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Duke Energy fights to keep profits trumping the common good
There's been precious little good news on the environmental front of late. Species continue to be killed off at a record clip. Pollution in China and India is terrifyingly bad. Climate change continues to wreak physical, biological, economic and political havoc. Meanwhile, here in North Carolina, state leaders remain bent upon enacting laws and policies premised on the notion that things are as they were in 1914 rather than as they are in 2014.
One bright and extremely hopeful exception to this trend has been the rapid progress and, in some places downright explosive growth, in solar power. Fueled by advances in technology, public subsidies designed to help prime the pump and, most importantly, the exciting growth in public awareness, people all over the world are embracing and demanding the clean, sustainable electricity that solar power can provide.
These consumers understand that solar isn't perfect and that it may cost a little more – especially at first. But they also realize that if solar can replace big chunks of the world's fossil fuel addiction, it will provide huge benefits to the long-term health and well-being of the planet. To make matters even more hopeful, solar has a large and growing cadre of supporters and adherents on the political right who see it as means of securing American energy independence and helping entrepreneurs to bring more competition to the nation's regulated electric monopolies.
Sounds like an obvious and encouraging win-win situation, right?
As usual, big money is the problem
Unfortunately, when it comes to the beneficial spread of solar power, there is a giant and enormously powerful roadblock: big money. Fueled by an unholy alliance of monopoly electric providers, big fossil fuel corporations and a group of conservative "think tank" toadies only too happy to bash all things "green," the anti-solar movement has been rearing its head of late like some slow moving Godzilla movie monster.
Here in North Carolina, the battle is soon to be joined over something known as "net metering." This is the eminently logical and reasonable, but hard-won public policy under which individual homes and business customers who outfit their buildings with solar panels to generate electricity can, effectively, run their electric meters "backwards." For several years now, it's been the rule in North Carolina that when such customers send power back out onto the electric grid they are reimbursed at the same rate that they pay for power when drawing it off the grid. Hence the use of the word "net" in the term "net metering."
Of course, the overwhelming majority of such customers still need access to the power provided by traditional utilities. The sun doesn't shine all the time and storage is typically not feasible. That's why such small solar generators don't just detach from the grid completely.
The practical limits of solar power and net metering notwithstanding, the concept has obvious and potentially huge ramifications for the future of electricity generation. As more and more solar panels are manufactured and installed and technology advances, the chance that truly significant segments of the societal demand for electricity can be met by such means starts to look more and more plausible. Just imagine if the installation of solar panels became so commonplace that they literally covered hundreds of thousands of roofs. Add to this the installation of scores of large solar "farms" and other renewable energy sources like wind farms and pretty soon electric power generation isn't doing nearly so much to harm the world's atmosphere and maybe, just maybe, the planet's environmental crisis begins to ease.
Unfortunately, North Carolina's monopoly electricity provider (and the nation's largest) Duke Energy, has different plans. The giant, multi-billion dollar corporation has signaled its intention to seek an end to net metering in its present form. Like many other power companies around the country, Duke no longer wants to have a one-for-one swap in which solar producing customers are reimbursed at the same price they pay for electricity. Instead, the company wants to reimburse at a rate closer to what it pays for the generation of electricity in traditional power plants – i.e. about half that rate. The problem, of course, is that such a rate would pull the rug out from under widespread solar deployment (something that's been happening at a rapid clip in North Carolina) by making it much less economical.
What's really going on here?
The underlying issue in all of this, of course, is money. It's not that Duke and other big power companies necessarily have anything against solar power; what they're worried about is that if things continue as they have, solar (and widely distributed ownership) really could become a big deal in the future rather than the small niche phenomenon that it is now. That, in turn, would mean lost profits – perhaps big lost profits over time – for Duke.
Of course, Duke and other power companies are loathe to admitting this plain truth. Instead they'd rather talk about the Duke's need for adequate revenue "in order to fairly cover the cost of providing service in their territory."
Similarly, in a cheeky bit of hypocrisy, both Duke and its allies in the right-wing think tanks claim that current rules "discriminate against lower income customers" because the one-for-one net metering for solar supposedly forces higher electric bills on everyone than they might otherwise pay. This from a monopoly utility that has fought tenaciously through the years to preserve every avenue for cutting off a necessity of life to poor people struggling to pay their light bills and advocacy groups that've never met a poor person whose lot in life wasn't their own "fault"!
As a spokesperson for the NAACP noted yesterday, the new and surprising concern for low-income consumers comes just as the rapidly growing demand for solar is driving down the price at a rapid pace – so rapid that it may actually become affordable for low and moderate income households to benefit directly in the foreseeable future.
The big picture
All of this said, there's no denying that net metering as presently constituted could cost Duke, fossil fuel producers and other big corporations some profits and, at least in the short run, keep consumer prices somewhat higher than they could conceivably be. So too might conflict in the Persian Gulf and any number of other possible scenarios as well.
On the other hand, as David Pomerantz of Greenpeace told AP the other day "The more people who go solar, that's fewer gas plants and coal plants and nuclear power plants that Duke has to build itself, which it ends up charging to all of its customers."
As he might have also added: even if Duke's arguments about consumer costs are true, so what? First off, there are other ways to address high costs for vulnerable consumers. But more to the point, it would be absurd for North Carolina to make its judgment in this existential matter based upon such a possibility – especially in light of the societal (and even planetary) benefits that rapidly expanding solar power offers.
How could it possibly make sense for a state to further undermine the survival of the species so that a giant corporation (one that's supposed to be a public utility, for heaven's sake) can make more money for its shareholders and millionaire executives? Good lord, if it could be shown convincingly that it would help prevent environmental catastrophe, North Carolina should abolish Duke tomorrow and appropriate all of its assets.
Happily, of course, it need not and will not come to that. There is a place in North Carolina for a regulated monopoly electricity provider – even one, like Duke, that makes a profit. Ultimately, however, that profit must always come second to overall societal good. Put plainly, Duke and the other corporations potentially impacted are creations of the state that exist for the good of the people of North Carolina; it's not the other way around.


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Improving Tone Quality
How to improve tone quality
Learning how to produce a beautiful rich tone on the violin or viola can seem like such a complex minefield of apparently contradictory concepts and actions. Bow speed, weight, angle of bow, amount of hair on the string, and the challenge of making seamless bow changes; these all contribute to the tone you produce.
Obviously, before you focus on tone you want to make sure that you have set your violin position up to suit your body type, you know how to hold the bow and can bow parallel to the bridge. Perhaps the single most important concept that can help transform your tone is to realise that the bow is playing a constant catch/release game with the string.
The tiny hooks on the bow hair and the grippy rosin serve to grab and pull the string until the tension is so great that the string flicks back. It's why the more pressure you apply to the bow the more the string appears to vibrate from side to side.
Another key concept for developing a beautiful tone is that you pull the sound with the bow; pushing just leads to a forced sound. In essence, the middle fingers of the bow hand caress the bow and the tone. If you simply rely on applying pressure through the first finger it becomes a contest of brute strength where you will crush the string vibrations and possibly injure your hand.
And as they say you can't push a piece of string. You want to allow the weight of the arm to drag the bow along. Weight (pressure) and speed combined with this idea of pulling the sound from the instrument can transform your tone very quickly.
Probably the single most important exercise for practising these ideas is slow bowing or son filé. This exercise involves playing long held notes (around 20 seconds per bow stroke). There are an infinite number of variations of the son filé. Try experimenting with adding accents or dynamic changes within each held note.
Some teachers even recommend holding a single note for longer than a minute. But don't practise son filé for more than 10 minutes at a time. Son filé may not always sound great but ironically it is one of the best ways to improve your mastery of applying bow weight and the subtle finger control that creates beautiful tone.
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This post was written by Stylus writer, a former professional violinist/ violist who has taken his gift for phrasing and tone into the world of words. You can learn more about his work athttps://styluswriter.co.nz

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Steele told Bruce Ohr after James Comey's firing last year that he was "afraid they will be exposed, he was concerned after Comey's firing is not made clear in…
(Daily Caller) Dossier author Christopher Steele told Justice Department official Bruce Ohr after James Comey's firing last year that he was "afraid they will be exposed." He was concerned after Comey's firing is not made clear in Bruce Ohr's notes, which were reported by Fox News.
The text message is part of a trove of emails, text messages and handwritten notes that the Justice Department has provided to Congress as part of an investigation into the government's handling of the Steele dossier. He told Ohr in a May 10, 2017 phone call that he was "very concerned about Comey's firing afraid they will be exposed," according to Fox News.
Steele's interactions with Ohr have been a focal point for congressional Republicans in their investigation into the government's possible abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The dossier, which he wrote on behalf of the Clinton campaign and DNC, was used to obtain a FISA warrants on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Republicans say that the dossier was not verified when the FBI used it to obtain the spy warrants.
Page, an energy consultant who joined the Trump team in March 2016, has vehemently denied the dossier's allegations about him. In the 35-page report, Steele claimed that Page was the Trump campaign's main contact to the Kremlin.
Justice Department documents given to Congress show that Steele and Ohr were in contact throughout 2016 and 2017, though Ohr's involvement was not revealed until December. Following a report from Fox News on Ohr's contacts with Steele and Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson, he was demoted as assistant deputy attorney general at the Justice Department.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who was Ohr's boss, has told Congress that he was not aware of Ohr's contacts with Steele or Simpson. It is unclear if Rosenstein's predecessor, Sally Yates, knew what Ohr was up to.
He first reached out to Ohr in January 2016 seeking help for a Russian oligarch named Oleg Deripaska. Text messages and emails suggest that the former MI6 officer lobbied Ohr to keep an eye on the status of negotiations between Deripasksa and the U.S. government for the billionaire's visa. Deripaska is a close ally of Vladimir Putin's. He also worked with former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
Ohr also corresponded with Steele after the 2016 election about the Russia investigation. By that time, the FBI had ended its relationship with Steele because he made unauthorized disclosures to the media. He met with numerous reporters in September and October 2016 about his Trump-Russia findings. Ohr provided a dozen briefings to the FBI from November 2016 to May 2017 about his interactions with Steele.
An added to that is Ohr's wife, a Russia expert named Nellie, was directly involved in the anti-Trump investigation. She worked as a researcher for Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that hired Steele.
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Warmer version of spring starts today
Cool, wet, windy weather going away for at least a week
Wed., April 14, 2010
The Inland Northwest is going to see a big weather change starting today with a switch from soggy, cool weather to milder temperatures in the 60s and lower 70s.
A slot of dry air has moved northward this morning and has brought mostly sunny skies with it.
Forecasters are calling for highs today in the lower 60s in downtown Spokane and 59 in downtown Coeur d'Alene. Some clouds may hang around the mountains in Idaho for partly sunny conditions.
After today, a more pronounced warm up arrives with highs pushing into the upper 60s on Thursday with mostly sunny skies in Spokane and then the lower 70s on Friday.
A low pressure forming today off the Pacific Northwest coast is expected to create a southerly air flow over the inland region, but also bring an increasing chance of clouds and even thunderstorms by Friday.
Despite the warm air on Friday, forecaster said they expect the skies to be mostly cloudy.
The cloudy and mild conditions should continue through the weekend with highs dropping to the lower and middle 60s on Saturday and Sunday when there will be a 30 percent chance of showers both days.
Lows through the weekend should run from the upper 30s tonight to the 40s through Monday night.
The low pressure system off the coast should migrate inland during the weekend and send pulses of moisture across the region, forecasters said this morning.
However, the National Weather Service said it expects a return to partly sunny conditions and a high of 69 on Monday.
At 7 a.m., it was 35 at Spokane International Airport, 39 in downtown Spokane and Coeur d'Alene, 37 in Deer Park and 36 in Pullman.
In the North Idaho mountains on Tuesday, Mullan Pass saw a record 0.57 inches of rain, which broke the previous record of 0.48 inches set in 1953. Record have been kept there since 1938.
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J. Paul Getty was a shrewd billionaire Oil Baron; he founded and controlled Getty Oil Company and two hundred other related companies. Before his death, he revealed his secrets to wealth; the exact secrets he used in acquiring and creating wealth. The same secret that helped him become a billionaire.
"Wealth like happiness is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a product of providing useful service." – Henry Ford
The late J. Paul Getty's secrets to accumulating wealth is simple and to the point. In fact, it is so simple that most people who read them either dismiss them as sweeping generalities but in reality; the same secrets to wealth that people despise is directly responsible for the wealth of the ultra rich such as Bill Gates, Orji Uzor Kalu, Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg, Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, Oprah Winfrey, Mo Ibrahim, Warren Buffett, Mike Adenuga, etc.
So if you are ready to learn these same secrets to wealth; then sit back as I share with you, J. Paul Getty's eight Secrets to acquiring or creating wealth.
Jean Paul Getty Secrets to Creating Wealth
Rule 1: To acquire wealth today, you must be in your own business.
The first rule to creating wealth is to start your own business. In fact, it's the most important among all the secrets to wealth. You may think that the corporate executive with a $100,000 salary is better off than small shop owner, but the executive will be hard-pressed to double his income and taxes will eat up most of any increase.
Building a business is probably the best investment opportunity with the highest returns on investment. The simplest peanut vendor has unlimited opportunity to expand his business and his income and even salesmen; who in most cases are able to write their own paychecks, can control their sale increases.
Rule 2: You must have adequate knowledge of the business
"Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing." – Warren Buffett
You must have a working knowledge of the business when you start and continue to increase your knowledge of it as you go along. If you don't know what you're doing when you start; your mistakes will be costly and often unnecessary, and you won't be able to keep up with the technological explosions in any field. Start smart and stay that way.
"One of the most stupid things to do is to pretend you are smart. When you pretend to be smart, you are at the height of stupidity." – Rich Dad
Rule 3: You must learn to save money
You must save money in your personal life and in your business venture as well. Discipline is the key to saving money. You must develop the will power to deny yourself immediate gratification or the temptation to gamble on the quick buck. Resources will be needed for expansion and should be guarded carefully.
Rule 4: You must take risk
"To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks." – Bill Gates
This is another hard core secret to wealth. In fact, it's the singular difference between the rich and poor. You must take risks, both with your own money or with borrowed money. Risk-taking is essential to business growth. Nelson Bunker Hunt is admired for his guts in trying to corner the silver market; not scorned for losing money on this deal. Some of the richest men have staked their entire fortunes and lost, several times over, before the risk-taking paid off.
"In today's rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers." – Robert Kiyosaki
When taking risk, back it with good judgment, experience, commitment, and the right support. Always seek advice on risks from the wealthy who still take risks, not friends who dare nothing more than a Football bet.
"Before making an important decision, get as much as you can of the best information available and review it carefully, analyze it and draw up worst case scenarios. Add up the plus or minus factors, discuss it with your team and do what your guts tell you to do." – The Mafia Manager
Rule 5: You must learn to live with tension
"Yet a little sleep, a little slumber and a little folding of hands to sleep; so shall your poverty come." – Proverbs 6: 10-11
You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. Thrive on stress! Even If it means getting physically fit, having a psychiatric overall or losing 50 pounds before you can handle it, do it. Once you can learn to thrive on stress, you will not only enjoy it, you will seek it out willingly and enthusiastically.
Men of means look at making money as a game which they love to play. Consider it serious business and you will suffer far more stress than you need or want. Keep your perspective or your stress level will rocket beyond your control.
"Work hard, have fun; make history." – Jeff Bezos
Rule 6: Build wealth as a by-product
"Wealth like happiness is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a product of providing useful service." – Henry Ford
Build wealth as a by-product of your business success. If wealth is your only object in business, you will probably fail. Wealth is only a benefit of the game. If you win, the money will be there.
"Every few seconds it changes, up an eighth, down an eighth. It's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million." – Ted Turner
"I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it." – Donald Trump
Rule 7: You must be patient
"I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on assumption they could close the market the next day and not re-open it for five years." – Warren Buffett
Patience; it's the most important attribute to creating wealth, it's the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves. Let your business grow naturally, not by pressing your luck.
Rules 8: Diversify
"If you are moving, even fire will not hurt you. If you are standing still near the fire, even though you are not in the fire, the heat will eventually get to you." – Rich Dad
Diversify at the top; this is the last rule to creating wealth and one of the essential secrets to wealth. Once you've made it, you'll understand that any business is limited in the challenges it offers. You'll want and need other games to play, so you'll look for other ventures to hold your interest.
Take a look at the richest people in the world and you will see they have a well diversified portfolio of investments ranging from businesses to stocks, real estate and commodities.
"I think you might see us growing much deeper into banking. You might see us acquiring companies in the banking area. You might see us acquiring companies in the retail area. I think you might see us acquiring companies in the telecommunications. I think you will see us getting stronger in business intelligence." – Larry Ellison


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Looking for IELTS Test Format In Pakistan than this article will help you in knowing what you want as if a candidates want to be succeed in the International English Learning Testing System (IELTS) than that candidate must have fully grip and complete knowledge that what are the test patterns and techniques to answer each question during the examination. As some people take this test fro granted and according to then there is no need of preparation before going for the IELTS exams if you have a grip on English language. despite having good English language you have to know the right abilities to attend the exam within the given time. Some of the experts of the world stated that before going to the test center you have almost two week preparation time but still this depends on your English language. Result of IELTS came in the bands format and if you are not able to get the good band then you have to reappear in the exam next time too. Practice is the key if you want success in ant step of your life so here is the complete IELTS test format so have a look down there.
IELTS Test Format In Pakistan
There are total 4 modules in the IELTS examination and that are
1. Listening
2. Reading
3. Writing
4. Speaking
Listening is the most important part of the IELTS exams and this is consist of total four section. There are total 10 marks of each section hence this listening part is of total 40 marks. In the examination center a question paper will given to you that are compromises of Multiple question, short question answer, sentence making, labeling a map or any diagram. You just have only one chance to hear the recording as there will no second chance given to any of the candidate and on this one time hearing you have to answer the question asked in the end of the recording and there are total 10 minutes given to each candidate at the end of the recording so that he or she can respond to the question asked. IELTS Test Format is going to consider here at this page.
IELTS Reading Test Format:
After listening there comes reading modules and this reading module is consist of two types one is Academic version and the other one is General training version. Each section in this two kinds of reading have three sub section that carries 40 marks. In this test module candidates have three reading paragraphs that could be taken from anywhere it could be an advertisement, newspaper, books or magazines or anywhere officials decision. candidates will be given total 20 minutes to complete each section and the first section is basic English reading and any one who know how to read English can do it but the next section is a little bot difficult from the first one.
IELTS Writing Test Format:
Third module is writing and also this part is consist of two sub modules as the first one is Academic version and the second one is General training version. in academic version first of all you have to write a 150 letter or an essay in 40 minutes and than also in the same timing you have to explain a diagram or a graph or table in your own words and then comes the second module in which you will be put in the front of an argument or problem and examiners require your opinion with pure skilled arguments and illustrations. It is all about the detailed review IELTS Test Format In Pakistan.
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IELTS Speaking Test Format:
Speaking test is totally consist of three section. First section is like an interview in which candidates may have to speak on his/her hobbies, interest, reason for attending IELTS examination or some other general question. In the second section candidate have given a card which hold a topic and you just have 1 minute to think and prepare and after that you must have to speak about the given topic. Third section is a discussion between the examiner and candidate which could be on any topic depends upon the examiner mind. It is all about the way out for the IELTS Test Format In Pakistan.
Total Duration for IELTS Exam:
Total IELST Test exam is 2 hours and 45 minutes of total 4 modules as reading test compromises of 60 minutes, Listening 40 minutes, writing 60 minutes and speaking 11 to 14 minutes. It is the complete IELTS Test Format In Pakistan which assure you that how you would get the detailed paradigm about the test.


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Reason must know the heart's reason and all other reasons which are felt from the tip of one's hair to the extremity of one's toes
—Leonora Carrington, Down Under (28)
Down Under is Leonora Carrington's riveting account of being held in a Spanish institute for the incurably insane. How she got there is in itself a fascinating story. She was Max Ernst's lover and at the outbreak of WWII he was arrested by the Gestapo, but then released. He escaped further arrest (or worse) when Peggy Guggenheim arranged for him to come to the United States. Peggy, I guess, did not arrange for Carrington's escape and ended up marrying Ernst herself…. Carrington was left bereft, heartbroken. She escaped France by going to Spain, which was where the pressure on her heart and soul cracked her brain. I suppose in the face of the combination of heartbreak and the terror and insanity of WWII, a psychotic break must be a near inevitability. When her friend, who was driving the car to Spain, commented that the brakes had jammed Carrington internalized that word. She was "jammed" the world was "jammed."
What caused the panic to rise within me was the thought of automatons, of thoughtless, fleshless beings (8)
But things got seriously worse at the institute to which she was taken. She was given a series of shots of Cardiazol which induce seizures (a sort of "shock therapy"). Down Under describes that harrowing experience.
When I came to I was lying naked on the floor. I shouted to Asegurada to bring me some lemons and I swallowed them with their rinds. […] then I went back to bed and, intimately, tasted despair (36).
The psychotic fantasies and delusions that ensue are disturbing and not uncoincidentally surreal in the extreme. After all, Carrington was a surrealist artist (English-born, Mexican/Irish descent). But there is something in the way she tells of the ordeal—the odd details that make it very real. I (perhaps strangely, but none the less) completely understood her random obsession for lemons—she comes to consider lemons as an antidote to the Cardiazol, and believes, in her delusion, that the lemons are the key to the story! Or when, at great effort, she gets ahold of a pencil and piece of paper, draws a triangle on it and passes it to José, one of the orderlies:
That triangle, to my way of thinking, explained everything (28).
You feel her mind trying to grip onto anything to prevent the free fall into an utter disconnect with herself. And she does strategize—she tries to organize her mind in interesting ways. She has a sort of mental visual map that helps her at least name the buildings and areas of the institute she is in (which, when she later gets away, she is able to match against what was actually there instead of what she thought in her confused altered state, i.e. "Down Under," "Africa," "Outside World Street," "Garden Pavilion"). She uses objects in her room or dresser to represent the pieces in her mind:
My red and black refill pencil (leadless) was Intelligence. Two bottles of Eau de Cologne, one flat was the Jews, the other, cylindrical, the non-Jews. A box of "Tabu" powder, with a cap half of which was grey and the other black, meant eclipse, complex, vanity, Tabu, love (41).
In this way she gets them out of her head, outside of herself so that she can make some sort of sense. She also struggles to solve the problems of the world developing a full blown martyr complex on the way. Her sexual passions get wrapped up into her state of being and one gets a real sense of her as feeling, intelligent, sensual woman. It is a brief tale, but the complexity she brings to the story is fascinating.
An interesting aspect of this little book is that it was not actually written, rather, it was "told to Jeanne Megnen" which, I think, alters the telling. In many ways, the mind wanders more freely when it does not have to concern itself with organizing the words and sentences on the page. In the case of this particular book, that quality lends itself to the overall oneiric, nightmarish quality.
I sank, I sank down into a well…very far…The bottom of that well was the stopping of my mind for all eternity in the midst of utter anguish. But will you ever understand what I mean by the essence of utter anguish? (36)
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text: Vancouver Fashion Week is definitley establishing itself and gaining popularity. This year, it moves to a new location by the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. I've been attending VFW for the past 5 years now and it's exciting to see them grow, gain popularity and international sponsorship. Vancouver has never really been known for being a very fashionable city. We are known to be practical and laid back with our attire so attending the fashion week is a great way to see what the fashion forward designers from other parts of the world are showcasing while listening to great beats! There were so many well dressed guests and beautiful models that I couldn't take my eyes off! Definitely leaving feeling inspired.


text: On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 03:34:52PM +0100, Koop Mast wrote: > Op di, 15-02-2005 te 02:04 +0100, schreef Marius Strobl: > >People who tried syscons(4) on Ultra 10 in the past reported a hang > >during boot after the screen is blanked. I managed to reproduce and > >fix this on a Sun AXi board. Could someone with a Creator(3D) or > >Elite3D equipped Ultra 10 please give the patch at: > >http://alchemy.franken.de/~marius/delay_fix.diff > >a try to see if it also solves the problem there? It shouldn't matter > >if you are running -stable or -current. > > My hero! > > Works fine on my Ultra10 here. > > # Sun Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-IIi 360MHz), No Keyboard > # OpenBoot 3.31, 1024 MB (60 ns) memory installed, Serial #xxxxxxxx. > > Only my monitor doesn't want to display anything. Probably a local > problem. Maybe something non related to the patch. The patch fixes DELAY() which would never return in certain situations when used early in boot. The excessive use of DELAY() in uart(4) when probing Sun keyboards seems to always manage to trigger this. If you don't get display output then this should be another issue. Does the monitor work before FreeBSD is booted, i.e. do you see the Open Firmware banner etc.? So far I got one other reply in private mail stating that syscons(4) would work on U10 with the patch. Did the patch change anything for you, i.e. did you try syscons(4) on your U10 in the past and also got the mentioned hang? > > I'm going to test this also on a Ultra1 with a creator card (non-3D). > But that can take a little while. > As far as I can tell only UltraSparc II[e,i] based systems are affected by this issue so the patch shouldn't make any difference on an U1. Have you tried syscons(4) on that U1 before? There's probably a nit with creator(4) and old Creator cards that should be fixed but so far I didn't find a Creator card that is "old enough" to be affected. Could you please send me the output of `ofwdump -a -p` of that machine? Marius


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Dear Sons**:
I'm writing to let you know I've kept a secret. I've hidden from you how priceless your mother has been to our family, an incredible person who's brought much value to my life personally, my career, the family I want to call mine. I hid it intentionally. I made her look small to make myself appear better, superior, admired.
I now want you to know, she's the glue that has kept what I most value in my life together.
It's not easy to admit this. Or to own actions I took in the 20+ years of our marriage to intentionally devalue her voice, thoughts, contributions, to make her and others think less of her. It's been a process.
I made this discovery in the last few years, starting with an announcement that she would no longer participate with my treating her like a second class citizen. She was prepared to separate, but agreed to return to couples therapy with, this time with me more engaged, and agreeing to focus on my getting help to own and end what the therapist labeled "emotional abuse."
At first I felt shocked, disappointed. I did not think a man, a husband, a good provider like me should be made to feel he was wrong in how he treated his wife. I expected the therapist to side with me, and scold my wife to make her come to her senses, to admit my actions were deserved and even beneficial for her. I really thought, at the time, that this was normal because I was a man, and this is how men should be treated!
I wanted to quit therapy. I tried to get your mother to agree with me, and find another therapist. She would not budge. Your mother brushed off my protests. She saw right threw me, and knew I what I really hoped for was a "boys will be boys" therapist that would let me have my way.
I believe her refusal to allow the status quo treatment of her was the best thing she could have done for me, our family and you. We've been in couples therapy since then, steadily making progress.
And that's why I'm writing this letter. I have amends to make. My past actions sent a message that it was okay for men to casually dismiss, ignore, discredit, silence, and feel annoyed when the woman in their life complains or makes attempts to feel heard.
In my old way of thinking, I thought it was my job, as a man, to "teach" the three of you to be "real" men, and that meant to display my power to dominate and prove my superiority as a man.
It was wrong of me. It is never okay or justified for one human being, man or woman, to treat another person or group, as less than human, less valuable. It is also cruel to claim and violate the rights of another human being.
This letter is from a now more awake husband and father, a work in progress of course, a man who wants very much to heal and mend his relationship with himself, the woman who's been the best partner he could ask for, and his sons.
My hope is that this letter opens your eyes to see women and men in different ways. To recognize, for example, how men in our society are manipulated by certain fear-activating beliefs from boyhood into thinking they must prove they are "real" men, and that dominating and violating the rights of women, or others they label as weak or objects, is fundamental to "who a man is."
I have made several discoveries in this time. These discoveries have forced me to question and unlearn certain conditioned beliefs that once literally made me think and act as if it were my job, as a man, to terrorize and make my wife feel less small, less than human.
I discovered that this and other beliefs I'd held regarding what it means to be a man, father and husband, which men are socialized to believe from boyhood, blocked and kept me blind.
These beliefs are lies; hate- and fear-activating propaganda.
This awakened in me to several new realizations I want to share with you. Here are a few:
1. I realized that being human is what matters most in life.
I was raised to believe that: a "real" man proves his worth to the extent he displays superiority and dominance, and subverts the will of those deemed inferior, namely women and children. I thought my ability to subjugate and terrorize*** my wife, and to some extent my children, would cause them and others to admire and respect me. I've realized bullying others is not a strength at all; it traumatizes the bully and bullied alike, raises levels of anxiety for all, thus hampers chances for forming healthy relationships with others, and self.
This belief kept me blind to what really matters in life, which is being human. Being fully human is the strongest, most courageous and vital endeavor a man (or woman) can strive to cultivate inside! Regardless of gender or age, being human requires far more intellect, courage and strength than being a bully. As a bully I felt a lot of stress, anxious and worried that others would discover how clueless I was about relationships, how worried I was about my image of being in control, how this isolated me from those I love, how on guard and at war with myself and others I felt I had to be, and so on.
In contrast, to form a healthy relationship, each person first and foremost needs to learn to see and treat self and other as human, ensuring each feels valued, loved, heard and known as a unique being. I still struggle to empathize, just taking baby steps really; I can however see how invaluable it is to see your mother's heart, to recognize the gifts she brings to our family, and to feel thankful to have another chance to keep her and what matters most to me in my life.
2. I realized that "male dominance and superiority ideals" are in fact hate propaganda — and not a biological norm!
I was raised to believe that the concepts of male dominance and superiority were biological norms, or ordained by god, and thus, any "means" of maintaining this social-order based was beneficial to all. This belief system caused me to behave toward your mother in ways that kept me disconnected from feeling human or seeing your mother as human. It also caused me to live 24/7 with a lot of anxiety, always on guard, protecting my image and "masculinity," regarding my family as I would a dangerous jungle with wild animals out to devour me! To protect myself, I wore an armor that kept me emotionally distant and harsh to protect my image. This kept me in denial of the pain I felt inside, feeling isolated, fragile, unloved, inadequate, unprepared to deal with vulnerable emotions, except to disown and blame others for how miserable I felt inside.
We are not meant to relate to one another with fear, ever on guard. This traumatizes us, and keeps us in survival mode, which blocks our ability for higher thinking. It is true that: the only thing to fear is fear itself. Our capacity for higher thinking is critical to our health and happiness. Human beings are unique from other creatures in the wild however. No other creature has the capacity to reflect upon their own thinking, to envision a better world, to step out courageously to create it, and in the process to learn and grow ever wiser.
Now I've come to understand these are arbitrary standards for performance are a set of conquer-and-divide tactics. They are used by self-appointed oligarchs who feel threatened by truth and democratic relations, and thus strategize attacks to discredit them as "weak" or "inferior."
Oligarchs use misogynist beliefs to turn men against women, and in turn to get them to participate in their own oppression. That's how all cults work; they use "us versus then" hate propaganda to instill fear of other groups. And simultaneously they portray themselves as "saviors" who are going to rescue them from the "evil" groups. In reality, they strategize to justify perpetual war, rage, violence and the like, in order to stay in power.
3. I realized that training some persons to feel "entitled" to mistreat other persons with impunity not only goes against many values of moral persons — but also may be the root of most all relational problems in marriages, families and society at large.
I had been taught that this is what "real" men do, that is, to display a callous disregard, gaslight, silence, exploit and tear a woman down, and so on. I was fooled into believing that women and society in general admire men who prove their strength by being dismissive, and showing no remorse for keeping a woman in her place. For decades, I refused to allow your mothers words, needs and wants to be treated as valuable; instead, I interpreted her attempts to reach me as "emotional craziness" of the female sex, and that it was my job as a man to fix it. It was not until I realized I may lose her that I started to reexamine the value of these beliefs, and to see them for what they were — lies, misogynist teachings, hate propaganda, conquer and divide tactics, and the like. I now also realize that men are manipulated and victimized by these beliefs, albeit in different ways than women. The beliefs lure us into thinking we are a "special" group and that we are entitled to expect admiration, obedience, special treatment, and so on. In reality, this belief keeps us ignorant, and led to ongoing disconnect between me and your mother, caused by my efforts to block her every effort to create a fully human relationship with me. I've realized it is wrong for our society to raise men, as a group, to believe "fear- and hate-activating lies" as evidence or proof of their "masculinity" and thus their worth.
4. I realized that justifying the inhumane treatment of another person, or group of persons, as "necessary" to protect the "masculinity" of those in authority is the biggest "craziness" of all!
I had been taught to regard and treat the woman who most had my back like an enemy, and to act much like a soldier on the battlefield, to feel I had to "get the enemy before the enemy got me." My beliefs taught me to believe my abusive actions were a favor, after all, I was trying to fix her so-called "emotional craziness" and "love stuff" talk. And because I was taught to believe a man should never feel fragile or anxious, I blamed your mother for any pain I felt, denying what was mine to own. This resulted in doing hurtful things to the woman I most loved and treasured. Now I realize what really matters in life — is knowing how to form healthy relationships with those that matter most to me, your mother and you, and other family members.
5. I realized that terrorizing a person that loves you to make them "respect" (fear) you is costly venture. Forcing another to act out of fear is not love, and thus ignorance.
I was brought up thinking that it is of benefit, for the person in authority, to badger family members to get you to do what I wanted. I thought this was evidence of "respect" but really it is just fear and ignorance. I spent decades wasting my energy to protect my image of being "the boss" rather than protect my relationships and happiness and peace of mind. I nearly lost the love of the woman who proved to be just the partner I needed to make our family what it is, my career what it has been, and me an ever better person, father and husband. I discovered that keeping another person in their place put me at risk of losing the love of the person I most valued. It caused her to not want to be around me, to no longer want to make me happy. She was doing things for me out of fear, not love. Now I don't even understand why I would ever want this, much less think it was okay.
6. I realized that this toxic belief system causes men to see and treat women as less than human, and that's the "real craziness."
I really thought it was a good thing, benevolent in fact, for a man to make the woman in his life feel blamed, crazy, self-doubting. I truly believed this was a man's duty, and to the extent a man made the woman in his life believe she was out of line, feel bad, ashamed for talking about feeling hurt, making her feel she was selfish, controlling or emasculating, a man could feel proud he'd succeeded. I now see these beliefs about "masculinity" and "dominance" are the real problem, the "real craziness" so to speak. I was brought up to believe women are dangerous, and that men need to be on guard and protect "their masculinity" as if it is constantly under attack, even when a wife asks her husband to be human, kind, affectionate, warn and caring. It is these beliefs that cause men to be blind to what really matters in relationships with those you most love.
7. I realized that playing mind games in therapy did not make me the smart one; in fact, it kept me weak, fearful, and arrested my emotional development, left me unfulfilled, complaining, playing blame games, feeling powerless.
I thought I was smarter and that my skills in denying and gaslighting would prevail in therapy, and so it took me a while to take therapy seriously. I first had to learn to take your mother, and her words seriously. For a long time, I went along with therapy and looked for opportunities, so to speak, to jump in and take charge of the processes with the tricks, such as gaslighting and denial, I'd learned "real" men are supposed to use to dominate those they perceive as weak. I saw therapy as "a phase" or "emotional craziness," and just remained in strategic position to keep doing my duty to "fix" your mother, and take charge again. And so I adjusted the ways men gaslight women into feeling ashamed for complaining about the way men treat them, and to get her to silence herself, wants and needs.
Last but not least, I hope you will keep this letter and read it from time to time in your college years. I'm awake and no longer feeling I have to fight to prove my worth. If I have any regrets it is that it took me so long, so much time I could have enjoyed a more relaxed way of being a man, a husband, a father. And when you find the lady you want be your partner in life, read this letter again, more closely. I've never felt more calm, secure, loved and connected to your mother, you and my family. That's something worth fighting for!
** The above is an edited letter written by one of my clients recently to share with his two sons both of college age. This client was identified with narcissistic personality disorder in couples therapy, and cutting through the gaslighting and denial patterns took a few years of couples therapy. After he experienced a recent breakthrough, which took him to a place where he allowed himself to own his actions as problematic and hurtful to him, as well as his marriage. In this therapist's opinion, this process involved a wife who awakened to realize her value came from her, not him, and who became energized to do and change whatever was necessary in her own patterns of thinking and responding, to no longer participate in the narcissistic abuse patterns she experienced in their 20+ years of marriage.
*** Yes the word terrorize is objectionable; I had a hard time owning it. But it is exactly what occurs when a person, more often a man due to our socialization, intentionally acts to make the woman in his life, or his children, fear him in order to obey without questioning!


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Taj Mahal :- Undoubtedly one of Agra's most popular attractions, the Taj Mahal is not just famous in India but is a monument renowned across the world. Built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan for his deceased wife Mumtaz, it is emblematic of the emperor's deep love for his wife and the grief he experienced at her passing. A landmark monument and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Taj Mahal is one of the most admired Mughal masterpieces in the world and is nothing short of poetry crafted in marble. The architect of the Taj Mahal was Ustad Ahmed Lahauri and the design is representative of Indian, Persian and Islamic styles of architecture. It took 21 years for the Taj Mahal to be constructed (from 1632 to 1652) with over 20,000 labourers working night and day.
Agra Fort :- Spread over a sprawling 94 acres, this massive red sandstone fort lies parallel to the Yamuna River and is situated 2 kilometres northwest of the Taj Mahal. The Agra Fort was originally occupied by Sikarwar Rajputs and was later captured by Lodi rulers of Delhi. In 1526, after the Lodis were defeated in the Battle of Panipat, the victor Emperor Babur took over the fort. After losing the fort briefly to the Suri rulers, it was eventually reclaimed by Akbar who made Agra his capital. Akbar carried out extensive renovation of the dilapidated fort using red sandstone, which took over 4,000 workers and eight years to complete. Agra Fort is known for its majestic gates with the most impressive being the Delhi Gate and Lahore Gate. Another majestic gate is the Elephant Gate, which is situated between two red sandstone towers. Despite the magnificence of these gates, currently only the Amar Singh Gate is open to visitors.
Jama Masjid :- Situated opposite the Agra Fort is the grand Jama Masjid, Agra's most important and largest mosque. Commissioned by Shah Jahan in 1648, the mosque topped with red sandstone domes, is known for its beautiful architecture. Five large arches lead to the main prayer hall inside the Jama Masjid, which are skimmed by a beautiful bolster of sandstone adorned with floral motifs.
Mehtab Bagh :- A garden built on the banks of Yamuna River, Mehtab Bagh was constructed by Emperor Babur and was the last of a series of 11 such gardens built along the east bank of the river. Mehtab Bagh was built as an integral part of the Taj complex as the gardens of the Taj are perfectly aligned with Mehtab Bagh, making it the best place to view the Taj from.
Birbal Bhawan :- Either built by Emperor Akbar or Birbal (there is lack of historical evidence regarding who built this structure), Birbal Bhawan is located in Fatehpur Sikri near the Jodha Bai Palace. The Birbal Bhawan is known for its intricate design and double domed architecture, which was designed to keep the building cool during summers. French author Victor Hughes was very impressed with Birbal Bhawan and said it looked like a miniature jewellery box.
Humayun's Mosque :- Constructed in 1530 after Humayun ascended to power, Humayun's mosque is one of the earliest monuments of the Mughal period. The mosque contains Persian inscriptions on it, which reveal that the construction was funded by Sheikh Zain Khawafi, a poet and a nobleman who was a close aid of Babur. This mosque was essentially built to cater to the religious needs of the Mughals and was named Kabul by the local residents. The mosque is built entirely out of brick masonry with white plaster over it. T In the vicinity of the mosque on the river bank is also Humayun's astronomical observatory and a step well or baoli and a massive monolith.
Taj Museum :- The Taj Museum is one of the most popular museums in Agra and is visited by hundreds of tourists who wish to learn more about the history of the Taj Mahal. The museum, located inside Jal Mahal in the complex of the Taj Mahal, offers you an opportunity to look at the original drawings of the Taj, which help people understand the accuracy and precision that went into planning the structure. The drawings of the interiors of the Taj Mahal display the position of the graves with such accuracy that the foot of the graves faces spectators irrespective of the angle it is viewed from. Apart from drawings, the Taj Museum has many other interesting artifacts such as royal jewellery, ancient paintings of Mughal emperors and much more.
Jahangir Mahal :- One of the most exceptional buildings in the Agra Fort, Jahangir Mahal was essentially a zenana used by the Rajput wives of Akbar. The palace has a gateway that connects to an inner courtyard which sits amidst lavish halls that are decorated with engravings on stone, columns and crosspieces. The courtyard halls are adorned in a Gujarat-Malwa-Rajasthan architecture styles.


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KANWARANI ARCHANA SINGH SUPPORTS PADMAVATI. Kanwarani Archana Singh, who is from a former royal Rajput family and is married to another royal, Kanwar Ranjay Singh of Badnore in Rajasthan, says the protests over Sanjay Leela Bhansali's "Padmavati" are overhyped, and one needs to "stop the nonsense".
Kanwarani Archana Singh says she wants to watch the movie once before even considering reacting and everyone should do the same rather of being "intolerant".
"I think ' ' has been convoluted completely. I know a boy who worked very closely with Bhansali in the production of the film and he said that there is not a (single) shot that you can fault with, and he is a Rajput himself. He also said that after seeing the film, the Rajputs would hug him (Bhansali)," Archana Singh said in a recent interaction with media person.
The Karni Sena and other Rajput communities are commanding a ban on the movie, insisting it has "distorted history". Several scenes and sequences, including a dance number by queen Padmavati, played by actress Deepika Padukone, and some other features of the movie have provoked the Rajput community who term it as "erroneous" and an "insulting" depiction.
Bhansali screened the film for some media persons even before the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) had cleared it, adding to the entire controversy.
The protest intensified on Friday when a dead body with anti-Padmavati slogans was found hanging at a fort in Rajasthan.
Speaking about the disturbance, Archana Singh said: "It's ridiculous. I am a Rajput, but so many Rajputs have come out in favor of the violence that is happening. It's not correct. See the film and then decide. People don't even want to see the film."
"We have to stop this nonsense. Be tolerant, see it, believe it and then act but don't react. You tend to react all the time. We have become intolerant completely," she added.
According to her, the entire incident is overhyped.
"I think it's overhyped. Perhaps there was a bit of PR stint here where initially we heard that there is a dream sequence of Rani Padmavati sharing screen space with Alauddin Khilji and that got everyone boiled up. That's not true and it doesn't even exist in the movie."
"Yes, 'Padmavati' existed. I belong from Mewar and she was, of course, the Chittoor princess from Mewar, so she did exist and Jauhar (Hindu custom of mass self-immolation by women in parts of India to avoid capture, enslavement, and rape by any foreign invader) did happen but this bit (romance of Khilji with Padmavati) is completely fictionalised."
"Having said that, it is overhyped and there is an overreaction. People are not even waiting to see the film to give an opinion," she said.
In the movie, Shahid Kapoor stars as Padmavati's husband and a warrior king, and Ranveer Singh portrays Alauddin Khilji.
However, Archana Singh has a bit of suggestion for Bhansali.
"I do feel that Bhansali is a brilliant filmmaker and I have seen every film of his. The way he details his frames is brilliant. The only thing I would like to tell him is that if he wants to take cinematic liberties, don't use historical names, just go completely fictional," she said.


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Amazing patterned buildings in Burkina Faso.
Happy almost St. Patrick's Day! We hosted a game night tonight and had a short, but sweet visit from my sister-in-law over the weekend so I'm just now sitting down to share my favorite links.
- Adults try to label the reproductive organs.
- Elisabeth Moss isn't Peggy Olson, but is pretty cool.
- Should we ban the word bossy?
- You've heard of the Whitney Biennial. But what about the Whitney Houston Biennial?
- An incredible story of how Disney helped a family connect with their autistic son.
- A man's death unites the women who loved him.
- Find it too hard to read Reddit AMAs? There's a website that makes them easy to read!
- Inside a woman's mind at Target.
- Style editors' favorite Fall 2014 looks.
- Behind the scenes of Beyonce's music videos.
- Colin Powell took an amazing selfie before any of us.
- Flashback! Museum websites from the 90s.
- Daredevil selfies at the top of the world.
- Reminder: Twitter is public.
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Hardcore (i.e. never pseudo/junk) science concludes that reality (obviously including you) is an ocean of energy relative to the human vicinity (and that too is seamlessly purely energetic).
Logically speaking, you are a relatively very complex set of energy currents with subjective boundaries, and the physical factors determining those boundaries are part of those currents.
Hardcore science also concludes that every system (living or not) within reality requires balance for stability (so survival).
The infallible logic is your body needs to be optimally tuned to a state of balance for optimal stress levels (i.e. optimal health).
Any inflammation (which is what poorer health is apparently all about) comes from a misalignment of energy currents, so creates a problematic energy buildup and/or release that requires earliest addressing. The longer the problem exists, the more the destructive misalignment ripplingly spreads and also possibly amplifies. Momentum from that misalignment increases with the passage of time, so (perhaps much) more work then becomes needed to "stir" against that subjectively destructive energy flow to restore (or adapt to a new form of) reasonably healthy balance.
Health is all about stress, which is synonymous with change (which is literally everywhere within reality). In other words, Stress Health relies solely upon the physics definition of stress, which is one body distorting another body (or one energy current modulating another energy current).
Stress (i.e. change) can obviously be positive (healthy) or negative (unhealthy).
When you properly engage in traditional exercise (e.g. yoga, a workout at the gym, playing sports, and/or so on), you apply healthy stress to strengthen your abililty to maintain balance against the many forces of nature working against that balance (to maximally hold off the one net-resulting force guaranteed in fact to end your life wave).
As your brain is literally a muscle, healthy stress needs to be applied mentally too. As the placebo effect (i.e. the belief in medicative effectiveness leading to healing results without actually consuming that medication) is scientifically valid, at least your mind truly plays a leading role in your overall health.
Application of healthy stress is not always obvious, so a credible trainer may be needed to guide you through workouts (including carefully working with you to ensure those workouts fit your unique stress signature).
Wave therapy is all about properly tuning your body for maximum health.
As reality is an ocean of energy that you are seamlessly connected within, wave therapy is naturally a broad subject (anything you find positive can be considered wave therapy – e.g. simply being in beautiful weather).
Many forms of therapy (e.g. aroma therapy, massage therapy, and so on) are contained within wave therapy. Working and resting appropriately to maximize competence, Stress Health (while promoting the popular conscious recognition of wave therapy) initially is strongly focused upon a certain subset of wave therapy carefully tuned with the entertainment expertise of yours truly (Spirit Wave, or Scott, if you prefer – for any of you first landing upon this page, so not yet introduced to yours truly).
Sounds are energy waves, so when you listen to music (or nature, and so on), the purely energetic construct at least forming your brain (i.e. brain waves) ripple. If the sounds are crafted right and fit the listener, then those ripples amplify a sense of healthy mind (which ripples beyond your brain for healthier being). Sonic therapy (a superset containing music therapy, and a subset of wave therapy, although that may go without saying) serves to strengthen your mind – importantly note that your mind may be healthier served by silence, or the much more typical outcome of something slightly louder than pure silence.
The sense of healthy mind resulting from adding wave therapy can be remembered, so consequently perhaps (i.e. if allowable by reality) exercised by you to improve your health tuning without relying upon wave therapy as a crutch. In other words, the sense of healthy mind made possible by wave therapy is effectively a trainer showing you the healthy goal (i.e. the healthy tuning needed for balance), and upon remembering that healthy sensation, the mind owner can then exercise (i.e. intentionally tune) the mind for healthier being to the fullest extent permissable by reality (an extent that can vary due to challenges applied by reality).
To experience Stress Health sonic therapy, one only needs to listen...
As a graduate from Berklee College of Music, yours truly has spent enormous resources in time/energy/money to become a professional entertainer capable of crafting audio works that conform to healthier being (works that at least feel positive or balancing for me, followed by sharing them with you, so you preferably achieve that same benefit).
While academic credibility exists only from my Bachelor's degree in music synthesis and production (i.e. I have no credential from studying traditional music therapy education, sincerely with no disrespect against that formal educational path), my credibility (as applicable to your health) can obviously be decided by your Stress Health listening experience. If you feel better after listening to Stress Health, then it works.
I amusingly proclaim "for entertainment purposes only" here, although I remain perfectly confident that my logical pursuit aside from that educational and professional formality speaks clearly for itself – noting that any sufficient opportunity within my healthily busy life will naturally compel me to wisely explore that formality as part of my healthy exercise to improve my skill set for better balance for me and my 3Fs (family, friends, and fans).
Because each listener and listening environment is unique (at least technically speaking), there is never any guarantee that any work intended for sonic therapy results in positivity. Choosing listening material is similar to choosing anything else. The better tuned in with the listener's health, the better the accuracy in choosing listening material. For extreme example, even an obnoxiously dissonant song can lead to positivity, if that song prompts a positive memory to dominantly resonate for the listener (e.g. that song is comfortably associated with a loved one of that listener).
In other words, formal music therapy is a highly customized experience for people (i.e. a truly deep and sophisticated focus upon each client's music therapy needs – more: Music therapy Wikipedia entry), but Stress Health simply offers sonic (not to mention other wavy) results intended to be uplifting or balancing for better health.
Momentum towards the end of Cannabis (a.k.a. Marijuana) Prohibition shows no sign of weakening. When lawfully available, wave therapy includes psychedelic therapy (or "psytherapy" for simpler communication – though not to be confused with psychotherapy).
Not only is cannabis already providing therapeutic value in many ways, but other psychedelics are too, according to researchers at prominent universities (e.g. Harvard, John Hopkins, Yale, and so on).
Psytherapy includes professionally supplying MDMA (more commonly known as Ecstasy) to help people deal with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and/or domestic abuse, and Psilocybin (the psychoactive ingredient in Magic Mushrooms) is being used to help terminally ill cancer patients deal with death-related anxiety.
Psychedelics no longer strictly exist within the realm of human failure (as too often believed due to the constantly broadcasted demonization against psychedelic use for decades), but help contribute to areas of culture and health (negative upon abuse, and positive upon use, if that fails to go without saying).
Wave therapy has been demonstrably proven as critical towards a healthy evolution.
Publicly conscious recognition of wave therapy (and of the perpetual need to improve society's understanding and implementation of that therapy) logically strengthens that healthy evolution for us all.
Stress Health is simply an entertainment ecosystem (enteco for short) dedicated to raising that public recognition, and my contribution to that enteco comes from my relevant focus – while preferring that ecosystem naturally expands beyond that focus to encompass other focuses by responsible entertainers (i.e. educators understanding the need for entertainment in the interest of learning).


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At First Light
Requiem for double chorus and 'cello soloforces: Double SATB Choir, Violoncello
duration: 38'00"
published by: Peters Edition
At First Light received its recording premiere in March 2019 from the Oxford-based chamber choir Commotio under its conductor, Matthew Berry, with the 'cello part performed by the distinguished British artist Joseph Spooner [ https://josephspooner.net/ ]. The work will be released in July 2020 on the Naxos label [8.573976], where it will be coupled with a performance of Francis Pott's Word, in which the organ part will be played by Christian Wilson. The score and 'cello part are due for release in December 2019 by Edition Peters.
Composers' Note
At First Light was commissioned by Eric Bruskin, a resident of Philadelphia, USA, in memory of his mother. Eric had a longstanding enthusiasm for my work, and I was touched to be the person he approached for a task which is both a privilege and a daunting responsibility. In a sense, no music can ever measure up to the weight of love or the hope of consolation vested in it under such circumstances – but in memory I carry the deaths of both my own parents, and I was able to draw upon that. Eric's fondness for my Cello Sonata (itself written in memoriam) led him to ask that I include a solo 'cello part in the new work – but his attachment also to my polyphonic sacred choral writing meant that he wanted a centrepiece which would be both a showcase of that approach and the celebration of a life well lived. Therefore, the seven movements of At First Light arrange themselves as a series of slow meditations surrounding an exuberant 9-minute motet in which the lamenting cello falls temporarily silent.
Eric's Jewish faith meant that approaching an agnostic humanist brought up within the Anglican tradition was hardly free of problems! Gradually, though, I was able to win his approval for a collated mosaic of texts. This embraces some liturgical Latin (necessary for the motet) as the shared preserve of broad western culture in general, but balances it with a secular approach to loss, celebration, remembrance and the many shades of our mourning those whom we see no longer. Eric was adamant that he did not want the title Requiem; but what has emerged is still a form of semi-secular Requiem in all but name, taking its title instead from a phrase in the poem by Thomas Blackburn set as the third movement. This seemed to suggest succinctly how the loss of one very close to us is an awakening into an unfamiliar world where everything is changed. Following the exuberant central movement, the texts by the Lebanese-born Kahlil Gibran and the US, Kentuckian poet Wendell Berry first address the departed loved one directly, then place us within an imaginary funeral cortège, where the perennial and universal in human experience become personal without subscribing explicitly to any particular faith (or lack of it). The final text of all is a translation of a Hebraic prayer, requested and provided by Eric Bruskin, which serves to mirror its Latin counterpart heard at the outset.
Throughout, the lamenting cello represents a commentary on the experience articulated in the text. It evokes and, in a sense, tries to embrace and sanctify the individual existential journeys of the bereft, as they in turn seek to make their own sense of what the short-lived Second World War poet Alun Lewis called 'the unbearable beauty of the dead' (movement 5).
In a modern world hostage to ever greater menace, displacement, bloodshed and anguish, I hope fervently that this music not only brings a measure of solace to the person who commissioned it, but also makes its own small contribution to bailing out the sinking ship of humanity.
© Francis Pott, 2018


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Hector man accused of having heroin at jail
A Hector man has been charged after being accused of having a small quantity of heroin while being booked into the Schuyler County Jail on a parole violation.
Shane M. Jacobs, 32, was charged Thursday with first degree promoting prison contraband, a felony, and seventh degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor, according to the Schuyler County Sheriff's Office.
Jacobs was arraigned in the Village of Watkins Glen Court and sent to jail, according to the sheriff's office.
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Barclays is holding a fraud awareness event at its Wisbech branch to help give advice on safe banking and protecting from rogue traders.
The event is on Friday October 12 from 9.30am-4.30pm.
Chris Channell, deputy community banking director for Norfolk and Suffolk, said: "Fraudsters can try to trick people in many different ways, at a cash machine, by email, text, phone or on-line often posing as somebody from a trusted organisation.
"Barclays fraud awareness events can help people from becoming a victim of fraud and give them the opportunity to ask questions and gain an understanding of the importance of keeping safe from the range of scams in existence.
"We work closely with both the police and trading standards and our branch colleagues continue to be vigilant and will often question customers if they feel they could be under duress when asking to withdraw large sums of money, especially the elderly."
The session will help people to learn more about digital banking, paying bills, shopping and Skyping friends and family.
There will be a range of leaflets that people can take away to remind them of the crime prevention advice offered.
• Anyone wishing to attend the event can simply attend on the day. You do not need to be a customer.
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I was sharing the HSP yesterday with my boys, Ben and Nate. We were going
to make a run to Costco to pick up some paper products for the seniors. It
occurred to me that maybe some of the boys take a copy of the newsletter to
their friends' houses and see if they would like to donate.
They decided they needed a wagon to carry the donations and went next door
to Hugo's house to borrow one. Of course, Hugo wanted to help.
We painted signs for the wagon and the boys were just about to head out
when neighbor Joe pulled into his driveway. Joe and his little sister Libby also
wanted to help, but first Libby wanted to invite her girlfriends Lucy and
Shannon. They got their bikes and scooters and then the team was ready to go!
They walked around several blocks visiting their friends' houses. Ben used
the newsletter to explain who HSP is and why they were looking for donations.
They collected 22 rolls of paper towels, 26 rolls of toilet paper, and 7 boxes
of tissues. Mission accomplished.
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Picture left to right are: Hugo, Lucy, Nate, Ben, Joe, Shannon, and Libby. Thanks so much everyone! We still need toilet paper, paper towels, and tissues. Can you help?
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Quantic Dream is working with a sizable budget for upcoming PS4 exclusive Detroit: Become Human. The game has cost €30 million in its development. These numbers come from French newspaper Le Monde (via JeuxVideo-Live). Interestingly, they also provide numbers for the studio's last project, Beyond: Two Souls, which had a slightly lower budget of €24.7 million euros. The grand total (including marketing) for Beyond wound up being $52.2 million dollars.
For more on the PS4 exclusive, check out our E3 2017 preview. Here's a snippet of what Paulmichael Contreras wrote:
Once the police drone was taken care of, Marcus and partner North were able to locate their target: a store where other androids are sold to humans. Marcus quickly scanned the store, and discovered a link to the store's security network. Some worker androids were busy repairing a conduit into the network (a little too perfect of a coincidence in this writer's opinion, but we'll roll with it). So Marcus hopped down to their level, freed the androids, and told them to "go to Jericho," which sounds like a city made by awakened androids, for awakened androids. With the worker androids out of the way, Marcus was able to hack the building's network. This was accomplished in true Quantic Dream fashion – the player simply had to hold down one, then two, then three, then four buttons at the same time for long enough.
With the security network knocked out, Marcus and North needed something big to bust open the front of the android store. A nearby truck did the trick. Marcus awoke the shop model androids, and then made a speech, getting the androids to rally up for the cause. It was time to send the humans a message, and where Quantic Dream's signature choice mechanics came into play. Marcus could choose between a variety of pacifist or violent actions, from tagging a bench or destroying it, to moving automated cars, or tipping them over, and more. Each action added to a bar that moved between pacifist or violent, in varying degrees depending upon how extreme of an action was taken. We saw Marcus take a violent route again; this was a shame, because we had seen the violent version in the trailer before. It would have been interesting to see how the scene would have played out if Marcus chose the pacifist route; it appears Quantic Dream is keeping much of the game close to the vest.
Detroit: Become Human is set to release May 25, 2018 exclusively for PlayStation 4.
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The WFF on WAMC
Our good friend Joe Donahue of WAMC just said on the air that this morning's "Roundtable" will feature in-depth coverage of the Woodstock Film Festival, including an interview with animator and WFF anchor Bill Plympton. What's that saying...tune in, turn on.....????
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