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by David Drimer (Kingston, NY)
Every time I visit Jerusalem, it feels like the first time.
There is a force, a powerful magnet, always drawing me to the Kotel. No matter what prosaic thing I may be doing in the city, it's always on the fringes of my consciousness. As I wander the streets of the Old City, inching ever closer, the pull becomes stronger.
As much for this reason as for any other, this is the essence of why I make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem every few years.
Finally, I approach the Wall in silence, if not awe. I enter the Plaza and move closer, keenly aware of those around me. Immediately I put my forehead against the Wall, my hands above my head, feeling the heat of the rock. I instantly marvel: "How many tens of thousands – hundreds of thousands – of my Jewish forebears have prayed here in this very spot?" Suddenly, I am – as I once titled a poem – "alone amongst them."
Candidly, my thoughts quickly turn introspective and soon lead to grief. I unbury my personal pain, the pains of my loved ones, the pains of the world. I consider each in turn. My emotional response is far from unique. As David Wiseman wrote for the Israel Forever Foundation, "If tears could melt stone, the Kotel wouldn't be standing."
I bring little notes of prayer to place in the Wall. One is to my mother Doris/Devorah Leah (z"l), the other is to my father Gideon/Moishe Gidon (z"l). What I know of unconditional love, I first learned from my mother. She was sick for a long time, suffering in acute pain daily for many years. I have often looked for meaning in her suffering. I have still not found it. On my father's 90th birthday, his last, I wrote him a card that said, "Whenever I have a tough ethical decision to make, I think, 'What would my father do?'" It was true then. It remains true to this day. It's a hard path. It has cost me. These are the mysteries of life, my road to travel. I consider the totality of their lives and speak my heartfelt prayers to them partially aloud, but sotto voce.
In this quiet period of meditation, I ask for guidance in solving my and my family's problems, guidance on how to be a better man, a better father, a better husband. I seek guidance on how to best serve the interests of the Jewish community. It's my career, it's my calling, my hope is to do it the best I can. My single biggest remaining ambition is to bring my and my wife's hopes for our Holocaust Awareness Initiative to full fruition. I pray unabashedly for help.
Time spent at the Kotel sobers me up a little. I start to breathe easier and become more cognizant of the peace of the place, more aware of the simple grandeur of this plain stone wall, a literal wreck for thousands of years. I begin to sense relief. I have put down my burdens.
I finally remember to pray for the Mets to win the World Series. It can't hurt. (NOTE: It didn't work; eliminated in the first round of the playoffs.) I don't bother with the Jets anymore. That ship sailed long ago.
My feelings now drift towards an increasing feeling of serenity and joy. Look at this amazing place. This phenomenal tradition. The spiritual power of this Wall calls people of many religions to dip their toes in the waters of Judaism.
I no longer think of myself as an especially "spiritual" person. Figuratively, I'm the man who blocks the door, while others behind me pray, at least temporarily but blissfully unaware of the looming threat of the outside world. I choose to be alert while others seek transcendence.
But in this place, just before we greet Shabbos, its transcendental for me, as well. It has also been written, again by Mr. Wiseman, "If hopes and dreams could make these stones fly, there would be a wall floating around somewhere in space."
Eventually – I have no idea how much time has passed – I turn away. The women of the wall ("My women of the wall") have yet to emerge. I learn later my daughter went back to pray twice. My wife, who lost her mother just one year ago, finally emerges teary-eyed. I know precisely what she was praying about. But they are tears of joy. Her mother was a remarkable, powerful woman. My wife is the living embodiment of her mother's very strong Jewish values. Ina Frey/Chaya Tsura (z"l) looms over our lives every day.
We leave, refreshed. Renewed. Reinvigorated. More inspired by our faith than when we entered. We exit the Plaza more committed to our cultural imperatives of Tzedakah (Charity) and Tikkun Olam (Repair the World).
Such is my "tongue's poor speech," as the 11th century Spanish Jewish poet Solomon ibn Gabirol wrote, on praying at the Western Wall.
David Drimer is the executive director of the Jewish Federation of Ulster County (UCJF) and a co-founder of the National Holocaust Awareness Initiative (NHAIonline.org). He had been national executive director of the Zionist Organization of America, (ZOA), and Associate Publisher/General Manager of the Forward newspaper. He had been a longtime executive and publisher at Knight Ridder newspapers and the Economist Group. He was recently named a Human Rights Commissioner by the Ulster County legislature. He also serves on the Ulster County Task Force for Preventing and Responding to Domestic Terrorism.
Filed under American Jewry, Family history, Jewish, Jewish identity, Jewish writing, Judaism
Tagged as fathers and sons, Jerusalem, love, meditation, mothers and sons, personal prayer, prayer, prayer rituals, the Kotel
by Alison Hurwitz (Cary, NC)
Incongruous, that towered height among the holly, butternut,
hydrangea, along the oaks, camellias, black-green laurel hedge —
there it rose, so tall it steepled everything, as if to say, remember,
pray to what grows green above us.
A field-worn, furrowed man called Shorty came knocking once. He said
when young, he'd planted a young redwood seedling there, brought back
from California, vaguely hoped that it would someday grow to be
a landmark. He'd removed his crumpled hat, his hand a map of years,
his eyes as wide as forests, asked if he could go and touch the trunk,
already girthed to temple, breathing dusk. My mother understood,
she a tree parishioner, so both of them remained a while in silence.
When Shorty went away, he left his story grafted to its branches.
Dad cut back the deck each year, to give the redwood room to ring. Rare
days when grandparents sat dappled on the deck, polite and tightly furled,
Jews and Catholics baffled past translation, they sat in shade below it, and
in stillness, shifted into softening; green a common tongue between them.
At seventeen, I'd park with my first love across the street, and kiss until the night
dipped branches dark with longing. When, same car, same street, same boy,
time wrenched us into ending, the tree stood by to witness, a shelter until
my loss let go its spores, until my heart referned with undergrowth.
Ten years later, beneath the tree, my new husband and I stood quiet while my parents,
faces filigreed with leaf-light, planted blessings in us. They prayed we'd tend
a sapling, make a small repair, something to green the broken world. My parents' hope
could sing the music out of wood. Mitzvot and Meritum. Their reverence, ringed.
The day after my father died, when all I had was absence, I stumbled out to sit
below our redwood tree. There, grief burrowing among its roots, I stayed until
I found a seed and held it in my palm. I breathed and felt the way that branches
lifted into blue, its birds built nests, the fledglings flew, each ending bending to beginning:
holy as the timeless sky.
Alison Hurwitz's work has appeared in Global Poemic, Words and Whispers, Tiferet Journal, Writing in a Woman's Voice, Anti-Heroin Chic, Book of Matches, and The Shore, and is forthcoming in Amethyst Review, Rust and Moth, Thimble Magazine, Academy of the Heart and Mind, and SWWIM Every Day. She writes gratefully in North Carolina. To read more about her and her work, visit alisonhurwitz.com
Filed under American Jewry, Family history, Jewish, Jewish identity, Jewish writing, Judaism, poetry
Tagged as fathers and daughters, grief, healing from grief, holiness, interfaith relations, marriage, personal prayer, poetry and holiness, prayer, prayer rituals, tree of life, wedding rituals
The Blue Mikvah
by Edna Shochat (Boise, ID)
To each his Temple.
My house of worship was established years ago
for young men, Christian.
Today YMCA is simply "The Y".
Why? Because now everyone is welcome
regardless of age, gender, or faith.
Neither young nor male,
Jewish by birth and atheist by choice,
I attend, religiously, a daily ritual in the pool.
Like joining a Minyan
gathering for morning prayer at the Shul.
I dip into the blue mikvah
and under watchful eyes of young lifeguards
swim like a gray-haired mermaid
counting my blessings.
Edna Shochat was born in British Mandate Palestine and grew up in Israel, leaving for the United States to follow career opportunities. Four years ago she and her husband followed their grandkids to Idaho. She discovered poetry at a Writing Through Cancer program while undergoing chemotherapy in 2011, and joined the YMCA to help her recovery. She continues to write poetry "to help carry her on the journey we all share, of aging."
Filed under American Jewry, Jewish, Jewish identity, Jewish writing, Judaism, poetry
Tagged as blessings, cancer survivor, daily rituals, house of worship, mikvah, morning prayer, prayer rituals, ritual practices, rituals
When I Think About Prayer
by Rachel R. Baum (Saratoga Springs, NY)
We did not belong to the synagogue my grandparents attended
On the High Holy Days I stood next to my father
Surrounded by anonymity in dark suits
He mumbled the Hebrew fussed with the slippery borrowed tallis
As I followed the dots and lines of text with my finger
My father elbowed me "Look at that" he stage whispered
A diamond ring my sister would call a third eye
Dangled from a well-dressed woman's finger
"I'm her" he teased, knowing how the benediction he bestowed
On any female with enviable money, talent, beauty, would be
Hurtful to my sister and me, and then "Read! Read!" he insisted
Though we both knew we were there to gossip not to pray
Real prayer was the cluster of swaying bearded men
We were observers gazing from the rim of an alien civilization
Although we rose for the silent Amidah
We vied to be the first to finish and sit
My mother admonished us for our whispered disregard
She turned the pages of the Siddur
As she would an album of photographs
Reciting the Hebrew from transliterated words
We left early to avoid the rabbi's sermon
The Bema a distant stage with its costumed Torahs
An usher collected the pledge envelope
At the tollbooth of a sanctuary door
At home, another yarmulke was added to the drawerful
That my father forgot at shul to remove and return
Evidence of our yearly pilgrimage
Marking the passage of time and of faith.
Rachel R. Baum is a professional dog trainer, former librarian, licensed private pilot, kayak angler, and Covid Long Hauler. She is the author of the blog BARK! Confessions of a Dog Trainer and the editor of Funeral and Memorial Service Readings: Poems and Tributes (McFarland, 1999) Her poems have appeared in High Shelf Press, Ariel's Dream, Drunk Monkeys, Wingless Dreamer, New England Monthly Poetry Digest, Poetica Review, Bark magazine, and Around the World anthology. To learn more about Rachel's work, visit: https://rachelrbaum.wixsite.com/my-site
Tagged as daughters and fathers, disregard, distractions, fathers and daughters, Hebrew, High Holidays, High Holy Days, parents and children, prayer, prayer rituals
My Grandfather's Prayer Book
by Rick Black (Arlington, VA)
Detached cover.
Brittle, yellowed pages.
Partially erased, Hebrew letters.
His crumbling prayer book is mine now.
Stooped over in his living room, dovaning.
His white, short-sleeved shirt and shock
of white hair; his thin, willowy frame.
The cigar stub between his lips.
The Bronx.
Roasting brisket and a shelf of pills.
A Yankee game on the television console.
Red geraniums.
A pale, florescent light.
Narrow, sickly-green vestibule
with a picture of his youngest son,
killed in World War II.
We play checkers.
He nudges a checker to another square.
Tobacco-tinted fingertips.
He doesn't let me win.
Now, I hold his prayer book
in my hands by the yahrzeit plaques,
by the tarnished and the yet to be tarnished,
by the lit and the yet-to-be lit.
Rick Black is an award-winning book artist and poet who runs Turtle Light Press, a small press dedicated to poetry, handmade books and fine art prints. His poetry collection, Star of David, won an award for contemporary Jewish writing and was named one of the best poetry books in 2013. His haiku collection, Peace and War: A Collection of Haiku from Israel, has been called "a prayer for peace." Other poems and translations have appeared in The Atlanta Review, Midstream, U.S. 1 Worksheets, Frogpond, Cricket, RawNervz, Blithe Spirit, Still, and other journals.
Filed under American Jewry, Family history, Israel Jewry, Jewish, Jewish identity, Jewish writing, Judaism, poetry
Tagged as grandfathers, grandparents and grandchildren, grandson, prayer, prayer rituals, prayerbook, The Bronx, yahrzeit
Open, Thou, My Lips
Three steps backward,
three steps forward,
I bend my knees.
I struggle to part my lips,
to recite the words,
to offer praise.
Let me taste rain.
Let me hear windchimes at night.
Let me inhale jasmine.
How grateful I am,
a temporary resident
amid night stars.
If you'd like to learn more about Rick and his work, visit his website: Turtle Light Press
Tagged as personal, personal prayer, personal prayers, prayer, prayer rituals
The Sacred Snuggle
by Nina J. Mizrahi (Northbrook, IL)
I didn't wear a tallit until my first year of rabbinic school when I lived in Jerusalem. It never occurred to me to wear one until I saw other women wrapped in tallitot during prayer. I sensed their closeness with the Divine. A yearning to share in this experience, to be enveloped by the wings of the Shechinah, arose from the depths of my soul. Soon after, I remember shopping for my first tallit at Yad Lakashish, which means "lifeline for the old." The tallit was made by Jerusalem's elders, giving them "a sense of purpose, self-worth and connection…through creative work opportunities…" This added meaning to my Shehecheyanu moment.
Returning from the Old City to my apartment, I unpacked and examined my new tallit. Aware that this was a significant moment in my spiritual life, I recited the Shehecheyanu, followed by the bracha for donning a tallit, kissed the two sides of the atarah (neckband), and then wrapped myself from the head down. It was as if I were encasing myself in a sacred cocoon, imagining that I would emerge as my authentic self and be ready to commence my rabbinic studies.
At first, having no words for that moment, I stood silently in this sacred, intimate space. At some point, powerful, unsummoned memories brought me to tears as I recalled how my father, zichrono livracha, would wrap me in his tallit. I like to think that his deep faith in God, woven into the very fabric of his tallit, was now woven into mine. I bathed in the warmth of the memory of these sacred snuggles, feeling deeply loved, protected and safe. My heart overflowed with profound joy, flowing first to my father, then spilling into the universe, forming a deep connection to something greater than myself.
So, there I was, a Jewish woman studying in Jerusalem, standing alone in an apartment that had been converted from a bomb shelter, wearing my tallit, holding its four corners in my hands. It was a lot to take in, and I considered how the mitzvah of tzitzit requires us to look at the strings, knots and twists of the tzitzit with intention and a sense of sacred obligation.
Committing to the mitzvah of wearing a tallit is both humbling and empowering. Since that first moment in Jerusalem forty years ago, I have wrapped myself in a tallit for prayer and hitbodedut (a solitary, intimate form of prayer offered by pouring one's heart out to God). I have wrapped my tallit around or held it like a chuppah over the heads of individuals, couples, families, lay leaders, teachers, and students as a way of welcoming, honoring, blessing, and celebrating.
In Ahavat Olam, a prayer recited before the Shema, we gather the tzitzit and, imagining being united in peace, we say,"V'havienu l'shalom m'arba kanfot ha'aretz v'tolichenu komemiut l'lartzeinu — Bring us to peace from the four corners of the earth and lead us upright to our land."
Decades after my ordination, I attended Shabbat services in a small community where tradition was woven together with new rituals. Just before the Shema, everyone stood up and handed the tzitzit on one corner of their tallitot to someone on their left and another corner to someone on their right. What a beautiful statement about the importance of joining together in our prayer and in our lives, which is not an easy thing in our complicated world. Collected into one, we chanted words that the medieval Jewish mystic, Rabbi Isaac Luria (known as the ARI) is said to have recited before praying each day:
Hareini mekabel alai (Behold, I hereby take upon myself
et mitzvat haboreh (the instruction of the creator)
v'ahavta l'rei'acha kamocha ("You shall love your neighbor as yourself")
Whether or not wearing a tallit is part of your tradition or practice, it is a symbol of the transformative power of Chesed — acts of loving kindness. We read in the Book of Psalms (89:3): "The world is built through chesed."
Acts of chesed precede all others because they alone are unconditional and unmotivated. We read in the book of Psalms (89:3) that "The world is built with chesed" (Psalms 89:3) — acts of kindness.
Rabbi Menachem Creditor, a social justice activist and founder of Rabbis Against Gun Violence, wrote a beautiful song about this verse when his daughter was born right after 9/11:
I will build this world from love…yai dai dai
And you must build this world from love…yai dai dai
And if we build this world from love…yai dai dai
Then God will build this world from love…yai dai dai
(VIDEO: http://rabbicreditor.blogspot.com/2012/12/olam-chesed-yibaneh-with-newtown-in-my.html)
I'd like to invite you to wrap yourself in your tallit (or one that you can borrow for a moment). As you wrap yourself in a sacred snuggle, I encourage you to try sending compassion first to yourself and then to others, possibly beginning with those for whom you have positive feelings, and then to those with whom you are struggling.
You may find your own words or adapt the following phrases as you see fit. Begin by setting your intention for the recipient of your meditation and repeat this meditation silently:
May …I/ you/ they……..be safe
May …… I/ you/ they…..be happy/content
May ……my/your,/their life unfold with ease
Click here for a beautiful lovingkindness meditation offered by Sylvia Boorstein, author, psychotherapist and Buddhist teacher.
May you be blessed by who you are and may you always bring blessing to others.
Rabbi Nina J. Mizrahi, a spiritual leader for 35 years, gleans wisdom from ancient and contemporary sources to inspire personal growth, with the purpose of understanding the mystery of being alive and human and celebrating life more fully. If you'd like to read more of Rabbi Mizrahi's work, visit her website. And if you'd like to reach out to her, you can write via e-mail: ninajanemizrahi@gmail.com.
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Tagged as chesed, compassion, fathers and daughters, loving kindness, mitzvah, personal prayers, prayer, prayer rituals, Rabbi Isaac Luria, Rabbi Menachem Creditor, Shechinah, shehecheyanu, tallit, tzitzit
Sunrise at the Wailing Wall
by Brad Jacobson (Columbia, MO)
A man with a black hat and beard asks, "Did you put on tefillin today? How about doing a mitzvah?"
"Ok," I reply, and he unzips an old blue bag, takes out two black boxes and leather straps.
He reads a prayer in Hebrew and pauses to let me follow.
He places a black box around my bicep, pointing at my heart, and wraps a black leather strap seven times around my forearm, saying it's the number of colors in a rainbow.
He stands on his tip-toes and lifts my Phillies cap to place a black box on my forehead. It points towards heaven. He puts my baseball cap back. Maybe now the Phillies will win the pennant.
He instructs me to read the Shema. Six holy words.
I close my eyes and recite the prayer by heart.
I recall the story of soldiers who were ambushed during the Six Day War.
The enemy ran away when they saw them wearing tefillin.
They thought the black boxes were bombs.
Brad Jacobson is a volunteer every summer in Israel in the SAREL program. He teaches TESOL at the Asian Affair Center at the University of Missouri, where he has an MEd in Literacy. In the summers he enjoys exploring places with his camera like the Old City of Jerusalem, Tzfat, and the Red Sea where he scuba dives. He has been published in Tikkun, Voices Israel, Poetica, Cyclamens and Swords, and the University of Missouri International News.
"Sunrise at the Wailing Wall" is from Brad's new book, "Lionfish: The Poetic Collection Of A Traveler's Experiences In Israel," and reprinted here with the kind permission of the author and publisher.
Visit the link to see more of Brad's work: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1946124648/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860&linkCode=sl1&tag=beeps-20&linkId=b8e4722d77fdd5f0148ae60390d40ec2&language=en_US&fbclid=IwAR3ZBUQsla0CdU7voiaWm5FRPXzEEIglc0tuceGIUFwSsys5u14kBYEscLU
Tagged as Jerusalem, Old City, prayer, prayer rituals, Shema, sunrise prayer, tefillin, Western Wall
At this hour of prayer,
when the gates are still open
and voices are expectant,
it must be known
that I am one who stays at home
to prepare a meal for
the dovaners.
I am closest to God
in the clanking of silverware,
in the rush of the kitchen faucet,
in the slicing of bread.
So, I wait for them
to return from their distant,
serpentine journeys.
Forgive me,
but I am ready
to welcome them
back home.
Rick Black, an award-winning book artist and poet, runs Turtle Light Press, a small press dedicated to poetry, handmade books and fine art prints. His poetry collection, Star of David, won an award for contemporary Jewish writing and was named one of the best poetry books in 2013. His haiku collection, Peace and War: A Collection of Haiku from Israel, has been called "a prayer for peace." Other poems and translations have appeared in The Atlanta Review, Midstream, U.S. 1 Worksheets, Frogpond, Cricket, RawNervz, Blithe Spirit, Still, and other journals. To learn more about Rick's work, visit: https://www.turtlelightpress.com
Tagged as close to God, God, kitchen rituals, personal prayer, prayer, prayer rituals, Yom Kippur
Lion of Hope
Black stocking feet and no shoes.
Blue and white prayer shawl
wrapped around his head and arms.
He stands in front of the ancient Wall,
his face hidden.
Large as a lion, he raises his hands
like a street performer before the worshippers.
He sweeps his arms above
the old man in white,
above a boy
in a blue baseball jersey,
#32,
above the rabbi
in back of the Torah.
The Lion of Hope roars, and
his prayers speed like Lefty's fastball,
soar to the top of Mt. Moriah,
pure as tears protecting a child's prayer.
He steps slowly to a chair by mine.
I touch the Wall and hear
the Big Man whisper,
I am exhausted.
After prayers we walk together
to the Kiddush table by the stairs.
The Rabbi raises a cup of wine.
Big Man turns to sing sweet
Shabbat songs to Chinese tourists.
He shakes my hand.
Shabbat Shalom.
Be healthy. Have peace.
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Tagged as beggars in Jerusalem, house of worship, Jerusalem, personal prayer, prayer, prayer rituals, preparing for Shabbat, Shabbat rituals, Shabbat shalom, The Wall, tradition


Gov. Matt Bevin released the framework of his plan to solve Kentucky's pension crisis on Wednesday.
During a press conference, the governor, House Speaker Jeff Hoover and Senate President Robert Stivers offered 10 highlights of the plan.
The governor said the plan would go into effect July 1 if passed by a special session of the legislature.
1. Bevin said his plan will save Kentucky's pension systems and will "meet the legal and moral obligations owed to current and retired teachers and servants."
2. The plan would mandate that the state pay its actuarially required contribution every year and create a funding formula that Bevin claims will mandate hundreds of millions more dollars into every retirement plan. The aim is to improve the plans' health and make them "solvent sooner."
3. There will be no increase in retirement age for current public workers, and the current defined pension plan benefits will stay in place until the employee reaches his or her "promised level of unreduced benefit."
4. Retirees' will see no reductions in their pension checks. Their health care benefits also would be protected.
5. Future employees and teachers not in a hazardous profession will be moved away from pensions and into a 401(k)-style plan. Bevin said this will be comparable if not better to previous retirement plans.
6. Employees in hazardous jobs, including firefighters and police officers, would stay in their current pension programs.
7. A loophole would be closed, ensuring benefits get paid to families of deceased hazardous employees.
8. Legislators would be moved from their current plan into the same plan as other state employees.
9. The law would not go into effect until July 1, if passed by the legislature.
10. The changes would improve Kentucky's rating with credit agencies, Bevin said. Underfunded pensions have caused the state's credit ranking to take a hit, he said.


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Opinion & AnalysisBolivarian Project
Women and Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution
Most women look upon the Bolivarian Revolution, dedicated to tearing down the formally rigid and exclusive "democracy", as the beginning of a new phase in the fight for gender equality. The focus is on no longer fighting for legal rights and political power, but instead changing the complexion of society.
By Sarah Wagner — Venezuelanalysis.com
Jan 15th 2005 at 12.32pm
History of Venezuela's Women's Movement
With the fall of the dictatorship of Pérez Jimenez in 1958, Venezuela tentatively took its first steps towards the aperture of a fragile, exclusionary democracy. In practice, democracy proved to be a gender-exclusive phenomenon. Although the Constitution of 1960 declared that men and women were formally equal under the law, women who had been active in the struggle for democracy found themselves devoid of its privileges and marginalized from politics.
In the First Seminar for the Evaluation of Venezuelan Women in 1968, women assessed the achievements they had made since their enfranchisement in 1947, outlined their goals, and recognized that they had little chance of promoting gender-based social or legal reforms without creating a formal institution within government. As women began to organize in civil society, the partisan rivalry between the two dominant parties of the era, COPEI and AD, principally continued to cater to class interests, thus impeding the survival of groups that cut across class lines and thwarting the development of gender-based consciousness.
Beyond organizational obstacles, Venezuelan women were severely restricted by penal, civil, and labor laws. Up until the early 80s, married and cohabiting women were not allowed to manage their own affairs, make decisions for their children, work, own property, or sign official documents without spousal approval.
Efforts by Venezuelan feminists to organize a women's movement and create institutional space to promote women's rights coincided with increased international awareness and promotion of the feminist agenda. In 1967, the United Nations issued the Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. Three years later the Program of Concerted International Action for the Advancement of Women was released. 1974 was declared International Women's Year. Drawing on inspiration from these achievements, as well as from a series of international conferences sponsored by the United Nations in 1975, 1980, and 1985, known as the International Women's Decade, feminists took advantage of this conducive international climate to thrust women's issues into the public eye, influence government to draft policy recommendations directed to promoting women's social, political, and economic equality, and gave birth to several women's organizations, such as Circulos Femininos Populares. Despite these achievements, women's groups continued to face significant obstacles, such as limited resources allocation and the threat of being swallowed up by partisan politics.
While the issue is clearly open to debate, there exists a significant causal interplay between the emergence of an active women's movement in the early 1970s and the oil boom, which more than tripled fiscal revenue between 1972 and 1975. Although the primary focus of then President Carlos Andrés Pérez (1973-1978) was economic expansion, he also allotted considerable funding for the promotion of social welfare. As a result, the first state agency for women, Comisión Feminina Asesora de la Presidencia (COFEAPRE), was established in 1974.
These government initiatives were the catalyst in consolidating the women's movement and in laying the foundation for those who would follow. Although COFEAPRE received little funding and was never allotted the status of a regular ministry, it provided a space to debate and promote women's issues within the government and created an awareness of the importance of gender-based organizations.
The rise of the petroleum state and the rapidly growing economy also created jobs in the labor force, which women were called upon to fill. Amidst the increased access to education and professional opportunities, women united across class lines in what was to be known as the Strategy in Unity and Diversity, organized the first Venezuelan Congress of Women in 1974, and capitalized on their new found strength as a voting block to be catered to.
The Crumbling of "La Gran Venezuela"
When oil prices collapsed in the early 80s, President Perez's economic development project of La Gran Venezuela crumbled as well. Revenue allocated to social services dried up and the raw divisions caused by social and economic inequality were exposed. In spite of limitations imposed by a lack of funding and no fulltime staff, the Ministry for the Participation for Women in Development, which had replaced COFEAPRE in 1978, succeeded in mobilizing women across class lines and the political spectrum, achieving in 1982, the reform of the civil code. The reform of the Civil Code improved women's legal standing in Venezuela, but, as Professor Elisabeth Friedman notes, "the delicacy with which the reform was worded (instead of women's equality, the stated intent was democracy in the family) …largely hid the controversial feminist agency behind the pretext of family rights."
In 1985, the Coordinator of Women's Non-Governmental Organizations (CONG), an umbrella organization which united 26 women's groups, gave women a platform to advance women's issues outside of the traditional scope of political parties. Within the next five years, the organization not only doubled but succeeded in uniting women from a spectrum of political parties, ethnicities, and classes. Perhaps the most significant achievement of the CONG was their contributions to the draft of the 1990 Reform of the Labor Law.
The women's movement splintered along class lines in the early 1990s for two reasons. One might say that the first was an indirect product of the economic crisis. Between 1985 and 1986, petroleum prices fell by more than half; by the early 90s, they were halved again. The poverty rate in a country that was previously associated with having one of the highest and fastest growing GDPs in Latin America, increased by over 60%, from 17.7% in 1981 to 78% by 1997, and the World Bank declared Venezuela to have the greatest inequality in any Latin American country. In addition to the severe decline in the standard of living, women from the middle and working classes faced increasing financial hardships and had less time to participate in civil society. Secondly, the reform of the Labor Law, originally intended to legislate equality between men and women workers, was only partially approved. Provisions for domestic servants were not included in the reform, consequently uniting working class women with working class men in the fight for higher wages and workers rights.
This class-based discord within the women's movement led to the formation of groups with narrow, exclusionary agendas such as human rights, abortion, or the environment. Between 1992 and 1998, feminists in bureaucracies took the predominant role in the fight for women's rights and made respectable legislative headway, although societal norms remained largely unaltered. Carlos Andrés Pérez created the National Council for Women (CONAMU) in 1992, which was instrumental in pushing legislation. In 1993, the Law of Equal Opportunity for women, which created the National Institute for Women, was passed. In 1997, the Suffrage Law was passed, requiring that 30% of party candidates be women. Less than a year later, in 1998, the Law against Violence Against Women and the Family, an initiative that had been in the works since 1995, was approved.
"This Revolution has woken women up" —María del Mar Alvarez
The fight for women's rights has taken on a new meaning within the Bolivarian Revolution. With the election of Hugo Chávez Frías in 1998, Venezuela is proposing a democracy based on participation, in which the rights of citizens are not defined as purely political but instead embark on encompassing social justice and equality. Most women look upon this revolution, dedicated to tearing down the formally rigid and exclusive "democracy", as the beginning of a new phase in the fight for gender equality. The focus is on no longer fighting for legal rights and political power, but instead changing the complexion of society.
Women demonstrating in support of Linda Loaiza, who had been kidnapped and raped in an upper middle class neighborhood.
In one of his first acts as president, Chávez called for a Constituent Assembly to draft a new Constitution that would serve as the catalyst to change the stagnant, exclusionary fabric of Venezuelan society. Thousands of women including, feminists, former guerrillas, housewives, professionals, and members of organizations such as Women for Venezuela and United Women Leaders formed the Constitutional Front of Women of the Fifth Republic Movement (FCMMVR), which educated and organized women to draft demands for the Constitution and to promote the candidacy of feminists to the Constitutional Assembly. With the approval of the new Constitution on December 15th, 1999, Venezuelan women achieved an unprecedented social and political victory, as well as one of the most advanced constitutions in the world.
Often referred to as the non-sexist Magna-Carta, the Venezuelan Constitution guarantees total social, political and economic rights to all citizens. It clearly states that women are entitled to full citizenship, and it addresses discrimination, sexual harassment, and domestic violence. In addition to guaranteeing full equality between men and women in employment, it is the only Constitution in Latin America that that recognizes housework as an economically productive activity, thus entitling housewives to social security benefits (Article 88). By allotting economic privileges to a job that was previously unrecognized as having an economic value, Venezuela is breaking down societal norms and capitalist ideology which exclusively associate value with producing revenue.
The president of the National Institute for Women, María León, notes, "Our Constitution enhances the struggle against discrimination of human beings, and because of this it includes mechanisms for the protection of all social groups," and adds "Article 88 is an example to be followed by all countries in their struggle to eradicate discrimination against women."
The Venezuelan Constitution (Article 76) also recognizes the sexual and reproductive rights of women and obliges the state to ensure that doctors provide accurate information about family planning. It acknowledges the social function of motherhood and guarantees healthcare to the mother, from the moment of conception and during post-partum. Article 75 states that family relations are based in equality of rights and duties, in solidarity, in mutual comprehension and in reciprocal respect.
María León emphasized that one of the greatest achievements of the women's movement, and indeed for the entirety of society, was the incorporation of gender perspective and non-sexist language throughout the entirety of the Constitution. The Spanish language, just as most western languages (except English), distinguishes between the masculine and feminine versions of job titles, such as "presidente" and "presidenta." Now, every time there is a reference to the president, a citizen, a lawyer, a representative, a minister, etc., the reference is in both the masculine and the feminine forms.
Recognizing that language is not neutral or innocent, that it transmits the ideology of society, and that a machista language perpetuates a machista culture, Venezuela has taken a step forward in eradicating this machismo which impedes full equality between men and women. It is necessary to attribute this importance to language, because if what we say is a reflection of how we think, then we will never change how we think or how we view gender relations in society without changing language. In other words, if we choose to continue to speak in a way that hides women, we will never fully take them into consideration as equals.
Oftentimes such commentaries are followed by reactions such as "but when I say niños I am referring to both boys and girls," or "changing our language is not going to change the reality of women." True, it is not going to change the reality of women overnight, but it is an important step. Instead of taking language or culture for granted, accepting them without reflection, the Bolivarian Constitution is changing how we speak about women, and thus how we view women, how we treat women and their position in society.
Maria del Mar Alvarez, the National Defender of Women's Rights, speaking at a conference.
María del Mar Alvarez, the National Defender of Women's Rights,[1] notes, "In this revolution women have participated extraordinarily. We have achieved a Constitution that is a model for the world for justice and equality. It has empowered them. Usually feminism caters to the upper and middle classes. However, this revolution has woken women up and feminism is reaching the popular sectors. Now all women know they have the right to participate".
Progress has been made
Since the new Constitution went into effect, women have played key roles, both in government and NGOs, in drafting, advancing, and reforming a wide array of legislation in diverse fields, including but not limited to healthcare, education, the environment, land reforms, indigenous rights, and reproductive rights. Participation by women in civil society has been instrumental carrying out public campaigns to increase awareness of women's issues and creating programs for women.
According to María León, the fight for women's rights in Venezuela has taken on a new meaning within the Bolivarian Revolution. "We have a president who understands the problems of women. Chávez has supported this organization and its projects. He never stops speaking about the problems of women. For the first time, we are a social issue. The speeches of and meetings with Chávez are always filled with women, in fact more women than men. When our president speaks, he says Venezolanos y Venezolanas [Venezuelan men and Venezuelan women]. Women recognize him as their leader. One can see this because there are more women actively participating in this revolution than men."
Mercedes Aguilar, part of the Executive Committee of INAMUJER, also emphasized the important role of women in this revolution. According to her, women have taken an active role, in some cases, more so than their male counterparts. The majority of people who participate in the missions, in the political and community activities are women.
Although women fully participate in politics, they are still underrepresented in leadership positions in government. In the past few years there has been a modest increment of women in government, for example 16 women were elected to the 131 member National Constitutional Assembly. However, in the highest positions there is still a noticeable and troubling gap between men and women. Initially Chávez did not appoint any women to his government. However, in 2000 he appointed a number of women to cabinet positions and other important posts.
The National Institute for Women
In 2000, Chávez converted CONAMU into the National Institute for Women (INAMUJER) by a presidential mandate, in accordance with the Law of Equal Opportunities for Women (article 44) and appointed María León, leading women's rights activist, former guerrilla fighter, and the former director of CONAMU as the director. INAMUJER is currently in the process of educating women to defend the political rights that they has thus so far achieved and expanding on these rights in order to achieve a truly democratic society, not only politically, but also socially and culturally, in which men and women are valued as equals. "Feminism is reaching the popular sectors," notes María del Mar Alvarez excitedly in her office. "Usually, feminism caters to the upper and middle class and does not reach the popular sectors. INAMUJER is striving to include marginalized women in the feminist discourse".
In order to accomplish this, INAMUJER organizes educational campaigns on sexual and reproductive rights and prevention of violence against women, publishes articles and books and distributes these materials as well as copies of laws, such as the 1998 Law against Violence against Women. For example, in March of 2004, INAMUJER hosted a series of three workshops entitled, "The Human Rights of Women," in which regional and non-governmental organizations from the states of Vargas, Miranda, Cojedes, Amazonas, Apure, Carabobo, Guárico, and from Caracas presented educational programs on human rights, sexual rights, reproductive rights as well as the rights elaborated in the Constitution and in international treaties. Previous workshops have focused on the nature of violence, the history of the women's movement, and concepts such as gender and feminism.
Women attending a domestic violence workshop organized by INAMUJER.
The organization has also set up a free telephone hotline for victims of domestic violence, as well as a shelter, Casa de Abrigo for women who fear for their lives. According to Mercedes Aguilar, INAMUJER "gives 24 workshops a year to teach women what their rights are and how to report domestic violence…We provide support and protection to women who have been victims of violence." They are also executing programs to sensitize police officers, lawyers, and doctors to gender and domestic violence issues to ensure that women receive the support and services that they need.
In addition to educating women, INAMUJER also supervises and evaluates public policies directed towards women in order to assure the guarantee of equal opportunities and that the National Assembly uses a non-sexist language in legislation. They are currently involved in three campaigns. Together with a network of lawyers, social scientists, intellectuals and feminists, the organization is drafting reforms to laws that contradict the Constitution. For example, they are promoting the abolishment of the Penal Code and the drafting of another that incorporates a gender perspective and incorporates and ensures the rights guaranteed in the Constitution. Also, they are working to amend the Social Security law to ensure that housewives are able to collect their pensions as stipulated in Article 88 of the Constitution.
The second campaign focuses on achieving that 50% of the positions in the National Electoral Commission, the National Assembly, governorships, as well as other positions elected by popular vote are in hands of women. Currently "[o]nly 12% of the deputies in the National Assembly are women while in Spain it is an equal 50/50 ratio," notes María del Mar Alvarez. The low percentage of women in the National Assembly is due to a reversal of the Women's Suffrage Law of 1997, which had a required a 30% minimum. Feminists in Venezuela, both pro- and anti-Chavez, are very upset that Chavez allowed this to happen.
In their third campaign, INAMUJER is proposing to democratize the family in order to alleviate the double work day of women. María León notes, "The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela will only be an authentic democracy if we transform the home into a truly democratic unit."[2]
The National Institute for Women recently celebrated its fifth birthday in which it presented the National Plan for Equality for Women 2004-2009, which is designed to prevent and eradicate violence against women, ensure women's rights and access to justice, strengthen the participation of women in politics and society, and to develop and execute a plan for equal economic rights for women.
The ultimate goal of feminism is to change society
Despite these achievements, difficult battles lie ahead. Feminism in the Bolivarian Revolution faces three challenges. First, the Bolivarian Revolution has so far focused on power struggles between race and class. Although the feminist agenda has tentatively inserted itself in this debate, it is still struggling to achieve the same importance allotted to power relations between other groups.
Secondly, with the rise of "experts" in gender studies in academia and public institutions, as well as the introduction of a handful of highly visible women in political institutions, feminists have focused on legitimizing themselves before a capitalist and sexist world, and thus to an extent, lost touch with their popular bases. This struggle in turn must be placed within a larger context of social justice and equality and feminists build a space of interaction with various other social movements in order that the slogan "another world is possible" becomes a reality.
Thirdly, while many important laws were ratified in the 1990s, the challenge for the 21st century is to use these laws as the base to change society. The Venezuelan women's movement recognizes that unless the mentality of society changes, it will be almost impossible to establish themselves on equal ground with men, legally, politically, and socially. Venezuela is one of the few Latin American countries that acknowledges violence and discrimination against women as impeding the evolution of a truly democratic society based on equality. However, despite this and despite the Labor Law (1997), the Law of Violence Against Women (1998), the Law for Equal Opportunities for Women (1999), and the Law of Micro financial System (2001), Venezuela has taken significant steps to eradicate discrimination legally, these problems continue to persist in society.
"We are amidst a profound social transformation in which discrimination, prejudices, and the injustices against women are coming to the forefront. This revolution has recognized women as human beings. But we still are unable to say that we have eradicated discrimination against women in society or even in the minds of women. Discrimination is a phenomenon that has existed for centuries and it is impossible to eradicate within five years. Our values do not change overnight. However, Venezuelan women now know that this is revolution is for them too and they are beginning to wake up," says Nora Casteñeda, the president of the Woman's Bank.
Under the government of Hugo Chávez, women have been instrumental in initiating legal and institutional reforms, have helped to draft a Constitution which creates the framework for a society based on social justice, and have made significant and rapid progress in creating NGOs, have increased their representation in politics, and have defended their democracy. In the participatory democracy of the Bolivarian Revolution, in which the rights of citizens are not defined as purely political but instead embark on encompassing social justice and gender equality, women have the potential to construct a new humane society which could not only change their reality but also set an example for the world in terms of gender equality.
Women in Bolivarian Venezuela, pt.2:
The Bolivarian Response to the Feminization of Poverty in Venezuela
[1] The job of the National Defender of Women's Rights is to defend women against discrimination and inequality as well as to make sure that international laws and treaties are fulfilled and to establish inter-institutional relations.
[2] El Nacional 3-4-2000.

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The Star Wars Millenium Falcon Inspired Cufflinks are classy and stylish to wear and are a must have item for any wardrobe. They are 1" x 3/4" in diameter, and come with a fixed logo backing with a curved post.
The Infinite Empire of the Rakatans used the Star Wars Millennium Falcon Cufflinks to create a galaxy-spanning kingdom based on ancient technologies. Actually, that sounds a bit fuzzy.


This book is so beautifully written.
Seriously, I think I am in love with it? It's so flowy and eloquent and the LOVE is beautiful and the DEATH is horrible and seriously Martha Brockenbrough knows her stuff – I'd like more books please. The characters are all REALLY well done. I thought Death was the most sabotaging, frustrating soul, but all characters are well written. Her word choice was gorgeous and I wanted to swoon because even if you don't like fantasy or love stories you have to read this book just for THE WORDS. It's so lovely, really, I'm entirely grateful to have read it.
Brockenbrough has a way of eliciting really raw emotions that will tug your heartstrings or ENRAGE YOU TO THE CORE. The story, set in the 1930s, tells the tale of a white boy and a black girl. They're both hard workers. Henry is driven by his emotions. Flora is driven by rationality. One has been backed by Love, the other by Death. It's a game to them (thus the title) like Romeo and Juliet or Helen and Paris. Death always wins. The conflict here is not a battle of families or of grecian warships – it's to choose courage when all the world is against them.
And all the world is against them. Because the 30s were a time of racial turbulence, there's about 5 people in their entire city that can accept their relationship. Most the city can't even accept the fact they play music together. While the reactions and the HORRIBLE racism present in this book is likely accurate for the era, IT MADE ME SO MAD.
Please don't misunderstand. This book is not written in a racist way. It's written – I thought – with incredible sensitivity. But there are characters who behave deplorably.
And if that wasn't enough, Death just keeps making a mess of things for each of them.
I was hooked from the moment I read the first page.
I really, really, really liked Henry and Flora. Ethan was wonderful as well, and his subplot of accepting his homosexuality. A lot of it was subtly written – just seeing the characters for who they are rather than shining a spotlight on their sexuality. It was beautifully done.
You really can't help but root for Henry. He's so sweet and sacrificing, but in a pure way? Not too sugary, not selfish at all. He has always had the courage to know who he is and what he likes, but he does it in a soft, likable way.
One thing: I hated the title?
It's difficult to explain, but I'm going to try. The Game of Love and Death? The title feels really impersonal. Since the book felt incredibly intimate, the title feels awkward on top of that. While the underlying story was about Love and Death and who is stronger and more enduring, I really think that Henry and Flora stole the show. I don't have a better title suggestion, but "The Game of Love and Death" sort of makes me twitch a little.
I don't know about you, but this opening sentence gave me serious The Graveyard Book vibes. The similarity ends there, but the dark nursery and somebody there who shouldn't be? Definitely reminded me of poor Bod's beginning.
At the heart of The Game of Love and Death is the love story. If you're looking for another BEAUTIFULLY written love story, then you MUST read The Night Circus. And for as much as I didn't love Caraval, Henry reminded me of Julian a bit (without the twist at the end, obviously). Okay, he was softer than Julian, but he reminded me a bit of him nonetheless.
It was really nice to read a good, diverse book. I know there are a lot out there now, but I'm trudging through a mountainous TBR I started in 2011… in order. So I don't come across many at this point. I think it's a shame this one doesn't get more attention because it's definitely one of those books that could be appreciated by a wider audience, and basically? It's just really lovely and tragic and beautiful.


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Australian Open: 'It's going to be a rough few days' - Serena reacts to Victoria lockdown
Serena Williams was asked about Victoria's new state-wide lockdown after reaching the fourth round at Melbourne Park.
Serena Williams labelled Victoria's five-day lockdown "rough" as the Australian Open prepares to go behind closed doors amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Fans will not be allowed to attend Melbourne Park - where crowds have been capped at 30,000 per day - from 11:59pm (local time) on Friday until Wednesday after the Victorian government announced a new state-wide lockdown to control an outbreak of the UK COVID-19 strain.
Victorian premier Daniel Andrews made the announcement as Williams booked her spot in the fourth round of the Australian Open, where the 23-time grand slam champion overcame Anastasia Potapova 7-6 (7-5) 6-2.
"I didn't know at all until the match was over. I think it's good that I didn't know," seven-time Australian Open champion Williams told reporters when asked about the lockdown.
"It's rough. It's going to be a rough few days for I think everyone. But we'll hopefully get through it."
American superstar Williams added: "It's not ideal. It's been really fun to have the crowd back, especially here. It's been really cool.
"But, you know what, at the end of the day we have to do what's best. Hopefully it will be all right."
Williams - stuck on 23 majors since winning the 2017 Australian Open in pursuit of Margaret Court's all-time record of 24 - was pushed to the limit by Russian teenager Potapova but prevailed on Rod Laver Arena.
The 39-year-old Williams - who has played and won more matches than any other woman in the tournament's history - celebrated her 90th Australian Open victory in her 101st contest.
"It was good to get through that match," said former world number one Williams as seventh seed Aryna Sabalenka awaits in the last 16. "The first set was extremely tight. I was a little tight, but it worked out. Was able to play a little more free in the second set."
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Objectives Suboptimal bone health is increasingly recognised as an important cause of morbidity. Multiple sclerosis (MS) has been consistently associated with an increased risk of osteoporosis and fracture. Various fracture risk screening tools have been developed, two of which are in routine use and a further one is MS-specific. We set out to compare the results obtained by these in the MS clinic population. Design This was a service development study. The 10-year risk estimates of any fracture and hip fracture generated by each of the algorithms were compared. Setting The MS clinic at the Royal London Hospital. Participants 88 patients with a confirmed diagnosis of MS. Outcome measures Mean 10-year overall fracture risk and hip fracture risk were calculated using each of the three fracture risk calculators. The number of interventions that would be required as a result of using each of these tools was also compared. Results Mean 10-year fracture risk was 4.7%, 2.3% and 7.6% using FRAX, QFracture and the MS-specific calculator, respectively (p<0.0001 for difference). The agreement between risk scoring tools was poor at all levels of fracture risk. Conclusions The agreement between these three fracture risk scoring tools is poor in the MS population. Further work is required to develop and validate an accurate fracture risk scoring system for use in MS. Trial registration This service development study was approved by the Clinical Effectiveness Department at Barts Health NHS Trust (project registration number 156/12).


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I Was This Pulsating One-Celled Animal … Each Reaching Out Was Joy of Being Alive: The Sound of Creation and Cellular Template of Eternal Bliss
Cellular/Transpersonal Consciousness, Part Five — "Bliss to Exist": A Strong Plant Blossoming, Digging Deep and Casting High, 'Tis Bliss to Exist.
(continued from Past Lives, Other Lives, and The Vast Hole of the "Not the Tribal": A Foray Into Cellular/Transpersonal Consciousness, Part Four — Sidling Up to the Implicate Order [Footnote 1])
The Sound of Creation, or "'Tis Bliss to Exist" (April 28, 1992)
It's the holotropic session of Tuesday of the first module. It started out with a long period of movement and that mid-space between consciousness and unconsciousness, and it was O.K.
And then just like yesterday, it was right about in the middle that a certain musical piece started to be really delicious; and I couldn't help wanting to breathe with it and become part of it more and just express my feeling of deliciousness. And I started to breathe more and started to enjoy breathing more with the music and moving a little with the music, and then at a certain point the sperm movement started to happen in my body.
And then it was shortly after that when I recognized certain egg feelings in me. Again I was feeling this deliciousness, a feeling of attraction and desiring, just loving everything, loving the music, and my hands were going out to the sides. I was going into all kinds of opening and closing movements, almost like a sea creature or sea vegetable. My hands were going all kinds of ways, like a floating movement; but then I became centered on these egg movements, like bringing in, and my body came together this one time very much like what Farrant talks about when he describes bringing your arms together and bringing the egg in; and so there was that kind of a thing going on.
And after a while I was lying there and I felt rather round; I was feeling amazingly round. And I remember the last thing—when I was feeling like I was the egg—my hands went out to the sides and I was waving them up and down. And it was this amazing feeling of softness in my hands. It was like I was in an altered state, hard to describe.
But I began to feel like I was switching into a different mode of consciousness, like I was on a strange drug, or I was becoming a different kind of a creature.
But then after that there was this sensation of feeling very big, very round rather. And then it was just these small movements in my hands, and my hands reaching out and putting something back, reaching out and putting something back; and it was going on in my hands and my legs.
And that went on for a little while, and then it started to get more and more. A lot of it was the music, like wanting to take in the music. Or I was doing it in tune with the music, like I was this pulsating one-celled animal.
And then the most amazing part of it was that as this one-celled animal I was expanding, getting bigger. It was a wonderful feeling, and there was also a sense of power. It was a beautiful feeling; and then this piece of music came on with a sense of power to it.
I was reaching my hands and legs in four directions, like reaching out, reaching out my hands and my feet. And I realized that this was my bliss in life, this sense of reaching out and expanding, getting to know more and more, getting to be more and more, getting to be more and more creative in more directions. This is the bliss that I follow, and it's making me happier and happier in my life right now.
It was like, here I was, right from the beginning, feeling this bliss as an early template, as a fertilized egg becoming more and more, expanding and multiplying; it's that wonderful feeling of expanding and multiplying and reaching out more and more, just an infinite amount of more is out there to reach out to.
And it was just so much; I had this feeling like "God," or maybe I was God; this was a God-like feeling, but this was the bliss of God; this is what it is all about, this expanding and reaching out, eternal experience, eternal bliss.
It was just so wonderful that I had to start expressing it, I had to vocalize it, little by little, with sounds coming out of me, almost synchronistically, with the music. Like I didn't plan it that way but these sounds like "ooooooh" and "oooo" started coming out of me with the music. They were the only expression for that wonderful feeling I was having that I could think of. It was the only proper expression of that wonderful feeling, and I began to realize there was a real lack of ways to express the bliss, that there were many ways to express pain, but so few ways to express joy and bliss. We are really limited in this way.
And physically it was like my hands were expressing this bliss; each time I reached out it was this wonderful feeling of joy and just being alive.
And I also began to realize a connection with the haiku I had written. The haiku was a perfect premonition of what I was now feeling—the haiku being,
A strong plant blossoming,
Digging deep and casting high,
'Tis bliss to exist.
That was a perfect premonition, because that's exactly what it felt like to me when I was stretching in each direction: digging deep and casting high, taking in and then throwing it out again as far as I could … and this wonderful feeling of power and bliss in being able to do this and knowing that it was endless, eternal. It was bliss, and so I expressed that for a long time.
Continue with The Bliss of Connection with Others … But There Is a Pain in Unexpressed Love: A Foray Into Cellular/Transpersonal Consciousness, Part Six — Womb with a Review
Return to Past Lives, Other Lives, and The Vast Hole of the "Not the Tribal": A Foray Into Cellular/Transpersonal Consciousness, Part Four — Sidling Up to the Implicate Order
1. Cellular/ Transpersonal Experiences
Having established the legitimacy of transpersonal aspects of prenatal, and especially cellular, re-experience, it remains to be seen what light this new perspective throws upon traditional formulations. I suggest to you that this perspective is a catalyst to a radical reformulation of traditional concepts of consciousness and development. My understanding is that it supports a view compatible with Eastern, Platonic, and "primitive" philosophical renderings—which can be characterized as Emanationist —and completely undermines the dominant Western evolutionary paradigm. I delineate such a perspective, which I call the Falls from Grace Theory, beginning in the next chapter.
However, let us first take a look at a sampling of the kinds of experiences and perspectives that are possible at this cellular and prenatal level of re-experience before attempting to see deeper into the structure of consciousness and development, presented immediately afterwards, which contains and makes sense of them. The current chapter—A Foray Into Cellular/Transpersonal Consciousness—contains transcripts of cellular/transpersonal experiences I had through the modality of holotropic breathwork. In order to retain the flavor and potency of the raw experience itself, these transcripts are only slightly edited and are from the descriptions of my experiences I recorded immediately after having them.
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Apple reduces Barclays rewards, touts Goldman-backed, app-based card
Apple has phased out a rewards-program deal with Barclays ahead of this month's debut of a new credit card offer with Goldman Sachs. The Barclaycard Visa had offered $50 worth of iTunes or Apple Store gift cards to new customers, and three points per dollar spent on Apple products. Card users also could convert 2,500 points into $25 in credit on Apple purchases.
The Goldman-backed card "lives on your phone," Apple said. It's being offered through Apple's Wallet app. But iPad users can expect a companion app, Apple said. The card will offer 3% cash back on Apple purchases and smaller percentages on non-Apple purchases.
An interface on the app will break purchases down into categories based on venue to better identify spending behaviors.
Partnerships between banks and retailers have helped lenders branch out in the market to capture more of a customer's borrowing.
Barclays is seeking to expand its U.S. card portfolio by 10% a year, compared with the 6% growth it achieved in the second quarter, executives said this week, according to Bloomberg. The bank recently renewed its partnership with Wyndham hotels, and maintains card partnerships with Uber and JetBlue.
References to Barclaycard rewards have been removed from Apple's website. Now, Apple is only promoting a standard Barclaycard Financing Visa. It's not clear if this will also be wound down.
Apple-Goldman cardholders can carry a revolving balance and will be offered financing plans for certain purchases — although the offer terms did not specify which purchases would apply.
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Banks usually move in lockstep on issues such as environmentally conscious investing, but compensation may prove an individual decision.
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A Guide to Drone Photography/Cinematography for Architecture
Written by Collin Abdallah
https://www.archdaily.com/899124/a-guide-to-drone-photography-cinematography-for-architecture
Drone photography has been one of the biggest advancements in aerial photography and cinematography. Drones began making a huge impact on filmmaking in the early 2000s, but vast advancements in aerial and camera technology have dramatically increased the use of and demand for aerial footage in nearly every industry focused on digital content.
The construction industry has begun implementing drones on construction sites as a way to get a birdseye view of a project, capture the finished building from a unique perspective and even be used in the actual construction of the building itself. But when it comes to architectural photography and cinematography, we are just beginning to scratch the surface.
Read on for ArchDaily's Guide to Drone Photography/Cinematography.
Finding the Right Drone
Globally, drone sales grew an estimated 60% in 2016 to over 2.2 million, with revenue growth eclipsing $4.5 billion, according to research firm Gartner. Dà-Jiāng Innovations (DJI) has emerged as the industry leader, representing 36% of the $500-$1,000 market in 2016, 66% of the $1,000-$2,000 market and 67% of the $2,000-$4,000 market.
Architect and author of the Architect + Entrepreneur book series Eric Reinholdt released a video in 2017 detailing the results of his research into the best drone for architects and designers. At the time of his video, he concluded that the DJI Mavic Pro was the winner. With a 7 km flight time, 4K 12 MP camera and 3-axis gimbal, the Mavic Pro is also small enough to fit into a small backpack after the foldable wings are tucked back into the body of the drone. Also coming in at a (current) price of $1,398 for the Fly More Combo (which includes an extra battery pack, case, DJI remote, extra blades, and much more) it can be seen as an affordable business investment.
DJI Mavic Pro. Image© Wikimedia user Leigh Miller licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
But since Reinholdt's video, DJI has released the Mavic Air. A more compact drone with the same specs as the Mavic Pro at an even more affordable price ($799, or $999 for the Fly More Combo), the Mavic Air is a professional-grade aircraft that fits in your pocket. Also sporting a 3-axis gimbal and 4K camera, the Mavic Air adds the capability to capture 360-panoramic footage with its 32 MP 360 camera.
DJI has a wide variety of drones across a range of prices, and as with most purchases of this price range, it is important to do your research.
Use Responsibly
Before you get started with your initial flight, it is also important to research your local jurisdiction's rules and regulations on unmanned aircraft. It may seem a bit over-the-top, but the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has put in place safety guidelines to help you get flying as quickly as possible, and ensure that your drone isn't confiscated after its first flight. You can reference this article for more information on the legalities of getting started with your new drone.
Aerial photography is definitely the most utilized aspect of drone use in architecture. Site photos are useful in predesign, construction photos can help keep an eye on the process and final images capture the essence of the design at a different level (literally). Here are a few things to keep in mind when using your drone for aerial photography in architecture.
When and where you are flying matters. Flying a drone in a dense urban area is a lot more dangerous than on a rural mountainside. Flying at night versus during the day is a great way to get those great nighttime cityscape shots, but as you might imagine, it is a bit tricky to fly a drone when you can't really see it. Most drones do have head and tail lights to aid in night flight, but relying on seeing the lights from over a mile away maybe isn't the best idea.
Most high-end drones come with some sort of gimbal technology for stabilization. A 3-axis gimbal will provide you more stabilization as it stabilizes over three axis (yaw, pitch and roll), while a 2-axis gimbal only stabilizes the pitch and roll. You might not think this makes much of a difference in photography, but compare it to taking a picture freehand versus using a tripod. Obviously, the tripod will eliminate camera shake and help you get a cleaner, crisper image. The same goes for a 3-axis gimbal.
Perhaps the most important thing to keep in mind when it comes to drone photography is perspective. It's easy to get carried away when operating a drone, but you must not forget to analyze your drone shot just as you would with a handheld camera. A drone is simply another tool to utilize in the creative process. It just happens to also be one of the most fun.
The cinematic component of aerial photography is an often neglected aspect of drone usage that has the potential to make a major impact. Aerial cinematography is also perhaps one of the more daunting aspects of using a drone. In part because (much like a photo) a video very rarely ever comes out perfect directly from the camera. Even with the incredibly high-resolution images you can get from a quality drone, there is still a bit of post-production work needed to make sure the information shown looks the way it needs to. With video, that post-production workflow is not one that is known to most in the architecture industry. But therein lies the potential.
Drones offer the opportunity to experience buildings in a way that isn't humanly possible without them. Video also has the power to enhance the experience of the design at multiple scales. Vast flyovers provide an expansive view of a building in its context. Flyarounds can provide an intimate examination of details at levels out of reach at a human scale. Flythroughs can provide a complete experience through a building by navigating between spaces.
With the correct drone, a sufficient amount of flight experience and a bit of creativity, You can begin experimenting with aerial cinematography to help elevate your design work. Check out this video from YouTuber Casey Neistat to see a great example of how to use a drone to capture spatial experiences from a unique perspective.
Keep Learning / Get Inspired
It should come as no shock that operating a drone is not easy. In order to get outstanding, high-quality content out of your drone, it will require time and effort on your part. But just like with any BIM software, there is an abundance of resources out there to help you get started with flight technique, post-production and inspiration. YouTube is perhaps the best place to look, as it is the world's second largest search engine (and it is owned by the first largest, Google) and is the world's go-to for "how to's".
Apart from tutorials and instructional videos, here are a few creators that often utilize drones in their content that will surely provide you with a plethora of inspiration: Casey Neistat, Peter McKinnon, Eric Reinholdt, Chris Hau, Matti Haapoja, Droneworks Studios.
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With Invisible Illness Week wrapping up, I was determined to blog again (as promised) & what better way than to do the meme created for the event. These 30 queries have been 3 days in the answering but I hung in there because awareness of illnesses & issues that are so often not recognized, much less understood, is crucial to the well[ish]-being of those living with them. For a better understanding of what I'm living with & the journey therein, be sure to read my first IIW post: What's getting in YOUR way?
I had a doctor once & she charged on a sliding scale. Ruling out what she could, she admitted I need more extensive testing which, of course, we couldn't afford. Instead, she taught me about Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) & Fibromyalgia — convinced I had at least one, if not both — & helped me learn more about supplements.
Knowing a diagnosis would leave me essentially uninsurable, my one doctor & I didn't pursue our well-founded suspicions. Further knowing a diagnosis alone wouldn't help if it couldn't be followed up with care — welcome to a healthcare system that's been broken a long time — we just sought to alleviate symptoms, never imagining I'd still be doing so 15 years later.
I didn't start putting the pieces together til my mid-20s but, by then, my Chronic Daily Headache was nearly a decade old. A key revelation came as I researched migraines; the overwhelming head pain that comes above & beyond my always present headache. They often present abdominally in children & I'd been treated for "stress" stomachaches in my youth.
My struggle to function is a chicken or the egg quandary. The dysfunction stems from my brain misfiring & misunderstanding its own information as my body uses up any energy it manages to generate trying to function, leaving my brain vulnerable. Our minds & bodies are designed to restore themselves regularly but mine can't thus they degenerate.
How could a headache last well over two decades? You couldn't possibly have it every day! How could you not remember your childhood?! Surely you mean you just don't remember it well!? Given that I too would love to better understand how such things are possible, if anything, I understate. Declarations without explanations are frustrating from both sides.
It's admittedly better now that we have some semblance of a bed. After sleeping on the floor for years, our sofa-bed is an utter God-send. Having someplace to sit during the day also rocks but getting to that point can be tricky. Not only is my sleep not as restorative as it should be, it actually creates extra pain since I can't maintain the needed support for my parts.
While I love sarcasm & brilliance run amok, Greg House's determination is especially appealing. He's dealing with chronic pain, fighting to differentiate his legitimate need for drugs from drug-seeking & not letting other people's agendas stop him. His determination to solve each case leaves me hoping I'll one day have a doctor that fights that hard for a diagnosis.
Macelangelo, as he's known, is my connection to the world at large. I've been without a computer too often; most recently, before moving to Palm Springs 2 years ago. My physical world is just too damn small without the interwebz. I have no local support, no personal transportation & no other means of staying in touch with family or friends.. nor would I have as many friends!
It's hard to get to sleep, harder to stay asleep & hardest to get enough sleep. With me being tired all the time, you'd think sleep would come easier but, since it doesn't, I'm all that much more tired. Vicious cycle, anyone? To add insult to injury, between my brain's misfirings & being woken by pain that occurs if I stay in one position too long, my sleep's not deep enough.
Until I can avail myself of healthcare, meds are rare & I can't currently afford all the supplements I need. The non-negotiables though are a couple Beano before meals, a multi-vitamin at breakfast, Cranberry capsules with lunch & dinner, daily detox, plus a Melatonin at night. I also allow myself constant ibuprofen one week a month & am rationing my last Rx of Vicodin.
Yoga is what got me working again, five years ago now. That job lasted until a fall onto my back which the doctor then recommended yoga for. 😉 The breathing & stretching remain part of my coping arsenal but I long for the day I can return to yoga classes. I also know full well that massage & acupuncture make a positive difference but am unlikely to have such options.
Seriously, if there were a choice.. but I digress. If I had to choose a disease, I'd opt for just about anything less debilitating. That'd be doubly handy as many visible illnesses are. While it can be nice to "not look sick," I'm not sure it makes up for the reactions using a motorized cart in a store gets me. Meanwhile, I have been treated better since using a cane.
My various jobs have each tapped into my creativity in some way & "working" online fortunately does as well. What my online projects can't provide is the wonderful randomness of the public. Not that there's a lack of people, obviously; I mean, here you are (& thanx) yet I miss the unexpected interactions, the smiles & hugs, the people-watching, my customers.
I'm continually surprised by the complexity of the simplest things. I'll be doing something I've done before but not remember how. I've accepted that I don't remember things but simple tasks should be doable by rote, no? Instead, I'm constantly relearning everyday routines. Shoe-tying, egg-boiling & other such mundanities require way too much concentration.
As a student of thought/collector of ideas/lover of concepts, I mourn the unfettered ability to think. Because I do still drink deep of all that I can, as I'm able, the loss may be as invisible as the illness causing it yet my brain often shuts down altogether. I truly believe God is in the details so the blurrier my thinking is, the more disconnected I tend to feel.
Mine is as yet unnamed but the various possibilities are addressed & I resent the implication that a pill will fix me. This is yet more rampant online where, amidst all the support sites & articles, lie (pun intended) those proclaiming cures. The only thing I can be sure I have is autoimmune dysfunction which needs funding for research, not incomplete treatments.
Rest assured, your coffeesister still allows herself one a day. It is a health drink, after all. Although coffee's been my constant companion for as long as I can remember, my compromised health can't take too much of a good thing. Hot beverages being a therapy I can't live without, my morning coffee's followed-up with black tea then green & I wrap up my day with herbal.
Letting go of guilt, chores, the rest of that to-do list or whatever threatens my time &/or sanity thus health is freeing as well as necessary. My time is spent on self-care rather than self-doubt if not bogged down by more than I can possibly do, much less guilt over what's not done. To-do lists are a lot looser now; I do things not only as I get a chance but if I get a chance.
Setting aside the question of what the Hell normal is, the thing I resent not being able to do day after pain-wracked day is take care of my husband even a fraction of how well he takes care of me day in & day out. I'd love to be able to put his needs first for a change, not that they never are but mine inevitably rear their helplessly needy head. He so richly deserves a day off!
Perhaps my insomnia since childhood was a symptom of a more compromised system than yet known. Filling those extra hours over the years provided a distraction. By not slowing down, I kept from having to face how I really felt. I could contend being too ill to continue college was just the result of overdoing. All I had to do was find a better balance, right?!
While such well-wishers are well-intentioned, which I do appreciate, the implication that I can "get well soon" belies the reality of my situation. I'm not even sure I've ever been well & can't count on ever being well, dealing as I am with not just chronic but debilitating health issues. Thus, when someone who's known me for a time uses this phrase, it feels dismissive.
Innate self-reliance makes it hella hard to ask for help yet I need it. If someone helps without being asked, much less insists on doing something for me, it's an unqualified gift; I'm able to avoid the extra pain & save a little energy while not putting anyone out. It's an acknowledgment — as much as a reminder to me — that I need help but, moreover, that they understand.
The yin and yang represent all the opposites found in the universe; each having within them the seeds of their opposite state, that is, sickness has the seeds of health, health contains sickness, wealth, poverty, etc. None can exist without the other &, to the extent we experience anything, we become capable of experiencing its opposite. Seek that seed in every circumstance.
Our bodies — being physical — are but part of our circumstances. They & their maladies may effect who we become, as any external force can, yet who we are at our core is up to us. Just as my smile, though initially noticed due to my overbite, is remembered instead for its warmth; whatever your body's putting you through is distracting but temporary, don't lose yourself to it.
As fatalistic as that may seem, I'm not saying there's not improvement in the illness itself or my ability to cope with it. However, the understanding that I could get worse again at any given moment is a constant. My condition has roller-coastered year after year, I don't know what I'll be dealing with moment to moment, having my life held hostage doesn't get easier.
It's natural to meet silence with silence but some remember my many silences aren't by choice, won't shrug off yet another absence, remember what I'm struggling with & reach out despite my inability to. Quotationaries to blogging, a shout-out into the voids can spark the energy needed or bridge the neglect. My love to all who've checked in if I haven't tweeted for a time.
From the empathy we with invisible illnesses can share to the better understanding we can foster in those who know us to a clearer picture of the health issues that are a possibility for all of us therefore the true state of our so-called healthcare system, each epiphany paves the way for progress. Seeing these invisible struggles, how do we all not seek to ensure care?
The fact that you read this list makes me feel: grateful &..
I'm overwhelmingly grateful: Grateful that my blog still gets readers (given how much my illness interrupts its flow), grateful you care enough to be here, grateful my experience may make a positive impact & hopeful. My hope is that you're taking something you can use away with you & that you'll return. I hope to keep sharing & learning from each other — tell me something I may not know in the comments — for, together, we can change the world.
UPDATE: I've now had health care for just over a year which has led to two confirmed diagnoses so far, Endometriosis & Migraine.


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1 Dragon Ball Fusions: The Story of Tekka (Trailer) We all know about the origin of Son Goku and how he becomes the hero he is today. But, what if he wasn't alone to begin with? An incredibly talented boy with a heartbreaking past and unknown secrets is about to change the future of Dragon Ball! Look out multiverse, here comes Tekka Shinaharu! This here is the trailer to that story. Rated M just in case. Please R&R.
Dragon Ball Z & Seven Deadly Sins/七つの大罪, M, English, Adventure & Drama, words: 1k+, favs: 3, follows: 3, 3/18/2021, Goku, OC, Meliodas
3If the Future Holds: Fire with Fire (REMASTERED) In the future timeline, the androids find out about the time machine and destroy it. Having more than enough of their "games", Bulma comes up with another way to take care of the deadly duo...by turning herself into an android! Will Bulma's idea be enough to change the fate of the world with her son Trunks? Only one way to find out! R&R
Dragon Ball Z, M, English, Adventure & Supernatural, words: 3k+, favs: 3, follows: 6, 2/12/2021, [M. Trunks, Mai] Bulma
4 Trans-Dimensional Tournament It's been two years since the Tournament of Power and the Zenos are once again bored...but that's all going to change! A tournament between multiple popular and combatable anime is about to go down with teams of 10 or so fighters! For Goku and his friends, they will have no problem winning...or will they? Find out in the Trans-Dimensional Tournament! Rated M just in case.
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Comanda UNIX printf este folosită în special în scripturi pentru tipărirea pe ecran a datelor. Comanda provine din limbajul C, unde există o funcție cu același nume.

Comanda este implementată în pachetul GNU coreutils. Pe unele sisteme, o comandă printf cu o funcționalitate similară este de asemenea disponibilă ca un bash built-in. Pentru a distinge între cele două, la invocare se poate folosi cale completă a executabilului (/usr/bin/printf), sau poate fi invocată folosind env.

Sintaxă
 printf FORMAT [ARGUMENTE]

unde FORMAT controlează modul în care sunt tipărite pe ecran argumentele. Formatul poate fi:
 \NNN - caracter octal cu valoarea NNN (trei digiți)
 \xHH - valoare hexazecimală (unul sau doi digiți)
 \uHHHH - valoare hexazecimală pentru caracter Unicode (patru digiți)
 \UHHHHHHHH - valoare hexazecimală pentru caracter Unicode (patru digiți)

Formatul acceptă de asemenea formele %CHAR din limbajul C, unde CHAR poate fi una din literele d, i, o, u, x, X, f, e, E, g, G, c sau s.

Exemple
printf ca un bash built-in:
 $ printf "culoare %s, număr %d\n" albastru 23
 culoare albastru, număr 23

Comanda printf:
 $ /usr/bin/printf "culoare %s, număr %d\n" albastru 23
 culoare albastru, număr 23

Invocarea folosind env:
 $ env printf '\u20AC 14.95 \n'
 € 14.95

Funcția de sistem
În limbajul C, printf desemnează o familie de funcții. Se poate tipări pe ecran (printf), într-un fișier (fprintf), sau într-un string (sprintf). Funcții pentru procesarea unei liste variabile de argumente (vprintf, ...) sunt de asemenea disponibile.

 #include <stdio.h>

 int printf(const char *format, ...);
 int fprintf(FILE *stream, const char *format, ...);
 int sprintf(char *str, const char *format, ...);
 int snprintf(char *str, size_t size, const char *format, ...);

 #include <stdarg.h>

 int vprintf(const char *format, va_list ap);
 int vfprintf(FILE *stream, const char *format, va_list ap);
 int vsprintf(char *str, const char *format, va_list ap);
 int vsnprintf(char *str, size_t size, const char *format, va_list ap);

Exemplu:
  printf("Color %s, number1 %d, number2 %05d, hex %x, float %5.2f, unsigned value %u.\n",
        "red", 123456, 89, 255, 3.14159, 250);

va tipări pe ecran:
 Color red, number1 123456, number2 00089, hex ff, float  3.14, unsigned value 250.

Legături externe
 Pagina de manual
 printf Commands & Utilities Reference, The Single UNIX® Specification, Issue 7 from The Open Group
 Documentația printf din GNU Coreutils
 Funcția printf - System Interfaces Reference, The Single UNIX® Specification, Issue 7 from The Open Group
 Specificația formatului printf

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