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Streaming & Instagram Growth
A step-by-step guide to creating real fans online with Ari Herstand.
Featuring guest instructor & independent Hip-Hop artist: Lucidious.
Enrollment closes Friday, October 30th at 11:59pm PST.
It's 2020.
Your fans exist online.
You need to find them.
It's no surprise that music discovery is happening on Spotify and the other streaming services. Yes, playlists are a driving force. And when an artist's song gets included on a popular playlist, their streams can skyrocket overnight.
I've heard of artists who were able to quit their day jobs because they got included on a few hot playlists which earned them millions of streams a month (thousands of dollars a month), only to get dropped from those playlists and have to go beg for their job back when their streams dropped to virtually zero.
Because that's the thing. Getting included on hot playlists may bring in a lot of streams (from many listeners) in a short amount of time.
But these are not your fans.
They could be. But they're not right now. They are fans of the playlist that your song got included on. And when your song gets removed, those listeners aren't following through to your profiles to stay in touch with you.
We are living in an era where there are artists with millions of streams on Spotify who cannot draw 50 people to their local shows.
We've become too obsessed with playlists. Depending on playlists for revenue is incredibly unstable. You don't just want streams. You don't just want monthly listeners. You want fans. Who stick with you for life - no matter the platform that's hot at the moment.
Of course we know that Instagram is one of the best engagement tools that artists have at their disposal right now. And it's most fans' favorite way to keep up with (and interact) with their favorite artists. It's hot right now. Will it be just as hot in 2 year? Who knows. But right now, it's one of the best tools artists have to grow and cultivate their fanbase.
And it has become one of the best ways to find where your fans exist and get them into your world.
Finding your fans online is not about getting on playlists
...and hoping that people who are passively listening like the song enough to follow you.
This rarely happens.
So how do you find real fans online?
He's on zero official Spotify playlists:
This was all done through direct marketing.
We have tested Lucidious' strategies with a bunch of artists...
and it works with everyone. Will this kind of growth happen overnight? Of course not. It took Lucidious three years and lots of trial and error. But if you're in music for the long haul, then you should implement these strategies.
Brassroots District went from 1,000 monthly listeners to 14,000 monthly listeners and from 150 followers on Spotify to 5,000 followers on Spotify in 8 weeks spending around $10/day on ads.
Similarly, Brassroots District went from 600 followers on Instagram to 4,500 in 8 weeks with an engagement rate of 7%.
Start now.
Stop waiting around for a label to come along and sign you. If you have no true fans, labels aren't interested. Period.
You have to build your movement on your own first.
Then when you have die hard fans following everything you do, labels, managers and agents will beg to work with you. And then you can decide if you want to sign with them or continue on your own. But at that point, you have the power. You don't need them. They need you.
This is what you're working towards.
The labels haven't implemented these strategies.
Yet. They will. But what Lucidious has done is so flexible and nuanced that labels aren't able to keep up or move quick enough to capitalize on the tools available today.
Managers are starting to take notice. And the best ones are utilizing these strategies to rapidly excel their clients' growth.
It's time to make it happen.
Get started now!
Course Curriculum
StartLesson 1: Business Manager (5:00)
StartLesson 2: Assigning Page Ownership & Admins (4:51)
StartLesson 3: Setting Up an Ad Account (Old FB Look) (7:02)
StartLesson 3: Setting Up an Ad Account (New FB Look) (8:26)
StartLesson 4: Navigating Business Manager (3:02)
StartLesson 5: Facebook Pixel Creation (Old FB Look) (5:32)
StartLesson 5: Facebook Pixel Creation (New FB Look) (6:32)
Your Instructors
Ari Herstand
The Ari of Ari's Take
"The poster child of DIY Music" - Forbes
Los Angeles based Ari Herstand (pronounced Ar*ee Her*stand), is the author of the best-selling book How To Make It in the New Music Business. It remains at the top of the Amazon charts and has been widely adopted by music business schools worldwide.
His music business advice blog, Ari's Take, has become the go-to resource for independent musicians on how to run a successful music career in the NEW music industry. Herstand's well-researched, relatable, no BS approach is why so many musicians continue to trust him for advice. He offers encouragement without condescension and maintains a "we're all in it together" attitude not found elsewhere in the space.
Ari Herstand is an independent musician who has played over 700 shows around the country (nearly all self-booked), has opened for or toured with Ben Folds, Cake, Matt Nathanson, The Milk Carton Kids and Ron Pope, has performed on Ellen, and has had his music featured in countless TV shows, commercials and films. He currently leads the 1973 funk project Brassroots District.
Herstand has written for many of the top musician trade magazines and websites including Music Connection Magazine, American Songwriter, Digital Music News, Playback Magazine, CD Baby, Tunecore, Reverbnation, Roland, Discmakers, ASCAP, Hypebot and others. He has been a featured speaker at SXSW, BBC One's Amplify, ASCAP Music Expo, SF MusicTech, CD Baby's DIY Musician Conference and Berklee College of Music.
Independent Hip Hop Artist
Lucidious is an entrepreneur and hip-hop artist from outside the Washington, D.C. area. Currently located in Los Angeles, he has built a fanbase in the hundreds of thousands, and has totaled over 100 million streams across all available platforms. He has built his fanbase and streaming growth with zero label investment, zero playlist placement, and zero outside marketing influence.
Songs by Lucidious are streamed an average of 4-5 million times each month by listeners around the world. His music takes a strong stand on mental health awareness, personal struggles, and the pressure that many people face in our fast-paced, tech-driven society.
Despite his focus on running an indie label, Lucidious Music, he has spent years mastering social media marketing and entered into the world of artist development. From artists of all genres and sizes, he has seen massive growth and profitability come to each artist who is willing to learn and invest.
I always felt like if I could just get in front of people that they would connect with my artistry. Ari and Lucidious' course confirmed this for me, and I know that it will do that for so many other artists in the near future. Taking what I learned from Ari's Take, I have been running ads for Instagram and Spotify, and in only two weeks have increased my Spotify followers from 426 to 973 (over double what I had accumulated in one year), and my Instagram followers from 6,652 to 8,068 (consistently 100 followers per day). And the engagement rate has actually increased! This is about putting what you are already doing in front of people who wouldn't have found it otherwise, and when you find the audience that resonates, you will see results. Period.
- Beck Pete
It's been around 2 1/2 month since I've implemented Ari and Lucidious's marketing course and I've seen a huge different with the amount of followers and streams I've gained. The course itself is easy to follow along with and quick to implement. Before starting the course I was gaining around 400 - 500 new Spotify followers a month and now i consistently receive 1200-1500 new followers each month. I've also consistently stayed about 200K monthly listeners on Spotify and increase my Apple Music monthly streams from 72K to 86K. Even if you only have a small budget I highly recommend this course.I has taught me important techniques I can use not only on my current music but for upcoming releases, merch and music videos.
- J-Wright
Between March 2017 and September 2019 Stefan Eli got 330 followers. In October 2019 he had 1,000 followers, and in November he had 2,000 followers.
The playlists along with the results from Ari's course caused all metrics by Spotify to increase by 999% in 2019.
With Instagram it is basically the same story. In September 2019 Stefan Eli had a little over 1,000 followers. In the beginning of December 2019 he has 4,300 followers. But the numbers don't tell the whole story. His new Instagram followers from all over the world are engaging much more than before. His posts and stories are receiving way more comments and love than before and almost every post receives a comment like "I love you," or "Your songs are amazing" and many more of that nature.
We are of course very happy with these results. We realize we have a long way to go, but one thing is for sure. Buying this course was our best business decision of 2019, and we look forward to reaping the rewards of it for many years to come.
Thank you Ari and Lucidious.
- Haukur Palmason
This course is monumental! I've always been way too intimidated to take a deep dive into setting up ads through Facebook on my own. I think I can speak for so many independent musicians on that. This course really lays it out and walks you through each step, highlighting the most important tools within the Facebook Ads Manager system. And the growth has been incredible! In 10 days I saw a 1,200 follower spike on Instagram. My engagement skyrocketed on posts and within stories. The new followers I gained have been commenting and messaging and tagging me, so I know they're going to be easy to convert into lifelong fans over time. I highly recommend this course to anyone looking to take social media marketing into their own hands. If you have a marketing budget, this course needs to be included in it!
- vōx @itsmevox
In the world of artist development there are few things more important than building a solid foundation of fans to support you along the way so that you have a viable and solid career. Ari's and Lucidious' Streaming & Growth program has been an integral tool in that process for my artists. In one instance we doubled our client's Instagram following over the coveted 10K mark and tripled her Spotify Followers into the thousands in just 4 weeks. Along the way we've learned so much about who and where her fans are, providing crucial guidance to inform our strategy in the best way.
- Phillip Bailey (Co-Founder, Artist Advocates)
If you are a DIY kind of person this strategy is for you. The numbers don't lie, and the marketing strategy makes sense. Lucidious opens up his formula for organic streams and most importantly follower reach. I never would have expected such great return, and actual active fans/ listeners. I highly recommend.
- Jake Knox
After years of struggling to successfully promote my music and grow my fanbase, Ari and Lucidious's course breathed new life into my career. When I signed up, I had 43 Spotify followers and didn't have a single song with over 1000 streams. Just 6 months later, I had amassed over 2,000 followers and tens of thousands of streams from listeners all over the world. New fans started messaging me daily and posting Instagram stories saying they discovered me on Spotify and that they loved my music. Don't waste any more time and money on ineffective promotional strategies; this course is the best investment you can make for growing your Spotify presence (and more).
- Corey Lewin
There is a great divide between what the young musician thinks being a rock star is and what actually working as a musician entails. Ari fills in the blanks with his light hearted yet blunt demeanor.
He's the informed older brother most of us never got in this crazy, confusing industry.
- Andy Grammer
My followers have quadrupled on Spotify, and the number of streams from real fans that love my music is surpassing the passive listeners i was getting from bogus playlist placements. Just to note, my song was only up on one 'popular' playlist for 2 1/2 months and it was useless. i wasn't receiving any new subs/follows on YouTube or IG. This course has given me 100+ subscribers on YouTube, and 600+ on IG. Thank you Ari and Lucidious, it's been life changing to see real progress.
- Zack Freitas
This course was a total game changer. It opened up doors that I never knew existed, and gave me so many tools to improve my music as a business. I put my trust (and money) in Ari Herstand when I signed up, and I'm so damn glad that I did.
- Casey Wickstrom
Ari is a fountain of knowledge when it comes to, well, basically everything music business related. Talk about someone with a passion for information, tips, tricks, data, and experience. He's got it.
Not only is he prolific in his knowledge, he's just a great, down to earth guy who will help you out no matter what your situation. If you have a music business conundrum, he knows how to help you figure it out, or at least where to point you to find the right answers.
Overall, just having access to Ari has been helpful. 5 Stars. 2 Thumbs Up, 100% recommended.
- Bronwyn W. Higgins
Man, where do I even start?! As an independent artist who was fairly new to the music business game, I can't express how much Ari's book, blog and course have helped me. Taking his course was one of the best things I have done for my career so far. To have someone who is so experienced, knowledgable and well-connected in the industry share such detailed information and insight, answer questions (from big-picture to nitty-gritty), and be so present (showing up sometimes for hours at a time to chat online!) was truly an invaluable experience. I am still constantly referring back to notes I made throughout the course and finding helpful answers! More than that, Ari was such great teacher, always encouraging us and empowering us to embrace the new music business and all the possible ways of "making it" as an artist. Thank you Ari!
- Andria Piperni
To date I've only created ads for Spotify growth at the minimum $5 a day, but the results have been encouraging! In just three months my Spotify followers have quadrupled from 1,000 to 4,000, and my monthly listeners and streams are all up. I've seen a bump in royalties and I've even been added to an official Spotify playlist! Bumping to $10 a day for the fall!
I'm also super encouraged by the results I didn't expect! Just by running these Spotify ads my Instagram following has doubled, and my YouTube subscribers have quadrupled as people seek out the videos I used for my ads! I've got new fans reaching out asking when I'm planning to release new music! I'm stoked!
- Matt Moore
"I can't speak highly enough to the effectiveness of this course. In less than four weeks, my Instagram following grew from 545 to 1,500, and my Spotify followers from 94 to 600. Aside from that, I have gotten over 10K streams on my record since beginning my campaign, all for $5 / day. This course is relevant, practical and I believe critical to setting up a sustainable influx of fans and income as an independent musician. After feeling like I had failed over and over to reach an audience, I now feel empowered and motivated to press ahead with my career because I see a future for my music in the hands of listeners around the world who WANT to be my fans."
This course has helped my band so much and I feel like we're just scratching the surface because I've only done it for 6 months. Our music has reached audiences and followers that we never would've reached at this rate! Being part of the ATA community is also extremely helpful and motivating. People have tons of ideas that can help you in a world where things are constantly evolving. Thanks Ari & Lucidious!!
- Joe Mende
This class is so empowering! It encourages you to use your own creativity to find and cultivate your audience. It's a remarkable thing to discover how many active and engaged listeners want what you make. Even if your genre is niche (mine is ambient classical), there are people out there looking for you and this class will help you find them. The numbers don't lie. Best money I spent all year, thank you Ari and Lucid!
- Kyle Preston
I started this program about 14 months ago, and just this week I started making about $5/day off Spotify. I've spent ~$6k on ads and probably made about $1,200 of that back on royalties.
I started being profitable only when I reduced my daily spend to $5/day only on Spotify ads. I recently was at ~$60/day as I was promoting and retargeting a new single.
I've built up an audience over the past year or so (currently 4,650 Spotify followers & 33,000 monthly listeners). I recently got on an official Spotify playlist with 50k followers, and my Spotify For Artists tells me I'm on 4,900 other playlists (I've worked pretty hard reaching out to 3rd party playlists and I've got some that are giving me around 600-1,800 streams per week).
I'm still making money and am continuing to grow. I haven't increased my ad budget of $5/day, either.
- Josh Tangeny
This course has been huge for my original song "Fly Away"! People are absolutely loving it, and it's gaining new fans on Instagram & YouTube as well as Spotify of course. The song has reached 33,000 streams in just the time that I started your class, even though it was stuck at around 700 for over a year. Thank you for helping me give that song the attention it deserves!
- Yaniza
I am very grateful for this course. I released my first single in February 2019. I spent about $600 on Playlist Push which earned me about 10,000 streams and 23 followers on Spotify--this all in the first few weeks, after which, my growth (and exposure) came to a halt.
But then I took my 23 Spotify followers and began Ari and Lucid's course in May 2019. With a modest investment, my growth was slow, but it has been steady--by July 2020, I broke 5K followers on Spotify, and I had over 150K streams across platforms. Most importantly, this course has helped to refute the unhappy picture brought on by my initial foray into the streaming game. As the streams came in, so did the comments and messages from people across the world telling me how much they liked my music. I am a self-doubter and a pessimist, and these messages stood as proof that many people do care about my art. This is the true gold of this course. It is not a way to trick folks into streaming your tunes--no, it is a method by which the regular-dude, indie artist can penetrate the stupefying din of internet ads and connect with real people who become real fans with a real passion for your music.
- Connie Danger
Before enrolling in the Streaming & Instagram Growth course, independent hip hop artist Nite Owl had 6,000 monthly listeners on Spotify and averaged 24,000 streams per month. Six months after taking the course and starting ads, Nite Owl has 31,000 monthly listeners on Spotify and is averaging over 200,000 streams per month. He also grew his Instagram following from 600 to 18,000 by using the strategies taught in this course.
"The hip hop music is REAL, and so are the fans," said Nite Owl. This course is the perfect recipe for an artist like Nite Owl, who has recorded and released 20 independent albums over his career. He dominated the streets and the stages for the last 13 years in his St. Louis region, but what this course teaches has connected him to hungry fans in the world of streaming who are devouring what he is serving online--both his newer releases and his back catalog. And they are fans that he knew were out there but for years he did not know how to access them. Nite Owl and his team look forward to watching his reach continue to grow in the coming months.
- Nite Owl
I just hit the one million streams mark on Spotify, with 7K+ followers, and on Instagram the engagement has been crazy, and I am at around 11K+ on there, all thanks to this course. More than half of the stats mentioned above are purely due to the methods taught in the course, yet took only 5 months out of the 3+ years I have been releasing original music. This course has helped me achieve things I started to think would be impossible, with one-fifth of the time and the money.
- Ibby VK
I went from around 80 Spotify followers to today 2.3k. From the growth I've received gig opportunities, a licensing deal, playlist placements and a batch of passionate students. Keep in mind, I play Indian classical music, a niche genre even in India. In addition to growing my own artist, I've accumulated data on advertising to Indian classical music lovers around the globe. Using this information, I will be able to produce Indian classical music concerts in India that attract the interest of the younger generation; something that veteran organizers in India have been banging their heads over for years. This year I produced my first concert in Mumbai (home of the world's largest entertainment industry), it sold out with 80% of the audience younger than 35.
- Joel Veena
When I signed up for Ari's Streaming Growth course in April of 2019 my band Ships Have Sailed had 2800 Spotify followers and around 10,000 monthly listeners. As I write this, it's February 2020 (not even a full year later) and our following has grown to 14,750 with 32,200 monthly listeners and these numbers continue to grow regularly.
If you're looking for a tested methodology to consistently grow your Spotify following, and you're not afraid to invest in your music, this course is definitely for you.
- Will Carpenter
I was featured in a handful of blogs and added to some playlists, but saw almost no growth in Spotify followers and still didn't feel like anything was happening with my music.
Then I signed up for this course and within days of starting my ads I saw an increase in followers. People started actually reaching out to me on Instagram and commenting on how much they liked my music. I noticed my auto generated YouTube station getting so many views that I finally made my own channel and had it combined.
I went from 10 Spotify followers in the beginning of May 2019 to just over 5500 by February of 2020, and from first joining Instagram around March of 2019 to passing 10k followers in February of 2020. I'm currently getting about 500 streams a day on Spotify alone, and my top video on YouTube has almost 10k views. And I never even advertised for that!
The program works. If your music is solid and you want to push it more than just hoping someone important will hear it, I highly recommend it!
- Joshua Steinhart
Enrollment closes Friday, October 30th at 11:59pm PST.
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Frequently Asked Questions
By enrolling in this course you are gaining full access to this course material for as long as we keep it available (at least until December 2021). You can either pay a lump sum up front or you can do the payment plan. If you opt for the installment plan, you are committing to paying off your balance. It is NOT a monthly membership fee. There is no "cancellation."


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When: Wed., Sept. 23, 7 p.m. 2015
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Wines That Pair With Kid's Crappy Behavior
All the Wines That Pair Best With Your Child's Crappy Behavior
All the Wines That Pair Best With Your Child's Crappy Behavior
Jennifer Todryk, author of Life as a Rambling Redhead and W(H)INE: 50 Perfect Wines to Pair with Your Child's Rotten Behavior, shares this hilarious post on all the best wines to pair with your child's terrible behavior.
There is a lot of science that goes behind deciding which wine goes best with your chicken, seafood, or steak dinner, but what if I was to tell you which wine would go best with the kind of day you experienced? The data is out, and studies now show that certain wines pair up best with different parenting situations and child behavior.
The world's most renowned wine sommeliers have released this list exclusively to us at Life as a Rambling Redhead. Lucky for you, we are kind enough to share this life-changing knowledge. Parents everywhere are rejoicing.
We just want what's best for your sanity.
Listed below are the best Wine Pairings for all stages of parenthood.


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Thanks for stopping by the blog and reading. It's really righteous of you all to take the time out of your day to read all about our lives. Today's blog is brought to you by I, Martin.
So, I am finding myself in a bit of a dilemma. I got a new guitar. And while for many musicians this would be a good thing, it is kind of a bummer for me. You see, I really want a grungy looking guitar to match the style of the band, music and my clothing. However, I do not want to do anything that breaks the new guitar or negatively alters its sound.
I was thinking about painting it, but I am afraid that the paint won't properly adhere because of the finish on the guitar. I want the guitar to look grungy, but not like a cheap child's guitar. I also thought about sanding the guitar down to create a worn look and feel to it, but then I worry about this looking uneven. What if some of the finish comes off, and not all of it. Then I have a guitar with shiny patches which would look unbelievably gross.
So as of right now, I am feeling depressed and in a woe is me mood. I do not know what to do about the guitar and how to alter it so that it looks grungy and worn, without looking like trash. If anyone has any suggestions or has completed a project like this, please let me know how you did it in the comments below.
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There were many things that did not go as one wished in life.
Although Feng Feiyun was sympathetic towards Murong Ta's situation, he was not overly affected by it. In the end, everyone had their own stories. The most important part was how their future would turn out.
Murong Ta's bright eyes gazed at the Boundary Spirit Stone by Feng Feiyun's waist. Earlier when Feng Feiyun wanted to take out the Eight Arts Volume but then decided against it, this stone did not escape Murong Ta's eyes.
He handed a deliciously grilled fish to Feng Feiyun. This fish was fresh and fatty with the sweet fragrance of bamboo leaves. Although Feng Feiyun was used to eating delicacies, those cuisines were only mundane and ordinary. They could not compare to this grilled fish.
Both the chicken and fish grilled by Murong Ta were number one. To become friends with him was a blessing for one's eating habits.
"It is a pity that you are not a chef!" Feng Feiyun ate three of these fish as quick as the wind and threw the fishbones all over the ground. His mouth was full of oil that reflected the warm sunlight.
After being exiled from the Feng Clan, he had not eaten or laughed so joyously.
"If you open a big restaurant, then I'll be your head chef." Murong Ta jokingly said with a smile.
"Really?" Feng Feiyun threw away the fourth set of fishbones and asked.
"I never joke around." Murong Ta spoke with a secretive glare.
"Haha! Very well, remember these words then." Feng Feiyun said, then he suddenly stood up and picked up a branch from the ground. With this branch, he began to draw a strange line with complicated runes. Each symbol was particularly interesting.
Murong Ta came standing by his side and looked at the drawing on the ground before curiously asking: "What are you drawing?"
"In order to become a Treasure Seeking Master, outside of having a great spiritual sense, one must have great eyesight and a basic knowledge for a few things. For example, formations. This is something that all Treasure Seeking Masters must know."
Feng Feiyun moved his hand back and forth. Very quickly, he carved a formation on the ground. To be more exact, an outline of a formation.
"You want to teach me formations?" Murong Ta became quite ecstatic. His thin body crouched down and he carefully looked at the runes and outlines on the ground with a very interested expression.
Feng Feiyun put away the bamboo branch and also crouched down. Then, he smilingly said: "There are too many formations in this world; with many different types and complex arrangements, there are more than one thousand different techniques of drawing them. However, they are divided into nine ranks. The higher the rank, the greater the complexity. Some high level formations would require several years of drawing and preparation to complete."
Murong Ta sat next to Feng Feiyun and quietly listened to his lecture while his spirited eyes gently shifted.
"However, everything has the same beginning, and all the initial frameworks of these formations are the same. Just like what Master Taozi said, the Infinity gave birth to the Absolute, then the Absolute gave birth to the heaven and earth, then the four divisions came from the heaven and earth, and then the Bagua came from the four divisions, and finally all livings things were born from the Bagua. Although the myriad existences are cumbersomely complex, all beginnings are stemmed from the Infinity and the Absolute." Feng Feiyun was afraid that Murong Ta wouldn't understand, so he explained everything in great detail. [1. I died a little inside with this. Infinity = wuji, Absolute = taiji, four divisions = the four great mythical beasts.]
Murong Ta slightly nodded his head and said: "Then this thing you carved just now is the bare outline of all formations?"
"You can put it that way." Feng Feiyun patted Murong Ta's shoulder and handed him the bamboo branch while gesturing for him to draw.
Murong Ta's talent at creating formations especially shocked Feng Feiyun. It was as if he was someone who had studied formations for many years. After just three failures, he managed to draw a complete formation outline.
This was the culmination of many years of research from many wise sages from the Demon Phoenix Race, the result of many years to form an outline capable of carving all the formations in this world. It was much more amazing compared to the formation scriptures of humans.
Feng Feiyun thought that Murong Ta was truly an unparalleled genius of the Treasure Seeking Master branch.
Time began to slowly pass by like this. Before they knew it, the two were laughing and studying like a teacher and student, but they were also friends.
When the sun was up high, the examination teacher of the Spirit Treasure Tower came to find them and wanted to bring them to the real spiritual sense test.
It was already extremely impressive for someone to have a spiritual sense nine times greater than an ordinary person. They would be greatly valued by the predecessors from the tower. Moreover, one of them was also the son of the demon, so even the tower master specifically came to ask about this.
After finding out that Feng Feiyun was the son of the demon, this old man before them who always liked to pretend to be cool had to behave a bit. He quietly led the way, but Feng Feiyun suddenly stopped when they reached a straight cliff along the way.
Murong Ta was right behind him and almost hit his head against Feng Feiyun's back. He quickly paused as well.
The old man noticed the strange expressions from the two geniuses behind him, so he quickly asked: "What is wrong?"
Feng Feiyun asked with a cold glint in his eyes: "Who is the person staying inside that cliff?"
The old man slightly narrowed his eyes and carefully spoke: "Inside is a first level Heaven's Mandate senior. You should never provoke him; that old fossil is a third rank Treasure Seeking Master who had once intruded an archaic cemetery. His body was infected with corpse poison so he is staying here and hasn't come out for more than a hundred years."
"Strange, there was a two thousand year old Lingzhi root on that cliff before. How come I don't see it now?" The old man shook his head and murmured.
In the end, Feng Feiyun gave a cold glare towards the cliff then eventually followed the old man once more.
What was referred to as the Spirit Treasure Tower was actually a huge mountain. All four directions of the tower were just straight cliffs with many pine trees and black dragon spirit grass.
When one looked up, they would see this majestic mountain that pierced through the clouds with cranes flying around along with the roars of animals. There were also spirit lights emanating from the stone walls where old spirit roots would grow.
Within Feng Feiyun's view, there were at least seven to eight spirit roots that were more than a thousand year old. There was also ginseng moving below the muddy puddles and spirit grasses emitting crimson lights…
It was indeed worthy of being called the Spirit Treasure Tower. Even a big immortal sect would only be able to have two to three spirit grasses, but one could see seven to eight of them here.
The sacred ground of Treasure Seeking Masters was indeed extraordinary.
It was no wonder that some cultivators claimed that Treasure Seeking Masters owned sixty percent of the world's treasures while the other forty percent was divided to the rest.
The tower was not only the sacred ground, it was also the treasury of the Wanxiang Pagoda. There were many treasures inside that were comparable to a kingdom's treasury, and there was no shortage of Spirit Treasures, Spirit Medicines, Spirit Pills, and ancient weapons.
The most precious amongst them had to be the nine defining treasures of the Wanxiang Pagoda.
These nine treasures were extremely magical. Each year, there would always be supreme cultivators who came here to steal them, but all of them would be killed by a mysterious expert that protected the Spirit Treasure Pagoda. No one had successfully taken something out of this tower.
The old man took Feng Feiyun and Murong Ta to the 17th floor. Along the way, they saw many Treasure Seeking Masters holding positions inside the tower. There were also some older masters who came here to learn more things along with some Treasure Seeking Students reading ancient scrolls.
The tower was even more complex and huge compared to Feng Feiyun's imagination. Each level was extremely vast and the tower even had ninety-seven floors.
The 16th floor had some Treasure Seeking manuals such as the "Astrology Study", "Soul-soothing Grave", "Yang World's Three Strange", "Yin World's Three Evil", "First Level Comprehensive Formation"... Of course, all of them were only low level texts.
There was also a training ground for one's spiritual sense, allowing one to increase their speed of cultivation.
There was also a special floor to train insight with dedicated teachers.
The density of the spirit energy here was abnormally high; it was about seven times higher than the outside. Training for one day here was comparable to three days outside.
Feng Feiyun was very suspicious and thought that there had to be a spirit vein below this tower.
It was not hard for a bunch of Treasure Seeking Masters to anchor a spirit vein for their own use.
"Oh my god, a spiritual sense more than seventeen times that of an ordinary man. You'll only need some time before you become a first rank Treasure Seeking Master."
The moment they got to the 17th floor, they heard a hoarse voice.
Having a spiritual sense twice that of an ordinary man would make one a first level Treasure Seeking Student; two times that was a second level student… Nine times was a ninth level student.
However, in order to become a first rank Treasure Seeking Master, one must have — at the very least — twenty times the spiritual sense of an ordinary man.
As for the second rank, one would need forty times the spiritual sense of an ordinary man.
This was the reason why there were so few masters. Just the spiritual sense aspect alone was enough to deny many people at the door, and high level masters were fewer than few.
The moment he entered the door, he saw Ji Feng standing in the center of the 17th floor. It was right when he stepped down from the test platform, so the genius with seventeen times the ordinary amount was Ji Feng.
The Treasure Seeking Students were all looking at Ji Feng with admiration. The eyes of the pretty female students were full of waves; Ji Feng's talents were really high, resulting in them having a crush on him. He would surely become a high level Treasure Seeking Master that would be highly respected by the rest of the cultivation world.
Although Ji Feng was gravely wounded by Feng Feiyun, a bunch of old teachers from the Spirit Treasure Tower saved him and fed him Spirit Pills, allowing him to regain his basic functions within two days. Today, he was praised by everyone so he had a radiant glow with a hint of pride. The shadow of defeat due to the hands of Feng Feiyun several days ago was instantly swept away.Previous Chapter Next Chapter


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The Last Exorcism Part II – Film Review
It's shit.
Turn back now.
TL;DR Thanks for staying. So not only does The Last Exorcism Part II drop what made the first one the least bit interesting (found footage/handheld camera), but it's also a bland, empty shell. There is nothing exciting, original, or suspenseful. At least they got the original actress back. 1 out of 5 stars.
Did we learn nothing from Blair Witch 2?
The plot picks up after the events of the first one. Nell has made it out of her hometown/cult and is put into a housing facility in New Orleans. The demon isn't done with her, though. Unimpressive creepiness ensues. Nell tries to have a voodoo exorcism (because New Orleans, remember?), but twist, it doesn't go well and the demon offers Nell the chance to survive if she lets it in and she does and then she goes on a murderous rampage and that's it.
So you might enjoy the last 3 minutes, you know?
It's not hard to pinpoint The Last Exorcism Part II's greatest flaw: it's fuckin' boring. Literally everything is just padding in a lead-up to the otherwise decent conclusion. We know the demon is real (because of the first movie), so there's no suspense in the "is it or isn't it actually happening" stuff.
There's no conflict. It's simply "Nell is scared of demon. Demon grows incrementally more active. End."
Why I hate this movie:
The first one had the advantage of the real/not real dilemma, which was played to great effect. It also had the handheld style, which at the time, had not yet been fucked into the ground by the stream of Paranormal Activity sequels. This movie has neither of those things.
The only mildly interesting character apart from Nell is the black voodoo chick. But her role is limited to "black" and "voodoo," so that's disappointing.
It's also weird that her "order" of fellow voodooists are trying to prevent the apocalypse, but the best A-Team of world heroes she can muster are just a couple of dudes and a chicken.
When the exorcism goes sour and they realise the only way to eradicate the demon is to kill Nell, they decide to do it through a slow morphine overdose. Which gives the demon just the time it needs to convince Nell to let it join her. Just snap Nell's neck or some shit. You're trying to prevent the end of the world. You don't need to be delicate with some little girl's feelings.
The apparitions of her father are tedious. One of them involves the ol' see-him-across-the-street-then-he-disappears-behind-a-passing-car cliché. Are we so unsophisticated?
Nell's love interest is forced to slit his own throat, but we get a fucking gory discretion shot instead of seeing it. So this piece of shit can't even do gore right.
Oh, and none of the girls in the house Nell stays in are even close to engaging. Her blonde roommate, even when supposedly possessed by the demon, shows no personality. Make one of them a psycho bitch or something. This is a lousy horror sequel. Subtlety has no place within these walls.
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The ending is pretty badass, though. Nell lets the demon in and horribly murders the voodooists. She then returns to the house and kills the guy in charge, and sets fire to it, immolating all the other girls.
She does make a pit stop to steal a pair of boots Nell had admired earlier. Demon priorities. I like them.
Demon Nell then closes out the movie by driving down the street and using her demon powers to set things on fire, like people inside their cars while driving. And the fire truck that was on its way to the house. Oh, you.
And this ending is way better than the first one's, which was some abrupt bullshit. One area of improvement is better than none.
The lead actress (Ashley Bell) does what she can to hold this flimsy, crumb-bum of a movie together. I'll give her points for that.
Best line is when a guy spots Nell on the street and recognises her from a YouTube video of her mid-possession (which is footage from the first movie). Nell does a good angry voice: "Just fuck off!" The guy then goes into a seizure. I bet Halle Berry and Jennifer Garner wish they had that power.
During the exorcism, the voodooists write Croatoa on Nell. I don't know why, but I do love me some unsolved mystery referencing.
Nell makes the smart choice to let the demon in and survive. And being evil is more fun anyway, right?
Oh, and Nell has a levitating sex dream. It looks nice.
But a sex dream and some CGI flame magic won't save The Last Exorcism Part II from being an unambitious, unnecessary, and unmemorable horror sequel. It could have definitely used some (a lot) more blood. 1 out of 5 stars.
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Strange repeat day.
Each Honor Roll rep shows us (in hope that we can possibly understand) the power of a strong will and indomitable spirit in living a fully enriched, self-actualized life. And that was an apt recognition for Sgt. Duncan. Staying positive, moving forward, motivating the CFers around you during the long grind of Strange echoed his message that barriers are simply things we build in our minds. It was an even more prominent reminder with IM ABLE's presentation of a handcycle to the Magee Rehabilitation Center.
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By: Joel Banner Baird
The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds aerobatics team will not appear as scheduled at a summer air show in Burlington, the team's website reports.
Show organizers for the Aug. 10-11 "Wings Over Vermont" event are expected to announce updated plans today, said Kelly Goudy of Essex Junction-based Revision Military, which is the air show's chief sponsor.
Funding constraints imposed by the congressional sequestration — expected to affect many federal programs — will eliminate all of the 50 or so demonstration flights after April 1, Maj. Darrick B. Lee wrote earlier this month on the squadron's website.
The tightened budget will mean reallocating flying hours to combat-readiness and training, Lee said.
Wings Over Vermont is a fundraiser for the Essex Junction-based nonprofit Vermont National Guard Charitable Association, which provides emergency financial help to Guard families.
Rick Brehm, the foundation's air show director, announced last year that the Thunderbirds were to be "a fantastic addition to our already stellar lineup of air show performances."
Organizers said they expected about 40,000 people to attend the free event.
The last Wings Over Vermont airshow took place over the skies of Burlington in 2006, and featured the Thunderbirds.
That event, and the one planned for August, presented policy challenges to former Progressive Mayor Bob Kiss.
Soon after taking office in 2006, Kiss took flak from citizens upset by noisy fighter jets, air pollution and a perceived military endorsement.
Although Kiss had "inherited" that show from the administration of former Mayor Peter Clavelle, he encountered a barrage of similar concerns during public hearings for the 2013 event.
The then-mayor made two nonbinding recommendations that the Parks and Recreation Commission had earlier approved:
• The Vermont Air National Guard should consider carbon offsets for the fuel burned during the two-day event.
• In the future, air-show organizers should consider alternatives to military team headliners — such as antique or civil aviation standouts.
In his endorsement of the upcoming event, Kiss noted that tens of thousands of people attended the 2006 show, resulting in successful fundraising for the charity, as well as benefiting dozens of local businesses.


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MT3F 2018: they did it in 3 minutes! [fr]
1 evening, 18 PhD students, 3 minutes & 1 slide each: we were delighted to organise a second edition of MT3F, organised as part of the Francophonie Festival 2018!
One evening to face the challenge of presenting their thesis in three minutes in French!
On Wednesday 14th April, 18 PhD students, from all over Ireland, addressed the challenge of taking part to My Thesis in 3 minutes...in French! in Trinity College Dublin.
The jury, composed of 3 scientists & 3 representatives of the Embassies of La Francophonie, had the difficult task of evaluating their candidates & chosing the most convincing.
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H.E. Stéphane Crouzat, Ambassador, Embassy of France to Ireland,
Dr Michel Dugon, Lecturer in Zoology & Science Outreach Officer, NUI Galway
Dr Virginie Gautier, Principal Investigator, Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases, University College Dublin
Dr Muriel Grenon, Lecturer in Biochemistry, founding director of the Cell EXPLORERS science outreach programme, vice-dean in charge of STEAM promotion, NUI Galway
H.E. Marie-Claude Meylan, Ambassador, Embassy of Switzerland to Ireland,
Mr Rachid Seghrouchni, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Morocco in Ireland
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21% admit to being addicted to their Smartphone, and overall weekly usage has increased 20% since 2014.
Vancouver, BC – Two-thirds of British Columbians (66%) say their smartphone plays a very important part in their lives, a significantly higher majority than what was revealed in our 2014 Smartphone Insights Report (57%). The latest figure includes an alarming number of owners (21%) who are self-admitted smartphone addicts. Our online survey of a representative sample of 816 British Columbians examines smartphone behaviours and attitudes and looks at the impact of these devices on traditional media consumption.
While only a small percentage of smartphone owners in BC (4%) describe their relationship with these devices as an "unhealthy addiction," many (17%) describe it as "strong, but manageable." This represents a slight increase since our 2014 poll, where 19% (3% "unhealthy", 15% "strong") identified themselves as addicts. This figure continues to be much higher among 18-34 year olds, with a third (33%, +3 since 2014) admitting to their smartphone addiction.
Significant differences from our 2014 poll can be seen in the increased number of those that describe their smartphones as being "very important" in their lives (45% vs. 38% in 2014) and in the decreased number of those that "could do with or without it" (4% vs. 8% in 2014).
"Smartphone usage and influence has increased drastically since the last measurement we took in 2014, and the impact on our daily lives has been dramatic in every shape and form—from how we consume media, and how we entertain ourselves, to how we shop and conduct our financial transactions," says Steve Mossop, President of Insights West. "Unfortunately, there is a downside as well—self-reported addiction levels have increased, and the side effect of upheaval in the technology and marketing world has been dramatic."
Smartphone ownership in British Columbia is now near universal, growing by 25% over the past four years to the point where 85% (+17) of residents, including 95% (+2) of those aged 18-34, now report owning one. During this same time period, landline ownership has fallen by a similar proportion (down 23%) to where only three-in-five British Columbians (57%, -17) now possess home phones.
The amount of time British Columbians spend on their smartphones has also increased significantly. Owners now report spending 16.5 hours a week on these devices—an increase of 20% from the 13.7 hours reported in 2014 and 38% from the 12.0 hours per week reported in 2013.
Time spent on smartphones now surpasses that spent on any other device, including TV, which has declined dramatically over the past four years (-21%) from an average weekly usage of 14.2 hours down to 11.2 hours. The 16.5 hours a week spent on smartphones also exceeds the time spent on laptops (10.7 hours), desktop computers (9.3 hours) and iPads/tablets (4.2 hours).
British Columbians are using their smartphones for a wide range of activities and, of the fourteen activities tracked, overall weekly usage has increased by about a third. While the more common usages of texting (91%) and email (81%) have only gone up slightly—weekly use as fitness based trackers (30% vs. 16% in 2014) has almost doubled, while activities such as watching movies (21%), online banking (47%), watching TV (16%) and use as a GPS (52%) have seen usage increases of around 50%. Activities such as reading news online (68%), video chat (20%), recording video (25%) and taking pictures (76%) have also gone up by at least a quarter.
Many British Columbians have also used their smartphones as a payment method. More than one-in-five have made a purchase through a website accessed with their smartphone (29%, +11), through PayPal (27%, +5), and through apps connected to a credit card (20%, +5), while other payment types such as Apple Passbook (10%), Google Wallet (7%) and Bitcoin Wallet (2%) have been less widely used.
While smartphones have, in many ways, made several aspects of everyday life much more convenient, owners also admit to engaging in some behaviours that are generally frowned upon in society. A large minority of Smartphone owners confess to using their smartphones at a public restaurant (43%, +14), during a meal with others (32%, +8) or during a meeting, class, or presentation (21%, +4) within the past week. A smaller number also admit to taking pictures of food at a public restaurant (17%, +5), always being "on" it (16%, +6) and "checking in" when arriving at a destination (13%, -4%).
However, one noteworthy exception is that self-reported data on using a smartphone (talking, texting, or data) while driving has decreased (11%, down from 17% in 2014).
In general, participation in such "questionable" behaviours has increased over the past four years. What is also very pronounced, is the prevalence of these behaviours among 18-34 year olds—with incidents among this group dramatically higher than other age groups. For example, 31% of 18-34 year olds admit to "always being on" their smartphone and 50% admit to using their smartphone during meals with others.
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Results are based on an online study conducted from August 3 to 6, 2018, among a representative sample of 816 BC adults who are members of the Angus Reid Forum; of these, 694 are smartphone owners. The data has been statistically weighted according to Canadian census figures for age, gender and region. The margin of error—which measures sample variability—with 694 smartphone owners in BC is +/-3.7%. Discrepancies between totals are due to rounding. Click here to view the detailed data tabulations.
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I spoke with Indiana athletic director Fred Glass this evening about the women's basketball program and the coaching status of Felisha Legette-Jack. The short answer was that it is a program under review, just as each sport is at the conclusion of a season. Glass emphasized that this review was not "something extraordinary or an unusual process" in the wake of the Hoosiers' 6-24 record, the third consecutive losing season under Legette-Jack.
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"While we're in the midst of internal conversations and review, it's been a conversation with Felisha all season. We meet every week," Glass said. "We've been transparent with each other and have been communicating this week since the season ended last week.
"With that going on, it's not appropriate or productive to talk about (the factors) until we sort through it internally."
Questioned about the concern of a perceived limbo situation impacting the program, particularly recruiting, Glass declined to set any kind of timetable.
"I just put that in the category of not commenting externally until Felisha and I sort through this internally as we always do," he said. "It's slippery slope to talk about those kinds of things."


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Researchers have investigated different types of vaccines in the hopes that one will produce a strong immune response. One type of vaccine is the DNA vaccine. This type of vaccine is made of small pieces of DNA containing genes from a virus, such as HIV, grown in bacteria. Once injected, the host's cells are able to express HIV's genes and produce specific proteins; this will enable the immune system to react and respond in an effective and controlled method. (1)
Unlike a preventative vaccine that is administered to a person without an infection, a therapeutic vaccine is designed to improve the body's immune response to HIV in a person who already has HIV. Researchers hope that therapeutic vaccines will ideally keep HIV at undetectable levels without the need for regular antiretroviral therapy. A therapeutic HIV vaccine may also make it less likely that a person could transmit HIV to others. (2)
The study will look to see if an anti-HIV vaccine is safe and effective in people infected with HIV. Additionally, the study will look at whether or not the anti-HIV vaccine improves immune responses.
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Jay Fitzgerald, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Gaming for MS, was born September 11th, 1971. Jay is an honorably discharged veteran of the U.S. Navy and served during the Gulf War. Being a huge Patriot, Jay was, and still is, saddened and devastated by the actions that occurred in New York and Pennsylvania on 9/11 2001. In whaterver spare/free time he can find, Jay is an avid PC gamer. From first person shooters like Quake and team-based games like Counter-Strike to MMORPG's like World of Warcraft, Jay will try just about any game once.
Jay was diagnosed with Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis (or RRMS) on Thursday, September 6, 2012. Let me catch you up on how this came to be.
10 years ago, on or around 2002, Jay made a trip to the eye doctor for a routine eye-exam and to get new glasses. During the exam, the Optometrist said she noticed some irregularities and had an Ophthalmologist come in and do an Ophthalmoscopy and a field of vision test. After the test, the doctor said he saw something unusual but wouldn't tell me what and he wanted Jay to have an MRI. Two or 3 days later, Jay went and had his MRI and followed-up with the eye doctor. The doctor stated that there were 4 lesions on Jay's brain and that he had Optic Neuritis and admitted Jay to the hospital for a continuous IV of the steroid methylprednisolone. Jay was started on 1g of steroids each day and was tapered off during his stay. He was in the hosital for 1 week.
When he was released, Jay began a months supply of decreasing oral doses of the same steroid and was to see a neurologist. Two weeks later, he started seeing a neurologist who also confirmed his diagnosis of Optic Neuritis and said that it was a primary indication that Jay could have Multiple Sclerosis. She ordered another MRI 3 months later. After having this second MRI, she notified Jay that the lesions were gone. It wasn't until later that he learned that lesions never go away, they only scar over; this is the sclerosis part of MS. Jay was NOT formally diagnosed with MS back then, only told verbally that it was possible.
Between 2002 and 2012 he didn't have any other symptoms. Jay was in remission. He continued to work full time and as a hobby, he continued to play video games online with friends every night after work and on weekends. Jay also went to and helped organize a few weekend gaming events called LANParties. This is where everyone who attends brings their own computer and they all connect to a local internal network and play video games for several days straight.
10 years later in 2012, around mid-August, Jay's left eye began to twitch randomly and uncontrollably throughout the day. Jay also has a lazy right eye which he has had since birth but it wasn't affected. He didn't think anything of it at the time. Jay thought it was just stress and from being tired. A week later, his right thumb and and right big toe began to tingle and each were slightly numb. The sensation wasn't painful, but very annoying. It felt similar to if you were barefoot on concrete and just slowly rubbed your thumb or toe across the concrete. Jay still did not think anything of this.
It soon started to get to him. Jay started wondering why these symptoms weren't going away. He started having really bad headaches, worse than usual. So, he made an appointment with his family doctor. Jay told him of his previous diagnosis of Optic Neuritis 10 years ago and the doctor stated that all of Jay's symptoms were probably related to high blood pressure. At the time, Jay's ex-wife told the doctor and insisted that Jay's symptoms weren't being caused by that and that the symptoms began while his BP was under control with current medications. The doctor told her that IF we wanted him to schedule an MRI, then he would do so. She told him to and he did.
The next morning, Jay went to have his MRI. That afternoon, he went for a follow-up with his family doctor. The doctor told Jay that there were 3 more NEW lesions on his brain. Jay told his doctor what treatment he had 10 years ago and the doctor agreed. He scheduled Jay to see another neurologist which was a months time away.
That Thursday morning, Jay woke up and his vision was extremely blurred and he had partial double vision. It wasn't until Jay was "attempting" to drive to work and he could have swore that a truck was heading straight for him that he knew something was wrong. Jay called his boss and told him what was going on and that he was going to the doctor. Jay's right forearm and right leg were also slightly numb. Jay called his ex-wife and she called their family doctor and he admitted Jay to the hospital that afternoon.
Once in the hospital, they began another IV drip of constant steroids and Jay's symptoms began to dissipate. Jay was finally given a confirmed diagnosis that he definitely had Multiple Sclerosis. Jay isn't sure what else happened during the hospital stay this time, but he was told that he went into steroid psychosis. He broke down and lost it the night the doctor told him.
Multiple Sclerosis is not a curable disease, yet. There are several medications and treatments available but only to slow down the progression and to try and prevent flare-ups. Medications and treatments range from several different oral medications to daily, weekly, and monthly injections. In severe cases, people may also undergo steroid treatments and/or plasma exchange. ALL the medications and treatments may cause side effects ranging from mood swings, weight gain, and flushing of the skin to chest pains and liver damage. One of the medications may even cause PML, a brain infection that is usually fatal. ALL the medications also cause an increased risk of infections such as a cold, but the one everyone tries to avoid is Pneumonia.
The medication Jay is on is called Tecfidera (Interferon Beta-1a). Tecfidera is a twice daily pill. The main side affect from Tecfidera is flu-like symptoms. In order to prevent this, Jay pre-medicates with lots of water the day before and the day of and he also has to take 2 Ibuprofen at least an hour prior to the taking his medicine. If he doesn't do either of these then about 2 hours after the shot, he starts getting a high fever, usually around 101°. Many people think those with Multiple Sclerosis are imagining the fever-like symptoms, but this is a literal temperature with a thermometer. Jay also gets extreme chills, muscle aches and sometimes a migraine.
Tecfidera is shipped to Jay once a month and includes a 30-day supply. The retail cost of each shipment is approximately $5,000. Jay's insurance is soo kind that it pays 75% of this, leaving him with a $1,250 a month prescription bill. Luckily there are programs available to help with this.
Multiple Sclerosis acts differently in each person. Some people may be less mobile than others, and some people may have hidden affects. The only way you would know something is wrong with Jay would be if he told you. The main way MS is affecting him, at least right now, is his memory. He has had several active lesions on his brain since he was diagnosed in 2012. An active lesion is one that has not scarred over yet. Jay has noticed a slow deterioration in remembering things. If you tell him something important, make certain to tell him at least 4 times and ask him to repeat it to you. Otherwise, there's a good chance that he will forget. It doesn't happen all the time, but he is noticing a change.
So, now that you know a little about Jay and his MS... Jay decided in early 2013 to do something and not let MS win. He wanted to find a way to raise money for Multiple Sclerosis research. After thinking about it for a couple of days, it dawned on him - why not have stream video games on Twitch.tv to raise funds for MS research. That's why he founded Gaming for MS, as a way to help find a cure for Multiple Sclerosis. Jay's ultimate goal is to hold an annual fundraiser for MS awareness. The fundraiser, in the form of a LANParty and gaming expo, known as AdrenaLAN, will be held in the immediate Cincinnati Ohio area. The goal is to raise $20,000 from attendee registrations which will then be split evenly between the National MS Society and the MSAA.


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- Dark Phoenix was power absolute-- evil incarnate-- yet, she was hallow. Her power and evil were all she had. Perhaps, by merging with Scott, she realized that what she was could never equal what she had once been. And that destroyed her.
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The Phoenix Force seemingly had a similar history as its Earth-8649 counterpart. She truly merged with Jean Grey, rather than impersonating her. Phoenix corrupted Grey and the two destroyed a star. Realizing the danger she was to the universe, Jean committed suicide, seemingly ending them both.
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Dark Phoenix was later resurrected by Darkseid; however, her form was unstable due to the X-Men attempts stop him. In the ensuring battle, Professor X and Raven psychically weaken Phoenix so that she it is forced to possess the body of Cyclops to survive. Reunion with her former lover returns Phoenix's memory of her life as Jean Grey, and she turns on Darkseid in revenge for his having reawakened her from death. In a mammoth explosion, both Darkseid and Dark Phoenix vanish.[1]
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The 1981 horror masterpiece EVIL DEAD established director Sam Raimi in Hollywood. All the gore fans loved the film for its innovative shot taking and the bloodshed that was a rare thing to watch on the screen at the time. Interestingly the film was made on a short film WITHIN THE WOODS.
Sam with his partner Bruce Campbell made the short film with an idea that they will pitch it to the producers for converting it into a full-length feature film. The short film was made on a budget of just USD $1600 and they required a budget of USD $100,000 for converting it into a full feature that was titled BOOK OF DEAD.
After making the short film both the Sam and Campbell approached many producers for the same but no avail. They met a lawyer Phil Gillis for an advice who was not at all impressed from the film, however he told them that the only way forward to garner funds would be to approach friends and relatives for it. Raimi followed his instructions and requested everyone he knew, sometime even pleading for funds.
Such diligence finally paid off as they started getting contributions, their lawyer also supporting them and even asking his relatives for funds. Finally they started shooting the film with a budget of USD $90,000. For actors an advert was given in the Detroit News after which Betsy Baker and Ellen Sandweiss responded to act in it. Sam organized a crew of thirteen people and went to a cabin in the woods of Tennessee. The cabin was also used for the crew as an accommodation resulting regular squabbles amongst them.
Evil Dead became a blockbuster after its release earning around USD $2.5 million and making Sam Raimi and everyone related to the film a star.


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Indiana's most polluted rivers and lakes suffer from toxins, pathogens and too much algae.
Add public shame to that list.
The Environmental Law and Policy Center calls out Indiana's dirtiest rivers and lakes on their new website, INourwater. The site highlights four areas with polluted water and two areas where conservation efforts fostered cleaner water.
The Environmental Law & Policy Center is an environmental legal advocacy organization based in Chicago.
Individual stories put a human spin on water issues; highlighting the economic and personal benefits of clean water, and the hardships stemming from polluted water.
It's not just polluted lakes and rivers — the center is calling out officials in charge of keeping Indiana's water clean. Weak state policies and lax law enforcement have caused the fouling of this water, according to the center.
Each story — whether it's a dirty or clean one — tells residents how to get involved in promoting and conserving cleaner water.
Indiana residents can visit the site to tell their water pollution stories as well. So visit the site and tell your story, or just gawk at the troubled lakes and rivers on display.


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In recent weeks, the world has been politely standing by and watching how things play out with the fiscal stimulus and latest bank-bailout plans in Washington. Yes, there's been some grumbling overseas about "buy American" provisions in the stimulus bill, but for the most part, officials elsewhere don't want to step on the toes of a new President to whom they are favorably disposed. They also don't want to endanger legislation that they hope will help jump-start the global economy.
Just wait a couple of months, though. Politicians from Beijing to Berlin to Brasília see the current crisis as the product of a messed-up global financial infrastructure dominated by the U.S., and they will soon be pushing for big changes–whether Americans like them or not. …
Link to full article: time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1877388,00.html


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Vanessa Hudgens likely to take pregnant, homeless teen role
HollywoodNews.com: Vanessa Hudgens will reportedly be tackling something a little more serious as she takes on the role of a pregnant, homeless teen.
Hudgens is reportedly in final negotiations for a role in 'Gimme Shelter,' states The Hollywood Reporter. The film is reportedly about the teen who leaves the home of her abusive mom and seeks out her biological father.
Ron Krauss is reportedly writing and directing the film while Brendan Fraser may be taking on the role of the father.
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Week 1: Activity Post Prompt
Title: Based on your worldview, some conditions from the Illness activity were more obvious "illnesses", while others weren't. However, there may have been a few that were hard to decide on – choose one of those as your title (e.g. "Migraines")
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- Share your definitions of health and illness – what criteria did you use?
- Try to explain where you think these criteria came from – society, the media, family, personal experience, school, etc.
- Pick two or more of the conditions from the list (including the one from your title) and explain your thought process on determining whether or not it should be considered an "illness".
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- Pick a post with a condition you didn't analyze in your own post.
- Do some research and explain how that condition is perceived and treated in another culture.
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Catch shares constitute best free-market solution
Catch shares are the best solution to dwindling fish stocks. They provide for more stable consumer prices, prevent overfishing, empower fishermen and reduce inefficient government regulation. Read more here
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Yet another know it all who has failed to do research into these destructive plans.
This writer, Joseph Brannon, is with Frontiers of Freedom, a public policy institute, fronting for corporate manipulations.
Frontiers of Freedom does not disclose its financial backers, but the Wall Street Journal reported in 2001 that the organization's main contributors were corporations such as Philip Morris, ExxonMobil and RJ Reynolds Tobacco.[38] At the time, Frontiers of Freedom lobbied heavily against environmental regulations designed to reduce global warming,[39] and also railed against plaintiffs who sued the tobacco companies after contracting lung cancer from smoking.[40]Find this info on:
No need to argue with corporate shills like this guy. But I will just a bit:
Catch shares management is an economic confidence game.
It has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with conservation.
The catch shares scheme has everything to do with the privatization, consolidation, financialization, and industrialization of a publicly owned resource, for the fun and profit of a few investment moguls who would be Fish Kings.
Catch shares only enrich a few holders of fishing conglomerates such as the China Fishery Group as they gobble up quota worldwide and destroy small boat fishing operations.
There's no upside to catch shares, no "strengths". When the fish are separated from the fishing license and thus from the fishermen, ultimately big money will come in and dissolve any "accumulation caps"; then the well capitalized "free-market" companies will buy up groundfish quota, now a commodity up for grabs to the highest bidder, and move in with factory trawlers making frozen product and destroying the health of the stocks. The price of allocation skyrockets and local small boat independent fishermen are priced out of their own business because of catch shares: Yellowtail Flounder allocation is priced at over $1.70 per Lb. and only brings $.80 to $1.00 to the fishermen landing them at the dock. Is this what the author of the above article calls "empowering fishermen"?
This market capitalized ownership and industrialization denigrates the fish stocks, the fishing communities, and the fish product. This is a loss already evident in local fisheries, in fact, the New England fisheries now in their third year of catch shares management have been officially declared a disaster. The total allowable catch of Cod and several other groundfish species has been ut by 50%-70%.
Catch shres are destructive to the fish, the fishing communities, and to the source of local fresh affordable fish for the consumer.
I still have no idea how so many supposedly 'free-market' people look to catch-shares as the way to solve the problem. It's not free market in any way, its completely pro-corporation, pro-big business. These public/private partnerships are total failures and only make things worse. The only real free market solution would be something along the lines of creating fish 'herds' in a sense, like with ranching, where people actually capture and tag instead of branding them, and then letting the fish go free. While obviously not perfect, the legal system would hopefully protect these claims.
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In salvation God gives himself to us. The Father gives himself in giving his Son and his Spirit. The Son gives himself in taking the cross. The Spirit gives himself in his coming to indwell us and work in us. It is nothing short of amazing for God the Spirit to make his home within us. The indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit is astonishing. He comes to reside in us and with us in order that we might experience the realities of God's saving work in Christ. Gordon Fee captures this dynamic of the Spirit's work in his book God's Empowering Presence: The Holy Spirit in the Letters of Paul. Here are a couple helpful quotes from that book.
"That the love of God is is the foundation of Paul's soteriology is expressly stated with passion and clarity, in passages such as Rom 5:1-11, 8:31-39, and Eph 1:3-14. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is what gave concrete expression to that love; through Christ's suffering and death in behalf of his loved ones, God effected salvation for them at one moment in human history. The participation in the Holy Spirit expresses the ongoing realization of that love and grace in the life of the believer and the believing community. The fellowship of the Holy Spirit is how the living God not only brings people into an intimate and abiding relationship with himself, as the God of all grace, but also causes them to participate in all the benefits of that grace and salvation, indwelling them in the present by his own presence, guaranteeing their final eschatological glory."
In his summary of Pauline pneumatology he lists seven things that are at the heart of Paul's viewpoint. Number one is the "absolutely crucial role the Spirit plays in Paul's Christian experience and therefore in understanding the gospel…to be sure the Spirit is not the center for Paul—Christ is ever and always—but the Spirit stands very close to the center, as the crucial ingredient of all genuinely Christian life and experience."
I really appreciate Fee's emphasis here on experience. The Spirit is interested in taking what has happened outside of us in Christ and working it into us. He aims to help us feel the heart of God behind the facts of the cross. He aims to help us feel the heart of God behind the facts of the cross. The objective historical reality of God's love was expressed on a tree outside Jerusalem. That love was intended to be experienced. The Spirit makes this objective reality a subjective experience.


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DAY 01: Montreal
On arrival, transfer from Montreal International Airport to hotel. Rest of the day is at leisure to explore Montreal's vibrant and dynamic culture. Overnight in Montreal hotel.
DAY 02: Montreal
After breakfast, proceed on Sightseeing Tour of Montreal. Highlights includes, a photo-stop at the beautiful Notre Dame (entrance not included) - a Basilica renowned for its finest Gothic Revival architecture with extra-ordinary rich interior decoration, the residential and financial districts, historic Old Montreal, an outside view of the Olympic Complex, St. Joseph Oratory (photo-stop), a view of the campus of McGill University and a panoramic view from an observation point on top of Mont Royal. Later afternoon, free time to explore optional activities like Biodome, St. Lawrence River Jet Boating and much more. Overnight in Montreal hotel.
DAY 03: Montreal
After breakfast, proceed on a Full-Day Visit to Quebec City, the provincial capital and discover the historical treasures and wonderful exuberant atmosphere. A professional guide will take you on a 45 minute walking tour through Place Royale, the birthplace of French civilization in North America. Tour highlights include the Upper and Lower Towns, the Parliament Buildings, the Plains of Abraham, the Citadel, Chateau Frontenac, Place d'Armes, Quebec National Assembly, the Notre Dame Basilica and a visit to Montmorency Falls. You can admire the falls view from the cable car, suspended bridge or stairs climbing up the side of the cliff (at an additional cost). Overnight in Montreal hotel.
DAY 04: Quebec City
After breakfast, check-out and keep luggage in the lobby. Further proceed on Quebec City Tour to see the Latin Quarter, the Plains of Abraham, the Citadel, the Fortifications, the National Assembly, Place Royale, the Basilica and much more. Afternoon transfer Quebec Airport to connect flight to onward destination.
03 Night accommodation in the hotel
03 Breakfast at restaurant in the hotel
Arrival transfer on private basis
Sightseeing tours on seat-in-coach basis with local English speaking driver/guide
Departure transfer on private basis
Entrance fees to visit attractions as per itinerary
All taxes
Domestic air tickets.
International departure Airport tax
Personal expenses, beverages in meals.
Tips for transfers, guides or waitress.
Services not mentioned.
Seat-in-Coach sightseeing do not necessarily offer complimentary pick-up and drop-off from hotels. However most of the downtown hotels has complementary pick-up.
Any type of mandatory fee like a resort fee / city tax etc. has to be paid at the hotel directly; the same is not a part of the package and cannot be prepaid.
Attractions are subject to weather conditions.
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Basics of Trauma-Informed Care
Economics of Trauma Informed Care
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Practicing trauma informed care is often touted as a way to improve quality of care and health outcomes. But could there be economic benefits to implementing trauma informed care?
More than Screening: How the Small Aspects of Medical Care Make a Big Impact
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Trauma informed care goes beyond screening patients and caregivers for traumatic stress or adverse childhood experiences. It goes beyond providing a referral for mental health services. While such actions do help children and families, trauma informed care should be thought of as a framework or lens to guide all your patient interactions.
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Caring for those at the end of their lives, especially children, brings a set of unique challenges. From pain management, to supporting the family, to caring for themselves, nurses in a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) share their thoughts ...
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By now, you know ACE is an acronym for more than brand of bandages and toxic stress has nothing to do with chemicals. Maybe you also know that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) often leave a lasting negative impact on a child's mental and physical health. What can be done to change course?
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A Place for Public Health in Trauma Recovery?
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With millions of children and teens affected by trauma each year, should a public health perspective be applied to prevention and treatment? Research suggests up to 40% of those affected will experience lasting traumatic stress symptoms and reaching these children and families with effective treatment is vital.