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<title><![CDATA["God's Son Is Given" (Isaiah 9: 6, NIV) by Carley Evans]]></title>
<link>http://lambskinny.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/gods-son-is-given-isaiah-9-6-niv-by-carley-evans/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lambskinny</dc:creator>
<guid>http://lambskinny.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/gods-son-is-given-isaiah-9-6-niv-by-carley-evans/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[For us, God&#8217;s Son is given. He is our Prince of Peace, our Everlasting Father, our Wonderful C]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>For us, God&#8217;s Son is given.</p>
<p>He is our Prince of Peace, our Everlasting Father, our Wonderful Counselor. He is the Mighty God come in the shape of a newborn infant in a manger.</p>
<p>He is completely helpless, totally dependent upon His human parents to provide shelter, clothing, food, guidance, love.</p>
<p>The government rests on Him. He speaks in the temple at twelve years of age with authority which comes directly from God, the Father. He spends forty days in the wilderness with our adversary and overcomes him with the Word of God, setting for us an example. He goes to John the Baptist to be baptized and receive the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove. Obedience marks His life. Again, He sets for us an example.</p>
<p>He preaches to us to love our enemies, to do good to those who misuse or even hate us.</p>
<p>God&#8217;s Son is given unto us. May we accept Him in His fullness.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[The customer is NEVER right]]></title>
<link>http://nwocafe.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/the-customer-is-never-right/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
<guid>http://nwocafe.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/the-customer-is-never-right/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[If you think that the customer is always right, those days are over in our brave new world! We, the ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>If you think that the customer is always right, those days are over in our brave new world!</p>
<p>We, the big vendors now use <strong>laws as weapons</strong> regularly, swinging it at you when you do not pay up or become unsatisfied with our products and/or services. You can never &#8220;not buy&#8221; from us because you NEED our products and/or services. We love to give you the illusion of choice but we really own everything. And we make sure each &#8220;choice&#8221;, each &#8220;mom and pop&#8221; firm has its unique imperfection. That way, you&#8217;ll keep running but will never be satisfied. Yet, you can&#8217;t live without food, Internet, transportation, energy, roads, military and courts. Haha! We <em>own </em>and<em> control</em> the very courts you peruse for justice! How screwed up is that for you? So try. Try to stop us. Hahahaha.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s just nothing you can do about it. Absolutely nothing. You can yell all you want about anarchy and freedom, how they&#8217;re the greatest thing since sliced bread. You can do whatever you want in your own power. And what will we do? Sit and laugh at your puny attempts to destroy our world. You can never destroy our world! Because you <em>serve</em> as our customer, and the customer is NEVER right. MIGHT makes right. MIGHT gets things done. Hahahahaha.</p>
<p>So go ahead and eat your tasty &#8220;enhanced&#8221; chicken and drink that soothing &#8220;detensionizing&#8221; red wine. I can assure you we did not put anything special in them. Would we lie? Maybe, sometimes. You never can tell. But remember, you must eat. You must DRINK! And we ultimately provide all the food and drink you can ever consume.</p>
<p>You MUST eat or you&#8217;ll have to live with the wolves! That&#8217;s the price of civilization. But, hey, we give you the <strong><em>choice</em></strong>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Business model of fear and propaganda]]></title>
<link>http://nwocafe.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/business-model-of-fear-and-propaganda/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
<guid>http://nwocafe.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/business-model-of-fear-and-propaganda/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[We have tried many different business models in the past. We tried offering excellent customer servi]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><strong>We have tried many different business models in the past. </strong></p>
<p>We tried offering excellent customer service but everybody else was doing that. No, we needed to differentiate ourselves from the crowd. We offered lower prices. Yet, that didn&#8217;t pan out very well because customers would exploit us. Oh they sure would. Back then, the customer was always right. So we went to the last resort.</p>
<p><strong>We used fear to destroy the competition and control the customers.</strong></p>
<p>Fear is a human emotion, just like happiness or guilt. If people used emotion to lure customers and edge out the competition, why not use the emotion of fear? So we destroyed the competition by hiring &#8220;agents&#8221; to assault our competitors. Most often, they needed not assault but just threaten. Anyone who decided to form a new startup would receive threats of punishment. They would have no incentive to open up shop. We could then offer our services in peace. If we liked a competitor, we would ask them to contribute to a fee for &#8220;private protection services&#8221;.</p>
<p>We would pressure anyone who did not pay up that their business would not survive long due to the dominance of gangs in the region. Nine times out of ten they would pay up without a fuss. The other tenth would receive &#8220;agents&#8221; appearing at random hours of the day. We&#8217;d then show how much they needed our protection services. Over time, they thought it became a competitor&#8217;s duty to just pay up and not question the system. We would make sure they paid tribute as a token of their appreciation if they had too many customers.</p>
<p>As &#8220;agents&#8221; mysteriously descended upon them at random hours of the day, we also ensured that supermarkets and private food marts closed down or fell under our management.</p>
<p>Once we controlled the competition, we could then control the customers. Anyone who wanted to eat had to pay us a subscription contract for one year. If they did not like it, we told them that they could leave our territory. Many had lived here for generations, so we used this to our advantage. We would play them for fools. Sometimes, we would ask waiters to purposefully spill wine on their clothing or inventory boys to shoot customers with pricing guns. The patrons had no choice but to laugh it up!</p>
<p><strong>We soon started raking in record profits and continued a virulent ad campaign.</strong></p>
<p>Oh, we became so great at it we decided to boast about our abilities with large mural-sized billboards and advertisements all across the region. Some became so hypnotic that people after a heavy meal in our partner restaurants, they would go to another for an extra bite. Each of our branches used a different name to give the illusion of competition. I credit my minion for this idea.</p>
<p>We then became able to offer faster services, better food and a more pleasant dining experience. We could also provide high quality stage entertainment. Day care services. Laundry services. Taxicab services. Bars. Pharmacies and hospitals, even. Society would soon start to shun the crazies who would speak the truth about our business model. After all, why ruin the bread and circuses f0r everyone?</p>
<p><strong>We offered tons of jobs! Imagine what it would do for the economy if people just tried to topple us!</strong></p>
<p>We also persuaded our subscribers that if they did not take certain vitamins, their limbs would fall off (or something to that effect). They would believe us and purchase our placebo capsules. After all, many of them had such busy lives with their jobs and hobbies, and had no time to test the veracity or read the equivocated documentation of these tablets. We would pay off all the doctors. Oh, they lived comfortably and with sufficient distractions not to think too much about this. Free photography lessons here, free organized cruises there. It was all worth it.</p>
<p><strong>So, kids, fear and propaganda do work.</strong></p>
<p>It&#8217;s worked for us (that&#8217;s how we&#8217;ve survived for about 50 years!) and it will definitely work for you in your home territory. Try it some day when you have saved enough money and gained enough clout. You should then gain the ability to take control of your surroundings.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s what you want and you know it.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Dependency - how does it occur?]]></title>
<link>http://myloveplanet.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/dependency-how-does-it-occur/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>myloveplanet</dc:creator>
<guid>http://myloveplanet.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/dependency-how-does-it-occur/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Dependency is not a very good thing. It is very easy to become dependent of bad things, why? I think]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><!-- 		@page { margin: 2cm } 		P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } -->Dependency is not a very good thing. It is very easy to become dependent of bad things, why?</p>
<p>I think it&#8217;s because negative emotions attract negative emotions. Then the negativity just grows. So if I have even some negativity in me, even if it&#8217;s buried, invisible, or even not feelable, then I can attract more negativity. Dependency is a negative one, and it wouldn&#8217;t exist in a more enlighetened state. Crap, it&#8217;s so logic.</p>
<p>But yet it&#8217;s not easy to understand. I&#8217;m trying to understand this while writing it, all my ideas just flow through me and I they drop from nowhere. Or is it from a more enlighetened world?</p>
<p>As long as I can feel that I balance with enough feeling and thoughts from the ”enlighetened world” at the same as I&#8217;m having more depressive symptoms, I can feel that I&#8217;m over the surface of water and not drowning. But it feels dangerous. I know that yoga helps me with this a lot, and I think it&#8217;s especially solar yoga. I haven&#8217;t done yoga for a very long period, but I will write about it more especially in the yoga section.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Statement Ordering]]></title>
<link>http://cplang.wordpress.com/2009/12/19/statement-ordering/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>cplang</dc:creator>
<guid>http://cplang.wordpress.com/2009/12/19/statement-ordering/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In Continuous Programming statements are unordered as they are programmed. Execution order of all st]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[PU 044: Three Mistakes to Avoid in Short-term Missions]]></title>
<link>http://povertyunlocked.com/2009/12/17/mistakesinmissions/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>povertyunlocked</dc:creator>
<guid>http://povertyunlocked.com/2009/12/17/mistakesinmissions/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Good intentions aren’t always enough in missions. When churches and individuals go on short-term tea]]></description>
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<p>Good intentions aren’t always enough in missions. When churches and individuals go on <a href="http://www.fh.org/help/individuals/teams" target="_blank">short-term teams</a> to communities in developing countries, they need to think carefully about the messages they send &#8211; not just verbally, but also through their actions. In this interview, Steve Corbett shares three mistakes to avoid when participating in short-term missions.</p>
<p>Other topics in this interview include the distinction between relief and development, choosing asset-based development rather than need-based development, and investing missions money wisely.</p>
<p><a href="http://povertyunlocked.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/steve-corbett.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-392" title="Steve Corbett" src="http://povertyunlocked.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/steve-corbett.png" alt="" width="140" height="168" /></a></p>
<p>Steve Corbett is a featured speaker at <a href="http://fh.org/summit2010" target="_blank">Summit 2010</a>. He is an Assistant Professor of Community Development at <a href="http://www.covenant.edu">Covenant College</a> and serves as a Distance Learning Trainer for the <a href="http://chalmers.org/" target="_blank">Chalmers  Center</a>. Steve Corbett co-authored <em><a href="http://whenhelpinghurts.org" target="_blank">When Helping Hurts</a> </em>with <a href="http://povertyunlocked.com/2009/08/20/when-helping-hurts/">Brian Fikkert</a>.</p>
<p>Hear Steve Corbett speak at <a href="http://fh.org/summit2010">Summit 2010</a>, February 26-28 in Phoenix, AZ. Join us for a weekend of learning and networking, plus worship led by <a href="http://saragroves.com" target="_blank">Sara Groves</a>, whose album <em>Fireflies and Songs </em>was named <a href="http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/music/bestoflists/2009/2009bestof.html">2009 Best Album of the Year</a> by Christianity Today. <a href="http://www.fh.org/help/summit2010/registration">Register by January 10</a> for the best deal!</p>
<p>More listening options:<br />
<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/povertyunlocked/~3/W5Nr0Lm2eu4/044-ThreeMistakesToAvoidInShortTermMissions.mp3">Right-click to download</a><br />
<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=263234399">Subscribe in iTunes</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Base class dependency properties, Silverlight]]></title>
<link>http://mwoodhall.wordpress.com/?p=116</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
<guid>http://mwoodhall.wordpress.com/?p=116</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Why cant I do this in Silverlight&#8230;. Have a base class, we&#8217;ll call it Control and some ch]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Why cant I do this in Silverlight&#8230;. </p>
<p>Have a base class, we&#8217;ll call it Control and some child classes that inherit from Control. </p>
<p>So, We have&#8230;</p>
<p>Control<br />
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&#124;&#8211; MyControl1<br />
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<p>Why cant I define a dependency property in Control, like so:</p>
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<div><span style="color:#0000FF;">public</span><span style="color:#000000;"> </span><span style="color:#0000FF;">static</span><span style="color:#000000;"> </span><span style="color:#0000FF;">readonly</span><span style="color:#000000;"> DependencyProperty IsBusyProperty </span><span style="color:#000000;">=</span><span style="color:#000000;">
 DependencyProperty.Register(</span><span style="color:#800000;">&#34;</span><span style="color:#800000;">IsBusy</span><span style="color:#800000;">&#34;</span><span style="color:#000000;">, </span><span style="color:#0000FF;">typeof</span><span style="color:#000000;">(</span><span style="color:#0000FF;">bool</span><span style="color:#000000;">), </span><span style="color:#0000FF;">typeof</span><span style="color:#000000;">(Control), </span><span style="color:#0000FF;">new</span><span style="color:#000000;"> PropertyMetadata(</span><span style="color:#0000FF;">false</span><span style="color:#000000;">));

</span><span style="color:#0000FF;">public</span><span style="color:#000000;"> </span><span style="color:#0000FF;">bool</span><span style="color:#000000;"> IsBusy
{
    </span><span style="color:#0000FF;">get</span><span style="color:#000000;"> { </span><span style="color:#0000FF;">return</span><span style="color:#000000;"> (</span><span style="color:#0000FF;">bool</span><span style="color:#000000;">)GetValue(IsBusyProperty); }
    </span><span style="color:#0000FF;">set</span><span style="color:#000000;"> { SetValue(IsBusyProperty, value); }
}
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<p>Bind to it in MyControl1 like so:</p>
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<div><span style="color:#0000FF;">&#60;</span><span style="color:#800000;">controlsToolkit:BusyIndicator </span><span style="color:#FF0000;">Name</span><span style="color:#0000FF;">=&#34;Busy&#34;</span><span style="color:#FF0000;"> IsBusy</span><span style="color:#0000FF;">=&#34;</span><span style="color:#808000;">{Binding IsBusy}</span><span style="color:#0000FF;">&#34;</span><span style="color:#FF0000;">  Height</span><span style="color:#0000FF;">=&#34;50&#34;</span><span style="color:#FF0000;"> BusyContent</span><span style="color:#0000FF;">=&#34;Loading..&#34;</span><span style="color:#FF0000;"> FontSize</span><span style="color:#0000FF;">=&#34;12&#34;</span><span style="color:#FF0000;">   Style</span><span style="color:#0000FF;">=&#34;</span><span style="color:#808000;">{StaticResource BusyIndicatorStyle1}</span><span style="color:#0000FF;">&#34;</span><span style="color:#0000FF;">&#62;</span><span style="color:#000000;">

</span><span style="color:#0000FF;">&#60;/</span><span style="color:#800000;">controlsToolkit:BusyIndicator</span><span style="color:#0000FF;">&#62;</span></div>
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<p>Update the IsBusy property in MyControl2 and have the BusyIndicator reflect this?</p>
<p>This works fine, if I only update the IsBusy property in Mycontrol1, the updates in MyControl2 have no effect?</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Ubuntu Linux working from USB Flash Drive!]]></title>
<link>http://kuyamarc.info/2009/12/13/ubuntu-linux-working-from-usb-flash-drive/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kuya Marc</dc:creator>
<guid>http://kuyamarc.info/2009/12/13/ubuntu-linux-working-from-usb-flash-drive/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Many people reading this article may have already been to Pendrive Linux site. That’s good because I]]></description>
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<link>http://albertlaine.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/315/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Albert</dc:creator>
<guid>http://albertlaine.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/315/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Painting with oils: Generally there are two techniques to paint with oils. 1)Alla prima 2)Painting b]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Painting with oils:</p>
<p>Generally there are two techniques to paint with oils.</p>
<p>1)Alla prima</p>
<p>2)Painting by layers.</p>
<p>In alla prima, one paints a finished artwork straight away with confident brush strokes. The strokes must be done precisely, with just the right colour. The finished piece may look completely abstract on closer observation, but (if desired) photographic, when viewed from further away.</p>
<p>When one is painting by layers, layers of paint thinned to translucency are applied one on top of another. More oil medium is added to the paint mixture by each subsequent layer. So, in the beginning one uses ”drier” paint, and in the end more oily paint. Thus the lower layers absorb some of the oil, but the higher layers are always more oily and elastic, and will dry (and shrink) the last. The surface of the paint will dry later than the layers beneath it, and thus will not crack.</p>
<p>First paint layer (of course) the canvas is applied with is gesso, the base paint. First ”real” layer of paint is called imprimatura, witch is neutral by it&#8217;s value. A common imprimatura is burnt umber mixed with white, thinned to milky consistency. Imprimatura (aka staining the canvas) is a very substantial phase, as white paint will then lighten and dark paint darken the painting.</p>
<p>As the imprimatura has dried, the next layer is painted. It&#8217;s called a grisaille. Grisaille (traditionally) is also made monochromatically (with one colour). It&#8217;s sole purpose is to set the darks and lights of the painting. Think of it as a black and white photograph (or sepia, for that matter).</p>
<p>Painting from a model (or especially from a photograph) is not inherently difficult, as the content of the picture is known, and the guide to mix the paints is straight in front of your eyes. You can even compare the paint straight from the tip of your palette knife! Getting the proportions right is even easier: Use a projector to project the image to the canvas!</p>
<p>If one desires to create new imaginery systematically, without a model,  a first solid step is to make a sketch (or a “cartone” in fresco).  The sketch is then transferred (with one mean or another) to the canvas.</p>
<p>It is challenging to start making a piece systematically, without any prior knowledge of the end result! To find a new image with a coherent technique, is a journey where a great confidence to ones intuition is a necessity. One must trust, that the piece will make sense in the end. To me, it is the only way to ”find” new images. I use the term find, as it describes the creative process (IMHO) well.</p>
<p><a href="http://albertlaine.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/layered1.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-320" title="Painting" src="http://albertlaine.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/layered1.jpg?w=1024" alt="" width="477" height="326" /></a></p>
<p>I made the grisaille of this painting on top of a neutral imprimatura only with burnt umber and white.</p>
<p>First the pyramids appeared, and then the general mood and the dynamics of the directions. I found the basic idea and composition of this painting in a couple of hours (this time). Then I started working on the illusion of depth and distance with white. Then I started to see skulls in the painting. Apparently I was getting too tired, so I headed to bed.</p>
<p>In the morning I saw very interesting subjects in the painting. The distances were not far enough, so  I had to continue with white layers. To substantiate the pyramids to the background.</p>
<p>After some hours of work, the painting was starting to take shape. The only problem was that the painting started to look like SciFi / Fantasy -genre. So it&#8217;s a time off again, until I see more interesting, hopefully abstract elements in the painting.</p>
<p>The idea of the work is of the highest importance. So I&#8217;ll stay in the grisaille phase (at least) one more session, until I feel that I can move to the next step. Then I&#8217;ll find the main colors of the elements. These colours aren&#8217;t applied straight away, but their complementary colours are applied to the shadows, one layer at a time. Finally the colour scheme sets it&#8217;s place, and the last strokes are made to the highlights.</p>
<p>6-12 months after the last stroke the painting is coated with vernissa.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll post more of the progress later. Now I started to learn to play the 10 hole blues harp!</p>
<p>Oh yeah, and sorry about my English. Grammar cops can post to comments! <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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<title><![CDATA[Men...]]></title>
<link>http://elanaroberts.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/men/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>elanaroberts</dc:creator>
<guid>http://elanaroberts.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/men/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[You can&#8217;t live with them, but a girl like me&#8230;.sure as hell can&#8217;t live without them]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>You can&#8217;t live with them, but a girl like me&#8230;.sure as hell can&#8217;t live without them!</p>
<p>I sent W a message..telling him I had a rare weekend free and wanted to know if he wanted to do something Friday night if he was free. ACK! I&#8217;ve never asked a guy out&#8230;ever. Even though this <em>barely</em> counts&#8230; I am still scared shitless. Why is it so hard for me to be normal around a man on a personal level? What if he says no? What if he decides it&#8217;s not worth it and we left it too long to see one another again? I don&#8217;t want to give this one up, I&#8217;ve wanted him for too long. He is just too right for me right now..</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Trading Oil Dependency for Rare Earth Dependency]]></title>
<link>http://whenhistoryattacks.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/trading-oil-dependency-for-rare-earth-dependency/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>underdog32</dc:creator>
<guid>http://whenhistoryattacks.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/trading-oil-dependency-for-rare-earth-dependency/</guid>
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<link>http://ikilledkenny416.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/empowerment/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ikilledkenny</dc:creator>
<guid>http://ikilledkenny416.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/empowerment/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[So I talked to my Aunt A today. Shes my moms youngest sister, and with only 10 years between us, she]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:center;">So I talked to my Aunt A today. Shes my moms youngest sister, and with only 10 years between us, shes much more like an older sister for me.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Anyway, I talked to her about all this stuff thats going on with my parents, and its not just me. I&#8217;m not crazy, yet. She says this is ridiculous too! Not in those words, but yeah, you get it. She said that the way their acting is totally not fair, and beyond it being the fact of just the sheer&#8230;. Ridiculousness of it, its also due to a fact that I hadnt thought to look at before. I am an Adult. I do NOT have to answer to them! Its not fair that their trying to have power over me that they really shouldnt even have. She suggested I just keep my distance for a little while, cause otherwise my Mom will just use me appeasing her as a power play. Its weird because I still feel so helpless to them. I mean yeah my phone bill is under there name and stuff, but to be honest, I pay my phone bill. My insurance just went under My name. Its kind of empowering to think about this stuff, really.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">My Mom complains that I&#8217;m So0o0o0o0o0oooo000ooo Dependent on Monster but taking a step back and looking closer it seems more to me like shes just mad that I&#8217;m not so dependent on her! And it was funny because Aunt A said that my mother has given her the advice that shes now giving me. Distance yourself. You dont answer to them anymore. Make your own choices and live for yourself. Which, if you think about it, is pretty elementary, but I&#8217;m starting to think that I&#8217;m more chained up in my psyche to my parents than I ever thought before. I&#8217;m an adult now, and the thought that I DONT have to answer to them or report to them, is a bit refreshing. Yes their my parents, but that doesnt mean that they get to control EVERY aspect of my life forever (Thank God, cause I&#8217;d be miserable!).</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Im still really hurt though that my mom would even say alot of the things she said, which is why I&#8217;m taking Aunt A&#8217;s advice and taking a few steps back, keeping my distance. Cause now? The smoke has begun to clear, and thoughts that mere days ago left me in tears, feeling guilty over hurting my mother&#8217;s feelings, are now a rallying cry, making me angry. Im not getting upset, now I&#8217;m getting Mad, and unlike guilt, which is a totally new landscape for me, Anger is a path that I know, and one that I have no fear of. I still have an ache in the pit of my stomach, one that cries out that this is my mother, and in some part of me remorse is eating at me that I dont want to be angry at her, but this is it. Monster is actually the person who switched my anger off, and made it so I could see clearly, so I could feel guilty instead of justified, and they insulted him, when they should think about how much better hes helped me become and thank their lucky stars. Instead they have simply reawoken the beast in me, and she is PISSED! So through the guilt I&#8217;ll fight, because instead of being chained down by the remorse pulsing in my stomach, I&#8217;ll burn through my obstacles with the anger I have always used like a lantern to guide me through the dark.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Hey mom? I hope your happy.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">In other news??? Not much happened. I&#8217;m jonesing for wendy&#8217;s, and a lemonade. I really should be working on my real writing, but I really just needed to get that out. Maybe I&#8217;ll write more a bit later.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Sparkle!]]></title>
<link>http://atlanticmama.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/sparkle/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Atlantic~mama</dc:creator>
<guid>http://atlanticmama.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/sparkle/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Please bless this home with sparkles and multi-colour shoes. Things we do to our children. For examp]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New Location = More]]></title>
<link>http://rubenloor.wordpress.com/2009/12/04/new-location-more/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Ruben Loor</dc:creator>
<guid>http://rubenloor.wordpress.com/2009/12/04/new-location-more/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This will be the third week of a new location for Morph and I’m really pumped about this. We are pla]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Thirsty?]]></title>
<link>http://rangermikedesigns.com/2009/12/01/thirsty/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mtliang</dc:creator>
<guid>http://rangermikedesigns.com/2009/12/01/thirsty/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This ad makes me feel uncomfortable. But in an effective design sort of way. I can&#39;t figure out ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[DPD: GAME OF THE YEAR Vote Now!]]></title>
<link>http://dpaddependency.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/dpd-game-of-the-year-vote-now/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>dpaddependency</dc:creator>
<guid>http://dpaddependency.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/dpd-game-of-the-year-vote-now/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A Lot of games came out this year. Actually, a lot of really good games came out this year. Not bad ]]></description>
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<p>A Lot of games came out this year. Actually, a lot of really good games came out this year. Not bad conidering that this time a year ago i was convinced there wasn&#8217;t anything in 2009 to be excited about. Well, wasn&#8217;t i wrong!</p>
<p>Things started very strong with Resident Evil 5 and Street Fighter 4 and the usual summer drought never really seemed to kick in. Winter of course is under the shadow of Modern Warfare 2, but Assassin&#8217;s Creed 2, Forza, and Uncharted 2 all stand tall next to Infinity Ward&#8217;s monster.</p>
<p>So, what really made a difference to you in 2009? What is YOUR Game Of The Year?<br />
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I am after your top 3 games released 2009. 1st place gets 3 points, 2nd get 2, and 3rd place gets 1 point. The game with the most points at the end of 2009 is the DPD: Game Of The Year.</p>
<p>we also have some bonus categories for you to vote on&#8230;</p>
<p>Best PS3 Exclusive Title<br />
Best 360 Exclusive Title<br />
Best Wii Exclusive Title<br />
Best Handheld Title<br />
Most Anticipated Game of 2010</p>
<p>To vote simply PM me on the Forum, DM me on Twitter, Message me on Facebook or finally email us at <!-- e --><a href="mailto:dpaddependency@live.co.uk">dpaddependency@live.co.uk</a><!-- e --></p>
<p>We need as many of you to vote as possible so even if you only played one new game this year, make your vote count. You can vote in one or all Categories. Get your friends involved, more the merrier!</p>
<p>Thanks guys.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[An Ode to Mother Nature]]></title>
<link>http://nightabove.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/an-ode-to-mother-nature/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nightabove</dc:creator>
<guid>http://nightabove.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/an-ode-to-mother-nature/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The wierdest things bring tears to my eyes. I just saw probably about a hundred birds migrating. It ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>The wierdest things bring tears to my eyes. I just saw probably about a hundred birds migrating. It was beautiful and I was overwhelmed. I couldn&#8217;t help but feel overwhelmed by how dependent they are of nature. How  instinctiv it all is&#8230; And how I hate humankind for it&#8217;s insensitivity. Me included. I&#8217;ve been struck by the beauty of nature and the dependence and life cycles of nature for as long as I can remember. I probably could stop these tears from coming and &#8220;be strong&#8221; but I don&#8217;t ever want nature not to affect me. I&#8217;ve at different points of my life tried to let go of emotions and especially towards other people, but never wanted that with my emotions towards nature. I owe so much to it and it&#8217;s so breakable. </p>
<p>No, I don&#8217;t believe everything I hear about how we&#8217;re destroying earth but it hurts to see how we have complete disregard for all the beauty and all the miracles that surround us, including our disregard for eachother. </p>
<p>&#8230;And the dislike we have for the beauty and strength dependency can give us as natural beings. </p>
<p>Bitter kisses. </p>
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<title><![CDATA[PU 043: Preventing AIDS Among Women - Nov 30, 2009]]></title>
<link>http://povertyunlocked.com/2009/11/30/pu-043-preventing-aids-among-women-nov-30-2009/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>povertyunlocked</dc:creator>
<guid>http://povertyunlocked.com/2009/11/30/pu-043-preventing-aids-among-women-nov-30-2009/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[World AIDS Day is December 1, 2009. In this interview, Carolyn Wetzel shares the story of 36 African]]></description>
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<p>World AIDS Day is December 1, 2009. In this interview, Carolyn Wetzel shares the story of 36 African women who turned away from prostitution when they were shown a way out.</p>
<p>Carolyn Wetzel is Health Programs Coordinator for Food for the Hungry. She lives in Washington, D.C.</p>
<p>More listening options:<br />
<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/povertyunlocked/~3/OpZl-f-lr04/043-PreventingAIDSAmongWomen.mp3" target="_blank">Right-click to download</a><br />
<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=263234399">Subscribe in iTunes</a></p>
<p><a href="http://fh.org/changeforlife">Change for Life</a> is a new way to bring hope to those suffering from the AIDS crisis, one of the most severe health problems the world has ever faced.</p>
<p>When you get involved with Change for Life, Food for the Hungry will provide your church, Sunday School class, workplace or other group with small containers to collect spare coins for six weeks. As the containers fill up, the accumulation of pocket change will fund programs like the one Carolyn discussed on today’s episode. Get started <a href="http://fh.org/changeforlife">here</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[What are Mormonism's dependencies?]]></title>
<link>http://irresistibledisgrace.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/what-are-mormonisms-dependencies/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
<guid>http://irresistibledisgrace.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/what-are-mormonisms-dependencies/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When I was first getting into linux, I didn&#8217;t realize the value of using the package managers.]]></description>
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<p>The problem? Either compiling would fail or the program would miss functions when used. Why? As I soon found out, I often missed crucial <em>dependencies</em>&#8230;software packages that my desired software needed to work properly.</p>
<p>In an ideal world, I thought every programmer should make self-contained standalone products&#8230;I wanted to be able to just use a new function without having to download several other dependencies&#8230;but lacking that, I discovered a sweet consolation: a package manager that would deal with dependency hell for me.</p>
<p>When I see people propose changes to Mormonism (or other religions), sometimes I get the impression that they are like my old self&#8230;blissfully unaware of the dependencies that hide behind religious and cultural dynamics.</p>
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<p>I guess this sentiment seems obvious to me now, but I was reading <a href="http://washparkprophet.blogspot.com/2009/11/musings-on-religion-and-demography.html">a blog that put things rather thoughtfully</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Mormon model offers a lot that the rest of the nation would like to emulate. For example, stable marriages, high levels of education, low levels of child poverty, high levels of private charity, a strong civil society, low abortion rates, low levels of out of wedlock births, low levels of suicide, and low levels of the public health problems associated with alcohol and tobacco (are there any public health problems associated with caffeine consumption?).</p>
<p>There are, of course, other element of the model about which the nation is not favorably inclined or ambivalent. For example, large families, early marriages, high levels of intense (and heterodox) religious belief, and high bankruptcy rates.</p>
<p>Many of the demographic consequences of the Mormon social model are largely not severable from each other. Early marriage and low out of wedlock birth rates, for example, go hand in hand in the Mormon social model. Intense religious belief drives the willingness to break from the national social norms about alcohol, tobacco, marriage and childbearing. Large families create the economic interdependencies that help make marriages more stable, and can be a factor in making bankruptcy necessary in hard times.</p>
<p>A glance of the interdependencies of the Mormon social model makes it easy to understand how modernizing leaders in the Third World, like Ataturk, chose to keep not only functional parts of colonial culture, but also dysfunctional ones like Western fashion conventions. Culture is a package deal and the linkages between different parts of the package are often non-obvious. For example, while low alcohol consumption is a key to Mormon public health, high alcohol consumption is central to making the rich French diet less of a health problem for the French. According to Malcolm Gladwell&#8217;s book <em>Outliers</em>, culture is key to explaining commercial aircraft accident rates and transitioning South Korean flight crews to English was the lynch pin necessary to reduce commercial aircraft accidents on Korea Air.</p></blockquote>
<p>I think that what Oh-Willeke says is interesting. <em>Seeking a beneficial trait often involves maintaining dysfunctional traits along with it, because of interdependencies</em>.</p>
<p>What I wonder is&#8230;what are lurking interdependencies? Oh-Willeke has an interesting hypothesis later on (regarding homosexuality and religious groups with large families, like Mormons today and Catholics in the past), but I feel <em>that</em> one is a bit premature. But couldn&#8217;t there be other interdependencies (and related &#8220;externalities&#8221; to religious doctrines and practices) that are more readily apparent?</p>
<p>When<a href="http://latter-day-skeptics.net/2009/09/03/a-rising-mormon-heresy/"> bloggers assess the viability of &#8220;middle way&#8221; or &#8220;new order&#8221; Mormonism</a>, could the source of the doubt in these novel approaches be from recognizing that there is a <em>dependency</em> between the success of Mormonism and its &#8220;rigidity&#8221;?</p>
<p>Other than crazy science knowledge that&#8217;s way over my head, one of the motifs I sense from the commenter <a href="http://thefirestillburning.wordpress.com/about-me/">FireTag</a>&#8217;s comments is this&#8230;lamentation&#8230;an urgency&#8230;he is a member of the Community of Christ, which I dunno&#8230;maybe it could be seen as the Latter-day Saint church in a parallel universe (except fortunately, we can see this parallel universe from our own.)  His lamentation comes from this seeming fatalist realization that the CofChrist will soon dwindle into complete irrelevance. This cannot be reversed, it seems, so instead, the goal is to immortalize the church not through its name but through values like <em>peace</em> and <em>justice</em> (for which the church acts to promote).</p>
<p>What does this morbidity have to do with anything? Well, if you could imagine&#8230;the split in parallel universes between the LDS church and the CofChrist happened after Joseph Smith&#8217;s death. So, we can see that the main LDS church went westward with Brigham Young and got into many of the things that Brigham Young did&#8230;whereas the CofChrist avoids many Brigham Youngisms (<a href="http://www.mormonheretic.org/2008/09/14/was-priesthood-ban-inspired/">many of</a> which are <a href="http://latterdaycommentary.blogspot.com/2008/05/adam-god-theory-gets-attention-again.html">embarrassing remnants</a> for the modern church.) So we can see how the two churches differed doctrinally, theologically, and effectually. The different positions of the church <em>today</em> can reflect the differences in &#8220;dependencies&#8221; from way back when.</p>
<p>While many members of the main LDS church would like to see liberalization, it seems that even a change here could have drastic consequences down the line.</p>
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<link>http://freeassociations.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/ich-besetzung-ego-cathexis/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>aldussault</dc:creator>
<guid>http://freeassociations.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/ich-besetzung-ego-cathexis/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I got a call from a dear friend this morning.  She was upset, and spoke about a lonely Thanksgiving ]]></description>
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<p>I got a call from a dear friend this morning.  She was upset, and spoke about a lonely Thanksgiving as her kids were not around to share the holiday with her. I felt her concern and I understood what it is like to feel that desperate sense of lack that accompanies the missing of something that we want so very badly to happen in our lives.</p>
<p>I was fortunate this year to have the full compliment of my family with me for the holiday.  That fact alone, however, does not eliminate the feeling of lack.  As I awoke this morning and the deep grey New England rain was covering everything in a blanket of damp, cold and colorless images, I was aware that I had grown a new dependency in my life.  Like all the other dependencies that I have had to cope with, this one felt warm and seemed to be providing my needs nicely.  But, I was also aware that like all other dependencies in the past, it too had the possibility of de compensating  into a vast sea of emptiness, characterized by fear, worry and a generalized feeling of low-level depression.</p>
<p>I hate that phrase, &#8220;low-level depression.&#8221;  It makes it seem like a perpetual fever that just will not quit. Like when the fever is not high enough to keep me in bed, but low enough so that I have to work feeling miserable&#8230;We have all been there, so I am pretty sure this description will not feel new.   Be that as it may, returning to the new dependency&#8211;I have grown throughly dependent on a circle of friends.  I find myself double thinking everything I am wanting and even much of how I am thinking and that doubt seems permanently lodged and the only thing that resolves it is a nod of approval from this circle of friends. two-thirds of the way through my life and suddenly I can&#8217;t tie my shoe without wondering if there is a more spiritually fit way to do this.</p>
<p>Having trained as a psychoanalyst has had it disadvantages, the least of which is not that i was educated to feel that i needed to depend on my healthy, well analyzed ego for the right and the next right answer to everything.  Well, that wonderful little formula breaks down at exactly the time in life when one is in crisis.  This wonderfully analyzed ego is worth shit when a situation comes along that requires the self to regress in service of the ego.  &#8221;<em>In service of the ego</em>,&#8221; what in god&#8217;s name is that.  Just when you need it most, the ego decides to return in time to an infantile stage of development. And, suddenly, you can no longer tie your shoe without a consultation that runs roughly one-hundred and fifty bucks an hour. Or, as I have been discovering recently, I need to be reminded by someone who is <em>Not-Me </em>that as recent as yesterday i had figured out a way to live that was very much in concert with nature, the universe, and my dog.</p>
<p>So, why do I need to be reminded?  From what i have been able to tell thus-far, I need to be reminded because when a circumstance happens that momentarily blocks my view of the sun, I can not remember where the light was coming from. If you were to step down, using a long ladder, and you were to descend into a deep well; the further down you went the smaller the circle of light at the top would become, until it was a pin-hole of light followed by utter and total darkness.  The dark light of the soul is despair.  That mood of discouraging conditions that is characterized by having no hope.  The darkness of hopelessness is despair.</p>
<p>Even the smallest pin-hole of light prevents despair, but once you pass that point in the down ward move just beyond where all light fails, you can not see your way out of emotional, mental, nor spiritual darkness.</p>
<p>The reason that I need my spiritually fit friends is because they are not in the pit or the well, with me at the same time.  So, they can still see the light even though, it is failing to reveal itself to me.  I think what I am discovering is that in the process of becoming spiritually fit the most important dimension is to surround ourselves with other people making the same spiritual journey.  They will hold our hands and they will think for us at moments when we have forgotten that we knew the way out.  While my ego is regressing for some reason that it finds very important, my friends who are accompanying me on this journey through inter-being will guide me up the ladder until, I can once again see the light.</p>
<p>My newest dependency is to my dear circle of people willing to guide me when I lose sight, and in exchange, i am willing to guide them when they lose sight.  We are forming a village, a community with a common mission.  Finally, were I to discover in the future that this dependency on my circle was becoming an addiction, well, all that I would really need to do would be to find a new twelve step program, perhaps, Triple AAA, Addiction to Addictions Anonymous.</p>
<p><a href="http://freeassociations.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/stairway-oil-like_2.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-258" title="stairWaY oil-like_2" src="http://freeassociations.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/stairway-oil-like_2.jpg?w=225" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a></p>
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<link>http://dpaddependency.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/sgt-johnson-codes-are-back/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>dpaddependency</dc:creator>
<guid>http://dpaddependency.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/sgt-johnson-codes-are-back/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Halo ODST is now available at GAME for £19.99 Preowned. To celebrate we are giving away 15 ODST Sgt.]]></description>
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<p>To celebrate we are giving away 15 ODST Sgt.Johnson Codes. 5 on our Facebook Group, 5 on our Message boards, and 5 right here on the blog!<!--more--></p>
<p>Can&#8217;t be bad can it!</p>
<p>TVP6G-W8792-TKMKT-XXXY3-PGMXW</p>
<p>BR34D-D6GBR-HY29Q-GVTYW-QM4KY</p>
<p>FBR9C-KTFD7-HGYVG-PBFCJ-R82VD</p>
<p>P3HVX-WRCHF-M7WCH-F9KWH-JYK8Y</p>
<p>H4T2G-VMWMM-K6YQT-BTBTT-Q9BXM</p>
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<link>http://chumptrap.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/wanna-start-your-own-cult/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nottachump</dc:creator>
<guid>http://chumptrap.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/wanna-start-your-own-cult/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s so easy it&#8217;s scary! Watch this video for a dark and twisted (and largely accurate) ]]></description>
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<p>Watch this video for a dark and twisted (and largely accurate) take on what I&#8217;m currently researching for upcoming posts&#8230;</p>
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