitch said...

It's been a "Kung Fu Panda" experience for me. Simpy not noticing that some things I do for fun and relaxation might have value, might be considered difficult by others.

One day I wondered "What if I try to merge these two areas of my life". Another day was "oh, and there's this stuff as well. What if I merged that in as well?" "oh and then there's this stuff as well."

I look at the result and think "OMG!! How could I not notice who I am". So focussed on the pieces you don't notice the jigsaw being built.....

Then It's easy to say "look at the jigsaw and tell me what you see!"

Now it's a case of seeing what happens....

From Tracie said...

This right exactly what I needed to read today.

Thank you for that .

Patricia Singleton said...

Susan, I can tell you have thought this one out really well. You are a very wise lady who has learned the hard way that you are the one who knows what is good for you, not some so-called expert who doesn't have a clue as to what it means to be a survivor/thriver. You are both. Thanks for sharing your journey.

Elaina* ~ said...

Susan, this poem is WONDERFUL! POWERFUL! AWESOME! WOW! I'm sharing it.

Susan said...

@MIke...I love the way you put things together...merging of the parts of life. Awesome!

@Tracie - I am so tickled that this post spoke to you where you are at...I love those "coincidences"!

Pat...I am always so glad to see you and thank you for your generous note! I feel privileged to be able to share my life lessons here and so grateful we can all share the journey!

Elaina....Thank you for your note AND for sharing!


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Bongaon (WB): Accusing the ruling Trinamool Congress and state administration of unleashing a reign of terror, CPI(M) leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Sunday claimed that a free and fair panchayat poll would see a political victory for the Left in rural West Bengal.
"The TMC and the state administration have launched a reign of terror before the panchayat polls so that opposition parties can`t file nomination. The police is doing nothing to ensure a free poll," Bhattacharjee told a rally at Bongaon in North 24-Parganas district.

The former chief minister accused the government of deliberately entering into a spat with the State Election Commission over the holding of panchayat poll.

"We had organised seven panchayat polls, but never such a situation had arisen. This government from the very beginning wants to dismantle the panchayat system," he claimed.

Hailing the increase in the vote share of the Left Front in the just-concluded Howrah Lok Sabha by-election, he said that despite violence by TMC activists the people of Howrah had shown the guts to fight the terror.

"They had tried to create a lot of problems, but we had given them a good fight. If we had been able to stop TMC`s terror fully we would have done much better. If free and fair Panchayat polls are held then no one can stop the victory of the Left Front," he said.

Left Front chairman Biman Bose today accused goons allegedly associated with the Trinamool Congress for the killing of a CPI(M) leader in Burdwan district.

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McIlroy not concentrating on Woods ahead of Augusta National

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London: Former World number one golfer Rory McIlroy believes Tiger Wood’s return in form is a good thing for the sport, but insists he is concentrating on his own game rather than keeping an eye on Woods, ahead of the Augusta National.

Woods has emerged as the new favorite for Augusta, but that didn’t bother McIlroy, as he was in Miami.

The US Open champion maintained Wood’s new found form “doesn’t do anything” to his bid to claim his first Masters next week.

“To be honest I didn’t see any of the golf at the weekend - I’ve been in Miami - but I saw he won by a few shots so he must have played really well. It’s great for the game and very exciting for Augusta. What happened at the weekend obviously lifts it up a level,” The Daily Mail quoted McIlroy, as saying.

“He produces excitement and interest that no-one else can. But for me personally, it doesn’t do anything. I have to concentrate on myself, 100 per cent. It’s not just about a couple of guys - there are a hundred or so guys in the field,” he said.

“All I can do is try to come to terms with what the course demands and work hard to get my game in the best possible shape. That’s all I can do and all the rest of the field can do as well, concentrate on ourselves,” he added.

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NFL legends join forces with Hollywood celebrities in this action-packed, high-scoring flag football game, set in the heart of New York City at Bryant Park. NFL Network’s Rich Eisen, and Dan Patrick of NBC’s Football Night in America call the action, while Maria Menounos goes on the field to provide updates from the sidelines.

Tune in to watch Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Marino lead “The Gamers” with newly enshrined Hall of Famer Deion Sanders and former New York Giants defensive end, Michael Strahan. On the other side of the ball, “The Famers” take the field with Super Bowl XXXIV MVP Kurt Warner at the helm, along with Hall of Fame wide receiver Jerry Rice and actor Ryan Mcpartlin from NBC’s Chuck.

Full Team Rosters:

  1. Rob Brown (Actor – HBO’s Treme)
  2. Tim Brown (9X Pro Bowl Selection; 1987 Heisman Trophy Winner)
  3. Josh Charles (Actor – CBS’s The Good Wife)
  4. Zach Gilford (Actor – NBC’s Friday Night Lights)
  5. Ronnie Lott (Pro Football Hall of Fame; 4X Super Bowl Champion; 10X Pro Bowl Selection)
  6. Anthony Mackie (Actor – Reel Steel)
  7. Dan Marino (Pro Football Hall of Fame; 9X Pro Bowl Selection)
  8. Maria Menounos (Actress, Co-host of Extra)
  9. Chris Meloni (Actor – Autumn Frost)
  10. Elisabeth Rohm (Actress – Abduction)
  11. Deion Sanders (Pro Football Hall of Fame; 2X Super Bowl Champion; NFL Network Analyst)
  12. Michael Strahan (Super Bowl XLII Champion; 7X Pro Bowl Selection)
  13. Chrissy Teigen (Model – Sports Illustrated, Victoria’s Secret Pink)
  14. Rodney Harrison (NBC Analyst; 2X Super Bowl champion with the New England Patriots)-Coach

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  2. Terry Crews (Actor – TBS’ Are We There Yet?)
  3. Willa Holland (Actress – Screen Gems’ Straw Dogs)
  4. Ryan McPartlin (Actor – NBC’s Chuck)
  5. Rachel Nichols (Actress – CBS’ Criminal Minds)
  6. John Randle (Pro Football Hall of Fame; 7X Pro Bowl Selection)
  7. Jerry Rice (Pro Football Hall of Fame; 3X Super Bowl Champion; 13X Pro Bowl Selection)
  8. Barry Sanders (Pro Football Hall of Fame; 10X Pro Bowl Selection)
  9. Herschel Walker (2X Pro Bowl Selection; 1982 Heisman Trophy Winner)
  10. Kurt Walker (Super Bowl XXXIV MVP; 4X Pro Bowl Selection)
  11. Tony Dungy (NBC Analyst; Head Coach of the Super Bowl XLI Champion Indianapolis Colts)-Coach

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Michael Irvin (Pro Football Hall of Fame; NFL Network Analyst)

The Pigskin Pro-Am is part of the launch of Madden NFL 12, which goes on sale August 30.

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Counter-Strike Nexon: Zombies Open Beta Starts September 23

Nexon’s free-to-play Counter-Strike spin-off will be available on Steam soon.

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MechWarrior Online developer working on a new sci-fi MMORPG.

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Open beta starts next week.

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Bring the kids to see and experience vehicles and equipment from agencies that respond in severe weather and other events! This FREE family friendly event will be full of fun activities while also helping to provide information and training plans for your household to better prepare for severe weather. Your Z will see you there!

For more information, please visit the Seminole County Office of Emergency Management website here or feel free to call 407.665.5102.

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2017: A Resolution to End Hunger

Location: Feeding Children Everywhere Headquarters, Longwood Florida

We need volunteers to come package 40,000 meals! This event will be at our headquarters in Longwood and everyone is welcome to come have a good time while giving back.

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Repticon Orlando Reptile and Exotic Animal Show

Location: Central Florida Fairgrounds – Craft Building, Orlando FL

Repticon Orlando is a reptile event featuring vendors offering reptile pets, supplies, feeders, cages, and merchandise as well as live animal seminars and frequent free raffles for coveted prizes. Exciting, educational, family-oriented fun for everyone! For more information on the event or tickets email: RepticonEvents@repticon.com.

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Admission: Adults – $10 | Children (5-12)  $5 | Under 5 – Free | Visit our website for special offers on 2-day and VIP tickets

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SeaWorld's Praise Wave

Location: SeaWorld Orlando, Orlando FL

Date: Saturday, January 28
Time: Shows begin at 1:30 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.
Location: The Nautilus Theater
Cost: Praise Wave is included with regular park admission. Annual Passholders can get in with their annual pass at no additional cost. Find out more about tickets on SeaWorld’s website!

Great News Z Fans! Praise Wave is making a splash back to SeaWorld again in 2017…and your Z couldn’t be more excited about this year’s lineup!

To find out more about this three weekend event, visit our Praise Wave page.

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17th Annual Heritage Festival

Location: Our Lady of Grace Church, Palm Bay Florida

Come have fun and share in our diversity at our annual festival. We have amusement rides, ethnic food with the highlight at our Taste of Grace on Sunday, January 29, great entertainment, basket drawings, vendors, and a book barn.  Sit under our tent and enjoy the entertainment.

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Terell Davy Concert

Location: Orlando Central Seventh Day Adventist Church, Orlando FL

Join Terell for a night of live music, worship, and fun! Terell’s life’s ambition is to share music that inspires and touches the hearts of others and leads them to a relationship with Jesus. With a solid background in classical voice, Terell is also influenced by a wide variety of modern styles. This tapestry of style only enhances the power of his music. He will be sharing music from his debut EP Deeper. Admission and parking will be FREE and the album, along with other items will be available for sale afterwards. Come ready to experience a night you won’t forget, and leave even more in love with Jesus!

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#WeBreedKings Gala

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Join us for an elegant evening at the Winter Park Community Center for our 1st Annual #WeBreedKings Gala! This is a black tie formal dinner. Tickets are $25 per person (before January 14th). Sponsorship opportunities are available!

At this FORMAL BLACK TIE DINNER attendees will be served a meal, receive inspiring words from the key note speaker, have networking opportunities, learn more about the initiatives of the Academy of Kings, celebrate another year of accomplishment as an organization, prizes, give-aways, and much more!

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Learn WatchKit for iOS is published by on July 4, 2015. This book has 464 pages in English, ISBN-10 1484210263, ISBN-13 978-1484210260. PDF, EPUB is available for download below.

Learn WatchKit for iOS covers the development of applications for the new Apple Watch using the WatchKit framework in iOS 8 and the Swift programming language. In this book, an Apple Watch application is an extension to an existing iOS app and is packaged and submitted to the App Store along with it. Using a suite of simple examples, Kim Topley, co-author of Beginning iPhone Development with Swift, introduces and explains every feature of WatchKit and the associated technologies that you’ll need to understand to build Apple Watch applications for iOS 8, culminating in a complete WatchKit application that shows weather forecast information for various cities around the world on the Apple Watch.

What you’ll learn

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We have a passing note with a personal connection to abc news. Lindy boggs, ambassador to the vatican, champion for women's and civil rights, the mother of our own cokie roberts, remembering her extraordinary life. Reporter: Marine. Corrine. Morrison. Claiborne. Boggs. She was a washington original, known to most as just lindy boggs. LATE IN LIFE, IN HER 80s, A U.S. Ambassador to the vatican. Earlier, much earlier, one half of something that was new to washington when she got there, IN HER 20s, THE POWER COUPLE. He husband hale boggs, an up and comer out of louisiana, headed out for leadership. Tradition held one side of her heart, as she embraced motherhood. Raising three kids, a future new jersey mayor. A boy destined to be a leading washington lawyer. And one, our own cokie roberts. But there was ambition in her too, and political smarts. Lindy boggs ran several of her husband's campaigns -- she worked harder on this campaign than anybody else, and lindy, this is for you from me. Reporter: But then, in 1972, the deep loss that changed everything. Searching for the twin engine cessna that disappeared -- Reporter: When her husband's plane went down in 1972 and was never found. In the family, it was clear who should run to fill the seat. I hope I'll be half as good a congresswoman as you would expect me to be. Reporter: Boggs served in congress for 17 years, pushing to expand horizons for women and the disadvantaged. Her connection to her constituents would always be something real. She was proud of the fact that when she retired from congress she was the only white member representing a majority black constiuency. They picked her to chair the democratic national convention in 1976, and when president clinton made her ambassador to the vatican the vice president who conferred the honors, well, she could honestly say she'd known him since he was a little boy. That's what in being politics for most of a century will get. Times changed during lindy boggs' long run here. But in part that's because lindy boggs changed the times. She was 97. John donvan, abc news, washington. All of us here at abc news remembering lindy boggs and of course, thinking of our colleague and friend cokie tonight, after the loss of her mother.

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That’s why it was with great anticipation that I picked up Steven Kent’s The Ultimate History of Video Games.

I loved this book. I got to relive Atari, Intellivision, and Colecovision as a child but this time seeing it through the eyes as an adult. It felt a bit like reuniting with some old friends.

Here are a few notes I highlighted as I was reading:

– Atari got it’s name from the Japanese word for ‘check’ in the game of Go.

– Within ten years of it’s inception, Atari would grow into a $2Billion a year company making it the fastest growing company in US history.

Jobs and Wozniak take on Atari Breakout

– Because of repair costs and reduced circuit board space, Atari saved approximately $100,000 for each chip removed before production. Nolan Bushnell (founder) wanted his engineers to reduce the number of chips in Breakout – but got no volunteers.

– Enter Steve Jobs. Jobs was working with Wozniak on the Apple ][. Jobs convinced Woz to give it a go, and Woz did it in 72 hours non-stop, all in his head. Bushnell set a target to get it down to 75 chips (down from 100). Woz got it down to 20.

– Don Valentine, the founder of Sequoia Capital, was one of the first investors in Atari. He only stayed for 2 years, but later on Steve Jobs and Wozniak asked Valentine to help start Apple computer. That year Valentine invested in Apple and Cisco. Not a bad year for a VC.

The Golden Age of Arcade Games

– Space Invaders was so popular when it came out that it caused a national coin shortage.

– Pac-Man, invented by Toru Iwatani, was originally called Puck-Man but was changed to prevent any Americans from vandalizing the name.

– Defender was a huge breakthough in gaming. 3 ½ screens and scrolling.

– Nintendo is a 100 year old company

– The same guy, Shigeru Miyamoto, created Donkey Kong, Mario Brothers, and Legend of Zelda

– Tempest took a year and had about 21K of code. It was also revolutionary for it’s vector based graphics.

– Toru Iwatani, the Namco employee who designed Pac-Man, was not involved with the creation of Ms. Pac-Man. It was created, instead, by nine college students, led by two MIT students, Doug Macrae and Kevin Curran.

– Midway sold 100,000 Pac-Man machines and more than 115,000 Ms. Pac-Man machines in the United States. Other than these, no arcade game has ever sold more than 100,000 units in the US.

– Though ColecoVision had only the standard 8-bit processor, 8K of RAM, with an additional 16K of video RAM, it was cheap enough that COleco could afford a chip with the memory mapping and frame buffers that Atari had left out.

– Dragon Slayer, a game combining arcade play with full on animation, looked like a Disney production because it was animated by a former Disney animator who worked on films such as Robin Hood, the Rescuers, and Pete’s Dragon.

– In 1982 Activision replaced Atari as the fastest-growing company in the history of the US riding high with hits like Pitfall and River Raid.

– Commodore International was founded by Jack Tramiel – possibly the most complex person ever to enter the computer industry. He was a Polish Jew, a survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who worked his way from poverty to fortune.

– In 1981, Commodore release the VIC-20 that sold for under $300. It had 5K RAM and 16-color graphics, and was a pricing coup for it’s time.

– In August 1982 Commodore launched the Commodore 64, a personal computer that company executives claimed rivaled the $1000 Apple ][ in power but sold for $600. By the following January Commodore was shipping 25,000 computers a month.

– In 1983 Commodore surpassed Apple in overall sales and became the first computer company to report a $1-billion sales year.

– Coleco licensed a guys concept for dolls and renamed them ‘Cabbage Patch Kids’.
– In 1986 Coleco acquired the company that published Trivial Pursuit. They missed the fad, and in 1988 filed for bankruptcy.

Electronic Arts

– The biggest and most successful game company that emerged during the Commodore 64 run was Electronic Arts, a company that did something no other video game company had done before – it promoted it’s game developers.

– EA was founded by Trip Hawkins, a Harvard, Stanford MBA graduate who was opportunistic and persuasive. Was Apple 68th employee and was involved in many strategic decisions there.

– Hawkins is attributed for coming up with the albumn cover concept form video games

– EA created one of my favorite childhood games – Archon (chess where you fight the actual battles).

– Sega is not a Japanese word. It is an abbreviated form of Service Games founded by Americans that has it’s roots in a US military base in Japan.

I could go on and on. The book goes into great detail talking about the rise and fall of Sega, Nintendo (these guys were huge but I didn’t play a tonne of these games). I more enjoyed the Atari, Intellivison, and Coleco Vision.

If you are looking for a thorough, indepth, light read on Video Games. This is definitely the book for you. It’s not the most well written piece of prose, but if you like history and nostalgia on one of the worlds biggest pop culture events, you won’t be disappointed.

My favorite video of all time – Disks of Tron.


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Mission accomplished! Practically all German food retailers have confirmed with us that they will discontinue selling cage eggs, including colony cage eggs,  in the future. Since late 2008, super market chains have contacted us almost weekly concerning their goodwill to contribute to an important issue in animal protection and thus to eliminate cage eggs from their product line. Representing a major alliance of animal protection organizations, we have led discussions with most of the food retailers and were impressed with how openly they met our requests.

In 2006, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) overruled the ban on cages that had been decided on by the Green Party/Social Democratic Party (SPD). Now, it shows that it was a mistake, economically and politically. When battery cage systems were reintroduced, it was not considered that market trends were already headed in a different direction. Following intense discussions with a number of animal protection organizations, including ourselves, in 2003, supermarket chain ALDI Nord had already decided to stop selling cage eggs and another chain, Lidl, followed suit in all regions where ALDI Nord was present. The percentage of cage eggs in other supermarket chains also declined gradually since consumers were steadily becoming aware of the cruelty of cage eggs. Further food retail chains such as Norma and Plus also decided to discontinue selling cage eggs.The reintroduction of cage eggs despite these clear signals was likely the result of purposefully misinformed politicians.

Now the new cages are practically superfluous and thus, several million euros have been wasted in switching from battery cages to colony cages. Politicians, producers, food retailers, and animal protectionists should have joined forces; that way German eggs could have been positioned on the market as a premium product. It is unfortunate that switching over production to cage-free eggs now only takes place with the partial support of the first two groups. We certainly hope that in the future, it will be easier to bring together all involved parties.

The following list shows which food retailers have decided to eliminate cage eggs from their product line. Due to low supply of eggs from alternative systems, phasing out may take until Easter 2010.

  • Aldi Nord and  Aldi Süd
  • coop
  • Edeka
  • famila
  • Feneberg
  • Globus
  • Handelshof
  • Hit
  • Kaiser’s Tengelmann
  • Karstadt Feinkost
  • Kaufhof
  • Kaufland
  • Lidl
  • Markant
  • Netto Marken-Discount
  • Netto Supermarkt
  • Norma
  • Penny Markt
  • Plus (is currently acquired by Netto and Penny Markt)
  • real,-
  • REWE
  • tegut…
  • V-Markt

You can find a list of cage-free wholesale cash and carry businesses here.

Should you happen to find individual German markets from the positive list still selling cage eggs, please write us an email as soon as possible.

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SKE48 Mukaida Manatsu and Sato Seira announce their graduations

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SKE48’s Mukaida Manatsu(17) and Sato Seira(21) announced their graduations from the SKE theater on 17th Jan 2014.

As the group’s next generation ace and regular senbatsu member, Mukaida Manatsu has shocked everyone with her decision. She explained “Last year around this time i started to think about my future. I’m in 3rd year of high school and college entrance exams are coming. I hope to concentrate on my studies and take a step closer towards my dream, so i have decided to graduate.”

On the other hand, Sato Seira has never been in the senbatsu but stands out for her sexy bodyline, which she showcased in bikini during the 2012 Janken Competition. “I’ve been in SKE for 5 years, and i have not learnt everything there is to be learnt. Unfortunately, i did not manage to gather alot of fans, but someday i hope to become famous and have people think ‘i should have followed this girl back then'”

Both of them had pulled out of the AKB4 General Elections last year, and fans had speculated about their graduations before things gradually quietened down.Now that the speculations have been proven to be true, fans are quite shocked.

Awww…i really liked Manatsu…and yes i’m one of those who guessed she was going to graduate when she pulled out of the elections last year. What is Team S going to do without Manatsu?!!!!

One Response to “SKE48 Mukaida Manatsu and Sato Seira announce their graduations”

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    I liked her too… ;_;
    so many grads annoucement lately…

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I’m really troubled. The two most accomplished governors in the country have both suspended their campaigns for the Republican nomination. Rick Perry administered a state that created most of the new jobs in the country. Liberals predicted that Texas would go bust along with oil prices when they started to drop, but 2014 was the year that oil prices fell to $53 a barrel in December from more than $107 in June.

But Austin has little exposure to the energy industry, and business other than government is booming. Texas has no personal or corporate income tax, and job growth continues to soar. Texas is in the business of wealth creation, not redistribution.

Scott Walker shifted power from unions to workers, where it belongs. Wisconsin has outdone the nation on most economic indicators. The unemployment rate is lower than the national average, and improving. After four years of Gov. Walker, more Wisconsinites are employed and his policies are clearly working. Add in an attempt to recall him, death threats to his family, protests at his parent’s home, and the use of law enforcement as a political instrument in an attempt to undo election results. Above all, he clearly has a steel spine, something we have all been wishing for.

Well, sour grapes. Walker, perhaps rose to the top too soon,too fast, and the vast number of candidates, hostile unions determined to destroy him,  a liberal media that regarded him as the most dangerous man in the bunch — liberals will do anything to silence those who disagree, and someone who is successful in overturning everything in the original progressive state is very dangerous to the liberal agenda.

I expected some to drop out, but not my two favorites while the less deserving, hang on. It’s politics, and the unexpected usually happens.

ADDENDUM: I’ve read dozens of other commentary on Scott Walkers suspension of his campaign. The only satisfying answer, setting aside the snark, is that he entered the race on a vast wave of enthusiasm, and the campaign spent way too much money in the first weeks, and as yet people are just getting acquainted with the candidates, and not really ready to settle on a single favorite. The too much money spent too early wasn’t getting replenished that fast. He just ran out of money and poll numbers.

The President Met With Governor Perry. Perry-1, Obama-0. by The Elephant's Child

Texas Governor Rick Perry met with President Obama today in Dallas. After the meeting he released the following statement.

DALLAS – Gov. Rick Perry today met with President Barack Obama to discuss the ongoing humanitarian and national security crises occurring along the Texas-Mexico border. In the meeting, Gov. Perry urged the president to undertake the necessary steps to secure the border and ease the crises.

“Five hundred miles south of here in the Rio Grande Valley there is a humanitarian crisis unfolding that has been created by bad public policy, in particular the failure to secure the border,” Gov. Perry said. “Securing the border is attainable, and the president needs to commit the resources necessary to get this done.”

Among the requests Gov. Perry made to President Obama to secure the border:

  • Visit the Texas-Mexico border to witness firsthand the impact of the border crisis;
  • Deploy an additional 1,000 National Guard troops to the Texas-Mexico border to immediately enhance border security operations;
  • Direct the Federal Aviation Administration to allow the National Guard to utilize Predator drones along the Texas-Mexico border for identifying and tracking human and drug trafficking;
  • Medically screen all illegal immigrants to ensure their health and the health of our citizens;
  • Direct the Centers for Disease Control or another appropriate federal agency outside the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to conduct, in conjunction with the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS), inspections of facilities in which illegal immigrants, including UACs, are being housed to ensure accepted international and national emergency sheltering standards are met;
  • Modify or rescind policies that serve as a magnet to encourage illegal immigration, including:
  • DHS Catch and Release policies by which DHS issues an illegal immigrant an NTA before an immigration judge and releases them. The U.S. Department of Justice reports that 33 percent of those released on their own recognizance failed to appear in FY 2013.
  • Deportation policies and procedures that prohibit UACs from countries other than Mexico and Canada from being immediately repatriated back to their country of origin. After DHS processes these UACs, they are issued an NTA and delivered to a sponsor or relative in the United States, regardless of the relative’s immigration status.
The president said “Right now, there are more Border Patrol agents and surveillance resources on the ground than at any time in our history.  And we deport almost 400,000 migrants each year.” Which is not quite accurate. We have really boosted the funding for the Border Patrol, but according to reports, most of the Border Patrol agents have been called from the border to processing the UAC (Unaccompanied Alien Children), and the border is essentially wide open.
Obama, of course, takes responsibility only for the good things, and the problem at the border is, somehow, the uncooperative Republicans. It would all go smoothly if we had more administrative judges,more administrative capacity and lots more money.
We’ve asked Jeh Johnson to contact his head of Health and Human Services when he comes down for the sixth time at the end of this week to coordinate and make sure that some of the suggestions that the Governor has are technically feasible and what kind of resources might be needed. But what I emphasized to the Governor was the problem here is not a major disagreement around the actions that could be helpful in dealing with the problem.  The challenge is, is Congress prepared to act to put the resources in place to get this done.
Another way of putting it — and I said this directly to the Governor — is are folks more interested in politics, or are they more interested in solving the problem?  If they’re interested in solving the problem, then this can be solved.  If the preference is for politics, then it won’t be solved.

The president was asked why he won’t visit the border. He said:

Jeh Johnson has now visited, at my direction, the border five times.  He’s going for a sixth this week.  He then comes back and reports to me extensively on everything that’s taking place.  So there’s nothing that is taking place down there that I am not intimately aware of and briefed on.This isn’t theater.  This is a problem.  I’m not interested in photo ops; I’m interested in solving a problem.

Obama has asked for $3.8 billion to feed, house and clothe something like 50,000 UAC, but then as soon as they are “processed” they are put on a bus to take them to their “relatives,” and only 20% will ever turn up for their deportation hearing. Senator Coburn said you could send them all back home, first class air to Guatemala City for just $20 million. So somebody has some problems with math.

What has drawn the sudden influx of unaccompanied alien children, is President Obama’s very own “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” (DACA), This was created with an executive order. Obama could rescind it any time he wants. Yet he says now that he cannot act without Congress.

Rick Perry Pokes a Little Fun at Himself! by The Elephant's Child

Jobs Are Created by a Growing Economy, Not Government Spending. by The Elephant's Child

In a brief speech to the Western Republican Conference in Las Vegas, Texas governor Rick Perry announced his upcoming “economic pro-growth package that will create growth and encourage investment in America.  The plan will involve major tax reform, entitlement reform, a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, and abolishment of earmarks, and a recommitment to energy exploration in the United States.”

Our long term growth requires a fundamental tax reform. Perry said. Therefore, his plan “starts with scrapping the three million words of the current tax code — starting over with something simple: a flat tax.  I want to make the tax code so simple that even Timothy Geithner can file his taxes on time”.

Much of Perry’s  speech was dedicated to promoting his already released energy plan.  He pointed out the importance of energy independence and exploration in boosting economic growth.  The Environmental Protection Agency has played too large a role in American’s lives, he said.  More localized, state-based solutions to environmental problems would solve the problem of the EPA’s overreach.

“Let’s get Washington out of the way in order to save and preserve the American way.  Let’s do it.  Let’s roll,” he concluded.

Debates, Demagoguery and Democracy. by The Elephant's Child

Michelle Bachman ignited a firestorm in the Republican debate this last week.  In 2007, Texas governor Rick Perry issued an executive order requiring sixth-grade girls be vaccinated against the Human papillomavirus (HPV), the cause of cervical cancer and of many other genital cancers in both men and women.  Michelle Bachman claimed that “to have innocent little 12-year-old girls be forced to have a government injection through an executive order is just flat-out-wrong” and “a violation of a liberty interest.”

Rick Perry has said in the past that he should not have done this with an executive order, but that he really hates cancer.  There was opportunity for parents who objected to opt out. Bachman saw an opportunity to go after the front-runner, and not only overdid it, but pretty much ruined her campaign.

Bachman went on to accuse Gov. Perry of being a tool of Merck Pharmaceuticals, because he had received a political donation from Merck.  Perry responded that the donation he had received from Merck was for $5,000 and if she was suggesting that he was for sale for $5,000 — he was offended.  The Media, scenting some hot dissent, invited Bachman on assorted shows. She made the rounds of the talk shows claiming that after the debate she was approached by a woman in tears who told her that when her 12-year-old daughter received the Guardasil vaccination she became retarded.

We have a national problem with irresponsible people scaring the poorly informed about vaccines. The complaints about the Food and Drug Administration are usually about how long it takes to get a drug approved.  They may be slow, but they do take care.

Let’s deal with some plain ordinary facts. According to the Center for Disease Control, a study that covered 83% of the U.S. population estimated that about 24,900 HPV-associated cancers occur each year.  More than 17,300 HPV-associated cancers occur yearly in women and almost 7,600 occur yearly in men.  These numbers may under-represent the actual number of cancers diagnosed during this time period.  Not everyone who gets the virus gets cancer, but there is no way to get rid of the virus.

The vaccines are mostly effective (not perfect) but definitely don’t cause retardation, which is caused by a birth defect — not acquired suddenly at age 12. Whooping-cough is making a return because of scared parents refusing vaccinations for their children.  California reported the highest number of cases of whooping-cough in 55 years. Vaccinations don’t cause autism either. For those who have been alarmed, there is plenty of information  available at the Center for Disease Control website, or consult your doctor.

The Wall Street Journal wrote:

Opponents of mandatory vaccination include social conservatives who believe the vaccine will increase promiscuity, though we suspect watching MTV is a greater spur to teen sex. Opposition to state involvement in treatment decisions has more force: HPV is not casually communicable like polio or measles. Yet the executive order included a clause that allowed families to opt out for “reasons of conscience” or “to protect the right of parents to be the final authority on their children’s health care.” At a certain point, the distinction between “opt in” and “opt out” becomes academic when the violation of liberty is filling out minor paperwork.

The larger opportunity here is to eradicate a potentially terminal disease that has huge economic, social and other costs. Such progress is especially welcome when other government trends—the FDA’s cancer drug approvals, the eventual treatment restrictions inherent in national health care—are running in the opposite direction. …

The GOP critique of government in the age of Obama would be more credible if the party’s candidates did not equate trying to save lives with tyranny.

Get to Know Governor Rick Perry. Impressive Experience! by The Elephant's Child

Rick Perry announced today that he is a candidate for President of the United States.  He has been governor of Texas for ten years, Lieutenant Governor before that, Commissioner of Agriculture, and a Representative in the Texas Legislature. Here is the announcement speech — no teleprompter — and if you don’t know much about him, very worth reading it all. He tells us who he is and what he believes.

We cannot afford four more years of this rudderless leadership. Last week, that leadership failed, and the tax and spend and borrow agenda of this President led to the first ever downgrade of the credit rating of the United States of America.

In reality though, this is just the most recent downgrade. The fact is for nearly three years President Obama has been downgrading American jobs. He’s been downgrading our standing in the world. He’s been downgrading our financial stability. He’s been downgrading our confidence, and downgrading the hope for a better future for our children. That’s a fact.

Texas has a pretty good record. No income tax. They like business there — home to more Fortune 500 businesses than any other state. Balanced budget. Over the past two years, over  40 percent of all jobs created in the country were created in Texas.

Even before the Perry announcement (though we all know he was going to announce) David Axlerod fired an early Obama campaign shot, on the CBS Early Show:

“I don’t think many people would attribute it to the leadership of the governor down there,” he said of jobs growth, citing federal spending on oil production and the military.

“Federal spending on oil production?” Have I not been writing for months and months about the thousands of jobs killed because the Obama administration will not issue permits for drilling?  And potential federal revenue from that drilling forgone because they didn’t want to let anyone drill for oil? How about the ten oil rigs departed for other countries?  Texas is a Gulf state, and has suffered from the Obama administration’s lack of a sensible energy policy. And Obama’s going to brag  about how he deserves the credit for Texas Job Growth?  Mr. slash defense spending, bring the troops home early, announce our schedule so the enemy can make appropriate plans, and cut the military back to bare bones?

Axlerod went on during an interview with George Stephanopoulos”

I don’t think the picture of Texas is what people want for the country when you look at the whole array of things that happened there,” he said.Texas’ record of job creation has more to do with profits from the oil industry, a growing military and receiving aid from the Recovery Act, according to Axelrod.

So President Obama has had marvelous success creating jobs in Texas, and neglected the rest of the country? Somewhere there are over 9 percent unemployed. When the folks in the other 49 states find out, they’re going to be really angry!

Here’s another enthusiastic post by a Perry supporter, from Legal Insurrection. Perry said:  “I promise I will work every day to make Washington D.C. as inconsequential in your lives as I can.”  Sounds good to me.

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Monthly Archives: July 2009

Slogging, not blogging

If you’re wondering why you haven’t seen or heard much here lately, here’s the latest evidence:

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Your correspondent is typing with only his left hand. He is not left-handed.

Nor is there a good story to go with it. Unless you are a passionate Green Bay Packers fan and are somehow warmed by the notion that the injury was sustained while pulling out old negatives of newspaper photos to be published in our new coffee-table book about your club.

When did this happen? Well, it might have been 1986, maybe 1987, maybe even 1988. That’s where I was in the files at the time.

My luck was better the other day over at Amazing Records, our local used vinyl emporium. No wrists were sprained in snagging the albums these tunes come from.

“The Letter,” Al Green, from “Green Is Blues,” 1969.

“Getting It On,” Dennis Coffey and the Detroit Guitar Band, from “Evolution,” 1971.

Amazing records indeed. Both are out of print but can be found.

Also …

A side of Mother’s Finest featured this month on our other blog, The Midnight Tracker.

Three from the Mighty Clouds of Joy in our guest post over at The Vinyl District.

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Why I smell like fried cheese

It’s been a dry summer in our corner of Wisconsin, and not only for the crops. There haven’t been many must-see shows.

However, you see the Grass Roots listed as the headlining act at the Kewaunee County Fair — barely a half-hour’s drive away — and you know you’re going to be there.

Then you wonder. What will that be like, some 40 years on? You dig around and learn that the only original member still with the group is lead singer Rob Grill. Then a friend says: “I heard he had brain surgery.” Then you wonder whether the backing band is any good.

Not to worry.

The Grass Roots, with Grill singing lead and playing bass, and backed by a tight three-piece band, are doing just fine some 40 years on. Grill, guitarist Dusty Hanvey, keyboard man Larry Nelson and drummer Joe Dougherty have been together for 25 years now, far longer than the original lineup. Their sound is everything you’d hope for.

For a 65-year-old man who needed brain surgery after hitting his head in a fall, and who then had to go through physical rehab because of it, and who also has been slowed by a knee injury, Grill is doing all right.

They played everything you’d hope to hear, plus covers of “Don’t Pull Your Love” by Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds — a song originally intended for the Grass Roots — along with “Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)” by Edison Lighthouse and “Drift Away” by Dobie Gray.

Rain left a small lake right in front of the midway stage, so about 2,000 of us made do.

We filled the area from the Holy Rosary Parish food stand (with dining room!) back to the Farm Bureau and FFA Alumni food stands and back down to the American Legion food and beer stand. Even with the demo derby going on at the same time next door, in front of the grandstand.

My clothes reek of deep-fried cheese curds (which are delicious). I was standing in front of the Legion stand, in prime position to hear …

“I’d Wait a Million Years” (1969, the opening song and still my favorite).

“Let’s Live For Today” (1967, dedicated to all the Vietnam vets).

Among other great tunes. These two are off “The Grass Roots: Their 16 Greatest Hits,” 1971, which is out of print.

Single-CD compilations include this 2003 import and this entry in the Millenium Collection/20th Century Masters series.

Photo: Al Hoppe, Kewaunee County Fair.

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Two for the blues

That was the name of a show I used to listen to on WORT, the fine indie radio station in Madison, Wisconsin, back in the ’80s. (It’s still on the air, by the way, at 8 p.m. Saturdays. Listen live here.)

If I have the blues today, it’s because summer is hurtling past, and there’s nothing I can do to slow its pace. Too much work, though it beats the alternative. Too much softball and not enough skating, but only I am to blame for that. Too little time to listen to tunes, or to rip them, and then to write the blog, so I’ll try to make amends.

One for the rockin’ blues: George Thorogood and the Destroyers will be out with a new record later this month. “The Dirty Dozen” is set up a bit like a vinyl LP. The first six cuts are new tunes. The next six are covers, including three from earlier Thorogood albums that have gone out of print.

Thorogood has been rocking the car for the better part of the last week. His new stuff sounds just like his old stuff, and that’s OK with us. We count on George for crunchy, wink-and-a-nod rock, rhythm and blues, and that’s what we get with “The Dirty Dozen.”

“Twenty Dollar Gig,” George Thorogood and the Destroyers, from “The Dirty Dozen,” out July 28 on Capitol/EMI.

The first couple of times I heard this, I thought it was the worst cut on the record. Then I realized its genius was in its locomotive groove, its simple lyrics and Buddy Leach’s sizzling sax. It’s a garage band classic.

Two for the real gone blues: Anyone for some Albert King, playing live in the studio with Stevie Ray Vaughan? I thought you might dig it. “In Session” was recorded in Canada on Dec. 6, 1983, given a modest release in 1999 and reissued last month by Stax.

“Ask Me No Questions,” Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan, from “In Session,” 1999.

There’s plenty here for you blues guitar fans, including an epic-length “Blues at Sunrise,” two other Albert King originals and a cover of Stevie Ray’s “Pride and Joy.” That said, I like my blues cut with keyboards. Like this B.B. King cover featuring Tony Ll0rens on piano.

This is believed to be the only time King and Vaughan played together on a record. Vaughan died in 1990, King in 1992.

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Blues for T

Working in the newspaper business is a bit like riding a rocket right into the ground.

Today was another of those sad, surreal days that are becoming all too commonplace.

We’ve known for some time that another round of layoffs was coming. We’ve known for a while that the news would come down today. So you sit and wait and try not to worry about it because there’s nothing you can do about it … except have Plan B ready.

Thankfully, I will go back to work tomorrow. However, 19 others will not.

One of the 19 is my old friend T, whom I have known for more than 25 years. We long ago played basketball and downed many beers. We’ve seen all of T’s kids grow up. His youngest daughter was one of our babysitters when our son was little.

So here is a song for T.

I wrote about it a couple of years ago, recalling the night it blew us away as we drove home from a basketball game.

“Rememberin’ Stevie,” Buddy Guy, from “Damn Right, I’ve Got the Blues,” 1991. The CD is out of print but is available digitally.

You might think the title track might be more appropriate for this situation, and you might be right.

However, “Rememberin’ Stevie” — a tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan — is a tune that reminds me of the good times with T.

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Anywhere but Margaritaville

One night last week, I spent a couple of hours ripping some old Jimmy Buffett tunes.

I mentioned it, and a friend sent a good-natured little rip of his own.

“I’ll let you slide on this,” he said.

I know what he’s thinking. Jimmy Buffett? Not cool. Not cool for a long time, really. Sold out long ago. Too much marketing. Too many shade-, Hawaiian shirt-, board short- and flip-flop-wearing wannabes out there.

Yeah, maybe.

But I was looking to kick back that night, and I was scouring my old Buffett records for some laid-back tunes. That was the great thing about listening to Buffett way back when, that you could chill out to him as easily as you could get your party started with him. That seems to have gotten lost in the endless celebration of the Margaritaville lifestyle.

So I dug, and I found some Buffett from the leeward side of the islands.

Snap the cap on a cold one, put your feet up and go with the flow.

“A Pirate Looks At Forty,” Jimmy Buffett, from “A1A,” 1974. Ah, the wistfulness that comes with age.

“Banana Republics,” Jimmy Buffett, from “Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes,” 1977. The cautionary tale of the expatriated American.

“Growing Older But Not Up,” Jimmy Buffett, from “Coconut Telegraph,” 1980. Yeah, I’d rather die while I’m living than live while I’m dead.

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While I am all for a healthy lifestyle I am not buying that perfect body hype. As my hubby very vocally puts it, “A woman’s gotta have curves!” Yes ladies, I am blessed. As I wolf down my quinoa and roasted chicken salad and eye my yoga mat, I strive for a well-balanced outlook on physical beauty. Sparkling eyes, shinny hair, smooth skin, gorgeous smile and an infectious personality represent beauty for me. As opposed to a gaunt frame, hollowed cheeks, spindly arms and skinny legs.

I do yoga to tone myself, as I believe that a toned body is way sexier than a skinny one. You can be a size zero and still have jiggly arms, but a size 12 with a firm body is amazing! You need food to provide you with the nutrition for strong bones, healthy organs, muscles and stamina; you can’t get all of that with just iceberg lettuce. My fitness parameter? If I can run for an hour with my kids in the park before getting tired, I consider myself fit.

A positive body image is so important and not just for physical health. Your outlook on life needs to be positive and healthy, a negative self-image can destroy not just your mojo but also your life. An energetic outlook makes you want to accomplish more, achieve more and in turn makes you feel great, the opposite can lead to depression that can ruin marriages, friendships and even careers.

I consider myself lucky as I grew up with very positive role models and a very healthy affirmation of beautiful. Strong confidant women with fulfilling lives who made an impact on society were the hallmark of an ideal woman. Marie Curie, Bertha Von Suttner, Margaret Thatcher, Indira Ghandi, Martina Navratilova, Mother Teresa and the list goes on.

Today most young women when asked whom they admire fervidly exclaim, ‘Kim Kardashian.’ While I can appreciate the business ingenuity and drive of Kim Kardashian and hold no grievance against her, a role model?

Perhaps my outlook on life is different because I grew up under the wings of a very intelligent and independent woman, my mother. She was the daughter of a wealthy businessman who was also an aspiring inventor and a village beauty who hailed from a prominent religious family. The untimely death of her father led to their fortunes being stolen by malicious relatives who took advantage of her mother’s illiteracy. She thumb printed away their home, land and business to her husband’s conniving nephew. Scared for life, granny made sure all her children, nine of them would be educated.

My mother grew up with an innate distrust of people and made it her life ambition to learn all that she could, after all knowledge was power. As children she forbade us from watching cartoons or movies, it was just documentaries and books for us. We never had cable and there were no magazine subscriptions, except for the odd National geographic and readers digest.

For entertainment we would sit together in the living room and hear stories about my parent’s lives, funny anecdotes about our ancestors, family history and family legends. My father had books from his travels and I grew up in the company of Dale Carnegie, Napoleon hill, Edward De Bono, Ben Sweetland, and offcourse encyclopaedias.

Our childhood mentors determine not only our outlook on life but also our perception of self. As I hear the music from my children’s playroom I realise that soon my little girls will need more than fluffy unicorns to help them develop a sense of self. Their positive affirmations will need to come from real heroes, everyday men and women who live fulfilling lives with purpose.

About Antonia Rapheal

An aspiring writer, blogger, PR professional & mother of three. I blog on life, love, God, family, kids and everything in between!

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  1. Marcel says:

    Quote 1: “Our childhood mentors determine not only our outlook on life but also our perception of self.” Quote 2: “Sparkling eyes, shinny hair, smooth skin, gorgeous smile and an infectious personality represent beauty for me. As opposed to a gaunt frame, hollowed cheeks, spindly arms and skinny legs.” My complements on how you put your insights into words in both citations. I very much enjoyed reading it. I’d like to comment on it as well if granted. Q1 I like, because you use the determine instead of influence. I believe if you are open and aware, listen to the silence within, insights, help, answers etc. are always there. One feels the lightness and becomes aware of the inseparable connection between the inner and outer world. In fact, the outer world is just a reflection of the inner perception. If one releases the inner pressure of negative thoughts by stopping seeking affirmation outside oneself, the true self will shine through, as you stated in Q2. Thank you.

  2. lifeincircle says:

    i am happy to read your posts once again, antonia! always refreshing 🙂 and I agree with you here – we dont need to look far and wide for role-models. like you , i am just as blessed to have role models in my kin, that despite the unseemingly unfortunate events in their lives, God has turned each one into good!

    • Always a pleasure to read your words, you have a way of spreading light and cheer. I love the fact that the presence of God can bring such a stabilising factor to our lives, everything falls into proper perspective. Einstine’s theory of relativity comes so alive when you factor in God’s invisible but powerful influence.

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