Superman,
Since the baby was born, things have been different. I’ve been different. And I haven’t really understood why. I just know that I’m not the same girl I used to be. I don’t laugh when you pick on me. I get angry. I don’t just pick your sweats up off the floor. I throw them and yell and have a hard time letting it go. Sometimes, I just don’t want to be with you. And I don’t know how to explain it. But I’m going to do my best here.
I used to think it was adorable when AG would play with me or pick on me. She’s so much like you. She does things just to make me laugh. Now, I hardly notice. I actually didn’t even realize she still does it until you started pointing it out a couple weeks ago. When she cries, sometimes I don’t get those mommy feelings I used to where I just want...
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Open Letter to the EC, requesting to address the multilingual challenge in their forthcoming Strateg
Dear colleagues,
we would like to ask all of you for your support of an Open Letter to the EC, requesting to address the multilingual challenge in their forthcoming Strategy on the Digital Single Market (DSM).
The open letter is a response from the Language Technology community – including Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Data, Knowledge, Cognitive Science etc. – to the EC consultations for their DSM Strategy.
Unfortunately, there is a very severe danger that our field is completely vanishing from the EC priorities. It’s not part of the current strategic priorities of EC Vice President Andrus Ansip.
Language Technology has already been removed from the Horizon 2020 Work Programme for 2016/2017. We must act immediately! Otherwise our...
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Dear participants of the Eric Sheppard Challenge,
This is America, land of the free, home of the brave… not to mention, the greatest country in the world. We are born into a free country, we are allowed to have our own opinions and views, and we are given the right to stand up for what we believe in.
I have seen your “Eric Sheppard Challange videos,” and it absolutely disgusts me that you believe it is okay to stomp on the American flag, that same flag that gives you the very right to do that without being punished. It is your American right to be upset and not agree with how the Eric Sheppard case is being handled, but isn’t there a better way to go about this?
If America is so terrible maybe North Korea or Cuba could be a better option for you? There, the government controls...
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Dear Deepika,
Ever since I heard about your coming out of the closet, so to speak, about your struggle with depression, I have wanted to write. I have swung between many personal and political issues concerning mental health since listening to you.
I had to remove your celebrity image in my head and look at you as a human being in order to write this. I've self-harmed as a child and continued through adulthood. Often, I have bouts of severe depression where I feel I'm choking for days or weeks, and then, as if with a flip of a coin, I spring up to a high and prance about like the world is mine before I hit a different nerve and drift way into a fantasy land of zombies, ghost and what not. I have my version of depression but that is not what my label is. The one I carry- Schizophrenia-...
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To the parents of Goth teenagers,
Hello, my name is Mary Rose. I'm a blogger here at The Everyday Goth and I discuss fashion, decor, music, literature, the social scene, and other facets of the Goth subculture. I'm a twenty-one year old student, employee, daughter, and sibling who has been in the Goth subculture for almost a decade now, and I want to talk to you about your Goth child.
The reason you're here, my guess being, is because of an article discussing the recent findings of the Lancet. For those of you not in the know, the British academic journal The Lancet published a study which reported that out of about 3,000 teenagers who were studied at both ages 15 and 18, those who identified with the label "Goth" in their self-reported questionnaires were more likely to be...
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Hello Beautiful,
This is an open letter to those who are feeling dark emotions on a high level and trapped living in the past or filled with anxiety about living in the future. This is the letter that I wish I read when I was going through my darkest days in hospital and needed some sort of hope, away from the judgment, labels and prescription drugs I was surrounded by from the doctors and nurses.
Firstly my lovely you are not alone, you are oh so loved and you have a purpose in this big beautiful world that you need to shine light on, but you just don’t know it yet. For now its time for you to stop every thing that you are doing and take this precious time to look after yourself. Imagine if you are a car and you are driving people around all day, picking them up, dropping...
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My Dearest Second Child,
As your arrival into this world got closer, I began making my rounds. I got together with aunts, uncles, cousins, friends, and anyone else I could think of to reminisce about all the fun times. I had convinced myself that once you came, being the mother of two children would drive me to boarding up the windows and becoming a recluse. We would be a very happy family, just pale and sensitive to the light. But as it turns out, adding another child was more difficult, but it became the norm very quickly, and we did eventually leave the house – mostly for nipple cream and Motrin, but we made it out nonetheless. But it hasn’t been without a few hiccups. You are only 11 months old, and I have already raised you nothing like how I raised your brother to that age....
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Hey hey, mah bruddah!!
Heard you were able to get back to your dad’s turangawaewae last week. Mean … hope you had a good catch up with the whanau.
I also hear you’re getting ready to endorse the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), and I’m asking that you hold off, for now anyway.
You might not know who I am and that’s OK because I’m not that important in the scheme of things, but my people are. We’re Maori, the indigenous people of a little country down here in the South Pacific called Aotearoa - you probably know it as New Zealand - and we want you to know that we don’t support the TPPA; in fact we hate the bloody thing.
You see back in 1840 we signed the Treaty of Waitangi with the British, which was supposed to protect our rights. It didn’t unfortunately, and now we...
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Dear Me,
As the new school year begins to become familiar and you’re starting to realize how much you actually have on your plate, I hope you stop and take the time to appreciate and reflect on what is actually different this year; whether it be about yourself, about your environment, or who you surround yourself with. I want you to assess what part of your persona you want to focus on. You’re at a point in your life where change is constant. You’re more serious about who you are and who you ultimately want to be. With all of this being said, something I hope you understand is that the person you ultimately do want to become is potentially, internally, and technically already the person you are. You just have to reflect on what you want and steer yourself along that path....
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To Myself, When the World Has Gone Mad:
When the world has gone mad, don’t give up hope. Hold onto HopeBecause it will, and you will want to.
Things will seem too big, too unfixable, too impossible to understand. When wrong gives rise to wrong and harm ignites harm, when reason is trampled by rising chaos, when everywhere you turn there is darkness, that is when you must hold on to hope the most.
When the world has gone mad, you will feel violated. You will watch war erupt on one front and then another. You will watch windows being smashed and businesses being destroyed and buildings burning to the ground. You will watch justice be perverted, criminal actions lauded as heroic, and communities devastate themselves. You will watch sickness claim the healthy and sadness consume...
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