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braiding-his-hair · 2 years ago

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Please fucking read this post guys - I need the world to know just how disgusting DeSantis is. Spread the word.

I am a queer university student in Florida. I was born and raised in Florida. I went to high school in a really accepting environment and I’m fucking devastated that DeSantis wants to take that away. He wants to take it away not just from teenagers. But also university students. DeSantis is actively trying to scare anyone even slightly liberal or leftist out of Florida to increase his odds of winning re-election and even presidency. He is actively making Florida even more hostile towards queer people and people of color than it already is. Here’s a couple other things Ron DeSantis and other republican politicians in Florida have done with the state or are trying to do (Because this single issue with the books doesn’t even start to explain how awful Florida republicans are):

Wanting to ban Advanced Placement (AP) African American history from being taught in high schools, claiming it has no educational value. For those who don't know, AP is a program that high school students can take classes in to receive college credits if they pass. AP ended up changing the course's curriculum for a second review, excluding mentions of reparations, queer studies, and Black Lives Matter movements.

Banning anything but the colorblindness model from being taught when addressing racism (Stop WOKE Act)

Greatly limiting the teaching of sexuality or gender in elementary schools, calling it an "anti-grooming" initiative, effectively calling the entire queer community pedophiles. This bill has caused many queer teachers to quit or go back into the closet.

Banning universities from offering majors in gender studies, critical race theory, intersectionality, and other similar topics. (This is a new bill that has not been approved by DeSantis... yet)

Defunding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives in Florida universities. This likely includes gender affirming care for trans students, OBGYN services like birth control, counseling services specially offered for minorities, disability accommodation services and more. DEI also likely includes student clubs that focus on making a safe space for minorities, like the Pride Student Union and Black Student Union at my university. DeSantis calls DEI initiatives discriminatory, bureaucratic, and a waste of funding.

Instituting republican politicians into university leadership positions. For example, University of Florida’s previous president had a background in teaching and engineering. The current one, Ben Sasse, was a senator for Nebraska whose only education history was in a private Christian university. Sasse has a very public history of homophobia, pro-life beliefs, and global warming denial. New College in Sarasota is also an especially heinous example of Florida universities being taken over by republican politicians, though I do not know the specifics.

This isn't even everything.

This is censorship. This is McCarthyism. This is trans genocide. Queer students are afraid. Black students are afraid. History, sociology, and other social science/humanities teachers can't even teach their materials with full accuracy anymore because the course content and proper textbooks are fucking illegal.

TLDR: DeSantis is a fucking fascist who is slowly destroying Florida education, bill by bill.

I don't Think ive seen anyone on here talking abt some US states forcing teachers to remove all books from their classrooms and force them to only have pre-vetted books available or else face possible JAIL TIME ???

#Theres one more thing I didnt wanna say in the post because i know some really dumb leftists wouldn't like me for saying this but #Begging yall to go out and vote blue when the time comes.#BEGGING YOU.#if you dont even though yorue perfectly eligable and able to vote its your fault if he wins presidency. and then queer ppl and poc #will REALLY be in trouble.#braids.txt

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dailyaudiobible · 5 years ago

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02/02/2020 DAB Transcript

Exodus 15:19-17:7, Matthew 22:1-33, Psalms 27:1-6, Proverbs 6:20-26

Today is the 2nd day of February, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it's great to be here as we twist the knob and throw open the gateway and step into this brand-new shiny week. And it's a brand-new shiny month. So, new beginnings all around and we have a story to tell and it's certainly telling the story of the Bible as we read through it each and every day but it's also the story of our lives and we will write that story this week with our decisions and choices and attitudes and we will write the story of this month with the same things. And thank God, right friends? Thank God we have His word to counsel us. So, this week we’ll read from the Voice Translation and we’ll be picking up where we left off in the book of Exodus where the children of Israel have crossed the Red Sea on dry ground and the Egyptian army, they didn't. They didn't quite cross and it wasn't dry and so they ended up at the bottom of the sea. And, so, today Exodus chapter 15 verse 19 to 17 verse 7.

Prayer:

Thank You, Father for bringing us into this new week and into this new month. And again…again, we thank You, we thank You for last month, we thank You for bringing us safely through January and for all that You did in our lives through Your word and that month. And, so, we have great anticipation as we continue the story forward and we invite You fully. New beginnings, new month, new week and we give it to You in advance. Come Holy Spirit we pray in Jesus’ name we ask. Amen.

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And, as always, if you have a prayer request a comment you can hit the Hotline button in the app, the little red button at the top or there are a number of phone numbers you can use. In the Americas 877-942-4253 is the number to call. If you are in the UK or Europe 44-20-3608-8078. If you are in Australia 61-3-8820-5459 is number to call.

And that's it for today. I’m Brian I love you and I'll be waiting for you here tomorrow.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Good morning, I am Surely Goodness and Mercy from Sarasota Florida I’ve listened to Daily Audio Bible for several weeks now and I enjoy being a part of this group. I’m responding to that prayer request of Paula the child advocate from LA area. Paula’s ladies group friend Dolores committed suicide this week and they thought she was better after her son’s sudden death. Dolores had announced a Christmas for daughter’s engagement the wedding to be held later this year. Father God help Dolores and her Father to heal from this tragedy. Lord God I ask that You’ll please heal this daughters broken heart, give her wisdom and insight into the grieving process, and let her not go into blame but to forgive even though she’s been robbed of her mom and robbed of her mom being mother of the bride and being a grandma and seeing the birth of these grandchildren and I pray God that she’ll not lose the dad as well. Holy Father help this daughter not to blame herself or blame God or blame others. Help her not to linger with anger over these losses. Help this daughter to walk with You and to look to You Father God for answers for the future and comfort and peace. May she enter to God’s Sabbath rest. I pray that she’ll, as an orphan, she’ll not be overwhelming reality to her but to realize that she’s grafted into God’s family. I ask for family members to rally around and be a strong support to her and the ladies that have known Dolores for these 30 years will have a soften heart in a powerful way toward this daughter. If it’s God’s will, please raise up another mom substitute that can encourage and love and step into a significant role of this Young lady as she goes through her wedding plans and wedding celebrations. And then I have a prayer request. My husband’s niece Gail had emergency back surgery this week. They live in New York and have two small children. My prayer request is that the nerve function in her leg return, that everything will be knit properly, and pain will continue…

Hello Daily Audio Bible family this is J from Nashville. So, I woke up this morning with some amazing news. Those of you who have been listening for a while know my story and I have, through a friend of a friend, located the state in which my ex-wife and my child are located. So, what I’d like to do is I’d like to pray that God will give me guidance, discernment and clarity and a means by which to have a relationship with my child. Lord Jesus, I thank You Father for this glorious day and this wonderful overwhelming news. Father, every bone in my body wants to completely relocate in the next 30 seconds to that state so that I can be close. But Lord I don’t want to do these things in my own power, in my own wisdom, in my own strength, in my own desires. I want to do them according to Your will. So, Lord I pray that You will send Your Holy Spirit before me and soften my ex-wife’s heart, clear her mind, and open her eyes spiritually to allow her to see me the way that You see me. All the hurt and pain that I’ve caused as undoubtedly caused serious trauma. I pray Lord that You will begin to mend that trauma in a way that will allow a relationship with this child. I pray that in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

Hello family this is Cindy the flute player. I’ve called in before and been a listener for a long time, but I wanted to call and apologize to my family. When I called in, I was discouraged and just wanted to give up and after 40 years of being a believer I haven’t given up and actually I feel like I’m in the season now where I have seen so many answers to prayer. The one that steepest to my heart, well there’s a couple, I haven’t seen but I am trusting Him. I’m trusting that He will and is moving and I just keep speaking my heart to Him. And I want you to know out there family that I’m listening to your heart and I’m praying for you instantly when you’re talking and you’re bringing your requests to us and I especially have Esther and Anonymous on my heart and want you to know that the Spirit, the Holy Spirit reminds me to pray for you and to not give up and that He sees you and that He loves you and so do I even though we’ve never met. And I want…I just…I’m so thankful for all of you out there and thankful for this format. It really is beautiful. And there’s lots going on on this reservation and by heart is deeply troubled for the children but I’m sure that’s why He’s planted me here. And, so, you know, God bless all of you. I hope, sometime I get to meet you. I’ll be able to come to Tennessee someday. All right. Love you. God bless you.

Hi Daily Audio Bible family this is for Danny in southern Oregon and I just started listening to the Community Prayer for the weekend and…whew…I’ve got five hours to go but you were in the beginning and I heard you talk about your mom being very sick and that you’re gonna read scriptures over her. I don’t know if that was my suggestion, but I know I had said it. And I just wanted to share with you that at the end of my father’s life he started to see dark figures and he looked at me and he said there are dark men behind me, and they’ve come to get me. And I looked at him and I swore up, but I won’t swear here and I said the bleep they ain’t. And I canceled all of my appointments that day and I started praying with everything I had out loud. He was in and out of consciousness and I was just praying, bringing down the Angels because I said I will not lose my father to whatever has come to get him. And the nurse came into the room and she looked at me and she said is everything all right in here and I said I think it’s…we’re at the end and he is seeing dark figures who have come to get him and she locked eyes with me and she said well we need Jesus. And I said yes we do. And she worked all day and then at the end of her shift she came in. She prayed with me and we…we brought…we opened the doors of heaven and I felt Angels around us and I just read and read and read. I didn’t sleep that night. I went home and I changed it to work out cloths, I broke out into a sweat. I mean I was up all night and the next morning was when he mouthed back the Psalm back to me. And, so, Danny I just tell you, you fight and Lord I just I build up my sister Danny to fight for her mother’s soul and that what she reads over her mother would yield fruit in Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

Hi this is Cheyenne butterfly from Bakersfield I haven’t called in for a long time. I used to call regarding my son JJ. Today’s situation is he got off the spice, still using straight drugs. He has a mental illness. He has schizophrenia and he has a pay service, got his pay service to give him $2000 for a car, brought the car home, the car was worth $200, couldn’t run. I couldn’t get…convince him to let me have the contact person who would sell him a car that wasn’t worth $200 and couldn’t get smogged, couldn’t get registered, car broke down. Some other drug dealers or drug addicts sold him another car for $500. He lived in it for about three weeks. Cops arrested him for Grand Theft Auto for stealing the car. Now he’s sitting in jail. He has a mental illness. He needs lots of prayer. I’m leaving a whole lot of the story out, but the bottom line is this child needs God, he needs prayer, he needs redemption, he needs somebody in his life. God pray that somebody in jail is a Christian and helps him because he won’t listen to me. I’m just calling and asking for prayer for this child his name is JJ. He’s almost 30, he has schizophrenia, he’s been homeless on and off now for the last 10 years. I’m just asking for major prayer for this child. I listen to you daily, been listening to daily for the last couple years and I know the power of prayer on this is strong. I’ve watched it happen. I thank you so much and I thank the Daily Audio Bible for providing us the service. I love you all and thank you so much.

Good morning DABber family this is Walta the Burning Bush that will not be Devoured for the Glory of our God and King. I’m calling for, I believe, Cara and her son Nitch from Denver. I just want you to know that I heard your request and I prayed for you and it meant something special to me because I struggled with what you’re going through. I guess it’s been, gosh since, my son was 17 years old. He’s 22 now he struggled for three straight years with addiction and had problems with the law. And praise God, for the last two years he’s been sober. He’s…he’s back in college and he’s counseling other people with addiction. He’s actually found the Lord. I’m staring this testimony with you so that you know that there is nothing impossible for God. While I was walking through my struggled God reminded me that my son Emmanuel is not just my son, he’s God son who God entrusted to me. God entrusted Nitch to you and now you give him back to God as Abraham gave his son back to God. He is God’s son and God will watch over him and He will protect him while he’s out there in his prodigal phase. But know that God loves niche more than you do and be at peace in your heart knowing that God is faithful to do exceedingly abundantly above our expectation. If God can heal and deliver my son from addiction, if God can save him, God can do the same for Nitch and I’m praying that through this testimony that you will overcome by the blood of the lamb and the word of our testimony I pray that you will be encouraged. I pray that you will be encouraged. Look for Insight, the Insight program online and see if you can find a community with which you can just find support because there are many families struggling with this addiction problem. I love you my sister. I can’t wait to hear your testimony and I will continue to pray for him until I hear…

Hi DAB family this is Tahara in Southern California and there are a few people that are on my heart today. I’ll try to do this quickly. Cara from Denver your call really resonated with me. I have two sisters who were out and using for years and it is so hard. I had a friend once say that loving an addict is like hugging a chainsaw. So, I just pray…first of all I want to thank God for your sobriety and I pray that He will give you supernatural peace and secondly I pray for your son, that God will protect him until he is ready to just fall to his knees in that broken openness that we need for healing. There was a woman who did not leave her name, she has a 22-year-old nephew with lupus and possibly dyskinesia and I pray for complete healing and that God would protect him from despair. I also pray that her nephew would recognize his unique placement to let Jesus love shine through him. Sienna, I heard so much fear in your prayer request. I just want to give you a hug girl. I pray that God will redeem the incredible difficult circumstances that you’re going through. I also pray that He will give you strength to hold healthy boundaries and also for healing over your body. I pray that He would bless you with peace and trust in Him. Diana Davis you are in my heart and on my mind. I pray for your healing as well as for your two wonderful sons. I pray that God will bless them and protect them and surround them with loving people. I pray also for Isaiah who was given mind altering drugs and abused and I just pray for the healing of his mind and soul. Becky from Orlando thank you for the praise report that you shared. I just...I really needed to hear that. I needed a reminder of God’s power. And finally, God’s Smile in England, thank you for your brief and joy filled testimony, it really touched my heart and made me smile.

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thedigitalhuman · 6 years ago

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In real life, in the natural course of conversation, it is not uncommon to talk about a person you may know. You meet someone and say, “I’m from Sarasota,” and they say, “Oh, I have a grandparent in Sarasota,” and they tell you where they live and their name, and you may or may not recognize them.

You might assume Facebook’s friend recommendations would work the same way: You tell the social network who you are, and it tells you who you might know in the online world. But Facebook’s machinery operates on a scale far beyond normal human interactions. And the results of its People You May Know algorithm are anything but obvious. In the months I’ve been writing about PYMK, as Facebook calls it, I’ve heard more than a hundred bewildering anecdotes:

A man who years ago donated sperm to a couple, secretly, so they could have a child—only to have Facebook recommend the child as a person he should know. He still knows the couple but is not friends with them on Facebook.

A social worker whose client called her by her nickname on their second visit, because she’d shown up in his People You May Know, despite their not having exchanged contact information.

A woman whose father left her family when she was six years old—and saw his then-mistress suggested to her as a Facebook friend 40 years later.

An attorney who wrote: “I deleted Facebook after it recommended as PYMK a man who was defense counsel on one of my cases. We had only communicated through my work email, which is not connected to my Facebook, which convinced me Facebook was scanning my work email.”

Connections like these seem inexplicable if you assume Facebook only knows what you’ve told it about yourself. They’re less mysterious if you know about the other file Facebook keeps on you—one that you can’t see or control.

Behind the Facebook profile you’ve built for yourself is another one, a shadow profile, built from the inboxes and smartphones of other Facebook users. Contact information you’ve never given the network gets associated with your account, making it easier for Facebook to more completely map your social connections.

Digital Human: Series 15, Ep 1 - Jigsaw

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davenportpsychology · 2 months ago

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newgenerationalwealth · 2 years ago

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hopeandafuturecounselingservices · 4 years ago

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yogaadvise · 7 years ago

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30 Top Cities and Towns for Meditation in America

So a lot of the make-up of a city is, naturally, asserted on history. We recognize the group make-up of city areas based upon the expertise of market, or the discolorations and also accomplishments of their political current. Generally we could make inferences on how spiritual teams have worked out in one location or an additional, several of it deliberate, and several of these patterns absolutely happenstance. Why, as an example, Mormons settle in Utah, but white Anglo Saxons went to Connecticut. Why the ultra-religious form enclaves, while the more secular often look for diversity, and often, inexplicably, choose sameness. Why artists survive the south side, and also scientists on the east.

When we think of the leading cities for meditation in The U.S.A., we try to find the buzz. Where are individuals gathering? How are they gathering? Is it online? Academic? Religious? Devout? Are experts relocated by custom or innovation, and is this basically democratizing practice reliant on charming leaders at the? Or could it truly proliferate, continued virtue as well as strategy alone?

We will not address all these questions right here, however it deserves considering the geography of these cities in which reflection has actually ended up being increasingly traditional (though it interests keep in mind, exactly how it has actually remained to be viewed as 'different recovery' in many of the places provided right here). Presumably that all-natural beauty plays a big duty on meditation's visibility. Perhaps locating oneself at the foot of mountains, or by the collision of waters, makes one more suitable to enjoy peaceful and become interested in the variations of the mind. Possibly goning on the borders of a booming city influences its residents to rest in peace and subtle recognition. Or probably it's happenstance.

You could see a few areas typically recognized for reflection are out this listing, such as New york city, L.a, and San Francisco. That's because the top 30 cities were placed by the complying with requirements: variety of meditation workshops per capita, the visibility of scholastic research study and funding in the area of meditation and/or contemplative scientific researches, as well as the prevalence of Google searches in reflection and mindfulness. Attempts to evaluate the presence of reflection in a place could constantly disappoint seeing firsthand the results of devoted neighborhood practice, caring leadership, as well as institutional assistance for contemplative quests. We hope this evaluation still supplies a fascinating snapshot of mindfulness in The U.S.A., consisting of a couple of unhonored heroes that have helped bring the practice to even more people in all pockets of the country.

Fairfield, Iowa To those more recent to meditation, it could seem weird that a city in the center of America's heartland is a hotbed for meditators. The truth is that thousands have flocked to Fairfield considering that 1973 when Maharishi Mahesh Yogi established a college by his name right in the center of town. Ever since it has actually transformed into rather of a capital for specialists of Transcendental Reflection around the world.

Berkeley, California In several methods, Berkeley is the prototypical 'conscious' city-with 9 reflection facilities, and lots more yoga workshops, homeowners of the city are known for focus on healthy and balanced living. The College of The golden state Berkeley houses the Greater Good Science Facility, which produces considerable research study in meditation as well as mindfulness.

Decatur, Georgia Home to a Shambhala Buddhist Meditation facility, in addition to Millikin College, which has actually recently conducted study on reflective writing, this southerly town is swarming with fledgling pathways right into practice.

Boulder, Colorado On the precipice of the Rocky Hills, this liberal city is the home of eight reflection studios and also has ample opportunity for reflection and mindfulness practice. The College of Colorado at Rock carries out comprehensive study on meditation, its newest research points out the power of mindfulness in mollifying postpartum depression.

Charlottesville, Virginia Home to the University of Virginia, Charlottesville promotes The Contemplative Sciences Facility at UVA, perhaps one of the most comprehensive combination research-practice scholastic establishment of its kind in America. With occasions and instruction from internationally distinguished educators in the field, along with recurring research study and finding out projects, this center has put Charlottesville permanently on the map of reflective research studies and practice.

Asheville, North Carolina Home to 5 meditation facilities, in addition to a number of counseling facilities that instruct meditation, this special as well as vivid community snuggled in the Blue Ridge Hills of Western North Carolina, with a populace of 88,000, has its pick for regular practice.

Sag Harbor, New York For the 2,000 citizens who remain in Sag Harbor all year, their 2 premier facilities (Kadampa, and Vajravarahi, 2 different types of Tibetan Buddhism) welcome distinguished teachers from around the world.

Athens, Ohio In southern Ohio, this 25,000-person town has a populace eagerly eating online details regarding reflection, according to Google search information. With one center for meditation technique, we could see even more popping up soon.

Taos, New Mexico With 2 dynamic meditation centers around, packed with classes, speakers, and also workshops, as well as a number of resort facilities on the borders, there are sufficient possibilities to produce a stable technique in Taos, which is typically known for its Indigenous American History.

Placerville, California Located just 65 miles southwest of Lake Tahoe, Placerville is somewhat of a hub for meditation, with a population of 10,000 and also three distinct non-denominational centers for reflection practice.

West Chester, Pennsylvania Located in eastern Pennsylvania, this town of almost 20,000 individuals has a centrally located Shambhala facility in addition to several yoga studios as well as spiritual expedition facilities, which is perhaps the reason numerous of these Pennsylvanians are browsing meditation online.

Ashland, Oregon This lovely community, located close to the California border, as well as the home of South Oregon University, residences 3 meditation centers-a Zen center, a non-denominational workshop, and also its really own Tibetan Buddhist Temple.

Princeton, New Jersey While Princeton College might not be understood for specifically spiritual or spiritual supports, the community of Princeton has several destinations for normal meditators, consisting of a Buddhist Holy place, a Vipasana facility, and workshops for relaxation and healing.

Los Gatos, California On the borders of the Redwoods Woodland, Los Gatos is residence to a Zen Center and also a Self Understanding Facility accommodating the neighborhood population of just over 30,000 people.

Mountlake Terrace, Washington This northern residential area of Seattle, a dynamic city with a thriving populace of yogis, houses a Buddhist center in addition to an innovative clinical treatment center, called conscious treatment group, which creates a bond between Western psychological treatment and also mindfulness practice.

San Rafael, California The Bay Area is swarming with possibility for meditation as well as mindfulness technique. In this San Francisco suburban area, you could locate three renowned reflection centers, consisting of the highly well-known Spirit Rock Meditation Facility, as well as many lay-lead meditation teams throughout the city.

Laguna Beach, California

This gorgeous beach town in Southern Orange County is residence to 2 Transcendental Reflection centers, including one hideaway facility booked for women.

Palm Springs, California The desert city recognized for its spas is additionally the home of 50,000 individuals eager to practice meditation. With Vipasana, Buddhist, as well as TM centers, Palm Springs homeowners and vacationers alike have their pick.

Elmhurst, New York This working course neighborhood in Queens is house to 3 reflection centers, consisting of a typical Zen Facility founded in 1977.

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Home to a large and transient student populace, Ann Arbor is house to a great several reflection and yoga studios. Along with on campus reflection teams, the College of Michigan Medical Institution has a leading reflective scientific researches center, which they call the Center for Awareness Science, and also which has actually conducted valuable researches in the field of neuroplasticity and neuro-feedback.

Santa Monica, California If this list had 'om tattoos' in its research study base, Santa Monica may have come in first place. Known for its healthy food, its lovely beach views, as well as its avid yogi population, its not a surprise that this community in the greater Los Angeles location is home to five reflection centers, and numerous lay-led organizations as well as groups.

Sarasota, Florida Though Sarasota has an older average age compared to the ordinary American city, it has an online community of looking for meditators, as well as the city is house to 3 meditation centers-Buddhist as well as TM centers, as a well as a not-for-profit mindfulness organization.

Garden Grove, California Just 34 miles southern of L.a, this city of 175,000 people has the highest variety of locations of praise per head in The golden state. Included because number are the virtually lots meditation centers, which the city's homeowners frequent.

Mountain View, California For the meditating San Franciscans who work from Google's main campus in Hill Sight, there is no shortage of chance to practice near job. With Vipasana, Zen, as well as TM options, as well as casual meditation teams at Google, the Silicon Valley city is excited for the practice.

La Puente, California 20 miles east of L.a, La Puente is a fairly typical rural area-a mainly domestic neighborhood, with T'ai Chi as well as Yoga studios, along with 2 meditation centers that have actually appeared in recent years.

Davis, California With an Insight Meditation Group as well as a Shambhala Center, Davis is house to hundreds of routine experts. The College of California at Davis not only assists bring mindfulness to students, but it additionally houses the Saron Laboratory which does study in mind training, in addition to sensory processing in autistic children.

Cambridge, Massachusetts Cambridge is understood for its Crimson Pride and also its robust trainee populace. It's not a surprise after that, that the city has 4 reflection centers including Zen and Vipasasna. At Harvard, theres is continuous research on reflection's affect on the mind, most notably in a recent research on Grey Matter.

New Haven, Connecticut New Sanctuary is virtually the same to Cambridge in regards to its area of meditators. With Zen, Vipasana, and also Shambhala fortress, along with a major college doing innovative operate in the areas of neuroscience and also mindfulness, New Sanctuary is a terrific location to be meditating today.

Evanston, Illinois Home to Northwestern University as well as just 14 miles north of Chicago, Evanston is recognized for its dynamic and dynamic population. They have an Insight Meditation facility as well as an all natural university hospital that integrates yoga exercise, meditation, as well as choice healing for their patients.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania The capitol of Pennsylvania on the eastern bank of the Susquehanna River is the home of simply over 49,000 people who have access to 3 reflection facilities, consisting of two Buddhist, and also one Zen center.

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How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You’ve Ever Met

Kashmir Hill, Gizmodo, Nov. 7, 2017

A man who years ago donated sperm to a couple, secretly, so they could have a child--only to have Facebook recommend the child as a person he should know. He still knows the couple but is not friends with them on Facebook.

A social worker whose client called her by her nickname on their second visit, because she’d shown up in his People You May Know, despite their not having exchanged contact information.

A woman whose father left her family when she was six years old--and saw his then-mistress suggested to her as a Facebook friend 40 years later.

Shadow contact information has been a known feature of Facebook for a few years now. But most users remain unaware of its reach and power. Because shadow-profile connections happen inside Facebook’s algorithmic black box, people can’t see how deep the data-mining of their lives truly is, until an uncanny recommendation pops up.

Facebook isn’t scanning the work email of the attorney above. But it likely has her work email address on file, even if she never gave it to Facebook herself. If anyone who has the lawyer’s address in their contacts has chosen to share it with Facebook, the company can link her to anyone else who has it, such as the defense counsel in one of her cases.

Facebook will not confirm how it makes specific People You May Know connections, and a Facebook spokesperson suggested that there could be other plausible explanations for most of those examples--”mutual friendships,” or people being “in the same city/network.”

Handing over address books is one of the first steps Facebook asks people to take when they initially sign up, so that they can “Find Friends.”

You enter your email address and then your email password, and Facebook will tell you everyone you know on Facebook. Meanwhile, Facebook holds on to all the contacts you handed over.

The “Find Friends” page in the Facebook smartphone app presents a picture of a spray of flowers and inviting the user to “See who’s on Facebook by continuously uploading your contacts.”

Down in the fine print, below the “Get Started” button, the page states that “Info about your contacts...will be sent to Facebook to help you and others find friends faster.” This is vague, and the purpose remains vague even after you click on “Learn More”:

When you choose to find friends on Facebook, we’ll use and securely store information about your contacts, including things like names and any nicknames; contact photo; phone numbers and other contact or related information you may have added like relation or profession; as well as data on your phone about those contacts. This helps Facebook make recommendation for you and others, and helps us provide a better service.

Take a look at all the possible information associated with a contact on your phone. Then consider the accumulated data your phone is carrying about various people, whether lifelong friends or passing acquaintances.

Facebook warns users to be judicious about using all this data. “You may have business or personal contacts in your phone,” the Learn More screen admonishes the reader. “Please only send friend requests to people you know personally who would welcome the invite.”

Having issued this warning, and having acknowledged that people in your address book may not necessarily want to be connected to you, Facebook will then do exactly what it warned you not to do. If you agree to share your contacts, every piece of contact data you possess will go to Facebook, and the network will then use it to try to search for connections between everyone you know, no matter how slightly--and you won’t see it happen.

Facebook doesn’t like, and doesn’t use, the term “shadow profiles.” It doesn’t like the term because it sounds like Facebook creates hidden profiles for people who haven’t joined the network, which Facebook says it doesn’t do. The existence of shadow contact information came to light in 2013 after Facebook admitted it had discovered and fixed “a bug.” The bug was that when a user downloaded their Facebook file, it included not just their friends’ visible contact information, but also their friends’ shadow contact information.

The problem with the bug, for Facebook, was not that all the information was lumped together--it was that it had mistakenly shown users the lump existed. The extent of the connections Facebook builds around its users is supposed to be visible only to the company itself.

Facebook does what it can to underplay how much data it gathers through contacts, and how widely it casts its net. “People You May Know suggestions may be based on contact information we receive from people and their friends,” Facebook spokesperson Matt Steinfeld wrote in an email. “Sometimes this means that a friend or someone you know might upload contact information--like an email address or phone number--that we associate with you. This and other signals from you help us to make sure that the people we suggest are those you likely already know and want to become friends with on Facebook.”

Users of Instagram and WhatsApp, which are owned by Facebook, can also upload contacts to those apps, but Steinfeld said that Facebook does not currently use that data for Facebook friend suggestions.

When Steinfeld wrote “a friend or someone you might know,” he meant anyone--any person who might at some point have labeled your phone number or email or address in their own contacts. A one-night stand from 2008, a person you got a couch from on Craiglist in 2010, a landlord from 2013: If they ever put you in their phone, or you put them in yours, Facebook could log the connection if either party were to upload their contacts.

That accumulation of contact data from hundreds of people means that Facebook probably knows every address you’ve ever lived at, every email address you’ve ever used, every landline and cell phone number you’ve ever been associated with, all of your nicknames, any social network profiles associated with you, all your former instant message accounts, and anything else someone might have added about you to their phone book.

As far as Facebook is concerned, none of that even counts as your own information. It belongs to the users who’ve uploaded it, and they’re the only ones with any control over it.

All the people who know you and who choose to share their contacts with Facebook are making it easier for Facebook to make connections you may not want it to make.

It’s what the sociologist Danah Boyd calls “networked privacy”: All the people who know you and who choose to share their contacts with Facebook are making it easier for Facebook to make connections you may not want it to make--say if you’re in a profession like law, medicine, social work, or even journalism, where you might not want to be connected to people you encounter at work, because of what it could reveal about them or you, or because you may not have had a friendly encounter with them.

Imagine the challenge for people trying to maintain two different identities, such as sex workers or undercover investigators. Not only do you have to keep those identities apart like a security professional, you have to make sure that no one else links them either. If just one person you know has contact information for both identities and gives Facebook access to it, your worlds collide. Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent would be screwed.

Shadow profile data powers Facebook’s effort to connect as many people as possible, in as many ways as possible. The company’s ability to perceive the threads connecting its billion-plus users around the globe led it to announce last year that it’s not six degrees that separate one person from another--it’s just three and a half.

With its vast, hidden black book, Facebook can go beyond simply matching you directly with someone else who has your contact information. The network can do contact chaining--if two different people both have an email address or phone number for you in their contact information, that indicates that they could possibly know each other, too. It doesn’t even have to be an address or phone number that you personally told Facebook about.

This is how a psychiatrist’s patients were recommended to one another and may be why a man had his secret biological daughter recommended to him. (He and she would have her parents’ contact information in common.) And it may explain why a non-Facebook user had his ex-wife recommended to his girlfriend. Facebook doesn’t keep profiles for non-users, but it does use their contact information to connect people.

“Mobile phone numbers are even better than social security numbers for identifying people,” said security technologist Bruce Schneier by email. “People give them out all the time, and they’re strongly linked to identity.”

As Violet Blue wrote in Cnet at the time of the shadow-profile bug, “What the revelation means is that Facebook has much more information on us than we know, it may not be accurate, and despite everyone’s best efforts to keep Facebook from knowing our phone numbers or work email address, the social network is getting our not-for-sharing numbers and email addresses anyway by stealing them (albeit through ‘legitimate’ means) from our friends.”

What if you don’t like Facebook having this data about you? All you need to do is find every person who’s ever gotten your contact information and uploaded it to Facebook, and then ask them one by one to go to Facebook’s contact management page and delete it.

Just don’t miss anyone. “Once a contact is deleted, we remove it from our system--but of course it is possible that the same contact has been uploaded by someone else,” Steinfeld wrote in an email.

The shadow profiles, like the People You May Know system they feed into, can’t be turned off or opted out of. The one thing you can do to impede Facebook’s contacts-based connections is, through its Privacy Settings menu, keep people from finding your profile by searching your phone number or email address. (Yes, Facebook functions as a reverse phone-number look-up service; under the default settings, anyone can put your phone number into the search bar and pull up your account.)

“Let’s say you’ve shared your phone number [or email address] with a lot of people and don’t want strangers using it to search for you on Facebook,” Steinfeld wrote. “You can limit who can look you up on Facebook by that phone number [or email address] to ‘friends.’ This is also a signal that People You May Know uses. So if a stranger uploads his address book including that phone number [or email address, it] won’t be used to suggest you to that stranger in People You May Know.”

These privacy settings are an undocumented way to control to whom you get recommended in People You May Know.

But you can only block People You May Know from using information you’ve actively provided to Facebook, not what’s in your shadow profile. So to protect your privacy, you need to provide Facebook with even more information about you.

I asked if Facebook would consider sharing shadow profile information with its users, much like it accidentally shared it with their friends four years ago. Facebook says it can’t because it would be a privacy violation of those who gave the information.

#Facebook #Facebook data #Facebook shadow profile #People You May Know #Facebook friends

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Chapter 4

Saturday arrives after a week of work and now it is time for the all-important third date. Tonight, I make my move. I played with guys who knew how to dress and they schooled me well. The navy blue Armani suit has served me true in the romance department and now will be “called to the colors” yet again. We couple that with a Geoffrey Bean spread collar shirt and then over to the tie rack for something in red. Next stop, the shoe rack for a pair of Gucci dress loafers. Finally, a spritz of Fahrenheit, and I am good to go.

Marcia lives downtown in one of the new “townies” off Fruitville. I pull up in front, traverse the walkway, and ring the bell. The door opens and there she is, six feet of redhead in a gunmetal mini-dress, and bless my soul, the stilettos are back.

“You clean up good.”

“What, this old thing? I just threw it on.”

“As we say in the National League – nice throw.”

Ths is followed by a moment I have been waiting for, to see if she can get all those legs and very little skirt into my overgrown go-cart without putting on a show. No show tonight. She manages to get her appendages in with no loss of modesty. Still in all, they really never end – they just go on forever. Any plan on running your hand the length of those legs requires a compass and a map. I have such a plan. With the big redhead in the right seat, I drop the clutch and we take off.

It’s the scenic route from Fruitville to The Trail, over the Ringling Bridge, around St. Armand’s Circle and onto Longboat Key. Longboat, in English, means high demand, higher prices.

“Silly question, but did you bring your appetite?”

“How long you know me?”

We pull in at Maison Blanche, and a fight almost breaks out. All three parking attendants push and shove to open the passenger door and watch intently as 72 inches, plus 5, of woman get out of my tiny car. I, on the other hand, am less popular than a leper. More than slightly irked, I walk behind the Lotus, and then shove the key into someone’s hand.

“Get your own girl. Do you always cause this much of a ruckus?”

“I don’t mean to, it just sort of happens.”

“Were you the girl that didn’t get any dates because all the men thought you were unattainable?”

“Let me put it this way, I spent a lot of Saturday nights washing my hair.”

Part of my wooing technique is my sense of humor. Now, I have to compete with a woman who is funnier than I am.

“Lefty, how would you feel about a bottle of champagne? We have reason to celebrate.”

“Baby, I’m out with you, that’s reason enough.”

“This may get me into trouble but I have to admit it – the cheaper the flattery, the more I like it.”

More good news, I can do cheap flattery all night long.

“I have been sitting on pins and needles waiting for news, and today the letter came from the Bar Association. This redhead passed the Bar Exam. I, Marcia Glenn, am now allowed to practice law in the State of Florida. Son of a gun, you see before you an Officer of the Court.”

The sommelier arrives. He doesn’t get a word out.

“Cordon Rouge, s’il vous plait.”

In my house, “Mumms” the word.

“I’m impressed.”

“Don’t be. That and ‘Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir’ are my total grasp of the French Language.”

That brings a big smile from the big redhead.

“Know what I really like about you?”

Here it comes; let’s all say it together.

“Your self-deprecating sense of humor.”

One for me, but she is still way ahead on points. Now, time to mix in a little business.

“OK, so now you are an attorney who from time to time will need the help of a private investigator, and I am a P.I. who from time to time will need a lawyer to get his chestnuts out of the fire. What do you say to a partnership?”

“You know, for a left-handed pitcher you’re pretty bright.”

She puts out her hand.

“Deal?”

Shaking her hand, vigorously,

“Deal!”

How am I going to break the news to Frank Ianella? Frank is my family’s attorney in Boston. How can I explain to him that a redhead has replaced him? I’m talking about a woman with curves in places that other women don’t even have places. Sorry about that, Frank, but I’ve got someone here who gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, “In-house counsel.”

That said dinner is a delight with escargots for the lady and onion soup for me, followed by Marcia’s blackened grouper and a sublime Coq au Vin for yours truly.

A note about Sarasota – you can get the local favorite fish at virtually every restaurant in the town. I keep waiting for the McDonald’s to advertise “the McGrouper.”

We wrap up dinner after lingering over the Bananas Foster and head for the parking lot – time for Act Two of The Invisible Man. H. G. Wells, thanks for nothing. There is a cavalry charge of valets to retrieve the car and open the passenger door for the lady, all this in spite of the fact that I am the guy holding the tip in my hand. Every male within earshot then comes to attention when she says,

“I think it’s time for the top to come off.”

I don’t say a word, just a look.

“Not mine, the car’s.”

“Not my first choice, but I am here to serve.”

The little roll-up canvas thing Lotus – with a perfectly straight face – calls the top is off and in the trunk in about ten seconds. So, let’s take stock – a raucous red convertible, a warm Florida evening, a moonlit beach road, Jimmy Buffett on the stereo, a gentle champagne buzz, and one leggy redhead. That just about covers it. Our tour of the Keys takes us the length of Longboat, around Bird, and finally to Midnight Pass Road, the main drag of Siesta Key. It is only then she recognizes where we are.

“Oh, you are good. My momma always told me watch out for those smooth Yankee boys.”

Feigning anger.

“First of all, I’m from Boston, don’t ever call me a Yankee.”

Now smiling.

“Besides, you’re a baseball fan. Don’t you know a crafty portsider when you see one?”

In case you are wondering, a “crafty portsider” is a left-hander who substitutes guile for velocity on his fastball.

“Well, if I had to guess, I’d say the next part of your devious little plan is to position me carefully on the couch, with soft lights and just a hint of music in the background.”

Not exactly the best kept secret since the A-bomb.

“What gave me away? The dinner? The flattery? How about the fact that I can’t take my eyes off you?”

By now, there is enough electricity – and sexual tension in the room to light up South America.

“Let’s just say you’re not without charm, and – what do you know – we have arrived at the couch. The lights ARE low, and I believe I hear Kenny G wafting through the house.”

Now, we discover if this is a love seat or just a couch.

“OK, Lefty – bring it.”

The conversation portion of the evening is finished, having given way to long soft kisses. In time, the only other sounds are the metallic slide of a zipper, followed by the gentle thud of a gunmetal mini-dress hitting the floor.

BURDEN OF PROOF “Round Three” Chapter 4 Saturday arrives after a week of work and now it is time for the all-important third date.

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