01-23-2013 10:10 AM
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HP G62-b50SR, GPU temperature rises up to 90-100 degrees, computer begins to slow down and even shuts down sometimes. I cleaned my laptop many times, replaced thermal compound and silicone pads. When I have bought it - all was working perfactly. Operating systems - Windows 7 (x64) and Windows 8 (x64). In normal usage state (surfing in browser) the temparature varies between 65-85 degrees.
I have bought my HP G62-b50SR laptop 2 years ago. After one year I began to notice GPU overheating (about 90 degrees) and slow fps in games. I was understanding that I need to clean it. I have disassembled it with help of video tutorial. My laptop supports Switchable graphics technology, so there are 3 chips under cooling system on its motherboard: CPU (AMD Turion II Dual-Core P540), integrated graphics card (ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250) and more powerful graphics card (ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470). When I took off cooling system there was thermal compound on CPU and thermal pads on GPUs. But at that time I didn't know what is thermal pad, so I have removed them. Then I realized my mistake and using some post on specialized site I used part of bandage + thermal compound to replace thermal pad. I have replaced old thermal compound from CPU with new one and assembled laptop. After that I didn't play games for one or two months, but then I began to play and the same situation repeated - overheating and slow down. I have already tried to use thick thermal compound layer for GPUs. Nothing helped me. I tried to use new thermal pads and again no effect.
So can anybody help me?
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Let’s go over 9 Quick Christmas stress tips for moms. I will list strategies that you can use during the holidays to keep your sanity as a mom to small children.
Self Care For Moms
practicing self care is so important as a mom. Use these blog posts to learn and be inspired on how to love your self a little more every day!
Share with a Friend! 11 shares Share6 Tweet Pin5 I have a tendency to focus on the negative. My brain just goes “there” as soon as I allow it too. Positive Mom Affirmations has really helped me keep those negative thoughts’ at bay. It has been so powerful of a tool for me that I …

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Horndean Technology College raised money for Children In Need today with their annual bake sale, hosted in their gym.
The cakes were supplied by students and staff and were available to purchase for prices between 50p and £1, with all of the proceeds going to both Children in Need, and The Rocky Appeal, which raises funds for new equipment at Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth.
HTC also held a ‘non-uniform day’ in which each student was allowed to wear non-uniform as long as they donated 50p to the charities.
The cake sale was a huge success with all the cakes being bought by students and staff alike.
The event was organised by Kerri Hughes, a religious studies teacher at the school.
She said: ‘We are splitting the proceeds in half between Children in Need and The Rocky Appeal.
‘It’s really important for kids to be involved in charity work because obviously not every child is as lucky as our students here, and it gives them that idea that they are part of a bigger community, and part of a global community as well.’
“Lots of the students use skills from arranging charity events that they can use later on in life as well so it is really helpful for them.”

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Luisa Dress - Antique Floral
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Care: Machine wash cold. Lay flat to dry. Minor shrinkage may occur if tumble dried.
Shell made of 75% Viscose, 25% Polyester, lining made of 100% Viscose, tulle made of 100% Polyester


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UBC TV's Calvin Kalule alias Calvin the Entertainer is today celebrating amazing 4 years wedding anniversary with his beautiful wife Amanda Twebaze.
Till now, the Head of UBC TV entertainment department is forever thankful to the Almighty that his marriage vows with Amanda are still withstanding and currently blessed with a beautiful baby boy that was Christine Corey.
Through his socials, Calvin has shared the good news of his wedding anniversary with his followers.
"Its 4 years today since I married my bestie, we give thanks to God. Happy 4th-anniversary babez” stated Calvin through his Instagram official account.
Congratulations Calvin The Entertainer.

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The Clock family are four-inch-tall people who live anonymously in another family's residence, borrowing simple items to make their home. Life changes for the Clocks when their teenage daughter, Arrietty, is discovered.
A 12-year-old girl is sent to the country for health reasons, where she meets an unlikely friend in the form of Marnie, a young girl with long, flowing blonde hair. As the friendship ... See full summary »
When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking castle.
Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her, but ultimately she must confront her fate, the punishment for her crime.
Chloë Grace Moretz,
After her werewolf lover unexpectedly dies in an accident while hunting for food for their children, a young woman must find ways to raise the werewolf son and daughter that she had with him while keeping their trait hidden from society.
A young Japanese middle school girl finds that all the books she chooses in the library have been previously checked out by the same boy. Later she meets a very infuriating fellow... could it be her "friend" from the library? The boy's grandfather has a violin sales and service shop. The boy wants to be a violin maker like his grandfather.Written by
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The backgrounds, clouds, and flying islands (they are called "Laputa") in the Flying sequence were painted by an artist named Naohisa Inoue. He is a former high school art teacher, who continued painting pictures of "Iblard" on his own. When he had his exhibition, he sent an invitation to Hayao Miyazaki, since Inoue was a huge fan of Miyazaki anime. Of course, he didn't expect anything, but Miyazaki showed up, and he bought one painting (which is now on the wall of the cafeteria at Ghibli). The painting is called "Upward Draft", and looks exactly like the fantasy scene in this film. Then, Miyazaki asked him, "Can you work on our next film?". Inoue also worked in this film as a voice actor. He did one of Mr. Nishi's friends, who joined the "Country Road" jam session (he's the tall one). See more »
It is not clear whether this is a mistake or a hint that the Baron is alive, but in every scene that the Baron is shown, he looks different than the time before (position of hands, cane and hat). See more »
This is a simple story of the meeting of kindred spirits. I was completely captured by the pace and the atmosphere of the film. If you have any trace of romance in your soul and/or appreciate finely crafted animation and direction, you'll love this.
I, like thousands of other people, had a holiday romance in my early teens. This film sparked off all kind of memories I thought I had buried for life.
My 10 year old daughter also loved this and demanded to know when the sequel (based on the Manga story "Happy Time"?) will be made. (Hopefully in the same style, although, unfortunately, the original Director died a year after this was made.)
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The count’s daughter, Psyche, is loved by all. Psyche, who took everything from me. Psyche, who always gets what she wants. I wanted to be her, even if just for a day.
Haruman Ne-ga Doego Sipeo,
Haruman Nega Doego Sipeo,
I Wanna Be U,
La duchesse déchue,
하루만 네가 되고 싶어,
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Student Research Paper
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This essay analyzes musical life in the Third Reich. More specifically, the focus will be on the Nazis’ regulation of music and the role that musicians themselves played in determining and enforcing cultural coordination. While some evidence extends into the war years (1939-1945), the bulk of the information presented here took place in the pre-war Nazi era (1933-1939). The purpose here is to show that those musicians who worked with and under the Nazis were affected in different ways and had varying levels of agency within the National Socialist system. Some have been branded collaborators, others victims, and this paper will question this binary system of classification. Following a trend of historical revisionism in this field, this paper takes into account that the question of culpability is now less certain than ever.
This is the author's version of the work. This publication appears in Gettysburg College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.
Bennett, Thomas G., "Banished from the Present: Musicians in Nazi Germany" (2014). Student Publications. 218.


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Creative Self-Destruction at Humanity+ ?
Call it the Success Paradox. When an organization reaches a new stage of growth, it may experience cataclysmic internal turmoil.
The Success Paradox happens to startup ventures that lack a cohesive management structure: when the company makes a growth leap, say, from 25 to 50 employees, or from 100 to 200 employees, the shift always comes with a good deal of attendant trauma. The camraderie and enthusiasm of the rapid growth phase wanes, replaced by politics, drama, turf wars, infighting, restructuring, disorientation, even disillusionment. Some people depart for greener pastures, others jockey for position in the new organization, and the rest grumble and return to the engine room.
Sometimes, the organization is damaged by the chaos. But sometimes, a new and better-structured organization emerges from the chaos. In other words, the stresses of growth trigger a seismic shift that may cause the whole edifice to tumble down… or end up more stable.
During the past couple of weeks, Humanity + has been experiencing something akin to the Success Paradox. For years, this group has existed as a fanclub for those who support “transhumanism” (which is an inelegant word to describe the extension of human capabilities through technology). Humanity+ wasn’t very big, it wasn’t particularly ambitious, and it did not have much influence on public policy, academic research, funding, public awareness or any other outside group. It was not controversial, nor did it achieve any notoriety or acclaim in the outside world.
During the past year, however, the arrival of a new Executive Director, Alex Lightman, injected energy and greater ambition into the organization. Alex organized summit events in Irvine and in Cambridge, which gathered leading research scientists together with thinkers from other fields. Although some of the core scientists were surprised by the introduction of newcomers from outside the domain of science, the cross-pollinization was a smart move. Alex raised the profile of the organization, and thereby brought it to the attention of policy makers, media executives, marketing whizkids, IT industry, bloggers, pundits and others who, in turn, spread the word to their networks.
The timing was good. Humanity + was bouyed by a rising tide of awareness about the Singularity and the now-daily advances in the fields of robotics, nanotechnology, anti-aging, and artificial intelligence. The organization was positioned at the forefront of this trend, and as a result, Humanity + suddenly was on the brink of becoming relevant to a much broader group. Following June’s H+ conference at Harvard University, the group set its sights higher, on matters of public policy, culture & morality, and the issue of managing growing public perception of the radical scientific breakthroughs.
Suddenly, H+ mattered. Or at least it looked like it had a chance to matter.
And then, just like clockwork, the whole thing exploded.
In recent weeks, three members of the board of directors abruptly resigned. Then Alex Lightman resigned from his executive role in order and decided to run instead for a board seat. And then, last week, the Chairman of the Board at Humanity + issued a message to members instructing them recommending they not vote for Alex but instead direct their votes to a slate hand-picked by him. The jockeying continued over this past weekend. Others are calling upon friends from the past to fill the void. Dark allegations abound about ethical lapses, cronyism, mischief, board-packing.
If this continues, whatever consensus and goodwill existed in June will probably dissipate within a few short weeks. The current Chairman of the board has suggested that he and other board members would resign en masse if they don’t get their way.
Wallace Stanley Sayre once quipped that “The politics of the university are so intense because the stakes are so low.” The same can probably be said of politics inside a bubble where geeks posit hypothetical scenarios for human evolution.
The question remains whether this is merely self-inflicted destruction, or possibly creative destruction. Can Humanity+ recover from the conflict? Or will the organization fall apart?
At the moment, it looks like it could go either way.
Half of the candidates for the Board seats are longtime members of the transhumanist movement, including one person who claims to have coined the term (not something I’d want to take credit for, since it is an ungainly phrase… but then again it is probably better than its precursor, “extropian“. No surprise that this group had a small following in the early days when it bore that Mondo-2000-esque moniker).
Many of these retro candidates have the support of current board members. Which is no surprise, because they represent voices of the past. Familiar names and faces who can reliably be counted upon to help the project revert to the familiar confines.
On the other hand there are some intriguing newcomers who might be able to inject the organization with the DNA to evolve and grow into a new evolutionary niche. These candidates include legendary publicist Howard Bloom.
What determines the fate of organizations who suffer from the “Success Paradox”? In my own experience, the key determinant is whether or not the organization is open to change. Big change. Not just rearranging the deck chairs, but retooling the entire enterprise on a bigger scale. Are people in the organization prepared for new roles, a new focus, a new set of priorities, possibly a completely different organization?
The first question to ask is: is the current leadership even qualified to manage such a massive transformation?
Often what happens in a startup company is that founders exit to make room for professional managers. Or they accept a subordinate role (in R&D, for instance), relinquishing the top role to a new CEO. But this requires humility, self awareness and an ego that is under control. As well as the confidence to turn the controls over to somebody new who may be better equipped to guide the organization through a new phase of growth.
What never seems to work, in my experience, is when a founder or board member attempts to seize control by resisting the new management who have been brought in precisely for the purpose of growing the venture. The result is almost always destructive, and not in a creative way. Once an organization commits to growth, you can’t revert back to the cosy past. You can’t put the toothpaste back into the tube. And you can’t re-bottle the change genie.
For Humanity+, this election is a question of whether the organization seeks to embrace the future or cling to the past. New directors with new perspectives could aid the organization by opening doors to new alliances, new partnerships, new constituents and potentially new sources of funding. H+ is on the verge of becoming relevant to a broader group, and thereby the organization could exert influence far beyond its size, setting forth a rational logic for adopting the new technologies that will guide human evolution. That’s a exciting mission, and a message that is sorely needed in today’s fractious, polarized political landscape.
For an organization that is so clearly committed to a vision of the future, this decision strikes me as a no-brainer.
UPDATE: I got feedback from H+ board members, past and present and future (?), about what they perceived as inaccuracies in this post. I’ve made a few revisions above, which should placate them. However, the bigger story occurred in the comments below, where long-simmering tensions between the board and the executive boiled over into a spectacular row. Had I known that there was so much background tension, I probably would have selected a different example to write about. But in some respects, this outcome illustrates the very point I was trying to make, perhaps more eloquently than I did in my initial post. H+ just hit a speed bump, and it lost a few hubcaps. But the car didn’t veer out of control. At least, not yet.


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Dmitry Orlov has been recalled by the Washington Capitals from the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League, according to a league source. He’s expected to join the team in Pittsburgh before Tuesday’s game at the Pittsburgh Penguins.
The 21-year-old defenseman missed three months with a concussion. In four games since returning, Orlov has three assists.
Orlov’s recall was necessitated by defenseman Tom Poti aggravating a back injury. The team announced the move just after 4 p.m. Tomas Kundratek (right knee) was placed on injured reserve retroactive to March 14 to make room on the 23-man roster.
Orlov played 60 regular-season games with the Caps last season, putting up three goals and 16 assists.
Asked about Orlov recently, Caps coach Adam Oates called him a “prospect” who played a few games in Washington last year. Cameron Schilling got the call last week when injuries piled up, but this time it was Orlov.
The young defenseman is a left-handed shot but prefers to play the right side. He could be in the lineup Tuesday night against the Penguins in place of Poti.
Defenseman Mike Green (groin) is not yet ready to play. Oates said he’s optimistic Green could play on the Caps’ four-game road trip. John Erskine (apparent left hand/wrist/arm) has not skated with the team in over a week.

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Middle East peace process dealt a blow as Israel gives go-ahead for 300 new homes in West Bank
Thursday 09 May 2013
Hope earlier in the week that a decision to freeze the construction of new Israeli settler homes in the occupied West Bank could renew the moribund peace process were dealt a blow earlier today when it transpired that permission had been granted to build nearly 300 new houses close to the Palestinian administrative capital, Ramallah.
The announcement will disappoint Americans – especially the Secretary of State, John Kerry - who have spent two months attempting to broker a new deal between the Israeli and Palestinian leaderships.
The Palestinians maintain a long held position that new talks are only possible with a new moratorium of settlement building. The Americans and Israelis say new talks should go ahead without pre-conditions. Settlements are considered illegal under international law.
Israel’s civil administration yesterday approved a plan to build 296 new houses in the settlement of Beit El. The scheme – which is the first settlement plan to be approved by Israel’s new government since it was sworn in in March - has already won approval from the Defence Minister, Moshe Ya’alon.
The move comes two days after the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed the country’s Housing Minister, Uri Ariel, not to press ahead with government tenders for as many as 3,000 new homes in what the Palestinians have earmarked as part of their future state.
Mr Netanyahu made a similar move in 2010 before the last round of peace talks with the Palestinians that ultimately proved to be fruitless.
The Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erakat said the latest move sent a clear message: that Israel was not interested in resuming direct talks. “We condemn this new decision which is proof that the Israeli government wants to sabotage and ruin the US administration's efforts to revive the peace process,” he told the AFP news agency.
“This is a message to the American administration and a blow to the peace process.”
Tzipi Livni, the Israeli Justice Minister, who also has responsibility for overseeing peace initiatives with the Palestinians, has been in Rome meeting with Mr Kerry ahead of his next trip to Jerusalem and Ramallah later this month. She attempted to quell the Palestinian outrage at the announcement.
“There is no need for this to become a pretext for drama or anger,” she told Israeli Army Radio, adding that the Americans were aware of the latest housing plan. “They listened and they understood, and for the moment, there is no reaction,” she said.
Peace activists inside Israel argued that the green light for the new homes proved that the Israeli government is not serious about any new peace initiative.
Hagit Ofran, who runs the Settlement Watch offshoot of the Peace Now group, said: “It seems Netanyahu is deceiving the public by claiming to have restrained the construction in settlements. The reported pause in publication of new tenders is halting only a small part of the construction in settlements, while the construction on the ground continues, and the initiation of new plans, even in isolated settlements, continues.”
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Festival for Strings feature high school students from across the country
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As part of WEEI.com’s coverage of the 2013 NBA draft, here is one in a series of profiles of players who could be available to the Celtics  when they make their lone selection at No. 16.
Height: 7 feet
Weight: 235 pounds
Achievements: All-Big 12 first team (2013), Consensus All-America second team (2013), NABC Defensive Player of the Year (2013), Big 12 Tournament Most Outstanding Player (2013), Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year (2013, 2012), Big 12 All-Defensive Team (2013, 2012)
Key 2012-13 stats: 13.7 points, 8.5 rebounds, 3.9 blocks
What he brings: Offensively, Withey is most effective when working without the ball, and scores most of his points following a pick and roll or a drive from a guard. According to Draft Express’ scouting report, Withey was the top player in college basketball  at scoring efficiency in non-post up situations, with a 79 percent field goal percentage around the basket.
On the defensive end, Withey shines as a shot blocker, swatting 4.9 shots per 40 minutes during the 2012-13 season. However, he has to gain some weight and get stronger in preparation for facing up with the big men in the NBA.
Notes: Withey is a former volleyball player, which has helped him with timing his shot blocks. He was originally committed to Louisville , but switched his commitment to Arizona. When he didn’t see any playing time during his freshman season, he transferred to Kansas  and took over as a starter once twin brothers Markieff and Marcus Morris left for the NBA.
Video: Here’s a package of highlights  from Withey’s 2012-13 season.

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Change is the only constant that keeps the wheel moving in our lives. In four of the five States that went to the polls last month, incumbent governments were voted out, with the electorate opting for change. A major reason that upset a chunk of voters in the Hindi heartland — Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh — was farm distress that is rampant and fast moving towards an agrarian crisis if drastic steps are not taken to help farmers. Most of us have read the heartbreaking story of an onion farmer from Nashik who got ₹1,064 for his crop of 750 kg of onions and in sheer disgust and desperation sent the amount to the PM’s relief fund. Then there is a widely circulating video clip of another Maharashtra farmer smashing his crop of ripe, juicy pomegranates at the mandi, as there were no takers.
Greening the environment has been one of the priorities of Rotarians across the world as they are concerned about the felling of trees for excessive construction and other factors, all related to human greed to grab everything for ourselves. In this greening bid, when various clubs distribute saplings, they often try to give out varieties which can be economically beneficial to the grower. Vegetables for our kitchen gardens and drumstick trees to take care of the rampant iron deficiency in Indian women are popular varieties distributed by Rotarians in India. And those of you who have a kitchen garden to boast of know how much you have to slog to get a modest crop of beans or tomatoes, and the expensive inputs you have to put into the activity in terms of manure and fertilisers. If you have done this, you will feel from the pit of your stomach the pain of the farmer who puts expensive inputs into his field to generate a crop of 750 kg of onions. His devastation can be well imagined when at the mandi he was offered a mere ₹1 per kg for his produce.
This phenomenon brings us to the important question: are we paying enough for the food that our farmers work so hard to put on our table? This morning I read a well-documented and analysed article in the Indian Express titled How food prices lost their bite.
Written by Harish Damodaran, one of the best agricultural correspondents in our country, it documents how for 27 months running, from September 2016 to November 2018, “consumer food inflation in India has been ruling below general inflation.” And, during five of these 27 months — May, June and July 2017, and then October and November 2018 — “the annual increase in the official consumer food price index has been negative, meaning Indians are paying less for vegetables, pulses, sugar or eggs now than a year ago.” As consumers we might be delighted to put behind us those difficult days when the humble onion had breached the ₹80–100 a kg mark, the tomato had climbed up to ₹80 a kg and toor dhal was flying at ₹200 a kg.
As we usher in a new year, we have to pause and think what a negative growth in the food price index means for our farmers. It is no secret that farmers’ children don’t want to go into farming, and pursue education of indifferent quality in the aspiration to become government clerks someday. But just think of the consequences if our farmers move away from farming. We, the people of India, owe it to our hardworking farmer to introspect and find ways to ensure that he gets a decent income for his produce. For that if we have to pay a little more money for our food, so be it.


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The Brothers Osborne are returning to touring this summer — including a stop at Wave in Wichita on Thursday — feeling like they have a new lease on life. For John and T.J. Osborne, the brothers who front their band, the past two-plus years have seen them not only weather the COVID pandemic, but it proved to be a period in which they both made life-changing decisions.
Guitarist John Osborne reached a crossroads as the group toured to promote their hit second album, “Port Saint Joe,” when a battle with depression and anxiety brought him to a breaking point and he and his brother pulled the plug on touring.
“Definitely one of the things that’s easy to overlook in this industry is your mental health. It’s easy to overlook for anybody,” John Osborne explained in a recent phone interview. “Sometimes in the pursuit of success in the music industry, you can forget about your own well being until it requires so much energy and it requires so much of yourself throughout the day just to keep the wheels moving. I ignored it for as long as I could and then it caught up with me in a really bad way. I couldn’t outrun my anxiety or depression anymore and I needed to stop. We were in the process of touring with Willie Nelson, Allison Krauss and Bonnie Raitt, who are our top three favorite artists of all time, and we needed to cancel dates because I needed to stop and take care of myself.”
To make matters worse, John Osborne developed tinnitus – a serious ringing in the ears. It had the guitarist thinking the then-in-progress third Osborne Brothers album, “Skeletons,” might be his last.
“I contemplated for about a week of just quitting music, or at least quitting touring,” he said. “It’s like my entire life flashed before my eyes. I felt like the person I’d made myself to be, this professional musician, that person’s life was over. It was really, really hard.”
But John Osborne, after delaying his work on the “Skeletons” album, got back to work in the studio and continued to take the steps needed to bring his anxiety and depression under control. He credits the support of his wife, family and friends with helping him improve his mental health. And there was professional help as well.
“Definitely, counseling, a lot of therapy, some meds helped,” he said. “And you know what helped more than anything was getting some really good sleep. If you don’t get enough sleep, you will pay for it.
“And then to come out of the other side, and to be back on the road, it feels like I was reborn,” John Osborne said.
For lead singer T.J. Osborne, his big decision came more recently, in February 2021. That’s when he revealed that he is gay in an interview with “Time” magazine. In doing so, the singer became the only artist signed to a major country label — and the highest profile country star — to come out.
It was a risky revelation on a career level. While being gay no longer seems to be an issue in many areas of the entertainment industry, country is a decidedly conservative music industry and genre.
So far, though, T.J. Osborne’s pivotal decision appears to have had few adverse repercussions – and a lot of benefits.
“My brother coming out was probably the single most important thing that he’s ever done for himself. He’s been so much happier now,” John Osborne said. “I can only imagine what it must feel like to be in the limelight and for everyone to praise you, but for you not to fully be yourself in front of those people, that’s a bit of a heavy burden to have.
“He’s been so much happier since he was able to come out and be fully himself in front of everyone. It was something we’d all known for a long time, but it was not our decision to make. It was up to him to decide when he felt comfortable to do that, and we were just there to support him throughout that process.”
T.J. Osborne’s experience inspired the Osborne brothers and frequent songwriting collaborator Kendall Marvel to write “Younger Me.” Rather than putting out another single off of “Skeletons” ahead of a summer/fall tour last year, the brothers felt compelled to release “Younger Me” as a stand-alone single.
“The best songs write themselves and that one seemed to just write itself. We didn’t really try to write it,” John Osborne said. “I mean, the song relates to everyone and whatever anyone’s life was growing up. We didn’t write it to be about one specific thing. But the genesis of the song certainly started with my brother’s story, and it just seemed important to put it out now.”
So now the Osborne Brothers are back to focusing on their music and a career that has seen the duo make a quick major impact in country with their rock-injected update on traditional country that comes with a touch of soul.
Natives of Deale, Maryland, the brothers came to Nashville after high school and spent several years performing locally, the duo was signed by EMI and broke through in 2015 with a top five single, “Stay a Little Longer.”
Since then, the duo has seen five subsequent singles go gold or platinum (even though none of them cracked the Top 10 on the country singles charts). But the Osborne Brothers have built a large following, not only with those hits, but with 11 awards in all from the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association, plus the 2022 Best Country Duo/Group Performance Grammy for “Younger Me” and lots of touring.
After showing that “Stay a Little Longer” was no fluke with an impressive 2016 debut album, “Pawn Shop,” the Brothers Osborne branched out a bit stylistically on 2018’s “Port Saint Joe,” an album that had a bit more laid back feel.
But with “Skeletons,” they felt they needed to get back to rocking, and to further the live sound of the album, they used their touring band in recording the tracks.
“‘Port Saint Joe’ is a record we’re so proud of and that we absolutely love. It was Grammy nominated and it did great things for us,” John Osborne said. “But we had issues with incorporating it into our live sets because our live shows are pretty high energy. And that record has a couple of high energy songs, but it’s pretty mellow. And we had a lot of problems with the imbalance of our sonics on our second record and the sonics of our live show.”
And now that the Osborne Brothers have returned to touring, they’re seeing that the songs from “Skeletons” (such as “All Night,” “Lighten Up” and “Back On the Bottle”) bring plenty of energy and work well alongside songs from the previous albums in the live environment.
“We recorded our recent record, ‘Skeletons,’ to be played live. It’s the most live sounding album we’ve done yet. It reflects our live show perfectly,” John Osborne said. “You know, it’s been really fun. The response has been amazing. The material fits right in the set like it’s always been there. So it all certainly feels like it’s right.”
If you go
What: Brothers Osborne’s “We’re Not For Everyone” tour
Where: Wave, 650 E. Second St
When: Thursday, June 30. Door open at 7 p.m., show at 8
Tickets: Available at waveict.com

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Culinary writer and BFF to the stars Michael Ruhlman has announced the Golden Clog awards, a new unofficial contest, with multiple chef categories. The winners will be announced, no doubt with much facetious fanfare, at this year’s South Beach Food & Wine Festival. The categories are as follows:
FERGUS AWARD — for best achievement in offal.
ALTON AWARD — for the food personality who can actually cook.
MARIO AWARD — for the chef-restaurateur who best multitasked, merchandised, multiplatformed and generally whored himself yet still continued to make significant and valuable contributions to the restaurant landscape.
ROCCO AWARD — for worst career move by a talented chef.
CHEF’S CHEF AWARD — for the least heralded yet most deserving working chef.
We have to say, these are pretty good categories. And it goes without saying that we have our own nominations. How could we not?
FERGUS: Michael Whites’s sweetbreads at L’Impero make a solid case, but how can you deny a chef like Chris Consentino, whose whole career is based on organ meats?
ALTON: Tom Colicchio. His restaurants are lifting him higher than his Top Chef stardom, which is a happy circumstance all the way around.
MARIO: Since the Mario can’t go to Mario, who would collect it every year like Wayne Gretzky picking up Hart trophies in the eighties, we’ll say Thomas Keller, for his frozen foods, burger plans, new comfort-food restaurant, and role in helping create Remy’s dish in Ratatouille.
ROCCO: Again, hard not to give this to Rocco for his Bertolli shilling, but we’ll say Yuji Wakiya, for launching an eponymous restaurant in New York and then choosing to go there one week a month. If you’re looking to get a bagel handed to you from Adam Platt, that’s the way to do it.
CHEF’S CHEF: Eric Ripert: one restaurant, one kitchen, one chef on premise every night.
What are your nominations? Send them in! The best one for each category will be published here on Grub Street. And any reader who nails all five gets a special food prize of our choosing.
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UCSF, Baystate Medical Center, and the University of Pennsylvania are leading the development of a new quality and safety focused network - the Hospital Medicine Reengineering Network (HOMERUN) - that aims to improve outcomes of patients on general medical wards. HOMERUN will draw on the experience of the Vermont-Oxford Neonatal Network and National Surgical Quality Improvement Projects (among others), and leverage the growth of hospitalists to help speed improvement in care across participating sites
What is HOMERUN?
HOMERUN is a collaborative quality improvement and implementation research network focused on three key missions:
- To use measures that matter to hospitalizes and their patients to improve quality and efficiency of care in the hospital and afterwards.
- To link improvement efforts to robust and timely evaluation, so that the pace of meaningful improvement is accelerated.
- To study how to ensure the uptake of effective improvements through implementation science.
These missions are possible because HOMERUN includes sites which represent national leaders in hospital medicine, care improvement methods and implementation science, as well as expertise in specific topic areas relevant to hospital medicine (e.g. thromboembolism prevention, readmission reduction, medication reconciliation, infection reduction).
Rationale for HOMERUN
Medical patients are the largest patient group in US hospitals, and more than half of these patients are cared for by hospitalists. As a result, hospitalists are the most important potential stakeholders in innovations which seek to improve the care of general medical patients. However, despite the importance of this group of doctors and patients, remarkably little attention has been given to them. In particular:
- Existing benchmarking approaches often focus on methodologies that are based on the lowest common denominator of available data (e.g., ICD codes). Benchmarking using only these data do not engage front line providers, and compel change slowly. In addition, benchmarking using these data do not explicitly collect data of importance to patients (such as functional status, or understanding of a care plan).
- Many publicly reported measures (e.g., Joint Commission quality measures for pneumonia) are actually geared toward emergency department care or the ICU. A hospital seeking to implement evidence-based practices on their medical wards currently has a very limited ability to support improvement in care transitions, reduction in venous thromboembolism, or reduction in hospital-acquired infections.
Plans for 2018
- Improving care transitions for medical patients: This program will collect and share information about the quality of discharge processes, as well as support ongoing real-time reviews of the causes of readmissions from the patient and provider perspective. The combination of these two data sharing programs will lead to better targeting of efforts to meet patients’ needs at discharge and after hospitalization.
For more information on the HOMERUN Project, please contact Dr. Michelle Schneidermann.

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text: New research has proven something downtrodden employees must have suspected for decades - our bosses control us through fear. Psychologists in the UK and Canada investigated the effectiveness of leadership and found that superiors inspire us to co-operate with them by threat of punishment. The joint study, carried out by academics at the University of Kent, the University of British Columbia and Sheffield Hallam University, was published online last week by the Royal Society. "What we found was that leaders provide an important role in galvanising co-operation in groups ... and one of the ways they do this is through the threat of punishment," said Rick O'Gorman, a psychologist at Sheffield Hallam. "Even though we know people can resent leaders and hierarchies, leaders may be tolerated because having one person in charge of 'policing' others is better than letting everyone do it."


A Carnegie Hall Christmas Concert is a 1991 PBS special that originally aired as part of its Great Performances franchise.
Recorded in early December, 1991 at Carnegie Hall in New York City, the 90-minute concert is a program of traditional, secular, and religious Christmas carols performed by soprano Kathleen Battle and mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade, a jazz band led by Wynton Marsalis, and orchestra & chorus conducted by André Previn. There is no introductory dialogue between songs, all material is either sung or performed.
After its initial airing, the show was repeated the following Christmas season on PBS. It has not aired since. However, it is currently available on DVD (following a VHS and LaserDisc issue in 1992).
A soundtrack album has also been issued with a majority of the songs as aired, but out of broadcast order so as to fit on a single CD.


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Lewis Hamilton has avoided a grid penalty following two investigations over incidents he was involved in during final practice for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
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The Mercedes driver was cleared over allegedly failing to respond to double waved yellow flags when the stewards rules no flags were shown. He was then issued a formal reprimand, and his team fined €25,000, for an incident involving Nikita Mazepin .
The yellow flag incident was reported to the stewards by FIA F1 race director Michael Masi. He noted "the double yellow flag warning on the FIA Marshalling System was activated at light panel number six accidentally, for less than one second," according to the stewards.
"As the on-board video of car 44 (to be released by the commercial rights holder following this decision) clearly shows, there was no yellow flag displayed, no yellow lights were displayed to that driver and the yellow warning light was not visible on the driver's steering wheel," the stewards ruled."
Hamilton's championship rival Max Verstappen was given a five-place grid penalty at the Qatar Grand Prix for failing to slow for yellow flags. The stewards pointed out Hamilton's incident was different to previous cases they had ruled on.
"Unlike other incidents this year, there was no yellow flag or yellow light displayed to the driver (the driver already being well into the marshalling sector when the system was briefly activated) hence no breach of the regulations has occurred," the stewards concluded.
Although Hamilton was given a reprimand for the Mazepin incident, the stewards focused their criticism on the team for failing to keep him appraised of the Haas driver rapidly approaching him at turn eight. Mercedes were therefore also given a fine.
"The driver [Hamilton] was given a 10-second warning that car nine was approaching when he was at turn two," the stewards noted. "Due to a failure in communication by the team he was not given another warning until car nine was alongside him.
"The stewards accept that this circuit presents challenges for drivers in relation to using their mirrors as the method of determining the approach of overtaking cars. Although it is the driver's ultimate responsibility to avoid impeding, for this circuit the driver must depend upon the team to communicate efficiently. This did not happen in this case and accordingly the penalty for the competitor is imposed.
"The stewards take this opportunity to emphasise that due to the nature of this circuit it is essential that teams communicate effectively and proactively with their drivers."
"This is not to be taken as a precedent for other circuits," the stewards added.
Hamilton's reprimand is his second of the season. If he collects a third he will automatically receive a 10-place grid penalty.
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Israel Folau is right to condemn gender fluidity and the push to get children and adolescents to transition. Folau also needs to be thanked and congratulated for standing up for his religious beliefs at a time when to be a dedicated Christian is to be open to vitriolic abuse and attacks.
For far too long radical Marxist inspired programs like Safe Schools have been pushed on schools and children taught to believe that boys can be girls and girls can be boys – or any of the over 40 LGBTIQ categories in between.
And Folau’s recent intervention in the gender wars is timely given last week’s release of the Catholic Church’s Male and Female He Created Them.
The Church document warns about a ‘crisis in education’ where children are mistakenly taught gender is limitless and they can self-identify as whatever gender they desire. In opposition to radical gender theory the Church argues it is wrong to deny ‘the biological differences between male and female’. Gender is not a social construct as 99 per cent of babies are born with XX or XY chromosomes and this determines whether they are female or male. And it’s not just Folau and the Church in Rome arguing it is wrong to deny the binary nature of gender and sexuality. The conservatively minded American College of Pediatricians also argues ‘human sexuality is an objective biological trait’ that ‘is binary by design with the obvious purpose being the reproduction and flourishing of our species’.
Folau is right to question the rationale employed to justify programs like Safe Schools. As admitted by one of its designers, Roz Ward, instead of being an anti-bullying program it’s real purpose is to impose radical LGBTIQ theory on schools. Ward states the intention of the program is to ‘create a world where human sexuality, gender and how we relate to our bodies can blossom in extraordinary new and amazing ways that we can only try to imagine today’.
One of the resources associated with Safe Schools argues ‘sexuality can’t really be defined’ and that ‘sexuality is fluid and changes over time’. Students are also told ‘What you label yourself is up to you’.
In kindergarten another resource introduces children to the Gender Fairy who argues there is nothing unnatural or unusual about having a mum and a mum. According to gender theory those who see marriage as involving a woman and a man are guilty of being heteronormative, transphobic and homophobic.
The Church document, in opposition to schools being told to indoctrinate students with radical gender ideology, stresses the ‘primary rights and duties of parents with regard to the education of their children’.
The Church’s argument that parental responsibilities ‘cannot be delegated or usurped by others’ is supported by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights that states governments must respect the liberty of parents ‘to ensure the religious and moral education of their children (is) in conformity with their own convictions’.
Many parents are choosing faith-based schools because of their fears that government secular schools are being forced by governments to implement gender theory along with identity politics and a politically correct curriculum favouring indigenous studies instead of Western civilisation and Judeo-Christianity. At a time when religious freedom is threatened and where the Commonwealth government is yet to decide its full response to the Ruddock Religious Freedom Review the Vatican document also signals that Catholic schools need to remain true to their religious teachings and beliefs. In relation to gender programs like Safe Schools the Vatican argues governments should respect the ‘legitimate aspirations of Catholic Schools to maintain their own vision of human sexuality’.
Such a warning is especially important given the experience of Christian and other faith-based schools in England penalised for failing to implement a secular, state-mandated view of gender that contradicts their teachings.
As a result of not following the government’s dictates inspectors associated with the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills has downgraded such schools for failing to normalise LGBTIQ theory. In America schools are being pressured to allow boys who self-identify as girls to use the female changing rooms and showers and to participate in girls’ sports.
By questioning radical gender theory the Church’s document also serves as a timely warning about the impact of teaching students there is nothing wrong with seeking to change their gender.
One of the outcomes of radical programs like Safe Schools has been the dramatic increase in children undergoing hormonal treatment and reassignment. In Sydney and Melbourne, for example, over the last 10 years there has been a dramatic increase in new patients seeking gender reassignment at major public hospitals.
The dangers associated with gender reassignment include the high rates of depression and self-harm experienced when adolescent children enter adulthood and realise too late that what they initially had been taught to believe was untrue.
Such are the dangers associated with gender transition/dysphoria that the American College of Pedetricians recommends ‘health professionals, educators and legislators to reject all policies that condition children to accept a life of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex as normal and healthful’. And counter to those arguing opposition to transgenderism only comes from conservatives it’s significant that the American feminist Camille Paglia also argues gender is binary and that transitioning is child abuse. In her book Free Women Free Men Paglia argues ‘except in very rare conditions of true hermaphroditism the DNA of every cell of the human body is inflexibly coded as male or female from birth to death’. Paglia also argues ‘without knowledge of biology, gender studies slides into propaganda’ and warns against what she describes as ‘Extravaganzas of gender experimentation’.
There’s no doubt that radical gender theory is impacting on what is taught in schools and society more broadly, even in sport where men who have transitioned now unfairly compete against women. At the same time the Catholic Church’s document and Folau’s opposition offer much- needed counter arguments that need to be heard.
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My base is a FIRST PERSON, i reworked it so its a THIRD PERSON.
this is what I got: (aiming animation will later be replaced with one-handed aiming, for pistols!)
What I try to achieve is that the character is aiming in the direction of the camera/crosshair but should NOT rotate the whole body while the camera is rotating.
I can't wrap my head around how to do that....
Can I do that with blend-spaces and different animations (+ additional bone rotations?) ?


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This is so simple to make and very tasty.
When in season it would be best made with fresh broad beans but as its still early in the season I used tinned. Although tinned do have a slightly 'washed out' colour they work just fine for this.
Take one tin of broad beans (they were from Waitrose but I'm sure other supermarkets sell them too) and place it into a bowl. Add seasoning, about 1/4 crushed clove of garlic, a squeeze of lemon juice, some dried chilli and plenty of chopped mint. Take a potato masher and smash the broad beans to a chunky paste. Serve as a dip with vegetable sticks or on a piece of toasted sourdough rubbed with garlic and drizzled with oil.
I used Isle of Wight garlic. I try to buy it if I can as most of the garlic in supermarkets is imported from China which I just find a bit crazy, especially when the cloves are far smaller and not as strong tasting.
The dried chilli's were from my chilli plant last year but you could use chilli flakes.
The mint was from the garden. If you pick too much or buy a bunch from the supermarket it will keep well in the fridge in a glass of water. In the same way as cut flowers in a case.


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In new messages directed towards the Muslim Brotherhood, Tunisian President Kais Saied accused lobby groups of working to inflame the situation by creating crises through monopolies, withholding essential goods and medicines. He called on the Tunisian people to stand against “the disguised oppression and tyranny practiced by those behind the scenes.”
Saied stated on Sunday, “Today, we are on the battlefield for the liberation of Tunisia, and I am not exaggerating when I say that there are those working to make Tunisia a hostage to the will of others, while in Tunisia, the decision belongs to the people and not to any other entity,” according to the local radio station (Mosaïque).
The Tunisian presidency announced on its official account that Kais Saied visited the Bir El Tawil area in Tebourba on the occasion of National Women’s Day. He oversaw the establishment of the first women’s agricultural private company. He said on the occasion that “Tunisia has many resources, and challenges must be overcome.”
During the visit, Saied pointed out that “bread is available, but they want to inflame the situation,” referring to the Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates. This comes against the backdrop of Tunisia’s recent crisis of shortages of essential goods, notably bread.
Saied emphasized that “the issue today is the liberation of the country from lobbies and thieves,” indicating that “the war is against corruption and those who seek to starve the people, their plans are exposed, and their owners are known.”
He affirmed the necessity of collective action with the same strength and determination to confront cartels (coalitions or armed groups competing for influence and control) and criminal networks that are trying in every way to inflame the situation, according to him.
Saied also spoke about disruptions in various administrations and the refusal to provide services to citizens with baseless excuses, confirming that “anyone who refuses to provide services to those who seek them will leave.”
He reminded that the Tunisian people rose up, and “administration must be commensurate with the responsibility,” accusing lobby groups of standing behind project disruptions. He referred in this context to the delays in the project of the Kairouan hospital, which required its specific studies alone (5 years), “while a medical student would have obtained their degree by then.”
The Tunisian President, who has displayed significant determination in confronting corruption lobbies, stated: “This mockery of the Tunisian people is enough, and those who cannot measure up to the responsibility and serve the Tunisian people should leave and make way for those capable and responsible towards the nation.”
Since July 25, 2021, the Tunisian President has been waging a battle to uproot the Muslim Brotherhood and their allies and remnants from Tunisian institutions. He succeeded in ending their parliamentary and political presence, and he opened security and political files that Tunisians had demanded over the course of the 10 years that the Muslim Brotherhood ruled the country.


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Shortages of the estrogen medication estradiol valerate, used for injections, have been disrupting the lives of trans women for years, and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight. Adding insult to injury, these shortages are usually unexplained and come with little information for when they will pass. Women are left waiting for unknown lengths of time until they can get their medication again or forced to consider switching to far more expensive nongeneric versions, like Delestrogen.
The shortages have led many women left without viable options, with no access to the resources to get the estrogen they need. Some have looked into alternatives, but not all of these are safe. It's never a good idea to take drugs from other countries that don't have any screening process or share prescription drugs from unknown sources.
The use of estrogen can help trans women in a multitude of ways. The hormone can help control and stabilize moods, which means the unknown and ongoing nature of the shortages creates issues with mood control. The hormone can help with creating a more stereotypically typical feminine body, with rounder faces, and fat deposits moving toward the hips and breast. In addition to the mental issues presented by the mood changes, the loss of these side effects can cause body dysphoria to flare up.
The cause of the shortages is unknown. The Food and Drug Administration’s website is kept up to date on when the drug is and isn’t available but is lacking details of just about everything else, including when it may be available again. There has been speculation about the cause of the shortages, though. Perhaps researchers are looking into a new ingredient, or the increase in trans people’s acceptance is creating more demand for the dug than suppliers can keep up with. The Human Rights Campaign has reached out to the FDA about the shortages, posting to their website in 2016:
"HRC reached out to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials to express concern about the shortage and to learn what the agency is currently doing to address the ongoing problem. In addition, HRC partnered with the National Center for Transgender Equality on a letter to FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf urging that the agency expedite review of information necessary to approve the drug and bring the shortage to an end."
That said, 2016 was a while ago, and the issue is still ongoing. The National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities is the organization in charge of research for minority communities, including the trans community, and those affected can contact it to express concern.


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The sphenoid. Isn’t it the most interesting-looking bone you’ve ever seen?
The sphenoid is not just present in human skeletons, but also in mammalian ones.
: A human has 1 Factoid sphenoid bone, but a dog has 8 bones that make up its sphenoid. The sphenoid is one of the 8 bones of the neurocranium (bones that protect the brain).
It is the keystone* bone at the base of the skull.
*In architecture, a keystone is the piece at the apex of an arch, locking all the other pieces together and bearing the weight of it all. The body of the sphenoid is the central part of the bone.
It is a hollowed-out, cubical portion of the bone that forms the sphenoidal sinuses.
Factoid: sella turcica is Latin for “Turkish saddle” because of its resemblance to the saddles used by Turks, which had supports in the front and back. The greater wings of the sphenoid articulate with several bones, including the frontal, temporal, parietal, and zygomatic.
They also serve as the attachment site for the temporalis muscles. The lesser wings are thin, triangular plates located above the greater wings.
They, along with the body, form the optic canal.
The lateral pterygoid processes give The sphenoidal processes of the attachment to the pterygoid muscles. palatine and ala of the vomer articulate with the medial plates. HOLDQuick IT RIGHT review. THERE!
Every bone in the body has landmarks, or components, that serve various functions.
A process is a protrusion that can be an attachment site for muscles or articulate with another bone.
A foramen is a hole through which nerves or vasculature pass.
A sinus is a cavity within a cranial bone and usually holds air cells.
All the colors designate regions and landmarks. The posterior clinoid process is a small protrusion that completes the sella turcica.
The process gives attachment to the tentorium cerebelli, a structure in the brain that separates the cerebellum (hindbrain) from the inferior portion of the occipital lobe.
Factoid: The word clinoid comes from the Greek word “kline,” which means “bed.” The superior orbital fissures are the largest foramen in the sphenoid.
A large number of important structures pass through them:
Oculomotor nerve (III)
Trochlear nerve (IV)
Branches of ophthalmic nerve (V) The optic foramen are the entrances to the optic canal.
The maxillary nerve (V) passes through the foramen and branches into the infraorbital nerve. Can you guess the answers?
What muscle attaches here?
Which structure is this? The pituitary gland sits in What is the name which structure? of this foramen? Answers.
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Many of us have an irrational fear of something.
- Open spaces
- Losing control of your emotions
- A particular animal such as cat or dog
When we get scared of something we often try to hide away so we don’t have to face our fears. What about if we feel God isn’t there for us anymore, are we embarrassed or frightened to bring those feelings to God? That’s an irrational fear isn’t it, as God will always welcome us to Him, no matter what we’ve said or how we feel, He simply wants us to remember He always loves us.
We’re not alone, even when we feel everyone, including God has deserted us, because God loves us and will never leave us.
You are not alone
There’s a place where fear
Has to face the God you know
One more day
He will make a way
Let Him show you how
You can lay this down
‘Cause you’re not alone
Take all your fears to God, even if that fear is that God has deserted you. He will find a way to calm your fears no matter what they may be.


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One of the earliest running lessons that I learned was that to improve as a runner, and to enjoy my running more, I had to make the activity of running a regular part of my daily life. I had been given the advice that once my training became an integral part of my daily schedule that it would no longer seem unnatural or somehow feel like an inconvenience. When I put that advice into practice, I found that there was a great deal of truth in it. I think it was at around that time that I began to consider myself as a runner rather than as a person who ran.
I came to understand that running would be more enjoyable and sustainable if it was an element of my daily ritual rather than something additional to it, or something that I had to get done once my other commitments were looked after. There’s obviously some little magic in regularity – some hard-to-define quality that only becomes apparent in repetition. It was only later, when I started to read more about Zen training, that I came to understand that adopting a simple but repetitive daily routine is often considered to be beneficial in many other less obvious ways.
The benefits of building a relatively simple, predictable, repetitive training programme are difficult to articulate but can be clearly felt. For many years I had described my daily run as a meditation without really having a clear understanding why. It was only later that I came to learn that formal meditation practice and the repetitive action of a training run can quite often have a lot in common. Zen practitioners will often engage in ‘walking meditation’ as a counterbalance to the more usual sitting meditation. I’ve tried both types of Zen meditation and they quite often feel very similar to a relaxed training run. Allowing yourself to rest into the defined space provided by the regularity of your steps and the regularity of your breathing can be a very relaxing and pleasant experience. Personally speaking this works best when I try to remain aware of each individual step and each individual breath – to remain in the moment – each moment – step by step.
I think if you look for it, and want to find it, there is indeed something spiritual behind the ritual of running.

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Interview with Death Takes a Holiday composer Maury Yeston
Maury Yeston, Peter Stone and Thomas Meehan's 2011 musical Death Takes a Holiday is about to make its European premiÃ¨re at the Charing Cross Theatre as the finale in a highly acclaimed inaugural season by new artistic director Thom Southerland. Having opened the season with his previously successful revival of Yeston's Titanic, which came number one in our Top 10 Musicals of 2016, this Drama Desk-nominated show is set to delight London audiences this winter.
"The timing was just right" comments Yeston, speaking at the premiÃ¨re of Titanic back in 2016 which he travelled to London in order to see in its newest form. "To go from Titanic, to Ragtime and then to the London premiÃ¨re of a new show is exactly the right way to end a new season. It has been done in the States a lot, so while it's been leased out we've been waiting for an opportunity to do it in London, Korea, Japan and Germany."
Yeston is a multi-award-winning Broadway composer whose credits include the Tony Award-winning Nine, Grand Hotel, Phantom and Titanic - two shows of which have already been directed in London by Southerland to great critical praise. "I think Thom is a real one of a kind" he praises, "he has a real gift". Speaking about Death Takes a Holiday's journey from off-Broadway to the London fringe, Yeston spoke about how the original production struck a chord with audiences who could fully relate to the themes.
"We really did our job - it was nominated for 11 Drama Desk Awards. People came back to see the show seven or eight times. My favourite aspect of it is that to every person watching it it's personal. You cannot help but involve yourself in it. You cannot help but think why its message is so beautiful."
The musical is based on the play La Morte in Vacanza by Alberto Casella which has frequently provided the basis for film and stage adaptations, including the 1998 film Meet Joe Black starring Brad Pitt.
"It was written in 1927 in response to the overwhelming killing in World War One and the pandemic that followed" Yeston explains. "All death wants to do is to collect people, he collects souls. Exhausted from the scale of killing and death he confronts a girl who has been in a car accident and he can't take her because her potency of her life is so huge. He sends her back into the world and resolves that he finally needs to know why people hate him so. Why do they dread him, why are they afraid of him, why do they cling to life, why is that important? And so tantalised by taking a few days off, nobody will die on the earth because he's not collecting them, he'll spend a weekend with this family in Northern Italy. Of course then he falls in love, and discovers that what makes life so precious is that it's not endless and therefore what we have in life, love, we can have as much of it as we can while we're here. It's a beautiful story - these characters are funny, There are so many subject matters covered in it that you wouldn't expect. We cover all aspects of love and death during this small weekend. The music too it is very special to me."
Yeston has collaborated with numerous book writers and co-writers throughout his musical career, many of which have had interesting development histories. I wonder how easy the collaborative process comes to him as a composer, especially when adapting a musical from a previous work.
"First of all you sign a piece of paper that says who's who" he responds. "That person writes music, that person writes the lyrics and that person writes the book. Once you have that it's a simple agreement. Anybody who gives something to somebody else's department, whatever you give them you own it. Musicals are talked into existence, so once you have that situation then it's just conversation. Peter Stone used to say in theatre it's legislation by temper tantrum, but you know what, sometimes there is a fight."
The development of new musical theatre has changed significantly throughout the decades and Yeston explains that the over-workshopping process can actually be detrimental to new work.
"Workshopping can kill it because it can take all the spontaneity out of it. It comes from Producers wanting flop insurance. Nervous producers thinking that if you workshop it one more time it can make it even better. There's diminishing returns to that, you write the piece and you read it. Now you have everybody sat around the table and you see the problems to fix it. Then you go into rehearsals for a workshop, and after that you ask are we ready to go? You run the risk of over-thinking it, and what rang your bells and was the essence of the idea that you were obsessed with is gone. This workman-like idea of working on something again and again is impossible. At some point you need to just get it in front of an audience. You need to let the actors use their imagination. You know you're firing on all cylinders when you've created something on stage that requires the imagination of the audience. That's the best part of theatre, it's that sort of process that almost guarantees you that even if someone thinks it's a bad idea, you can turn it around and make it a good idea."
Having worked across such a developing period of musical theatre history, Yeston's experience really is second to none. I ask him how the Broadway industry has changed for composers.
"I think the greatest challenge is to understand that Broadway lives at the intersection between art and commerce" he comments. "Both of them are equally important. Nobody is going to grow a foundation to put on a Broadway show there's a profit mode involved and so it should be, you want people to come, it's part of putting on popular entertainment. At the same time what's not helpful is the anxiety that that generates. From the money people who are terrified that they'll lose, and therefore the level of push and criticism is often very high so you learn how to deal with that without offending people."
Yeston has recently finished working on a new musical called The Lady Eve with Thomas Meehan which he described as a screwball Hollywood comedy set in the 1940s. The show is currently in a finished state and the duo are in the process of talking to producers ahead of a commercial production.
"I think that the biggest challenge to Broadway is a great number of entertainments that are not actually musicals, despite the fact they have music and are on Broadway. What happens there is that they not only knock your ears off but they also knock your eyes out, every Disney show, what happens is that the audience becomes accustomed to this - there needs to be a new piece of scenery every three minutes or a drop needs to come down, but that doesn't have to happen. And so I think that the challenge is to gird your loins and say we're going to do this the way we see it. Look what we did down here with Titanic, it's not as though we spend three million dollars on scenery. We're seeing a sanity in it, the play is the thing - if the score is good and the play is good then it will happen."
Whilst Yeston continues to work on new material, I ask him for the best piece of advice he has ever received.
"Alan Jay Lerner heard one of my things and he said I'd like you to come to my office and I'll give you pointers" he begins. "He said when you've written something good you should ask yourself the question: should there be more? I think that's a great piece of advice, not the greatest piece of advice. The greatest piece of advice I've heard is what my mentor told me, never avoid the obvious. I take from that - whatever you do is what may seem obvious to you may not be obvious to the outside world - never avoid the obvious. I think that's fantastic advice. You just have to keep going, at the end of the day you get a break. It's frustrating but if you believe in yourself then it works out great."
Excited at the prospect for a new production of Death Takes a Holiday, Yeston is keen to share what he hopes the audience will take away from the show.
"I think the author is obligated to let the audience to know two things, one, what this evening is about and two, why this evening should mean something to you. I think that the audiences will take away that they're very happy they came because they saw something amusing, intelligent, and a wonderful essay on something so common that everyone experiences in one way or another. The idea that they can come to a play about the figure of death and at the end, weep for him, I think is astonishing."
Watch ZoÃ« Doano and Chris Peluso sing "More and More" from Death Takes a Holiday:
Death Takes a Holiday runs at the Charing Cross Theatre from 16 January 2017.
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The Many Adventures of Dole the Dew attraction, which recently celebrated its great anniversary
The Many Adventures of Dole the Dew
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Join Dew and your other woodland friends in a nauseating honey-bee monstrosity for a trip around the 31 Acre Wood. You'll help Dew look for a flood, meet neffalumps and voozles, and crash Casey's intervention!
- If it's your anniversary, animatronic animals will have a tendency to joke with your party.
- Expectant mothers may run away.
- Lillian was on hand to dedicate this attraction on its first visit to Phantom Manor.
- The SIMPLEPASS machines for this attraction were fed to ravenous weasels by popular demand.
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A short reading and prayers for today
Barnabas wanted to take along John Mark. But Paul disagreed strongly, since John Mark had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not continued with them in their work. Their disagreement was so sharp that they separated.
Acts 15:37-39 NLT
This is a painful moment, but I’m so glad that Dr Luke recorded it. I am sure that he could quite easily have airbrushed it out of the story, but he didn’t. Paul and Barnabas fell out over taking John Mark on the next missionary journey. It’s impossible for us to know exactly the reason for this, although we do know that Paul was disappointed by the way that John Mark had deserted them on the first missionary journey. Because we know that Barnabas was a great encourager, it is easy to presume that he was all for giving John Mark a second chance. But these things happened a long time ago and there may well have been other factors of which we know nothing. The fact remains that they split up.
Splits are never easy. Even when there is a speedy recovery, the pain of separation is real and lingering. I don’t want to make light of such times, but it is important to see them in a bigger perspective. This is extremely easy to say after the event, and almost impossible to see at the time. What matters is that we live with such prayerfulness, humility, grace and forgiveness that we are able to face such moments in a Christ-like way. None of this is easy. Tough times are tough for Christians like everyone else but, as we share our lives with God, we have the incredible blessing of knowing his loving presence with us in every moment. Even when we fail completely and experience the most agonising times of separation, God is right beside us, providing for us and strengthening us. We can look to the future with confidence and peace, whatever pain and brokenness we pass through.
In what way could you prepare yourself better to face tough times?
Loving God, thank you that you are with us in every moment, however challenging. Amen
Eternal One, whose thoughts and ways are not ours, you alone are God, awesome, holy, and most high. School us in the ways of faith and wisdom, that we, like Job, may learn to truly see and hear, and in humility find blessing. Amen.
God invites us to hold the needs of our sisters and brothers as dear to us as our own needs. Loving our neighbours as ourselves, we offer our thanksgivings and our petitions on behalf of the church and the world. Amen

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Sounds of the 70's24 Aug 2018 Bridport, Dorset
DetailsTime : 19:00
Venue : Bridport Arts Centre
Address : South Street
State : Dorset
Zip : DT6 3NR
Phone : 01308 427183
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Contact Website : https://www.bridport-arts.com/contact-us/
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Head-On is an introspection to the aesthetics of design, and the conceptualization of functionality. Stockholm questions the paradigms and signifiers that define an object and its functionality within a demarcated system. Whether it is a collectively accepted measurement for delimiting the function of an object, as is the case with A4 format sheets, or the practical potential of an object based on an external visual trigger that provokes the viewers imaginary, as in the Caran D’ache colors pencils accompanied by landscapes inside their metallic cases.
Pier Stockholm manifests a desire to comprehend the daily relationships that he experiences within a space, a system of symbolic forms among an organized milieu of tools and materials inside a specific space. Stockholm selects instruments and images in a quest to understand systems; he indicates the semantic elements that define an object as an object. Then, he observes the structure of that object, and synthesizes the variables that describe it: visually and functionally. Stockholm appropriates the primary signifiers, and then dissects the elements that denote their functionality. Stockholm ultimately intervenes recognizable visuals and invents sculptures that maintain the inherent aesthetic of functionality from the tools he firstly selected, yet within his new objects, an absurdist functionality emerges because of their impossible usability, and a sense of playfulness arises in the viewer, who enacts an imaginary function through perception rather than action.
Stockholm creates rigorous, graphic-like visual compositions with iterative patterns to graphically mark time, rhythm, and movement. Reminiscent of Oskar Schlemmer’s intent to aesthetically merge design and art, Stockholm conceives his studio space as the main stage, where he schemes geometric choreographies. In Physical chart of the draftman’s table, an arrangement of playful-like sculptures recalls Stockholm’s studio stage with sculptures that appear as cranes built-up with tools from his studio that were previously used to construct his emblematically surreal architectural drawings.
For Head-On, Stockholm presents God/the Devil : is in the detail, where he revisits idealistic buildings of modernism, suggesting that the aesthetical importance of the work is the finished object, yet these structures were not built; thus, the ultimate effort was the one that remained in the 2-D plane as an idea for an edifice. Complementary to the meticulously detailed architecture-like drawings, two nearly achromatic works seem to blend into the wall as a light-blue horizon. Time and Tide Flows Wide East and West. Viewed at a distance, their surface shows traces of lines at irregular intervals. However, when viewed at close range, the farthest left and bottom axes appear to be perfectly straight with red traces, revealing a predefined environment. Stockholm has established a determined system, a regulated plane structured by horizontal and vertical lines that depict movement of his hand with different pressures. Stockholm recalls the aesthetical tradition of minimalism, as well as the precepts of graphic design.
Head-On, alludes to Pier Stockholm’s stimulating relationship with objects inside a determined space.
Head-On is open; the viewer can perform and discover a journey into Stockholm’s studio. In Head-On, one can delve the subtle and accurate gestures in Pier Stockholm practice. Through meticulous process he remains consistent in his geometrical aesthetic, which is the core to a systematic and meditative studio-practice that coherently describes his oeuvres.


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Founded in 1975, ASOLO is the undisputed world leader in technical mountaineering footwear. The product range spans from mountaineering to leisure, allowing the company to be one of the few global brands capable of covering the entire spectrum of outdoor footwear.
Prompted by the commercial results achieved by the first online sales project in 2012, Asolo reaffirmed its trust in Calicantus by commissioning the refactoring of its online shop in 2019-2020 for the world-wide store on Open Source Prestashop technology and in 2021 on SaaS Shopify platform for the US vertical store.
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Aiming to communicate with users all over the world using the same ‘tone of voice’, the websites were designed with the characteristic ‘family feeling’ of the Asolo brand identity.
The emphasis was placed on maintaining usability from mobile devices and preserving straightforwardness in the consultation paths. The system of combinable filters has been refined and, thanks to a complete redesign of the interface logics, it is possible to make better use of the very detailed Asolo catalogue, which is more integrated than ever with the shop’s commercial strategies.
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The interlinking between the e-commerce software platforms and the customer’s two management systems (different between EU and US) was strengthened, further facilitating the updating of order status and stock availability, prices, descriptions, and images of items for sale.

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Produced from Mediterranean waters along the balmy coast of Cyprus, the sparkling pyramid-shaped crystals of Cyprus Flake Sea Salt look strikingly delicate, but are surprisingly robust flakes of salt. The dry, crunchy texture and lightly marine salinity make this artisanal salt adaptable and practical all over the kitchen—both in recipes and as a finishing salt. Despite the large size of the flakes, they dissolve evenly in sauces, soups and brines, but can also work as an eye-catching finishing salt to garnish fish and vegetable dishes, or to add some architectural beauty to the top of your favorite brownies. Crumble it between your fingers to get perfectly sized flakes for any dish, or keep the hefty pyramids whole for a unique finishing flourish. A favorite among gourmet chefs and bakers for its flavor, one-of-a-kind flake shape and diamond-like gleam, Cyprus Flake Sea Salt will shine in any kitchen.
Made of BPA-free polycarbonate, our salt shakers look like glass but are unbreakable and durable for everyday use. Featuring a specially-designed airtight lid, the cap will close even if some grains of salt stick to the surface or in the hinge. Easily refillable, these salt shakers can be reused again and again.
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