Friday, May 2, 2014

I take the darkness and make it light

I take the darkness and make it light.
Yet in the darkness, like a cat I gain my deepest sight.
Yet to get you, requires deception, a subtle fight.

I'm spinning webs, in my lonely mind,
A window's view, to my souls inner light 
The invisible sticky webs, completed only just last night.

I am here to catch you, 
For your warm blood, I do not truly thirst.
While the strong desire, of a woman's warm flesh, a true delight.

To achieve as sense of satisfaction,
the tango of enmeshed spirits, twisted entwined-
writhing, aching, untouched, a slow and steady pulsating grind. 

Always climbing uphill yet slowly steadily slipping backwards, 
Why was I placed on this treacherous slope, never gaining any traction?
This tortured painful pleasure, always moving faster, and faster- 

You scream out, I must never stop!
Are you my servant ...or are you my master?
Why do we play this game, two emblazoned souls always courting disaster?

Yet we both know, that this unfulfilled, struggle must come to a stop.
One subtle, strong, or syncopated move...it happens and is spilled a drop. 
Then the floodgates opens, in undulating waves of ecstasy.

For a timeless moment, two souls unite as one -no longer two factions,
The morning light penetrates the curtains,
From outside we hear the song of blackbirds,

As we awake to our own separate, individual uncertainty.
Now our passions, like a low tide recedes-
Having both fulfilled, each others needs.
  
How I yearn, just to gaze at beauty within your eyes.
I take the day, and turn it into night.
Just to see the joy on your face, your smile, a sweet surprise.

Stephen C. Sanders, Friday, May 2, 2014
 

Rabbi Herschel Schacter, Who Carried Word of Freedom to Buchenwald, Dies at 95 - NYTimes.com

Rabbi Herschel Schacter, Who Carried Word of Freedom to Buchenwald, Dies at 95 - NYTimes.com: "t was April 11, 1945, and Gen. George S. Patton’s Third Army had liberated the concentration camp scarcely an hour before. Rabbi Schacter, who was attached to the Third Army’s VIII Corps, was the first Jewish chaplain to enter in its wake."



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The Spielberg Archive-Holocaust and WWII

The Spielberg Archive-Holocaust and WWII: "The Spielberg Jewish Film Archive - Road to Liberty by HebrewUniversity - 10:55 min.
 

The Spielberg Jewish Film Archive - Saraphend by HebrewUniversity - 6:59 min."



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The Spielberg Archive-Holocaust and WWII

The Spielberg Archive-Holocaust and WWII: "The Spielberg Jewish Film Archive - Road to Liberty by HebrewUniversity - 10:55 min.
 

The Spielberg Jewish Film Archive - Saraphend by HebrewUniversity - 6:59 min."



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The Spielberg Archive-Holocaust and WWII

The Spielberg Archive-Holocaust and WWII: "The Spielberg Jewish Film Archive - Road to Liberty by HebrewUniversity - 10:55 min.
 

The Spielberg Jewish Film Archive - Saraphend by HebrewUniversity - 6:59 min."



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The Spielberg Archive-Holocaust and WWII

The Spielberg Archive-Holocaust and WWII: "The Spielberg Jewish Film Archive - Road to Liberty by HebrewUniversity - 10:55 min.
 

The Spielberg Jewish Film Archive - Saraphend by HebrewUniversity - 6:59 min."



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The Spielberg Archive-Holocaust and WWII

The Spielberg Archive-Holocaust and WWII: "The Spielberg Jewish Film Archive - Road to Liberty by HebrewUniversity - 10:55 min.
 

The Spielberg Jewish Film Archive - Saraphend by HebrewUniversity - 6:59 min."



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The Unknown Black Book

The Unknown Black Book: "These documents, from residents of cities, small towns, and rural areas, are first-hand accounts by survivors of work camps, ghettos, forced marches, beatings, starvation, and disease. Collected under the direction of two renowned Soviet Jewish journalists, Vasily Grossman and Ilya Ehrenburg, they tell of Jews who lived in pits, walled-off corners of apartments, attics, and basement dugouts, unable to emerge due to fear that their neighbours would betray them, which often occurred."



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Thursday, December 19, 2013

How artificial light is wrecking your sleep, and what to do about it

How artificial light is wrecking your sleep, and what to do about it: " Many experts feel that our excessive use of communications technology (e.g. cell phones, laptops, television, etc.) is driving this significant level of sleep deprivation. If this is the case, it’s no wonder so many Americans struggle with poor sleep, since 95% have reported using some type of electronics at least a few nights a week within the hour before bed."

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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Facebook Punishes Brand Pages, Instagram Goes Direct, G+ Goes Wild | Social You Should Know | Ignite Social Media

Facebook Punishes Brand Pages, Instagram Goes Direct, G+ Goes Wild | Social You Should Know | Ignite Social Media: "Facebook told us last year that we could expect about 16% of our fans, on average, to see a given post of ours organically. That’s been slipping in recent months as Facebook is tweaking its News Feed quite often. But the adjustment that took place at the beginning of this month led to drops in organic reach on brand Pages as high as 88%."

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The Future of Social Networks as Interpreted by 21 Social Media Practitioners | Ignite Social Media

The Future of Social Networks as Interpreted by 21 Social Media Practitioners | Ignite Social Media: "2. Compared to what happened to MySpace, what do you think is the future of Facebook?"

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Facebook has a strong appeal and enough users to keeps it's value significant for years to come. People (myself included) will lose interest and spend less time on it, so to keep growing it, FB must always seek new people.

Stephen C. Sanders

The Future of Social Networks as Interpreted by 21 Social Media Practitioners | Ignite Social Media

The Future of Social Networks as Interpreted by 21 Social Media Practitioners | Ignite Social Media: "1. Do you think social networking has hit a saturation point and peaked in user interest?"

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Editor's Response: No, of course not!

Ignite Social Media

Ignite Social Media: "Facebook Punishes Brand Pages, Instagram Goes Direct, G+ Goes Wild | Social You Should Know»By: Jim Tobin  |  December 16, 2013  |  0 Comments"

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Leaders and trend-setters all agree on one thing | Code.org

Leaders and trend-setters all agree on one thing | Code.org: "Wendy Kopp
CEO, Teach For America
“Ensuring that our nation's urban and rural children have the chance to become proficient in computer science is a sure way to set them on a trajectory to great career options. We need to do this to close the digital divide and level the playing field."

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FairSearch.org | About FairSearch.org

FairSearch.org | About FairSearch.org: "TRANSPARENCY: Consumers – not search engines – should choose winners in the marketplace. Consumers benefit from more choices in the search marketplace competing to win users, innovating to improve products and displaying results transparently. When search providers engage in search discrimination – manipulating search results to promote a favored product and demote competitors – consumers pay the price."

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Monday, November 18, 2013

Obama's Nebulous Nuclear Sellout Leads to Iran War - Op-Eds - Israel National News

Obama's Nebulous Nuclear Sellout Leads to Iran War - Op-Eds - Israel National News: "Again, the International  Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA) report "that Iran had frozen its nuclear activities" is another diplomatic travesty, "because [Iran] already possesses the necessary infrastructure for building a nuclear weapon."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that "Iran is in dire economic straits and we can negotiate a better deal. Before easing the sanctions, we need to get a good deal, not a bad deal."

And rightly so, because Netanyahu believes that a "bad deal" between global powers and Iran over its nuclear program could lead to war."

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Netanyahu: P5+1 Offering Iran 'Enormous Deal' - Middle East - News - Israel National News

Netanyahu: P5+1 Offering Iran 'Enormous Deal' - Middle East - News - Israel National News: "P5+1 powers have offered Iran “an enormous deal” at the talks on Iran's nuclear weapons program, and that the deal would “let out a lot of pressure” while Iran is “practically giving away nothing” and “making a minor concession which could reverse in weeks.”

The deal would endanger the sanctions regime, he said, while Iran would keep every one of its 18,000 centrifuges to enrich uranium. “They're not giving up even one centrifuge,” he stressed."

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With Love of Zion - Yehudit Tayar - Blogs - With Love of Zion - IsraelNationalNews.com Blogs

With Love of Zion - Yehudit Tayar - Blogs - With Love of Zion - IsraelNationalNews.com Blogs: "error gang who planned, practised and carried out countless attacks with rocks thrown from a moving vehicle to a vehicle traveling towards them on Highway 60 -the Jerusalem- Hevron Highway.  Some people were injured by the attacks and cars damaged but this gang of murdering terrorists succeeded in their plan when Asher and Yonatan Palmer HY"D were murdered over two years ago.  This young man, Asher z"l was traveling with his infant son, Yonatan z"l to meet Puah, the pregnant wife and mother, in Jerusalem for Shabbat. The enormous rock that was heaved from the moving car driven by the terrorist gang struck Asher's car in the windshield and murdered both Asher a month short of 25, and Yonatan four days less than a year "

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Arab ‘Price Tag’ Met with Silence - Inside Israel - News - Israel National News

Arab ‘Price Tag’ Met with Silence - Inside Israel - News - Israel National News: "The graffiti followed the Knesset’s decision to pass a law regarding Bedouin settlement in the Negev. Arab MKs vehemently opposed the plan, which will legalize many pirate Bedouin settlements in the region, due to the fact that it will require some of those who have no proof of ownership of their land to move to alternate land provided by the government."

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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

The Truth About Nocturnal People - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

The Truth About Nocturnal People - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com: "Misconceptions About Nocturnals

The biggest misconception about nocturnals is that they are lazy. The assumption is that because they sleep all day, night owls don't get anything done. In fact, most nocturnal people are highly productive. Their minds and bodies are more active and alert at night, and without the distractions of the daytime world, they can easily concentrate on the tasks in front of them and get more done."

Publisher's Response: to a post which can be found at: http://voices.yahoo.com/the-truth-nocturnal-people-183708.html

An excerpt from a website which clearly has published an opinion, with significant scientific  evidence supporting their own personal conclusions. It is interesting, factually based, yet it is not what one would consider absolute truth. I am neither disrespecting the author nor I am condemning the topic.

The one point I would like to make regards how a teenager might react to such a post. A teenager perhaps by definition is already undergoing a paradigm-shift if you will in that is already shaping their world view. With my inclusion of this specific post, I feel I am required to point out that circadian rhythms or cycles are subject to change and dysfunction.

Sleep disorders are rapidly becoming a new social ill, and the effect that late night computer usage has on people in general is well documented and is a significant stumbling for teenagers and adults alike who spend a great deal of time immersing themselves in the anti-social internet web world.

A helpful tool is the Flux app which attempts to normalize the negative influence of the color quality of the light which is emitted from today's laptops and iphone or other smart phone, and tablet devices. It is not a cure yet is rather a helpful solution. 

f.lux: software to make your life better

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Is your computer keeping you up late? f.lux is free software that warms up your computer display at night, to match your indoor lighting:

http://stereopsis.com/flux/  

The real answer for teenagers is recognizing their their circadian cycles are changing, and while it is difficult to get a teenager to go to sleep at a reasonable time, that even if a compromise solution is reached, say absolute lights and no internet usage after say midnight (better 11pm) then normal sleep cycles can be restored.