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BookChat with Brian Luskey, Author of Men is Cheap
Posted on April 2, 2020 by Chris Mackowski
I was pleased to spend some time recently with a new book by historian Brian Luskey, associate professor of history at West Virginia University. Luskey is the author of Men Is Cheap: Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America, a new release from the University of North Carolina Press (click here for more info). Dr. Luskey was kind enough to take a few minutes to chat with me about the book.
1) I'm particularly intrigued to see a new Civil War book that focuses on economic history, which gets overshadowed by military, political, and social history—and when we do see it, it usually focuses on the cotton trade, or comparisons between northern and southern economies, or the economics of slavery. Why do you think economic history tends to get so overshadowed?
I wouldn't say they've been overshadowed. There are a lot of great economic histories of the war. As you say, they tend to emphasize the ways the war unfolded within or unsettled transatlantic commercial systems or how we can understand the question of causation through assessments of regional distinctions between the economies of wage labor and slavery. My approach to economic history is different than those found in these books, however. I focus on the ways ordinary Americans helped to make those systems and trace those distinctions.
Brian Luskey (photo by Olivia Miller)
I'm interested in economic history "on the ground": how people made transactions, competed with each other for access to resources, thought about success and survival, and argued with each other about economic transformation. In telling the stories of labor brokers, employers, and workers in Men Is Cheap, I show that we cannot understand the economic history of the war without appreciating the ways it intersects with military, political, and social history. The transactions that recruiters, substitute brokers, employment office agents, soldiers, officers, household mistresses, and domestic servants negotiated–and the ways Americans interpreted those transactions–help us to understand how the Civil War and the economy shaped each other.
2) Your subtitle, "Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America," uses a term a lot of readers have heard of, "free labor," but might not necessarily understand what it means. For those who don't, how would you define it?
It's a good question, and one that my students often puzzle over. They often think free labor referred to slavery, since slaveholders profited from the work of enslaved people whom they did not pay. This notion is incorrect. Proponents of free labor ideology were primarily northerners who believed that wage labor made men free. Workers who earned wages could save them to provide a nest egg of capital for their independence. Employers could, in turn, enjoy the freedom of hiring workers of their choice, who would presumably vault to independence after a period of wage earning.
According to these ideas, capital and labor were intertwined in a mutually beneficial "harmony of interests." Free labor provided the ideological glue for the new Republican Party of the 1850s because it offered a clear and compelling critique of slavery, in which workers could not enjoy social and economic mobility. But within these claims of wage labor's superiority resided deep anxieties about the result of competition between wage labor employers and slaveholders for access to labor and capital in the western territories. Northern devotees of free labor worried that, in the coming struggle for the West, wage labor employers and workers would suffer a degrading dependence to slavery's capital and its coercive labor regime.
What historians haven't appreciated, in my opinion, is that the war for Union was a counterrevolution for free labor as much as an effort to put down the slaveholders' revolt. And by destroying slavery and slavery's capital, northerners hoped to benefit. Men Is Cheap tells the stories of northern businessmen, civilians, and military officers who sought to take advantage of the ways the war made a variety of laboring populations—from Irish immigrants to emancipated slaves, from Union soldiers to Confederate deserters—vulnerable to exploitation in the market for wage labor. My book illuminates the ways free labor as an ideology worked out for employers with capital better than for workers who lacked it.
3) In the subtitle, "Frauds" is plural. Do you suggest that the idea of free labor was a fraud for many reasons, or that there were many kinds of free labor, and they were all fraudulent? Was there any free labor that wasn't fraudulent?
The two freedoms embedded in free labor ideology—for workers and employers—were not compatible with each other, and the war demonstrated the fact. And yet, many ordinary Americans continued to believe in the promises of social and economic advancement offered by those ideas and fought a war to realize free labor's promise.
Ambition was considered a good thing, central to free labor ideology and the war for Union, but at the same time ambition was considered a bad thing. In Men Is Cheap, I examine antebellum debates about "intelligence offices," or employment agencies. In these urban offices, a middleman helped workers and employers navigate an anonymous labor market. They charged fees to connect the two groups. Their profit-seeking was of a piece with other businessmen's ambition, but Americans condemned their activities because they often failed to find jobs for workers and angered employers when they did not find them the laborers they desired. Disappointed parties accused them of committing fraud.
During the Civil War, despite antebellum concerns about these middlemen, intelligence offices served as models for moving laboring populations to employers who would hire them. Wartime labor brokers tried to make money out of the war, which contemporaries roundly condemned even as they clamored for access to a variety of laboring populations. Labor brokers were hated figures even though (or because) they were absolutely necessary. Northern employers also came to find them useful in cultural terms.
Civil War northerners condemned the frauds of labor brokers in order to obscure the fraudulent nature of free labor, a set of ideas that in practice promoted the freedoms of employers over those of wage workers.
4) It seems like there was no shortage of labor for agents to broker with: immigrants, veterans, former slaves, and Confederate deserters, among others. These seem like particularly vulnerable and marginalized populations. Did they see these sorts of financial arrangements as legitimate paths to security, even if it meant being exploited along the way?
As I mentioned before, free labor ideology promised upward mobility to workers, and many workers believed in it. Their hard work and perseverance, however, often registered as a threat to employers. Some Irish domestic servants, earning small wages, nevertheless bought an impressive array of consumer goods and deposited significant sums in immigrant savings banks. Even though saving and spending reflected the promise of wage labor for workers, observers condemned Irish "biddies" in print because they consumed beyond their station and left employers in the lurch when jobs at higher wages became available.
White and black soldiers believed that their consent was important when they signed contracts to do the work of killing and dying for the Union, even though the federal government often failed to meet its obligations. The failure to pay soldiers regularly, the payment of white and black soldiers at different rates, and the establishment of low wage rates in the occupied South forced enlisted men into indebtedness and dependence. Soldiers understood that wage work made them dependent and that having capital and being able to hire workers were both necessary if they were to experience more independence. In my book, I show how soldiers' belief in free labor left them longing for the power that capital offered them in the labor market.
5) One of the financial transactions you talk about is something a lot of Civil War folks have heard of: the bounty system. As you point out, though, that was a lot more complicated that just paying someone $300 to have them sign up, and it had a lot of unintended consequences. In the end, do you think the system proved valuable or problematic?
In May 1861, the federal government instituted a $100 bounty to be payable to soldiers at the end of their service. Northern soldiers enlisted for many reasons, and I don't think I devalue their patriotism when I suggest that, from the beginning of the war, economic considerations might have persuaded men to serve in the army or navy. Federal bounties rose and fell and rose again over the course of the war, and they were supplemented by state and local bounties as fewer men appeared willing to volunteer their services. When the Enrollment Act instituted a draft in 1863, a commutation fee of $300 allowed drafted men a financial path out of military service. These men could also hire substitutes to serve in their places. Because this commutation clause seemed unfair to men who did not have $300, Congress repealed it in the Summer of 1864. The result was not fairness, however. The price for a substitute rose far above $300 in a market managed by substitute or bounty brokers, unscrupulous men who employed various means of subterfuge to separate enlisted men from their bounty payments.
So, yes, there were a lot of problems with the bounty system, and it intersected with a conscription act that was notoriously unsuccessful in getting men from draft offices to the front. And yet, the escalating bounties did entice men to volunteer for service in the final years of the war, and those enlistments helped many communities fill their quotas and avoid the draft. The multiple arms of the recruitment system were therefore valuable to the nation and to substitute brokers even though local communities needed to spend money in the form of extra taxes, bond issues, and draft insurance to obtain recruits and economic benefits mainly accrued to brokers rather than to the workers who served as substitutes.
6) At the end the book, you make some interesting suggestions about the way the war redefined the relationship between labor and capital that had implications for everything from the Freedmen's Bureau to the nascent oil industry. How important was that as an outcome of the war?
The war and the process of emancipation it created gave more opportunities for employers to hire workers of their choice. As a result, the war revealed the ways in which the interests of labor and capital, which free labor ideology suggested were in harmony with each other, were actually at odds. In my last chapter, I show what postbellum labor brokers and northern employers learned from their war experience. The Freedmen's Bureau and veterans' aid associations opened employment agencies to help former slaves and former soldiers find work, but they also helped to create a national labor market that, at least briefly, expanded the ability of employers to hire workers from distant places. Their dependence on and continued frustration with these institutions, I contend, help to explain why many white, middle-class northerners turned their backs on Radical Reconstruction in the South and called on the state to put down northern laborers' strikes in violent reprisals in the 1870s.
7) What was your favorite source you worked with while writing the book?
Many of the images in my book came from the comic monthly Vanity Fair, a New York publication whose editorial stance in text and art revealed the contradictory ways Civil War northerners thought about the conflict and the type of economy and society it would produce. These images were drawn for a nativist and racist readership who believed in the war, distrusted the Lincoln administration, and favored slave emancipation and the rights of capital. Unraveling those contradictions and, in the process, making Vanity Fair's artistic director Henry Louis Stephens a main character in the book, were exciting intellectual challenges.
8) Who, among the book's cast of characters, did you come to appreciate better?
William Still emerges as one of the only heroes in a book about people who preyed upon others' vulnerability. Still was a prominent Philadelphia abolitionist who assisted fugitives from slavery in their passage to Canada along the "Underground Railroad" in the 1850s. Still published a book from his notes about these fugitives' experiences, and it struck me how Still often calculated the results of his abolitionist work as a ledger that revealed how much human and financial capital the Underground Railroad seized from slaveholders. I think that is because Still was an entrepreneurial businessman, and yet it's important to understand that he always understood his individualistic pursuits in the context of a collective African American struggle for freedom. When he agreed to serve as the agent of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society's intelligence office and as sutler for Camp William Penn, he–more than his white peers–did so to help black domestic servants and soldiers earn the independence and autonomy that wage labor promised.
9) What's a favorite sentence or passage you wrote?
I guess I could point to a passage on page 2 that identifies the book's main theme: "Fought to uphold the ideal of 'free labor,' the Union war encouraged Northern entrepreneurs, employers, and soldiers to envision their impending success through the accumulation of capital. Often, they sought the independence that capital purchased by employing laborers whom the war had made vulnerable. The war seemed to offer some Northerners opportunities to get rich because it clarified that other Americans were poor."
10) What modern location do you like to visit that is associated with events in the book?
My book moves along with labor brokers and the people they helped or forced to move, from Richmond to Philadelphia, from Oneida County, New York to Petersburg, from Northampton, Massachusetts to Norfolk, Virginia, from New Orleans to Washington, DC. It emphasizes motion more than location.
That said, because I did a lot of the research for this book in Philadelphia, I spent a great deal of time walking in the footsteps of my historical figures there, thinking about their experiences in places often related to other eras of the city's history: of Confederate deserters at the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon on Washington St. near Gloria Dei "Old Swedes" Church, the officers of the Citizens Bounty Fund paying recruits in Independence Hall, or former slaves looking for work by visiting the home of William Still.
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Fascinating neo- Marxian evaluation, which probably overdraws it's conclusion . Looks like a worry book to read. But most analysis fails to note that the vast amount of "free labor";in the North was not industrial but was still agricultural. The North and Old Northwest were just in the middle of a transition to an industrial economy. Moreover, it is hardly surprising that the newly enfranchised slaves, who had never before been paid, would act as a drag on wage growth. But again, the South, more so than the North, remained largely agricultural. And as the market for consumer goods grew, wages would have to rise in order for the items to be purchasable. Manufacturer s who artificially drove down wages to decrease cost would destroy the profit margin in the goods they wished to sell. Of course, the greatest refutation of any great industrial/financial cabal was the massive flood of immigrants, buoyed in large part by communication from previous immigrants of the same community. But I look forward to reading it.


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Cremation has taken place. A Celebration of Life will be from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022, at Halbritter Wickens Funeral Home 615 E. Main St. Niles.
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#27 – David Sinclair, Ph.D.: Slowing aging – sirtuins, NAD, and the epigenetics of aging
"This is a lesson for anyone who's listening who thinks that getting to somewhere like this is easy. You have to be massively determined, you have to have grit, and I just wouldn't give up because there's nothing else I want to do in my life." —David Sinclair
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In this episode, David A. Sinclair, Ph.D., a Professor in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and co-Director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biological Mechanisms of Aging, provides insight into why we age and how to slow its effects based on his remarkable work on the role of sirtuins and NAD in health and diseases. He also presents the case that stabilizing the epigenetic landscape may be the linchpin in counteracting aging and disease.
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We discuss:
How and why David moved from Australia to Lenny Guarente's lab at MIT [7:30];
Sirtuins and aging [15:00];
A series of experiments elucidating the mechanisms of sirtuins [20:45];
How are sirtuins activated? [25:30];
NAD and sirtuin activation [31:00];
Nicotinamide, sirtuin inhibition, and PNC1 [39:00];
Resveratrol [43:00];
The NIH/ITP studies on resveratrol [55:45];
Does David take any compounds for longevity? [1:00:15];
NAD precursors (NR, NMN) and pterostilbene [1:02:45];
Female fertility and NAD precursors [1:14:45];
A unifying theory of aging [1:20:30];
Waddington's epigenetic landscape [1:23:00];
If David had unlimited resources, what is the experiment he would do? [1:28:25];
Testing combinations to extend lifespan [1:31:30];
What made David aware of his mortality at such a young age? [01:33:45];
What is David's book going to cover? [01:37:15]; and
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David Sinclair, Ph.D.
David A. Sinclair, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and co-Director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biological Mechanisms of Aging.
He is best known for his work on understanding why we age and how to slow its effects. He obtained his Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics at the University of New South Wales, Sydney in 1995. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at M.I.T. with Dr. Leonard Guarente where he co-discovered a cause of aging for yeast as well as the role of Sir2 in epigenetic changes driven by genome instability. In 1999 he was recruited to Harvard Medical School where his laboratory's research has focused primarily on understanding the role of sirtuins in disease and aging, with associated interests in chromatin, energy metabolism, mitochondria, learning and memory, neurodegeneration, and cancer. He has also contributed to the understanding of how sirtuins are modulated by endogenous molecules and pharmacological agents such as resveratrol.
Dr. Sinclair is co-founder of several biotechnology companies (Sirtris, Ovascience, Genocea, Cohbar, MetroBiotech, ArcBio, Liberty Biosecurity) and is on the boards of several others. He is also co-founder and co-chief editor of the journal Aging. His work is featured in five books, two documentary movies, 60 Minutes, Morgan Freeman's "Through the Wormhole" and other media.
He is an inventor on 35 patents and has received more than 25 awards and honors including the CSL Prize, The Australian Commonwealth Prize, Thompson Prize, Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Award, Charles Hood Fellowship, Leukemia Society Fellowship, Ludwig Scholarship, Harvard-Armenise Fellowship, American Association for Aging Research Fellowship, Nathan Shock Award from the National Institutes of Health, Ellison Medical Foundation Junior and Senior Scholar Awards, Merck Prize, Genzyme Outstanding Achievement in Biomedical Science Award, Bio-Innovator Award, David Murdock-Dole Lectureship, Fisher Honorary Lectureship, Les Lazarus Lectureship, Australian Medical Research Medal, The Frontiers in Aging and Regeneration Award, Top 100 Australian Innovators, and TIME magazine's list of the "100 most influential people in the world". [medapps.med.harvard.edu]
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(Boston, MA - 3/23/17) David Sinclair, director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging at Harvard Medical School, discovered how to reverse aging in mice, Thursday, March 23, 2017. Staff photo by Angela Rowlings.
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Angie Shotika Julasak says:
Wow .. I watched your words on YouTube.. I find it very interesting. I will get your books asap!
Alfred Aflatooni says:
Dear Dr. Sinclair,
I have bought your book and followed you and your team of distinguished scientists
for some time.
I have been listening to your podcasts with a great deal of interests.
I admire your philosophy and the legacy that you want to leave for you, your family, and the humanity.
I am a 6 ht generation physician in my family and come from an immigrant family.
I am going to follow your recommendations especially because I had to have
Quadruple bypass at age 60 with a low HDL of 30.
we were created to live longer and be able to reproduce in a semi starvation mode,
caloric restriction and all the magical pathways that you and your team have discovered
I appreciate if you could let me know what NAD supplement you recommend..
I want to incorporate this in my practice and recommend your book to my patients.
my last request is if you could allow me to become the chairman of your and your team fan club.!!
with much appreciation and admiration ,
Alfred Aflatooni,MD.
Thanks for the excellent podcast and videos on youtube. I just ordered your book via audible. I have taken metformin on and off for longevity and I have completed an extended fast and also do intermittent fasting. I gave birth to my 3rd child at the age of 50, and I am very interested in living long enough to see his grandchildren.
Justin Malin says:
Pterostilbene is 4x more bioavailable and half life is 7x longer than resveratrol. Just an FYI. What is the mechanistic link/association between sirtuins and telomerase activity/expression? Why do NAD levels fall as we age? CD38 activity from what I gathered in response to mitochondrial insult. All roads lead to optimizing for mitochondrial health as far as I can tell and why all of the age associated disease share a common link, sick mitochondria.
A thought experiment immediately comes to mind. Is the longevity benefit of a ketogenic diet (in mouse models anyway) a function of decreased rate of NAD depletion? Difficult to test as we can't to my knowledge measure NAD levels. Plus the ketones themselves present a confounding variable through their own HDAC inhibition. Control for that with exogenous ketone supplementation in a control group?
I would assume that if it's all about optimizing NAD levels, David must involved in some mouse model research administering NAD precursors. I'd certainly be very interested in seeing results of said research. There's gotta be more to longevity than just supplementing with NAD precursors. I share David's optimism that we will crack this aging thing, but if/when we do, and the question comes down to how long do we want to live, well, how long would we, assuming we preserved our health span as well as the time aspect.
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Here, as on other episodes of The Drive and other podcasts, Dr. Sinclair states that resveratrol is better-absorbed by taking it with fat. The only two studies that have looked at this in humans have found that fat in a meal either has no effect on, or *inhibits* , resveratrol absorption:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=20528005+OR+19000554&format=abstract


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Blog-Based Peer Review
Noah Wardrip-Fruin has posted a thoughtful reconsideration of the experience of putting the manuscript of his forthcoming book, Expressive Processing, through an open peer review process at Grand Text Auto, meditating on a few surprises that he encountered along the way.
Among these surprises, he notes one that I'm particularly glad to hear about, as it seems to me to refute the thing that several people have said to me about this experiment: "yeah, but even Noah said it didn't really work." Or at least not as well as traditional review. As Noah puts it,
One concern expressed repeatedly about the blog-based review form — by blog commenters, outside observers, and myself — is that its organization around individual sections might contribute to a "forest for the trees" phenomenon. While individual sections and their topics are important to a book, it is really by the wider argument and project that most books are judged. I worried the blog-based review form might be worse than useless if its impact was to turn authors (myself included) away from major, systemic issues with manuscripts and toward the section-specific comments of blog visitors with little sense of the book's project.
This concern was heightened by comments made by some commenters, including Ian Bogost, who noted that he was having difficulty following the argument through from section to section. As it turns out, Noah notes, that difficulty was itself a key bit of review:
When the press-solicited anonymous reviews came in, however, they turned this concern on its head. This is because the blog-based and anonymous reviews both pointed to the same primary revision for the manuscript: distributing the main argument more broadly through the different chapters and sections, rather than concentrating it largely in a dense opening chapter. What had seemed like a confirmation of one of our early fears about this form of review — the possibility of losing the argument's thread — was actually a successful identification, by the blog-based reviewers, of a problem with the manuscript also seen by the anonymous reviewers.
Noah notes that the success of his review process was contingent on the prior existence and functioning of the Grand Text Auto community, and of the commitment of time and expertise on the part of many dedicated readers. This reflection makes me increasingly hopeful that MediaCommons might develop a similarly successful set of review processes, precisely by focusing its development on the social network.
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These pattern papers were from Stampin' Up! I love pattern papers and bought them to use on projects but I just kept on saving them because I thought they were too pretty to cut up. Silly me! I was so happy that each box used only one sheet of 12 x 12 paper.
WOW Helen you make the most beautiful boxes ever.Whenever I think of boxes you are my inspiration!
Beautiful boxes, and gorgeous flowers!!!!!
Raspberry Tart DSP - yummo! Love your boxes Helene. Thanks for sharing on MIM.
Very pretty boxes. I saw you on Make it Monday.
Gorgeous boxes, and just loove your flowers, beautiful work.
Such gorgeous boxes helen ...i love your crocheted flowers so beautiful!!!
wow..pretty boxes..nd the white crochet flowers r superb Helen..!
Helen, Beautiful box and those are the most amazing crochet flowers I have ever seen. I haven't done any crocheting in a long time but would definitely give those a try and would love to know where you got the pattern too.
PS, Saw your beautiful box on Make it Monday.
Wow !!I love your crocheted flowers !!! Beautiful box .
Thank you so much for sharing with us at Make it Monday this week.
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Beautiful boxes and flowers Helen.
This paper was my favourite for a very long time and I still have quite a bit of it left. You have inspired me to get it out and use it.
Such an elegant box. Thank you so much for joining in with our Anything Goes challenge this month at Catch The Bug. This open challenge really is a great way to see lots of different styles and techniques – always an inspiration.
More gorgeousness! See I make up words just for you. Love the boxes!
Great project! I LOVED that top paper and wish I had purchased tons of it when I had the chance! Beautiful flowers as always! Wishing you a great weekend!


Without a clear destination you can't get where you want to go. Imagine getting in a plane and just taking off to "go somewhere." Use the SMART goals format to define your destination. Simple & Specific, Measurable & Meaningful, As if Now & Action oriented, Reasonable & Realistic, and Timed Towards what you desire. Specific is Success!
9. Get Motivated by Listing all the emotional reasons "WHY" you want to get to your destination.
When a goal is set in place…so are the obstacles that will be needed to be overcome. This will take energy and energy lies in generating the emotional "WHY" we want it. For ourselves, our kids, our spouse; dig down deep into that well of emotion and let it all gush forth. For extra credit, link up your life purpose to the goal and your identity to really get some power.
You are where you are, in part, due to the peer group you have around you. My workout buddy in the morning is the best. We both push each other. We are doing the Insanity workout and just this morning as we were completing our workout, he asked if I wanted to get in an additional 15 minute "pump" on the weights. He pushes me even when I'm tired and am ready to be done. I reciprocate by making sure I am at the gym every morning before he is. That way, he knows he has to bring the DVD's or he will let me down by not showing up. We both add value to each other in different ways.
Get rid of anything that isn't supporting your success. There needs to be emptiness in order for something new to come into your life. If a woman wants a man in her life but is sleeping at night with extra pillows and her pets…there's no room for a man in her bed. If a guy doesn't clean out 3/4 of his closet, get an extra toothbrush, have his/hers towels, and cleans out two dresser drawers, how will there be space for a woman to come into his life? Clear out your junk and make room!
Focus on changing one specific behavior that will move you towards your goal. You can prepare to walk/run all day with the right shoes, the music, playlists, weather, timing, treadmill or outside, determining your routes, estimating your time; but in the end all you have to master is putting one foot in front of the other for an extended period of time. Master taking one 8-10 inch step at a time with good form and posture.
If you have a bigger goal of a trip, weight loss, business goals, etc. remember that where your focus goes your energy flows. Change your passwords to reflect your goals: ToughMudderNov2018, StBarth2017, CollegePaidinFull, Beachretirement2035, and BE CREATIVE. Put pictures on your mirror, in the shower, above your bed, in the bathroom, dash of the car, create reminders everywhere. These small reminders will help you stay focused and on track.
I recently read an article stating the main reason most small businesses fail is because of lack of planning. Strategic, purposeful thinking can only be done in a quiet setting and it should be done consistently (preferably a block of time weekly and even daily!) In order to create this space…find somewhere outside of your normal office, etc. (I have a client who uses a study room at his local library, no one finds him there) This will avoid the trap of the business running the person instead of the person running the business. During this scheduled quiet time see point #1.
I don't care if you are the CEO of a Fortune 50 or a small solopreneur. In today's competitive market the need to be innovative, creative and flexible creates HUGE uncertainty. Uncertainty breeds FEAR. Fear can be present due to change happening in the negative, ie going bankrupt and also the positive, ie problems that arise from rapid growth and expansion. Master Your Fears. Embrace them everyday because if you succumb to FEAR it will only lead to low self confidence, being motivated by necessity instead of possibility and worst of all, create a scarcity mentality. MASTER FEAR by doing at least one specific task everyday that you fear the most in your business. Eat Uncertainty and Fear for Breakfast to earn your dessert after dinner.
Get an unconditional form of support to keep you on track…like an Executive Business Coach. (You know I had to plug that in!) Regardless of whether it's me or not, no one earns a Grammy, an Emmy or an Oscar and stands on the stage during the acceptance speech and says, "I DID IT ALL MYSELF!" They all have people to thank…people who believed in them, provided support in those troubled moments of doubt, uncertainty and FEAR and pushed them to stay focused on their dreams and goals.
You have problems, compared to what…?
Are you having a bad day? I thought I was one day last week. I was going to be late for an appointment and I was really frustrated since being late is one of my pet peeves. My frustration level grew as I turned off the highway and my forward progress came to a screeching halt. In front of me was an accident and a long line of backed up cars. As I took the detour in front of me, I snapped the picture you see in the post above. An interesting thing happened as I drove past this accident. Somehow, seeing the plight of this truck driver, putting myself in his shoes, and thinking about the phone call he was going to have to make to his boss put my problem (frustrated by being 10 minutes late) into perspective.
One of the greatest questions I ask clients when they are frustrated and angry at a problem in life is, "OK, its bad, but compared to what?" As human beings, it is easy to get wrapped up in OUR life, OUR problems, OUR perspectives, and OUR beliefs. To jumpstart the process of getting a person out of their OWN way so they can work to a solution, just ask, "Compared to what?" When we shift our attention to the plight of others, the challenges of others, the life circumstances of others (that we can relate too) it helps to put things into a different perspective. When you can shift your "referential index," how you are referring to something, with a different perspective, it lessens the emotional impact so you can think more clear and see the opportunities to think or do something different.
It is not to be used as a justification for NOT doing something different but a means of getting unstuckk so you can find a new solution and take action to achieve a different outcome. Next time you are stuck and think something in your life really stinks…just state the problem and then ask yourself, "Ok, this stinks but compared to what?" So you thought you were having a bad day, compared to what?
In the end, my ten minutes late was nothing compared to the delays this driver faced, his boss faced, and their clients and their customers may have faced. It's good to keep life in perspective.
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Feeling good about yourself is a wonderful feeling. So why don't we do it more often?
True and lasting self-esteem is a combination of feeling good at about yourself for something specific you have done and a more permanent deep-seated feeling of self-worth. That deep-rooted belief is based on the conclusions you draw about yourself over time. It's something that can be developed and fostered.
Here are 9 simple tips to feel better about yourself and grow your self-esteem.
1. Focus on your character, not simply your achievements. Challenge yourself! Take on project you find a bit intimidating and give yourself a chance to astonish yourself! Give yourself a chance to prove to yourself that you are in fact quite remarkable in many ways. You may not conquer every challenge, but each time you tackle something and overcome obstacles it provides another opportunity to reinforce and acknowledge positive aspects of yourself. And when you do overcome those challenges, resist the temptation to minimize the effort and strength it took to overcome them. For example, praise the perseverance it took to finally get that new job or the commitment it took to follow through and make that sale or stick to your exercise plan. Achieving is never an All-or-Nothing experience: you will make mistakes along the way and fall off the wagon from time to time. Those setbacks don't define you, the character you show and develop along the way does.
2. Be wary of expectations. Once you have achieved a goal, it's natural to automatically take it for granted and raise the bar. That's a good thing! We are programmed to want more. Yet, make sure you "go for more" in a realistic way. It is more feasible to go from running a 5K race to a 10K race, instead of from a 5K race to a marathon. So, give yourself plenty of opportunities to succeed by making your goals realistic.
3. Acknowledge your successes. Take a moment and pat yourself on the back for what you have done –now and in the past. If you have not listed all the successes in your life to date, you will probably forget them. Stop and take stock once in a while. Recognize your past successes. Try something different and write them down. It's called positive stacking. Just as we sometimes stack negatively and start focusing only on the negative, you can consciously direct your mind to focus on the long list of things you have accomplished that show your character. And don't fall in the comparison trap. Being competitive can be a great motivator, but don't let comparisons define your worth.
4. Stop the negative self-talk. Stand guard at the doorway of your mind, for what you let in is what you become! People who feel good about themselves, talk and think good about themselves. Watch out for negative thought patterns like jumping to negative conclusions about other people's actions for instance and assuming they are judging you negatively (most of the time, their behavior is not about you!). Challenge your negative or flawed thinking. Just because you feel incompetent doesn't mean that you are. Refrain from –even jokingly– putting yourself down; over time, you will start believing your self put-downs. When you realize you are engaging in negative self talk, systematically interrupting your pattern will pay off! And for goodness sake, stop saying, "I'm Sorry!
5. Master a skill, pastime, sport, or other life interest. Become good at something that you love and are interested in. Mastery of anything is a key ingredient in maintaining a high opinion of yourself. So master something, anything that makes you feel special!
6. Pay attention to the image your project. Although it may sound simplistic, by acting as if you have self-esteem, you are sending positive messages about your self-image to the subconscious. This is a form of self-respect and positive self talk that become who you are –just like habitual negative self talk became ingrained. So, don't neglect the way you look and what you do with your body. Dress nicely, pay attention to your personal grooming, work out so you have some physical energy and pep. Be mindful of your physiology so that you walk, stand, and sit as if you felt sure of yourself. Smile. Act the part until it becomes habitual.
7. Focus on what you can control and influence, not what you can't. Many things in life are out of our control and influence. However, focusing on what is within your control and influence allows you to feel more in control of your life. Always look to take positive action on what is within your control and influence and let go of the rest.
8. Develop a supportive social network. We all rise and fall to the level of our peer group. If you are not involved in a positive and non judgmental peer group, get a new one! Don't be a stepping stone for someone else's self-esteem. You don't need to let yourself be made less of so that someone else can feel good about themselves. Surround yourself with a peer group that has the mindset, the values, and the interests that you do.
Whatever a person believes about themselves is true. Self-esteem is not something you are born with. It is a muscle that is built with time, consistency and conditioning! It takes time to integrate new practices into your life but eventually they become what you do, then show up in what you have, and eventually they become your identity as who you are.
This article was first published on http://ezinearticles.com/?9-Quick-Tips-To-Boost-Your-Self-Esteem&id=6544585, and shared here because it's awesome. For more tips and strategies about increasing your self-esteem, confidence, motivation and personal effectiveness, go to http://www.evolutionforsuccess.com. James Murphy is a personal development expert as well as an executive and life coach. He can be reached directly at 919-745-7569.
What's the surest way to chip away at your self-esteem? You guessed it: hesitation! Join me as we look at how hesitation –a by-product of not being clear on what you want– leads to self-doubt and what you can do about it.


Northampton Community College desired to change the old, industrial look of its campus. Bare concrete walls gave the campus a cold and uninviting appearance. The Community College Board decided to invest in a full campus wide resurfacing project to totally transform the appearance of the college. Needless to say, the expectations of the Board, college staff and students were high.
Bracy Contracting Inc. was contracted to complete this $3,500,000 project. W2A was engaged to design the project, which consisted of new brick veneer, new exterior insulation finish system (EIFS), roofing and concrete work. All work was completed in only 9 months and while school was in session. The addition of landscaping completed the project scope. W2A and Bracy completed this project with a final result that exceeded all expectations.


I used to enjoy the Fourth of July as much as the next person but for the last several years I've begun dreading it. There is a law prohibiting fireworks in Torrance, but it is completely ignored.
Every year my neighborhood sounds like a war zone from dark until late into the night. My dogs are terrified of the noises, which are so loud that they rattle the windows.
The Victoria Knolls area has become known as a safe place to have a party on the Fourth and set off fireworks. When asked to stop, the revelers respond, "We do this every year, call the police if you don't like it," knowing that the police will not bother to respond.
What is the point of the law if it is never enforced? In the morning all the debris is left in the street by the same inconsiderate few.


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New Analysis Shows Surge of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths Inside State Prisons
Conservative estimates show that rates of COVID-19 cases among people incarcerated in state prisons and prison staff are more than three-and-a-half times higher than that of the general public, according to a new analysis by The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center.
As of May 3, coronavirus cases among people currently incarcerated in state prisons were more than 3.75 times higher than the rate of the general population, while cases involving corrections staff were 3.33 times higher than cases in the general population.
The rate of confirmed infections among incarcerated people and prison staff was similar to that of the general population early in the pandemic, but then began to outpace the rest of the country quickly. Prison staff started testing positive at a higher rate in the first week of April before a large jump in confirmed positive cases among people incarcerated in prisons, which started to grow more rapidly the following week.
These disproportionate rates are part of a surge in cases and deaths reported by corrections officials over the last month. The number of positive COVID-19 cases was 27 times higher on May 3 than on April 3, and the number of confirmed deaths was 46 times higher on May 3 than a month prior.
Data show that the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths among people in prison and staff members was generally equivalent through mid-April, at which point they diverged, and cases increased within the incarcerated population more quickly. As of May 3, there were three times more confirmed cases of the virus among the incarcerated population than the staff population and 15 times more deaths.
The coronavirus analysis released Wednesday is part of an ongoing effort by the CSG Justice Center to analyze these data, identify trends, and develop tools to help states understand and respond to the virus in their prisons.
Data Collection Challenges
It is important to note that the CSG Justice Center cannot confirm the accuracy of the daily data being reported by prisons or determine whether it is complete. Comparisons of the data across additional sources show that the numbers generally align, but they are not identical. Small discrepancies also can be inflated when they are extrapolated to the population level.
"Most states do not release any type of real-time data on their facilities, so a framework for reporting on cases within their systems was virtually nonexistent before this crisis," said Jessica Saunders, director of Research at the CSG Justice Center. "Many states are now releasing daily counts of confirmed cases and deaths at the state or institution level for their corrections staff and those who are incarcerated. This represents a new way of publicly releasing corrections data, which is a significant step forward in transparency."
However, challenges with the data still exist. For instance, data tracked across states—as illustrated on the map in the image below—could also indicate differences in testing policies rather than true differences in infection rates.
Consistent and reliable data across all 50 states continues to be challenging to collect, and each individual effort tracking coronavirus cases and deaths uses slightly different figures. For example, The Marshall Project released data they collected from the states on both cases and populations, and The Covid Prison Project and The UCLA Covid-19 Behind Bars Data Project have teams of researchers, data scientists, and students collecting publicly available data from state corrections websites. Each uses a slightly different technique for collecting the data necessary to calculate rates of cases and deaths, as well as collecting the populations within the state prison systems necessary to calculate rates.
Based on what we believe to be the most accurate and up-to-date numbers available, the CSG Justice Center is analyzing data from the following sources:*
UCLA School of Law: Our analysis included UCLA data on the number of positive cases and deaths by day within state-run prisons. We then aggregated those numbers to the state level.
The Marshall Project: We calculated rates within the resident population using data from The Marshall Project, which collected the population data directly from the states.
The Justice Expenditure and Employment Extracts: To calculate rates within the corrections staff population, we used 2016 data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics to determine the total number of people employed by each state's corrections administration, including full- and part-time employees.
USA Facts: We also used data from USA Facts on daily COVID-19 cases and deaths by state to provide comparisons to the general population.
*These numbers differ slightly from the other sources.
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We gave our favorite winter recipes a healthy twist. Watch the videos to get some inspiration and try yummy, christmassy recipes with our superfood mixes!
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Q: Visual studio breaks on circular reference, console application does not running the same python I have a python method which uses code foo = locals() which leads to a circular reference. If I run the code from console, say using python.exe run.py the code works and runs till the end. If I however run the same code in Visual Studio, it breaks on ValueError: Circular reference detected. The Visual studio is using exactly the same python interpreter as I call in the console. How is this possible?
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "F:\Projekty\Betfair\Repos\Betfair\run.py", line 16, in <module>
text_query='Horse Racing'
File "C:\Program Files\conda\lib\site-
packages\betfairlightweight\endpoints\betting.py", line 33, in
list_event_types
response = self.request(method, params, session)
File "C:\Program Files\conda\lib\site-
packages\betfairlightweight\endpoints\baseendpoint.py", line 27, in request
request = self.create_req(method, params)
File "C:\Program Files\conda\lib\site-
packages\betfairlightweight\endpoints\baseendpoint.py", line 52, in
create_req
return json.dumps(payload)
File "C:\Program Files\conda\lib\json\__init__.py", line 230, in dumps
return _default_encoder.encode(obj)
File "C:\Program Files\conda\lib\json\encoder.py", line 198, in encode
chunks = self.iterencode(o, _one_shot=True)
File "C:\Program Files\conda\lib\json\encoder.py", line 256, in iterencode
return _iterencode(o, 0)
ValueError: Circular reference detected

A: There's no problem with running
foo = locals()

in a program, in either case. Circular references are very common, and shouldn't stop the program. However, it sounds like you're using a debugger which is trying to visualize the value foo, but can't support visualizing values with circular references. (It might be trying to convert the value to JSON.)
If your debugger can't handle circular references, look for an option to ignore foo in its inspector/watcher to avoid the crash.

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Az apatit a vízmentes foszfátok csoportjába tartozó ásványfaj. Pontos megnevezése fluor-apatit, megkülönböztetve ezzel az apatit-sor többi tagjától: a hidroxil-, a klór-, az oxi- és a karbonát-apatittól.

Az apatit név a görög apaté (απάτη: csalás, csel) szóból származik, mert sokféle színben megjelenik, ezért régen gyakran tévesztették össze a berillel és más ásványokkal.

2019-ben a 2020-as Az év ásványa jelöltjei közé került, a Barit és a Turmalincsoport mellett.

Megjelenési formái, genetikája
Kristályainak termete a keletkezési hőmérséklet függvényében változik. Magmából kristályosodva hosszú, tűs kristályként jelenik meg, míg alacsonyabb hőmérsékleteken oszlopos, hidrotermális hatásra pedig zömök és lapokban gazdag kristályok keletkeznek. Közönséges hőmérsékleten kriptokristályos kalcium-foszfát képződik.

Minden magmás kőzetben előfordul mellékes elegyrészként. Az egyedüli elsődleges foszforszolgáltató ásvány. Jelentősebb dúsulásai bázisos mélységi kőzetekben vannak, de ismertek önálló apatittelérek, illetve hidrotermás érctelepekhez köthető előfordulások is. A kirunai mágnesvasérctelep is jelentős mennyiségű finomszemcsés apatitot tartalmaz.

A másodlagos eredetű foszforit vaskos, finom rostos vagy szemcsés, földes külsejű Ca-foszfát. Főképp állati eredetű maradványok: csont, fog, madár- és denevérürülék (guanó) felhalmozódásával keletkezett.

Ipari alkalmazásai
A foszforitot és a magmás apatittelepeket a műtrágyagyártáshoz használják fel.

Rokon ásványfajok
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Jegyzetek

Források

Pótanionos vízmentes foszfátok és rokonaik

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The history of cinema is fascinating when journeying back to the origins of genre, illustrating how much they have changed over the course of time. Take science fiction and horror as the prime examples, both are worlds away from their respective zeitgeists – almost as if comparing night with day. Comedy is different in that it has so many different types and distinctions that the very early stuff is just as valid as the modern. Going back a few years shy of a century, slapstick was king and its serving monarch – Buster Keaton. With his centenary looming, Eureka have re-issued their previous complete short films box-set on Blu-Ray; including his early collaborations with Fatty Arbuckle and ending with a run of commercially and critically successful shorts that saw him become of the greatest of all film icons.
In recent years Eureka's lionized Masters of Cinema imprint has released countless classic, lost and forgotten silent films with masters as fresh as the day they left the printing press thanks to outfits like the F.W. Murnau foundation. Even with its fair share of lost films, Germany is a world away from the safe keeping and restoration of American silent cinema; an apathy and negligence that has gone down in notoriety and legend thanks to the Martin Scorsese's of the world. Unfortunately this means the presentation of the 32 short films are deeply inconsistent. Some are besieged by merciless grain, others by the discolouration associated with neglectful safe keeping and the need to re-edit from various cuts, while others are perfect – it is a lottery from film to film. Contrarily that lottery is also home to some treats with new inter-titles, musical accompaniments and alternate endings, cleaning up the films however possible.
The earliest films date back to 1917 and see Keaton as a supporting player to Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle. While these films are often funny in their own right, they lack a certain something – like Laurel without Hardy or Abbott without Costello; they are half of a complete picture. If history was somehow different, Arbuckle and Keaton may have become a great double act. This is evidenced in the short film 'Good Night, Nurse' in which Arbuckle is taken to a revolutionary sanatorium that claims to be able to cure alcoholism, that film ends with Arbuckle cross dressing to escape. There are glimmers of a chemistry in the earliest films, a connection that never really had the chance to flourish as these where Arbuckle films in which Keaton featured, an apprenticeship of sorts.
Keaton is regarded as one of the finest comedy performers of all time and with good reason, at his best his physicality and timing defied logic, however given the amount of films he did during 1917-23 it's only natural that every short doesn't live up to the reputation of history – he's only human, after all. Some were a procession of fragmented gags, others were endlessly derivative in that Keaton played an unconventionally attractive, unlucky romantic lead in the exact same situation in a variety of places and others where sadly forgettable. It happens with any director or actor with such a prolific productivity.
There are some interesting shorts to be found outside of the classics. Slapstick and cartoons have a great deal in common and the Balloonatic is the perfect capsule of this. Its story sees Keaton compete with a young outdoorswoman after being swept away by a runaway hot air balloon. Like only Keaton could. The little moments of competition lack connective tissue from one to the next, but the audacity of the man makes you question how much is real and how much is done through clever staging. Hindsight doesn't help either with the very DNA of this short being found in countless cartoons the world over. There's a thought that needs to be sat on – Buster Keaton was doing things that only cartoons could recreate.
Another such short is the Scarecrow in which the set is just as much of a character as either Keaton or Joe Roberts building up to a centerpiece chase with a persistent dog. With its series of ropes and pulley's hanging over the dinner table, the Scarecrow features one of the most inventively funny dinner table sequences. A scene whose influence can be found throughout comedy history but as is often the case with such landmarks the magic of the original has never been recaptured. Both the Scarecrow and The Balloonatic are indicative of the varying quality of this window of output. Every single one of the 32 will have its moments whether the crossed wires of Daydreams or the practical effects of the Goat, whether funny or not at the very least an appreciation for the staging and spectacle can be enjoyed.
Leaving the best till last is the classics, the very same films that make it wonderfully clear where everyone's favourite stuntman, Jackie Chan, got all his best tricks – an influence and adulation that he openly confesses to. 4 films stand out above all others: The High Sign, Convict 13, The Haunted House and Cops.
Convict 13 and Cops elaborate upon one trope reoccurring throughout a great deal of these films with the chase. Where Keaton did it differently, however, is that his films would have scenes in which 10, 20, 30 maybe more would be running after him, add to that the slightly off rhythm of this era of silent film and there's something unusually satisfying. Convict 13 starts with him making a mess out of golf before being tricked by an escaping prisoner and ending with him working with that prison as a guard preventing a breakout. His elastic acrobatics are at there finest and unlike the other films this had fights, not too dissimilar to that found in a Jackie Chan film. In the manic finale he beats up the prisoners with a punching bag on a long rope, the accidental swagger of Keaton wielding this makeshift weapon is hypnotic. Cops brilliance is at its finest in a sequence with a ladder resting on top of a fence, he is sat in the middle balancing as police on either side try their hardest to catch the lovable rogue. This elaborate balanced see-saw and the failed hanging of Convict 13 are the best examples of a cartoon like magic that Keaton possessed.
Slapstick like any form of comedy is in the eye of the beholder, some will find it funny while others won't. The beauty in Buster Keaton's work all but takes the need to find something funny out of the mix. Instead of finding his antics humorous, the absolute control and insanity of some of the things he did make wide eyed wonder and amazement just as much of a legitimate response.
Then there's the installation of surrealism into the mix with the best 2 films of the set. The High Sign starts with a gun that never hits where it is aimed and ends with a house of doors and traps that is about the most perfect example of physical comedy, one shot of one Keaton assailants getting his head trapped between door and door frame is awe inspiringly funny. This may well rank among the greatest comedy shorts of all time. And while the haunted house may not be as good, the invention and surreal physicality is every bit the high sign's equal. The scene in which a group of thieves try to scare Keaton away from their hide out, both dress as skeleton and build a man who then comes to life incorporates a George Méliès like oddity into a short of physicality where the Jackie Chan influence is as loud as could be.
Its not often that a boxset of 32 films comes along, especially with such a great mass of extras -the value for money in this set both beggars belief and is self evident. Equal parts funny and inventive, this is about the most perfect comedy education one can get from one of the greatest comedy masters of all time. While the wild variation of quality is apparent and perhaps best served for all you Buster Keaton completists, at the same time there has never been a better excuse or reason to join those completists, hand-in-hand. Even with the inconsistencies, Eureka's boxset is one of the best home video releases in years.


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The Win
Posted in Leaving Contrails by Priyanka (@captain_speakin)
Wrapped in a white fluffy towel with her hair tied up, fresh out of the shower she was standing in front of her wardrobe, staring at it blankly.
The room was almost dark. The blinds weren't open yet, it was just about day break.
"This was supposed to be easy" she whispered to herself as she sat down on the bed.
He ran his finger on her back. Tracing the line the an errant water droplet had left.
"The black one" he said "and the black diamond pendant"
It was a perfect choice for the day she had lined up.
"Go back to sleep" she said, kissing him on his cheek.
"What! No payments for the consult?" He was grinning!
"Add it to the IOU account!" She retorted.
"hmph" he replied grumpily
She picked the black dress that hung in the line of power suits and skirts.
"The shoes we picked from that crazy store in Amsterdam" her favorite voice said half asleep from inside the comforter.
Her day needed a dash of black on it. His choice was perfect.
It was a one of the biggest cases of her career. The butterflies in her stomach were a constant reminder of it. She was prepared to fight it and win it but she was as always a little nervous.
Her usual ride to the office was from the back seat, in complete silence. Today she chose to drive herself.
Dismissing the driver, she took over the controls of the car. Searched her playlist patiently to find the song that she needed to hear, increased the volume to louder than the thoughts in her head and hit the gas.
The courtroom seemed colder than usual, also extremely silent.
"I'm not scared to be seen, I make no apologies, this is me" she hummed as she walked towards her team huddled up together.
"How does it look?" she asked the extremely tensed faces.
"We only have closing statements left, it could go either way from there"one of them replied.
"Shouldn't we have taken the bargain we were getting?" asked a pair of eyes that were holding back more than just pressure.
"There is no bargain on beliefs Missy" She sighed
"The media is going to crucify us, if we don't make it" another said
"Until we don't have to die for some else's sins, I think we will be able to take it" She said as she stood up.
The phone on her table silently flashed a "All the best love"
The court was in session.
"Is the prosecution ready with their closing statement?" said her favorite voice in the entire world
"Yes Your Honor" she replied looking straight at him
She spoke with words that came right out of her heart. Every sentence carrying its weight. By the end of her statement she saw faces around her change. A whole lot of emotions ran free. A pair of eyes on her team had finally let it go.
"Thank you Counselor" His voice was composed and very calming.
She walked back to her seat.
"Is the defense ready with their closing?" He looked at the other side of the room
The defense attorney went on to make his statements to the judge who was not just listening but seeing through each of them too.
"The defense rests" the gentleman had already made his way back
It was the moment of truth for both the sides as the judge began to speak
"After hearing both the sides of the argument very diligently made by the attorneys, the facts compel me to rule in the favor of the defendant"
There was an uproar of voices in the court. The defense was celebrating. Her team was shattered. They had lost.
There was complete silence in her head, she could only hear what his eyes where telling her while not saying a word. He stood up, the courtroom stood up for him and he was gone.
"Chin up guys" she said to her people who were still in disbelief "we know we did our best"
"The media is at the front, would you want to leave discreetly?" her associate asked
"We went to war for something we believed in. We lost. The scars that come from the battleground are not to be ashamed of" she replied
"There is no compulsion for anyone of you to walk with me" she meant every word she said
She walked out to a frenzy of cameras and microphones. Everyone on her team behind her.
The reporters were brutal with their questions. She replied to each of them with a stoic face and a modulated voice. Her demeanor was ice cold.
The questions kept getting nastier in search of a reaction, the reporters were getting frustrated. That only got her more in control of the situation. She wasn't going to lose this one.
"How does it feel to have Justice Singh rule against you?" one asked
"He did his job well, as I did mine" she responded
"Did he not help with your case?" another one asked
"I did not need help" She replied
"Clearly you did! I mean what's the point of being with a Judge then?"
"Sir, I wear heels higher than your standards of life" was the last thing she said to them
The team decided they needed to drown the day in cheap alcohol. Her associate asked her if she would want to join them at a dingy watering hole in downtown. She agreed.
"I don't think they will have premium alcohol you drink" he smirked
"Today deserves cheap rum" she said "I will meet you there"
She walked towards her car, dragging her feet. The heels that had made her feel like she ruled the world were now feeling like shackles. The idea of driving didn't seem very appealing at that time.
As she opened the lock of her car, her driver walked up to her. Almost mechanically she gave him the keys and settled on the back seat.
"Aap yahan kya kar rahe hain, maine to nahi bulaya tha na?" she asked him how he was there
"Sir ne phone kiya tha ma'am, bole zaroorat padegi aapko meri" he replied
She smiled for the first time since the day had begun.
Reaching home inebriated wasn't something she had done in a long time, but the copious amount of rum had made sure it had happened.
She fumbled with her bag, to find her keys. Standing outside the door in dim light she saw her name written on the name plate. Just below her's was his name. "Justice Singh"
The house smelt like someone who knew how to cook was at it. She saw him as she climbed up the stairs, as he saw her.
He walked up to her, took her bag off her arm, held her head and pulled it into his chest.
The ice cold prosecutor who had faced the world with composure just melted.
"Did you cook?" she asked face still buried deep into him
"I did!" he replied holding on to her
"Did you not need to be at the office?" she asked, still not letting go
"I needed to be here more than anywhere else" he tucked her hair behind her ear.
"I lost" her voice was heavy "I am disappointed in myself"
"You did good, Love. It was just a bad day at work. Or a bad judge may be?" he chuckled
"Hey! I love that judge" she wiped her tears, still holding on to him
"And said judge loves you back" he hugged her a little harder
"I am wasted" she said sniffling
"As is my white shirt with all the kohl marks you are leaving on it" he smirked, distracting her
"Will get you a new one" she said moving away "Or you could just add it to consultancy charge from the morning!"
"Did we make the news?" her sentences were taking time to form
"You made the headlines counsellor" he replied "As did your heels"
"The ones we got from that crazy store in Amsterdam" she laughed
She took off her shoes, stood on her tip toes and kissed him.
"I am glad you chose them" she said "And I am glad you chose me"
"I will choose you over and over and all over again, every day" He hugged her
His choice was perfect. He was perfect!
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Mon Endroit Préféré
Posted in Fiction, Leaving Contrails by Priyanka (@captain_speakin)
Landing on the airport of the city he called home felt different. It had only been a couple of months since he had last been here but it felt like forever. It was raining in this part of the world, in stark contrast to the dry brazen country he was coming from. Cleaning up the mess that civilization was leaving behind was his job. The power to recreate came with a whole lot of travel to inhabitable places.
He couldn't wait to get home.
Waiting for his bags to come he caught the eye of a lady who had been sneakily staring for a while. He smiled. Shook his head as she walked up to him. He knew what was coming
"Arn't you that writer Naina's muse?" she chirped
"Boyfriend" He managed.
No matter what he did to save the world, he would always be known as "That guy she writes about" he thought and smiled at how much he enjoyed it.
"Oh I knew it. Have seen you in the pictures and read all about you in her stories .You are so handsome, no doubt but she writes so well. Will you tell Naina, I loved her last story about Longing and Belonging. I am sure you loved it too!" She wouldn't stop
"I haven't read it" he interrupted
She gave him a very disapproving look.
"When a writer falls in love with you, you become immortal" the lady sighed "that's what she wrote about you"
He smiled. Picked his bag and walked out.
"I just got to know I am immortal" he typed into a window named Chashmish
"Don't tell me you read it" She replied
"I read the first one you wrote" He said
"That was five years ago M" She went on
"But I did, didn't I?!" he defended
"I missed you" came the reply
"I missed u too" he said
"There is a world of a difference between "missed you" and "missed u"" she sent with an emoticon that stuck its tongue out
"You can tell me all about it when my tongue is in that smart mouth of yours" he replied
"Drive safe" ended the conversation
He could see his driver standing alert in all his whites and behind him the love of his life. A black beast.
The driver saluted, handed him the keys and left.
"Shadow my love" he said as he fastened the seat belt and started the ignition "We meet again"
"Welcome back Mr. M" the AI of the car replied "Do I set the co ordinates of the destination on the GPS?"
"I know my way home" he smiled
Driving on the dark winding roads as he left the concrete behind was therapeutic. The rain was cleansing his soul of everything the world had left on him.
It was well into the dark of the night as he pulled up into the parking of the house, far away from the city, in the middle of nowhere. A warm glow from the windows reflected on the wet walk way. He opened the door with his keys, stepped inside. He could smell her perfume in the air he breathed. And then he saw her.
She was sitting with her legs folded on a chair, peering into her laptop on the desk, writing with earphones in her ears. Her hair was rolled up, with a pencil in it. She was wearing just a white shirt. HIS white shirt
He walked up to her and pulled the pencil out of the bun. Her hair fell to her shoulders as she turned around standing up, looking straight into the eyes that were burning through her. He tucked her hair behind her ear, held the collar, kissed her neck and whispered "Mine"
"Talking about the shirt" he giggled as she stood there frozen
"You are such a ruiner M, you kill all my moments" she grumbled and moved away
"You ARE all my moments baby girl" he smiled
"Come here" he pulled her in.
Taking a long look at her he knew he was back into his happy place. While he saved the world, she would save him.
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She loves the lines on his face, they tell her the story of his laughter. All the years etched in his bones, when he lived through his happily ever after,
Each tiny freckle on his skin, tells story of once upon a time, of days he smiled till his cheeks hurt, without a reason or rhyme
She loves the way his voice sounds, the way his heart pounds to a mention, a sketch, a sliver or a shadow from..long lost..but known grounds,
An instant of silence..then he moves on, with a wink and a chuckle the darkness is gone.
She loves the color of his eyes..they are like sunsets of their own, Warm and sad but glowing from the inside like a firestorm.
They shine and sparkle to his stories, like flames of a fire that is burning him, but also keeping him warm.
** Limerence
(noun)
A state of mind resulting from romantic attraction, characterized by feelings of euphoria, the desire to have one's feelings reciprocated, etc
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By Alyssa Yano Published: Aug 12, 2008
To give you the full story, I have to go back to the Fall. I could go back further but I have to draw the line somewhere and this seems like a good place to start.
When we decided to seriously consider moving, the first thing we had to do was decide where. My first choice was California so Ethan could be a surfer. But Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and the other big cities were quickly ruled out: Why move someplace super expensive when we could just stay in New York? We seriously considered Seattle and almost booked a trip to check it out, but after comparing housing costs to salaries, we realized we would be in the same predicament just downsized. We narrowed it down to moving a few hours upstate in NY or here, and flew out here for a visit and loved it. Then we explored upstate and decided the culture shock of going from big-city life to country was too much for us. Plus the whole reason to stay in New York was so we could still frequent our favorite places, like the zoo, the Children's Museum, sporting events. We would be lucky to go once a season with that commute, where as here we have all the same stuff and they are an easy drive. And so we were decided.
If we were renters, we would have immediately started looking for jobs and when we found one, we would have moved. But we owned our apartment and, in case you missed it, the housing market isn't the best right now. We made a pact: We were only going to move if we could sell our apartment for a good price. Basically, we didn't want to lose money, which could have been a very real option. And because we lived in a co-op and the buyers would need co-op board approval, our realtor told us that even if we were tempted by a low-ball offer, the board would most likely reject it because it would depreciate the value of their apartments. So we waited and waited. Lots of showings, lots of low-ball offers. And then, just after Christmas, we accepted an offer. EJ even started applying for jobs. (I was not applying for jobs because I wanted to help Ethan with the transition and also we didn't know how long it would take for him to get to the top of the waiting list for daycare. I figured I would temp or waitress once we got out here until I found something more permanent.) But then the offer fell through before we got a signed contract and we were back to square one.
After that we were much more cautious. We didn't want to end up in a situation where we were ready to move (jobs, signed lease) and one of us had to go while the other stayed behind. Before we sold our apartment, our savings account wasn't that big. We couldn't afford a mortgage and rent and the inevitable travel back and forth. (If it was just us, fine, we could do the long-distance thing for a couple of months but how could we deprive Ethan of a parent for that long?) And finally, at the end of February, we got another offer we liked. It took a month before we had a signed contract. When we met with the lawyer, we discussed the possibility of us moving before the closing and signing a power of attorney, which seemed to be close in price to three plane tickets back to NY but much less of a pain in the ass. He made a good point: What if this deal fell through? Banks are much stricter now and the buyers needed co-op board approval. Were we going to continue to pay the mortgage and the rent? Were we going to move back? So we added a clause. We had no idea when the buyers would have the co-op board interview (unfortunately, it wasn't up to us), but we could say we needed 30 days from the board approval before we had to move.
It took another 6 weeks to get board approval and another 5 weeks after that before we closed. That's 4 months from when we first accepted the offer. Once we had a close date, we started to apply for jobs but we got no calls. None. That was shocking. And disheartening. And frustrating. (And this is why I take offense to the irresponsible comment. Because sure we could have started months earlier but it seemed like too big a risk to us--and I know others will disagree and have 50 reasons why we are wrong and that's going to be really useful for me to hear after the fact and thank you for that but we didn't feel comfortable with it.) Personally, I think people didn't want to deal with people from out of town. They didn't know if we were serious or if we were just exploring options. But who knows? Then when we got here our computer died and we had limited internet access to apply for jobs for our first 10 days. EJ has just started getting calls on the resumes he submitted back when we first got here in the last few weeks. So it's been slower than we thought, but still we should have been ok because I went to a temp agency 3 days after we moved in.
Which brings us to my big mistake: Listening to the recruiter that wanted me to work in publishing. I listened to her hype—she was setting up all these interviews for me, and she did. I met with almost every publishing company here and they were lovely and I made some great contacts if I ever want to get back into it. But 1) I don't really want to work in it right now and I should have been more assertive about that and 2) it doesn't matter if they are excited to meet with me if they don't actually have a job and 3) the temp division of the company knew she was trying to find me something full time so they sent me on one assignment for 3 days and that was it over the course of 6 weeks. The new agency found me a job in 2 days. That's what I expected to happen at the beginning of July. That's why I turned that other job down, which I'm still glad I did because it just really wasn't for me.
And yes, I've said things are tight—tight because when you are paying bills from your savings, you don't want to spend money going out to eat and buying new clothes and random other indulgences, not necessarily because you can't afford them but because it would really suck if 6 months from now your car dies and you're scrambling for cash to pay to get it fixed because you wasted your savings on crap.
As for the coworker thing I referenced in the job vs career post, I did kill her with kindness. And every day for four months I was miserable and so were most of my other coworkers. And then she left REDBOOK, and I stayed for another seven months and worked with the amazingly talented person that took her spot and I realized that I really did love my job there. I just didn't like having it while Ethan was young. So the coworker drama was really just the trigger that allowed me to see that maybe I didn't have to work in magazines forever. It was not the reason I left.
One more thing, and then I'm going to end this because it's So. Freaking. Long. We toyed with the idea of selling our apartment, moving into a rental in NY while looking for jobs here, and then moving AGAIN. And if it had just been me and EJ, we probably would have done that. But moving twice in a couple of months with a three year old? Moving into an apartment that would have cost more than our mortgage and maintenance costs combined, that most likely would not have been near Ethan's daycare (not a lot of rentals in that area) so we would have had to change his school another time? That would have made his head explode. And it would have defeated the purpose of moving to make his (and our) life better.
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