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Data Center Migration: Easy as Changing the Engine Mid-Flight
By Dana Gardner
January 10, 2010 5:00 AM PT
The crucial migration phase when moving or modernizing data centers can make or break the success of these complex undertakings. Much planning and expensive effort goes into building new data centers, or in conducting major improvements to existing ones. But too often there's short shrift in the actual "throwing of the switch" — in the moving and migrating of existing applications and data.
But as new data center transformations pick up — due to the financial pressures to boost overall IT efficiency — so too should the early-and-often planning and thoughtful execution of the migration itself get proper attention. This podcast examines the best practices, risk mitigation tools, and requirements for conducting data center migrations properly.
To help pave the way to making data center migrations come off effectively, we're joined by three thought leaders from HP: Peter Gilis, data center transformation architect for HP technology services; John Bennett, worldwide director, data center transformation solutions at HP, and Arnie McKinnis, worldwide product marketing manager for data center modernization at HP enterprise services.
The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
Listen to the podcast (39:07 minutes).
Here are some excerpts:
John Bennett: We see a great deal of activity in the marketplace right now of people designing and building new data centers. They have this wonderful new showcase site, and they have to move into it.
The reasons for this growth, the reasons for moving to other data centers, are fueled by a lot of different activities.
In many cases it's related to growth. The organization and the business have been growing. The current facilities were inadequate — because of space or energy capacity reasons or because they were built 30 years ago — and so the organization decides that it has to either build a new data center or perhaps make use of a hosted data center. As a result, they are going to have to move.
Whether they're moving to a data center they own, moving to a data center owned and managed by someone else, or outsourcing their data center to a vendor like HP, in all cases you have to physically move the assets of the data center from one location to another.
The impact of doing that well is awfully high. If you don't do it well, you're going to impact the services provided by IT to the business. You're very likely, if you don't do it well, to impact your service level agreements (SLAs). And, should you have something really terrible happen, you may very well put your own job at risk.
So, the objective here is not only to take advantage of the new facilities or the new hosted site, but also to do so in a way that ensures the right continuity of business services. That ensures that service levels continue to be met, so that the business, the government, or the organization continues to operate without disruption, while this takes place. You might think of it, as our colleagues in enterprise services have put it, as changing the engine in the aircraft while it's flying.
Peter Gilis: If you don't do the planning, if you don't know where you're starting from and where you're going to, then it's like being on the ocean. Going in any direction will lead you anywhere, but it's probably not giving you the path to where you want to go. If you don't know where to go to, then don't start the journey.
Most of the migrations today are not migration of the servers, the assets, but actually migration of the data. You start building a next-generation data center –most of the time with completely new assets that better fit what your company wants to achieve.
Migration is actually the last phase of a data center transformation. The first thing that you do is a discovery, making sure that you know all about the current environment, not only the servers, the storage, and the network, but the applications and how they interact. Based on that, you decide how the new data center should look. …
If you build your new engine, your new data center, and you have all the new equipment inside, the only thing that you need to do is migrate the data. There are a lot of techniques to migrate data online, or at least synchronize current data in the current data centers with the new data center.
There's not that much difference between local storage, SAN storage, or network attached storage (NAS) and what you designed. The only thing that you design or architect today is that basically every server or every single machine, virtual or physical, gets connected to a shared storage, and that shared storage should be replicated to a disaster recovery site.
That's basically the way you transfer the data from the current data centers to the new data centers, where you make sure that you build in disaster recovery capabilities from the moment you do the architecture of the new data center. … The moment you switch off the computer in the first data center, you can immediately switch it on in the new data center.
Arnie McKinnis: From an outsourcing perspective, companies don't always do 100 percent outsourcing of that data-center environment or that shared computing environment. It may be part of it. Part of it they keep in-house. Part of it they host with another service provider.
What becomes important is how to manage all the multiple moving parts and the multiple service providers that are going to be involved in that future mode of operation. It's accessing what we currently have, but it's also designing what that future mode needs to look like.
There are all sorts of decisions that go around that from a client perspective to get to that decision. In many cases, if you look at it from a technology standpoint, the point of decision is something around getting to an end of life on a platform or an application. Or, there is a new licensing cycle, either from a support standpoint or an operating system standpoint.
There is usually something that happens from a technology standpoint that says, "Hey look, we've got to make a big decision anyway. Do we want to invest going this way, that we have gone previously, or do we want to try a new direction?"
Once they make that decision, we look at outside providers. It can take anywhere from 12 to 18 months to go through the full cycle of working through all the proposals and all the due diligence to build that trust between the service provider and the client. Then, you get to the point, where you can actually make the decision of, "Yes, this is what we are going to do. This is the contract we are going to put in place." At that point, we start all the plans to get it done.
There are lots of moving parts, and these things are usually very large. That's why, even though outsourcing contracts have changed, they are still large, are still multi-year, and there are still lots of moving parts.
Bennett: The elements of trust come in, whether you're building a new data center or outsourcing, because people want to know that, after the event takes place, things will be better. "Better" can be defined as: a lot cheaper, better quality of service, and better meeting the needs of the organization.
This has to be addressed in the same way any other substantial effort is addressed — in the personal relationships of the CIO and his or her senior staff with the other executives in the organization, and with a business case. You need measurement before and afterward in order to demonstrate success. Of course, good, if not flawless, execution of the data center strategy and transformation are in play here.
The ownership issue may be affected in other ways. In many organizations it's not unusual for individual business units to have ownership of individual assets in the data center. If modernization is at play in the data center strategy, there may be some hand-holding necessary to work with the business units in making that happen. This happens whether you are doing modernization and virtualization in the context of existing data centers or in a migration. By the way, it's not different.
Be aware of where people view their ownership rights and make sure you are working hand-in-hand with them instead of stepping over them. It's not rocket science, but it can be very painful sometimes.
Gilis: You have small migration and huge migrations. The best thing is to cut things into small projects that you can handle easily. As we say, "Cut the elephant in pieces, because otherwise you can't swallow it."
And when you work with your client, it should be a real partnership. If you don't work together, you will never do a good migration, whether it's outsourcing or non-outsourcing. At the end, the new data center must receive all of the assets or all of the data — and it must work.
If you do a lot of migrations, and that's actually what most of the service companies like HP are doing, we know how to do migrations and how to treat some of the applications migrated as part of a "migration factory."
We actually built something like a migration factory, where teams are doing the same over and over all the time. So, if we have to move Oracle, we know exactly how to do this. If we have to move SAP, we know exactly how to do this.
That's like building a car in a factory. It's the same thing day in and day out, everyday. That's why customers are coming to service providers. Whether you go to an outsourcing or non-outsourcing, you should use a service provider that builds new data centers, transforms data centers, and does migration of data centers nearly every day.
Most of the time, the people that know best how it used to work are the customers. If you don't work with and don't partner directly with the customer, then migration will be very, very difficult. Then, you'll hit the difficult parts that people know will fail, and if they don't inform you, you will have to solve the problem.
McKinnis: Cloud computing has put things back in people's heads around what can be put out there in that shared environment. I don't know that we've quite gotten through the process of whether it should be at a service provider location, my location, or within a very secure location at an outsourced environment.
I don't think they've gotten to that at the enterprise level. But they're not quite so convinced about giving users the ability to retain data and do that processing, have that application right there, held within that confinement of that laptop, or whatever it happens to be that they are interacting with. They're starting to see that it potentially should be held someplace else, so that the risk of that data isn't held at the local level.
Bennett: Adopting a cloud strategy for specific business services would let you take advantage of that, but in many of these environments today cloud isn't a practical solution yet for the broad diversity of business services they're providing.
We see that for many customers it's the move from dedicated islands of infrastructure, to a shared infrastructure model, a converged infrastructure, or an adaptive infrastructure. Those are significant steps forward with a great deal of value for them, even without getting all the way to cloud, but cloud is definitely on the horizon.
Dana Gardner is president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, which tracks trends, delivers forecasts and interprets the competitive landscape of enterprise applications and software infrastructure markets for clients. He also produces BriefingsDirect sponsored podcasts. Follow Dana Gardner on Twitter. Disclosure: HP sponsored this podcast.
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Category: reparative therapy
Blog Theme: Sexual Identity Therapy – Interview with Mark Yarhouse
I released the advocacy film "I Do Exist" in July 2004. It was supposed to be a documentary style account of five former gays who had become straight through religious means. I showed the film at a conference of change therapists in November of that same year to great fanfare. It was shown all over the world, but ultimately it was not an accurate portrayal of reality for at least 4 of the participants. Gradually over the next couple of years, I became aware of that and stopped selling the video in early 2007.
My experience with "I Do Exist" drove me back to the research on change and sexual orientation. After realizing that I had been moving in the wrong direction with my earlier claims, I became a critic of reparative therapy. I chronicled that change on this blog from the beginning in July 2005. All of the posts on reparative therapy and sexual orientation change efforts in general would take hours to review. That story is summarized in this Yahoo News account by Jon Ward.
However, I did not simply criticize change therapy, I wanted to find an alternative for people who struggled morally with their sexual orientation. In 2005, I began a process of developing a framework to help guide therapists who worked with religious clients conflicted by their sexual orientation. Right away, I asked Mark Yarhouse to collaborate. By 2006, we came out with the sexual identity therapy framework. Mark and I discuss that story in this interview.
Of the two of us, Mark has been the prolific writer and researcher. His book Sexual Identity and Faith contains applications of the SIT framework and I recommend it for that purpose. I have multiple posts about the framework on the blog and those can be found here.
In addition to talking over our work together, Mark describes his more recent work with Revoice and gender identity. Thanks to Mark for taking time to reminisce.
Dr. Mark Yarhouse is a clinical psychologist who specializes in conflicts tied to religious identity and sexual and gender identity. He assists people who are navigating the complex relationship between their sexual or gender identity and Christian faith. He is the Dr. Arthur P. and Mrs. Jean May Rech Professor of Psychology at Wheaton College, where he runs the Sexual and Gender Identity (SGI) Institute. He is an award-winning teacher and researcher. He was a past participant with the Ethics and Public Policy Center think tank in Washington, DC, and he was named Senior Fellow with the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities to conduct a study of students navigating sexual identity concerns at Christian colleges and universities. He has been a consultant to the National Institute of Corrections to address issues facing sexual minorities in corrections, and he was part of a consensus panel from the American Psychological Association on sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts that convened to provide input to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in Washington, DC. He is currently the Chair of the task force on LGBT issues for Division 36 (Psychology of Religion and Spirituality) of the American Psychological Association. He was also invited to write the featured white paper on sexual identity for the Christ on Campus Initiative edited by Don Carson for The Gospel Coalition.
He has published over 80 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and is author or co-author of several books, including Understanding Sexual Identity: A Resource for Youth Ministers and Understanding Gender Dysphoria: Navigating Transgender Issues in a Changing Culture. His most recent books are Sexual Identity & Faith and Costly Obedience: Listening to and Learning from Celibate Gay Christians. (this is the book where the celibacy research is reported)
Author Warren ThrockmortonPosted on July 21, 2020 July 21, 2020 Categories 15years, I Do Exist, Religion and sexuality, reparative therapy, sexual identity, sexual identity therapy, sexual orientationTags I Do Exist, mark yarhouse, reparative therapy, sexual identity therapy framework, sexual orientation change efforts3 Comments on Blog Theme: Sexual Identity Therapy – Interview with Mark Yarhouse
Coming Soon: Interview with Mark Yarhouse
On Tuesday July 21, I will publish an interview with Mark Yarhouse, professor at Wheaton College. Mark and I are authors of the sexual identity therapy framework which became an alternative for religious gay clients.
Mark and I will discuss the history of our work together going back to our opposition to a ban on reorientation therapy to our focus on sexual identity therapy. We also talk about Mark's more recent work in gender identity.
I asked Mark about a relatively new group on the scene helping people navigate sexual identity concerns – Revoice. In that context, he described research into the effects of celibacy. Here is an excerpt of that conversation.
I hope you will revisit the blog on Tuesday to catch the full interview with Mark.
You can see all posts about these interviews by clicking this link.
Also subscribe to my Psychvideos Youtube channel where I am posting them.
Author Warren ThrockmortonPosted on July 19, 2020 July 19, 2020 Categories 15years, Religion and sexuality, reparative therapy, sexual identity, sexual identity therapy, sexual orientationTags 15Years, mark yarhouse, sexual identity therapy, sexual identity therapy framework11 Comments on Coming Soon: Interview with Mark Yarhouse
Who Invented the Therapy in Those Joseph Nicolosi Books Banned by Amazon?
Recently, Amazon stopped offering Joseph Nicolosi's books for sale. Nicolosi, who died in 2017, was a polarizing figure in American psychology but was well liked among evangelicals. Evangelicals are writing about reparative therapy now like it was Christian counseling. I know they know it wasn't but that is a subject for another post.
In this post, I want to publish an adaptation of two 2017 articles (here and here) in which I disclosed a rift in the reparative therapy movement between 1990 and 1996. There was a dispute over who originated the form of therapy later popularized as reparative therapy. This post lays out that dispute. If Elizabeth Moberly had her way in the early days, Nicolosi's books might have been pulled because she believed they contained too much of her material without sufficient attribution. The ex-gay movement in the form of Exodus International sided with Nicolosi and the rest is history.
The following is adapted from posts which were originally published on January 19 & 20, 2017.
Elizabeth Moberly Accused Joseph Nicolosi of Taking Her Work
Once upon a time, I wrote frequently about sexual orientation, psychotherapy, and the culture wars that have raged about those topics. A review of my blog posts since I started in 2005 would be like reading a history of the ex-gay movement, reparative therapy, sexual orientation change efforts and many related matters. Even though general interest has diminished about gay change efforts since the close of Exodus International, I have some stories still to explore.
Below is a brief letter to the editor exchange between Elizabeth Moberly and Joseph Nicolosi. While I don't have permission to publish them, I also have some letters involving Dr. Moberly and the Exodus International board which reveals a six-year feud (1990-1996) between Moberly and Nicolosi over who founded reparative therapy. Moberly strongly asserted that Joe Nicolosi plagiarized portions of her work and took credit for the development of reparative therapy which she believed rightly belonged to her.
First, here is the letters to the editor of the California Psychologist (Jan, 1990).
Thanks to the help of California Psychological Association administrator Patricia VanWoerkom, I was able to get Nicolosi article. An image of part of it is below. To read the entire article, click here.
In the article, Nicolosi says:
In the piece, he provided the standard reparative explanation of homosexuality. According to this view, gays do not fully identify with the same sex parent. This gives rise to a defensive detachment which they seek to repair with same sex relationships. He gave credit to Moberly for her writings but this was not enough for her. In her pleas to the Exodus International board, Moberly claimed that Nicolosi was merely a practitioner of her reparative therapy approach. She felt Nicolosi's article wasn't just based on her theoretical writings, but that his entire approach was simply borrowed from her. From her point of view, he was not a developer or collaborator, but someone who simply copied what she had already discovered.
Moberly pointed out to the Exodus board that Nicolosi said he was the "author of one of those rumored treatments [to help gays change to straight]." Moberly countered that Nicolosi did not author anything. He simply copied what she had written and passed some of it off as his own work.
Ethics Complaint
According to Moberly, she filed an ethics complaint with the American Psychological Association and California Psychological Association. Only the CPA responded, she claimed, and found that Nicolosi had inadvertently copied her material. A CPA representative later told me that those records were sealed.
I think the founding of modern day reparative therapy is an interesting historical issue. Some time ago, I asked a former Exodus board member (who wants to remain anonymous) about the rift. The individual said the dispute was "common knowledge" among Exodus people. My source said
Elizabeth believed that Joe's reparative therapy concept belonged to her as reported in her research work in Psychogenesis and Homosexuality: A New Christian Ethic, and that Joe had not given sufficient acknowledgment to her work; and (2) that Joe believed he had referenced her work adequately and had taken her concepts and built upon them sufficiently to justify reporting on his own work in his book Reparative Therapy.
This individual was on the Exodus board at the time and made contacts with both Nicolosi and Moberly to try to resolve their differences. According to my source, the effort was unsuccessful. Nicolosi and Moberly did not come to unity over the issues. In 1996, Moberly left the ex-gay movement to return to England to conduct research into alternative treatments for AIDS and cancer. I tried to contact her in 2011 but received no reply.
Moberly's books on reparative therapy were published in the early 1980s. According to Moberly, Nicolosi was introduced to her work via a client and he began using her approach in the late 1980s. Moberly was exasperated that Nicolosi published his first book on the subject in 1991 without giving her what she felt was sufficient credit. In his 1991 book, Nicolosi did in fact cite one of Moberly's books and gave her credit for the concept of defensive detachment. However, Moberly felt that was insufficient. She pulled out of speaking for at least one of the Exodus conferences because she believed Exodus should not have promoted Nicolosi's book. Perhaps she would have written Amazon if it existed in 1991.
As to the specific question — who conceptually founded reparative therapy? — I think the answer must be Elizabeth Moberly. She wrote first about all of the key concepts and described the kind of therapeutic relationship that reparative therapists, including Nicolosi, have promoted. Without question, Nicolosi popularized reparative therapy through his books, the organization he co-founded (NARTH), and via the vocal support of Exodus International and Focus on the Family. His appearances with James Dobson on the Focus on the Family radio show and subsequent role as featured speaker at FoF's Love Won Out conferences solidified Nicolosi's enduring role as key representative of reparative therapy. The reason his books are now being targeted is because he was the central figure in promoting the approach.
In the current scene, it doesn't much matter who developed the concepts. People who oppose the books just want them gone. There is a certain irony that long ago the founder of reparative therapy also tried to prevent their promotion.
Author Warren ThrockmortonPosted on July 17, 2019 July 17, 2019 Categories ex-gay, Religion and sexuality, reparative therapy, sexual orientationTags Elizabeth Moberly, Joseph Nicolosi, reparative therapy8 Comments on Who Invented the Therapy in Those Joseph Nicolosi Books Banned by Amazon?
Another Reparative Therapist Unrepairs
David Matheson was a well known defender and practitioner of reparative therapy for many years. He founded Journey Into Manhood with Rich Wyler. JIM was inspired by New Warriors Training Weekend and the Manhood Project. The Manhood Project and their weekend getaways came to the public eye after several bad experiences by several men who attended the events. One committed suicide and directly attributed his mood decline to the Mankind Project.
The premise of Matheson and Wyler was that gay men don't experience themselves as masculine. Due to lack of masculinity, they are attracted to men instead of women. JIM seeks to provide members with masculinity building experiences along with lots of hugging and touching. Ultimately, the foundation for their work is in the psychoanalytically influenced work of Elizabeth Moberly and Joseph Nicolosi. They believed gay people were attracted to others of the same sex due to a reparative drive which propelled gays to seek the love they missed from their same-sex parents. Theoretically, if a gay person could get non-sexual connection from same-sex peers, the deficit would be filled and heterosexual longings would naturally emerge.
In practice, this hasn't worked out well. Numerous former ex-gays have become ex-ex-gay. For instance, John Smid once ran Love in Action, an ex-gay camp in Memphis. He is now married to a man. Randy Thomas was number two man at Exodus who is now dating a man. Most recently, Matheson has announced that he is living as a gay man.
Matheson's announcement will surely send shock waves throughout the small reparative therapy community. He has been one of the most articulate defenders of gender affirming counseling and reparative therapy. After about two decades of being at it, he is still gay.
Author Warren ThrockmortonPosted on January 24, 2019 Categories reparative therapy, sexual orientationTags reparative therapy, sexual orientation change efforts34 Comments on Another Reparative Therapist Unrepairs
Keeping Focus on the Family Honest on Reparative Therapy
In a recent CBS News report on reparative therapy (sexual orientation change efforts), Focus on the Family's Jeff Johnston was quoted in support of the practice and a link to FOTF's website was a part of the story. I have a long history with Focus on this issue. There are some misleading statements on this page which I outline below.
Focus says:
Focus on the Family does not and has never offered sexual-orientation change therapy, also referred to as "reparative therapy." We have licensed counselors on staff who take one-time phone calls and refer to other therapists, upon request. We also support an individual's right to counseling for unwanted homosexuality — and the rights of counselors to offer such help.
Although technically true, Focus did recommend reparative therapy via their Love Won Out traveling ex-gay workshops from the late 1990s into the late 2000s. Reparative therapy popularizer Joe Nicolosi was the featured speaker on the origins and treatment of homosexuality. Exodus, Focus on the Family and NARTH (National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality) were the trinity of sexual orientation change efforts in the United States. Even if Focus didn't have counselors on site who offered counseling, they promoted reparative therapy to the world in a very aggressive manner.
Focus really confuses matters in their definition of "sexual orientation change efforts."
"Sexual Orientation Change Efforts" (SOCE) is a broad term that deals with any kind of help from a licensed mental-health professional for those with unwanted homosexuality. This is counseling, or talk therapy, to assist someone with unwanted homosexuality —whether it's behavior, attractions or identity — to live according to their faith and values.
Focus tries to soften the meaning of the word "change." SOCE is a broad term but it doesn't refer to "any kind of help from a licensed mental-health professional for those with unwanted homosexuality." Change means change. SOCE is about trying to help people change their orientation. Opponents of SOCE oppose the efforts of counselors to change orientation.
Focus confuses the issue by saying SOCE includes counseling efforts to help clients "live according to their faith and values." That would only be SOCE if living according to one's faith meant changing sexual orientation. However, sexual identity therapy (which is what Mark Yarhouse and I developed) helps people without focusing on orientation change as a goal. Our perspective is that clients can be assisted within their religious framework without any SOCE.
Sexual identity therapy is not SOCE. SIT is a kind of help for people who are conflicted about their sexual orientation but it isn't SOCE. SIT does help people seek harmony within themselves without using SOCE. Focus' description of SOCE is too broad and misleading. Focus appears to want to make this issue about religious freedom when in fact, it is about what is helpful with clients.
Focus then speculates about what isn't allowed by a ban on SOCE.
If this therapy is banned, think about the impact this would have on minors:
A teen boy who is hooked on gay pornography — and wants to stop — could not get help from a licensed professional counselor.
A young girl who was sexually abused, and was questioning her identity, could only get help to identify as lesbian, bisexual or transgender.
A boy who wants to develop his sense of masculinity and identity could not get help to affirm his masculine identity from a state-licensed counselor.
A girl who's involved in a same-sex relationship, but whose faith says that's not best for her, could not get help to stop the relationship from a licensed counselor.
As worded above, SOCE is not required to address any of these situations. Laws prohibiting SOCE for minors allow for identity exploration and the treatment of sexual abuse. The laws do not forbid clients from acting in line with their religious beliefs as long as the counselor does not implement techniques designed to change a client's sexual orientation. For instance, if a same-sex attracted teen is in a same-sex relationship but believes it is wrong, she can seek help to take steps to end it and cope with the results.
Author Warren ThrockmortonPosted on November 16, 2018 November 16, 2018 Categories Focus on the Family, reparative therapy, sexual identity therapy, sexual orientationTags sexual orientation change efforts10 Comments on Keeping Focus on the Family Honest on Reparative Therapy
Sponsor: Celibacy as Therapy Goal Allowed by CA's Anti-Conversion Therapy Bill
The outrage surrounding California's anti-conversion therapy bill (AB 2943) is growing by the press release. For instance, last Monday (April 30) Summit Ministries canceled a conference in CA because they contend the bill (when it becomes law) will forbid advice which doesn't affirm homosexuality. According to the press release,
Summit's program would fall under the proposed law because its lineup includes defenders of traditional man/woman marriage and people who advocate pursuing only those sexual activities approved in the Bible. Myers said it has also been common during prior trainings for students to ask questions of Summit staff about how to address confusion over gender identity and sexual attraction in the context of their faith. By prohibiting such conversations, AB2943 would cripple Summit's ability to care for and equip its students, Myers said.
"What are we going to say to a young person experiencing sexual confusion?" he asked. "That the state of California forbids us from allowing a biblical ethic embraced by billions of people for thousands of years to inform our answer?
"California state authorities are hijacking good-faith concerns about reparative therapy to deny constitutional protection to those who hold traditional views of sexuality and marriage," Myers added. "We cannot and will not bend God's truth to accommodate the state of California.
"This is the most blatant chilling of free speech in America in my lifetime."
According to the bill's sponsor, the bill doesn't relate to speech or religious teaching. It regulates sexual orientation change efforts. The bill would only apply to their conference if Summit Ministries charges conference goers for sexual orientation change counseling.
If students ask questions about what the Bible teaches, the teachers are free to provide whatever teaching they believe. They can recommend change efforts, celibacy, prayer, meditation, or whatever they believe. They can recommend books, sell books and tapes, and even recommend therapists. However, those therapists can't conduct those treatments under the new law.
Would the Bill Prohibit Counseling to Live a Celibate Life?
Summit Ministries argued that biblical advice, such as celibacy, would be prohibited by the bill. I asked bill sponsor Evan Low's office if counselors could help clients seek celibacy if clients wanted to avoid homosexual behavior. Low's office referred me to policy advisor Anthony Samson who answered by email that "AB 2943 would not prohibit one from providing therapeutic help to an individual seeking to become celibate." He pointed to the word "includes" in the following definition of "sexual orientation change efforts"
(i) (1) "Sexual orientation change efforts" means any practices that seek to change an individual's sexual orientation. This includes efforts to change behaviors or gender expressions, or to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attractions or feelings toward individuals of the same sex.
Samson said, "The term 'includes' means that the practices following it must be in connection with seeking to change an individual's sexual orientation. In other words, 'efforts to change behaviors or gender expressions, or to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attractions or feelings toward individuals of the same sex' would be precluded to the extent they were provided in connection with seeking to change one's sexual orientation." Samson explained, "Because providing services to help one become celibate would not be in connection with changing one's sexual orientation, it would be permitted."
So biblical advice would not be banned and therapeutic help for traditional clients will still be available as well. For instance, I have no hesitation in conducting or recommending sexual identity therapy in CA.
To me, these protestations appear to be efforts to derail the bill in order to protect reparative therapy. Having read the bill, I can tell that the Summit press release, and most of the Christian news articles on this bill are reactionary efforts which don't deal directly with the actual bill. If these groups want to be ta ken seriously, they should secure scholarly opinions from serious legal scholars and not culture warriors.
Furthermore, if religious conservatives want to have an impact on this legislation, I encourage them to do what I have done. Contact the sponsor and enter into a respectful, rational, fact-based dialogue.
Fact Sheet on AB 2943
Why the Mental Health Professionals Want to Ban Conversion Therapy
Author Warren ThrockmortonPosted on May 5, 2018 Categories reparative therapy, sexual identity, sexual identity therapy, sexual orientationTags AB 2943, sexual orientation change effortsLeave a comment on Sponsor: Celibacy as Therapy Goal Allowed by CA's Anti-Conversion Therapy Bill
Why the Mental Health Professions Want to Ban Conversion Therapy
While there are several reasons why mental health advocates want to ban sexual orientation change efforts, I want to focus on the recent push to legislate bans on the practice by licensed professionals.
Historically, therapists who treat gays with an aim to change them have viewed homosexuality as a developmental disorder. Some may also think same-sex sexual behavior is immoral, but principally the use of therapeutic techniques is driven by a belief that there is something psychologically wrong with someone who is attracted to the same sex. If the right techniques can be applied, eventually the GLB person will experience a shift in psychological perspective and find the opposite sex attractive. In short, homosexuality is an illness to be cured.
As most readers know, this view of same-sex orientation isn't held by any medical or mental health professional organization today. Only a tiny group of practitioners hold to this view and they are among those who are fighting legislative efforts to ban sexual orientation change efforts. When legislators craft bills to stop treatment of same-sex orientation, they are hoping to stop efforts to cure something that isn't a disorder.
To me, this is a sensible stance. No disorder, no need for treatment.
On the other hand, many religious traditions disagree with same-sex sexual behavior. They discourage such behavior as inconsistent with their moral teachings. Churches and religious groups have the right to teach this and advise their members in keeping with their principles. When people ask for their advice or opinion, churches can teach their views. In fact, anyone can teach and speak any view about homosexuality.
However, when a person joins a learned profession and gets a state license to practice that profession, there are certain restrictions that come along with that choice. Mental health professionals are not clergy. We have a role to enhance the mental health of our clients and curing non-existent diseases doesn't seem to me to be a part of that mandate. If clergy need to speak against certain behaviors, that is their right and the state's regulation of mental health professionals cannot stop them.
I do have sympathy for those clients who believe that their same-sex attractions result from some historical trauma. In fact, there is a very small subset of people for whom those factors might be relevant to an understanding of their overall personality, including their sexual interests. I also believe that those people can continue to receive therapy, under these laws, if the treatment is not framed as a direct effort to change orientation.
Ultimately, I believe this is an issue of regulation of mental health professionals and not one of religious liberty. Since there is no universe in which sexual orientation change efforts are effective, why would mental health professionals make space for them? The rare exceptions can be accommodated via other frameworks (e.g., identity exploration, trauma recovery). Religious views will continue to be shared and any challenge to them will not succeed. We can coexist.
For more information on helping non-affirming same-sex attracted people live in keeping with traditional sexual ethics without engaging in sexual orientation change efforts, see the following articles and websites:
Sexual Identity Therapy Framework
Institute for the Study of Sexual Identity
A New Therapy on Faith and Sexual Identity (WSJ)
Living the Good Lie (NYT)
Author Warren ThrockmortonPosted on May 3, 2018 Categories religious liberty, reparative therapy, sexual identity therapy, sexual orientationTags sexual identity therapyLeave a comment on Why the Mental Health Professions Want to Ban Conversion Therapy
Sponsor: CA Conversion Therapy Bill Won't Ban Books or the Bible
Some conservative pundits are worried that a bill moving to the California State Senate will ban the Bible or at least some Christian books. Upon examination, I don't see a basis in fact for that claim.
The bill is AB 2943 and would amend state law on unlawful business practices with a prohibition on performing sexual orientation change therapy for a fee. A fact sheet for the bill provided by bill sponsor Assemblyman Evan Low can be viewed at the link below.
Liberty Counsel has been spreading the view that the Bible would be banned by the bill and National Review's David French has made a serious case that the bill would lead to a ban on certain Christian books. Essentially, they say that the current law prohibits the sale of "goods" which result in harm from being sold. They argue that books which promote changes in behavior away from homosexual behavior even if the goal is celibacy might be considered within the reach of the statute since the statute defines sexual orientation change as including "efforts to change behaviors or gender expressions."
Since the entire bill is about sexual orientation change, it seems clear to me that the reference to behavior change is due to the practice of some change therapists to get gay clients to engage in heterosexual behaviors even when it doesn't seem natural as a kind of behavior therapy. This isn't a reference to celibacy – which by the way doesn't reflect a change in orientation.
In fact, the next section of the bill says that sexual orientation change efforts as defined by the statute don't include interventions which:
(A) provide acceptance, support, and understanding of clients or the facilitation of clients' coping, social support, and identity exploration and development, including sexual orientation-neutral interventions to prevent or address unlawful conduct or unsafe sexual practices; and (B) do not seek to change sexual orientation.
Clients who decide to live a celibate life can count on a counselor's help as long as those interventions are neutral regarding change of orientation.
Does the Bill Ban Books?
I wrote Assemblyman Evan Low to ask if AB 2943 prohibited the sale of books or videos promoting conversion therapy by therapists. I also asked if the amended law would prohibit the sale of religious books or videos which advocate that gays should change their sexual orientation by religious means. Finally, I asked if AB 2943 prohibited the sale of books or videos promoting celibate behavior for gays as a way to adhere to religious beliefs.
Low's Communications Director Maya Polon wrote back to answer all three questions negatively. According to the sponsor, the bill doesn't relate to books or speech. I followed up by asking if any of the unlawful business practices has ever led to the banning of any books or speech. She wrote back to say that she wasn't aware of any instance where books about any those practices have been banned. I also asked Mr. French via Twitter if he was aware of books banned in CA due to the unlawful practices law but have not heard back from him as yet.
A few days ago Evan Low responded to this issue via Twitter:
A church or individual may still practice conversion therapy if they do so without charging for this fraudulent service. It does not ban bibles nor does it ban the basic sales of books as some would have you believe. #leadwithlove @eqca @HRC @TrevorProject https://t.co/cHCQTYhInl
— Evan Low (@Evan_Low) April 22, 2018
I haven't decided what I think of the bill yet but unless this part of the law has ever been used to try to ban books before, then it doesn't seem to be a serious reason to oppose it now. There is a lot wrong with conversion therapy but generally I favor more freedom not less. What makes me think this could be a reasonable response to the harm reparative therapy can do is that there is nothing in the bill that stops a person from trying to make personal changes outside of a professional context. Furthermore, I don't see how the bill prohibits counselors from helping clients who pursue celibacy. However, it does remove the stamp of approval of the mental health professions for change therapy.
Author Warren ThrockmortonPosted on April 26, 2018 Categories Religion and sexuality, reparative therapy, sexual orientationTags AB, AB 2943, David French, Evan Low, sexual orientation change effortsLeave a comment on Sponsor: CA Conversion Therapy Bill Won't Ban Books or the Bible
Reparative Therapy and Joseph Nicolosi Remembered
In an offbeat selection for "The Lives They Lived" section of the New York Time Magazine, Joseph Nicolosi is remembered by Benoit Denizet- Lewis as an "artist, innovator and thinker" who died in 2017.
I had a few things to say about Nicolosi when he passed, and a lot to say about reparative therapy during his life. This piece provides a view of a side of Nicolosi that I saw often — he simply could not be convinced that he could be wrong.
Joseph Nicolosi, Alan Chambers, and the 99.9% Claim
In 2012, I wrote about one of the incidents referred to in the NYT piece. In the article, Denizet-Lewis referred to former ex-gay ministry leader Alan Chambers' dramatic and unexpected declaration that 99.9% of people who tried to change sexual orientation had not experienced a change. That was first reported on this blog in January, 2012. Chambers made that statement at a conference of the Gay Christian Network. Causing an earthquake in the ex-gay world, Chambers said:
The majority of people that I have met, and I would say the majority meaning 99.9% of them have not experienced a change in their orientation or have gotten to a place where they could say that they could never be tempted or are not tempted in some way or experience some level of same-sex attraction. I think there is a gender issue there, there are some women who have challenged me and said that my orientation or my attractions have changed completely. Those have been few and far between. The vast majority of people that I know will experience some level of same-sex attraction.
Denizet-Lewis makes it seem as though Nicolosi's initial offer of a cure came in response to that statement. However, Chambers and Nicolosi had been disputing results since at least the year before.
The now inactive but enormously influential blog, ExGay Watch (here is my summary of that post) carried a story about an online dispute between Chambers and Nicolosi which began in 2011. In an email exchange, Nicolosi chastised Chambers for saying in an April 2011 Dr. Drew Show appearance that Chambers continued to experience attractions to the same sex. Nicolosi then offered to cure Chambers completely. Here is one of those emails:
I have not seen yet your appearance on the T.V. show and of course, I always know how unfair and stressful these events are. But again, it is such a disservice to represent the alternative to gay but stating you are still struggling. It is not a very inspiring option to the many young people who may be hearing your message.
The point Alan is that you can get to a place where there is no more homosexuality. Really.
You can actually get to a place where you can willfully (sic) think of an SSA image and have no bodily sensation.
Why stop half way? Why not do further work and finish the task and have it completely behind you. consider this invitation, not only for your sake but also as a testimony of complete healing to truly motivate others.
We have the therapeutic tools to get you over what ever SSA is remaining.
You know I am your friend. I am willing to help you. I'll work with you personally if you like.
Please consider this invitation I offer you as a brother (O.K., a Catholic brother) in Christ.
Joseph Nicolosi, Ph.D.
www.josephnicolosi.com
[emphasis in the original]
As Chambers told Denizet-Lewis in the NYT article, he rebuffed Nicolosi's offer as unrealistic and unattainable.
He'll Be Fine
Nicolosi believed male homosexuals experienced attractions to the same sex because they were estranged from their fathers. He simply would not accept the fact that many gay males have loving and close fathers. Even when confronted with fathers and sons who were obviously close, he picked at them until he found something he could dispute in their relationship. I worked with several families who were survivors of this kind of treatment.
On one occasion in a meeting with Nicolosi, I described a young man to who came out to his father first because he was close to his dad and knew he would understand. They were close all through school and when he came out, it was only natural for him to tell his dad. The young man was into sports and quite masculine in every way. In short, he was everything that Nicolosi claimed that a gay male could not be. When I was finished with my description, Nicolosi said, "He'll be fine." I asked what he meant. "He's not gay; he'll be fine," he said. He indicated that the young man must be confused or having a stage but since he had such a good foundation, he couldn't possibly be gay.
I realized at that point that it was probably hopeless to use evidence. Confirmation bias was strong with him, perhaps as strong as I have ever seen.
Author Warren ThrockmortonPosted on December 28, 2017 Categories reparative therapyTags Alan Chambers, Joseph Nicolosi, reparative therapyLeave a comment on Reparative Therapy and Joseph Nicolosi Remembered
Top Ten Blog Posts of 2017
In 2017, the following ten posts received the most page views:
10. K-LOVE's Pledge Drive: Money Behind the Music (2017)
9. Former Newsping Pastor Perry Noble Incorporates Second Change Church (2017)
8. American College of Pediatricians v. American Academy of Pediatrics: Who Leads and Who Follows? (2011)
7. After the Demise of Mars Hill Church Mark Driscoll Landed on His Feet with Over One Million in Donations (2017)
6. IRS and Postal Service Agents on Scene at Benny Hinn's Office (2017)
5. Mark Driscoll Spins the End of Mars Hill Church (2017)
4. A Major Study of Child Abuse and Homosexuality Revisited (2009)
3. Former CFO at Turning Point Claims David Jeremiah Used Questionable Methods to Secure a Spot on Best Seller Lists (2015)
2. What's Going on at Harvest Bible Fellowship? James MacDonald Resigns as President of HBF (2017)
and the #1 post is:
Open Letter to Gateway Pastor Robert Morris from a Former Member of Mars Hill Church (2014)
Some past posts have aged well. The 2009 post regarding child abuse and non-heterosexuality has been in the top ten nearly every year since 2009. Readers continue to be interested in Mars Hill Church and various players surrounding the demise of that church.
Although the page views don't show it, the story that continues to be covered here and almost nowhere else is the Gospel for Asia saga. The target of federal scrutiny and two RICO lawsuits in the U.S., GFA has also initiated and been involved in various legal actions in India. Although the scope of the GFA empire dwarfs other organizations I have examined, it continues to fly along under the radar.
For a profile of my work and the role blogging has played in it, see this lengthy article by Jon Ward in Yahoo News earlier this month.
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Author Warren ThrockmortonPosted on December 26, 2017 Categories Believers Church, Benny Hinn, Blogkeeping, David Carroll, Gateway Church, Gospel for Asia, Harvest Bible Fellowship, IRS, K.P. Yohannan, KLOVE, Mark Driscoll, Mars Hill Church, Perry Noble, Professional issues, psychology, Religion and sexuality, reparative therapy, ResultSource, Robert Morris, Second Chance Church, sexual orientation, The Trinity ChurchTags Top ten posts of 2017Leave a comment on Top Ten Blog Posts of 2017

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almost overnight, Cao Jianjun made a surprising decision.
he spent 100 thousand yuan to buy nearly 200 domain names, these domain names and mother have a relationship. Different from the general domain buyers is that he is not looking for a domain name transfer to profit, but in the hope that the domain name can constitute barriers to help him in the maternal and child market of huge circle a site, creating a "Chinese".
how did a big man suddenly come up with this business? Cao Jianjun admitted that his idea stems from the birth of their own baby.
last year, after his wife was pregnant, Cao Jianjun often search the Internet for maternal and child health care, found that the Internet has not done a very good service in the mother's website. And his wife spent nearly 20 thousand yuan pregnant nutrition costs, making him aware of maternal and child market profit margins.
can operate a mother and child website?
one night, he was surprised to find on the Internet, similar to the "China mother", "Beijing mother", "baby", "baby" and "parenting" network real name no registration. He had an idea, if all related words can think of a domain name, other people to search the Internet these words are pointing to a place that influence together, it does not become a monopoly?
he was both excited and anxious, more than three couldn't sleep for fear of others registered. It is not easy to stay up until dawn, immediately called two friends, went to the registration of the 3 institutions, breath registered a domain name of 189, spent nearly $100 thousand. Whether it is "the capital city + mother" and "City + baby" network real name, "zgmama.cn" and "zgbaobao.cn" English domain name, or "Chinese mother" and "mother forum" and "China mother network" web site, all he can think of, a clean sweep of all, only the Alibaba to buy it more than and 100.
he lay their own wishful thinking: for most users, rarely remember domain name, but the choice of keywords or real name search. If there are 300 paths to mother's Web site, now focus on the path of the "mother of China" on the top of the above, which will bring more views, bringing together more members of the 200.
two weeks after Cao Jianjun bought the domain names, he was eyeing the "cake."". Beijing businessmen often and often find him, out of 400 thousand yuan price to buy his whole domain name. Wenzhou, a company is also willing to 20 thousand yuan price to buy Wenzhou baby supplies, these words in the original registration only spent $500.
Cao Jianjun declined the two temptation. "They're all supporting 'mother China'," Cao Jianjun said bluntly. "I'm more aware of it."


So true! Long time no chat. You well and happy?
Hi Brenda, I'm good, thank you. It's just the firewall here in China. Sometimes, I can open any site, and most of the time can't open a lot of them. How have you been?
Good to see and hear from you again!


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Truthfully speaking, cooking day-in and day-out wearies me from time to time. Juggling other responsibilities with making meals usually causes me to wonder at 5 pm, "What am I going to prepare for dinner?" After deciding, my family and I eventually sit down to eat.
Cooking involves a particular joy, however, when motivated by love. Such was the case when I cooked chicken enchiladas for my eldest son's last family dinner before his freshman year of college. He's pleased every time I serve this dish, which satisfies his palate and stretches a huge smile across his face. I'll gladly dish it up for years to come because I. Love. My son.
Isn't it curiously wonderful how love inspires us? Genuine love creates a desire to share freely instead of cling selfishly … to sincerely serve rather than wait to be served … to fully open our hearts and delight in the one we love. Convinced of another's value and worth, we joyfully give—in love.
Mark 12:30 clearly reveals God's priority for us: "AND YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH." Through the years, I've prayed this verse for my children. It composes my strongest desire for each of them. God also has emphasized its truth to me—that my every thought, word, and deed be motivated by His love.
When it comes to serving the Lord, various motivations exist. Do we work for Him out of obligation? Do we carry the burden and guilt of never doing enough? Do we sigh with weariness and dread Christian responsibilities? If any of these possibilities stimulate our service, we're traveling on the wrong track.
Authentic service stems from love for Christ—a joyful overflow of intimate relationship with Him (click to tweet).
Now, this doesn't mean service always flows easily. Often it requires diligent work … but love should reside at its core. Serving the living God out of pure love for Him meshes with His heart. And from the beginning, God has been seeking our hearts.
Friends, we're amazingly privileged to serve the Most High God, the only true God. His plans sometimes confound us, His ways often exceed our understanding, and His wisdom constantly surpasses our most excellent endeavors. Yet He chooses to use us, and additionally, He rewards us!
Our love for God + Our service for God = Spiritual Success (click to tweet).
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In addition to new gaming laptops under its ROG portfolio, Asus is also expanding its ZenBook, VivoBook, and entry-level TUF laptop lineup at CES 2021. The company has refreshed its ZenBook Duo lineup with an improved design, VivoBook S14 with better internals, and added a new TUF gaming laptop to its kitty.
Asus Laptops Launched at CES 2021
Asus ZenBook Pro Duo 15
Starting off with the ZenBook Pro Duo 15, it is the company's next-gen 15-inch laptop and equipped with the new tilting Asus ScreenPad Plus. Asus has brought over this tilting second screen from the ROG Zephyrus Duo gaming laptop. Another major highlight of this laptop is the fact that both the main and secondary screens have a 4K resolution. You will find a 4K OLED HDR display at the top and a 4K touchscreen at the bottom.
The titling display is coupled with the company's AAS+ cooling system, which further helps improve the laptop's performance. Zephyrus Pro Duo 15 is powered by up to the latest 11th-Gen Intel Core i9 CPU and up to Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 laptop GPUs. This is coupled with 32GB of DDR4 RAM, up to 1TB PCIe SSD storage, and a bigger 92Wh battery that supports fast-charging.
Asus has also upgraded the non-Pro ZenBook Duo, which boasts a 14-inch Full-HD primary panel and a secondary touchscreen with the new tilting design. It includes the latest 11th-Gen Intel Core U-series CPU, up to Nvidia MX450 GPU, and more. The rest of the key specifications look pretty similar to the 15-inch variant.
Asus VivoBook S14
Asus has also refreshed VivoBook S14 with upgraded internals and design. It is now Intel Evo-verified, which means it is powered by the 11th-Gen Intel Core i7 processor with Intel Iris Xe graphics support. This is coupled with 16GB RAM, Intel Optane Memory H10, and up to 1TB PCIe SSD storage.
"VivoBook S14 also incorporates the new ASUS Intelligent Performance Technology, which delivers up to a 40% performance boost 4 while conserving battery life, enhancing cooling efficiency and ensuring quiet operations," as per the blog post.
Asus claims that it is the lightest 14-inch VivoBook model, weighing just 1.3kg. It also boasts a slim 15.9mm profile with diamond-cut edges, Deep Green all-metal chassis, and a unique new VivoBook logo on the lid. This laptop also includes Thunderbolt 4 ports, Wi-Fi 6 connectivity, USB 3.2 Gen1 Type-A ports, a microSD card reader, and more.
Asus TUF Dash
The latest addition to the company's TUF gaming lineup is the TUF Dash. It boasts a slim (14% smaller) and lightweight (10% lighter) design, along with an 810G MIL-STD durability rating. The laptop offers two display options – a 240Hz/ 3ms Full-HD panel with 100% sRGB color gamut support or a 144Hz Full-HD panel with 65% sRGB color gamut support. The latter is the same as the current-gen TUF laptops.
Under the hood, TUF Dash is powered by up to the latest 11th-Gen Intel Core i7 H-series processor and up to GeForce RTX 3070 laptop GPU. You will also find up to 32GB 3200MHz DDR4 RAM and up to 1TB SSD storage. Asus also offers you an advanced cooling system, including a heat spreader and five copper heat pipes, and N-Blade fans. There's also a Thunderbolt 4 port onboard to connect an external GPU and it supports a 100W Type-C charger.
The TUF Dash also carries a new logo and a prominent TUF branding on the top panel. It will be available in two colorways – Moonlight white and Eclipse Black. Asus will be sharing the price and availability details, subject to region, over the coming weeks. So, stay tuned for more information.
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It wouldn't be Christmas without them! For as long as I can remember these Snowballs have been on every single Christmas cookie platter. Delicious little chocolate coconut bites that are no bake which makes them very easy!
This week I've been taking part in a virtual cookie exchange hosted by one of my blogging friends, Norine. She is the home cook extraordinaire! I can't tell how how many pies, cakes and cookies she has on her site. So, if you are into sweets and looking to do some baking over the coming weeks, check her out at Norine's Nest!
There are other bloggers participating as well and each day someone shares a cookie recipe. And today is my turn. I can't think of a better cookie to share than these traditional Newfoundland Snowballs.
Growing up we didn't only have these during Christmas, but that is how I remember them the most. On those icy days in December coming in from school and digging into the ice cream tub in the freezer to fish one out. They were always stored in old ice cream tubs. Never Tupperware boxes, fancy freezer bags, or over priced airtight containers that promised no freezer burn. No, just this, just an old ice cream tub and it always worked a treat. And you know what? I think I always ate them frozen and kind of prefer them this way. Even Oliver, my son, likes them frozen. Must be something in the genes. That or we lack patience for them to defrost!
So what makes these cookies so great? Ummm, they have chocolate so that's always a good starting point. To be honest, they are just chocolate, coconut and oats and they are just delicious. I only ever make them at Christmas time but can't remember a single Christmas without them.
This is a recipe my sister gave me years ago and I've been making them each year ever since I got my hand on that recipe. But like a lot of things, I think they are best when she makes them. In fact, I prefer pretty much everything made by someone else. Tell me I'm not alone in not always wanting to eat my own food? Hahahaha! As much as I love to cook for my family, there are more times than I can count that by the time dinner is served, I'm sick of looking at it and make a sandwich. True story! I know some of you out there can relate, right?
Okay, let's look at the cookies.
The mixture should be quite soft and not too easy to form into balls at first. You want the mixture to be sloppy. They harden when they set and you don't want them to be dry. Once you are happy with you mixture, have ready a large clean surface to roll them out. How many you get will depend on how big you roll them. I usually get around 3 dozen.
These have to be refrigerated not baked! So even easier. You can keep them in the fridge for about one week. In the freezer much longer! I haven't frozen them for longer than a month.
Anyway, these are a great cookie to add to your Christmas cookie platter or to share for a cookie exchange.
Happy baking friends and I'll be back with more cookies soon.
In a medium sauce pan set over medium heat, melt the butter. Add the evaporated milk and sugar. Stir until combined and bring to a slow boil. Add cocoa powder and continue to stir and simmer until you have a syrup like consistency. This will probably take about 5 minutes.
Remove from heat and leave to cool. Pour the chocolate mixture into a large mixing bowl. Pour in the oats and coconut and mix until combined.
Scoop out the cookie dough with a tablespoon and form them into little balls. Continue until you have used all the dough.
Pour extra coconut onto a large plate. Roll all the balls in the coconut.
Place in an airtight container and put in the fridge to set for about an hour.


There's so much to experience… you'll have the time of your lives!
At ABBA The Museum, the story about Björn, Benny, Frida and Agnetha and their lives starts from the very beginning, when they were kids. What was life like growing up? When did music enter their lives? How did they meet? And how did they come together as the pop group ABBA? Here you can explore all of this and more, while walking in the footsteps of ABBA.
An area of ABBA The Museum is specially reserved for temporary exhibitions. Themes for these temporary exhibits are wide ranging – with anything related to music and by extension ABBA naturally being of particular interest to us.
A good example is our new temporary exhibition MAMMA MIA! Behind The Movie Magic, opening April 6th, 2019!
The aim of the Foundation ABBA The Museum is to preserve and publicly display and through other means make objects of all kinds available, related to the music group ABBA and to Swedish music life.
The purpose of the foundation is to receive and administer donations of objects that are relevant for the foundation's purpose.
The foundation accepts money contributions in order to, when an opportunity occurs, buy objects that are available for sale on the market.
In the future, the foundation will contribute to make submitted theses, scanned newspaper clippings etc. publicly available as working materials for students, scientists, or media (via login).


The Tri-Valley Animal Rescue is celebrating their 10th Annual That's Amore fundraiser and auction on October 17th. Help homeless pets get another chance by enjoying this fun-filled fundraising evening.
Join the Tri-Valley Animal Rescue for a fun evening of dinner, a no host bar, live and silent auctions, raffle prizes and a grand prize all while raising funds to save and help animals. This years event will be held on Saturday, October 17, 2009 at the Goal Line Production Studio in Hacienda from 6:00 to 10:00 pm. Funds raised from this event stay in the community to support TVAR's mission to rescue homeless animals providing them needed medical treatment. Monies raised also support the fostering program placing animals in temporary homes where they are cared for until new permanent homes are found.
Additional information relating to the event and event participation is available. Please refer to the contacts below for details.


The Insurance Accounting & Systems Association, Incorporated (IASA) is a non-profit, education association that strives to enhance the knowledge of insurance professionals, and participants from similar organizations closely allied with the insurance industry by facilitating the exchange of ideas and information.
IASA is one of the insurance industry's largest, and most well-represented trade associations. Its membership includes insurance companies of all types (Property & Casualty, Life, Health, Fraternal, HMO and others) as members, as well as companies serving the insurance industry, regulators and also organizations more broadly representative of the financial services industry, including banks and investment brokerage firms.
With PilotFish's focus on financial services, insurers, third party providers and solution providers within these industries the IASA event provides an optimum opportunity to not only meet with existing clients but to forge new partnerships and relationships.
Attending organizations that wish to schedule meetings with PilotFish representatives at IASA should call 860 632 9900.


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Informal European Theatre Meeting
David Adams reviews the recent conference in Cardiff.
Every so often Cardiff feels like a European city. every so often it feels part of a contemporary culture. Every so often, it can feel it's almost grown up, confident, a cosmopolitan centre in the new Europe.
Such was the case the last weekend when the Infromal European Threatre Meeting came to town - 250 directors, performers, promoters and academics in the annual get-together held each year in a different European city. Conversations, debates and criticism in so many languages - though english was inevitably the lingua franca - as representatives from 25 different countries made the capital buzz.
While the hectic three days was full of meetings, networking and deals in and around Chapter Arts Centre, a leading memeber of the organisation and this year's host, it was a chance for Wales to talk to Europe (and beyond) and for visitors to sample some of the tastes of Wales.
Performers already known abroad like Earthfall, Volcano, Marc Rees, Sean Tuan John, Diversions and Brith Gof presented their work; but what got people talking was the most controversial performance of the weekend - Sioned Huw's Lliw Lili in the marbled surroundings of the National Museum. She mixed harpists, clog dancing, folk singers and dancers in full costume, little children and her own dance style into a celebration of rural welsh life, and the audience found it either embarrassing and boing or refershingly innocent and honest - some slept through it and some whooped and cheered.
Lliw Lili emphasised that a lot of performance in Wales is still much concerned with Welshness. While in general the European theatre people here seem to have gone beyond the question of cultural indentity - even if many confess to having problems about their own nationality
Despite caveats about romantic ideas of Europe, they are firstly Eupropeans - and of course as performers they spend much of their lives in other countries - so the question of identity is not so obsessive. While the issue of bilingualism may have een on the agenda - because this is Wales - it was the Croatian director Branko Brezovec who reminded us how, while shared language can break down barriers, an insistence on pure language (evidenced in the cleansing of Croatrian, Serbian, Macedonian and Slovenian) can build barriers.
As the host country, Wales was allowed to be somewhat over-concerned, not about the quality of its cultural product but about its identity. Art historian Peter Lord and dramatist Ed Thomas agreed that Welshness weas no longer an issue in Wales - but it was in england, where Thomas's last play Gas Station Angel was received by critics with knee-jerk racist comment and the derisory Guardian headline 'Welsh Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit'.
As he pointed out, appropiately in this company, Welsh theatre is more popular in Europe than in England - or in Wales
author:David Adams
original source: Western Mail


Cake is life when it comes to your birthday and let's be honest, doesn't a beautiful piece of cake take your breath away too? Now, make a wish that you'll get these fun cake my breath away socks!
Make the birthday girl laugh with these cake my breath away socks!


However I hope to change that with more posts! I'm super excited to be supporting this great community in any way I can!
Pledged as well. Thanks Puella for translating all these years.
A huge thank you to SpaceyLauss, DraceYun and rage-al for your contributions, they're very appreciated!
Ok, for some reason my monthly pledge has been deleted? My pledge was taken out on the first, so I have no idea how my auto-drafted ended on the same day!
Just Pledged! happy i could help, looking forward to future content and hope that we reach the top milestone!
Snake? SNAAAAAAKE!!!? Thanks for your donation!
Can you add to the list also イチから知りたいベルセルク and イチから知りたいベルセルク ?
Sorry, we only take suggestions from donators.
Just pledged! I'm getting a lot out of the forum, the podcasts, and the translations, so I wanted to give a little bit back. I know all of it takes time and work and as a Berserk fan who's enjoying all the content, I appreciate it!
Hey all! New to the forums but been reading Berserk for a few years now. Excited to finally break in and cut my "horn"
Just committed to a monthly pledge to support such a great cause!
Hey there! Welcome aboard and thanks for the pledge!
It is still available! I checked with Grail and she'd be happy to accommodate your request, but it would of course be behind all the others who have already donated.
I'm posting to warn those of you who support us that Patreon's database has been hacked recently. As a result, while the passwords were strongly encrypted, it's probably safer to change them. Financial information was not affected by the data breach.
Thanks for the update Aaz!
Yo! I meant to do this a while back, but I finally got around to donating today! Though I only registered last year (I lurk, a lot), I've been using this forum for years, so it was time to give back.
Thank you, your donation is deeply appreciated!
Just wanted to say thank you for all of your hard work, everyone! To show my thanks, I decided to become a Patreon supporter.
I've only been here for about a year now, and I may not post much. but I really like this website.
Just wanted to say thank you for all of your hard work, everyone! To show my thanks, I decided to became a Patreon supporter.
Thank you very much Patrick, on behalf of the whole team. Anything helps, and any gesture is hugely appreciated!
Thank you very much. It is highly appreciated!
My name is Jeni and this is my first post on this site!
As many of you here people, I too as a fan of Berserk, want to support this helpful site and the people who help to make it, so it can became greater.
So I want donate and to show my gratitude to Puella for all her work but if it possible with specific goal-I want to donate as much as can for translating the Miura's interview in the newest berserk guidebook(the 14 pages),and for convenience reasons I prefer to donate by PayPal a single donation at beginning of each month until we reach the goal.
So I wanted to know if you can set up this goal and how much needed for accomplish her.
English isn't my native language so because of it I avoided until now to post here, so sorry if this post have any grammar mistakes.
Welcome to our community and thank you for your interest in supporting our efforts.
If you want to donate outside of the Patreon, send me a PM and I'll see if that can be arranged. I'm pretty sure Patreon supports Paypal though.


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Q: Detect power/run status of PC in hardware This may well be a daft question and/or a failure to google effectively (and apologies if this would be a better fit on SuperUser or somewhere else?) but is it possible, in low-level hardware, to detect the "run" status (possibly ACPI state) of a PC?
As in - can we know whether it's powering up, shutting down, running, rebooting, hibernating, etc. from some signal on the motherboard? Perhaps a status pin on the PSU or PCI bus, sniffing I2C/SMBus messages or something else that can be hooked into at a low level.
I feel like it must be possible as a lot of peripheral stuff needs to know this too, ideally without a driver / software.
I've seen PCI cards that display the POST code / state, I'm after doing something similar for the power state.
What triggered my interest is I've got a server that takes a fair while to reboot, and it would be nice to have a little LED on the front that indicates "I'm rebooting" / "I'm running".
Sure it would be doable with a CRON job and a message out of the serial port to a microcontroller or somesuch, but that feels like more tinkering than just "getting" the status straight out of the hardware.

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Creative Housing only exists today because of the tremendous support from our strong community partnerships. Like many organizations striving to expand their services based on growing demands, we leverage our partners daily to create new ways to serve the growing need for accessible & affordable housing options.
Today is a day that individuals with disabilities can live, grow and thrive because of the changing ideas of what independence is and what is possible. We are proud to be the number one provider of housing for people with disabilities and we are extremely grateful and humbled by the much needed, continued support from all of our community partners.
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The Basic Requirements for This Footaction Clients Satisfaction Survey are as necessary as they get. To start with, you have to gain access to a computer or cellular device (mobile/PC/Laptop/Mac) with a stable internet connection to get the Footaction customer survey page.
As That the Footaction customer survey does not have any associated sweepstakes, you likely won't be required to be old or a legal resident of the USA to your involvement to be legal. However, it is suggested that if you're under the age of 18, you should have a parent or a guardian assist you in the procedure just in case (To respond correctly).


The April meeting will be held and New Albanian Bank Street Brewhouse, 415 Bank Street on April 8, 6 P.M to 8:30 P.M.
This will be a regular meeting with a raffle so please bring raffle items.
For those of you not aware TACO STEVE now operates the kitchen and he is going to stay open for us.


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Dutch innovation panels at Northside Festival 2014
12 June 2014 — 13 June 2014
On June 12-13, Pauline van Dongen, Tunemelt and Van Moof will participate in Dutch innovation panels during Brooklyn's Northside Festival.
During the Innovation part of the Northside Festival, running June 12-13, the Netherlands will showcase some of the very best Dutch innovative companies. Thursday June 12 Vidar Daniels will speak about his online platform Tunemelt. Friday June 13 Taco Carlier of Van Moof bikes will talk about disrupting transportation and Pauline van Dongen will discuss the future of wearable tech.
Thursday June 12, 2.30-3.15pm: Vidar Daniels (Tunemelt)
Friday June 13, 1.30-2.15pm: Taco Carlier (Van Moof)
Friday June 13, 2.30-3.15pm: Pauline van Dongen (Pauline van Dongen Innovations BV)
All the innovation panels will take place at the Wythe Hotel Theatre, Wythe Hotel.
About Pauline van Dongen
Pauline van Dongen researches the body in a technologically textured space. Working closely with companies from the fields of science and innovation, Pauline aims to merge fashion and technology and give life to scientific creations, such as wearable solar, a dress with integrated solar panels.
Pauline's unique selling point is the way in which she combines fashion and technology in both a wearable and desirable way. In her opinion, technology does not only add functionality to fashion, but also creates many new ways of expression. Wearable solar, an example of wearable technology whereby solar cells have been integrated in a dress and a coat, shows how her designs are able to transcend gadgets and instead connect to the market. Pauline proposes a unique way of harvesting sustainable energy through clothing, thereby anticipating our increasing demand for energy and connectivity, as well as the vastly expanding wearable technology market.
An example of another recent project is her collaboration with Philips Research, where the integration of light in textile is being explored. Pauline made it to the finals during the South By Southwest 2014 Accelerator pitch competition.
About Tunemelt
Tunemelt is an online platform with the goal to give artists, DJ's, clubs and events an extension online through live broadcasting of audio, video and more. Founder and CEO Vidar "Our goal is to become the premium provider of live broadcasted artist and event performances, and to have the most actively global community of music lovers who connect and share their passion for live music through Tunemelt."
Tunemelt gives artists the simplest plug and live stream tools through its own software application that enables the artist to create an event, start and record his or her performance and stream live for an online audience in three clicks. The mobile and web applications offer the community a way to watch artists live, follow and share their favorite events and stay informed about upcoming events.
About Van Moof
VANMOOF is a Dutch company that designs and builds city bikes with non-traditional appearance. The philosophy of the company is to build bikes as simple & robust as possible, so there are few parts that can break on the bike.
VANMOOF bikes have a frame with a distinctive continuous oversized top tube containing the light beams. Its design stands out and is easily recognized. Founder and CEO Taco Carlier says "More than half of the world's population lives in city centers. This is putting an increasingly heavy burden on traditional means of inner city transport. We believe this asks for a new and fresh approach to inner city mobility."
"We are a young ambitious Dutch company that originated out of love for bicycles and hunger for change. At VANMOOF we pursue only one goal: help the ambitious city dweller worldwide move around town fast, confident and in style. We stripped the traditional Dutch bike from redundant hoo-ha, which can only break or frustrate, and added sensibility instead."
12 June 2014 - 13 June 2014


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Der Schönbär (Callimorpha dominula) ist ein Schmetterling (Nachtfalter) aus der Unterfamilie der Bärenspinner (Arctiinae). Der Schönbär war Schmetterling des Jahres 2010.

Merkmale
Die schlanken Falter erreichen eine Flügelspannweite von 45 bis 60 Millimetern. Sie haben schwarze Vorderflügel mit gelben bzw. orangen und weißen Flecken. Die Hinterflügel sind rot oder selten gelb und haben schwarze Flecken.

Die Raupen werden ca. 40 Millimeter lang und sind dunkelgrau mit unterbrochenen gelben Streifen und kleinen weißen Punkten auf den Seiten und haben graue und schwarze Haare.

Vorkommen
Sie kommen in ganz Europa und Asien vor und bevorzugen sonnige bis halbschattige und feuchte Gebiete wie z. B. Bachufer, Sumpf- und Teichgebiete und feuchte Wälder und Waldwiesen.

Im süddeutschen Bergland und in niederen Lagen in den Alpen sind sie stellenweise sehr häufig. In Norddeutschland sind sie selten.

Lebensweise
Die Tiere sind vorwiegend nachtaktiv, fliegen aber auch am Tag. Sie leben in einer Generation pro Jahr. Ähnlich wie der Russische Bär besuchen sie auch Blüten um Nektar zu saugen.

Die Weibchen legen ihre Eier in kleinen Gruppen nebeneinander unter Blätter. Die schlüpfenden Raupen leben zunächst in Gruppen und überwintern auch gemeinsam zwischen Laub, werden aber nach dem Überwintern Einzelgänger. Sie verpuppen sich in einem weichen, weiß-grauen Gespinst am Boden. Die Falter schlüpfen im Juni.

Die Raupen fressen Blätter von einer Vielzahl verschiedener Kräuter und Sträucher wie z. B.:

 Himbeere (Rubus idaeus)
 Salweide (Salix caprea)
 Gemeine Hasel (Corylus avellana)
 Große Brennnessel (Urtica dioica)
 Wegerich (Plantago spec.)
 Rote Heckenkirsche (Lonicera xylosteum)
 Fuchssches Greiskraut (Senecio fuchsii)
 Echtes Mädesüß (Filipendula ulmaria)
 Kohldistel (Cirsium oleraceum)

Quellen

Einzelnachweise

Literatur
 Heiko Bellmann: Der neue Kosmos-Schmetterlingsführer. Schmetterlinge, Raupen und Futterpflanzen. Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-440-09330-1.
 Hans-Josef Weidemann, Jochen Köhler: Nachtfalter. Spinner und Schwärmer. Naturbuch-Verlag, Augsburg 1996, ISBN 3-89440-128-1.
 Günter Ebert (Hrsg.): Die Schmetterlinge Baden-Württembergs Band 5, Nachtfalter III (Sesiidae, Arctiidae, Noctuidae). Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-8001-3481-0

Weblinks

 Lepiforum e.V.: Taxonomie und Fotos
 www.schmetterlinge-deutschlands.de
 Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (englisch)

Schonbar

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