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  Anthony Picciano wrote a new post on the site Tony's Thoughts 2 hours, 2 minutes ago

  Today is a Travel Day – Going to Seattle! Dear Commons Community, My wife, Elaine and I, will be traveling to the beautiful city of Seattle today to visit my daughter and her family. Tony  

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  Anthony Picciano wrote a new post on the site Tony's Thoughts 2 hours, 9 minutes ago

  United States DOJ Investigating CUNY’s Black Male Initiative     Harmeet K. Dhillon assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. Andrew Harnik/Getty Imag […]

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  Jeanette Rojas wrote a new post on the site Jeanette's Digital Diary 17 hours, 21 minutes ago

  Oprah Winfrey, No Contact Parent-Child Relationships, and MyselfWhen reading about how relational dialectics manifest in our personal relationships, I learned that awareness about relation dialectics, which are a set of needs for every person in a relationship that must be negotiated by those involved, is only a small part of navigating interpersonal relationships. According to L.A. Baxter, there are four ways people can manage dialectical tensions in their interpersonal relationships. For this post, I want to focus on Baxter’s fourth option for handling dialectical tension between people in a relationship, the option to reframe the dialectical tension, utilizing Oprah Winfrey’s podcast episode interviewing adult children who have initiated no-contact relationships with their parent(s). I write about this podcast episode to apply Baxter’s option of reframing dialectical tensions because in this episode, a few of the interviewed children discuss their no-contact boundary with their parent(s) as a necessary measure of protection for themselves and their own children. These testimonials reveal how a child’s reframing of their no-contact measure clarifies that no-contact does not contradict or oppose that child’s love for their parent(s). As someone who has established a no-contact boundary with my parent, I realize that I also engage in reframing my strategy for managing the dialectical tension between myself and my parent, like the testimonials do in Oprah’s podcast. I also reframe the no-contact boundary as ultimately supporting my relationship with my parent because no communication is never contradicting or […] “Oprah Winfrey, No Contact Parent-Child Relationships, and Myself”

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  Naima Jean-louis (She/Her) wrote a new post on the site Exploring the Art of Communications 18 hours, 18 minutes ago

  Lost in Translation Across Cultures Editorial Cartoon Analysis Key Term: Language and Culture Subheading: Language and Intercultural Communication This cartoon relates to […]

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  Naima Jean-louis (She/Her) wrote a new post on the site Exploring the Art of Communications 18 hours, 25 minutes ago

  The Balance of Self-Disclosure Editorial Cartoon Analysis Key Term: Self-Disclosure Subheading: Developing and Maintaining Relationships This cartoon relates to Chapter […]

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  Naima Jean-louis (She/Her) wrote a new post on the site Exploring the Art of Communications 18 hours, 52 minutes ago

  What Your Body Is Saying Editorial Cartoon Analysis Key Term: Kinesics (Body Movement) Subheading: Types of Nonverbal Communication This cartoon relates to […]

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  Naima Jean-louis (She/Her) wrote a new post on the site Exploring the Art of Communications 19 hours, 9 minutes ago

  When Words Mean Different Things Editorial Cartoon Analysis Key Term: Ambiguous Symbols This cartoon relates to Chapter 2 because it demonstrates the concept of ambiguous […]

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  Ryan Seslow edited the blog post Building the Tesseract: What Happens When an Archive Learns to Read Itself? Part 1 in the group Net-Art: 22 hours, 27 minutes ago

  Building the Tesseract: What Happens When an Archive Learns to Read Itself? Part 1 Building the Tesseract: What Happens When an Archive Learns to Read Itself? Part 1 6/10/26 Over the past week I’ve been working on […]

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  Anthony Picciano wrote a new post on the site Tony's Thoughts 23 hours, 54 minutes ago

  New Book: “Fluke” by Brian Klaas Dear Commons Community, Last month, I posted  on a book entitled, Beyond Belief:  What evidence shows what really works by Helen P […]

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  Anthony Picciano wrote a new post on the site Tony's Thoughts 1 day ago

  Susan Collins and Graham Platner will go head-to-head in the Maine Senate race. Left: Senator Susan Collins . Right: Graham Platner.  Courtesy of Newsweek Dear Commons Community, Yesterday was primary day for […]

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