Megan M Devine is an American psychotherapist, writer, and speaker. A grief advocate and communication expert, Devine is best known for her 2017 book, It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture that Doesn't Understand (Sounds True, 2017), and for her work advancing an approach to grief support which excludes the use of Platitude<nowiki/>s, the Kübler-Ross model (5 stages theory), and treating grief as a pathology.
Devine's quotes, "Some things cannot be fixed. They can only be carried." and "Acknowledgement can be the best medicine we have. It makes things better, even when they cannot be made right." defines her model of grief advocacy work based on her professional and personal observations on supporting grievers and their advocates with an emphasis on unexpected, out-of-order, traumatic, and accidental death, including death by suicide, Violent crime, Natural disaster, pregnancy loss, and baby loss.
Biography
Early life and education
Devine was born in Bangor, Maine. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1997 from Goddard College, a Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts also from Goddard College in 1999, and in 2003 earned a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from Antioch University New England.
Career
Devine had been a clinical mental health therapist for over 15 years, prior to the drowning death of her partner in 2009. Prior to her private Psychotherapy practice, Devine worked as a sexual violence awareness educator, taught writing in a day shelter for at-risk youth and was a clinical ghostwriter for an educational publishing house.
Books
•Print
It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture that Doesn't Understand (Sounds True, 2017), is a non-fiction book explaining how traditional grief support fails to help those in grief, how the culture perceives grief and loss and what needs to change, how honoring, validating, and bearing witness to grievers' experiences is the most effective way to help, creating compassionate companionship, and providing tools for persons in grief and for those who support grieving people.
•Audio
The Grief Experiment (2013), a 90-minute audio guidebook of practical exercises for persons in early grief.
Animations
How Do You Help a Grieving Friend? (2018), this 4-minute animated video explains what does and doesn't work when supporting grieving people, featured on Laughing Squid and BuzzFeed's Facebook presence, Goodful, where it has received over 23 million views. On YouTube the animation has received over 355,000 views.
As contributor
Mindfulness and Bereavement (2013)
Holidays and Bereavement: A different way to cope (2013)
How to Help Someone in Pain (2014)
The Half Life of Love (2015)
The Converse-Station: Megan Devine Interviews Author Jessica Handler (2015)
How to Help a Grieving Friend (2017)
How to take care of yourself & others during tragedies (2017)
How to help a grieving friend at the holidays: an illustrated guide (2017)
Stay Strong, and Other Useless Drivel We Tell the Grieving (2018)
Her Partner Drowned at 39 (2018)
Overwhelmed By World News? There's A Spiritual Practice For That (2018)
The Unexpected Practice That Helped Me Cope With Grief — When Nothing Else Could (2018)
Speaking engagements
2015 World Domination Summit, Newmark Theater, Portland, OR
Bibliography
It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand (Sounds True, 2017)
Devine's quotes, "Some things cannot be fixed. They can only be carried." and "Acknowledgement can be the best medicine we have. It makes things better, even when they cannot be made right." defines her model of grief advocacy work based on her professional and personal observations on supporting grievers and their advocates with an emphasis on unexpected, out-of-order, traumatic, and accidental death, including death by suicide, Violent crime, Natural disaster, pregnancy loss, and baby loss.
Biography
Early life and education
Devine was born in Bangor, Maine. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1997 from Goddard College, a Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts also from Goddard College in 1999, and in 2003 earned a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from Antioch University New England.
Career
Devine had been a clinical mental health therapist for over 15 years, prior to the drowning death of her partner in 2009. Prior to her private Psychotherapy practice, Devine worked as a sexual violence awareness educator, taught writing in a day shelter for at-risk youth and was a clinical ghostwriter for an educational publishing house.
Books
It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture that Doesn't Understand (Sounds True, 2017), is a non-fiction book explaining how traditional grief support fails to help those in grief, how the culture perceives grief and loss and what needs to change, how honoring, validating, and bearing witness to grievers' experiences is the most effective way to help, creating compassionate companionship, and providing tools for persons in grief and for those who support grieving people.
•Audio
The Grief Experiment (2013), a 90-minute audio guidebook of practical exercises for persons in early grief.
Animations
How Do You Help a Grieving Friend? (2018), this 4-minute animated video explains what does and doesn't work when supporting grieving people, featured on Laughing Squid and BuzzFeed's Facebook presence, Goodful, where it has received over 23 million views. On YouTube the animation has received over 355,000 views.
As contributor
Mindfulness and Bereavement (2013)
Holidays and Bereavement: A different way to cope (2013)
How to Help Someone in Pain (2014)
The Half Life of Love (2015)
The Converse-Station: Megan Devine Interviews Author Jessica Handler (2015)
How to Help a Grieving Friend (2017)
How to take care of yourself & others during tragedies (2017)
How to help a grieving friend at the holidays: an illustrated guide (2017)
Stay Strong, and Other Useless Drivel We Tell the Grieving (2018)
Her Partner Drowned at 39 (2018)
Overwhelmed By World News? There's A Spiritual Practice For That (2018)
The Unexpected Practice That Helped Me Cope With Grief — When Nothing Else Could (2018)
Speaking engagements
2015 World Domination Summit, Newmark Theater, Portland, OR
Bibliography
It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand (Sounds True, 2017)
French Bank of California v. First National Bank of Louisville 585 S.W.2d 431 (1979) is a Court of Appeals of Kentucky court case. It concerned the obligation of restitution when money is received in error.
History
French Bank of California had transferred $30,000 to Bank of America at the behest of their client, Fossil Energy Corporation with orders for it to be paid to the First National Bank of Louisville account of Total Coal Sales. A French Bank telex operator accidentally sent the request three times rather than once, however Bank of America only authorized two of those transactions. The mistake was realized ten days later and French Bank wrote to First National to indemnify them for restitution, however the indemnity was not issued. French Bank sued to get the duplicate $30,000 returned. they appealed to the Court of Appeals of Kentucky. French Bank argued that if a party receives money by mistake, then they have an obligation to make restitution. The court disagreed with this on the grounds that First National had irrevocably changed its position once it put the money in the account. They also noted that had Total Coal Sales attempted to take the money out, then First National could have been sued had they disallowed it. though First National received the money by mistake, they had no obligation to return the money unless there was a court order or an agreed indemnity issued, neither of which had been done. As a result on a 2-1 judgement, the court affirmed the original trial ruling.
In fiction
The case's citation 585 S.W.2d 431 was used in the 1997 film The Rainmaker. In the film the case citation is claimed to refer to the fictional case of Club Ruby v. Carmine De Soto regarding the admissibility of stolen documents as evidence in court.
History
French Bank of California had transferred $30,000 to Bank of America at the behest of their client, Fossil Energy Corporation with orders for it to be paid to the First National Bank of Louisville account of Total Coal Sales. A French Bank telex operator accidentally sent the request three times rather than once, however Bank of America only authorized two of those transactions. The mistake was realized ten days later and French Bank wrote to First National to indemnify them for restitution, however the indemnity was not issued. French Bank sued to get the duplicate $30,000 returned. they appealed to the Court of Appeals of Kentucky. French Bank argued that if a party receives money by mistake, then they have an obligation to make restitution. The court disagreed with this on the grounds that First National had irrevocably changed its position once it put the money in the account. They also noted that had Total Coal Sales attempted to take the money out, then First National could have been sued had they disallowed it. though First National received the money by mistake, they had no obligation to return the money unless there was a court order or an agreed indemnity issued, neither of which had been done. As a result on a 2-1 judgement, the court affirmed the original trial ruling.
In fiction
The case's citation 585 S.W.2d 431 was used in the 1997 film The Rainmaker. In the film the case citation is claimed to refer to the fictional case of Club Ruby v. Carmine De Soto regarding the admissibility of stolen documents as evidence in court.
Massimo Taccon (born May 19, 1967) is an Italian painter, sculptor and writer who, during his 'Ismahel period' (1997-2002), signed his artworks with the pseudonym ISMAHEL.
Life and work
Taccon was born in Rome and lives between Rome and New York. In 2000 his work was shown at the Langhkawi International Festival of Arts 2000, held by the Malay National Art Gallery, Ibrahim Hussein Museum and Culture Foundation, and shown to the prime minister Mahathir Mohamad. as well as at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
His work has been exhibited in Italy, Germany, Spain,
In his early period Taccon has often been compared by critics to Rothko or Jackson Pollock , and later he has been associated with Arte Povera (coined term by the art critic and curator Germano Celant), and the figure of Jannis Kounellis.
* I quattro elementi (The four elements) (1998), Ceri Church (Italy)
*Messaggio dalla luce (Message from the light) (1998), edizioni libreria Croce.
Statements on art
*All my Artworks are the masterpiece of my immaterial mind... (Massimo Taccon)<ref name="simmetrie." />
*My works are collected messages from the soul, and transferred in image to represent an inside world. I pick up feelings and intuitions to reverse them to the exterior, trying to launch a call in this world. What I expect is a definitive inside awakening of whom picks up the call... (Massimo Taccon)<ref name="simmetrie." />
Life and work
Taccon was born in Rome and lives between Rome and New York. In 2000 his work was shown at the Langhkawi International Festival of Arts 2000, held by the Malay National Art Gallery, Ibrahim Hussein Museum and Culture Foundation, and shown to the prime minister Mahathir Mohamad. as well as at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
His work has been exhibited in Italy, Germany, Spain,
In his early period Taccon has often been compared by critics to Rothko or Jackson Pollock , and later he has been associated with Arte Povera (coined term by the art critic and curator Germano Celant), and the figure of Jannis Kounellis.
* I quattro elementi (The four elements) (1998), Ceri Church (Italy)
*Messaggio dalla luce (Message from the light) (1998), edizioni libreria Croce.
Statements on art
*All my Artworks are the masterpiece of my immaterial mind... (Massimo Taccon)<ref name="simmetrie." />
*My works are collected messages from the soul, and transferred in image to represent an inside world. I pick up feelings and intuitions to reverse them to the exterior, trying to launch a call in this world. What I expect is a definitive inside awakening of whom picks up the call... (Massimo Taccon)<ref name="simmetrie." />
Finlay Pringle is a 12 year old climate and shark activist from Ullapool, Scotland.
School Strike
Pringle started striking for the climate on the 14th of December 2018 with his sister, Ella Pringle, and their friend, Megan Ross. They usually strike outside Ullapool Primary School or the clock tower in Ullapool every Friday morning from 08.30am for an hour.
Bear Grylls
Pringle notably told Bear Grylls that he "sucks" and that he is the "worst chief Scout" via social media when he opened a centre in Birmingham, England in which visitors can dive alongside sharks. He told the BBC Radio Scotland's Mornings with Kaye Adams programme that the reason he did this because was because he doesn't "think it is right to put sharks in tanks and make money from it." He also said this about Bear Grylls: "As chief scout I thought it set a very bad example to children on how we should treat animals." His actions won praise from Chris Packham, who commented, "Finlay has become a hero of mine for fighting a good fight for the environment."
School Strike
Pringle started striking for the climate on the 14th of December 2018 with his sister, Ella Pringle, and their friend, Megan Ross. They usually strike outside Ullapool Primary School or the clock tower in Ullapool every Friday morning from 08.30am for an hour.
Bear Grylls
Pringle notably told Bear Grylls that he "sucks" and that he is the "worst chief Scout" via social media when he opened a centre in Birmingham, England in which visitors can dive alongside sharks. He told the BBC Radio Scotland's Mornings with Kaye Adams programme that the reason he did this because was because he doesn't "think it is right to put sharks in tanks and make money from it." He also said this about Bear Grylls: "As chief scout I thought it set a very bad example to children on how we should treat animals." His actions won praise from Chris Packham, who commented, "Finlay has become a hero of mine for fighting a good fight for the environment."