The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in vast deprivations of liberty previously unthinkable: lockdowns, business closures, travel restrictions, and quarantines. Even witnessing China’s January 2020 lockdown of 11 million people in Wuhan, it seemed wholly implausible that London, Rome, or New York would shut down. But they did, and much more. At the initial height of the pandemic in April 2020, more than 3.9 billion people, about half the world’s population, were under stay-at-home orders. That same month, 43 US states were under stay-at-home orders.
What are the scientific, public health, and ethical justifications for various forms of liberty deprivations? Are they lawful? Which branch, or level, of government holds the power to deprive individuals of freedom and the right to travel? What principles and policy mechanism can we establish to do a better job of protecting both liberty and public health during future emergencies?
International Travel Restrictions: Are they Lawful?
Currently, 49 countries completely bar international travel, while myriad others restrict travel to, or from, certain countries or regions. Even “open” countries often place barriers to travel, such as requiring testing or quarantine. The Biden Administration has signaled an aggressive strategy, characterizing the fight against COVID-19 as a “war”. To tame concerning variants of SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, the White House has tightened international travel restrictions, and was reported to have considered domestic travel restrictions.
The WHO International Health Regulations
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Health Regulations (IHR) have been characterized as a “balancing dynamic”, weighing public health against travel, trade and human rights. The IHR grant WHO the power to declare a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), and it has done so six times—for H1N1, Ebola (twice), Zika virus, polio, and COVID-19. WHO has recommended against travel and trade restrictions during every PHEIC.
Global public health policy experts believe the threat of travel restrictions and their economic impact deters states from early reporting of novel outbreaks, delaying the global response. Travel restrictions also can be self-defeating, impeding public health and humanitarian supplies and assistance. During the COVID-19 pandemic, WHO has largely reinforced its historic antipathy to travel restrictions. And as in many past emergencies, governments widely disregarded WHO’s advice.
Governments, including that of the U.S., have ignored WHO or relied on the considerable leeway the IHR provide to restrict travel. Article 31, for example, allows states parties to require “proof of vaccination or other prophylaxis”, including to determine whether a public health risk exists. Although silent on complete travel bans, the regulations probably do allow them, as well as impediments to travel like testing or quarantine.
With the emergence of COVID-19, virtually all governments imposed international travel restrictions. Governments and airlines are now actively considering vaccination “passports” for travel and other activities. But does the science support the position that international travel restrictions actually prevent the cross-border spread of disease? Article 43 of the IHR requires nations to base decisions on scientific evidence concerning risks to human health as well as WHO guidance.
Prevailing scientific thought has been that international travel restrictions might give governments a little time (maybe just weeks) to prepare, but beyond that are ineffective at preventing disease spread. Certainly, restrictions can be effective in island nations like Australia or New Zealand. But with ubiquitous international travel routes, stopping a virus from entering, say, New York, Buenos Aires, or London is considerably harder.
In truth, however, WHO’s opposition to travel restrictions has mostly been evidence-free. We don’t truly know if travel restrictions are effective and, if so, under what circumstances. Going forward, it’s vital to study and better understand the impacts of travel restrictions on epidemic response. That is, are travel restrictions a useful public health tool and, if so, under what circumstances are they justified? It would be unacceptable, and possibly unlawful, to make such consequential decisions in the absence of evidence.
The Constitution And CDC Regulations: Federal Control At The Zenith
Turning to US law, our Constitution (Art I, Sec 8) grants Congress sole power “to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with Indian Tribes.” Although the federal government has wide authority to manage international relations and control the border, states exercise public health (police) powers within their territories, a key characteristic of American federalism.
Foreign nationals who do not have permanent residence or other special status have no right to travel to the US. The Surgeon General, through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is explicitly empowered to bar entry of foreign nationals to prevent the introduction of infectious diseases. Currently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes a comprehensive list of travelers barred from entry to the United States. Enforcement tools are broad: travelers can be forced to return to their point of embarkation; passengers with symptoms can be isolated; and those exposed can be quarantined.
While US citizens cannot be permanently barred from reentry, they can be isolated or quarantined at points of entry. Exercising powers under the 1944 US Public Health Services Act, in the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, the CDC quarantined or isolated travelers returning from China and those stranded on cruise carriers. These actions were consistent with earlier court cases, which upheld federal powers to quarantine or isolate returning travelers potentially exposed to smallpox or diagnosed with drug-resistant tuberculosis.
The Biden Administration acted swiftly to further limit travel after the new COVID-19 variants emerged, but the restrictions are in a grey area of legality because they act on American citizens in foreign countries. On January 26, 2021, the State Department ordered all inbound international travelers to produce proof of a negative SARS-CoV-2 test performed up to three days prior to boarding a US-bound flight, or to prove recovery from infection. Passengers, including US citizens, failing to provide documentation are barred from boarding. The Administration also consulted airlines about requiring SARS-CoV-2 testing on domestic flights but no agency has since issued a rule.
The new rule on international flights raises a civil liberties red flag. This may be the first time the CDC has required testing (and possible isolation or quarantine) extraterritorially. It is a marked departure from standard policy and practice of allowing entry to US citizens. During the 2014 West African Ebola epidemic, for example, US citizens exposed to Ebola virus disease were permitted entry to the US, but subject to quarantine upon arrival. While referencing compassionate financial assistance for citizens stranded abroad, the new directive represents a significant change to repatriation norms for US citizens. Still, the CDC views the directive as “delaying” rather than “banning” entry of US nationals.
Though legally questionable, testing at the point of departure may be sound scientifically. It has distinct public health benefits as it helps protect against transmission to fellow passengers and airline personnel. Testing or quarantine at a US point of entry would still entail risks incurred on the flight and may thus be less preferable from a public health standpoint.
State Travel Restrictions On Returning US Citizens
The view that the federal government, not US states, is supreme in regulating international travel oversimplifies the intertwined jurisdictional elements of modern travel. The CDC controls travel into an air, sea, or land port of entry, and has power to quarantine the traveler upon arrival. But as soon as the traveler exits passport control, she is subject to state jurisdiction, and states may attempt to impose restrictions beyond those imposed by the federal government.
That is what happened to Kaci Hickox, a nurse who traveled to Sierra Leone to treat Ebola patients in 2014. Hickox was subject only to voluntary quarantine rules issued by the Obama Administration to encourage health workers to “put out the blaze” in the hot zone. Two state governors—New Jersey’s Chris Christie and Maine’s Paul LePage –disagreed with federal policy and detained the public health nurse against her will when she entered their states. She sued on constitutional grounds. While the suits were settled, the conflict demonstrates one of the flaws of in unmediated conflict between federal and state policy during public health emergencies. For the most part, federal guidance is less politicized than state rules, which can contain more performative elements, like Christie’s “tough on Ebola” stance in an election year. This is not always the case though, as U.S. Representative Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) remarks last week during a border visit show—McCarthy trotted out the old stereotype of refugees and migrants as carriers of disease.
Domestic Considerations: The Right To Interstate Travel And Privileges And Immunities
While governing international travel is complex, our system of dual sovereignty makes governing interstate travel especially convoluted. The “right to travel” encompasses several rights. Historically citizens have had the right to move freely between the states. During the Great Depression, the Supreme Court struck down California’s law barring residence for “Okies”—farmers whose flight from the Dust Bowl was told by John Steinbeck in The Grapes of Wrath. In 1999, the Court said, “free ingress and regress to and from neighboring states” dates back to the Articles of Confederation, but the Justices didn’t specify where the right resides in the Constitution.
Second, Article IV of the Constitution provides citizens of one state with same “privileges and immunities” of a citizen of the state to which she is visiting. It protects the right to enter and to leave another state, and to be treated equally. States, therefore, cannot discriminate between in-state and out-of-state residents; they cannot grant more privileges to the former than the latter. That is why most state travel restrictions apply equally to in-state and out-of-state residents seeking to enter the state border.
Finally, under American federalism, Congress has sole power to regulate interstate commerce. The so-called “dormant” Commerce Clause prohibits states from restricting the free flow of people and goods among the states. Taken as a whole, neither the federal government nor the states can bar interstate travel.
Epidemic Disease: An Exception to the Right to Interstate Travel
Despite the general rules noted above, judicial recognition of state “police power” to impose quarantines dates back at least to 1824. In Compagnie Francaise de Navigation (1902), the Supreme Court upheld a New Orleans ordinance prohibiting all domestic and foreign travelers—regardless of health status—from entering the city due to a yellow fever outbreak, stressing that the constitutionality of state quarantines was “not an open question” even where they burden interstate commerce. In addition to state powers, cities with powers delegated to them by their state, like San Francisco and New York City also exercise police powers with respect to “essential” matters of public health. Science and fair treatment cabin the exercise of those powers.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly half the states have imposed testing or quarantine requirements on individuals traveling from other states. Most specify only voluntary self-quarantine of interstate travelers, yet the state retains the power to order quarantine. Some states use another model, requiring proof of a negative SARS-CoV-2 test within three days of travel. Thus far during the current pandemic, courts have not struck down these impediments to travel, probably for two reasons: 1) quarantines of interstate travelers do not bar entry into the state; and 2) the same rules apply to everyone entering the state, whether or not they reside in the state.
Early in the pandemic, governors and local officials were sometimes overinclusive and sometimes underinclusive in assessing the risk from travelers. Some measures were reminiscent of Nineteenth Century “shotgun” quarantines, where police patrolled state or local perimeters, seeking to forcibly prevent entry of out-of-state visitors suspected of harboring infection.
At the same time as he welcomed spring breakers on Florida beaches in 2020, Governor DeSantis of Florida threatened to detain and forcibly quarantine travelers to his state from New York. Later, when infection rates surged in Florida, New York’s Governor Cuomo threatened a retaliatory quarantine. Neither was actually put in place. Yet, state and local authorities in Rhode Island, the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and the Florida Keys did set up roadblocks to prevent travelers, even second homeowners, from entering states and select counties. By contrast, there were heartening counterexamples of cooperation between states, like the East Coast and West Coast interstate compacts to create coherent infection containment policies.
Throughout the pandemic, courts have often deferred to governors and mayors on COVID-19 travel restrictions. Of thirty-seven cases challenging travel restrictions filed throughout the pandemic, nearly all were dismissed, settled, or mooted. However, the Supreme Court’s recent rulings against gathering restrictions in houses of worship could signal a less deferential judicial posture toward the invocation of state emergency powers by governors. The decisions could establish a special carve-out for religious free exercise claims, or it could be a signal that future challenges to pandemic-related restrictions on individuals and businesses will require more justification than has been required by the high Court until now.
Now, state legislatures are proposing a slew of new laws limiting governors’ emergency health powers, either in scope or in duration. Since it’s impossible to predict the nature and severity of the next epidemic, limiting executive powers could hamstring effective and rapid action by public health authorities. The COVID-19 pandemic is revealing deficiencies in a federalist approach to public health emergency management. Still unclear is which branch of government (executive or legislative) or level of government (federal, state, or local) can, or should, take decisive action in an emergency.
Federal Travel Restrictions And Other Public Health Powers Within The US
Given that SARS-CoV-2, and variants of concern, are circulating widely throughout the US, it is and has always been unrealistic to expect a single state, or a group of states, to contain the virus absent federal coordination and action. Since state power is insufficient to address COVID-19 or other national public health emergency—and since states can sometimes act parochially and politically—then where should an emergency public health power to restrict travel reside? An obvious candidate is the CDC.
The CDC has rarely, if ever, prevented travel between or within the states. In 2017, the agency issued a travel advisory for pregnant women recommending against travel to southern Florida where the Zika virus was circulating. But CDC’s guidance was not mandatory, simply advisory.
The CDC’s may already have the power to restrict domestic travel. The Public Health Services Act of 1944 vests power in the Surgeon General to prevent disease transmission both into the US and between states. CDC “quarantine” regulations were modernized in the waning days of the Obama Administration: The CDC Director may authorize “apprehension, medical examination, quarantine, isolation, or conditional release of any individual for the purpose of preventing the introduction, transmission, and spread of quarantinable communicable diseases.” The rule applies to passengers arriving in the US, those who move interstate, and perhaps to some whose movements remain intrastate (provided such movement could increase risks of interstate spread of disease).
Federal Power To Impose A National Eviction Moratorium
Those CDC regulations underlay a significant action taken late last year. On September 4, 2020, then- CDC Director Robert Redfield imposed a national eviction moratorium, as one in five US renters were in arrears. On January 19, 2021, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky extended the moratorium through at least March 31, 2021, determining that evictions could risk SARS-CoV-2 transmission to other states.
CDC’s eviction moratorium tests the limits of federal power to prevent interstate spread of infectious diseases. The Biden Administration’s recent nationwide mask order for travel—requiring masks on “(i) airports; (ii) commercial aircraft; (iii) trains; (iv) public maritime vessels, including ferries; (v) intercity bus services; and (vi) all forms of public transportation”—may also test that limit, although the federal government has considerable authority in regulating interstate and international carriers.
While the science may support both the eviction moratorium and the mask order, legal challenges are underway already. For example, a Texas District Court ruled that the CDC’s nationwide moratorium exceeded its constitutional authority. The ruling will likely be appealed. The outcome of the case could bear on whether new Congressional action is needed to consolidate the CDC’s authority in a public health emergency.
Lessons From COVID-19: Principles For This Pandemic And The Next
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed marked deficiencies of a federalist system, especially as the Trump Administration failed to lead a unified national response. A key lesson is the federal government should take a firmer hand in setting national standards and coordinating pandemic response. Federal control in a public health emergency, as we have seen, is politically charged and susceptible to frequent judicial challenge. Yet, no state acting alone (or even with regional partners) can contain the spread of a highly infectious pathogen while upholding basic human rights.
With wider powers comes the need for safeguards. Going forward, emergency powers should be exercised using the best available evidence, understanding that data are evolving and there will be ongoing scientific uncertainty. Any rule depriving liberty, like travel restrictions or quarantines, should: (1) use the least restrictive means needed to curb the health threat; (2) utilize available testing and tracing protocols as the first line of attack; (3) limit the number of people impacted and the duration of impact to the minimum; and (4) provide procedural rights to challenge application of the rules to individuals and groups. Legislative reforms to emergency powers should be guided by these four principles, and where relevant, reforms should include explicit statements of the principles to fill in any gaps or uncertainties in the law’s application. Once clear standards are enacted in state law, courts can enforce them, ensuring that public health agencies appropriately balance public health and human rights.
As Justice Sandra Day O’Connor once observed in writing about the War on Terror, “A state of war is not a blank check.” The peremptory handling of civil rights and liberties in the early months of COVID-19 need to give way to a more orderly and balanced approach as we proceed in the pandemic’s second year, and when we encounter subsequent public health emergencies. A good place to start would be Congressional action to preempt conflicting state actions, at least in part; another useful step would be agency action to set health standards, coordinate logistics, and manage the response.
CDC regulations also need updating in line with the principles we offer above. The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act, written in the aftermath of the anthrax attacks, needs modernization, solidifying executive powers to act in an emergency while safeguarding personal freedoms.
Simply limiting federal powers, or curbing emergency powers of governors, is unwise not just for this pandemic, but for the next. We must be conscious of the unpredictability of a future health threat. It might be a novel influenza or coronavirus, but it could be mosquito-borne (like Zika) or waterborne (like polio). We will need the full public health toolkit if we are to avoid the flawed response we have all witnessed at every level of government during the COVID-19 pandemic. The important thing is to provide principles (as outlined above) to ensure that policymakers consider liberty interests as they choose the right tools from that toolkit, rather than severely restricting that choice or eliminating it entirely. It is possible to balance the application of sound public health principles and respect for civil and political rights if both are part of the decision-making matrix at each step of the process.
The authors want to thank Eric A. Friedman, Michael Huerta, and Sarah Wetter for their extraordinary research and support for this blog post.


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RickD wrote:I once had a friend with no arms and no legs, whose mother hung him on a wall. His name was Art.thatkidakayoungguy wrote:It is a positive event when it is not destroyed. See the trolling as art, something you do as well. Good art is harmless, and depending on what type of art, is entertaining.RickD wrote:Don't think of it as destroyed. Think of it as going to a better place.*thatkidakayoungguy wrote:Yet the Death Star was destroyed...RickD wrote: Don't think of it as in the trash. Think of it being in the trash compactor on the first Death Star.
*My doctor told me I need to see the positive in every situation. So I thanked him for the free office visit.
And he had a no arm, no leg identical triplet brother who sat at the front door. His name was Mat.
The third no arm, no leg brother used to float in the pool. His name was Bob.
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Will Downing Daughter Age:- Will Bringing down is an American R&B and soul artist known for his smooth and sexy voice. In Walk 2023, he shared the shocking fresh insight about his girl’s passing.
Roberta Mae Will Downing Daughter Age, his most youthful kid, died at 34 years old. Her unexpected demise came as a shock to large numbers of his fans and the music business. This is the very thing we realize about Will Bringing down’s girl, her lamentable passing, and how the vocalist is adapting to his misfortune.
Will Bringing down Girl
Roberta Mae Bringing down was the most youthful girl of Will Bringing down and his better half, Audrey Wheeler-Bringing down. She was brought into the world in 1989 and experienced childhood in the family’s New York home. She was the most youthful of three youngsters, with her kin being Ava and Alex.
Will Bringing down Girl Age
Roberta Mae Will Downing Daughter Age died at 34 years old. She was brought into the world in 1989, making her 32 years of age at the hour of her passing.
What Ended up willing Bringing down Little girl?
The reason for Roberta Mae Bringing down’s death is obscure. Her dad, Will Bringing down, shared the news on his virtual entertainment accounts, yet didn’t give insights regarding how she died.
Will Bringing down Girl Passing
Roberta Mae Bringing down died in Walk 2023. Her passing was affirmed by her dad, Will Bringing down, on his authority Instagram account.
How Did Will Bringing down Girl Die?
Indeed, Roberta Mae Bringing down died in Walk 2023. Her abrupt demise has left her loved ones in shock and grieving The reason for Roberta Mae Bringing down’s death has not been revealed to people in general. Will Bringing down has not given any further insights concerning the conditions encompassing her passing.
Will Bringing down Girl Tribute
Roberta Mae Bringing down’s tribute was distributed on the site of the Schneider Memorial service Chiefs. It depicted her as a caring girl, sister, and companion, who will be profoundly missed by all who knew her. The eulogy gave no data about the reason for her passing.
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The Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) has rescinded the permanent exit permits from the Gaza Strip for 12 out of 14 senior officials of the Palestinian Authority's Civil Affairs Administration.
As reported by Haaretz, "the administration acts as a mediator between Palestinian civilians and the Israeli authorities in matters involving exit permits from the Strip and the entry of construction materials." The affected officials "have worked for the Civil Affairs office for 10 years or more."
A spokesperson for the Palestinian Authority's General Authority of Civil Affairs said that Israel has targeted "top level employees who are assigned to coordinate the access of goods and construction material into Gaza and transport sick citizens for medical treatment out of the coastal enclave."
"This is a political and unjustified measure that aims at tightening the siege on the Gaza Strip", Mohammed Makadma added, speaking to Xinhua news agency Tuesday.
According to Haaretz, Makadma sees the development in the context of Israeli defense minister Avigdor Lieberman's policy of "disconnecting Israeli communication with Palestinian institutions" under Mahmoud Abbas, and "creating direct communication with Palestinian residents."
Haaretz notes that "the cancelation of the exit permits is part of a wave of cancellations and bans on leaving the Gaza Strip", which has "impeded exit for people whom Israel had in the past allowed to leave Gaza, particularly businesspeople and those in need of medical treatment."
Gisha, an Israeli NGO which monitors the blockade closely, told the paper that "while Israel has indeed somewhat loosened restrictions on exiting Gaza since after the war in 2014", overall, "the number of approved exit permits is clearly in decline."
In 2013, based on official Israeli figures, 82% of exit permit applications were approved. In 2016 to date, the approval rate is down to 46%; less than 50,000 permits granted out of a population of some 2 million residents.
Gisha also pointed out that decisions have been reversed on appeal, "rais[ing] questions about the decision-making process and the arbitrariness with which a security ban is placed on a person" – including "a 16-year-old girl accepted to a prestigious study program in Holland, or an 85-year-old man who wants to visit his son dying of cancer in the West Bank."

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UBC Reports | Vol. 47 | No. 05 | Mar.
Humanities, science scholars earn Killams
The nature of personality in early Greeks is the focus of research
for Prof. Shirley Sullivan, one of 10 UBC Killam Research Prize
winners who will be recognized at Celebrate the Stars, a gala event
to be held this evening at the Chan Centre as part of Research Awareness
B.C. government promises funding
The province will compensate universities for a five per cent tuition
decrease, according to a recent provincial government announcement.
Vanpools ease campus commute
Connie Fabro knows a good travel deal when she sees one. For the
better part of the past decade, she has managed travel contracts
for the university as the travel manager in the Purchasing Dept.
so it's no surprise that she commutes each day to the university
from her home in White Rock via a vanpool.
New scholarships to draw top students
Four new undergraduate scholarships each valued at $40,000 over
four years will be awarded this fall as a result of the largest
gift to date by a bank to the university.
Students serve up sweet recognition
Some of UBC's unsung heroes have received Just Desserts Awards
in recognition of their willingness to go above and beyond the call
Study suggests different tack for learning disorders
Speech scientists call it Motherese. This special combination of
language and behaviour that adults use to talk to young children
has been re-examined from a cultural perspective in a recent study
completed at UBC's School of Audiology and Speech Sciences in the
Faculty of Medicine.
Social workers build skills close to home
Social workers in B.C.'s Interior are now working on their Master
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Maximizing the educational experiences of students is the focus
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Volunteers champion learning
Twenty-year-old Amy Au-Yeung wants to pass on her enthusiasm about
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Health researchers receive $5 million
UBC researchers were successful in gaining almost $5 million in
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As the fbi hijacked my life and tortured me for the past twenty five years they also mounted a program that prevents me from renting any apartment or other place to live. Everywhere I traveled in efforts to escape the criminal assaults on me by fbi operatives, police and others, the managers, owners and realtors of apartments and houses immediately refused to rent to me; on some occasions insults were thrown at me, but no explanation for refusal was ever provided.
Upon my return from Thailand where the fbi and the corrupt Thai secret police committed multiple felonies against me, I slept at the LAX for a week or two. On one occasion I recall that the fbi assigned a female airport police officer to hide behind my car (a few rows back) at the LAX parking lot to see if I might exit the car in the morning for a quick bladder relief. I saw the cop in my rear view mirror, so she could not make any arrest because I walked into the airport to use the restroom.
Then, in Brownsville, Texas, I had permission from Wall Mart to sleep in my car in the parking lot of the store for two or three weeks. One night, around 1 or 2 AM, I exited my car to walk to the adjoining Whataburger restaurant to use the restroom; upon return to my car, as I sat down, I abruptly fell back toward the backseat of the car and into the recline level because the fbi had adjusted the seat during my absence.The fbi watched me fall back in real time on their laptop.
Similar pranks were repeatedly used against me for several years. I have endured so many instances of fbi harassment and crimes against my person that the number and nature of their crimes defy description; suffice to say, I was and am today shocked at how these hoodlums and assassins in the fbi can get away with their unending string of crimes which continue at this very moment.
Finally, when Texas DPS Agent Conrad Rodriguez came to my home (as set forth in my Affidavit 2014) on his profiling assignment against me, he asked me if I am angry with the fbi. Then, he asked me if I do my work online for the benefit of humanity. Such questions reflect the criminal mind and intent of both Rodriguez and Knipfing (his accomplice) as they engaged in an illegal effort at intimidation on behalf of the fbi.
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By the end of the '60s, it was clear that things at Motown Records were about to change. Founder Berry Gordy already had dreams of moving to label from Detroit to Los Angeles to try to break into film and television. Hitmaking teams like Holland-Dozier-Holland parted ways with the label over pay disputes. Acts were growing and maturing their sound in an attempt to keep up with the turbulent times in pop music.
The Supremes - considered a "no-hit" group in the early part of the decade but ultimately one of the label's most dependable acts - started going through changes of their own in 1967. Founding member Florence Ballard was replaced by Cindy Birdsong, and de facto frontwoman Diana Ross now received billing ahead of the group itself. The results were mixed: "Reflections," the first single credited to Diana Ross & The Supremes, peaked at No. 2 and follow-up "In and Out of Love" reached the Top 10, but subsequent singles failed to do so.
So Gordy put a new songwriting team together to make up for the loss of Holland-Dozier-Holland. "The Clan" featured a quartet of powerful writers: R. Dean Taylor, Frank Wilson, Pam Sawyer and Deke Richards. Gordy tasked them with writing a smash for The Supremes. The result: a most unlikely tune sung from the perspective of the hard-luck child of a single mother, worried that she'd continue an out-of-wedlock cycle with her partner. Heavy subject material for the charts, but the dramatic string arrangement, precise underscore from The Funk Brothers and soaring melody did a terrific job of concealing the controversial subject matter.
Indeed, no moral majority could stop "Love Child." Within only three weeks of its release, it would reach the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100; on Nov. 30, 1968, the single knocked The Beatles' "Hey Jude" from the top spot, staying there for two weeks until it was replaced by another Motown smash: Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine." The trio would perform the track on The Ed Sullivan Show, where they were longtime favorites of the host; their appearance showcased dramatic new looks for the girls, eschewing their usual ornate dresses for casual wear - and for Miss Ross, an iconic sweater with the song's title emblazoned on the front.
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Set in the days of the British Raj, Kipling's finest novel is the exciting and touching tale of an Irish orphan-boy who has lived free in the streets of Lahore before setting out, with a Tibetan Lama, on a spiritual quest. Kim later enrolls in the Indian Service and simultaneously embarks on an espionage mission of supreme importance. A thrilling climax in the Himalayas occurs when the two quests become entangled. Kim's search for identity is staged within one of the most magnificent and affectionate portrayals of Indian culture in literature.
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The Indian grail quest.
In the mountains, when he rejects the woman's advances and also his Western root.
On the train when Kim disguises the agent on the run and fools the railway police, and his fellow passengers
The finale where the lama gives up his own enlightenment in order to return and help Kim to find his.
The reading added a dimension of gentle understanding which moved and awed me. Truly a one man theatre.
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RAMSEY — Neil Forrester was a freshman football player preparing to transition to his winter sport, hockey, when the Northern Highlands wrestling coach intervened at the athlete’s request.
"I had played hockey my whole life, but coach [Anthony Petrock] made me realize that big guys don’t play much hockey," Forrester, now a senior heavyweight wrestling star, recalled with a laugh recently.
Petrock also grinned when he recalled the conversation. "I was his freshman football coach and he said he wanted to get bigger and stronger for football," the coach remembered. "He’s a great football player, but I told him not too many guys skate at 260 pounds."
So Forrester switched sports, wrestled mostly at the junior varsity level for two seasons and then blossomed last year with a 21-10 record. At the time they spoke to the Suburban News, his record stood at 22-3, with a silver medal won in the season-opening Joe Arrotti Invitational Meet at Lakeland, and a bronze medal earned in the George Jockish Bergen County Tournament in December.
"Most of the guys on the team have wrestled together since recreation, maybe since third grade," the 5-foot-11 Forrester said. "I had wrestled a little in middle school, but just a little. Yes, I wish I had started wrestling earlier."
It took more than just a change of mind for Forrester to make the transition to wrestling. "I want to mention Good Energy Training in Allendale, where I work out; and my wrestling coach, Anthony Petrock, for getting me in shape," he said.
Forrester has become a true varsity star in such a short time. His loss in the Lakeland final was to Brandan Narbone of the host team. The pair almost did not face each other, Forrester explained. "The cutoff weight, with a two-pound allowance was 287 pounds and he weighed in at 286.9. He just made it."
In the county tournament, Forrester lost a tough 8-5 decision in the semifinal round to eventual champion Kevin Wilkins of St. Joseph, but bounced back for the bronze-medal win with a pin. Last year, he took second in the districts and looks to advance far into the regional rounds this time around.
The transition has become complete now that Forrester has made plans for his future. He’ll study civil engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, where he’ll wrestle, even though he was an all-conference defensive lineman in football in the fall.
The Rams are a relatively young, somewhat experienced team that held a 10-8 record at the time of this conversation. Plus they were doing more than keeping their heads above water. They were achieving. They finished second to Wayne Hills in the Lakeland event, where they had four individual champions, and 15th out of 41 teams in the monstrous county tournament, where they piled up third-round points with six winners and finished with four wrestlers in the top eight of their weight classes.
The following is the Ramsey lineup, with descriptions provided by Petrock:
Sophomore Nick Gasparovich. "He had no previous varsity experience, but has filled a spot that was a big need for us."
Junior Bryan Rottingen, a champion at Lakeland at 113 pounds. "He’s having his normal, successful season. He’s my hammer at the bottom of the order. He’s 17-8 and reached the quarterfinals of the county tournament, where he lost in overtime." Rottingen was third in the district last year.
Sophomore Christian Incardona. "He’s inexperienced, but he’s filled a need, wrestling between 120 and 126 pounds. He’s done a great job of making the jump. He’s 8-12."
Sophomore Drew Boscarino. "He’s 13-9 against some very tough kids. He’s made the jump from 106 pounds last year to 132 this year and he's holding his own."
Junior Kevin Damato. "He’s wrestling 132 and 138, which is up a weight or two from where he should be, and he’s on the verge of a breakout year."
Senior co-captain Matt Johns. the 145-pound champion at Lakeland this year and third in his district last year. "He’s coming off a great year — he qualified for the regions last year — and he’s 16-6. Matt pinned a county finalist from Paramus last week and he’s just adding to his accomplishments."
Senior Jack Deluca. "He took a year off last year and he’s back this year with a 10-12 record in the most competitive weight class in the state , where a lot of multi-sport, really athletic kids compete."
Junior Konnor Shetler, the 162-pound champion at Lakeland. "He’s 11-11 and won 15 wins last year, which he’ll surpass this year. He should do well in the districts."
Senior Jimmy MacWilliams, seventh in the county at 182 pounds. "He had 19 wins as a freshman, but he missed one and a half seasons because of an injury. He’s 17-7 and is a hammer at the top of the lineup." MacWilliams lost to eventual county gold medalist Johnny Sebastian, the reigning state champion, in the county quarterfinals at 182 pounds, but is wrestling now at 170.
Senior Jacob Chang, a Lakeland champion at 182 pounds. "He’s hard to score on; very good on his feet. He’s 15-5." Chang was fourth in last year’s districts.
Junior Nick Catalano, eighth-place finisher in the county tournament at 195 and second at Lakeland. "We had to drop our lineup down because of an injury, and Nick slid right into the opening. He's 19-6 after having wrestled two years on the JV."
Senior Ryan Woods, eighth in the county tournament at 220 pounds. "He had a phenomenal year [22 wins] and qualified for the regions last year. He got off to a slow start this year because of injury. He’s 10-12 but has won something like six of his last eight matches."
Senior co-captain Neil Forrester, second at Lakeland and third in Bergen County at 285 pounds. "He’s picked up where he left off last year and he keeps getting better."
Finally, Petrock looked ahead. "We’ll continue to keep working hard," he said. "And hopefully, the post-season will lead to good things for us."
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>> What's happening? I'm Brian Tong, and welcome to the Apple Byte, where we're dishing out all the good and bad inside the world of Apple. Now, you'll be happy to hear that the Apple Byte will be in the house for next week's Apple event. We received our imitation, and that means I won't have to crawl through the ventilation system. And if you hear any girly-like shrieks during the announcement, they'll be coming from Apple's own employees in the audience.
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And I'm serious about that one, too. Now, we've heard a lot about the potential tablet, but what will they be naming the thing? Will it be the iTablet or the iSlate? Mac Rumors has done some real good digging and revealed that Apple has been applying for a trademark for the name "iPad" under a dummy corporation called "Slate Computing, LLC." And similar trademark applications have been filed in Canada, Hong Kong, and the UK. Fujitsu owns the US trademark that was basically abandoned in April of 2009 and then revived it in July, but Apple has filed three requests to extend the time for parties to oppose the trademark. Now, this could all be Apple trying to prevent any confusion with the iPod name, but it's got to be more than that when there's this much activity around the iPad name. Now, if you guys don't remember, it was the Apple Byte that first touted it as the Maxi Pad, so we might have a part in naming Apple's newest toy, and that's how you know you've made it in life. And if you've heard rumors that the potential tablet might have docking abilities, check out this patent filed by Apple in January of 2008. It shows a MacBook or tablet-like device that can slide into the back of an iMac to be used to display its content. It's a very real idea Apple has in mind, and we probably won't see this at the announcement. It pretty much won't happen, but this could be a peek into the future a year or so from now. Now what else can we look forward to on the 27th? The Boy Genius report claims we'll be seeing plenty of the new iPhone OS 4.0 at the event. Some of the key features are new ways to run apps in the background for multitasking. We've been waiting for a real multitasking solution forever. It will also have multi-touch gestures across, a revamped-looking user interface, and it will only be able to run on the iPhone 3G or 3GS. Now, in another recent report, Business Week claims that Apple and Microsoft are in negotiations to potentially replace Google as the default search engine with Microsoft's Bing on the iPhone. Two bitter rivals now joining together to fight a common enemy? It sure sounds like a Hollywood movie script, but the deal would help Bing get plenty of exposure on iPhones. And really, it's Google's entry into the mobile space and its squabble for mobile ads with the big A that has added fuel to this fire.
All right, let's take a look at the iPhone app of the week.
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We're showcasing survival apps after reading an article in the unofficial Apple web blog about a Colorado Springs man who used his iPhone to help him survive after being trapped in the rubble from the earthquake in Haiti. He suffered a broken foot and cuts on his leg and the back of his head, but use the light of the iPhone and the medical app to help him treat his wounds. So here are a few apps from the article to check out. The US Army has their first aid manual for $1.99, and they also have a survival manual for $1.99 as well. Both have in-depth information for specific situations and diagrams. You guys will also want to check out WebMD Mobile. It's a free app that helps you look up symptoms you're feeling and treatment for basic first aid needs. Having any of these apps handy will always be helpful, unless your phone is out of battery juice, which would not be a good thing.
Now, a quick byte, Amazon is making a preemptive strike before Apple's announcement by modeling its revenue share with some concert providers after Apple's own App Store with a 70/30 split in favor of the publisher. This won't apply to all digital books sold from the Amazon store, only those falling in between $2.99 and $9.99. But with Apple potentially offering a similar package to the big book publishers, Amazon needs to do this to keep its library growing and prevent some publishers from defecting over to Apple. All right, that's gonna do it for this week's show. We are excited about the announcement next week, so send me your e-mails, any questions you have with the firstname.lastname@example.org. I'm Brian Tong. Thanks for watching and come back next time for another Byte of the Apple.
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LONDON—Brent crude futures snapped a three-day rally on Friday in light trading before the Christmas holidays but the benchmark was still headed for a weekly gain, with the market focusing on next steps by OPEC+ and the impact of the Omicron variant.
Brent crude futures fell 75 cents, or 1 percent, to $76.10 a barrel by 1121 GMT, following a 2.1 percent gain in the previous session. The benchmark was still on track for a weekly gain of about 3.5 percent.
U.S. markets are closed on Friday for the Christmas holiday.
Oil prices have recovered this week as fears over the impact of the highly infectious Omicron variant on the global economy receded, with early data suggesting it causes a milder level of illness.
“The omicron-is-mild rally could well continue into January now, but reality will bite in February I believe, as the end of the Fed taper moves into sight,” OANDA analyst Jeffrey Halley said.
The U.S. Federal Reserve said last week it would end its pandemic-era bond purchases in March, paving the way for three interest rate increases that most Fed policymakers now believe will be needed next year.
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies including Russia, known as OPEC+, will meet on Jan. 4 to decide whether to go ahead with a 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) production increase in February.
Russia believes oil prices are unlikely to change significantly next year with demand recovering to pre-pandemic levels only by the end of 2022, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Friday.
Some investors remained cautious amid surging infection cases.
Omicron advanced across the world on Thursday, with health experts warning the battle against the COVID-19 variant was far from over despite two drugmakers saying their vaccines protected against it and despite signs it carried a lower risk of hospitalization.
Coronavirus infections have soared wherever the variant has spread, triggering new restrictions in many countries, including Italy and Greece, and record numbers of new cases.
Global oil demand roared back in 2021 as the world began to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, and overall world consumption potentially could hit a new record in 2022.
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Expect things to look very different regarding the landscape of the Flintridge Prep boys’ volleyball team.
With a roster dotted with seniors, the Rebels marched straight to an undefeated Prep League championship before advancing to the CIF Southern Section Division IV quarterfinals last season.
While the Rebels would gladly settle for at least a carbon copy this season, they will have to rely on essentially a new group of players who don’t have the experience their brethren did.
“We definitely will be a younger team with only three returners and one starter,” said veteran Flintridge Prep Coach Sean Beattie, whose team is ranked sixth in the Division IV preseason poll. “Since we have some new players, a few of them with little to no varsity experience, we will see a lot of them fighting for playing time.
“We need to find out who the main pieces will be to fit in with the top players coming back. It’s a huge jump to the varsity level, so there will be an acceleration process.”
Among those who might start are sophomore outside hitter and reigning All-Area second-team pick Dante Fregoso, senior middle blocker Trip Westmoreland, junior middle blocker Tyler Dill and sophomore setter Aldridge Khin.
“Maybe it can be a good thing that we are a little younger than normal,” Beattie said. “Nobody has secured a starting spot.
“A lot of the teams in our league seem to have that one top go-to player while looking to rebuild around them. The question for us is how quickly we can mesh as a unit, especially defensively?”
It would normally be considered a rebuilding season with at least four sophomores starting on the same team manning the volleyball court. Not so for the La Cañada High boys’ volleyball squad.
If anything, there’s great comfort for La Cañada second-year Coach Otto Lacayo knowing he’s got plenty of faith in a quartet of sophomores in a quest to enjoy another quality season.
“You know going in that they are young, but they are very important pieces to have,” said Lacayo, whose team finished second in the Rio Hondo League before advancing to the CIF Southern Section Division III quarterfinals after failing to qualify for the postseason the previous three seasons. “Having them lead as freshmen last year was a big thing, so they’ve now dealt with some of the pressure situations.”
La Cañada will turn to a group of sophomores of setter Connor Walbrecht, outside hitter Mel Schroeder, libero Connor Beltcher and defensive specialist Ben Choi. Walbrecht earned All-Area first-team accolades last season after finishing with an area-high 847 assists to go along with more eye-popping numbers in the form of 359 digs, 87 kills, 25 aces and 21 blocks.
“We definitely have some good potential,” Lacayo said. “We want to use that potential and shoot for a top-two finish in league.”
The Spartans’ main rival will be South Pasadena, which captured the league championship before winning the program’s first CIF title.
St. Francis should have a wealth of experience, bringing back four returning starters. The Golden Knights figure to have some needed leadership to help make the transition smoother for some of the first-year varsity players.
Under veteran coach Mark Frazee, the Golden Knights will feature a lineup that should feature a combination of sophomore setter David Thompson, senior outside hitter Mark Munoz, senior opposite hitter/setter Babe Micalivio, senior opposite hitter AJ Krappman, junior middle blocker Thomas Lund, junior outside hitter Markar Agakanian and sophomore libero Carl D’Aguilar.
“We have a lot of guys who are solid,” said Frazee, whose team took sixth in the Mission League last season. “The thing for us is that we have to be able to believe in ourselves and we have that core of seven or eight guys who were on the team last year.
“I think it’s going to be a battle in league. You know going in Loyola will be very strong again, but I don’t know much about the rest of our league. Maybe it could be wide open.”


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Considering that One Direction alumnus Zayn Malik released his debut album back in 2016, it was to be expected that the Directioners would have safely put him at the top of the charts for the most bought album in the UK last year. But no. That was not the case at all.
While Zayn’s debut album Mind Of Mine sold a total of 65,208 copies, and Brits’ Critics’ Choice winner Jack Garratt reached 62,954 for his album Phase, the winner eclipsed these numbers by selling an impressive 111,650 copies, becoming Britain’s 7th best-selling LP so far.
And… drumroll please, it was Bradley Walsh who wins the title of the biggest-selling debut artist of last year according to Official Charts Company figures.
Yes, the same Bradley Walsh who hosts ITV gameshow The Chase. Bradley’s first album consists of catchy jazz covers like That’s Life and Mr Bojangles and was released last October.
Bradley told the i Paper: ‘I grew up listening to legends such as Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr and Tony Bennett. From those early days I’ve always been a huge fan of this style of music and now have the opportunity to record some of the greatest songs and arrangements ever written, alongside a 54-piece orchestra and band, is absolutely thrilling. I never expected that [a gold album]. It just goes to show that great songs live forever.’
What this also shows is how younger listeners are consuming music, as these stats only take physical album sales into consideration, ignoring streaming figures from music programmes like Spotify. While Bradley may have beat Zayn in terms of physical sales, his album Chasing Dreams was only streamed 17,256 times, compared to Zayn Malik’s Pillowtalk single which clocked up 467,029,072 listens.
So, Congratulations are in order for the The Chase presenter – who recently had fans in hysterics over his drunken appearance on Channel 4 breakfast show Sunday Brunch. Cheers to that.

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Canada Goose kite
The Canada Goose bird kite is only produced in the Assembled version. It ships "knocked down" in a 41" mailing tube and is ready to fly after a quick, three-step preparation using no tools or glue. "Assembled" does not mean "ready-to-fly."
Hunters use this realistic kite as a decoy. Like all of our bird kites, the Canada Goose is made from Tyvek, a synthetic paper-like material that's both very difficult to tear and water resistant. Tyvek is commonly used for envelopes, car covers, labels, coveralls, and house wrap. Netflix envelopes and disk sleeves are made of Tyvek because it's nearly indestructible and weighs almost nothing. These things look amazing with their 48" wingspan flapping in the breeze and are a great way to draw attention to your business or event. If you have a high speed Internet connection, check out the manufacturer's video at the bottom of this page
Non-US customers please note: At checkout, our software will offer you a First Class International Package rate based on this product's weight. However, bird kite tubes exceed the maximum allowable length for that rate. Please do not choose First Class International, as we cannot ship your kite outside of the US at that rate. We will have to either cancel your order or collect the additional cost for Priority Mail International.
Poles: Jackite constantly sells out and replenishes specific poles. They won't always have all of the colors and sizes shown in our dropdown options. If the pole that you choose is unavailable, we will substitute the closest size and color that they have.
Most of our poles are thick-tip poles for maximum durability. We also offer some flex-tip poles with a thin tip for maximum flexibility. All of the flex-tips are platinum colored. A kite on a flex-tip pole can move more with the wind, making it seem more active. It will also need more air space to move around.
The 16' (4.87 m) or 17' (5.18 m) poles are recommended for standard-sized kites, although many customers prefer the 20' (6.09 m) length. And those who believe that higher is always better can go with the 28' (8.53 m) pole. The fiberglass poles telescope like an antenna from a collapsed length of just 46" (1.17 m). Extend the sections and twist to lock (to make your pole shorter, just don't extend all of the sections). These differ from telescoping fishing rods by having a reinforced butt end to prevent splitting, thicker walls for less breakage, and a thicker tip.
Choose the Army Camo pole to blend into grassy environments or docks, the Wheat Camo pole for brown environments like reeds or a flooded cornfield, or the Black pole to blend into shadows anywhere. Platinum poles have a metallic silver finish. Color availability often changes without notice as Jackite sells out and replenishes specific poles. If we don't have the color that you choose we'll substitute one that we do have.
We only sell poles as add-ons with kite purchases, not as a standalone product. Orders that include poles require special packaging and will ship factory-direct rather than from Curio City's warehouse, so it might take us an extra day or two to fulfill your order. Jackite usually ships via UPS Ground regardless of what service you choose at checkout. Jackite guarantees all poles for 90 days and sells replacement sections for a modest fee plus shipping if your pole breaks after that.
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One friend in particular is trying to recover from a fleeting lover who called it quits after just a few months. As she struggles to resist the temptation to stalk, plead, and generally make a needy fool of herself, we created a list of reminders to help her become more mindful of her emotions, reframe her urges, and set a new course. Her ultimate goal is to come through this ordeal in one piece and perhaps even emerge better and brighter. She agreed to share her list, in the hope of supporting others in the throes of rejection. Naturally, change the pronouns to fit your situation and rest on the affirmations that resonate for you. These drops undermine my feelings of optimism and confidence, and drive me to seek out the false reward of reassurance and closeness with my ex-lover. I shall boost my confidence and restore calm by remembering the following: I shall respectfully honor his request for space. Seeking contact stalking, pleading does not bring relief, it only brings shame. It is a mistake to heed the voice inside my head that urges me to seek him out.
Moving On After A Breakup
How the situation or environment can be working aginst you and getting him back. Why understanding yourself is where you need to start. At least not until I share more with you. Most people who start looking for solutions are skeptical. In fact, many of our long time readers said they were skeptical when getting started. Commit to reading every word on this page.
In a relationship, you learn stuff about your partner, but you don’t learn everything. You don’t usually learn about their really ugly side, or how far they are willing to go to hurt someone or get back at someone until you break up with them and experience it for yourself.
There are s of single guys to choose from. Love is not magic. There is no one-size-fits-all answer. This will greatly depend on the practical arrangements for the break. What else can get your mind off of your heartbreak? Yet he must give ourselves the means. In a nutshell, Let love just happen. Have you healed from the last relationship? When you are heart broken, sleeping a lot, or not sleeping at all, eating poorly or not at all, crying, drinking, under-performing at work, and generally not on top of your game your stock values are low, low, low.
My latest long-term relationship.
The Top 5 Things Women Do After a Breakup
You’re attracted to someone at work, and he or she is attracted to you. You share the same hours and some of the same interests. You’re both responsible adults. But getting intimate with an employee is deceptively complicated. It can lead to everything from a loss of respect among your staff to a sexual harassment lawsuit. In short, it can be one of the most serious threats to a restaurant manager’s career.
“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” —Albert Einstein. One of the worst pitfalls after a breakup is the fact that we cannot see the big picture.
In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone. Do all our wounds remain after our breakup, untouched by time, just covered by scar tissue? The Anatomy of Your Breakup Pain When we are confronted with the inescapable truth that our relationship has come to an end, we experience lots of negative emotion.
In other words, the breakup turns into a big glowing-hot iron that rips open every scarred old wound that you might be carrying around you for a long time. Why are some people hurting more than others? But the problem is, time does NOT heal properly. The same negative things keep happening — over and over again. One bad relationship after another. Unresolved Breakups Are Time Bombs When you rely on time to heal yourself, what you really do is apply a band-aid on the breakup wound.
Then you rip it off and apply it back on again multiple times , but it keeps bleeding and hurting. Then after some substantial time has passed, you somehow slowly forget about it.
10 Ways To Find Yourself Again After Being Shattered By A Breakup
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4 Reasons Your Ex Boyfriend or Girlfriend Is Ignoring You. Establishing first contact post-breakup can be heartbreaking. After taking some time apart from your ex, there’s really no telling what you’ll be coming back to without confronting the drama head-on.
For the rest of us, the question of how to start dating again after a hard breakup is a very difficult problem. You will have to start dating again at some point. However, you might not know how to get back out there, especially if you broke up after a very long-term relationship. Fortunately, the dating professionals of The Art of Charm are here to help you get past your hard breakup and move on to bigger and better things.
At the same time, the only real way to get over a really hard breakup is to move on. You might even consider counseling to help you get through it. When it comes to how to start dating again, you need to commit to having fun.
This is how long you should wait to start dating after a breakup
January 24, Letting Her Go: For most people, the period weeks, months, years after a breakup can be an anguishing time, having strong effects on personal health, relationships, school and work. Different people manage breakups differently. Some allow themselves to sink into a sea of depression, while others turn their sorrow into anger blackmail, voodoo dolls, etc. They endure the confusion, the emotional roller coasters, and bide their time till they can finally start fresh.
The one thing that makes breakups especially difficult is the inability of people to move on.
Now after six weeks, she’s finding that these affirmations have become habits in her thinking, and she can more easily counter destructive thoughts as they arise.
You should view dating as an enhancement to your life as opposed to it consuming it. To help you stay in control, you should simulataniously take part in activities outside of dating that lend themselves to making you feel confident authentically and enable you to have fun. These are all very normal thoughts to have, and so it starts with not being afraid to admit to yourself that you might have hang-ups around your ex and what happened in your past relationships.
Discover what you want What I believe it truly means to rebuild your confidence and have a good mind-set towards dating is having a clear understanding of what your own boundaries and values are. Those times where you might not have listened to your gut feeling — those are where your boundaries should be instilled. People can pick up on the slightest insecurities — even on first dates! This feeling of being in control should help you avoid feelings of anxiety towards the dating process.
It actually gives you a lot more flexibility about dating different types of people too. People are attracted to individuals who have things going on in their life, and who are in control of their own self-worth. Laura Yates is an international dating coach, writer and speaker specialising in helping people through break-ups and heartbreak and getting them on the path to finding fulfilling and healthy relationships.
You can find Laura at laurayates.
Letting Her Go: 5 Tips to Move On After a Breakup
FAQs I get a lot of people asking me for advice. To these people I say: Are you kidding me?
Controversy[ edit ] Anthropologist Helen Fisher in What happens in the dating world can reflect larger currents within popular culture. For example, when the book The Rules appeared, it touched off media controversy about how men and women should relate to each other, with different positions taken by columnist Maureen Dowd of The New York Times  and British writer Kira Cochrane of The Guardian.
Sara McCorquodale suggests that women meeting strangers on dates meet initially in busy public places, share details of upcoming dates with friends or family so they know where they’ll be and who they’ll be with, avoid revealing one’s surname or address, and conducting searches on them on the Internet prior to the date. Don’t leave drinks unattended; have an exit plan if things go badly; and ask a friend to call you on your cell phone an hour into the date to ask how it’s going. If you explain beautifully, a woman does not look to see whether you are handsome or not — but listens more, so you can win her heart.
That is why I advise our boys to read stories and watch movies more and to learn more beautiful phrases to tell girls. The Internet is shaping the way new generations date. Facebook , Skype , Whatsapp , and other applications have made remote connections possible.
What She’s Thinking After Your Breakup
This is why, instead of giving into your assumptions, it would be best to approach this with a level head. Maybe the reason your ex is ignoring you is that he or she still loves you. For someone whose heart has been broken badly, taking time for themselves is important in order to be able to process the pain.
Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other’s suitability as a prospective partner in an intimate relationship or is a form of courtship, consisting of social activities done by the couple, either alone or with others. The protocols and practices of dating, and the terms used to describe it, vary.
Recently the subject of guys and breakups came up and Sabrina and I went back and forth about what guys generally go through when they breakup. Simple enough to say, but I know plenty of women will talk about how some guy came off like an insensitive jackass after the relationship fell apart because of his actions post-breakup. If a guy is profoundly obnoxious or terrible after a breakup, it is most often a testament to how rough the breakup was on him. Some people cope by lashing out.
Jerry Seinfeld once said that breaking up a relationship needs to be like taking off a Band-aid — One motion: In the same regard, when a relationship ends, it is much much harder for a guy to go back and discuss and revisit and talk through and explain, etc. Personally, I have had breakups where I pretty much went cold. I wanted her to be OK, I wanted good things for her in life, but I knew that nothing was going to make the situation better.

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MOSCOW, November 1 (Itar-Tass) —— Russia’s Mission Control Centre has adjusted the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) to avoid a possible collision with a fragment of the U.S. communications satellite Iridium-33.
“The orbit was corrected at 03:08 Moscow time by means of the engines the Progress M-16M transport ship. The engines operated for 406 seconds to give the ISS an impetus of 0.5 meters per second. As a result, the station’s orbit was raised by one kilometer,” the Mission Control Centre said.
In February 2009, Iridium-33 collided with the Russian military communications satellite Cosmos-2251. The collision produced 600 fragments of five centimeters in diameter and several thousands smaller fragments.
It is next to impossible to predict the trajectory of such small objects well in advance, that is why Russian ballistic specialists said on Wednesday, after a NASA warning of a small satellite fragment approaching the station, that there was no potential threat of the Iridium-33 fragment colliding with the International Space Station. The Mission Control Centre however did not exclude that the ISS orbit correction might be needed. The decision to adjust the orbit was taken by midnight.
ISS orbit is regularly adjusted in the automated mode in line with the program of the Mission Control Centre.
Today’s adjustment was the 15th off-schedule correction of the ISS orbit to avoid collision with space debris. The last such operation was carried out in January 2012.
Currently, more than 13,000 objects measuring 20 to 30 centimeters and tens of millions pieces of debris smaller than one centimeter are orbiting around the Earth at speed of up to 10-15 kilometers per second. A collision with a space object of about ten centimeters in diameter might be equal to a collision with a loaded KAMAZ truck running at a speed of 80-100 kilometers per hour.
The current crew of the International Space Station includes three Russian cosmonauts – Oleg Novitsky, Yevgeny Tarelkin, and Yuri Malenchenko, NASA astronauts Sunita Williams, Kevin Ford, and astronaut Akihiko Hoshide of the Japanese space agency JAXA.


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Quote of the day:
“Just a minute” said a voice in the weeds.
So I stood still
in the day’s exquisite early morning light.
– Mary Oliver
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Dog Rose, Elderflower, Ash Keys, Honeysuckle, Lime flowers, Ox-eye Daisies, Wild Strawberries
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Today I was following up on an enquiry about some of the old varieties of walnuts growing at Wimpole*, when I accidently discovered that the heartnuts (Juglans ailanthifolia var. cordiformis) growing in the courtyard are falling to the ground. I … Continue reading


Our aim is to get you, as a developer, started as quickly as possible with Scurid stack to provide solid distributed device identity as plug and play while giving you opportunity to focus on business logic for your IoT edge software.
Thus edge agent is developed keeping that philosophy in mind, however working with Scurid API requires some basic understanding of gRPC especially how to create a client, and invoking rpcs using that client.
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I have been observing trees today. With a special new project in mind, I look at these growing things very differently. The different shapes and cuts and bruises.. The way they grow together and into each other. I think it's so beautiful how two or three or four trees can go together and become one being.
I saw a lot of kissing and hugging trees..


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Aim: To investigate growth and yield response of greengram to different levels of Kolgrace organic fertilizer with a view to determining the most favorable application rate for greengram production.
Study Design: Completely randomized design (CRD) with treatments replicated five (5) times.
Place and Duration of Study: Screenhouse of the Department of Agronomy, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, between July to November 2016.
Methodology: Six levels of kolgrace organic fertilizer were used (0.00, 0.50, 1.00, 2.00, 4.00 and 8.00 t ha-1). Top soil (0 -15 cm) was collected from the Teaching and Research Farm of the Department of Agronomy, and leached of nutrients by soaking and washing in water for 24 hours. 2 kg of air-dry soil was mixed with the appropriate fertilizer rate and filled in each pot. 3 seeds were sown per pot and thinned to 1 seed at 2 weeks after sowing (WAS). Chemical analysis of air-dry soil sample and Kolgrace fertilizer were done at the soil chemistry laboratory of the Department of Agronomy, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, to ascertain their elemental composition. Soil particle size distribution , Soil pH , exchangeable K and Na , exchangeable Mg and Ca , exchangeable acidity , organic matter and organic carbon , available P , Nitrogen  and micronutrients (Mn, Fe, Cu and Zn)  were determined.
Results: Application rates were significant (p<0.05) for all the traits measured. 0.5 t ha-1 was significantly higher in plant height (39.5), number of pods (7.0) and dry pod weight (4.98). Application rate of 1 t ha-1 was higher in number of leaves (18.0) although was comparable to application rate of 0.5 t ha-1.
Conclusion: Application rate of 0.5 t ha-1 was best for three of the five traits measured and is hereby recommended.
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Celebrity chef Gino D’Acampo In a recent report that his restaurant chain was “liquidated,” he shared a rare video on his Instagram and “broke the record” to 1.4 million followers.
A popular chef earlier this week Chain My Pasta Bar liquidated after paying £ 5m..
The 45-year-old used Instagram to share his unusual video in the kitchen with his fans.
He states: “When I returned, I saw a lot of c ** p about my restaurant.
“It looks like my restaurant was in liquidation.”
He continued. “Now I usually don’t do this, but I thought I’d let you set a record here.
“About 10 years ago, we started a business called Pasta Bar, which serves Italian food very quickly in three small shops in central London.
“And we tried for 10 years, then Covid came and I thought, what do you know? We had to close.
“By the way, I absolutely loved it and it didn’t make sense to pursue it with the idea of continuing it in another business.”
The I’m a celebrity … get me out of here! Stars have revealed to fans that pasta bars are an “independent business.”
He continued. “The pasta bar business has nothing to do with my restaurant business, import business, or any other business I do. It’s an independent business that goes into liquidation.
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“We have to move on. That’s all about business. You can win or you can lose.
“Now let’s talk about the restaurant business, which is growing very well. We plan to open three megasites and one megasite in Italy this year alone.”
A popular chef talks about his latest venture at Chesher’s Aldary Edge and tells his fans: , Like my son.
“I’ve invested thousands of pounds in a restaurant, a brand new kitchen. Everything is equipped. I’m going there on January 24th to celebrate the opening of the new restaurant.
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“And I hope to see you there. I can’t wait! So Alderley Edge, a brand new restaurant, very exciting.”
Gino concludes the video with a little advice to his followers. Mostly remember this when you see something, it’s all c ** p! “
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Amateur golfers from across the UK have condemned the decision by the Westminster government to close golf courses in England when new COVID-19 mitigation measures come into effect tomorrow.
Earlier today, England Golf and the All-Party Parliamentary Group For Golf conceded defeat in their attempts to convince Prime Minister Boris Johnson to exempt the sport from the new restrictions, which are expected to last until at least December 2.
Consequently, golf clubs, courses and driving ranges are being instructed to comply with the measures when they come into effect at midnight.
England Golf CEO Jeremy Tomlinson said that he was making the announcement "with a feeling of deep regret" and insisted that the organisation had "respectfully, but vigorously challenged government to argue the case for golf courses to remain open".
However, those efforts were to no avail, with all golf facilities in England now required to close for the first time since May 22, when the original spring lockdown ended.
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Naturally, the decision to close the country's golf facilities has not been well received.
Sky Sports Golf host and former European Tour player Nick Dougherty had strongly advocated for courses to remain open. After learning of today's news, he tweeted: "Thank you to all whom spoke up and supported the good that golf can do for mental and physical health at a time when that it is so important to so many. Don’t be deterred as it will still be important in a months time so let’s keep the light shining on the game."
Others were much less measured in their responses. Here's a snapshot of the reaction from social media...
How is this not safe?? Beautiful earlier today on the course. Anyone fancy meeting on the 1st tee for bit of Grouse shooting tomorrow??!! As I’m sure this is allowed. Absolute shambles from Boris and his cronies pic.twitter.com/72XKDareBA— Andy (@ScouseSaint42) November 4, 2020
Total overreaction... Hope it’s only for a month and it’ll be something to look forward to .. in the meantime at least I can do a bit of fishing— kev 1956 (@snaphappy56) November 4, 2020
It sucks. Shame I don't live near the Welsh/Scottish borders— Dan (@DanHill70) November 4, 2020
Absolute joke— Roy 'Coach' Roebuck (@rncoach13) November 4, 2020
No doubt the clowns in London will be happy to let demonstrators to meet up and do what they want with no retribution or know lets leave Unis and schools open and see if we can increase the spread of covid! Absolute bafoons— Andy (@andycromby) November 4, 2020
Typical of @BorisJohnson@10DowningStreet. Happy to promote people eating out on mass in restaurants potentially spreading this virus yet won't allow golfers to enjoy a round of golf on their own in wide open space. Moron!— Glen Tillotson (@pc_groovy) November 4, 2020
Pathetic @BorisJohnson@10DowningStreet. This unnecessary blanket ban, unsupported by any scientific evidence that you mention as driving every decision, will not be forgotten. The party of common sense no more.— Gerald Ribon (@GeraldRibon) November 4, 2020
Of course, in the interests of balance, it is important to point out that the replies were not unanimously negative...
I think if they’d agreed to golf being exempt it would open the flood gates to other sports. Maybe in a couple of weeks if the situation improves sports will be allowed to start again.— Keith Moody (@TheMighty5Iron) November 4, 2020
Brilliant news ! Greenkeepers will now be able to get much needed work done ! To much play as happened this summer ! Courses up and down the country will welcome this mini break ! Stop acting in self pity ! It’s not the end of world it’s 4 weeks !— Cameron kelly (@lfc16cameron) November 4, 2020
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