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Psychotherapists can help us make breakthroughs in dealing with depression, but often the insights gained during a session don’t lead to permanent change. Why is it that we can’t always put the new insight into daily use and sometimes forget it as soon as we’re out of the room? That’s the problem that a new approach, called coherence therapy, tries to solve.
Like the work that led to focusing oriented therapy, the coherence concept came from the investigation of two therapists, in this case, Bruce Ecker and Laurel Hulley, trying to find out why it was that some of their clients could achieve profound and permanent change in a brief period while most did not. What set these successes apart?
A Pattern of Profound Change
They found a pattern common to all the breakthrough experiences across a wide variety of cases and conditions. Later they found evidence supporting their approach in neuroscience research on the ways the mind could undo emotional memory patterns that had long been thought to be permanent. They summarize this research as well as the steps in coherence therapy in their new book, Unlocking the Emotional Brain.
The first steps in the process they identified sound familiar enough. Clients come in with deep depression or other disorder and feel completely controlled by it. The first step is to work with the client to get them to reproduce the experience of depression by stepping into a typical situation that seems to trigger the problem, or simply relive a moment to capture the full effect of depression if there is no triggering mechanism.
Reliving rather than talking about the symptoms is important to bring the client into the deepest feelings of the experience and to allow the therapist to see behaviorally, emotionally and intellectually exactly what happens.
The idea is that the depression is part of a well-defined pattern of response that the client developed in early life as a protective mechanism to deal with emotional pain, rejection, abuse, isolation or whatever the situation might have been. That’s a familiar concept in my own therapy, but the difference is that I usually describe my depression in a detached way rather than reproduce and relive the experience.
By working with clients in re-entering the dramatic experience of the problem, the therapist tries to drive home why this behavior feels so inevitable. What purpose does it serve? What greater problem is avoided by the intervention of depression and all its debilitating symptoms?
How Depression Can Serve a Purpose
The first breakthroughs come when clients can grasp on an emotional level that this is purposeful behavior, a coherent, well-constructed response to a type of situation and potential danger that first arose in early years. The pattern established itself spontaneously without conscious effort and entered a deep level of implicit memory below ordinary awareness.
That is why it seems so overwhelming, as if it were imposed from without, a force the person can’t control. Now they can see that there is a form and point to the pattern. The benefit of protection from whatever the threat might be, however, comes at the high price of crippling life in many other ways.
In one case, Ecker describes a woman who had shut down completely in deep depression and no longer felt any connection to her family. He worked with her through three or four sessions to relive a series of experiences until she could uncover the core purpose of this behavior going back to early life. At first, shutting down emotionally seemed to be a response to protect her from the hostile reactions of her parents. It was a way of keeping herself safe, and realizing this marked a turning point for her. Yet there was a lot more to it than that.
By revisiting other memories and also testing her reactions to sensitive situations in the present, she went deeper until confronting the basic problem of having no boundaries with her parents. Her mother seemed to take anything of emotional value from her and appropriate it as her own. It wasn’t until she hit that ultimate problem of protecting her sense of who she was as a person that something shifted in a lasting way.
To be able to see depression as a coherent strategy for protecting her selfhood made sense of the behavior but also made it unnecessary. She had achieved a distance from depressive behavior so that she could plainly observe how and why it had served her but also see the unacceptable loss of satisfaction in life that the strategy entailed.
Change Takes More than Talk
The way therapists usually try to change a pattern like this is to help the client develop a counteracting one that is much more beneficial. The idea is that with practice these new patterns can take the place of the old. However, this approach often doesn’t hold up over time. Relapse is common because the old pattern, still present and deeply embedded in implicit memory, reasserts itself and seems to obliterate even the recollection of the new strategy.
Ecker found that the necessary step was to help the client have experiences that prove on an emotional level to the client that the old schema is no longer necessary or helpful, that disproves its value completely. In that way, and only in that way, can the implicit memory link that unconsciously drives behavior be erased.
It’s like the memory reprocessing in EMDR, and Ecker sees coherence therapy as a framework that can be applied through a number of other therapeutic methods that have emerged in the last twenty years, including EMDR.
Ecker describes in several case studies that clients like the depressed woman may have to go through many breakthrough experiences before reaching the deepest pattern that reveals the original motive for a protective strategy. Then the client, with the new understanding of the behavior, needs to have new experiences, whether in the therapist’s office or in daily life situations, that dramatically bring home the realization that the pattern is pointless.
Ecker believes that most breakthroughs in therapy don’t last because they lack the necessary follow-up to reprocess the deeply embedded memories they challenge. They take place initially during an altered state of heightened consciousness and awareness, arrived at with the help of a therapist. To take a deeper hold by erasing old remembered patterns, clients need to experience the change as part of everyday life as well.
He also emphasizes the importance of imprinting the new knowledge by having the client come up with phrases that make emotional sense to him and repeat them several times. He has clients write down these phrases to keep them visible during the day so they can be repeated and referred to often. We’ve all had the experience of forgetting something of this sort that was so powerful when grasped in a therapy session. Ecker’s methods address that problem.
When the deepest breakthroughs occur and are reinforced by everyday experience, then clients see the old patterns as completely meaningless, bizarre, even funny. Those behaviors have completely lost their links to the deepest levels of emotional remembrance and no longer have an unconscious hold on their lives.
This is powerful stuff that makes a lot of sense to me. I continue to be plagued, even now, with behavior patterns that seem to control me and go directly counter to the values I hold about the life I want to lead. The coherence approach may be another powerful tool for gaining a greater sense of self-mastery, the feeling that I am choosing what I do rather than being driven by unconscious forces.
To what extent do you feel locked into patterns of behavior that never change? How have you been able to deal with them?
This is rather simple in concept. With ordinary therapy, therapists use talk therapy to help the client gain insights, or they dictate how the client is to change their behavior. These strategies can sometimes work. However, when there are false beliefs involved, they are not enough.
With Coherence Therapy, there are 2 types of “positions” about the problem the client has. There is the anti-symptom position, and that one needs no therapy. If you are anxious, depressed, phobic, or unmotivated, and you seek therapy, you are acting appropriately in that aspect. You don’t want the condition as it is wrecking your life, and a person who’s less than sane would need to be told they have a problem.
The important issue is the hidden pro-symptom position. There has to be a reason why the person wants the symptom. That is some belief that makes the symptom necessary. For instance, during a violent attack as a child, you may learn the maladaptive belief that the entire world is a really bad place or that the entire world conspired to cause that to happen and that you were singled out. So if you feel the whole world hates you, you’d grow into an angry individual. You may even view your unproportionate anger to situations and the consequences as further evidence that the world is out to get you. So in therapy, you’d need to let your defenses down, even using the energy of the anger to get you to the root belief that is driving it. Then, you’d have to do something counterintuitive of stating the belief as it is without editing and perhaps using the language you used at the time of the trauma. And you’d have to work with that statement to get it into the conscious memory. So the person might say, “I am very mad that the world hates me and is set up against me!” But the client has to get to that spot themselves. The therapist can ask probing questions to get the client to the place of the trauma. But the client has to make the discovery, and it needs reinforcement.
Then in the future, when triggering events come, the client is to make connections to the underlying belief. Then they will realize that it doesn’t fit the situation at hand. Then the reactivity to the situation goes away or comes from a different faulty core belief that needs to be addressed next.
It is important to not clean up the core belief when it comes up, since denying the belief won’t make it go away. You have to get on board with the emotional mind and let the emotional truth come up. The nice thing about Coherence Therapy is that it is generally gentle. So you can get to the truth without fully reliving any trauma. It can be compared to judo, while something like Rational Emotive Therapy would be more like karate.
It seems taking on a Coherence treatment would be enormously task in i’ts self.
I can totally relate to the challenge of sustaining the new insights gained in a psychology session. Below is my experience in turning a rational awareness of a problem into ‘feeling’ and ‘living’ the new insight from the very first day, and further re-inforcing it every day after my first ‘awakening’ day.
I was living with childhood attachment disorder for the first 30 years of my life. I didn’t experience depression, but I think the process would just work for depression and other types of behavior patterns as well.
I first realized my attachment disorder (formed in childhood) when I was experiencing a major shock after a relationship breakup and was in the process of looking for an ‘answer’ for the situation. To describe it shortly, I grew up never experiencing a sense of emotional closeness with my mom, who was particularly hostile and aggressive towards me, especially when she was upset. My dad never stood up for me even when I felt most wronged and hurt by my mum. I felt all on my own. Out of my natural inclination, I stood up and fought against my mum every single time I felt hurt and wronged by her. I even entertained the idea of running away from home quite a few times but the unknown world outside home was too scary for me as a kid back then to ever dare to make it happen. The whole thing hardened me in many ways.
During my teenage years and many years into my adulthood, the way I learnt to ‘feel’ towards my mum is the main, and perhaps the only way I know how to ‘feel’ towards another human beings. I realized my entire life I never ever knew what ‘love’ means, what deep connection between 2 human beings feels like and tastes like.
When I first rationally recognized this pattern and even how and why it was formed, it was a critical first step. But how could I go about ‘feeling’ and ‘living’ the new truth? ‘Knowing’ and ‘feeling’ are two very different things.
I decided to adopt the ‘sentimental’ approach to start with and keep my momentum. I would allow myself to look at anyone I was speaking to and internalize it as if I wanted them to be the first person to show me how ‘love’ would feel like. I continued to rationally allow and remind myself stay fully open to the possibility that true connection between 2 human beings is possible.
The 2nd approach I adopted was trying to learn to (quickly) internalize the new truth from the experiences of the other people. I hungrily looked for detailed descriptions people put up online about their experiences of deep connection with someone. I tried to imagine and internalize what they say, try to understand and feel for myself how that bond would actually be like, and how I would develop it for myself.
Basically, this was similar to a muscle training exercise. I reminded myself to keep working on it to build it up because initially the muscle is really weak and it could be easy to lose the momentum.
The result was fast and significant. I managed to ‘feel’ the new truth from the very first day of rational realization and continue to further re-inforce it every single day since then.
I need to stress the critical importance of maintaining a sincere desire and hunger to change during the entire process.
Also, what works would depend on the causes of the problem and each person’s ‘attachment disorder’ type. My approach briefly described above might only work for people with similar personal makeup and personality type. For example, if someone also experienced a lack of emotional safety and closeness from parents but instead of standing up to fight for themselves and becoming hardened during the process, they adopted the opposite coping strategy, running away and hiding and becoming extremely ‘scared’ and vulnerable to people, most likely they would need a different reasoning mechanism to overcome the disorder. However, my 2 steps-approach above would still be applicable.
This is awesome! Especially this: “I need to stress the critical importance of maintaining a sincere desire and hunger to change during the entire process.”
Great approach Tan! I can relate very well to your experience and am experimenting in similar way. Will be good to hear of you looking back over this, whether your 2 step-approach made a lasting difference to develop your capacity to feel positive towards others. Good read, rich in meaning for me.
Integrated Way says
I’ve undergone Coherence Therapy and it is great.It is important to put into practice what we have learned in the therapy.I agree.This is a powerful tool for gaining a greater sense of self-mastery, the feeling that I am choosing what I do rather than being driven by unconscious forces.I highly recommend this.
John Folk-Williams says
Thanks for letting us know that this has worked so well for you. Have you written anything about the experience that I could refer people to?
What kind of “phrases” that one might repeat to one’s self? Are you talking about “positive thinking” type of phrases? I think I understand what you are describing in these therapeutic sessions. And certainly I would think this is the goal of all good therapy, isn’t it? Getting a grasp on what caused the initial problem and seeing how it is still affecting the person’s life? And this would lead one to recognize a certain regression into past ways of dealing with problems that do not translate well into the present, and thereby break the cycle? It seems to me the problem is finding a therapist with whom you can be totally honest and having courage to try something new. Or am I missing the point?
John Folk-Williams says
Hi, Donna –
They’re not talking about positive thinking or affirmation phrases. The words have to be the client’s words that come directly out of the experience they’re dealing with – it sounds like the way you try to match words to the felt sense in focusing until you get something that feels right. The method Bruce Ecker describes is like all good psychodynamic therapy – it’s the follow-up experience that makes all the difference. That was the distinctive feature they found from studying hundreds of cases – the part that led to lasting change. If you check out the website, there are some case studies you can download that make this much clearer.
Mopsa | Inspira fundo says
This addresses my main concern with therapy, and makes a lot of sense. I will explore this further! Thank you 🙂
Ah, yes – breaking those old patterns. I think the biggest obstacle for me is my huge fear of anger – either in myself or anyone else. It keeps me from being direct with people and becomes a heavy burden when it’s my anger. I think I talk myself into thinking I don’t have a right to be angry or to want what I want, etc. I don’t do very well at handling this at all, am still working on it. I’m doing EMDR and I think I’ll get to the bottom layer eventually. It all sounds so clear during a therapy session, but then in real life I freeze up. It’s hard to imagine this ever seeming funny any time soon.
John Folk-Williams says
Hi, Judy –
The problem about it being clear in therapy but not later is what Bruce Ecker is trying to get at with the coherence approach. It must be the central problem with all psychotherapy – why don’t you actually change after making these breakthroughs in a great session? It’s worth reading the case studies at their website. They have several examples of the “disconfirming” experience that needs to follow the insight.
This sounds like basic third force psychotherapy. My favourite being gestalt.
This doesn’t mean that it isn’t excellent, just that it is far from new.

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Michigan Court of Claims Judge James Redfors ruled Tuesday that Trump’s name will remain on the state’s primary ballot after the former president’s opponents have claimed that he should be disqualified to run for office under the 14th Amendment in various states.
They claim that Trump’s tweets and actions leading up to the January 6th U.S. Capitol breach constituted “an act of insurrection” against the nation.
“The judicial action of removing a candidate from the presidential ballot and prohibiting them from running essentially strips Congress of its ability to ‘by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such a disability,'” Redford wrote.
“The question of whether he is ineligible due to Section 3 of the 14th Amendment presents a political question that is nonjusticiable at the present time,” the judge continued. “The question of whether Donald Trump is qualified or disqualified from appearing on the 2024 general election ballot in Michigan is not ripe for adjudication at this time.”
The 45th president is also facing additional efforts to remove him from the ballot in Colorado as well, in which the lawsuit is currently pending.
Closing arguments in the Colorado case will transpire on Wednesday.
Previously, Trump was also facing similar accusations in Minnesota and New Hampshire as well, however, both cases were dismissed.
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A strong condemnation of the church as the instigator of hatred towards same-sex love and a both horrific and almost comical look at the insanity that is conversion therapy, Jayro Bustamante’s second film Tremors is clear about its intentions and does not hide its anger or contempt. That does not make it a better film, but combined with a consistently grimy visual style and an immersive sound design it does make for an intense experience. Bustamante, whose debut feature Ixcanul won the Alfred Bauer Prize in the Berlinale competition four years ago, returned to the festival in the more low-key Panorama sidebar. And while Tremors is decidedly more grounded than Mayan fable Ixcanul, the decision to deny the film a competition slot remains puzzling. It may lose some steam in the final stretch, but Tremors is a strong and daring film in which every scene has weight.
Earthshaking. That is the only way to describe the bombshell that successful consultant Pablo (Juan Pablo Olyslager), married with two young kids, drops on his family. In a rain-soaked and darkness-filled opening scene Pablo’s shell-shocked relatives are waiting for him to come home, anxious for reasons that initially are not clear. Something terrible has befallen him, that much is obvious, but only after he arrives and is confronted does it become clear: Pablo has been outed as gay. As tensions rise in the upper-class mansion an earthquake symbolizes the rupture between Pablo and his family.
Soon after, Pablo’s well-intentioned plan of staying on good terms with his wife Isa (Diane Bathen) so he can enjoy the company of his children starts to unravel. In a society as deeply religious as the Guatemalan, his sexual orientation has severe repercussions, as Pablo soon finds out when he loses his jobs, his kids and everything that used to be his life. His lover Francisco (Mauricio Armas Zebadúa) supports him up to a point, but his carefree attitude around Pablo makes him never feel at home in his new apartment. Desperately trying to tie his two worlds together, Pablo’s love for his children finally makes him succumb to a last-and-lowest-ditch effort to be part of their life: he submits to conversion therapy.
It is at this point that the film loses focus, as it puts emphasis on the ridiculous practices of the religious zealots-slash-charlatans that have dug their claws into Pablo. They are turned into cartoonish bad guys, which diminishes the gravity of the dilemma Pablo is facing. Bustamante manages to pull it together in the final scenes, ending the film on an ambiguous shot, but the final act could have used some rewrites. As it is, you understand Pablo’s inner turmoil intellectually, but for a film that burned with intensity and an almost carnal sensuality the humiliation he has to go through cannot be felt as deeply as the anger that preceded it when his family ostracized him.
Where Tremors shines, however, is in its marriage of form and content. Cinematographer Luis Armando Arteaga’s dusty washed-out medium shots on a widescreen canvas manage to cramp Pablo in but also isolate him as if he was alone in the world with its weight on his shoulders. The oppressive sound design by the trio of Eduardo Cáceres, Gilles Benardeau, and Julien Cloquet underlines this representation of Pablo’s psyche even more. And Olyslager’s withheld performance seals the deal. In all this makes Tremors not an easy film to watch, and Bustamante clearly has an axe to grind, but he stays just clear of being too preachy and delivers with Tremors a film that cements him as a director whose new work one should always look out for.


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Editors cite cutbacks, increased workloads, lack of recognition.
Complete results available to members online; nonmembers may purchase copies of the study.
Gosh, a lot of unhappy editors.
In ASBPE’s 2004 Salary Survey, conducted in May by Arcola Research Co., 39% of editors said they are more satisfied now than they were two years ago, 37% said they are less satisfied, and 23% feel about the same.
Of those editors who said they feel about the same, only half explained their answer. Of those, 18% said they were unsatisfied, while another 50% said there had been some improvement in their job but that many significant, troubling issues remained. When added to the 37% unsatisfied number, the total unsatisfied figure effectively increases to 43%. The satisfied number also effectively increases from 39% to 42%.
After recently hearing these results, one editorial director of several publications told attendees at a meeting of the Magazine Association of the Southeast, “We [editors] have always been unhappy.”
A humorous, if not jaded, perspective.
In two years, however, an editor’s situation can easily change, with promotions, more money, new responsibilities, and new management all conspiring to make the job environment better or worse.
Clearly, the editors who are more satisfied now cite reasons that run the gamut:
- better economy
- flexible hours
- more money
- more responsibility and editorial control
- better understanding of the market their magazine covers
- more management support
- new challenges
- better staff.
Nevertheless, a large number of editors are not satisfied at work. Again and again, editors in the survey cited budget cuts and increased workload, especially when staff positions are lost with no concomitant pay increase to balance the additional workload. This is an historic theme, for even when markets are doing well, low morale and high stress are significantly evident.
The following comments by survey respondents cover most of the dissatisfaction themes:
- “Cutbacks due to economy. Went from six issues a year to four. Eliminated a graphic designer. Now I do it all, again.”
- “Far less print space due to fewer ads. Far more unrewarded online projects/requirements. Layoffs of technically expert colleagues. Appointment of woefully inexperienced publishing and editorial leaders unwilling to maintain publication’s quality.”
- “Fewer dollars are available for freelancers. More pressure to serve our advertisers inappropriately.”
- “Business constraints and politics play a larger role in my job today, impacting my ability to lead the editorial team.”
- “A significantly increased workload (with no additional staff positions allotted or expected) has increased stress and reduced morale. I (and my staff) feel much less appreciated/recognized than we did two years ago.”
- “Company bought by larger, poorer quality company.”
- “Doing senior editor-level work, but no promotion or hope of same. Workload is insane. No staff support. Management is rotten at communicating and following through with plans.”
- “Nary a raise nor praise.”
What can be done? An improving economy will help, but a certain lack of both human resource competency and knowledge of the editorial process on the part of publication management apparently exists no matter the economic climate.
Compensation By Job Title
Notwithstanding the job satisfaction complaints, mean salaries increased 6.6% from last year’s $62,702 to $66,870 over all job titles. The overall median salary in 2004 was $60,000 compared to $57,000 in 2003, a 5.2% increase.
Table 1 shows both the current median and mean salaries for different job titles. All salary data included base salary as well any expected bonus.
Table 1. Compensation and Job Title
More than 80% of the respondents for the entire study were senior-level and executive-level editors. Therefore, the values for the mid-level editor position on down should be viewed with some skepticism because the number of respondents in those job categories was relatively low.
However, given the numbers we do have, for junior-level editors for example, when one factors in age and years of experience, the median salary goes down to a somewhat more realistic $26,000 for editors under age 25 and who have less than two years of journalism experience.
Number of Magazines Worked
The survey also showed that more editors now are working on more than one magazine. Two years ago, 59% of the respondents worked on only one magazine. Now, the percentage is 46%.
Table 2. Compensation and the Number of Publications Edited
|Five or more||$77,333||$70,000|
The data suggests this is more because of slow markets and budget constraints, rather than job promotions. Table 2 shows that median salary does not jump significantly with the number of magazines an editor works on until the number of magazines reaches four or more
The number of editors working more than 40 hours is almost the same now (63%) as it was two years ago (62%). Even those editors working more than 50 hours a week is the same: 9% now and two years ago.
However, Table 3 shows a sharp increase in the correlation of hours with pay at the more than 50-hour-a-week level. The median salary here is $85,500, compared to $66,000 at the 46- to 50-hour level. Analysis of the variance shows that job title is significantly related to compensation, but hours worked is not, and the combination of the two also is not significant.
Table 3. Compensation and the Number of Hours Worked
|Fewer than 40||$49,560||$47,500|
|41 to 45 hours||$62,731||$60,000|
|46 to 50 hours||$77,497||$66,000|
|More than 50 hours||$103,075||$85,500|


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Verses of prayse and ioye [microform] : written vpon her Maiesties preseruation. Whereunto is annexed Tychbornes lamentation, written in the towre with his own hand, and an aunswere to the same
- Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
The answer to Tichbornes lamentation is written by T.K., whose initials appear on A3r; has been variously attributed to Thomas Kyd and to Thomas Knell.
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- Available electronically as part of Early English books online.
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- Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1952. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 496:19).
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- Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) 7605.
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Book Review: Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi
Fantasy: Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi
Zelie’s mother was killed because she had magic. Many people were killed during The Raid, when magic disappeared from the world and those who once had used it were targeted by the king. Since that fateful night all those years ago, the magic was gone. Zelie had the white hair that indicated magical potential, but no magic could be found in the world. Then, a princess touches her with a mysterious scroll, and Zelie begins to find the power in herself that her mother once employed. The magic may be gone from Zelie’s world, but that is only because Tomi Adeyemi has put it into her amazing novel Children of Blood and Bone and has thus brought it into ours.
It’s easy sometimes to reduce stories to tropes. Hero’s journey? Check. Love story? Check. Misunderstood princess? Check. Young and untrained people discovering how to use magic? Check. And, sure, fine, those familiar themes are present in this novel. What sets a novel apart, though, is when it makes familiar ground new and exciting and different.
Here again, the easy and cheap thing to do is grab the obvious differences: Africa, not Europe or America. But this book is not different only because it is set in a part of the world that is underrepresented in published fantasy literature. This book is different because it is really, really good. The world building is amazing. The characters are real and flawed and heroic and common and everything you want in a character. Some of the scenes take your breath away. There is magic in this book, and it is not from the spells or the mystical powers or the artifacts. The magic is in the writing and the creativity and the depth of the story. The book may hide on the YA shelves of your local library, but it is a very mature story that should appeal to all ages. I could not put it down.
Two of the three main characters are female, but this is not a “girl’s” book (or a “boy’s” book–if there are such things). This is a good book. Will girls and women be thrilled to see the heroics come from a “her”? I hope so, but boys (and men) will also love to see the strength of these characters. As a reader, I also loved watching the growth and change in the characters through the course of the book. None of the three main characters is perfect, all are flawed, and all of them are different by the end than they were in the beginning. And although the next novel is perfectly set up, I have no idea what direction the characters will take in the next part of the story. I just know I am very eager to find out.


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Waterstone Resort & Marina features the area’s only 'on-the-water' dining experience overlooking Lake Boca and the beautiful Intracoastal Waterway.
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Here's a tasty lick from Gravelle-Perinbam's cover of the Cheap Trick 1979 classic Dream Police. This descending half diminished arpeggio appears once in the Regular Edition and twice in the Extended Edition. Although it's all triplets, the notes are grouped in fours!
You can hear the lick here:
You can listen to the full tracks on SoundCloud.
Extended Solo Edition:
There's also a lyric video!


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Presidio Trust officials gave a tour of some of the notable buildings at Fort Winfield Scott as the organization looks to find businesses to revitalize the historic artillery post. Read more here.
Rob Thomson, a preservation officer with the Presidio Trust, leads a tour into the old officer's club at Fort Winfield Scott on Monday, April 2, 2018. (Kevin N. Hume/S.F. Examiner)

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The 1st Pc networks were dedicated Exclusive-function systems which include SABRE (an airline reservation procedure) and AUTODIN I (a defense command-and-Manage procedure), both equally created and executed in the late fifties and early 1960s. Via the early 1960s Pc makers had begun to use semiconductor technological know-how in commercial products and solutions, and both equally standard batch-processing and time-sharing systems were in position in several huge, technologically State-of-the-art providers. Time-sharing systems permitted a pc’s resources to get shared in rapid succession with many users, biking with the queue of users so speedily that the computer appeared focused on Each individual consumer’s responsibilities despite the existence of numerous others accessing the procedure “simultaneously.” This led towards the notion of sharing Pc resources (termed host pcs or just hosts) over a whole community. Host-to-host interactions were envisioned, in conjunction with use of specialized resources (which include supercomputers and mass storage systems) and interactive accessibility by remote users towards the computational powers of time-sharing systems located somewhere else. These Strategies were very first understood in ARPANET, which recognized the very first host-to-host community relationship on October 29, 1969. It was produced because of the Highly developed Study Tasks Company (ARPA) with the U.S. Section of Protection. ARPANET was among the very first typical-function Pc networks. It connected time-sharing pcs at government-supported study web pages, principally universities in The usa, and it shortly grew to become a crucial piece of infrastructure for the computer science study community in The usa. Instruments and programs—like the simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP, commonly often called e-mail), for sending limited messages, as well as file transfer protocol (FTP), for extended transmissions—speedily emerged. In an effort to reach Value-powerful interactive communications in between pcs, which typically converse in short bursts of information, ARPANET utilized The brand new technological know-how of packet switching. Packet switching will take huge messages (or chunks of Pc facts) and breaks them into smaller, workable items (called packets) which will vacation independently over any readily available circuit towards the goal vacation spot, wherever the items are reassembled. Therefore, compared with conventional voice communications, packet switching doesn’t demand a one dedicated circuit in between Each individual pair of users. Industrial packet networks were released in the seventies, but these were created principally to supply successful use of remote pcs by dedicated terminals. Briefly, they changed extended-distance modem connections by much less-expensive “virtual” circuits over packet networks. In The usa, Telenet and Tymnet were two this kind of packet networks. Neither supported host-to-host communications; in the seventies this was nonetheless the province with the study networks, and it might stay so for many years. DARPA (Protection Highly developed Study Tasks Company; previously ARPA) supported initiatives for ground-centered and satellite-centered packet networks. The ground-centered packet radio procedure provided cell use of computing resources, whilst the packet satellite community connected The usa with various European nations around the world and enabled connections with greatly dispersed and remote locations. With all the introduction of packet radio, connecting a cell terminal to a pc community grew to become feasible. On the other hand, time-sharing systems were then nonetheless also huge, unwieldy, and expensive to get cell or simply to exist outside the house a climate-managed computing environment. A robust motivation So existed to attach the packet radio community to ARPANET so as to permit cell users with simple terminals to accessibility time-sharing systems for which they’d authorization. Likewise, the packet satellite community was employed by DARPA to url The usa with satellite terminals serving the United Kingdom, Norway, Germany, and Italy. These terminals, having said that, had to be connected to other networks in European nations around the world so as to reach the conclude users. Therefore arose the need to link the packet satellite Web, as well as the packet radio Web, with other networks. Foundation of the web The Internet resulted from the hassle to attach several study networks in The usa and Europe. To start with, DARPA recognized a method to investigate the interconnection of “heterogeneous networks.” This method, termed Internetting, was determined by the newly released principle of open up architecture networking, where networks with described standard interfaces could be interconnected by “gateways.” A Doing work demonstration with the principle was prepared. In order for the principle to operate, a new protocol had to be created and developed; without a doubt, a procedure architecture was also necessary. In 1974 Vinton Cerf, then at Stanford College in California, which author, then at DARPA, collaborated over a paper that very first explained such a protocol and procedure architecture—particularly, the transmission Manage protocol (TCP), which enabled differing types of equipment on networks all over the earth to route and assemble facts packets. 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In 1985–86 NSF funded the very first 5 supercomputing centres—at Princeton College, the College of Pittsburgh, the College of California, San Diego, the College of Illinois, and Cornell College. While in the 1980s NSF also funded the development and operation with the NSFNET, a national “backbone” community to attach these centres. Via the late 1980s the community was operating at many bits for each 2nd. NSF also funded several nonprofit neighborhood and regional networks to attach other users towards the NSFNET. A few commercial networks also began in the late 1980s; these were shortly joined by others, as well as Industrial World-wide-web Exchange (CIX) was formed to permit transit traffic in between commercial networks that usually wouldn’t happen to be permitted around the NSFNET backbone. In 1995, after in depth review of the problem, NSF decided that help with the NSFNET infrastructure was now not necessary, considering the fact that quite a few commercial vendors were now eager and capable of fulfill the requirements with the study community, and its help was withdrawn. Meanwhile, NSF had fostered a aggressive assortment of commercial World-wide-web backbones connected to one another by means of so-termed community accessibility factors (NAPs).


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Rockford College presents its 7th Biennial UnCommon Lives celebration March 16-20 honoring the lives of Extraordinary Women in the Arts.
Author Ann Patchett, actor Jane Alexander, classical guitarist Sharon Isbin, installation artist and photographer Sandy Skoglund and jazz violinist Regina Carter are all featured guests.
For information on events, contact Rockford College at 226-4100 or visit www.rockford.edu. Events are fully handicapped accessible.
Schedule of events is as follows:
Ann PatchettTuesday, March 16
Ann Patchett is a prolific novelist and writer whose works have been recognized by some of the most prestigious judges in literary criticism.
Patchett reads from her work at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 16 in Maddox Theatre, followed by a book signing. Patchett will engage in conversation with readers at the Rockford Public Library Montague Branch at 4 p.m.
Jane AlexanderWednesday, March 17
Jane Alexander, Tony and Emmy Award winner and four-time Oscar nominee, starred in dozens of movies. In her speech, Command Performance: The Art of Politics, Alexander will offer a thoughtful account of her days in Washington, D.C., bringing an outsiders perspective and an actors eye for human detail to the subject of bureaucratic politics.
Alexander will give the luncheons keynote address at noon, March 17, and will receive Rockford Colleges Jane Addams Medal. Reservations for the luncheon are required. Tickets are $35.
Sharon IsbinThursday, March 18
Sharon Isbin, the worlds foremost living classical guitarist, is known for her extraordinary lyricism, technique and versatility. Isbin will perform a recital at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, March 18, in Maddox Theatre.
Sandy SkoglundFriday, March 19
Noted installation artist and photographer Sandy Skoglund started working as a conceptual artist in New York in the early 1970s. Skoglund will give a slide lecture on Friday at 6 p.m., prior to the gallery opening of her exhibit at 7 p.m. Her show will include an installation piece she will create on Thursday with area art students and local artists using screws donated by Rockford Products Corporation.
Regina CarterSaturday, March 20
As a young musician, Regina Carter was hand-picked to join Wynton Marsailis Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. She has recorded with vocalist Cassandra Wilson, trombonist Steve Turre, pianists Kenny Barron and Danilo Perez, and guitarist Rodney Jones. Her quintet combines elements of funk, African, Brazilian and soul. Carters concert will be at 8 p.m., Saturday in Maddox Theatre. Saturday morning, she conducts a jazz workshop at Rockford College with local string students.


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Pegatron, a Taiwanese company that is one of the few companies assembling the iPhone, halted production at two factories in Shanghai and one in Kunshan to comply with the Chinese government’s strict COVID-19 regulations, according to Nikkei Asia. China has put strict policies in place in response to a recent resurgence of COVID-19 in the country.
The shutdown could have a significant impact on Pegatron and Apple. Nikkei Asia Pegatron reports that these factories are its only iPhone manufacturing centers, and Pegatron is responsible for manufacturing “approximately” 20-30% of all iPhones. Pegatron “hopes to resume production soon,” the publication says, though it’s unclear exactly when that might happen.
Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Quanta, which helps make MacBooks, has also halted production at a site in Shanghai, according to Nikkei Asia.
Supply chain issues have been a constant problem during the pandemic, affecting businesses across many industries. Tesla also had to close its Shanghai factory in response to Chinese restrictions, for example. And the global chip shortage has made it harder to buy all kinds of consumer electronics.


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The second inauguration address of Abraham Lincoln is as powerful as it is brief. He wrote a speech prompting for the end of the Civil War and the lasting vision he has for the future of the Union. Throughout the speech he uses comparisons, religion, and the moral high ground to move and rally the nation split over four years of civil war. Lincoln compares the response and lengths the North and South would go to obtain their interests. The slaves, to the South, were a “peculiar and powerful interest” since it greatly supported the Southern economy through the cotton industry.
1. What was the purpose of the Civil War for: The North/Union? Preserve the union, and then later on ending slavery. The South/Confederacy?
The Civil War was fought on U.S soil during the 1800’s for the cause to bring the nation back together and later in the war, to end slavery. As a result, The North or the Union ended up beating their opponent, the Confederacy. Why did the Union beat the Confederates? The Union won this battle because of material, economic and population advantages and the role that the African-Americans played in the war.
The economic impact of the war as is true in most if not all cases of war are that the spoils of war are the reward of the victors. The South was already in a weaker position in the industrial strength of its geographical coalition that it was amazing that they were as close to actually succeeding in their mission. They lacked the ability to replenish their troops with guns and ammunition and in many cases had to gather this gear from failed Confederate and Union soldiers. While in the north with a large population and a more sustained economy they were to accomplish the
The North was sick of being told that they were not protecting blacks in the South and neglected them. The South killed Reconstruction because of their resistance over the North’s help, and their corrupt ideas for reconstructing the
For one, many of the Confederate troops were volunteers with little experience. They were also poorly armed with very few weapons, which was especially evident on the second day of battle. Also, Johnston and Beauregard had no unified battle plan at the beginning causing mass confusion among Confederate troops. This resulted in the
After the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and the rise of the Republican party, Southerners feared the tipping of the balance of political power against them; their need for self-determination parallel the colonists’ belief of rebelling against the oppressive government of Great Britain. However, the Civil War represented something more: the clash of the feudalistic, agrarian South with the industrialized, capitalistic North. These two powers differed socially, politically, and economically, and were especially conflicted over slavery. These two sections of the United States were divided against one another, and could not survive this way. Therefore, it is more accurate to state that though the Civil War resembled some aspects of the American Revolution, it was a clash between two forces who could not exist with one another in their current state, leading inevitably to conflict between the
In this paper there has been a discussion of the legislation and the tensions preceding the southern Secession. Based on this discussing it can be concluded that the tensions, which culminated with the Civil War, were present many decades before the secession itself. Even threats of Civil war and secession were present much prior to this particular conflict. This paper has also concluded that the threat of Lincoln was real to the South, because of the Republican party’s very distinct foundation as an anti-slavery party. Slavery was a soft spot in the South because of the substantial value slaves had.
Southern soldiers viewed the confederacy as their country and were compelled to fight for the safety of it. Confederate soldiers enlisted to protecting their native lands from what they understood as invaders. The Confederacy sentiments of the Union was they were imposing upon the southern way of life. For instance, a young soldier from Kentucky wrote “sink or swim, survive or perish” (McPherson 11). The average Confederate soldier felt that they the Union was trying to destroy the legacy of the founder fathers by enslaving them and reversing the actions of the American Revolution.
Distinguished members of Congress, we the United States of America, have fought two years of this war, costly in both currency and lives, against a group of rebels, who against the Constitution seceded and formed the so-called “Confederate States of America,” but for what purpose are we fighting? We fight to end the brutal institution of slavery, to uphold our constitution and moreover to uphold this glorious union of all American states. How, you may ask, do we create a nation composed of persons of many different beliefs? We must firstly handle the issue of those engaged in the creation and protection of those treasonous states, next is the issue of use of the land of the rebel states, and finally we shall discuss the fractious issue of
However, these differences show that the North and South were actually two distinct countries held together by one constitution. The North felt that decisions regarding slavery and its legality were entrenched in the central government while the South felt that such decision belonged to the individual states. In the times preceding the war, both sides could not reach a compromise. Bonner mentions, “Because secession and war were permitted to come, warned Russel, "We are not entitled to lay the flattering unction to our souls that the Civil War was an inevitable conflict (Bonner, 195).” Hence, these differences could only be addressed through war.
In an attempt to improve the situation, Northern congressmen were quick to bring up that many of the South's most respected statesmen, either Thomas Jefferson, had often expressed a desire to find any solution of perpetuating slavery. So far now the South presented a virtually solid opposition and Thomas Jefferson joined their campaign which were required to force manumission upon a new state. Many days of arguments in the congress debates between the Northern and Southern congressmen about the Missouri controversy and the way headed the sessions were portending that the next era will initiate to a recurring sectional no way. Later on, this arguments will be a main and important reason in the civil war
With the beginning of his second term and the Civil War coming to a close, President Lincoln was burdened by a country torn apart by war. Speaking to a nation of divided loyalties, Lincoln hoped his humble approach of divine strength would convince both the North and the South to put aside their prejudices against each other and restore the shattered Union. Lincoln’s allusion, parallel structure, and syntax helped restore the nation with dignity and grace. The newly elected president began his speech by suggesting that he would not repeat what others have said in the past; little progress had been made, and the public was very aware of the negative progress the troops were making.
Four years prior to his second Inaugural Address, President Lincoln had given a speech about war, “an impending civil war.” Now, after four years of such conflict, the President is issuing a speech of reconciliation, trying to convince his people to come back together with their Southern brethren, and try and heal the grievously wounded nation. A gifted rhetorician, the President used three primary literary tool s to make his point: parallel structure to illustrate similarities between Northerner and Southerner, allusions to the Bible to highlight the Christian values so important to both, and personification to paint the war as an evil enemy, and the nation as a wounded friend. In the second paragraph, Lincoln concludes with the parallel statements “one… would make war rather than let the nation survive… the other would accept war rather than let it parish, and the war came.”

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Marble logging plans get neighbor barking
A small-scale controversy, described by one government official as being “like the Hatfields and McCoys,” has erupted in the tiny hamlet of Marble high in the Crystal River Valley.
Local landowner Larry Darien is planning to clear-cut about 25 acres of aging aspen trees on land he owns at the base of Prospect Mountain, in an operation that is expected to be completed within a matter of weeks.
At least one neighbor, however, has objected to the operation, although it appears his objections will have no effect.
John Armstrong, an Aspen Skiing Co. employee who runs the Prospect Mountain Ranch resort in the summers, has voiced concerns about environmental impacts from the building of roads into the clear-cutting site, the clear-cutting itself, and the truck traffic.
But Marble town officials and county bureaucrats don’t seem to be alarmed about the matter.
Mayor pro-tem Vince Savage, reached on Tuesday, said he was unaware of Darien’s plans.
“It’s just a pity to see people doing that in this valley,” he said, when informed of the project.
According to Gunnison County Manager John DeVore, the Darien logging project has been approved by county officials, whose only concerns were whether logging truck traffic would tear up county roads or pose a hazard for area motorists.
DeVore said his public works department has studied the plans and determined that they would not have a negative effect on the roads. Darien has said the operation will involve a maximum of 70 trips by logging trucks, which officials say should not be a problem.
Confirming that he is aware of the dispute surrounding Darien’s plans, DeVore chuckled and remarked, “Sometimes it’s like the Hatfields and the McCoys up there.”
Starting on Nov. 4, crews began clearing roads into Larry Darien’s portion of the old family ranch. The trees are being cut down by a logging contractor, who will sell them to the Louisiana-Pacific wafer board operation in the Grand Valley.
Darien said he plans to cut down about half the aspen trees at the site, as well as any of the larger spruce trees, and leave small spruces standing.
“Nobody’s even going to see it,” he pledged.
Darien said he operates a bed and breakfast that looks up at the area where the clear-cut will be, and added, “I’m not going to do anything that’s going to jeopardize that.”
When the logging is completed, Darien said, he plans to use the logging roads for cross country ski trails, clear a place for an ice skating rink, and run a water pipe down one of the roads from Rapid Creek to a small hydroelectric plant that will generate power for his ranch.
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With all the big releases pretty much out, most people are looking forward to what 2013 has to offer. With big titles like The Last of Us, Rayman Legends, Bioshock Infinite and DmC, it’s easy to understand the hype. Among the many games is Ni no Kuni, which is your standard RPG with some tweaks and an interesting story to boot. While this sounds good on paper, Namco Bandai is letting you get a crack at it this Tuesday.
When the Playstation Store updates this Tuesday, gamers will have the chance to download the demo and see if it’s up your ally. Before you get too excited, no information was given on what the demo would cover, but it will most likely be the E3 stuff. This was basically 2 stages for 10 minutes (it was timed) and some story to put some framing on the situation. Sure it’s not much, but at least you will have plenty of time to buy it, as it’s currently set to release on January 22nd 2013.

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On Tuesday, backbench Liberal MP Frank Baylis described Canada’s current legal framework governing online platforms like Facebook as the “Wild West.” He’s right.
As we’ve seen from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and from Facebook’s own admissions about how much data it is collecting, even from people who don’t use its service, anything goes at the moment.
But at the same time, there is also nothing to control how Canadian political parties collect and use the vast amounts of data they gather to target, sway and mobilize voters.
The good news is there is a simple solution to that particular problem. Both Liberal and Conservative members of the Commons privacy committee expressed support this week for calls to subject political parties to federal privacy laws.
That’s a good idea. Making parties play by the same data-collection and protection rules as banks and airlines – and subjecting them to the possibility of being investigated by the privacy commissioner’s office – holds both practical and symbolic value.
It won’t fix all the problems with the untamed online frontier – a broader legislative reform is required for that – but it’s a start. And there’s an urgent need to get moving on this.
New research from the 2016 U.S. election suggests targeted, highly partisan messages both from political parties and outside organizations – particularly those that traffic in fake news – might be able to sway sufficient numbers of voters to swing a close election.
In February, researchers at Ohio State University published a paper – it has yet to be peer-reviewed – that found that small but significant numbers of swing voters in Democratic states believed it was “definitely true” or “probably true” that Hillary Clinton was in failing health (12 per cent), or approved arms sales to ISIS (20 per cent), or that Pope Francis endorsed Donald Trump’s candidacy (eight per cent).
All those stories are canards, but those who believed them were more than three times as likely to flip their vote. The authors concluded it is “highly likely” that distorted and fake news affected the outcome.
In a data memo published last month, academics at Oxford University found that junk news, i.e. “ideological extremism, misinformation and the intention to persuade readers to respect or hate a candidate or policy based on emotional appeals,” outperforms real news in terms of reach when disseminated by so-called “bots” on social media (they specifically examined the state of Michigan in 2016).
A forthcoming study in the journal Political Communication, peer-reviewed this time, tracked more than five-million targeted political ads on Facebook in the six weeks leading up to the 2016 U.S. election.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found 122 groups that purchased and ran commercials on hot-button subjects – guns, race, terrorism and the like – that were unknown to federal electoral regulators. One-sixth had links to the Russian-funded Internet Research Agency, which has previously turned its sights on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and projects like the Keystone XL pipeline.
The environment in which political campaigns are fought matters. What the American example shows is the contours of that environment are shifting in our polarized and partisan online world, and much of it is happening beyond our view, because fake news campaigns are only seen by relatively small numbers of carefully targeted voters.
For all we know, sub rosa online influence campaigns are conditioning Canada’s increasingly acrimonious pipeline debate, or the provincial election campaign currently unfolding in Ontario. There is no way to tell.
What Canada needs is laws governing internet companies, something the European Union has already put in place. But that will take time. In the interim, the Trudeau government should take up Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien’s suggestion to extend the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act to political parties. And it should do it before the 2019 federal election.
Mr. Therrien said this week the government has made overtures, “but I still do not see a very clear intent to act.”
If this basic reform does not materialize, Canada’s political parties will appear to have placed their strategic interests ahead of setting an example, and of launching the broader effort to tame the lawlessness of the online world.


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Price: 1 550 €
An office space in a new office building with a perfect location in Lozenets district.
The office building has a reception, security guard, representative entrance, view over the city center.
VAT is not included in the price.
Lozenets district is located just south of the city center. The area borders the South Park, separating it from the neighborhoods of Ivan Vazov and Strelbishte. In the park there are several built-up areas - the shopping center Park Center Sofia and Spartak Swimming Complex. In the area of "Lozenets" neighborhood is also the Sofia Zoo, Marinela Hotel, Hemus Hotel, Hilton Hotel and National Museum "Earth and Man"


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Bate, F., & Steketee, C. (2010). Understanding the pedagogical world-view of clinical teachers in Australia: An evidence-based approach. European Association for Practitioner Research on Improving Learning (EAPRIL) Conference.
The education of tomorrow’s medical workforce is critical to the sustenance of healthy and progressive communities, particularly in the context of an aging population. Ongoing professional development focusing on the processes underpinning teaching and learning are important for clinical teachers (typically practicing doctors and surgeons) who, as busy professionals, also shoulder much of the responsibility for passing medical knowledge from one generation to the next. This paper discusses a recent study which posed two core questions: What pedagogical principles do clinical teachers perceive as important in underpinning their role as educators? And How do these perceptions differ from those held by education professionals? Results of the study revealed stark differences between clinical teachers and education professionals. These differences have implications for future professional support programs.
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The real estate market has always been a dynamic and ever-evolving sector. As we approach the year 2024, it's essential to examine the trends, factors, and predictions that are likely to shape the real estate landscape in the coming year. While no one can predict the future with absolute certainty, we can make informed projections based on existing data and prevailing economic conditions. In this blog, we'll explore some of the key trends and predictions for the real estate market in 2024.
1) Increase in Demand for Housing
One of the fundamental drivers of the real estate market is the demand for housing. Fannie Mae predicts in 2024 this demand is expected to increase by 10%, fueled by a growing population, urbanization, and changing demographics. Millennials, the largest generation in the United States, continue to reach prime home-buying age, driving a significant portion of the demand for both rental and ownership housing.
2) Increase in Sales Price
Prices are intricately connected with housing inventory. Sellers are likely to remain reluctant to give up their low interest rate for a much higher one, so inventory will remain constrained. That means that prices are unlikely to fall on a year-over-year basis, unless demand falters. Experts predict housing prices will continue to increase, however it will be at a slower rate of 3-4% year-over-year rather than previous years 5-10%.
3) Decrease in Interest Rates
We are already seeing interest rates steady out in the 7-8% range. Interest rates are likely to decline, slowly but steadily, over the year. This decline should begin once the Federal Reserve confirms that it’s done raising the Fed Funds rate for this cycle. But borrowers shouldn’t expect to see mortgage loans with 4% interest rates; it’s more likely that rates will gradually work their way down from 7%, and possibly end next year in the 5-6% range.
4) Will There be A Housing Recession?
Experts predict that there is no housing market crash looming in 2024. Lending standards are much more strict now than they were before the Great Recession, and with low inventory and high demand both continuing, the housing market is not likely to enter a recession in 2024.
Predictions conclude real estate will continue to be a seller's market throughout 2024. With an increase in housing demand, low inventory, and possibly the decrease in interest rates, buyers are expected to be on the hunt for homes. Sellers are expected to remain in their current homes not willing to forgo their low interest rate for higher prices and higher rates.
If you would like to speak further about 2024 market predictions and whether it's a good time for you to purchase or sell a property, speak to an expert on our team.

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About This Game
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This unique demo disc was released in anticipation of the PlayStation 1's launch on September 9, 1995 for those who pre-ordered the system. The disc featured CD music tracks from several Sony artists -- The The, Dag, Korn, Mother May I, and Dandelion -- that was playable in any CD player while you waited for your PS1 to arrive in stores. Once you received the system, the disc served as a demo disc for the PlayStation, with 3D graphic displays of realtime demos, including the same technical demonstrations used to wow audiences when the PS1 was first shown to the gaming press (including the Dinosaur demo as well as "Balls", "Diffusion", "Rcube", "Mat", "Oden", "Movie", "Texture Movie", and Manta. While there were no gameplay videos on the disc, the demos showed off the graphic power of the console in displaying advanced 3D as well as presenting full-motion video and other qualities.
PlayStation Developer's Demo DiscPublisher: Sony Computer EntertainmentRelease Date: Pre-Launch - August 1995
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1/2 Ctw Diamond Lovebright Wedding Set with 3/8 Ctw Round Cut Engagement Ring and 1/8 Ctw Wedding Band in 14K White Gold
Celebrate your infinite love with this gleaming 14 karat white gold lovebright diamond wedding set. The engagement ring is adorn with an array of 9 invisible set round cut diamonds at the center further embellished with dazzling 44 bezel and pave set round cut diamonds that lined the split shank in brilliant rows. Brilliant 24 pave set round cut diamonds add sparkle to the beauty of this curved designed wedding band. Total diamond weight for the set is 1/2 ctw.


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Supposedly have huge fibroid my body is falling apart though
I was diagnosed with a large fibroid via ER. They did regular and transvaginal ultrasound. They seemed really sad and told me I was it looks like I don’t have cancer my ovaries are healthy but pushed in the middle and insisted I go right away to gyno. I did not have insurance but the lacare and the doctors that would accept was like over half a year waiting process. That’s besides the point this thing is about 5 x 5 inches and I’m 29. I have this dull back pain in my lower left back that doesn’t go away. I pee nonstop. I guess that’s the symptoms but idk something isn’t right here. I hate to say it but I think I’m dying. My dog who is a hyperactive Dogo and mind u I’ve been I’ll before he stopped asking for walks and spends all of his time sleeping next to me. My full back ache was so bad I couldn’t sit at my pc. I don’t know what to do. My bf he sort of controls everything and when the tumor would have been small enough to be removed he told me I was crazy and didn’t have one. Recently I noticed a toooth abcess he told me I was crazy well I just went to dentist not only do I have abcess they have to pull the whole tooth. I live in the woods and I don’t know how to drive so I can’t just leave and go to hospital and if I try to tell him he will just think I’m crazy. But I’m just wondering is this normal to feel or maybe could I be right? I’m also maybe only around 108 pounds at 5”5. Something that concerned me as well seems most people with fibroids gain weight I do not. If anyone has any advice let me know but tbh I find out this is cancer I currently run a startup and there is no way I can lead my team with that in my head. Please advise. :/
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@sailormoon That's a lot to deal with at a young age. I know you said there is a wait, but did you make the gyno appointment? Fibroids are very often benign, but still cause a lot of symptoms and discomfort – and anxiety until you get answers.
If I were in your situation, I would grab my computer and look for the nearest Women's Reproductive Health Clinic – Planned Parenthood or someone like that. Call and explain your situation, and get an appointment. If your boyfriend won't take you, find a family member, friend or neighbor to help you.
If you take some action to help yourself, it will make you feel less fearful while you wait. Please let me know what you find as far as resources, you deserve answers.
Hi @sailormoon. I am also in my late 20s and have multiple fibroids. Mine are caused by an underlying genetic condition that makes them grow more aggressively than average and affect you at an age that is younger than average (fibroids are ultimately very common, but it is typically less common in your 20s). Mine cause bulk symptoms like pelvic pain, longer and heavier menstrual cycles with a lot of clotting and a lot more cramping, and frequent urination. I agree with @sueinmn that it would be good to seek care if at all possible. There are treatment options, and it will probably be helpful to know your options — it may also help to have more answers for what is going on. I wish you all the best!
@sailormoon, did you get any further answers for yourself? How are you doing/feeling?
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Hammered by the tsunami, the Thai flood and a monster yen, the Japanese car industry is looking back at one of the worst years in modern history. Amazingly, Japan’s top three, Toyota, Nissan and Honda survived the year intact, and are looking at a profit.
Of all Japanese automakers, Mazda is bleeding the most. 70 percent of Mazda’s production is in Japan, and 90 percent is for export. Mazda predicts that it will close the fiscal year on March 31 with a net loss of 100 billion yen ($1.25 billion.) This will be the fourth year of losses for Mazda. On top of all the disasters, Mazda has to digest a painful divorce from Ford which cut into overseas production capacities. In the words of Mazda,
“Its financial standing has temporarily worsened due to rapid changes in its business environment, including the continuing sharp appreciation of the yen since 2011, the unstable economic conditions such as the financial crisis in European countries, as well as large-scale disasters such as the Great East Japan Earthquake and the floods in Thailand.”
How is Mazda going to survive this?
It will sell shares instead of cars.
In order to finance urgent investments, which target 50 percent overseas production by 2016, Mazda announced today that it wants to raise up to $2 billion via a public share offering. This means a haircut for current shareholders to the tune of a massive 69 percent dilution, Reuters says.
Some of the money will go towards building factories in Mexico and Russia, most of it will be spent in Japan. While other automakers are forging alliances to share the cost of research in new and untested technologies, Mazda fights alone. It is betting on optimizing the internal combustion engine with its Skyactiv technology, an exercise in diminishing returns.
50 percent overseas production by 2016 are widely regarded as too little, too late. Nissan and Honda only have 24 percent of global production in Japan, Toyota has 44 percent of its global production in Japan. All of them would like to lower exposure to the yen as quickly as possible.