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Women's self-esteem: boosted to their self-destruction
By Larry Kummer, Editor / 20 Comments	/ 11 October 2018 22 September 2019
Summary: Low self-esteem is the defining weakness of modern American women, as experts say. Here are different perspectives, ones you will not see in the news – by a traditional Christian, a sexist, some artists, and some psychologists. Imagine these lyrics if they were sung by men.
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"I am beautiful
No matter what they say
Words can't bring me down
In every single way …
"Yes, words can't bring me down… Oh no.
So don't you bring me down today."
— Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful." See the lyrics and the video.
"The cult of women's self esteem"
By Dalrock, 13 February 2016.
Reposed with his generous permission.
We live in an age obsessed with women's self esteem. Feminists assure us that all (or nearly all) of our problems would be solved if only women held themselves in higher regard. This is closely tied to the idea that women being "true to themselves" is a central virtue. According to our modern thought process women are innately good, so if they have the confidence to be true to themselves they will point men towards virtue. Instead of looking to God for our moral compass, women are to follow their hearts and men are to follow women. These ideas are contrary to the Bible, yet they have been widely adopted by modern Christians.
In Matt Walsh's letter to his daughter, his greatest fear is that she will grow up to lack self esteem because our society will tell her she isn't good enough:
"That's why I wrote this letter. For the times when the pressures of the world – the constant, deafening din, screaming "you're not pretty enough, you're not good enough" – become a little too heavy to shoulder. Whether it's 7 years from now, or 17, or 70 – whenever you need a reminder, here it is: You're beautiful."
Similarly, Glenn Stanton teaches parents that unlike their sons, their daughters will naturally develop virtue, so long as society doesn't get in the way:
"What are the essential qualities that transform our daughters into mature, secure women? As you read through the qualities described below, please keep in mind that much of this is innate, but because our culture seems to fight so hard to suppress certain natural tendencies, it's our privilege and responsibility as parents to watch out for opportunities to nurture and guide in these areas."
— Secure Daughters, Confident Sons: How Parents Guide Their Children into Authentic Masculinity and Femininity
Christian women are of course hearing the message, as the blogger Keith at DruryWriting discovered when teaching college students about sin. In "Do Women sin?" he explains that while his students have no trouble identifying a list of sins men are tempted by, they are reliably stumped when he asks them to list sins women tend to be tempted by. After he sets only the women in the class to come up with a female sin, they eventually find one:
"Lack of self esteem."
Part of the problem is that we have redefined women's sins as virtue. A wife who smashes the couple's wedding china in order to get her own way is now said to be "submitting" to her husband by throwing a godly tantrum. A wife with a frigid and incredibly unkind attitude towards her husband is said to be channeling God's will through her vagina. Discontent is yet another newly minted virtue. Along with sins recast as virtues, there is also virtue recast as sin. The CBMW's founding document created a new sin for wives which fits perfectly in our feminist age, the sin of servility.
Another part of the problem is that when women do sin, modern Christians simply pretend it isn't happening. This is easiest to see with the game of make believe complementarians play whenever considering the question of women in the military. Women aren't demanding to usurp men's roles, they tell us, men are refusing to fight and thereby forcing women to stand in their place.
The Christian cult of women's self esteem.
But denying the obvious isn't enough. To truly follow the wisdom of the world Christians need to cast women's self esteem as the highest virtue. In this regard there is a slight disagreement as to whether a woman lacking self esteem is in itself a sin (as the college women decided), or if a woman lacking self esteem is merely the root of women's sins. But this is a minor disagreement that I will leave modern theologians to sort out. = What is widely agreed is that women need to be constantly told they are awesome. Pastor Matt Chandler explains the importance of telling Christian women they are awesome in his sermon A Beautiful Design (Part 3) Man's Purpose*:
"When women go to women's retreats, they just get encouraged. 'You guys are awesome. You can do it! All right!' Men get blown up. You go to a man thing. You're just going to hear how much you've failed and how bad you stink and why the whole world is broken because you're so worthless. That's kind of how we do it, and it's the right way to do it."
Pastor Chandler explains that a father's highest calling with his daughter is to make sure she has high self esteem, since a woman sinning is evidence of low self esteem, and high self esteem leads to virtue in women:
"We don't neglect spiritual direction and sacrificial love because we provide. I say this all the time. I'm telling you, I did college ministry for 10-15 years before I became a pastor. I have met many a young women with BMWs and fashionable clothes who hated their Daddy and treated themselves cheaply because what they didn't have is Daddy in their life. I have met many a young woman in just an old ghetto, beat-up, backfiring hooptie and just whatever Mom and Dad could afford to get her who had a glad confidence about her and a high expectation of how she was treated because Daddy would kiss her and crawl in bed with her and ask her about her heart and encourage her and cheer her on."
Chandler explains to the women in the congregation that if they have enough self esteem, their natural virtue will serve as a beacon for men to follow. All women need to do is know they deserve better than the men who are around them, and men will learn to be godly:
"Single ladies, if you're like, 'Do you know what? I like the look of you, but the way you act, the way you carry yourself, the way you live your life, no thank you,' that will send a brother off to maturation school. You can giggle all you want, but I'm telling you, ladies, you have a profound amount of power when it comes to an expectation of males being men. You put the bar on pre-pubescent ridiculousness, I promise you, you'll find a herd of morons who will come trampling toward your door.
"But if you'll put the bar up and go, 'No, thank you. Get out of my face. No, I'm not signing up for that,' if you raise your expectations, we raise the bar on what we expect out of men, I think by and large by the grace of God, they'll rise to it. You keep it low; they'll stay low. I promise you. I promise you sin has bent us in that direction. That's why this is important for women, that you might encourage and that you might expect."
In one sense he is right; men do respond to what women demonstrate by their actions that they want. There is also a certain twisted logic here that fits with the non biblical claim that women are naturally attracted to virtuous men. If a woman finds herself chasing after bad boys, she must not have the self confidence to go after the men she is really attracted to.
However, by pretending that women who chase bad boys merely lack enough self esteem to demand what they really want, Pastor Chandler is doing these women a terrible disservice. We know that left to follow their hearts, women will seek out badboys while telling themselves that the men they are selecting are really good men. By telling women that they are naturally virtuous and blaming their choice of men on men in general, we are all but driving them into the arms of the badboy. This is not only unloving to tempted women and good men, but unloving to the badboy himself. We are creating a stumbling block for the bad boy by sending our daughters out to follow their hearts and sending temptation directly in the path of every badboy out there.
Whitney points the way to a healthy mind and soul
"Learning to love yourself
It is the greatest love of all …"
— Whitney Houston's "The Greatest Love of All." See the video.
Available at Amazon.
Psychologists have their say
See "How the Self-Esteem Craze Took Over America – And why the hype was irresistible" by Jesse Singal at The Cut. It's a pitiful story, showing our moral and intellectual gullibility. This is especially sad since the premise is false: "The Truth About Women and Self-Esteem" at Susan Nolen-Hoeksema at Psychology Today — "Women and girls do NOT have low self-esteem."
This should be obvious, since girls are told since birth that they are wonderful, even awesome. They are beautiful, even if obese. Exceptional, even if average. I have talked to many men from Asia and Europe. They are often astonished at the incredible self-confidence, even narcissism, of American women (few find them to have low self-esteem).
That is unfortunate, since high self-esteem without a basis in reality has bad effects. See Hollow Kids: Recapturing the Soul of a Generation Lost to the Self-Esteem Myth
by Laura Smith and Charles Elliott. Elliott explains the effects of self-esteem …
"An empty balloon is useless. An overly full one is vulnerable to popping. A medium-full one is resilient as well as functional."
Another perspective on this: there are many kinds of self-esteem. The easy to get kind (e.g., people telling you that you are wonderful for just breathing) can be dysfunctional. See "High Self-esteem Is Not Always What It's Cracked Up To Be" at ScienceDaily.
Katy Perry sets the tone for modern women
"No, there's no more questioning
I'll be the one defining who I'm gonna be …
You're gonna have to take a back seat
I know I have to love myself, the way I want you to. …"
— Katy Perry's "Love Me." See the lyrics and the video.
A harsh look at American women
"The Problem With Women Is Too Much Self-Esteem"
At Chateau Heartiste.
For adults only. Trigger warning for CH's sexist and racist content.
"From the cradle, women are groomed by their peers, family, society and DNA-coded algorithms alike to embrace the joys of big-headedness. It used to be only beautiful women had this problem (and with at least a semblance of justification based on real value), but now ugly women, fat women, and lawyers are all riding the phony low self-esteem grievance chariot to the entitled princess winners' circle. The result has been to produce a nation of broads hell-bent on seeing themselves as god's gift to god himself. … Reader PA comments:
Gentle and friendly teasing is not intimidating, and creates a sort of rapport that makes one feel at ease.
"Exactly. This is true even with non-sexual interaction. Think the last time you saw a man who is good with kids. He will 'neg' the girl by saying stuff like: 'hey! you're cheating! no red crayon allowed!' or whatever. Boys, on the other hand, don't like to be negged. If you're good with kids, you will build him up with stuff like 'that's really cool. Can you draw it bigger?' etc.
"If you have young nieces and nephews, you will quickly recognize the truth in PA's comment. Nieces respond positively – with glee, even – to prototype negs and teasing; the sort of banter that modern feminists would describe as demeaning. In contrast, little boys, with their fragile egos, wilt under negs and teasing, but respond well to compliments and encouragement. Mothers instinctively know this, as they will often reprimand the fathers for being too discouraging or too critical with their sons while giving the fathers a pass or a semi-serious chiding when they tease the daughters.
"The great irony here is that what makes good parenting is exactly the opposite of what feminists claim is the best way to raise boys and girls. Parents know, deep down, that to raise a good daughter you must keep her ego judiciously pruned, and to raise a good son you must suffuse his ego with promise."
More voices heard from
Hailee Steinfeld's "Love Myself." See the video.
When I get chills at night
I feel it deep inside without you, yeah
Know how to satisfy
Keeping that tempo right without you, yeah …
I'm gonna touch the pain away
I know how to scream my own name
Gonna love myself, no, I don't need anybody else
I'll take it nice and slow
Feeling good on my own without you, yeah …
Fifth Harmony's "Worth It." See the video.
"Give it to me, I'm worth it
Baby, I'm worth it
Uh huh I'm worth it
Gimme gimme I'm worth it
Gimme gimme I'm worth it …"
Some useful studies, in addition to the ones in the articles cited above.
"Birth Cohort Increases in Narcissistic Personality Traits Among American College Students, 1982–2009" by Jean M. Twenge and Joshua D. Foster in Social Psychological and Personality Science, January 2010 (open copy here).
"Tuning in to psychological change: Linguistic markers of psychological traits and emotions over time in popular U.S. song lyrics" by C. Nathan DeWall et al. in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, March 2011.
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20 thoughts on "Women's self-esteem: boosted to their self-destruction"
Notorious P.A.T.
You're quoting Chateau Heartiste now? Yikes.
Larry Kummer, Editor
Yes. And I have posted the work of socialists and communists, such as Maximilian Forte and Black Agenda Report. And work by the far-right Proud Boys.
Clutching pearls at heterodox thought is a barrier to finding solutions. We have to ruthlessly evaluate the utility of content, whatever the source. We are long past the point at which solutions will be found by the nice polite balanced people in the middle. We must search on the fringes for new ideas, new insights, and new solutions.
And I criticize because that sort of garbage is not fit to join the normally excellent content on this website.
Can you provide an actual rebuttal to what was posted, beyond pearl-clutching?
Mr. Generic
Chateau Heartiste are certainly provocative in tone but they are thought leaders in the realm of relations between the sexes, and one of the few places on the internet willing to take a critical but informed look at female psychology.
Mr. Generic,
That's true. Unfortunately the CH website also has extreme racist and misogynist messages. Useful to mine for insights, but a terrible guide. I feel sorry for the men who take it seriously, and sad for an America in which such beliefs flourish on the Left and Right.
Worth pointing that there has been no rebuttal from PAT regarding the substance of Heartiste's argument.
Don't hold your breath waiting for one.
Drgnet,
Virtue signalling is its own reward.
Prestor Jan
FabiusMaximus, I think that you have captured only part of the picture on American women with these articles. There is obviously a certain cultural imperative that America is engaging on to improve women's self-esteem, and I think that your anecdotal evidence has some merit to it. But it strikes me as deeply incomplete.
Your posts suggest you believe that women are vulnerable to 'negging.' Given that, and an understanding that American corporations are interested in profit over cultural mores, isn't it likely that corporate media is engaged in a widespread attempt to maximize profit from women by such negative attacks on women? With most Americans watching and engaging in corporate media for staggering hours a day, I think its possible that America is engaged in both a mass scale attempt to make women feel bad to maximize consumption and also a 'social good' movement to help women feel good as a solution.
It strikes me that the self-esteem solution is a misguided solution, akin to turning on the A/C to counter an overactive heater, when the real challenge is the hyper efficient capital extraction machine that is Western marketing strategies.
Still, neither that solution nor your critique of it addresses the really significant challenge that is centralized marketings effect on a hugely diverse number of people. If you can maximize profit on 25% of the population at the expense of 2% feeling deeply terrible, that's not too bad a return rate. Social justice groups interested in that 2% do a disservice to the society by claiming that all of social norms to date are the cause of their discontent instead of the very recent, very modern marketing/propaganda developments that are highly efficient on a very massive scale. But they are correct in noting the byproduct that is generated from our deeply confused consumer society. Prestor Jan
(1) "I think that you have captured only part of the picture on American women with these articles."
Well, yes. I don't believe a god could do that in a few thousand words. Books have been written about these things, in response to which reviewers give that same critique.
(2) "Your posts suggest you believe that women are vulnerable to 'negging'."
No. CH says exactly the opposite of that: "Nieces respond positively – with glee, even – to prototype negs and teasing." They enjoy that kind of banter.
(3) "isn't it likely that corporate media is engaged in a widespread attempt to maximize profit from women by such negative attacks on women?"
There are no large secret conspiracies in the corporate world. There are small-scale ones, usually revealed eventually (e.g., the wage-fixing cartel among tech companies).
"your critique of it addresses the really significant challenge that is centralized marketings effect on a hugely diverse number of people."
Because I'm not discussing "centralized marketing."
Larry Kummer, I think that my critique has been misunderstood. As I understand, the purpose of this post is to demonstrate the broader spectrum of beliefs about the need for female self-esteem, and specifically, the way that has been used to justify changes in society in order to fulfill self-esteem.
These views are interesting, but incomplete. Incompleteness is, as you rightly point out, part of the human condition. However, the incompleteness above is suggestive of a desire to ignore contrary evidence rather than incompleteness due to lack of time, energy, etc. There is a wealth of research about the negative effects of media and advertising on young women. There is also plenty of research that suggests that self-esteem is not a static thing but is variable dependent upon the circumstances of a persons life (within reason, of course). Given this, its worth exploring whether or not attempts to reduce women's self-esteem exist in society and how widespread they are.
Psychological research suggests that just watching "Thin Ideal" television can impair young women's self-esteem. And the reality is that "thin ideal" is very profitable for all manner of companies. This isn't a conspiracy any more than 'natural flavorings' in food is a conspiracy. People like it, by in large, and the consequences can be obscured because people are not monolithic, some are upset, many barely notice it.
This research may be biased, it may be incorrect, but to ignore it suggests a flaw in the basic elements of these author's point. To ask the question begging to be asked without it, so why are large numbers of organizations attempting to validate large numbers of young women? Why are pop musicians making this music? Some women, clearly, want such validation. Prestor Jan
Did you read the post? I suggest you reply citing the text you disagree with, since your comments do not address specifics in this post — or ignore what the post says. Also, there is no point to me replying if you just ignore what I say.
(1) "There is a wealth of research about the negative effects of media and advertising on young women."
Yes, the media has both positive and negative effects on human beings. Why would you believe otherwise? That research about negative effects on women is more prominent is just the way science works these days. But "the media" is not the subject of this post.
(2) "There is also plenty of research that suggests that self-esteem is not a static thing but is variable dependent upon the circumstances of a persons life."
You mean like saying, as this post does, "Another perspective on this: there are many kinds of self-esteem. The easy to get kind (e.g., people telling you that you are wonderful for just breathing) can be dysfunctional. See 'High Self-esteem Is Not Always What It's Cracked Up To Be' at ScienceDaily."
As for self-esteem being "variable" and "dependent" – that is the kind of thing to remind children. Too obvious to mention in content for adults.
(3) "Psychological research suggests that just watching "Thin Ideal" television can impair young women's self-esteem."
Given the fantastic growth in weight of American women, to the point of obesity – perhaps some of those watchers should have their self-esteem depressed, for the sake of their health. Just as the rising number of men weak in body and will (and overweight) should be shamed into changing.
More broadly, women are doing great by most measures – and showing signs of increased and often excessive self-esteem. If you wish to believe they are crippled by low self-esteem, fine.
Greg Connolly
Very good assemblage.
And the Title: "…..boosted to their self destruction." Is the really terrible part for too many women and the men they encounter or attempt to connect with. Deeply engrained and promoted to all our detriment.
Snowflakes disappear quickly, human ones not so fast.
This post made me think of a former coworker. From her story, she grew up in a lower-class but intact family. She pursued badboys and had a kid at 18, and at 27, married a "nice guy" who treated her terribly and she divorced him 7 years later (no more kids).
When I met her, she was at least 225 lbs (@ 5'2″ or so). Even so, she had an active social life, needing a speadsheet to keep all her info on her many men. She couldn't understand why the guys didn't stay.
She later admitted that her so called "nice guy" husband was a 450 lbs, drug abusing pig (so, obviously, never a nice guy). She did claim she married him because he was the opposite of the bad boys she previously dated.
She came into the office telling stories of her crazy drama. She was very promiscuous.
Anyway, she had self-esteem to the heavens, but there was no way any halfway healthy and normal man would stay with her long term. She was only a booty call for the desperate, but viewed herself as Queen of the World. She claimed she would never marry again because no man was good enough.
Oh, and she lived in her parent's basement and changed jobs every 6 months……
robertobuffagni
Meanwhile, BDSM, Fifty Shades of Grey, etc. becomes mainstream…
Some days ago, my daughter (23 years old, nice, handsome, low maintenance and merry girl) told me: "You know, dad, what's the best thing you did for me?" Myself: "Don't know…when I let you study Ancient Greek at the University making no fuss about it?" Her: "No, when I was 15, I told you a lie, you got me and you gave me a big slap." :)
Great point! The massive success of "Fifty Shades of Grey" – books and films — was a clear signal to men. Too bad we're not paying attention.
The Romans used to say: "Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret." = "You can chase away human nature with a pitchfork, but sooner or later it'll come back"
How do you apply that to our situation?
As I see it (guessing) – men and women are shaped by society. We have unleashed women, and now see their (to use a metaphor) their core programming. It is a surprise because we thought that the product produced by society was their underlying nature.
Pursuit of alphas (including willingness to share an alpha rather than have a beta), promiscuity, short-time horizon (panic at the wall), preferring independence to marriage (hence high divorce rates), transitory nature of love — it is what they are like. This probably worked well for humanity when we were little more than African plains apes with aspirations.
Well, in my humble opinion, I think this: too much freedom is dangerous and noxious for everybody, because only rarely the higher faculties of the soul can dominate and rein in the baser ones; but to much freedom is especially dangerous for women, because women have always been, and always will be, preys: and they like it very much (fundamental preys having always been land and women).
When women loudly advertise their absolute freedom, the play very hard to get as preys, and put men in harsh competition to get them, escalating the conflict both among men and among women. But if the conflict does not come to an end, if it does not settle into long lasting peace – i.e, into marriage and family – the cycle of (psychological) violence never ends, inducing a general dissolution of primary bonds: love, respect, trust among wife and husband, among parents and sons.
The amount of unhappiness involved in all this is staggering, especially for women, whose nature most pressing need is for significant personal, intimate relations (men can love ideas and tasks, women almost never can).
To sum up: I think that now, women are drunk on the hybris of absolute freedom. Their hangovers are terrible, and the worse is yet to come.
Rebly B
Women have created enemies for themselves amongst the broad spectrum of Men, they wre artificially boosted by legislation to a almost liesure class ss allowed to invade male spaces and take them over while pushing the younger men out, practice hypocrital levels of hypergamy and even the handsome guys are having problems getting women, when society collapses there will be mass femicide .
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Buhrich House II is a heritage-listed residence located at 375 Edinburgh Road, Castlecrag, City of Willoughby, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Hugh Buhrich and built during 1972. The property is privately by members of the Buhrich family. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 25 May 2001.

History
The Buhrich house at 375 Edinburgh Road, Castlecrag was designed and built (1968–72) by Hugh August Buhrich for himself and his wife, Eva Buhrich.

The Buhrich's first bought land at 315 Edinburgh Road, Castlecrag from Marion Griffin, and designed their first house in Castlecrag some years later, in 1939–49.

The Buhrich's bought the block of land at 375 Edinburgh Road in the 1950s. The site is part of the original Castlecrag Griffin subdivision. For many years Buhrich's assistant, Bill Chambers lived on the site in the remnants of a dwelling designed by Walter Burley Griffin in the 1920s. In 1961, Buhrich constructed a boatshed by the water at No. 375, where he subsequently built a 35-foot sloop.

In 1968–72, the Buhrich's designed and built their house. They retained the two storey Griffin "Knitlock" structure, demolished an adjacent lean-to, and built a new house which is attached to the Griffin building. In 1982, Buhrich's son, Clive Buhrich, also an architect, made some alterations under the house - originally intended to be a garage, terrace and tool store. The house has otherwise not been altered.

Born in Hamburg in 1911, Hugh Buhrich studied architecture in Munich, Zurich, Danzig and Berlin. One of his most influential teachers was Hans Poelzig. Fleeing the Nazis by way of London, where he worked briefly, Buhrich migrated to Australia in 1938 with his wife Eva Bernhard. The Buhrich's came to Australia on a Quaker sponsored relocation to Canberra. The Quakers provided early work contacts. Buhrich practiced architecture in Sydney from 1945 to 1991, mainly in residential design. In 1945 Hugh and Eva Buhrich established an office in Pitt Street, Sydney but were not recognized as qualified architects until the 1960s. He worked with assistant, Bill Chambers. Eva Buhrich, his wife, is also an architect however worked mostly as a journalist in Australia.

Major influences of Buhrich were Hans Poelzig and Alfred Roth. Buhrich also visited Le Corbusier's chapel at Ronchamp (1950–1954) in the 1960s.

Description
The Buhrich House is set on the waterfront at Castlecrag and incorporates the remnant of a Walter Burley Griffin "Knitlock" structure (an interlocking concrete block designed by Griffin). In contrast to the so-called Sydney School houses with their predictable embrace of "natural materials", this building is deliberately counterbalanced against its locality, both to reduce the actual site "imprint" and accentuate by contrast the precarious topography.

Myers describes the difficulty perceiving the building as a whole from the outside. The house is almost invisible unless you know it's there. It is set high above the waters edge on a steep rocky escarpment amongst overgrown gardens and organically inspired landscaped stone steps and retaining walls, an integral part of the Griffin's organic philosophy.

The exterior of the building reads as a series of reinforced concrete blade walls and sandstone walls (quarried from the site) set on a concrete platform with a combination of catalogue metal framed glazed walls and sliding doors, and sculptural feature elements. On the south elevation adjacent to the entry there is a "floating" rectangular wall - a feature of perforated timber louvres which appears to float in glazed surrounds. The wall, in fact, is supported on small diameter pipe columns. The north wall is completely glazed and provides water views though the curtain of native trees. The heavy sinusoidal roof mass passes over as a visually uninterrupted form from the interior to the exterior, and appears to float above the windows on this elevation. The roof is clad in sheet copper. The deck, with no handrail, is reached by an external spiral concrete stair which cantilevers precariously above a sheer drop to the water's edge. The house is "consciously not very carefully crafted but like a Yangtse junk is intentionally slightly rough and with a mixture of off-the-shelf components and materials".

The interior of the building has a strong connection with the outside. The main living space contains an elevated kitchen and dining area, which look over the living space through the trees to the water. The kitchen is a well-crafted piece of timber "furniture" carefully designed as an insertion in the living space. Stone masonry forms a sculptural fireplace and an end wall, and a sinusoidal motif tapestry (also by Buhrich) located on the "floating" wall is the back drop to the cantilevered dining table. The fixed and free furniture has been designed and chosen to complement the space as sculptures within a sculpture. The bent-wood chairs covered with cowhide were designed by Buhrich and the dining room chairs are by Eames.

In plan, the living areas are separated from the bedrooms/study and bathroom by a glazed corridor adjacent to a garden area to the south. The 2 bedrooms (plus study) are simple spaces, painted white with modern built-in furniture. Between these rooms is the bathroom, which is a continuous and organic form whereby the bath and basin are moulded as one with the wall. The form/finish is a luminous red moulded fibreglass. There is a stunning contrast between the bathroom and the openable glazed wall to the north, the water and the canopy of trees.

The existing small two storey Griffin building adjoins the carport at the driveway (upper) level. Its construction is "knitlock" concrete blocks with a sandstone base in part. There is an external entrance to this building from inside at the junction of the modern Buhrich House.

The lower level of the Buhrich House has been recently enclosed in part to create additional living areas. It is not connected internally to the main house.

A timber walkway, similar to the upper level balcony/deck, provides access from the lower level of the house via a diagonal concrete stair to the boatshed at the foreshore.

Condition

As at 3 January 2001, the building appears to be in excellent condition. There may be some archaeological potential (Aboriginal, Griffin).

The house has a high degree of integrity, however, the addition infilling the lower level compromises the sculptural effect to some degree.

Modifications and dates
1920s - Griffin building
1961 - Buhrich built boatshed
1972 - Buhrich built main house
1982 - Alterations to main house (underneath)

Further information

Contemporaries of Buhrich are Sydney Anchor, Harry Seidler, and Arthur Baldwinson, all of whom worked in the Modern Movement Internationist style.

It is worth noting that Walter Burley Griffin and Hugh Buhrich both studied architecture overseas, migrated to Australia, settled in Castlecrag and lived and worked in a similar environment. It is likely that of all the buildings built since the 1950s in Castlecrag that, Griffin would have seen this building as a most appropriate modern addition to his subdivision.

Heritage listing
As at 22 March 2001, the Buhrich House is of State significance for its historic and aesthetic values. In addition, it is also of particular cultural/social importance amongst the architectural community. It is significant because:

Buhrich House, is considered to be one of the finest modern houses in Australia. Since its "discovery" in the 1990s, it has been published in a number of the major Architectural journals in Australia, and in the Harvard Design Magazine (1997). It is recognized for its contribution to modern architecture because of its unique combination of off-the-shelf items and materials, hand crafted features, modelling of architectural space and forms, and relationship to the site. It demonstrates a timeless merging of craft, art, architecture and relationship to site.

The house was the home of European-trained migrant architects, Hugh and Eva Buhrich. Hugh was a little recognized, but highly regarded architect who worked mainly in residential design in Australia from 1945 to 1991. Eva was well-known and highly regarded for her architectural column in The Sydney Morning Herald from the mid-1950s to late 1960s. Designed for the Buhrichs' own family, this building is an uncompromising and representative example of Buhrich's architectural work in the later phase of his active professional career.

The Buhrich house is of State aesthetic significance as a unique building which retains its original integrity as an architecturally sculptural element on the water front escarpment. The interior, including furniture, and the exterior have a strong sculptural relationship. The choice of materials, structural elements and furniture (both fixed and freestanding) create an architectural organic form of high integrity.

The house demonstrates a particular evolution of the international influences of Modernism in Australia, which Buhrich brought to Australia as a migrant in 1938. Such influences were also brought to Australia by other more recognized contemporary emigres such as Harry Seidler. The work of Buhrich is possibly as important as the residential work of Seidler, although their interpretation of Modernism varied.

The house is of historical significance at a State level for demonstrating a powerful demonstration of modernist design in the Australian / Sydney context. This style of modernism contrasts with the "Sydney School" houses being constructed contemporarily, whose architects followed a different aesthetic approach - less geometric, and more attuned to the use of natural materials (sometimes referred to as 'nuts and berries').

The Buhrich House is also of historical significance as it represents an aesthetically significant modernist contribution by a second outstanding migrant architectural couple to the delightful harbourside suburb of Castlecrag, first subdivided by the American architectural couple Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin.

Buhrich House II was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 25 May 2001 having satisfied the following criteria.

The place is important in demonstrating the course, or pattern, of cultural or natural history in New South Wales.

The building is of historic significance as it contains a number of historic layers in the context of Griffin's subdivision of Castlecrag; a remnant of a Griffin Knitlock structure (1920s), integrated with a unique twentieth century building (1972).

The place is important in demonstrating aesthetic characteristics and/or a high degree of creative or technical achievement in New South Wales.

The house itself is of historic and aesthetic significance for its bold and original sculptural qualities. It is modern without reference to typical stylistic architectural language. It demonstrates international education of the architect, combined with experimentation with construction and materials. The building represents a departure from the contemporary Sydney School architecture (rustic "nuts and berries" aesthetic).

The place has potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales.

The house was constructed using a combination of proprietary items (such as aluminium framed sliding doors) in combination handmade, unique elements (such as the fibreglass bathroom and the undulating ceiling in the living area.)

See also

Australian residential architectural styles

References

Bibliography

Attribution

New South Wales State Heritage Register
Castlecrag, New South Wales
Houses in Sydney
Articles incorporating text from the New South Wales State Heritage Register
Houses completed in 1972
1972 establishments in Australia

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Latest pic of the updated wuhan mock up now shows a fixed wing AEW&C mock up.
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So IMO a clear sign that there is something going on behind the scenes and that we can expect to see such a bird "quite soon" in reality ... what however "SOON" means is not clear.
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I dont know if that mockup i similar to yak-44. Besides, the problem with buying the yak-44 design is that it never left the mockup stage. After all this time, there shouldnt be much left from that program. Also russia wouldnt be too keen in selling it to china.
Without a catapult AEW fixed wing planes are never going to be launched from a carrier since they are too darn heavy.
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OCDA SEEKS THE PUBLIC'S HELP IN APPREHENDING FUGITIVE SOFTBALL COACH FACING 10 YEARS FOLLOWING CONVICTION FOR MOLESTING 12-YEAR-OLD TEAM PLAYER
Case # 07NF3211
08WM04290
May 2, 2008 Susan Kang Schroeder
OCDA SEEKS THE PUBLIC'S HELP IN APPREHENDING FUGITIVE SOFTBALL COACH FACING 10 YEARS FOLLOWING CONVICTION FOR MOLESTING
12-YEAR-OLD TEAM PLAYER
FULLERTON – The Orange County District Attorney's Office (OCDA) is asking for the public's help in apprehending a fugitive softball coach who was convicted of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl on his team. A warrant for the arrest of George Quevedo Quintana, 37, Anaheim, was issued April 30, 2008 charging the defendant with violating a protective order by having phone contact with the victim several times following his conviction.
Quintana pleaded guilty to the court on April 18, 2008 to four felony counts of lewd acts on a child under 14 and one felony count of oral copulation of a person under 14 with a sentencing enhancement allegation for substantial sexual conduct with a child. Over the objection of the People, the defendant's sentencing was continued by the Honorable Roger Robbins to May 19, 2008 and Quintana was released on $100,000 bail. Quintana is facing 10 years in state prison.
The People objected on the record to the delayed sentencing stating that the defendant was a flight risk looking at a lengthy prison sentence. The People also stated on the record that Quintana is a suicide risk based on his statements contained in court documents and has been seen in possession of a firearm. The people requested that the defendant immediately be taken into custody. As a result of the new case charging him with violating a protective order, Quintana's bail was revoked and a no-bail warrant was issued at the request of the People.
Criminal Case # 07NF3211
Quintana met 12-year-old Jane Doe while volunteering as a coach for her softball team with the West Grove Girls Softball League in Garden Grove. On September 3, 2007, Quintana used his position to gain the trust of the victim and her family and picked up Jane Doe from her home to spend the day with him. He took the victim to the beach and the movies before driving her to his Anaheim home. Once at Quintana's house, the defendant sexually assaulted the victim by kissing, digitally penetrating, and orally copulating her. The defendant then drove Jane Doe back to her house. The victim's mother noticed that Jane Doe seemed upset, and after questioning her daughter about the afternoon, Jane Doe told her mother about the assault. Jane Doe's mother immediately contacted the police.
Criminal Case # 08WM04290
At the time of his release by Judge Robbins, the defendant was under a protective order to not contact Jane Doe. The defendant was also ordered to turn over any firearms in his possession to the Anaheim Police Department. On April 16, 2006, between April 19 and April 23, 2008, and between April 24 and April 28, 2008, Quintana is accused of contacting Jane Doe in violation of the protective order.
Request for Public Assistance
Despite attempts to contact the defendant, Quintana's whereabouts are unknown.
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Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy May Be Four Times More Effective In Treating Major Depression
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One of the primary aims of research into psychedelic-assisted therapies is exploring how compounds such as psilocybin compare to more traditional mental health treatments. Promising studies conducted by investigators at institutions such as the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London indicate that psilocybin can effectively decrease symptoms of treatment-resistant depression.
A new study from researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine suggests that psilocybin-assisted therapy may help more people with depression than previously thought.
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After two experiences with psilocybin, most participants in the study experienced these benefits, with half of them free from depression throughout the following month. The researchers will now be monitoring the patients for a year to see if the antidepressant effects are sustained.
Previous research conducted in 2016 at Johns Hopkins found that psilocybin-assisted therapy can effectively relieve existential anxiety and depression in patients with a terminal cancer diagnosis. This new research suggests that psilocybin can benefit a wider population of patients struggling with major depression, which includes more than 264 million people worldwide.
"The magnitude of the effect we saw was about four times larger than what clinical trials have shown for traditional antidepressants on the market," said Alan K. Davis Ph.D., the lead author of the study in a statement released by Johns Hopkins. Davis, an adjunct assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, believes there are a number of reasons why this new therapy is so effective.
First, Davis says this treatment combines psilocybin with psychotherapy, whereas clinical trials with antidepressants do not usually combine the medication with therapy. Davis told Lucid News that "it is possible that psilocybin affects a broader range of neurological and psychological areas which account for its efficacy."
For example, while antidepressants only affect specific neurotransmitters, Davis highlights the unique neurological effects generated by psilocybin-assisted therapy.
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According to Davis, psilocybin produces "changes in default mode network function, connecting a variety of brain regions, and downregulating the hyperactivity of the amygdala's response to negative emotional stimuli." Psychological effects include mystical experiences and psychological insight which Davis says "may provide for a more rich therapeutic process."
Davis notes that antidepressants also differ from psilocybin therapy in that they can take weeks or even months to start working and can carry a host of unwanted side effects.
Davis says that the study showed that psilocybin is not without its own side effects, the most common being "mild to moderate headache that typically occurs in the day or night after a psilocybin session."
Some patients also experience "mild to moderate transient anxiety…during the acute effects of psilocybin," says Davis, but "neither [the headaches or anxiety] seem to interfere with the psychotherapeutic benefit of the therapy."
The results of the recent Johns Hopkins study "could be a game changer if these findings hold up in future 'gold standard' placebo-controlled clinical trials," says Davis in a statement.
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The entrepreneur, philanthropist, and psychedelic therapy advocate Tim Ferriss supported the study as a key donor. In a statement released by Johns Hopkins, Ferriss said the research was "a critically important proof of concept for the medical approval of psilocybin for treatment of depression, a condition I have personally struggled with for decades."
Charles F. Reynolds III, a geriatric psychiatrist and the author of an editorial on the new research, told NPR that continuing research on psychedelic therapies "should be funded by mainstream institutions like the National Institutes of Health." This latest Johns Hopkins study depended on a crowdsourced funding campaign and philanthropic donations. Reynolds says NIH support would help bolster the credibility of the new research and help accelerate the development of psilocybin-assisted therapies for patients who could benefit.
"The quality of the data is such that the investigators might be able to compete successfully for NIH sponsorship," says Reynolds. "If so, they could take their science to the next level, for example, by proposing and doing a placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial. The NIH funding might be of sufficient magnitude to enable a larger, more rigorous study, including the collection of biomarkers, such as changes in brain activity while under psilocybin."
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Il doppio del torneo di tennis Capetown Challenger 1990, facente parte dell'ATP Challenger Series, ha avuto come vincitori Il tabellone di doppio del Capetown Challenger 1990, torneo di tennis che faceva parte del circuito ATP Challenger Series nell'ambito dell'ATP Challenger Series 1990, è stato vinto da Marius Barnard e Jeremy Bates. In finale hanno sconfitto Wayne Ferreira e Piet Norval con il punteggio di 6-3, 6-1.

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• PhD with habilitation in Medical Sciences: Evaluation of usefulness of homogenic (allogenic) aortic grafts in the surgical treatment of aneurysms of the ascending aorta, 1995.
• PhD in Medical Sciences: Analysis of recommendations and results of surgical treatment of hypertension resulting from renal artery stenosis. Supervisor: Antoni Dziatkowiak, PhD with habilitation in Medicine, 1978.
• Head of the Clinical Department of Cardiovascular Surgery and Transplantology, 2014.
• Director of the Institute of Cardiology of the Jagiellonian University Medical College, 2008–2014.
• Head of the Department and Vice-director of the Institute of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, 2001.
• The title of specialist in the field of cardiac surgery, 1991.
• Second-degree specialization in general surgery, 1979.
• First-degree specialization in general surgery, 1973.
• Postgraduate internship at Sonnenberg Hospital in Łódź, 1969.
• Graduation from the Medical University of Łódź – diploma of Doctor of Medicine, 1968.
• Clinic for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf (Germany), under the supervision of Prof. Wolfgang Bircks, 1983–1984.
• Cardiac Surgery Clinic, University of Erlagen (Germany), Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin (Germany), 1992/repeatedly.
• Currently, collaboration with Herzzentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen of the University Bochum in Bad Oeynhausen (Germany) – Director: Prof. R.Körfer; Herz-und Gefäßchirurgische Klinik in Bad Neustadt (Germany) – Director: Prof. R. Hacker.
• Additionally, internships in Hamburg, Duisburg, Milan, California.
• Vice-president of the Polish Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons (The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery).
• President of the Heart Surgeons Club, which he founded in 1986 under the name Polish Club of Young Cardiac Surgeons.
• Member of the Polish Cardiac Surgeons Club.
• Deputy member of the permanent Jagiellonian University Senate Committee for Distinctions and Awards.
• Member of the Commission for European Integration of the Jagiellonian University Medical College.
• Regional consultant in the field of clinical transplantology for the Małopolska region 1999–2002 (appointed by the Minister of Health and Social Welfare).
• Member of Clinical Treatment Sciences Section of the Committee for Scientific Research 2000–2002.
• Regional consultant in the field of Cardiac Surgery for the Małopolskie and Świętokrzyskie Provinces, 2002.
• Member of the team of experts for the development of a program of specialization in the field of cardiac surgery (appointed by the Małopolska Governor for Advisory Council for Health Protection – by the regulation of the Minister of Health), 2002.
• Member of the Permanent Rector Commission for Clinical Matters (appointed by the decision of the Rector of the Jagiellonian University), 2002.
Co-organizer of the International Symposium on Cardiac Surgery in 1997 to celebrate the opening of the new Clinic of Cardiovascular Surgery and Transplantology, Jagiellonian University Medical College and blessing it by Pope John Paul II.
• Representative of the Rector of the Jagiellonian University for cooperation with the Municipality and the City of Zakopane.
• Member of the charity club called Lion's Club International Kraków – Old Town from 1990.
• Gazeta Krakowska's Man of the Year, 2007.
• Małopolanin of the Year, Award of the Association of Municipalities and Districts of Małopolska, 2008.
• Member of the Kraków Club, 2008.


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Q: Unable to download testng from http://beust.com/eclipse/ due to company policy . I have created a maven project , with cucumber BDD and testNG . However to use testng i need to install the testng pluggin from eclipse help . The problem is my company has blocked usage of such external connections . Is there an alternative for this .

A: Following are your options.

*

*See if you can get an approval from your company's IT department to whitelist the eclipse plugin download site so that you can install it via eclipse (or) have them download the eclipse plugin jar separately, and you can drop the jar in the dropins folder so that eclipse is aware of it. For more information, please refer to the answers of this stackoverflow question.

*If available, resort to using an alternative IDE such as IntelliJ. IntelliJ unlike eclipse, comes pre-installed with the TestNG plugin and should suffice.

*You leverage the build tool such as Maven/Ant/Gradle to run your tests from the command prompt. Both Maven and Gradle lets you run even 1 single test also at a given time. So you should be able to easily run tests without the IDE, from the command prompt (which is eventually how your tests would be run in a Continuous Integration environment such as Jenkins)

*You create a main() method housing class, which would use the TestNG APIs directly to create tests. So every-time you want to run a TestNG test class or a suite etc., you would merely go back to your runner class, update it with the details and then run via it [ To me this option should be your last resort]

Here's a full fledged sample for option (4), which you should be able to start tweaking for your own use.
public class Practice {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        for (String each : new String[]{"A", "B"}) {
            runWith(each);
        }
    }

    private static void runWith(String group) {
        TestNG testNG = new TestNG();
        XmlSuite xmlSuite = new XmlSuite();
        xmlSuite.setName("suite");
        XmlTest xmlTest = new XmlTest(xmlSuite);
        xmlTest.setName("test");
        xmlTest.addIncludedGroup(group);
        XmlClass clazz = new XmlClass(Practice.class);
        clazz.loadClasses();
        xmlTest.getClasses().add(clazz);
        testNG.setXmlSuites(Collections.singletonList(xmlSuite));
        System.out.println(xmlSuite.toXml());
        testNG.run();
    }

    @Test(dataProvider = "SearchProvider", groups = "A")
    public void testMethodA(String author, String searchKey) {
        System.out.println("testMethodA :" + author + ", " + searchKey);
    }

    @Test(dataProvider = "SearchProvider", groups = "B")
    public void testMethodB(String searchKey) {
        System.out.println("testMethodB :" + searchKey);
    }

    @DataProvider(name = "SearchProvider")
    public Object[][] getDataFromDataprovider(ITestContext c) {
        Object[][] groupArray = null;
        for (String group : c.getIncludedGroups()) {
            if (group.equalsIgnoreCase("A")) {
                groupArray = new Object[][]{
                        {"Guru99", "India"},
                        {"Krishna", "UK"},
                        {"Bhupesh", "USA"}
                };
                break;
            } else if (group.equalsIgnoreCase("B")) {
                groupArray = new Object[][]{
                        {"Canada"},
                        {"Russia"},
                        {"Japan"}
                };
            }
            break;
        }
        //return groupArray;
        return groupArray;

    }
}

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Brazil: At risk of becoming an Illiberal Democracy?
Internal and external challenges are leading to a growing distrust in democracy, giving room to regimes pushed by various populists, which fulfill in some scale the characteristics of illiberal democracies; constraints on rights, press control, disregard of minorities, concentration of power in the Executive, elimination of political opponents. In Brazil, Bolsonaro presents himself as someone who can communicate directly with the people and ensure their will is translated into public policies. His official measures demonstrate a conservative authoritarian tendency; impregnating the public policy with religious belies, politically incorrect, intolerant and confrontational moral agenda. The paper proposes an assessment of Brazilian institutional situation to discuss whether Bolsonaro's government guidelines coincide with characteristics of the so-called illiberal democraies and how this can affect global constitutionalism considering the growing populist belt worldwide.
"Human Rights Law and Constitutional Democracies in Latin America"
My paper explores the expansion of human rights law as a feature of domestic constitutional law in a context of democratic decay. It discusses the particular case of "Latin American international law," which combines a distinctive monist tradition of international law with a strong and recent adoption of constitutional review. The question I seek to address is: what can we learn from a case of enhanced monism that has (nonetheless?) rendered a dramatic democratic erosion? Is there a causal relation or is it just a coincidence? More generally, what does this exploration tell us about the future of constitutional democracy? The paper examines the ways in which the Inter-American Court of Human Rights takes stock of, and interacts with, domestic law. Specifically, it looks at recent articulations of that interaction, such as the notion of "judicial dialogue" and the development of a kind of Latin American common law of rights and constitutionalism.
High Courts and Autocratic Consolidation: The Venezuelan Supreme Court under Nicolas Maduro's Rule (2013-2018)
This article discusses the role of high courts in the context of a political transition from competitive authoritarianism towards full autocratic rule. What are the roles of high courts in processes of authoritarian consolidation? Why, and under what conditions, would authoritarian rulers employ high courts to consolidate their rule and entrench their power? What advantages – if any – would a politicized, dependent, illegitimate high court afford a consolidating authoritarian regime?
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ExtraOrdinary Adaptation: Popular Constitution-Making in Post-Cold War South America
Populist leaders define the people as one part of the population that is unbound by law to create new authoritarian constitutions. I examine all instances of popular constitution-making in post-Cold War South America to argue that through the "extraordinary adaptation" of old institutions the "people" may include everyone. Rather than opening a legal void, in extraordinary adaptation, the revolutionaries win democratic elections and then repurpose the old institutions by bending and re-interpreting their rules. The repurposing is principled: the revolutionary exhausts all other legal channels, openly acknowledges the violation to seeks popular vindication, and concedes enough to the opposition so that it may begrudgingly acquiesce to the new constitution. I show how populists in Venezuela and Ecuador established authoritarian constitutions through lawless and exclusive constitution-making while Colombia and Bolivia managed to avoid the same fate by through extraordinary adaptation.


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Hi, thank you for tuning in to our Dyslexia Solutions YouTube. I bring peace to families by helping their dyslexic children read so that they can realize their full potential, build their self-esteem and we can unlock their genius minds.
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I'm Dr. Marianne Cintron, founder of Step-By-Step Dyslexia Solutions and we're a 501(c)3 non-profit charitable organization. The reason we have these YouTube videos is three-fold: one is to raise awareness because as you obtain knowledge, you become more powerful; secondly is to show that you're not alone in your situation; and thirdly is to gain sponsors to help us continue to get these messages forth. I interview parents who have dyslexic children and also adults who are dyslexic themselves. I want them to share their story with you.
40% of Self-Made Millionaires are Dyslexic!
Did you know that 40%of self-made millionaires are dyslexic? Did you know that 35% of the kids who drop out of high school are also dyslexic? We need to really help these students read, preferably before they reach grade level at fourth grade so that they are not part of the statistic. I want to introduce my very special friend and guest from Christian Business Partners, Raybecca Panowitz. She is a mother who is dyslexic, she's a single mom, and she has a son who is also dyslexic. She is the CEO of Bluejean Comfort as you can see in her logo here. I'm going to have her come into the room right now. Rebecca, welcome.
Hi there, good afternoon.
Well, good to see you.
Would you tell the audience a little bit about your background?
Yeah, I grew up sewing when I was a kid. I learned how to sew almost 30 years ago. I got straight A's, sometimes B's all through school and when I got into college, it just really presented that I was struggling with doing things that were not oral. It kind of came across when I first got my driver's license as well. I was 18. My mom had to force me into getting my driver's license, but I got more questions wrong than I ought to have on the written test. But when the worker asked me the questions orally, I was able to get them all. I knew all the answers and it was not a problem. I kind of started looking at what might be the problem. I always hated reading out loud and struggled through college, but still managed to keep up my grades for the most part. I ended up with two associate degrees and a certificate. One degree in sign language, which was the best thing that I've ever done in my life, it's very cool, and a degree and certificate in child development.
Sign language gave me the conceptual world of understanding and catching onto conversations. Instead of having to go point by point, word for word, very logistical; both my parents are very logistical, and my sister is very logistical. I'm the only one who's kind of out there on a different plane and I do a lot with my hands. I do a lot with listening and by doing that, I've been able to retain information whether it's putting it into a song, putting it into some sort of a funky rhyme, and actually became a preschool teacher. I love the kids' books. I adore the kids' books because they're in rhymes and because they're imagination, so it definitely helped me out a lot.
What research is showing is that the four areas where dyslexic people really thrive is in the arts and you know the arts being entrepreneurs, being engineers, and architects. I'm impressed with your creativity with your quilts. Why don't you share a little bit about that with the audience and how you preserve memories for parents of their young ones?
Absolutely. It's parents who give me their children's clothes as they grow older, or whether it happens to be sports. I've done a sorority one, several sports ones, several baby clothes and toddler clothes kind of things, as well as clothing from loved ones who've passed on. Families who definitely still want that snuggle. They want that comfort. It's fabrics that just takes up so much room in the garage or a closet or whatever. They entrust me with it, which I feel so honored and I'm deeply respectful for every piece of clothing I get. I lay them all out; whether it's on the floor, on the counter, on my bed, whatever space I have and I just sit back and let it talk to me and tell me what I should do. And then I will take it from there, cut out what I need to do. The hardest part for me is getting the sizing right for whatever size quilt they want because it involves a lot of math, unfortunately.
What do you tell parents who don't want to cut up their kids' baby clothes? For example, I've got boxes of cloth in my garage that I can't imagine cutting up and you had a wonderful solution for me. So, tell the audience what your solution for those parents would be.
My biggest part is that I use every piece possible. So even though I may be cutting up some of it, there's also ones that I will put in as whole pieces. The last two children's quilts I did, I left full pajamas, so full onesies and everything and they were for kids who are five and three. That way they're interactive as well. They've got zippers and things and I just warned mom to check the zippers before she put it in the wash. Everything's very machine washable, everything's lifetime warranty. If anything comes apart whether it's a snap that comes off or there seems to be a little tear where maybe a seam didn't match up and I didn't catch it, I am more than happy to fix that and repair it or adjust what is wanted. Another one I used a bunch of shirts and I ended up using the shirts as background pieces as well.
Okay you also shared about how some people go to the thrift shops and pick out really cute, novel baby items in case they want a comforter made for a friend or as a gift. Want to share anything? I think that was really creative also.
I am an extremely thrifty person. I always grew up that way and I grew up in the thrift stores, so I know what you can't find in there when you're looking. It's always best for me when I'm not looking, I find what I need. Even just personal quilts I've done for myself or for my boys, I've gone to thrift stores and I find things that remind me or have that memory. I wanted to be a ballerina, but it never happened, so when I did one of my own quilts, I went to a thrift store and the little girl section always has dance stuff and ballerina stuff. I found the nutcracker t-shirt and stuff like that, so I've been able to add all that kind of stuff because those are nostalgic memories for myself.
That's really cute. Well let's shift back to the dyslexia issue with your son. I'm real curious about when you started seeing your son struggle with reading. Did it dawn on you? You didn't get diagnosed till college, right?
Right, yeah.
So were you seeing those signs in your son right away? Or what symptoms of dyslexia were you seeing in him?
It's actually been really difficult to see it. He's always been a great reader up until the last couple of years. He's also a mild autistic so I wasn't sure if it was a part of that or whether it had to do with the reading. He has always been a fan of comic books and things like that. Unless it's a story that really gives that imagination part, right now he's extremely involved in books about dragons, and it's this whole series that he reads when he's at his father's house. He's just enthralled by the whole thing and it's fantastic. I tell him to give me the story and see how much he can recall. When it comes to something like that, he recalls it as amazing. When it comes to something like, "What did you learn in English?" He says, "Oh, not much."
Raybecca's son is 13 years old so he's in middle school
Just for the audience's information, Raybecca's son is 13 years old so he's in middle school. Also something that the dyslexic children and non-dyslexic children are reading is the comic books. We call them "graphic novels". They're great. The kids really engage in those and they weren't always my preference when I would see the kids reading those. When I taught middle school, I would ask them to read and I'm like, "Okay but how do you read a regular book?" But I think to develop the interest in reading and develop the comprehension, they're a lot of fun for kids. And parents are just so glad their kids are in a book, right?
Absolutely, and now they have those longer ones which I'm happier with than the ones we grew up with, which were like maybe 20 pages. Now they have these full chapter ones which is better, and I prefer that. But then you also have books like the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" where it's got random goofy pictures throughout it and so it helps to portray it. But i love seeing and having him tell me what he's reading when I can hear his story and his version of it. Eventually I'll pick up the books and I'll actually read them because that's something that I do enjoy too. He's actually been telling me, and I just asked questions where I'm just curious about his reading when it comes to schoolwork versus these books and he's hesitant on reading now when he is with me, which you he was before. I'm wondering if he can describe it for me, not what he's reading but how he's reading and what he's seeing. That's where I'm getting a lot more of the clues about it and how he's seeing things.
So, he's been diagnosed as dyslexic?
Not officially, no. It's just been my experience and what I've read and what I've heard from you with your presentations and everything. I see it more in him than I see in his brother. His brother is 15 and I don't see it in him at all. But there's definitely something different when my youngest reads.
When you think about next steps for your son, are you thinking of going to the school or getting him assessed by an outside source?
I definitely would love to have that done to see if he could get the support he needs. There's a little bit of familial conflict, but it's definitely something I push for and want to have done. It's been more complicated with everything being virtual right now. But they are going back to school and I got word yesterday on April 5th. But they only have school till the end of May so there's not a whole lot of time to get anything done. I'm probably going to have to push off as far as involving the school district until next year.
Well, we're going to have to continue this conversation between you and I, but how can people reach you?
By all means, I love getting text messages. It is the easiest way to get a hold of me. My number is 909-520-5381. I'm also everywhere online and I have my own hashtag. It's BluejeanComfort and it will take you directly to my Facebook where you can get a hold of me as far as my business goes. If you want to see what's going on in my life and I have nothing to hide, you're definitely welcome to check out my personal Facebook page.
Are are you on Instagram also?
My business is on Instagram and everything's under the same name. I like to keep it easy.
Any final words you'd like to say to the audience before we go?
I hope that this can help people, whether it's a mom, a dad, full families, split families, whether you're looking for sharing your memories, making a snuggle, or you just have questions about raising a dyslexic or an autistic. Either way, definitely by all means contact me.
Okay, thank you, Raybecca. We want to thank you all for being with us here today. I just want to urge you to remember dyslexia is not a four-letter word. We should be discussing it. We should be helping our students so that they can reach grade-level reading by fourth grade and if what we've shared has inspired you, please go to our website dyslexia-solutions.com. Consider being a sponsor and we will get these messages to continue going forward. I'm Dr. Marianne Cintron, founder of Step-By-Step Dyslexia Solutions, with my special guest Raybecca Panowitz. Thanks for being with us here today. Bye-bye now, and God bless you.
Listen to other stories of successful dyslexic geniuses here.
When People are Assessed for Dyslexia Later In Life – What are Repercussions? August 27, 2021
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – I'm Going to be A Big Brother! Joy Not Fear! August 22, 2021
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So I don't know why it is, but dreamhost company sites are responsive and fast compared to user sites. Why is that?
Can we somehow get faster responsis and faster loading time s?
dreamhost company sites are responsive and fast compared to user sites. Why is that?
My experience is exactly the opposite, the DreamHost wiki, forum and panel are frequently slow to respond for me, but my sites hosted at DreamHost are generally fast and responsive.
Edit: As an example, it took a good 30 seconds after clicking the 'continue' button before this post appeared, while at present my own websites are fast.
shouldn't it be almost instantaneous ?
Yes, and that is my point. This forum is mostly fast(ish) for me, but there are times when the forum and other DreamHost company sites are irritatingly slow for me, now is one of those times. However, as i said in my previous post, during these 'slow' times, my own sites hosted on DreamHost are still fast and responsive.
Edit: The forum seems to have regained its former speed for me now, this post went through in less than a second.
I think DH's site may be faster and may be slower than than some users' sites depends on which server users reside.
So my site (www.digisample.org) take me at least 5-7 seconds to load, sometimes more.
Your site loads slow for me too.
Have you checked the load on your server? You can check the server load by logging-in to the shell and issueing the uptime command.
I'm not familiar with the load average but have seen somebody talking about it in the forum. They said the usual load average should be around 2.
So if I write to the support can they make some change?
[quote]So my site (www.digisample.org) take me at least 5-7 seconds to load, sometimes more.
Your site is a mixed bag. The home page came up fast, but one of the other pages took more than 7 seconds; maybe 20 or so.
I'm not familiar with Joomla, but you should contact DreamHost and file a support ticket about this and see what they suggest.
Those load figures do look a little high, but not overly so, given that DreamHost use NFS, which I believe tends to inflate the load figures slightly. I have seen the load on my server rise to similar levels with no detrimental effect on the speed of my sites.
I just checked your site again and this time it loaded reasonably quickly, no more than a few seconds for it to come up. Clicking a few menu items also resulted in reasonable response times, so it is possible that the load on your server is not constantly high. It is important for you to check the load levels at the times when your website is at its slowest.
If you see a fairly constant high server load, say above 6 or 7, then I suggest lodging a support request to DreamHost detailing your issue. They may be able to isolate the cause of the high load and remove it.
I've just sent a mail to the support. It's insane that sometimes it is as fast as I almost cannot believe, but in average it's very slow.
Yeah, do you recommend using top instead? I like seeing the actual cpu usage.
I have to say that I also really really like seeing what kind of processing is required to generate each of my site's pages.
I don't know what your experience has been, but I just loaded your site and it seems to take several seconds to respond. The actual rendering of the page, however, is almost instant. This is the same sort of thing I am seeing with blueskysoccer.com, my site.
5 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms mplsmn1wce1-gige5-0-0.wcg.net [65.77.114.53] 6 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms brvwil1wcx2-pos14-2-oc48.wcg.net [64.200.240.137] 7 8 ms 8 ms 12 ms 64.200.249.186 8 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms te-4-3.car2.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.68.110.33] 9 9 ms 8 ms 8 ms ae-1-55.bbr1.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.68.101.129] 10 70 ms 71 ms 69 ms ae-0-0.bbr1.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [64.159.1.125] 11 69 ms 69 ms 70 ms ae-11-51.car1.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.68.102.12] 12 132 ms 326 ms 265 ms ge1-L3.dreamhost.com [4.78.192.66] 13 71 ms 72 ms 70 ms apache2-cid.coke.dreamhost.com [208.97.175.216] See how it goes out to Chicago, then to LA, then to what I assume is dreamhost's network gateway to Level3.net's backbone, ge1-L3.dreamhost.com? See how the ge1-L3.dreamhost.com response time is much higher than the rest? I'm no networking genius, but it looks to me like that is the bottleneck.
I don't think you can depend on the pings to ge1-L3.dreamhost.com. The pings to intermediate routers are somewhat undependable in that they can be configured to either not respond or to respond with lower priority.
Also, the ping to your actual host seems to be around 70ms. This seems to me to be a reasonable number.
Now, are you talking about load time or response time? From the time that something appears on your page to the time that it is done loading, that is load time. From the time that you type the domain name into the address bar and press enter to the time that something appears., that is response time. My web pages have a bad response time but a great load time. Load time is also dependent on the connection that you are on. At work I am on a DS3, my load time is .3 seconds for a Joomla! webpage. However, My response time can be anywhere from 5-25 seconds.
4 processor core servers such as yours."
I want the response time to get a lot better too, I just don't know how to go about it with them any more.
If you have a Joomla! site I can tell you how to make it load a lot faster. I found ways to cut my load time down from 3.5 seconds to .3 seconds.
I have the same issue as you guys. Sometimes my Joomla! site loads quickly, sometimes it's 10 seconds, 20 seconds, etc. sometimes it never loads.
The same with my phpGallery. Sometimes it's fairly quick others it's slow, others it hangs until I get a timeout (minutes).
The loading seem to run in the 7-8 range on the server I'm on.
Any hints on making these sites load faster are greatly appreciated!
I've noted that I have a large response time if I hit my DH RoR site for the first time for the day (~20 seconds say), but then subsequently to this it seems ok. I'm thinking it might be initial startup of the RUBY/FASTCGI processes but I'm yet to confirm this.
If anyone has any background/knowledge of this Ruby on Rails response time issue on DreamHost I'd be interested? Also if you have any advice how to test/prove where this initial bottleneck is?
Because persistent processes are killed on DH servers, you can pretty much guarantee that it's initial startup time.