Which foods make Americans ill? Whether chicken or salad, food safety at home is key to avoiding illness

Jan. 31, 2013 ? A new study analyzing outbreaks of foodborne illness has found contaminated salad greens make the most people sick, but contaminated poultry have resulted in the most deaths. In light of this study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Home Food Safety program -- a collaboration between the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and ConAgra Foods -- encourages Americans, rather than avoid certain foods, to practice safe food handling at home instead.

"While this study found produce accounted for nearly half of food poisoning illnesses, everyone should still eat plenty of fruits and vegetables," says registered dietitian and Academy Spokesperson Rachel Begun.

"Safe food-handling procedures can help protect you from foodborne illnesses while still allowing you to enjoy these tasty and nutritious foods."

"One of the most important things you can do to stay healthy is to wash your hands thoroughly for 20 seconds with soap and water, especially when it comes to the particularly nasty norovirus," Begun said. "The norovirus accounted for 46 percent of the illnesses according to this study, and while hand sanitizer is great to reduce the spread of some germs, research shows us that soap and water is best," she said.

Begun encouraged Americans to visit www.HomeFoodSafety.org for tips to reduce the risk of food poisoning, and offered the following advice:

Produce

• Properly wash all fresh fruits and vegetables, whether they have a peel or not, with cool tap water just before eating.
• Cut away any damaged or bruised areas before preparing or eating. Remove and discard outer leaves of lettuce.
• Dry produce with a clean cloth or paper towel to further reduce bacteria that may be present.
• Cut all fruits and vegetables on a separate cutting board from raw meats and fish. Color-coded cutting boards can help you remember which is which.
• Cook raw sprouts, such as alfalfa and clover, to significantly reduce the risk of illness.

Meat and Poultry

• When buying and handling meats, always look for the Safe Food Handling label on the package, and make sure the meat is tightly wrapped. At the grocery store, pick up the meat last and ask to have it bagged separately from other groceries to prevent cross-contamination.
• Store meat in the coldest part of the refrigerator at 40 degrees Fahrenheit or below. Use fresh, raw chicken within one- to two days of purchase, meats within three to four days, and throw away ground meats, sausage and organ meats after two days. Cooked meats should be eaten or frozen within three to four days.
• Wash hands thoroughly for 20 seconds before and after handling raw meat, and use a separate cutting board for raw meats and fish to avoid cross contamination.
• Defrost meats in the refrigerator or in the microwave by using the defrost setting. Never defrost on the counter. Cook meat that has been thawed in the microwave immediately and do not re-freeze thawed meat.
• Use a food thermometer to ensure meats are cooked to the safe minimum internal temperature. Find the correct temperature with the Is My Food Safe? app or the Safe Grilling Guide.

Learn more about food safety at www.HomeFoodSafety.org or by downloading the free Is My Food Safe? app (www.homefoodsafety.org/app), and encourage children to wash hands properly with the downloadable Hand Washing Maze.

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Kilimanjaro Capital Ltd. Signs Oil & Mineral Development Contract With Forest Gate Energy Inc.

CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Jan. 30, 2013) - Kilimanjaro Capital Ltd., a private Canadian company focusing on emerging nations in West Africa, is pleased to announce that on 29 January, 2013 it signed an agreement with Forest Gate Energy Inc. granting Forest Gate Energy a 20% stake in the future oil and mineral development of the Southern Cameroons. The region contains known petroleum reserves and significant untapped opportunities for gold, diamond, uranium, iron, bauxite, and manganese exploration.

The Assignment Agreement held by Kilimanjaro Capital from the Government of Southern Cameroons provides for exclusive rights and covers an area of approximately 43,000 square kilometers including the Northern and Southern Provinces, the Bakassi Peninsula, and future offshore rights. Southern Cameroons is the former United Nations Trust Territory of the British Southern Cameroons which is seeking to secede from the predominately French speaking Republic of the Cameroon.

Forest Gate Energy Inc. is a publicly-listed natural resource exploration and development company based in Calgary, Canada. The Forest Gate Energy team has broad experience in hydrocarbon and mining development. The equity based agreement with Kilimanjaro Capital specifies Forest Gate Energy's 20% interest may be converted to a specific property and that the two companies will provide mutual technical assistance to each other in developing the Southern Cameroons. Michael Judson, Forest Gate Energy CEO, will join the Kilimanjaro Capital Board of Directors.

Zulfikar Rashid, Chief Executive of Kilimanjaro Capital said: "Forest Gate Energy and its CEO Michael Judson's association with Kilimanjaro Capital is a welcome development. Michael Judson has a proven track record of the ability to see value where others cannot and to exploit exceptional opportunities. The mining and hydrocarbon experience of Forest Gate Energy will immediately boost Kilimanjaro's asset acquisition and development stance in West Africa."

Kilimanjaro Capital also announced the previous appointment of Southern Cameroonian independence advocate Ebenezer Akwanga to its Advisory Board.

Source: http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=1751039&sourceType=3

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Facebook?s Revenue Per User In North America Is Now 3-4X Europe and Nearly 6X Asia (But User Growth In Its Cash Cow Is Slowing Down)

Facebook's user base is growing much faster outside of the U.S. than it is in its home market, but it has a little problem: those users are continuing to generate far less revenue than U.S. consumers do for the company. Facebook noted in its Q4 earnings today that average revneues per user (ARPU) for the U.S. in the quarter was $4.08, compared to $1.71 in Europe, $0.69 in Asia and only $0.56 in the rest of the world. That makes for a disproportionate amount coming from the U.S.

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Ham Radio, The Only Form of Communication After T-SHTF | Survival

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We take communication for granted because if we want to talk to someone we have multiple ways of contacting them: home phones, cell phones, email, and instant messaging. We are used to instant gratification by calling or texting and pretty much getting an immediate response from virtually everyone on our contact list.

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General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS), Family Radio Service (FRS) and Multi-Use Radio Service (MURS) use basic handheld radios that are available commercially with pre-programmed frequencies. The person responsible for the GMRS radio must be licensed by the FCC, while FRS and MURS users do not require a license. These are all basically high end walkie talkies. The upside: easy to use, inexpensive and requires no training. The down side: there are only 23 channels on GMRS, 14 on FRS and 5 on MURS and when all other forms of communications are unavailable they will be overloaded and basically useless. Another drawback is that they are basically line of site communication only. In other words, you will have to be very close to who you want to speak to for them to hear you.

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Citizen Band (CB) is a step up from the previously mentioned radio communication possibilities. CB radio is easy to use and requires no training or license. CB allows communication on 40 pre-programmed frequencies. Like the other radio options the major problem is with the limited number of frequencies, they will be overloaded. Range is also limited to around 2 to 5 miles.

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The GMRS, FRS, and MURS systems are only useful for small groups to communicate with each other while they are in proximity of each other. They are not useful to communicate with other groups or people outside your immediate area. CB radio falls in the same category. Other forms of radio communications which are utilized by police, fire, EMS and military require outside equipment such as repeaters and infrastructure to operate properly. In other words the radio is rather useless without the other equipment that you have no control over (or might not be able to acquire).

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Israel Bombed Syria - Business Insider

The Syrian military claims that early Wednesday Israeli warplanes bombed a military research center northwest of Damascus ? not a convoy of trucks headed to Lebanon as previously reported.

Earlier reports of the airstrike indicated that the jets targeted a convoy of trucks carrying Russian-made SA-17 anti-aircraft missiles near the Syria-Lebanon border.

Syrian state news agency SANA reports the strike destroyed a military research center "responsible for raising the levels of resistance and self-defense" in Damascus, killing two people were killed and wounding five others.

Damascus is located about 10 miles from the Lebanese border.?

From SANA:

?The General Command of the Army and Armed Forces said ... Israeli warplanes snuck from the north of Al-Sheikh Mountain, flying at a low altitude and below radars, heading to Jamraya in Damascus Countryside ... and bombarded the location before sneaking away."

Earlier reports indicated that the strike occurred in Lebanon but now the consensus is that the attack occurred "deep inside Syrian territory" ? making it the first time since 2007 that the Israeli Air Force has attacked a target in Syria.

Now the big question is whether it was a convoy of trucks or a military research building that was bombed.

The Syrian military "stressed that the allegations of some media outlets that the Israeli warplanes targeted a convoy headed from Syria to Lebanon are baseless, with the General Command affirming that the Israeli warplane targeted a scientific research facility in blatant violation of Syrian sovereignty and airspace."

American officials told The New York Times?the Israelis had notified the U.S. about the attack, and that the U.S. believes the target was a convoy taking weapons to Lebanon.

Either way, the strike is a significant escalation of the geopolitical conflict in the region as a top aide to Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Saturday that any "attack on Syria is considered (an) attack on Iran and Iran?s allies.?

The Times notes that Avi Dichter, the minister for the home front, told Israel Radio on Tuesday that options to prevent Syria from using or transferring chemical or conventional weapons included deterrence and ?attempts to hit the stockpiles.?

SEE ALSO: Israeli Jets Struck A Convoy Entering Lebanon From Syria

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/israel-bombed-syria-2013-1

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Fed keeps stimulus in place as U.S. economy "paused"

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve on Wednesday left in place its monthly $85 billion bond-buying stimulus plan, arguing the support was needed to lower unemployment even as it indicated a recent stall in U.S. economic growth was likely temporary.

The U.S. central bank predicted that the nation's job market would continue to improve at a modest pace, and repeated a pledge to keep purchasing securities until the outlook for employment "improves substantially."

"Growth in economic activity paused in recent months, in large part because of weather-related disruptions and other transitory factors," the Fed said after a two-day meeting.

A report on Wednesday showed the U.S. economy unexpectedly contracted in the fourth quarter as inventory investment slowed and government spending plunged. Analysts said superstorm Sandy, which slammed into a large swath of the U.S. East Coast in late October, also disrupted the recovery.

The Fed has kept overnight interest rates near zero since late 2008 and tripled its balance sheet to about $3 trillion through purchases of securities, which are aimed at pushing longer-term borrowing costs lower.

While the recovery from the 2007-2009 recession has been stubbornly tepid, the Fed's policy panel voiced confidence it would remain on track with continued help from monetary policy.

"The committee expects that, with appropriate policy accommodation, economic growth will proceed at a moderate pace and the unemployment rate will gradually decline toward levels the committee judges consistent with its dual mandate," it said.

That was cautiously more optimistic than the Fed had sounded in December, when it emphasized it was "concerned" the economy would not deliver stronger hiring without policy support.

"The changes to the policy rationale were tilted to sound more affirmative in nature," JPMorgan economist Michael Feroli wrote in a note to clients.

A report on Friday is expected to show the U.S. jobless rate remained stuck at 7.8 percent for a third straight month in January. The Fed repeated that it would keep overnight rates near zero until the unemployment rate hits 6.5 percent, as long as inflation does not threaten to exceed 2.5 percent.

"It's a message that policy is steady as she goes," said Julia Coronado, an economist at BNP Paribas in New York.

By and large, the statement was widely as anticipated, and U.S. stocks, government bonds and the dollar were little changed after the news.

STILL LOOKING FOR LABOR MARKET IMPROVEMENT

The Fed noted that consumer spending and business investment had picked up and the housing sector had shown further improvement. It also acknowledged calmer financial conditions in Europe, omitting a December warning that these posed a significant threat, although it said downside risks remained.

Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank President Esther George, in her first policy vote, dissented against continued Fed stimulus, picking up the mantle left behind by Richmond Fed chief Jeffrey Lacker, who dissented at every policy meeting last year.

The Fed's bond-buying program, under which it currently purchases $40 billion of mortgage-backed bonds and $45 billion of longer-dated Treasuries a month, is part of the central bank's unprecedented effort to spark a stronger recovery and drive down unemployment.

Most analysts do not expect the outlook for the labor market to show the substantial improvement the Fed wants to see this year, keeping it on track for further bond buying.

Even so, minutes of the Fed's last meeting in December, released early this month, showed that a few policymakers thought the program should be halted by the middle of 2013.

Some Fed officials have voiced concern that any benefit from the bond purchases could be offset by mounting costs.

Two potential threats policymakers see are the risk of fueling an asset price bubble and the possibility of harming the functioning of Treasury and mortgage-backed bond markets. Some also worry that the Fed could suffer a loss when it eventually sells bonds to shrink its balance sheet, which might have serious political consequences for its independence.

Republicans have been persistently critical of the Fed and Congressman Jeb Hensarling, chairman of the powerful House Financial Services Committee, went to the trouble of issuing a statement to take issue with its decision on Wednesday.

"There is little which monetary policy can achieve to promote economic growth and much the Fed risks by its continued commitment to an overly accommodative monetary policy stance," he said.

(Writing by Alister Bull and Pedro Nicolaci da Costa; Editing by Andrea Ricci, Tim Ahmann, James Dalgleish and Andrew Hay)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/fed-seen-maintaining-bond-buying-divisions-remain-145042088--finance.html

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The History of Payday Loans | artme.me

Photo Credits: FreeDigitalPhotos.net "Stacking Coins By Hand" by Jomphong Hope

Artmeme Guest Writer Andy Horton of?Gimmedosh.com?provided this guest post. He has a background in IT as a business analyst and project manager primarily in financial organizations. Any is interested in personal finance and the effects of general lending and specifically payday loans on individuals and families.

The History of Payday Loans

It is best to first find out more about the origins of money and lending to the individual over the centuries before looking at its specific applications in today?s economy, especially the very niche payday loans and?short term loans?sector.

Money

The use of ?money? as a means of paying for goods and services has been developing in human civilization?for 2 to 5 thousand years.? It has taken many forms, from live animals to metallic objects, even whale teeth.? The current form of international use of coins and paper money can be traced back to more recent history, when ?banks? arrived on the seen in the 15^th?Century.

Banks

The salient question at this point is, when and why did banks come into existence?? The main reason for banks developing in the civilised world has been the need for meeting the demands of traders, farmers and merchants.

In the Roman times farmers needed to regularly borrow from rich individuals to make ends meet until harvest time.? These early private ?banks? were effectively lending on similar terms to today?s ?payday advances?.

The modern type of banking didn?t surface until the middle-ages in Europe, when due to the Catholic religion?s edict on usury, any merchant or trader wanting to borrow money would have only had access to such finance from the Jewish community.

Banks quickly developed and became very powerful in the following 400 years from lending to the public, businesses, merchants, governments and each other.? We know where this all took us in 2008!

Lending

This has already been touched upon above, but the development and expansion of lending in more recent times needs to be explained in more detail.

Pawnbrokers have been one of the earliest mechanisms of lending to the individual, which have remained intact for centuries.? There will be more on this below.

There was a time that an individual?s route to access any temporary funds was through their personal bank manager for an unsecured loan or building society for a mortgage.

However, developments in technology and the growth of consumerism gave rise to the introduction of Credit Cards, which only added to the unseen ?debt bubble? in the developed world.

Nearly all the examples and historical accounts up to now have been based on the mainstream economy.? But, there are sections of the population that haven?t and still don?t have access to mainstream banking for their borrowing needs.

This sector was catered for from the early days by high street pawnbrokers and door step money lenders, who would charge very high interest rates for relatively small amounts of money for short terms of between 1 and 30 days.

The UK market for these short term payday loans has grown significantly in the past 10 years due to a number of factors.? Firstly, there has been the arrival of many high street cash advance companies that have really informed the relevant consumer about the availability of this type of lending.? Secondly, the internet has been a boon for this specialist lending service.? Finally, the credit crunch has resulted in a lot of people in the UK losing their good credit record and as a result their only route to borrowing some quick cash for an emergency or special occasion has been through payday lenders.

The Future of Payday Loans

Many young people with a good or no credit record have become regular users of payday loans in the UK, as many of them don?t want to use their credit cards or bank overdraft.? The online payday loan providers have given these young people the choice of borrowing small amounts of cash until their next payday knowing that they would clear the debt and not be left with a debt that will accumulate lots of expensive interest.

The anti payday loan campaigners have misinformed the media and the government in taking action to legislate against this sector.? The best legislation coming into force in 2014 as a result of the amendments to the Financial Services Bill is that all payday lenders will have a ?cap? on the maximum interest rate they can charge.

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Penicillin, not the pill, may have launched the sexual revolution

Jan. 28, 2013 ? The rise in risky, non-traditional sexual relations that marked the swinging '60s actually began as much as a decade earlier, during the conformist '50s, suggests an analysis recently published by the Archives of Sexual Behavior.

"It's a common assumption that the sexual revolution began with the permissive attitudes of the 1960s and the development of contraceptives like the birth control pill," notes Emory University economist Andrew Francis, who conducted the analysis. "The evidence, however, strongly indicates that the widespread use of penicillin, leading to a rapid decline in syphilis during the 1950s, is what launched the modern sexual era."

As penicillin drove down the cost of having risky sex, the population started having more of it, Francis says, comparing the phenomena to the economic law of demand: When the cost of a good falls, people buy more of the good.

"People don't generally think of sexual behavior in economic terms," he says, "but it's important to do so because sexual behavior, just like other behaviors, responds to incentives."

Syphilis reached its peak in the United States in 1939, when it killed 20,000 people. "It was the AIDS of the late 1930s and early 1940s," Francis says. "Fear of catching syphilis and dying of it loomed large."

Penicillin was discovered in 1928, but it was not put into clinical use until 1941. As World War II escalated, and sexually transmitted diseases threatened the troops overseas, penicillin was found to be an effective treatment against syphilis.

"The military wanted to rid the troops of STDs and all kinds of infections, so that they could keep fighting," Francis says. "That really sped up the development of penicillin as an antibiotic."

Right after the war, penicillin became a clinical staple for the general population as well. In the United States, syphilis went from a chronic, debilitating and potentially fatal disease to one that could be cured with a single dose of medicine.

From 1947 to 1957, the syphilis death rate fell by 75 percent and the syphilis incidence rate fell by 95 percent. "That's a huge drop in syphilis. It's essentially a collapse," Francis says.

In order to test his theory that risky sex increased as the cost of syphilis dropped, Francis analyzed data from the 1930s through the 1970s from state and federal health agencies. Some of the data was only available on paper documents, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) digitized it at the request of Francis.

For his study, Francis chose three measures of sexual behavior: The illegitimate birth ratio; the teen birth share; and the incidence of gonorrhea, a highly contagious sexually transmitted disease that tends to spread quickly.

"As soon as syphilis bottoms out, in the mid- to late-1950s, you start to see dramatic increases in all three measures of risky sexual behavior," Francis says.

While many factors likely continued to fuel the sexual revolution during the 1960s and 1970s, Francis says the 1950s and the role of penicillin have been largely overlooked. "The 1950s are associated with prudish, more traditional sexual behaviors," he notes. "That may have been true for many adults, but not necessarily for young adults. It's important to recognize how reducing the fear of syphilis affected sexual behaviors."

A few physicians sounded moralistic warnings during the 1950s about the potential for penicillin to affect behavior. Spanish physician Eduardo Martinez Alonso referenced Romans 6:23, and the notion that God uses diseases to punish people, when he wrote: "The wages of sin are now negligible. One can almost sin with impunity, since the sting of sinning has been removed."

Such moralistic approaches, equating disease with sin, are counterproductive, Francis says, stressing that interventions need to focus on how individuals may respond to the cost of disease.

He found that the historical data of the syphilis epidemic parallels the contemporary AIDS epidemic. "Some studies have indicated that the development of highly active antiretroviral therapy for treating HIV may have caused some men who have sex with men to be less concerned about contracting and transmitting HIV, and more likely to engage in risky sexual behaviors," Francis says.

"Policy makers need to take into consideration behavioral responses to changes in the cost of disease, and implement strategies that are holistic and longsighted," he concludes. "To focus exclusively on the defeat of one disease can set the stage for the onset of another if preemptive measures are not taken."

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Scientists Study The Sun To Save GPS | Rocky Mountain Tracking

Scientists are predicting some intense solar storms this year, particularly in the summer, as the sun will reach its most active period of its 11 year cycle. To prepare for this event, which could possibly affect radio communications and GPS tracking and navigation, scientists are currently creating a chain of monitoring stations around the world to study the ?solar maximum.? But what, exactly, is that?

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The solar maximum is the peak of solar activity, which goes through an 11 year cycle. It is predicted there will be more sunspots than ever before, and the increase in the number of sunspots has an effect on the ionosphere, which in turn could interfere with radio transmissions from satellites in space. Scientists aren?t sure the current satellite navigation technology can withstand a solar max, especially as it has never experienced one in the past, and the ionospheric changes could pose a big problem for those trying to use their GPS devices to get to where they need to go.

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The Ionosphere and GPS

The layer of the atmosphere known as the ionosphere is made up of electrically charged particles which are heavily influenced by the activity of the sun, and was discovered by 20^th century radio pioneers, the first to bounce long-wave radio signals off it. The Space Age arrived, and radio signals began traveling through the ionosphere in order to reach satellites in orbit. Today, you?d be hard pressed to find a person in the world who does not rely on these satellites at some point in their daily life.

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When solar maximum occurs, a vast number of sunspots appear on the surface of the sun, and its irradiance output grows by roughly 0.1 percent. It is believed even this seemingly insignificant percentage of growth has a huge impact on the Earth?s climate and weather patterns. During this time the ionosphere becomes turbulent, being thickened by the warmer Sun, and again when it is cooled in the evening, producing plasma bubbles. These plasma bubbles, indicators of plasma instability which occur when the air cools, actually lead to GPS trouble. More specifically, the GPS device is unable to lock on to the satellites to determine location.

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Working Towards a Solution

The European Space Agency plans to monitor the effects the solar maximum will have on the ionosphere, as well as the impact it will have on the for satellite communications and GPS location, by setting up a network of monitoring stations around the world. ?The current Monitor network is still being developed but has already been detecting mild ionospheric storms,? said the scientist heading the project, Roberto Prieto-Cerdeira.

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The monitoring stations measure variations in GPS signals more precisely than existing systems. ?We are placing sensor stations around the globe, but the vicinity of the equator is a particular focus of interest,? said Dr. Prieto-Cerdeira. ?It exhibits much more dynamic behavior than the mid-latitudes so we have established stations at Cape Verde off West Afrrica and Malindi, Kenya, on the other side of the continent. In addition, through a deal with French space agency CNES, we will have access to stations hosted by existing tracking sites at Libreville, Gabon and Ascension Island in the mid-Atlantic, the latter site being where the magnetic equator diverts from the geographic equator.?

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Hopefully the data collected by this project will pinpoint a solution before the solar maximum, avoiding the chaos that could come along with non-functioning GPS devices and related equipment.

Source: http://www.rmtracking.com/blog/2013/01/28/scientists-study-the-sun-to-save-gps/

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CNN's managing editor Whitaker to leave network

(Reuters) - CNN's managing editor, Mark Whitaker, said he will be leaving the cable network, two months after CNN tapped Jeff Zucker, the former CEO of NBC Universal, to be the news channel's worldwide chief.

Whitaker, in a memo to CNN staff, wrote that Zucker "deserves his own team and management structure and the freedom to communicate one clear vision to the staff." Reuters obtained a copy of the memo on Tuesday.

CNN, which is owned by Time Warner Inc, has been struggling with poor ratings. Its prime-time ratings hit historical lows last year, losing out to both Fox and MSNBC.

Whitaker called Zucker, who moved to CNN earlier this month, a "leader with his own forceful ideas about where to take CNN's reporting, programming and brand."

Zucker and Whitaker had worked together at NBC, where Whitaker was a senior vice president and Washington bureau chief at NBC News.

Whitaker has been managing editor of CNN since January 2011. He helped attract talent to CNN such as globe-trotting food personality Anthony Bourdain and documentary maker Morgan Spurlock. He also previously served as the editor of Newsweek from 1998 to 2006.

Since its beginnings as the first 24-hour cable news network, CNN has committed to a nonpartisan approach to programming, a position that some have described as a "view from nowhere" and blamed for the network's ratings erosion.

CNN has lagged Fox and MSNBC in prime-time viewership for more than a year, drawing fewer than 1 million U.S. prime-time viewers compared with about 2.7 million for Fox and about 1.5 million viewers for MSNBC, according to ratings data.

CNN now appears to be attempting a makeover. Zucker has been ushering in a wave of talent changes. The network announced on Tuesday that Chris Cuomo, a former news anchor on ABC's "Good Morning America" and "20/20," will have a "major role" in a new morning show on CNN.

Jake Tapper, a former chief White House correspondent for ABC will also have a new weekday program on CNN.

(Reporting By Liana B. Baker; Editing by Leslie Adler)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/cnns-managing-editor-whitaker-leave-network-163928742--finance.html

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Ask an Expert: All About Health and Fitness for the Average Joe

Hey everyone! I'm Steve Kamb, the creator and owner of Nerd Fitness, a fitness community dedicated to helping nerds, desk jockeys, and average joes get healthy. The overarching theme of Nerd Fitness is to "level up your life, every single day." Focus on getting stronger, getting faster, having fun, and eating right?and your appearance will start to change as a result of that.

I am NOT a fitness expert. Although I obtained a basic personal training certification from AAAI a few years back, I run my site not from the perspective of a fitness expert with every degree known to man, but as normal guy down in the trenches with you?a nerd who sits at a computer all day long, loves to play video games, and really enjoys staying active while pushing myself to be in the best shape I can be. I help others get healthy by destroying excuses, providing actionable advice, designing workouts with no gym required, and helping build new habits that actually stick. Have questions for me? I'm here for the next hour?ask away!

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Shapiro: 'Liberal' label doesn't cut it for Obama

By Walter Shapiro

Is Barack Obama a liberal?

That question might have aroused spirited debate, especially among Democrats, during the president?s vague-is-in-vogue reelection campaign. But since the polls closed on Nov. 6, President Obama has undeniably positioned himself to the left of Candidate Obama.?

Amid the national grieving over the Sandy Hook shootings, Obama suddenly found the gumption to stare down the NRA and put gun control back on the national agenda. His Inaugural Address will be remembered for the stirring endorsement of gay rights and the sudden rediscovery of climate change. Then before the inaugural glow wore off, the Pentagon announced that it would drop its ban on women in combat. And immigration reform?another explosive topic?is likely to receive a star turn in the upcoming State of the Union Address.

But before we dust off right-wing commentator Dinesh D?Souza?s absurd claim that Obama is really a Kenyan socialist, let?s look more closely at the president?s sudden liberal fervor.

Make no mistake, Obama is indeed a transformational 21st-century leader when it comes to any issue that touches on individual rights and equality. He reflects the end of the white-bread politics that elected both Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan to two terms. Rather than defying the demographic and attitudinal shifts that produced the America of 2013, Obama embodies them.

Some of his liberal statements and actions are undoubtedly payback to the electoral coalition that gave the president a second term despite the stagnant economy. When the first wave of Obama White House memoirs are published, it will be fascinating to read about the internal debates over the gay-rights portion of the Inaugural Address. But maybe, in reality, there was little dissent. Maybe Obama and his top advisers simply understood that it was time.

Any discussion of Obama?s newly expressed passion for gun control has to begin with the fact that this Chicago-shaped politician is our first urban president since John Kennedy. Unlike, say, Bill Clinton, Obama never came from a place where guns are equated with hunting rather than violent shoot-outs. Remember during the 2008 primary campaign against Hillary Clinton, Obama in a private fund-raiser derided rural voters who ?cling to guns or religion.?

When it comes to regulating guns, political geography matters. New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg may be the nation?s most zealous proponent of gun control, but it is hard to describe this billionaire plutocrat, who endorsed George W. Bush for president in 2004, as a dangerous left-winger.

Immigration reform is another issue with a bipartisan pedigree. The plan that Obama is likely to highlight in his State of the Union Address will bear a close resemblance to the legislation that John McCain and Ted Kennedy introduced in 2005 with the blessing of George W. Bush and Karl Rove. It is hard to describe the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which has consistently backed immigration reform, as a hotbed of left-wingers.

Painting an ideological portrait of any incumbent president is tricky since the subject keeps moving rather than holding a fixed position. All presidencies are filled with contradictions: Ronald Reagan raised taxes; Bush dramatically expanded the social safety net by adding a prescription drug benefit to Medicare; and Obama, for a while, dramatically increased troop levels in Afghanistan.

Even now, there is a zigzag quality to Obama?s foreign policy. In his Inaugural Address, the president declared, ?A decade of war is now ending.? But not the vastly expanded drone attacks, which have become Obama?s favored way of battling terrorists. To the consternation of liberals, Obama has refused to make public the legal justification for this airborne war conducted by robots.

The president?s economic orientation can be equally confounding. In an interview after the election, Obama claimed, ?My policies are so mainstream that if I had set the same policies that I had back in the 1980s, I would be considered a moderate Republican.? Of course, this contention is self-servingly hyperbolic. But Obama?s words do underscore how the political pendulum on economic issues (but decidedly not on social issues) has moved to the right in the past three decades.

How liberal is a president who signed the ?fiscal cliff? legislation that made permanent the Bush tax cuts for roughly 99 percent of Americans? How liberal is a president who at various points in his budget negotiations with the Republicans has toyed with raising the eligibility age for Medicare and cutting back the inflation adjustment for Social Security? How liberal is a president who allowed the Wall Street masterminds behind the economic collapse to go unpunished for their flagrant misdeeds?

Even the big-government complexity of Obamacare was created in large measure because the president refused to endorse the liberal cause of a single-payer system like Medicare. And while not beating the drums for the president?s claim to be a moderate Republican, didn?t a Massachusetts governor named Mitt Romney enact an analogous health-care plan?

The point is that an Inaugural Address and a few post-election gestures do not, by themselves, define who Obama is as a political leader. So far the liberalism of Obama in the personal sphere has been tempered by the centrism of Obama in the economic and foreign-policy realm.

This ideological blurriness comes with the keys to the Oval Office. To steal a line from Walt Whitman, Obama can rightly say, ?I am large, I contain multitudes.?

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Nashville, Season 2

Michael Huisman and Connie Britton in ABC's Nashville.

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Every week in?Slate?s?Nashville TV club, Katy Waldman will have an IM conversation with a different?Nashville?fan. This week, she rehashes episode 2.1 with Dan Kois, a?Slate?senior editor.

Katy Waldman: Sign the divorce papers!

Dan Kois: NEVER. OUR LOVE IS TRUE...LY BORING.

Waldman: Aw, you think so? I'm very fond of whatsisname.?

Kois: I could not care less about Sean and Juliette's tempest-tossed relationship. The idea that the big emotional finale of this episode was her leaving on a jet place was laughable. I do not care about having Tim Tebow on this show. There's already one milquetoast goodie-goodie and thank god she loosened up a little this episode.

Waldman: Are you talking about Scarlett? I feel like the show is constantly loosening her up and then making her uptight again, whatever the plot demands. Sometimes she'll get on stage, sometimes she won't. Remember last season when she tossed back maybe four tequila shots and started kissing that guy at the club?

Kois: True. I remember that fondly, although THAT time it was just a mechanism for us to understand for the 1,000,000,000th time that Gunnar loves her. I am glad to see her free of Avery but distressed that Callie Khouri thinks we care about Avery's music becoming inauthentic at the hands of Wyclef Jean.

Waldman: Ha! I mostly just didn't think the punk vibe worked for her as well as the ethereal fairy girl thing.

As for Avery and his band, are we supposed to think they?re good? Normally I enjoy Nashville?s music but I just wanted to fast-forward through their songs.

Kois: Well, we're supposed to think Avery is talented, so I guess so? They sound like a highly competent bar band to me?which has its charms! But is not, like, rare.

Waldman: Got it. So, Avery. Do you like him? I can?t help pitying him, even if he?s selfish.

Kois: NO I DO NOT LIKE HIM. UGH. KATY. He is just playing you like he played Scarlett! He hurts people, remember? (And at the very least I was hoping Wyclef would make him shave his beard-nubbin.)

Waldman: I must have fallen for his rock-star swagger! I just keep thinking his redemption is around the corner. He's?accumulating Life Lessons.

Kois: He sure is. I hope he transforms them into a song someday, well off camera.

Waldman: ?I?m so vain. This song is about me.?

Kois: Back to Tim Tebow and Juliette. Can we at least agree that his grandmother's necklace was awful?? Like, I respect her more for taking the necklace off than I do for getting on the plane.

Waldman: Right, I probably would have cancelled the wedding too.

Kois: I hope there's a whole scene in court where she explains that she couldn't go through with it and holds it up and the judge immediately dismisses the case.

Waldman: I had this strange Harry Potter vision of Tebow's mother poisoning Juliette through some ancestral necklace.

Kois: I like her. In season 5 she will definitely bone Rayna's dad.

Waldman: That?s why you like her?

Kois: I like characters who are mean while smiling.

Waldman: Sean?s mother does seem to represent a particular slice of the South that the show would be remiss in excluding. The snaky churchgoing socialite.

Kois: YES. The part that in theory Callie Khouri should be the best at writing. So tart it makes your soul pucker when she talks. The mean smile is my favorite thing Juliette does, too.

Waldman: OH absolutely. The perfect counterpart to the Claire Danes ?cry? face is the Hayden Panettiere ?I just made you cry? face.

Kois: That is why I am really looking forward to next week. Which to be honest is the episode I thought we were getting this week, with Rayna and Juliette catfighting on tour.

Waldman: I agree. The show is strongest when it pits the two female leads?who have the most complicated, developed characters?against each other.

Kois: Or when Rayna and Deacon do a scene, which now will not happen for a while.

Waldman: Deacon! Did we know he was Maddy?s father??

Kois:??It was hinted at, but we didn't know Teddy knew. And I really liked that moment, with him defending Rayna and going on the attack against Lamar.?Not enough that I want him to become Mayor or care about him running for Mayor, but still, it was something.

Waldman: Teddy is in the know about a lot of things but bothered by very few of them. I found it refreshing to see him get morally outraged for once.

Kois: Yes. It actually gave some weight to their sad air-clearing in the bedroom later, a scene I otherwise might have skimmed like an Avery Barkley Band song.

The Nashville Music Lounge?has dropped the ball on telling me who wrote the music in this one, but I really liked the closing montage song, ?Change Your Mind.?

Waldman: Amen! Nashville has claimed the duet as its signature art form. Even if Gunnar was harmonizing to Scarlett?s lyrics when presumably he hadn?t ever heard them before.

Kois: That's just a sign of their natural rapport, Katy. I?d like to find out who wrote the songs and is therefore going to the Bahamas with ABC's money. Jody Rosen fave Kace Musgraves and Dan Kois fave Gillian Welch have already cashed their checks, but I'm not sure who penned this one.

Waldman: Was the music well integrated into the story this episode? Sometimes Nashville?s songs seem kind of plunked down.

Kois: Other than the de rigeur final montage, they are often poorly managed. There was a particularly awkward cut between the awful rock song that Deacon's new band was playing and the awful song Juliette was practicing?the one about "Boys and Buses," the two things not worth chasing after. But I don't care so much. I just like watching pretty people sing.

Waldman: Yes! Questions of craft pale in the face of all those suds. Country opera just turns out to be ridiculously fun.

Kois: I like Nashville as a showcase for Connie Britton to do the things she does really well: 1) Be fierce 2) Be sad 3) Be sexy and sad 4) (New talent discovered for this show) Sing a ballad. What more could we want?

Waldman: A ?friend? like the hot reporter played by Yara Martinez?

Kois: Good luck in Atlanta, douche!

Later This Week: Further analysis of Episode 1.

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Will Your Business Survive 2013?

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• Multiply Profits
• Huge Turnaround
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What's the actual value of good advice from someone that can give you good advice?

Sometime ago I had a client that was mailing to around 5,000 per month. His sales were almost zero.

He contacted me and asked for good advice.

We met, we talked and he left thanking me.

The advice I gave him cost him a fee of course ? he paid for 4 hours of my time.

• His sales from that advice were just over ?800,000 in just under a year.
• His marketing costs were reduced to almost zero from almost ?10,000 a month
• His newly discovered sales and profits went through the roof.

This was a huge turnaround for him as his wife had told him if this carries on ? she is leaving with their 3 kids.

You see marketing and making your business work is more than what goes on in your business. It affects your life, affects your relationships and it affects the way you live and breath each day.

If you can't get your business to work and won't take good advice I always suggest to clients they simply get a job otherwise they will spend years in pain and struggle.

This year is looking like a real tough one for clients that are contacting me. It's not that business isn't happening, its more that real fear has set in due to the relentless media hype over the economy.

Streets are empty, shops are shutting and the public are making tougher choices over who they spend their hard earned cash with.

So you need to make sure you are maximising every outlet, every strategy and every trick in the book to make sure your business survives.

Are you doing that?

I believe this is a good year for smart business people but for those that sit and hope and wait and keep their fingers crossed ? the game will be over.

How smart will you be?

If you had to answer right now this one simple question what would your answer be?

Q. List the five most powerful marketing strategies you are using today in your business?

And then maybe add on the end of that how much per hour do all of these strategies make you?

It's a simple but life saving exercise because if you can't do that ? you could be the type that is sitting, waiting, wishing and hoping it all work out fine.

Of course i can help you and I am looking to help business like you.

Just last year one client of mine experienced a 53.4% turnaround in just 4 weeks.

Another client increased her new customer rate by 400 using a simple flyer that converted at around 12%

And of course last year I saw some failures.

One client simply failed to make changes after advice, he failed to listen, he failed to act and failed to make any profits. At the end of last year his business finally failed as I predicted. Now he is about to lose his home and has no idea where he will house his five kids and wife.

Let me assure you of this.

In all the years I have worked as a consultant I have never met a business that isn't sitting on gold yet. That means you are probably also sitting on gold but do you know how to get to it?

Last year I personally had my best year in years! I saw clients grow, expand and deliver some fantastic services for their customers.

We did cool things like

• Direct mail for clients that would never dream of doing direct mail
• Joint venture strategies that double incomes
• Guerrilla marketing tactics that saved thousands and made hundreds of thousands
• We used tactics, tools and strategies all designed around the business and the customers of the businesses.

This year can be a great year for you but you have to ask yourself what action plans do you have in place to ensure not just your success but your survival?

Are you too busy to do anything about it?

I see busy people going bust all the time.

You know the guy above with the five kids. The main reason he never did anything was he said he was always too busy to get them done. Even children look busy running around all day and then falling asleep at night. Is that you? Are you simply too busy to take any action yet that action will transform your business.

The guy at the start of this email has been busy for a long time and was fast going bust. He was smart. He took time out of his business (a full month in fact). We planned his business from scratch. Scrapped his previous marketing ideas that were leading into oblivion. He then carefully listen, implemented and finally counted the rewards.

His reward was

• Generated over ?800,000 despite bing in the red
• Slash Marketing Costs from ?10,000 a month to around ?200 per month
• Multiply Profits dramatically?
• Turnaround was almost instant
• Followed a proven system
• Saved his marriage

Alan I have no money for marketing?

Really?

Here's what I see all of the time.

I once met a client I refused to work with. He came to the meeting on a new Bentley that he had on lease. He also had a very expensive Vertu phone and a gold wrapped Cartier watch on his wrist.

Very quickly during the meeting he told me how he was making no profits and struggling to get any sales of his products. They we selling around 20 units a week but need to sell at least 25 a day.

After a two hour meeting we both went our separate ways and I sent over a proposal and quote for him.

Within ?minutes of the proposal going over he emailed me back and told me that he had no money for marketing and could I work for him on a promise of a percentage on any sales we got using my proven systems.

I called him and said?

"John (name changed), you drive a ?125,000 Bentley, you live in a ?2,000,000 house, you were the best watch and talk on the best phone yet you are telling me you cannot spend any money on marketing?"

I refused his business.

Around 9 months after we spoke the bailiffs arrived and John was declared bankrupt yet he could have had all of those things and more if he had made an investment into his marketing. Now there nothing wrong with having the good things in life ? when the business is working ? but if its not working it'll lead to disaster.

This is pretty common.

But this is not a year where you can play games with your business, you are going to need to get it right.

George spent one hour with me and slashed a massive ?100,000 from his marketing budget

Steve spent some time with me and generated over ?60,000 in a couple of weeks

How about we talk and talk about how I can help you make 2013 the best year ever for your business? Does that sound impossible? It's not, it's very, very possible.

All you have to do is ask for advice.

For the next 7 days only I am slashing my hourly consulting rate by a goliath 50% to help anyone that wants advice that works.

Do you think after what you have read paying me almost anything per hour is worth is to save your business or expand your business?

Just so you know when I talk with you about your business I will find the fastest, lowest, easiest way for you to increase sales. No innovation ? just pure sales and then we innovate and create some real magic.

How does that sound?

Despite the economy you have nothing to worry about if you take decisive action today and that has to start with good advice.

If that's what will help you, lets talk.

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Don't worry, everything is going to be fine if you are one of those that take action

In your service.

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Georgia football recruiting: Bulldogs build top 10 class

The Georgia Bulldogs have put together a recruiting class that ranks among the nation's best.

The Georgia Bulldogs are coming off a successful year that saw them win the SEC East and come close to topping Alabama in the SEC title game. The Bulldogs won their bowl game over Nebraska to cap a 12-2 season, which was their second straight season with 10 wins or more.

The recent success helped to relieve some pressure from Mark Richt and his staff, and the Bulldogs are putting together a strong recruiting class for 2013. As things stand now, the Bulldogs have 29 commitments, and the class is ranked as the ninth-best group in the nation by Rivals.com. Four other SEC schools rank ahead of Georgia, but only one (Florida) plays in the SEC East.

Here's a glance at some of the top prospects in Georgia's class:

Tray Matthews: Matthews, a defensive back prospect from Newnan, Ga., is considered the No. 72 overall prospect in the class of 2013 by Rivals. He played both ways for his high school team, and in 10 games he had 51 tackles on the defensive side to go with 29 catches for 528 yards and six scores on the offensive side.

Johnny O'Neal: O'Neal is a linebacker prospect from Dublin, Ga.,ranked 137th in the 2013 class by Rivals. O'Neal finished his senior year with 112 tackles and three sacks. He had offers from schools throughout the southeast, including Alabama, Florida, Florida State and South Carolina.

Brandon Kublanow: Kublanow is an offensive lineman and another Georgia product; he is the No. 155 prospect in the 2013 class per Rivals. He was a versatile player in high school, logging time at all three offensive line positions.

Tim Kimbrough: Kimbrough is a linebacker from Indiana coming off a big senior season -- he made 121 tackles, including seven sacks, four forced fumbles and an interception. He is considered the seventh-best linebacker prospect in the nation by Rivals and the 156th-best overall prospect in the class.

Look through SB Nation's many excellent college football blogs to find your team's community.

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iON reveals Adventure and Air Pro 2 sports cameras, we go hands on

You may remember iON stepping out onto the action camera market back in spring, when we went hands on with the OG Air Pro. Fast forward to CES, and it's back with a brace of new cameras to capture your every move. First up is the iON Adventure, a 1080p GPS-enabled helmet cam with a twist, almost literally. The device has the same tubular format as the original, but the lens is actually on one of the longer sides, rather than at the end of the barrel, making it more suitable for chest mounting. The Adventure also has two memory card slots, meaning you can pack in a whole lot more footage, battery willing. For those extended shoots, a new loop recording mode allows continuous, non-stop recording between the two cards -- no more swapping out your micro-SD on the move. Other features include a vibrate-to-record function (it starts and stops recording when it detects movement) and a partnership with map / video sharing service Kinomap. The device has a sleek, gloss back finish, weighs just 4.2 ounces, and has a large, easily accessible record button on one end. While we only spent a short time with the camera, the quality of the build felt good, and the demo footage looked impressive. The Adventure will be available starting in March for $349.

The second new family member is the Air Pro 2. As you might have guessed, this is the second iteration of the original we saw back in March. Much of the external design remains the same, with the distinct octagonal accents at either end of the barrel. The main difference being the image sensor upgrade, which can now shoot at 14 megapixels, with 60fps for video and a 180-degree mode for those extra wide shots. Last time we liked the Air Pro, but we'll be especially keen to see how the follow up performs. With more and more cameras launching into the market, differentiating can be difficult, something apparently not lost on iON, who has clearly tried hard to introduce new and distinct features. The Air Pro 2 also becomes available in March, with two versions -- one with WiFi, one without. The wireless enabled one will cost you $299, or $249 if you don't need the extra functionality.

Gallery: iON reveals Adventure and Air Pro 2 - Hands on

Sean Cooper contributed to this report

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Job Seeker Spotlight: Mary Grace White, nursing and health care ...

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People are so much more than the skills or work history listed on their r?sum?s. With Job Seeker Spotlight, we give individuals the opportunity to highlight their creativity, personality and passion?for employers who are looking to hire today.

Today?s featured job seeker is Mary Grace White?from Nashville, Tenn.

Continue reading for more about White:

• What is your desired position/title??Registered Nurse
• What industry are you looking for work in? Health care
  
• What makes you a unique and better candidate against others who may have similar skills??I have more than 20 years experience at the bedside of medical and surgical patients as well as having spent six of those years at the chairside of the chronic end-stage renal patients receiving dialysis.
• How do you demonstrate passion for your work or your profession??My biggest pet peeve in our health care system is the lack of preventive care. We have a crisis management system at best. Education is my real forte. I love working with patients who want to understand their illness and how they can make their lives better. I also enjoy the patients who don?t understand and don?t particularly want to, but if I can get their attention by helping them to understand that the choices they?re making are bad for them, then they begin to see that maybe they should try another way.
• How do you stay informed about changes or advances in your chosen profession/industry??I stay informed by reading articles from reliable sources and talking with peers. Most of the changes however are about technology, which is always changing and evolving. Surgical techniques are always changing, monitoring is always evolving, but the one thing that hasn?t changed and shouldn?t is the use of the five senses that most of us are born with.
• What?s the best piece of career advice you?ve ever received??Never do something for one patient that you can?t reasonably do for another.

Apply to be featured in the Job Seeker Spotlight! All job seekers get one-on-one job-search help with?a career strategist to assist in improving their job hunt.

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Drama Belongs in the Theatre

By Greg Malouf

?My life is so hard right now.? ?So-and-so did this?? ?I?m so worried about that?? ? I?m so busy?? ?I?m overwhelmed.? ?I?m so tired.? ?I?m so? fill in the blank.?

Does this sound familiar? Do you identify with the drama in your life and consider it normal? Be honest. Chances are that you?ve recently uttered one or more of those phrases, or something similar.

The drama played out repeatedly in our daily lives gives us a sense of who we are. Many of us believe that it is a fact of life, when the truth is, it is not even real. Drama is an illusionary state of being, based on our perceptions, which have been shaped over time by our past experiences. It appears real only because we choose to believe it. Drama becomes our reality as a result of what we bring often unconsciously to each situation.

How does drama manifest in your life?

Every time you proclaim with exasperation how busy you are, you say to the world, to yourself, and to whomever is listening that you are important. Important people are always busy, right? It is a way of saying that someone is depending on you. It is a way of saying that you matter.

But what message are you really sending? You may inadvertently be communicating that you think you are more important than the person you are talking to. What happens when someone tells you, in that same exasperated way, that he or she is so busy? Very likely it raises some questions. Why is he so busy? Is she doing something more important than I am? Should I be busier? It may also make you feel disconnected from that person: He or she is busy and therefore, has no time for me.

Perhaps your drama involves always having a set of problems to handle. Are you a people pleaser, always needing to fix things for others, but unable to give yourself time and attention? When we do this, we think we are being generous and that it will make people like us, but it is exhausting and in the grand scheme doesn?t help anyone. Further, it creates a misconception that accepting help is a weakness. People who are constantly giving, often have trouble asking for and accepting assistance when they need it themselves.

Or perhaps your drama takes the form of neediness. Have you abdicated responsibility for yourself to others by allowing or expecting them to do things for you? People who do this, also make themselves the most important beings in the room by forcing others to take care of them. Has your drama created a negative role that you must now perpetuate?

Drama looks different for different people, but the result of allowing it to rule our lives is the same. We?ve created an unproductive cycle of needing to outdo ourselves and each other. We?re convinced that it makes us better people, but it actually leaves us worn out emotionally and physically.

Saying that we are busy, that we have problems to deal with, or that we can?t do something, may make us feel better initially, because it takes responsibility off of us. It lets us off the hook, at least temporarily, by giving us a circumstance or person to blame. Unfortunately, it only attracts more drama (more busy-ness, more problems, more neediness).

The illusion of drama is not in the fact that things aren?t actually happening. It is in our perception of those events. How much space in our lives is filled with things that, upon closer examination, are really unimportant? How much do we fill our days with static and noise?

No sustainable inner peace can reside alongside constant drama. Drama has become what we say and do, shaping our reactions to and interactions with others, often inappropriately. Because we carry our past with us, drama becomes a form of protection.

Without drama, what do we have? We are left with our feelings of loneliness, scarcity and lack, with grievances and long-held resentments, or with a sense of missing out on life. We are left with fear. As a consequence, we believe we are subject to the whims of life, rather than the creator of life.

Without drama, however, we can be left with peace.

What would you prefer, the drama that brings you confusion, feelings of loneliness and separation from self and others? Or would you prefer to free yourself from your many reactions and feelings of struggle? Would you prefer to find the peace of mind that will lead you to sustainable love and peace in your life?

Changing this pattern and teaching ourselves peace can be done through the simple practice of awareness of our observable behaviors. We can train ourselves to desire peace of mind rather than the unease we have come to accept as a normal condition of life.

Think of drama as a physical sign we can stop with a moment?s attention to it. Through our awareness we come to recognize that we have the choice to change our behavior, and in that change begin to find peace of mind. In doing so, peace will ultimately replace the drama that is the cause our unease.

The choice is ours alone to make. The right choice will ultimately put an end to those feelings that cause us emotional pain!

About Greg Malouf:
I help people take a journey away from life as they know it and travel into the world of the ?Self,? which is where they will ultimately find healing. Along this journey, they will challenge old beliefs, access aspects of this ?Self? that have been hidden or denied, and gain insights and skills that will unlock the doors to a new inner wisdom. http://epsilonhealingacademy.com/

My latest book, ?Silent: The Power of Silence? was written to take readers on an inward journey to find the all-loving place and connection to all that is ? the silent connection to Self. http://www.silentthebook.com/

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