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Pastor's Blog - August 6, 2017
Transfiguration of the Lord
News and Notes:
Welcome… Once again this summer, we are blessed to have a priest from the African Mission Fathers (SMA) with us during the month of August. This year, the priest assigned to us is Father Narcisse Seka Ogou who hails from the Ivory Coast, a nation located in West Africa. Fr. Narcisse will be living in the White House on Grove St., celebrating Masses and hearing confessions in both parishes, and serving us in other ways during these weeks. Please welcome him warmly to our Collaborative.
As is our custom, we will take up a second collection to support the work of the SMA order. This collection will take place at all Masses in our Collaborative on the weekend of August 19-20. Your generous response to this collection is greatly appreciated.
Blessings to all of you in the summer days ahead!

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Find and book unique accommodation on Airbnb
Guests agree: these stays are highly rated for location, cleanliness, and more.
Modern Apartment in Old TownCozy two-room apartment for two, renovated in a modern style and located on the first floor of a house in the historic center of Pinzolo. Consisting of: a double bedroom, a fully equipped kitchen, a private bathroom with a shower. Ideal for a romantic stay.
Relaxing holiday in Adamello Brenta Natural ParkMasetto Zucal is a small chalet in fir wood and local stone, renovated in 2012, located on a hill at 1100 m. with beautiful panoramic view of the Val Rendena, only 4 km. from Spiazzo village, asphalted municipal road to the house. The price is ideal for long term summer rentals, 2 or 3 nature lovers, rest, walks, climbing, mushrooms, fishing, MTB. The house is with all the basic comforts but on purpose without modern technology. Adamello Brenta Nat. Park
Condominium DolomitiBeautiful and bright apartment complete with every comfort located a stone's throw from the town center (supermarket, bar, ATM), consisting of a living room/kitchen, two bathrooms and two bedrooms. The double bedroom is very spacious with the option to add a bed/cot. Towels, sheets and breakfast are provided.

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My Darling Domestik is a 1989 Filipino comedy film and one of the projects was comedy superstars Dolphy and Babalu work together.
Directed by Jett C. Espiritu, My Darling Domestik was not only a commercial success but also became popular several years later after its initial release.
My Darling Domestik Summary
The story is about a man (Dolphy) who lost drive and direction in life. He went on a drinking spree and lost his job.
A friend employed him as an automotive shop assistant but everything he touches turns into a disaster until he met someone and fell in love with her. He then saw hope and become more focused on regaining himself again.
My Darling Domestik Cast
Dolphy, Zsa Zsa Padilla, Eric Quizon, Panchito, Alou Camua, Babalu, Bomber Moran, Luz Valdez, Raymond Tan, Protacio Dee, Teroy de Guzman, Babalina, Sauro Cotoco, Juliet Uy , Conde Ubaldo
Watch My Darling Domestik Full Movie
- Bunso Isinilang Kang Palaban Full Movie (1995)
- Boboy Tibayan: Tigre ng Cavite Full Movie (1985)
- Pepeng Kuryente Full Movie (1988)
- Lovingly Yours Helen: The Movie (1984)
- May Lamok sa Loob ng Kulambo Full Movie

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Study design: A prospective multicenter investigational device exempt trial is underway evaluating a novel conformable mesh interbody fusion device in subjects undergoing single-level fusion for degenerative disc disease. Patients meeting inclusion and exclusion criteria were offered enrollment. There is no comparative group in this study.
Objective: Establish the short and long-term safety and effectiveness of a novel conformable mesh interbody fusion device in subjects undergoing single-level fusion for degenerative disc disease unresponsive to conservative care.
Summary of background data: Transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion remains a critical procedure for patients with degenerative lumbar disc disease. Increasingly minimally invasive techniques have been proposed to minimize muscle dissection and tissue damage with the goal of minimizing pain and length of stay.
Methods: One hundred two subjects were enrolled across 10 sites. Ninety nine subjects remained available for follow-up at 12-months. Physical evaluations/imaging were performed serially through 12-months. Validated assessment tools included 100 mm visual analogue scale (VAS) for pain, Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) for function, and computerized tomography scan for fusion. Independent committees were used to identify adverse events and for assessment of radiographic fusion.
Results: Reductions in low back pain (LBP)/leg pain and improvements in functional status occur early and are maintained through 12-month follow-up. Mean VAS-LBP change from baseline to 6-weeks post-op (-46 mm) continued to improve through 12 months (-51 mm). Similar trends were observed for leg pain. Mean ODI change from baseline to 6 weeks post-op (-17) was almost doubled by 12 months (-32). Fusion rates at 12-months are high (98%). No device-related serious adverse events have occurred.
Conclusion: 12-month outcomes demonstrated excellent patient compliance and positive outcomes for pain, function, fusion, and device safety. Clinical improvements were observed by 6-weeks post-op and appear durable up to 1 year later. A novel mesh interbody device may provide an alternative means of interbody fusion that reduces connective tissue disruption.Level of Evidence: 3.
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The Office of Governmental Accountability and the nine formerly independent state watchdog agencies that the OGA gobbled up in 2011 have been a lousy fit.
The current nasty fight between OGA executive administrator Shelby Brown and Michael Brandi, executive director of one of the principal watchdogs, the State Elections Enforcement Commission, shows why.
Throwing these agencies together administratively hasn't saved much money. It has robbed the elections commission and other vitally important agencies such as the Office of State Ethics and the Freedom of Information Commission of needed personnel.
It has slowed their regulatory pace. That's a loss for people who prize clean elections, ethical behavior by public officials and open government.
And because the governor has the final say in picking the OGA's executive administrator, he or she has a perch from which to bully any watchdog who has fallen out of favor. After all, Ms. Brown, the OGA boss, has said in no uncertain terms that "I work for the governor."
On whose behalf, then, did Ms. Brown's agents seize a computer from the elections enforcement commission office in March without the knowledge of SEEC managers? Why is she trying to block the SEEC's rehiring of a former employee in whom Mr. Brandi has confidence?
Is this hamhanded intrusion by Ms. Brown into a watchdog agency's personnel matters really necessary? Or even appropriate?
It should be remembered that Mr. Malloy's 2014 gubernatorial campaign is currently being investigated by the State Elections Enforcement Commission for the alleged illegal use of campaign funds. Ms. Brown's harassment of the SEEC can't help but look like part of a seamy back story.
Regardless, the consolidation of watchdog agencies has proved to be unworkable and destructive.
At the very least the "big three" — ethics, FOI and elections enforcement — should be cut loose to stand alone once more.


En Vivo Conciertos España is the first release of new material in seven years, and first live album in 18, by the flamenco guitar god par excellence. While de Lucía's output has slowed down considerably in the past two decades, the same cannot be said of his prodigious dexterity, in light of this two-CD set culled from his 2010 Spanish tour. De Lucía performs extended variations of eight of his compositions (almost every track surpasses the ten-minute mark) together with his new band of guitarist Antonio Sánchez, bassist Alain Pérez, singers David de Jacoba and Duquende, harmonica player Antonio Serrano, and dancer Farru, all eminently up to de Lucía's notoriously high standards. A DVD with the "making-of" documentary La Inmortalidad del Concierto completes the release.
New version of the Paco de Lucía Integral, 27 CDs his complete work remastered. "Cositas Buenas", his last album, comes as a new in this new Integral. Now in a new economic format. This collection is a unique tour of the work of Paco de Lucia from 1964 to 2004. On his first outing in five years, and the first of the new century, flamenco guitarist Paco De Lucia has given us one of the most sublime recordings in his long career. This collection of "Good Little Things" (Cositas Buenas) is a step away from Nuevo flamenco, and back to the grain of the source music itself. It is a record full of handclapped rhythms, organic spare percussion, and burning, passionate songwriting and singing. The various singers – including Paco himself – wail, chant, moan, and ecstatically intone his new songs to the sheer rough-hewn grace of his playing.
New version of the Paco de Lucía Integral, 27 CDs his complete work remastered. "Cositas Buenas", his last album, comes as a new in this new Integral. Now in a new economic format. This collection is a unique tour of the work of Paco de Lucia from 1964 to 2004. Fifteen tracks taken from the most disparate and most unknown of Paco de Lucía’s works. In the first place the Extended Play of 1964, the guitar of Paco de Lucía, with four toques. The alegrías recorded for the record In Memoriam Niño Ricardo in 1972. The parts Paco recorded for the Dolores record Asa-Nisa-Masa in 1978. The three pieces he composed for the film by José Luís Borau La Sabina.
In the ancient world, terracotta sculpture was ubiquitous. Readily available and economical—unlike stone suitable for carving—clay allowed artisans to craft figures of remarkable variety and expressiveness. Terracottas from South Italy and Sicily attest to the prolific coroplastic workshops that supplied sacred and decorative images for sanctuaries, settlements, and cemeteries. …
A psychological thriller, based on one of the most controversial court cases in the Netherlands. Lucia, a nurse, is sentenced to life imprisonment for allegedly having killed at least seven babies and elderly people.
A limited edition of the Camaron de la Isla 'Integral' box-set. It represents a veritable journey through his life and singing. It includes 21 original albums. The first 17 of them were made in recording studios by Camaron from 1969 to 1992 while he was alive. The title of his new album in 1975 seems to indicate the path politics would take, because of its reference to "majestad" (majesty, or King). "Arte y majestad" is a work in the Camaron manner as few others -his styles and vocal twistings are presents in each track, although the authorship of the cuts is still signed by Antonio Sanchez. To prove it, all that is needed is to listen to the "soleares", "tarantas" (the credits say "tarantos"), "seguiriyas" and "bulerias", outstanding the one dedicated to his admired Curro Romero, in which Paco de Lucia gave a preview of some sounds from the coming "Almoraima".


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The evolution of control algorithms
Today, PIDs are the most common lower-level control systems, while Rule-Based Controller (RBC) control is considered the standard for optimizing high-level management of HVAC systems, but the resulting energy savings are limited. Indeed, in RBC control, strategies are fixed and not scalable to different climate conditions or building characteristics, unable to predict changes in HVAC systems.
To overcome these limitations, the application of model-based control strategies has been explored in recent years. In particular, Model Predicted Control (MPC) has become the dominant control strategy in intelligent building operation research.
However, although the implementation of MPC has demonstrated its excellent ability to improve thermal comfort and reduce energy consumption, its model-based nature is a critical issue in some cases.
Indeed, a significant problem with MPC is related to the dependence of performance on a model definition for optimizing the control strategy, which is often difficult to design with good accuracy. In addition, it is difficult to generalise its use to different types of plants and buildings. As a result, MPC controllers have not been adopted as expected in the construction industry, despite promising results.
Research has also focused on the development of model-free controllers based on Machine Learning (ML), which has shown great potential for improving building performance, particularly when based on Reinforcement Learning (RL). Interest in RL-based control strategies is growing, and Enerbrain is contributing to research in this area.

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After hearing, the Norwegian government settled a new proposal for ground rent tax. As a result of the consensus in the Parliament, further changes are now being made.
Changes in the draft law after the consensus in the Parliament
- The effective tax rate is set to 25%.
- For new power plants, a payment scheme for negative ground rent income is introduced when they are put into operation, and the Tax Administration has conducted a review of the determined tax. In the meantime, negative ground rent income is carried forward with interest. The introduction requires the approval of this scheme by the EEA.
- For existing power plants, the entry value receives a 40% markup compared to the government`s original proposal. However, the entry value cannot be higher than 85% of the historical cost of investments. The entry value is written off linearly against the ground rent tax over 5 years.
- The settlement does not entail changes in the production levy.

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If yes, it’s time to take action. Having the confidence and technique to sing brings a wealth of wonderful rewards.
HasA is the teaching singing company led by top music professional Helen Astrid, giving students access to superior coaching and exclusive singing opportunities. With a range of private singing lessons, workshops and concerts our team offers coaching in singing skills with all aspects of performance, presentation and body awareness. Uniquely, we can work in a range of languages including English, German, French, Italian and Russian. We have students travelling from all over the world including Paris, Moscow, Dubai, Toronto, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Helen trained at the world-leading conservatoire of music, The Royal Academy of Music before enjoying a highly successful career as an opera singer. She is highly respected as one of Britain’s leading musical figures and in demand for her knowledge of the singing voice with regular appearances on television and radio. Helen’s wealth of experience gives her the insight to offer expert coaching to individuals enabling them to transform their voices.
Looking for a corporate event with a difference? We work extensively in the business arena delivering tailor-made team-building workshops helping groups to work together more effectively and confidently whilst removing inhibitions in a fun and uplifting atmosphere. To find out more about our corporate singing workshops visit www.corporatesingingworkshops.com
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WATCH: Brothers Osborne Throw An 'All Night' Dance Party
Brothers Osborne are paying tribute to quarantine boredom in the new video for their single “All Night.”
A guy who has run out of ways to amuse himself while stuck at home receives delivery of a box from “Bros Shipping” containing life-size dummies. While there are several things he could do with his new companions, he chooses to dance with them.
"All Night" comes from the Brothers Osborne's fourth studio album, Skeletons, which comes out on Oct. 9.
T.J. and John are scheduled to headline Ontario’s Boots and Hearts Music Festival on Aug. 8, 2021.
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There’s something about going for an afternoon tea that feels extremely British. On our most recent trip to London, we decided to take advantage of the experience day voucher that had been at home gathering dust for some time. Red Letter Days provide a huge range of gift experiences from Michelin-star gourmet treats to fast-paced track experience days.
After whittling down the options, we decided to go for the Afternoon Tea for Two at Boulevard Brasserie in Covent Garden.
Boulevard Brasserie is a traditional French restaurant located in the heart of Covent Garden’s Opera Quarter. The low-lit, intimate atmosphere and classic decor reflected a true Parisian style. The staff were very friendly and quickly showed us to our window-side table on the first floor, which was a great little spot for people-watching.
The waiter talked us through the set menu to give us a sense of what to expect, and we selected our brew from a variety of black and herbal teas. The presentation of the food was beautiful, and we thoroughly enjoyed tasting the different sandwiches, scones, cakes and desserts that were on offer to us. At first glance it didn’t seem like there was a huge amount of food, but we actually found it to be very filling!
This was my first experience of a traditional afternoon tea and I very much enjoyed sitting back, taking in the scenes below and sipping on a good cuppa. The food was absolutely delicious – so delicious that we struggled to pick a favourite.
If I were to visit again, I think I’d spend the extra pennies to get the Champagne Afternoon Tea for Two, as we could see others around us with this option and the staff were very generous with the bubbly.
Overall, the location in the centre of Covent Garden was fantastic, and we made sure to explore the surrounding markets and shopping areas before heading to our next destination, The Shard.

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Classes & Workshops
At Bright Lights, we encourage students to register for classes and workshops so that they can hone theatrical and theological skills. While main-stage productions are a great way to learn, workshops and classes are designed to teach students specific skills in a more desirable learning ratio.
In this 15 week class your student will learn and improve upon the basics of music theory and music performance. At the end of this 15 week class your student, along with their peers, will give a showcase of what they learned during the semester. Your students will be put in age appropriate groups so that they get the best education possible.
Registration opens in October of 2021.
This class is for students in 3rd-12th grade.
Classes are $225 per child.
Location: 8505 Douglas Ave.
Day/Time: TBA; 1.5 hours a week
Workshops for the spring semester will be announced soon.
We plan to have 2-3 Saturday morning workshops, so be on the lookout for updates!


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Bob is taking a break from caretaking the moon to bring his tales of space back down to earth.
North East author Simon Bartram’s award-winning story, Man on the Moon, has been transformed into a theatre show, thanks to children who have helped creators come up with ideas.
Produced by New Writing North, in association with The Sage Gateshead for Durham Book Festival, the performances will feature original music and will tour libraries, community centres and primary schools.
The story follows a day in the life of Bob, an ordinary man who happens to have the most extraordinary job of caretaker and tour guide on the moon, who doesn’t believe in aliens.
Director Ruth Johnson, writer Zoe Cooper and performer Claire Tustin have been working with families to share their ideas about how to transfer the story from picture book to stage.
Youngsters have also written up their own list of rules for the Bob Fan Club, with others being encouraged to join up by posting their own photographs and videos to the tour’s Facebook page.
To encourage children to take part, they are offering five signed copies of the book to the most convincing Bobs.
Audiences will be able to discover what happens for themselves when the show, led by a three-strong cast, visits Seaham and Peterlee, the Robin Todd Centre in South Hetton and the Jubilee Hall in West Rainton.
Simon, who is a Sunderland fan, frequently features red and white stripes in his work, with another of his books, Up for the Cup, inspired by the club.
More details can be found at www.manonthemoontour.com

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My first attempt at Minstrel banjo playing. I clearly don't have a traditional instrument and I am finding it difficult to keep the strings in tune!
I am looking for advice on technique. I think I see people using their thumb and finger to strike the middle strings, but I can't be so sure two days into playing.
This is the first video I've even made of myself, so thank you for making me safe to do so.


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Artistic Textured Abstract Shapes as background – You can create your own SNS story with saving your time. Just write your text when you upload Instagram stories.
These background images are JPG file which is ready to use easily. You can just download files to your phone and upload one of the JPG file you’d like and add your text on instagram.
These instagram story background template set would be good for bloggers, small brands, shop owners, designers and photographers.
Set of 10 JPG images and additional 4 PNG files are zipped
Size: 1080 x 1920 px / 150 dpi (enough resolution for web or mobile)
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I wake up in the morning, and rub my eyes. Immediately I cry out, and my shoulder does too. I glance down where the flaming bullet had hit me the day before. A hole tunneled it's way into my upper arm, and stopped at the bone. I winced, and tried to decide how to get the bullet out.
After a few minutes of trying to dig it out and with tears streaming down my face, I glance at Annabeth.
Her hair is nestled around her face, and her breath comes in quick puffs.
In and out, in and out, in... and out.
She clutches a shark rock in one hand, since she lost her knife. I lean forward and hold her hand.
Soon this will all be over. She can go home. Soon it will all be worth it.
Suddenly, Annabeth's gray eyes flash open. She jumps to her feet, with a terrified look.
I didn't like that look- it was the look of a cornered animal. I reach forward to calm her but she merely glances at me. She turns her head 9- degrees, silently. Than with a wicked aim she hurls the rock just behind a boulder.
We hear a cry of shock and pain, and than a massive thud. I pick up my sword and cautiously move over to the boulder. I put one arm in from of Annabeth, as a sort of protection.
My arm is immediately batted away. I peek around the boulder. There IS someone there.
I immediately slam the sword over my head and onto the victim, but it glances off the rock. I blink, and the person looking at me blinks. It's Frank. His mouth is open, and he tries to say something. In the end it comes out like,
"Did you just- uh-guh-um" I nod slowly. Than I shake my head. I reach over and pull Frank back up.
His mouth is shut tight, and he crosses his arms.
"WHAT IN THE HESTIA WAS THAT??" He demands, and as he screams his voice becomes a roar. His body melts away, in the place of a massive grizzly bear.
This time Annabeth takes my hand. I look up into Frank's eyes. I had to find a way to fix this before things got messy.
"uh- we were just... sleeping. And Annabeth heard a noise.. we thought.. " I gulped and continued, "we thought you were another tribute... trying to sneak up on us." Frank's eyes glower at me and I'm all too prepared to take another swing with the sword. Than finally the fire in his eyes die down and he shape-shifts back into his normal form.
He wipes his forehead. "Sorry man, it's just hard to control my anger. I thought you an Annabeth were trying to kill me or something!" He grins uneasily, and bends back down behind the boulder. His eyes follow my sword, but instead he calls out.
"Can I have some privacy please- I'm trying to finish my business.." He breaks off and Annabeth blushes. Than she hurries away and starts making the breakfast salad. So far all we have found is the dressing.
I decide since the situation is so disastrous to just lighten the mood.
"Sweetheart, I know you're practically a vegetarian but in the mornings I really prefer coffee and an omelet."
Annabeth gets an exasperated look on her face, and I first I think I went too far. But then she grins and comes over to hug me. But suddenly she is hugging me for a really long time, and her eyes aren't looking at me anymore. "Frank?" She calls into the forest behind us, without turning around. He runs out and comes to join us, "Yeah?"
"Guys. don't move but there's a huge bird nest up in the trees."
I shrug, "So? More meat for us."
Annabeth's voice turns stern, "Not if they're made of metal."


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The Department of Artwork & Artwork Historical past is an interdisciplinary division offering undergraduate and graduate levels in art history, art practice, documentary filmmaking, and movie studies. Artists who’re related to this period embrace the Limbourg brothers (Pol, Herman, and Jehanequin), who labored within the ancient artwork of ebook illumination in France (although they have been from the Netherlands), and Italian artists Gentile da Fabriano (1370-1427), Antonio Pisanello (1395-1455), and Sassetta (1392-1450).
Colonial and Shaker designs had been the one actually American types at the moment. The Art Apply program on both undergraduate and graduate ranges provides production-primarily based curriculum to arrange college students for artistic careers within the visual arts and hone their artistic capabilities.
The offerings within the historical past of art are designed to assist the student develop the skills of analytical serious about artwork; to know the processes by which artwork is made, the ideas guiding its production, and the patterns of its consumption within both its historical and subsequent contexts; to develop visible literacy through the popularity of various languages of world artwork; and to respond critically to their ideological implications.
The compulsory module, Frameworks: Histories and Theories of Art, Structure, Pictures, is designed as an introduction to present theoretical and historiographical issues within the examine of the discipline. Different examples of Mesolithic moveable artwork embrace bracelets, painted pebbles and ornamental drawings on practical objects, in addition to historical pottery of the Japanese Jomon tradition.
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Pop art started within the USA in the course of the ancient times of the 1960’s. Advanced training in European art history requires direct publicity to the item of examine, extended access to key information sources akin to libraries and photographic archives, the event of professional relationships with colleagues abroad, and sustainedÂ immersion in European cultures.
Guided by an knowledgeable course group, you will have interaction with a wide range of art and design objects, and be taught to explore the use, production, preservation, social value and cultural memory of the issues that societies and people have created.anonymous,uncategorized,misc,general,other
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Some of the most proficient artists from this period, who adopted postimpressionist kinds, created art using recognizable Cuban themes-local farmers, mulato girls and lush tropical landscapes.
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History Of Chinese Martial Arts
Research Art Historical past to learn in regards to the worlds of visual and material culture, sculpture, images, structure, craft, new media, digital art, efficiency art, and extra. The College of Brighton is at the coronary heart of our city’s status as a welcoming, forward-pondering place which leads the way on the subject of the arts, music, sustainability and inventive know-how. At the end of the Gothic period, there have been some artists within the North who maintained this Gothic model, holding to its tradition, even whereas Italy gave start to a brand new artistic and cultural age – the Renaissance.
Artistic endeavors and architecture are studied as bodily manifestations of human creativeness and creativity that shape and are shaped by the aesthetic, cultural, political, non secular, social, and economic forces of a selected moment in human historical past, but we additionally think of them as living objects, the meanings of which develop and change over time.
The Historical past Of Kung Fu
This article will probably be my feeble attempt at giving a generalized version of the historical past of the Korean martial artwork known as Tang Soo Do as I understand it. I cannot try and trace the roots of Tang Soo Do all the best way again to its starting. UCL’s Historical past of Artwork graduates have a file of success in careers in museums and galleries, academia, the art commerce, the heritage business, artwork publishing, artwork conservation and instructing. Arts and humanities at Birkbeck are ranked fifth greatest in London, 18th in the UK and 87th globally in the 2019 Instances Increased Education World College Rankings by Subject.
In 1961 the Korean government initiated a motion to unify all the martial arts schools in Korea below one governing physique, to be referred to as the Korean Tae Soo Do Affiliation. Evaluation varies in accordance with the paper being studied however sometimes consists of written examinations and visual analysis checks (evaluating and contrasting artistic endeavors), and a dissertation in both 12 months 1 and 12 months three.
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The faculty is comprised of distinguished students who concentrate on theÂ intellectual and professional growth of our students. As an undergraduate finding out Artwork Historical past and Biochemistry, I used to be introduced to the making of ceramics during an elective course and realized that I could combine my data of art and science in this one topic space. Most recently, themes explored on this module have included art, modernity and the town; screening meaning; fashion and the African diaspora; art, structure, design and decoration in the English country house.


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Tennessee’s upcoming tourism news is consolidated for your convenience below. Click on links for additional details.
Nashville/Dickson – Les Kerr & The Bayou Band: “Fat Tuesday Mardi Gras Celebration” – Celebrate Mardi Gras with Les Kerr and The Bayou Band featuring food, music and Mardi Gras decorations at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 1 at the Renaissance Center. Kerr will also make appearances in Murfreesboro Feb. 2 and Clarksville Feb. 10. Tickets are $37. For more information, visit www.rcenter.org.
Pigeon Forge – Titanic’s Sweetheart Month – Renew wedding vows on the Grand Staircase at the Titanic Museum Attraction as they pay tribute to the twelve honeymooners onboard the Titanic’s Maiden Voyage. For more information, visit www.titanicpigeonforge.com.
Millington – Bracket Racing Series presented by COMP Cams – Cheer on your favorite drivers beginning at 9 a.m. at Memphis International Raceway. Tickets begin at $10. For more information, visit www.racemir.com.
Feb. 19 - 27
Chattanooga – “Small Fry February” – Keep the little ones entertained during the cold months with gallery tours, games, crafts, meeting live animals and more from 10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. at the Tennessee Aquarium. The event is free with admission price. For more information, visit www.tnaqua.org.
Memphis – Erik Johnson Silhouette Artist – Get a personalized silhouette from artist Erik Johnson 10 a.m. at The Village Toymaker. Originals are $25 with duplicates for $15. Frames are also available for purchase. To schedule an appointment, visit thevillagetoymaker.eventbrite.com.
Nashville – Poets And Prophets: Salute To Legendary Songwriter Red Simpson– Songwriter and Bakersfield Sound architect Red Simpson will be featured on “Poets and Prophets: Legendary Country Songwriters” at 1:30 p.m. at The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s Ford Theater. For more information, visit www.countrymusichalloffame.org.
Chattanooga – Romantic Seafood Dinner at Back Inn Café – Enjoy an unforgettable dining experience with chef-selected wine and dinner from 6:30 – 8 p.m. at Back Inn Café. Registration is required. Tickets are $55. For more information, visit www.community.tnaqua.org.
Feb. 28 – March 2
Camden – 50th Anniversary Memorial: Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Randy Hughes – Remember the legendary Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and Randy Hughes, who lost their lives in a plane crash March 5, 1963, with memorabilia and live music at the Benton County/Camden Chamber of Commerce. Tickets are $65 for the three-day event. For more information, visit www.gonebutnotforgotten2013-eorg.eventbrite.com.
March 1 - 3
Pulaski – Milky Way Farm’s Southern Celebration – Join the iconic farm as they celebrate all things Southern. For more information, visit www.milkywayfarm.org.
Cookeville – Upper Cumberland Home & Garden Show – Browse over 120 exhibits including the Great Bowls of Fire Chili Cook-Off, benefiting Habitat for Humanity beginning 4 p.m. March 1 at the Hyder-Burks Agricultural Pavilion. Admission is $3. For more information, visit www.uchba.com.
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Republican state Senator Jack Harper of Surprise really let it rip in a recent commentary for the Arizona Capitol Times, and some of his comments are under fire from the blogosphere.
The commentary, published on the Cap Times' "Capitol Voices" page on March 6, 2009, is about 1,500 words long, and starts out with warm fuzzies about "thank you for the great honor of serving you in the state Legislature," and goes on to discuss Arizona's handling of the state budget deficit. Harper then does a typical politico-spiel about his position on handling the 2009 budget, including that he thinks funds for public education should come from federal bailout money and not state funds, and that the state needs to look at public safety "as the next big pot of state spending."
The reason within Harper's missive evaporates, however, near the end of the piece, beginning with more warm fuzzies about how "Brighter days are ahead for Arizona." Ironically, that's where the commentary turns decidedly dark, and Harper goes off about "the under-employed or over-expectant."
First, Harper writes that parents of children who "require expensive treatment or therapy that is not provided by the federal government" should not expect the state to have funds for those things after June 30.
Then, he fires at the unemployed: "If you have been laid off from your job and are not willing to take a job that is available, unemployment benefits, food stamps, and AHCCCS for health care are going to fall short of what you could make by being employed."
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Finally, Harper makes this proclamation: "Arizona will not follow the country into socialism. If you feel you need greater assistance and are not able to move to another state, please turn to your local churches and give them the opportunity to show their generosity and love."
Local blog Random Musings observed that Harper seems "actually gleeful at the near-bankruptcy of the state and the prospect of ending all but federally mandated public services for the people of Arizona" and that Harper and others have "made it clear that they have no intention of doing their jobs of serving their constituents unless their arms are twisted."
Arizona blogger Eli Blake also criticized Harper's commentary on his Deep Thought blog, writing "We just don't have Republicans here in Arizona. We have some real wackos," sarcastically asking, "Can't you just feel the generosity and love emanating from Jack Harper?"
Actually, no, we can't feel that. But we can smell him emanating something else.


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His original partner, Wilson, became obsessed with the house at 44 Reyburn Drive after investigating the Landers killings, and eventually shot himself (he survived, and is now institutionalized).
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A house is cursed by a vengeful ghost that dooms those who enter it with a violent death. This gray feeling extends to the lead characters: Recently widowed Detective Muldoon (Andrea Riseborough), new to town with her young son and the usual boilerplate about how starting over will be good for them, looks exhausted before she even investigates the origins of a long-rotting corpse. Her new partner, Detective Goodman (Demián Bichir) chain-smokes in a dingy, cluttered house with dim, yellowish lighting.
That’s the sorry path down which the ignoble yet lovable horror franchise is presently headed. On the upside, we’ve gotten more good studio-level horror that defies replication or succession over the past few years than we’ve seen in some time, and grateful we all are for the Get Outs and the The Witches and the Midsommars. But mass-appeal studio franchise horror is its own organism, and a once-robust species approaching the endangered list. The closest thing today’s generation of young moviegoers have to a Freddy Krueger is the Babadook, and he’s too busy leading the LGBTQ rights movement to appear in a sequel. Horror itself is alive and well, moreso now than it has been for a while. But we’re suffering from a dearth of true boogeymen, the figures that loom in our shared pop-cultural nightmares. It’s the faces that stay with us.
Some time later, Muldoon hugs Burke before he leaves for school, only to see another Burke leave the house. The “Burke” she is hugging is revealed to be Melinda. Muldoon is dragged away by Fiona’s ghost, thereby becoming a victim of the curse. The credits roll over a silent shot of Muldoon’s new home; the same home where the Spencers died and now a new extension of the curse.
The Grudge is a virus, not a ghost. You can’t reason with it. You can’t redeem it. You can only kill for it and die from it. The Grudge is a curse that attaches to your person the moment you come into contact with it. Once its tendrils have you, it squeezes until your mind is cracked and performing its dark bidding. Finally, with your essence consumed, it waits for the next person to breathe its noxious air.
The Grudge is director Nicolas Pesce’s third film. His first, The Eyes of My Mother, was in black and white. Piercing was in color and set mostly in a hotel room. With The Grudge Pesce creates an aesthetic that’s unique to the Japanese films and the previous American remakes that mimicked them.
It’s a ritual nearly as predictable as a Marvel movie in May or romantic movies in February: The first weekend of every January sees the release of a new horror movie. It’s remarkable enough that this once-barren weekend has been colonized into its own niche horror holiday. But in some cases, the movies have even been good — or at least respectable by the historically low standards of January movies. Sometimes those relaxed standards are a relief following a season of blockbusters and awards-bait. Movies like last year’s Escape Room or 2018’s Insidious: The Last Key are effective little genre pictures.
11. The Grudge 3 was the first film in either the Japanese or American franchises not to be directed by Takashi Shimizu, with Toby Wilkins taking over. Incidentally, it was also the first one not to receive a theatrical release and the first one not to employ the nonlinear sequence of events successfully used previously.
In 2004, Fiona Landers returns home from Japan, where she worked as a caretaker in a cursed house. Unfortunately, while Fiona is happy to be reunited with her husband Sam and her daughter Melinda, the joy doesn’t last. The curse has followed Fiona home to 44 Reyburn Drive, where, driven mad by the apparitions she sees, she drowns Melinda and stabs Sam, then commits suicide.
Pesce’s The Grudge” often leads his uniformly strong cast to a jump-scare, and those jolts prove to be its least exciting attribute. Not just because of their generic construction (though Pesce can wind them up like a pro), but the pay-off, of seeing shadowy, wet figures scream with their eyes blacked out, sometimes introduced by the goofy slow croaking sound that The Grudge” has made canon. Yes, there’s ghoulish stuff involving tubs and showers, but they play more like Grudge” visual cues than standalone anxious sequences. There’s a lot of peekaboos in “The Grudge,” too many for what makes the movie good, and by the third act they feel like an awkward part of the transaction in watching a horror film made by a studio that needs a good trailer.
The past doesn’t always stay in the past. Sometimes, you carry it with you. But you don’t have to hold on to the bitter memories and painful moments that steal your joy and weigh you down. You have the choice to let go of The Grudge.
The new Grudge reboot from director Nicolas Pesce is no different. But it’s not just the basic premise that The Grudge shares with its predecessors. It also has a haunted house, a creepy kid, mysterious murders, and a non-linear storyline that builds to a big, spooky reveal.
Save for a few nice cinematographic shots and a few cleverly hidden ghosts throughout the film (if the viewer was paying attention), this film was NOT The Grudge. A few jumps, but nothing in comparison to any of the other films. Kayako was in the film ONCE – in the first two minutes of the film. Toshio was nowhere to be found. The rest of the film consisted of her rip-offs, in America. it just didn’t feel like a film from the franchise, the only part that felt familiar in the slightest was Kayako’s croak sound.
While juggling these different lives in different timelines, Pesce achieves a seamlessness that creates a backstory more about the entity’s kill count than it does individual characters. But he gets a strong pacing, all while telling the same downhill trajectory of how these people unwittingly cursed themselves, and became prey to a force that has little logic other than to appear in the shadows, be angry, and be consistent. In Pesce’s hands, the supernatural force that attacks these characters isn’t like the bad-luck ghost from Shimizu’s version, but feels as ever-present and ruthless as grief itself.
Yet the only real references to its source material are a brief glimpse of the house from the 2004 film and the repeated use of that ghostly, guttural croak – the one that sounds like the world’s longest burp. The ghosts themselves could easily have floated in from The Conjuring, Insidious, or any other popular horror franchise; there’s none of the powdery, white skin and kohl-rimmed eyes that made Shimizu’s creations so distinctive. Gone, too, is the little boy who sits and screeches like a cat. It was an image so strange, you couldn’t help but find it creepy.
When it was announced that Ghost House Pictures would be rebooting the franchise, long after the J-horror craze had waned, the immediate reaction was why? And why now? But after stepping foot on set of The Grudge in Winnipeg, Canada, those answers became clear. More importantly, the group of journalists left set that day in June feeling very excited about director Nicolas Pesce’s vision for this reimagining.
Flashback <-> Flashforward: Arguably the franchise’s single defining characteristic (and greatest success) is its use of non-linear storytelling, which complicates the relatively straightforward narrative by jumping backwards and forward in time. The new film follows suit, toggling back and forth between 2004 (the Landers & Spencers), 2005 (the Mathesons) and 2006 (Detectives Muldoon and Goodman). Yet, unlike Shimizu, who uses the non-linear approach to spread out horrific set pieces, Pesce mistakenly waits until the end of the film to deliver nearly all of the violence. This results in a lot of time spent watching the only not-so-unnerving day-to-day activities of the families, all while Muldoon connects the dots about their cases. Even worse, the vast majority of these details are easily predicted, which means that the audience is constantly pacing ahead of the film’s characters, making the 93 minute runtime feel like an eternity.
Writer-director Nicolas Pesce keeps his film creaking and shrieking along within a taut 94 minutes, filling it with some disagreeable images even by the standards of the genre. The film, which also stars Andrea Riseborough, sees families succumb to the curse of The Grudge and become ghosts with Pesce admitting that he wanted to keep the ghosts as basic as possible.
The essence of the story centers around a house in Tokyo, Japan, that is haunted by an onryō or vengeful ghost” of a woman name Kayako — who, along with her son Toshio and their cat, was murdered by her jealous husband. As the movie states in an intro, whenever a person dies in extreme rage or sorrow, a curse settles upon the house and upon anyone who either steps inside the house or encounters someone else who has. Kayako’s ghost kills them either directly or indirectly through other violent and mysterious means.
Tomas Alfredson’s modern classic Swedish vampire drama Let the Right One In” was only two years old when Matt Reeves remade it for American audiences, but Let Me In” is anything but a superfluous rehash. Kodi Smit-McPhee and Chloë Grace Moretz bring their own pain and warmth to their characters (a bullied boy and the immortal vampire who takes a shine to him, respectively), and Reeves adds a handful of gruesome shocks that make Alfredson’s icy original seem more brutal than before. Let the Right One In” is the more mature and graceful film, but Let Me In” is an expertly crafted crowdpleaser, equally valid but made for slightly different tastes.
Apart from Kayako herself, the one fixed point of these films is grotesque, harrowing death foretold, which Pesce, like previous directors, duly delivers as a bleak memento mori for the popcorn-chewing, thrill-seeking viewer.
Detective Muldoon (Andrea Riseborough) narrowly avoids losing her mind by burning the subject of her investigation to the ground. Determined that the house at 44 Reyburn Drive is the root of the multiple unsolved murders plaguing her station’s cold case files, she storms behind its walls and soaks its carpets in gasoline. As she does so, she sees the spirits of the Landers family reenact their death throes. Mrs. Landers (Tara Westwood) smashes her husband on the head, and he tumbles down the stairs. She drowns her thrashing, darling daughter in the black muck of the tub, and tears into her own throat, splashing the stained glass windows with arterial red.
8. The Grudge 2 was given the greenlight on the Monday following the first remake’s release after the film proved to be a surprise success, grossing more than $39 million in just three days. With a production budget of less than $10 million, its worldwide total box office of over $187 million made it one of the most profitable movies of 2004.
Sam Raimi’s low-budget, independent, raw, ultraviolent and hyperkinetic cult classic was remade by Fede Alvarez into a raw, ultraviolent and hyperkinetic film that’s no less daring or subversive or grotesque for being paid for and released by a studio. In the remake, a group of young friends convene at an isolated cabin in the woods to help Mia (Jane Levy) battle her addiction to heroin, but along the way they accidentally release an ancient evil force that possesses Mia and tries to mutilate and destroy them all. The new Evil Dead” captures Raimi’s virtuosic storytelling – and reminds us all just how limp and conventional most modern camerawork really is – while subverting audience expectations about where this remake is going, and how despicably it’s going to get there. It’s just as frightening and bizarre as the original, remake or no.
It’s crucial to note that these films were not sequels but reboots, a fine distinction that makes all the difference. I look back fondly on the days when studios cranked out sequels ad infinitum to anything they thought could turn a buck, driving Freddy and Pinhead into eight- or nine-picture engagements. The studios ginned up increasingly fanciful scenarios into which they could stick their marquee ghouls; Jason took Manhattan and jumped into the future, the Cenobites went to space and turned meta, et cetera. Even when these films scraped the bottom of the barrel on their way to the dollar bin, there was a devil-may-care fun to be had in watching how cheap, strange, and blissfully dumb they were willing to go. The plague of reboots abandons this schematic in its constant back-to-one resetting, endlessly cycling through the same origin stories and other mythos.
The key word there is slightly,” as every time Pesce seems to be struggling against the narrative restraints of studio filmmaking, the bonds prove unbreakable—with one deliciously mean-spirited exception, which we won’t give away here but was met with audible disapproval at The A.V. Club’s screening of the film. Overall, though, the director and co-writer’s merciless style is muffled by The Grudge’s over-reliance on clichéd jump scares; more damningly, only some of these are effective, even in terms of cheap thrills. This becomes especially true in the film’s second half, when the ghosts become at once more human and less creepy.
Right away, executive producer Schuyler Weiss addresses what it is about The Grudge that makes it ripe for reimagining, It’s a great story in a really fundamental way, not just that the actual plot and the characters are perfect for a remake. It’s more this underlying mythos of The Grudge that was created by Shimizu, it’s just really fertile grounds to make any story that still feels connected. It’s the overlapping stories that all connected through an intersection with this one location that holds The Grudge and the origin of that Grudge. It’s just really great material. Plus, you have a rich legacy of films, and here we are making new, fresh stories that fit in with that really good framework.” In other words, this iteration is only taking the foundational elements from the franchise and using them as a starting point to craft an entirely new mythology.
The increasingly awful Cloverfield films link up in only the loosest sense, united by the presence of a fleetingly glimpsed alien creature (not even the same creature — or the same species!) that often gives the impression of having been stuck into an otherwise unrelated script. The Conjuring tried to sell itself as a franchise in the older mode with the demon-led spinoffs Annabelle and The Nun, but they faltered due to the central support beam of the series being the spirit-hunters played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga.
That’s the caveat with CinemaScore: It’s less a barometer of a movie’s quality and more of a movie’s marketing and how well it delivered what was promised, for better or worse. Horror movies get hit particularly hard by CinemaScore crowds (more than half of the F-Grade Club are horror or were at least sold that way) in part because the genre often traffics in emotional and visceral extremes. But sometimes, it’s just because a movie is really, really crap.
The Grudge franchise was remade for American audiences from the Japanese Ju-On franchise; here’s a worst to best ranking of the movies. 10. As Karen’s equally ill-fated sister Aubrey, Amber Tamblyn appeared in both of the most successful horror franchises based on Japanese films in the 2000s after having appeared in 2002’s The Ring as well.
The release of Ju-On” occurred during the J-Horror craze , which began back in 1998 with the release of the film Ringu”(Ring”). It was a perfect mix of Japanese folklore and urban legends, telling the story of a reporter investigating the of deaths of people who died seven days after watching a VHS tape cursed by another onryō named Sadako. Ringu” was followed by other horror films such as Kairo” (Pulse,” 2001), Honogurai Mizu”(Dark Water,” 2002), Ju-On”(The Grudge,” 2002), and Chakushin Ari”(One Missed Call,” 2003).
Takashi Shimizu, a darling of the recent Japanese horror boom, makes his Hollywood debut with this incoherent remake of his equally incoherent Asian hit Ju-on (2000). The original, shot simultaneously with its sequel and released straight to video, was an endless series of set pieces in which unsuspecting rubes exploring a desolate home stumble upon the ghosts of a woman and a little boy. Strangely, the remake is still set in Japan, though Bill Pullman, Clea DuVall, and Sarah Michelle Gellar are shoehorned in as Western visitors. Most of the chills have been faithfully re-created, though first-time screenwriter Stephen Susco hasn’t done much to straighten out the muddled narrative. With Ryo Ishibashi (Audition). PG-13, 91 min.
So The Grudge skips straight into the hopelessness, sometimes bordering on nihilism, and Pesce’s style isn’t enough to enliven the downcast mood. It’s not unusual for a horror movie to reach a dead end of its own making, caught between a desire to resolve a story and to leave some tension hanging for a scare-hungry audience. When The Grudge feels a little worse than usual in this regard, it may have to do with release-date concerns beyond the film’s control. Pesce likely wasn’t writing or directing this movie with January 3rd in mind. But intentionally or not, the movie sets a glum tone. It almost seems to be saying: If you’re going to a new movie in January, you must be in a bad place — or want to get to one as soon as possible.
Remakes have been a part of the studio machine since at least as far back as 1904 when the groundbreaking The Great Train Robbery” was reshot and resold. In the century-plus that followed, remakes have gotten a bad name for themselves and, to some, are indicative of the creative vacancy of the mainstream entertainment industry. But look closer and you’ll find that many filmmakers are doing wonderful things by taking old stories and making them new again, either by adding visual flair or injecting nuance where, perhaps, there was little to be found before. Some of the best movies of the last decade were remakes. And these, we dare say, were the 10 best.


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“Made direct amends to such people, wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.” Step 9
Many people find this step… challenging. Fortunately, in CoDA, we have a method for making amends.
- Acknowledge our harmful behavior.
- Acknowledge the other person’s feelings in the matter.
- Follow that with a change in our own behavior.
It helped me to hear someone say at a meeting, “you don’t apologize to the Constitution, you amend it”. That illustrated that the amends I make are not just simply the “I’m sorry” kind. Although an apology might happen, the critical part is the change I’m making in my behavior.
The previous Steps and CoDA’s Recovery Patterns of Codependence help me get ready for change because change is hard for me. Sometimes the amends come as changes in how I show up with others but a lot of my amends involve changes in how I show up for myself. Can I turn self-judgement into self-compassion? Can self-blame become self-forgiveness? Can my old behaviors transform into new, healthier ones? With my Higher Power’s help the answer can be yes! It is with my Higher Power’s help, because I could not do this by my own will alone.
One change I’ve noticed recently is that I am considering my interests and feelings when asked to participate in another’s plans. The act of listening to and valuing myself in this way is an amend to me. In the past, I would drop what I was doing or wanted because in my codependence, the other person was more important to please than myself. If you are happy, then I am safe. People pleasing was a survival mechanism growing up and it no longer serves me in relationships. In fact, it hurts me. This amend is a long time in coming. Through the power of the program and my own inner healing work, I am now free.
In this moment, I trust my Higher Power to guide me in making sincereStep 9 Prayer
and honest amends. In this moment, I experience my gratitude for
Co-Dependents Anonymous and the Twelve Steps of recovery, knowing
that as I am willing to live this program, share the fellowship,
and walk with God, I am free.
~adapted from the Twelve Steps Handbook of CoDA
In this moment, I see the impossible become not only possible, but real.Step 8 Prayer
As I forgive myself for my shortcomings, I am able to forgive others,
opening the way for a true and lasting change in my behavior.
Thank you, God.
Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
Amends… not mere apologies, rather changes in our behavior.
First make a list. Include everyone who had been harmed by our personal unmanageability. Our own name comes first. Why? We had been least able to escape our codependence and in most cases, we received the greatest injuries. A change in behavior toward ourselves would have to come first.
This is not the Step in which we face those we had wronged. The purpose of this Step is to focus attention on becoming ready to face them. Often the names come from our 4th Step work.
Some people find it helpful to make 3 lists. A list of people with which we can easily approach, a list of those with which we might be willing to consider making amends and an “oh hell no” list. We make the list and then with our Higher Power’s help, find a way to become willing. In the next Step, we can start with the easy list and work up to the others. With each one, the practice deepens our recovery and we become more open. We can allow our Higher Power to guide us in that process.
Some questions that may be useful in Step 8 are:
- What would my motive be in making amends to those I have harmed?
Would it be to clear my conscience? to rid myself of old guilts?
Or do I want to acknowledge my wrongdoing as a step in altering my behavior?
- Can I count on myself to avoid using this step to justify my past behavior?
- Am I capable of separating what I did from what was done to me?
If needed we can go back to Steps 6 & 7 to discover what behaviors or old beliefs we are still holding onto that are blocking us from becoming willing to change. Self-forgiveness is instrumental in moving from codependence into healthy relationships.
Shame is the birthplace of perfectionism.Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown
I’m a double winner of sorts…recovering co-dependent and a recovering perfectionist.
Codependents often are other-focused. We often care too much about what others think about us. We believe the lie that our value comes from outside ourselves so it’s important to us that we appear perfect.
As a codependent, my perfectionism has roots in approval seeking and a fear of being rejected, criticized or perceived as not good enough. I, like many people, grew up being praised for achievement and performance. Straight A’s, clean room, good manners, etc… my parents never had to worry about me. I was the “good one”. As time went on, I developed the belief that I had to earn my worth through accomplishment and that my worth was based on how well I performed. I got attention and affirmation for a “good job”. The chase for the gold star became addictive.
Some people think there is a positive side to perfectionism. That is not my experience. Brene Brown writes a lot about perfectionism in her books. I like how she explains the difference between “healthy striving” and perfectionism. Self-focused, healthy striving asks How can I improve? while the other-focused nature of perfectionism asks What will they think?
Perfectionism is a self-destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, live perfectly, work perfectly, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame.
The frustrating reality is…there is no such thing as perfection. Shame, judgment and blame happen to everyone. When I experienced shame, I often would believe it was because I wasn’t perfect enough and try harder to achieve the unachievable or worse, not try at all. I have seen my perfectionism hold me back time and time again. The fear of making mistakes, failing and disappointing others kept me from moving forward or taking risks. A part of me (the “don’t try” part) still sometimes says don’t put yourself out there, if you do it “wrong” it’ll be too painful.
In CoDA, I’m learning to love the self. I’m learning that mistakes are how I learn. Self- compassion practice helps me cope with the feelings of fear that come up and the pain when I do make mistakes. More often now, I am choosing to feel the fear and do it anyway. I’m practicing “good is good enough”. Coming into CoDA was a huge step out of my comfort zone and it’s here where I am practicing and developing new skills with curiosity and gentleness. I try to remember that what others think of me is none of my business. I love the reminder that it’s progress not perfection that we seek.
A fun, new way I’m practicing imperfection is with CoDA’s new coloring book, Joy in the Journey-Recover in Color. As I am coloring, I am noticing my imperfection and acknowledging as I do it that it’s okay to relax and allow my hands to color loosely. No one is judging me. I’m doing this for me. I affirm as I play that there is no right or wrong way to do it. Outside the lines work helps me accept myself as I am. Perfectly imperfect.
I know that one of the biggest barriers to working towards mastery of something is perfectionism. Barriers can be broken down. The tools of the program and support of my fellow travelers on the journey are helping me.
I affirm that I am perfectly human, not a perfect human.
adapted from CoDA’s “12 Steps Handbook”
The message is clear – get ready to change…
Step 6: “Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.”
What does it mean to be entirely ready? In CoDA, we learn that it means completely prepared. The first five steps are a large part of that preparation. What we need now is willingness.
What are our defects? Some of us turn to the Recovery Patterns of Codependence to answer this. We see behaviors and old beliefs that we developed to avoid pain. Through this process, we come to recognize that all of our character defects are products of our self-will. Many of them may be things that helped us survive in our dysfunctional relationships. Self-righteousness replaced low self-esteem. Resentment protected us from invasion. Fear kept us on alert for things that might hurt us. But like an old cocoon that clings to a butterfly’s wing, we come to see how these old patterns are holding us back from living. We become willing to let them go.
Step Six Prayer
In this moment, I am entirely ready to be freed of all my shortcomings. In this moment, I am ready to surrender these defects of character to God, knowing that the power of willingness to heal is great. Each new Step I take in my recovery, no matter how small it may appear, is an affirmation of my wholeness.
Step 7: “Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.”
True humility allows us to see things as they truly are. After doing the work of the previous steps, we now get to ask something of God. We don’t beg or demand but rather humbly ask that our Higher Power remove the things that block us from our peace and happiness. We trust God’s timing. We can take this step with a sponsor or recovery friend. A prayer like the Serenity Prayer may be helpful. We can make contact with the God of our understanding and without pride or expectation, ask for our shortcomings to be removed.
If we find we are still clinging to a behavior or belief, we can go back to Step 6 and try again to ask for the willingness to let it go. Notice the line in the prayer below… “relieving me of the burden of my past”. We come to understand that hanging on to these old ways of behaving, while they may have served us in the past, is no longer helping us. Like a child’s life preserver that no longer fits, we can put them aside. With the help of God, we are learning to swim!
In this moment, I ask my Higher Power to, remove all of my shortcomings,Step Seven Prayer
relieving me of the burden of my past. In this moment, I place my hand
in God’s, trusting that the void I experience is being filled with my
Higher Power’s unconditional love for me and those in my life.
Step 5 states… “Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.”
So taking from CoDA’s Twelve Steps Handbook and recapping where we’ve been:
- Step 1 we admitted our powerlessness.
- Step 2 we became willing to acknowledge that our self-will was out of control.
- Step 3 we turned our will over to God’s care.
- Step 4 we put our predicament on paper.
- So now we come to Step 5 where we uncover and expose the nature of our wrongs to God, ourselves and another person. And in doing so, we have the chance to have our shame and guilt transformed into humility.
Let’s clarify a couple of words in that last one.
1. Nature: The dictionary defines Nature as… “The forces and processes that produce and control these phenomena.”
2. Humility: Researcher and author, Brene Brown, defines Humility as… “Openness to new learning combined with a balanced and accurate assessment of our contributions, including our strengths, imperfections and opportunities for growth.”
So Step 5 gives us a chance to uncover the forces and processes that produce and control our codependent behaviors and to share that information with God, ourselves and another human being. When we do this, we can transform our shame and open up to new learning and gain a more balanced view of ourselves.
In the CoDA Big Book, we read that this step is one of cleansing, accountability and awareness. “Fears are natural”. “It is important to complete the step with someone outside our families” who can be an “objective, loving, caring and compassionate” listener. “Someone who has an understanding of codependency, it’s devastating effects and the recovery process”. “We must remember we are allowing our Higher Power to cast a healing spiritual light on our darkness”.
I give myself a gift in Step 5. The gift of spiritual and emotional freedom. A freedom that comes from releasing the secrets about what motivates my codependency. The forces and processes which underpin my choices, actions, beliefs and patterns of living become clearer. This gift allows me to grow in grounded confidence and opens the door to healthy relationships.
In this moment, I will acknowledge myself for doing what was most difficult for me. I will rest in the accepting presence of my Higher Power. I know I have deepened my commitment to the journey of recovery by opening my self and my heart to a fellow human being.Step Five Prayer
by a recovering co-dependent 🙂
This song by Britt Nicole helped me when I was new to recovery and going through a difficult time in my life. I was learning how to develop trust in a Higher Power. Surrender was unfamiliar to me. Fear of the unknown future was paralyzing. The lyrics, especially in the chorus, were a cry for help when I didn’t know how to let go of my will or to love myself. Take what you like…
Feels like I've been here forever,
Why can't you just intervene?
Do you see the tears keep falling?
And I'm falling apart at the seems.
But you never said the road would be easy,
But you said that you would never leave.
And you never promised that this life wasn't hard,
But you promised you'd take care of me.
So I'll stop searching for the answers, I'll stop praying for an escape, And I'll trust you, god, with where I am, And believe that you will have your way. Just have your way. Just have your way.
When my friends and my family have left me,
And I feel so ashamed and so cold.
Remind me that you take broken things
And turn them into gold.
So I'll stop searching for the answers, I'll stop praying for an escape, And I'll trust you, god, with where I am, And believe that you will have your way. Just have your way. Just have your way.
Even if my dreams have died,
And even if I don't survive,
I'll still worship you with all my life.
And I'll stop searching for the answers,
I'll stop praying for an escape,
And I'll trust you, god, with where I am,
And believe that you will have your way.
Just have your way.
Just have your way.
I know you will. I won't forget. Whoa-oh You love me. Have your way. Yeah
Step 4 requires us to do a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. This is the step where we begin to see our part in our own lives and relationships. In our inventory we include our behaviors and character defects that have been harmful. This step is not an invitation to be overly critical or harm ourselves, but rather to speak our truth. The inventory process is one of the most loving things we can do for ourselves.CoDA’s 12 Steps and 12 Traditions Workbook
We are encouraged to take our time. Pray, meditate, talk to our sponsor or co-sponsors. When we are ready, begin slowly and carefully. For me, I like the Recovery Patterns of Codependence (RPC’s) as my guide in beginning a 4th Step Inventory. The RPC’s list codependent behaviors I have used throughout my life with myself and others. In the beginning, I reflect on specific relationships and people and go down the list of patterns. I mark the ones that I use or used to gather information on how I tend to show up with others. I’m gathering information about myself. I’m looking for trends. Am I heavy control in work relationships? Am I compliant with love relationships? Do I tend toward avoidance? And with whom? I get to see with which specific relationships I acted codependently. With whom were my behaviors most intense or numerous?
After gaining insight into my behavior patterns and trends, I can go deeper into the individual behaviors that show up most frequently for me. Were there behaviors that I used “across the board”? Sometimes several patterns seem to be my “go to” behaviors. I notice them with love relationships, at work, with friends, family and even acquaintances. They may be things like difficulty admitting a mistake or lying to look good, remaining in harmful situations too long or valuing other’s approval over my own. “Across the board” behaviors may be good ones to look closely at first as they may have caused the most damage to relationships and may hold clues to old beliefs and unhealed areas in our lives.
Discovering the roots of my codependent patterns of behavior can show me why I have tended to act in ways that harm myself or others. I also uncover the underlying feelings that drive them such as fear, shame, grief, anger, etc. I can then go back to the patterns and journal on when I first started noticing them and what benefits I received (protection, attention, the illusion of control or safety, etc) as well as the consequences to the relationship and where I can go from here.
However you get there, it is worth the work! Some of us use the CoDA Workbook while others find help from workbooks like “Codependent No More” by Melody Beattie and some, like me, create their own ways to work through this step. A helpful new tool being developed by CoDA is called “Working Steps 4&5 using the 40 Questions”.
And don’t forget to stop along the way to take stock in the positive traits, behaviors and areas where you’ve grown! A CoDA 4th step need not be a shaming experience. Rather it is a way we lovingly deepen our understanding about ourselves in an effort to identify obstacles to our peace and happiness. Take it slow and gentle…with lots of self-compassion.
In this moment, I am willing to see myself as I truly am: a growing, unfolding spiritual being resting in the hands of a loving God. I can separate who I am from what I’ve done knowing that the real me is emerging—loving, joyful, and whole.Step Four Prayer
By John R.
Three immediate and huge benefits for attending a
Co-Dependents Anonymous Meeting:
- You’re not Alone; You’re immediately accepted the way you are and the way you aren’t.
Whatever it is that makes your life difficult right now, you will find people suffering the same things in a similar way at a meeting of Co-Dependents Anonymous. You will be automatically welcomed and immediately included. You gain instant membership with very little asked of you in return. Your sharing and your silence are both welcome here. At first it might seem weird.
There is no trick, no hidden offer. There will be no obligation placed on you. If you’re like me you already have a full plate of obligations and it will seem like finding an oasis in the desert: Zero expectations.
And … it’s free. We don’t want your money. We just want you to come back.
- You’ll get No Advice
At first it might seem weird. Every other place you go in this world is full of advice. Your mother, your life partner, your siblings, your friends, your boss, your co-workers, your therapist, your doctor… a steady stream of advice is aimed at you. You are probably full of advice. You probably give yourself advice. Advice is a form of addiction. I know people who can’t stop giving advice. I also know people who are compulsive advice shoppers, people who can’t cross the street on a green light
without a chorus of advisors’ approval.
So in a CoDA meeting we ask that you take a short vacation from advice. Without the constant noise of advice you’ll soon notice a new kind of listening is present in the room and available for your own application. (Did you know there are different kinds of listening?) It’s a really nourishing kind of listening. It nourishes both the listener and the person who is finally being listened to without judgement or advice. Most of us just want to be heard and known. Most of us don’t want to be fixed or changed.
Codependents are learning to live without constantly seeking approval and guidance from outside themselves. They are also learning how to live a life that is built from individual choosing, instead of one steered by expectations, obligations and fearfulness. Some of us have found we no longer use the word “should”. We find better things to say to the people in our life.
- You’ll quickly find new ways to “Be” that don’t include complaints, comparisons,
reasons, explanations, justifications and excuses.
Nobody ever got to Heaven, or found Happiness by complaining. Noticing and giving voice to the shortcomings of others does not produce healthy self-esteem in the fault-finder. Excuses don’t excuse. Justifications don’t justify. Explanations don’t explain much of value. None of these behaviors are fun to be around, they don’t actually work. So why do they persist? The answer to that question isn’t all that interesting, it’s just another explanation.
A better question is what practices actually do work? The answer to that question might seem weird: When you find yourself sincerely asking that question in your own words and for your own benefit and not to look good or win approval, new ways of being begin to arrive in your life. If you keep attending meetings and you start to “work the 12 steps” you will start to see whole new worlds open up for your choosing. If you do the work, you will start to receive the 12 Promises of Co-Dependents Anonymous.*
And did I mention? … It’s free.
*Look it up. Don’t expect me to do your work.
My recovery lies in being true to myself and to my Higher Power
The promise of our program is that when we are diligent in working the program, we will achieve recovery over personal problems of codependence. This occurs differently for everyone.Adapted from the Newcomer’s Handbook
A common denominator is that codependents who work and follow the program increase their own spirituality.
“I just need to figure it out”, “If I can figure out what to do…” Sound familiar? Most of us have said things like this at one time or another in our recovery journey.
The 12 Steps of Co-Dependents Anonymous are the way we find serenity in our lives. Steps 1-10, help us shift the focus from others to the God of our understanding, a power greater than ourselves.
It begins with admitting where we are powerless and where we actually have power. We identify how our lives become unmanageable when we try to control the uncontrollable and fix the unfixable. We learn that “if I am not the problem, there is no solution.” Step 2 opens us up to the possibility that there may be another way to live and we take time to define our own personal concepts of spirituality and a Higher Power. The decision we make in Step 3 is our way of becoming willing to turn away from our old ways of doing things. The key here is simply to make a decision. We are choosing to surrender to our Higher Power, however we define that power to be for us. The how of turning our will and life over is up to our Higher Power. So next we can begin to clear away the blockages to our peace and happiness, the things that keep us stuck…our codependent behaviors, beliefs and patterns… by working through Steps 4-10.
In Step 11, we can now discover what it is our Higher Power wants us to do. God brings us experiences that we can learn from and which may help us to deepen our recovery. We pray only for God’s will for us and the power to carry that out… even in times when we desperately want our own will. Prayer (talking to God) and mediation (listening to God) help us to grow spiritually and to continually improve our conscious contact with God.
We allow time for our spirituality to develop. It unfolds as a result of the Steps, not by trying harder or “figuring it out” but by letting go little by little. We learn to let our Higher Power do for us what we can’t do for ourselves. By practicing and using the tools of the program, the Steps, Traditions, meetings, fellowship, sponsorship, service, literature, conscious contact, affirmations and more… we see the 12 Promises of the program come true in our lives.
Step Three Prayer
In this moment, I can choose my own Higher Power. I can set aside all the old beliefs about who I am not and be who I am—a child of God. I can remind myself that a faith in a Higher Power becomes a faith in me, and that my recovery lies in being true to myself and to my Higher Power.
When despair for the world grows in meby Wendell Berry
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake rests
in his beauty on the water,
and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.
I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light.
For a time I rest in the grace of the world,
and am free.

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Alphecca posted a story about a violent felon who wants to use the Second Amendment to beat a gun charge. Commenters brought out arguments I’ve seen time again:
*Even criminals have the God-given right of self-defense;
*Criminals should not have unfettered access to guns;
*If someone can’t be trusted with a gun, they should be in jail.
This issue and arguments go right to the heart of our legal system. It puts a criminal in jail based on the severity of his crime, not what’s in his heart and mind. Punishment is based on actions. If a criminal steals a purse, we lock him away for say a year. That criminal may come out of jail with a true attitude adjustment and never steal again, or he may come out a worse criminal. We can’t tell which way that person will turn.
We know our system is imperfect, but the idea of locking away someone until he’s no threat is quite disturbing to me. We would have to rely on government to determine how long someone is a threat to the rest of us. I don’t want government to have that power. They don't have a crystal ball and I can't imagine a worse way to limit freedom.
That leaves us with the question of how to protect society. A violent felon will get a weapon by any means necessary. Therefore, the best defense we have is self-defense. We should make concealed carry permits easier to get or better yet adopt Vermont-style carry nationwide. We should be able to carry anywhere a police officer can carry—i.e., cops can’t carry a gun in jail and neither should we.
Violent felons have a legitimate right of self-defense, but they will abuse any tool—knife, club, gun—that they possess. As a society we should say certain criminals have proven themselves too violent to own a gun legally and bar them from buying a gun where the rest of us shop. It’s an expression of our outrage at their actions.
There is a selfish reason why I support restrictions. I don’t want to go to my favorite gun store and watch some over-muscled guy with prison tats and a pallor picking out a gun. He may want it only for self-defense, but….
At the same time, there should be a limit to any restrictions. First, the criminal has to have committed more than one truly violent crime. Then, if the released criminal stays honest for five years (or ten or whatever) all restrictions are lifted.
I know many won’t agree with having any restrictions at all and I am ready for the rotten tomatoes coming my way.
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