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The Dhyāna sutras (Chinese: 禪経) or "meditation summaries" (Chinese: 禪要) are a group of early Buddhist meditation texts which are mostly based on the Yogacara[note 1] meditation teachings of the Sarvāstivāda school of Kashmir circa 1st-4th centuries CE.[1] Most of the texts only survive in Chinese and were key works in the development of the Buddhist meditation practices of Chinese Buddhism.
The Dhyāna sutras focus on the concrete details of the meditative practice of the Yogacarins of northern Gandhara and Kashmir and were known as masters of Buddhist meditation. Kashmir probably became a center of dhyāna practice due to the efforts of Madhyāntika (Majjhantika), a disciple of Ānanda, who traveled north to practice and teach meditation.[2]
The five main types of meditation in these sutras are:
- anapanasati (mindfulness of breathing),
- paṭikūlamanasikāra meditation - mindfulness of the impurities of the body,
- loving-kindness maitrī meditation,
- the contemplation on the twelve links of pratītyasamutpāda,
- the contemplation on the Buddha's thirty-two Characteristics.
In addition some sutras contain instructions on contemplation of the dhātu-s (elements); contemplation of white bones and fresh corpses; and contemplation of bodhisattvas such as Amitābha.[3]
The content of these texts is connected with the Yogacara abhidharma works, especially the Abhidharmamahāvibhāsā-śāstra (MVŚ, 阿毗達磨大毗婆沙論), which frequently cites the practices of the early Yogacarins, and the large Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra (YBŚ).[4]
Though the doctrines in these sutras are mostly in line with early Buddhist orthodoxy, they are the work of Buddhists and translators who also lived and traveled through Central Asia and China, therefore some of them also include Mahayana Buddhist teachings and meditation methods common to the Samadhi sutras. The Dhyāna sutras are thus a set of texts which illustrate the evolution of meditation from early Buddhist methods to Mahayana techniques. Sutras such as the Chanfa Yaojie (Chinese: 禪法要解, compiled in India no later than the third century) contain meditations which are derived from the earlier nikāyas as well as material dealing with the Mahayana bodhisattva ideal [5] and Mahayana śūnyatā teachings.[6][verification needed]
One of the earliest Chinese translators of meditation summaries was the Parthian meditation master An Shigao (安世高, 147-168 CE) who worked on various texts including the influential Anban shouyi jing (Sanskrit: Ānāpānasmṛti-sūtra), or the "Mindfulness of Breathing discourse".[7] During the Eastern Han period the foremost meditation technique taught by An Shigao and his school was a form of anapanasati (annabanna 安那般那) which remained influential for centuries afterwards. Most of these summaries only survive in Chinese translation and often they are not in their original form but also include later accretions such as commentary work by Chinese translators. The difficulty of working with the Chinese translations is shown by the corrupt nature of the Da Anban shouyi jing, which according to Florin Deleanu "gathers together An Shigao's original translation, almost impossible to reconstruct, fragments from An Shigao's own commentary as well as fragments from glosses by Chen Hui, Kang Senghui, Zhi Dun, Daoan, and Xie Fu."[1] A recently discovered manuscript of the Anban Shouyi Jing at Kongo-ji temple (Japan) seems to be an actual An Shigao translation.[8] Other highly influential and widely studied An Shigao meditation treatises by early Chinese Buddhists include the 'Scripture on the Twelve Gates' (Shier men jing) and the 'Canonical Text Concerning the ''Skandha''-s, the Dhātu-s, and the Āyatana-s' (Yin chi ru jing, YCRJ). According to Eric Greene, the Scripture on the twelve gates and its commentary provide some of the most comprehensive information on the practice of early Chinese Meditation (Chan),[9] while Zacchetti concludes in his paper on the YCRJ that this text was considered by An Shigao's disciples, Kang Senghui 康僧會 (? - 280 CE) and Chen Hui 陳慧, to be "one of their main doctrinal sources".[10]
Another work, the Discourse on the Essential Secrets of Meditation (Taisho 15 no. 613) is one of the oldest texts to be translated into Chinese on the subject of meditation (circa 2nd or 3rd century CE) and therefore was likely to have had an influence on the meditation practices of Tiantai Buddhism and Chan Buddhism.[3] This text belonged to the Buddhist Dārṣṭāntika school and the first Chinese translation was made by Zhi Qian in the early part of the 3rd century CE.[3]
A later important Chinese translator of these texts was Kumārajīva (334–413 CE) who translated several important meditation sutras by 402. Kumarajiva's translated meditation scriptures such as the Chanfa yaojie (禪法要解) were widely promoted by his disciple Tao Sheng. A contemporary of Kumarajiviva, Buddhabhadra, a Sarvastivadin from Kapilavastu, translated the Damoduoluo chan jing (Dharmatrāta Dhyāna sūtra), a Sarvastivada Dārṣṭāntika meditation manual associated with the Indian teachers Dharmatrāta and Buddhasena. This text, written in verse, includes orthodox Sarvastivadin meditation techniques such as ānāpāna-smṛti as well as tantric Mahayanist practices such as visualization and maṇḍala instructions. Hence this work is proof that some later Mahayana meditation practices were derived from techniques developed by Sarvastivada Yogacarins.[2] Taken together, the translations by Kumarajiva and Buddhabhadra of Sarvastivadin meditation manuals laid the groundwork for the practices of Chan Buddhism (Zen) and the works of the Tiantai meditation master Zhiyi.[5]
List of Dhyāna sutras[edit]
Translated or associated with An Shigao and his translation school:
- T602 Foshou da anban shouyi jing 佛說大安般守意經 - The Great Discourse by the Buddha on the Mindfulness of Ānāpānna.
- K-ABSYJ - Anban shouyi jing 安般守意經 [Kongō-ji manuscript][8]
- T603 :Yin chi ru jing 陰持入經 - Canonical Text Concerning the Skandhas, the Dhātus, and the Āyatanas.
- Scripture on the Twelve Gates (Shier men jing 十二門經)
- Explanations on the Scripture of the Twelve Gates (Jie Shier men jing 解十二門經)
- T605 禪行法想經 - Chan xing fa xiang jing - Discourse on Perception in the Law of Practice of Meditation
- Renben yusheng jing 人本欲生經
- T604 - Foshuo chanxing san shi qi pin jing (佛說禪行三十七品經), possibly not a translation by An Shigao.[5]
- T607 Da daodi jing 大道地經
- T1694: Yin-chi ru jing zhu 陰持入經註
- T105:Wu yin piyu jing 五陰譬喩經
- T621 Foshou foyin sanmei jing (佛說佛印三昧經), Mahayana text, possibly not translated by An Shigao
- T622 the Foshuo zishi sanmei jing (佛說自誓三昧經), Mahayana text, possibly not translated by An Shigao
- T150A Qichu sanguan jing 七處三觀經
- Shiwei jing 思惟經 (Scripture on the Essential Method of Meditation) [LOST TEXT]
Translated by Kumarajiva:
- 15 no. 613: 襌秘要法經 - Chan mi yaofa jing (Discourse on the Essential Secrets of Meditation) translated by Kumarajiva 401-413 CE.
- T15 no. 614: 坐禪三昧經 - Zuochan sanmei jing - Sutra of Sitting Dhyāna samādhi, translated c. 407 CE.[11] (also called the Bodhisattvadhyāna Pusa Chanfa Jing 菩薩禪法經 or The Sūtra on the Practice of Meditation in The Wilderness E lan Rou Xi Chan Fa Jing 阿蘭若習禪法經).
- T15 no. 616: Chanfa yaojie 禪法要解 (Essential Explanation of The Method of Dhyāna)
- T15 no. 617: 思惟略要法 - Siwei yaolue fa (An Epitome of Meditation), translated c. 405 CE.
Other translators:
- T15 no. 618: Damoduoluo chan jing 達摩多羅禪經 - Dharmatrāta Dhyāna sūtra, translated into Chinese by Buddhabhadra, 398-421 CE.[12]
- T15 P.645: 觀佛三昧海 - Guan-fu-san-mei-hai-sūtra - Buddha Dhyāna-samādhi Sagara-sūtra, translated into Chinese by Buddhabhadra.
- T15, 32sc-333a: 五門禪經要用法 - Wumen chan jingyao yongfa, trans. Dharmamitra (356-442).
- T15, 333a-342b: 治禪病祕要法 - Zhi chanbing mi yaofa, translated by Juqu Jingsheng (5th century CE).
- T15 no. 606: 修行道地經 - Xiuxing dao di jing (Yogācārabhūmi-sūtra of Saṅgharakṣa), translated by Dharmaraksa into Chinese in 284 CE.[13]
- Chan Yao Jing 禪要經, translated by Zhi Qian 223-253 CE
See also[edit]
- ^ To be distinguished from the Mahayana Yogacara school, though they may have been a precursor.[1]
- ^ a b c Deleanu, Florin (1992); Mindfulness of Breathing in the Dhyāna Sūtras. Transactions of the International Conference of Orientalists in Japan (TICOJ) 37, 42-57.
- ^ a b Chan, Yiu-wing (2013), An English translation of the Dharmatrta-Dhyna Sutra, PhD thesis, University of Hongkong
- ^ a b c Ven. Dr. Yuanci, A Study of the Meditation Methods in the DESM and Other Early Chinese Texts Archived 2013-05-08 at the Wayback Machine, The Buddhist Academy of China.
- ^ Cheung Tsui Lan Liza (2013), Doctrines of Spiritual Praxis from Abhidharma to Mahāyāna Yogācāra: With Special Reference to the Śrāvakabhūmi of the Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra, PhD dissertation, University of Hong Kong.
- ^ a b c Thich Hang Dat, A REAPPRAISAL OF KUMĀRAJĪVA'S ROLE IN MEDIEVAL CHINESE BUDDHISM: AN EXAMINATION OF KUMĀRAJĪVA'S TRANSLATION TEXT ON "THE ESSENTIAL EXPLANATION OF THE METHOD OF DHYANA" "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-05-18. Retrieved 2015-05-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ Deleanu, Florin. 1993. "Mahāyānist Elements in Chinese Translations of Śrāvakayānist Yogācārabhūmi Texts."
- ^ Phra Kiattisak Ponampon Kittipanyo (2014), Mission, Meditation and Miracles: An Shigao in Chinese Tradition, MA thesis, Dunedin, NZ: University of Otago.
- ^ a b Huei, Shi Guo (2008). The Textual Formation of the Newly Discovered Anban Shouyi Jing, Chung-Hwa Buddhist Journal 21, 123-143
- ^ Greene, Eric (2014). HEALING BREATHS AND ROTTING BONES:ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BUDDHIST AND CHINESE MEDITATION PRACTICES DURING THE EASTERN HANAND THREE KINGDOMS PERIOD, Journal of Chinese Religions 42 (2), 145-184
- ^ Zacchetti, (2002). "An Early Chinese Translation Corresponding to Chapter 6 of the Peṭakopadesa," – via JSTOR (subscription required) Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 65 (1), 76.
- ^ The Sutra of Sitting Dhyana Samadhi
- ^ Chan, Yiu-wing, An English translation of the Dharmatrta-Dhyna Sutra, http://ibc.ac.th/faqing/files/English_Translation_ofBuddhabhadra_Meditation_Sutra.pdf
- ^ La Yogācārabhūmi de Saṅgharakṣa, by Paul Demiéville in Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient, Vol. 44, No. 2 (1954), pp. 339-436.
Other sources[edit]
- Huynh, Trung (Thich Hang Dat). A Reappraisal of Kumārajīva's Role in Medieval Chinese Buddhism: An Examination of Kumārajīva's Translation Text on "The Essential Explanation of the Method of Dhyana". M.A. Thesis, University of the West,
- Deleanu, Florin. 'Śrāvakayāna Yoga Practices and Mahāyāna Buddhism', Bulletin of the Graduate Division of Literature of Waseda University, Special Issue No. 20 (Philosophy-History), 1993.
- Deleanu, Florin. 'A Preliminary Study of An Shigao's Translation of the Yogācārabhūmi', The Journal of the Department of Liberal Arts of Kansai Medical University, Vol. 17, 1997.
- Greene, Eric. Of Bones and Buddhas: Contemplation of the Corpse and its Connection to Meditations on Purity as Evidenced by 5th Century Chinese Meditation Manuals. M.A. Thesis. University of California, 2006.
- Yamabe, Nobuyoshi. The Sūtra of the Ocean-Like Samadhi of the Visualization of the Buddha: The Interfusion of the Chinese and Indian Cultures in Central Asian as Reflected in a Fifth Century Apocryphal Sūtra. PhD Dissertation. Yale University, 1999.


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Hurricane Harvey responders honored by American Association of State Troopers
Two retired Texas Department of Public Safety troopers, a Texas-based convenience store chain and a regional sporting goods chain stepped up to help others in the Katy area during Hurricane Harvey last August.
Their efforts got recognized Jan. 23 by Keith Barbier, president of The American Association of State Troopers (AAST) Inc., who presented them the Spirit of the Trooper Award. Recipients are Rick Muniz, a retired DPS lieutenant, and George Rhyne Jr., a retired DPS major; Academy Sports & Outdoors with corporate offices in Katy, and the Katy's Buc-ee's convenience store. Established in 2009, the award recognizes those who support AAST's goals and purposes and its mission to improve the lives of state troopers and their families.
Barbier explained that newly built Buc-ees opened and provided rest and free food and drinks to first responders before it opened to the public. Academy opened its campus at 1800 N. Mason Road for about three weeks as a command center and place to lodge to troopers and other first responders headed to Houston to help but who got cut off by Harvey. Muniz, owner of Pure South Texas Custom Smoked Meats & Catering, enlisted help from friends like Rhyne as well as others to serve about 3,000 meals to troopers, other first responders and evacuees.
Muniz, Rhyne
During a break in the rain, Muniz who lives in Katy went out to see if he could help. Most of downtown Katy was flooded, he said, and first responders were busy. So he headed the other way to Katy Mills Mall. There he found a DPS command post being set up. After learning they expected between 300 and 400 troopers but had no arrangements to feed them, Muniz knew what he could do to help.
"I offered to volunteer to feed the people," said Muniz. "No restaurants were open. Infrastructure was shut down. I called up a couple of buddies - one being George - and said I might need help feeding troopers coming in for Harvey relief efforts."
Rhyne said it took a couple of days to organize the food service with a lot of it done by word of mouth.
"The whole community was coming out," said Muniz, explaining people brought water and Gatorade. Soon it was more than troopers, and three meals a day were served as well to National Guardsmen with local churches requesting plates for evacuees as well over roughly 10 days.
"We ended up serving everyone," Muniz said. As the need swelled, so did the volunteer ranks.
"It was a great, great outpouring of support to help me feed the guys," Muniz said. "I just went out to see if I could help and ended up feeding a few thousand people. I was pulling 16- and 18-hour shifts. It was a lot of work for a great cause."
As a retired trooper, Muniz said "I know how difficult it is to work from a first responder perspective."
Rhyne, Muniz and Barbier have known each other for more than 25 years through the DPS. Both Rhyne and Muniz now work with the Texas Anti-Gang Center.
"Certain bonds forged over time tend to be unbreakable," said Rhyne. "The camaraderie associated in an outstanding organization is one of them."
Muniz called the community outpouring fantastic. "All the people sacrificed time and resources to help me. I just barely got it going."
He said his daughter, a Katy Elementary School teacher, said it best. "My faith in humanity has been restored.
"I saw all the people coming together feeding the community. It was tiring long hours but it was worth every minute of time and effort."
Academy, Buc-ee's
Stuck at the office when Harvey came, Joe Matthews, Academy vice president of loss prevention, learned that the DPS command station at the Merrell Center flooded. So he offered the Academy campus to not only the DPS but also other first responders, including the U.S. Army and Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Since the campus wasn't open for business, Academy had space for an estimated 500 law enforcement first responders and 700 Fort Hood Army troops. Even after employees returned to work, the campus still housed Army personnel, Matthews said.
Matthews noted the business has played a supportive role for the DPS on other occasions, such as Hurricane Rita. "We're the last to close and the first to open in natural disasters. We have products that are life-sustaining to help people prepare and recover."
His loss prevention operations manager Shawn Tryon, a former DPS trooper, knows the drill, too, since it's not the first time he's been involved with rescue efforts after hurricanes.
Tryon reached out to the regional DPS commander about what Academy could do to help. What happened though exceeded initial expectations of who and how many would be based at the campus. "I don't think anyone understood the magnitude and devastation that occurred," said Tryon.
He helped get supplies and take care of people staying on campus. "We donated rafts and life jackets so they could do rescue missions."
Matthews said, "We're happy we're in a situation we're able to help those out helping the public - our customers."
As to AAST recognition, Tryon added, "It's nice to be recognized for taking care and giving back to the community."
That sentiment is shared by Brent A. Call, general manager of Buc-ee's in Katy. As a Houston-area resident, he's familiar with hurricanes, but Harvey presented him his first foray as a business helping others during a catastrophe.
The Aug. 28, 2017 opening date for the new store in west Katy was postponed because of Hurricane Harvey. Buc-ees did open though to FEMA, Texas National Guard, law enforcement and fire and rescue and "so many more that have put their lives on hold to rescue, secure and provide assistance for the community," according to the company's Facebook post.
"It was an honor to be part of it," Call said. "While it was nice to accept the award, the bottom line is helping those who help others on a daily basis," he said.


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'Family Blood' Trailer Shows Drug Addiction Brings New Demons
Drug addiction is a nasty demon. One family, trying to escape its mother's dependency, learns how difficult it is to walk away. FAMILY BLOOD is about a recovering addict who moves to a new city with her children, trying to stay away from drugs—but staying clean proves difficult for the mother, Ellie.
The trailer shows the demons of drug addiction, the mother falling back into the habit, destructive habits when a new friend appears to be more than just an acquaintance from the local drug addict meetings. FAMILY BLOOD looks like a great blend of psychological thriller and horror, which turns bloody as Ellie transforms into a new version of herself.
FAMILY BLOOD is directed by Sonny Mallhi. The script is written by Mallhi and Nick Savvides. The movie stars Vinessa Shaw (3:10 TO YUMA, HOCUS POCUS), James Ransone (SINISTER, SINISTER 2) and Colin Ford (WE BOUGHT A ZOO).


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The raw outcome of beauty standards
November 8, 2018
You are at the supermarket, waiting in a long line of endless carts full of food, and all you want to do is leave. To pass the time, you pull out your phone and scroll through Instagram, taking in the vacation photos, movie clips, models and celebrities, and more. You notice the amount of comments that a girl received on a post, and you compare it to the amount you have. Her 74 comments make your 13 look tiny and unimportant, but you push that feeling down and keep scrolling, then feel a swell of confidence as you see a girl with only 4 comments, which looks small in comparison to your 13. This cycle keeps going, and sooner or later you'll just go drown in YouTube and snacks, because you don't want to deal with this jealous cycle anymore.
Your social media is bound to have photos that lower your self-esteem. It can occur with anything, whether it's a magazine, a different social media platform, or any other place where photos could be displayed.
Celebrities post photos of them on magazine covers, looking made up and beautiful, with thigh gaps and skinny waists. Girls your age might post bikini photos, or photos of them with makeup on, or anything that makes them look a little better than how you normally look. Teenagers always go through the period of not feeling comfortable with the way they look, but with social media, it's amplified. Now, wherever you go, you are bound to see something that might make you self-conscious.
Self-esteem is valued. Taking a photo and thinking, "Hey, I look cute," is a rarity, especially in today's culture. Social media is a valued part of life in 2018, and like all things, it has pros and cons. You can keep up with old friends, get updates on various books and TV shows you like, and more. However, you also follow celebrities and models, who look great in all the photos they post, and even when they aren't made up, they still look good.
There are many factors contributing to a poor body image in teenagers. Some forms of media have portrayed beauty as an impossible standard and has caused many people to have low self-esteem, and that can lead to eating disorders or another form of self harm.
Most models of Barbie have the exact same body. They all have the "Barbie look." A look desired by all, but only a select few go the extra mile for their desired body.. But we'll get to that later. For now, picture Barbie. As a little kid, Barbie was amazing, and everything kids wanted to be when they grew up. But now, looking back, as much fun as she was to play with, she really diminished my self esteem. Barbie's proportions are dangerously unhealthy, and as desired as they are, it would be impossible for them to live their lives.
If Barbie was a real person, she would be incredibly unhealthy. Based off of her body as a doll, she would barely be able to lift her head, she'd have to walk on all fours, she would only have enough room for a few inches of intestine and half a liver. Imagine living like that.
As desired as Barbie's look is, if you wanted to look like her, you would have to make a ton of sacrifices to look like her. There are a ton of "Human Barbies" in the world today, but no one is as close to the doll as Valeria Lukyanova, a model from Ukraine.
Lukyanova, a 33 year old model, has lead an interesting life. She grew up in Moldova, she played with dolls, however,when she played with dolls, she didn't play with them the way most did. Instead of having a wedding between Barbie and Ken, or playing house, she noticed the symmetry of their faces, something that most kids don't notice.
Most kids move on from playing with Barbie around 12 or 13, and move on to other activities. Lukyanova didn't. The obsession with Barbie's symmetry never left her brain, even if playing with dolls did.
As a teenager, Lukyanova went into a "goth phase," and there are many photos circulating the internet of her practicing witchcraft. She has always believed she was from another planet and has expressed this in the past. She calls herself Amatue, a name she claims came to her in a dream.
Her beauty is very strange, but it is exactly what you would think Barbie would look like if she were alive. Michael Idov, a writer for GQ, said in his article on Lukyanova, "A living Barbie is automatically an Uncanny Valley Girl. Her beauty, though I hesitate to use the term, is pitched at the exact precipice where the male gaze curdles in on itself. Her features are the features we men playfully ascribe to ideal women; it's how we draw them in manga and comics and video games."
As much as people desire this look, only a few have it. Men fantasize about women with big eyes, tiny waists, big breasts, and most of Lukyanova's other features, and as Idov says, it can be very unnerving, as it isn't beautiful as you might think.
Lukyanova isn't the only "Human Barbie" out there, though. Blondie Bennett, a 38 year old woman obsessed with being just like Barbie, has interesting ideals when it comes to her looks. She believes that, to be the ultimate human Barbie, she needs to be stupid. An airhead, if you will. In an interview with the Huffington Post, Bennett stated, "I just want to be the ultimate Barbie. I actually want to be brainless," Blondie Bennett, 38, told Barcroft TV. "I don't like being human, if that makes sense… Natural is boring… I would love to be like, completely plastic.' Bennett has had five breast augmentations and other procedures in the hopes of attaining her goal. But now she says she's undergoing hypnotherapy sessions two-to-three times a week in order to dumb down her thoughts."
What is odd about Bennett's ideals is that Barbie was never meant to be an idiot. Barbie had a ton of jobs, though the jury is still out as to if she did them well, but it was heavily implied that she did. So why did Bennett so desperately want to be dumb, if it wasn't really part of Barbie's image?
Maybe it's because that is a stereotype that some men want and fantasize about. Like Lukyanova's features, it could be unnerving when the blonde airhead people might want as just eye candy comes to life. In that past, women were expected to "sit still, look pretty.'' Now, it's just a fantasy, and it's one that Bennett wanted to fill.
But why do women have to feel like they need to fill stereotypes? Men don't have to fill stereotypes women want and fantasize about, so why is it the opposite for women? Not that all women do, but the need for women to fill fantasies is odd. There are plenty of other ways for someone to be appealing to someone else. You shouldn't have to be what they want, and they shouldn't have to be what you want.
Then, there is pressure from parents. Sometimes parents control their children's lives to the point where the child has little to no freedom.
Angelica Kenova, a 26 year old from Moscow, is another person to add to the growing list of plastic people. In an article with the Huffington Post, Kenova said, "I should be independent but my parents insist I still live with them. They don't want me to move into my own place and I am still dependent on them financially. I'm not even allowed to buy clothes without my mum there — she likes to choose attire that clings to my figure and emphasize my good features."
Control from parents is just one of the tons of reasons for plastic surgery or exploitation. But it seems to stem from one major issue, which is societal expectations. People want women to be blonde, skinny, and dumb. But since it's so rare, at this point it is more a fantasy than anything else. Yet, we have women, and some men, who feel they need to change their looks to be more appealing. In the cases of Lukyanova and Kenova, there is a different logic going on behind it, but a very large, overarching reason people don't feel comfortable in their bodies is because it isn't what they feel everybody else wants.
Teenagers feel the heat of this the most. In an article from The Odyssey, author Libby Jourdan wrote, "It's OK if you don't know how to contour. It's OK if you can't afford PINK yoga pants or can't fit into Brandy Melville jeans. It's OK if you'd rather spend your hard-earned allowance money on McDonald's and movies instead of MAC. It's OK if your selfies on Instagram don't get hundreds of likes, and it's OK if you want to be a kid for a little while longer. Your teenage years are so short, yet they have the potential to be some of the most exciting years of your life; don't feel pressured to rush through them and into adulthood."
Being a teenager is a great time in your life, and some people feel like they have to speed them along. There will always be PINK and Brandy Melville and all the brands you wish you could afford, but you won't be in high school forever. People should enjoy their time instead of wishing it could speed up.
Maybe a reason for teens wanting time to move a bit quicker is because of what is displayed to them on social media. While scrolling through Instagram or flipping through a magazine, you're bound to see an image of a celebrity or model looking like exactly like what people wish they looked like. But it isn't always natural.
Photoshop has become a massive part of beauty culture, and it's accepted that we don't need to see celebrities in their natural beauty. But actors, actresses, and models are just as much human as we are, and not all of them want to be photoshopped. Zendaya posted a photoshopped photo of herself and captioned it, "Hada new shoot come out today and was shocked when I found my 19 year old hips and torso quite manipulated. These are the things that make women self conscious, that create the unrealistic ideals of beauty that we have. Anyone who knows who I am knows I stand for honest and pure self love. So I took it upon myself to release the real pic (right side) and I love it?? Thank you @modelistemagazine for pulling down the images and fixing this retouch issue."
Women often feel like they need to change their bodies, via a computer in this case, to improve their self-esteem. When teens have a role model that speaks out against body shaming, it promotes body positivity, which is something we like to see from someone we look up to.
Another problem with magazines is that, though they might promote body positivity, they don't always make it the first thing you see. When Troian Bellisario, an actress from the popular show Pretty Little Liars, opened up about her eating disorder, it was not the first thing displayed on the magazine cover. "[Troian Bellisario] Who opened up about her past problems with an eating disorder. The teen magazine decided to feature that as a teaser on the cover, right above a much larger headline for "Get an Insane Body — It's hard, but you'll look hot!" This juxtaposition of providing an outlet for a young actress to open up to young fans about a disorder that "ripped her life apart" next to a story promoting the thin ideals that drive many girls and women to such extremes in eating is appallingly irresponsible."
Awareness isn't always spread about issues like eating disorders, especially when a public figure comes out about an experience with it. People want to put them in a box, and they can't act like human beings. So when a figure like Bellisario speaks about this issue, it isn't going to be number one. Also, people reading magazines don't always want to read about something real that had a strong effect on someone, they want to read articles to help boost their self esteem.
Photoshop has a bad effect on people in general. It makes people, especially young girls, believe in impossible standards and looks. In a CNN article by Jo Swinson, she wrote, "From smoothing skin and erasing wrinkles to enlarging muscles and slimming waists, airbrushing, or "photoshopping," men and women to so-called perfection is the norm in advertising. These images don't reflect reality, yet from a younger and younger age, people are aspiring to these biologically impossible ideals."
Perfection isn't a norm. Perfection isn't really a possibility, because everyone has their own "perfection." And yet we allow computers to dictate our lives and ideals. Slimmer waists and thighs don't determine beauty. Tanner skin doesn't determine beauty. Thicker hair doesn't determine beauty. But when we see celebrities with these desirable qualities, we feel like we need them. But as cliche as it sounds, everyone has their own beauty, and everyone is beautiful.
There are many types of beauty, and big companies have started using models that have an unconventional beauty instead of a stereotyped beauty.
One of these new up and coming models is Sara Geurts, a 26 year old with a rare skin condition was written about in Glamour Magazine, and the author wrote, "For all the fuss we make about taking care of our skin—and all the money we drop on cleansers, moisturizers, serums, and creams—we all have a pretty good idea of what the outcome will be. Aging is inevitable and nothing to be ashamed of, and having "perfect" skin isn't what makes you beautiful. Sara Geurts, a 26-year-old model, knows that. She's shattering the idea that you need to have smooth, taut skin to look and feel gorgeous."
Skin is such a big part of beauty culture, and Geurts is showing that you don't need perfect skin to be beautiful. Skin isn't meant to be as smooth and taut as it is shown, and nobody has it exactly. Skin won't be perfect forever, and piling on product after product only closes and blocks pores, and that will just make your skin less perfect faster. Stress can also add to acne, so the more you stress, the more you break out.
Every teenager goes through the acne phase, it's inescapable. But skin conditions create even more shame, because it can make people feel better about their acne. When you see someone with a condition that makes their body look very different then to what you are accustomed to, people tend to freak out and react negatively, as cruel as it may be.
Fotini (last name not mentioned), a 29 year old woman, has a skin condition called psoriasis, which results in her having welts and blisters all over her body. They aren't painful nor contagious, however, many people find them revolting. Fotini has been body shamed several times for her marks, but her worst experience was when someone told her she looked like a reptile. When people hear these things, they are scarred for life, not only externally, but internally. You can never erase hurtful comments, no matter how much you try.
Fotini, along with many other people, has faced many malicious comments that have lowered their self esteem significantly. Studies show that in 2016, over 60% of people have had eating disorders based on body shaming.
It's 2018, and although it may seem like we've come a long way, the reality is that people are still very much judged based on their looks, if not more, and it still has the same effect as it did 20 years ago.
Beauty pageants are a major contribution to this issue, in that they make people believe that they are not beautiful on the outside.
14 year old Jay Gottesman is a freshman at the NYC iSchool. They said, "They just set up this image for these kids. Child beauty pageants are the worst kind, because the kids grow up to be beauty pageant teens and beauty pageant adults, and they think that the most important thing is your image."
Jay is putting out the idea that many have heard and said before: Beauty pageants are just another way to make people feel bad about their looks.
Many parents force their children to cover their still developing faces in makeup and wear fake eyelashes as well as putting them in fancy outfits. It's not only little kids who are participating in these pageants, children of all ages exploit their bodies in pageants.
Beauty pageants do not only judge people on their looks, but also on their talent. In a beauty pageant, you go up on stage, show off your body, and present your talent. Then, the judges choose the final contestants and crown the one who is the most pretty and who has the best talent.
The only thing that beauty pageants accomplish is making people feel bad about their looks, and making those who are perfect feel better. Everyone should be comfortable in their bodies, and nobody should be judged in beauty pageants based on their looks.
Beauty pageants exploit people's looks to make their companies look better, and to elect the"most beautiful" person. The entire concept is insane.
Junior Abbe Shulties has an interesting opinion on the matter: "Its constant comparison and it drives the idea of women comparing themselves to other girls." Abbe is saying that when people compete for "prettiest girl" or "Miss America" all they are doing is making each other feel bad.
Beauty pageants don't only make people feel bad. Many people actually take action on their low self-esteem. Megan MacCutcheon says that our society is filled with messages that are telling us we have to look a certain way and have a certain body type. Beauty pageants among other factors such as perfect models are making people feel ugly in their bodies, which nobody should feel.
However, there are people who would enjoy being in a beauty pageants. Freshman Gladys Porfirio thinks that it could be a good way to get money. She says, "It depends on the purpose of the beauty pageant, if its showing off your natural curves, your natural features all that than yes (I would like to participate in one) but if it's like anybody who has plastic surgery, maybe I would not want to participate."
Gladys is saying that if the beauty pageant is about natural beauty, rather than plastic surgery, that she would want to participate for the money and the opportunity, whereas if its about who is the prettiest, the one with the perfect features, she would not.
When people compete in beauty pageants that are solely judge based on looks, they begin to feel bad about their appearance when they don't win, and those who do win exploit their bodies.
Recently, the Miss USA competition no longer includes the bathing suit component, which is a major uprising the company of beauty standards
This leads me to the fact that models with perfect features create this unrealistic body standard that is impossible to meet without plastic surgery.
Many models have had so much plastic surgery that it's almost impossible to see their original appearance. Actions like this make people feel like they need to be perfect and that they need to have perfect features in order to be beautiful.
There are many causes to wanting plastic surgery and having a low self- esteem, but one major factor is Barbie. Barbie has a perfect face and perfect features, and although the majority of people who play with Barbie are girls age 3-10, they get this idea that beautiful means having a skinny waist and defined curves. When this image gets put in little girl's minds, even though they are probably not aware of it at that age, they get influenced to want to look like that.
Tabitha Farrar writes that only 18 percent of adolescents are really overweight." These innocent children feel overweight because of the body standard that has been put in their minds.
There's a big difference between feeling overweight and actually being overweight. People who are truly overweight could likely be in risk of health issues, but people who just have a little extra body fat are healthy. It's healthy to have some extra weight, however, it is unhealthy to have either none or a lot.
16 year old junior Margareta Stern has a very interesting opinion on the matter "Yeah actually I watched a video about this really weird Russian model, she's had a lot of different surgeries to look like barbie. When I first saw it I thought it was disgusting but then I realized it was her body."
Valeria Lukyanova is a Ukrainian model who has made herself look like a human barbie. Margareta has the same thought as most people, in that it looked ridiculous because of all her surgeries, but then she realized that because it was her body, she could do whatever she wanted.
People need to have the right to do what they want with their bodies in order to make them feel good, and if that includes having excessive plastic surgery, you need to make the choice that goes with your gut. The issue with this is that excessive plastic surgery make you look like a doll. The only reason why people get plastic surgery is because they feel ugly in their body because of the standards that have been formed over the past decades.
Statistics show that it is mostly women who get plastic surgery, because women are the main people who get bullied. Although Barbie influences women to get plastic surgery, even though it seems unlikely, Ken also influences men to have plastic surgery.
There have been many instances of men who have had excessive plastic surgery, such as Justin Jedlica and Rodrigo Alves, who have spent a lot of money on their appearance. All the surgery makes both of them look like plastic dolls.
Actions like these influence more people to want to be more "beautiful" by looking perfect. Even though it seems like only women get body shamed, men do too. Women do get shamed more often because they are mainly judged based on their looks, and men are more judged on their smarts and looks.
15 year old Ellie Kauffman spoke about how Barbie has put an image of beautiful in young girls head, even though they were probably not aware of it at the time" "The fact that the model Barbie is skinny, has big boobs, is usually white, has a tiny waist; all these things at the time I wasn't aware but looking back it could have definitely planted something in my brain and I know it did for other people." Ellie is saying that although the little kids are probably not aware of it at the time, Barbie's body image greatly affects the standards of beauty.
When kids play with Barbies, they often treat them as their idols.=
This should not be the reality because more than half the society's beauty is fake. People use photoshop and plastic surgery to create lies about their appearance, and the only thing they are accomplishing is making others feel bad.
Because of this standard, people's self-esteem goes spiralling down.When teenagers who are imperfect hear about and see people with perfect features, they often (not always) want to look like them. This thought causes many forms of self harm.
Some of these forms of self harm include anorexia, bulimia and possible suicidal actions and thoughts. It's mostly teenagers who use these forms of self harm, because they are the age that cares most about their appearance.
An anonymous author writes about how the first time they purged was in 10th grade after eating a lot of chocolate ice cream. They write that after they purged, they felt much lighter and happier. Purging is when you eat a lot of food, and then make yourself sick to get rid of it, this disorder is called bulimia. This person had bulimia for 10 years, meaning they felt gross in their body for a decade.
A lot of people have anorexia, an eating disorder that causes you to starve yourself, and bulimia because of previous history in body shaming and low self-esteem. The reason why most people have low self-esteem is because of the people who photoshop themselves into looking perfect.
When people make themselves look perfect with photoshop and plastic surgery, it causes the people who are imperfect to get body shamed often. Body shaming is often the biggest part of beauty standards because people who think looks are everything make people who are imperfect feel worse about themselves.
The way these people make others feel bad are often just to make themselves feel better. They often use harsh language as well as physical bullying.
In the beginning of this article, a 29 year old who was told she looks like a reptile and her skin is repulsive was mentioned. Sadly, this has happened to so many people. A 27 year old woman named Theo experienced something similar. She has self harm scars on her shoulders, and because of it, her boss wants her to wear long sleeves so as not to let anyone see them.
People don't only get body shamed for not having "perfect skin," but they also often get body shamed for being called overweight, when the reality is they are completely healthy.
Studies have shown that people who excessively work out are more likely to have heart attacks, as well as risks such as loss of menstruation, osteoporosis or bone mineral loss. All of these causes are very medically harming because they cause your body to stop functioning properly.
Although excessive exercising may not seem like an eating disorder, it is. The only thing different is that your eating real food and then just burning it all off, instead of starving yourself or purging.
Another case of body shaming happens when people judge each other's features. In the "ideal beauty standard" people have a tiny waist, big boobs and are tall. Because of this, people buy products that show off these features such as push up bras and girdles. A push up bra makes women's breasts look bigger, and girdles make you appear skinnier.
14 year old Jaya Rao-Herel says, "It's wrong for people to body shame others because it's something that your not in control of, and even if you are it's just something that's not anyone's place to give their opinions on. It's one thing for someone to have an opinion on themselves, but when someone else shares their opinion it's both invasive and uncalled for and can result in a lot of unneeded anxiety and stress around whatever they were commenting on."
Jaya is making the point that nobody should get body shamed. If it's their fault or not, it's nobody's place to share their negative thoughts.
Tanveer Syed writes about how when we look in the mirror and are unsatisfied with ourselves, we want to make our features look bigger. She writes about how we use push up bras to exentrate our features and make people more attracted to us.
The main reason why people get body shamed for all these causes is because the bully is just trying to feel better about themselves, and to do that, they make other people feel worse.
"Body-shaming statistics indicate that 94 percent of teenage girls have been body shamed."
Have you heard of the new Netflix show Insatiable? Well, 15 year old Ellie Kauffman has a very strong opinion on it: "I think the show while it's entertaining, it has a horrible message… I think it's definitely about how your life will get better once your skinny and boys won't like you when you're fat and it just puts being skinny on a pedestal."
When people are skinny or fit, many people admire them more, because of what society has laid on us. When many people see an overweight person or even someone who does not look like a twig walking on the street, they are often repulsed and disgusted.
Although it may seem like nothing has changed and that we as a society still treat people different based on looks, we have actually had many steps up from where we used to be.
There have been many companies who have advertised a new body image such as models with "natural beauty" as Gladys Porfirio calls it.
Companies like these are including all body shapes into the fashion world, which is what all fashion industries should be doing.
Freshman Georgia Badonsky says, "I think anyone can be a model, especially people with disorders or where their body isn't perfect, it teaches people that your body doesn't have to be perfect"
When little children see photoshopped models, they get this idea of what it means to be beautiful. When they see these models with imperfections, they are being taught that everyone is beautiful.
Winnie Harlow (right) is a famous, and gorgeous, model with a skin condition called vitiligo. Vitiligo causes you to have different pigmentations in your skin.
Madeline Stuart (left) is another famous and gorgeous model with down syndrome. She feels very comfortable in her body, and wants to show the world what beautiful means.
When companies hire models like this, it brings out the true beauty in people and influences more people to show off their imperfections.
We need more people like this in the world to educate others about how beauty affects our everyday lives.
Our society has created this standard of beauty that has caused hundreds of thousands if not millions of people to have a low self-esteem and eating disorders.
The main way beauty is portrayed is through social media, which is the worst form, because it has the greatest effect.
The problem isn't your body. It's what you think of it. And what you think of yourself.
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text: Always Be Planting by Ravenna Gardens | Wednesday, July 20, 2016 | 0 comment(s) Ahh, Summer. Time for the vegetable gardener to kick back in the hammock and wait for the tomatoes to roll in. Right? Bring on the Arnold Palmers? Fine-tune your mojito recipe? Nothing too strenuous, I hope. Maybe tally up how many countries' food shortages could be solved by your surplus zucchini alone. Go ahead, call up the UN, see if they'll take 'em. But once you're done with all that, come meet me in the garden, because we've got work to do.You may think now that the toil of Spring is behind us, you're set for the year, with nothing but hose-wrangling and sprinkler-dodging as far as the eye can see. If that's the case, then clearly you've forgotten my cardinal rule of veggie gardening … which I just now came up with: Always Be Planting. Say it with me. Always Be Planting. If you're not, you're due for a rude awakening when August/September roll around and you've got some (admittedly lovely) tomatoes … surrounded by the bolted, wilted remains of everything else. Heavens! Won't somebody please think of the lettuce!?Never fear, your friends at Ravenna Gardens are always thinking of the lettuce. But it's up to you to meet us halfway. It's time to start planning succession plantings of your favorite greens (lettuce, kale, chard, arugula, etc.) as well as autumn crops of things like broccoli, beets, cauliflower, carrots, and—my favorite—rutabagas (pictured below). Hey! What a coincidence—we've got seeds and starts of those things here at Ravenna! Come ask us about them! We'll tell you about them! Here's a freebie: did you know a surprising number of these crops can actually be left in the ground all Winter for continual harvest or a welcome picking in early Spring? It's true. I'm telling you, nothing beats back the cold grip of January like a fresh carrot (pictured below); nothing warms the soggy, frostbit soul like mashed parsnips and rutabagas. No, seriously, they're delicious.But lest you get too bogged down in looking ahead, rest assured you do have our permission to enjoy the existing Summer bounty. In fact, if you're looking for ideas about what to do with your harvest, stop by the store and check out our selection of gorgeous cookbooks and food-preservation guidebooks. Cooking, drying, canning, freezing, pickling or—my favorite—just eating the stuff fresh off the plant: you can't go wrong. These books should really come with a warning, though. Every time I glance through them I can't seem to stop salivating. It's a little embarrassing. And lastly, in all seriousness, if you have grown more than you can possibly use this year, please consider donating some of the extra to your local food bank. They and the recipients of your garden magic will be most grateful. Now, enough lollygagging, your mojito tastes fine! Time to get back out there and—shoot, what was my cardinal rule again? Oh yes—Always Be Planting!By Luke Ruggenberg - Ravenna Gardens Plant Manager This entry was posted in no categories. 0 Comments Add a Comment to this Post You must be logged in to post comments.


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July 18th Daily Doodle is dots, lines and circle things. It's a hot day and my mind felt like going to the beach. But with red tide, and blue-green algae in our area wicked bad– it's like going swimming in a swamp of dead smelly fish.
"My parameters are simple: draw what comes to mind. Focus on a feeling and doodle it out…No color, just black and white images. I want to also try to add a time limit of 20 minutes max (something new). No, this will not be Zentangle, or "Tangle" but some principles apply and I may do a few of my own patterns."
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The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) is again recognizing the City of Westerville as a Global Smart21 Community.
Next, Westerville and other Smart21 communities begin a more in-depth application process to be named to the list of 2020 Top7 Intelligent Communities.
The City of Westerville was named a 2019 Top 7 Intelligent Community by the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF). The City is the first community in the United States to achieve this recognition on its first attempt. Westerville was one of only three cities from the United States to be named to the prestigious list.
What Makes Westerville a Top 7 Intelligent Community
- WeConnect Fiber Network and Data Center: Westerville is home to the first and only municipally owned data center. It's a full-service, 16,000 sq. ft. facility supporting a network of more than 40 miles of flexible, scalable fiber offering 100 Gb-plus connectivity to businesses, schools and municipal service providers. WeConnect is purpose-built, carrier-neutral and compatible with any and all cloud providers. Learn more about this high-speed fiber powerhouse.
- A Smart Grid: Westerville is also home to the only municipally owned and operated suburban electric provider in the Columbus Region, providing excellent service to residents and businesses since 1898. The Westerville Electric Division has never settled for the status quo and is a driving force for innovation in the City. With programs like businessWISE, which provides incentives to help Westerville businesses fund green-energy programs and Rush Hour Rewards, offering rebates to customers who adopt smart Nest thermostats and help reduce peak usage and more, the City is known for bringing smart technology directly to businesses and residents.
- The Point at Otterbein University: Westerville's leadership embraces innovation at all levels. That's why the City made a substantial financial commitment to the establishment of The Point at Otterbein University, an innovation center partnership with Westerville's local university. The Point, through this partnership, offers a unique collaborative environment where academics and innovation come together to support entrepreneurs and existing businesses. It is home to an impressive list of tenants like JP Morgan Chase, Nestle and Honda, as well as startups Nikola Labs and edgeThingZ, all conducting world-class research in food science, financial technology and advanced manufacturing.
And that's not all. Read more from the Intelligent Communities Forum.
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Other recognized communities:
- Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada
- Chicago
- Hudson, Ohio
- Sarnia-Lambton County, Ontario, Canada
- Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia
- Taoyuan, Taiwan
ICF members will now schedule a visit to all seven cities for an in-person evaluation of infrastructure, programs and partnerships that represent intelligent communities. Westerville expects its ICF visit this spring. The organization will then name a member of the Top 7 as the Intelligent Community of the Year at a global summit in New York City in June.
As part of the announcement, Westerville was recognized for its history of embracing innovation. From its role in the Underground Railroad to becoming the home of WeConnect (the nation's first municipally owned data center), The Point at Otterbein University and more. Learn what makes Westerville a Top 7 Intelligent Community.
Westerville Chief Information Officer, Todd Jackson, attended the announcement in Quebec. "This is the first time a city in the U.S. has earned both the Smart21 and Top 7 designations with their first application," said Jackson. "Overall, very few communities globally achieve both on their first attempt. We're excited to be in the Top 7 class and look forward to hosting the ICF delegation when they come to see Westerville for themselves."
The City was named to ICF's list of Smart21 Communities of 2019 in October. From there, staff worked closely with key community stakeholders like JP Morgan Chase, Central Ohio Primary Care (COPC), Lake Shore Cryotronics, Otterbein University, Westerville City Schools and the Westerville Public Library in the process to be named to the Top 7 list.
Top 7 candidates are evaluated against the "ICF Method," which is "the first conceptual framework for understanding all of the factors that determine a community's competitiveness in the digital economy," according to the organization's website. Factors evaluated are broadband, knowledge workforce, innovation, digital equality, sustainability and advocacy.
For more information on the Top 7 or the ICF, visit www.intelligentcommunity.org.


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I have more unfinished posts than I'd like to admit but so many of the recent ones are full of anger and sorrow that I don't want to post them. Maybe I will at some point compile them into one post but that would require me to read them a bit and I don't read after I write and the few times I have read I don't even remember writing the words but I can almost always remember the feelings…. sidetracked.
I think where I was going with this is that even though there are times when I am filled with so much dislike and anger for you, but then… then there are times when there isn't enough anger or dislike in the world to mask the hurt and sadness I feel from the loss of you, like now. I am so sad thinking about how I was stupid to even think that there was a possibility of you really being the man I fell in love with. I knew then and I know now that's never going to be a possibility. Does that stop or lessen the hurt or longing for you? Not one bit. I don't know if anything ever will.
I have been thinking about so much again when it comes to you and I, love, relationships, soul mates, and everyfuckingthing else, I have enough time since I don't sleep anymore, I thought I had gotten past this. I thought I was beyond all of the panic attacks, night terrors, screaming/crying, and all of the other darkness that comes with the loss of you but since you decided to come in and treat me worse than before I have regressed more than I'd like to admit. I have been clingy, weak, and pathetic. I am not proud to admit that I had to stop myself from sending texts, although I'm sure you wouldn't call that stopping myself… trust me when I say I did, I could have text you a novel, several times over, but I didn't so I consider that stopping myself. It took me a bit to realize that I was begging for your love again, you had given me just enough attention to suck me back in, you turned on just enough charm and knew all the right things to say (why wouldn't you though since I ou have spent the last 3 years baring my soul to you) and the flirty little words to whisper. And I fell for it. For every word. Every. Fucking. Word. I had my doubts of course, but I could only remember the good in you at that time and all the good I was kinda feeling at the time won out.
Plus I didn't want to let myself think that there was anyway that you would do the same thing to me again. I mean, there was no reason to. We weren't together, you had left me for another chick, I knew about her, there was no fucking reason for you to lie to me about anything. And yet you still did. Even after I gave you every opportunity to be honest you chose to continue to be fake and lie and say that you were over her and hadn't talked in weeks, you realized how much you missed me, you wished you could have me back, I told you how broken I was, I told you how there was no need for false promises or fake words because I had no wants, the baby's and I love you's that you were throwing out were only welcomed if they were true and from the heart and yet you still continued, the only thing I asked of you over and over was to not hurt me, to not fill me full of empty promises, please don't hurt me… you cried to me and promised. You begged me to make love with you.. why? why would you come back only to break me more? Did you really think that I would survive you turning your back on me again? Or is it that you truly don't care about me?
You get so mad when I question your love for me. You get pissed off and angry that I would ever doubt that what you said was true but then you do things like this to me. You act like I'm nothing. You forget that I'm a person, with a real soul. I might just be a video call to you but I truly exist. I am as real as she is and if you wouldn't treat her like this then you shouldn't treat me like this because I am no less important on this earth than she is. You don't have to love me, I understand that the soul loves who it loves, I don't fault you for that, it's the way you treat me that is wrong. Don't love me, don't ever think about me again that is fine but don't knowingly do hurtful things to me. I deserve better than that, any person does.
I had to take a break from writing for a bit and just reset before I let myself get too carried away down the path of darkness. I realized that the only person that is hurting from this is me and I am choosing to not give you that much power over me anymore.
I have spent my fair share time thinking of how I could get my revenge on you, how could I hurt you the most? After many hours I have finally realized that the best revenge I could ever get on you… is to find my happy again, find the me that I was when I was most in love with you and try to be her again. I will allow myself to be broken/hurt/sad and whatever else I need to deal with the loss of you but then I need to let you go, forever, and then allow myself to heal. I need to keep reminding myself that I am worth the love that I thought I shared with you, I need to accept that I am capable of loving someone else with the same depth of love that I had for you because just because it wasn't good enough for that doesn't mean that it won't be good enough for someone else. I need to stop comparing everything to you, I need to stop trying to compete with the love that I thought you had for me and realize that there is a beautiful love story waiting to be written for me, I just need to be ready to write it. And I'm not yet. But I can be. I will be.
Someday my fairytale will begin, my soul will heal and there will be a new cast of characters that will somehow not include you.
But you see… that is the hardest thing for me to accept.. how the fuck does my story not include you?!?!
You were supposed to be my life so how are you not a part of my story?


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Your success in dealing with your high blood pressure is guaranteed by keeping a record of your pulse rates, weight loss or even the waistline. Monitoring the progress involves monitoring as to what the heart is doing. Thus, one way of measuring the improvement of high blood pressure is through the pulse rates via a high blood pressure monitor.
So to determine high blood pressure, pulse rates can be taken from any parts of the body with the wrist as the most preferred. All that is required is a watch or clock with a second hand. Never use a stopwatch.
Initially get the pulse by placing the elbow as high as the heart on a table. That can be improved later on without the table, by holding the arm up in the air. That can be achieved any time during a typical day, after exercise or when you feel like taking your pulse rate.
Place the left hand to the right wrist, if you are right-handed and vice versa, using two or three fingers with the palm positioned upwards. Try to get a steady beat for a full minute. Once you have familiar yourself to the beat, the full minute number of beats can be reduced to some beats per ten seconds and multiply it by six to get the pulse rate per minute.
The external pressure, the transporting of blood to the muscles and the skin by the arterioles and veins, as well as the speed by which the heart pumps out blood are all responsible in the number of beats per minute. Hence, a lower pulse rate is like having a lower blood pressure. Generally, the average pulse rate is 70 beats per minute.
The pulse rate is affected by a lot of factors, like eating, drinking, exercise, anxiety, and tension. If one is regular in getting the pulse rate at the same time each day, this can be used as grounds in setting up a basis for reducing the high blood pressure, taking into consideration the factors mentioned.
Usually, the resting pulse rate can be lowered by an exercise program, attaining an ideal weight and improved diet. Typically, start on a slow exercise with proper physician consultation. Besides exercise, meditation or mental conditioning can reduce pulse rate and blood pressure.
There are many ways to get the blood pressure these days. There are the coin-operated machines in stores, battery-operated gadgets or the traditional type known as a sphygmomanometer.
To get the blood pressure using the sphygmomanometer, wrap the cuff or band around the arm to stop the flow of blood. Place a stethoscope to an artery below the band then slowly release the band. When the blood begins to flow, the systolic pressure or high number comes through. The beats will stop to pave the way for the diastolic pressure or low number, and the sound becomes steady.
Thus to operate, the band is pumped then the pressure is out from a mercury sensing device. That is commonly seen in most doctors' office. There are already new electronic blood pressure monitors that can sense sensitive and objective sounds, hence, the stethoscope is no more required.
It is essential to take blood pressure and pulse rates every day by yourself, by others or by a doctor. In some cases, some patient's tend to be on edge when a physician takes his blood pressure, causing an artificial rise in pressure. That is termed as white-coat hypertension.
Dealing with your high blood pressure by monitoring your pulse rates in a diary will help monitor the wear and tear the body is acquiring. As such, proper control in weight and intakes of sugar and cholesterol-rich foods should be eluded.


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Have you noticed that when you do a search, you pay more attention to the companies that have a higher rating?
It is a great edge to show a lot of high reviews when consumers are trying to determine what business they are going to choose when making buying decisions.
How can you increase your ratings easily?
What would happen if you could give your customers to a link that would automatically allow them to give you a five-star review?
I'm in a networking group called The Go To Network, and it's founder, Anton Cipri, provided this short little video to make it easy to capture a Five Star Rating from Google.


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The X Dream Gyroxus X-Box Gaming Chair is a contoured seat that turns when you turn and tilts when you tilt. They've billed it as a full motion controller, which we'd have to agree since the Xbox 360 (or PS3) controller comes built-in to the chair. And rightfully so, since it's the special controller's joystick that tells the chair which way it should bank and pitch. As a result there is no additional software to install or special hookups to add to your gaming console.
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Professor John M.T. Balmer, who some credit with formally introducing the 'corporate brand' notion, and who held the first chair in corporate brand management, is one of the co-editors for the recently published "Advances in Corporate Branding". Published by Palgrave, this book is a cornerstone anthology on corporate brands aimed at scholars, practitioners, and managers. A list of Professor Balmer's publications is available here.
This prestigious edited collection of articles from the Journal of Brand Management (JBM) provides an overview of the corporate brand field, including its historiography. Among the topics examined are: franchise management, co-creation of corporate brands, alliance brands, and internal branding.
Along with Professor Balmer (Chairman of the Board of Senior Consultant editors of the JBM), this compendium is co-edited by the three editors in chief of JBM who, respectively are from Australia, Switzerland, and Germany: Dr Shaun M. Powell, Dr Joachim Kernstock and Professor Tim Oliver Brexendorf.
Professor Balmer notes: "This book aims to be 'essential reading' for all those interested in corporate brands".
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It has been about a month since the last earnings report for Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH). Shares have added about 0.2% in that time frame, underperforming the S&P 500.
Will the recent positive trend continue leading up to its next earnings release, or is Norwegian Cruise Line due for a pullback? Before we dive into how investors and analysts have reacted as of late, let's take a quick look at its most recent earnings report in order to get a better handle on the important drivers.
Earnings Beat at Norwegian Cruise Line in Q4
The company's earnings (excluding 15 cents from non-recurring items) of 85 cents per share outpaced the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 79 cents and increased substantially on a year-over-year basis. Higher revenues aided the quarterly results.
Moreover, the cruise operator issued an encouraging view for first-quarter and 2019. For the first quarter, Norwegian Cruise Line expects earnings (excluding special items) of approximately 70 cents per share, above the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 57 cents.
Adjusted earnings for 2019 are anticipated to be in the band of $5.20-$5.30, again above the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $5.15. Both earnings beat and an upbeat guidance pleased investors. Consequently, shares of the company increased in pre-market trading.
Revenues came in at $1,381.2 million, marginally short of the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1,395.2 million. The top line, however, improved on a year-over-year basis. The year over year improvement was due to the 15% increase in passenger ticket revenues to $958.4 million.
The same from onboard and other sources was up 1.6% on a year-over-year basis to $422.8 million. Gross yield (total revenue per Capacity Day) increased 3% in the quarter on a year-over-year basis.
On a constant currency basis, net yield increased 4.7% in the final quarter of 2018. The measure was up 4.2% on a reported basis. Fuel price per metric ton (net of hedges) increased 7.8% to $496 in the quarter under review.
Total cruise operating expenses were up 8.5% to $817.3 million due to a 7.3% rise in Capacity Days. Also, marketing, general and administrative expenses rose 12.4% year over year to $208.94 million. Gross Cruise Costs (sum of cruise operating expenses and marketing, general and administrative cost) per Capacity Day increased almost 2% in the fourth quarter due to higher marketing, general and administrative expenses.
Fuel price per metric ton, net of hedges, is projected at $456 and $465 for the first quarter and full year 2019, respectively.
How Have Estimates Been Moving Since Then?
In the past month, investors have witnessed an upward trend in fresh estimates. The consensus estimate has shifted 23.25% due to these changes.
VGM Scores
Currently, Norwegian Cruise Line has an average Growth Score of C, however its Momentum Score is doing a bit better with a B. Following the exact same course, the stock was allocated a grade of B on the value side, putting it in the top 40% for this investment strategy.
Overall, the stock has an aggregate VGM Score of B. If you aren't focused on one strategy, this score is the one you should be interested in.
Estimates have been trending upward for the stock, and the magnitude of this revision looks promising. Notably, Norwegian Cruise Line has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). We expect an in-line return from the stock in the next few months.
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Proverbs 27:18
Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honored.
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Proverbs 17:2
A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.
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Proverbs 14:35
The king's favor is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is against him that causeth shame.
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