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Vulnerability, Where I am Not

What is vulnerability? What does it mean to be shy? I ask these questions of my therapist as we work through my most recent dreams because I don’t know how to be these things. I don’t know how to be where I am not. She continues to point out the “chatty”, aloof or bravado places that keep coming up in the dreams; how I jump out of my feelings of shyness or vulnerability by going into story. She asks me what that is about, what would happen if I didn’t do that. I tell her I don’t know. I ask her what would I DO? What would happen to ME? I don’t know how to BE in those moments.

I have an association between shyness and shame that is difficult to break. The type of shyness that comes from vulnerability can turn to shame if in our moment of vulnerability we are hurt, and especially if our vulnerability itself is shamed. To feel shy is very uncomfortable for me because it triggers a feeling of shame that causes me to jump away from the feeling. It doesn’t matter that the shame may not be real in the moment today, because my reaction is deeply grooved. Changing my most deeply grooved “instincts” is no small task. But each time I experience the psychic shift, where one set of values or ideas is uprooted and replaced with another, my faith grows. One could call these shifts spiritual awakenings. The dreams continue to show the splits in me; the places where the truth and the lie are at odds. The places where the real me is and where the persona or ego self, in its defensiveness, covers the real me. The dream carries the information which can lead us to the truth, if we are honest, open and willing to be where we are not.

The idea of being where we are not is discussed in the teachings from The Red Book in the Carl & Me class taught at the Center for Archetypal Dreamwork. Where God is, is where I am not. All of the ways I have lived and coped, all of the story of who I think I am is not who I am and therefore not where God is for me. I must go beyond where I am to where I am not. This is a difficult thing to do. I can’t will it to happen, nor can I wish it and make it so. I cannot demand it. I can only do my work and when it comes allow it and accept it.

Vulnerability. I don’t want to show this side of me because I might get taken advantage of or hurt. I believe this because it has been true in the past as both a child and an adult in this lifetime and perhaps others. If it continues to happen it is because I look for it and expect it. It is a lot like saying “No one loves me.” and then pointing to each moment of disagreement or pain and saying, “See? No one loves me.” There is always someone to blame because there are always places of pain and hurt in the world and the real me can stay underground, “safe”. The shy vulnerable girl hides.

But she shows herself in the dreams:

I am on the sidewalk and a man on a motorcycle pulls up. I step off the curb and put my hand on the tank of his bike. The bike is yellow and really big and fast with huge shocks. I look up at the man who is really tall. He has on a black full faced helmet with a reflective visor so I can’t see him. Then he takes off the helmet and I see is a young, handsome guy. He asks me if I like the motorcycle. I tell him I have been riding since 1985. He just looks at me and then I realize that I have just dated myself and he will think I am too old for him.
I am a girl in this dream. I have the curiosity and desire of the child. I want to be with him going for a ride on his motorcycle. At first he is intimidating with his reflective visor and he is so tall! And when he takes of his helmet and I see him, I feel shy. I want to say “Yes!”, but instead, I immediately jump away from this feeling of vulnerability. I go into my story about how I know all about motorcycles because I have been riding since 1985. There are lots of stories to be told here and this takes me even further from my girl and into the “I am not good enough” place. I am no longer the girl here. What is so hard about accepting my desire for what I want or need, to say Yes! Some old fear of rejection or hurt. It makes no sense, right? But doesn’t it make just perfect sense.

I see a man walking into a huge sun. He turns and looks back at me.

I know he wants me to follow him and I want to. Who could follow someone into the sun? Only the girl with the flame in the palm of her hand. This girl, in her passion and fire, cannot be burned.

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  1. As always, great to hear about your work Laura.

    Bill St.Cyr


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Tuesday, June 9, 2009

And Then There Were Two

She is quite animated, she has dimples, her eyes seem to tell a story that will be told with wisdom in the future, she loves to stretch, she finds comfort in closeness, she is a messy eater, she smiles and laughs out loud in her sleep, her hair curls up when she cries, her big brother gave her a “tour” of our apartment, he picks out her sleep clothes and kisses her goodnight, she has no streaming tears yet, her feet are absolutely adorable, she loves her pacifier and throws a true conniption each and every time it falls out, and will literally knock your hand away as you try to give it back to her, she falls asleep while and after nursing and wakes up 2 minutes later to finish, she only likes baths when she is draped with warm rags, she hardly sleeps in her crib, she loves riding in her pink and brown stroller, she grunts more than she cries, she loves her boppy, she hates for her hands to be touched, purple is her color, she can stare at an object for a good 3 minutes, she sometimes makes a face of pure disgust when you try to give her the pacifier that she loves so much, she watches television with me, she sucks her arm and fist, you know she is in a deep sleep when she spits the pacifier out, I think she enjoys pooping consecutively after I have changed her diaper consecutively, she is hard to burp, and most importantly she sleeps through the night...she's our little goddess..Halima Ava Marie!

Hi everybody! Well, I am back! Our little family has grown by one and we could not be any happier. Her name is Halima Ava Marie Taylor and she joined us in this world at 10:35am Sunday May 17th at 7 pounds and 3 ounces. My delivery went pretty fast in my opinion, especially in comparison to the delivery of our son, which took around 16 hours. This time it took only 6 hours! I started having contractions Saturday, but they were so sporadic and not that strong, that I did not worry about them. It was not until 3am Sunday morning did I realize that um, hey these are labor contractions. Mind you I did not go into labor on my own with our son, so I honestly did not remember how a real contraction felt, but boy was I reminded. The contractions became faster and much harder as to where I would have to stop mid-walk and kneel down a bit. It was an odd feeling, because for a few seconds you feel absolutely miserable and then for several minutes it's pure bliss. So my mood went in and out from controlled breathing and a bit of tension to laughing and joking around with my husband.

At first they were not sure if they were going to keep me until the nurse saw how hard the contractions were. So after walking from about 4 up until 5:30am the contractions were getting even stronger and quicker. I opted not to go “au natural” with this birth as well, so after the nurse gave me a bit of pain relief I was in total bliss. I'm not going to lie, I felt great. I could still feel when I was having contractions, but the intensity of it was ten times lighter. My husband laughed as I was EXTREMELY relaxed by that point and then came the epidural. Not too shortly after that I found myself pushing so hard that once again, I felt as though I was pushing my organs out..lol. As I felt the shoulders of baby girl come out I took a sigh of relief which was immediately followed up by random questions and thoughts to myself like: will she cry(our sons cord was wrapped around his neck, so it was total silence at first, which had both my husband and I a bit scared)...is she ok, what does she look like, I hope we bond, does she have all ten fingers and toes, and is her head shaped ok..lol.

I was able to watch as they gave her her first bath, something I missed with my son, as they took him out of the room. I could not wait to meet her..to hold her, and to gaze into her eyes. She smelled heavenly and was quite cozy as I nursed her for the first time. I was quite happy..I could not believe it, we now had a baby girl...sweetness, delicateness, gentleness. We named her Halima..which means gentle.

So after all the usual cleanup all I could think about was how I was ready to get out of there. For some reason the nurses and doctors could not comprehend why I wanted to leave the next morning, and I'm like..um, because I would rather not be disturbed every 2 hours for pressure checks and temperature checks and offerings of medicines that I did not want. So we left the next morning with our bundle of joy and have been enjoying her presence since.

  1. what a beautiful story of a beautiful little lady! i love the pictures...she's so beautiful..and i'm so happy for you all! reminds me of my 2nd delivery too...my first one was 17 hours and my 2nd was 4.5!

    blessing to Halima!

    p.s. i love her name!

  2. Beautiful story and even more beautiful little girl! =D

  3. She is beautiful! I love hearing mama's birth stories and what they remember.

    Thanks for visiting my blog today. I am going to dig into yours. I am really interested in home schooling and you have a great sense of style, so what's not to love!

    Congrats and enjoy her!

  4. Gorgeous. Congratulations.

  5. Dominique DjeDjeJune 14, 2009 at 9:45 AM

    Absolutely gorgeous baby girl! Welcome to the club. I have a daughter and they are pure joy. Though I would love a son as well, maybe soon. You have the best of both worlds so enjoy every minute of it.

    I love the three names too... my daughter also has 3 names: Kaya Magdalene Dihye (pronounced dee-hi)

  6. Congratulations!! She is precious :)

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Your New Profile is Here: Time for Facebook Timeline

By Lynette T. Owens

Last September, Facebook announced that it would change the way your profile would be laid out and how you could share and manage your information.  It is not uncommon for sites (social networking, websites, or any site) to update and improve themselves on a frequent basis, but this change is one of the biggest since Facebook’s launch and possibly the first change many new Facebook users have ever encountered.

It has taken some time since the announcement but these changes, called Facebook Timeline, are finally here.

What is Timeline?

According to Facebook, Timeline is “your collection of the photos, stories, and experiences that tell your story.”  To be honest, I would argue that was the definition of Facebook even before Timeline.  But the difference is in the way all that information is laid out to you and to anyone else you choose to share it with.  The old version of the profile was minimalist, functional but boring.  This change is much more elegant and when you see your life reflected back to you in this way, it’s hard not to stare and be narcissistic for a moment.  It is not unlike the service that allows you to create a beautiful profile page using photography in a way that is more aesthetically appealing than the typical website.

Beyond the obvious artistic changes, there is much more to pay attention to, especially if you’re someone who shares a lot of things with a lot of people.  Here’s a list of the highlights of Timeline:

The first thing you’ll notice is an image area at the top consisting of 2 images: a large image spanning almost the entire width of your profile and a smaller image overlapping on the bottom left.  This is your profile picture.  The other image is a new feature and lets you choose something to set the tone and style of your profile. A few thoughts:

  • You’ll probably end up spending a lot of time figuring out the best photo to put in the new spot so do this when you have time.
  • If you upload an image that is too small it won’t allow you to do it.  You need an image that is a minimum of 399 pixels wide (according to the message I got).
  • If you’re not an expert at understanding graphics quality for the web, you should know that the photo you choose should have a high resolution, otherwise when you expand it to this size, it looks awful and grainy.  Some expert sites say that a minimum of 300 pixels per square inch is a good rule of thumb (better to take a huge photo and scale it down vs. a small photo and expand it to fit the space)
  • The ability to edit the image you choose is limited – you can only slide its placement around (like your profile picture) – you can’t resize it, zoom in on it, or edit in any other way like you can on many photo printing sites.
  • If you’re advising your kids on using this, I would also remind them that they should respect copyrights and not use an image that cannot legally be used.

The Main Content

Beneath the cover, you will now see all of your information grouped into blocks, such as an About section which is a brief summary of your biography, your status updates, your photos, things you’ve liked, friends you’re connected with, or spots you’ve checked in with Facebook places.

Towards the bottom, all the apps you are using and the information they are tracking for you via Facebook. Each of these blocks, and the content within these blocks, can be customized so you can decide what parts of them you are sharing and with whom you’re sharing them.

You may decide your summary bio is ok to show publicly, your photos and updates only to your friends, and your apps to nobody but you.  These are sharing settings that you should spend some time thinking about before your Timeline is published live.

Activity Log

Beneath your cover photo, there is a link called “Activity Log”.  This will show you everything you’ve ever posted/liked/shared/done on Facebook and shows you the most recent down to the very first time you signed up for a profile.  This page is yours and only yours to see.

You can filter what you’re looking at using the “All” tab in the upper right.  You can choose to view only likes, status updates, photos, etc. with this filter.

An Actual Timeline

This is the most interesting change to your profile.  On the right side of your profile, you will now see a progression of years from the most recent down to the moment you were born.  This is the Timeline.  It’s comprised of two pieces of information: Everything you’ve ever done on Facebook (which comes from your Activity Log) AND any information you provided to Facebook that is time-related (such as when you graduated from college).

You can easily jump to a specific year and see the combination of these two groups of information combined for that year.  In my case, I see things like dates I graduated from different schools and worked with different companies, and later, the exact date I opened my Facebook profile (which I had completely forgotten!)

This feature is pretty cool in my opinion.  But it is also a treasure trove of personal data that I think needs to be managed very carefully, and that we should advise young people to handle carefully, too.  While it’s easy to see everything in this logical view, it’s also easy for anyone to see it if we don’t handle it properly.

A Note about Privacy and Security

As mentioned above, you can control what you share on your timeline, which consists of things you did or shared on Facebook plus other information you provided in your bio.  You can decide what specific information shows up in your Timeline by:

  1. going to the Activity Log and selecting specific activities to hide (see the button on the right side which lets you hide it from the timeline)
  2. going to the About section (the link is below your profile picture) and hitting the Edit button for each block of information (work history, education, etc.)  You can set privacy to “only me” if there is a block of information you don’t want showing up on your timeline.  However, you cannot decide if a single item in work history shows up but not another.  You would need to delete this specific work history from your profile altogether if it is the only one you don’t want showing up on your Timeline.

Once you’ve played around with all of these features and you’re happy with the way your new profile looks, make sure you do one last thing: check to see what it will look like to the public.  Beneath the cover photo, to the right of the Activity Log link, there is a gear image:

Click on this and select “View As”.  A message will appear above your cover photo saying “This is how your timeline looks to you…”

Select the word ‘public’ to see how your new timeline profile will look to anyone in the world.

If you don’t, keep working on it, paying close attention to the information you are allowing the public to view.  Once you’re happy, go ahead and accepted the changes and let it go live.

For more information on using Facebook Timeline, from Facbook,go to:

For more tips from Trend Micro on safe social networking go to:

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Dear Parents of Writers (POW),

The summer book season will soon be in full swing. As several of you have writer-children with novels coming out in the next few weeks, the members of the board would like to take this opportunity to remind you of certain guidelines for interacting with your offspring during this sensitive time. If you have any questions or concerns, a registered POW counselor is available by telephone 24/7 at 1-888-POW-HELP to assist you.

Avoid sending your writer-child e-mail alerts with subject headings like "VegasBabe22 panned your book on Amazon." Although VegasBabe's comments might strike you as a serious affront requiring urgent action, your writer-child may take a more pacifist stance on the matter. Because your writer-child may not, in fact, take each and every internet review as seriously as you do—and indeed, may be avoiding them completely—it is important to inquire about her policy on this matter before filling her inbox with well-meaning updates every time an ignominious villain says something less-than-laudatory about her book.

Avoid asking your writer-child about her "plans" every time you talk on the phone. Your writer-child hasn't showered for a week; her "office" is a cardboard box that lives in the backseat of her boyfriend's car. Her "plans" involve acquiring a decent pair of socks in time for ALA, and possibly moving to this secret jungle camp in Hawaii that a cool stranger in whose backyard she recently camped told her about.

Avoid marching into tourist bookstores while you are on vacation, asking to be directed to your writer-child's book, and sending your writer-child alarmist e-mails when it is not in stock. Not every bookstore will stock your writer-child's book, especially the ones that sell mostly seagull magnets and coffee table books about sand dollars. Do not be surprised if your writer-child shows a bewildering lack of alarm about this state of affairs. Writer-children do not always appreciate the scope of these indignities; that is where you come in.

Avoid asking your writer-child if she has talked to her editor about publishing that barely-fictionalized travel novella she wrote at nineteen or the picture book she wrote and illustrated at age ten. Although the commerical potential of your writer-child's juvenalia may seem obvious to you, your writer-child will find all sorts of wily excuses not to pass them on to her agent and editor. You may wish to send said juvenalia to movie producers yourself, because otherwise there is no way you will ever see the genius that is Iggy The Iguana brought to life on the big screen.

Avoid asking your writer-child about her second novel unless you have first checked with her significant other to confirm that this is a Good Writing Day. If you receive an indication that this is a Bad Writing Day, wait twenty-four hours and check again.

Do listen carefully when your writer-child updates you on book news, to avoid making mistakes or exaggerations when repeating said news to extended family. A Junior Library Guild selection is not the same as an Oprah's Book Club selection; a Bloggy award is not the Pulitzer Prize. These differences may seem trivial to you, but may cause your writer-child considerable embarassment at Thanksgiving dinner.

Do seek out other POW's for support should you experience anxiety, frustration, anger or disappointment during any stage of your writer-child's career. It is not easy to be the parent of a writer, but remember that you are not alone.

Please feel free to reproduce and/or distribute this document at will, and our sincerest best wishes for this summer 2013 book season.

Velda Perez,
Chairwoman, Parents of Writers

  1. Absolutely hysterical. My favorite post ever!

  2. Funny. Really.
    Here's my un-funny comment: my parents didn't live to see my published books. The good part was that I didn't have to deal with ^^^, and the bad was that I didn't get to deal with ^^^.

  3. Dear Ms. Perez
    Please desist from sending my parents your association's notices. As I explained to your secretary the numerous times I called, I do not want my parents educated in the whys and wherefores of dealing with a writer-child. They already do not understand how I manage to work in my PJs and are waiting for me to have a corner office somewhere - despite the fact that said office (corner or otherwise) is unlikely to materialize. I like my parents clueless. Knowledge is dangerous in the hands of well meaning, but ultimately clunky parents like mine. They love me and they want me to be happy. They do not have to understand me.

    Writer-Child with Bunnies
    PS. You will likely receive similar correspondence twenty years hence from my daughter concerning her clueless mother. Gird your loins.

  4. You need a corollary piece of advice to Parents of Writers-not-yet-published. I await it eagerly.

  5. Along the lines of Writers-not-yet-Published, my mother, through optimism or a sincere need to impress, had bragged so much about all the books I had published that when I actually did publish a book she had begun believing her own press and asked me, "How many is this now?" I think this is also how she started believing I had a PhD.

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A few ideas for Rose Bouquets for Marriages That Produce Permanently Memories

Although you could probably all be familiar with what plants are simply as obviously as what a rose arrangement is, there is more in the types of bouquets than it appears next flowers.
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Each commerce has its individual glossary and the flowered earth is not an exemption. Sure enough you could previously be aware that bouquets of plants may look only all therefore diverse. This really is specifically exactly why you must understand to identify the major several types of rose arrangements.

Being aware of how exactly to be acquainted with the types of flower bouquets will really gain you and your florist in the arrangement of your celebratory bouquet or whatsoever purpose your flower bouquet possibly can have.

The Posy Arrangement

Perhaps the many general type of bloom arrangement, the posy type is a small circular half-spherical bouquet. Customarily the leafage is fairly rare onto it and importance is truly set on the flowers.

The Posy type is generally very light weight and simple to put on as typically (even with new flowers) the stalks are cut off and substituted with flowered cables in their place.

Popular variations of the Posy arrangement could integrate the Nosegay bouquet form which would provide prominence to major leafage, or the Biedermeier arrangement form which structures the half-spherical portion of the posy arrangement specifically rings each made up of a distinctive sort or color of flower.

The Pomander Bouquet

Whilst the Posy form is half circular, the Pomander it self is really a whole sphere, and here is the purpose additionally it is referred to as a flower baseball or getting ball.

On average, the Pomander form is pretty much entirely composed of plants without leafage; some modifications have emerged with much one. For this reason the important thing principle for a Pomander bouquet only seems to make reference to their globular shape.

As a result of this special shape, this sort of bouquet is held via a loop that is fixed on the basketball (the trap is usually manufactured from ribbon).

Pomanders are generally used by wedding attendants such as for instance junior bridesmaids or rose girls.

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Dissimilar to the Posy sort, the Arm Sheaf (also referred to as Speech bouquet) isn’t hand-tied, but rather cradled in the bride (or whoever the company might probably be). For this reason, an Supply Sheaf bouquet can set horizontal without having to be damaged.

The Arm Sheaf form is naturally notably long and not that broad, since it will make it annoying to carry. The favorite selection of plants for this type of bouquet might prefer any bloom with extended stem.

Beautifully arranged Arm Sheaf bouquet can actually be described as a pleasure to see as they separate the symmetry of a main-stream bouquet on the provider offering everything a very good personality.

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Almost certainly the supreme bridal arrangement form, the one everyone contacts with wedding.

This kind of bloom layout got its names (shower arrangement, cascading bouquet, teardrop bouquet, etc…) due to its distinctive appearance.

The Cascading form is customarily rounded at the top and has a trail in the bottom more regularly than not ending in a spiky shape.

Although the bath bouquet can be generally simple hand-held, it is customarily most readily useful presented with your hands, particularly considering that how big is some of these plans may be huge. Olden instances has seen some very nearly covering the bride!

The Accessorizing Bouquets

This isn’t a type of bouquet by itself, but more precisely encompasses a set of specific bouquets which are made about objects and accessories.

The absolute most common of those rose bouquets are most likely the Lover bouquet, Muff arrangement, Prayerbook arrangement, and the Holder bouquet.

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Thursday, May 6, 2010

Gumming up the works

Noble dislikes riding in the car for long periods of time. (Expect tears and screaming on a trip to Houston, even.) Both kids were such troopers with 2 trips to Dallas in the past 5 days, but we did hit a bit of a rough patch yesterday.

Keep in mind, Noble almost always has a handful of something, whether it's coins, dice, cars...something. Sometimes, when he gets mad and the screaming doesn't accomplish his goal, those items will go flying. That's the bad news. The good news? He's got GREAT aim. (Half full, folks.)

So there's the background. You should also know the boy loves, loves to chew gum--and he's great about giving it back to Mommy when he's done. Usually. At one point yesterday, Noble asked for green gum. A few minutes later, I noticed that he wasn't chewing it anymore and I thought, great, we'll get to Uncle Phil's service and find gum in Noble's seat. Or...

...right as we pulled into Dallas, James found the gum. I guess Noble got mad and threw it, and got it right in the little hole in the Pilot's headrest. Good shot, Bubby!

This has nothing to do with that, but I didn't want to clog inboxes with back-to-back e-mails. Here's today's bonus shot...Friday at Aunt Mary's viewing, James took pictures of flower arrangements, etc. I don't know what made him say "yes," but he let Kayci take the camera and she WOWED us. She has a really good eye for detail, and her photos tended to be of small details instead of "scenes." Yesterday she took the camera again...I can't wait to see what she snapped!

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Hatching Soon!

The library is partnering with the Darien Dragons 4H Club for an incubation project. Two dozen eggs are now housed in an incubator in our Kids & Teens Department, and approximately 6-8 white leghorn chicks are expected to hatch in early May. Join us over the next few weeks as we:

  • Observe the eggs
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  • Explore the science and tools that turn an egg into a chicken at our Mini-Scientist Academy: Eggs to Chicks event for grades K-3 on Friday, April 21, 4-5 p.m. Register here.
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Independence Holding Company Announces 2016 First-Quarter Results

STAMFORD, Conn., Aug. 01, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Independence Holding Company (NYSE:IHC) today reported 2016 first-quarter results.

Financial Results

On March 31, 2016, IHC completed the sale of IHC Risk Solutions LLC ("Risk Solutions"), exited the medical stop-loss business and realized an after tax gain of approximately $99,793,000, net of noncontrolling interest.  In addition, under the purchase and sale agreement, all of IHC's in-force medical stop-loss business produced by Risk Solutions is 100% co-insured as of January 1, 2016 and is expected to run out by early 2017.    The disposal transaction qualified for reporting as discontinued operations in the first quarter of 2016.

Net income attributable to IHC of $106,010,000, or $6.08 per share diluted, for the three months ended March 31, 2016 increased from $5,219,000, or $.30 per share diluted, in the same period of 2015 primarily due to the sale of Risk Solutions. Income from continuing operations increased to $.33 per share, diluted, or $5,896,000, for the three months ended March 31, 2016 compared to $.27 per share, diluted, or $4,701,000, for the three months ended March 31, 2015.

The Company reported revenues of $75,895,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2016 compared to revenues for the three months ended March 31, 2015 of $133,105,000.  Revenues decreased primarily due to a reduction in premiums from the 100% co-insurance of the Company's stop-loss business produced by Risk Solutions.

Chief Executive Officer's Comments

Roy T. K. Thung, Chief Executive Officer, commented, "With the sale of our stop-loss business, we are now focused on growing our remaining lines of business: group long term disability and life, statutory disability benefit policies (DBL) in New York, and group and individual specialty health insurance (including dental, vision, short term medical, hospital indemnity, gap and scheduled benefit plans).  All of these lines performed well in the first quarter and we anticipate continued growth and good underwriting results from these lines of business for the remainder of 2016."

He continued, "Also as a result of the sale of our stop-loss business, we will have a very significant amount of cash and, by early next year as the stop-loss runs out, significant excess statutory surplus in our carriers.  We have designated a relatively small portion of our liquidity to generate growth in our current product lines, and to date we have made two investments in call centers that focus on selling our specialty health products.  We have not yet determined how to utilize our remaining large amount of liquidity. Our overall investment portfolio continues to be very highly rated (on average, AA) and has a duration of approximately five and a half years. Our book value increased to $25.08 per share at March 31, 2016 from $18.73 per share at December 31, 2015, and our total stockholders' equity increased to $432 million at March 31, 2016 compared to $323 million at December 31, 2015.  Both of these are all-time highs.  The closing price of IHC stock on Friday was $17.41 or 69% of our book value and 81% of our tangible book value."

About The IHC Group

Independence Holding Company (NYSE:IHC) is a holding company that is principally engaged in underwriting, administering and/or distributing group and individual disability, specialty and supplemental health, pet, and life insurance through its subsidiaries since 1980.  The IHC Group (including through its 91.4% ownership of American Independence Corp. (NASDAQ:AMIC)) owns three insurance companies (Standard Security Life Insurance Company of New York, Madison National Life Insurance Company, Inc. and Independence American Insurance Company), a majority of Ebix Health Administration Exchange, Inc., a fully insured third party administrator, and IHC Specialty Benefits, Inc., which is a technology-driven insurance sales and marketing company that creates value for insurance producers, carriers and consumers (both individuals and small businesses) through a suite of proprietary tools and products (including ACA plans and small group medical stop-loss).  All products are placed with highly rated carriers.

Forward-looking Statements

Certain statements and information contained in this release may be considered "forward-looking statements," such as statements relating to management's views with respect to future events and financial performance.  Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from historical experience or from future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.  Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, economic conditions in the markets in which IHC operates, new federal or state governmental regulation, IHC's ability to effectively operate, integrate and leverage any past or future strategic acquisition, and other factors which can be found in IHC's other news releases and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.  IHC expressly disclaims any duty to update its forward-looking statements unless required by applicable law.

March 31, 2016
(In Thousands, Except Per Share Data)
  Three Months Ended
  March 31,
   2016   2015
Premiums earned$   62,562 $   122,114
Net investment income    4,436     5,422
Fee income    5,079     2,577
Other income    3,258     992
Net realized investment gains    560     2,000
     75,895     133,105
Insurance benefits, claims and reserves    30,743     79,620
Selling, general and administrative expenses    35,227     45,484
Interest expense on debt    453     432
     66,423     125,536
Income from continuing operations before income taxes    9,472     7,569
Income taxes    3,576     2,868
Income from continuing operations    5,896     4,701
Discontinued operations
 Income from discontinued operations, before income taxes    117,636     1,031
 Income taxes on discontinued operations    7,866     401
 Income from discontinued operations    109,770     630
Net income     115,666     5,331
Less: income from noncontrolling interests in subsidiaries    (9,656)    (112)
NET INCOME ATTRIBUTABLE TO IHC$   106,010 $   5,219
Basic income per common share
 Income from continuing operations$  .34  $  .27
 Income from discontinued operations    5.81    .03
   Basic income per common share$   6.15 $  .30
Diluted income per common share
 Income from continuing operations$  .33  $  .27
 Income from discontinued operations    5.75    .03
   Diluted income per common share$   6.08 $  .30
As of July 30, 2016, there were 17,170,933 common shares outstanding, net of treasury shares.

(In Thousands, Except Share Data)
   March 31,  December 31,
    2016    2015
 Short-term investments $ 50  $   50
 Securities purchased under agreements to resell   21,196      28,285
 Trading securities   1,190      1,259
 Fixed maturities, available-for-sale   520,638      428,601
 Equity securities, available-for-sale   8,714      8,426
 Other investments   20,501      21,538
 Total investments   572,289      488,159
 Cash and cash equivalents   145,696      17,500
 Due and unpaid premiums   64,645      69,075
 Due from reinsurers   462,087      483,073
 Premium and claim funds   41,576      22,015
 Goodwill   47,276      47,276
 Other assets   48,257      57,934
 Assets attributable to discontinued operations   -      12,931
 TOTAL ASSETS $ 1,381,826  $   1,197,963
 Policy benefits and claims $ 247,900  $   245,443
 Future policy benefits   235,251      270,624
 Funds on deposit   149,147      173,350
 Unearned premiums   13,350      10,236
 Other policyholders' funds   9,675      11,822
 Due to reinsurers   70,283      46,355
 Due to securities brokers   99,803      998
 Accounts payable, accruals and other liabilities   57,020      63,111
 Liabilities attributable to discontinued operations   6,085      (15)
 Debt   4,250      5,189
 Junior subordinated debt securities   38,146      38,146
 TOTAL LIABILITIES   930,910      865,259
 Preferred stock (none issued)     -      -
 Common stock   18,569      18,569
 Paid-in capital   128,053      127,733
 Accumulated other comprehensive income   (479)     (3,440)
 Treasury stock, at cost   (14,782)     (13,961)
 Retained earnings   300,457      194,450
TOTAL IHC STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY   431,818      323,351
 TOTAL EQUITY   450,916      332,704
 TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY  $ 1,381,826  $   1,197,963

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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Ireland has many holy wells dotted throughout its cities, towns and countryside. Some are places of peace and beauty; others are sad reflections of a forgotten past. Throughout the course of this blog I hope to visit as many holy wells as I can. Ideally, I would like to be able to post at least one blog on a well each month (hopefully more). In part, I hope that it might help to keep alive some of the memories of the associated folklore of the holy wells, but probably more importantly to encourage others to visit them too. Hopefully, if you happen to stumble across this and read it, you also will want to visit these sites so I will try as far as possible to give details of where they lie and how to find them.

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    Is it possible? A Vegetarian Thanksgiving?? Yes, it is!

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    It starts around mid-November and continues until about two weeks after Thanksgiving--and it has been happening for almost 19 years.

    What is "it" you ask?  The big question, of course:

    "WHAT do you eat on Thanksgiving??!!"

    The truth is, I welcome this question!  As a long-time vegetarian, I thoroughly enjoy setting the record straight--we vegetarians do appreciate a delicious Thanksgiving meal sans the turkey.  Turkey has tryptophan anyhow, so the good news is that those of us who don't consume the bird can actually stay awake for dessert!

    In my family, our Thanksgiving menu changes yearly.  I come from a long line of foodies and it seems as though we discuss this meal at least twenty times before we are satisfied with our menu.  The meal always includes a number of staples--homemade cranberry apple sauce, an incredible squash and corn dish, and mashed potatoes.  The other dishes are usually up for experimentation--which main course should we make?  What recipe should we use for the stuffing?

    ...And should we have rice?  Side note on this--does anyone else eat rice on Thanksgiving?  My dad is consistently adamant that since his grandparents served rice, we should too.  Last year we tried a delicious cranberry and pecan wild rice pilaf, but apparently this was not like the rice my dad's grandparents served; we are back to the drawing board.

    For the main course, my mom and I usually make a loaf of sorts--could be a lentil loaf, could be a loaf made from tofu or seitan (wheat protein).  Last year we served something called 'field roast' from Whole Foods to make the cooking less intense for my mom.  It was fine, but I am more of a sides girl anyhow.

    Bottom line, I LOVE Thanksgiving.  As a foodie, I appreciate the whole process from the menu development to the grocery shopping, to the actual eating (of course!).  But, at the end of the day, Thanksgiving is less about the turkey (or tofu loaf) and is more about family and being grateful that we have the choice to eat what we would like.

    It's also about pumpkin pie, let's not kid ourselves.

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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

High HIV Prevalence Among Sex Workers In Swaziland

UNADJUSTED HIV prevalence among sex workers stands at 70.3%.

This is contained in the Swaziland HIV Bio-Behavioral Surveillance Study and Qualitative Study among Most At-Risk Populations (MARPS) conducted by the Population Service International (PSI) in conjunction with the John Hopkins University based in the United States.

The findings of the study were released by Director of Health Services, Dr. Simon Zwane at Mountain Inn yesterday.

It was observed that around the world, men who have sex with men (MSM) and female sex workers have a higher risk of HIV infection than the general population. Until now, little had been known about HIV prevalence or risk factors among these population groups in the country, hence the study was commissioned.

The study shows that HIV prevalence increased with age, with older sex workers having higher rates of HIV.

However, even the youngest group of sex workers had an HIV prevalence rate of 44%. Sex workers were more likely to be HIV infected if they were older, had lower education, married, or were ever pregnant.
Just 4% of sex workers had active syphilis.

Despite the high HIV prevalence among this group, some clients are still daring and sleep with sex workers without a condom.

Out of the 325 sex workers who participated in the study only 23.5% reported always using condoms with all partners in the past month.

More than half (55.3%) reported condom breakage/slippage in the past month. About 74% reported always using condoms with new clients in the past month.

However, condoms were used less often with regular clients and non-commercial partners; 48.2% reported always using a condom in the past month with regular clients and 33.5% reported always using a condom in the past month with non-commercial partners.

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Jennifer Barko Abrielle Barko
Seven tomorrow; just as all the rest have come, Six, Five, Four, Three, Two, the Questionable One.

The picture is from Six, of course, for who knows what Seven will bring, but I am assuming it will not bring Time to write this post, for it will be filled with friends, a pool, sisters and a ball park to watch Big A easily display the magic combination of youth and a softball glove.

Funny thing; Time, that in all my writing about it, it's still a mystery; a knot that the more I try to unravel the tighter it becomes; weaving within my chest a separate knot that leaves me forever caught between a smile and a tear.

I want her to grow; I want her to stay small. I want her to be aware. I want her to have no idea.

She's my enigma. How she can so simply know the deepest truths while still believing the most innocent of things?
"Well do you believe in Santa, Peanut? Who do you think you would know better if there's a Santa? You or some silly kids on the bus? Of course there are fairies, Little A; how else would those letters with Pixie Dust make their way under your pillows? Let's look at the pictures of the Fairy Villages!"

And Santa still lives here. The Tooth Fairy still lives here. Children grow faster, know more now. Will Little A's Seven become Big A's Eight? I don't remember who I was before I was their mother; who will I be when I am no longer the mother of children? Is
that the knot ever-growing within my chest?

Six was magic. Six was the summer of Justin Verlander. Six was when the ability to memorize and recite stats began to come in handy rather than be a freakish anomaly.

Six was the first letter home from a teacher that read,
"Jenn, I thought you would want to know that today Little A played with kids and wasn't alone at lunch." Six was reading entire chapter books under covers with flashlights carefully hidden so I wouldn't find them before she went to bed. Six was when she used her Magic to make the Tigers win multiple games in a row.

Six was hard. Six meant explaining why Magic can make the Tigers make it to the playoffs and not to the World Series. Six meant explaining cancer. Repeatedly. Why some cancers can be cured; why some cancers cannot. Why Magic cannot cure cancer. Six meant explaining that yes, mommies and daddies die sometimes. Why Santa cannot fix cancer. Six meant new medications and new therapies and new exhaustion when I didn't think there could be new ones.

I would keep Six, if I could. Which I cannot.

So tomorrow I am happy to greet Seven. I've heard that in Fairy lore Seven is the age when Fairy villages begin to appear to those that believe....

To Seven, Little A.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

$5 bn Offshore Island mooted for Gaza ports

Huh? Now who is being pushed into the sea?

The Israeli Transportation Ministry is working on a plan to build an artificial island off the coast of Gaza, where a Palestinian-run airport and seaport would eventually be located. Ministry spokesman Ilan Leizerovich told the Associated Press that this would allow Israel to cut all ties with Hamas-ruled Gaza.

The majority of consumer goods and people who are allowed to enter and exit Gaza utilize Israeli land crossings. "Full disengagement" would follow this fanciful plan, and within six years the demilitarized zone of this island would be patrolled by international forces.

Leizerovich said the island would be built about three miles (4.5 kilometers) off the Gaza coast and would be connected by a bridge. He said it would take about six years and cost more than $5 billion to build. The grandiose scheme would need additional government approval, Palestinian acceptance and funding.

They'll also need a bridging loan, I guess. And few people reckon on a Dubai-style high style man-made island like the rather sci-fi one pictured above. According to the news station that broke the story, Channel 2, Israel would control and oversee all construction - to prevent concrete and other materials to be appropriated for covert rocket launchers. (The state of the art short range rocket shield, the Iron Dome, was deployed today for the first time over Beersheba.) Official discussions about the possibility of annexing West Bank settlements into Israel also created controversy.

Sunday, March 27, 2011

The Six-pointed Star Power of Liz Taylor

In a life famously shared with seven husbands, Taylor’s relationship with Israel was one of her longest, writes Nathan Burstein in the Washington Post.

It began in 1959, when Taylor, then a recent convert to Judaism, purchased Israel Bonds in such volumes that her films were boycotted in Arab nations. The elements of the story are so mismatched — the sultry starlet and the Third World country then absorbing displaced Jews from the Arab world — that it makes your eyes pop, as Taylor did in so many of her films.

Eight years and two Oscars later, Taylor canceled a visit to Moscow to protest the U.S.S.R.’s condemnation of Israel in the Six Day War. She would later sign a letter denouncing the United Nations’ odious “Zionism is racism” resolution, and in 1976, she offered to trade places with one of the hostages held by Palestine Liberation Organization hijackers from a flight originating in Tel Aviv. (Her willingness to become a hostage didn’t lead anywhere in real life, but she eventually got to play one in a TV version of the incident, ABC’s “Victory at Entebbe.”)

She was Hollywood’s most famous Cleopatra, and she stayed involved in the Middle East long after her career slowed down. She lent her star power to Israel with a 1982-83 visit — she met with Prime Minister Menachem Begin — and by publicly supporting the right of the Soviet Union’s trapped Jewry to emigrate there.

Like her old-school glamour and professional roots in the original studio system, Taylor’s activism for Israel was, in many ways, an artifact of a different era. An increasingly cynical world challenged the actress and Israel in similar ways, with their idealized early images coming back to haunt them. Taylor, it turned out, was merely mortal, and prone to tabloid-worthy missteps despite her preternatural beauty. Israel, with its foundations in Jewish desperation and trauma, could be as dysfunctional and disappointing as any other nation.

Monday, March 21, 2011

Sarah Palin pulls out of Bethlehem visit

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Sarah Palin, the ex-candidate and present day minor celebrity, apparently had second thoughts about crossing an Israeli checkpoint on Monday to visit Bethlehem during a three-day visit to Jerusalem. Why didn't she cross over by foot, like most Christian tourists, and hire a Bethlehem-based guide? Conal Urquhart reports from the Holy Land for the Guardian newspaper:

The former governor of Alaska pulled up to the checkpoint run by the Israeli border police to the south of Jerusalem in a white people carrier, with her husband, Todd, her assistant and Israeli guides.

None of the occupants left the car nor did they speak to the police officers at the checkpoint, according to photographers at the scene. They then turned around and drove away. A spokesman for the Israeli police said there was no incident at the checkpoint and a spokesman for the Israeli army said that Palin's group had not co-ordinated a visit to the occupied Palestinian territory.

Palin's group then stopped at a nearby Greek Orthodox monastery before returning to her hotel in the centre of west Jerusalem from where they later continued their tour of the city.

Tourists need to carry passports to cross checkpoints into the occupied Palestinian territory and Israelis are not normally permitted to enter areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority, such as Bethlehem.

From the checkpoint Palin would have been able to see the high concrete walls that separate Bethlehem from Jerusalem.

Palin arrived in Israel on Sunday night after a delivering a speech in India on a rare foreign trip. She is due to meet Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, on Monday evening.

On arriving in Jerusalem Palin visited the tunnels next to the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, which is believed to have been part of the walls of the Jewish temple destroyed by the Romans in 70AD.

Palin wore a Star of David, the symbol of Judaism, around her neck, prayed close to the wall and lodged a written prayer in a crevice, according to tradition.

Palin told reporters: " It's overwhelming to be able to see and touch the cornerstone of our faith. I'm so thankful to be able to be here and I'm thankful to know the Israel-American connection will grow and strengthen as the peace negotiations continue."

Danny Danon, the Likud party member of the Knesset who invited Palin to Israel and accompanied her to the Western Wall, said Palin was moved by being close to the wall. "The visit was educational and spiritual. She was a strong friend of Israel and she will become a stronger advocate of Israel in the future," he said.

"The main purpose of the visit was to get acquainted with Israel and the holy sites. It was her first visit but I am sure she will come again."

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Munther Fahmi to be stripped of ID card

Many booklovers in Jerusalem are in despair. Munther Fahmi is the founder and owner of the Bookshop at the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem. He has been a friend and partner to PalFest since the beginning and his bookstore is a cornerstone of cultural life in Jerusalem. He offers an incredibly wide range of titles and fights to maintain a small but vital space of free and independent thought and debate in Jerusalem. Jews, Muslims, Gentiles, Christians and tourists of all descriptions all are welcome in his store.

He is being threatened with deportation. If authorities take away his ID, and the IDF can for the most whimsical of reasons and claim that it is a security matter, Fahmi will no longer be allowed inside Jerusalem.

People across the world are collecting signatures to try and help him stay in the city of his birth. Here's the online petition

Hat tip to Matt Rees, the ex-journalist who pens detective books, for the info.

Friday, March 04, 2011

Spies and Lies, 60 years later

A cold dose of Israelity came a decade after the wedding day for ten Israeli Arab women who were told about their husbands' deceit by government officials.
Mistaarvim and Mrs? Ten odd couples are revealed in a fascinating piece running in Ynet's magazine. Shin Bet orchestrated double lives for their agents, with a plausible cover story for "young vigorous men" to find spouses in Arab communities inside Israel, from Jaffa. Read about the fallout six decades later:

"Your husband is not who you think he is. He is not Arab. Your husband is a Jew who was sent into your village on a mission by the defense establishment." This was the news a few Israeli Arab women received from the head of the Mossad Intelligence Service
mission in France in 1964. This was how they discovered that the fathers of their children were serving in a top secret Israeli unit sent to spy in their villages.

Ten Jewish men assimilated into Arab communities in the early 1950s, marrying local women and starting families with them, all the while serving in the Shin Bet as "mistaarvim," (literally, masqueraders) - undercover agents posing as Palestinians.

The goal of the unit, which was established in 1952, was to have men on the inside in case a war breaks out, and the Israeli Arabs join the enemy. Shumel Moriah, a senior Shin Bet officer who came to Israel from Iraq, and had plenty of experience smuggling Jews into Israel, led the unit. He recruited 10 other Iraqi-born men for the complex mission.

The unit was disbanded over a decade after its establishment, which was when the wives were informed of the deception. Most of them converted and lived in Israel as Jews. Their children were recognized as Jews without undergoing an official conversion procedure.

The training process took one year; the men learned the Palestinian dialect, studied the Koran and espionage techniques in an Intelligence Corps base near Ramla. With a new identity and a detailed cover story, they were sent into Palestinian villages and cities. They pretended to be refugees from the 1948 war returning home. Their real families in Israel were kept in the dark about their whereabouts and activities; they were forbidden from trying to discover where their loved ones served.

Hat tip to Gideon for this link. The full story is here.


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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Blue Coat Systems Continues Surge On Takeover Speculation

Shares of Blue Coat Systems Inc (NASDAQ: BCSI) once again surged on Wednesday on speculation that the company could be a takeover target. Shares of the company jumped more than 7% in mid-day trading. Stay tuned for more.

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Friday, February 5, 2010

"Driving While Brown" Should Not Be a Crime: Take A Stand Against Racial Profiling

"Racism and racial discrimination have profoundly and lastingly marked and structured American society."
~ U.N. Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance

In 2003, the Department of Justice issued a fact sheet on racial profiling that identifies many of the concerns shared by communities around the country, whose members may find themselves subject to discrimination because of their appearance, national origin, or other identifying characteristics. Racial profiling harms not only communities but also federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, which may be distracted from their real work ensuring the safety and security of the communities under their jurisdiction.

This fact sheet, available here as a PDF, addresses guidelines on racial profiling set forth by the Department of Justice in 2003. While these guidelines are an important step in the process of eliminating racial profiling, they still have loopholes and omissions that allow for some of the very behavior that the guidance is intended to regulate.

The 2003 Department of Justice Guidance Regarding the Use of Race by Law Enforcement Agencies:

  • Allows for profiling based on religion and national origin;

  • Includes loopholes that allow profiling at borders in the name of "national security;"

  • Doesn’t apply to all federal law enforcement activity;

  • Isn’t enforceable; and

  • Doesn’t consistently apply to state or local law enforcement agencies working in cooperation with federal agencies or receiving federal money.

To sign a petition urging the Department of Justice to strengthen their 2003 guidelines on racial profiling, please visit the Rights Working Group webpage, available here.

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In Lab Tests, Anthrax Spores Die When Exposed to Cheney

Washington – In secret tests conducted in an underground laboratory, the mere presence of Vice President Dick Cheney rendered anthrax spores incapable of sustaining life. More tests are to be run later in the week as a way of determining whether the vice president’s aura or presence can be somehow distilled and put into a new vaccine to protect against infection.

“He just happened to be down there, below ground,” said Michael W. Bannister, one of the scientists from the National Institutes of Health who is administering the tests. “I’m not sure why, exactly. But we thought we saw him moving around in the shadows. And then he just came in the lab and asked if he could observe the testing. And suddenly these spores just started going crazy, and then abruptly died. We looked at each other and didn’t really know if we should believe it at first. But it was obvious: it was because the vice president was standing there.”

An aide to Mr. Cheney, speaking on the condition of anonymity, agreed with the assessment of Mr. Cheney’s power. “Well, see, now people might understand a little better that there’s no one else who can do what he can do,” the aide said. “You know how he shot his friend in the face that time when he was hunting? Well, that was because he was so inexperienced with the gun. Because he doesn’t have to use it. He doesn’t need a gun to kill deer, or ducks, or whatever it is. That’s what people didn’t understand about that whole thing. All he has to do is get close enough to them where they sense or feel his presence, and they just keel over and die. It’s amazing. And it doesn’t matter what kind of animal. Bears, lions, you name it. I mean, birds just dropping out of the sky. So I’m not surprised by the spore thing at all.”

The testing came about due to increased interest in anthrax infection and its effects, following the suicide last week of Bruce E. Ivins, a scientist at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, whom the FBI claim they were on the verge of indicting in the 2001 anthrax letters case. Senior members of the Bush administration ordered the tests Monday, to try to get a better handle on the science behind anthrax infections.

President Bush tried Tuesday to explain the testing, and why it was kept secret until being reported on by several news agencies. “Our number one goal is to protect the American people,” Mr. Bush said. “And we know now that these spores are dangerous. They’re very dangerous. They might look like they can’t do any harm. They’re just chocolate and marshmallows and graham crackers. They’re a tasty treat. How could that be dangerous? Well, I’m telling you now: don’t be fooled by the tastiness. They’re very, very dangerous, and they’re not to be toyed with.”

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Video Review: Lady Antebellum “Heart Break”

In San Juan, Puerto Rico, a young woman taps a message on her cell phone and puts it in her purse. She sifts through purse and runs her hands through a stack of cash in an envelope. Her boyfriend reads a notebook in the kitchen and kisses her hello. She tells him that she’s going to store and won’t be gone long. He asks her if she needs any money and she answers that she’s fine. He watches her as she pulls out of the driveway.

Two police cars head down the street and in her mirror, she watches them park in front of her boyfriend’s house. She breathes a sigh of a relief.

Inside a home, Hillary stands by the door. Dave plays the guitar near the backyard. Charles sits against a bedroom wall and plays the piano.

Smile on her face, she walks in the shining sunlight and turns to admire the city. She buys a bouquet of flowers from a street vendor and bumps into a young man. A little waves at her while she walks. Two boys play soccer in the road.

She walks inside her new home and puts the flowers in a vase. The young man grins as he sees her standing on her balcony. Later that night, she hooks the strap on her heels and goes out. She weaves her way through the crowded bar and finds a table.

Hillary, Dave and Charles sit at the same table in the bar, drinking and laughing.

The young man introduces himself to her and she claps for the band playing right at the stage. She walks back home. The man carries an envelope and opens a door. With a glass of wine in hand, she rests on her lounge chair placed on her balcony.

The young man hands her now ex-boyfriend an envelope. He opens it and flips through the photographs of her, remarking “she looks happy.”

Sunlight streams through the window as she sleeps in her bed.

Rating: 4/5

Finding piles of money strapped together underneath a floorboard frightened the young woman. She paced around the house for several hours and then called the police. She learned he had been laundering money in fraudulent deals. While he worked, she went to the bank and withdrew all her cash from her account and was able to buy a home in secret.

The day he was arrested, she was able to start over. It’s was as though she was seeing Puerto Rico for the first time. She was able to talk to the street vendor and buy some flowers. While talking, the older lady told her she had been selling flowers for over 40 years and congratulated her on her new home. There was no reason to be on guard or watch what she said.

She celebrated her first night being single by going to the bar and buying herself a drink. She met a nice man her age but told him she wasn’t ready for anything yet. Around 11 p.m., she returned home and drank some wine on her balcony. It was a peaceful evening, free of worry. There isn’t anything to be afraid of anymore. She listens to the weather reports and the deejay announces it’s going to be a sunny week.

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Pam Avoledo’s love of pop culture began in 1999 with the message boards dedicated to shows on the CW (then WB). She graduated from Oakland University in 2006 with a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism.

When she is not debating whether Dawson should’ve ended up with Joey, she looks at cute dog memes on social media.

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