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<title><![CDATA[Internet and Demystification]]></title>
<link>http://overgroundscene.wordpress.com/?p=94</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lentil81</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Even though I usually want to know how things work and what goes on around me, I sometimes find myse]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Even though I usually want to know how things work and what goes on around me, I sometimes find myself being comfortable with, 'ignorance is bliss'. Technological progress provides a window to the world and access to unlimited information. This can be both good and bad. Here I discuss one of the cases where it is bad for me. Internet provides access to the personal lives of musicians which results in their demystification.</p>
<p>What musicians think and how they go about their everyday lives, can either be reflected or not in their artistic output. In the former case, for example, one or several members of the american band 'Malevolent Creation' were racists so they wrote extremely offensive lyrics in one of the songs in their 'Eternal' album. I won't say which song nor the lyrics because I am ashamed. So they were rascists and they expressed it openly and I was not bothered with them again. Other bands that I might like may be rascists as well, but they do not express it overtly, so I don't have a problem with them. Their personal life is not of my concern as long as I like their songs.</p>
<p>The problem with the internet is that it opened Pandoras box. Things that I could imagine but I didn't have evidence, like the fact that many of the bands I loved and personalities I admirred were in reality rascists, started to take form. Internet manifests elements of personalities through the friends bands have in their myspace page, through the bands' correspodence in their websites, through access to several webzines, many of which are gossip zines.</p>
<p>It turns out that many artists, especially in the death metal genre which was the most suspicious in the first place, are rascists, belligerent, homophobes, at best completely unintereting persons. Why should that bother me? As long as they write music or/and lyrics I like, what is the problem? The problem is that artists are role-models. We love their music and lyrics and, because that is all we (used to) know about them, we think that their personalities are 100% reflected in their artistic output. Further, we tend to turn a blind eye when we diagnose a flaw in someone we admire a lot. We like to beautify our heroes. Cannibal corpse, for example, write horrible lyrics but they obviously do it for fun. Moreover, there are times when these admitedly offensive lyrics are written in a really clever and inspired way. Without extra information on the personalities of the artists, the admirer tends to glorify them.</p>
<p>In the past, movies would demystify artists or a whole scene. For example, movies like <strong>Suburbia</strong> demystify the old punk scene to the rest of the world (i.e. beyond California) and of course to the youth of today. If anyone ever thought that punks were thinking people with genuine discontent about the system or, in general, societal concerns, they would definitely reconsider after seeing this movie. The same goes for documentaries like <strong>The decline of western civilisation</strong> and punk heroes like Darby Crash. Movies and documentaries like these, take away the magic of scenes like the punk scene. For me, who have not experienced the birth and death of punk since I was not even born at that time, punk is important because of what it was <em>supposed</em> to stand for! For me, witnessing a decaying image of drunks, drug addicts, completely hopeless people dwelling in filth is not helping.</p>
<p>What is important is that the lyrics of bands like the Germs may have a positive effect on humanity. Their lifestyle will not. Their lifestyle, gruesomely depicted in these movies, can only negatively affect the world. It will affect the minds of people who are already into drugs, and will remind us that the punk scene was not what some of us dreamers thought it was.</p>
<p>Today the media through which artists are demystified are numerous. I do not claim that fans of Deicide, for example, will be offended by the fact that their drummer is obsessed with weapons, or that they are in it for the money. As far as the former is concerned, their patriotism and weapon obsession might even attract more attention, especially of their fellow americans. My assumption that death metal fans are thinking individuals is obviously mistaken. However, I think that all these new avenues to information about the artists we love, will actually drain various music scenes of their non-lobotomised individuals and turn them into pure stereotypical scenes. That of course is not bad for the music industry.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Implementing SA at WA]]></title>
<link>http://allkindsofminds.wordpress.com/?p=53</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>cenglish02</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Since Max has taken the time to introduce you to the school, I’ll take a moment to introduce mysel]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since Max has taken the time to introduce you to the school, I’ll take a moment to introduce myself. My name is Chris English. I am in my ninth year as an educator, and will be starting my first year at Wasatch Academy this month. I have a MA in English, and have been working in North Carolina Public Schools until this summer.</p>
<p>My wife, Lori, and I were first introduced to Schools Attuned (SA) while working for Edenton-Chowan Schools. After completing our initial SA course, we were asked to attend Schools Attuned Facilitator Development Academy (SAFDA) to become facilitators for North Carolina Schools Attuned. We met Max at SAFDA, where we quickly became friends.</p>
<p>Since SAFDA, I have facilitated several courses in NC, and have become a member of the Schools Attuned Facilitator Advisory Board.</p>
<p>Here at Wasatch Academy, I will continue to teach Advanced Placement English courses, something that I truly love, but will also be working in another capacity as a Learning Strategies teacher. In this role, I will work closely with small classes of students (class limit is 6) to help them understand their own neurodevelopmental profile, the neurodevelopmental demands of their classes and assignments, their personal affinities, and the modifications and accommodations that will allow their affinities to overcome any learning difficulties.</p>
<p>Sounds challenging, but it is one of the many ways that Wasatch Academy in integrating Schools Attuned.</p>
<p>Please understand, this is not a replacement for EC services, the Learning Strategies Course is open to students who desire/need a better understanding of their own learning.</p>
<p>As I am preparing for this school year, I was asked to place my courses on the school’s Atlas Curriculum map. Some of you may be using this in your school. I had plenty of experience with it in Edenton-Chowan Schools. One of the interesting things that Wasatch Academy has done with the Curriculum map is adding a section on neurodevelopmental demands. This allowed me to post the neurodevelopmental demands for each unit, and even assignment types, in my course.</p>
<p>Is anyone else implementing SA into curriculum mapping? What do you think the advantages and disadvantages may be if you were required to include neurodevelopmental demands in the descriptions of courses, units, or assignments?</p>
<p>-Chris English</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Marko STOJANOVIC (né en 1982)]]></title>
<link>http://micronarratives.wordpress.com/?p=381</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole</dc:creator>
<guid>http://micronarratives.wordpress.com/?p=381</guid>
<description><![CDATA[

Piet Mondrian, composition no.9 with yellow and red, 1942
tapisserie de style Gobelins réalisée ]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;">Piet Mondrian, composition no.9 with yellow and red, 1942</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;">tapisserie de style Gobelins réalisée par Radomir Stojanovic, 2006</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;">99 000 points</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;">33 x 38,5 cm</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;">Cet artiste serbe se définit<span>  </span>lui-même comme un artiste très visuel puisqu’il a effectué des études de design graphique. Selon lui toujours, ses œuvres montrent seulement ce qu’il aime le plus voir à l’écran. Ses productions artistiques consacrent volontairement l’art de la démystification : ici, il reprend des œuvres de Mondrian ou Hirst en tapisserie. Son talent est à apprécier « comme une boutade ».</span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-size:12pt;color:#0000ff;">This Serbian artist defines himself as « very visual » since he studied graphic design. According to him, his works only show what he prefers to see on the screen. His artistic productions willingly show an “art of demystification” : he reproduces works of Mondrian or Hirst in tapestry. His talent is to be appreciate “like a joke”.</span></em></p>
<p>Pour plus d'informations sur cet artiste, allez donc faire un tour sur <a href="http://www.markostojanovic.com/html/eng_page2.html">sa page perso </a>! <em><span style="color:#0000ff;">For more informations on this artist, check </span></em><a href="http://www.markostojanovic.com/html/eng_page2.html"><em><span style="color:#0000ff;">his personal webpage </span></em></a><em><span style="color:#0000ff;">!</span></em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[AKOM at Purnell School]]></title>
<link>http://allkindsofminds.wordpress.com/?p=47</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bmalik</dc:creator>
<guid>http://allkindsofminds.wordpress.com/?p=47</guid>
<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to be the July bloggers for AKOM.  We have actively implemented the Schools Attuned p]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We are pleased to be the July bloggers for AKOM.  We have actively implemented the Schools Attuned program since 2004; all of our students get demystified during their first year at Purnell, all teachers are trained, and AKOM strategies and terminology are utilized in and outside of class.  As a small girls boarding school, we at Purnell have the unique opportunity to implement the All Kinds Of Minds Program in many aspects of academic and residential life.  As the Affinities Coordinator at Purnell School, I would love to open up a dialog or answer any questions about the implementation and/or effectiveness of the program in a boarding school situation.  As we progress through the month, more of our faculty will chime in.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Understanding and Accepting]]></title>
<link>http://allkindsofminds.wordpress.com/?p=41</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>dlucarelli</dc:creator>
<guid>http://allkindsofminds.wordpress.com/?p=41</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Last week I completed the exam accommodation schedule for our students at Forman School.  It was enl]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last week I completed the exam accommodation schedule for our students at Forman School.  It was enlightening to see that students who were once resistant to taking an exam in the library for a distraction free environment or in the computer lab where they would have access to a word processor to compose essays were now readily signing up for the services they needed.  Students are no longer ashamed to ask for accommodations or deny they need them.  In our Learning Center, Learning Specialists begin the school year planning demystification sessions for each of their students.  Following discussions of a student's strengths, the Learning Specialist leads the student into understanding his neurodevelopmental profile and its impact on school performance.  Gradually the student becomes comfortable talking about his learning profile and acknowledging the fact that he may need accommodations in the classroom and when taking examinations.  It may take some students longer than others to understand and accept the nature of their learning problems, but with careful guidance and support of their Learning Specialist, most, if not all, students learn and apply strategies to perform better in school and will advocate for needed accommodations without fear of being ridiculed or "different."  Acceptance is the key.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Mardi 11 Mars 2008 08h.28]]></title>
<link>http://livressedeloreiller.wordpress.com/?p=84</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 04:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>elle</dc:creator>
<guid>http://livressedeloreiller.wordpress.com/?p=84</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ses lunettes de soleil perdues que je trouve par hasard sous mon coude à l&#8217;instant où il com]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:justify;">Ses lunettes de soleil perdues que je trouve par hasard sous mon coude à l'instant où il commence sa phrase.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Que puis-je faire de lui ?<br />
Comment ne pas vouloir le sauvegarder ?</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Il ne m'aime pas. Il me l'a dit, il ne peut pas.<br />
Cela se sent lorsque nous faisons ce qui devrait être l'amour. Il ne se fond jamais pleinement en moi.<br />
Il reste un homme couché à côté d'une femme qu'il pénètre, qu'il touche, qu'il voit. Tièdement. Ce n'est pas froid. Ce n'est pas cela. Ce n'est qu'une légère faille qui nous sépare. Mais qui m'envoie en pleine gueule, alors que je devrai m'abandonner aux va-et-vient de son vit dans mon ventre, <em>Tu n'es pas là Ce n'est pas toi Je ne te vois pas Je ne veux pas vraiment de toi Voilà, c'est fait Remballe-toi</em>.<br />
Des claques sur ta petite gueule d'écervelée.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Est-ce moi qui le retiens au loin de peur qu'il ne veuille approcher ?<br />
Me suis-je enrayée?<br />
Mon corps est-il givré – chaud mais froid – dans ses bras ?</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Une capote usagée prise dans le plastique du sac poubelle de sa salle de bain. Depuis combien de temps en est-elle prisonnière ? S'est-elle, seule, égarée ? Ou un banc entier repose-t-il dans ces filets ?</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Comment a-t-il pu rester calme ? Pourquoi avoir été aussi gentil ?<br />
<em>Ça n'aurait servi à rien </em>– Cela a-t-il plus d'utilité ? .</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Je le crois de nature infidèle.<br />
Il ne s'empêcherait pas de sauter une fille <em>sublime</em>, intelligente, intéressante pour la seule raison qu'il me baise ces derniers temps, de temps en temps, n'pas ?<br />
Est-ce ce qui le fais fuir les relations de couple ? De même que ces mesquines disputes qui lui paraissent inévitables ?<br />
Est-ce important ? L'est-ce plus ? L'est-ce moins ? Autant ?</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">En 5 mois, il me revient tous les mois.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Une fille, jolie, sur les Champs. Un bel appât.<br />
<em>On pourra se parler ?</em><br />
En une seconde, le voir se transformer.<br />
Ses yeux jaunissent. Ses dents s’allongent. Je le sens lui-aussi grand méchant.<br />
Une dose de plus d'antalgique.<br />
Aucune réaction.<br />
Je finirais par ne plus rien sentir<br />
– pour lui aussi .</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">I. a conforté l'idée qu'il m'a donné de lui.<br />
Il ne veut pas – pas tout de suite – me lâcher. Il ne sait pas pour autant ce qu'il veut.<br />
J'ajouterai qu'il ne me semble pas très honnête envers lui-même.<br />
Et qu'il ne sait, par-dessus tout, synthétiser ce qu'il pourrait vouloir.<br />
Mais pourquoi me répète-t-elle que je devrais savoir ce qu'il me reste à faire – faire mes valises, prendre un avion et le rejoindre à Brighton, au Laos ou ailleurs – alors qu'il est clair que je ne ferais jamais cela pour aucun amant, que je suis persuadée qu'il n'existerait pas de plus sûr moyen de le faire fuir définitivement et que je jurerais qu'il lui serait à elle-même impossible d'agir ainsi ?</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Quelle misère M. ..!<br />
Toujours se faire prendre aux mêmes pièges.<br />
Combien de fois te verras-tu en pleurs dans des cuisines, des salles-de-bain, des chiottes, des lits, des voitures, des trains... pour un coup de trop dans ton cul ?</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Je ne supporte plus de l'entendre parler de ces filles <em>sublimes</em> qu'il fantasme à longueur de journée alors que je ne suis bonne qu'en suçant.<br />
Jamais complimentée.<br />
Les seuls qu'il m'adresse sont des taches rouges sur ses tempes, son front, ses joues.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Je viens de briser une règle: pas de sexe après manger.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Sur son canapé lorsqu'il jouit sous ma langue, dans ma bouche, sa main écrase mes doigts où s'enfoncent les rainures acérées de ma bague altérée.<br />
Je perçois la violence de sa jouissance dans l'étreinte de sa main, la tension de sa verge, les spasmes de son éjaculation – si forte, si longue.<br />
Son sexe porte sous son gland, sur sa gauche, une cloque molle – comme une ampoule encore close – qui l'effraie. Cela ne m'étonne pas. Je ne l'avais jamais senti jouir aussi intensément. Je ne me souviens pas avoir senti quiconque éjaculer si puissamment.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Son désir déjà s'effrite..<br />
Si sa fin est inévitable, qu'elle vienne vite.<br />
Pas de baisers empruntés. Pas de plaisir artificiel.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Embrasse-moi ! Enlace-moi ! Caresse-moi ! Regarde-moi ! Lèche-moi ! Effleure-moi ! Suce-moi ! Touche-moi ! Serre-moi ! Secoue-moi ! Excite-moi ! Gobe-moi ! Emplis-moi !</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">(...)</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Lundi 14 Avril 2008 04h.02]]></title>
<link>http://livressedeloreiller.wordpress.com/?p=83</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>elle</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Addendum au Dimanche 16 Mars 2008:
Ce qu&#8217;il y avait ce soir là dans le regard de N., que j]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:justify;">Addendum au Dimanche 16 Mars 2008:<br />
Ce qu'il y avait ce soir là dans le regard de N., que j'ai traduit – hâtivement (?) – par une forme d'admiration, n'était-ce pas plutôt du soulagement ? Bien content que je me décide à définitivement stopper cette relation bâtarde qui s'éternise, qui survit faute de réactivité de l'un de nous deux, faute de mieux (?) ?<br />
Je l'euthanasie. C'est fait.<br />
Cela l'arrange ?</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">(...)</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Vendredi 26 Mars 2008 14h.14]]></title>
<link>http://livressedeloreiller.wordpress.com/?p=81</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>elle</dc:creator>
<guid>http://livressedeloreiller.wordpress.com/?p=81</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Vous ne savez plus baiser – encore moins faire l&#8217;amour ! .
Vous êtes des machines qui baise]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Vous ne savez plus baiser – encore moins faire l'amour ! .<br />
Vous êtes des machines qui baisent.<br />
Pas d'excitation.<br />
Pas de perversion.<br />
Rien d'autre qu'un mouvement mécanique, répété, de balancier.<br />
Si encore vous baisiez comme des machines,<br />
vous ne feriez que leur ressembler.<br />
Raté !<br />
Vous en êtes devenu.<br />
Je m'ennuie avec vous au lit..</p>
<p>Je m'amuse bien plus à imaginer qu'à réaliser.</p>
<p>(...)</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Samedi 30 Février 2008 19h.55]]></title>
<link>http://livressedeloreiller.wordpress.com/?p=73</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>elle</dc:creator>
<guid>http://livressedeloreiller.wordpress.com/?p=73</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As usual, je collectionne les petites preuves – qui n&#8217;en sont pas – de son attachement pou]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:justify;">As usual, je collectionne les petites preuves – qui n'en sont pas – de son attachement pour moi.<br />
J'en invente aussi.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">3 days ago, My Dover Sampler. 2 1200 Ornamental Letters samples. J'avais espéré, un instant, y trouver son initiale.  J'aurais pris ça pour un signe indiquant que l'univers, dans sa globalité, encourageait mes divagations – Bien sûr, je peux me tromper, mais la matière pure comment le pourrait-elle ? Sans conscience. Sans limites. Tout et toujours. Elle en sait tant. Et n'en sait rien. .<br />
Je vois un A.<br />
Espoir déçu.<br />
L'autre est un S. Et si pour m'épargner je m'autorise à penser qu'oralement il n'est pas si différent, ce n'est qu'une moitié de preuve – peut-être moins .</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">1 day ago – oh surprise ! – My Dover Sampler bis. J'étais pourtant persuadée de n'en recevoir plus qu'un, ce depuis plusieurs semaines déjà. Bien. Je l'ouvre. Je ne réfléchis pas. 2 more Ornamental Letters. Rien de réellement palpitant. Voyons ces lettres.. Méritent-elles d'être archivées ? Les 1ères sont moches à mourir. Les 2èmes ressemblent un peu à celles du S., en moins lisible. Tant pis.. Je ne touche à rien. Je reste devant l'écran. Je pense à autre chose – À quoi ? À lui, peut-être. Je ne sais pas – mais je pense si souvent à lui . Je réfléchis. J'ai devant moi une lettre. Un C. C'est un C.! C'est un signe. Tout me parle de lui.<br />
Ah ! Que je suis heureuse ! Je suis comblée. Je suis soulagée, c'est bien ainsi que les choses devaient se placer. Je clique, rêveuse, sur un 2ème exemple.. Un M. Je ne peux qu'en rire! Je n'avais rien 2 jours plus tôt, aujourd'hui j'ai exactement ce qu'il me faut.<br />
Comme en primaire: C.+M.=amour éternel.<br />
Je suis légère. Je suis bête. Et je m'(en) amuse.<br />
Je vire au bleu. Voilà, oui: flore romantique.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">(...)</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Il m'écrit des cochonneries. Leur lecture m'écœure. En aucun cas ne m'excite.<br />
Puis-je rétrograder jusqu'à l''indifférence ?<br />
Mon cerveau ne l'imagine pas s'enfonçant en moi.<br />
Il aurait pu faire battre mon cœur si vite. Il aurait pu le faire s'écraser lui-même sous un surplus de pression sanguine. J'aurais eu l'odeur caractéristique d'une femelle en rut deux secondes après l'avoir lu.<br />
Aujourd'hui, rien – même en faisant très sérieusement l'effort de replonger dans tout ce qui me le rendait irrésistible .</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Trop cru pour mon cœur de midinette ?<br />
– ou pas assez pour mon cerveau de salope..</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">(...)</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Jeudi 3 Avril 2008 15h.18]]></title>
<link>http://livressedeloreiller.wordpress.com/?p=72</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>elle</dc:creator>
<guid>http://livressedeloreiller.wordpress.com/?p=72</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Je ne tiendrai jamais 3 mois face à ce néant là.
Des morceaux de lui tournoient encore trop souve]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:justify;">Je ne tiendrai jamais 3 mois face à ce néant là.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Des morceaux de lui tournoient encore trop souvent sous ma voute crânienne. Je meuble son silence de dizaines d'interrogations de conversations que je supporte mal de ne pouvoir formuler auxquelles je ne supporte pas de ne l'entendre répondre que je dois garder en tête pour les lui poser plus tard oralement puisque jamais ou si peu on ne l'a lu vu s'exprimer à la suite de questions notées.<br />
Je regarde derrière moi. Ce n'est qu'un peu plus de 2 semaines. Ce n'est rien !<br />
Comment lui est-il possible de se passer si simplement de moi ?</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Aaaarrgh ! Je dois le détruire puisque je ne peux l'oublier. Je dois systématiquement écraser chaque petit morceau qui, à une infinité d'autres assemblé, compose l'ensemble auquel je l'ai assimilé. N'en faire qu'un tas de poussière. Et joyeusement m'y rouler.<br />
C'est décidé: armée d'un marteau, je vais le détester !<br />
...<br />
Il me faudrait avant toute chose oublier la raison pour laquelle j'aurais aimé l'atomiser: je ne peux l'oublier.<br />
Et cætera.<br />
<em> À perte de vue.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Oh ! Je ne m'en sors pas !</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">(<em>Rassure-toi</em>,<br />
ce n'est qu'un instant de mon temps en plus de 3 jours.<br />
À qui d'autre en parler si ce n'est à celui qui l'a provoqué ?)</p>
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<description><![CDATA[Après.
Je suis – j’ai choisi – le diable qui sort de sa boîte avec toujours le même entrain]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:justify;">Après.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Je suis – j’ai choisi – le diable qui sort de sa boîte avec toujours le même entrain. Chouette ! Chouette ! Chouette ! Quelqu’un me demande. Quelqu’un m’attend ? On m’a choisie. J’arrive. J’ai mis mon plus beau sourire. Regarde-moi ! Je bondis hors de mon cube, pour moi, petit. Lumière: chaleur et reconnaissance. Tout ça pour moi ? Je vais sauter sur toi qui vient de m’éblouir. <em>Je vais faire une guirlande de fleurs et la donner...<br />
Oh ! A qui ?</em><br />
Je me lance. Ils m’écrasent.<br />
Lorsqu’on m’appelle ce n’est que pour me renvoyer au marteau, sonnée, dans l’obscurité. Jack in the Box livré dans sa chaise à torture à ceux qui voudront bien profiter de sa naïveté.<br />
J’aurais dû m’y attendre, je sais. A force de coups répétés peut-être cela finira-t-il par entrer.<br />
(<em>Les Vagues</em>. Oh ! <em>Les Vagues</em>... ).</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">J’en ai un peu marre de vous laisser me ratatiner.<br />
Je vieillis. Je m’assèche. Je me ternifie.<br />
Je vois mon reflet et je me dis que je vieillis.<br />
Si grise, si rêche, si dure.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Un peu d’ironie.<br />
Si j’avais encore sa basse chez moi je pourrais – me défouler, me défrustrer – réaliser le fantasme de P. Je m’empalerais sur le manche, la crosse où cela me serait possible... et la lui rendrais ainsi souillée.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Qui est vraiment Ingrid Bétancourt ?]]></title>
<link>http://buvard.wordpress.com/?p=8</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
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Je me suis toujours demandé pourquoi la captivité d&#8217;Ingrid Bétancourt était autant média]]></description>
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<p align="justify">Je me suis toujours demandé pourquoi la captivité d'Ingrid Bétancourt était autant médiatisée. Pas un jour ne passe sans intervention de ses enfants ou d'artistes, du lacher de photos au dessus de l'Amazonie à la chanson de Renaud. Politiques et médias compris. Qui est vraiment Ingrid Bétancourt ? Pourquoi cette surmédiatisation ?</p>
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<p align="justify"><!--more-->Il faut savoir avant toute chose qu'Ingrid Bétancourt n'est pas n'importe qui. Née à Bogota d'un père ancien ministre de l'éducation -sous la dictature de Rojas Pinilla !- et d'une mère sénatrice, Ingrid arrive en France, à... Neuilly (tiens, tiens,...) alors que son père est ambassadeur de Colombie à l'UNESCO. Une enfance aisée donc, dans la banlieue chic de Paris.</p>
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<p align="justify">Ingrid rentre ensuite à Science Po où elle rencontre un français qui lui donne deux enfants (et sa nationalité française [ce qui joue aussi dans la médiatisation]). Divorcée en 90, elle rentre en Colombie où elle devient sénatrice et créé son propre parti, Oxigeno Verde, le parti écolo. Le 23 février 2002, alors qu'elle s'apprête à se porter candidate à l'éléction présidentielle, elle est enlevée par les FARC, les forces armées révolutionnaires de Colombie.</p>
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<p align="justify">Il ne s'agit donc pas d'une citoyenne lambda ayant grandi à St Denis et enlevée par hasard en faisant son marché. Le but de cette simple précision n'était pas de "porter atteinte" à Ingrid Bétancourt, ni de remettre en cause ses souffrances d'otage ni celles de sa famille, et en premier lieu ses enfants. Mais d'essayer de comprendre pourquoi et comment elle a été portée au rang d'otage symbolique, jusqu'à devenir un argument de campagne pour Sarkozy qui avait promis d'obtenir sa libération ("pour Noël") s'il était élu. Il y aurait pourtant des centaines et des centaines d'otages dans la jungle colombienne.</p>
<p align="justify">Le Nouvel Obs avait consacré il y a peu une biographie trés complète d'Ingrid Bétancourt, qui soulignait bien les raisons de sa surmédiatisation.</p>
<h5>crédit-photo  : http://www.bonvote.com/rss.php?s=2073751</h5>
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<title><![CDATA[Question cynique]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
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Laquelle de ces chansons de droite a été interprétée par Henri Salvador ?
1) Hé hi hé ho, on ]]></description>
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<p>Laquelle de ces chansons de droite a été interprétée par Henri Salvador ?</p>
<address>1) Hé hi hé ho, on rentre du boulot ?<br />
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<address>2) Travailler plus pour gagner plus ?<br />
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<address>3) Arbeit macht frei ? </address>
<address>4) Le travail c'est la santé ?<br />
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<p>Un indice s'est dissimulé dans la photo !  Allez, respect et bon vent l'artiste (de droite) !</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Dealing with the Issues]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[My previous post described the beginning of Mel Levine’s January talk, and ended with a case in po]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My previous post described the beginning of Mel Levine’s January talk, and ended with a case in point describing a young child and the learning issues with which he was diagnosed. This post describes one avenue for dealing with those issues, along with how Mel Levine, in general, deals with children and young adults who come his way.</p>
<p>There are a number of ways to deal with wiring issues (that often translate to learning issues), some of which can be overcome or circumvented.</p>
<blockquote><p>The young man mentioned in the previous post, diagnosed with an auditory processing issue and dyslexia, learned the letters of the alphabet over a two year period. From second to third grade he met regularly with a speech and language therapist who used the <a href="http://www.ortonacademy.org/" target="_blank">Orton-Gillingham</a> method. He also met for several weeks with an occupational therapist, where the focus was on understanding where his body was in relation to the space around him.</p>
<p>By the middle of third grade he was reading, and as a young adult he is described as an avid reader with an outstanding vocabulary. His penmanship has not changed much in the intervening years; while legible,  a quick glance at his writing might cause you to think the writer was younger than his late teenage years. He is better able to follow directions when they are phrased precisely and clearly, and for oral directions, stated slower rather than hastily spewed out. Other areas impacted by the dyslexia include processing abstract information, which in this case translates to mathematics. One-on-one tutorials have been found helpful for developing an understanding of some of the mathematical concepts.</p></blockquote>
<p>Mel Levine noted that his approach in dealing with <strong>“students who are innocent victims of their own wiring”</strong> is to <strong>“strengthen strengths.”</strong> This plays a large role in the <strong><span style="color:#800000;">demystification process</span></strong> championed by his organization, <a href="http://www.allkindsofminds.org/index.aspx" target="_blank">All Kinds of Minds</a>. Mel explains the process in this brief article, <a href="http://www.allkindsofminds.org/ArticleDisplay.aspx?articleID=16" target="_blank">Demystification: Taking the Mystery Out of Disappointing Mastery</a>. You can gain further insight into the philosophy behind the practice by viewing any of the videos or listening to the audio interviews on the <a href="http://www.allkindsofminds.org/media.aspx" target="_blank">Media page</a>. (There are also transcripts available for all talks). Essentially, the student is made a partner in the process, and the process involves having the student understand their strengths and weaknesses. In other words, the student learns about how s/he learns. Another word for that is <span style="color:#800000;"><strong>metacognition</strong></span> :-)</p>
<p>In conjunction with Dr Levine, Channel Thirteen, the New York public television station, produced <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/misunderstoodminds/intro.html" target="_blank">Misunderstood Minds</a>, a content rich site that “profiles a variety of learning problems and expert opinions”. The site includes many simulations and hands-on activities related to attention, reading, writing and mathematics. It is well worth the time to investigate these activities, as they provide a glimpse in to what it is like to have wiring anomalies that impact learning.</p>
<p>The other key, not just for kids with wiring anomalies but for all young adults (indeed, for each of us), is to <strong><span style="color:#800000;">find your niche</span></strong> and “then all else will fall into place”. My next post on Levine’s talk will continue with this idea.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, if you or someone you know has learning issues, below are organizations that have plenty of helpful information to get you started in understanding your or their wiring. The first site focuses on dyslexia, but the other three include extensive information on a range of topics.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dyslexia-teacher.com/t7.html" target="_blank">Dyslexia Teacher: Symptoms of Dyslexia</a></p>
<p><a href="http://kidshealth.org/kid/health_problems/learning_problem/dyslexia.html" target="_blank">Kids Health – Dyslexia</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ldworldwide.org/?gclid=CLCag_LAqpECFSbbQAod1yhoag" target="_blank">Learning Disabilities Worldwide</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ncld.org/content/view/454/391/" target="_blank">National Center for Learning Disabilities: Dyslexia</a></p>
<p>Next post: A Niche in Time, continuation of Mel Levine’s talk</p>
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The title of this post is the title of the talk given by Dr Mel Levine in mid-January to parents and]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The title of this post is the title of the talk given by Dr Mel Levine in mid-January to parents and teachers in my community on the coast, some 30 miles north of New York City. He captivated us, an audience of about 400, for two complete hours, as he spoke and took questions.</p>
<p>Levine is a pro at presenting, having been doing this for probably over 19 years. (I first heard him speak 19 years ago.) His life’s work is filled with counseling children and young adults, so it is no surprise that both his books and talks are peppered with anecdotes. He looks out at his audience and makes eye contact with those in the front rows, he uses humor but gets serious where needed, and he appreciates that we all listen differently. To that end, he hands out an extensive outline of his talk for those who want to follow along, take notes, or just relax and listen but have something to jog their memory when they’ve gone home. This talk revolved around his 2005 book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Not-Here-Life-Comes/dp/0743262247" target="_blank">Ready or Not, Here Life Comes</a>, which I have not read.</p>
<p>Levine’s handout runs ten typed pages; my notes span one and a half. I attended his talk for many reasons: because I have two sons, one age 23 and the other soon to be 17; because I have always enjoyed hearing Levine speak; because I am a teacher; because I know a student who will be doing a related  independent study next year; and because I am interested in the brain and how we learn. So what did he have to say?</p>
<p>Dr Levine began by describing young adults, particularly those who have learning difficulties. These students, he said, are <b>“innocent victims of their own wiring.”</b> That line hits home. Sadly, there have been, and continue to be, teachers who blame the student when work is not done and information is not learned, rather than acknowledging there is always a reason behind the action (or lack of action), figuring out what that reason is (or getting help to figure it out), and then working with the student to deal with that “it”.</p>
<blockquote><p>Case in point: When a young man I know was in first grade, his teacher was indignant that he did not know his ABCs, and complained that he was not trying hard enough. He was six years old and told his parents that he wasn’t smart because his teacher said he did not know his alphabet. It turned out he had an <a href="http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/voice/auditory.htm" target="_blank">auditory processing dysfunction</a> and was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslexia" target="_blank">dyslexic</a>. Can you imagine what it feels like, at the young age of six, to already feel you are not smart?</p>
<p>Having an auditory processing issue coupled with dyslexia meant, for this child, that he was unable to put sounds to letters of the alphabet and often misheard words that did not have definitive sounds, thus misinterpreting what he heard. Multistep oral directions were difficult for him to process and follow. Reversals filled his writing, meaning that several letters and numbers resembling other letters or numbers were flipped with one another. (For instance, upper case “E” and the number “3”, the numbers “9” and “6”, lower case “p” and “q”, and so on.) The hearing of language, which comes naturally to most of us, was a foreign affair. An intense finger grip made written language both physically and mentally tiring to write. He was, as Mel Levine says, an innocent victim of his own wiring.</p></blockquote>
<p>Next post: Dealing with the issues.</p>
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<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Ready or Not, Here Life Comes is Mel Levine’s most recent book. Published in 2005, it covers a ran]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Not-Here-Life-Comes/dp/B000IFS0TU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1200877849&#38;sr=8-1" target="_blank"><img src="http://neurons.wordpress.com/files/2008/01/readyornotherelifecomes.thumbnail.jpg" alt="readyornotherelifecomes.jpg" align="left" />Ready or Not, Here Life Comes</a> is Mel Levine’s most recent book. Published in 2005, it covers a range of topics dealing with preparing young adults (and their parents) for life after high school and college. On January 17th my husband and I had the pleasure of settling in to a packed auditorium where Dr Levine talked about this topic. This was our third time in about eighteen years hearing Dr Levine speak, so we were already familiar with his engaging style. We've predisposed to hear his update about the many animals he raises on his farm in North Carolina, among them geese, dogs, swans, peacocks, pheasants, and donkeys, to name a few!</p>
<p>Before I tell you about Levine’s talk, though, for those of you who do not know him, here is an introduction. Dr Mel Levine is a pediatrician and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina Medical School. He is best known, though, for being the co-founder with Charles Schwab of <a href="http://www.allkindsofminds.org/index.aspx" target="_blank">All Kinds of Minds</a> and the <a href="http://www.allkindsofminds.org/sa/index.aspx" target="_blank">Schools Attuned</a> program. Schools Attuned provides training to teachers in, and assists schools with implementing, the programs of All Kinds of Minds. The All Kinds of Minds approach is compelling because it does away with the negative labels that so often stymie both the students who are labeled and the faculty who are charged with teaching them.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mind-at-Time-Melvin-Levine/dp/0743239253/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1200879610&#38;sr=8-2" target="_blank"><img src="http://neurons.wordpress.com/files/2008/01/amindatatime.thumbnail.jpg" alt="amindatatime.jpg" align="right" /></a>Levine’s approach is to uncover what is not functioning well within the student’s brain while also determining a student’s strengths. This process is called <font color="#0000ff"><b>demystification</b></font>, and can become an eye-opener for a struggling student and his or her parents. It is often the beginning of a fresh, positive approach to dealing with learning issues, and doing away with the stigma that often travels with kids who have been negatively labeled from year to year. In 2002 Dr Levine wrote <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mind-at-Time-Melvin-Levine/dp/0743239253/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1200879610&#38;sr=8-2" target="_blank">A Mind at a Time</a>, which is a most helpful primer for parents and teachers that covers the neurodevelopmental constructs behind the All Kinds of Minds approach.</p>
<p>You can get to know Dr Levine a bit more in this insightful September 2006 interview with Marge Scherer, Editor in Chief of Educational Leadership. The interview, <a href="http://www.ascd.org/authors/ed_lead/el200609_scherer2.html" target="_blank">Celebrate Strengths, Nurture Affinities: A Conversation with Mel Levine</a>, is a well-focused lens both on Levine as an individual, as well as on his philosophy. And if you blinked in surprise that he lives on a farm with a multitude of animals, you can hear them at the beginning of this January 2005 NPR interview, <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4460341" target="_blank">Mel Levine: Teaching All Kinds of Minds</a>, which begins on his farm. The NPR site also has seven additional audio clips of Dr Levine giving his views on a number of related issues. If you are interested in learning more, here are some additional books by Mel Levine:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Laziness-Mel-Levine/dp/B0000AACV3/ref=pd_bbs_6?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1200879746&#38;sr=8-6" target="_blank"><img src="http://neurons.wordpress.com/files/2008/01/themythoflaziness.thumbnail.jpg" alt="themythoflaziness.jpg" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Keeping-Head-School-Abilities-Disorders/dp/0838820697/ref=pd_bbs_3?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1200879670&#38;sr=8-3" target="_blank">Keeping a Head in School: A Student’s Book About Learning Abilities and Learning Disorders</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/All-Kinds-Minds-Abilities-Disorders/dp/0838820905/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1200879713&#38;sr=8-1" target="_blank">All Kinds of Minds: A Young Student’s Book About Learning Abilities and Learning Disorders</a></p>
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<description><![CDATA[Mon cerveau est un monstre.
Il s’approche durant la nuit de sa proie sans se faire remarquer. Il c]]></description>
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<p align="justify">Il s’approche durant la nuit de sa proie sans se faire remarquer. Il choisit toujours la personne qui compte le plus pour moi à cet instant, et l’odeur de mon humanité l’excite. Il tourne lentement, puis d’un pas de plus en plus décidé, autour de sa future victime. Il la flaire, il l’observe, la guette, ingurgite, se goinfre d'un maximum d’informations sur celle-ci. Mais il n'en est pas satisfait. Il lui faut ensuite ... la dévorer, la digérer, la décomposer, la démystifier, et l’expulser ainsi souillée.</p>
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