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I’m a huge advocate for board games. I believe this hobby has saved my relationship countless times. I’ve also seen it do wonders for many of my clients — those who were already gamers and those who picked up the hobby after our discussions about new ways to connect.
But we’re not talking about the types of games you grew up with. Uno, Scrabble, Skipbo, Trouble, Sorry, Yahtzee, and Monopoly won’t give you these. To get a better idea of what I mean by “board games,” check out my other articles listing my favorite board games for couples and competitive board games for couples.
But back to you. And your relationship. And your time.
How do you normally spend your time together? Most of the couples I work with initially answer that question with screens.
Too much TV, they say.
We’re always on our phones, they despair.
And sometimes I’ll hear: We’re really into this show right now… which actually could be followed up with a never-ending list of shows they have been “really into” for the last however-many-years.
You might be wondering what is so different about playing hours of board games and watching hours of TV.
Well, I’m so glad you asked.
Board games give us a few benefits that I don’t believe exist in many other types of activities that we can do with our partner — or at least not as efficiently.
Oh, and since women are often the ones reading these articles, I’ll throw this one out there: if your partner is really into watching TV, obsessing over sports, playing video games, or they get lost in their phone, board games can help with that!
They’ll keep your partner engaged in a new world (just like with these other activities) but will also create some great connection (and 8 other things) for the two of you.
1. Creates Connection
You probably knew this would be the first thing on the list. How could playing board games save marriages if they didn’t create connection? But let’s think about this connection for a second.
When you’re playing a game with your partner, there are actually three types of connections that are happening simultaneously:
- Up here
- Down there
Are you super confused? I hope so. Keep reading.
Now picture this. We are seated at a table across from each other playing a game. There is a large rectangle of cardboard between us dotted with little wooden pieces, some plastic figurines, and a few piles of cards scattered around us.
We are talking (up here) and we are moving the game pieces around (down there).
Up here (imagine I’m gesturing between our faces), we are connecting as ourselves with new content to talk about. We’re talking about what just happened in the game, what’s about to happen, what happened last time we played, what would be funny if it happened, what would be terrible if it happened. We’re also talking about non-game things — like what happened earlier today, yesterday, tomorrow, last year, and next year.
Down there (imagine I’m gesturing in a circle above the board game itself), we are connecting as characters in a whole new world. As I move my little plastic person closer to your little plastic person and play that one card you didn’t know I had that gives me some extra resources and a sneak attack, we are connecting through competition, playfulness, strategy, and fantasy.
While up here is our normal world and we are our normal selves, down there we have transported into a new life — a fantasy life — where the rules are different, our strengths change by the minute, and it turns out we have a lot to learn about each other.
Then there’s also the inside connection.
Inside (imagine I’m gesturing to our bodies), we are connecting physiologically as our bodies release oxytocin and dopamine through the pleasure of playing games together. As we engage in board games, our brains are creating and releasing oxytocin that promotes bonding, empathy, trust, and sexual attraction. Oxytocin is so effective at helping us connect with our partner that it is often referred to as “the love hormone.” Board games are of course not the only thing that creates oxytocin (sex, exercise, and breastfeeding do, too).
And in case you were wondering, board games actually have clinical data behind them illustrating their release of oxytocin! While this study about oxytocin and board games showed a link and benefit, the men in the couples actually produced more oxytocin through painting instead of board games.
Maybe this is why my partner and I enjoy painting miniatures for our board games!
Board games also release dopamine, which is the hormone that gets released when we’re being creative. It activates the pleasure center of our brain and helps us feel less stressed and more fulfilled.
If we’re talking about gaming, this can happen through video games too… but board games (being low-tech and tactile) might do it even better! Plus they allow more opportunity for creativity through not just the game itself, but through that “up here” connection with our partner.
So there you have it! Playing board games will help you and your partner connect in all the ways you’re familiar, in new ways you’ve never tried, and through physiological cuddle hormones — in case you aren’t in the mood for sex!
2. Simulates Early Dating
No matter how long ago your early courtship was, you probably remember it being pretty special. After all, there’s a reason why you ended up partnered with this person.
In the beginning of our dating days, learning new things about our partner and watching them interact with the world around them can be intoxicating. We love seeing them solve problems, be creative, get a little risky, and surprise us.
Over months, years, and decades of a relationship or marriage, we sometimes lose the opportunity to witness all of these parts of our special someone. Over time, we create routine and familiarity in our relationship and our lives that is necessary for so many parts of stable and successful long-term marriages.
However, this routine allows only a small part of ourselves to interact with each other.
Board games facilitate more witness and interaction with all of those wonderful parts we originally fell in love with. While we play, we get to see parts of ourselves and our partner that we don’t get to see in daily life.
We learn new things about each other as we’re put into new situations and the excitement can breed a real increase in attraction as we’re suddenly reminded that there’s a funny, creative, critical thinking person who just happens to also sleep next to us, do the dishes, and help find matching shoes for the kids.
Seeing your partner interact with the board game in new ways allows you to interact with your partner in new ways.
It’s really pretty magical.
3. Intellectually Stimulating
If I had a nickel for every time I heard a client tell me they wish they had “deeper conversations” together…
I think one of the hardest things about long-term relationships is the perceived loss of novelty and intrigue. In the beginning, we have an abundance of deep conversations.
In a way, everything is deep because it’s new and we are little sponges, soaking up all the information this gorgeous human in front of us is telling us.
Oftentimes, these early conversations include a lot of intellectual stimulation. We love to hear how this person’s mind works (usually in such beautifully unique ways from ours — which will later come to annoy us) and we crave hearing their thoughts and opinions on everything from how they feel about invasive species to their thoughts on censorship and beyond.
But over time, we step into familiar roles and routine with our partner. We live in what feels like an alternate Groundhog Day universe (sans Bill Murray) where each morning, afternoon, and evening feel similar.
When this happens, most “deep conversations” get left behind. Intellectual stimulation is reserved for the workplace and our professional personas. Our relationship gets only the leftovers from our exciting life outside the house — or in the other room, during a pandemic scenario.
Board games create the opportunity for “deeper” with little effort. You want intellectual stimulation? You got it. Critical thinking? Problem solving? All here. Each game can be like a lively puzzle that keeps you and your partner on your toes until the end. You’ll pull out parts of your brain you haven’t used together in a long time — or maybe ever!
Games also allow you to explore interesting themes. When we think of “board games,” we usually think of something boring like Monopoly or Life. Tsk tsk, my friend. You have so much to learn!
Imagine seeing how many wildly colored cats you can fit onto a boat.
Wandering through a dreamscape as the board shifts and changes around you.
Building cities and trying to keep your factories away from the houses.
Collecting birds to develop a unique (and accurate) ecosystem.
Managing a community of tiny forest creatures all trying to conquer the land.
Battling Sherlock Holmes against Dracula in a duel to the death.
Each of these new themes provides hours of new conversation. New deep conversation. Conversation you never would have considered had you not started playing these silly addictive board games.
Oh, and in case you’re not convinced, the critical thinking skills you’ll use in board gaming won’t just improve your relationship — those skills will also reduce your risk of Alzheimer’s and other mild cognitive impairment in later years.
4. Creates Playfulness
We aren’t even halfway there and I bet you’re already eager to start researching some games. Don’t worry, I’ve put together a list for you of my top board games for couples to get you started.
Now onto the fun part: the playing itself. This is why you really want to game, right?
Board games create an abundance of play — something most relationships don’t do nearly enough. Playfulness is hugely important for relationships. It not only brings us joy and relieves our stress, but it also is directly linked to sexual satisfaction in relationships. Playfulness (both playful touch and playful energy) help to create and sustain desire for sex.
But this article isn’t about that. Get your head in the game! (Get it? Nudge nudge.)
As you’re playing a board game, you’ll also likely find yourself laughing and teasing through your friendly competition. But of course, this competition is meaningless. So even if you get lost in all those fun themes I mentioned earlier, you’ll still need to shrug it off and be okay with losing sometimes.
Or, if you’re like me, tell your partner “asterisk” for anytime they win and you didn’t fully understand the game — just so everyone can pretend you probably would have won if everything was fair and equal. This always brings us some laughs and lightens the mood if it was a tense ending.
Now, this “ability to lose” thing is pretty important. While the rule is a little fuzzy here, it still stands: there is no winning and losing in relationships. If someone wins, you both lose. It’s true in fights and it’s often true in games (at least if you rub it in).
If you win, make sure to keep it fun for your partner. We don’t all handle losing very well.
5. Breaks Routine
I said it earlier, I’ll say it again. Long-term relationships end up in a holding pattern sometimes. Groundhog Day. Wake up, do the day, go to sleep, repeat.
Now don’t get me wrong. Routines can be really effective for us in creating intentionality in our relationship and allowing space for us to prioritize our relationship — if done well.
But most couples end up in a routine that is more autopilot than helpful. Their routines aren’t intentional, meaningful, or values-based. They aren’t prioritizing each other and their marriage, they’re just getting through the day.
Playing board games breaks up this routine. It shakes us out of our autopilot. It removes us from Groundhog Day and temporarily places us into another world — and probably a more exciting one.
This not only creates a new and exciting way for us to interact together but also helps us be more grateful and awake in our daily routine when we return to it.
6. Creates Ritual
You might feel like creating ritual is the same as breaking routine — or maybe you think I’m contradicting myself. These are very different.
Ritual is a ceremony. When we engage in ritual, it creates meaning and marks something as special and important. John Gottman, of the Gottman Institute, talks a lot about how important rituals of connection are for couples in helping to create shared meaning and connection.
There are a million ways to create ritual in your marriage. This is only one of them.
You might be wondering where the ritual in playing board games is if every time you play a game it is supposed to be so different. Four words: Set-up and tear-down.
To illustrate, I’ll give you a sneak peak into my own world. My partner and I have some great gaming rituals.
- Set-Up: This ritual takes place after the kids are asleep. Our game set-up involves turning the lights up (they were dim from bedtime), clearing the dining room table (or sometimes coffee table), arranging the board and components, grabbing lap blankets, preparing tea and a snack, and turning on some music for the background.
- Tear-Down: This ritual takes place after we have both “won” and are walking away from the game with more love and connection — or technically one of us won and the other still feels like it was a blast. Our game tear-down involves packing away the box (sometimes quite a feat), putting away our used dishes, turning down the lights, and talking about the game as we get ready for bed.
These rituals are important because they train us.
For a while, we were making these delicious gluten free chocolate chip cookies every night while we gamed — 2 or 3 for each of us, with a giant glass of milk that we shared. Our bodies became so trained to the “beep” sound of the oven preheating that if I heard this beep, I instantly felt more connected to my partner.
I also craved some milk.
If you can train your body and brain to recognize rituals as connecting, you can sometimes put less work or time into them and it will turn out okay. My partner and I don’t need to play a two-hour board game to feel connected; the ritual of set-up and tear-down works even if we play a shorter 20-minute game.
Every time we engage in these rituals, they are part of the larger picture of connection.
7. Offers Variety
Now I know I just said ritual is important, but variety is too. The main reason I’m not a fan of most of the board and card games people have heard of (like Scrabble, Uno, and Catan) is that they don’t offer enough variety.
If I’m investing $30-$80 into a board game, I want it to have a certain amount of replayability. I want it to keep my attention and captivate me. The problem with most games is that they either don’t have replayability or they aren’t very well designed for two-players. This means they aren’t competitive or interactive enough.
When you look at some of what I think are the best two-player board games, you’ll notice there is a ton of variety.
If you have only one game, you can still get variety from the replayability — meaning the game changes and randomizes enough between each time you play that it surprises you and feels fresh.
While you can certainly have a lively gaming evening life with only one game, I recommend having more than one (to suit different moods and needs).
Through having multiple games, you’ll gain variety in theme, length of play time, types of components (cards, chips, dice, etc.), and personal skills utilized in playing.
Recently, we introduced a friend and her husband to a game called Unmatched. At first, they seemed to begrudgingly play (my partner sort of forced them into learning it while I entertained the kids). After one full play-through, they were hooked and we ran to Fanfare, our local game store, for a copy to send home with them.
A few weeks later, I heard from my friend that her husband was obsessed with the game! For the first time in a long time, they spent their evenings with the TV off and their phones closed — other than a proud selfie of them being geeky gamers.
If you’re needing some variety in your evenings, board games have your back.
8. Engages and Captivates Our Attention (Tactile and Visual)
We haven’t even talked about the best parts of board games yet: all the components!
Hopefully by now you’re realizing that when I’m talking about board games, I’m not talking about the ones you played growing up. While Scrabble, Backgammon, and Yahtzee can be fun, they won’t give you all the benefits we are talking about here. Each time you play, it feels virtually the same (no variety), they aren’t very intellectually stimulating in terms of creating more conversation between the two of you, and they aren’t typically that engaging.
The board games I’m talking about are engaging and captivating on a whole new level. Here’s what I mean.
Our current world is full of static energy. We sit for so many things — and we observe. We sit and observe TV (perhaps for many hours on end), we sit and observe YouTube videos, we sit and observe through audio with podcasts. We sit and we sit and we sit.
Sitting is fine in small doses. After all, I sit for work all the time! (Although I’m considering moving to a standing desk for virtual sessions… do you think anyone will notice?)
When we sit and observe, our body often becomes bored. This is especially true for people with ADHD or addictions; they do a lot of fidgeting.
This fidgeting translates into relationships in some harmful ways. Instead of sitting for a show together, we are also browsing on our phones to keep our hands busy. And for some reason, every couple I’ve ever talked to tells me that this just doesn’t feel very connecting.
Board games with different components keep our hands occupied. You may typically think of scraps of paper, little plastic figurines or wooden pieces, or dice as components. But there is so much more! Poker chips have even become a big part of new gaming components in recent years.
But the best part about components is when there’s variety. It creates a lot of tactile and visual pleasure to have different pieces in front of you to hold and maneuver around. With video games, technically you’re holding your controller and maneuvering the joystick or pressing buttons. This tactile participation probably is part of what captures many people with ADHD or addictions because it plays into their need for stimulation and movement.
Board games can do this even better! Between holding and playing cards, moving and collecting plastic or wooden pieces, and rolling dice, your hands stay engaged — and so does your mind.
Which means when you’re here playing a board game, you’re really here.
9. Begins and Ends
Have you noticed yet that I’m not a fan of endless TV watching for relationships? One of the reasons for this is that it does seem truly endless.
Most of us watch TV shows and movies through streaming channels these days. Sometimes we even brag about how many we are subscribed to. I can watch ANYTHING! Which really turns into: I can watch EVERYTHING!
And you will.
These streaming channels feel like the bane of my existence sometimes. Not only did they recently put my beloved local Family Video out of business, but they also literally never end.
For most of them, the next show or movie will begin within 5-10 seconds if you don’t exit the screen fast enough — a reaction time not all of us have if we can’t even find the remote. This setting can be changed but most of the platforms require you to go to a desktop browser to access and change the setting. I think most people don’t bother to monkey with it.
But what happens when you don’t change that setting? What happens when the shows keep on playing? They never end — that’s what happens.
Video games work in the same way. There’s always a reason why you must keep playing. Maybe until the next saving point, or until this match is over, or until you beat the campaign.
But the addictive nature of video games encourages you to just keep on keeping on.
Won the last one? Play another because you’re riding the high (literally, with all those dopamine hits).
Lost the last one? Play another so you can get your score back up.
Beat the game? Go back through to do all the extra quests that give you end-of-game content — which are technically meaningless but create a strong dopamine response in the brain, trigger feels of success and competence, and sometimes create community with other players.
See what I mean? They never end.
The problem with never ending is that there isn’t an opportunity for different. If you and your partner decide to watch TV for the evening, that’s all you’ll do — likely until you decide to go brush your teeth and get in bed. For most couples, this “endless” TV binge usually ends too late to connect in a meaningful way after.
In my own home, video games are far more troubling than TV streaming. If my partner chooses to play a video game after the kids go to bed, I know he’s likely out for the count and I can see him tomorrow. One game will turn into six and I’ll end up in bed long before he turns off the console.
The worst part is he won’t even notice that we didn’t spend time together that evening.
Board games are very different from this. They don’t go on forever. Remember those rituals we talked about? The set-up and tear-down rituals exist every time.
Meaning every time you play, you get to start and end.
This starting and ending is essential in encouraging us to connect in new and more meaningful ways. When a board game ends, we’ve played for 20-120 minutes and now it’s done. Because the game draws to a close naturally and then engages us in the tear-down ritual, we suddenly face a transition time between activities.
Transition time is important and helpful because it acts as another opportunity to consciously choose. When Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, or Disney+ continue playing and skipping our choice to transition to the next show or not, they are robbing us of our opportunity to choose.
In these times of transition, whether it be after a board game or after a TV show, we get to be conscious consumers for our relationship and ourselves again. We get to be the boss of our life and decide how we will spend the next hour.
This choice is available (with some setting changes) through video streaming but it is far more accessible with board gaming, where we don’t have to make the choice to have a choice — it is just handed to us.
Board Games During the Pandemic
So there you have it. Nine amazing ways that board gaming can create more happiness, fun, and connection in your relationship — as well as lessen your own stress! And if you were curious, board games in the pandemic year of 2020 became incredibly popular! Kickstarter, a crowd-funding platform that offers some great new board games (and oftentimes some very high-quality components), had a record-breaking month with board games mid-COVID.
Oh, and just so you know, your friendships (or long-distance relationships) can also benefit from board games! Board Game Arena hugely improved and expanded their collection of online board games and tabletop games. They now offer 270 games you can play online from afar — for FREE! If you’re missing getting together with friends, try a virtual board game night!
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Today’s lesson was the final in ‘Basic Methods of Cookery, next week will be a six hour practical assessment in which I will need to reproduce several of the dishes taught over the last six weeks. The methods we covered today were steaming, where we made Mussels in White Wine Cream, Sous Vide, where we made Salmon with Citrus Salad, and pastry baking, of which the end product was Mini Apple Crumbles in sweet pastry cases & Chantilly cream.
We started on the sweet pastry to ensure it would have enough time to rest in the fridge before use. All pastry is rested and chilled before being rolled to ensure the glutens relax; this makes the pastry not only easier to roll out but it also reduces shrinkage during baking (don’t you just hate shrinkage?!). There are so many different types of pastry and many methods of making it. Today we made an unenriched sweet pastry (one without egg) by hand. The ingredients were plain flour, unsalted butter, caster sugar, salt, water and vanilla. When making pastry always add the butter to the flour and other dry ingredients before adding any wet ingredients. When making by hand use your fingertips to rub the butter through the dry ingeridients until you have achieved a mixture similar to breadcrumbs. Try to avoid using the palms of your hands as being warmer than your fingertips you may over heat the butter. Add the wet ingredients and work quickly to bring the dough into a ball, wrap and chill for later use. Tip…I always flatten my pastry ball into a disk as this makes it easier to roll once chilled.
Rather than being told what to do next there now seems to be an expectation that we just move along with our preparation without instruction. It is important to read the recipe in full and determine what needs to be prepared to make each dish…I think this is the equivalent of being ‘pushed out of the nest’. I tell myself to slow down and take care and break my terrible habit of not reading through the whole recipe before I launch into action. One of the more challenging tasks for me today was segmenting the citrus fruit (lime, orange and grapefruit) for the citrus salad which accompanied the salmon. Where as I have done this many times in the past, I have always started with a whole piece of fruit., having only half a piece made this more difficult – especially the lime. Good lesson though….learn to adapt and go with what you have! That done I prepared the tomatoes for the salad (seeded and sliced into strips) and for the mussels (small dice), the fennel and onion for the citrus salad and parsley and garlic for the garlic bread and mussels.
Next was the sous vide salmon. Sous vide is a relatively new way of cooking in which food is vacuum sealed in plastic pouches (with various added flavours) and cooked at a constant temperature for a set period. It is not only energy efficient but food cooked in this manner is moist, tender and retains most of the natural flavours. The sous vide salmon was cooked in the sealed bags for 40 mins at 43 celsius (low and slow). Chef prepared these in bulk, adding oil, seasoning and some fennel fronds to the bag before vacuum sealing. I was introduced to sous vide cooking by a lovely friend of mine who shares my love of cooking and is an amazing chocolatier. Below is a cookbook she recommended to me when I bought a sous vide machine, it is a fantastic guide for anyone interested in exploring this style of cooking – Dale Prentice is a master. I have now made several sous vide dishes, including salmon, 72 hour beef short rib and lamb rack to name a few. The meat is always melt in the mouth tender and pink. Some cuts benefit from a quick pan fry after being cooked in the sous vide & to my taste this offers the best result – tenderness and a nice crust.
I love mussels and there are so many flavour combinations you can use with them. Chef mentioned one which I will definitely be trying; to the onion & garlic (and dried crushed chilli) add lemon grass and ginger and instead of cream use coconut milk…sounds good huh? I think a sprinkling of coriander leaves would be a nice touch to this version. However, without any doubt I have to say that Mussels in white wine and cream sauce is my favourite and it’s how I make my favourite mussel dish, Moules and Frites. I usually add a little crushed chilli to mine so that is what I did today. Before starting, debeard the mussels and ensure all are closed and none are broken. Sauté the onion & garlic until translucent & add the chilli flakes (if using). Add the white wine and cream and tip in the mussels, cover the pan and cook for several minutes (3 – 5) until open and infused with the winey liquid. Remove the mussels from the cooking liquid and add a small amount of beurre manie (‘kneaded butter’ in French). This dough, made of equal parts soft butter and flour, is used in French cooking to thicken soups and sauces and results in a thick creamy sauce with a silky texture (don’t you just love butter!). Return the mussels to the thickened sauce and add some parsley leaves. Plate with a liberal coating of the liquid, sprinkle a small amount of diced deseeded tomato and serve with a piece of garlic bread (and a glass of chilled white wine). Hearty and delicious I assure you!
Whilst the salmon was cooking, we rolled out the pastry and assembled the tarts. We didn’t blind bake the tarts which seemed to cause some concern amongst the students. Chef assured the class that the tarts would be cooked low and slow (seems to be a theme) & the bottoms would be crispy – and indeed they were!. He did mention that toward the end of the bake he turned up … maybe a tip!
In quick succession we plated the salmon and the tart. The salmon went on the salad, surrounded with the citrus segments. A frisee lettuce garnish topped the salmon and a whole-grain mustard and olive oil dressing (with a dash of white wine vinegar) was spooned on top. The tart had a filling of cooked diced apple, sultanas, cinnamon and lemon zest and was topped with a crumble mixture of sugar, flour butter, rolled oats and desiccated coconut. It was served hot, sprinkled with icing sugar with Chantilly Cream (cream whisked with icing sugar) on the side. A fabulous tip from our lovely teachers assistant Stella was use a warm spoon to make a quenelle shape with the cream… it took me a few goes but I got close!
So there we are – the final lesson in ‘Basic Methods of Cookery’…. I hope you tune in next week for the highs and lows of the assessment practical after which I move onto a block of lessons covering ‘Appetisers and Salads’.
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Before you pick up your fork and dive into those mashed potatoes, let’s take a moment to reflect on the three types of people every RDH should be thankful for in dentistry.
Thanksgiving is, by far, my absolute favorite holiday. What’s not to love about having a random Thursday off work to sit around in stretchy pants and eat all day?
In my home, I have several traditions surrounding Thanksgiving. It begins the Wednesday evening beforehand, where my brother and I spend the entire evening (and early into the morning) drinking wine, dancing to music in the kitchen and meal prepping for Thanksgiving morning. I know it sounds silly, but this Wednesday-night tradition has really grown-so much so, that friends come over and it has become a true holiday in and of itself.
Thursday morning, we wake up with slight headaches and bags under our eyes to start the Glühwein, a German-mulled wine. Throughout the morning, friends stop by the house, enjoy a glass of holiday-spiced wine or a mimosa, grab a plate of breakfast and gather in the TV room to watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. Food is coming in and out of the kitchen all day, the wine glasses are never empty, and about mid-afternoon, the turkey enjoys a trip to the sauna.
The 30-45 minutes before dinner is absolute chaos. Between the dogs scampering around the kitchen attempting to pick up leftovers, there is a rush of people scurrying around. My brother is carving the turkey in one corner of my kitchen, I’m juggling multiple side dishes moving in and out of the oven and typically my friends are tip-toeing between to shuffle dishes to the buffet line.
We gather at the table, take a deep breath and soak it all in. One by one, we go around the table to share what we are thankful for. I know it sounds silly, but there is not a dry eye at the table. You see, something magical happens when we just stop amongst the chaos, sit down and truly reflect on how incredibly grateful we are for the things we have in our lives. After a few moments of truly sharing the deep connection of gratitude we have for the things we appreciate most in this world, we laugh it off, enjoy another sip of wine and dig into our fabulous meal.
I don’t think my Thanksgiving traditions are all that unique from most everyone else’s in the United States. The incredible dichotomy between the chaos of the meal prep and the humbling energy of sharing what we are most grateful for is truly beautiful.
I think the dental office could stand to take a few tips from the Thanksgiving Day table.
While many of us know we are about to enter the “I want to use my benefits before the end of the year” rush, I think it’s important to find the opportunities to stop amongst the chaos, take a deep breath and express gratitude for the incredible people in our world.
So, before you pick up your fork and dive into those mashed potatoes, let’s take a moment to reflect on the three types of people every RDH should be thankful for in dentistry. Enjoy!
I think most of us will easily admit that a dental practice almost feels like your home away from home, and co-workers are your extended family. In many cases, one could argue that you spend more waking hours with your co-workers on most occasions than you might your own family.
Yes, the days in a dental practice can be long and often frustrating. Like ships passing in the night, we are usually so busy that we are unable to connect with our co-workers. We find unique ways to communicate with each other (thank goodness for post-its and dental charades, right?) and oftentimes we know what each other is thinking without even sharing it out loud. We all have “work wifeys” and “dental besties”; the people who make our days brighter just by working alongside them.
I think we can all agree that they are the people who make the days fly by, the ones who can lighten any mood and the ones who just understand without explanation. They are the ones we look forward to seeing in the morning, the ones we share a quick snack with, and the ones who simply understand when we just CAN’T take that patient back. “Don’t worry, I’ve got it,” they say and with a sense of relief, we realize that what we have is more than just a co-worker; they are a true partner in cavitron, our ride or diode, or simply the Darby to our Wilkins.
They are simply the best, and so I raise my glass of Glühwein to them and their awesomeness. Cheers!
We all know those patients whose names on the schedule precede them
Who doesn’t love it when Mr. Jones is on the schedule? He’s the perfect elderly man who shows up early to enjoy the cartoon section of the daily newspaper, has the best jokes, and always has plenty of stories about his years in the service, his grandkids, his ailing wife or his current hobby. He’s everyone’s favorite patient because he truly is part of the family of the practice. We are curious about how he is doing, we want to see the pictures of his granddaughter’s wedding and we want to be in his presence. We smile behind our mask as a parade of office employees stop by, requiring us to discontinue our instrumentation so they can squeeze in a hug and “How are you?” from Mr. Jones. He makes us smile, he makes us laugh, and he reminds us why we love what we do.
You know what’s even better? When Mr. Jones brings in Mrs. Jones and they have an adorable couples’ dental cleaning. How heart-warming is it to witness the husband fawn all over his wife while re-enacting their own little version of The Notebook? (are you awkwardly grinning while reading this? That is how you know you’re a true hygienist!)
They are the ones that make this craziness worth it because their dynamic energy and kindness absolutely light up our worlds!
They are the ones that can turn your day around, can make you forget about the pain in the alginate patient before them and truly remind you of why you do what you do.
So, for these kind patients, to the ones who make it all worth it, I raise my mimosa. Cheers!
Let’s be real for a moment: Dental hygienists are a unique breed of people. Our special combination of compulsive, highly-organized, Type-A personalities is heightened once we put on our loupes and microscopically treat disease at a millimeter-level.
As such, our doctors are victim to the “you’re running late for my exam” looks in between completing an emergency root canal in op #1 and seating a crown in op #2. It may be hard to admit, but it’s possible we aren’t the easiest personalities to work with. Despite this, our doctors appreciate us, trust us, and view us as a valuable member of the oral healthcare team.
Many of them go out of their way to do kind things for us around the holidays to ensure we feel loved as team members and many of them find ways throughout the year to ensure we feel supported in the work we do. For many of them, they somehow figure out how to not only excel as clinicians but also as entrepreneurs in which their businesses provide healthcare to the community, as well as income for many people and their families. I can only imagine the immense pressure placed on them to build and maintain a successful and vital practice while also ensuring a happy team of skilled clinicians and support staff.
While most of us can clock out and leave our work in the office, many of our doctors take emergency calls during nights and weekends, spend their free time taking business coursework and, read countless articles on how to optimize their practices. Despite the things they can oftentimes do to drive us crazy, they are true heroes in the practice, and I find it important to remind them of how awesome they are!
So, to you, docs, I raise the entire darn gravy boat. Cheers!
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Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Applications for Schedule C Filers:
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The online workshops will walk attendees through the process of preparing an application for Paycheck Protection Program, which offers forgivable loans to small businesses.
Webinars are being offered on the following dates:
Attendees are encouraged to have their 2019 and 2020 Schedule C ready to review while on the call.
To learn more about these webinars and to sign up, visit the SBA Hawaii District Office eventbrite website.
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Beginning November 4th, high school and post-secondary students from across Canada are coming to Peterborough for Trent University’s first-ever hackathon.
Organized by a group of computer science students from Trent University, Electric City Hacks is a 36-hour event that takes place from November 4th to 6th in Gzowski College (First Peoples House of Learning) at the university’s Symons campus.
For many people, “hacker” conjures up images of malevolent criminals who occupy the shady underworld of the internet. But most hackers are actually just intellectually curious people who find clever ways to make things work in a different way than they were originally intended — and hackathons are marathon sessions where these people demonstrate what they can do.
Electric City Hacks is a member of Major League Hacking (MLH), a student hackathon league that sanctions, sponsors, and promotes student hackathons in the United States, Mexico, Canada, United Kingdom, and other European countries.
More than 25,000 students compete in these hackathons and win points (awarded for both participation and prizes) for their school. At the end of every hackathon season, the school with the most points is awarded the MLH Hacker Cup.
Co-organizers Dexter Fichuk and Matthew Barnes were the first Trent University students to take part in an MLH-approved hackathon (Hack Western in London in November 2015). They have since competed in several other hackathons, and their experiences prompted them to organize a hackathon at Trent University.
“We decided to hold Electric City Hacks because we saw how many opportunities it brought to the schools that hosted them and how it completely revolutionized tech industries in each community,” Fichuk says.
The organizers are expecting more than 350 high school and post-secondary students to take part in the event, which will feature over a dozen workshops, including how to code and robotics as well as a hackathon bootcamp for high school students. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner as well as snacks will be provided free of chrage to participants during the hackathon.
The event is being sponsored by the Greater Peterborough Innovation Cluster, Blackberry, TD Financial, Fresh Books Cloud Accounting, GitHub, Mountain Dew, TribalScale, among others.
“We are extremely excited to support the first-ever Electric City Hacks at Trent University,” says Michael Skinner, President and CEO of the Innovation Cluster. “Hackathons are a fantastic way to expose talent, grow, recruit and bring new innovative companies to Peterborough.”
Students interested in technology and innovation can still apply to be part of Electric City Hacks by registering at 2016.echacks.xyz.
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For families looking to watch the finals game with their kids, the Basketball Social House in Centennial has something for everyone.
Co-Founder Matt Barnett said people describe it as the Top Golf of basketball.
“We have a large dining room area where all the families can hang out. We have board games for the kids and we have the famous wall of hoops,” Barnett said. “We also have suite rentals where you can rent out one of the suites for just your own private party.”
Barnett said they have themed nights for each game and giveaways.
“We wanted to have a sense of community. We wanted to have a gathering place for everyone to come and enjoy this great game of basketball,” Barnett said.
Basketball Social House also offers a 21 and up lounge area to watch the game with food and drinks. The facility is located at 7450 S University Blvd., Suite 200.
For those 21 and older, tickets to watch the finals at McGregor Square in Denver are $30.
“It is truly that game-like experience,” Stephanie Franks with the Rally Hotel said. “You’ll have access to bars and restaurants where you can get food and drink throughout the game and just come together and cheer on our team.”
She said fans can rise above the crowds on Rally Hotel’s third-floor terrace with access to food, drinks and private bathrooms. Those tickets cost $80.
“It’s so special to be a part of this community and be a spot for all of our Denver home teams to cheer together,” Franks said. “It just really creates that environment of bringing everyone together and having this big open-air facility to watch the game on the big screen like you would at the stadium.”
Ball Arena watch party
Fans can also catch the away games at Ball Arena for $20.
All those proceeds from ticket sales will go to Kroenke Sports Charities and local community organizations.
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LONDON: Buckingham Palace has hosted its first official football match, to mark the Football Association’s 150th anniversary.
The idea of the Duke of Cambridge, the FA president, was fulfilled by London side Civil Service FC, the sole survivor of the 11 clubs who founded the FA on October 26, 1863, and Polytechnic FC, set up in 1875.
Prince William presented medals to 150 volunteers before the kick off.
He recognised the efforts of the founders of local clubs, coaches, referees and other officials at a reception to mark the FA’s Grassroots Heroes Day.
The Duke told the guests, who included former England striker Michael Owen and FA chairman Greg Dyke: “Over its 150 years, football has remained a wonderful example of the power of community and of our ability to come together to organise and to enjoy a simple pastime.”
The Queen gave permission for the Southern Amateur League fixture to take place at the palace.
The duke joked “Today we will be playing football on my grandmother’s lawn. One warning, though – if anyone breaks a window, you can answer to her.”
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Good morning, it’s Sunday 6 December, it’s freezing outside, the Christmas tree is going up later today and and here’s another helping of Food In 5 Minutes for your ears.
If you have a story to share in 60 seconds or less, drop me a mail any time during the week to [email protected] to kick off the conversation.
This week’s featured stories
- Restaurants have re-opened, but no-shows are hitting some eateries hard
- Rory O’Connell is back on TV screens for a two-part Christmas Special
- The Vegan Society has released its top tips for Christmas
- Safefood.net kick off their Christmas safety campaign
- There are a number of Irish food producers in the running for the SFA National Small Business Awards 2021
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Marbella gymnasts crowned champions of Spain
The Palacio de los Deportes in Murcia played host to the final national competition of the year, the Spanish Rhythmic Gymnastics Championship. A total of 1,133 gymnasts from 15 different autonomous regions travelled to Murcia to take part in the competition, with 113 gymnastics clubs competing for the ultimate prize in each of the various age categories. One such prize was awarded to the under-12 team of the Gimnasia Rítmica Marbella club as they were crowned Spanish champions.
The Marbella team, consisting of Iside Montaldo, Jéssica Sánchez, Priscila Sarria, Nolita Sapraliyeva and Kirala González, had a phenomenal three days of competition, leading the way after every exercise en route to 10,900 points and a deserved gold medal.
Rítmica Málaga and Aldetor were the other two clubs from the province that took part in the competition. Senior gymnasts from the former club performed a routine with five ribbons to qualify for the final, eventually finishing fifth.
The Rítmica Málaga under-12 team made their debut in the championship and acquitted themselves well, securing 12th position again with a five ribbon routine.
Gymnasts from Aldetor’s junior team put in a good performance on the first day, but mistakes on the second cost them and they were unable to qualify for the final, finishing in ninth place.source surinenglish
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Origin of name:
scitulus = pretty, neat, trim
Small leaves (almost cypress-like)White bracts with dark pink tipsLarge solitary heads
Diffuse undershrub, branches long, slender, straggling, closely leafy throughout. Leaves 3�7 x 0,5 � 1 mm, scarcely diminishing upwards, imbricate, spreading, somewhat recurved, linear, base broad, half-clasping, webbed to stem, tip acute, upper surface green covered in very thin 'tissue-paper' indumentum, lower closely greyish-white silky-felted. Heads heterogamous, turbinate-campanulate, c. 8�10 mm long, double that across the radiating bracts, solitary at the tips of short (10�30 mm) densely leafy erect branchlets often closely set along the main stems. Involucral bracts in c. 7 series, imbricate, graded, outer lanceolate, acute, rose, inner about equaling flowers, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, white often tipped rose. Receptacle honeycombed. Flowers 26�45, 3�6 female, 21�40 homogamous, yellow, female tipped pink. Achenes 1 mm long, cylindric, with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, equaling corolla, scabrid above, smooth below, bases cohering by patent cilia, some fusion in bundles as well.
Flowers in November and December.
Grows on rocky mountain tops, forming loose mats in rock crevices, or cascading down steep slopes, intertwined with grasses and other vegetation. On the Cape mountains from the Nieuweveld Mountains, N. of Beaufort West, to the Renosterberg (E. end of the Sneeuberg), Bamboesberg, Stormberg and Witteberg near Lady Grey.
Notes:Much confused with H. stoloniferum and may be found in herbaria under that name, but easily distinguished by its different foliage, smaller heads, and different pappus.
Helichrysum scitulum Hilliard & Burtt in Notes R. bot. Gdn Edinb. 40: 266 (1982).
Cape, Graaff-Reinet distr., S. extreme of Renosterberg above Lootsberg railway halt, farm Blaauwater, c. 1 800 m, 24 xi 1977, Hilliard & Burtt 10629 (NU holo.; E; K; MO; PRE; S, iso.).
H. stoloniferum sensu DC., Prodr. 6: 175 (1838) quoad spec., non (L.f.) Willd.
Dr�ge,Witteberg (BM; E; G-DC; K; PRE; S; SAM; TCD); Flanagan 1593 (NU; PRE; SAM); Galpin 6275 (PRE); Oliver 5219 (K; PRE; S).
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With Interest In Health Care High, Presidential Candidates Represent Stark Choice In Views
A study in this week's New England Journal of Medicine notes that one in five voters views health care as this year's highest priority issue -- that's more than in any election since 1992. Meanwhile, news outlets continue to examine the policies of President Barack Obama and GOP hopeful Mitt Romney.
The New York Times: This Election, A Stark Choice In Health Care
When Americans go to the polls next month, they will cast a vote not just for president but for one of two profoundly different visions for the future of the country's health care system. With an Obama victory on Nov. 6, the president's signature health care law — including the contentious requirement that most Americans obtain health insurance or pay a tax penalty — will almost certainly come into full force, becoming the largest expansion of the safety net since President Lyndon B. Johnson pushed through his Great Society programs almost half a century ago (Goodnough and Pear, 10/10).
Politico Pro: Survey: Interest In Health Care Highest Since 1992
One in five voters view health care as their top priority in this year's presidential election, more than any contest since 1992, according to a study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Relying on a Harvard University poll that gauged 1,406 likely voters' views on issues, authors Robert Blendon, John Benson and Amanda Brule reveal that Americans who rate "health care and Medicare" as a top priority skew sharply in favor of the Affordable Care Act. In fact, 41 percent say they'd be less likely to vote for a candidate who favors repealing all or part of the law, compared to 14 percent who are more likely to back such a candidate. Unsurprisingly, most who rated health care as their top issue were Democrats (Cheney, 10/10).
California Healthline: Obama, Romney Health Care Differences Detailed In Study
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney would dismantle most of the federal Affordable Care Act and make sweeping changes to Medicare and Medicaid, according to a study released Wednesday by UCLA's Center for Health Policy Research. The side-by-side analysis of health care proposals in the 2012 presidential contest found stark policy differences between the former Massachusetts governor and President Barack Obama, said Shana Alex Lavarreda, the report's co-author and director of UCLA's Health Insurance Studies Program (Hart, 10/11).
The New York Times: Voters Give Romney Better Grades For Leadership, Polls In 3 States Find
Mitt Romney is seen by more voters in three battleground states as a strong leader after his dominant debate performance last week, but perceptions that the economy is improving remain a buttress for President Obama as the 2012 campaign comes down to its final weeks. … The president's support is built on strengths that have been evident for months. In the two states where he holds an advantage overall, Mr. Obama has consistently outperformed Mr. Romney on a series of issues, including international affairs, health care and Medicare (Shear and Thee-Brenan, 10/11).
California Healthline: 'No Debate,' Cleveland Clinic's Great. But How To Replicate?
Despite better judgment -- or previous advice -- "Road to Reform" didn't take its own medicine and watched last week's presidential debate. And unsurprisingly, there was little new news for health wonks; President Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney disagreed on many policies both in and out of health care. However, there was an unexpected moment: Both men found common ground on the Cleveland Clinic, agreeing that it's one of the nation's leading health systems -- even if they disputed how it got there. Meanwhile, the Clinic seized on the moment. The health system quickly launched a new microsite … But there is debate over whether other systems can replicate the Clinic's model, and whether Obama's or Romney's reforms can help them get there (Diamond, 10/10).
The Washington Post: Obama Vows More Aggressive Debate Approach Against Romney
Romney advisers have called Obama's questions about their candidate's honesty evidence that the president is unable to defend his record on job creation, health care and the management of the deficit. … In the radio interview, Obama said he expected the race to turn back his way, beginning Thursday night with the vice-presidential debate. He also dismissed the Democratic angst that has followed his performance in Denver as the same misplaced doubts that dogged his campaign four years ago (Wilson and Nakamura, 10/10).
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Until 1994 occurrence of dental cavities had been experiencing a 24-year decline in frequency. This was the result of improving oral hygiene standards established by the American Dental Association and the National Institute of Health. Recent studies by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research show that dental cavities are starting to appear more and more frequently. Unfortunately, there’s more to it than just an increase in cavities. The severity of decay has also been shown to increase. Together this means more cavities and worse cavities are occurring than they have in years.
How To Help Reduce The Rise of Cavities
Needless to say, the most important part of preventing cavities is a consistent oral health routine. This means regular brushing, consistent flossing, and using mouthwash every time you brush. Together these three things can do an immense amount to reduce the occurrence of cavities. The VA Office of Dentistry took steps to limit the rise of cavities in the US by providing additional fluoride treatment options to veterans between 2009 and 2012. Access to these treatments was a primary part of making these efforts effective.
Follow-ups on these efforts have shown that those who received these treatments were 10% less likely to need dental restoration work than those who did not. This proved that fluoride treatments were helpful at all stages of life. These efforts, combined with improved awareness of the way that cavities develop and greater accessibility of effective treatments, are helping turn the tide.
Cavity Prevention Methods
Fluoride represents one of the longest-standing and most effective tools used in limiting the occurrence of cavities. However, there are additional ways that the occurrence of tooth decay can be reduced. Brushing and fluoride use is just the beginning:
- Community Water Supplies – One more note about fluoride must be made. The majority of those who live on city water receive fluoride just by drinking from the tap. Enriching city water with fluoride has been proven to be effective in helping even those with limited access to dental care experience fewer cavities. Three out of four Americans receive fluoride through city water.
- Lifestyle Changes – One contributor to the rising number of cavities has been the prevalence of acidic and sugary foods in the American diet. By limiting these foods, and those containing high carbs from your diet, you can greatly reduce the issues you face with tooth decay.
- Dental Sealants – One recent innovation in dental care is the dental sealant. These sealants are a thin plastic coating that is placed over the patient’s teeth to prevent decay. They’re a popular option for the young and elderly that may not have effective dental hygiene practices. They’re becoming a popular preventative among patients of every age in recent years.
These are just a limited sample of the new protections for your oral health that are coming out of the dental industry. Each of them represents one more way you can ensure you aren’t faced with tooth decay. Talk to your dentist to get additional oral health tips that can reduce the rising trend of cavities.
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Kids Learn Chess in Jacksonville, Florida offers online chess classes. A lot of scholastic chess players begin learning the game of chess with Kids Learn Chess online chess classes. We have noticed some parents find it difficult to explain the game of chess to beginners, that’s why Coach AL has designed an online chess class for beginners. We help kids learn chess online and have been teaching scholastic chess players for many years. When choosing a chess coach, you should consider their experience, and how they relate to other students.
A good chess coach should have the ability to identify the playing level of your child and how to help improve their game. See what people have said about Coach AL on our testimonial page. Coach AL has been teaching online chess classes for beginners, intermediate, and advanced chess players using the D.B.ST. method. Using this method, many beginners have learned how to play chess in 15 minutes. We offer private online chess classes and group online chess classes.
Throughout the years, Coach AL has made an impact on young lives through the game of chess in the South Florida area. Now, he has brought his skills to Jacksonville where he continues to bring his unique way of sharing chess with kids. Kids Learn Chess is one of the ways he has managed to reach out to the local community. For more information CONTACT US.
Coach AL teaches online chess classes for beginners, intermediates, and advanced chess players
His experience in making chess fun and challenging has helped many young people
Coach AL makes it easier for kids to learn chess using the “D.B.S.T.” concept
Don’t react, calculate
Be patient and deliberate
See your next move before you take action
Try to recall if you have encountered this situation previously
Kids Learn Chess offers private online chess classes and group online chess classes
Coach Al is the founder of “Kids Learn Chess”
Coach Al has excellent communication skills with students, parents, and program administrators
Many who have used my D.B.S.T. method, have noticed an improvement in their games. They learn how to structure their games in the opening better and begin to understand their target. We teach kids chess online and create a fun experience as we improve their chess skills. We help kids see opportunities as they play and how to take advantage and this leads to winning more games. Get more chess tactics and chess strategies in my new scholastic chess workbook at our chess store. Come see us on our Facebook page.
Here’s what people had to say about our services:
“Coach Al has been teaching my son chess for more than 2 years now. My son truly enjoys the lessons and looks forward to them. Coach directs the lesson in such a way, that my son considers this as not a tedious learning experience, but rather a gaming one. Personally, I have never met a more patient teacher. Coach is very patient, even in a difficult situation and knows how to interact at the kids’ level by understanding what motivates them to learn. I highly recommend giving Coach Al a chance to teach chess to your child. It is worth seeing the smile on my son’s face at the beginning and end of each chess lesson.”
It has been in my experience when recruiting a chess instructor they either had the knowledge to teach but not the temperament to work with children. Mr. Eladio worked for the City of North Miami as a chess instructor. He was patient, knowledgeable and was very interactive with the students… Mr. Eladio is truly a rarity in his field.
Khalid Salahuddin, Recreation Supervisor – Athletics and Community Centers
Coach Al not only teaches to the knowledge level of the chess student, but he also customizes his approach for each student, taking into account their level of chess also their own unique personality and their style of playing chess, rather than trying to fit every student into a cookie-cutter approach. Add to that his cheerful encouragement and his endless patience, and you have a real King of a chess coach with Coach Al!
Pamela Heberer, Chess Mom to Jeremy, 10-year-old, 2017 USCF National Grade Level Scholastic Championship, 3rd Grade U600; 2018 USCF National Elementary Scholastic Championship, K-3 U700 2nd Place.
Coach AL, Thank you so much for all you do! I love how you have really worked to develop these kids and also getting them excited to learn about chess. These are great kids you are coaching. We love having you here at O2B Kids with us! Keep being a great teacher! You are exactly what we needed for these kids!
Ashley Stuhlman, Director of O2B Kids, Fleming Island
“Coach Al’s love of chess is contagious! His teaching expertise, natural connection with children, and passion for the game are bringing joy to young lives on a daily basis.”
R.E.B. Phillips, Executive Director, The Knight School, LLC, Jacksonville. FL
We couldn’t ask for a better Chess Mentor. Before we met Coach Eladio Alameda, Eyal barely knew how to move the chess pieces. In less than 2 years, he has won many competitions and tournaments collecting trophies and knows a lot more about the logic of the game of chess. He looks forward to meeting with coach AL every week. Coach AL is patient and has a wonderful approach with every child of every age. His great personality, and his ability to give kids emotional support, encouragement and building confidence in a positive approach. My son’s achievements are a lot thanks to Coach AL Thank you!
Gily Chen, Chess Mom to Eyal, 10-year-old FL State Chess and Blitz Champion.
Coach Al and chess go together like peanut butter and jelly. He does a fantastic job teaching students of all ages. In our school, he coaches students ages 3 to 13. With his guidance, they develop not only the skills for the game but also the passion. What a priceless gift to learn so young!
Dani Diem, EDP Director & Summer Programs at St. Mark’s Episcopal Day School.
We would like to hear from you. Please share your thought about chess. If you are interested in Chess Lessons, we encourage you to send us an email. Kids Learn Chess in Jacksonville Florida is fun.
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Is Kratom Legal in New York in 2023?
Is kratom legal in New York? It sure is – start spreading the news!
While this infamous East Coast state has had a rather tumultuous history with the Southeast Indonesian herb, in 2023, Kratom is now legal in New York without any restrictions. The state of New York is an excellent example of how legislation that proposed to ban Kratom can be overcome.
Below, we’ll dive deeper into the legal status of kratom in New York as of 2023. We’ll offer some insights into how we got here, as well as some information on how to legally buy kratom in New York yourself to start reaping all the benefits it has to offer!
Is Kratom Legal in New York?
Let’s make one thing crystal clear right away. Is kratom legal in New York? Yes – it is!
Kratom is legal in New York but hasn’t come without recent significant legislative challenges. However, between 2016 and 2017, all challenges failed to make Kratom illegal. So in New York, producing, selling, transporting, and possessing Kratom is legal and without age restriction.
History of Kratom Legislation in New York
It is legal in New York, despite the attempts of authorities to restrict and regulate it. The first attempts to ban Kratom occurred in 2016 and 2017 when Senate Bill 168 was introduced into the state legislature. It proposed limiting the sale of Kratom to people 18 years of age and older.
Later that same year, Senate Bill 6924 was introduced again, attempting to limit the age to 18. Then two more attempts were made that same year, except this time, the hope was to limit the age to 21 or older.
Unfortunately, each of these bills died in committee. Then, in January 2017, partisan bill A294 was introduced in the State Senate, which would have banned Kratom completely. Fortunately, that bill did not even make it out of the committee.
Advocacy for New York Legalization by the American Kratom Association
Much of the success can be credited to the hard-fought work of the American Kratom Association, a 501c3 advocacy group supporting the legalization and regulation of Kratom. They rallied thousands of supporters through many channels, including a targeted Facebook campaign that flooded the legislators with letters and emails demanding the legalization of Kratom in New York.
In June 2022, the American Kratom Association introduced Bill 2034. The bill, which passed both the Senate and the House, promotes Kratom research and sets merchandising standards to protect consumers from adulterated Kratom. It also calls for standardized requirements for Kratom vendors to have specific, informative labels on all Kratom products. Finally, it pushes the Dept of Food and Agriculture (FDA) to create and enforce standards for Kratom.
You can help in the effort to legalize Kratom by joining the AKA as a “protector” of Kratom. You’ll receive notification of any laws changes and advocacy needed. Join the email list here. Working in concert with the AKA, the Botanical Education Alliance also dedicates itself to educating consumers, lawmakers, law enforcement, and the media about safe and therapeutic natural supplements, including Kratom. Its mission is to increase understanding to influence public policy and protect natural supplements.
The Kratom Consumer Protection Act is under consideration in more than 20 states. As of 2023, the KPCA has passed in the following states: Utah, Georgia, Arizona, Oregon, Nevada, Colorado, Missouri, and Oklahoma. Hopefully, New York will soon be next!
How to buy Kratom in New York
Your first question today was – is kratom legal in New York? Now, you’re wondering how to buy kratom in New York legally. You needn’t look far.
Kratom is legal to purchase from dispensaries, head shops, or any market. You’ll find kratom for sale in bodegas on every block in NYC. But, we want to offer a word of caution. Not all kratom is created equal. While it’s great that kratom is legal in New York, that doesn’t mean you should rush out to buy just any product.
Vendors can ship in-state or out-of-state to any New York address. The FDA does not recognize Kratom, meaning vendors have no regulations to comply with. Incidents of contaminated or adulterated Kratom sold on the market have hurt Kratom’s reputation.
So, your best bet is to buy from a reputable Kratom vendor. These vendors are typically online vendors who subscribe to best manufacturing practices. Such vendors will provide fresh, 100 percent Kratom, stand by their product, and provide guidance and direction to the different strains. And if you’re looking for a recommendation as to where you can legally buy kratom in New York, look no further.
Since 2017, Kingdom Kratom has been focused on delivering the highest quality Kratom to help you live your healthiest life using only natural products. We take our sourcing seriously, and aim to partner with only the most elite farms in the world to ensure the highest potency and purity possible.
And, we have all the varieties you need to round out your regimen and transform your life for the better. Start by learning about the different veins – as you can shop green vein kratom, red vein kratom, white vein kratom, and yellow vein kratom in our catalog. Or, filter your search by strain – as we also have bali kratom, bentuangie kratom, borneo kratom, horn kratom, maeng da kratom, thai kratom, or malay kratom.
At the end of the day, the world of kratom is vast. And it’s not something you should feel alone in. We’re here to help you harness the power of kratom with personalized recommendations, advice on how much kratom to take, how to make kratom taste better, the best kratom for energy and motivation, and more. Don’t hesitate to reach out and lean on us as you start this journey!
Final Thoughts on Whether or Not Kratom is Legal in New York in 2023
Hopefully, this conversation on kratom’s legal status in New York has provided you clarity and eased all your worries. In summary, is kratom legal in New York? the answer is yes – as of very recently. Now, all the fine people of New York are just a few clicks away from harnessing the therapeutic power of kratom in a safe, legal manner.
You can learn more about traveling with kratom legally in our blog or discover what states is kratom not legal in. We have similar breakdowns on the kratom legality in Ohio, kratom legality in Nebraska, kratom legality in Utah, Kratom legality in Florida, and all other states. But to see if Kratom is currently legal in your state, you can simply check out this interactive Kratom legality map.
At this point, though, it’s time to bring our conversation on kratom’s legal status in New York to a close. Knowing what you know now, what’s stopping you from experiencing the magic of kratom firsthand?
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- Contain caffeine and provide energy
- Increases metabolism
- Staves off hunger
- Increases mental focus and productivity
- No-crash formula
- No jitters or shakes (but choose the appropriate product)
We have two versions of the same type of product. Why? Not everyone is the same and we recognize different people have different tolerances to stimulants.
Thermogenic Flux is a mild energy product. It is exceedingly rare for this product to cause jitteriness or anxiety. Only a smooth energy boost, enhanced focus, and decreased appetite.
Fat loss isn't always as easy as we want it to. These products help to make your fat loss more efficient. More energy even when calories are low causes more calories to be lost. Decreased appetite helps you stick to the diet you want to follow without falling off. Enhanced focus and productivity helps you get more things done throughout the day.
WHAT WILL I NOTICE?
While you're taking the product you'll notice increased energy, productivity, less hunger, etc. You will also be burning more calories than normal and be able to lose weight at a faster rate than normal.
These products don't "do the work" for you, but they enhance what you're already doing. You should be following an exercise and nutrition plan. These products are just the cherry on top.
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Kinsman is a complete boarding facility for thoroughbred clients. Our 750 acres offer large turn out fields for broodmares and young stock. The barns are clean and well constructed for proper ventilation and safety. The staff at Kinsman Farm is comprised of seasoned horse people and trained professionals that provide the best care possible for each horse entrusted in our care.
Kinsman has the ideal facility to start yearlings. Our large shed row style training barn is surrounded by ample grass turnout paddocks. We have two large round pens with excellent footing and a large riding field for early flat work. Our horses spend several weeks trail riding before going to the race track for the first time. The magnificent live oak shaded horse path leads to the most well maintained 3/4 mile irrigated dirt track in Marion County. The barn is also equipped with a Eurociser, a vibrating floor and a swimming pool.
We have an excellent set up to rest and rehabilitate your equine athlete. Whether it’s for a short freshening or a post-surgical recovery, we have the knowledge and experience needed to bring your horse back to the track healthy and happy.
Kinsman horses have sold well at every major two year old sale across the country. We have a superior 3/4 mile dirt track and a large horse swimming pool to assure your horse is ready when it’s time for breeze day. Among our recent sales graduates are G1 Alcibiades winner Dancing Rags and graded stakes placed Count Alexander.
We offer a full service yearling sales preparation program. Our yearlings are turned out in the evening and brought in during the day. We provide the highest quality feed and hay available and closely monitor the growth and development of the young horses. We weigh our young horses monthly and they are inspected by our staff, team veterinarian and farrier routinely.
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Best Overall: Columbia Men's Bahama Vent Loco Relax III Boat Shoe
(Imported. Rubber sole. Shaft measures approximately low-top from arch. Go ahead, try and get dirty. Omni-Shield helps you stay clean and dry by resisting the absorption of liquids. Unlike most fabrics that absorb moisture, Omni-Shield repels moisture and dries quickly—avoiding stains and keeping you clean.)
Best Budget: Crocs Men's Santa Cruz Loafers
(100% Textile. Imported. Synthetic sole. Heel measures approximately 1. Drop the top and take a ride down the Pacific Coast Highway in these trendy and stylish boat shoes men need. These Crocs for men are good for wear on the beach and in the office.)
Editor's Choise: PUMA Unisex Leader Vt Tech Running Shoe
(Hier ist dein neuer Trainingspartner. Auf diese Schuhe kannst du dich verlassen – sie werden dich an dein Ziel bringen und darüber hinaus. Ein schlichter Look und der Komfort einer ultraleichten IMEVA-Zwischensohle sind die Kombination, die deinen neuen Lieblingsschuh ausmachen.)
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Should I wear sneakers in summer?
There is no single answer to this question as everyone's needs and preferences will vary. However, some factors to consider include how comfortable the sneakers are to wear, whether you feel the need to wear them all year round, and how often you'll be using them. Ultimately, it's up to you to decide if you want to invest in a pair of sneakers in summer or not.
How do I choose summer sneakers?
There are a few things to consider when choosing summer sneakers. First, what type of shoes are you looking for? Are you looking for basic sneakers or more luxurious items? If you're looking for something to wear out and about, then go with more luxurious shoes. If you want to stick to school or work wear, then go with basic sneakers.
Can I wear sneakers with jeans?
Yes, you can wear sneakers with jeans. However, make sure that the sneakers are clean and free of dirt and debris.
How do I keep my feet cool in the summer?
One way to keep your feet cool in the summer is by wearing comfortable shoes with a good air-flow ventilation system. Another way to keep your feet cool is to drink plenty of water and avoid excessive sweating.
What should you not wear in hot weather?
You should not wear a shirt that is too tight or too large. You should also avoid wearing high heels or any type of sandals.
The best summer shoes for men are those that are light and comfortable. These shoes will help you move around during the hot weather and will provide you with a good grip on the ground.
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The cutest Thanksgiving turkey cookies ever, made out of cookie dough, mini Reese’s peanut butter cups, M&Ms, and candy corns. So easy, so cute, so delicious!
We had so much fun last week making these fun Reese’s turkey cookies.
My Grandma J used to make Reese’s cookies for us all the time. I had the opportunity to live with her while attending college but since has passed.
One day she made her famous Reese’s cookies… while enjoying one I asked her how she made them.
What was the secret to her sugar cookie dough? They were so yummy!
To my surprise she replied… I just use premade Pillsbury sugar cookie dough and Reese’s peanut butter cups. SAY WHAAAT?!?!
To dress these amazing, simple cookies up for Thanksgiving, we gave them a chocolatey gobble-gobble makeover.
Aren’t they so fun?
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:
- cookie dough – I used Pillsbury sugar cookie dough like my grandma but you could use your favorite recipe (sugar, peanut butter, etc)
- Reese’s peanut butter cups – the miniature-sized ones. IF you are feeling like Martha Stewart check out my recipe for Copycat Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups (homemade, so much cheaper and just as good!)
- M&Ms or Reese’s Pieces – I used M&Ms so I had red and just ate the blue and green. Reese’s Pieces would give you a great color scheme without waste.
- Candy Corns
- Candy eyes – you can find them on Amazon here.
- Chocolate – I used chocolate as the glue
HOW DO YOU MAKE THESE REESE’S TURKEY COOKIES?
It’s easy! Bake the cookie dough in a mini muffin tin. While still warm, remove cookies and press a mini peanut butter cup in the center.
Once the cookies are cooled, using melted chocolate, add the eyes, gobble and candy corn feathers.
That’s it. Bake. Cool. Decorate. ENJOY!
These are a definite must for Thanksgiving this year. Your kids/grandkids are going to love them and so will you!
I hope you enjoy this idea and recipe! My family sure did. 🙂
WHAT MOST ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS THANKSGIVING?
Here’s the full printable recipe:
- 16 oz Pillsbury premade Sugar Cookie Dough, raw (usually can be found near tube biscuits, cinnamon rolls, butter, and dairy products)
- 24 mini Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
- 48 candy eyes
- 24 Red or Orange M&Ms or Reese's Pieces
- Candy Corns (100-125 pieces)
- Chocolate, melted
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease 24 ct MINI muffin tin
- Divide cookie dough into 24 equal pieces. Place one cookie dough piece in each muffin tin cup.
- Bake for 9-11 minutes or until dough is done. Centers of cookies will cave in slightly-this is normal.
- Let cookies cool for 3-5 minutes then remove from pan.
- Once removed, gently press a mini peanut butter cup in the center.
- Let cool fully.
- Once cooled, add decoration using melted chocolate (candy eye's, red or orange gobble, candy corn feathers).
If in a hurry, once you've put the Reese's peanut butter cups into the center of the cookies you can place them in the freezer to cool more quickly.
*This post contains affiliate links. In order to support this blog and continue providing free content, I may receive a commission from purchases you make through the links in this post. This comes at no cost to you. It just helps me keep the delicious recipes coming.
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The west coast of Florida offers many premier kiteboarding locations with flat water and occasional waves. The Gulf Coast is an exciting kitesurfing destination that is loaded with possibilities!
Are you a West Florida kiter and want to contribute to Kiteboarding Florida?
We are collecting more information on kite spots in Marco Island, Fort Myers and any other Gulf Coast kite spots. We accept submissions through our Contact Page.
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Help us to get kitesafe.de safely through the Corona crisis
Project SOS - Save Our School
With this initiative we would like to address you and ask for your support.
Why? Our primary goal is to keep our quality standards as well as our very good reputation as a kite school and employer despite Corona & Co: we want to avoid redundancies for operational reasons, not make any savings in seasonal planning at the expense of our customers and, above all, remain optimistic, safe and sound remain.
At the moment, nobody can say when and how the world will return to normal. Until then, we will also try - for example in our "old" jobs, through neighborhood help or as a shopping driver - to help people who belong to risk groups or who simply need support at the same time as our own crisis.
How can you support us? With your help - be it a review, a purchase (e.g. a hoodie or a t-shirt, a course voucher, something from our eBay sales list) or even a donation. With each of these points (which, by the way, you can also combine) you bring us a little bit to safety and ensure that we can continue exactly as you are used to from us.
All information on how you can support us can be found a little further down in the next section!
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NL Wild Card Recap: Giants Top Mets, 3-0, Thanks to Gillaspie, Bumgarner
Conor Gillaspie hit a three-run homer in the ninth inning and Madison Bumgarner threw a shutout, as the San Francisco Giants beat the New York Mets, 3-0, in the National League Wild Card game on Wednesday night in Queens, NY.
With the win, San Francisco advanced to face the N.L. Central champion Chicago Cubs in the best-of-five National League Divisional Series on Friday.
Gillaspie homered off New York closer Jeurys Familia, who had only allowed one home run all season while recording an MLB-high 51 saves.
Locked in a pitchers’ duel with Mets’ ace Noah Syndergaard for most of the game, Bumgarner lived up to his deserved reputation as a post-season stud, throwing a four-hitter to give his team the win.
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Popular music streaming and download service developed by Transsnet Music Limited which was first launched in Nigeria in 2015 by TECNO Mobile, Transsion Holdings has joined hands which short-form video hosting service, TikTok owned by ByteDance to promote trending contents on both Apps
Boomplay will host a playlist of TikTok’s top sounds as part of the new relationship, and TikTok will include Boomplay’s top tracks on its discovery and sound sites. Custom-curated playlists will also be included, shared, and amplified on both channels. tracks that made it into the top trending tracks on both platforms each week will be included in the mutual playlists, branded TikTokPicks and BoomplayPicks, with TikTok’s list emphasizing user-generated content and songs that had the most engagements.
According to Head of TikTok Content Programming in Sub-Saharan Africa, Boniswa Sidwaba, the goal of this collaboration is to connect fans and provide artists a wider audience by bringing the personalities in music and creative industries together on Boomplay and TikTok. Additionally, by working together, creators and content owners will be able to engage with their target market in a more original, enjoyable, and relevant way that emphasizes African music.
“Boomplay continues to expand its strategic partnershipswith global brands to offer artists creative and innovative channels to access their target audience while providing extensions for content promotion. We are very excited to partner with TikTok, one of the largest and fastest growing platforms in the entertainment tech industry, with great creation properties perfectly suited to the music community,” said Paul Azumah-Ayitey, PublicRelations Manager at Boomplay.
“TikTok is hugely popular across Sub-Saharan Africa with a thriving community using our platform to share their love of music, sport, comedy, trends, fashion and the diverse culture that makes the region so unique. With this partnership with Boomplay, we look to encourage our creative community to continue to use African music as the soundtrack for great content development while celebrating and taking African musicians to the world.”
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Washington, D.C.- In his first address as President of the United States, Donald Trump pledged that his inauguration will mark a moment in American history when “the forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer.”
The 45th president, whose campaign for the job was marked by bitter partisan division and deep skepticism from his critics, told the thousands assembled in Washington D.C. that his administration will hand power back to the American public.
“Today’s ceremony has very special meaning because today we are not merely transferring power from one president to another or from party to another,” he said. “We are transferring power from Washington D.C. and giving it back to you, the people.”
Promising to protect America’s borders and its economy from “the ravages of other countries,” Trump’s message focused on American identity at a time of increasing globalization, pledging to bring back lost jobs and to “rebuild our country with American hands and American labor.”
“From this day forward a new vision will govern our land,” he said. “From this day forward, it’s going to be only ‘America First.'”
“Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs, will be made to benefit American workers and American families”
The new president painted a picture of an American middle class that has been plagued by poverty, drug abuse and unemployment, promising a new dawn of prosperity.
“This American carnage stops right here and stops right now,” he said.
A president whose coalition included only a sliver of America’s racial minorities, Trump made a call for unity under one American flag and national identity.
“Whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots,” he said.
And he added: “When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.”
And Trump did not shy away from catchphrases that he deployed during his campaign, saying that “America will start winning again” and promising to “Make America Great Again.”
Trump will enter office with the lowest approval rating for an incoming president in the history of the NBC News/ Wall Street Journal poll, with only 44 percent approving of his handling of the presidential transition compared to 52 percent disapproving. Still, more Americans express hope that the state of the country will improve in the next five years than those who say the nation will go into decline.
And the man Trump will replace, outgoing President Barack Obama, is exiting the White House on a high note, matching the high marks he received in the first months after taking office in 2009.
More than 60 Democratic House members declined to attend the inauguration, calling Trump’s election illegitimate or citing his most controversial campaign rhetoric about Muslims, Latinos, African-Americans and women.
Trump’s inaugural address was also attended by his defeated Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, along with her husband, former president Bill Clinton.
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Blockberry to form boy band with 'Boy of the Month Project'
K-pop music label Blockberry Creative, which currently manages girl group Loona and former Wonder Girls member Sunye, announced Tuesday that it will form its first-ever K-pop boy band next year. For this project, the label will run the “Boy of the Month Project,” global auditions to discover new talent for the lineup.
The label made the announcement on its social media channels by posting a black-and-white photograph of the surface of the moon with a single statement that reads: “We are looking for boys who will join us in a great journey across the silent sea.”
Starting October 2016, Blockberry Creative introduced Loona one member at a time over the course of 18 months. Prior to making its debut as a full girl group in 2018, the members formed sub-units like Loona 1/3, Loona Odd Eye Circle and Loona yyxy and released digital singles.
Blockberry Creative said it will announce more details about the new boy band project in near future.
BY YIM SEUNG-HYE [email@example.com]
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At the Law Offices of Jason A. Korner in St Louis, we get all kinds of questions related to sex crimes. Of course, we get all kinds of questions about all kinds of crimes. Yet sex crimes in Missouri seem to really confound many.
At the Law Offices of Jason A. Korner, we thought it would be a good idea to share our top 10 questions related to sex crime charges. We present these as they were asked, deleting only expletives and names. We hope this helps and if ever you are facing charges for any crime in St. Louis, Missouri, give us a call.
Yes. The crime is Sexual Misconduct in the First Degree and carries a possible penalty of up to six months in jail and maximum $500 fine (Missouri Revised Statute Section 566.093 (Pre-December 31, 2016. Starting January 1, 2017.)) Oh, and you and your boyfriend will both have to register as sex offenders.
If you are facing such charges, you both really need an attorney who knows how to help. Call 314-409-2659 now.
2. Are there Sex Offenders Living Near Me/in My Neighborhood? I Live in St. Louis, MO.
This is perhaps one of the largest concerns among many families today. Realtor friends report that one of the top questions they get from prospective home buyers is whether there is a sex offender living nearby. In fact, according to those same friends, the existence of a sex offender in a neighborhood drives down home values.
So this subject is of serious concern to anyone facing any sex crime charges. A guilty verdict will label you a sex offender for life. You will always live in the least valuable locations. You will always be subject to increased public scrutiny.
You will always have to register your location with authorities. You will always be required to make your home address public. You will never be permitted near children not your own. And you may have restrictions regarding your own child. Finally, your face will appear on such websites as:
In addition, should you be found guilty of any sexual crime, prison life will be quite unfriendly to you. If your sexual crime involved a child, you will be even more uncomfortable. Prison could even prove deadly for you.
So if you are facing criminal charges related to any sexual offense in the State of Missouri, you need the best attorney right away. It doesn’t matter whether the charges are state or Federal, attorney Jason A. Korner can help. Call him now at 314-409-2659.
If you would like more information about the National Sex Offender Registry and more, contact SMART (the Office of Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking Sex Offenders).
Step one – tell them you will answer no further questions without your attorney present then tell them to call Jason A. Korner.
Step two – say nothing further until I am at your side. Then we will discuss what more needs said.
Here is your reality. You are in a he-said, she-said situation. There may be bodily fluids and DNA involved. There are likely several stories being collected about the event from everyone who was present and in custody.
You know nothing of whatever has been said by others. Some are seeking only to save their scalp. Others may just be stupid. Not you. You called your attorney and he is going to get to the bottom of things before they get too ugly.
If you get tempted to answer any questions before I get there, remember your Miranda warning,
“What you say can AND WILL be used against you in a court of law.”
Your words will convict you if you speak any, so don’t. Call me. I’ll speak for you.
That number is 314-409-2659.
If it goes to court, that may or may not happen. Missouri Law permits the judge latitude in deciding whether a victim’s history may be permitted on the record. If you are concerned about her history or yours, make this known to your attorney.
He can then decide how best to use the information to ensure the best outcome for your situation.
Rape can occur at any point in any relationship, from ‘just met’ to ‘been knowing for decades.’ Missouri law does not distinguish rape by timeline, but by the act that occurs. When there is penetration of the vagina by a penis and it is without the consent of one party, it is rape under Missouri law.
By referring to ‘one party,’ the law is open to such charges against women as well.
In your case, it sounds like the two of you had a break in communication; a very important communication regarding sex. Now you need a good attorney by your side. Maybe you got a little too aggressive and frightened her. We’ll deal with that. Right now, you need to keep quiet and call the Law Offices of Jason A. Korner, St. Louis, MO.
Yes and no. Under current Missouri statute, rape is defined as an act committed to a woman. However, starting January 1, 2017, first-degree rape is “sexual intercourse with another person who is incapacitated, incapable of consent, or lacks the capacity to consent, or by the use of forcible compulsion” – MO Rev Statute 566.030.1
Under the new statute, the law is open enough to permit rape charges involving homosexual acts.
The key differences between each of the above mentioned sex crimes is whether there was…
Having the legal ability to consent to sex is a key element in determining whether there was a sexual crime between two parties. Thus, Missouri law changes on January 1, 2017 in a key way regarding consent.
As you will see with virtually any sex crime in the United States and Missouri, these three concepts play key roles. These three concepts (The act, the willingness of both parties, and consent) help define sex crimes. These same three concepts convict those who are guilty of such crimes.
Yet, these three concepts can also be used in your defense. You need an attorney who knows how to do so.
Part of the defense strategy in any sex crime case would be to ensure that the Prosecution is defining what actually happened. There is virtually always a disconnect between what a presumed victim is claiming as compared to what a defendant is claiming.
It is within that disconnect that the case is either won or lost. Having an attorney on your side who understands that is key to winning your case.
Attorney Jason A. Korner has worked on both sides of the aisle. He understands what the prosecutor’s do and how they do it. He knows how to navigate the legal jungle. He was worked throughout Missouri and has lectured extensively on how to properly defend such cases. He can help you through this. Why not call him now at 314-409-2659.
Penalties for sex crimes in Missouri vary considerably. All depend on the exact charge, the degree of force applied, and the age of the victim.
Until just a few decades ago, there were no Federal sex crimes. What laws pertaining to sex crimes that did exist were varied and confusing from state to state. Today, most of the Federal laws are quite specific and difficult to combat.
There are 22 specific sex crimes in the United States. Some of these are state-specific crimes. Some of these are Federal. In the case of all Federal sex crime there is a corresponding state crime. Here are the specific sex crimes around America and a brief description of each…
The job of a Defense Attorney is to vigorously defend the client’s innocence; to the best of his abilities demonstrate that his client is innocent of the charges leveled against him; and/or to call into question the veracity of the charges.
So when choosing an attorney, choose one who knows when to recommend taking a deal and when to fight. When do you fight? When it makes sense.
It makes sense to fight when you are innocent.
So before you decide to just accept the charges and plead guilty, throwing yourself on the mercy of the court—and throwing away your life—ask yourself a few questions then give Jason A. Korner a call. Ask,
The bottom line is that if you are facing charges of a sex crime in Missouri, you need an attorney who knows the law and how to vigorously defend your innocence. You need to fight these charges, whether you believe yourself guilty or not. If you are guilty, you may feel enough guilt to just surrender to the system…
…Wrong move. Call the Law Offices of Jason A. Korner now to find out why. The number is 314-409-2659, or click here to fill out an information form to schedule your free consultation.
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Ruby Fortune Casino is known for its high-stakes games where your money is on the line. They are one of the most popular online casinos globally, with worldwide players taking advantage of the generous welcome bonus and real money bonuses.
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Over the years, Ruby Fortune has established itself as one of the best online casinos. Every day, the number of active casino accounts grows by one. The tagline for ruby fortune casino is “fair, easy, safe, and entertaining” this is one of the first things you’ll notice when you arrive at their site. This shows how committed they are to the casino gaming industry.
The casino runs on cutting-edge software created by Microgaming, one of the industry’s most well-known names in the gaming industry. There’s a wide range of excellent games to pick from and a variety of excellent graphics, safe gambling environments, and simple mobile features.
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As a wedding photographer, getting published was one of my biggest goals from the beginning. At this point in my career, I have been fortunate enough to be featured in print 19 times and featured in over 70 different online publications including The Huffington Post, Cosmopolitan, and Martha Stewart Weddings. This process has come with a lot of patience, learning, and persistence. I went from knowing nothing about submitting, to getting featured regularly.
If you’re new to the world of publications, here are my top tips for how to get your wedding photography published.
Use a platform – While most major publications require you to submit directly through their website, there are some helpful programs for submitting to many other publishers both large and small! Matchology is my favorite product for this. They make it super easy to upload your images, descriptions, and tag vendors. After your submission is complete, they give you a list of submissions that would be the best fit for the submission. Two Bright Lights is another helpful tool and features different publishers than Matchology. Having one (or both!) of these programs really eases the burden of submitting. The best part is that if your submission gets turned down, you can seamlessly resubmit to another publisher without having to craft an entire submission from scratch.
No publication is too small – I have been featured in some of the biggest wedding publications in the world, but that doesn’t stop me from still wanting to work with smaller blogs and magazines. When I am approached by editors of publications that are just starting, I am always happy to help them out by sharing my work. Everyone starts somewhere and you never know which small blog will be the next big one! Also, backlinks are a big help with SEO… so I am always trying to get as many as I can!
Do your research – You can have THE BEST photos in the world and your submission will still get declined if it doesn’t match the blog or magazine’s aesthetic. I can only imagine how frustrated editors must feel when they get bombarded with submissions that clearly do not fit their style or otherwise go against their requirements. With a little research, you can find out everything about what an editor is looking for and determine which is the best fit for the shoot or wedding that you are hoping to have featured. Some of the best ways to find this information are by looking at their “submissions” or “about” pages on their website. I have even created a Google spreadsheet for myself which includes all of the publications that I regularly submit to and all of the info about what they do and do not want.
Follow instructions – It may be tedious but it is so crucial to follow all of a publishers requirements if you hope to have your submission accepted. Some editors ask for a specific number of images, file sizes, vendor information, and other details. Some of the largest publications even require a multi-page survey to be filled out by the couple. All of this needs to be done correctly in order to be considered for a feature.
Reach out – Some publications have a list of photographers to which the send “content calls” when they are looking for specific things to feature. It never hurts to reach out to the editors of your favorite publications and see if this is something they do.
Don’t get discouraged – When it comes to getting published, you are going to get a lot of rejection. It took me 3 years and many “Sorry, this is not a fit” emails to get my first feature on Style Me Pretty. Even now, I still hear “No” alllll the time. It is a normal part of the publication process and the best thing you can do is learn to not take it personally. There are so many reasons why an editor chooses not to feature your work and it’s most likely not because they hate it (even though that’s how it feels when you get your first rejection email!). If you want to be published, you absolutely have to keep trying over and over again. Persistence is key!
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Hello everyone. I trust you’ve all had a wonderful, productive gaming week. For this edition of my Gaming Blurb, I have a couple of items to share with you from my recent gaming experiences. The main focus this time is Nintendo Switch gaming accessories.
UGREEN Bluetooth 5.0 adapter with 3.5″ Jack
Before purchasing the UGREEN Bluetooth 3.5 Jack, I decided to watch several Youtube reviews to see how others rated it. I think it’s fair to say reviews are mixed, and despite having doubts about purchasing the product, I decided to take a chance on it regardless.
The product itself boasts an 8-hour battery which can be charged in 2 hours. It also includes a USB C cable to meet your charging needs. Some may consider an 8hour battery life to be a disadvantage, but I tend to put the device on charge between gaming sessions without any issues. It may also help that I have a charging block close at hand, enabling a quick and convenient way to charge the device.
Simply put, the UGREEN Bluetooth 5.0 adapter works and is multifunctional. It’s easy to pair with up to two Bluetooth headsets at a time, and its use isn’t limited to the Nintendo Switch. As long as its design is compatible with a device and the device has a 3.5″ jack, it can provide Bluetooth functionality to multiple devices. As well as the Switch, I’ve used it with both the Nintendo New 3DS XL and a BLUE USB microphone.
Does it support docked and portable play?
The adapter’s hinge also has a bit of flex which means I can use it and my Satisfye gaming grip together. I must also stress that it’s possible to use this adapter in TV mode. I’ve read numerous reviews, including the official Amazon description, that insists it can’t be used in docked mode without the use of an additional adapter. Well, that’s true if you try to use it the conventional way, but if you plug it in oppositely while the Switch is docked, then the L shape will fit on the front side of the dock. What’s more, you can even set it up to charge while playing either in docked and portable mode.
There are two negatives I’ve noticed since using the device. There is a slight sound delay, so I wouldn’t recommend the adapter for playing rhythm/music titles that require a precise button press. I’ve also noticed if the volume on your Nintendo Switch is below a certain level, the adapter tends to struggle with picking up low background sounds/music. My advice would be to keep your Nintendo Switch volume high, and if possible, adjust the volume on your Bluetooth headphones.
Overall though, I’m more than satisfied with this device, and I would recommend it to anyone who’s looking for an alternative Bluetooth Support option for Nintendo Switch.
Satisfye Zengrip Pro
I’ve trialled several Nintendo Switch grips in the past. They’ve all differed in quality, and some started to break after continual usage. In January 2020, I purchased a grip which I enjoyed, but its plastic grips eventually wore and snapped. Ever since then, I tried out similar grips and was left feeling unsatisfied with their overall quality. In the end, I have spent lots of money on cheaper grips, and so I decided to purchase the grip that many consider to be the premium Nintendo Switch Grip.
So, the question remains, is the Satisfye Zengrip Pro any good? O yes, it has now become a necessary part of my enjoyment of handheld gaming.
About the Grip
Firstly, the grip literally feels like a controller to grip. The grips handles are made with a rubbery textured type of plastic which is comfortable to hope. They also have a good shape which means the player can avoid hand cramps during long play sessions.
Next, inserting and removing your Switch is an easy process. Merely slide the Switch into the grip and remove it when you’ve finished. If you like me, then you will not want to play Switch in handheld without it. The only time I feel the need to remove it from the grip is to play it in TV mode or charge it in the dock.
Also, if you’re worried about the grip scratching your console, then don’t. The grip uses silicone tabs which protects your Switch from scratches and provides the console breathing space. Also, it’s good to note that the grip’s design doesn’t hinder air vents or the console’s general operation in any way.
The grip also comes packed with two Satisfye branded thumb pads, which feel pretty good under the thumb.
Overall, I don’t think I could play handheld mode without the Satisfye grip. And no, I haven’t been sponsored by Satifye, and I haven’t been sent a review unit. I haven’t been paid off to write this glowing appraisal. I only wish that I purchased the Satisfye grip sooner, and I highly recommend it to Nintendo Switch gamers.
This is Jonah signing off.
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Do you have a Foreign Corporation? You should be thinking about GILTI tax! In this article, I explain all that you need to know.
2018 was the year for Guilty tax, a tax that hits U.S. owners of foreign corporations. In order to understand what GILTI tax is, let’s begin by looking the history behind it so that we can then understand its purpose. This will help us figure out situations in which we should expect to see GILTI liabilities pop up.
In 1962, Subpart F was passed to treat passive income overseas harshly. Later it was thought that Subpart F income could be an impediment to offshore tax planning, so the need to create some sort of taxing regime to active income earned overseas came about. The purpose of GILTI is to tax active income of foreign businesses that are controlled by US shareholders. GILTI can hit them so hard, that for some people, having their income taxed as Subpart F could even be better than GILTI!
[vc_column_text]The Tax Reform also expanded the definition of what it means for a shareholder to be subject to not just controlled foreign corporation rules, that is CFC rules in addition to GILTI regime. GILTI does not just affect huge corporations overseas, but small and medium-sized businesses, and it can even affect someone who is self-employed. For larger clients, the cost may not be all that noticeable, but I can tell you that for our clients who are working hard to create something for themselves, this amount of research is pushing many beyond their breaking point, forcing them to make a decision they wish they didn’t have to.
What can you do to avoid GILTI?
Characterize GILTI as Subpart F
First, you can elect to covert GILTI to subpart F income. GILTI can be so bad, that it can make Subpart F seem good!
You can increase something call QBAI. QBAI stands for Qualified Business Asset Investments. There are a few ways to do this. For instance, you can purchase equipment that has been previously leased.
The downside is that just because someone is a shareholder in a Controlled Foreign Corporation (CFC) it does not mean that they can actually control the corporation enough in order to implement this strategy. Management might not be fond of this idea, especially if they aren’t US persons. Secondly, this is a business decision that could have negative effects on cash flow. You might solve a GILTI problem but you could end up with a business problem.
Combine Controlled Foreign Corporations into one.
GILTI is NOT calculated on a company basis. It is done on a shareholder basis. And what’s worse is that losses in one CFC may not get full credit against gains of another CFC. The way to make sure you don’t miss out on any of your losses is by combining CFCs.
Avoid CFC or US shareholder status.
This can be the easiest solution simply avoid either CFC status or US shareholder status. The problem with this is tax reform expanded the definition of what it means to have a CFC status. However, by adjusting ownership levels with non-US owners, you may be able to find a great solution that avoids this entire mess. The downside is this is not feasible for many people and second, you need to watch those attribution rules which also have changed for the worse. When you have related parties, you might be considered to have CFC even though you would otherwise not if the parties were not related.
Create a US holding company to own all CFC shares
The fifth way, and this is proving to be the winner of all, is to funnel all shares in foreign corporations into a domestic US holding company. This was an overriding theme of the 2017 Tax Cuts & Jobs Act — bring capital back to the US. The reason it works is that US “C” corporations are allowed to do something US individuals are not. Take what is known as a Section 250 deduction of 50% of GILTI. The downsides are that this does require extra hurdles of having a US domestic corporation which you must honor the corporate formalities of and an additional tax filing requirement of the domestic corporation. However, if your GILTI liabilities are even as low as say $20,000 or even $10,000, it still could be worth the hassle to create this structure.
What about putting CFC shares into a Private Placement Life Insurance Policy?
PPLIs are used by the most sophisticated investors for what I consider to be the ultimate tax structure. Essentially how it works is that your assets go into a life insurance policy and you borrow from the death benefit while you are alive. Since death benefits are tax-free, you’ve essential avoided all income taxes, both federal and state. This is an even better move to make if you happen to be in a high tax jurisdiction like California or New York.
The downside is that life insurance turns most people off, and these are complicated structures and require flexibility and relinquishing so some control that so many business owners and investors are unwilling to do. Typically, it only starts making sense when you have about $10 million in assets, although we’ve been hearing of ways to reduce the amount needed to get into such a powerful platform.
There are diverse requirements of a PPLI’s portfolio that could force you to sell your stock so much so that you could no longer have that CFC or US shareholder status. Also, you must be very committed to following the structure. People get into trouble with PPLIs when they don’t take the rules seriously. But when you do, it is truly magical.
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Do you have a favorite hobby that you want to turn into a money making opportunity? Are you fed up of the regular 9-5 office work? Do you dream of starting your own business? If yes,Business opportunities that really work Articles then there are plenty of business opportunities available to your advantage.
Hobbies that earn you money
If you love art and craft and make fancy articles that inspire friends – then it’s time to turn this into one of the most lucrative business opportunities. Most established fashion designers started this way – they stitched their own clothes and made it into their life’s passion. If you love painting or needlework, or make scale models then you can turn this into one of the most profitable business opportunities around. If you make miniature scale models of structures, then you could use these for major architectural firms. They are always on the lookout for such scale models of the buildings they design. Or you could post it onto eBay like sites – where they are Philadelphia tech consulting sure to earn you plenty of income! If you love to knit or crochet, then try posting your accessories or garments on such sites. You could upload attractive pictures of your creations, along with interesting descriptions of each item. These are sure to fetch you good money in very short durations of time. Thus hobby based crafts are some of the best business opportunities around today.
If you have specialized expertise in a niche domain, you can now turn this into one of the most well-paid business opportunities today. Most top companies are always on the lookout for skilled professionals who have the experience to provide guidance on specific topics to their personnel. So if you are well versed with management principles you can easily land yourself a plum part-time based career in a Fortune 500 company! You could charge by the hour – which can mean big money in just a month’s time! Consulting services represent one of the highest paying business opportunities available today!
Most top organizations are looking for people who can provide honest reviews of their online products and services. Thus if you’re good with opinionated articles on products, then this is one of the best business opportunities for you! You can provide unbiased personalized product reviews for major organizations. The better is your style of writing the better your chances at earning top dollar. In fact there are so many such business opportunities floating around that you can easily leverage any one of these to your advantage! You could write reviews that truly reflect as if you have used the products yourself. In fact as a practice you should always ask for a free sample of the products you are reviewing. That way you can provide a realistic picture of the products. This will also reflect well on your credibility as a reviewer. It will also improve your chances at procuring more such business opportunities in future.
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Grand Opening | Design & Consign
It’s a new year and we have a new showroom at the Laguna Design Center! DESIGN & CONSIGN, located in suite 103, specializes in consigned upscale, high quality furniture, furnishings, and accessories. Their select inventory is provided by private consignors as well as designer showrooms, model homes and factory-closeouts. They also provide assistance with interior, exterior and naval design.
Design & Consign had a soft opening at the beginning of the new year and a Grand Opening Celebration on January 10th. The attendees were invited to browse the variety of beautiful, high-end products while mingling over delicious hors d’oeuvres and cocktails. Help us welcome Design & Consign by visiting them in suite 103 on your next visit to the Laguna Design Center.
Monday – Friday: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Saturday: 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
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July 11, 2019
Components of a Lake One FieldGuide: What Your Digital Marketing Strategy Includes
When we create a digital marketing strategy for our clients, what we adoringly refer to as a FieldGuide, we pour hours into research and strategy. We heavily consider every piece we present in order to create a cohesive, targeted plan.
So what’s in a Lake One FieldGuide? We clearly lay out the action steps needed to elevate your marketing to target the modern buyer and hone in on your lead gen potential. Here are the elements your Lake One FieldGuide will include.
Step 1. Competitive Analysis
Competitive analysis can be viewed from two angles: qualitative & quantitative. One without the other, like most things in marketing, would paint an incomplete picture. Your Lake One FieldGuide will include analysis on both ends of the spectrum for up to three of your top competitors.
Qualitative Competitive Analysis:
What are your top three competitors up to? How well designed are their websites and are their sites created to move the user into conversions at every stage in the funnel? Additionally, what do their websites convey at first sight? We call this the Blink Test. Do you know what they do and what their differentiator is immediately or do you need to read heavy content and scrounge around the site to find out?
Quantitative Competitive Analysis:
What do the numbers say? Here we look at things like the competition’s traffic + sources, domain ratings, and backlinks. Without spending an inordinate amount of time, these numbers give insight into their marketing activity and authority. It’s also a good way to see, in a numerical fashion, how you stack up.
Step 2. Develop and Document 2-3 Personas
Before we get to the guts of your campaign, we need to understand who we will be targeting: your buyer persona. A persona is “a profile that represents your ideal customer.” We conduct research- online and offline- to understand who you’re talking to. We zero in on what their challenges are, what makes them change their purchasing behavior, and what barriers they experience. The point of this is to be able to develop a marketing strategy that addresses these elements.
We’ll create two or three personas to being. Later on, we’ll decide where to narrow the focus further once we’ve jointly considered ease of implementation, ability to get quick wins, and budget.
3. Keyword Research
Now that we know who your personas are, we want to know what they’re searching for and what the search volume landscape looks like for your product/service. We’ll use a few different tools to find niche keyword clusters that we’ll target via content. Our goal in this research is to find keywords and phrases with high search volume and low competition. IE- while it’d be fantastic to rank your retail shoe store for “women’s shoes”, you won’t have much luck beating Amazon and Zappos.
A Lake One FieldGuide includes keyword clusters that we can realistically target to get you ranking on relevant SERPs (search engine results pages).
4. Persona-centric Content Calendar
When we created your personas, we thought of their challenges, barriers, and drivers to change. Now, it’s time to pair those elements and questions with a content strategy.
Blog Campaign Topics
Personally, brainstorming blog topics is my favorite part of campaign planning. The number of blog ideas we generate will depend on the scale of your campaign and frequency of posting- whether we’ll be posting on your behalf twice a month or a few times a week.
Additionally, the number of personas will impact how many blogs topics we need. Each persona will have their own content strategy. The topics we select as part of your campaign will seek to answer the questions, pain points, and interests you unearthed in your persona research. In some cases, we’ll actually take their concerns and turn them directly into topics. Here’s an example. If your persona poses the question, “How do I lower healthcare costs for my company?” a great blog topic might be “5 Examples How to Lower your Company Healthcare Costs.” Additionally, blogs will be matched to your persona’s needs at every stage of the buyer’s journey: awareness, consideration, and decision.
The other things we consider when generating your blog campaign are the keywords and topic clusters we uncovered earlier in our keyword research. We’ll pair your persona’s needs with search data to create a 1-2-punch of stellar topics.
Offer Content Topics
Next up is pairing those blog topics with conversion opportunities in the form of content offers. We’ll propose 1-2 offers at each stage of the buyer’s journey. These offers are intended to boost your lead gen and provide value to your users. We might propose an offer in the format of a…
- Guide or eBook
- White paper, brochure, or sell sheet
- Content “Packet” that includes a mixture of the above in one offer
5. Persona Centered Lead Nurturing Sequences
Your FieldGuide at this point includes persona insights, keywords, and a killer content strategy. We’ll now present a plan to put all of that to work in nurturing sequences. What are those? You might know them as drip campaigns, workflows, or just as email marketing. When a user downloads one of your offers, we ideally want to enroll them into an email campaign that nurtures them along the funnel. A user who starts out by downloading an awareness offer would get a sequence of emails that nudge them into the consideration offer… and then into a decision offer… and then *fingers crossed* into being a customer.
So, included with your FieldGuide are examples of the type of sequencing we’d like to do for your key offers.
6. Persona Watering Holes and Digital PR Hitlist
The last part of your campaign will be some research on where your personas hang out- their watering holes if you will. What websites do they like to engage with and who might be their influencers. These insights will lead to the creation of our digital PR hitlist. For example, if your personas spend time on authoritative HR sites, we’ll add a few to our hitlist. When it’s time to execute the FieldGuide, we’ll reach out to these companies to do things like guest blogs in order to get in front of you personas where they already are. Furthermore, this strategy generates backlinks and bolsters SEO.
Let’s start a conversation on creating a FieldGuide for you. Request a consult.
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This steam wallpaper Stripper is productive, safe and easy to use. It produces steam at just the right pressure and temperature for fast effective stripping with the minimum of condensation. This critical design feature reduces the risk of over-wetting wallboard or the plaster surface of the wall being stripped, and keeps the working environment comfortable. The HTW is even effective on non-paper based wall coverings such as hessian fixed with UPVA glues.
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Everyone loves a reward whether that be a free drink, treat or something bingo-related, but not many of us know how to go about getting those rewards…
…which is why we thought it would be a great idea to remind you of all those little extras you could be missing out on. Little extras that include bingo bonuses, free bingo tickets where winnings are paid as cash and on that subject – real cashback too!
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The Loyalty Levels and Benefits
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Design and optimize extensive arrays and reflector antennas to miniaturized antennas imprinted on densely populated PCBs.
Identify and rectify potential issues right from the initial design phase, mitigating costly prototype errors.
Design and assess RF/microwave circuits in either schematic or 3D environments, utilizing tools like SI, PI, and DDR4 wizard.
Visulaize bioelectromagnetics, where electromagnetic fields interact with the human body, impacting medical devices, imaging, and safety regulations.
Discover electromagnetic effects on particles, simulate Vacuum Electron Devices, and cutting-edge tech. leveraging SIMULIA into design and real-world performance.
Examine and shape electrical machinery, resistive and superconducting magnets, transformers, actuators, and high-voltage devices.
Antenna design involves selecting antennas matching bandwidth and polarization, while simulation optimizes designs and assesses real-world performance. Antennas are vital for devices and wireless systems, from smartphones to spacecraft, for communication like wifi and 5G. Trends like 6G and satellite internet drive new designs. Antennas also contribute to radar, sensing, medical devices, and energy transfer. Simulation guides development, optimization, and performance analysis with SIMULIA tools, including components like feeds and filters. For more, see Microwave & RF simulation.
Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) ensures devices function without interfering with others, adhering to international standards. Balancing EMC with size, cost, and performance can be challenging. Early identification of EMC issues minimizes disruptions. Simulation offers a detailed EMC view, aiding issue detection and resolution before testing, reducing development time, costs, and regulatory test failures. SIMULIA's tools cover interference, EMC, and environmental effects analysis. CST Studio Suite allows study of EMC categories, system-level effects, and hybridization between solvers for comprehensive solutions.
Integrating simulation into electronic design workflows is vital for addressing complex SI/PI challenges in high-speed electronics. SIMULIA's CST Studio Suite seamlessly integrates with ECAD and MCAD tools, enabling engineers to analyze SI/PI and EMC from pre-layout to post-layout phases. Through advanced tech like Broadband Macromodeling, CST Studio Suite extracts SPICE models from 3D electromagnetic simulations, supporting detailed system-level analysis. By capturing behaviors like crosstalk and voltage tolerances, it ensures optimal signal and power performance, minimizing interference and noise in high-speed systems.
Bioelectromagnetics studies the interaction between electromagnetic fields and the human body, crucial for medical devices, imaging, and safety regulations for products like smartphones. SIMULIA provides specialized simulation tools to address these challenges, utilizing design tools, realistic material models, and high-performance solvers for detailed analysis of electromagnetic fields within the body. Supporting CAD and voxel body models, SIMULIA software allows accurate simulations with thermoregulation effects, portraying the impact of electromagnetic fields on body heat.
SIMULIA's simulation portfolio employs solvers for particle-electromagnetic interactions, utilizing CST Studio Suite and Opera. This toolset covers particle emission, relativistic motion, accelerating fields, and RF exposure, supporting particle-based component design and vacuum electronics devices. The approach accounts for breakdown effects and multiphysics considerations, offering a versatile solution for particle dynamics simulation.
SIMULIA's specialized low-frequency and static simulation tools are essential for magnet design, high-voltage devices, and electrical machines across industries. Material modeling aids motor simulation, streamlining development and enhancing reliability through coupled physics analysis, reducing time, cost, and risk.
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This edition of Pennies & Posh brings us to Urban Outfitters and a jumpsuit that is so much look…. for so little money… that it even blew my mind!! The military jumpsuit cost a whopping 20.00 and paired with the right accessories…. this hot little number can look like a really expensive designer jumpsuit. With that said….let’s get started!! We added on a Chanel Logo pin (500.00) to the pocket…. which helps break up all the green and give it some bling near the face. Now this is where it get’s really exciting…. I think it’s the Lanvin belt is what I think makes this outfit. The rich leather and the crystal front accent even made my 17 year old son take notice! The belt came in at 1400.00 and we finished off the look with a pair of rocking wedge boots by Tabitha Simmons that cost 1300.00. Now we added some serious POSH…. but feel that you could reproduce this look easily by going to Claires or another discount store to get your bling. Grab a pair of great knock off boots…. and there you go… Pennies to Fashion Heaven!!
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Laurie Caffery Harris grew up in Boone, North Carolina, a small town surrounded by the peaks and valleys of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Encouraged by her creative parents - a painter mom and a custom home designer and builder dad, Laurie spent her childhood enthusiastically exploring different mediums, primarily painting and drawing.
It wasn’t until college that Laurie found a passion for working with clay. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Studio Art with an emphasis in ceramics in 2014. Since then, Laurie has continued to embrace every opportunity to educate herself and others within her field. In 2019 she completed a two year Artist in Residency at Odyssey Clayworks where she continues to teach classes in throwing and surface decoration. Her artwork is exhibited and collected nationally and internationally. Currently, Laurie continues to create her narrative-driven, decorative ceramics from her home studio in Asheville, NC alongside her husband, Morgan, and her hound dog, Buck.
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PBIC, INC. v. Byrne, 313 F. Supp. 757 (D. Mass. 1970)
May 6, 1970
Garrett H. BYRNE, Defendant.
United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.
*758 *759 Gerald A. Berlin, Harold Katz, Henry Monaghan, Boston, Mass., for plaintiffs.
Joseph Nolan, Asst. Dist. Atty., Lawrence Cohen, Asst. Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., for defendant.
Before COFFIN, Circuit Judge, and GARRITY and BOWNES, District Judges.
Stay Denied May 22, 1970. See 90 S. Ct. 1718.
OPINION OF THE COURT
COFFIN, Circuit Judge.
On February 22, 1970, the live theater production "Hair" opened at the Wilbur Theater in Boston, Massachusetts for an indefinite run. A few days later, the District Attorney of Suffolk County advised various persons responsible for *760 and engaged in the Boston production that the performers and the producers would be prosecuted under sections 16 and 32 of Chapter 272 of the Massachusetts General Laws if certain conduct occurring in the play was not discontinued. Plaintiffs immediately sought injunctive and declaratory relief from a single Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Hearing was promptly held, at which time evidence was taken which included the script of "Hair", the favorable testimony of two drama critics concerning the importance and artistic merit of the play, and three generally non-condemnatory reports of a police officer who had observed both the New York and Boston productions. The case was reserved to the full court.
The court's decision was rendered on April 9 1970, after each participating Justice had observed the Boston production as a member of the regular nightly audience. Their decision, set forth in toto in the appendix to our opinion, decreed that injunctive relief against prosecution under the aforementioned statutory provisions would only be ordered if certain portions of the play were modified or excised. The rationale for such decision seems to have been that the acts in question were "lewd and lascivious" and that persons who perform such acts are not entitled to equitable relief under Massachusetts law, notwithstanding the fact that such acts are performed as a part of a play which is not otherwise "lewd and lascivious", let alone constitutionally *761 "obscene". Plaintiffs' Motion for Clarification of the court's opinion was denied without comment by the court on the same day. On April 10, 1970, the cast and producers chose to close the show rather than make the modifications indicated by the court's opinion or risk criminal prosecution by continuing to present the production without modification.
On April 13, the plaintiffs filed suit in the federal district court, seeking injunctive relief pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the promised state prosecution by defendant District Attorney of Suffolk County if the play continues unexpurgated, and a declaratory judgment pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2201 that the statutes herein involved are unconstitutional on their face or as applied. Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2281 et seq., this three-judge court was convened to consider the issues presented by plaintiffs' suit. We find, on the basis of our discussion infra, that we have jurisdiction because of the substantial federal question here presented. 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331, 1343(3).
The hearing before us revealed, inter alia, that the defendant promises to prosecute if the show reopens without meeting the conditions in the Supreme Judicial Court's opinion; he will not limit himself to one test case and can give no assurance as to the number of prosecutions. Of critical importance, however, defendant now assures us that the promised prosecutions will not be founded on section 32 but rather on section 16 and the common law of indecent exposure. For their part, the performers do not wish to risk repeated fines and jail sentences, nor do they wish to make the required alterations, for they view their so doing as compromising the integrity of the production. In the meantime, the production is losing weekly box office gross receipts of about $70,000, is making refunds or exchanges for tickets already sold, and is no longer making advance sales. They had anticipated a lengthy run in Boston, having at the time of filing this suit advance ticket sales of approximately $600,000.
We are urged not to proceed to the merits of this dispute on the grounds that such consideration is prevented by the principles of res judicata, the Supreme Judicial Court having already decided the critical issues here presented. We disagree. The only issue clearly resolved by the court involved the availability of injunctive relief under Massachusetts law; any finding with regard to the severability of the acts in question relates only to the practical feasibility of the relief ordered. We admit to considerable uncertainty whether the court also determined that section 16 applies to live theater productions and should be interpreted to proscribe "lewd and lascivious" acts performed in such productions. Suffice it to say that there is no indication whatever that the Supreme Judicial Court held that section 16 is constitutional as applied to live theater productions. We therefore are not barred by res judicata from considering that question.
The Constitutional Issue
This brings us to a consideration of the basic constitutional issue presented by plaintiffs' request for declaratory relief: whether a "lewd and lascivious" statute and the common law crime of indecent exposure may be used as weapons to root out of a live theater production some allegedly objectionable conduct. We begin with the proposition that live theater productions, like *762 movies, are within the ambit of protection of the First Amendment. People v. Bercowitz, 308 N.Y.S.2d 1 (N.Y.C. Crim.Ct., Feb. 25, 1970); Barrows v. Municipal Court of Los Angeles Jud. Dist., 1 Cal. 3d 821, 83 Cal. Rptr. 819, 821, 464 P.2d 483 (1970); Dixon v. Municipal Court of City & County of San Francisco, 267 Cal. App. 2d 789, 73 Cal. Rptr. 587, 589 (1968). That the Supreme Court has not recently had occasion to so hold cannot alter the unassailable fact that the stage has been a traditional and important medium for the presentation and expression of ideas. Our problem is to determine the extent of the protection afforded by the First Amendment. Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476, 481-485, 77 S. Ct. 1304, 1309, 1 L. Ed. 2d 1498 (1957), established the basic doctrine that "obscenity is not within the area of constitutionally protected speech or press", but that which falls short of it is. The years since Roth have witnessed sporadic efforts to obtain a consensus on what is "obscene".
More recently, however, the Court has held that the mere private possession of obscene matter cannot constitutionally be made a crime, Stanley v. Georgia, 394 U.S. 557, 89 S. Ct. 1243, 22 L. Ed. 2d 542 (1969), thus establishingcontrary to Roththat obscenity in some contexts is protected by the First Amendment. A three-judge court in Karalexis v. Byrne, 306 F. Supp. 1363 (D.Mass.1969) (Julian, J. dissenting), temporary injunction stayed pending disposition of appeal, 396 U.S. 976, 90 S. Ct. 469, 24 L. Ed. 2d 447, 486 (1969), prob. juris. noted, 397 U.S. 985, 90 S. Ct. 1123, 25 L. Ed. 2d 394 (March 23, 1970), read Stanley to suggest that a state may not proscribe "obscenity" in a movie theater, if the public is forewarned of the character of the presentation in a manner which does not constitute pandering, if adolescents are excluded, and if such obscene presentation does not generate a clear and present danger of illegal anti-social conduct.
Plaintiffs argue that Karalexis applies a fortiori to our case. However, adolescents were not excluded here; rather, persons who inquired concerning the admissibility of minors were advised to acquaint themselves with the play's content and nature before bringing the child. Secondly, plaintiff's "a fortiori" argument relies on the premise that movies and live plays are indistinguishable for purpose of the "obscenity" issues presented here, which premise we do not feel compelled to accept as a matter of law. The impact on the theater patron may well differ depending on whether the acts being viewed are presented on a film screen or are performed or simulated by live persons a few rows in front of him. The immediacy of the live theater, its easy access to the audience, its newly rediscovered capacity for improvisation, and its consequent unpredictability even to an adult and sophisticated play-goer distinguish it from a film production where the possibilities of sexual exhortation and of giving offense are fixed in celluloid.
We therefore resist the temptation to treat Karalexis as dispositive of *763 the constitutional issues here presented. Rather than attempting ourselves to discern what the Stanley decision has to say with regard to live theater productions, we conclude that the instant controversy may be resolved within the post-Roth, pre-Stanley principle that "obscenity" in a First Amendment context is not protected from state regulation but that which falls short of it is.
The Court's efforts to establish a constitutional definition for "obscenity" have, understandably, failed to generate a doctrinal consensus. However, the commonly applied test involves a three-pronged analysis, most clearly articulated in A Book Named "John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" v. Attorney General of Com. of Massachusetts, 383 U.S. 413, 418, 86 S. Ct. 975, 977, 16 L. Ed. 2d 1 (1966):
"[T]hree elements must coalesce: it must be established that (a) the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest in sex; (b) the material is patently offensive because it affronts contemporary community standards relating to the description or representation of sexual matters; and (c) the material is utterly without redeeming social value."
To this analysis was added a fourth consideration, that in close cases evidence of pandering may be probative with respect to the nature of the material in question, Ginzburg v. United States, 383 U.S. 463, 474, 86 S. Ct. 942, 16 L. Ed. 2d 31 (1966).
These enunciations of the relevant constitutional standard were set forth in cases involving printed material. It appears that that same standard also applies to the determination of whether a movie is "obscene", although we agree with the recent decision of the Second Circuit that the application of the test to different media should take account of the differences inherent in those media. United States v. A Motion Picture Film Entitled "I am Curious-Yellow", 404 F.2d 196, 198, 203 (2d Cir. 1968).
We conclude that this same "obscenity" standard also applies to the regulation of live theater productionsaccord: Barrows v. Municipal Court, supra; People v. Bercowitz, supra; Dixon v. Municipal Court, supraagain with the understanding that the four factors must be assessed in light of the particular impact made by a live theater production. Confining state interference with the live theater to that which is "obscene" reflects the fundamental importance which the First Amendment attaches to the unencumbered expression of ideas. We recognize that our analysis involves a delicate judgment, and *764 that a story may be protected in book form but not in movie form, or in movie form but not in the live theater. An application of the Memoirs analysis without regard to the obvious differences among the various media could result in all media being confined to the limitations imposed on the medium in which the particular presentation is most offensive. On the other hand, the enunciation of a different standard for every conceivable medium would only compound the confusion without ameliorating the delicacy of the basic judgments required by any standard.
Having concluded that the Constitution prevents a state from regulating a live theater production unless it is constitutionally "obscene", we now ask whether either section 16 or the "closely similar" common law crime of indecent exposure can be applied to the live theater without offending that Constitutional limitation. Since we are dealing with a medium protected by the First Amendment, we keep in mind that "precision of regulation must be the touchstone." Interstate Circuit v. Dallas, 390 U.S. at 682, 88 S. Ct. at 1302.
The kind of activity obviously within the purview of section 16 is the imposition of lewdness or nudity on an unsuspecting or unwilling person, e. g., Commonwealth v. Dickinson, 348 Mass. 767, 202 N.E.2d 240 (1964), and Commonwealth v. Cummings, 273 Mass. 229, 231, 173 N.E. 506 (1930). The crime of indecent exposure is "offensively exposing [oneself] * * * without necessity or reasonable excuse, and in such a way as to produce alarm," Commonwealth v. Wardell, 128 Mass. 52, 53 (1880); but see Commonwealth v. Bishop, 296 Mass. 459, 462, 6 N.E.2d 369, 370 (1937): "It is enough if it be an intentional act of lewd exposure, offensive to one or more persons." These proscriptions obviously apply to a broad range of lewd conduct. See generally 94 A.L.R.2d 1348 (1964) (Indecent Exposure). They have not been and need not be limited to constitutional "obscenity" when the activity is imposed on the unsuspecting public. To say that the common law crime and the statute apply to all nudity on the stage, however, would ignore both the fact that the audience is willing and forewarned, and such other factors as pose, lighting, angle of audience vision, mobility, and dramatic context. See United States v. A Motion Picture Film, 404 F.2d at 199. A dim silhouette of a naked form would be as punishable as the most blatant eroticism. Similarly, the vulnerability to a "lewd and lascivious behavior" statute of all simulations of sexual deviation would be equally indiscriminate, barring even the muted portrayal of a deviate when such might be essential to a drama. We cannot escape the conclusion that to apply the standards of the street and marketplace to the world behind the *765 footlights would be to sanction a censorship dragnet of unconstitutional proportions.
This problem was recognized by the California Supreme Court in construing a "lewd and dissolute" conduct statute as inapplicable to live theater:
"acts which are unlawful in a different context, circumstance, or place, may be depicted or incorporated in a stage or screen presentation and come within the protection of the First Amendment, losing that protection only if found to be obscene."
Nor could the promised prosecution of live theater under section 16 and the crime of indecent exposure pass constitutional muster by envisaging a double standard for those provisions, i. e., proscribing a broad range of public nudity when applied outside the First Amendment context and at the same time making operative the much narrower "obscenity" proscription of conduct performed in the theater. If Massachusetts were allowed to attribute such distinctly different interpretations to the same words in the same statute, there would be little sense in having the statute at all. This, however, is precisely what our dissenting brother anticipatesthat the Massachusetts courts would take into account the dramatic context to determine whether there is a "necessary or reasonable excuse" for an incident which would otherwise be "lewd, lascivious" behavior. The short answer is that such interpretation would still allow the state to interfere with non-obscene presentations, contrary to Roth and its progeny. Moreover, the present judgments which courts are called upon to make in applying the "obscenity" principle to works of artistic expression are difficult enough without conditioning criminal convictions on further judgments by courts as to dramatic relevance. Were culpability to depend on a defendant's ability to convince a court that there was a "reasonable excuse" for every scene which might be questioned, the chilling effect on theater generally would be of ice age proportions. We conclude that Massachusetts' "lewd and lascivious" proscription cannot be given a constitutionally permissible interpretation in the live theater context while retaining its much broader proscription for non-speech forms of lewd conduct, without running afoul of the constitutional requirement that limitations on speech-related activities must be narrowly drawn so as not to chill legitimate expression. Zwickler v. Koota, 389 U.S. 241, 250, 88 S. Ct. 391, 19 L. Ed. 2d 444 (1967), and cases cited.
Lest we be understood as saying that a state is helpless to protect itself against obscene portions of a live theater production, we point out that pandering can provide a basis for state intervention and that the admission of minors can be regulated. Beyond that, isolated acts in a play may be so dominant or offensive as to pervade or distort the production as a whole, thereby bringing the play within the state's power to proscribe "obscenity," as was held in Bercowitz, supra. In such a case, *766 however, the offensive portions would not be viewed in isolationas section 16 would permitbut only as part of the production as a whole, in accordance with the prevailing "obscenity" standards.
Since section 16 and the common law of indecent exposure employ "means which sweep unnecessarily broadly and thereby invade the area of protected freedoms," NAACP v. Alabama, 377 U.S. 288, 307, 84 S. Ct. 1302, 1314, 12 L. Ed. 2d 325 (1964), abstention would be inappropriate. Zwickler v. Koota, supra; Dombrowski v. Pfister, 380 U.S. 479, 489-490, 85 S. Ct. 1116, 14 L. Ed. 2d 22 (1965); Baggett v. Bullitt, 377 U.S. 360, 84 S. Ct. 1316, 12 L. Ed. 2d 377 (1964). The more difficult question is whether plaintiffs have shown those "special circumstances" which justify federal interference with a state's good faith enforcement of its criminal laws. Dombrowski v. Pfister, supra; Douglas v. City of Jeannette, 319 U.S. 157, 63 S. Ct. 877, 87 L. Ed. 1324 (1943). We recognize that comity restrains the exercise of federal equitable power, Dombrowski v. Pfister, supra 380 U.S. at 484, 85 S. Ct. 1116, and that injunctive relief should be granted only on a showing of harm "both great and immediate," Douglas v. City of Jeannette, supra 319 U.S. at 164, 63 S. Ct. at 881, but we conclude that the requisite showing has been made in this case.
Two factors influence our decision. First, the District Attorney has declared that he feels duty bound to prosecute if and when "Hair" is presented without making the deletions indicated by the Massachusetts court. See n. 4. Thus we cannot reasonably expect a single test case to settle the contours of the law. Compare Beale v. Missouri Pacific RR, 312 U.S. 45, 61 S. Ct. 418, 85 L. Ed. 577 (1941). On the contrary, each night's performance will offer the District Attorney new opportunities to carry out his declared intent. Moreover, there are a variety of conceivably lewd scenes in this play, some solemn, some bumptious, some open, some covert. To date, the District Attorney has identified seven acts which in his mind violate the statute. Acquittal for participation in one of these acts does not bar prosecution for different conduct in another scene. We may therefore expect multiple prosecutions against members of the cast. See Byrne v. Karalexis, 396 U.S. 976, 983, 90 S. Ct. 469, 24 L. Ed. 2d 447, 486 (1969) (Opinion of Stewart, J.).
In light of the uncertain implications of the Supreme Judicial Court's opinion as the District Attorney might interpret it, the threat of multiple prosecutions alone might justify federal intervention to vindicate constitutional rights. Cf. Ex parte Young, 209 U.S. 123, 147, 28 S. Ct. 441, 52 L. Ed. 714 (1908); Oklahoma Operating Co. v. Love, 252 U.S. 331, 336-337, 40 S. Ct. 338, 64 L. Ed. 596 (1920). In our case we have an additional factor, a chilling effect on the First Amendment right of plaintiffs, others engaged in the theater in Massachusetts, and the theater going public in the New England area. The actors in "Hair" must face either sentences of up to three years for sex offenses or, if the show closes, loss of their livelihood. Plaintiffs' dilemma cannot fail to influence other actors and producers, especially *767 since theater patrons may take offense from a variety of scenes, thus providing the prosecutor with a long shopping list. When faced with a prosecutor intent on extirpating lewdness in accordance with the mandate of the Supreme Judicial Court as he sees it, actors and producers will either avoid Boston altogether or will steer clear of the forbidden zone by excising constitutionally protected material in order to avoid the risk of a three year prison term. Either result is offensive to the First Amendment.
While these factors themselves constitute "irreparable injury", Dombrowski v. Pfister, supra 380 U.S. at 486, 85 S. Ct. 1116, we note also that plaintiffs face a substantial financial loss even if they persist in the face of multiple prosecutions and prevail. At present, the majority of advance ticket holders are willing to forego refunds in the hope that "Hair" will show again in Boston. But we agree with the court in Karalexis v. Byrne, 306 F. Supp. at 1367, that box office receipts can be expected to be smaller in the event of substantial delay, or, we may add, substantial disruption of scheduled performances. We therefore conclude that plaintiffs have demonstrated the kind of grave threat to protected expression which justifies federal equitable intervention as an alternative to repeated prosecutions.
We reach this conclusion despite the fact that the prosecutor in this case has shown no subjective bad faith. In Robinson v. Bradley, 300 F. Supp. 665 (D.Mass.1969), the author of this opinion commented in dicta that Dombrowski and its offspring, Cameron v. Johnson, 390 U.S. 611, 88 S. Ct. 1335, 20 L. Ed. 2d 182 (1965), could be read as requiring both a facially invalid statute and bad faith in order to justify federal intervention. On further consideration, the better view seems to be that either is sufficient. Cameron does emphasize the elements of bad faith in Dombrowski, but only in discussing whether bad faith enforcement of an admittedly valid statute would justify an injunction. Cameron v. Johnson, supra 390 U.S. at 618-619, 88 S. Ct. 1335. Moreover, the issue which both Cameron and Dombrowski address is whether constitutional rights are threatened with irreparable injury. We see little difference between the injury inflicted by multiple prosecutions brought to harass and the injury caused by multiple prosecutions motivated by a sincere desire to enforce the law. The chilling effect on protected expression is the same in either case. We therefore conclude that the threat of multiple prosecutions under an overly broad statute regulating speech is sufficient to justify federal equitable relief. Accord: Cambist Films, Inc. v. Illinois, 292 F. Supp. 185, 189 (N.D.Ill. 1968); Harris v. Younger, 281 F. Supp. 507, 510 (C.D.Cal.1968), restored to calendar, 395 U.S. 955, 89 S. Ct. 2095, 23 L. Ed. 2d 744 (1969); Maraist, Federal Injunctive Relief Against State Court Proceedings: The Significance of Dombrowski, 48 Texas L.Rev. 535, 583 n. 234 (Feb.1970).
In sum, live theater productions are not insulated from good faith prosecution under a statute which passes constitutional muster. But at the moment the people of Boston and much of New England are being denied the opportunity to judge the merits of "Hair" for themselves, not because it may be obscene but because of the promise of prosecution under section 16 and the common law crime of indecent exposure. All we hold is that those laws authorize greater state interference with the live theater than the First Amendment allows.
Defendant and his agents are enjoined from prosecuting "Hair" under either section 16 or the common law of indecent exposure, such injunction to issue in one week to give defendant, should he desire, the opportunity to apply to the Circuit Justice for a stay.
Opinion of Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, P. B. I. C., Inc. et al v. District Attorney of Suffolk County, April 9, 1970
In this case, reserved and reported without decision by a single justice, injunctive relief is sought against prosecution of the producers and members of the cast of a performance called "Hair," for violation of G.L. c. 272, §§ 16 and 32. Declaration is sought that prosecution would contravene various constitutional provisions. Each justice participating has seen the performance at the request of the parties. One scene shows members of the cast in the nude facing the audience. One nude male performer is bathed on stage. There is incidental stage action which a jury could conclude was clowning intended to simulate sexual intercourse or deviation. This appears to be less realistic than the conduct discussed in People v. Bercowitz, 308 N.Y.S.2d 1 (Cr.Ct.N.Y.). The play in various respects will be offensive to some persons. It constitutes, however, in some degree, an obscure form of protest protected under the First Amendment. Viewed apart from the specific incidents mentioned above, it is not lewd and lascivious, whatever other objections there may be to it. The incidents, already mentioned are separable from, and wholly unnecessary to, whatever theme this noisy, disorganized performance may have. Discretionary equitable jurisdiction, infrequently exercised, exists to restrain enforcement of an unconstitutional criminal statute or unconstitutional application of a valid statute. See Slome v. Chief of Police of Fitchburg, 304 Mass. 187, 188, 23 N.E.2d 133; Kenyon v. Chicopee, 320 Mass. 528, 531, 535, 70 N.E.2d 241. Reasonable doubts are asserted whether the statutes cited have application to dramatic performances (cf. Re Giannini, 69 Cal. 2d 563, 570-577, 72 Cal. Rptr. 655, 446 P.2d 535), and whether, if so applied, these statutes may be unconstitutionally vague. See Alegata v. Commonwealth, 353 Mass. 287, 293, 231 N.E.2d 201. Injunctive relief will be given, but, by analogy to the principle that he who seeks equity must do equity, the injunction, to be framed in the county court, shall be conditioned upon excision forthwith of the specified lewd features so as (a) to have each member of the cast clothed to a reasonable extent at all times, and (b) to eliminate completely all simulation of sexual intercourse or deviation. Nothing in this opinion or any injunction is to preclude prosecution for any misuse of the national flag, a matter not argued to us.
GARRITY, District Judge (dissenting).
I do not agree with the majority. I believe, in view of the recent trend toward nudity and performance of sexual acts on stage, that an occasion may arise in which a prosecution under Mass.G.L. c. 272, § 16, may be warranted and brought without conflicting with the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. Whether the Boston production of "Hair" presents such an occasion is not a controlling issue. Under the specific jurisdiction granted a three-judge district court by 28 U.S.C. § 2281, the court has ruled on the constitutionality of the statute as applied to theatrical productions generally and not on the merits or demerits of "Hair" (accordingly at the hearing the court declined plaintiffs' invitation to see the show). In my opinion, the statute proscribing open and gross lewdness is susceptible to a construction by the Massachusetts courts which would save it from overbroadness as applied to the theatre, Karalexis v. *769 Byrne, D.Mass., 1969, 306 F. Supp. 1363, 1367, and the court should therefore abstain from ruling on its constitutionality. Douglas v. City of Jeannette, 1943, 319 U.S. 157, 162-165, 63 S. Ct. 877, 87 L. Ed. 1324.
It is, of course, indisputable that live theatrical productions are protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments, Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson, 1952, 343 U.S. 495, 502-503, 72 S. Ct. 777, 96 L. Ed. 1098, and for purposes of this opinion I shall assume that the scope of this protection may ordinarily be determined only by application of the three-part obscenity test stated in A Book Named "John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" v. Attorney General of Com. of Massachusetts, 1966, 383 U.S. 413, 418, 86 S. Ct. 975, 16 L. Ed. 2d 1, as qualified by Ginzburg v. United States, 1966, 383 U.S. 463, 86 S. Ct. 942, 16 L. Ed. 2d 31. It is clear that the particular method of expression is highly relevant. As stated by Lumbard, C. J., dissenting in United States v. A Motion Picture Film Entitled "I Am Curious-Yellow", 2 Cir., 1968, 404 F.2d 196, 203, "Because of the nature of this medium, sexual scenes in a motion picture may transcend the bounds of constitutional protection long before a frank description of the same scenes in a book or magazine. Cf. Landau v. Fording, 245 Cal. App. 2d 820, 54 Cal. Rptr. 177 (1966), aff'd per curiam, 388 U.S. 456, 87 S. Ct. 2109, 18 L. Ed. 2d 1317 (1967)." Specific if cursory consideration must therefore be given to certain aspects of the theatre.
Live theatre is a unique medium of expression, quite different from literature, painting, music, movies and television. As stated by Elmer Rice, The Nature of Theatre in The Living Theatre, 27-28 (1959),
"Books, pictures, statutes are addressed to the solitary reader or viewer; music may be performed and enjoyed by one or two individuals. But plays are written to be communicated to a numerous group gathered in one place at one time. The organization and assemblage of the group call for a special set of procedures, and the difference between a collective response and an individual response is not only one of degree, but one of kind.
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"These two collective characteristics of the theatrethe audience and the executantsproduce a third: its public nature. Other works of art may be enjoyed not only by individuals, but in private. Failing a publisher or an exhibitor, a poem or a painting may be passed from hand to hand. Or, if it is considered subversive or indelicate, and hence socially unacceptable, it may be read or displayed in a locked room behind drawn blinds. But the essence of a dramatic performance is that it is public."
A theatrical production has a special impact upon the audience. J. B. Priestley, The Art of the Dramatist, 5, 10 (1957), described it as follows:
"We are looking at and listening to people who are known to us as actors and actresses, staying at the Midland, but who are also farmers' beautiful innocent daughters and rich glossy scoundrels from the big city. Everybody and everything on the stage have this double character; they are seen in the strange light and shadow of belief and disbelief; they belong to a heightened reality that we know to be unreal. It is this experience, unlike any other, that I call dramatic experience, and that the Theatre exists to provide for us.
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"Anybody in search of pure thought will be well advised not to sit in a building with a thousand other people, a large company of actors, and an orchestra; better find a quiet corner at home and read a few books. Even a Marxist playwright catering for a Marxist audience is not dealing in thoughtand, indeed, why should he when they are all in agreement and he cannot tell them anything they did not know before? Nobody in his senses *770 goes to the theatre to be told what to think. What we enjoy in the theatre is that particular kind of experience I call dramatic experience, to which we contribute by allowing our minds to function on two different levels at the same time."
The theatre's proximity and access to the audience and its immediacy and unpredictability have been noted in the majority opinion. These features are enhanced in some modern productions, of which "Hair" is a good example. At times the cast comes into the audience. During curtain calls at the end of the play the audience is encouraged to come onto the stage to dance with the cast. The action is often improvised. There is no indication in the script of "Hair", which contains numerous stage directions, that the cast will disrobe and stand facing the audience at the end of the first act; in this scene, which did not appear in the original or so-called "Cheetah" production of the show, each member of the cast decides for himself or herself at each performance whether or not to disrobe and face the audience. The immediacy of stage presentations obviously distinguishes the theatre from other media of communication which convey only "the description or representation of sexual matters," A Book Named "John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" v. Attorney General of Com. of Massachusetts, supra 383 U.S. at 418, 86 S. Ct. at 977.
Theatre patrons form a captive audience to an extent not comparable to readers who may put aside a book or magazine or even to moviegoers who usually come and go freely in the relative privacy and semidarkness of the movie playhouse. The typical theatre patron, perhaps influenced by the price he has paid for his ticket and reluctant to disturb persons next to and behind him, will normally stay at least to the end of any act in progress.
Young people are seldom if ever excluded from theatre audiences, as they are from seeing movies rated "X" or "R" by an association of motion picture producers. The producers of the Boston production of "Hair" made a faint effort to discourage attendance by children but none at all to exclude them. I doubt very much that the average patron of "Hair" is as forewarned of the content of the show and as willing to witness it as plaintiffs assumethe only evidence on this point was a collection of critical reviews phrased in generalities. He probably is aware of the nudity at the end of the first act, but not of the scene in the second act in which a nude male is bathed and fondled nor of the several simulated sex and unnatural acts. There is reason to believe that many customers are drawn by the music. As alleged in paragraph 5 of the complaint, "Two of the songs from the production have become contemporary classics, `The Age of Aquarius' having been utilized as a key theme by the Peace Corps in its public relations activities, and the song `Let the Sunshine In' having been adopted as the theme for The Summerthing Festival 1970 for the City of Boston. Both of these songs are repeatedly played over the air, used as production numbers on television and are on *771 various best seller lists of current records." The critical review in Newsweek magazine stated,
"Coupled with the large doses of advance publicity, it is the music, Galt McDermot's amalgam of pounding rock and Broadway melody, that has propelled `Hair' into its wide preacceptance. There are already nine `Hair' LP's and 60 groups have recorded songs from the show that are broadcast round the world."
The issue of the applicability to stage productions of statutes punishing open and gross lewdness is of more moment than it would have been a few years ago or even before the current "off-Broadway" season in New York City when a group of plays led David Merrick, the renowned producer, to write an article for the March, 1970 edition of The Reader's Digest entitled, "Must Smut Smother the Stage?" stating in part:
"In Oh! Calcutta! ten men and women stripped naked and acted out sexual perversions. And Puppy Dog Tails, a play about homosexuals, had a vapid story line used only as an excuse to have men go to bed together, giving the audience a brief view of their genitals. When the curtain went up on Fortune and Men's Eyes on opening night, the audience was treated to the sight of a man defecating. This was followed by a scene in which one nude boy rapes another in a shower, and then by a scene in which a boy masturbates while listening to the sounds of a boy he loves being whipped.
"Since the days when Romans were entertained by hired actors performing scenes of sodomy, rape and incest, the theater has labored to shed the ancient stigma of immorality. Only within the past few decades has that battle been won. And now, this!
"Alert to the possibility of public outrage, producers of the dirty shows generally attempt to dress their pornography in sociological or philosophical garments. Thus Fortune and Men's Eyes is set in a prison, and its scenes of homosexuality and masochism are presented as a plea for prison reform."
Whether theatrical producers and actors can be charged constitutionally with "open and gross lewdness and lascivious behavior" under Mass.G.L. c. 272, § 16, should take into account whether the show involved is obscene under the Memoirs-Ginzburg test. If it is, then the conduct on stage, even if expression, is not protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments and I see no sufficient reason why the defendants should not be charged with lewdness in addition to or alternatively to obscenity. This is not to deny that a cogent reason may be advanced for barring lewdness prosecutions even in cases of obscenity, viz., that the mere availability of the statute in some case will have a "chilling effect", Note, The Chilling Effect in Constitutional Law, 69 Colum.L.R. 808 (1969), upon freedom of expression in the theatre. But I am not persuaded. After all, the lewdness proscribed by § 16 does not mean dirty words or suggestive gestures. It means exposing the genital parts without necessary or reasonable excuse. Commonwealth v. Wardell, 1880, 128 Mass. 52, 53. Any playwrights desiring to convey their ideas by means of such exposure and any actors and actresses willing to undress completely in a public place as drafty as a theatre stage will not be easily chilled.
The writer, producer, actors and set designer of the "off-Broadway" play "Che" were, in People v. Bercowitz, supra (308 N.Y.S.2d p. 12), convicted of violating a lewdness statute substantially the same as the Massachusetts law, having also been convicted of violating Penal Law, McKinney's Consol.Laws, c. 40, § 235.05, the obscenity statute. *772 The New York statutes are helpful in a broader respect in that their location among the numerous criminal statutes enacted by that state indicates a distinction between the public interests protected by the two laws. The obscenity section appears in Article 235 entitled "Obscenity and Related Offenses" which is part of "Title MOffenses Against Public Health and Morals." The lewdness section appears in Article 245 entitled "Offenses Against Public Sensibilities" which is part of "Title NOffenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy." This distinction, in my view, may under some circumstance, given a prior or contemporaneous finding of obscenity, warrant distinct public vindication.
The particular public interest in restricting lewdness in the theatre as distinguished from controlling obscenity in literature and other art forms has not been analyzed in judicial opinions. It has been by R. Schechner, Pornography and the New Expression, in Public Domain, Essays on the Theatre, 140, 141 (1969) stating in part:
"In our culture we bring the family with us to the movies or theatre, and even our wildest dramas, say Lear and The Balcony, are essentially reassuring and passive as we produce them. Were we to go to the movies or theatre without depositing ourselves in the protective envelope of the family, our drama would rapidly become sexualized and orgiastic. A play like Peter Weiss' Marat/Sade, as it was produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company, is moving in this direction. But scenic taboos continue in the theatre (less in film) because letting go would be too dangerous; the performance which has traditionally included actors and audience would soon become, as in a tribal dance, one unified activity.
"The unique thing about theatre, of course, is that the actors are there. They never vanish into their characters. Like the Christian God who is three-in-one, every actor is two-in-one. It is this double existence that gives him his authenticity as actor. His role in our theatre is not very different from that of his primitive counterpart, who is at once dancer and god. Little overt sexuality is permitted onstage because the audience knows that what happens to the character also happens to the actor. One can understand why physical violence is feigned on stage: there are obligations to tomorrow's performance. But why not have nudity and lovemaking? It cannot simply be that human sexual response is an undependable mechanism. The Greeks, who accepted both sexuality and nudity in public life, maintained a strict decorum in their tragedies. It is that stage performance is always on the verge of tumbling from art back into life."
Assuming that a theatre production is not obscene, the problem is obviously more complex and is treated specifically in the majority opinion. Is an isolated (i. e., "separable from and wholly unnecessary to the theme or themes of the performance") lewd act in an otherwise non-obscene play necessarily protected expression under the First and Fourteenth Amendments? It is assumed that the production as a whole is not "utterly without redeeming social value" or that "the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole" appeals to some interest other than a prurient interest in sex. The majority answers the question affirmatively. I would not. On the assumptions stated, the act would not be "protected" because not an integral part of the production as a whole; nor "expression" because not communicative. "We cannot accept the view that an apparently limitless variety of conduct can be labeled `speech' whenever the person engaging in the conduct intends thereby to express an idea." United States v. *773 O'Brien, 1968, 391 U.S. 367, 376, 88 S. Ct. 1673, 1678, 20 L. Ed. 2d 672.
But, one might object, everything done on stage during a theatrical performance is part of an artistic whole and judges are not qualified to overrule playwrights and producers as to what is an integral part of a production and whether conduct is communicative. I suggest that such decisions are no more difficult than those required of courts under existing obscenity tests as to "dominant theme", "community standards" and "social value." Whether existing standards permit the excision of nudity and overt sexuality added to a production for no purpose except to shock and offend, is another question. United States v. A Motion Picture Film Entitled "I Am Curious-Yellow", supra, 404 F.2d at 199, says that they do but it does not say how, short of applying the three-pronged Memoirs test to the balance of the production from which the irrelevant nudity is presumably isolated,
"The exhibition in a motion picture of an isolated instance of sexual intercourse or of irrelevant nudity, which would indeed be equivalent to public display, could be halted under the established standards, just as could similar material if it appeared in print."
No precedent or other authority is cited by the court for the proposition stated. Other courts seem unaware of any authority under existing standards to treat isolated conduct differently from the whole production. On the contrary, in applying the existing standards the tendency seems to be that a finding of a nonprurient dominant theme or any redeeming social value in a play as a whole must end inquiry into the offensiveness of any particular act during the presentation, whether or not isolated from the remainder of the performance. See, e. g., In re Giannini, 69 Cal. 2d 563, 72 Cal. Rptr. 655, 661, 446 P.2d 535 (1968), Dixon v. Municipal Court of City & County of San Francisco, 267 Cal. App. 2d 789, 73 Cal. Rptr. 587 (Cal. App.1968).
One obvious source of difficulty in deciding the questions raised in this case is that the existing standards have evolved in cases dealing with books and magazines and, to a limited extent, movies. The fixed forms of these media of expression necessitate their being appraised in their entirety. No such necessity exists with respect to theatrical productions, which are given trial runs and frequently revised by the addition or excision of lines, actions or even entire scenes. This feature of the changeability and separability of the parts of a theatrical production may serve to shield it against censorship. Indeed, the availability of criminal prosecution for lewdness in the theatre was mentioned in this connection by George Bernard Shaw, who in the preface to his play, "The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet" (1909), discussed at length an inquiry into censorship by a Select Committee of both Houses of Parliament. In Shaw, Ten Short Plays 227 (1960), the noted playwright commented as follows about evidence given before the committee by Sir William Gilbert when asked whether a law sufficient to restrain impropriety in books would also restrain impropriety in plays:
"Sir William replied: `I should say there is a very wide distinction between what is read and what is seen. In a novel one my read that "Eliza stripped off her dressing-gown and stepped into her bath" without any harm; but I think if that were presented on the stage it would be shocking.' All the stupid and inconsiderate people seized eagerly on this illustration as if it were a successful attempt to prove that without a censorship we should be unable to prevent actresses from appearing naked on the stage. As a matter of fact, if an actress could be persuaded to do such a thing (and it would be about as easy to persuade a bishop's wife to appear in church in the same condition) the police would simply arrest her on a charge of indecent exposure. The extent to which this obvious safeguard *774 was overlooked may be taken as a measure of the thoughtlessness and frivolity of the excuses made for the censorship." (Emphasis added.)
Finally, there has been no indication that the Massachusetts courts will apply Mass.G.L. c. 272, § 16, automatically and blindly to every episode of nudity on the Boston stage. The rescript opinion of the Supreme Judicial Court in the "Hair" case recognized explicitly the relevant constitutional issues and segregated for special consideration incidents "separable from and wholly unnecessary to" the theme of the performance. It is well settled that a state statute must be construed consistently with state court decisions which have interpreted it. Musser v. Utah, 1948, 333 U.S. 95, 97, 68 S. Ct. 397, 92 L. Ed. 562. According to Commonwealth v. Wardell, supra, a violation of § 16 does not occur unless the exposure be "without necessary or reasonable excuse."
There is then sound basis in the Massachusetts law for anticipating that the Supreme Judicial Court will construe § 16 so that its applicability will depend on the relationship of the alleged violation to the theme or themes of the whole performance. If an integral part of the whole, a violation could occur only if the whole should be obscene under existing standards. If not an integral part, a violation would depend simply upon proof of the essential elements of the offense. This determination of the relationship of the alleged violation to the whole production would involve a test closely analogous to the first or "dominant theme" part of the three-pronged test for obscenity under existing standards. But if determined by this test to be isolated from the balance of the production, the court's inquiry into the essential elements of the offense would proceed without any need to explore and evaluate such considerations as "contemporary community standards" and "redeeming social value." Even as to an isolated alleged violation, surely there is room for distinctions to be drawn between scenes of naked forms merely silhouetted and unnatural acts executed in plain view. Its setting, duration, lighting on stage and other attendant circumstances, as well as consideration of any claimed expressive elements, might all combine to furnish a "necessary or reasonable excuse." In my understanding this is not a constitutionally over-broad standard when considered in terms of the very limited range of its applicability. As noted above, we are talking only about that wee area of possible First Amendment protection which finds its alleged expressive outlet in the exposition on a theatre stage of a person's private parts.NOTES
Mass.Gen.Laws Ann. c. 272 § 16
"A man and woman who, not being married to each other, lewdly and lasciviously associate and cohabit together, or a man or woman, married or unmarried, who is guilty of open and gross lewdness and lascivious behavior, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than three years or in jail for not more than two years or by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars."
Mass.Gen.Laws Ann. c. 272 § 32 (Supp. 1969)
"Whoever, as owner, manager, director, agent or in any other capacity, prepares, advertises, gives, presents or participates in any lewd, obscene, indecent, immoral or impure show or entertainment, or in any show or entertainment suggestive of lewdness, obscenity, indecency, immorality or impurity, or in any show or entertainment manifestly tending to corrupt the morals of youth, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than two years or by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, or both. The provisions of this section shall not apply to a motion picture operator, or assistant operator, licensed under sections seventy-five and seventy-six of chapter one hundred and forty-three, respectively, who is employed in a motion picture theatre licensed under section one hundred and eighty-one of chapter one hundred and forty and section thirty-four of chapter one hundred and forty-three, in connection with a motion picture show exhibited in said theatre, provided that such operator, or assistant operator, has no financial interest in the motion picture theatre wherein he is so employed."
P.B.I.C., Inc., and Natoma Productions, Inc., both corporations duly organized under the laws of the State of Illinois, Frank Butler, Jory Richardson, Marjorie Dunaway, Brooke Lappin, and Morton L. Leavy, are all partners associated in a limited partnership operating under the name and style of "The New Hair Company", of which Natoma Productions, Inc., is the general partner. Plaintiff Donald Francis Tirabassi is presently employed by the above partnership and is acting as assistant manager of the musical stage production "Hair". Plaintiff Marlena Langston is a member of the cast of "Hair"; she sues on behalf of herself and all members of the cast.
Specifically, the injunctive relief was
"conditioned upon excision forthwith of the specified lewd features so as (a) to have each member of the cast clothed to a reasonable extent at all times, and (b) to eliminate completely all simulation of sexual intercourse or deviation."
The "specified lewd features" referred to two scenes involving nudity and "incidental stage action which a jury could conclude was clowning intended to simulate sexual intercourse or deviation." The District Attorney has interpreted this as a mandate to prosecute if any one of seven specific scenes is played.
Indeed, the opinion reflects the fact that constitutional issues were briefed and argued to the extent of asserting "reasonable doubts" as to the applicability of section 16 and its constitutionality if applicable. To draw the inference that the court, in the light of this background, ruled on either point by implication is, to our mind, less reasonable than that it merely did what it said it did, i. e., required the plaintiffs to wash their hands before invoking the office of the Chancellor. We feel no compulsion to read into this opinion the adjudication of an important constitutional question.
Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson, 343 U.S. 495, 72 S. Ct. 777, 96 L. Ed. 1098 (1952); Kingsley Pictures Corp. v. Regents, 360 U.S. 684, 79 S. Ct. 1362, 3 L. Ed. 2d 1512 (1959); Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184, 84 S. Ct. 1676, 12 L. Ed. 2d 793 (1964); Freedman v. Maryland, 380 U.S. 51, 85 S. Ct. 734, 13 L. Ed. 2d 649 (1965); Interstate Circuit, Inc. v. City of Dallas, 390 U.S. 676, 88 S. Ct. 1298, 20 L. Ed. 2d 225 (1968).
It has been settled that a state may regulate the distribution or presentation of offensive material to adolescents even though such material may fall short of being "obscene". Ginsberg v. New York, 390 U.S. 629, 634-643, 88 S. Ct. 1274, 20 L. Ed. 2d 195 (1968). However, it is equally well settled that a state may not confine its adult population to only those books, movies, and plays which are permissible for adolescent consumption. E. g., Butler v. Michigan, 352 U.S. 380, 77 S. Ct. 524, 1 L. Ed. 2d 412 (1957).
Interstate Circuit, Inc. v. Dallas, 390 U.S. at 704-707, 88 S. Ct. 1298 (opinion of Harlan, J., collecting prior Court decisions).
The question was not reached in Interstate Circuit Inc. v. Dallas, 390 U.S. at 686-687, n. 15, 88 S. Ct. 1298. However, numerous recent lower court decisions have focused on the Memoirs analysis in assessing the "obscenity" of a motion picture. E. g., Commonwealth v. State Amusement Corp., 248 N.E.2d 497 (Mass.1969); United States v. One Carton Positive Motion Picture Film Entitled "491", 367 F.2d 889 (2d Cir. 1966); United States v. A Motion Picture Film Entitled "I am Curious-Yellow", 404 F.2d 196, 199, 203 (2d Cir. 1968); Schackman v. Arnebergh, 258 F. Supp. 983, 991-992, 995 (C.D.Cal.1966), appeal dismissed, 387 U.S. 427, 87 S. Ct. 1622, 18 L. Ed. 2d 865 (1967), reh'g denied, 389 U.S. 893, 88 S. Ct. 16, 19 L. Ed. 2d 204 (1967); Pinkus v. Arnebergh, 258 F. Supp. 996, 1001, 1002, 1005 (C.D. Cal.1966); Cambist Films, Inc. v. Tribell, 293 F. Supp. 407, 410 (E.D.Ky. 1968); 208 Cinema, Inc. v. Vergari, 298 F. Supp. 1175, 1179 (S.D.N.Y.1969); United States v. A Motion Picture Film Entitled "Pattern of Evil", 304 F. Supp. 197, 201 (S.D.N.Y.1969); United States v. Apple, 305 F. Supp. 330, 331-332 (D. Md.1968), aff'd, 417 F.2d 1070 (4th Cir. 1969); Ratner v. Weddle, 307 F. Supp. 471, 472 (C.D.Cal.1968); McGrew v. City of Jackson, Miss., 307 F. Supp. 754 (S.D.Miss.1969).
The Memoirs standards have been applied to protect other forms of entertainment. E. g., Hudson v. United States, 234 A.2d 903 (Dist.Col.App.1967) (burlesque show); In re Giannini, 69 Cal. 2d 563, 72 Cal. Rptr. 655, 446 P.2d 535 (1968) ("topless" dance).
Commonwealth v. Broadland, 315 Mass. 20, 22, 51 N.E.2d 961 (1943). More recently, the Supreme Judicial Court relied in part on a case involving a conviction for the common law offense to sustain a conviction for a violation of section 16, indicating the interchangeability with which the Supreme Judicial Court views the two offenses. Commonwealth v. Dickinson, 348 Mass. 767, 202 N.E.2d 240 (1964).
The fact that all fifty states have statutes similar and often identical to section 16, and that these have almost entirely escaped challenge loses force when we are told that they have not been applied to theatrical performances. See specifically Barrows v. Municipal Court of Los Angeles, supra. The ancestor of section 16 was first enacted in 1784 and, so far as we know, has not until now been used to police a dramatic performance.
In overturning three lower court determinations of "obscenity", the Court in Redrup v. New York, 386 U.S. 767, 769, 87 S. Ct. 1414, 1415, 18 L. Ed. 2d 515 (1967), attached significance to the fact that
"In none [of the three cases] was there any suggestion of an assault upon individual privacy by publication in a manner so obtrusive as to make it impossible for an unwilling individual to avoid exposure to it."
Our concern can be illustrated by section 53 of Chapter 272 of the Massachusetts General Laws, which, inter alia, prohibits lewd, wanton and lascivious speech or behavior. Defendant promises not to prosecute under this section, although he suspects that the first act of "Hair" contains much that is indictable under it. He does not fear "the application of free speech tests", but he believessensibly, we might addthat rational communication can survive resort to epithet and invective. Legally, however, "Hair" and not a few other plays are, on this theory, subject to being closed down if the offending language is not excised. See also section 36 of Chapter 272, surely of dubious constitutionality if applied to the live theater.
In re Giannini, 72 Cal. Rptr. at 661, followed in Barrows v. Municipal Court, 83 Cal. Rptr. at 825.
While discussing Bercowitz, our dissenting brother attaches significance to the fact that the performers there were found guilty of violating a "lewdness" statute similar to section 16. However, such finding was made, without discussion, only after the court had concluded that the play as a whole was obscene and thus unprotected. Whatever may be said for the view that "lewdness" statutes can be applied to live theater productions which are first judged "obscene" as a whole, it seems clear that those statutes without such prerequisite specifically incorporated are overbroad as applied to the live theater. See Zwickler v. Koota, supra 389 U.S. at 250, 88 S. Ct. 391 and cases cited therein.
Defendant has alluded to the Anti-Injunction statute, 28 U.S.C. § 2283. This statute does not apply in this case. Only one state court proceeding, the action for an injunction, is still pending, no final order having yet been entered by the Supreme Judicial Court. Our order will not stay those proceedings in any way. The prosecutions with which we are concerned have not yet been instituted.
No purpose will be served by discussing separately in this opinion the common law crime of indecent exposure, which dates back at least to 1663 when a defendant was indicted at common law for showing his nude body in a balcony in Covent Garden before a number of people. LeRoy v. Sidley, 1 Sid. 168, 82 Eng.Reprint 1036. The controlling considerations seem to be the same.
E. g., an actor clad in a tank type bathing suit climbs over persons in the audience and stops in front of a woman patron, spreading his legs and half sitting in her lap.
The ultimate in improvisation appears to have been authorized by the producers of "Che", People v. Bercowitz, 308 N.Y.S.2d 1, p. 7, NYC Crim.Ct., Feb. 25, 1970, in which a stage direction permitted the cast "to perform any sex act on stage at any time, if they felt spontaneously that actual sex would enhance the realism of their performance."
The same may almost certainly be said of much of the language, e. g., the song: "Sodomy Fallatio Cunnilingus Pederasty Father Why do these words Sound so Nasty? Masturbation Can be fun Join the holy orgy Kama sutra everyone" and the conversation about the weather in which the word "fuck" appears six times in six lines.
New York Penal Law, "§ 245.00 Public Lewdness. A person is guilty of public lewdness when, in a public place, he intentionally exposes the private or intimate parts of his body in a lewd manner or commits any other lewd act."
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Even before it was acquired by Adobe, Flash was used by artists to create content for After Effects. Flash has easy animation tools, vector morphing, almost-instant rendering, and a sophisticated scripting language called ActionScript. For many, ActionScript is the key benefit of Flash. True, After Effects has Expressions (written in another scripting language), but they aren’t as powerful or versatile as ActionScript programs. But if you know ActionScript or work with someone who does, you probably learned the hard way that it doesn’t export to After Effects…that is, until Flash CS3! With CS3, you can finally bring your scripted Flash movies into After Effects, Premiere Pro, and other applications. Here’s how:
STEP 1 Create Your Flash Movie
Flash uses square pixels, not the nonsquare ones used by After Effects for NTSC and PAL video. So if you want your movie to fill the entire screen, make it 720×540 for NTSC and 768×576 for PAL. Those are for standard video. For widescreen DV, use 768×576 for NTSC and 1024×576 for PAL.
STEP 2 Add ActionScript
There are several ways to do this: You can write the script in the same file as your animation, or link to a script in an external file. To keep things simple, we decided to write our script in the same file. Click in the first frame of the Timeline and choose Window>Actions from the menu, then type your script. If you don’t know ActionScript, you can download our file used here by going to http://layersmagazine.wpengine.com and navigating to the Downloads section.
STEP 3 Test Your Movie
To test the movie, choose Control>Test Movie from the menu. As you can see, our movie draws random circles on the screen. This would be time-consuming to do with standard animation, but our short script makes it a snap.
STEP 4 Save Export File in QuickTime Format
Choose File>Export>Export Movie to export the movie for After Effects. In the Export Movie dialog, choose a location on your hard drive where you want the file to be saved, enter a filename, and choose QuickTime from the Format drop-down. Then click the Save button.
STEP 5 QuickTime Export File Settings
In the QuickTime Export Settings dialog, check the Ignore Stage Color (Generate Alpha Channel) option. This will export your movie with a transparent background so that you can overlay it on other footage in After Effects. Don’t click the Export button yet.
STEP 6 The Movie Never Stops
Movies made with ActionScript often don’t rely on the Timeline for animation. As you can see, our movie (top) has no Tweening in the Timeline (as opposed to the one on the bottom, which uses standard animation instead of ActionScript). If you run our movie, it never stops; it would run forever if you didn’t close its window. But we don’t want to bring an infinitely long movie into After Effects.
STEP 7 Set 15-Second Animation
Our After Effects project calls for a 15-second animation, so in the Stop Exporting section of the QuickTime Export Settings dialog, select After Time Elapsed and type 15 in the field.
STEP 8 Adjust Movie Settings
If you want to choose compression settings (and other advanced QuickTime options), click the QuickTime Settings button. This will open the Movie Settings dialog. (If left at their defaults, these settings produce results that are suitable for broadcast.) Once you’ve finished adjusting these settings, click OK to close the Movie Settings dialog, and then click the Export button in the QuickTime Export Settings dialog.
STEP 9 Import File into After Effects
In After Effects, choose File>Import>File and select the QuickTime movie on your hard drive. If the Interpret Footage dialog appears, choose Straight – Unmatted as the Alpha channel type and then click OK. (We also imported a standard video to play under our Flash-generated file.)
STEP 10 Adjust Composition Settings
Choose Composition>New Composition from the menu. We chose NTSC DV from the Preset drop-down and entered 1000 (10 seconds) in the Duration field. Click OK when you’re done adjusting Composition Settings.
STEP 11 Drag Files into the Composition
Drag the Flash-generated file (and any other footage you’d like to use) into the Composition. We dragged our standard footage first, then we dragged in the Flash file.
STEP 12 Add a Bevel Effect
In this example, we’ve applied a bevel effect to the Flash footage: Select the footage in the Timeline and then choose Effect>Perspective>Bevel Alpha.
STEP 13 Use Flash Footage as a Matte
As an alternative, you can use the Flash footage as a matte. We used three layers: on the bottom, a black-and-white, blurred video; above that, a color version; and on top, the Flash footage. Next, we clicked the Toggle Switches/Modes button at the bottom of the Timeline to toggle to Modes view, and in the color layer’s track matte drop-down menu, we chose the Flash footage as an Alpha matte.
STEP 14 Precompose Top Layers; Add Drop Shadow
Finally, we selected the top two layers, precomposed them (Layer>Pre-compose), and applied a drop shadow effect (Effect>Perspective>Drop Shadow) to the resulting Pre-comp 1 layer.
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Create a Strategy for Creating a Strategy
In the competitive marketplace, a leader has the challenge to lead an organization to help it achieve their goals. Every company is competing for market shares, customers, and suppliers. Each year, they are challenged by their stakeholders to do better than they did the prior year. To succeed, a leader needs to focus on business as usual and at the same time spend time thinking about the future.
As Peter Drucker said, “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” How do we best focus on strategy?
Visualize the future
What is the purpose of the company? Are you doing what you set out to do? What do you want to achieve? What does success means to the company?
Spend time on strategy each day
It is easy to get caught up with the business-as-usual (BAU) activities on a daily basis, but if you do too much of BAU, there will be no time left to think of a strong strategy. I always spend 30 mins of my day thinking about strategy. I ask myself the question, what did I do to contribute to our strategy? I need to make sure I’m contributing to our strategy on a daily basis.
Train your direct reports
You cannot do it alone. To succeed, you need to inspire your people to help you achieve the goal. Mentor and coach them to help them raise their overall abilities.
I set up a workshop and invited the key contributors to my team. I include people who report to my direct reports. I shared my vision and list the five areas that we need to work on. I then let the team brainstorm and come up with ideas of what we need to do to achieve the vision. The team walked away connected to the strategy because they were involved and had a hand in it.
The purpose of strategy is to create a competitive advantage. This could be done through efficiency, innovation, and collaboration. It is important for every company to set strategy that enables them to achieve their goal. It is the leader’s responsibility to lead a strategic planning that helps the company achieve its goal.
Now that you have learned that strategy is important, what would do differently?
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I was surfing various leadership blogs the other day and ran across an interesting post from Tony Morgan on 4 stages of leadership. Rather than looking at a leader moving through various stages in his/her career, I prefer to look at it as various “hats” that a leader has to wear, given the context and need of the situation.
The first hat of leadership is self leadership. This is a hat for all seasons! Self leadership involves developing the skills and abilities to set goals for yourself, to recognize the points of power you have to help you accomplish your goals and influence others, and to recognize and move beyond the assumed constraints, or self-limiting beliefs, that you’ve created for yourself over the years. Self leadership is independent of any formal position of leadership. If you can breathe, you can be a self leader!
The second hat of leadership is leading others. This hat utilizes various styles of leadership to influence others in order to help them accomplish their individual goals or the goals of the organization. This hat is often used when a leader is in a formal position of authority with direct reports, but it can also be worn by an individual contributor who has to collaborate with and accomplish work through others. A leader in this context needs to flex his or her style to meet the developmental needs of the followers. A second hat leader uses a combination of directive and supportive behaviors to bring out the best in his or her people.
Leading teams is the third hat of leadership. When two or more people are mutually dependent and accountable for achieving a particular goal, you have a team. Wearing the hat of team leadership involves not only using second hat leadership in your 1 to 1 interactions with team members, it involves managing the productivity and morale of the team as a whole. The team leader has to monitor team dynamics and modify his or her leadership style to keep the team moving to higher levels of performance.
The fourth hat is leading organizations. Leaders in this context have to be acutely aware of their own leadership points of view, setting the vision/mission of the organization, the nuances of managing other leaders, and how to implement and manage change within the organization. Competencies of fourth hat leadership involve strategic thinking, innovation, creativity, and having a global mindset.
Any one particular type of hat isn’t appropriate for every social situation. Nor is any one particular type of leadership appropriate for every organizational context. You wouldn’t wear a top hat to a baseball game would you? No! A baseball cap would be much more appropriate. The same is true with the hats of leadership in organizations. You have to develop the skills and abilities of each of the leadership hats so that you can quickly switch between them as the situation demands.
So which hat are you wearing? Is it the right one?
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Lord, we thank You for MLA Hon. Rich Coleman and we are grateful that he was re-elected to another term in our Legislature and will be able to continue to employ the many years of experience he has to make British Columbia an even better place. We pray that You would continue to give him wisdom and lead and guide him in accomplishing all the priorities that he must tackle in the portfolios he has responsibility for. May he have a restful and revitalizing summer with friends and family. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Rich Coleman was re-elected for a fifth term as MLA for Fort Langley-Aldergrove on May 14, 2013.
Rich was appointed Deputy Premier and the Minister of Natural Gas Development and Minister Responsible for Housing on June 10, 2013.
He is currently vice-chair of the Cabinet Working Group on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), and the Priorities and Planning Committee. He is a member of the Treasury Board, the Cabinet Committee on Strong Economy, and the Environment and Land Use Committee.
Rich’s previous cabinet positions include Minister of Energy, Mines and Natural Gas and Minister Responsible for Housing, Deputy Premier, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General and Minister Responsible for Housing, Minister of Housing and Social Development and Minister of Forests and Range.
Rich’s dedication and passion for public service was shaped by his parents—a father who was a civil servant and a mother who was school teacher. They taught their children that community came first, and that serving others was the noblest thing a person could commit themselves to. That community-first attitude has guided Rich his entire life.
Before entering public life, Rich was governor of the BC Kinsmen, president of the Aldergrove Chamber of Commerce, Langley’s 1988 Volunteer of the Year, and a director on several volunteer boards. As a member of the Aldergrove Kinsmen Club in the 1980s, Rich oversaw the volunteer fundraising and construction efforts that built the Aldergrove Kinsmen Community Centre, a vital community facility which houses a preschool, library, workout area, and meeting space. The Club was also involved in building a successful housing project in Aldergrove. Rich is a life member of the Kinsmen.
In recognition of his tireless and long-term work in the community, Rich has been awarded both Rotary’s top honour, the Paul Harris Fellowship, and the Kinsmen’s highest honour, the Hal Rogers Fellowship. Rich was the second person ever honoured with the Hal Rogers—the first being Kin founder Hal Rogers himself.
Rich and his wife Michele live in the Fraser Valley.
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This is the OLED display we will be using in future lessons. Please go ahead and order it so you will have it for next week’s lesson:
You guys can help me out over at Patreon, and that will help me keep my gear updated, and help me keep this quality content coming:
In this class we will be using the Sunfounder Raspberry Pi Pico W Keppler Kit. It will make things a lot easier if we are working on identical hardware. the link below is to amazon, and is for the identical hardware I will be using in this entire class.
In this introductory video, I will show you how to use the lcd1602 LCD Display with the dht11 temperature sensor and the Raspberry Pi Pico W. We will create a simple project for measuring temperature and humidity, and then displaying results on the LCD display. Then we will toggle between degrees C and degrees F using the pushbutton. We will show how to power portable devices with the power management board, and a rechargeable LiPo battery. We will implement the project using micropython. Enjoy!
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- Free returns
- Secure payments
- In stock, ready to ship
- Inventory on the way
our intoxicating perfume oil fragrance made with essential oils in a convenient and easy to use roll-on vial. 1/8 oz
paraben, sulfate, phthalate, phosphate & gluten free. cruelty free. vegan.
recyclable packaging. eu compliant. made in the u.s.a.
fragrance/parfum, hexyl cinnamal, benzyl benzoate, benzyl cinnamate, benzyl salicylate, butylphenyl methylpropional, citronellol, eugenol, geraniol, limonene, linalool, hydroxycitronellal, benzyl alcohol.
Use collapsible tabs for more detailed information that will help customers make a purchasing decision.
Ex: Shipping and return policies, size guides, and other common questions.
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Carbs are not the ENEMY. In fact, no food is. You just need to know when and how to eat them!
Today’s story featured my homemade yogurt parfait.
170 g Ziggys plain milk yogurt
50 g Safeway berry blend mix
35 grams Safeway organics Cherry decadent Trail mix
A good time to eat carbs is after a workout because your muscles use their glycogen stores for the energy they need while you’re working out. When you eat carbs after an intense training session they will be used to refill these glucogen stores which can also help to grow your muscles and to enhance your recovery.
Don’t know where to start your wellness journey? Sign up and get my newsletter with my free two-week wellness challenge. Click here to subscribe NOW!
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The very talented Brussels/Berlin singer-songwriter Marie Reiter has gotten on our radar with the first single of her upcoming second album Cosmos. And it’s been living at the bottom of my submission pool (sorry!!!) but nonetheless, I’m excited to share this amazing track with you all.
“You” is a fuzzy pop track about love and desperation, with soothing vocals and complexity behinds the lyrics. It’s perfect, and sad, and sweet at all the same time.
Let this be your hipster, melancholic Monday lullaby.
Listen to “You” below x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is the next major step in the evolution of Red Hat’s Linux-based, enterprise-ready operating system, promising lots of new features and numerous improvements, along with much-needed hardened code and security fixes to make RHEL more stable, reliable, and supported across all infrastructures.
Major highlights of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 release include a new concept for delivering userspace packages with greater flexibility and more easily, called Application Streams. Red Hat says application streams won’t impact the underlying stability of the operating system, nor specific, user-customized deployments.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 will also introduce more efficient Linux networking for containers via IPVLAN interfaces, a brand new TCP/IP stack that features bandwidth and round-trip propagation time (BBR) congestion control, along with support for the latest OpenSSL 1.1.1 and TLS 1.3 security protocols.
Talking about security, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 promises to make managing cryptographic compliance easier from a single prompt thanks to the implementation of system-wide cryptographic policies. Moreover, it will support LUKSv2, which, in combination with Network-Bound Disk Encryption (NBDE), will offer more robust data security.
Other noteworthy features coming to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 are an all-new volume-managing file system called Stratis, which can be used for more sophisticated data management, file system snapshots, the next generation Yum 4 package manager, better support for Linux containers, and a single, consistent user control panel.
Submitted by: Arnfried Walbrecht
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Datuk Suhaimi Mohd Zain, or better known as Pak Ngah (26 September 1958 – 25 September 2018) was a Malaysian songwriter and record producer. He was famous for introducing Malaysian music, after being introduced by Datuk Sharifah Aini to the mainstream through the song “Nostalgia Aidilfitri” (1993). After that, his work was presented by many famous singers, including Noraniza Idris, Datuk Jamal Abdillah, Dato ‘Sri Siti Nurhaliza and Syura Badron. He died in Batam City, Indonesia on September 25, 2018 due to a heart attack, the day before his 60th birthday.
Online Distribution by Legato Music
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Vitra’s Tabouret Bois bears the unmistakable signature of designer Jean Prouvé, reflecting an aesthetic that is based on structural requirements. This sturdy stool functions perfectly as a side table or additional seating.
Seat Diameter: 13.8"
Seat and base are constructed with solid wood with oiled finish in natural oak, core smoked oak, or American walnut. Connecting element made powder-coated sheet steel in deep black.
Designed by Jean Prouvé in 1941 for Vitra.
Shipping: Estimated lead time of 12–16 weeks.
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All our wash gloves are made with non-woven material. Non-woven is light-weight, strong and also soft. Lekko uses non-wovens in various compositions and grammages.
For example, non-wovens of 100% polyester or 100% viscose, or a mix of these two. Also other material like bamboo or airlaid is possible.
Choice of non-woven composition, texture, thickness and weight is generally dependent on the ultimate purpose of the finished product and your specific requirements.
Packaging is designed according to your wishes. We manufacture private label and all products including packaging are designed in co-creation with our customers.
The dry wash gloves can also be made from a biodegradable material.
Would you like to know more about biodegradable? click here:
You would be surprised to learn how many varieties of disposable wash gloves Lekko is able to offer. The material...View
Custom packaging is also agreed for our customers. Outer boxes are provided with customer-specific information, so that they can precisely monitor deliveries in their own warehouse. In consultation with our customers, we ensure that we can deliver directly from our warehouse.
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Dr. James Naismith's Medicine Dosage Cups and Dental Kit
Believed to be from the time period around the first World War. Carried and used by Dr. Naismith. Two glass dosage cups housed in cloth carry bag. One dental instrument and a tweezer housed in a leather snap case.
Past Sports Card, Memorabilia, Non-Sports Card and Collecitble Auction Items
Other past auction items that may be of interest to you.
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Instant Coffee Entertainers
The life of the party! Whether your guests like black coffee or cappuccino or even no coffee at all (delicious hot chocolate anyone?) there is something for everyone. Or just treat yourself to a veritable carousel of delicious coffee experiences, all created just by adding hot water!
Not sure what to get? We also offer Gift Certificates in any denomination.
Latest Blog Post
These volcanic soil coffees are delicious and diverse... Read more...
The Araku Valley of India
India's coffee tradition goes back 400 years or more, when a variety called Kent was first established in the Southern Hills. Arabicas predominated until the blight of 1870, when growers needed to hybridize to resistant varieties. The resultant strains had genes from Liberica and other unique, resistant species. Learn more and browse India's Araku Valley coffees here.
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Nigel Pivaro is now a journalist as well as an actor. He was born in 1959 in Manchester. He is a graduate of RADA. In 1983 he won the part of Terry Duckworth in “Coronation Street”. He stayed with the series for four years but has returned many times since, the last being in 2008 when he turned up at the funeral of his mother Vera. Other TV credits includes “Hetty Wainthorp Investigates” and “Expert Witness”.
Article by Chris Hill in EDP:
As Coronation Street’s bad boy Terry Duckworth, he enjoyed a long screen career which would be the envy of many aspiring actors.
But these days Nigel Pivaro’s role in life is very different to the one which made him famous – after he followed his passion for politics and current affairs to become a journalist.
So the soap star-turned-reporter was clearly in his element as he spent a day in the EDP’s Norwich newsroom during a break from rehearsals for the Lowestoft pantomime which will bring him back to the stage for the first time in six years.
Nigel will revel in his traditional “baddy” character when he plays the evil Abanazer in the Marina Theatre’s production of Aladdin, which starts on Tuesday.Nigel Pivaro reading the EDP during his day at Prospect House. Picture: Simon Finlay
It is a rare return to the stage after he switched careers to become a journalist in 2006, cutting his teeth on the Manchester Evening News before becoming a freelancer for national newspapers including the Daily Star, Daily Mirror and Daily Express.
The 53-year-old has recently returned from a seven-month stint in the Middle East, reporting on the Syrian uprising and the horrors inflicted on the country’s people by the dictatorship of President Assad.
And although he only had a few days before his seasonal return to the theatre, Nigel didn’t want to miss the opportunity of visiting the country’s biggest-selling regional morning paper – taking part in the editorial conference and even accepting an assignment to report on a story for the EDP.
He said: “I am delighted to be able to spend a day with such a great paper.
“I have been doing this for six years and I love it. I have always had my ear to the ground, and I just love meeting people. As an actor, you have to communicate with people, so there are those inherent skills. You must be interested in people to be an actor and, as a journalist, you also have to be interested in the human condition.”
Nigel said he now got more satisfaction from seeing his by-line in newsprint than from seeing his name on the credits for a TV show.
“I do, because it is you and your work,” he said. “It is not Nigel Pivaro and a cast of 20 or 30 other people. It is Nigel Pivaro who found that story, went to talk to those people and then got it published. It is your own thing.”
Before achieving his journalism accreditation, Nigel completed a degree in contemporary military and international history, followed by a Masters in international relations, specialising in terrorism.
As well as his newspaper work, he has also presented documentary films, including “Regeneration Game” in 2007 which challenged a government housing renewal programme in his home town of Salford.
“The Middle East is my real passion,” he said. “But I had to learn how to be a journalist first, building up my contacts, and then go out.
“I am sure people along the way will think: ‘But he’s an actor, isn’t he?’ But I have always fought through that.
“It can be a hurdle, but it can help as well. Acting can be complementary to reporting. I’ve had doors slammed in my face, the same as a lot of people, but with me I sometimes get: ‘Look who it is’, and you will be there chatting about something else until you start talking about what you were there for, whether it is a fire or a death.”
Earlier this year, Nigel was tempted back to Weatherfield to reprise his Coronation Street role as the troublesome son of Jack Duckworth, played by the late Bill Tarmey, who Nigel described as a “great mate” and “like a father figure”.
After that 21-episode run, a booking at Lowestoft’s Marina Theatre soon followed – but the actor is very clear where his heart lies.
“I am a journalist,” he said. “That is my day job, but this is a bit of light relief to go back to what I used to do for a while. A change is as good as a rest. I always play the villain, of course. One day I will play the ‘goodie’. I had a go at it once 10 years ago, but it didn’t feel right.
“I am looking forward to it. The Marina Theatre has pulled off this fantastic battle for survival. It is a lovely theatre in a lovely town, and the people are absolutely wonderful.”
The above article can also be accessed online here.
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In March 2022, 350.org supported a #StopEACOP tour in Europe, bringing fours activists from Uganda to raise awareness of the impact of EACOP on their communities and on our climate. The delegation visited France, Germany, Switzerland and the Vatican and met 16 financial and political institutions as well as government officials, UN representatives and the Pope.
The African #StopEACOP tour members were facilitated on the ground by European climate activists, in protests, actions, interviews and meetings. Stacy Algrin, a 26-year-old French climate activist and journalist was among them. Stacy became aware of environmental issues growing up in the French city of Berre l’Étang, where a petrochemical plant behind her house caused constant pollution and smells. The more she understood about the damage caused by the plant, the more of an activist she became.
Today, Stacy works to raise awareness of the climate crisis. In early 2022, for example, she organised 40 volunteers taking part in a two-month long educational action on just transition policies, in preparation for France’s presidential elections.
Stacy who is a big fan of creative tactics and performance also joined the #StopEACOP tour campaign in 2022.
She joined the Ugandan delegation in many meetings, including with members of the European Parliament from France and around Europe. She is particularly proud of the outcomes of those meetings, which led politicians and the European Parliament to criticise the EACOP project.
“For some of them, it was one of the first times that they got to hear about this climate bomb. But surely not the last! 350.org is a key actor in this fight, they operate like no other organisation does: through a ‘learning by doing’ process, very close and available to those on the ground, and with very effective ways of sharing their experience and learnings.”
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For students looking for copies of the ACTEX & ASM Study Manuals, here is a comprehensive list of titles owned in book form by the Library at the Chicago Auditorium (AUD) and Schaumburg Robin (SCH) Campuses:
A.S.M. Study Manual - SOA Exam MLC: Life Contingencies, 2011 Edition, vol. 1 & 2 RESERVE SCH & AUD HG8781 .W458 2011
A.S.M. Study Manual - SOA Exam MFE & CAS Exam 3F: Financial Economics; 2012 Edition RESERVE SCH HG8781 .W4567 2012
A.S.M. Study Manual - SOA Exam FM & CAS Exam 2: Financial Mathematics & Financial Economics; 2011 Edition RESERVE SCH HG8781 .C445 2011
A.S.M. Study Manual - SOA Exam P & CAS Exam 1: Probability; 2012 Edition RESERVE AUD HG8781 .O77 2012
ACTEX Study Manual - SOA Exam MLC: Life Contingencies, 2013 Edition RESERVE AUD HG8781 .L52 2013
ACTEX Study Manual - SOA Exam FM & CAS Exam 2 ; 2011 Edition RESERVE SCH HG8781 .F5 2011
ACTEX Study Manual - SOA Exam C & CAS Exam 4; Fall 2009 Edition, vol. 1 & 2 SCH HG8781 .B763 2009 (Circulating volumes) ACTEX Study Manual - SOA Exam P & CAS Exam 1; 2009 Edition SCH HG8781 .B783 2009 (Circulating volume)
ACTEX Study Manual - SOA Exam FM & CAS Exam 2 ; 2009 Edition SCH HG8781 .H3 2009 (Circulating volume) ACTEX Study Manual - SOA Exam MLC & CAS Exam 3L; 2009 Edition, vol. 1 & 2 SCH HG8781 .H37 2009 (Circulating volumes) ACTEX Study Manual - SOA Exam MFE & CAS Exam 3F; 2009 Edition SCH REF HG8781 .H377 2009 (Circulating volume)
Risk has become one of the main topics in fields as diverse as engineering, medicine and economics, and it is also studied by social scientists, psychologists and legal scholars. But the topic of risk also leads to more fundamental questions such as: What is risk? What can decision theory contribute to the analysis of risk? This handbook provides for an overview into key topics in a major new field of research.
The Encyclopedia of Research Design is a collection of entries written by scholars in the field of research design, the discipline of how to plan and conduct empirical research, including the use of both quantitative and qualitative methods.
The goal of this encyclopedia is to help revive statistics education in developing countries. Written by 619 contributors from 105 countries, its joint vision is to show not only that Statistics is a “grammar of science”, but also a fascinating, attractive, stimulating, beautiful, almost magical discipline with plenty of room for fundamental improvements.
This Encyclopedia provides a saga of history of ideas, discovery and invention in the natural and mathematical sciences over 100 generations of great thinkers from Thales to Feyman. It blends the essential historical data (chronology, biographies, major background, political and economical events, etc.) together with science proper (principles, laws, experiments, observations, theories, equations, etc.).
This book covers many interesting topics not usually covered in a present day undergraduate course, as well as certain basic topics such as the development of the calculus and the solution of polynomial equations.
R provides a wider range of analytical and graphical commands than any other software. The fact that this level of power is available free of charge has dramatically changed the landscape of research software.
Springer, in cooperation with the European Mathematical Society, has made the content of this Encyclopedia freely open to the public. Includes more than 8,000 entries, illuminating nearly 50,000 notions in mathematics
Three centuries ago Montmort and De Moivre published two of the first books on probability theory, then called the doctrine of chances, emphasizing its most important application at that time, games of chance. This volume, on the probabilistic aspects of gambling, is a modern version of those classics. While covering the classical material such as house advantage and gambler's ruin, it also takes up such 20th-century topics as martingales, Markov chains, game theory, bold play, and optimal proportional play.
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Question: How do I find books my instructor has placed on reserve?
For NYU New York and Shanghai courses, the Course Reserves tab in BobCat will display a list of your current courses. Click "View Course" to see a list of books and other materials your instructor has placed on reserve at the library. To find more information about an item, including its current status at the library, click on the blue call number link.
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The History of Science, Technology and Medicine (HSTM) has been the definitive international bibliographic database for the history of science, technology, and medicine and their influence on culture, from pre-history to the present. It includes materials published after 1975; for works published prior to 1975, check the Isis Cumulative Bibliography.
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JSTOR is a massive, multidisciplinary online archive of scholarly journals. For most journals, the runs go back to the late nineteenth century. JSTOR typically does not include access to current periodicals, and the "embargo" on recent scholarship can be anywhere from one to ten years.
When using JSTOR for research for your STS 202 project, follow these steps:
1. Select the "Advanced Search" option.
2. After typing in your search term(s), narrow your search as follows:
a. Select "articles" as your item type. (Unless you also want to find book reviews.)
b. For the publication date, enter 1980 to the present.
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“We’re saddened by the suicide of asylum seeker, Mohamed Abdelaziz after years of suffering in detention,” the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said on Monday.
It added that torture in migrant detention centers in Libya, and ignoring asylum applications “create despair among these vulnerable people and prompt them to take harsh choices.”
It implored the Libyan authorities to “open an independent investigation into Abdelaziz’s suicide, stop all violent and discriminatory practices against detained migrants, end their illegal detention, and cooperate constructively with the relevant parties to end their suffering.”
“The basic rights of migrants and asylum seekers in Libya are gravely violated, affecting their lives and their physical and psychological integrity because of the practices of authorities in both the east and west of the country,” it noted.
The Monitor indicated that such practices include the Libyan Coast Guard’s violent interception methods. As well as the inhumane conditions in the prisons and detention centers run by the Directorate for Combating Illegal Migration.
Migrants face intolerable conditions in their home countries, pushing them to escape by any means, including paying large sums of money to brokers, smugglers, or gangs that put their lives at risk. The lack of legal and safe routes, and the complications surrounding seeking asylum in Europe and other countries encourage them to take these dangerous risks.
International laws and conventions related to the status of refugees view migrants as vulnerable groups, forced by unstable security and political or economic conditions to leave their country of origin to seek new refuge.
These agreements work to protect the rights of these groups on the humanitarian level in the first place, guarantee their rights in a way that does not harm the host country, and ensure states humanely deal with them.
In addition, migrant origin countries lack serious and effective measures to protect their nationals detained in Libya, or to monitor their legal status.
The researchers monitored the various Libyan agencies’ dealing with migrants, particularly the Coast Guard, prison administrations, and security forces.
It compared the rights guaranteed to migrants in relevant international charters and agreements to their actual treatment on the ground. It also made recommendations that – if adopted – will contribute to restoring human dignity and safeguarding the basic rights of migrants.
Notably, the conditions of migrants in Libya have deteriorated significantly since the beginning of 2021, especially after strict security measures were undertaken.
Due to its maritime borders with Malta and Italy, Libya constitutes the primary corridor for hundreds of thousands of migrants wishing to cross to Europe.
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MANUFACTURER: Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc.
PROPER NAME: Meningococcal Group B Vaccine
VACCINE INGREDIENTS (not in order of quantity; see package insert for quantities): Aluminum hydroxide, sodium chloride, histidine, sucrose, kanamycin.
Substances used to create and grow the vaccine, which may or may not appear in the final product: Factor H binding protein (fHbp), Outer Membrane Vesicles (OMV), aluminum hydroxide, sodium chloride, histidine, sucrose, Escherichia coli (E. coli), deoxycholate.
TRADE NAME: Bexsero
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Hi Fliss. It’s great to see the Nightingales heading out on tour again. How are the preparations?
Can’t wait to be back on the road. We’re well oiled now, rehearsing a brand new set of old & new material weekly. T-shirts printed, LP’s en route to us, van is booked, accommodation sorted… there’s a lot of planning involved before we set off.
Be great to see you back in Norwich. Do you still visit from time to time?
I do. I have a lot of love for Norwich, my Dad still lives there and I even went to a gig at the NAC last time I was in town. It’s great to see the city blossom even more each time I visit.
You spent the majority of your formative years in fine city. What are your earliest memories?
Yeah, from the age 10-26. Being allowed to go ‘up town’ on a Saturday with my two friends and spending most of the time in Tammy Girl / Mr Shoes and BHS cafe (odd one, but they did the best sausage rolls in the city at the time).
You have a great reputation as drummer. When did you first take to the sticks?
Thank you. At the age of 14 I asked for drum lessons and went to this amazing drum school run by a woman called Janel, in Dereham. Did that for 3-4 years and then found my own style from there. It was a really encouraging school to be part of and my first band – Violet Violet – rehearsed there too.
Can you remember the first gig you went to in Norwich and was it any good?
I can, but it’s not the coolest. Embrace at the UEA. I fainted, but not because it was rawkus … I wore a huge woolly jumper.
While we are on the subject. What was the best gig you went to in Norwich and why?
What I loved about about the music scene in Norwich when I was part of it in Violet Violet, was how many amazing local bands there were playing every night. I would go to gigs most nights without really knowing who was playing. I miss the days of that kind of discovery. So on that level, I would have to say The Neutrinos. Stumbling into one of their shows without any preconceptions was mind blowing.
In a perfect world, how would you best spend a relaxing weekend in Norwich and Norfolk?
I’m not an easy relaxer, but when I do visit the North Norfolk coast I immediately feel lighter. As a dream weekend, I’d kick off the morning with breakfast at Wiveton Hall, have a walk through Blakeney to Cley, lunch at Gunton, swing by Itteringham Cafe for a sausage roll and then head into Norwich. First stop The Playhouse for a pint of Pilsner to meet some old friends and then the night is ours… it’s been a while but Plasterers Arms & The Garnet spring to mind.
Is there anything you miss about the area and wish you could take with you?
When I moved I quickly realised how lucky I was to live in a city full of independent businesses. Wolverhampton didn’t have an independent coffee shop til’ a year or so ago (!). You take it for granted when you’re surrounded by so much creativity and choice, so I would like to bring a few of the cafes and bars with me next time!
Before we let you go, can you recommend any new bands/artists we should really be looking out for in 2022?
As someone who championed the local scene in Norwich, I’ll keep with that theme and recommend two bands from Birmingham, where I’m based now. The Nature Centre & Into The Zoetrope!
The Nightingales play Epic Studios on Tuesday 26th April. You can find ticket availability and additional information here – https://epic-tv.com/events/event/the-nightingales/
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Make no mistake: these days, there is simply no denying why personal branding is important. The art of creating a unique, special and solid brand around yourself is crucial, since it gives audiences and potential employers a good indication of what you can offer—your reputation, performance, and value. In essence, personal branding allows you to create a solid message about you to the rest of the world.
Personal branding is not exactly a new concept: Over the years, businesses, human resources managers, marketers, online gurus, and social media experts have noted the growing importance of personal branding. For example, a 2010 study showed that three out of every four human resources departments are mandated to search the online reputation of their job applicants. A 2013 study found that nine out of 10 executive recruiters they research potential candidates online first before considering whether to hire them or not.
If you decide to start creating your personal brand but are not sure where to start, you may want to start with these 10 books to help get you started.
1) "All Marketers Are Liars" by Seth Godin
You cannot go wrong with American author Seth Godin, who is also known as a top entrepreneur and public speaker. In his boo “All Marketers Are Liars”, Godin states that if you want to market yourself well, it would do you well by ditching the traditional principles of fact-based marketing.
Godin argues, in order to be a good marketer, you should tell people real and authentic stories. Godin challenges you to ask yourself: What is my story? Is this true? Will people believe it?
The book provides readers case studies from real brands as well as insightful advices how you can create compelling storytelling into your personal branding strategy.
2) "Buzzmarketing" by Mark Hughes
Personal branding specialist and real estate marketing guru Mark Hughes emphasizes personal marketers should think of outside of the box, especially when it comes to sending you message to people.
Hughes did not stop short in providing memorable, funny marketing anecdotes that happened in real life when people noticed a certain brand.
For instance, Hughes dedicated a whole chapter of his book on one of the best success stories on television: American Idol. He said the show’s buzz momentum came in the form of text-messaging, which generated a lot of interest and interaction from viewers who felt empowered on who gets to win the competition.
Hughes also shared the success of Ford Mustang which tapped the power of print advertisements to raise buzz about the product. “When you create a buzz in the media, people want to know what all the buzz is about,” Hughes wrote. “Capturing the attention of the media is valuable, but marketing plus media buzz is priceless.”
3) “Careerkred: 4 Simple Steps to Build Your Digital Brand and Boost Credibility in Your Career” by Ryan Rhoten
Personal brand master and speaker Ryan Rhoten teaches people who to build personal brands, especially in today’s digital-first age. The book provides insights on how digital personal brands can be created in the online world we live in today. Rhoten says, with the right digital brand, people can get recognized for their expertise all over the world.
4) “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action” by Simon Sinek
British-American author and motivational speaker Simon Sinek reminds you the secret behind the most compelling marketing messages—answering the “why”. For Sinek, answering the “why” in marketing messages is the most important, because this the reason why people get inspired.
Sinek gives readers a view on why some marketing platforms succeed—because they all begin with their brands’ why.
5) “Confessions of an Advertising Man” by David Ogilvy
How can you get it wrong from the “Father of Advertising” himself? If there is one person in history whose tips you should follow, then it should be David Ogilvy. Founder of top advertising firm Ogilvy & Mather, Ogilvy was credited for some of the industry’s iconic marketing campaigns, including those of Dove soap, shirtmaker Hathaway, and beverage brand Schweppes.
In this book, Ogilvy relayed some of the best marketing secrets he knew, which allowed for the successful growth of some of the biggest brands out there. If you want to jumpstart your personal branding and how to communicate best with people, then you should consider Ogilvy’s book as a must-read.
6) “The Accidental Creative: How to Be Brilliant at a Moment's Notice” by Todd Henry
American author and speaker Todd Henry will help you develop a mindset that you need to achieve best things. For Henry, it is important you stay energized while you are addressing everyday problems, including creating your personal brand.
Henry gives you a guide to support your creative branding process and how to stay fresh and relevant in today’s marketplace.
7) “What Great Salespeople Do: The Science of Selling Through Emotional Connection and the Power of Story” by Michael Bosworth and Ben Zoldan
Not only is the book full of interesting marketing tips, it also provides good brand examples and emphasizes the need to establish an emotional connection with audiences. For Bosworth and Zoldan, incorporating stories with real passion and authenticity and emphatic listening gives your personal branding strategy a major boost and lead your way to further success.
8) “The Brand Gap” by Marty Neumeier
American author and marketer Marty Neumeier provides five disciplines that personal marketers can use in order to improve their brand strategy as well as execution. With the use of real-life case studies and stunning metaphors, Neumeier says these five disciplines—differentiate, collaborate, innovate, validate and cultivate—can help you build the personal brand you want to craft.
9) “Refuse to Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams” by Barbara Sher
This book by best-selling author and lifestyle coach Barbara Sher may have been published a decade ago, but her advices ring true even today. The book tells you to be clear with your messages and strategy. For Sher, taking a single career path may not be the best strategy for you and offers advices and tips how you can do everything you love by starting new projects and welcoming new ideas.
10) “Positioning” by Al Ries and Jack Trout
Top marketing guru Jack Trout is the one who coined the term “positioning” in 1969, which has now become a popular marketing term. With that alone, you can consider Trout and marketing expert Al Ries’s book a must-have when it comes to learning more about building your personal brand.
The book answers the question: how can your personal brand rise above the commotion and competition? Ries and Trout give you pointers how you can position yourself in an ever-expending, increasingly competitive market.
Crafting The Right Personal Brand
With the help of these 10 books, mastering your unique, personal brand is as easy as 1-2-3. These books can help you in discovering the right personal brand for you in a highly-competitive world.
Crafting a compelling personal branding strategy is not that difficult. When you create a brand about yourself, the promise of the value you are offering will precede you and more often than not, provide you with immense benefits throughout your career.
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“The Maury Island Incident,” which happened on June 21, 1947, and is considered by many to be one of the first modern-day UFO encounters. Harold Dahl claims that he saw 6 flying discs over the east bay of Maury Island around 2pm on 6/21/47. One appeared to be in trouble, and another disc approached it. Soon, chaff and hot metal “slag” spewed out of the troubled disc, with some landing on Dahl’s boat, killing his dog and injuring his 13-year old son’s arm. The next day, the first-known UFO-related “Man In Black” appeared at Dahl’s home in Tacoma and warned him that he shouldn’t talk about it (he did, and his life changed forever). More info about this incident, which happened 3 days before Ken Arnold’s historic 6/24/47 Mt. Rainier sighting and 2 weeks before Roswell, is here (along with a film about it) http://www.mauryislandincident.com.
Submitted by: Scott Schaefer, Director/Producer
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I was taking a self-guided tour of this famous cemetery. Several groups of tourists there had come off of tour buses, but I had walked away from the crowds down a dirt path, about 50 yards from the graves of Wild Bill Hickock and Calamity Jane. I heard a man behind me say “Excuse me!” in that tone of voice strangers use when they want to ask a question or maybe draw your attention to something. I turned around, but no one was there. The voice had sounded no more than six feet behind me. The area right there was flat and there’s no way someone could have said that and then jumped out of sight. I looked all the way back down the path to where the tour groups were. No one was looking in my direction, but even so, they were too far away to have spoken to me so clearly and loudly. Later in the day I noticed that I had lost my hotel key. I got the weird feeling that maybe a ghost had tried to politely let me know that my key had dropped while I was walking around the cemetery. Only a theory, though.
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I have been learning Spanish at school and university for 10 years and after having spent the last year living and working in Buenos Aires, I finally reached the pinnacle of my Spanish language learning. I was fluent, or so I thought! A month after I returned to England I found myself losing the fluency, obviously you may think, but you underestimate the confidence that comes when you get fluent! I was trying to assess this situation and how I could go about fixing it. I couldn't fly back out to Argentina or Spain for that matter, far too expensive and I have to finish my degree. I talk occasionally with my Argentinian friends and I watch and read about everything that interests me, in Spanish. This has massively helped me and kept me engaged with the language and I am slowly getting back up to the level I was at when I left Argentina. What are your methods of maintaining a high level in a foreign language? What makes you tick when learning?? I am intrigued to know! Personally I cannot stand grammar exercises! Immerse yourself in language - immerse-app.com
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In this tutorial will learn how to install and configure Git on RHEL 8 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux).
Nowadays, Git is a very famous version control system used by most of the open-source and commercial projects. It allows us to track code changes, revert into the previous stage of a project, and work with multiple branches and easy to collaborate with your fellow developers.
Git is designed and developed by Linus Torvalds, who has created Linux kernel.
At the time of writing this article, the RHEL 8 repository has Git 1.8.3 version, which is outdated today.
If you want to install the most recent version of Git (v2.22.0) with yum package manager, you need to use Wandisco repositories.
One of another option to install the latest version of Git is to install with source, where you need to use Source file of git to build and install, but the drawback is you will not be able to maintain your Git installation through the yum package manager.
To install Git into Red Hat Linux, make sure you have a RHEL 8 running system with a user login who has sudo privileges.
Follow below-mentioned steps to install Git into RHEL 8:
Step 1 – Enable Wandisco repository
To install Latest Git through yum package manager first need to enable Wandisco Git Repository. To allow wandisco to the repository, you need to create a new repository under the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory, as we have created a new repository file with the name wandisco-git.repo with below content:
[wandisco-git] name=Wandisco GIT Repository baseurl=http://opensource.wandisco.com/rhel/6/git/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://opensource.wandisco.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-WANdisco
Now, import the repository GPG keys with:
$ sudo rpm --import http://opensource.wandisco.com/RPM-GPG-Key-WANdisco
Step 2 – Install Git into Red Hat Linux
Now you can install Git into RHEL 8 by using the following command:
$ sudo yum install git
Step 3 – Check Git Version or Verify Installation
To verify any package on Linux, you can check the install version of that package or tools; you can verify installed Git by using the following command:
$ git --version
Output: git version 2.22.0
The above output is shown us we have successfully installed Git version 2.22.0 on RHEL 8 Linux system.
Step 4 – The basic configuration of Git
Now you need to configure username and email ID for Git commit process, which you can configure as shown below:
$ git config --global user.name “Your Username” $ git config --global user.email “Your Email ID”
After configuring the username and email, you can verify the setting configured properly or not using the following command:
$ git config --list
Output: user.name="satish" user.email="[email protected]"
The above configuration saved into ~/.gitconfig file, which you can change manually also in future.
[user] name = "satish" email = "[email protected]"
Now you have learned how to install Git on RHEL 8 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) Operating System. To learn more about Git (Version Control System), you can check the Pro Git book where all details are available about Git Version Control.
If you get any problem while installing Git into your system or have any feedback, feel free leave a comment below.
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a suggestion for my new book
Tue May 18 20:01:19 EDT 2010
As has been discussed already, I think having the picture of a well-known,
widely-recognizable personality might give a browser the idea that this book
is about that person. That would either attract them and disappoint them,
or drive them away because they were not a fan of this person. My opinion.
I'm thinking that the best picture would be one of a little-known
personality at a microphone or in front of a camera prominently displaying
call letters of a well-known Boston radio (or TV) station. I think that the
best call letters to display would be WBZ because of its national notoriety.
But personally, I'd stop dead in my tracks if I saw WMEX displayed, and
would have to buy several copies. But that's just me.
This is a fantastic idea and I'm already looking forward to seeing the
[mailto:firstname.lastname@example.org] On Behalf Of
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 4:26 PM
Subject: a suggestion for my new book
As many of you know, I am working on a new book-- a pictorial history
of Boston radio and TV. The editors (Arcadia Press) asked me to
choose a cover photo of a famous Boston radio or TV personality, and
frankly, I can think of many possible choices, but wanted to ask you
good folks-- what famous Boston radio or TV personality (past or
present) is sufficiently well known that they should be on the cover
of a book? Your suggestions are deeply appreciated.
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Re: Bug#208010: [PROPOSAL] init script LSB 1.3 compliance (revised)
On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 00:58:32 +0200, Stefan Gybas <email@example.com> said:
> [Directly answering to -policy, this does not need to be archived in
> the BTS.]
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>> Tested patches against all init-script using packages to the BTS.
> So from now on, we'll only change Policy after all packages comply
> with the proposed changes?
Yes. This is how policy has always worked; too.
> We'll never make large progress if it's handled this way.
But we have managed to do so in the past, by providing a
transition plan. First, you recommend the change, and work on getting
packages changed over. Then you make the new way the default, but not
a must condition, deprecating the old one. And finally, you can
mandate the new way.
> And how do we implement incompatible changes?
Allow both, but not mandate either the old or the new
one. Then make the new one the default; and so on.
If the packages done the new way can't live with packages done
the old way, well, you need to arrange for a flag day, when all the
packages change, probably by creating a staging area.
> Implementing a proposed change first before modifying Policy makes
> sense if we need a special feature in a single package like dpkg or
> menu (update-menus) but not if a lot of packages should offer a new
> feature like in this case. Implementing status for init scripts is
> not difficult in most cases since "start-stop-daemon --test" already
> offers this feature. The move to /usr/share/doc or the addition of
> build dependencies were also specified in Policy before all packages
> had a patch in the BTS.
You need to get packages changed, which they can do in advance
of policy; policy can then be changed to reflect the new reality.
You can not use policy changes to beat people on the head with.
> Isn't this what Standards-Version: is for? Packages specify which
> version of the Debian Policy they comply with and at some point in
> time the RM defines the minimal Policy version for a release. The
> severity of bugs is raised if a package's standards version is too
Wrong. There is only one policy, the current one. The
standards version is to help the developer keep track of hwat
changes need to be made to make the package compliant -- you look at
the upgrade checklist since the version in the package,
> Making this change to Policy does not mean than all packages must
> change their init script immediately, or did I misunderstand
You have indeed misunderstood how policy process works, and
what the standards version means.
You tread upon my patience. William Shakespeare, "Henry IV"
Manoj Srivastava <firstname.lastname@example.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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Subject: Announcements and reminders of IAM Online webinars
[IAM Online] Next IAM Online Wednesday (Dec 12): Accepting Social Identities
- From: Dean Woodbeck <>
- Subject: [IAM Online] Next IAM Online Wednesday (Dec 12): Accepting Social Identities
- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:45:17 -0500
IAM Online – Wednesday, December 12, 2012
3 pm ET / 2 pm CT / 1 pm MT / Noon PT
Social-to-SAML: Accepting Social Identities for InCommon Federated Services
Is your campus providing identity services to an ever-growing group of users: student applicants, parents, community members, continuing education enrollees, friends of the institution? Some schools are using social identities (e.g., Google and Yahoo) to provide access to selected federated services, rather than creating university IDs for users who may have little or no continuing relationship with the institution.
This IAM Online will feature case studies for leveraging social identity, which allows people to log in through social identity providers and access certain protected campus resources. Attendees will also learn about a pilot Social-to-SAML gateway developed as part of the InCommon social identity working group and hosted by the University of Texas System.
Please plan to join us! You'll find more information about the presentation at www.incommon.org/iamonline.
Catherine Zabriskie, Director, Academic Technology Services, Brown University
Paul Caskey, Chief Technology Officer, University of Texas System
Jim Basney, Senior Research Scientist, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (operator of CILogon)
Host and Moderator: Steve Carmody, IT Architect, Brown University
We use Adobe Connect for slide sharing and audio: http://internet2.adobeconnect.com/iam-online. For more details, including back-up phone bridge information, see www.incommon.org/iamonline.
ABOUT IAM Online
IAM Online is a monthly online education series including essentials of federated identity management, hot topics from the EDUCAUSE Identity and Access Management Working Group, and emerging topics in IAM. Experts provide overviews, answer questions and lead discussions. IAM is brought to you by Internet2’s InCommon community and the EDUCAUSE Identity and Access Management Working Group.
- [IAM Online] Next IAM Online Wednesday (Dec 12): Accepting Social Identities, Dean Woodbeck, 12/10/2012
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Hello Everyone. Just wanted to let you know my dear friend jewelry designer, Jen Smith is having a great
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I think, really, the foundation for the suicidal behavior that I experienced when I was 26 into 27 was laid very early, in my good fortune. I was, and I am, very lucky, very fortunate. I mean, not my happenstance of birth. I mean my genes. I mean the wet stuff between my ears. The things that you do growing up.I think I had great parents who, as far as apples and trees go, the right values were given to me and fostered within me. Again, this good fortune and good luck I had, with the exception of a struggle with being unhappy about my physical appearance as far as how much I weighed, I didn’t really have any significant problems growing up. I had no major traumas, I had no abuse. From the experiences that I’ve had, I had a relative cake walk. I’m blessed. Very fortunate.
Even more nail on the head, I think at the base of my suicidal behavior was a lack of experience with adversity and failure. If I decided I wanted to do something, and then set about doing it, I did it. My parents told me what to do and I did it. They thought that I was good, they saw me as good, so I saw myself as good. I went to school. My teachers told me what to do and I did what they told me. I did it well, and they told me that I did it well, and I felt good.
Then I graduated from school, and it’s like, “Okay, what do we do now? Oh, I should get a job. Okay, I’ll get a job.” I wasn’t sure which job to get, and I thought, “Okay, maybe I’ll just do what my brother’s thinking of doing,” so I did that. I kind of took his passion and followed that, and I found somebody else to tell me what to do, and they were clear. They said, “Do this,” and I did it. I did it well, and they told me that, and everything was good.
At 26, I was in the top five, ten percent of three hundred and fifty consultants. I worked in Manhattan, a couple blocks from Wall Street. I was the youngest person out of three hundred and fifty who got a title.
I was assigned to a project in Canada where I did not know the subject matter. I worked in finance, but that’s like saying you work in medicine or law, right? It’s ginormous. I ended up on a project that was being run by a competitor, by a competing consulting firm. I think there was a board member from the bank who had gotten one person from my company on the team. That was me. I was the only person under 30 on a seventy-person team. The field was commercial lending. I knew what a loan was, but I knew nothing about what banks did, the systems to do that.
I’m in the first breakout sub-team meeting on this project. There are seventy people on the project. You’ve got seven teams of ten people each. I’m the new guy, so you’ve gotta go around. We all say our hellos. It gets back to the head guy. He’s the client now. There’s the consultant over here, and there’s the client—he’s right here, I can still see him—and he asked me a question that I didn’t even understand the words in, because he used lingo from commercial lending.
He asked the question, [something like], “Do you have experience in, and can you help us out with blah blah blah blah?” Maybe he said—and the way I’ve written it is—commercial lending risk scoring systems. He probably said something like that.
I did not know what that was, and I knew that the answer was, “No, I don’t have that experience,” but in the moment, I don’t know, I got small. His expectation was for me to say yes. I couldn’t lie, ‘cause I couldn’t fake it. He is not much further from me than you are, and when he was done asking the question, I said, “Excuse me?” as if I didn’t hear him. I know the blood must have just fallen out of my face.
He didn’t stutter, and he’s three feet away from me. He slightly rephrases the question as I summon the courage to give the answer I know to give, which is, “No, Doug, my experience is actually in this. What I’m really an expert in is people processing technology…” Some business bullshit. I readied myself to say that answer, and I said it and then, I’ll never forget, the competing company team lead, the consultant, he rescued me then. He was like, “Wow, that was really awkward for this kid, right?”
That was the beginning. That was it. That’s what started it.
The theme that I’m pulling out here is, I think, for my whole life up to that point, I was a human doing, not a human being. How I felt about myself is how the people that I associated with, was in contact with, thought about me. It was my job to keep how people thought about me good, to make them think well about me, think good thoughts about me.
This was an instance where it was evident to me that that was not the case. I don’t know. I’ve never spoken with anybody from that group, and I eventually wriggled myself out of that situation, but that is where it started.
I was in the process of applying to top ten business schools: Harvard, Stanford, UCLA, Northwestern, and Penn. I didn’t know why I was doing it. I’m like, “Is this really what you’re gonna do with your life? Maybe I should’ve thought about this more growing up, but this is the path that I’m on, and it seems like the next thing to do is to go back to school.” But this instance sent me reeling.
This is November of ‘97. I’m going through the business school application process. At the same time, my five closest friends that I would’ve talked to about this, all over the course of three, four weeks, all coincidentally left New York City—job assignments, relationships, leaving town, whatever. Perfect storm. Bad happenstance.
I started losing sleep for the first time in my life. I never pulled an all-nighter in school. I never had to. I just had a really good memory and picked things up quickly. School was easy. But now, I couldn’t sleep.
This is why I call my suicide attempt egotistical. The data I was getting didn’t match the story of myself that I told myself.
I went three months where I slept between zero and three hours a night. I wouldn’t sleep at all, and the next day I’d pass out [for] two to three hours. Then, maybe I’d sleep an hour, and then a night with no sleep, and then I’d sleep two or three. I kind of vacillated between none or half an hour or two to three [hours of sleep] for three months. I don’t care who you are, I don’t imagine there are many people who could maintain sanity on that much sleep. I’m not someone who did. I became unreasonable. I lost my sanity.
I was losing sleep. I didn’t have the people who I would talk to normally.
I remember my exact first suicidal thought. It’s right out of a movie, but this was before the movie, and I think the book, even. I certainly haven’t read the book. This experience happened in Canada, in Toronto. I was back and forth Monday to Friday on a plane from New York. In the midst of when I was rolling off of that project—after that guy asked me that question—and starting to lose sleep is when it happened. The thought that I’d be okay if this plane went down. I fell apart quickly.
It was November [of 1997], I think, when that question incident happened, and it was Sunday, March 1, 1998, when I went out for the second time with a rental car [and other equipment].
Working to end your life is miserable.I can say that and smile, saying it to you, because I know you know.
It was a dark, dark time… It was a long day looking around for a place to set the rig up. I set the rig up in one spot, the gas hit me for the first time… and I had pills with me, which I didn’t take. That would’ve been pulling a trigger, and I wasn’t there. I wasn’t to that level of certainty about taking action. I wasn’t compelled to take that action. I’ve told people that me being in the car and breathing the gas in, it was akin to the same thing I did when I sliced through my skin. I was just kind of trying it on, knowing that it didn’t fit. It was almost like I wanted to taste or experience this absurdity, like, “Really? You clearly are not well, and you are deathly afraid of telling anybody about it.”
I eventually did. One of those five people, my closest friend, I literally used the word at the end of a long conversation—after some alcohol up in Boston—I said, “I’ve even gone as far as thinking of killing myself.”
To which he said, a tear coming out of his eye, “Well, then you’re not as smart as I thought you were.”It was actually a loving, beautiful thing, and we both kind of cried, but then nothing happened. There weren’t additional conversations, he didn’t tell anybody, and I went on my way.
Back to the first time the gas hit me: I got out of the car. I got out because I thought, “If I don’t, I’m gonna pass out and die. We don’t want that.” I got out of the car, undid the rig, drove back to near the Holland Tunnel, and stared at the skyline for a half hour. This was Sunday. The Friday before, I had called EAP—the Employee Assistance Program, right? First time ever. I had an appointment—would’ve been my first mental health appointment—on Monday. So here I am now, Monday morning, 12:30 or 1:00 AM, hours from that appointment, right?
I thought, “Okay, you can just suck it up, go home, not sleep, wait til the appropriate time, get out of bed, ‘cause you won’t have slept, call work, tell them you’re not gonna make it in, and finally admit that you’re falling apart and you don’t know what’s going on. Or, I don’t know, maybe go back and try that again.”
I can’t say why I chose the latter, and I really do believe that the same exercise of getting in the car, feeling the gas, ripping out and redoing it… there was a part of me that said, “That’s what I will do for the rest of the night until the sun comes up, and then I’ll make that call.”
I went back into Secaucus, went into the car again, redid the exercise, and the moment never arrived. The moment where I consciously felt the gas hit me, like, “Oh, I’m gonna pass out.” That moment never occurred because I finally did what was so challenging for me to do at that time. I fell asleep.
I fell asleep and woke up. I had a near-death experience as a result of acute carbon monoxide poisoning. I eventually tracked that down. I got my medical records from the Jersey City Medical Center. No one told me. There was no talk about it after I woke up, but I had this memory, an unmistakable thing in my head, and I finally found it: “Pulse and respiration unobtainable en route to hospital.”
Des: What happened after?
Francesco: I was put on Paxil and began seeing a psychiatrist and a psychologist. I saw the psychologist twice a week and I saw the psychiatrist for med checks. This is, my God, 18 years ago now. Mental health care was even in a different state back then, right? The narrative of, “You have a chemical imbalance in your brain. This is the answer in this little bottle… This is your problem, and this is the answer.”
That narrative was much stronger. Sure, there was Mad Pride and all of that, but they’ve come that much further, I think. And I even see it. How many doctors now will talk about alternative treatments and are open to things like meditation, talking about how much nutrition impacts how you are? What a novel idea. You are what you eat.
Backing up, though: my initial recovery, how I lived through it… Again, my good fortune continued. They didn’t know what the hell had happened but, in an unconditional way, I was embraced by my family and my close friends, and kind of given the time and space to get well. And I did.
What did it look like? It looked like I was fortunate. I remember I was excited about this once I realized it and I was convinced to do it. I had been paying into disability insurance.
I said, “No, no. I’m just gonna resign.”
My father said, “You are not gonna resign.”
My boss eventually said the same thing. So I took it. I went on disability so there wasn’t that financial worry. I read a lot. I moved home to Delaware. I went on walks in a really pretty park in Delaware. It was slow.
I’m not dogmatic, really, about any potential treatment. I’m not anti-medication. I have a very different view of it personally, for myself, than I did when I was 27. I will admit, it is my view that the treatment plan that I was put on had worked for me, working through things with my psychologist and whatever—not that anyone really knows what Paxil did to me. It all kind of came together that, within about three to four months’ time, just about as much time as it took me to fall, I was, as people often say, “Feeling like my old self again.”
I actually remember when I felt hope for the future for the first time. I was in bed, and I had had a practical idea about how I can kind of ease back into life. That actually caused an all-nighter, of sorts. It very well may have been the beginnings of iatrogenic mania induced by Paxil, which is a whole other thing.
I really went through an interesting [but] rough—especially for my family, and for me, too—patch of four years. A lot of it was, I think, contending with what had happened. Some of it, certainly, was just living through a suicide attempt, but also, there was the added thing of near-death experience.
These experiences, they can be transformative, and they can have a big impact. For me, they had a big impact on how I experience and relate to fear, or the lack thereof. Simply put, suffice it to say, when you operate without fear, that can be really scary for people who care about you.
My journey is a long one, just given my makeup, and I think my background [as] someone in systems, as an analyst, that’s what I do. I’m a problem solver, so it’s like, “Okay. Examine that problem after the fact.”
I have a picture of the thing I drew in the mental hospital, which shows all these question marks. It’s so funny, because I can’t draw, but it has: therapist, family, friends, positive thinking, realistic expectations—it’s like this little neighborhood, right? And then there’s all these streets and there’s all these intersections and I have question marks in them. And up here, there’s a little cul de sac, and then it says “new career,” ‘cause at the base, I had this dissatisfaction with what I was doing.
Tom Brokaw was my commencement speaker at Notre Dame, and the last line he said, I never forgot it: “It’s easy to make a buck. It’s harder to make a difference. We need your help.”
A lot of my crisis with what I was doing at 26, 27 [years old] was that I was making a buck. I was doing well with that, but I wasn’t making the difference that I believed in. So really, what I have been doing since then? Even though I’ve had tons of opportunities to kind of go towards things that I was more intrinsically motivated about, something more creative, something maybe to do with film, I never really embraced them. A lot of it was a push and pull between I don’t want to say standard of living, but the type of life that you want to have and the resources that that requires as far as what society values.
It’s really been a journey trying to do what I’m doing now. This is the third time that I have left IT and finance to do something in behavioral health. I think I’m gonna make it this time. We’ll see.
That was my immediate live through this. The longer term one, though I won’t get into the details of the rocky period.
Des: I’m gonna make you come back to it.
Francesco: Well, we can. But again, then it’s like how much time do you have?
I wrote a piece like this myself, so I’m gonna try to go to that. It’s not only lessons to learn, but outside of the more conventional model of, “Here is an orange pill bottle with a white top, and this is the answer.” I embrace that answer.
I embrace the writings of Kay Redfield Jamison. Again, I was reading. I’m gathering data. That’s what I do.Robert Whitaker, I am a fan of. In writing, he says, “Schizophrenics in countries with no medicine do better than schizophrenics here. What’s going on?” Thomas Szasz recently passed. He is a renowned psychiatrist. One of his famous books is The Myth of Mental Illness.
Living through this, longer term, is the pin I’m getting back to.
I read this book—it was in the first pile right after, but I wasn’t ready for it yet—it was Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, by [David Burns]. CBT, basically. It’s a handbook, a hand manual for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. The nature of my depression, and I think the way I look at life and, again, this analytical nature—this book was written for me. We went together like peas and carrots.
Again, when I first read it, I wasn’t ready to hear it, right? I just read it. But on a subsequent reading, over the years, I saw the sage wisdom in it. It was very easy to recognize cognitive missteps, if you will. Mistakes or choices. Thoughts that match what was in the book. Black and white thinking: “It has to be this way.” To me, this is a vestige of being the son of an exacting perfectionist. There’s a lot of power in it. There’s a lot of power in perfectionism, but it’s a fine line. The way I see all-or-nothing thinking is, there’s this irrepressible fierce commitment for things to be a certain way. That’s a powerful thing, and an empowering thing, to a point.
You go past that point, and the wheels can come off the cart. Catastrophizing. It’s kind of tied with that. It doesn’t go the way that you want, and it’s the end of the world. I did that. And again, this kind of goes back to what I said way back when: “Oh, you didn’t have a lot of setbacks or challenges or adversity or failures. So you don’t know that.”
If given enough time and data, you can make sense of anything. All stories are subject to confabulation, but I had been working on telling this story for too long.
What else from living through this with CBT? [I’m] kind of now moving towards mindfulness, really getting that there are things that happen in this world, and then there are things that you think about. Something happens, and people say something about it. Those two things are never the same thing. Ever. They can’t be. One is an event or a thing that exists in a time/space reality. What we say about it is something else entirely. [It’s an idea].
That was a big get. I came away with what my email address is. My email address is—
Francesco: Incredulity. The lesson for me is to doubt everything, especially yourself. Doubt authority; question authority—especially yourself. I fell prey to the answers that came out of my head. From my experience, they were almost always right. Again, it’s Bellafenteism. It’s Bellafente Disease. We’re the sons of our father. We’re always right! If we’re wrong, refer to the first thing.
Letting that go and being open to not knowing and being wrong and getting it wrong, that was a key learning for me. That put me onto the path—although I didn’t really get there yet—this notion of mindfulness, of separating an event and an occurrence from what I thought or felt about that event or occurrence. I think that’s a really powerful lesson, the notion of being more deliberative and responding to something, to kind of put a fine line on it. Responding to an event versus blindly reacting to it.
I started off our conversation saying how easy my life was and my appreciation for my good fortune; for advantages, privileges, luck, blessings, gifts, whatever. All of that. If I am anything, I am grateful. I will find a reason to be grateful that I’m walking in the rain. It’s not every day you can walk in the rain!
Whatever it is, I’m always careful… That said, there is something to being present to your good fortune, no matter how small it is. Obviously there’s a trust in here with you. [You might think], “Oh my God, he’s just telling people they need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.”
No. I’m not saying that. But when I look back at how I used to think from 27 and earlier, and how I came to think in the years after that and now, I almost don’t recognize the thought patterns. Gratitude saves me and sustains me over and over again. That’s a big one. Gratitude.
Then there are basics. Coming out of school, my attention to diet and exercise, I’ve grown so much in that regard. I dated a vegan for a while. The relationship lasted three months. I was vegan for six months and vegetarian for four years. The person, she just had this amazing discipline about an exercise regime. I took that from her. I borrowed it. Made it my own. I became a distance runner and experienced a runner’s high for the first time. I lived in Westfield at the time, and it was on the Schuylkill River loop. Eight miles. It was the first time I ran probably more than four miles. I ran eight. I thought, “Oh my God. I’m high, and I didn’t smoke anything!”
I had a transformation around really getting that I am what I eat, what I consume. [There are] unmistakable benefits. For me, I know it’s different from person to person, but from the ability to concentrate, focus, and sleep as a result of having run that day. Or, taken on the broad scale, keeping up my regimen just keeps me balanced, keeps me in the realm that I want to be in.
I guess, back to the new career cul de sac… Who said, “Everything you want is on the other side of fear?” Striving to live purposefully versus just sustaining yourself. To me, this is the definition of growth.
I’m 27 and I’m doing very well in my job as a business systems analyst working in IT and finance, but I’m not connected to a larger purpose. At that point, my purpose is to just do as well as I can like I would be at school. Just get the best grades you can. Try your hardest. It was empty. I wasn’t hearing Tom Brokaw’s advice: “It’s easy to make a buck. It’s harder to make a difference. We need your help.” I was just making a buck.
Fast forward. Go back. I continually go back to IT ‘cause it’s what I know best. It’s what I can make the most money at. There were not intrinsic rewards in me. Finance serves a purpose, whatever, allocation of capital to solving problems in society… blah blah blah. I’m not really buying that.
That’s not my purpose, but I do have a purpose. This is one that I’ve wrestled with for so long. What am I going to do from an activism standpoint? Am I gonna do anything? I wrestled with that off and on for years. I’d think, “Are you going to do something about this, or are you not?”
It’s telling to me that X years later, I can be doing work in the same field, essentially the same work, and because of my purposeful living outsideof work hours, I have no problem at all. But I can do that. I can do that for a time. It is a means to an end. To me, that’s the growth. [You might think], “But wait a minute. You’re 37. You were 26, and you were doing X and you were miserable. You’re 36, you’re doing the same thing, but you’re not miserable. What’s the difference?”
I had a purpose, and it is the cause. I’ve done so many little things. A lot of them were private. Abraham Biggs. It was Justin.tv, before Periscope or whatever. This would’ve been about nine years ago. He died by suicide online, live.
You know what Google Alerts are?
Des: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Francesco: I created like a suicide safety net. I put like 100—too many at first—suicidal phrases and quotes. What’s Google gonna do? It’s gonna find them and send them to you every day, every week, whatever you ask for.
Des: I have them, too.
Francesco: Right. I’m sure you do it to find attempt survivors. But I would do that and I would find people and then I would armchair CBT them. I went through the whole, “Maybe I want to become a psychologist.” That’s not what I want to do.
Des: What was your experience with the other patients in the hospital? The doctors? Did you get anything meaningful out of it, good or bad?
Francesco: I loved the patients. I think of people in mental hospitals as my people. I’ve been in a mental hospital twice. The first time, the overwhelming predominant state for me was shame. As I already said, I was not oblivious to the depth and breadth of human suffering that goes on for people here in America or anywhere else in the world. But it’s one thing to know that story you see in the newspaper, or on the Internet, is happening to people. It’s one thing to know that and for those stories not to be happening to you or people you know and love. Then it’s another thing for someone, that horrible, painful, traumatic thing—being in a war, killing people, seeing people die, physical, sexual assault, abuse, emotional, psychic abuse, manipulation—just the horrible things that people do to people. It’s one thing to know them as a construct, as an unattached made-up thing in the abstract, and it is another to see and hear someone tell these stories.
I did not want to go into that place. I remember sitting outside. My family was there. As I’ve already told you, I just needed to sleep, and I was convinced that I would’ve had a better chance of sleeping at home at my parents’ house than I would at Rockford Center in Delaware. But as I tend to be, I am so grateful that I had the experience that I had there.
At the same time, I completely fit. I needed to be there, and I felt out of place. There were many people suffering from life events that my experience did not match, as I’ve already told you. It made my experience a very quiet one.
I really liked my roommate, and I had friendly conversations with my fellow patients. But I was embarrassed and ashamed to talk about my problem as I saw it. At the time, I would’ve said, “I had some trouble at work. I wasn’t able to sleep, and I really didn’t know where I was going with things here.” The way I put it then was, “I came as close to accidentally killing myself as someone can.”
It really wasn’t accidental. My suicide attempt, my suicidal behavior, fit my suicidal intentionality to a tee. I wanted to create the chance to slip away, to almost die by an accident, semi-intentionally. That’s almost exactly what happened. It gave me, what I see, as the most valuable experience of my life, which is the NDE, which I’ll get to again.
A little more on the hospital, though: it was clear to me from the first visit, and especially the second one—and I’m gonna talk about staff versus the doctor—that these people are the salt of the earth. You don’t work at a mental hospital for the money. Certainly not staff. These are good people. Not that I got close with any in particular, but this is a lot to deal with. There’s a lot of jobs that one can do. What brings someone here? It’s gonna be something personal in some way, shape, or form. It’s not gonna be, “Oh, that’s a job that I’ll take.” These people have a special place in my heart.
My doctor… I was underwhelmed. I was there for five days. I probably saw him for a total of maybe ten minutes.I have really good insurance. Again, very fortunate. But I’m reviewing it after the fact. You get the doctor’s bill separate [from the hospital bill]. Individual psychotherapy, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Five times.
I was like, “Wait a minute. I was there five days. We had one sit-down, and then I talked to him a second time, standing up at the main desk. And then I had one two-minute goodbye.”I saw the man literally three times.
I remember being on the phone, first with my insurance. They said, “Well, this is what we got.”
I eventually got an assistant at his office saying, “That’s just how we charge it. There is a charge every single day that you are in the hospital.”
I said, “Okay, but it’s labeled Individual Psychotherapy. How can the man deliver psychotherapy if he literally didn’t speak to me or see me? We talked by phone, and he didn’t see me. Was he telepathically psychotherapizing me?”
My insurance company didn’t care. This is institutional corruption.
Des: I’m curious about the near-death experience.
Francesco: My near-death experience was the most painful, the most terrifying, and the most transformative experience of my life. [It wasn’t] the Hollywood version, the version that you hear: bright light, end of a long tunnel. Life review. Maybe some guide. Jesus, or a relative. I don’t know. Obi-Wan Kenobi. Who knows, right?
Des: Patrick Swayze.
Francesco: Patrick Swayze to shepherd souls along their journey over the river. What’s the river? Charon?
Francesco: Styx. Mr. Charon. I was familiar with that, but I woke up a few days after this experience. My experience was nothing like that. It sent me on a years-long search for descriptions like mine. It was years, and I finally found it. It was a book called Dying to Live by Dr. Susan Blackmore. She’s a British psychologist, I believe. And at the very end of the book, she writes about this guy who talks about this infinite black void that he was in. This is the neighborhood of near-death experiences that I was in. Boiling it down—have you ever had a lucid dream? You know what that is?
Des: Yeah. Yeah. I would say I have.
Francesco: My definition of a lucid dream, as I understand—
Des: You have control.
Francesco: Right. It’s like you rise up into the layers of consciousness. You’re not conscious, but you are aware that you are dreaming, and you can take control of the dream. I’ve only had those a couple of times, and I wish I could have them more often. I know there’s ways you can work on that, but I haven’t spent time on them.
This memory was akin. The state of consciousness that it’s closest to that I have as a reference point is lucid dreaming. But this wasn’t a dream. It’s always been there, that’s the other thing. It’s a memory. But unlike every other memory of my life, this one doesn’t go backwards. It just stays. The farthest it is, is yesterday. It doesn’t recede. I always have access to it.
Which, again, is leading up to the benefit thing. This took time to get it, but I had the benefit of years of thinking about it.
I faced in the moment, consciously, the greatest vulnerability that we all have. Death is an enduring mystery. It’s the greatest unknown, I think. It’s one of them, anyway. I woke up into a lucid dreamlike state. I had what I’ve come to refer to as the only problem I’ve ever had in my life: I was not breathing. You’ve gotta breathe. I wasn’t breathing.
I didn’t know why there was just blackness. I couldn’t see anything except the blackness. The only thing I could hear was the voice in my head. The voice I’m speaking to you in. I don’t think it lasted that long. I wasn’t breathing, and I didn’t know why. There was no recollection of the car. There was no suicide mentality in this memory. There was just not breathing.
Very soon after not breathing, there was pain. All-encompassing pain. So there’s all-encompassing blackness, there’s all-encompassing pain, and then, very quickly, there is, “Oh my gosh! This is real! I am not breathing, and I have to breathe!” So now you’ve got fear. Pain kept increasing. Fear turned into terror. There was nothing that I could do. Your mind is like, “You’re choking. Unchoke yourself. I can’t move my arm. Why can’t I move my arms?”
I’m eventually screaming, wailing inside my head. You have no sound. No change in the visual. I’m just trying to breathe. I’m trying to be. The pain’s going up. I think it’s the most vulnerable that someone can be, and I think, it’s why I said it’s transformative. But it’s also the most empowering. I confronted head-on, “There is going to be a point where you will not be able to take a breath.”
It’s a scary thing. I just went there when I gave up. In my mind, there was really no choice there, either. There is no, “Uh, maybe I won’t try to breathe.” You can’t not try to breathe. Does that make sense?
Francesco: You can’t not try to breathe. You can try to. Sure, people can blow their heads off. People can kill themselves. But the instinct to breathe is irrepressible. And I remember when I couldn’t try anymore. There was no choice in that, either.
For me, the heart of my near-death experience is vulnerability.
Des: I wanna know about the benefit and then, is suicide still an option for you?
Francesco: Benefits are clear. Again, who I am—what I am—forget who. Analytical, aspiring to be a figure-outy type person, right? I have a good memory. I can slap words together. I have deconstructed my lead-up to suicidal behavior that almost cost me my life. It almost cost me my life. That has a benefit for me. In taking apart the missteps I took, I’m empowered and informed, to a degree, that I was not prior to having that experience. There’s value in the lessons learned. A lot of it was just mapping on Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy to my life. This stuff is straightforward. So there’s the personal benefit of lessons learned. This is a protective factor, right? It safeguards me against suicide.
I think I wanna jump to your question.Is suicide an option? If you were to—your wife, a loved one, a family member—if you were to knowingly sacrifice yourself to save their life, is that suicide? You know what I mean? Is it?
Des: Depends on who you are.
Francesco: What is suicide? Right. My email address wants to keep me from saying I don’t want to make dogmatic, absolute, certain claims about anything. You saw The Matrix, right? We can’t prove that that’s not what’s going on! You get that. I’m sure you do.
Des: That’s kind of why the question is designed the way it is.
Francesco: Yeah. And it’s almost like I want to take a cop-out on it. It exists as an option. I don’t wanna say I’m unable, but I struggle. It takes quite a bit of energy for me to construct a scenario where I think I would end up even entertaining the thought.
I have never been suicidal since my suicidal behavior, which is not to say in the aftermath of it, and in that four-year window later, that I didn’t have suicidal thoughts. I did. But I took steps. ‘Cause it’s just a voice. It’s just an occurrence. A thought pops into consciousness, right? I don’t think we choose our thoughts. I think they just arise for who knows why, right? The cosmos.
I took steps. I was compelled to take steps to not hear those voices. And I have been successful. I am writing a story about that while fully admitting that it’s bullshit.
Francesco: I don’t know about you, but I see my attempt in other suicides, right? Again, I’m making it up, but I forget her name—the nineteen year old.
Des: Madison Holleran.
Francesco: I think I know what happened there. I think that was like mine, just much younger. For me, that happened when I was 26/27.
Des: Yeah. You feel it. You know it.
Francesco: Right. I don’t know. Actually, I imagine—I hope—that loved ones will be like, “I think my loved one was you.”
I, too, know that suicidality does not discriminate. There are types, and there are things that people do in their head.
I say that my suicide attempt resulted from the story of my life going a way that not only didn’t make sense, but I could not accept it. The self-destructiveness of suicide is a failure of creativity. It’s the turning of creativity to the dark side. I wrote something a long time ago. I said genius was a prerequisite for suicide attempt. If you look up genius, you can find some definition to say “extreme creativity.” I have no problem saying this to someone who has come this close to extinguishing the light of life within me. There is no greater force or instinct to overcome than that, than the desire to breathe. Even if you have all the life events in the world, actual tangible things, not just some neuromal storm that makes you feel like shit, right?
This is where you get the whole courage thing—how creative one has to be to make sense of suicide. I think it takes huge amounts of creativity. Does that make any sense? Because when you are in the process—when I was in the process of almost killing myself, I could make sense of it. There was a sense now. What sense was that? It was the sense of someone who had slept zero to three hours for about 90 days. I will fully stipulate that there is delusion in that.
People talk about depression with psychosis. That’s kind of where I go to with the anthropomorphization of depression, of mental illness. It’s not being critical of people’s writing, but it’s just concern. When I hear the way people are thinking about the monster in their head, I think, “Err, I know that wouldn’t empower me.” I question sometimes if it’s empowering people.
The brain is the most complex, and therefore, necessarily the least understood object in the known universe.
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Bae Chan-seung of Daegu High School pitched 52.2 innings despite being a freshman last year and
won the Gyeongbuk Classic 148km this season!
Hwang Jun-seo is the only one who has thrown all the way on the mound even if she is not feeling well
. Who is the other protagonist?
The showdown between sophomore left-hander Jeong Hyeon-woo vs. Bae Chan-seung is also something to see
There are only two left-handed pitchers in the youth national team this year.
With Hwang Jun-seo already nominated for a position, the question of who the other one will be is of utmost interest. However, the problem is that there are not many left-handed pitchers who can play with Cho Dong-wook eliminated from the candidacy due to pay. Son Hyun-ki is also in a bad condition recently, so it’s even more so.
His eyes are naturally directed towards the second graders. In that sense, the candidate who is currently receiving the most attention is Deoksu High School’s Jung Hyeon-woo. Basically, he is a good pitcher, and he is from Chungam Middle School, so coach Lee Young-bok knows him well. Another player is emerging here. This is Daegu High School Bae Chan-seung.
Bae Chan-seung recently recorded a cannonball fastball of up to 148km in the recent weekend league Gyeongbuk Classic against Gyeongbuk High School and Sangwon High School on April 29th. Of course, it is a weekend league, but the 148 km lefty has a lot of implications. In fact, Bae Chan-seung climbed the hill despite being sick in the last weekend league against Gyeongbuk High School and Sangwon High School. He suffered from abdominal pain and diarrhea on the mound and went to the hospital midway through the match against Gyeongbuk High School. The next day, he received medicine and an emergency prescription and climbed the mound again in the Daegu Sangwon Classic, but as a result, he lost a lot of runs in the early stages and went down the mound. It was unavoidable.
Bae Chan-seung, thinking about such regret, is eagerly awaiting the Golden Lion this time. Bae Chan-seung was the ace of Daegu High School since his freshman year.
The pitcher with the most innings at Daegu High School since freshman year is Bae Chan-seung. Even as a freshman last year, he threw a whopping 52.1 innings. He was so dependent on him that he wondered if there was a pitcher who threw as many times as Bae Chan-seung among first-year freshmen. When Kim Jeong-woon (19, kt) and Lee Ro-un (19, SSG) were absent, he almost led the team by himself. Daegu High School head coach Sohn Kyung-ho said, “Chanseung-yi practically led the team alone.”카지노사이트
Bae Chan-seung is not tall at 180cm, but he is basically a player with excellent control and breaking balls.
He also throws a good changeup. In addition, if he proves his ‘speed’ in this competition, the left-handed youth representative may end up in a foggy state. Currently, Jung Hyeon-woo has good game management skills, but his speed and pitch are not so good. Coach Lee said, “We have to pick a player who can be used right now. Prospects are irrelevant. The key is control,” he said.
Above all, Jung Hyun-woo allowed 6 hits and 5 walks in 5.1 innings against Whimungo, and showed a bad appearance in front of coach Lee, who headed to Shinwol to see him.
Bae Chan-seung is very likely to pitch in the Changwon Technical High School at 11:30 on May 15th. He has a good chance of starting out.
Will Bae Chan-seung win the heart of coach Lee Young-bok of Chungam High School with his speed and control? It is clear that the left-handed competition between Jung Hyun-woo and Bae Chan-seung is also a spectating point to enjoy watching the Golden Lion.
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Cannon Fodder is Too Frivolous: Emperor Zun, No Appointment - Chapter 151
Chapter 151: Get Stronger
She raised her head, looked into the distance, and became stronger! As long as she becomes stronger, then she can go after what she wants.
After more than a year of practice, her thunder pulse has broken through to the third rank of Emperor Wu, which is very unexpected. Of course, now she cares about what realm Mu Fengxue is in. She must be higher than her, and the immortal-level wood veins are not blown out.
I don’t know if I can find some useful elixir in Duguang Island this time. Others may participate in the assessment for rewards, and they want to stand out. And when she participated in the assessment, she just wanted to go to Duguang Island and look for elixir in an open and honest way.
Duguang Island is very large. It is in a sea of hundreds of thousands of miles. Many years ago, monks from Dongzhou discovered it. One of the monks was a member of the Liuyun School.
As for why Duguang Island is called Duguang Island, it is only because from a distance, the beautiful island seems to be plated with a layer of silver light, especially when the sun shines, it is more beautiful.
Therefore, it is called Duguang Island.
There are countless treasures in it, and every time they are assessed, not only the disciples go back, but the elders in the sect will also go to the first seat. Whether you go or not is voluntary, but you can’t delay the disciple’s assessment. If you encounter a disciple in crisis, you can still help.
Among them, the monsters are getting stronger and stronger as they go inside, and ordinary disciples still dare not go in. As for whether the other elders have entered the first seat, I don’t know.
In her memory, there are a lot of elixir found in Duguang Island in her previous life, so she has to go in quickly, take a shortcut, get the elixir, and as for hunting monsters, let’s go!
Of course, the monster doesn’t need to die. As long as you can kiss it, Mu Fengxue won the first place in the assessment only after he obtained the white phoenix. The white phoenix is a divine beast, and it has grown tremendously.
But as the dark cloud said, it is a cheap bird!
She felt that the dark cloud in her family was also a mythical beast. After all, the dark cloud was fighting against the white phoenix at the beginning. If it wasn’t for Mu Fengxue, the dark cloud would have killed him long ago.
So, she doesn’t care about the white phoenix, of course, if she can kill it.
“Master, you are right to think so.”
Dark Cloud suddenly said, “We must slaughter that **** before Mu Fengxue takes the opportunity, Master, let me eat it, and it will grow up faster.”
Dark Cloud’s voice sounded in Mu Bingyun’s mind, she felt its coveted appearance, and she couldn’t help laughing.
“If you can deal with the white phoenix, I don’t mind if you eat it.”
Unlike humans, monsters can devour each other to enhance their strength without any side effects. If the white phoenix is obtained by Mu Fengxue, then she will be able to get the first place, and she will also be able to get the Phoenix Sword. Below, she can suffer a lot of losses.
Well, yes, although she can’t kill the other party for the time being, she can make the other party miss those things that assist her little by little, so that the other party will not be the same as before.
In fact, the Phoenix Sword was taken out by the sect master. If the first place is a male disciple, he will be rewarded with the Dragon Subduing Sword. Then the Phoenix Sword will be arranged in the back, and the highest ranked female disciple will be awarded the Phoenix Sword. If you can’t get the rest of the rewards, you can still choose to get the rewards you deserve. However, smart people will choose the Phoenix Sword. Of course, it must be within three. If there are no female disciples within three, then the Phoenix Sword will be withdrawn.
In the same way, if the first place is a female disciple, just reverse it.
Originally, the Sect Master took out this sword and prepared it for Liu Yuer. Who knew that a wood wind and snow was killed halfway and came back riding a white phoenix.
It’s still a bit funny to say that the person this White Phoenix met first was Shui Huan’er, and Shui Huan’er was injured by Mu Fengxue’s design, and then he got the White Phoenix. This White Phoenix is also very discerning and thinks that Mu Fengxue is good. So I chose her.
Facts have proved that the choice of White Phoenix is really good.
Therefore, she cannot let the other party get it.
If she remembers it well, the third place is to reward three elixir, it seems that all three of them are what she needs.
Mu Bingyun frowned, is she going to fight for the third place?
She won’t fight for the first place. Apart from provoking a show, she can’t get the elixir, and it’s even more impossible to exchange the phoenix sword for elixir, right?
Therefore, this third place can be fought for, provided that the monsters hunted by the disciples in the previous life do not regret any discrepancies in this life, otherwise her chances of winning are not so great, after all, people who are more powerful than her are not few.
Her Thunder Vein is the third rank of Emperor Wu, and the Wood Vein also has the first rank of Emperor Wu. Sure enough, the Abandoned Vein should be broken through more slowly. However, she felt that as the thunder veins became more powerful, her wooden vein cultivation speed also accelerated. Does this mean that if her thunder veins improve again, then her wood veins will also improve, although there is less room for improvement, it’s better than nothing, right?
She communicated with Wu Yun consciously: “Wu Yun, the third place is three elixir, I want to fight for it.”
“Well, Master, since we have this opportunity, we still have the advantage of memory, why can’t we let it go, right? The third place is a bit more difficult, if the master can kill more monsters than the first place, then finally Looking at the situation, I took out the monsters outside, so I took the third place, wouldn’t that be it?” Wu Yun said triumphantly, as if he had come up with a very wonderful solution.
Mu Bingyun also thought of it, but with so many hunts, is one month enough?
“Master, Wu Yun believes in you very much, you have a way,” Wu Yun rolled his eyes, “By the way, Master, isn’t there another Cangyu? Don’t you know such a big thigh? Holding his thigh, Let him kill you, this beast thinks this method is very wonderful.”
“Dark Cloud, you are really getting more and more shameless.”
“Hey, master, if people are not narcissistic, they will accept it, but if they are not shameless, they deserve it!”
Mu Bingyun doesn’t know where she learned these tongue twisters, but Wu Yun is really cute. Although she spoke confidently, well, she didn’t want Cangyu to help.
If one day she is really willing to stand by his side, not shorter than him, but flush with him.
“Black Cloud, you practice well and grow up quickly.”
Wu Yun murmured a few words: “Oh, people are still young, you just think that I am growing up, you can take me to pretend to compare, right? Take you to pretend than to take you to fly, master, Wu Yun is going to practice. .”
“Okay, let’s go! Don’t come out if you have nothing to do. When you go to the assessment, you should have a chance to grow up. When we hunt down monsters, we will get your demon pills for you to eat.”
“Okay, okay, master, it’s really a blessing for Wuyun to meet you!” Wuyun said with a feeling, “You are the best person in this world for me, Wuyun.”
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The Sentinel Surveillance Network identified 1 case of influenza-like illness, thus remaining below the recommended threshold for the new epidemic season, according to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) guidelines.
Regarding SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance, the LNS analysed 458 specimens from residents in Luxembourg in week 52/2021 (from 5641 total cases in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg; 8,1%). This does not reach the ECDC recommendations to detect emerging variants at 2.5% prevalence (minimum sample size of 542). Including PCR screening results, 1587 national specimens were analysed globally (28,1%).
The Omicron variant was assigned to 74,9% of national cases collected during week 52, becoming thus the dominant one.
The Laboratoire national de santé, as National Reference Laboratory for Acute Respiratory Infections in Luxembourg, performs close surveillance on respiratory viruses, with a special focus on SARS-CoV-2. There are currently two active projects on which the ReViLux provides updates:
The Sentinel Surveillance Network. It provides a broad picture of respiratory diseases affecting the Luxembourgish population, based on its double monitoring system (syndromic and virological).
The National SARS-COV-2 Genomic Surveillance Program. It enables detailed observation of SARS-CoV-2 mutations and variants through time and space, and also monitoring specific groups of interest.
The Sentinel Surveillance Network aims at monitoring the circulating respiratory viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, and hence underpin public health actions. Following the World Health Organization (WHO) and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) guidance, it focuses on cases of acute respiratory infection (ARI) and influenza-like illness (ILI).
Week 40 marked the beginning of the new influenza season 2021-2022. Results of syndromic surveillance during the last four weeks are displayed in Table 1 and the history of ILI consultations since the 2019-2020 season is shown in Figure 1. The number of ILI cases identified in the week of study was 1 (out of 211 consultations); therefore, the percentage of ILI (0,47%) remains bellow the threshold for the epidemic season (2,59%), according to the ECDC.
Regarding the virological surveillance, a partnership among the CNS, private laboratories and the LNS recently started and will enable us to monitor the presence of several respiratory viruses. Results from the first analyses will be published soon.
The National Reference Laboratory for Acute Respiratory Infections at LNS receives SARS-CoV-2 positive samples (nasopharyngeal or oropharyngeal swabs analysed by RT-PCR) from the national network of laboratories and proceeds as follows:
The representative sample of community cases is a systematic selection from all SARS-CoV-2 positive cases registered in Luxembourg to detect emerging variants and early increases in their incidence and transmission within the community in Luxembourg. This sample is selected according to the ECDC guidelines.
Due to the emergence of the new Omicron variant of concern, as well as the high incidence rates in the European context, targeted PCR tests are carried systematically in order to detect potential Omicron cases within 24h from reception of the specimen. The PCR kits target the following spike mutations: 69/70del, K417N, N501Y. The potential cases identified this way are then prioritised for confirmation by sequencing.
The LNS shares its sequencing results with GISAID EpiCov database periodically. SARS-CoV-2 lineages have been assigned based on Rambaut et al. using the Phylogenetic Assignment of Named Global Outbreak LINeages (pangolin) software (v3.1.17, pangoLEARN 2021-12-06). The Pango nomenclature is used in addition to the WHO nomenclature to enable easier visualization of links between any evolving variants and their ancestor (See nomenclature equivalences in Appendix 1).
In week 52, 5641 new cases were registered in Luxembourg; hence, the minimum sample size required to detect emerging variants at a 2.5% incidence is estimated to be 542 specimens (9.6%).
Last week, 6639 specimens were received. Of these, 1591 specimens (including 1409 national specimens), were screened by targeted PCR for the Omicron variant, in order to enable an earlier detection of potential Omicron cases (see results in the following section). In parallel, the microbial genomics unit at the LNS sequenced 544 specimens, including 458 specimens having been collected from residents; hence, the weekly sequencing coverage remains at 8,1% (458 out of 5641 cases registered in Luxembourg; see coverage trend in Figure 2). Overall, 1587 national specimens were analysed either by sequencing or screening (28,1%).
As shown in Figure 3, of the 1591 specimens from week 52 which were screened by targeted PCR, 1151 were identified as potential Omicron cases (72,3%).
The distribution of successfully assigned lineages within the national selection is shown in Figure 4. Regarding Delta AY sublineages, only a selection is displayed, based on their prevalence during the last 10 weeks (min. 1%). This distribution is further detailed for the last 2 weeks in Table 2.
All these results must be interpreted with caution: potential Omicron cases detected by screening are prioritised for sequencing, and this might lead to an overestimation of the actual presence of this variant.
The Omicron variant became the dominant one (74.9%) within national specimens. All Omicron cases were assigned to the lineage BA.1 (the most common worldwide). Within the Delta variant, the lineage AY.43 remained the most frequent one.
In addition to the surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 variants, the LNS monitors the occurrence of SARS-CoV-2 mutations reported to have a clinical and epidemiological relevance. This complementary surveillance enables us to detect unexpected mutations among the specimens sequenced. It is expected that VOC defining mutations share the same distribution as their corresponding VOCs. However, newly acquired mutations may occur and their early detection might be key to expect changes in the epidemic evolution.
Following ECDC guidance, the LNS is currently monitoring 42 mutations to the spike protein frequently associated to VOCs. Additionally to the 316 national specimens successfully assigned to the Omicron variant in week 52, 12 sequences with insufficient quality to be assigned to any lineage were found to carry characteristic mutations of this variant.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. SARS-CoV-2 Variant Classifications and Definitions. Retrieved 10 January 2022, from https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/variants/variant-info.html
COVID-19 Data Portal – accelerating scientific research through data. (2021). Retrieved 10 January 2022, from https://www.covid19dataportal.org/sequences
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Guidance for representative and targeted genomic SARS-CoV-2 monitoring – 3 May 2021. ECDC : Stockholm ; 2021
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern. Retrieved 10 January 2022, from https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/covid-19/variants-concern
Genomic sequencing of SARS-CoV-2: a guide to implementation for maximum impact on public health. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2021.
GitHub – cov-lineages/pangolin: Software package for assigning SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences to global lineages. (2021). Retrieved 10 January 2022, from https://github.com/cov-lineages/pangolin
Hadfield J., Megill C., Bell S., Huddleston J., Potter B., Callender C. et al. (2018). Nextstrain: real-time tracking of pathogen evolution. Bioinformatics, 34(23), 4121-4123. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty407
Pango Network. New AY lineages. Retrieved 10 January 2022, from: https://www.pango.network/new-ay-lineages/
Pango Network. New AY lineages. Retrieved 10 January 2022, from: https://www.pango.network/new-ay-lineages-and-an-update-to-ay-4-ay-12/
Rambaut A., Holmes E., O’Toole Á., Hill V., McCrone J., Ruis C. et al. (2020). A dynamic nomenclature proposal for SARS-CoV-2 lineages to assist genomic epidemiology. Nature Microbiology, 5(11), 1403-1407. doi: 10.1038/s41564-020-0770-5
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Cathie Picket and her Ark Make investments company persisted promoting their Tesla (TSLA) inventory holdings, unloading greater than 76,000 stocks Thursday. In the meantime, Elon Musk introduced Friday new information about his proposed cage fit combat with Meta (META) leader Mark Zuckerberg.
Cathie Picket’s ARK Funding Control offered 76,425 stocks of Tesla Thursday for roughly $18.75 million, according to TSLA’s ultimate worth of 245.34, in line with the corporate’s day by day business disclosure.
Picket’s ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) and ARK Independent Generation and Robotics ETF (ARKQ) each offered Tesla inventory on Thursday.
As of Aug. 11, Tesla stays the highest keeping within the ARK Innovation ETF with a ten.67% weight. Tesla additionally ranks first for ARK Independent Generation and Robotics ETF, with a 12.98% weight. The EV large is 5th within the ARK Subsequent Technology Web ETF (ARKW), at 6.27% weight.
Tesla inventory misplaced 1.5% to 241.73 in Friday marketplace business. On Thursday, TSLA received 1.3% to 245.34.
Cathie Picket Nonetheless Bullish On TSLA
Picket has been locking in benefit on Tesla inventory since mid-June and the whole collection of stocks offered since June 12, together with Thursday’s sale, amounted to 883,816.
Forward of Tesla’s second-quarter income on July 19, Cathie Picket offered tranches of her company’s Tesla inventory holdings in consecutive periods, unloading greater than 73,000 stocks. Following the EV corporate’s Q2 effects, TSLA tumbled 9.7%, falling underneath the 21-day exponential transferring reasonable and giving up July positive factors.
On Aug. 8, the inventory lower underneath its 50-day stage of fortify for the primary time since mid-Might.
In spite of Picket’s contemporary benefit taking, she stays bullish on Tesla. ARK Funding Control predicts Tesla will achieve a $2,000 consistent with proportion worth in 2027 and gross sales between $10.3 million and $20.7 million.
Musk, Zuckerberg Set To Cross Gladiator
Early Friday, Elon Musk stated on X, previously referred to as Twitter, that he had spoken with Italy’s High Minister Giorgia Meloni about keeping the combat there.
“They’ve agreed on an epic location,” Musk posted.
The Tesla leader government added that the combat will probably be controlled by means of “my and Zuck’s foundations (no longer UFC).”
This comes after UFC President Dana White stated on a podcast Thursday the proposed cage combat between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg was once “actual.”
“They do wish to combat,” White stated. “We have been speaking concerning the Colosseum for that combat and I in truth did have a gathering with the Minister of Tradition’s crew in Italy to in truth cling that combat within the Colosseum if it might occur.”
Musk added Friday the combat will probably be livestreamed on X in addition to on Meta.
“The whole thing in body will probably be historical Rome, so not anything fashionable in any respect,” he posted Friday.
Musk began the rumors round himself and Zuckerberg squaring off within the ring in June when he posted on X he was once “up for a cage fit if he’s.” The spat took place as Meta introduced Threads, its selection to X.
Zuckerberg answered, writing, “Ship Me Location,” in an Instagram tale. Since then, the 2 billionaires have traded social media salvos.
Cathie Picket: Tesla Inventory
TSLA inventory has an professional cup-with-handle purchase level of 299.29 on a deep consolidation going again to ultimate September. The manage is deeper than the most well liked most of 12%-15%.
Tesla inventory has dropped round 18% since Q2 income on July 19. TSLA is down greater than 8% in August, following a three-month rally.
On Aug. 7, Tesla inventory fell as little as 242.76 on information that Tesla’s CFO had stepped down, ultimate underneath its 50-day line for the primary time since Might.
Tesla inventory ranks 3rd in IBD’s automaker trade crew. It has a 98 Composite Score out of 99. Tesla has a 91 Relative Energy Score and its EPS Score is 94 out of 99.
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Daily Price Outlook
- GBP/USD breached 1.2870, reinforcing bullish trend with targets at 1.2935 and 1.3010.
- Some technical indicators show negative signals, temporary slowdown expected. Traders await positive momentum for target push.
- Breaking below 1.2870 and 1.2805 may lead to bearish correction.
The GBP/USD pair successfully breached the 1.2870 level and established a solid support base above it, reinforcing the belief in a continued bullish trend. The next target levels are anticipated at 1.2935, followed by 1.3010.
However, it's worth noting that some technical indicators are showing negative signals, which may temporarily slow down the expected bullish movement. Traders are awaiting positive momentum that could assist in pushing the price towards the projected targets.
In this context, breaking below the support levels at 1.2870 and 1.2805 could halt the anticipated rise and potentially lead to additional bearish correction over the longer-term.
The expected trading range for today is between the support level of 1.2820 and the resistance level of 1.2980.
GBP/USD - Trade ideas
Entry Price – Buy Above 1.28467
Take Profit – 1.30493
Stop Loss – 1.27461
Risk to Reward – 1: 2
Profit & Loss Per Standard Lot = +$202/ -$100
Profit & Loss Per Micro Lot = +$20/ -$10
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Gold’s Daily Price Analysis
Gold prices ended the day at $1807.00, having reached a high of $1821.65 and a low of $1805.60. Gold surged to its highest level since November 22nd during early trading hours on Tuesday, but it did not last long and fell in late trading hours, prolonging its loss for the second straight session. The key explanation for the session's decline in precious metals prices could be the rise of the US dollar. The greenback increased to 96.23, recouping the previous session's losses. The benchmark 10-year US Treasury note yield climbed on Tuesday, hovering at 1.48 percent, bolstering the US dollar. The strong dollar exacerbated the intense selling pressure around the precious metal.
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Despite the stronger US dollar, gold prices stayed above the critical threshold of $1,800 per ounce, owing to ongoing concerns about rising inflation. Some investors view gold as an inflation hedge, but the metal's vulnerability to rising US interest rates puts it under pressure as the cost of keeping bullion rises. Nevertheless, the rapid spread of the Omicron form boosted the number of cases worldwide, supporting safe-haven gold. Coronavirus transmissions have reached 1.44 million; according to one study, Omicron infects at a rate 70 times quicker than prior strains. However, the disease produced by it may be less severe, particularly for persons who have been vaccinated and have gotten a booster injection. This boosted market confidence and kept gold losses to a minimum for the day.
GOLD Intraday Technical Level
Pivot Point: 1811.42
GOLD - Technical Outlook
On Wednesday, gold was trading sideways, maintaining a narrow range of 1,808 – 1,804 levels. The intra-day pivot point extends the resistance level at 1,810, and below this, the bearish bias remains strong. In the 4-hour timeframe, the precious metal forms neutral candles, indicating indecision and a lack of volatility in the market. Therefore, it’s normal to have such market conditions during the holiday session.
Gold’s immediate resistance stays at the 1,807 level on the bullish side, and a break above this level exposes the metal towards the 1,811 level. Further, the next resistance remains at the 1,816 level on the higher side. While the support holds around 1,804 and 1,800 levels, a break below 1,800 levels exposes the metal towards 1,795 and 1,785 levels. All the best!
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Posted by Dr. Dadvand August 28, 2015
As a plastic surgeon specializing in gynecomastia surgery, I come across chests of all shapes and sizes. Gynecomastia can present in a variety of ways, from small glandular firmness under the nipple to full-on breasts with ptosis, or droopiness. For most gynecomastia cases, removal of the excess tissue, whether it is with excision, liposuction, or both, is enough to get the ideal contour. This is because the skin tends to tighten and re-drape over the deeper muscles.
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Alexander Chee is the author of the novels Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night, and the essay collection How To Write An Autobiographical Novel, all from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He is a contributing editor at The New Republic, and an editor at large at VQR. His essays and stories have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, T Magazine, Tin House, Slate, and Guernica, among others. He is the winner of a 2003 Whiting Award, a 2004 NEA Fellowship in prose and a 2010 MCCA Fellowship, and residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the VCCA, Civitella Ranieri and Amtrak. Chee is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College.
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Amanda Stern is Bookable’s host. Founder of the popular literary event series Happy Ending at Joe’s Pub in New York City, Stern is also a writer. Happy Ending ran for more than a decade and was selected as New York’s best book-related series by New York Magazine, The Village Voice and NY Press. The New York Times Magazine singled out Happy Ending as a force keeping “downtown New York alive.”
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ELLEN JUNE WRIGHT
Found memories—photos taken before I was born:
Mother and her tiny 1950's waist,
father looking much older—too old for her.
Mother was in her second or third reincarnation
and determined to change the course of her life again.
She would not stay with him long.
I heard he couldn't read or was that someone else
Mother talked about, driving a car but couldn't read
the street signs, memorizing every turn. I guess that
was my father and that's why he didn't write.
painting ourselves c. 1980
(after Ntozake Shange)
working in ebony browns
and earth tones,
we paint portraits of girls
who are not sure what it is to be female
we read books black poets write
and seeing our reflections there
vanish into the pages,
becoming words, being too ethnic
but trying desperately not to be moody or sad
for these are redundant
looking for ourselves everywhere,
we scrape layers of varnish
trying to see the color inside
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Lucian K. Truscott IV, a graduate of West Point, has had a 53-year career as a journalist, novelist and screenwriter. He has covered stories such as Watergate, the Stonewall riots and wars in Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan. He is the author of five bestselling novels and several unsuccessful motion pictures. He has three children, lives on the East End of Long Island with his wife Tracy Harris and spends most of his time Worrying About the State of Our Nation and madly scribbling in a so-far fruitless attempt to Make Things Better. You can read his daily columns at luciantruscott.substack.com and follow him on Twitter @LucianKTruscott and on Facebook at Lucian K. Truscott IV.
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SOUTH PACIFIC LAW MATERIALS IN BRISBANE
AbstractAfter the establishment of the South Pacific Legal Studies Group at Q.I.T. Law School in 1983 it became clear to those involved that one of the main obstacles in South Pacific research was obtaining legal materials. This problem was exacerbated by the difficulty in locating such materials, as there was no consolidated list of South Pacific holdings. Inspired by "Pacific Law Materials in Wellington" which appeared in (1984) 14 VUWLR 317, an index of South Pacific holdings in Brisbane was prepared during 1985 by J.C. Corrin. A grant from Q.I.T. Research and Development Fund enabled a research assistant, Ms L. de Plevitz, to be employed, to help in collecting data. The index contains most of the South Pacific Law holdings at Queensland Institute of Technology (QIT), University of Queensland (UQ) and the Queensland Supreme Court (SC) Libraries. It will be used by staff and students at Q.I.T. involved in Pacific research, as a guide to readily available material. The following is a more concise list, omitting many of the background works. It is hoped that it will be of use to a wide range of researchers. The list is divided according to country, with a further division for general material.
Authors who publish with this journal retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Articles in this journal are published under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC-BY). This is to achieve more legal certainty about what readers can do with published articles, and thus a wider dissemination and archiving, which in turn makes publishing with this journal more valuable for authors.
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Ok! Let’s look at it this way. We are accustomed to washing our clothes when the hamper is full and replacing them when they get worn out, we wipe off the kitchen counter right after washing dishes that we’ll need to use again tomorrow, we also run a duster over surfaces in our homes when the dust gets visible.
But, have you ever thought the same about your beddings? What's that sign that will make you go “Gosh! I need a new mattress” or “I’m so getting new pillows today”
That’s right, your answer is as good as our thoughts. “YOU DON’T KNOW”
So, sit tight and go nowhere because we are about to enlighten you on the importance of replacing your beddings and how often you should replace each one of them…
Pillows are essential for proper neck and spine alignment during sleep. However, over time, they can lose their supportive qualities and become a breeding ground for allergens and bacteria. Look out for signs like neck and back pain, allergies, and visible wear and tear to know when it's time for new pillows.
The recommended time frame for pillow replacement is 1 year.
Your mattress is the foundation of your sleep. As it ages, it may start to sag and lose its supportive structure, causing discomfort and disrupted sleep. If you're waking up feeling achy or your mattress is over 10 years old, it's time to consider investing in a new one.
Sheets are in direct contact with our skin, and their quality directly affects our sleep comfort. Over time, sheets can become thin, faded, and develop tears or pilling. If your sheets have seen 1-2 years of regular use, it's probably time to replace them for a better night's rest.
If your duvet is no longer soft and fluffy, has developed holes or tears, is stained or discolored, or has lost its ability to keep you warm or cool, it might be time for a replacement. Typically, if your duvet is over 5 years old, it's a good indicator that you should consider investing in a new one. Making this change can significantly improve your sleep quality and overall comfort in bed. So, if you notice any of these signs, don't hesitate to treat yourself to a new duvet and enjoy a more restful and comfortable night's sleep.
If you observe your quilt starting to fall apart with fraying, loose threads, or tears, or notice that it no longer provides the warmth and comfort it once did, it might be time for a replacement. A worn-out batting or fabric can be the cause behind the reduced coziness. Additionally, if the quilt has lost its attractiveness due to faded colors or an unappealing pattern, it's a strong indicator for considering a new one. The recommended time frame for quilt replacement is 10 years.
If your mattress protector is stained or shows visible signs of wear and tear, no longer providing the same level of protection as when it was new, or starting to emit unpleasant odors, it's a clear indication that it needs replacement. Additionally, if the protector is no longer fitting your mattress properly, it may compromise its effectiveness. When you notice any of these signs, it's time to consider investing in a new mattress protector.
A high-quality mattress protector not only helps extend the life of your mattress but also ensures your comfort and hygiene while you sleep. Don't hesitate to upgrade to a new and reliable mattress protector to safeguard your investment and enjoy a restful sleep. Your mattress protector ideally should be replaced every 5 years.
A perfect mattress topper is the key to a good night's sleep! It gives your body that extra comfort by supporting and preventing pressure points. So, if you notice your sleep isn’t so good anymore, don’t hesitate to check your topper, it may be time for a replacement. The average lifespan of a mattress topper is 3 years.
Your beddings play a vital role in your sleep quality and overall well-being. Regularly replacing pillows, mattresses, sheets, toppers, and comforters can lead to a more comfortable and hygienic sleep environment, promoting better sleep and overall health.
So, take a moment to assess your current beddings and consider investing in new ones if needed, and enjoy the benefits of a good night's sleep.
You deserve comfort!
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Some of our Sellers believe their homes will sell quickly and easily so they don’t want to pay a commission, which makes perfect sense. However, typical flat-fee MLS service basically gets you a listing and possibly a yard sign. The truth is most Sellers need a little more help than that. If this is the case for you, we have a better option than the traditional, limited flat-fee MLS services that will still lower your selling fees.
Get the best of both worlds
- You get significant real estate commission savings when selling
- You get professional help from a realtor
- You get Lucid Realty’s world-class level of service
If you are looking for an agency you can trust to put your interests first, with experts to guide you through the whole process who are immediately accessible: THIS! IS! IT! You will save a ton of money, a ton of time, and get great service along the way. Do yourself a favor, google their website, read why you should choose them, and then DO IT.– Seth, Home Seller
Your savings can be substantial.
Sellers benefit from only what they will need from our comprehensive marketing program.
Pick and choose from the following menu:
- MLS Listing with a carefully crafted description (Always included)
- Professional photos with detailed captions (Required)
- Virtual tour
- Your home’s own website
- Distribution of your home on key websites
- Brochures and flyers
- Signage with appropriate riders
- Emails targeted to all active brokers in your area
- Additional online advertising
- Public open houses
- Broker open houses
- Detailed feedback on every showing
- Regular updates on how your listing is performing according to key metrics
We can help save you money when you buy or sell a home.
Call now to talk to one of our real estate agents.
If you believe that your home will be an easy sell, and you don’t need a lot of help from a realtor, then you should talk to us about our Pay By-the-hour Program.
No matter how you utilize Lucid Realty’s superior services, you’ll get the quality level of service for which we are known. Our realtors will discuss with you in detail the level of marketing services you may need and provide you with an estimate.
Flat-fee MLS offers very few, if any, marketing or support services. Savvy clients know they need at least some level of support and can customize their Pay By-the-hour Program to their exact needs. They also have access to our experienced realtors, and rest assured, you will only pay for the services utilized.
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There were over 2.5 million Americans in 2014 suffering from opioid addiction, and many as a result overdosing. This large number is one everyone is putting effort into reducing, and one way we do that here at Lumiere Healing Centers is by offering opioid addiction treatment in Ohio. Our facility for addiction recovery offers both inpatient rehabilitation and outpatient rehabilitation. However, either option you choose has a similar treatment regime for opioid addiction.
Our Treatment Process
Our patients will first start with detoxing. The idea behind detoxification is to get rid of any toxins in the body. Whether it’s only opioids the patient has to detox from or a combination of drugs, our medical staff eliminates it all. Starting with detoxing is the best way to make sure you start strong and sober.
The biggest reason to detox with a medical professional nearby comes down to withdrawal symptoms and how they play a role in relapse. These symptoms can cause pain, fevers, aches, and more, with some people relapsing because of how harsh they can be.
When someone struggling with opioid addiction in Ohio detoxes with us, we reduce the withdrawal symptoms and can take advantage of medicine. Our goal is to ensure the patient is as comfortable as possible. Once the detoxing is over, they can start fresh, with no drugs in their system. This leads to the next treatment, medicine. It may seem a bit strange to sum to give medication to someone who is struggling with addiction, but we sometimes need to medicate the addict to help reduce cravings. Medicine such as Buprenorphine and Methadone has been known to help.
Ongoing Therapy is Apart of Your Opioid Addiction Treatment
In addition to medicine, patients will undergo therapy sessions to help work through the addiction. Therapy such as behavioral therapy is used to help the patient work through their addiction. The therapist will address the addiction and what triggers may cause the person to feel the need to use opiates. Once these triggers are identified, methods to avoid relapsing can be discussed. The patient will learn different methods that work for them so that when they feel stressed, the temptation to use again doesn’t pull them back in.
These therapy sessions will also help the patient learn how to readjust their mindset towards their addiction and drug use. When the mindset shifts, it becomes easier to see a different perspective. The therapist will also provide motivation and incentives to help the patient continue on their path of sobriety.
The 12 Step Program Works!
At Lumiere Healing Centers, your local facility for addiction recovery in Ohio (https://lumierehealingcenters.com/ohio-outpatient-rehab/#), we also recommend doing a 12-step therapy program. This program is all about accepting the addiction as it is. The patient understands that this drug has a hold on their life in some way and takes a lot of willpower to overcome. Once this is accepted, they can move on to taking the necessary actions to battle addiction. Eventually, this program even encourages the addict to help others. Sometimes, lending a hand to others in the same boat can be mutually beneficial.
Lumiere Healing Centers Can Help!
With opioid addiction, there are all kinds of aspects of the addiction that need to be addressed. As a result, the patient has many different types of treatment available to them. When used together, these various treatment methods can help them pave the way for a life of sobriety. Addiction recovery isn’t always the easiest thing to do, but it isn’t impossible.
If you or someone you know is struggling with opioid addiction in Ohio, then reach out to the team here at Lumiere Healing Centers. We can’t wait to help you!
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The personal data of the Client are processed in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act. Lumisenses.com, collecting Costumer´s personal data when creating a customer account and /or ordering.
The personal data to be processed: customer’s name, personal identification code, email address, mobile number and consumption preferences. Lumisenses.com uses personal data to provide services to the Consumer, further development and personalization.
These particular policies must be taken into consideration in the first place on the Lumisenses.com website for the sale of goods and personalized offers to customers.
When the customer enters his or her data in the online store and authorizes the rights with the corresponding approval, then Lumisenses.com has the right to collect and process the Consumer’s personal data and to provide the logistics partner with the necessary data for the delivery of the goods. Lumisenses.com has the rights to use customer’s address or location for advertisement and other informational purposes.
The consumer has the right at any time to prohibit the collection of his/her personal data, unless this is necessary for the recovery of obligations under the contract or to deliver the goods. Agreement to the use of personal data mentioned above, can not be withdrawn retroactively.
The use of electronic personal data, applies only when Consumer has approved the Lumisenses.com webpage. Upon payment of encrypted data banks for purchases, the Consumer guarantees the security of personal banknotes and does not have access to Lumisenses.com.
Lumisenses.com will never share personal information to any third parties.
Suggested text: When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
Suggested text: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Suggested text: If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
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Effective date: March 17, 2023
- Information Collection and Use
We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you. Some examples include:
a. Personal Data: When you use our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). This may include, but is not limited to, your name, email address, postal address, and phone number.
b. Usage Data: We may also collect information about how our Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other diagnostic data.
- Use of Data
Lunargistics Corp. uses the collected data for various purposes:
a. To provide and maintain our Service. b. To notify you about changes to our Service. c. To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so. d. To provide customer support. e. To gather analysis or valuable information to improve our Service. f. To monitor the usage of our Service. g. To detect, prevent, and address technical issues. h. To comply with legal obligations and protect our users’ privacy.
- Data Retention
- Data Security
The security of your data is important to us, and we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
- Third-Party Services
We have no control over and assume no responsibility the state of your environment.
Information We Collect We may collect personal information about you, such as your name, email address, phone number, mailing address, and payment information when you interact with us through our website, social media, or other means. We may also collect information about your use of our services, such as your device information, IP address, and browsing history.
Sharing of Information We may share your personal information with third-party service providers who help us operate our business, process payments, and provide our services. We may also share your information with law enforcement agencies, regulatory bodies, and other third parties as required by law or to protect our rights and interests.
Protection of Information We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, or use. However, no data transmission over the internet or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be secure.
Your Choices You have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal information. You may also choose to opt-out of receiving marketing communications from us by following the instructions provided in the communication.
Lunargistics Corp. built the Galaxer app as a Free app. This SERVICE is provided by Lunargistics Corp. at no cost and is intended for use as is.
This page is used to inform visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decided to use our Service.
Information Collection and Use
The app does use third-party services that may collect information used to identify you.
We want to inform you that whenever you use our Service, in a case of an error in the app we collect data and information (through third-party products) on your phone called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your device Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, device name, operating system version, the configuration of the app when utilizing our Service, the time and date of your use of the Service, and other statistics.
Cookies are files with a small amount of data that are commonly used as anonymous unique identifiers. These are sent to your browser from the websites that you visit and are stored on your device’s internal memory.
This Service does not use these “cookies” explicitly. However, the app may use third-party code and libraries that use “cookies” to collect information and improve their services. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies and know when a cookie is being sent to your device. If you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of this Service.
We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:
To facilitate our Service;
To provide the Service on our behalf;
To perform Service-related services; or
To assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.
We want to inform users of this Service that these third parties have access to their Personal Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.
We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Links to Other Sites
These Services do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13 years of age. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to do the necessary actions.
This policy is effective as of 2023-05-18
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Computers are complex and stupid.
Complex: because with every passing day our dependence on technology increases and our understanding of it decreases.
Stupid: because computers don’t think, they don’t reason–they just do exactly as they are told.
So when software, networks, or technology systems stop working, the person best prepared to fix or improve them is the person who knows how to tell technology what to do (and just as importantly, what not to do), when to do it, and how to go about doing it.
Thankfully, we can use the world around us to learn the principles necessary to demystify software specifically, but also technology as a whole. Systems are all around us. The body system, the weather system, solar system, etc. Networks are also right in front of us: transportation networks, cell networks (phones or blood!), and even social networks.
Nature provides the foundational principles for understanding how systems and networks operate and flourish, and how code utilizes the structures within those networks. Much can be leaned about software from studying trees, rivers, subways, and lightning. When you understand how the behind-the-scenes of the systems works, you can start to control the flow of the system, rather than being controlled by it.
“PULL THE LEVER, KRONK!”
. . .
In the Emperor’s New Groove, Yzma tells Kronk to pull the lever to simply open a door. Instead, the lever opens a trapdoor beneath Yzma. Working with technology can sometimes be like Kronk pulling the wrong lever. Unexpected things happen, but the more you understand the levers that make the system function, the better you’ll be at picking the right levers. Gain agency over technology. The more you understand, the more choice you have in how the technological systems (levers) work. Gain agency over the complex/stupid computer by learning all the different levers at your disposal by determining where in the system you are, and learning the ripple effect (downstream) of each different lever.
- File Structure
Stupid, Computers Are
Color, Numbers, Counting
Why is December the 12th month?
Markup vs. Programming
Directory and File Structure
Parent vs. Child
Inheritance, preference, priority, and !important
DOMinating the web browser
Code as a Body: Bones -> Clothes -> Movement
Arrays and Objects
Forms and Inputs
- Routing & Networking
- Domain Names
- Web Applications
- Responsible Code
- Recap and Testing
- Personal Website
- Git / GitHub
Intro to Programming Systems
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Ladies, Let’s Get Practical!!!
MARRIAGE, HUSBANDS AND WIVES
My dear friends, let’s hear a round of applause! We’ve been through a lot of content about marriage, husbands and wives, and the meaning of it all these past few months. I hope it’s blessed you as much as it’s blessed me! Sharing the truth of God’s marriage design and working hard to deepen our relationships is truly a blessing to us and a delight to the Lord.
This month, I want to give a Practical Guide on what it means to SUBMIT and RESPECT our husbands. There’s no doubt it’s easier said than done, and there’s not a lot of practical application out there for us to lean on. So, without further ado, let’s jump right in!
STORIES OF A WIFE
To begin, we’re going to hear from a few of my (fictional) friends! They have so gladly decided to share a moment from their week with us. Let’s meet friend number one!
Always Right Rhonda and Forgetful Fred
Always Right Rhonda and Forgetful Fred are invited to a friend-from-colleges’ house, Louise and Ben, for dinner. As always, Rhonda had to make her special Cherry Cheesecake Pie for dessert! A family recipe and something of pride, she could only serve it one way: perfectly chilled with a heaping spoon of sugared cherries and Cool Whip whipped cream.
As she gets ready, she runs through the list of everything she needs, “Cheesecake in the oven, check! Sugared cherries, check! Where is my red blouse… oh, here it is. Okay, can’t forget to tell Fred he has to buy Cool Whip after work on his way to dinner. Let’s call him now…”
She calls Fred, hangs up, and begins to do her makeup. She’s heading to Louise’s house an hour earlier to help with dinner. With a sense of fun and friendship in the air, she finishes her makeup, grabs her purse, her pie, and hops in the car.
The house smells of delicious pot roast and potatoes. As Rhonda and Louise prepare the finishings for dinner, Ben and Fred (who both just arrived from work) are lingering in the garage.
“Dinners ready!” said Rhonda and Louise simultaneously. They giggled, wine in hand, and moved toward the dining room.
Once bellies are full and spirits are high, Rhonda runs to the kitchen. From the fridge, she grabs her cake and her cherries. She opens the freezer for the Cool Whip…
“Uhm…” she thinks, “Hey Fred!” she calls. “Where’s the Cool Whip?”.
“What Cool Whip?” she hears from the dining room.
“What do you mean WHAT COOL WHIP… I called you at work, don’t you remember?
“Uh… honey… yeah but, you told me about your red blouse and…”
“Fred, I called you specifically for Cool Whip… I can’t believe…”
“I am so sorry honey, I don’t recall…”
“FRED, you never remember ANYTHING….”
As the back and forth continues, Louise sips her wine and Ben pretends to look at a spot on the wall. Rhonda suddenly turns into the kitchen angry and flustered, and Fred shakes his head.
Poor Rhonda and Fred. If only we could hear that phone call. Let’s move on to our next scene.
People Pleasing Pam and Enabling Ed
“Listen,” Pam Says, “I know you already made the burgers, but I think you should run to the store and buy wings instead. It is a game party for crying out loud, wings are Pete’s favorite!”
Ed, who just finished flattening his last burger thinks to himself “the game is in a half hour, and I don’t really like wings…”
Pam continued, “I know you hate wings, Ed, but seriously. You do burgers every time and besides, you need to get better at eating other foods. Pete loves wings. He and Kathy haven’t been over in months, you need to think these things through better, Ed…”
Enabling Ed, reluctant to speak, wraps his burgers at once and places them in the fridge. Without a word, he grabs his keys and goes.
That seems like a lot of work. Let’s hear from our next friend.
Silent Sue and Oblivious Quill
“Sue, you’ve been quiet all morning. Is everything okay?”
“I’m fine, Quill,” snaps Sue.
“You only forgot to take out the trash, let your muddy boots stain my rug, and left your stinky underwear on the bathroom floor. Seriously… the hamper is right there…” she thinks to herself.
“Don’t worry about it,” adds Sue.
Quill ponders this for a moment, unconvinced. “I know something is up, I want to help. Just tell me, please?”
Sue thinks to herself, “why should I have to TELL you? Shouldn’t you be able to see the mess, the mud? It’s like your blind sometimes, Quill…”
“Quill, leave it alone. I am fine.”
“… okay…” says Quill, unsure but defeated.
I feel for Quill and Sue. It seems there is more to this feeling than muddy floors and underwear. Last but not least, our final friend.
Demanding Debby and Tired Tim
Tim walks in the door from work, “hey, honey.”
“Oh, hey Tim!” says Debby, “thank goodness you’re home!”
Tim, feeling tired but suddenly happy, walks over for a hug and a kiss.
Debbie, without looking at Tim, walks in the opposite direction and begins to list, “now you can fix the leak in the sink, the trash needs to be out, the dog needs a walk and honestly, Tim, the grass you mowed yesterday still looks raggedy. Could you run the mower again before it gets dark? And also…”
Phew! It seemed like our friends had some hard experiences. These stories may seem extreme on the outside looking in, but moments like this are much more common than we’d think. Unless you’re perfect with submission and respect, I’d think it’s safe to say that we all can relate. We’ve all stood in the shoes of Always Right Rhonda or Silent Sue.
What do all these women’s stories have in common? It is the belief that she knows best.
LET’S BREAK IT DOWN
First, Always Right Rhonda and Forgetful Fred.
Should Rhonda have:
- Made sure Fred felt the heat for forgetting Cool Whip
- Thrown the cake directly at Fred’s head
- Assessed the misunderstanding and moved on
At the moment, I’m sure Rhonda would have wanted to choose #2. However, the Lord’s choice is always #3. Far too often wives are quick to belittle and put down their husbands in both private and public. Whether Rhonda forgot to tell Fred, or Fred simply forgot, this kind of response is not from Christ and takes a toll. Though it may seem like a small quarrel, our words hold weight and unfortunately, our husbands WILL make mistakes. Rhonda can feel disappointed while allowing the Lord to give her the strength to respect her husband despite the circumstance.
Let’s look next at People Pleasing Pam and Enabling Ed.
Should Pam have:
- Catered in game-day dinner
- Tell Ed he can never plan food again
- Trust Ed’s direction in the food preparations
Clearly, #3 would be the correct answer. As hard as it may feel sometimes, we need to trust our husbands’ directions. Even in small circumstances like party foods! If we don’t communicate through our actions that we believe him capable of being devoted and faithful in the small things, how could expect to trust him with the big stuff?
Third is Silent Sue and Oblivious Quill.
Ladies, this is one we know too well. Sometimes, it seems easier to hide our emotions, hurts, or frustrations instead of voicing them. However, this is unfair to our husbands and it is emotional manipulation. Suppressing our feelings leads to resentment, and resentment rears its head when we least expect it. Tactics such as guilt trips, passive aggressiveness, words like “never” and “always,” and the silent treatment are many ways we use emotions to manipulate our husbands, even if we don’t realize it.
Ladies, I encourage you to use your voice. It is possible to express our emotions to our husbands without disrespect! By speaking your feelings in love and truth, ruptures in your marriage will begin to mend. And remember, husbands are not mind readers! Sometimes they simply don’t realize the offense they’ve done. Lean on the Lord and He will teach you to speak with love and truth.
Finally, Demanding Debby and Tired Tim.
Should Debby have:
- Greeted her husband with joy and enthusiasm
- Kissed him sweetly
- Asked him about his day
And the answer is… all three! Ladies, I know we work hard. We toil throughout our day, striving to live like our Proverbs 31 woman! This is good news and a gift we give to our families. However, just as our day was hard, we must remember, our husbands’ days are also.
How do you greet your husband when he walks into your door? Are you filled with joy, love, and happiness simply because he is reunited with you? Do you smile at him and welcome him home like he was truly missed? Let me tell you ladies, a shift will happen in your heart and your home when you begin to regard your husband with love and affection.
These ladies live in all of us, their qualities being sin. In a perfect world, we could lean into our calling without shame, doubt, or the noise of the world.
How great is it that we have a savior willing to help us?
Remember, just as a wife is called to submit and respect her husband, her husband is called to lay down his life for her – loving her like Jesus loves the church. Our separate but equally important roles in marriage allow both husband and wife to represent Christ through service in different ways. We all have the opportunity to be the hands and feet of Jesus.
If you are feeling overwhelmed or unsure of where to start, start with prayer! The qualities of a Christ-like wife can only come from Christ. As we begin to abide in Him and lean fully into our role in the marriage design, He transforms us from the inside out.
Here is a little step-by-step list to help us in our day-to-day life:
- Trust your husband in the small things and big things
- Allow him to take the lead without criticism
- Allow him space to make mistakes
- Offer encouragement and advice, but trust his final choice
- Communicate your feelings to him with love and truth
- Encourage him and lift him up
- Confide in him
- Confront conflict (in love and truth!) in a private place without condemnation
- Welcome him home with love and joy
- Pray for him daily, remember in the Lord’s eyes and standards yur husband will be judged much more harshly for his mistakes.
As a final encouragement before we depart, I leave you with this scripture.
“Now may the God of peace sanctify you completely. And may your whole spirit, soul, and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” 1 Thes. 5:23
Ladies, you are sanctifying your home through your faith. Be encouraged that even when your husband falls short, you are honoring God through your obedience. We submit not only for our husbands but as a burnt offering to God. In doing so, we fulfill his beautiful design. As always, I am here to talk with you should you need my help! Please don’t hesitate to reach out.
“Dogs are how people would be if the important stuff is all that mattered to us.” – Ashly Lorenzana, author
Exciting news! The photography for our newsletters will be coming from Irita Reagan; an amazing photographer in TN and my role-model in this world. Please see her work here & you can also follow her on instagram!
Much love, Luz.
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