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CLAP!'s mission is to support and generate educational experiences in creative learning and performance. Through fundraising we provide a venue for an education and training program and the development, rehearsal, and production of live theater for children, teenagers, and adults at The Playhouse in Belfast. Our goals are to continue a sustainable theater education program and to promote the production of live theater for children and adults in mid-coast Maine.
Over the years CLAP! has helped to produce many comedies, mysteries, original plays, and dramas for adults at The Playhouse. New and unique plays are produced that expand the theatrical experience of our audiences and casts.
We serve school-age children and teenagers in Belfast and Waldo County.
The Children's Theater Program provides after school and weekend sessions for students who are drawn to the theater and related arts. Fees are low and no one is turned away for financial limitation. We are a rural community and for 23 years The Playhouse has been a consistent source of laughter and enjoyment for young people and adults.
The Children's Theater Company and The Playhouse Teen Theater Company are the vital part of the work of CLAP!. The children who study acting at The Playhouse start young and return year after year. Becoming a company member when cast in a play develops a sense of responsibility and group identity along with acting skills.
Theater training and performance gives children a better understanding of themselves and others. Through the experience gained in production and performance we aid in the development of a more competent and confident young person, one who will be better able to contribute to their community in a positive way.


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Our first day trip from Ljubljana was to Šmarna Gora. It was the only day with guaranteed sunshine, so we decided to use the opportunity to get a good view over the surrounding area. During my research for the trip I read that it is a popular destination for locals, especially on weekends. Therefore, I was a little amused when I asked the receptionist about directions for the bus and she had to look them up herself since she had never been there nor many of the other guests apparently.
Going by bus in Ljubljana
Travelling on transport in a foreign country where you don’t speak the language for the first time is always a bit scary. Luckily the receptionist explained the bus system to us. Within Ljubljana there is an Urbana card, similar to the Oyster card in London. We got one from reception but you can also buy one from the green Urbanomat machines where you also top up the card. You can use the card for two people. Just tell the driver before you swipe it.
Getting to Šmarna Gora
From Ljubljana you take Bus 8 from your nearest station to Tacen. You can find timetables here. From the centre of the city it takes, depending on traffic around 30 minutes. Prices are pretty cheap at €1.20 per person for one way. If you’re nervous about missing your station, watch out for a bridge over a river that the bus crosses just before reaching Tacen.
Going for a hike
When you get off the bus at Tacen there’s a wooden sign saying Romarska pot. Afterwards “life saving” dots lead your along path. The path leads past farms and houses until it diverges off into the forest. Just before the start of the forest, we wondered if we had made a wrong turn since there were some extravagant looking houses. There was even a house with an impressive hammock. Shortly afterwards the path reaches a clearing with a lovely view. Here is a great spot to have breakfast. As you walk through the forest you will spot several shrines. The further to the top you get there are also hand-painted stones detailing scenes from the hill’s history.
Different websites said the hike to the 662m high top would take 30-60 minutes. We are usually fast walkers but locals kept overtaking us. Perhaps we should work out more or perhaps Slovenians of all ages just seem to be really athletic. Many locals wore sportswear or just walked shirtless, which made us realize it wouldn’t be as much of an easy walk as website had made it sound. Therefore, we’d say, depending on how fast you walk and how well you do with steeper paths, plan in a bit more time.
Reaching the top
If you still aren’t out of breath by the time you reach the top, there is a workout area to get even more exercise. Close to the top there is a bell you will hear being rung from afar. The legend says that if you ring the bell three times your wish will come true. On the top you can walk around the church and get a beautiful view of Ljubljana’s surroundings. There are also little shops you can buy food and drinks from, as well as a seating area to rest. There’s also a drinking water fountain to refill your water bottle.
- Make sure you bring shoes for hiking and uneven grounds
- The paths can get crowded on weekends
- Plan in time to enjoy the view and possibly eat at the top

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These 12 Beachfront Restaurants In Northern California Are Out Of This World
Northern California is never lacking for good food. Whatever you’re looking for you can find here. Sometimes it’s not about the food, it’s about location, location, location. So, how about enjoying that next meal beside the Pacific Ocean or even a rushing river or glassy lake? Crashing waves and salty air just might be what the doctor ordered. Take a peek at a few amazing beachfront restaurants that just might do the trick!
1. Cafe Waterfront --102 F Street, Eureka
Looking for some amazing beer battered halibut or spicy shrimp bisque? Um, why yes we are! Grab your S.O. and head here!
2. The Point Restaurant --120 Marina Drive, Rio Vista
After a long day at work, point your car in in the direction of this point. Sitting on the Sacramento River, this could just be what your soul needs.
3. Beachside Coffee Bar & Kitchen -- 4300 Judah St, San Francisco
Chicken bacon waffle? Who wouldn't? Comfort food at it's best. San Francisco does beachfront cafes right. This city makes a point to draw us with fine food on the water. Kudos SFO!
4. Sam's Chowder House -- 420 N. Cabrillo Hwy, Half Moon Bay
Heirloom tomatoes with goat cheese is a lovely start to any meal on the water, don't you think? Half Moon Bay is one of those spots that's way underrated. Which is a great thing. It's not as busy as a lot of other SFO spots and a cool breeze is always a sweet thing in the summer.
5. Nick's Cove -- 23240 Hwy 1 Point Reyes
In this charming little community you won't find fresher seafood anywhere. We recommend getting a plate of oysters and enjoying them with an unbeatable seaside view.
6. Bistro at The Cliff House --1090 Point Lobos Ave., San Francissco
This establishment is a classic dining experience in these parts. Known for their soft fluffy omelettes and famous popovers, the spectacular view makes this place magical.
7. Spud Point Crab Company -- 1910 Westshore Rd., Bodega Bay
Voted best clam chowder in Bodega Bay. A crab shack just might be the best place to find what makes your tummy happy. Folks come from all over for their crab sandwiches and the line is long for crab cakes. It's open seven days a week, so put a day on that calendar of yours.
8. Little River Inn --7901 N. Hwy 1, Little River
You can stay here in one of their cottages or just stop by for a great meal. Most folks visiting Mendocino find it more affordable a meal and a view that can't compare!
9. Fresh Ketch -- 2435 Venice Dr E
South Lake Tahoe
Sit by the window and watch the boats sail on by. The snow-covered Sierras crate the mood and it's lovely. Oysters your thing? They're apparently pretty rockin' here. Enjoy pan seared coconut shrimp or scallops...Fresh Ketch lives up to its name.
10. Boathouse on the Pier -- South Tahoe
This spot offers up plenty of favorites to tempt you: crab cakes, Filet Mignon, creme brulee, and a dozen other incredible dishes to delight your palate. Those drinks in the photo above are sunset sippers, and they're only available at sunset.
11. The Cookhouse --Bridge Bay Resort
10300 Bridge Bay Rd
Fish and chips PLUS Shasta Lake = DELICIOUSNESS times a million.
12. Scoma's of Sausalito --- 588 Bridgeway, Sausalito
Some places are a must-eat and must-see...this is one of them. The food is always rated as amazing and with crab like that we can't argue. Ask for a window seat and make sure to appreciate not only the gorgeous view but how great the service here is. It can make all the difference.
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Today, United States senators unveiled their plans to ban kids under the age of 13 from using social media without parental consent. They’re calling the bipartisan bill “The Protecting Kids on Social Media Act” or “Kids’ Online Safety Act.” If passed, it would:
- Set strict age limits for social media.
- Restrict young children’s actions on social media platforms.
- Prevent children from creating accounts without parental involvement.
- Allow the government to control how platforms engage with young social media users.
Overview of the Protecting Kids on Social Media Act
Platforms included within the legislation would have to obtain a parent’s or guardian’s consent before creating new accounts for anyone under the age of 18. Furthermore, for ages 13 and below, there would be restrictions in place on which accounts with which they are able to view and interact. Meaning the law prevents even authorized account holders aged 13 and below from engaging with users ages 18 and up. Under the new law, those younger users would theoretically see no content posted by adults at all.
The Need for an Online Safety Act
As NPR pointed out, “Back in 2017, psychologist Jean Twenge set off a firestorm in the field of psychology.” Her intensive study on the effects social media and smartphones had on teens were startling. As smartphones and social media use drastically increased from 2012 to 2017, so did signs of depression and poor mental health among teens. Studies such as Twenge’s have not fallen on deaf ears. Senator Tom Cotton, a sponsor of the bill, proclaimed at a news conference, “Big tech has exposed our kids to dangerous content and disturbed people.” A parent himself, he continued, “Moms and dads have felt helpless while their kids suffer, sometimes leading to devastating tragedies.”
With social media use and teen depression soaring simultaneously, it’s no wonder the government is taking action. But between content control and parental consent for minors’ accounts, they hope to see less daunting statistics in the future.
Another sizable change that The Protecting Kids on Social Media Act is set to enforce is identity verification. Currently, it is easy for children to pass as adults on many social media platforms by simply selecting “I am above the age of 18 years old”. With the passing of The Protecting Kids on Social Media Act, this lackadaisical, take-your-word-for it “safety measure” would be no more.
As a result of a children’s privacy law included in COPPA, most major social media platforms should be banning children under the age of 13 already. The law itself has been in place for a long time, but enforcement measures have been widely insufficient. With the passing of the new bill and identity verification, change will be inevitable.
As you can imagine, verifying the identity of a child or teen would be a tall task considering most do not have a government-issued identification card such as a passport or driver’s license. As a solvent, parent’s identify verification will be accepted.
The Pros Vs Cons of Identity Verification
Identity verification will certainly solve the issue of children using social media with zero to no restrictions. It will also prevent kids from using social media at all without parental consent. The downside of the implementation of identity verification is that it will force the hand of both children and parents to cough up even more data and personal information to the government, social media platforms, and third-party identity verifiers. Even in 2023, data breaches and misuse show no signs of slowing down. If anything, data exploitation and misuse are seemingly trending upwards. This could deter parents from allowing their children to use social media altogether before they come of an older age.
As Senator Brian Schatz pointed out, “The tech industry is going to come at this bill, and every other kids’ online safety bill, with everything it’s got.” The bill is meant to protect children. However, the measures needed to be bring platforms into compliance will set a massive burden on the shoulders of tech and social media companies. Tech company NetChoice has already spoken out against the bill saying it, “would require massive, widespread data collection and retention, undermining Americans’ privacy and security.”
With the mental health and safety of minors top-of-mind for The Protecting Kids on Social Media Act, it’s still no secret that even the best-intentioned measures come at a price. The price on this particular bill being privacy. What do you think? Parents: Is this a bill you can get behind?

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Royal Enfield introduced the Tripper Navigation system with the Meteor 350 last year. It is a handy feature that lets riders connect their smartphones to it via Bluetooth and benefit from the turn-by-turn navigation details. Now, the Chennai-based company is expected to add the Tripper Navigation system to its future models including the 2021 Royal Enfield Continental GT 650 that was recently spied testing.
While things are still blurred regarding the placement of the Tripper Navigation system in the new Continental GT 650, IndianAutosBlog’s in-house digital artist has come up with a rendering of the updated instrument cluster of the upcoming motorcycle.
The rendering shows that Royal Enfield could place the Tripper Navigation system in between the two dials of the Continental GT 650’s instrument cluster. The display would be located slightly above the dials. This position would make sense as it would allow the rider to easily read the details without looking too down low while riding. Also, considering that the size of the Tripper Navigation system’s dial is relatively small, Royal Enfield might not have to implement any major alterations to the current instrument cluster of the Continental GT 650.
Apart from the addition of the Tripper Navigation system, Royal Enfield is unlikely to make any other changes in the 2021 Continental GT 650’s instrument cluster. However, we would like to see some additional features in the small digital display that’s already present. Perhaps, a clock or average fuel consumption or maybe distance to empty.
It is very likely that along with the 2021 Continental GT 650, Royal Enfield could also be working on an updated Interceptor 650. So, we wouldn’t be surprised if we come across some spy shots of the latter in the near future. Both the new 650 Twins would be getting the same set of revisions and features, except for the new colour options, if there would be any.


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TATOC affiliate CLC World Resorts & Hotels continues to embrace the American Dream by showcasing its CLC Regal Oaks Resort, near Kissimmee, at this year’s World Travel Market, the leading global event for the travel industry.
Latest developments at CLC Regal Oaks were on show as part of the Brand USA pavilion. The resort, the company’s newest property, under six miles from Disney and within walking distance of Kissimmee Old Town, has been receiving positive reviews from guests and will be formally opened in spring 2015.
CLC World celebrity ambassador Jennie Bond joined Laura Sherman, resorts management director in the U.S. and Lucien Le Moing, CLC World product and business development manager in the ceremonial cutting of a cake featuring the ‘Stars and Stripes’ and resort name at a CLC World reception. This was attended by travel trade consumer media and tour operators.
They later joined the U.S. Embassy representative Chrystal Denys, Commercial Specialist, and other leading dignitaries for a Brand USA reception.

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If your keyboard has stopped working, you’re not completely out of luck. Whether you have a Windows laptop or an Apple MacBook, contact us. you will find reasonable and cheapest cost then other
The motherboard is the computer, so the usual symptom of a failed motherboard is a completely dead system. Fans, drives, and other peripherals may spin up if the motherboard is dead, but more often nothing at all happens when you turn on the power. No beeps, no lights, no fans, nothing.
some other symptom of motherboard failure
Your computer begins to boot up very slowly.
Peripherals on your computer start to become unreliable.
You see odd behavior on your monitor, in the form of flickering, lines on the screen or unexpected freezes.
When you plug a flash drive into your computer’s USB port it sometimes fails to initialize.
Increased frequency of “blue screen of death” errors.
A burning or melted plastic smell.
The key thing you may experience as a motherboard begins to fail is a frustrating unpredictability. if you are facing this kind of problem contact us
If your battery still isn’t charging, chances are you have a faulty battery. One of the most common reasons a battery may not charge is its health. Old or damaged batteries may only charge partially, lose their power quickly, or go from fully charged to dead in minutes. if you are going through this kind of problem contact us for battery replacement.
Here are the most common hard drive failure signs:
Corrupted data, files, and folders
Stuck spindle motor
Frequent error messages
Blue Screen of Death
Bad sectors preventing data access
Failure of the system to boot
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Lines or Dots on the Screen
If your laptop’s LCD or LED screen has some visible black dots or lines, you should first try to press it – just enough force that will alter the display. Most of the time, this problem is due to trapped or wedged pixels. Applying pressure on it will usually loosen and free the pixels, and when it is unstuck, the dots and lines will disappear.
However, if applying pressure to it doesn’t remove or alleviate the dots, then the only way to solve it is by replacing the screen.
Another common problem is when your display is darker than usual. First of all, you have to make sure that you set your laptop’s brightness level to maximum. If that does not work, then there are other ways you can do yourself to fix the problem
If both didn’t work, there might be hardware problems – burnt backlight or inverter, or broken cable. We do not advise you to do these manually as it is more complicated than replacing the screen. Doing it on your own may destroy the circuit board (which is quite expensive) and backlight lamp. The lamp itself contains mercury (extremely hazardous to your health) and lead glass – it’s brittle and may cause static charges and electrocute you when repairing it without the proper tools.
Wrong Colour Display or Distorted Screen
If your laptop’s screen is messing up – colour is incorrect, divided screen, or jumbled display – it’s often due to a defective GPU. There is
nothing you can do but send your laptop to a professional repair centre. It requires replacing the GPU, which is almost always connected to the motherboard. It also needs precision tools to repair successfully, without so, you may worsen the damage.
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Common Software Problems
1. Failing to boot
If your laptop refuses to start then it has got to do something with the hardware. It could be a simple loose connection within the computer or something complicated like a problematic hardware. However if your computer starts and fails when fully booting up, then it could be either a hardware or software issue. In such cases, it’s advisable to perform a re-installation of the operating system.
2. Blue Screen Problem
Blue screen problem usually is an indicator that there is some fault in the hardware or poorly programmed drivers. When you encounter the blue screen problem, check recently installed hardware or installed drivers. If there is no problem with the drivers, then you can assume that the problem is with the hardware such as motherboard, graphics card or RAM.
3. Corrupted Files
If files on the hard drive start to become corrupt, there the problem lies in that hard drive itself. Long delays when accessing files or not being able to open files can also be due to some viruses or malware. Run a complete scan and if there are no viruses, the hard drive is under fault.
4. Random Computer Crashes
If the RAM is problematic, it can lead to crashes, blue screens or file corruption. The data is written on the RAM for short term storage and a faulty RAM will lead to storage of incorrect value on it.
Fans are essential to keep the CPU from overheating and if the fan fails in the computer, it may lead to overheating and can cause CPU or graphic card problems. This will eventually lead to computer crashing and not booting.
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Spending time in the great outdoors is good for your health both mentally and physically. It can reduce anxiety, stress and depression, lower blood pressure, improve your sleep, give you a boost of Vitamin D, improve your mood and give you a break from the loads of technology that surrounds you on a daily basis. There are lots of benefits to being outside, so here are some great outdoor activities that you can try.
Nature Walks and Hiking
Studies show that taking a walk out in nature can help reduce stress. It also can be an educational activity because some walks include stops along the way where you can read and learn about the wildlife and plants around you. Hiking is another fun option. There are lots of beautiful hiking trails to try.
There are lots of different outdoor sports you can enjoy playing that are exciting, fun and competitive and also a good way to get exercise. You can try sports such as basketball, baseball, golf, volleyball and more. Pack up your gear such as a basketball, baseball glove and a wooden baseball bat and then head out to the court or field.
Going to the Beach
Spending a day at the beach is a favorite outdoor activity for many people for many reasons. Going to the beach means you’re able to relax, eat, or get exercise all in one place. You can play games such as beach volleyball or frisbee, enjoy the water, look for seashells, build a sandcastle, or just relax on the sand and soak up the sun.
Going fishing is an outdoor activity that teaches patience and can also be relaxing. Grab your fishing pole, remember to bring some bait and then find a nice lake or pond. Fishing is a good way to enjoy time outdoors, and once you get that first catch you are sure to feel excitement and accomplishment.
Cooking Food and Having a Picnic
Cooking or grilling is another activity that you can do outside and then be able to enjoy the tasty meal you made too. Pick your favorite picnic foods, head to a nice park and set up the portable grill. Chicken and vegetables are great for grilling. Other ideal foods for picnics include sandwiches, pasta salads and various fruits because they are convenient for packing up into a picnic basket and are easy to eat while outside.
Whether it’s at a campground or in your own backyard, camping is a great outdoor activity that really allows you to connect with the people you’re with and with nature. Set up a tent, roll out a sleeping bag and don’t forget the essentials like sunscreen, bug spray, a lantern, foldable chairs and marshmallows to roast while you sit around the campfire.
Get Some Exercise
Working out at the gym or at home is good, but sometimes it can help motivate you if you get outside for your exercise. Running, jumping rope, kayaking, swimming, biking, roller skating and yoga are just a few of the types of exercise you can do outdoors. All of these are fun ways to enjoy time outside while staying active and getting a good workout in at the same time.
Looking up into the sky to gaze at the stars is not only relaxing, but can also be a fun and educational activity. You can try to find and name constellations and watch for shooting stars. Another reason this is an awesome outdoor activity is that you can stargaze from your backyard. Stargazing is also known to relieve stress, inspire creativity and help you feel more tranquil and peaceful.
Being outdoors has many health benefits both mentally and physically. It’s good for helping improve your mood and there are lots of ways to have fun and get exercise. Next time you’re looking for an outdoor activity, give one of these a try.


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For some of you steeped in IAM concepts, our previous post on Role Lifecycles seems a bit basic. But many enterprises are still grappling with how to plan for, implement, and manage roles throughout the enterprise. There are many systems which contribute to roles and privileges, so what may seem basic in theory is often quite complex in practice. Today’s post will dig a bit deeper into more advanced RBAC concepts. Let’s roll up our sleeves to look at role engineering!
To get value from roles in real-world use cases requires spending some time analyzing what you want from the system, and deciding how to manage user roles. A common first step is to determine whether you want a flat or hierarchical role structure. A ‘flat’ structure is conceptually simple, and the easiest to manage for smallish environments. For example you might start by setting up DBA and SysAdmin roles as peers, and then link them to the privileges they need.
Flat role structures are enough to get the job done in many cases because they provide the core requirement of mapping between roles and privileges. Then Identity Management (IdM) and Provisioning systems can associate users with their roles, and limit users to their authorized subset of system functions.
But large, multifunction applications with thousands of users typically demand more from roles to address the privilege management problem.
Hierarchies add value in some circumstances, particularly when it makes sense for roles to include several logical groups of permissions. Each level of the hierarchy has sub-classes of permissions, and the further up the hierarchy you go the more permissions are bundled together into each logical construct. The hierarchy lets you assemble a role as coarse or granular as you need. Think of it as an access gradient, granting access based on an ascending or descending set of privileges.
This modeling exercise cuts both ways – more complex management and auditing is the cost of tighter control. Lower-level roles may have access to specific items or applications, such as a single database. In other systems the high-level manager functions may use roles to facilitate moving and assigning users in a system or project.
Keep in mind that roles facilitate many great features that applications rely on. For example roles can be used to enforce session-level privileges to impose consistency in a system. A classic example is a police station, where there can only be one “officer of the watch” at any given time. While many users can fulfill this function, only one can hold it at a time. This is an edge case not found in most systems, but it nicely illustrates where RBAC can be needed and applied.
RBAC + A
Sometimes a role is not enough by itself. For example, your directory lists 100 users in the role “Doctor”, but is being a doctor enough to grant access to review a patient’s history or perform an operation? Clearly we need more than just roles to define user capabilities, so the industry is trending toward a combination of roles supplemented by attributes.
Roles can be further refined by adding attributes – what is commonly called RBAC+A (for Attributes). In our simple example above the access management system both checks the Doctor role and queries additional attributes such as a patient list and approved operation types to fully resolve an access request.
Adding attributes solves another dimension of the access control equation: they can be closely linked to a user or resource, and then loaded into the program at runtime. The benefit is access control decisions based on dynamic data rather than static mappings, which are much harder to maintain. Roles with dynamic attributes can provide the best of both worlds, with roles for coarse policy checks, refined with dynamic attributes for fresher and more precise authorization decisions.
More on Integration
We will return to integration… no, don’t go away… come back… integration is important! If you zoom out on any area of IAM you see they are all rife with integration challenges, and roles are no different.
Key questions for integrating roles include the following:
What is the authoritative source of roles?
Roles are a hybrid – privilege information is derived from many sources. But roles are best stored in a locale with visibility to both users and resource privileges. In a monolithic system (“We just keep everything in AD.”) this is not a problem. But for distributed heterogeneous systems this isn’t a single problem – it is often problems #1, #2, and #3! The repository of users can usually be tracked down and managed – by hook or by crook – but the larger challenge is usually discovering and managing the privilege side.
To work through this problem, security designers need to choose a starting point with the right level of resource permission granularity. A URL can be a starting point but itself is usually not enough, because a single URL may offer a broad range of functionality. This gets a bit complex so let’s walk though an example:
Consider setting a role for accessing an arbitrary domain like https://example.com/admin. Checking that the user has the Admin role before displaying any content makes sense. But the functionality across all Admin screens can vary widely. In that case the scope of work must be defined by more granular roles (Mail Admin, DB Admin, and so on) and/or by further role checking within the applications. Even this simple example clearly demonstrates why working with roles is often an iterative process – getting the definition and granularity right requires consideration of both the subject and the object sides. The authoritative source is not just a user repository – it should ideally be a system repository for hooks and references to both users and resources.
Where is the policy enforcement point for roles?
Once the relationship between roles and privileges is defined, there is still the question of where to enforce privileges. The answer from most role checkers is simple: access either granted or denied – but figuring out where to place the checks can be considerably more complicated.
Role checking can be done at the UI level, such as in a gateway or proxy; it can be in code in the middle tier; and/or it can be performed in the data tier. Notice that “and/or” – role checks can, and often should, occur in several places inside an application. Or – typically for management convenience – it may make sense to centralize all role checks in one place.
The next question is: Should role enforcement be embedded in the application container, or should the application call out to the role engine? All else being equal, the performance and simplicity of an embedded role checker makes sense to us, but your mileage may vary. Even embedded in an application, a role checker should be clearly auditable – preferably implemented as a set of easily updated rules, rather than hardcoded in an application, scattered across a million lines of spaghetti code.
Dealing with legacy systems
Legacy systems – the justification for and mechanisms behind your paycheck – present their own challenges. Very often the only option is to “front end” a legacy system with an authorization proxy or gateway that intercepts and validates access requests.
If an access-checking “front door” won’t work the next option is to use provisioning systems to synchronize or replicate roles from an authoritative source, translate them into the legacy system language such as SAP, and then let the legacy system check roles based on your external data feed. This can work well but involves up-front data cleanup, role/access translation, and an automated provisioning feed.
Otherwise most authorization changes are handled through invasive surgery inside the application. Like most invasive surgery, it is extremely painful at best in the short term, and life (career) threatening at worst. When you are wondering whether to rewrite an internal legacy authorization system, the answer is ‘no’ 99 times out of 100.
It is critical to keep in mind the number of access checks in a real-world system. If your system makes heavy use of roles, as it probably should, then your role system will be taxed in a serious way. Plan for scale and test accordingly. We have seen systems that weren’t, and the results were not pretty – in one memorable case, 3-minutes call center interaction turned into 9 minute affairs, thanks to external role checkers running across a large network. In that case the responsible VP was fired. Ensure your RBAC is efficient and scalable, and meets your business’ performance requirements. We understand this is not easy, but if you do your homework up front, roles can pay big dividends down the road.


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Eating a fertility diet in preparation for pregnancy and to boost fertility is one of the most important health changes you can make. Numerous studies have shown that specific changes to the diet can improve fertility, prevent recurrent miscarriage and support a healthy pregnancy.
Nutrition plays a big role when it comes to having a healthy body and reproductive system. The building blocks of hormones are found in the foods we eat. Antioxidants, which help to protect the egg and sperm from free radicals, are found in the foods that we eat. Just as nutrients in food can be helpful for fertility, there are some foods and chemicals that can be harmful to your health and fertility.
Throughout this blog, I will try to give you fertility diet suggestion, based on scientific research, nutritional data, Chinese medicine`s perspective of nutrition and patients personal experience, when changing their diet.
In my clinic Klinikk Fjeld, we recommend a diet of the very low content of processed carbohydrates as the main strategy to get a healthy and fertility boosting diet. We see that a diet which primary is based on vegetables, all kinds of fish and seafood, meat, fowl, and eggs. In addition, fat fruits like avocado and olives, nuts and seeds and cold pressed and unrefined oils, like coconut oil and olive oil. When it comes to the dairy products, we recommend natural butter, cheese, cream and full-fat sour cream.
Why do we recommend this way of eating?
Many experiences that they get a light feeling in their body, sleep better, get a normal digestion, fresher skin, a more stable mood, and more energy.
- A low intake of carbohydrates will result in a lower need for insulin. A high level of insulin is connected to the resistance of insulin, overweight and the developing of diabetes type 2. If you eat a low carb diet, this will not occur. Very many women who do many hormonal treatments will tend to get an addiction to sugar and increase weight. When following this diet, the addiction to sugar will dramatically down and the body`s weight will tend to normalize.
- For users of insulin (Diabetes type 1 and 2) will a diet of few processed carbohydrates make it easier to reach a more stable level of blood sugar and you will need less insulin. This is a very important factor when pregnant, as pregnant women with a high age, tend to develop diabetes (type 1) during their pregnancy. With this way of eating, you will have much more control of the weight increased during the pregnancy and the blood sugar level.
- Normal and stable levels of sugar and insulin in the blood and a good balance between omega-3 and omega-6 prevents inflammations in the body. A low carbohydrate intake will, therefore, slow down many of the inflammatory diseases in the body, such as endometriosis and adenomyosis. I will in one of the following blogs, discuss these diseases in more detail.
About 10% of all women in the Western world have polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). The diagnose requires that at least to out of three criterions are fulfilled:
- Irregular or seldom menstruation. Symptoms of too much testosterone, which will give increased hair growth on parts of the body where men naturally have hair growth, acne and too high levels of free testosterone or too low level of SHBG in the blood. The ovaries tend to have many cysts, which can be seen on an ultrasound.
- Women with PCOS often have a difficulty in getting pregnant, they have a higher risk of miscarriages and a tendency to develop diabetes (type 2) during pregnancy. I have during my 16 years of experience, had a lot of women with this statement and it`s a grateful task because changing their diet is very efficient. After two or three months with a new diet, they will most often get back their regular period and the other symptoms will disappear.
- For women who undergo egg donation, this way of eating will lower the tendency of miscarriage. This is because it will normalize a women’s weight, stabilize the blood sugar, lower the inflammation processes in the body and give a lot of good nutrients to the body end the growing fetus.
Good sources of carbohydrates
Most of the sources of carbohydrates should come from vegetables and beans, lentils. However once daily you can eat a small amount of rice or bread when eaten together with protein. Pasta should be something you almost always avoid or eat very small amount when eating it. Remember drinking vine or any alcohol to your food is adding a lot of carbohydrates to your meal.
Most low-fat dairy products have very high content of carbohydrates. Most processed food like crackers, cakes pasta and bread have very high content of carbohydrates. Rice and potatoes in natural form are the next best sources of carbohydrates. These two sources are very good for children as they burn a lot more calories than adults, and therefore need more healthy carbohydrates.
No sugar products
Diet coke and such items are not giving any calories, however, they tend to lower a person's blood sugar which will result in more appetite. If you are having a tendency to low blood sugar you should be careful with such diet products. Also, children under the age of three are advised not to have any intake of such products.

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Thanks,Jim. You seem to be working as hard in retirement as when
you worked full time. After figuring out that the auto feed was
also the water pressure valve(doh!), I shut it off and released the
pressure in the boiler using the relief valve. Now operating at
20psi. The old valve was a conbraco 35-503, and I see replacements
for it labeled 35-503-01 for $66. It looks like a pretty straightforward replacement job;anything I should be wary of?


High press and postpress system availability is particularly important in digital production in view of short delivery times. Service and maintenance have a correspondingly high priority. CPI Druckdienstleistungen GmbH in Erfurt, Germany, which specializes in print on demand, has therefore signed a support and maintenance contract with Muller Martini for its two Vareo and Vareo PRO perfect binders and two InfiniTrim cutting robots – and uses the MPOWER service customer portal.
"Sometimes only two hours pass between the time an order is received and the finished end products are handed over to the customer," says Technical Manager Steve Gemeinhard. "It is therefore essential that our equipment is running at all times. Ensuring production and high machine availability are essential in our business field. All workflows and production steps must mesh – including, of course, the perfect binders and cutting robots as the final links in the chain."
For CPI, the service and maintenance aspect has gained additional importance following the acquisition last year of the Erfurt plant of Customized Business Services, which specializes in digital production. "With regular maintenance intervals, we ensure high productivity of the equipment," says Steve Gemeinhard. "Thanks to the lively exchange with the service specialists of the machine manufacturers, we can optimize the performance of our systems. We achieve this by means of both software and mechanical upgrades."
"We have been using MPOWER for a number of years"
CPI has therefore signed a support and maintenance/flexo service contract with Muller Martini for its Erfurt production facility. In addition, CPI and Muller Martini meet on the MPOWER service customer portal. "We have been using MPOWER for several years. The documentation available on it, the web store for ordering spare parts and the e-Call for emergencies make for simpler and faster (problem) solutions."
On special training days, CPI Druckdienstleistungen GmbH in Erfurt, which has also concluded service contracts with other press manufacturers and, according to Steve Gemeinhard, has also had good experience with them, also trains its own personnel in each case. This means that maintenance work and small repairs can be carried out by the company itself.
The Technical Manager is convinced "that networking between the machines and their manufacturers will become increasingly important in the future. This is because we need to receive fast and selective support for troubleshooting and product optimization in order to enormously reduce or, ideally, even avoid downtimes for our tightly scheduled production."
Two perfect binders and two three-knife trimmers each
The maintenance contract between CPI and Muller Martini includes two perfect binders – a Vareo and a Vareo PRO – as well as two InfiniTrim trimming robots. CPI uses these to produce a wide range of softcover books for customers around the world in Erfurt with 13 employees working in two shifts. Their average print run is 2.7.
"Especially in the current climate, digital production is enormously important to guarantee short delivery times," says Steve Gemeinhard. "We need to make products available immediately at any time, in any run size, without incurring storage costs for customers. They want to retrieve titles and quantities based on current demand."
On the subject of Smart Services, also read this blog on the Muller Martini website.


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Dog the Bounty Hunter: I Don't Want to Live Without My Wife!
Beth Chapman, reality star and wife of Duane "Dog the Bounty Hunter" Chapman, passed away last month after battling cancer.
And if you know anything about Dog's relationship with Beth, you know that it was an absolutely devastating loss.
Jenelle Evans: Facing New Charges in the Death of Nugget?!
Jenelle Evans Goes OFF on Amber Portwood and Cheyenne Floyd!
Tori Roloff Sends Sweet Message to Joy-Anna Duggar After Miscarriage
As you may have heard, some extremely heartbreaking news came from the Duggar family last week.
Joy-Anna had a miscarriage at 20 weeks pregnant.
Joy-Anna Duggar Bashed for Sharing Photos with Stillborn Baby
Just a few days ago, Joy-Anna Duggar and her husband, Austin Forsyth, shared some unbelievably tragic news:
When they went in for the 20 week scan for Joy-Anna's pregnancy, the doctor couldn't detect a heartbeat.
Amber Portwood: Released From Jail ... to Go to Prison?!
Remember a few days ago when people were still talking about how far Amber Portwood has come, and how she's doing so much better these days?
Things change so quickly, don't they?
Farrah Abraham: Alleged Sugar Daddy Revealed!
Jenelle and David Reunited with Children: What's HAPPENING?!
Beth Chapman Remembered in Beautiful Memorial Service
It's been a few days now since Beth Chapman lost her battle with cancer.
And it's still just so unbelievably sad.

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Puzzle #151: Alien fingers - From New Scientist #3370, 22nd January 2022 [link] [link] When the aliens landed in my back garden, my first thought was that they use the same number syst...
Thursday, June 08, 2006
There were quite a few with colour schemes that I really didn't want to put on my blog!
Something else I used to draw all the time but are now largely absent from my pictures are cats and elephants.
What were your favourite childhood animals or plants? Did you draw them then?
Posted by Caroline at 6/08/2006 06:37:00 pm


When Robyn Appleton set out to find spectacled bears in Peru, she wasn’t expecting to find anything like Laura. Not only was Laura in an ecosystem not typically associated with the bears—an equatorial dry forest area populated by steep cliffs—but she was friendly, too, and curious about the human beings that had come to see her. After eight months of looking for a spectacled bear, the first one that Robyn found came within a meter of her. Their mutual curiosity would define the relationship for the months to come.
Robyn wasn’t the only one excited by the sudden appearance of the supposedly reclusive spectacled bear. The nearby town embraced Laura whole-heartedly, even putting a picture of her in the local paper. Her white-lined face exuded a natural charisma, and within eight months Robyn was able to establish the Spectacled Bear Conservation Society.
Before Laura, little was known about the spectacled bear. This was part of what drew Robyn to study the species, and Laura opened up a whole new world for the team. Through Laura, everything about the bears could be studied: what they ate, their basic biology, and how they moved through their often treacherous landscape. “Often,” Robyn said, “we wondered who was watching who.” Even as they watched and studied Laura, she watched and studied them in return, often sneaking closer and closer.
It wasn’t that Laura made things easy. She was known for being “a bit of a brat.” Camera traps were torn down as soon as they were put up. Robyn attempted to take facial photos (spectacled bears all have unique white facial patterns), and Laura would very helpfully present only her rear. None of that could take away from Laura’s importance, however; she was also the first bear that Robyn managed to put a GPS collar on. A radio collar is critically important to understand both where an animal is going and how it’s using the habitat it resides in, which in turn can lead to further protection of critical areas.
Unfortunately, through tracking Laura, Robyn also learned about some of the major problems surrounding the spectacled bears of her region in Peru. After Laura had two sets of cubs, both of whom passed away, Robyn was justifiably concerned. Laura’s body weight had fallen drastically and it seemed like she was looking worse and worse every time she was spotted. Eventually, Laura too vanished, leaving everyone heartbroken and searching for a cause.
Spectacled bears like Laura rely on the sapote fruit, a round, green fruit native to much of central and South America. The bears have to leave the safety of the steep cliffs to access the fruit. Any human disturbance will send them running back up to the safety of their stony homes. Habitat fragmentation has also made it difficult for bears to find continuous areas of the fruit large enough to feast on, and they are forced to venture further and further from the cubs as they seek out enough to survive on.
Although Laura is gone, her legacy is not forgotten. With a better understanding of the food bears need to survive, Robyn has already worked with local communities to protect several key areas of sapote growth. No bear has to suffer like Laura did—and the fat and happy bears caught on camera are the living proof.
Robyn Appleton of Spectacled Bear Conservation was a guest speaker at WCN’s 2015 Wildlife Conservation Expo.
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- 1 Package (4 ounces) ready-to-use baby salad greens
- 1 can (11 ounces) mandarin orange segments, well drained
- 1 Cup California raisins
- 1/4 Cup coarsely broken walnuts
In large salad bowl, combine all salad ingredients; toss. In small bowl, combine all dressing ingredients. Drizzle over salad. Toss before serving.
- 1/4 Cup non-fat mayonnaise
- 3 Tablespoons frozen lemonade concentrate, thawed
- 1 Tablespoon milk
Nutrition Facts Per ServingCalories 150 (Calories from Fat 18%); Total Fat 3.5 ( Saturated Fat 0; Trans Fat 0; ); Cholesterol 0; Sodium 80; Potassium 364; Total Carbohydrate 31; Dietary Fiber 3; Sugars 26; Protein 3; Calcium 37; Iron 1;
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A semi-autobiographical portrayal of the author’s own childhood with the main character, Laddie, named after Porter’s favorite brother as a child. Laddie falls in love with his neighbor, Pamela Pryor. His love is aided by his younger sister whom Laddie calls “Little Sister.” The farmland setting of the novel is inspired by the farm Porter grew up on and the enchanted forest setting was inspired by Porter’s free rein to explore the natural world as a child.
First published in 1913, this edition is derived from the original book with 4 black & white illustrations by Herman Pfeifer. As always, this edition is complete and unabridged.
Illustrator(s): Herman Pfeifer
Book Size: 6" x 9"
Font Size: 12pt ISBN: 9781649651129
Paperback: Perfect bound with gloss cover; cream standard paper.

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My Group The Loop Wizard Mozaic script - A new way of performing live!
After weeks of digging around in this forum (and other resources) for information about how to control Group The Loop using my iRig BlueBoard, I finally came up with a pretty nice script. First of all: thank you so much guys for all your help. I wouldn't have made it so far without you, that's sure.
My "Group The Loop Wizard" script definitely establishes a kind of a new paradigm on how to do live performances that are highly time sensitive (at least in the context of iOS, as far as I know). The idea: simply do all the needed configurations (group number, loop number, instrument FX, etc.) in advance, then add each configuration to a virtual stack. Then start to perform and activate each configuration simply by the click of a single button, one after the other (from the stack). This allows to do the brain work in advance, so afterwards you can concentrate fully on the performance.
I simply love this idea, and my script is quite powerful already. I'd love to hear your thoughts about it. To make it easier for you guys to get the idea, I created 3 videos demonstrating the script.
General introduction: what's the idea behind the "Wizard" script, and what features are planned?
"Dry" demo of the script in action (just explaining what happens, no real performance yet)
Real demo of a pop song (Rivers of Babylon) - very fun!!
I'm sorry that the videos are lengthy. The first one might be the one you can skip, if you're short in time; the other two videos will give a good overall impression.
I'm very much looking forward to reading your comments.
Here's my brainstorming document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OtPnCPZqHNCdndD-STC5bEZw_CEiafH1zztmPeyL9ZA/edit?usp=sharing
And here's the script: https://github.com/jmuheim/mozaic-blueboard/blob/master/wizard
Lots of love
PS: This is a double post from https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/40389/my-group-the-loop-wizard-mozaic-script-a-new-way-of-performing-live/p1?new=1
Great work @josh, thanks for sharing. I'm sure people will find this extremely useful!
ITOH nektar pacer has also multiple round message for a single pedal so maybe you should consider it.
I feel you are just scratching the top of the iceberg for your needs...
Btw what you call “cheat” only worries other looper artists (and not all of them) but crowd doesn’t gives a 5h17 about how do you get the song walking if the song isn’t _carchy_ and so on... (IMHO) so my best advice for these _issues_ will be ever the same: simplify and focus on the result over the process.
It’s common _looper artist syndrome_ which we call _Beardyfication_ lol.
Even Dubfx serms going that route from a recent interview which for me is a _mistake_ (but part of everyone process in the quest for own personal workflow) and sooner or later things will get simplified after too much _overthinking and overcomplexing_.
Thanks for share
Yeah, having something like that built natively into GTL would be great. Are there concrete plans for this? I asked for something similar already in Concept for "Input templates", but I didn't feel like it's actually a planned feature (or would ever be in the near future). Alas, I'm just trying to get to work what I need with whatever options there are available to me, and it seems that the Mozaic script language offers quite a lot of possibilities (although it's pretty limited as a language and needs a lot of repetitive, "smelly" code, but it does the job pretty well otherwise). But having stuff like that natively would definitely be the easier option!
Good to know that there are options. Still, my focus lies on "minimal gear", so the nektar pacer is much too big for me to travel with as a backpacker.
You're using a lot of words that I never heard before in your post. I found out that
5h17is geek-style for
sh*t, but I couldn't find
carchyanywhere, and neither
Beardyfication. I'd love to hear some more explanations to those.
I'm completely aware of that. I wouldn't dive into this world if it wasn't a lot of fun, even though it feels a lot like making 2 steps forward and 1 backward... sometimes even 2 backward, or even 3!
I agree. My ambition is to cover original pop/rock songs as closely as possible (at least in their general song structure), and I want to be able to create everything that the audience hears completely from scratch during a performance. So I don't want to pre-record audio or anything like that. My audience should always be aware that every single sound that they hear was actually created on the spot (using a guitar, a MIDI keyboard, and a microphone). Besides that, the computer can help me to arrange all the stuff, because doing manually would take too much time, and I just don't want to use/waste that time during a song; otherwise the song will become repetitive, boring and/or will not resemble the original pop/rock song anymore that I'm imitating.
So while I could manually create all configuration for the "step functions" before a track, for the sake of speeding it up and don't bore the audience, I feel it's legitimate to create some higher-level-abstraction (ie. presets for typical configurations for parts of songs, or even configurations for full songs) that I can simply load by the click of my finger.
You're very welcome. I'm happy to receive feedback by you guys.
Shit is correct,
Carchy is CaTchy wrong written from iPhone xD
About the first part you should dig deep into midi bindings / Functions
That's why I pointed also Nektar if these functions can't cover your needs, maybe the nektar pacer has similar options with its multiple tap capabilities, also apps like Midiflow...
That's fair but just on your head. Crowds aren't so exigent (well if your crowd is full of looping artists maybe...) and getting the parts you want to duplicate with the script, just pre-recorded will not make worst your performance but you still need to get the whole "programming" thing running and that extra mess could "freeze" the performance. That's why I said "simplification". Getting things pre-recorded (or maybe Lumbeat apps, etc) or not will be relevant if your entire focus is the performance instead the song itself. Good music doesn't needs artifice and true fans (those who could give you a long tail support so you can make a living) will appreciate music over technique 99% time.
That drove me into "Beardytronification" vs "Dubfxication" of your sets.
Even so Dubfx stated in recently interview that he wants go the Ableton route for more flexibility (or what he thinks it will be) and maybe get trapped in the same "syndrome" of "endless possibilities and power" which IMHO is a common mistake in live looping where limitations are the best tool to avoid get trapped in that "rat-race" of power and flexibility when in the end crowd just expect a good performance of memorable song (which Dubfx also points in that interview when he's asked about what makes him different from others artists such Beardyman and I agree on that).
So in the end we set "conditions" (realtime, no cheating blabla) but the most important if we are crowd focused (there are artists just itself focused) the song, not the process (which is important to us and looping artist but anymore).
I hope this helps you in your quest. In the end is a journey, there is not "correct" or "wrong"... I said mistakes because usually in this quest we visit common spots and going back and forth so returning into previous spots could have seen as "error/mistake" but truly we advance in each step... also seen different artists make the same statements in different evolution moments lets me extract some conclusions (in addition with my own experience after over 17 years or so with live looping and more than 25 about sound/music productions with computers) and that's what I try to share so maybe others don't need to waste unnecessary time if that concept exist in this journey... I'm too paternalist lol
I finally made it! What I envisioned 2 years ago when stumbling over Group the Loop came true now - after hundreds of hours of work!
Take a look at my performance of Pink Floyd's epic track "Wish you were here":
If anyone is interested in the nitty gritty details of how I accomplished this (in quite a complex setup of various apps, glued together using an also quite complex bunch of Mozaic scripts), please tell me. I'm happy to produce some more videos with explanations.
Have a great end of the year time, guys! And thanks so much for your support so far. I have the feeling that is is only just the beginning...
I've come even further meanwhile.
I created kind of a "meta script language" which makes it very easy to write song structures. It's using Markdown and Emojis. It looks something like this (original file):
Compiled (e.g. in GitHub) it looks very beautiful: https://github.com/jmuheim/mozaic-blueboard/blob/master/songs/wish-you-were-here.md
Using a little Ruby script, the code above is compiled into the following Mozaic code (original file):
This code can then be run with my GTL-Performer script, as seen in my YouTube video:
I think this is a huge achievement and proves that creating song structures is something pretty simple. Having something like this available in GTL would be awesome! While switching inputs and input settings like I do it in AUM right now still is far away from GTL's possibilities at the time being, having basic song structures available in GTL would make stuff so much easier; and by sending custom MIDI at the start/end of each song part, one could even target AUM (or any other app) to switch inputs the way needed. What do you think, @Jack and @dubbylabby?
If anybody is interested in joining the project (or just trying it out themselves), see https://github.com/jmuheim/mozaic-blueboard. It's pretty well documented already. If you're having problems with something, please tell me.
Happy new 2021!
I was looking at your video and my conclusion was "too complex" but I know some loopers users love to go that route (at ab forums espiegel, janosax and some others love that complexity) so I will advice add to GTL a basic song arranger with midi/function support as a first step towards the automation recorder/player.
I had advice at other post about implementing a multitrack mixer with bus send (instead multiple outputs for AB3 which I suggested long time ago) to resolve the "fx tail" issue. I also suggested a way to make all those routings and parts easy to recognise (the color picker paradigm from BlocsWave) so if in the future the group slots increase it will keep the flexibility. The alternative is make each row an instrument/channel so the layers get also structured and users will need to embrace some constraints instead asking for total flexibility... but I understand that's one of the "developers headaches" so I take my own opinions as a grain of salt too. xD
I think there isn't a perfect looper but also I strong believe it's due how loopers are used. If we look at them as experimental tools then everything is "perfect" but if we try to make them "this" or "that" then problems arise. It's impossible to make something work for everyone. Even Ableton isn't that (hello bitwig!) but in the end it's all about the music.
Sometimes I think about simplifying so much so much... even to just get a turntable (player) and a mic!
And draw a full circle from where I started...


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Have you ever had something you just wanted to go away and so you tried ignoring with all of your might only to have the very thing you’re trying to avoid blow up in your face leaving you to deal with all of the pieces and mess?
Ignoring never works.
It is the same as suppression and will only allow whatever you’re choosing not to acknowledge or look at to be fuelled and grow in the shadows, chaining you down, consciously or unconsciously.
What you can do, and what does work is to deny whatever it is, an affect on you. While choosing not to ignore it, but rather acknowledge it, you can at the same time deny it any hold over you.
This goes, whether it be internal or external circumstances.
We are constantly creating barriers for ourselves and while they may appear real they are all created within your mind. Most of them unconscious until the moment you decide that you’ve had enough and begin to unravel them. The moment you embark on your awakening journey allowing love to become the driver of your life.
I hope it’s obvious that I am not talking about moments where you find yourself staring down the barrel of a gun or when your life and health in other ways are at risk.
There are times in our lives where you may find yourself in situations or circumstances that appear to be less than ideal. Where you may seem to be forced into a reality you do not want, and while you cannot decide what happens to you, you do however always have the option of choosing how you allow that situation or circumstance to affect you.
If you choose to ignore it, most likely you will begin to resist and revolt, feeling restrained and tied down. If instead you choose to accept what is but deny it any effect over you, you are able to move through it with peace of mind.
“Let all things be exactly as they are.”
– A Course in Miracles
As simple and as easy as it sounds, this is no small feat.
To give you a personal example…
Whether I write emails or articles for you, the ego of my lower mind is my companion. Right there with me, creating worry and concern about my writing being good enough or anything at all, second guessing everything I do write or think, creating fear of ridicule and my personal safety.
What I have learned is not to ignore those voices, but to let them be, knowing they can only ever affect me if I allow them to. I deny them the ability to affect my work and my purpose. Allow them to be or not to be whatever they want. In that, I consciously and unconsciously choose love and thus allow for miracles. Miracles that propel me forward.
Because in denying what I know not to be true, in denying what may seem to be real you allow for love to flourish, to be and to lead. Not using your energy and power on ignoring it, you instead pour love into allowing that which you want to flourish.
You thus expand in love rather than project in fear and as you do so, the ego voice of the lower mind will be silenced more and more allowing for the voice of your soul to speak through you.
Practice Practice Practice
My ability to do this came through experience and practice and was based in a calling. For the longest time I had been called to begin sending out what at the time had no name, but today are called Divine Love Notes. Beautiful messages of love, reminding us of what we truly are. Completely free and you yourself can choose their frequency.
At first I had to show up every day and move through the voices in my head, but with persistence and consistency I was given a divine gift. A divine gift of going on a trip to the US where I wasn’t allowed to work for three weeks because of visa requirements.
I had to learn the art of true denial, because the ego voice was running rampant and I had very clear deadline. Everything had to be scheduled before I left.
At first what I would do, whenever ego appeared was to simply get up and go for a long walk. Clearing my head. Because I had long since made the choice only to create out of love. Then I would come back, sit down and write with a clear mind.
Thinking back I am amazed at how it happened and what it taught me. It was a beautiful Divine lesson.
After that trip the notes were no longer a daily task, instead they began arriving in bulks of weeks and today I easily move into that divine space of peace and silence allowing them to stream forward.
As I write this and reflect I realise that it never once occurred to me that I could simply have paused the sending of the notes for those 3 weeks. I know these notes come through me, but they are as much for me as they are for you. Everyday I am excited to read the divine love note with its beautiful message.
True denial is when you deny what is not true. The ego of our lower minds will, like a small child in the midst of a tantrum, throw everything at you in order to keep you from proceeding with whatever it is your heart is calling you to. It may not have the appearance of someone throwing a fit, it may also be very subtle and cunning. Coming up with clever ways as to why you shouldn’t proceed. Ways that seem very valid, but where the bottom line is you not expanding in love.
To be clear, there’s nothing wrong with the ego. Its viciousness lies rooted in the fear that you will remember what you truly are. In order to stay alive and in control it must keep you from remembering that and so it will do everything in its imagined power to do so. It is however a lost cause.
“You cannot sell your soul, but you can sell your awareness of it.”
– A Course in Miracles
You are the most beautiful, magnificent being. Created in light by love and for love. That cannot be denied because it is the truth. Like a sonar pinging, the call for you to awaken, to rise and to soar is constant within you. Within you and without you, because you have no beginning and no end.
You may think yourself limited to your body, but you reach further and wider than is humanly possible to comprehend. Working with yourself you may catch glimpses of this infinity and eternity.
True denial propels you forward because it is an allowing of the expansion of love rather than a contraction in fear. Contractions are part of a birth and so they are natural and useful. However if you, during birth, keep contracting no baby will be born. It will wither in the womb and most likely kill you in the process too. In order to give it life, you must allow for the expansion to take place, allow for that which is to come through you to be born.
This propels, not only you, but also those for whomever what you are birthing is for, forward. It is the eternal continuation of expansion. Of love.
“A miracle is never lost. It may touch many people you have not even met, and produce undreamed of changes in situations of which you are not even aware.”
– A Course in Miracles
So, in closing I invite you to reflect upon this…
What are you ignoring that you should be denying the effects of instead so that you may allow for the birth and creation of that which is to come through you?
Tell me in the comments below.
With Love & Blessings,
ps. if you’d like to receive the Divine Love Notes you can sign up here.
pps. In my upcoming Mastery through Love program you will actively be working with true denial.

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Access to Holgorsen casino footage denied
CHARLESTON, W.Va.--The West Virginia Lottery Commission is refusing to make public footage of West Virginia University football head coach-in-waiting Dana Holgorsen's incident two weeks ago at a Nitro casino.
Security officials at Mardi Gras Casino & Resort called the police after 3 a.m. May 18 to have Holgorsen escorted from the building.
ESPN and the Daily Mail had asked the lottery, which regulates part of the casino's operations, for footage of the incident, which was caught on the casino's surveillance cameras, according to multiple sources.
The lottery has access to footage from the casino as part of its oversight authority.
But the lottery said in a two-page reply to a written Freedom of Information Act request from ESPN that because the Holgorsen incident didn't involve gaming activity, it doesn't need to provide access to the video.
In addition to the gaming areas that the lottery oversees, the casino's cameras cover areas that "exist as a business decision of Mardi Gras but are not required by the Commission," lottery director John Musgrave said in the letter.
"Our records do not show any casino gaming problems for the time period of your request," Musgrave said in the letter. "I have no information indicating Mr. Holgorsen and his group were visiting Mardi Gras in any official government capacity. Consideration should also be given to the images of other customers who had nothing to do with Mr. Holgorsen's presence and may expect proper handling of their right to privacy."
The lottery also said the video itself is only in the possession of the casino so shouldn't be considered a public document.
"No Lottery employee has received or requested copies of the images for the date and time periods you specified in your letter," Musgrave said. "My opinion, therefore, is that the images you have requested are not a 'public record' of the State Lottery Commission."
Jon Amores, the head of the state Racing Commission, which also oversees aspects of Mardi Gras' operations, said he didn't know under what authority he could request to see the footage of something at the track/casino complex that wasn't related to racing.
The Nitro Police Department responded to a 911 call from the casino at 3:13 a.m. because an apparently intoxicated customer was "refusing to cooperate with the casino's management," according to Metro 911 dispatch logs.
Casino supervisors had the customer detained after he declined to leave.
Patrolman Raymond Blake said the officers dispatched to the scene encountered a man who was identified as Holgorsen. Blake said Holgorsen offered no resistance.
"We got up there and spoke to the male and said, 'Hey, they want you to leave,' " Blake said. "He complied, walked out, sat out on a bench, waited for the taxi, and when the taxi arrived, he got in and left."
Blake didn't know what prompted the call from the casino. Repeated messages left at the casino have not been returned, including those to General Manager Robert Lagg, to whom all calls have been referred.
Sources told the Daily Mail Holgorsen and those he was with grew too loud and rowdy for the casino's comfort and were asked to control themselves before things escalated.
Holgorsen has since apologized for the incident.
Contact writer Ry Rivard at firstname.lastname@example.org or 304-348-1796.

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'Live from New York: We're aiming for a change': Amy Schumer and her senator cousin take their 'crusade on guns' to City Hall and calls on her 2m Twitter followers for support
- The comedian and her U.S. Senator cousin stood on the steps of City Hall to continue their 'crusade on guns'
- Schumer became an activist for the cause after a man opened fire in her movie Trainwreck
- 'It is something I live with every day' Schumer said of the shooting
- 'Schumer & Schumer' - as the cousins dub themselves - urged lawmakers to back a proposed gun control bill sponsored by the New York Democrat
When it comes to gathering support for major issues, Amy Schumer is at the cutting edge of influence.
The actress and comic has more than 2million Twitter followers and nearly as many on Facebook and Instagram.
Her cousin, Senator Charles Schumer, knows that. (Her father is the senator's second cousin.)
On Sunday, the famous relatives stood in front of New York's City Hall for what they call their 'crusade on guns.'
It started in August, when the two teamed up days after a gunman fatally shot two women in a Louisiana theater showing her hit movie Trainwreck.
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Comedian Amy Schumer and her cousin, Senator Charles Schumer of New York, stood in front of City Hall on Sunday (pictured) to call for stricter gun control measures in New York
Schumer embraces Sarah Clements (above), the daughter of a Sandy Hook school massacre survivor on Sunday as she and cousin Sen. Charles Schumer called for stricter gun control measures. Clements penned an open letter to Schumer shortly after the Trainwreck shooting and the two joined forces
The outspoken comedian and actress, pictured last week at LAX airport, says the fact that a man in Lafayette, Louisiana chose her movie Trainwreck to unleash a mass murder is 'something I live with every day'
Sen. Charles Schumer tweeted his follows to join him and his cousin, Amy, in their battle to tighten gun control
Schumer related that the issue of gun violence became 'extremely personal' for her when John Russell Houser - whose name she refused to say - stood up about 20 minutes into a showing of her movie Trainwreck at The Grand Theater in Lafayette, Louisiana, and unleashed a fusillade of bullets, killing two women, and injuring nine people.
The victims were Mayci Breaux, 21, and Jillian Johnson, 33. Police described the 59-year-old Houser as a 'drifter,' according to EW.com.
Schumer emotionally recounted the crime during the press conference, saying 'On Thursday, July 23rd, a man sat down for my movie, Trainwreck. I don't know why he picked my movie. It is something I live with every day.'
'This man shouldn't have been able to put his hands on a gun in the first place,' she added.
'Schumer & Schumer' - as the cousins whimsically dub themselves - urged lawmakers to back a proposed gun control bill sponsored by the New York Democrat.
It would close the loophole allowing weapons to be sold without background checks at gun shows and online; fill gaps in the background check system itself; and stop arms trafficking of weapons across state lines.
On October 10, Amy Schumer hosted Saturday Night Live - above she appears with Taran Killam in a sketch that poked fun of lax gun control laws
In New York City, 85 percent of guns used in crimes come from out of state, the senator said.
The two Schumers want Americans to call, write, tweet, post on Facebook and march to stop gun violence.
They say that could create a groundswell forcing a vote early next year.
On Sunday, Amy Schumer introduced the hashtag #AimingForChange to give people a voice across social media.
Earlier this month she featured a parody sketch making fun of America's gun laws during her debut on Saturday Night Live.
At Sunday's press conference, Amy asked for 'better, more sensible gun control laws.'
She said: 'We're here today to say enough is enough to mass shootings in our schools, our college campuses, our military bases and even in our motive theaters. These shootings have got to stop.'
She also touched on the issue of help for mental illness, saying, 'We can stop the sale of firearms to folks with a violent history or a history of mental illness. We can invest more in treating mental illness instead of slashing funding.'
The senator believes at least 40 other senators support him, but he hopes for votes from the 60 needed to pass a bill.
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Holiday-Inspired Color Combinations Planners Love for Winter Weddings
It's the most wonderful time of the year, especially if you're planning a wedding. Although nuptials taking place around the holidays can fall prey to kitschy color palettes, there are tons of seasonal combos that evoke the festive spirit in a chic, refined way. If you're tying the knot during the winter and are stumped on which hues to use, don't fret. We asked wedding planners from around the country to share their favorite holiday-inspired palette options.
Sarah Johns of Something Styled Events & Floral Design thinks there's something magical about a winter wedding, especially since they're headquarters are in Colorado. "When designing for a winter-inspired wedding, I love to add a pop of navy blue. Red, green, white, and navy are classics, but together they really put out those holiday vibes," says Johns. "To incorporate, I would use solids and plaid patterns for the napkins and table runners."
Not feeling the red and green? Jennifer Ederer of Modern Day Events and Floral loves the look of an all-white holiday-themed wedding. "Add additional neutral colors, like gray. The varying cool tones mixed with the classic white makes for a more modern twist," informs Ederer. "Hellebores are some of my favorite winter flowers. They come in the most beautiful shades of muted purple, which help bring in a tiny hint of unexpected color to an all-white space."
Neutrals with Seasonal Pops
Alyssa Busichio at A Southern Soiree also loves the idea of adding neutrals, especially those with a holiday twist. "Try to using lighter shades of gray, champagne, and various shades of white, with touches of pale blue and small pops of navy," says Busichio. "We will also add in a lot of textures like cotton, velvet, and linen, too. We love this combination because we feel like it provides the warm, comfortable and welcoming atmosphere that you're hoping for at a wedding."


HYDE — The 2015 Clearfield Area High School baseball team is eyeing a turnaround season with the return of nine lettermen, including seven starters, but injuries already have taken their toll and pitching depth is another concern.
Longtime coach Sid Lansberry expects the Bison to be improved on defense and is hoping for more production with runners in scoring position.
Those were the major reasons the 2014 Bison finished with a deceiving 4-15 record.
Lack of clutch hitting and defensive lapses proved costly, opponents capitalizing for 48 unearned runs, as the Bison suffered seven losses by one run and three losses by two runs.
“Last year’s team was very competitive and played hard, but nothing seemed to fall in place for them,” Lansberry said. “Our main goal is to turn some of those tough losses into victories.
“So far, the general team attitude and enthusiasm has been very encouraging.
“A strong senior class should be an advantage because of their leadership and maturity.”
Though experience alone is no guarantee of success, the Bison will be leaning heavily on six seniors with multi letters.
Third baseman Cole Kephart and pitcher-outfielder Thomas Summers are three-year lettermen while shortstop Spencer Herrington, center fielder Sawyer Rowles, first baseman Erik Sellers and catcher Josh Sorbera are two-year letterwinners.
Versatile senior returnee Dan Collins, second baseman Noah Cline and pitcher Nate Brady are the other seniors. Cline was slated for middle infield and outfield backup roles before an injury ended his junior season.
Pitcher Brandon Orsich and outfielder Logan Puit are junior lettermen.
Injuries already have caused a re-do for the lineup that Lansberry had projected going into the preseason.
Orsich and Sellers missed most of the all-indoor practices because of injuries, and Puit now is out indefinitely.
“That’s three starters right there,” Lansberry said.
When they work into mid-season form, Orsich and Summers figure to give the Bison their best righty-lefty starting combination in years.
Last spring, Orsich was 2-2 with a scintillating 1.75 earned run average in 12 appearances, completing three of his four starts. He worked a team-high 40 innings and led the staff in strikeouts with 32 while issuing only 12 walks.
Summers was 1-5 but had a 2.60 ERA as only 14 of the 35 runs he allowed were earned. He pitched 37.2 innings in 10 appearances, striking out 27 and walking 22. His three-year ERA is 4.20.
“They will share the bulk of the mound time, but we just don’t have much experience behind those two,” Lansberry said. “You can’t rely on complete games from starting pitchers early and with the weather and the way games get backed up, you need some of the other pitchers to come through.”
The only other hurlers with varsity experience are Kephart with 3.2 innings in two seasons and Brady with 2.2 innings last year.
Herrington, Collins, junior Logan Lykens and sophomores Tommy Hazel and Will Myers round out the staff.
All are right-handers, but their roles as spot starters, long relievers or, possibly, closers have yet to be determined.
Sorbera (.246, 14 hits, 7 RBIs, 15 walks last year) is back for his third season behind the plate, with Collins and Lykens capable of filling in there.
The left side of the infield is set with Kephart (.306, 19 hits, team-high three home runs, 12 RBIs) at the hot corner and Herrington (.227, 15 hits) at shortstop. Herrington had a much better sophomore season with 19 hits for a .328 average.
Collins or sophomore Marcus Luzier will play if Kephart is called on to pitch, while Myers is a very capable back-up to Herrington.
Cline is the frontrunner at second base but is being pushed by Myers and junior Justin Fedder.
First base is the most hotly-contested position with five players in the running, according to Lansberry.
“Collins and Lykens have done most of the work so far with Sellers out,” he said. “Summers and Orsich also can handle the position.”
Sellers (.242, 7 RBIs) saw most of his playing time last year at second base.
Rowles (.233) will anchor the outfield, but the other two jobs are up for grabs.
Lansberry had Puit (.320, 16 hits, 11 RBIs, 16 walks) penciled in for one of them but doesn’t know if the speedy leadoff batter will be able to return from the injury list .
Hazel has the inside track for right field and Summers, who dipped to .215 with 10 RBIs after hitting above .300 as a freshman and sophomore, has seen enough time in the outfield to start in left field when not on the mound.
Fedder or Jonathan Trimpey are vying for playing time as flychasers, too.
Starting pitching and defense should be our strong points, but Lansberry said the Bison must have a big spike in hitting.
“We had only three guys over .300 last year, and you need to have six or seven to be successful,“ he pointed out. “In the past, we’ve had all nine guys over .300.
“And we’ve got to get those clutch hits with runners in scoring position.”
If a designated hitter is in the lineup, the leading candidates are Collins, Orsich and Luzier for the start of the season, which will be Monday against defending Mountain League champion Central at Martinsburg Monday, weather permitting.
Lansberry indicated the Scarlet Dragons are loaded again and expects Huntingdon and Penns Valley to have solid teams.
He’s been told that perennial District 9 Class AAA champion Punxsutawney will field its best team since 2007 when the Chucks won the state crown.
The Bison need a much better start than last year when they dug an 0-9 hole, but they will face Central twice, Huntingdon twice and Punxsy in their first 10 games, seven of which will be on the road.
“That’s pretty tough, but these kids play as much baseball as any other team, so they’ve had the opportunities to get better,” Lansberry said.
Non-league opponents will include Curwensville for the first time in more than a decade, DuBois, Brookville and either Bishop Guilfoyle or Forest Hills on the second day of the Altoona Curve Classic.
The Bison will be making their fifth appearance at Peoples Natural Gas Field with their April 10 opener against Central counting in the Mountain League, too.
Clearfield teams were a combined 7-3 in previous visits, winning the championship in 2008 and losing in the finals in 2010.
The seniors on last year’s team were All-ML second team left fielder Curtis Collins, who led the Bison with 22 hits and a .328 average, first baseman-pitcher Jon Janocko, right fielder Zach Timchak and pitcher Devin Jones.
Janocko hit .242 with six doubles, two home runs and a team-high 15 RBIs and pitched 30.1 innings in nine games with five starts. He was 1-5 ,while Jones was 0-2 in 18.2 innings in six outings with four starts.
Collins is redshirting at Mansfield University after making the squad as a walk-on.
Lansberry, embarking on his 44th season at the helm of his alma mater with a 561-392-3 record, has a staff that includes Donnie Shimmel (25th year), Brandon Billotte (11th) and volunteers Chris Peacock (10th), Adam Jury (3rd) and Ed Yeager (15th) on the varsity.
Shimmel heads the junior varsity program and will be assisted by newcomers Shawn Zimmerman, David Learish and Justin Hoffman. The latter two are volunteers.
The 2014 roster, with (*) denoting number of letters:
Seniors – Nate Brady, p; Noah Cline, 2b, of; Dan Collins (*), 3b, 1b, c, p; Spencer Herrington (**), ss, p; Cole Kephart (***), 3b, p; Sawyer Rowles (**), of; Erik Sellers (**), 1b; Josh Sorbera (**), c; Thomas Summers (***), p, of, 1b.
Juniors – Justin Fedder, 2b, of; Logan Lykens p, 1b; Brandon Orsich (*), p, 1b; Logan Puit (*), of; Jonathan Trimpey, of.
Sophomores – Tommy Hazel, of, p; Marcus Luzier, 3b; Will Myers, ss, 2b, p.
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The schedule, with (ML) for Mountain League games, home games in capitals and starting times 4:30 p.m. unless noted:
23 – at Central (ML); 26 – at Huntingdon (ML); 31 – at Bellefonte (ML).
2 – TYRONE (ML); 6 – PUNXSUTAWNEY; 7 – at Bald Eagle Area (ML); 10 – Central (ML) at Altoona Curve Classic at People’s Natural Gas Stadium, 3 p.m.; 11 – Bishop Guilfoyle or Forest Hills at Altoona Curve Classic, TBA; 12 – at Altoona Curve Classic, TBA; 14 – at Philipsburg-Osceola (ML); 20 – HUNTINGDON (ML); 23 – BELLEFONTE (ML); 24 – at Curwensville, 4:15 p.m.; 28 – at Tyrone (ML); 29 – PENNS VALLEY (ML).
1 – BALD EAGLE AREA (ML); 4 – at Penns Valley (ML); 7 – PHILIPSBURG-OSCEOLA (ML); 11 – CURWENSVILLE; 14 -BROOKVILLE; 15 – at DuBois.