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I felt like a kid on Christmas upon hearing the news of another new song from Minnesota family band Tiny Moving Parts. "Boxcar" is the second song to be released from the band's forthcoming sophomore full-length Pleasant Living, which is already gearing up to be one of the best albums of the year.
It's already easy to tell that Pleasant Living will most certainly not be This Couch Is Long and Full of Friendship: The Second Cushion in any way, shape, or form. TMP's debut record showcased the brash, louder sides of their math-rock, emo-"skramz" sound. What "Boxcar" and the previously-released "Always Focused" are showing us is that it's perfectly alright to take a chill pill and let the music just come out.
The one thing that stuck in my mind, aside from the fact that I kept pressing "repeat" over and over again, was how much I was reminded of Blink-182 throughout the whole song. I thought it may be due to the fact that frontman Dylan Mattheisen has half-traded in his throat-endangering shouts for actual melodic singing this time around, until I listened to "Always Focused" again. It's clear that Tiny Moving Parts are reaching for influence and roots-based ideologies on Pleasant Living. There's a heavy '90s punk vibe laden throughout both tracks, even if you have to pick at it with tweezers to notice it.
Overall, the track is outstanding. Mattheisen's vocals may be an acquired taste–even more so now–but he still shines and is an energetic and endearing frontman; not to mention, he is easily one of the best guitarists in the game right now. His cousins Matt (bass/vocals) and Bill Chevalier (drums) also stand out in their respective rights within the song's two and a half minutes; everything just sounds so tightly together in such a defined unit that I can't even think of specifics. The parts, as tiny as they claim to be, are moving together at a rapid pace, and this band is going to explode with their upcoming release.
Tiny Moving Parts will release Pleasant Living on September 9th through Triple Crown Records. You can listen to "Boxcar" over at Noisey.


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Every year we make sure to gather colleagues from our largest markets in Germany, China and the USA for the Stringo Global Meeting. This year we will be meeting in our home region in the High Coast in northern Sweden in order to draw up guidelines for how we will develop in future, and better understand the global challenges and the conditions with our customers.
At Stringo we are currently at an important stage. The automotive industry is changing rapidly and we have a desire to be at the forefront when it comes to our customers' needs and wishes.
"We have had some very interesting days," explains CEO Nina Thelin. "We all welcome the efforts that we have made so far this year in terms of quality and development for our continued expansion. That also includes some exciting cooperation work we have initiated with some of our customers."
Stringo operates in a global market and our customers consist primarily of a number of car industries. Our vehicle movers are used within several stages of the development and manufacturing process, and therefore require a high degree of flexibility and customisation."Our great strength throughout the years has been our high level of service and unique customer solutions. The talks concerning this during the Global Meeting have been very rewarding for continuing this customer need," explains Global Marketing Manager, Andreas Berglund. We have a common approach that extends across all our markets, and we also see a continued global growth within the automotive industry which we are now adapting to."

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On the largest of Greece's Dodecanese Islands, known for it's beach resorts and ancient ruins, Rhodes became the breathtaking backdrop for the most intimate and beautiful exchanging of vows and celebration of Paulina & Stasi. Guests sat amidst a long table that lined 19 meters of florals flown in from Amsterdam, and as the sun set against the horizon at Ktima Lindos the night sky was filled with twinkling lights, surprise fireworks and a shake up from an earthquake on a nearby island. We chat to Paulina, an Event Coordinator who knew from day one she wanted to be her own wedding planner despite the distance!
We had 45 guests travel from all over the world. Brisbane, Hong Kong, Paris, San Fransisco, Boston and London.
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No early plan for an American city is more celebrated than that drawn up by the French-born military engineer and architect Pierre Charles L'Enfant (1754-1825) for the nation's capital. The son of a painter of military scenes with ties to the French court, L'Enfant was trained at France's premier art school, the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. In 1777 he volunteered for the French army to serve as a military engineer during the American Revolution, eventually becoming a member of George Washington's staff. After the war he pursued a career as an engineer and architect in New York, where he was acclaimed for his redesign of City Hall in 1789. His reputation and ties to President Washington made him a logical selection to plan an entirely new national capital, a task he began in 1791.
L'Enfant's plan, with its broad diagonal avenues connecting large public squares, monuments, and major buildings, was influenced by the European trends in urban planning since the mid-sixteenth century. His plan for Washington is often compared to the layout of the palatial parks favored by France's royalty and aristocracy, such as those at Versailles and Fountainbleu. Though the plan's general scheme follows these formulas, it reflected a military engineer's sensitivity to the character and details of the local terrain. L'Enfant ensured that the most important public buildings, such as the capitol and the President's house, would be situated on the highest and best land, giving them commanding prospects over the entire city. The plan provided generously for the construction of monuments and public squares fitting for the Capitol of a great nation. Yet L'Enfant also thought of the many squares and plazas placed generously throughout the city as focal points of neighborhood life, similar to the intimate squares of Italian cities and his native Paris. Finally, and much like Penn's Philadelphia before it, L'Enfant's plan was spacious in conception, with indeterminate boundaries to accommodate the future growth of the great city he envisioned.
Though the key elements of the original 1791 plan were preserved in this version, first published in 1792 by the city's surveyor, Andrew Ellicott (1754-1820), L'Enfant was displeased with the subtle differences. L'Enfant served at the pleasure of the man who hired him, George Washington, but was required to work under the supervision of Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson and three commissioners. Washington was pleased with L'Enfant's original design, preserved in a manuscript that is now in the Library of Congress. But L'Enfant, by all accounts a proud man, apparently chafed at supervision. Matters came to a head when he was unable to produce a printed version of his plan in time for the first sale of city lots in October 1791. This was a matter of some urgency, because the commissioners were compelled by law to offer lots of the new city to support the construction of the buildings that would house the federal government in time for its planned move from Philadelphia to Washington in 1800. When a suitable plan was not engraved or printed in time for a second sale of land in November 1791, Jefferson and the commissioners asked Ellicott himself to finish the engraving of the map. Ellicott did so without the consultation of L'Enfant, and his version departed in several ways from L'Enfant's design. Many of the original planned diagonal avenues and plazas were missing. Other avenues, notably Pennsylvania Avenue, were realigned, ignoring planned sightlines and transforming them into uninterrupted thoroughfares. The squares were rendered as open plazas, undermining the intimacy of the squares as communal meeting points. Worst of all, L'Enfant's name was nowhere on the map, whereas Ellicott's was. This was more than L'Enfant could bear, and his complaints (apparently rudely delivered to Washington) and unwillingness to submit to the supervision of the commissioners, led to his dismissal as the planner of the national capital. Ellicott stepped into this role, with long-term consequences for the way L'Enfant's design was implemented on the ground.
Only Ellicott's versions of the plan were ever published. The first, diminutive edition was published in The Universal Asylum, and Columbian Magazine, in Philadelphia in 1792 to publicize the new city. A second, larger version appeared in the same year, which was copied faithfully in the edition published in London in 1795 to accompany a general history and description of the young nation by William Winterbotham. Winterbotham's flowery description of the city reflects none of the disputes among its planners:
The plan of the city, agreeably to the direction of the President of the United States, was designed and drawn by the celebrated Major L'Enfant, and it is an inconceivable improvement upon all others, combining not only convenience, regularity, elegance of prospect, and a free circulation of air, but every thing grand and beautiful that can possibly be introduced into a city. (p. 69)
The plan of the city, agreeably to the direction of the President of the United States, was designed and drawn by the celebrated Major L'Enfant, and it is an inconceivable improvement upon all others, combining not only convenience, regularity, elegance of prospect, and a free circulation of air, but every thing grand and beautiful that can possibly be introduced into a city. (p. 69)
The great avenues, Winterbotham writes, "not only produce a variety of choice prospects, but remove that insipid sameness that renders other cities unpleasing." (p. 69) Taking this remark at face value, Winterbotham may have found "unpleasing" the simplicity and plainness of Philadelphia's plan that was so appealing to Quaker sensibilities. He praises the site of the future city and its surroundings in terms comparable to the rhetoric adopted by American community promoters throughout the coming nineteenth century, calling it "a tract of territory exceeded in point convenience, salubrity, and beauty, by none in America, if any of the world: for although the land is apparently level, yet by gentle and gradual swellings, a variety of elegant prospects are produced" (p. 67). Winterbotham dwells on the availability of fresh water, the productivity of surrounding agricultural land, and the suitability of the Eastern Branch (Anacostia River) as a harbor, and the centrality of the location in relation to the 15 states existing in 1795. This rhetoric, and the prominent numbering of the city blocks on the map, remind us that however elegant L'Enfant's design may have been, however well that plan provided a blueprint for the monumental and important city Washington would become, in the 1790s it was most immediately a real estate enterprise, whose success depended on the sale and occupation of land. In this respect the L'Enfant/Ellicott maps were blueprints for American urban mapping in the coming century.
Though there were more than 8,000 people living in the District of Columbia by the time it officially became the capital of the United States in 1800, for much of the nineteenth century it struggled to fill out its ambitious outlines. The reclamation of land that would extend the mall westward into the shallow waters and marshes on the northeastern bank of the Potomac lay nearly a century in the future. The Senate Park Commission's work, featuring Daniel Burnham's ideas for transforming the Mall into its present form, waited until the turn of the twentieth century. Yet modern Washington, D.C., is clearly recognizable in this image from 1795, testimony to the ultimate success of much of L'Enfant's vision, despite the liberties L'Enfant's contemporaries took in implementing many of its details.
See also:
The City Beautiful
Jennings, J.L. Sibley, Jr. "Artistry as Design." Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 36, no. 3 (Summer 1979): 225-278.
Miller, Iris. Washington in Maps, 1606-2000. New York: Rizzoli, 2002.
Stephenson, Richard W. "The Delineation of the Grand Plan." Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 36, no. 3 (Summer 1979): 207-224.
Stephenson, Richard W. "From L'Enfant to the Senate Park Commission: Mapping the Nation's Capital from 1791 to 1902.". The Occasional Papers, Series no. 6. Washington: Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, 2014.
Ellicott, Andrew. "Plan of the city of Washington in the territory of Columbia [map]." (1792). 42 x 50 cm. "Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Library of Congress." http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3850.ct000299
Ellicott, Andrew. "Territory of Columbia [map]." (1793). 56 x 56 cm. "Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Library of Congress." http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3850.ct003597
Andrew Ellicott, "Plan of the City of Washington in the Territory of Columbia, ceded by the States of Virginia and Maryland to the United States of America, and by them Established as the Seat of Their Government after the Year 1800," in William Winterbotham, An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the American United States (London, J. Ridgway [et al.], 1795), vol. 3, opp. p. 67. The Newberry Library, Case E18 .W78 1795


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Topics covered are: case studies of fatalities, OSHA rules, evaluation, options for entry, hazards, training requirements, instrumentation, ventilation, entry permits, confined space program elements, competent person responsibilities, and options for rescue.
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The Deficit Reduction Act made it possible for all states who wish to to offer Partnership for Long-term Care policies. The NAIC model law and regulation specify that agents must meet certain continuation requirements in order to sell this product. In most states, agents will be required to take an 8-hour course in order to transact any type of LTC/Partnership LTC insurance policies. Agents must then take a 4-hour CE course each license period.
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Initial 8-hour training requirement: Before selling, soliciting or negotiating LTC insurance products in Arizona, a producer must be licensed with the "Accident and Health or Sickness" line of authority; and have completed eight (8) hours of Arizona approved initial LTC training.
Ongoing 4-hour training requirement: A 4-hour follow-up course must be completed during every two-year period succeeding July 1, 2009, after the two-year period in which the person satisfied the initial 8-hour LTC training requirement.
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Did I just have this on on Tueday? Why, yes, yes I did! Good thing I got yogurt on my pants and had to wash them with the sheets when McKinley had an accident on Wednesday! Oh, and I washed the top as well! Since it was clean, I decided that Thursday was the day to wear it again! I added a heavier scarf and my moto jacket since it was a little cooler than Southern California! Still love the look, love the pants so much I ordered them in gray, and love these booties so much I may never wear another shoe all season.....that's just crazy talk on a Friday! I will so wear my other shoes, especially the pair that are in the mail coming from Rodeo Drive. Stay tuned....
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Casa La Samblena Inn Guesthouse
Avenida Pardo 885, Avenida Pardo 885, Cusco, Peru
- Free Breakfast
- Free Wi-Fi
- 24 Hour Reception
- 24 Hour Security
- Cable TV
- Café
- Currency Exchange
- Free City Maps
- Hair Dryers
- Hot Showers
- Housekeeping
- Internet Access
- Linen Included
- Microwave
- Safe Deposit Box
- Shuttle Bus
- Towels Included
- Towels for hire
- Wake-up calls
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Casa La Samblena Inn Policies and Conditions:
Cancellation policy: 72h before arrival.
Check in from 11:00.
Check out before 10:00 .
Payment upon arrival by cash, credit cards, debit cards.
The debit and credit cards must be only Visa. The rest are not accepted.
This property might pre-authorize your credit card.
Taxes included.
Breakfast included.
The reception service is open 24 hours per day.
No curfew.
This property might pre-authorize your credit card.
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- Credit Cards Accepted
- No Curfew
- Taxes Included
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Group of 15 or more traveling to Cusco?
Private Rooms
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About Casa La Samblena Inn
Casa La Samblena Inn is a cozy and functional guesthouse that will offer you the very best of Cusco and Peru. We capitalize our knowledge of the city and our experience in the sector to offer to the guests and travellers an excellent service that will make their stay pleasant and fantastic.
Accommodation Information
We have several private accommodation options to different types of guests and travellers. In this sense we have private rooms ideal for couples, twin rooms ideal for two friends travelling together and rooms for three and four people which are ideal for groups of friends or families. In addition, we have cable TV, Wifi across the property, smoking area, heating machine and other amenities such as coffe and tea. Furthermore, we also have tourist information available.
Location Information
We are located in one of the best spots of the city, near to some of the most fantastic tourist attractions and landmarks of the city. In this sense, from our facilities, the guests can reach easily on foot some of the finest such as Qorikancha, Plaza De Armas and Museo Machu Pichu amongst other attractions and interesting spots that are reachable easily from our position walking.
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Customers can cancel their reservation free of charge up to 3 days before arrival. After this date, charges will be applied by the property up to the first nights cost of the reservation, unless otherwise stated in the property's conditions. Deposits paid are non refundable.


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Todd Shimko Insurance Agency LLC provides comprehensive insurance options.
We are your trusted independent insurance agency.
Your family, your business and your possessions are all important to you, but you may not know how to best protect them. We have the experience to navigate the unique risks you face, serving as your insurance advisor.
Todd Shimko established Shimko Insurance in 2006 after previously managing and overseeing sales through other well-known insurance companies. Since its founding, Shimko Insurance has been operating in Selinsgrove, PA as a family-owned and operated agency and providing insurance to clients throughout Pennsylvania.
Along with personal and business insurance, some of our specialties, include home insurance, auto insurance, farm insurance and contractor insurance. Our agents are committed to finding the most suitable protection for you, your family and your business.
Agents, Todd and Rhonda, value educating you on your insurance options while comparing rates of over 15 carriers to find you the best possible coverage, at the best possible price, because you deserve it. Life is full of the unknown and they want you to feel secure knowing you have a team here to help you through it.
You deserve the utmost attention which is why we exemplify true values in a customer-centric approach to every inquiry. Shimko agents take the time to get to know our clients, so we can best fit a program, truly for them.
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We proudly give back to our community, both in monetary donations and actively volunteering to local organizations.
Todd is also a firefighter/EMT with both the Kreamer Fire Dept and Dauntless Hook and Ladder of Selinsgrove.
Todd is also a firefighter/EMT with both the Kreamer Fire Dept and Dauntless Hook and Ladder of Selinsgrove.
As an independent insurance agency we have great relationships with many well-known, reputable insurance companies, giving you the power of choice.
Our insurance advisors have years of experience in the insurance industry and serve as your advocate from selecting coverage through filing a claim.
Our insurance advisors have a strong passion for insurance and protecting what you value most in business and in life. We treat our customers like family.


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October 5 has been a full day of celebrating Gilmore Girls. First and foremost, this day marks the 16th anniversary of the premiere of the series we all know and love. So 200 coffee shops around the country became IRL Luke's Diners, where you could get one of Luke's signature cups of coffee. Then, we had our eyes glued to our computers when Netflix released a new featurette to promote its revival Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (as if we needed more incentive to tune in), which gave us a behind-the-scenes look at the show and reunited us with the beloved members of the original cast. Spoiler: They're just excited as we are to be coming back to Stars Hollow.
And now, we discovered yet another glorious Gilmore Girls surprise: A whole new Stars Hollow website is now live, and it's actually amazing. Well, it's not exactly new — Kirk apparently lost the password back in 2007. Classic Kirk. The site seems like it was created as the official online hub for the town, and it's essentially a Gilmore Girls paradise.
The "Town Updates" section looks to be a log of every town event we ever saw documented in the series, and the dates of each post actually match up with the dates their corresponding episode aired, according to HelloGiggles. There's also a "Local Artists" tab, where users can view some lovely fan art, and a "Town Directory" that has spot-on descriptions for the various small businesses in town. And if you're so inclined, the site even allows you to submit a request for a town meeting and send Kirk an email.
Seriously, the attention to detail on this website really takes us back to our favorite small Connecticut town and makes us even more excited to see the whole Stars Hollow gang in the reboot. And Netflix has us hooked on all their various promos — where they lead, we will follow, indeed.
Nov. 25, please hurry.
- Alexis Bledel Just Revealed What Rory Gilmore Has Been Up to All This Time
- 10 Things That Need to Happen in the Gilmore Girls Revival
- 7 New Photos from the Gilmore Girls Revival Will Instantly Take You Back to Stars Hollow
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On the Transcendency of Hip-Hop
Oh, and I knew I was really cool in my beloved black-leather zip-up Iverson's. I remember listening to 50 Cent's "Get Rich or Die Trying" and the "8 Mile" soundtrack religiously, and I also can't forget the look on my mom's face as I listened to the explicit versions I convinced her to get for me. My first live concert ever was 50 Cent at the Coliseum in Morgantown, WVa., where Pusha T and No Malice were opening under their retired group, "Clipse." My mom's face wasn't too relaxed then, too, especially when 50 Cent asked us to put our middle fingers up (and I did).
With my overflowing love for hip-hop music, I thought I'd also take a go at the craft. I used to battle kids at recess in the 5th grade, but I quickly realized that it was hard for me to make fun of people, so I kept to freestyle ciphers instead of battle rapping. Since 5th grade, I've been wholly immersed in songwriting, freestyling, recording, and studying the greats. At the end of 5th grade, I moved to Massachusetts and it was there that I started learning towards more underground, lyric based hip-hop as opposed to more melodic and rhythmic hip-hop. I would listen to the likes of Immortal Technique, Jedi Mind Tricks, Mos Def, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Wu Tang, and many more. Underground hip-hop, what I call hip-hop of the Titans, helped me to begin to start questioning the nature of my reality.
Hip-hop and its street poetry stimulated in me the realization that what was absolute in my psyche was not absolute, that there is another side of the soul, something more timeless, something more ethereal, and that music could take you there as an "aeronaut of the spirit." The artistic imagery and lyrical suggestiveness of hip-hop flooded my young, malleable mind with new concepts, suggesting a way of seeing the world beyond normal limits. Listening to and absorbing themes on existentialism, spirituality, politics, religion and more allowed me to learn outside of the classroom--not as a collection of mere facts, but as a Platonic revolution of the spirit. It's like the Mark Twain line, "Don't let school get in the way of
your education."
I ended up graduating high school in Massachusetts and attended the College of the Holy Cross there, where I studied philosophy. My philosophy professor once told me that "philosophy often expresses itself best in art," and that line has stuck with me since. In college, I still wrote very frequently and recorded when I could get the chance, but I still felt as if I had no real musical community. While in college, I joined Music In Common, a local, national, and international non-profit that empowers youths and communities against hate through dialogue and creative collaboration. I thought, "if only I had something like this," and devoted myself to supporting a cause that would have surely changed my life. Presently, I am Board Vice President of Music In Common, and have been with the organization for almost four years. The founding of Music In Common was inspired by the life of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was murdered in Pakistan investigating the "shoe-bomber" Richard Reid. Todd Mack, founder and executive director of MIC, was Danny's dear friend and bandmate, and carries on Danny's legacy of empowerment, compassion, and commitment to change through MIC and its programs.
This year, we held a JAMMS (which stands for Journalism as Music, Multimedia and Songwriting) at the original site of the '69 Woodstock music festival in Bethel, NY. Seeing those cathartic moments, seeing the poetic creation of something that didn't exist before, made me smile and think, "These could be the next young people to do what Woodstock did."
I knew I had an overflowing devotion to philosophy, and music as well, but I wasn't sure how to integrate my two "yogas," my two ways of realization. And then I found out that my hometown university, West Virginia University, had a new Music Industry program (Music Business). I enrolled right away, remembering what my professor told me on how "philosophy often expresses itself best in art." I mean really, how many people will sit down and finish Plato's Republic the same way they might finish The Matrix? Or V for Vendetta? Or Cruel Summer? There is a special beauty in the truths of poet-philosophers, unmatched by classical, analytical pursuits of truth.
As a part of my education in the music business, I also was a member of Mon Hills Records, West Virginia's own student run record label. I spent time as the associate manager of the legal and accounting department, as a social media assistant, and A&R manager. I've also worked part time as a marketing and research associate for Frisby & Associates, a public relations firm. Through my three years with Music In Common and my experience in public relations, I've gained unique insight into servicing
communities and developing social entrepreneurship. I've also seen the nexus of music and philosophy in my one and a half years of experience as a mental health specialist, where I would often mix philosophy and music into the day as a way for patients to re-situate their psyches and come to lasting insights.
Recently graduating from West Virginia University, I plan to manifest what I've always wanted to do, and that is to raise the independent, chaos inducing Titans of the hip-hop industry to the same level as the ruling Olympians of the majors. I'm not looking for a musical war per se, but for the birthing of a new world in hip-hop that would evolve from their synergy. It's my vision to market, publicize, and promote musicians with artistic depth and brilliance in ways that will help them push through whatever gatekeepers the digital realm still has. I want there to be a rupture in hip-hop, where repressed, archaic hip-hop energy floods the streets and awakens the community to their invisible bars. It's not impossible. The world needs it. If they didn't, you'd never have heard of Wu Tang or Mos Def, Kanye or Kendrick.
Hip-hop heads and fans who say they are "down with the culture" need to perhaps question what the culture really is, who that culture is really serving and to whose expense. If the mythos of our culture is represented by otherwise good artists, who are slyly commanded by music executive-magicians, we will be lulled to sleep under their spell, "music because of business, not business because of music." And when our children can finally stand, they will fall asleep, dancing offbeat to the primal rhythms of life.
"Raise our sons, train them in the faith
Through temptations, make sure they're wide awake
Follow Jesus, listen and obey
No more livin' for the culture, we nobody's slave."
- Kanye West, Closed On Sunday, Jesus Is King
Music In Common Partners with Local Organizations For Monthly Community MeetUps Series
Local non-profit, Music In Common (MIC), has partnered with Neighborhood Church in Candler Park and Music on Main Street (MOMS) in Lilburn to launch their MIC Community MeetUps series in Atlanta. Music In Common Community MeetUps offer community members from diverse backgrounds opportunities to build relationships through individual and collaborative creative expression. The September workshop topic is Creative Writing led by Corey-Jan Albert, on Sunday September 22 and Wednesday, September 25.
Neighborhood Church, located at 1561 McLendon Ave NE in Atlanta, will host on MeetUps on the last Sunday of each month, this month's is on Sunday, September 22 from 3:30 - 5:30 pm. Music on Main Street, located at 113 Main Street NW in Lilburn, in partnership with the Grace Note Foundation, located at 113 Main Street NW in Lilburn will host MeetUps on the last Wednesday of each month. This month's MeetUp will be on Wednesday, September 25 from 7:00 - 9:00 pm. Each Community MeetUp is free and open to the public. Pre-registration at www.musicincommon.org/upcomingmeetups is appreciated but not required.Community MeetUps are free and open to the community.
This month's topic will be, Creative Writing with Corey-Jan Albert, a board member of Music In Common. This Creative Writing is a hands-on workshop designed to jumpstart the creative process, especially when you don't know what you want to write about. Participants are encourages to bBring a pad or notebook and pen as well as an openness to trying new techniques for turning observations. Albert is a marketing strategist, copywriter, playwright, and songwriter, and serves on the Music In Common Board of Directors.. She believes in the power of creative collaboration and communication to solve problems.
Neighborhood Church will host MIC Community MeetUps on the last Sunday of each month. Music On Main Street will host on the last Wednesday of each month. For more information, upcoming topics and schedule, visit www.musicincommon.org.
Music In Common Community MeetUps are monthly gatherings that offer community members high school and college aged youth from diverse backgrounds opportunities to build relationships through individual and collaborative creative expression. Music In Common Community MeetUps are monthly gatherings that offer community members from diverse backgrounds opportunities to build relationships through individual and collaborative creative expression.
MeetUps include workshops and master classes on songwriting, filmmaking, photography, singing, diversity training, and community building among others, and will feature special guests throughout the year. Each session integrates the creative arts and cross-cultural immersion as a platform for conflict transformation and civic engagement.
Participants are welcome to attend any and all Community MeetUps they wish at no cost to them.
MeetUps include workshops and master classes on songwriting, filmmaking, photography, singing, diversity training, and community building among others, and will feature special guests throughout the year. Community MeetUps integrate the creative arts and cross-cultural immersion as a platform for conflict transformation and civic engagement.
Participants are welcome to attend any and all Community MeetUps at no cost. Pre-registration at www.musicincommon.org/upcomingmeetups is appreciated but not required.
Music In Common is a non-profit organization that empowers youth and communities against hate through creative collaboration. Working across the U.S. and around the world, MIC programs bring together people from diverse backgrounds to discover and celebrate their common ground. Since 2005, Music In Common has directly served thousands of people in more than 300 communities across the globe and across religious, ethnic, cultural, and racial sectors.
Neighborhood Church is a group of collaborative Christian neighbors building relationships for justice and community. Their mission is to work for restoration through relationship with God and community. Their building is a place where people from all over Atlanta come together for worship, human connection, justice work, creative arts, learning and growing, community collaboration, hard conversations, workshops and meetings, celebrations, neighborhood events, and more.
Music On Main Street and Grace Note Foundation are partners on a mission to promote the role of music in child development, throughout adult life, and within communities. Our programs include individual music lessons, summer music camps, live concerts, and community events. Grace Note and MOMS founder Scott Mecredy said, "We are excited to expand our educational programs by partnering with Music In Common to host MeetUps."
by Marisa Massery, MIC Program Director
Once we survive the sub-zero temperatures of the current polar vortex, those of us in New England will quickly and eagerly turn our attention to the excitement of Sunday night's football game. Even for Patriots fans, the Super Bowl never gets old.
I grew up in a house where watching Patriots football was a sport in and of itself. My brothers, dad and cousins are serious and superstitious: pre-game chatter starts early Sunday morning, religious statues perch near the TV, and most importantly: non-football related conversation is restricted to only commercials. It was, and still is, serious fandom. Although I follow the game during the Superbowl, my focus is usually geared more toward the halftime show and the star spangled banner. Last week, however, a friend and musical colleague sent me the following video comparing football to music and it's fabulous.
In the eight minute video, Wynton Marsalis, jazz genius and cultural correspondent for CBS News, interviews Tom Brady and Alan Gilbert, the conductor of the New York Philharmonic. Marsalis explores how a well balanced football team in motion is much like a symphony orchestra performing a great masterpiece. He cleverly compares linemen to bass players, linebackers to cellos, and corner backs to violins. He talks about the leadership and tempo control that both the quarterback and conductor need at the helm, as well as the practice, preparation, and level of excellence contributed by each player for overall synchronicity. My favorite line of the segment, however, reads as follows: "There's so much more to it than just the harmony of mechanics. Behind the perfect precision, nuance and finesse, there's always that ever present human fundamental: emotion."
So whether you will root for the Rams or the Patriots, watch the game as a super fan or a casual spectator, or care more about Gladys Knight's national anthem and Maroon Five's halftime show, I encourage you to watch this video and perhaps even Sunday night's Super Bowl with a new perspective.
Creativity Isn't a Thing: It is a Way
By Corey-Jan Albert, Music in Common Board Member
The synagogue where I belong has an innovative religious school program, centered around integrated curricula, hands-on learning and opportunities for creative expression. It's exciting and fun – especially for someone like me who believes that creativity is all about process over product. But not everyone is as comfortable with thinking of themselves – or their students – as innately creative. So, the religious school administration asked me to give a short talk about what happens when we reframe a classroom environment to be about creativity, not being first or best or right or wrong.
It's a concept that's so relevant to Music in Common that I was asked to share the transcript of my talk on our blog:
Hello! I'm Corey-Jan Albert, and I'm here right now to talk with you about the importance of creativity in your curricula and in your classrooms. So, let me start by asking you this: How many of you think of yourselves as creative? [show of hands] Great! What I'm about to share with you should add validation to the way you already think and work.
Now, how many of you have ever been told – or have told yourselves – that you're not creative? [show of hands] Okay. To all of you, I have a newsflash: THAT. STORY. ISN'T. TRUE.
Maybe you've never been taught the basics of painting or music or writing or whatever. Maybe you've been taught the basics, but you weren't given the right outlet to really work with them.
Maybe you're unpracticed.
But do you have a life of the mind? Do you think about stuff? And do you find that sometimes, you think about things differently from other people? Are you a problem solver?
Then, guess what: You're creative.
If this comes as a surprise to you, then I'll be you've got an inner editor and critic who is very… assertive. Your inner editor is the voice that says, "That's no good." Or, "so-and-so's would be better." Or, "Don't do it that way." Or simply, "No. Just no."
Don't get me wrong: there's a place for that person. Your inner critic and editor are very good for honing creative work once a draft is done – but they don't belong in your initial creative process.
I know – that person can be very pushy sometimes.
But I want us all to do an exercise that I do with a lot of my students before we get started on a new creative project together. Everybody, stretch your arm up, extending your fingers high toward the ceiling. Now, I want you to hinge your wrist and point your fingers down toward the ground. Now extend them back up toward the ceiling. And back at the ground. Keep doing it. This is all of you, waving goodbye to your inner critics and editors for a while. You can welcome them back later when you'll need them. But we don't need them now.
You know what generally separates people who aren't creative from people who are?
People who consider themselves to be creative give themselves permission to try new things – to do it differently than the ordinary way everyone else might expect. We also give ourselves permission to do make mistakes. And here's why that's hard: Somebody tell me why I'm even talking about creativity to you today?
[Here, one of the teachers answered, "So that we can be more innovative in our classrooms," but I would have responded the exact same way no matter what anyone answered]
When I just said that to you, it felt really good didn't it? Of course, it did. Now, what if instead, I'd said, "WRONG." That wouldn't feel good at all – even if I immediately followed it with why it might still have value or why it's just one of many reasons why this is important.
That's because we're conditioned to believe that right answers are rewarding, and mistakes are bad. Except that they're not. Mistakes are how we learn. Mistakes are how we grow. And mistakes are how we discover new ways of doing things. If you took one of my classes and you never made any mistakes, you wouldn't get a good grade because you wouldn't be learning anything.
Creativity isn't a thing. It is a way. And a lot of things change when you start with the knowledge that you're a creative person – teaching a classroom of creative people. You get fresh ideas. You get more engaged students. You solve problems. And you have a lot of fun. Because creativity is is a way of retraining our brains to feel rewarded by something better than "Right" answers.
So, how can you implement this in your classrooms? Lots of ways, but for a start:
1. Try to avoid the trap of teaching in terms of right and wrong. Of course – some facts are true, and some are not. I'm not saying to teach in an alternative-fact way. But when you're asking your students questions, try ask questions that allow them to bring their creativity to the table. Ask them how things make them feel or why it's important to study what you're studying. Find ways to get them to solve problems rather than answer binary questions.
2. When you're putting your lesson plans together, start with why you're doing it – what's the point of your lesson? And then, think of all the different routes you can take to get to that point. Don't stop at one or two. Come up with a ton.
3. And remember that bye-bye exercise? Do it again. Send your inner editors and critics on vacation while you're coming up with those approaches, until you have so many different ideas that you've got to hone them down to something manageable.
4. Give yourself and your students permission to make mistakes – and reward them! Any time you run into a dead end or a "wrong" answer, it's an opportunity to be problem solvers, to learn new things, to think creatively!
5. And – this one is really important – about all those ideas: At some point, you're going to have an idea that won't leave you alone. The kind of idea that makes you chuckle a little and think, "I can't really get away with doing THAT, can I?" The answer is almost certainly yes, you can, you should and maybe you must. If you're concerned that it crosses some line that you don't think belongs in this religious school environment, bring it to the attention of one of our education leads or our clergy. They understand this and will help you figure out how to make it work. But when you get those ideas that tickle the fun parts in your brain? Pay attention.
Finally, encourage the kids in your classes to think about themselves creatively, too. You think that even at their young age they're not conditioned to want RIGHT answers? They most certainly are. But make no mistake: they are all creative – each in a different way and it's part of your job to give them permission to tap into that, to encourage them to tap into that and recognize that as good as a right answer feels, being creative feels even better.
Can We Talk?
Dear Friends,
Have you seen this video ? Or this one? These are just two examples of the FIVE JAMMS programs YOU made possible this year - programs that brought together diverse groups of youth including refugee, immigrant, American-born Black, White, Hispanic and others to work together to write a song and create a music video. But these aren't just any ol' songs. These are incredibly powerful messages written from a place deep inside - honest, vulnerable, real. Voices yearning to be heard, yearning to make a difference.
How can we change the world if we can't be heard
How can we change? How can we change?
How can we change the world if we can't be us?
How can we change? How can we change?
The power we have, nobody can take it away
And these songs don't just magically appear, either. They spring from the hard conversations about race, religion, place of origin, and so much more that our participants engage in before setting out to create together. As the world grows more enraged and polarized, we need those conversations more than ever so that we can better understand one another.
Don't underestimate the power of your support to #EmpowerYouthAgainstHate. Just read the lyrics to their songs to see for yourself what YOU make possible when you donate to Music In Common.
Thank you!
Todd, Lynnette, Marisa, Patty, Avarie, Jason, Rosa
Happy Birthday, Danny Pearl
Dear Friends,
Today is Daniel Pearl's 55th birthday.
Every year when today rolls around, I think a lot about my friend...birthdays we celebrated, gigs we played, camping trips we took. Those days were filled with fun, adventure, hard work, and laughs....lots and lots of laughs. There are many things I loved about Danny - his quirky sense of humor, his perfect pitch, his undying loyalty to friends, the way there was always room for at least one more at the table, his love of life and thirst for the truth. I loved how he embraced the simple things.
One sunny Sunday many moons ago in Atlanta, Danny invited Carrie (my girlfriend at the time, now my wife) and me over for brunch. Danny's mom had just sent him a brand new bread machine. At this point in his life, Danny was the consummate bachelor living on his own. The bread machine was the perfect accompaniment to the only other appliance he owned, a juicer. It may come as no surprise that brunch that day consisted of - you guessed it - fresh baked bread and fresh squeezed orange juice...and that's it. But to Danny, sitting in his kitchen with good friends that sunny, Sunday morning, this was no less awesome than Sunday brunch at Murphy's, one of his favorite neighborhood bistros. And he was right. It was the best bread, the best orange juice, the best brunch I've ever had.
I've often wondered if Danny were alive if he would still see beauty, wonder, and humor in the simple things, if he could still find the silver lining in today's complicated world. Somehow I think he would because that's just who he was.
As the Octobers pass by, I wonder too, is the world forgetting who Daniel Pearl is? Do young people know his name, his story, and what he stood for? Has the unconscionable immorality of what happened to him started to fade? Have we lost our ability, desire, willingness to see the common humanity in one another? I confess these are the things that keep me up at night.
But each year today, October 10th, I reaffirm my commitment to face those questions head on. To fight to my very last breath to eradicate the hate and violence that took my friend's life. To make sure the world never forgets Danny Pearl. It's not always easy and I'd be lying if I didn't admit there are days I want to give up. But I won't. I promise you that!
I am beyond proud of the work of Music In Common these past thirteen years, work that could only have been accomplished with the unwavering commitment of an amazing team who see their involvement more as a calling than a job, board seat, or volunteer gig. When the hill feels too steep, the battle too fierce, and the world too complex we find strength and inspiration in the life of Daniel Pearl to embrace the simple things and keep on keeping on.
Happy 55th birthday, Danny Pearl. I miss you like mad.
Respectfully yours,
Todd Mack
Executive Director
Music in Common has had such a tremendous impact on my life. I no longer see music as just something to help me through life. I see it as a tool to break down barriers and stigmas and the things we've put up to avoid seeing each other. Music for me is now a way to bring people together that I thought would never talk to each other.
This experience has truly been one I'll never forget. I've made lifelong friends and I've gained so much self confidence. I've seen first hand that if you work together with people that you can really achieve anything.
Music In Common is really not like any program I've ever done. Going in I didn't know what to expect and I also didn't expect it to shape my perspective on life and my perspective on music as much as it did. It teaches life skills. I teaches you how to care. It teaches you how to love people, how to see people… how to really see people instead of seeing them for the stereotypes that they've been put under.
If everyone in the world experienced Music In Common I think it would be such a peaceful coexistence. I am really happy that I've had the chance to participate because it's really changed my life.
It's easy not to listen and gloss over the words on the television. Or the radio, or the newspaper, or what your friends are talking about at work. Amplify makes that harder.
From the beginning, Amplify emphasized the great importance of not just listening, but feeling what the other young individuals in our community and our world are going through. It was incredibly eyeopening to connect with teens from around the world just by listening to their songs. Music is the most wonderful thing in the world to me. I believe that it is the universal language. It relies on the emotion and purpose of a thought, and not pronunciation. The beauty of it is, you are not required to speak, or even listen, to understand. All you have to do is close your eyes, and let the music trigger your deepest memories.
I will never say music saved me, instead, it gave me the strength and courage to save myself. Amplify gave me confidence in my voice and reminded me that even I could make a difference in the world. Amplify has truly shifted the way I view music, opening up more doors of possibilities than I ever imagined. This program is proof that I can combine my greatest passions into something both beautiful and impactful.
I am truly grateful for the memories and experience Amplify has given me, thank you for inspiring and bringing to light the people who care.
~ Elisabeth Enoch, Amplify Berkshires 2018
Do Something...
It makes sense that the unthinkable brutality this week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL would be a crystalizing moment, no? But the heart-wrenching truth is that since the massacre at Sandy Hook in 2012 there have been at least 138 people murdered in over 200 shootings in schools. Read that again and let it sink in… I'll give you a moment…
Like so many others, I am heartbroken, angry, disgusted, and bewildered. Even with an unimaginable number of mass shootings and deaths (my research to give you actual statistics led me down a rabbit hole of wretched oblivion), we continue to argue hatefully rather that to reasonably address the horrific realities that allow this to be happening. The fact that so much death is taking place in the place we freely send our children to learn, socialize, interact, express themselves, and discover the world and each other is utterly and deeply disorienting to my mind and heart.
Are you afraid? You probably are and justifiably so. But, do we realize that for many of us, our very existence has come to be based in fear? Probably not. Our fears can overcome us to the point that we think they are the only truth. This leaves us only to argue, defend, react, and live from the pervading and all-consuming belief that we are all out to get one another. Self-preservation at all cost is crippling and, literally, killing us. So we pray and hope.
Whatever you believe about life or God or the universe… there is no denying that we have free will. While we may pray or hope or wish for change for a better world for ourselves and our children and grandchildren, we must also realize that there is something else for us to do.
And, whatever you believe about our right to bear arms, there is no denying that it is our responsibility to treat weapons with the same common sense caution as we do so many other (including far less lethal) of man's astounding inventions.
Lawn darts are outlawed but automatic rifles are not. We need training and a license to operate a car, but not to purchase an instrument of war. One man carried a bomb in his underwear and we have airport body scans. Not to mention fireworks and guard rails and glass containers and sealed packaging and having more that 5 cats…
And there is this… After 58 people were murdered and 850 more wounded by a man at a concert in Las Vegas, House Resolution 367 – "The Hearing Protection Act" – is being proposed to make it easier to obtain the very type of "silencer" he used…. to preserve the shooters hearing. WAIT!!!! WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!!!! True.
Have we lost our mind? Yes. Yes, I think collectively we have. But as I said, "there is something for us to do". The doing, giving, saying, and acting may be different for each of us, but we must all DO SOMETHING.
For me that something is Music in Common. As I hear the stories and visions and demands from the students who survived the shooting in Parkland, I think about MIC participants with whom we have worked over the past 8 years. Whether they live in the United States or the Middle East, they represent the generation that is about to inherit our rubbish. They have something to say. They have said it in over 40 songs that can been heard here.
Like the teens in Parkland this week, they have questions and concerns and ideas and demands and perhaps even solutions. But do we hear them? Are we really listening and valuing and respecting their voices? They can't vote, so do their voices matter?
Let's remember that teens sitting at lunch counters, riding buses, writing their stories, speaking out loud and marching in the streets have already altered our collective views of segregation, child labor, civil rights, and war. Do not underestimate the power of a generation whose inheritance is our collective madness.
They are a generation who has more technology in the palm of their hand than the entire world had just 20 years ago. We use it to monitor them, sell to them, preach to them… let's use it to hear them and to protect them.
Music in Common gives young men and women a place to speak their minds, a place to listen to one another and to exchange ideas, empowering them with tools to collect their thoughts and put them to paper. We offer a platform to put creative energy to use, to use the power of music to express themselves and to share their values, questions, visions, hopes, dreams and yes, demands, widely. We give them a worldwide stage where they can be heard and feel valued.
And, most inspiring to me is that from what I have seen, they are willing and eager to engage with open minds and they are far less divided and steadfastly opposed to one another than any government, community, culture, or religion. We can do better and be better by listening to them.
Their collective mind is not lost, it is determined.
This is me DOING SOMETHING. What are you DOING?
In Peace ~ L
Lynnette Najimy
MIC Director of Outreach & Engagement
Resilience, healing and pain: How can I get through my injury and be better for it?
by Alisa Eisenberg
Healing takes many forms. In this contentious political climate we all need a little help navigating stress. Imagine being a young adult trying to find your way at this moment in time or the difficulty being a recent refugee and finding your voice. This article was written for those healing an injury but the concept of resilience serves all of us. Music in Common fosters resilience through social connection and empowerment by honoring all participants stories. Our voices are meant to be heard.
It takes a moment to get an injury. Healing takes whatever time it requires. That's the stark reality. And all the good stuff happens in the middle. The element of surprise seems a common thread throughout our lives. And yet we hate surprises, most of us. Change being the most difficult thing we manage. So how do we cope with life? We make meaning from the stories we tell ourselves. Consciously and unconsciously we strive to shape our stories around a general theme. The themes we choose say a lot about us as individuals. Bad luck, good luck, deeper spiritual messages, familial histories, whether we fall or rise is defined by our belief. In other words, our glass is half full or half empty of whatever interpretation we choose. So when it happens, life- I mean in the "man plans, God laughs" version- we each have a defining moment. How do we tell our story?
Here's where science enters the scene. Scientists have measured various components of healing. Social scientists have measured components of resilience. Studies show people with resilient qualities physically heal faster and better. Lucky for us, resilience can be
taught and learned.
So what makes up resilience and how can you be more resilient during difficult times? For starters we'll look at "cognitive hardiness" (staying mentally strong). When cognitive hardiness is present daily life changes and events are experienced as challenging rather than threatening. Kind of like looking at a wave and imagining bodysurfing it instead of being pummeled by it. This keeps you solution focused and open to trying new experiences, looking for possibilities even if they aren't readily apparent.
Here are two things you can do to boost your cognitive hardiness and improve your ability to deal with change: 1) Make a commitment to work, family, a hobby or projects on a day-to-day basis, giving you things to look forward to doing. This can include physical therapy and doing prescribed healing exercises on your own; 2) Nurture the belief that you have a strong influence over your life, that what you do has an effect on what you can achieve. This gives you a much needed feeling of control in a situation, like healing an injury, when you can feel powerless. It may even influence you to try an alternative solution, like acupuncture or reiki, to see if this adjunctive therapy can help?
This positive mindset can help buffer the damaging impact of stress on well-being and directly generate more effective coping behaviors. Individuals who score high on cognitive hardiness tend to cope with stress by direct problem-solving rather than by avoiding or ignoring a situation. They also tend to interact with others by giving and getting assistance and encouragement rather than by striking out or being overprotective, all important factors in healing. During illness or injury we are confronted by our own coping style and this is the time and opportunity to make needed adjustments and grow.
Social support is another well-studied and important factor in healing. We need each other in ways we don't even understand. Our support systems directly and indirectly influence our longevity and well-being. Support can help manage stress by enabling us to see our situation through other eyes or by receiving empathy. This can be from our doctor, physical therapist, medical professionals, trusted friends, family and loved ones. Here are things you can do to effectively use your social support system: 1) Have frequent daily contact with others; 2) Express your feelings; 3) Have a confidant. These things directly enhance psychological well-being, mood, confidence and quality of life, especially in times of illness or injury. Merely having someone in the house is not enough. Proximity does not equal intimacy. Even small, focused amounts of time given
to another can provide much needed connection, which speeds healing and helps to decrease perception of pain.
Coping style is how you deal with work and life pressures and challenges. Your coping style determines whether you feel overwhelmed at each change coming your way or confidently feel "I got this," knowing you can reach out for help if you need it. Positive appraisal (optimism) is defined as focusing on the positive to minimize what appear to be problems, pressures or challenges. You can do this by saying or thinking positive things about your situation. This can prove particularly challenging when you're in pain or dealing with the unknowns of recovery. At these moments, I believe it is crucial to lead with a positive mental attitude if only for the reason that it boosts your immune system function; therefore, it can only help. Conversely, negative appraisal (pessimism) is well documented to decrease immune system function, increase perception of pain and leads to a more negative spiral of coping mechanisms, such as isolation. Many studies have shown that isolation and negativity interfere with healing. Furthermore, optimism has been shown to minimize perception of pain and lead to quicker healing. Biochemically speaking, you are releasing oxytocin and endorphins into the bloodstream, creating a feeling of well being. A strong negative response of feeling overwhelmed signals the release of cortisol and adrenaline, which creates anything from anxiety to depression to tense muscles and increased perception of pain.
When you "make a molehill out of a mountain" you are using another factor of resiliencecalled threat minimization. Knowing you can find answers or asking for help allows you to have a little control over some element of your healing. Minimizing challenges through humor can assist with releasing endorphins, the body's natural antidote to pain.
Health habits are another element of recovery that cannot be overstated. Exercise, physical therapy, good sleep as well as daily relaxation, eating good nutrition, limiting alcohol and eliminating cigarettes are key.
There are many varied challenges to healing an injury and to practicing resilience. They include caregivers, the medical system, insurance coverage and billing, transportation, doctors and lack of information. Depression is a biochemical response that can be a normal part of healing. Especially with the passage of time and little relief from symptoms, the body may naturally conserve energy normally going to brain function to nurture vital organs or heal the injury. The result can be a biochemical depression that will pass. Understanding this is a normal phase of recovery is vital. If the feeling of being
overwhelmed or depressed lasts more than six months, you may want to seek professional
When looking to make meaning from an injury, patients can be encouraged to "walk gracefully through the fire" by learning and practicing key elements of resilience. This enables them to participate in their recovery and to gain valuable life skills.
Remembering to stay positive more often than not, to disengage conflict as quickly as possible and focus on solutions rather than challenges can offer much needed hope and a feeling of control. These factors lead to a more successful healing experience and recovery.
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According to Australian Property Monitors:
"Decline of 2 per cent in apartment prices was observed in Brisbane, which may indicate softening investor demand."
"The party is definitely over for property investors, at least for now. Sydney, Brisbane and Canberra apartment markets have all experienced declines in value over the March quarter."
Brisbane Apartments: March 08: $324,457; December 07: $331,302 March 07: $295,286
It is unclear to me from this report, actual what these figures measure. For example, if there are more forced sales of "Devine" investor apartments, by investors who overpaid and who are struggling with mortgage repayments, and other investors and owners are holding on to quality stock, will this impact the above statistics. Are these numbers really "like for like" comparisons.
Full report at: http://www.homepriceguide.com.au/media_release/APM_HousePriceSeries_MarchQ08.pdf
RP Data reports in its Property Pulse today:
"In Australia's largest market, Sydney, houses and units are averaging between 44 and 49 days to sell. At the other end of the spectrum, Brisbane properties are averaging around a month to sell the average home."
"The RP Data/Rismark International end of month Property Value Indices Report now indicates that while the Australian property market has softened, it remains steady with national values increasing by 1.46 per cent over the three months to March '08, an annualised return of around 6 per cent.
Despite interest rate rises and inflation fears, this is quite a good result and demonstrates the good risk/return characteristics of diversification in an Australian residential property portfolio.
When compared to the share market, this return seems all the more positive. As an example, during the March quarter the ASX200 and All Ordinaries dropped 15.5 per cent and 15.8 per cent respectively.
Based on the RP Data – Rismark findings, the only capital cities to record a fall in property values were Perth and Canberra where dwelling values declined by 1.0 per cent and 0.6 per cent respectively over the quarter. Despite the fall, Perth units hold the most expensive median value of any capital city at $464,000.""Brisbane recorded growth of around 20 per cent with most regions delivering returns of 15-20 per cent over the year to March '08. Inner city Brisbane stands out as the best performing region with growth of 35 per cent over the year."
"Another rise in interest rates will certainly cool the market further. The markets most affected will be the mortgage belts of Australia where mortgage stress is already at critical levels. A further rate rise could see property prices fall a further five percent in these locations. On the other hand, a constant interest rate environment would likely put a floor under many areas which have seen significant value falls. If rates remain stable over the next twelve month we would expect national dwelling values to remain in positive growth territory. "


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Alison Hewitt acts for the Senior Coroner in a landmark Court of Appeal ruling on the standard of proof for suicide conclusions at inquests.
The decision of the Court of Appeal was handed down on 10 May in Maughan V Senior Coroner for Oxford [2019] EWCA 809.
For some years it has been accepted that the standard of proof for a finding and conclusion of suicide at an inquest is the criminal standard of proof of beyond reasonable doubt. The law on this point has now been questioned and clarified.
James Maughan died at HMP Bullingdon in 2016. He was found dead in his cell having apparently taken his own life. At his inquest, the Senior Coroner accepted that there was insufficient evidence upon which the jury could be sure that he intended to kill himself and so he ruled that the jury could not consider a short-form conclusion of suicide. However, in order to satisfy the procedural requirements of Article 2 ECHR, the Coroner decided instead to elicit a Narrative Conclusion describing whether Mr Maughan had probably intended to end his life and whether any failings by the prison had contributed to the death. His directions to the jury were entirely in accordance with the guidance given in the Coroners' Bench Book and, he considered, the Chief Coroner's Guidance No.17. The jury concluded that it was more likely than not that the Deceased had intended the outcome to be fatal.
The brother of Mr Maughan challenged the conclusion arguing that the Senior Coroner had been wrong in law to elicit from the jury a finding that was tantamount to a suicide conclusion on the civil standard of proof. His claim was heard by the Divisional Court which held that the standard of proof to be applied to all cases of death resulting from self-harm, both for the short-form Suicide conclusion and for Narrative Conclusions, was the civil standard.
That decision was appealed by the Deceased's brother. The Court of Appeal heard submissions on behalf of both parties, the Chief Coroner (who had successfully applied to intervene on the appeal) and the charity Inquest. The Court dismissed the appeal, ruling that the civil standard of proof is to be applied to factual findings and conclusions in inquests generally, including to findings of suicide, whether expressed in short-form or narrative conclusions.
The judgment of the Divisional Court had also placed a question mark over the standard of proof to be applied to the Unlawful Killing conclusion at inquests. The Court of Appeal recognised the argument for a universal standard of proof but confirmed that it is the criminal standard of proof which must be used, exceptionally, for this conclusion because of the earlier decision of the court in R v Wolverhampton Coroner, ex parte McCurbin [1990] 1 WLR 719 and because there are strong arguments of principle in its favour.
The Court urged Government consideration of the issues raised and invited the Chief Coroner to revise Guidance No. 17 (on Short Form and Narrative Conclusions) and the Bench Book to reflect its decisions. The full judgement can be found here
Alison Hewitt acted for the Senior Coroner for Oxford.
Georgina Wolfe comments in the Guardian on this landmark case. Read here


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Stainless steel is a type of alloy which is made of steel and chromium. It is made in order to make the steel corrosion free as corrosion can occur readily in normal steel when it is exposed to air and moisture. For this reason, stainless steel suppliers provide steel with a varied range of chromium to make sure that whatever type of weather is present in a particular place, the steel survives it all for a long duration of time.
Stainless steel suppliers are at all places, mainly because it has a vast range of usage and is used all over the world for one thing or another.
Why is Stainless Steel Used?
Stainless steel suppliers make a range of inox steel (another name of stainless steel) for various purposes which will be discussed below. Have a look at it.
1. Architecture:
There are many pieces of art in form of architecture scattered all over the world. Many builders use stainless steel inside as well as the outside of the building to make it look beautiful and give it an edge. This, in itself, talks volumes about the quality and corrosion resistance that this steel possesses.
Stainless steel suppliers also provide steel to make bridges strong enough to carry tons of weight in one go. These bridges require steel to give them structure and make them more durable in the long term. They also increase the aesthetics appeal of the building. All of this points out to the fact that this material is also very strong and would not bend quickly.
In addition, monuments and sculptures around the world have been made with stainless steel and help to improve their life.
2. Water work
Other works, such as plumbing also require stainless steel. This is primarily because this steel does not erode easily. And plumbing services relates to water, refers to the installation, constructions work, etc. the strong metals like iron will scum to the water in a matter of days but stainless steel will survive for years and years to come without any issue.
3. Automotives
Means of transportation are also made with the help of stainless steel. This steel tends to be heavy enough to handle all the weights being put on it and at the same time, it is light enough to not require as much force to make it move. The durability and strength of stainless steel make it a good alternative in terms of product that can be safe to drive as well. Many road transport's bodies are made of stainless steel and that is why they have such long life.
4. Need in medicine
The surgical tools are made of stainless steel as well. The various properties that it has make it an ideal alloy to use for making the surgical equipment. It can be molded in any way one pleases which ultimately results in products being precise enough or sharp enough as per the requirement. Also, the fact that they do not react easily lowers the chances of infections marginally in case of any medical procedure.
In the end, it can be said that stainless steel suppliers have enough reasons to be in practice and a wide range of clientele which would want to buy from them. This is why major studies and inventions in this field are taking place. As the requirements are diverse, the need for improvement is also a must. And with coming times, the applications for the same will grow exponentially over the years.
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Elddis Encore
The luxury motorhome with a modest price tag.
Spacious and streamlined, the Encore range offers an all-inclusive package with no hidden extras. Striking, sophisticated style, unrivalled driving performance, class-leading craftsman-built quality and hi-tech innovation – all at a surprisingly affordable price.
Outstanding drive performance provided by the Fiat Ducato 2.3 Litre common rail, intercooled, turbo diesel engine generating 160Hp, and the brilliant 9 speed automatic gearbox.What's more, every Encore model is also less than 3500kgs.
Features and Benefits
- Revolutionary 'Strong-Lite' high-strength aluminium one-piece sides in 'Champagne Gold' with Bronze badging. Up to 40% stronger and 30% lighter
- 9 speed automatic gearbox
- Fiat Ducato 2.3 Litre common rail, intercooled, turbo diesel engine generating 160Hp
- Improved Alde 24-hr multi-programmable central and water heating system. Runs on gas, electric (up to 3.15KW) or both with easy-to-use LCD touchscreen control with night-time display setting.
- Beds measure up to 6'6″ for greater comfort
- Fixed bed mattresses come with lightweight, but supersupportive OZIO core and new soft-touch Argentum+ anti-bacterial and anti-allergy technology with Silver
- Sumptuous 'Arran' Aquaclean® with Safefront® and Pet Friendly® upholstery in 'Mulberry' with OZIO Hi-Performance, lightweight construction, with 4 x co-ordinating scatter and 4 x armrest cushions as standard
- 'Ladinia' craftsman built 'No-Rattle' cabinetry with Chrome trim detail and 'Canvas' contrast detailing, with 24mm class-leading locker construction, removable shelves and positive locking with new-style handles
- Luxurious 'Cashmere' deep worktops with 'Ladinia' edge and concealed lighting underneath, with 'Cashmere' bathroom unit tops and matching splashback
- SmartEnergy fridge-freezer
- 800W Microwave
- Cruise Control
- Fully adjustable and co-ordinated swivel Captains' seats with armrests
- Cab air conditioning with internal and external temperature display
- Extra wide rear track, giving a sportier look and improved road handling
- Alde fan assisted heating to cab
- Winter Pack included as standard: Tank heaters and waste pipe insulation and fridge vent covers
- 2 x Underfloor battery box each suitable for 1 battery (one Class A battery supplied as standard)
- Sky-view® opening cab sunroof with blind
- GRP underskin to motorhome floor providing a water resistant barrier
- Rails for rear mounted cycle rack
- 100L Underslung fresh water tank with manual water fill system
- 100L Underslung Waste water tank
- Eco Camel Orbit water-saving Halo shower head with built-in Aircore Technology
- 'Boutique' washbowl basin with click-clack plug, swan-neck mixer tap and separate soap dish
- Fully-lined separate shower cubicle
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Launched 14 years ago by Value Electronics, the Annual TV Shootout will return to CE Week 2017. The event, which pits top-of-the-line TVs against one another in a variety of categories, will take place—for the first time—on the CE Week show floor. The TV Shootout will run from Wednesday, July 12 through the end of the show on Thursday, July 13, with a special program scheduled to close CE Week 2017 that will include the announcement of the winners.
This year's TV Shootout will be hosted by professional calibrators Joel Silver, the Founder and President of the Imaging Science Foundation, and Kevin Miller, President of ISFTV and Industry Consultant. The final roster of TVs appearing in this year's Shootout hasn't been set, but Silver and Miller said that the program will feature a wide array of 4K, OLED, Ultra HD, and HDR sets from all of the top TV manufacturers. Some of the TVs that they're aiming to have as participants include:
- Sony XBR-65Z9D Backlit LCD
- Sony XBR-65A1E OLED
- Samsung QN65Q9F LED Backlit
- Vizio P65E1
Rob Stott is corporate communications manager, Nationwide Marketing Group