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1. What kind of readings do you offer?
I offer nurturing, compassionate intuitive readings in person, over the telephone, and via email (by request). Because the session is created in order to empower you, my suggested focus will always be you.--that is, we can spend our time taking an intensive look at how life events affect you, and how to choose or create choices that are better aligned with your needs or beliefs. I will need to suggest that you shift your thinking if you request an in-depth look at a third party who is not present for the duration of our session.
2. When can I schedule a reading?
Because I would like to invite you to prepare for your session prior to making the appointment--generally, I suggest that you request your reading for the next calendar day. (If you need an appointment sooner, then you are welcome to contact me directly.) When you are ready to schedule, you may do so by clicking Schedule Now.
3. Should I bring equipment if I come in person (a recorder, etc.)?
You are welcome to bring a tape recorder to your appointment, or simply bring a paper and pen. It may be helpful for you to record the information, so that you may refer to it later.
4. How should I prepare for the reading? / What should I ask?
Questions provide a clear energetic link between you (the querant) and me. I follow that energy to tap into the Infinite and learn more.
I invite you to make a list of questions that you would like to explore. The questions are intended to help you focus your intention. Please make your questions general. I'm not looking for information--you can tell me the story after our session, if you like. I just need the energy of the question in order to get started.
Following are some examples of good questions.
What is happening in my current romantic relationship with __________________ ?
What is contributing to the current state of my work environment?
When will my finances stabilize?
How does __________________________ feel about me?
Yes! If, in the first five minutes, either you or I do not feel that we are making a connection, then we can cancel the reading. In that case, I would cheerfully refund your money.
6. What should I tell you about myself/my situation?
It will help to know your first name.
Let me know what you would like to focus on first.
If you have questions about a relationship of any sort (romantic, familial, platonic, work relationship, etc), then I need to hear the first name (or a nickname that you use often) of the person you're asking about.
Please don't tell me anything specific about your situation up front! It makes me question the information that I'm receiving, which pulls me out of the frequency.
7. Do you offer free sample readings? Would you answer just one question, to see if we are on the same wavelength?
I do not offer free samples of intuitive work. I would be delighted to answer your questions during an appointment. Click here to schedule.
8. Could I hire you to come to my private party or event?
I would love to be invited to your gathering! Call me, and let's talk about it. I charge $300 to attend an event up to three hours in duration.
9. Do you offer Tarot card readings?
YES! I currently offer a three-card Tarot reading by telephone or email.
I offer intuitive (rather than traditional) readings of the Tarot. Each card has a meaning, and each card relates to other cards in a reading. It's similar to the way that words have individual meanings, but then, when we use them in a sentence, the meanings of each word may shift.
10. What does this stuff mean, anyway?
Everyone has free will. A reading is like a snapshot of the most likely future, given the current circumstances. I tap into the energy around the most likely conditions to come. You could make a choice today that changes everything.
11. Can you "read" everybody?
No. Certainly, the request for a reading is the permission slip that allows me to check in with your energy...but even so, not everyone's energy is clear to me.
12. How often should I request a reading?
Remember, though: Readings are like buttercream frosting on the cake of life. The cake and frosting complement each other. It's important to keep them in balance. Although both readings and buttercream frosting are delicious, it's possible to have too much of either. I suggest that you schedule no more than sixty minutes of appointment time within a seven-day period.
13. Do you have an 800 number?
No. I don't have an 800 number. If you are located within the contiguous United States, then I will call you at the time of our appointment. If you live elsewhere, then let's talk about ways to connect.
14. Do you do medium readings? Can you contact my loved ones who have passed on?
NO. If you're looking for a medium, this or this is an excellent place to find one.
15. Why do you charge? This is spiritual work. You should give it away.
This ability is a spiritual responsibility that I have been charged to use responsibly in this lifetime. I find grocery stores, gas stations, electric companies and the like prefer to be paid in bank notes.
Bob Olson offers an essay exploring the many complex issues connected to this matter. You will find it here.
16. How do phone sessions work?
Payment for phone sessions is required 24 hours in advance of the session (or immediately upon scheduling if you make the appointment less than 24 hours in advance of the session start time). Your payment is your confirmation.
I will hold your phone appointment for a ten-minute grace period after the scheduled start time. After the grace period, your appointment is forfeit and no monies will be refunded.
17. How will the charge for this session be listed on my statement?
Unless you request otherwise, the session will be listed as "consulting service".
18. How do I reserve an appointment?
Use the online scheduler on the "Make an Appointment" page, or send me an appointment request to schedule. Send a payment prior to your appointment in order to confirm your reserved time. Your payment is your confirmation.
19. What kind of random information goes here?
I am not fond of answering questions with 'yes' or 'no'. I can, although I really dislike doing it. Here's why: The powerful part of the answer is almost always located after the 'yes' or the 'no'. If you stop at the 'yes' or 'no', then you miss out on the good stuff, which is invariably the place where you can learn; where your spiritual growth can occur.
If you have been to someone's website or talked with someone who told you that there's a curse on you/dark cloud over your spirit/bad luck coming your way/evil spell cast over you, which they would be happy to lift/ shift to someone else/ stop your enemy from laying bad juju on you for $____(fill in the blank with a large number), don't go back there.
There is no evil spell*.
It's a scam. Don't give that person any money.
* except for the spell that Fox TV executives have apparently cast on the brilliant Joss Whedon. He creates an exemplary show, they cancel it for no good reason / at an arbitrary time, and then he goes back for more. Seriously...what's up with that?


God | Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ph.D.
I have two tales about hands.
The first concerns the hands of my college president. When we ordain our rabbis and cantors at the Hebrew Union College — an annual event, scheduled this year in just a few weeks' time — our president lays his hands on each candidate's head or shoulders.
In theory, the idea goes back to Deuteronomy 34:9, where we hear of Moses laying hands on Joshua, Moses's successor. In actuality, rabbinic ordination with the laying on of hands is altogether a modern innovation. But never mind. That's what we do. The idea is sound, the practice unforgettable.
The second tale of hands comes from a sign I saw the other day: "Need a Handyman? Call me!" As someone who fixes nothing without making it worse, I always need people who are "handy." Yes, "handy"! They too lay hands on things — hands, however, that mysteriously comprehend the inner life of gaskets, cams, cogs, and cranks. They unmake and remake complex machinery — make the old look like new.
By contrast, my college president's hands — like the hands of the Temple priest — do absolutely nothing. They just sit there, utterly inert, untrained and unmoving. They are mere vessels for the work that God does through them.
Our Yom Kippur liturgy is insistent on that point: "God reaches out a hand" it says. But God has no actual hands, for God has no body at all. When priests or seminary presidents lay on hands, they do so on behalf of God, that God may reach out through them.
So too, Aaron's descendants, the kohanim of today, reach out hands to offer the priestly benediction. Many people bless their children that way, too — or, nowadays, increasingly, even one another. In all these cases, the "hands" are not what we call "handy." They are untrained. They accomplish nothing on their own. The people being blessed do not get put together differently; they are exactly the same as they were before. But there is this difference (a big one): they may sense they have been visited, through those outstretched hands, by the hand of God.
God visits the earth through the magic of human touch, as sacred a thing as there is. Like all things holy, it too is open to misuse — as when we warn, "Hands off," or feel violated when someone touches us against our will. But also like all things holy, nothing bestows the certainty of hope and comfort better than the human touch, properly applied, by those we love: a friend at our bedside, their hand on our own; a soft embrace when words cannot assuage our pain.
On the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo captured the magic of creation by the hint of two hands touching: the hand of God from whom life flows, and the hand of Adam, the first human being to receive God's life-giving force. We humans, ever after, can do "what God commanded… so that God's presence may appear." We too can lay on hands for blessing.
When explanations only make things worse, when words ring hollow, when we have nothing to say, we can reach out, God-like, feeling hope's promise flow to those in need. God shows up best in the warming touch where two hands meet.
The talking donkey most familiar to Americans these days is the cartoon character "Donkey" from the hit movie Shrek (2001). But Donkey's predecessor, Francis the talking mule, debuted in a 1946 World War II novel, and then seven follow-up films in the 1950s; and the unbeatable original is a whole lot older still — Balaam's donkey of Numbers 22.
A quintessential breakthrough in human material culture is metallurgy: first iron, and then the process of heating it above 800 degrees centigrade to "steel" it for tasks where ordinary iron breaks. But to manipulate iron, you need tongs, and in order to make the tongs, you first need other tongs! It follows, then, that alongside Balaam's donkey, God must also have fashioned a set of primeval tongs, which humans eventually discovered and used to make all the other tongs.
The important lesson here is that all these tales picture God as welcoming human discovery — unlike Zeus of Greek mythology, from whom Prometheus, like some primeval industrial spy, has to steal these very secrets (metallurgy, fire and script) and give them to mortals: an act for which he is punished by being shackled to a crag, where every day, an eagle rips open his flesh to devour his liver. The God of the Rabbis, by contrast, willingly creates everything we need – writing, fire, tongs, and even (for a single cameo appearance) a talking donkey: and then glories in our discovering them.
Judaism views the universe as massive beyond imagination, but created with order and logic – just awaiting human discovery. To be a Jew is to value the art of exploring the unknown. Adam stops to investigate fire; Enoch writes notes on what the angels know; some unknown blacksmith figured out how to use tongs; and Balaam marvels at, and listens to, a talking jackass.
God supplies the world with whatever we might need; we dedicate ourselves to finding it. That, the Rabbis say, is what God wants: we are in league with God in manufacturing progress.
Progress is slow, however, measured only in eons, so we must commit ourselves to this business called life, for the long haul. Only eventually will we, conceivably, discover miraculous solutions for such problems as intractable disease, endemic poverty, ecological disaster and war.
"Where there's a will, there's a way," we say, but we are often wrong. It is self-delusion to suppose that if we always make a sound decision, always expend the extra effort, and always do the right thing, we will equally always figure it all out.
Jewish culture especially glorifies the seductive illusion that everything is possible. Sometimes it works — our grandparents lived adjacent to the Lower East Side's Eldridge Street synagogue, which we now renovate with donations from Scarsdale and Great Neck. But sometimes it doesn't.
So the important message of Rosh Hashanah is not what we usually think: not the self-congratulatory celebration of Happy New Year, L'chaim! Shehecheyanu, and all that; but the line from Avinu Malkenu — choneinu va'aneinu ki ein banu ma'asim; "Be gracious to us for we have no deeds of our own" — or, at least, some day we won't have any. Count on it. The day will come (if it has not come already) when our capacity will seem paltry, given lives that grow older and frailer, and the inevitability of meeting challenges along the way that prove insurmountable.
"On Rosh Hashanah," we say, "it is written who will live and who will die." As literal theology, I don't buy that. But as metaphor for the human condition, nothing could be more graphic. Our fate is often written for us; we don't always get to write it.
This is not to say that we are helpless, but we do need to replace the neurotic notion that we are completely in charge with the recognition that we are often quite dependent — on the weather; on politics and people; on fate, coincidence and circumstance; on any number of things.
The recognition that we are unempowered, on our own, to invoke blessing for the coming year underscores the message that we cannot go endlessly through life bestowing unlimited blessing on everything and everyone. We will get tired, we will sometimes fail, we will need help. Some people learn this the hard way: millions of Americans who are in twelve-step recovery programs, admitting they have to "let go and let God"; and millions more who would do anything to cure a child of leukemia, bring back a teenage runaway, save a marriage, find a job. They do what they can; it is sometimes not enough.
The real heroes of the world are not the people who claw their way to the top as if immune to limitations. Forget Time Magazine's annual story on the "Person of the Year." Take the pictures of the rich and the beautiful that fill the New York Times' style sections and wrap your garbage with them. Life isn't like that.
The people I nominate for men and women of the year are the ordinary souls who muster the courage to go on, day after day, week after week, knowing they cannot solve life's worst problems, but committed nonetheless to solving what they can and living with what they cannot. They, and we, will find comfort in a prayer with which Yom Kippur ends: precisely because we are dependent, "God reaches out a hand" to us. We are not alone in our shortcomings; some invisible force sustains us; and throughout the year-long silence following the echoes of Yom Kippur's final t'kiyah g'dolah shofar-blast, that hand will be there for all who seek it.
This final week of Leviticus is called "The Sabbath of Blessing" – a euphemistic reference to the content of the Torah portion, the curses said to await Israel if it fails to keep God's commandments. The logic is as simple as it is unpalatable: God controls history and punishes us for noncompliance with God's will.
Over the years, this thinking has been applied wholesale to Jewish tragedy — whether the destruction of the Temple in antiquity or the Holocaust of our own time, Jewish suffering is explained as divine punishment for sin.
The euphemism "Sabbath of Blessing" is not the only way we mitigate the pain of this parashah. Customarily, we read its curses quietly and rapidly, to get them over with quickly. Some people even leave the synagogue so as not to hear them.
The normal explanation for this behavior is the belief that by minimizing attention to the curses we prevent their coming true. But just the opposite conclusion ought to follow, the Chatam Sofer says. If we take the warnings seriously, they should be recited especially loudly and clearly, to make everyone hear them and heed them!
Yet we continue to read the curses sotto voce anyway. And I think we should, not because we superstitiously believe we thereby avoid their consequences, but because the very idea of God bringing curses upon us is so reprehensible that we slur over the verses that purport to say it. It is an embarrassment to God to imagine that God tweaks history to kill Jews – or anyone else, for that matter. No wonder we prefer downplaying the reading as much as possible.
The clear and evident point of the curses is to instill fear of God, an obvious consequence of hearing them read, if you believe they describe reality. If we no longer think that way, however, we need to redefine what we mean by "fear of God." Here we can turn to Nehemia Polen's discussion of Esh Kodesh, the sermons of Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, the rebbe of the Warsaw ghetto.
The curses of our parashah came from a time when imagining God as a micromanager of history was the best way to enforce the lesson of a God far enough beyond our ken to evoke awe. In our time, we have other ways to imagine that. How about the sheer force of numbers: our own earth that goes back 4,000,000,000 years; or the solar system that is 14,000,000,000 years old!
The awesome recognition of a God beyond ourselves is especially necessary today, given the possibility that we are likely, otherwise, to imagine we are God – and to do whatever we want, even to the point of destroying the world we live in.
So we should happily hear the curses muttered through at breakneck speed this year, not because they otherwise might come to pass, but to remind us that God does not actually manage history at all — in which case it must be true that we do. And we had better take that responsibility seriously before there is no history left to manage.
Legal principles sometimes serve as moral axioms. That is why even Jews who are not fully halakhic should be interested in what halakhah says: as much as Halakhah is Jewish law, it is also the Jewish way of coding the world, the categories with which Jewish experience describes the human condition.
Take the adage, "Agents are like those who appoint them" (shilucho shel adam k'moto) – the principle that allows our legal appointees to sign contracts on our behalf. The word for agent is from the Hebrew root sh.l.ch, "to send," making those we appoint our "sendees," as it were.
Most of us are unlikely to be legal "sendees," but we are often dispatched for moral ends. The most obvious case is doing someone a favor. If you fail to drop in my elderly parents, even though you said you would, I may not be able to take you to court but I am surely justified in holding you morally culpable.
Things become more serious when God does the sending. The paradigmatic case is the prophets who hesitate at being sent – perhaps because they know the literal meaning of shilucho shel adam k'moto – not just having legal capacity to represent the people who appoint us, but being just like them (k'moto). Being " a sendee" of God makes a prophet just like God – doing God's work, speaking in God's name, and as much as humanly possible, living a life that reminds people regularly of God's presence.
It begins with Pharaoh sending the Israelites to freedom. But Pharaoh is doing God's will, our commentators say, making Israel "sendees" of God, second-hand, and charging them with their Jewish calling: to reach Sinai, receive Torah, occupy sacred space, and build sacred community there. As these inescapable obligations dawn on the people, they even plead, on occasion, to be returned to Egypt, rather than to endure history as God's agents and have to be just like God.
We, the Israelites' descendants, resist admitting that we too have a calling, in part because we mistakenly think "being called" is a Christian concept. But the term is found also in secular literature, as when sociologist Max Weber famously applied it to professions – doctors, lawyers and teachers, who might reasonably think they have a higher duty than simply passing through the world without leaving it better off than when they entered it. And Weber got his idea from studying the Hebrew Bible, exactly what the Rabbis did when they ruled shilucho shel adam k'moto.
Still, we are hesitant. Being called is an inconvenient reminder of how wrong we are to imagine that the world exists for us, instead of the other way around; as if the point of life is just happiness, achievement and fun — one l'chayim moment after another. We thank God for keeping us alive to celebrate; not to do our duty. It is daunting to be called to be just like God.
Like the Israelites before us, we too are called to be God's presence in the world. Our lives are mere cameo appearances in the grand drama of history, but we do get to play a role. And no one else can play it for us, because (here's another halakhic axiom with moral overtones) ein hashali'ach oseh shali'ach: "an agent cannot appoint another agent." The calling is ours; no one else's.


Hwy 55 prides itself in elevating the experiences of guests in and out of the restaurant, whether it's holding an umbrella or refilling a drink for a worker outside.
One act of kindness that is making waves across the restaurant industry began at a restaurant in Huntington, West Virginia.
One person's decision to improve another person's life, no matter how small, can have a ripple effect they never saw coming. One act of kindness that is making waves across the restaurant industry began at a Hwy 55 restaurant in Huntington, West Virginia.
Erin Downard is the owner and operator of the location, one of 140 in the growing burger-and-shake concept's footprint. She has a lot on her plate running the restaurant, but isn't too busy to ignore the needs of her employees and customers. "Love Your Neighbor" is a motto the company operates by and Hwy 55 prides itself in elevating the experiences of guests in and out of the restaurant. Whether it's holding an umbrella for a guest as they walk to the car or refilling a drink for someone who's "out working on the electrical lines in the 98 degree, 2,000 percent humidity of eastern North Carolina, refill his cup not because you want a tip, but because he's thirsty," Hwy 55 founder Kenney Moore says.
Through Facebook Workplace, Hwy 55 employees across the country share "Love Your Neighbor" moments to show the good things that are happening at each location. One of Downard's recent postings generated a huge response and even caught the attention of Moore.
Since the Huntington location opened two years ago, one of the guests who frequently dines at the restaurant, about twice a week, is Lisa Blankenship. Along with her husband, Lisa likes exploring the menu and usually orders a burger or her favorite—a banana split. However, the ordering process takes a little longer than other customers because she is blind.
To make sure she isn't missing out on anything on the menu Lisa's husband reads her the entire menu—"it was a word-by-word, line-by-line, every time they came in," she says. Downard emphasizes Lisa's husband didn't skim over the menu or just give her different categories from the menu, he described each dish in detail making sure to list specific ingredients as well.
Through those conversations the servers found out that as a child, Blankenship attended a school for the blind and learned how to read braille. Downard, who is a former TV broadcaster and producer, used her connections from her previous career to help improve Blankenship's dining experience.
Working with the local Cabell Wayne Association of the Blind, Downard transformed the regular Hwy 55 menu into a braille menu for Blankenship.
In September, Downard and the staff of the Huntington restaurant surprised Blankenship with the new braille design. She was so excited she immediately started moving her fingers across the embossed pages.
Blankenship's special menu has its own shelf in Downard small office—"We don't have offices I have a tiny little cubby," she says. Sheltered from dirt and liquid, the menu is always there when Blankenship needs it.
After Downard shared Blankenship's story on the company's workplace network, Moore knew it was an initiative that should be implemented throughout all of the Hwy 55 locations.
Hwy 55's braille menu is now in all 140 locations.
Downard says the team Moore put together to help execute a plan to get a braille menu in every location reached out to her. Not knowing if they would be able to fill a national order, she contacted the Cabell Wayne Association to see if they could help.
The timeline to get the new menus into the restaurants moved quickly. Originally the association estimated it would take about four weeks to get the menus down. However, there was so much excitement about the braille menus that they sped up the process. At a recent manager's meeting, the menus were distributed to those in attendance and shipped to other locations across the country. Now every Hwy 55 location has a braille menu on hand, Downard says.
As for Blankenship, she is thrilled with the reach and attention the braille menus have received over the past few months. Downard is also content with how large and far-reaching the one act of kindness has grown from her restaurant. "Lisa made that difference. We didn't, she did that by her telling her story was how we learned and really kind of changed our whole company with what we're going to do and how it's going to be able to help people everywhere," Downard says.
This little piece of good news also highlights the brighter, happier things happening in an area where good news is rare these days. The news of the braille menu spread throughout the town and the president of the Chamber of Commerce recognized the restaurant.
Outside of West Virginia, people are also hearing about the braille menu and how one small change can make a big impact. Downard mentions a friend in Washington D.C. who called her about the news after hearing it on a morning radio show.


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After years of experience in matchmaking and date coaching, I will report that being "nice" is not the most effective way to start a relationship or keep it.
Society has created the negative label of "nice girl" or "nice guy," with the men suffering more often than the women. It's a way to describe someone who is inexperienced, shy, and constantly friend-zoned.
Do you align with this description of "nice"? It is not a label you want to keep. You can get yourself out of this label by digging a little deeper internally to find the source.
I was once this person too! I was incredibly shy, awkward, and did not know how to speak to someone attractive. Then, I realized the main problem was me. This was not my natural personality. This was also not what I wanted.
I wanted to be able to be myself without being hit with a load of nerves, I wanted to go on a date with someone I was interested in, and I wanted to be fully confident in my anime-loving nerdy self. So I got out of the "nice" label and into the "good" ― the person I always was but didn't know how to confidently be.
Once again, you do not want to be stuck with that "nice" label. Here are five ways being "nice" can ruin relationships. You may align with these currently, I know I did.
1. You keep everything bottled up.
You don't vocalize your wants or needs and it's not natural for you to talk about yourself. So when you feel an emotion, you believe it is better to handle it internally than burden someone else with it. It may seem to be the better choice at the moment, but it only takes one last push to bring you over the edge and then, your emotions will all spill out. You are being dishonest and disingenuous to those around you. Start being more open about your real thoughts and feelings.
2. You care about what others think.
You care about how you are perceived to others. You want to make sure you are liked, respected, and known as the person anyone can lean on. But is it effective? No real relationship lasts with someone who keeps catering to the other person. Relationships are a two-way street where you cannot be afraid to vocalize your needs. Now, this doesn't make it okay to be a jerk. Be authentic with good intentions. A relationship-ready man doesn't care about what others think of him because he knows exactly who he is and is proud. A relationship-ready woman doesn't let a man's view of her change her because she knows exactly who she is. The right people will appreciate you for who you are.
3. You do favors to get it back in return.
You put others before yourself and you do everything for everyone else. Let's be honest, you do things for a reason. You're not giving out kind words or giving the gifts "just because." Deep down, when that person doesn't reciprocate, you get hurt or irritated. You have a deep desire for this person to like you back, go out with you, or do the same favor for you. This is not healthy. Be honest and do what you want to do. Do not do it in hopes of reciprocation.
4. You let the other person change you.
You start liking the same activities, same music, same books, dress similarly, respond properly, and become the person your partner would like. The problem with this is you're not being your authentic self and this will catch up with you. You will start to see yourself dragging your feet when you continue to do these activities, your friends tell you how different you are, and you're not happy. You cannot start a relationship on a false impression. The relationship will fall apart because your partner will eventually see your true self. Stick to your true self from the very beginning! The right people will like you just for that.
5. You're not aware of your own self.
The main component that makes a "nice guy" or "nice girl" is the lack in sense of self. There is so much focus on outside forces that there is little work done internally. People take this for granted and scoff at the idea of emotions and needing to "look within yourself", but it's a key component for a long lasting relationship. How would you expect someone to know you if you don't know yourself? When you're not aware of your own needs and desires, your partner will be left confused and the relationship will not grow. You'll naturally default to do what your partner wants…and that is not healthy.
The first step to making sure this doesn't ruin your relationship is recognizing if you're "nice." Please note that I use quotations to refer to society's definition. Being, by correct definition, nice is always an important quality.
By recognizing, accepting, and being fully aware of how you approach relationships, it will allow you to figure out the next steps of having a long-lasting relationship.
Don't be that "nice guy" or "nice girl," be the "good." How? Be your most authentic self with good intentions. You will be happy, your partner will be, and your relationship will be solid.


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Online and in-person: How FC Cincinnati used TransferRoom for key deal
Data, Discovery List and digging out old contacts: MLS club's six-month quest to sign an international player to fill a vital Designated Player spot in their roster.
We identified Obinna originally through our own data, and used TransferRoom to get a sense of the player's value. I'd met the owner of Obinna's previous club in Hungary through a TransferRoom Summit a few years ago. So when we were in the 'discovery phase' of the player I reached out to the Ujpest owner and asked for some feedback and information on him.
Hunter Freeman
Director of Scouting and Player Recruitment, FC Cincinnati
Obinna's immediate on-field impact
Obinna Nwobodo (pictured) arrived at FC Cincinnati in mid-April in a $3m move from Göztepe SK in Turkey that was facilitated by TransferRoom.
The Nigerian defensive midfielder's impact on the team was immediate: his first four matches into his Major League Soccer career resulted in four wins, with two goals conceded and two clean sheets.
He was the first Designated Player signing for Cincinnati (and first from outside of MLS) under the era of General Manager Chris Albright, who joined in October 2021 with Nwobodo already a club target for one of the three coveted DP slots.
Following an extensive data-led search, Cincinnati declared interest in the 25-year-old on TransferRoom, which led to him being placed on the Discovery List (giving the club priority to bring the player to MLS) and eventually resulted in a move for Nwobodo to end his two-year spell in Turkey.
But the story can actually be traced back to the midfielder's time at Ujpest in Hungary between 2017 and 2020.
TransferRoom now has a league-wide deal in place with MLS, but Cincinnati were one of a number of clubs already using the platform to gain an advantage over their competitors by building global connections.
Hunter Freeman, Director of Scouting and Player Recruitment at Cincinnati, tells TransferRoom: "We identified Obinna originally through our own data, and we used TransferRoom to get a sense of the player's value during our process.
"I'd met the owner of Obinna's previous club in Hungary through a TransferRoom Summit a few years ago. So when we were in the 'discovery phase' of the player I reached out to the Ujpest owner and asked for some feedback and information on him.
"It was about using all the angles to get as much information as possible on the player and person during our scouting and recruitment."
Getting the full player picture
It is an example of how a network built on TransferRoom can pay dividends down the line.
Real-time data on TransferRoom and connections made at Summits for Hunter Freeman (left) paved the way for Nwobono's move
As Freeman told TransferRoom at a recent live summit, those connections can be tapped into for vital information about a player - as Cincinnati did with Nwobodo - before you make your move.
He explained: "TransferRoom allows you to streamline real information quickly… it may not even be the club you're talking to to get the player from, it may be the club previously or two clubs previously where you can get a lot of real information.
"The reality is that the agent is going to tell you what you want to hear and usually the selling club will tell you the same. So to be able to get that information and some background stuff on what the player is like off the field… that sometimes is really difficult to get or takes a long time."
Goztepe had been aware of previous interest in Nwobodo from Cincinnati, and it was not until Albright's arrival in the city that communication between the two clubs was established.
Kaan Oz, Board Member and Director of Football Operations at Goztepe SK, told TransferRoom: "It is very important to have a clear and swift information flow between football clubs, especially during the transfer windows. But due to high staff turnover in the football industry, even the existing communication channels can get disrupted often.
"In that sense TransferRoom played a key role to restore our direct communication with FC Cincinnati and consequently to facilitate the transfer of Obinna Nwobodo."
Despite Goztepe's struggles - they have been relegated from the Super Lig - Nwobodo excelled this season, ranking first in the league in terms of tackles and ball recoveries until his April move.
Speaking at the unveiling of Nwobodo, Albright said: "We've done over half a year of due diligence on him. We've been over to Turkey on multiple occasions. I was able to sit with the player, meet with the player. We were able to communicate to him via Zoom with myself and Pat [Noonan, head coach] prior to me going over and meeting the player. We've seen him play live on multiple occasions. We've seen him train."
It was the second transfer in nine months for Cincinnati involving TransferRoom, following the sale of Swedish centre-back Tom Petersson to Lillestrøm SK in Norway in the summer of 2021.

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1 Samuel 19:1-18
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1 Samuel 19:1-18 Revised Standard Version (RSV)
Jonathan Intercedes for David
19 And Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David. 2 And Jonathan told David, "Saul my father seeks to kill you; therefore take heed to yourself in the morning, stay in a secret place and hide yourself; 3 and I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will speak to my father about you; and if I learn anything I will tell you." 4 And Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father, and said to him, "Let not the king sin against his servant David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his deeds have been of good service to you; 5 for he took his life in his hand and he slew the Philistine, and the Lord wrought a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced; why then will you sin against innocent blood by killing David without cause?" 6 And Saul hearkened to the voice of Jonathan; Saul swore, "As the Lord lives, he shall not be put to death." 7 And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all these things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence as before.
Michal Helps David Escape from Saul
8 And there was war again; and David went out and fought with the Philistines, and made a great slaughter among them, so that they fled before him. 9 Then an evil spirit from the Lord came upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand; and David was playing the lyre. 10 And Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear; but he eluded Saul, so that he struck the spear into the wall. And David fled, and escaped.
11 That night Saul[a] sent messengers to David's house to watch him, that he might kill him in the morning. But Michal, David's wife, told him, "If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed." 12 So Michal let David down through the window; and he fled away and escaped. 13 Michal took an image[b] and laid it on the bed and put a pillow[c] of goats' hair at its head, and covered it with the clothes. 14 And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick." 15 Then Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, "Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him." 16 And when the messengers came in, behold, the image[d] was in the bed, with the pillow[e] of goats' hair at its head. 17 Saul said to Michal, "Why have you deceived me thus, and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?" And Michal answered Saul, "He said to me, 'Let me go; why should I kill you?'"
David Joins Samuel in Ramah
18 Now David fled and escaped, and he came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt at Nai′oth.
1 Samuel 19:11 Gk Old Latin: Heb escaped that night. 11 And Saul
1 Samuel 19:13 Heb teraphim
1 Samuel 19:13 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
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This section of the American Library Association website provides information from news sources on the FBI in libraries and on the ALA Policy on Governmental Intimidation, The Attorney General's Guidelines, Terrorism Information and Prevention System (TIPS), the USA Patriot Act, the Library Awareness Program, Privacy: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights, and In Defense of Freedom.
Looking for an ebook on the Internet? Here is your source for locating it. A database of thousands of books can be searched by format, title, author/creator, subject, keyword, publisher, and/or identifier (ISBN etc.). There are also reviews, author biographies, plus availability at leading retail sites. Hits retrieved in a search provide title, format, author, publisher, price, and retailer. If you click on the title, you are taken to a screen with more detail including publication date, file size, ISBN, description, and an excerpt from the book.
This website claims to be "a one-stop portal that describes best practices, consolidates lessons learned, explains campaign strategies and tactics, and links the efforts of freedom of information advocates around the world." It contains crucial information on freedom of information laws and how they were drafted and implemented, including how various provisions have worked in practice. There is a world map showing countries with and without freedom of information laws under the link Global Survey. Other informational links are Case Studies, News, Reports, Analysis, and IFTI Watch. One of the most useful areas on the site is Links which provides links to organizations that advocate and monitor freedom of information laws and initiatives around the world, to information about the disclosure policies of International Financial and Trade Institutions (IFTIs), to organizations supporting and monitoring press freedom worldwide, and to human rights and other groups that monitor access to information.
This article on TechNews.com provides a listing of websites that provide information on religions throughout the world. The website name, url, link and a brief description are provided for each website listed.
The People's Network is a project to connect all public libraries in the UK to the Internet. More than 4000 library centers will be up and running by the end of 2002. It is part of the commitment by the British government to provide Internet access to all who desire it. As of March, 2002, almost 70% of the public libraries in the UK were connected. This website provides all the details of the project with links to news & events, infrastructure, training, content creation, progress, impact, and the future.
This is the website of Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. Included at this website is today's news mainly highlighting speaking engagements by Professor Lessig and a content section. The content includes highlights of books, articles, testimony, industry standard columns, and audio/video presentations all by Lessig.


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A memorial service for well-known Eastern Cape public relations personality Maureen Dalzell will be held at The Boardwalk International Convention Centre from three pm on Thursday, February 25.
She passed away on Thursday, February 18 following a car accident on the evening of Sunday, February 7.
Maureen, who turned 71 on Friday, January 22, was public relations officer at The Boardwalk, Fish River Sun and Amathole Sun in the Eastern Cape.
For the past ten years she worked with Siyathetha Communications for a number of clients in the province.
Editor: Maureen was one of those 'old school' PR people – insanely organised and always in the background leaving her clients to the limelight. She will be sorely missed by MyPE.


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Rainforest Rescue
Director, Conservation & Partnerships
Protect Rainforests, forever…..
I didn't think moving to Byron Bay, the mecca for sun, sea and surf, was going to result in doing some amazing conservation work. I was wrong and forever grateful for the opportunity to live and work in one of the most beautiful places on Earth…truly.
Rainforest Rescue is a not-for-profit charity with the vision to protect rainforests forever through land buy-back and restoration. I developed the 5-year conservation strategy (2013-2018) and managed various projects in Australia, Indonesia and Ecuador and initiated and implemented the Save the Cassowary campaign.
Save the Cassowary campaign – the quest to save a prehistoric bird.
Isn't it sad that one day some of the most amazing creatures that roam this earth, will be gone forever? The Save the Cassowary campaign aims to raise global awareness of the plight of the endangered Southern Cassowary. Its biggest threats are habitat loss with 85% of its habitat lost, road fatalities and dog attacks. It's endemic to Australia's Wet Tropics with fewer than 1,000 birds left in the wild!
I negotiated a partnership between Rainforest Rescue, Queensland government's Department of Environment & Heritage Protection and Girringun Aboriginal Corporation, for the Garners Beach Cassowary Rehabilitation Centre, to care for injured, sick or orphaned cassowaries, and ensure the center remained operational and viable.
To reach a wide audience and connect people with this amazing bird, I built partnerships with the Zoo and Aquarium Association (ZAA) and 18 partner zoos, designing zoo signage and marketing collateral with the tagline 'Who am I?'. Our partners included Queensland Department of Environment Heritage Protection, Wet Tropics Management Authority (WTMA), local councils, tourism bodies and the Girringun Aboriginal Corporation to incorporate Indigenous knowledge, traditions and values. Our business partner BioPak created a special biodegradable coffee cup to promote the campaign, available in participating cafes around Australia.
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I specialise in blending business, marketing and communication skills with conservation science. I've also recently turned my talents to being on-camera, producing and presenting wildlife documentaries.
My blog is coming soon
Jungle Jenn
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Rana Daggubati's Multi-lingual film, Haathi Mere Saathi shooting is progressing at a brisk pace in Kerala. The movie shooting was held up for more than two months the last year because of the heavy rains in Kerala. Rana moved on to other projects during that time and that has delayed this film shoot.
The entire shooting will be completed by July-end and the makers are yet to reveal their release. The trilingual film is rumoured to be a remake of Rajesh Khanna's 1971 classic with the same title. But the team says the film, contrary to rumors, won't be a remake of the classic. The only similarity between the two films will be the bond between elephants and human beings.


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Pitmasters from all over the world compete in the World Pitmaster Championship's various events. Pitmaster Billy Sunday created the title in 2006. Over time, it has evolved into a pitmaster must-attend event. Pitmasters must consistently follow different rules and motivations if they want to win the title of WPC2023. This article contains important information for anyone interested in competing in the World Pitmaster Championship in a year.
Pitmasters should first sign up online to compete for the title. An enrollment period of six months begins 1.5 months before the event and ends 14 days before the actual event. Pitmasters should first sign up and then quickly finish a web test to determine their level of expertise.
Web-based Control Board for WPC 2023?
Through the WPC 2023 electronic Control board, people can access and manage their events, enlistments and portions. All Members signed up for the web-based Control board using the WPC 2023 methodology so you can access the Influence Panel by clicking "My Events" in your part profile. The "Events" tab at the site's prominent mark also permits access to impending events.
You can still access the Influence Panel regardless of whether you registered for the event by tapping the "Selection Info" tab in your participant profile. Click the "Enlistment Info" interface at this page's top. The WPC 2023 web-based Control Panel occasionally receives updates. As a result, regularly check this page to stay informed about your event enrollment status and portion choices.
The World Pitmasters Cup, or WPC is an international barbecue contest featuring the top grill masters. In some nations, participants compete by cooking chicken. Even though this is a severe case of animal cruelty and some nations still hold the competition. People can more easily understand and recognize blatant animal cruelty thanks to the WPC dashboard.
Players may speak with WPC 2023 pitmasters in addition to the dashboard if they have any queries or issues. The competition will occur in locations across several nations and is not just a virtual game. Players must be WPC 2023 members to access the online dashboard.
Mobile Application WPC2023
Flexible applications maintain platforms like Android, iPhone and others so you can use it to connect with a variety of food all over the world. Additionally, it works on connecting with other international pitmasters who will be attending the WPC 2023 event via a variety of social networks.
Anyone who competes in international competitions like BBQ battles should download a flexible application. The application provides access to a wide range of test-related information, including data on participants, judgesc and facilitators. You can also communicate with them via email and virtual distractions even if you are not close to a computer.
How to Win at a Live WPC2023 Event?
Being in charge of a WPC2023 rivalry is no small feat. Competitors from all over the world will compete in this global competition. Despite these numerous obstacles, it might not seem easy to win. It is possible to deal with your potential outcomes successfully in any case. The focal point of your routine practice ought to be selecting and honing one of your resources. One of your main priorities should be your chicken show.
Features of the WPC2023.
It's an opportunity to compete against the world's top fighters and win the championship.
You'll gain a reputation as one of the most noticeable grillers in the world if you prevail!
Furthermore, whether or not you succeed, you will be prepared for various differentiations to your advantage.
WPC2023's Benefits
The World Pitmaster Championships will occur worldwide at various times in the not-too-distant future.
The specifics of when and place are currently being worked out.
More than 500 named specialists from more than 100 countries should collaborate.
Ten challenges are scheduled through 2023, and three World Pitmaster Championships have been held since 1999.
The World Pitmaster Championship will occur in various parts of the world in 2023.
Lots of would-be pitmasters will use this unusual entrance.
Which competitors will move on to the following round cannot be predicted now.
The WPC2023's key features
It's a chance to compete against the world's top competitors and win the title of the title holder.
If you triumph, the world will recognize you as one of the best grillers!
You will also be eligible for a huge variety of distinctions for your interest, whether or not you win.
Everyone can have fun and show off their culinary skills because there are so many different classes, from ribs to chicken. WPC2023 Positives and Negatives.
Web-based Control Board for WPC 2023
Members can access and control their events, choices, and portions using the WPC 2023 web-based Control board, an electronic device. All Members registered for the event have access to the WPC16 electronic Control board. You can access the Influence board by clicking on the "My Events" tab in your participant profile. And once more by clicking on the "Events" tab at the top of this page.
You can still access the Influence board even if you haven't registered for the event by tapping the "Enlistment Info" tab in your participant profile. Additionally, by selecting the "Enlistment Info" tab located in the site's most prominent area.
Every year, the World Pitmaster Championship pits pitmasters from all over the world against one another in various challenges. Pitmaster Billy Sunday outlined the title in 2006. Since then, it has developed into what may be one of the most anxiously anticipated events on the pitmasters' schedule.
The game's title consistently adds new challenges and intriguing rules that pitmasters must follow to succeed. This article will outline the World Pitmaster Championship and determine what you need to know if you plan to compete in the competition the following year.
How can the WPC2023 password be changed?
The steps below will help you reset your WPC2023 password if you've forgotten it.
On the home page, navigate to the "Login" section.
Put your email address in the "Password" field without checking the "Remember my login info box."
Select "Activate My Account" from the menu.
Click the "Confirm New Password" button after entering your new password in the "New Password" field.
At the bottom of the page, click the "Log Out" button.
To view your account information, click on your name in the "My Accounts" section.
Click the "Reset Password" link below your account name to change your password.
Important Information Regarding WPC2023
Throughout January, there will be an open casting call for those interested in learning more about applying to be a contestant. Each contestant is responsible for covering these events' lodging and travel costs. However, most of these significant barbecue contests also have sponsors who support financially or material.
These sponsors award prizes and significant sums of money for participating in and winning at some events. For instance, first place in some competitions can net you over USD 5,000. Sponsors' financial contributions vary depending on the venue and their level of popularity, but they should take into account.
What sets WPC 2023 apart from other video games?
The fact that it is not a computer game makes this year's event unique from all others. Instead, teams and individuals will compete against one another in actual, physical locations spread across several nations. Players must devise novel strategies to maximize their cooking experience and improve their grilling abilities.
To avoid spending a lot of money on international travel. to experience a tiny bit of what it's like to compete at the highest level. Instead, try one of these regional barbecue competitions. You'll have lots of opportunities in your neighborhood and get hands-on competition experience outside your door.
How to Succeed in a WPC2023?
Winning a WPC2023 competition is no easy task. Competitors will compete against one another from all over the world to win the title. It might seem impossible to succeed with all the difficulties and barriers along the way. However, there are several ways to increase your chances of winning by researching and honing your skills.
Please choose one of your talents and dedicate a significant amount of time each day to honing it. Work on your chicken presentation as one of our three main suggestions.
Benefits of WPC 2023
The World Pitmaster Championship 2023, or WPC2023 for short is scheduled to occur in several international locations and over 100 nations are expected to send contestants so there will be over 500 judges working from around the world.
Since 1999, there have been three additional World Pitmaster Championships, and ten more are scheduled through 2023.
Drawbacks of WPC2023
The 2023 World Pitmaster Championship is an international competition that will occur in different countries all over the world. At the same time, many aspiring pitmasters will benefit greatly from the opportunity. It is still too early to predict who might advance to the competition.
Is the real-time server list for the World Pitmaster Championship accessible?
An online poker competition called the World Pitmaster Championship (WPC) is currently accepting registrations. The WPC website offers a real-time server listing but is not frequently updated. Therefore, locating the most recent World Pitmaster Championship information may be challenging.
Players interested in competing in the World Pitmaster Championship should sign up immediately. The registration process is simple and can be finished online. Players who cannot register online can also get more information by contacting customer service.
Can the Philippines legalize cockfighting?
The government will ultimately decide whether or not to legalize cockfighting. If you are worried about the welfare of animals in the nation, there are some things you can do. You can work to spread awareness of the problem and inspire others to follow suit. You can also participate in demonstrations or marches to demonstrate your support for animal rights.
If you plan to attend the WPC live event, you must purchase tickets from the official website. Pre-sale and live event tickets are just two options available on the website for purchasing tickets.
Additionally, several payment options are available on the website, including PayPal and credit cards. You can also use a virtual private network to safeguard your privacy when purchasing tickets. On the official website, you can also watch the event live online.
Do we have a chance to profit from WPC2023?
The WPC2023 is a fantastic chance to earn a tonne of cash. Through the registration process, you will not only have the opportunity to make a lot of money, but you will also have the chance to win some fantastic prizes.
We have put together a comprehensive guide to help you increase your opportunity to make money from the WPC2023 registration process.
You must be aware of the rules before placing a wager on WPC2023. You will have to compete against the best competitors from around the world in this competition of the highest caliber. Even though it might be challenging, you can still succeed. Make sure you are familiar with the guidelines and winning tactics. You can bet once you understand the guidelines. Ultimately, you'll come out on top and be happy with your accomplishments.
Each nation may send one team, which is required to choose a captain. Only one person can submit a photograph from the country of origin, even if the captain is a team member. The creator must have all the rights and authorization to submit the image.
If you work in the energy industry, you should go to the World Professional Congress on Climate Change (WPC-CC), which is coming to town. This event is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to connect with like-minded professionals, discover new laws and policies being created by governments around the globe, and hear firsthand from some of the most important figures in climate change. To make this year's WPC-CC your best one yet, please keep reading for our detailed guide to registering for this important event.


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import { SchemaComposer, graphql } from 'graphql-compose';
import { composeMongoose } from '../../index';
import { mongoose } from '../../__mocks__/mongooseCommon';
import { Document } from 'mongoose';

const schemaComposer = new SchemaComposer<{ req: any }>();

// mongoose.set('debug', true);

const OrderSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
  orderStatus: String,
  inbound: {
    timeStamp: {
      type: Date,
      index: true,
    },
  },
});

interface IOrder extends Document {
  orderStatus?: string;
  inbound?: {
    timeStamp?: Date | null;
  };
}

const OrderModel = mongoose.model<IOrder>('Order', OrderSchema);
const OrderTC = composeMongoose(OrderModel, { schemaComposer });

schemaComposer.Query.addFields({
  orderMany: OrderTC.mongooseResolvers.findMany({
    suffix: 'Extended',
    filter: {
      operators: true,
    },
  }),
});

const schema = schemaComposer.buildSchema();

beforeAll(async () => {
  await OrderModel.base.createConnection();
  await OrderModel.create([
    { orderStatus: 'PAID', inbound: { timeStamp: null } },
    { orderStatus: 'PAID', inbound: { timeStamp: 123 } },
    { orderStatus: 'UNPAID', inbound: { timeStamp: null } },
    { orderStatus: 'UNPAID', inbound: { timeStamp: 456 } },
  ]);
});
afterAll(() => {
  OrderModel.base.disconnect();
});

describe('issue #304 - Filter _operator for nested fields not apply', () => {
  it('check runtime', async () => {
    const result = await graphql.graphql({
      schema,
      source: `query {
          orderMany(filter: {
            _operators: {
              inbound: { timeStamp: { ne: null } }
              orderStatus: { ne: "PAID" }
            }
          }) {
            orderStatus
            inbound {
              timeStamp
            }
          }
        }`,
    });
    expect(result).toEqual({
      data: {
        orderMany: [{ inbound: { timeStamp: '1970-01-01T00:00:00.456Z' }, orderStatus: 'UNPAID' }],
      },
    });
  });
});

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Trailers emerge for "ALONE," "THE OWNERS" and… "NOTZILLA" and "EBOLA REX"!
Thursday, August 6, 2020 | News
A pair of upscale independent horror films and a couple of prehistoric B-flicks have all had previews posted today. Jump past the jump to check 'em out!
Magnet Releasing unveiled the trailer and poster for ALONE (pictured), a remake of the acclaimed 2012 Swedish thriller GONE that has its international premiere at this month's Fantasia International Film Festival, and will hit theaters and VOD September 18. John Hyams (UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: DAY OF RECKONING) directed from a script by Mattias Olsson, and Jules Willcox, Marc Menchaca and Anthony Heald (THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS) star. According to the official synopsis, "Willcox stars in ALONE as Jessica, a grief-stricken widow who flees the city in an attempt to cope with the loss of her husband. When Jessica is kidnapped by a mysterious man and locked in a cabin in the Pacific Northwest, she escapes into the wilderness and is pursued by her captor."
Meanwhile, IGN debuted the trailer for THE OWNERS, the housebound horror film coming to select theaters, VOD and digital September 4. Julius Berg directed from a script he wrote with Matthieu Gompei, and the cast includes Maisie Williams (GAME OF THRONES, THE NEW MUTANTS), Sylvester McCoy, Jake Curran, Ian Kenny, Andrew Ellis and Rita Tushingham (THE HOUSEKEEPER). The synopsis: "A group of friends think they've found the perfect easy score–an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the elderly couple that lives there comes home early, the tables are suddenly turned. As a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, the would-be thieves are left to fight to save themselves from a nightmare they could never have imagined."
And now for something completely different: The trailer has been unveiled for NOTZILLA, the kaiju spoof from director Mitch Teemley and Creepy Ex-Boyfriend Productions. Frederic Eng-Li, Tifani Ahren Davis, Tim Bensch, Samantha Russell, Michael Bath, Becca Kravitz and Spencer Lackey star in the movie, which will be released on digital platforms via Indie Rights and physical media from Allied Vaughn on August 18. The synopsis: "When a scientist from Japan smuggles a monster's egg into the United States, what could possibly go wrong when it actually hatches–and alcohol makes it grow taller than a skyscraper? The race is on as the monster drinks beer and wreaks havoc, the Japanese scientist tries to shrink it, and a crazed weapons physicist tries to nuke the monster–and possibly take the entire city of Cincinnati with it!"
And if that's not enough prehysteria for you, EBOLA REX is coming September 1 on VOD and DVD from SCS Entertainment and the creators of ANGRY ASIAN MURDER HORNETS. Dustin Ferguson directed, and the cast is headed by Ken May, Mel Novak, Mike Ferguson and Erik Anthony Russo. The synopsis: "During a 'Dino Lives Matter' protest, a captive Tyrannosaurus Rex is injected with the Ebola virus by a crazed protester and escapes a lab to wreak havoc in Southern California. It's up to an obsessed, renegade soldier [May] to stop it."
Dustin Ferguson
EBOLA REX
John Hyams
Julius Berg
Matthieu Gompei
NOTZILLA
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Finals have been graded, graduates have been feted, and the days are still getting longer. That means one thing: time to start planning your summer reading! Each year around this time, the editorial staff at Public Books gathers together to draw up a list of our favorite books of the past 12 months. The list reflects our catholic tastes: you'll find addictive page-turners and heady novels of ideas, gripping social histories and gorgeous comics, laureled best sellers and deserving underdogs.
Special thanks go out to Jared Gardener and Marah Gubar, who helped us select some of the year's best graphic novels and children's/YA literature, respectively. Thanks, too, to the section editors and contributors who told us, in their own words, why they loved the books they loved. Whether you plan to spend your summer at the beach or in the tub, on a train or in the rain, you won't be wanting for recommendations. From all of us at Public Books, here's to a book-filled summer!
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At first glance, Spain in Our Hearts may seem like another unfortunate example of the Americanization of world history; that is, the need to find American interlocutors to offer perspectives that make sense to US readers. Rather, the book offers a reframing of the Spanish Civil War beyond its well-known status as a "dress rehearsal" for WWII and a technological and ideological petri dish for Stalinism and Nazism. By focusing on the Lincoln and Washington brigades, Hochschild shows how the War split the Depression-era American left and right. Millions of invigorated union members demanded arms for Republican Spain (which they never received) and business elites often supported Franco, such as the chairman of Texaco, who gifted the Nationalists oil on credit. Most of all, the book is a moving portrait of the thousands of young idealistic Americans who volunteered—most of whom were working-class New York City Jews who were members of the American Communist Party and City College students—and how they died in desperate attacks in villages and olive groves, often shy of their 21st birthdays.
This lively book, Cox's account of her work as a participant-observer in a Detroit homeless shelter for teen girls, reveals both the many obstacles faced by young women of color and the creative ways in which they use self-expression (language, music, fashion, and dance) to find a new way to live otherwise. The stories, harrowing and fascinating, shine a light on the lives of our least empowered citizens—teenage African American girls—while Cox's thinking helps us see the power of being able to shape-shift.
"Dickensian" is a much-abused adjective, but Sunjeev Sahota's compulsively readable group portrait of migrants in Sheffield looks back to the 19th century in its braiding together of lives from different social classes and its rueful reminders that individual emotions and economic contingencies are just as tightly interwoven. A different 19th-century author comes to mind in the Dorothea Brooke–like figure of the only woman in the group, a heroine whose efforts to act under conditions of imperfect knowledge provide a self-deprecating image for the novel's own sociopolitical ambitions.
Unequal City reveals how schools shape the lived reality of Chicago's youth. Through moving accounts of, and administrative data on, the divergent social worlds of four schools, Shedd identifies the role of schools—beyond that of police and courts—in the reproduction of perceptions of social inequality and criminal injustice.
The Work of the Dead is an astute cultural history of why the dead matter, ranging across periods and places from the Greeks to the present.


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Houston Resources for Ex-Offenders
September 9, 2015 . 4 min read
Finding a job and a place to live may be two of the biggest challenges we, as law-abiding citizens, must face in adulthood. But consider how much more challenging these two tasks become after you've been convicted of a crime. Once a convicted offender has paid his or her debt to society, they should be given a fair chance to become a contributing, law-abiding member of their community. Unfortunately, Texas law, though not as uncompromising as its counterparts in some other states, makes it relatively easy for businesses and landlords to discriminate against individuals who have been convicted of a felony.
Fortunately, Texas and the city of Houston has several successful organizations who can help ex-offenders with reentry and integration. Resources for ex-offenders – that is, any person who has been convicted of a crime and paid a fine, done community service, received a suspended sentence (probation), and/or served time in prison – range from programs and services provided by the state of Texas, to smaller, nonprofit organizations. It's inspiring to know there are such resources for ex-offenders in Houston, and to see the good work being done to prevent recidivism and build safer and stronger communities.
Reentry and Integration for Ex-Offenders
The Texas Department of Justice Reentry and Integration Division provides guidance for both juvenile and adult offenders with reentry into their community. The division offers a three-phased reentry program that begins with helping offenders get the IDs they need, including a social security card, birth certificate and state identification card, in order to apply for a job or sign a lease. The second phase involves creating a plan to assess and address the risk of the individual re-offending, and the third phase prepares that individual for employment. The division also addresses the unique needs of veterans, and works with the Texas Correctional Office on Offenders with Medical and Mental Impairments (TCOOMMI) to address any health and medical needs of offenders. They also have a free, downloadable reentry resource guide, which lists services for ex-offenders in counties across the state.
Businesses that hire ex-offenders can benefit from the Work Opportunity Tax Credit. Also relevant for business owners is Chapter 142 of the Civil Practice and Remedies Code, which limits the liability of an employer "who hires a persons with past criminal convictions." Business owners who would like to provide a job opportunity to an ex-offender can contact the Reentry and Integration Division directly at [email protected], or call toll free at (877) 887-6151.
Other Houston Organizations for Ex-Offenders
We've written about Becoming One Community (BOC) and Prison Entrepreneurship Program (PEP) in an earlier blog, "Rehabilitation That Works." Becoming One Community's job search services include its "Working Through the Nos" workshop, which assists ex-offenders with résumé writing, networking and job interview skills. BOC also can help with financial management, finding housing, and mental and physical health needs. Located in Houston and Dallas, the Prison Entrepreneurship Program provides ex-offenders with a range of resources to ensure a successful re-entry into society. PEP's services include assistance with finding housing, mental, dental and optical care, job placement, transportation and family reunification. Participants in PEP's special MBA-level curriculum are connected to and mentored by business executives, entrepreneurs and MBA students, a process that has led to a success rate of over 90 percent.
Founded by Bishop T.D. Jakes, and with offices in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Fort Worth, the Texas Offenders Reentry Initiative (T.O.R.I.) has provided reentry services for over 10,000 male and female adult ex-offenders. The Houston faith-based organization The WorkFaith Connection assists ex-offenders, as well as recovering addicts and homeless people, with finding secure employment. With chapters across the state, the Texas Inmate Families Association (TIFA) works to end recidivism through its resources and programs, including parole workshops and resources for the families of ex-offenders.
For offenders who need to complete a rehabilitation program as part of their parole, Houston's Right Step and Memorial Hermann Prevention and Recovery Center both offer inpatient and outpatient treatment for alcoholism and drug addiction. Many of the above mentioned-organizations can also assist ex-offenders with finding a suitable treatment program.
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SPRINGFIELD, MO—Eric Gore is one of Central States Industrial's (CSI's) most tenured employees. He thrives on change and has held over a dozen positions within CSI, giving him a unique and comprehensive view of the company's capabilities.
Eric joined CSI in January 1998, nearly two decades ago. Since that time, he has experienced the advancement of CSI firsthand. "Back then if we had something in the shop over ten thousand dollars, the whole company knew. We were talking about it, because it was an exciting thing. Now, we can execute at a higher level. The level of things we're working on has evolved," he said.
Only two years after his graduation from Missouri State University, formerly known as SMSU, he began in a technical role as a Design Project Manager. When he first joined the team, CSI only had 40 employees. He was one of three designers, and as the company grew, they created levels within the department. He was promoted to Senior Designer and began to supervise team members.
"I do want to continue to grow my career, and I believe part of that is continuing to be open and willing to change. I think it's important for the organization, and I think it's important for me too," he said.
Eric took his own advice, and in 2008, he transitioned from the projects and operations side of CSI to become a Business Development Leader. He's covered geographical territories along with food, dairy, and beverage market segments. Currently, Eric spends his time assisting key accounts. In this position, Eric spends his time understanding and addressing the needs of customers. His goal is to fix customer pain points to help them optimize their equipment and facilities.
Eric has been taking on new tasks and tackling problems since he was a kid. His interest in building began at age four, when he smashed nails into boards of woods (and oftentimes his fingers) while his house was being built. A welder since the age of eleven, he has always been focused on practical solutions.
He is passionate about "usable knowledge" and enjoys documentaries and podcasts, because the mechanics of how things work is interesting to him. When it comes to a project, he said his favorite part is figuring out the best option, and then creating and executing the plan.
A true team player, he said, "Any accomplishment I can think of, I can also think of people that were involved with it and helped me get there." This attitude carries over to his family, and he considers his main hobby cheering for his children at their games and activities.
He has three children with his wife of 24 years, Tania. His oldest daughter, Rachel, is graduating from Mizzou this coming spring. His other two children, Collin and Ava, are eight and five. He described his daughter's unicorn birthday party with enthusiasm and talked about how proud he was of his son for winning the Boy Scouts Pinewood Derby race.
Eric said he is dedicated to providing the best life he can for himself and his family, and since he's also part of the CSI family, the people around him make sure he has everything he needs to succeed. Mark Cook, CEO, says one of the most important things is to "take care of each other, and take care of customers." Eric reflects this attitude in his actions every day, and it's only one of the many characteristics that make him an invaluable part of the team.
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Atlas Leisure Homes' decision to hold the exclusive public launch of the company's new luxury Concept Lodge in Shrewsbury has paid immediate dividends.
Award winning caravan dealership Salop Leisure, which hosted the launch last month, has secured 10 sales of the £50,000 lodge, an updated version of Atlas Leisure Homes' most popular and best selling model.
Customer demand has been so strong that Salop Leisure placed an order for the first 12 new Concepts made by Atlas. Three of the new models have gone to the recently extended five star Seven Oaks Holiday Home Park at Coedway, near Shrewsbury.
The Concept Lodge builds on the previous success of the legendary model, refreshed for 2013 with modern colours, an enhanced 41 x 13ft layout and unique seating arrangement, whilst retaining the distinctive features that made it so successful.
Salop Leisure's chairman Tony Bywater said: "A tremendous amount of market research has gone into the new Concept Lodge, even down to the price and we think it offers terrific value for money at £50,000.
"Most of the sales have been secured from existing owners who are upgrading their caravan holiday home at high quality parks in Mid Wales.
"We have been delighted to work closely with Atlas Leisure Homes on the successful marketing campaign to launch the new model, which has proved very popular with our customers."
Barry Pattison, Atlas Leisure Homes' sales director, is delighted with the response from Salop Leisure's customers.
"The original Concept model took the industry by storm when it was launched because it was so different and people still talk about it," he added. "Although this is a new Concept, it follows on from the original model with some different ideas and is a bit bigger.
"The new Concept has attracted attention from people who were not previously looking to part exchange in the current tough economic climate. Customers tend to look for three things when buying a new caravan holiday home: the layout, the colour and the price. If you get all three right, you're on a winner.
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Canadian woman's fiancé killed in random attack while working in New Zealand
Thirty-two-year-old Bianca Buckley of Nova Scotia is devastated after her Australian fiancé, 33-year-old Australian national Sean McKinnon, was shot down in a seemingly random act of violence early Friday morning.
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"Insp. Graham Pitkethley says New Zealand Police are providing the woman, identified by Canadian sources as Nova Scotia native Bianca Buckley, with the support she needs after what he called a "tragic incident," reports CityNews.
New Zealand police said the two were sleeping inside their van at a scenic spot near Raglan when the suspect approached the vehicle and opened fire around 3 a.m.
"We are supporting the female victim, who is understandably very shocked and distressed," Pitkethley told a news conference.
UPDATE: Global Affairs Canada says it is offering consular assistance to 'the Canadian citizen who survived a violent robbery incident in New Zealand, which resulted in the death of an Australian citizen.' pic.twitter.com/Km9jh7F7S0
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Pikethley says the unprovoked attack mortally wounded McKinnon, but that Buckley managed to escape apparently unscathed, wherein she alerted police to the shooting.
According to police, the suspect then stole a vehicle and drove roughly 75 kms away where it was later found by police with McKinnon still inside.
"It wasn't immediately clear if McKinnon died from the wounds he received in the initial attack or if he had been subject to further violence," reports Global News.
Pitkethley told media that it looks like the suspect acted alone, but it is probable that he had "confided in members of his community."
"Police deployed SWAT-style teams to the scene, and all police in the region began carrying guns as a precaution. New Zealand police typically don't carry guns on routine patrols, keeping them stored in their cars instead," reports CBC.
A nationwide manhunt is now underway to arrest the suspect.
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