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from django import forms
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _

from konfera.models import Ticket

class RegistrationForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Ticket
        fields = ('title', 'first_name', 'last_name', 'email', 'phone')

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        description_required = kwargs.pop('description_required', False)
        super(RegistrationForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

        if description_required:
            self.fields['description'] = forms.CharField(
                widget=forms.Textarea({'placeholder': _('Please tell us something about yourself...')}),
                required=True, label=_('Description'))

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Small studio designed for songwriters, producers, arrangers, film scorers, karaoke singers and much more when you don't want to pay for a huge studio complex with features that you don't need. Everything is done in one room using Cubase 7 and 7.5. Mastering with Wavelab 7.
Many albums were produced in this studio, including Grammy nominated "Get Branded".
Growing massive sound library of virtual instruments with high resolution sampled sounds.
A high quality sampling instrument with a current library of thousands of high quality sampled instrument sounds with note expression and sound effects.
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A virtual instrument containing 3 top-of-the line grand pianos (see latest sounds below), 1 upright and 1 electric piano.
LoopMash is one of a kind: a powerful tool for the slicing and instant re-assembling of any kind of rhythmic audio material. With LoopMash, you can preserve the rhythmic pattern of one audio loop, but you can replace all sounds of this loop with the sounds from up to seven other loops.
The synthesis method used by Mystic is based on three parallel comb filters with feedback. A comb filter is a filter with a number of notches in its frequency response, with the notch frequencies harmonically related to the frequency of the fundamental (lowest) notch.
Padshop is a sophisticated granular synthesizer. This VST Instrument allows you to create complex sounds that can drastically evolve over time. It features two completely independent layers that each use a set of preconfigured samples as grain oscillator sources. This way, you can combine slowly moving pads with rhythmic parts, for example, to create interesting pad sounds. The Filter section provides 12 different filter types, including low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, and band-reject filters. The integrated filter distortion can produce analog tube distortions or hard clipping effects, or reduce the bit depth or sample frequency. Two envelopes, two LFOs, and the step modulator in Padshop can be used to modulate a large number of modulation destinations, which are accessible in the modulation matrix. The matrix features 10 freely assignable modulation rows. This allows you to create Note Expression modulation assignments that can be directly addressed from within Cubase, for example. To give the sounds the final polish, Padshop provides a two-stage effect section including chorus, flanger, and different delay effects.
Prologue is modelled on subtractive synthesis, the method used in classic analog synthesizers.
The VST instrument Retrologue provides you with a highly flexible virtual analog synthesizer. It features all essential classical synthesis features that you need to create your synthesizer sounds. It comes with two multi-mode oscillators, a dedicated sub oscillator and a noise generator. The oscillators feature several modes that allow anything from basic synthesis waveforms, to sync and cross modulation, to multi waveforms. One oscillator can be a combination of up to eight detunable oscillator signals, which allows for very rich sounds. The Filter section provides 12 different filter types, including lowpass, highpass, bandpass, and band rejection filters. The integrated filter distortion can either produce analog tube distortions or hard clipping effects. In addition, you can add the ring modulated signal from oscillator 1 and 2. The two envelopes and two LFOs in Retrologue can be used to modulate a large number of modulation destinations which are accessible in the modulation matrix. The matrix features 10 freely assignable modulations. This allows you, for example, to create Note Expression modulation assignments that can be directly addressed from within Cubase. To give the sounds the final polish, Retrologue provides a two-stage effect section including chorus, flanger, and different delay effects.
The synthesis in this synthesizer is based around a spectrum filter, which allows you to specify the frequency response by drawing a filter contour in the spectrum display.
Resolution up to 192k 32 bit floating point recording. However, because Cubase plug-ins use 32 bit processing, 32 bit recording is recommended for projects using processing at the input.
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The platform Nocturnal knocks on the door of Nintendo Switch
nintendoswitch has become, over the years, the perfect home for genres such as platformsthe action and the adventures. Not in vain, we find a system that, thanks to its hybrid properties, is perfect for enjoying a type of titles that are compatible with short game sessions "wherever and whenever you want." On this occasion, we come to talk about nocturnal. A game, by the publisher and distributor Dear Villagers (souldiers), which will arrive soon to the hybrid.
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Sunnyside Games (Towaga: Among Shadows), an independent developer based in Switzerland, has just confirmed through a press release that its next game, the platformer nocturnal, Coming to Nintendo Switch in Spring 2023. We are talking about a 2D action adventure with a precious artistic section, inspired by ancient Persia, and a plot that leads us to discover the secrets hidden under a mist that surrounds an ancient and mysterious island. It looks good, right? Well, we leave you with a first preview in the form of presentation trailer:
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By Nick Reynolds
WyoFile.com
Election audit bill fails
Wyoming lawmakers rejected a proposal Wednesday by State Rep. Chuck Gray (R-Casper) to give the Wyoming Legislature the power to audit elections.
Gray, who is running for Congress against incumbent U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney in next year's Republican primary, has made "election integrity" a centerpiece of his campaign. Gray has also touted his visits to the site of an election audit in Arizona inspired by former President Donald Trump's disproven claims the 2020 election was stolen from him.
County clerks' offices are responsible for auditing elections at the county level. Wyoming does not require a statewide audit of election results.
Gray's proposal, which failed by a raised hand vote of 8-2, proposed bringing the Wyoming Department of Audit — which primarily handles financial and government performance audits — under the umbrella of the legislative branch. He also proposed authorizing it to audit elections.
"I think it's time that the Legislature takes on this function and does financial audits, performance audits and — in light of the problems that we've seen across the country — also has the discretionary ability to manage election audits," Gray said.
Gray did not elaborate on the problems he saw with national elections during the meeting or in a subsequent text message exchange with a WyoFile reporter. Gray also claimed an audit program could be established without increased cost to taxpayers, which some lawmakers disputed.
Election fraud is exceedingly rare in Wyoming, according to the right-leaning Heritage Foundation, with just three reported instances since 2000, none of which affected election outcomes.
Gray, however, has echoed disproven assertions that the 2020 presidential election was "rigged," and rife with voter fraud. In the 2021 legislative session Gray successfully sponsored voter identification legislation. The emphasis on "election integrity" aligns the U.S. House hopeful with national political figures like Republican Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar and former President Trump.
Nationally, most allegations of election fraud in the 2020 election have gone nowhere, according to a database maintained by the American Bar Association.
Sen. Anthony Bouchard (R-Cheyenne), a member of the Management Audit Committee and one of Gray's opponents in next year's race, accused Gray of pulling a political stunt. While he said he supported similar legislation in the past, Bouchard has largely rejected claims of rampant voter fraud in the 2020 election.
"I'm disgusted that you're pulling this election issue because you're running for office here," he said.


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Rory McIlroy backing Darren Clarke as next European Ryder Cup captain
Rory McIlroy is behind Darren Clarke, his fellow major winner from Northern Ireland, to lead the Europeans to Hazeltine in 2016.
Series: Ryder Cup
Published: Wednesday, October 01, 2014 | 7:24 p.m.
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland – Rory McIlroy is backing Darren Clarke as the next Ryder Cup captain for Europe.
McIlroy was among influential voices who threw support behind Paul McGinley when Europe was choosing a captain for Gleneagles. McGinley pushed all the right buttons as Europe sailed to victory over the Americans last week.
Clarke and Miguel Angel Jimenez have been mentioned as possible captains for Hazeltine in 2016.
McIlroy said on Wednesday that Clarke would be "the perfect man to lead the team there."
The world's No. 1 player says it's important to have a captain who is known in America. He says the American fans always have liked Clarke.
A panel of the last three captains (McGinley, Jose Maria Olazabal and Colin Montgomerie), a player from the European Tour's Tournament Committee, and European Tour chief George O'Grady will select the next captain.
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Niall Carson/PA Images An image of a newborn baby is projected onto Sean Ross Abbey in Tipperary as part of the Herstory Light Show on St Brigid's Day.
# alternate report
O'Gorman 'welcomes' new report that contradicts findings of Mother and Baby Home Commission
A new report has found "significant evidence" of inhuman treatment and forced adoptions in Mother and Baby Homes.
LAST UPDATE | Jul 12th 2021, 4:20 PM
THERE IS SIGNIFICANT evidence of inhuman and degrading treatment of women and children in Mother and Baby institutions – including of pregnant women and survivors of sexual abuse – according to a report compiled by academics.
The authors of this report came to this conclusion after examining the evidence compiled by the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes. In many instances, their findings contradict those of the commissioners.
The new report, which will be published in full on Wednesday, found there is "substantial evidence of unconstitutional involuntary detention, especially in the earlier period under study".
It also found "significant evidence" of coerced and illegal adoption, "amounting in many cases to forced adoption, throughout the period under examination".
A spokesperson for the Department of Children told The Journal that Minister Roderic O'Gorman "welcomes this engagement with the [final] report".
"A plurality of voices and analyses makes for a stronger understanding of our shared history. That is why the Government is committed to supporting research, scholarship and access to records as part of its response to the Commission's Report," a statement noted.
The Commission's final report, which was published in January, detailed the experiences of women and children who lived in 14 mother and baby homes and four county homes – a sample of the overall number of homes – between 1922 and 1998.
It confirmed that about 9,000 children died in the 18 homes under investigation. However, it said it found little evidence of issues such as forced adoption, abuse and involuntary detention.
Many survivors have criticised some of the Commission's findings, saying they contradict personal testimony.
More than 100 academics and historians have signed a letter in recent weeks outlining their concerns with the Commission's final report.
Twenty-five legal academics, including Máiréad Enright of the University of Birmingham and Prof Aoife O'Donoghue, of Durham University, took it upon themselves to examine the report over the past four months.
In relation to involuntary detention, the academics write: "Women and girls were generally free to leave in law, but not in practice.
"Evidence in the [Commission's] Report indicates there were barriers to leaving the institutions. Leaving was not actively facilitated. Women were not financially supported to perform their duties to their children outside of the institution."
The new report also finds that the refusal to pay women for the labour undertaken in the
institutions "contributed to women's effective incarceration", adding that "work was frequently used as punishment".
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The document adds: "There is evidence that women and girls undertook physically demanding work, including while pregnant and irrespective of their age, ability, or health. There is no evidence that the impact of physically demanding work on maternal or infant health outcomes was monitored by health authorities."
The responsibility of the State
The academics note the State was "generally aware of abusive conditions in the institutions".
They write that the responsibility in law for "breaches of constitutional and human rights rests with the State, which funded and regulated the institutions, delegated key public functions to religious bodies, through its laws created the conditions by which the institutions became a default option for the containment of unmarried mothers".
They continue: "The right to freedom from inhuman and degrading treatment is absolute and breaches cannot be justified. There is evidence of physical abuse and neglect of both boarded out/at nurse and adopted children, attributable to inadequate regulation of the family separation system."
In relation to the conclusion on the role of the State in Mother and Baby institutions, the Department's spokesperson noted that when the Commission's final report was launched in January O'Gorman said: "The State failed, time and time again and for decades, to protect some of its most vulnerable citizens, and failed to uphold some of their most fundamental rights."
Two committees
The Commission heard evidence via two Committees: the Investigation Committee and the Confidential Committee.
At a controversial online event last month, one of the commissioners, Professor Mary Daly, acknowledged that the testimony given to the latter committee was not given the same weight.
The main purpose of the Confidential Committee was "to listen to the experiences" of survivors. The Commission previously stated that this committee "may be suitable for you if you wish to have your experiences heard in a sympathetic atmosphere by experienced people and you do not want any person or institution to know that you are giving evidence to the Commission; the evidence you give will not be open to challenge".
Sixty-four survivors gave evidence to the Investigation Committee and 36 provided sworn affidavits, whereas hundreds of survivors gave evidence via the Confidential Committee.
Just 19 people applied directly to give evidence to the Investigation Committee, and it's not clear how the other witnesses were chosen.
With reporting by Cónal Thomas
Órla Ryan
orla@thejournal.ie
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Q: How to extract "=>" to function model I am fresher here, trying to start using => for functions and can't quite understand the inner part of a function in this code. It does work, wrote it myself, but just want to fully understand how and why.
Is there any other form you could write the exact same code in different "shape"?
I understand how first function extracts to:
function deleteNote(NoteID) {
 ...
}

But can't figure out how does the inner part work.
const deleteNote = noteID => {
        setNote(existingNotes => { return existingNotes.filter((note) => note.id !== noteID);
        })
}

Result is fine, just want to clarify what's going on... :)

A: In short, that could all be translated to:
const deleteNote = function(noteId) {
  setNote(function(existingNotes) {
    return existingNotes.filter(function(note) {
      return note.id !== noteID;
    });
  });
};

If you wrap the part after => in curly brackets {}, then you need a return statement to return something, such as in:
setNote(existingNotes => {
  return ...;
})

If you don't wrap it around curly brackets, then whatever you put after the arrow is what will be returned, such as in:
 existingNotes.filter((note) => note.id !== noteID);

Take a look at this short article.

A: To add to Elder's answer, another easier way of getting used to arrow function is by dissecting the calls into separate named functions (which is what we are commonly used to).
So for example:
existingNotes.filter((note) => note.id !== noteID);

Could also be viewed as:
function noteDifferent(note) {
  return (note.id !== noteID);
}

existingNotes.filter(noteDifferent);

Array.filter(fn) expects a callback function 'fn' as a parameter, and will send the element note in this case, to said function.

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Cherry Blossom in Japan
Posted on March 16, 2020 by MNL.OP INC	Leave a comment
The cherry blossom (sakura) has been celebrated in Japan for many centuries and holds a very particular place in Japanese culture. Although there are many varieties of cherry trees in Japan, most bloom for just a couple of days in spring. The Japanese celebrate this time of the year with Hanami (cherry blossom viewing) parties: friends, family or work colleagues gather and sit on plastic mats under the blossoming trees, to drink, sing, chat or just admire the spectacle.
The most important factor in determining the blooming time of cherry trees is the geographical location. The milder the climate, the earlier the blossoms open, so the blossom-time sweeps up the country from south to north.
On Japan's southern, subtropical islands of Okinawa, cherry blossoms open as early as January, while on the northern island of Hokkaido, the flowering can be as late as May. In most major cities in between, such as Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, the cherry blossom season typically takes place in early April.
Furthermore, the blooming time of cherry trees differs from year to year depending on the weather. If the weather during the months and weeks preceding the cherry blossom season is mild, blossoms will open early. If it is cold, blossoms will open later. From year to year, the start of the blooming season can vary by as much as two weeks. The table below shows the average times (from north to south of the country).
Credits to: JTB
Now take a look at the cherry blossom forecast for 2020. Please note that these dates are tentative and subject to change.
Place Estimated Average First Bloom Estimated Average Full Bloom
Okinawa Late January First Week of February
Kagoshima March 28, 2020 April 4 to 11, 2020
Kumamoto March 24, 2020 March 31 to April 8, 2020
Nagasaki March 22, 2020 April 1 to April 9, 2020
Fukouka March 21, 2020 March 29 to April 6, 2020
Matsuyama March 23, 2020 March 31 to April 8, 2020
Hiroshima March 23, 2020 March 29 to April 6, 2020
Nagoya March 24, 2020 March 31 to April 8, 2020
Kyoto March 25, 2020 March 31 to April 8, 2020
Osaka March 25, 2020 March 31 to April 8, 2020
Shizuoka March 27, 2020 April 5 to April 13, 2020
Wakayama March 24, 2020 April 1 to April 10, 2020
Yokohama March 22, 2020 March 30 to April 7, 2020
Kanazawa March 29, 2020 April 2 to 10, 2020
Tokyo March 22, 2020 March 29 to April 6, 2020
Kochi March 21, 2020 March 30 to April 6, 2020
Nara March 25, 2020 March 31 to April 8, 2020
Niigata April 5, 2020 April 10 to 18, 2020
Nagano April 9, 2020 April 14 to 23, 2020
Fuji Five Lake Areas
Fukushima April 7, 2020 April 10 to 18, 2020
Sendai April 8, 2020 April 10 to 18, 2020
Aomori (Hirosaki) April 21, 2020 April 25 to May 2, 2020
Akita (Kakunodate) April 15, 2020 April 20 to 28, 2020
Iwate (Kitakami)
Hakodate April 25, 2020 April 28 to May 5, 2020
Sapporo April 26, 2020 April 28 to May 5, 2020
Credits to: Kyuhoshi
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Technology of warm-up of the road, which melts snow and ice for 15 minutes and real-time display information about icing on the roads, can help to prevent many accidents.
"When operating vehicles in snowy weather, due to the movement of other vehicles, the dynamics of ice and snow strongly affects the drive and in such places as highway, risk of injury or death is greatly increased," says Yonatan Elimelech (Yonatan Elimelech), a partner of Israeli company SAN Hitech Ltd.
A project called Snowless, which coordinates Elimelech have developed a stand-alone technology of the furnace of ice on roads and sidewalks, using a grid of metal strips embedded in the asphalt or concrete surface.
Sensors monitor the temperature changes in the surface material, correlating these data with weather conditions and information about the power required to heat the tapes. Automatic switching lanes when necessary to prevent the formation of ice and snow or to quickly resolve them. This will help replace harmful materials such as salt, with the icing fight now, because in the long run, they may damage infrastructure, including railway bridges.


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3-3 Draw for FC Arizona and Las Vegas Legends
By FC Arizona
FC Arizona opened their 2022 NPSL season on Saturday with a home game against the Las Vegas Legends at the new Legacy Sports Bell Bank Park in the Lerner and Rowe Stadium.
This was Head Coach Andy Williams' first year coaching with FC Arizona and in the NPSL.
FC Arizona scored first with a goal in the eighth minute by Chris Ramsell. He was assisted by Brayan Ramirez. Las Vegas answered with a goal in the 14th minute by Esequiel Colonel. It was an intense game with the second goal by FC Arizona coming just two minutes before halftime. Ramirez scored that goal and was assisted by Ramsell.
Returning from the half, Colonel scored on a penalty kick in the 49th minute. Las Vegas would score again in the 51st minute thanks to Elijah Rice.
FC Arizona rebounded with a goal in the 70th minute by Tarek Salama. It was an intense game down to the final seconds. The game ended in a tie: FC Arizona 3, Las Vegas Legends 3.
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Rev. William Barber: Racist Gerrymandering Created a GOP Stronghold in the South. We Must Fight Back
StoryJune 10, 2019
Rev. Dr. William Barber
co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign and president of Repairers of the Breach.
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Longtime civil rights leader Rev. Dr. William Barber joins us to respond to his conviction Thursday for trespassing during a 2017 protest against gerrymandering and attacks on healthcare at the North Carolina Legislature. Barber had refused to leave the General Assembly as ordered, after he organized a sit-in at the legislative building when Republican leaders refused to meet with him about concerns with voter ID requirements and redistricting plans that would weaken the power of the black vote. "We must start connecting systemic racism, most seen through systemic voter suppression and gerrymandering, poverty, the lack of healthcare, environmental devastation and the war economy," says Barber, the former president of the North Carolina NAACP and a leader of the national Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. This Wednesday he will join faith leaders and religious groups in Washington, D.C., for a march to the White House to protest the Trump administration's attacks on the nation's most vulnerable communities, and next week he hosts the three-day Poor People's Campaign Moral Action Congress in Washington, D.C., that will draw hundreds of people from across the country for a presidential forum, where both Republican and Democratic candidates will speak.
StoryJul 23, 2021Rev. Liz Theoharis of Poor People's Campaign Arrested in Protest over Voting Rights & Infrastructure
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! I'm Amy Goodman, as we turn to longtime civil rights leader Reverend Barber, who was convicted Thursday of trespassing for staging a 2017 protest against gerrymandering and attacks on healthcare at the North Carolina Legislature.
JURY FOREPERSON: We, the jury, by unanimous verdict, find the defendant, William Barber II, to be guilty of second-degree trespass.
AMY GOODMAN: Barber was convicted of a misdemeanor charge by a Wake County jury for not leaving the North Carolina General Assembly as ordered, after he organized a sit-in at the legislative building when Republican leaders refused to meet with him about concerns with voter identification requirements and redistricting plans that would weaken the power of the black vote. Reverend Barber said he took the case to a jury because he and others have a right to protest in the building. Similar arrests took place almost weekly from 2013 until last year during the Moral Monday demonstrations that he organized protesting actions by the Republican-controlled North Carolina Legislature. Hundreds of people were arrested, but many of the charges were later dropped.
This comes as charges were dropped for a separate protest in Georgia against Democratic Senator Nikema Williams and 14 others, who were arrested last November during a protest at the Georgia state Capitol after a closely contested gubernatorial election. While Barber was convicted in North Carolina, their cases were dismissed Thursday in Georgia.
So, for more, we go to Raleigh, North Carolina. We are joined by Reverend Barber, the former president of the North Carolina NAACP, leader of the national Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. This Wednesday, he'll join with faith leaders and religious groups in Washington, D.C., for a march to the White House to protest the Trump administration's attacks on the nation's most vulnerable communities.
Reverend Barber, it's great to have you with us.
REV. WILLIAM BARBER II: Good morning.
AMY GOODMAN: Talk about what happened to you on Thursday. Talk about this verdict and why you were protesting back in 2017, though you've had many protests since.
REV. WILLIAM BARBER II: Well, thank you so much, Amy. You see you got me up early, even as I'm continuing to exercise so we can keep doing the work we're called to do.
Two years ago, 35—well, about 50 people—doctors, mothers with cancer, mothers who had children who died for their lack of health insurance, preachers and veterans—went in to deliver letters to the speaker of the House and the Senate pro tem leader, who had refused consistently to even meet with us for years. Our Constitution, Article I, Section 12, says we are to instruct our legislators at the General Assembly. We went there, and when they would not let us in the offices—they blocked the offices, said that the offices were locked—we then chanted scripture, like Isaiah 10—"Woe unto those who legislate evil and rob the poor of their rights." We quoted statistics about the 500,000 people in our state being denied healthcare—346,000 white, over 140,000 people of color and 30,000 veterans. We talked about the number of people who were dying. And we read the Constitution. They have some building rules there that say if someone is annoyed by what you're doing, then they have the right to call the police, the legislative police, and they can remove you from the building. We said that we had a right to be there. The Constitution gave us a right to instruct our legislators. The First Amendment gave us the right to free speech. And we stayed.
We went to court the other day. We were not allowed to argue the Constitution. Our lawyers were not allowed to do that. So we put on the record—I went on the stand—exactly why we were there. After the conviction, we immediately filed for an appeal, and we're going to take this to an appeal, because we have open up these Southern legislators, and we have to stop, Amy, this work to chill, to literally chill, protest. And I want it to be clear: It wasn't just me. It was 35 people—white, black, gay, straight, young, old, Latino, people who literally had sickness in their bodies while they were there protesting, one lady whose child died because of the lack of health insurance. And for that, they criminalize democracy. And that is why we cannot stop. We've got to continue. And we've appealed the case already.
AMY GOODMAN: I want to ask you about the connection you make between gerrymandering and healthcare, not obvious on the face of it.
REV. WILLIAM BARBER II: It's not. And we must start connecting systemic racism, most seen through systemic voter suppression and gerrymandering, poverty, the lack of healthcare, environmental devastation and the war economy.
Let me make the connection. In our state, we just found out the other day that our legislators—while I was being convicted, it came out that they actually lied to a federal court—they lied to a federal court—about their racist redistricting plans, said they could not fix them because the state had already ruled, one court, that our Legislature is unconstitutionally constituted because of racist voter gerrymandering. So they're in office not because they won, but because they cheated. More people voted for progressives, but because of racist gerrymandering, they're in office. Now what they do is they use the power that they've obtained through racist gerrymandering to deny healthcare to 500,000 people, to deny living wages, to attack women, to attack the gay community. So it's connected. They would not have the power to do what they're doing without racist voter suppression and racist gerrymandering.
And in reality now people are saying they are the real trespassers, because they lied to a federal court, because they used racist voter gerrymandering to get in office, and one judge has already said it was surgical racism—actually, the 4th Circuit said that—it was surgical racism, and another judge has said it was—they are a unconstitutionally constituted body that has been passing policies that's hurting all people, especially poor and low-wealth black, white, brown, Asian and Latino people. We have to understand the connections, Amy. And that's why we can no longer fight in our silos. We have to fight together.
AMY GOODMAN: I want to go to the North Carolina judge, Stephan Futrell, speaking last week as he sentenced you for trespassing at the North Carolina General Assembly.
JUDGE STEPHAN FUTRELL: It's hard to find too much reason to punish in this case, and I'm not inclined to do so. I believe this—Ms. Patel would agree that this is not that kind of case. But in order to be consistent, I feel that at least a fine of $200, court costs, a minimum sentence of one day, maximum two, to be suspended, depending on unsupervised probation. Is there an option for community service? Because he would do that in his sleep.
ATTORNEY: I don't think he knows how to do anything but community service.
JUDGE STEPHAN FUTRELL: I mean, and I don't—again, don't mean to make light of it. I've pondered that, about: Isn't his life an example of service, community service?
AMY GOODMAN: So, that's the judge. This is Reverend Barber, when he was questioned about the volume of his voice at his protest in 2017, for which he was arrested for trespassing.
ATTORNEY: Is it your testimony that you were not yelling in that video?
REV. WILLIAM BARBER II: I would never characterize call and response, preaching, reading the Constitution, reading scripture as yelling. Yelling insinuates a whole 'nother type of state of mind, that you are somehow angry or whatnot. I was in a situation where I was using the voice that I've been given, and I was reciting and call and response to Constitution, passages of scripture and statistics about people that are hurting in this state because of denial of healthcare.
ATTORNEY: But your voice is louder than it is right now, wasn't it?
REV. WILLIAM BARBER II: My voice? I'm not reciting. Yes, I'm not reciting the Constitution. I'm not engaging—
ATTORNEY: On that day, it was louder than it is right now, correct?
REV. WILLIAM BARBER II: Sure.
ATTORNEY: But it's your testimony that you were not yelling in that video.
REV. WILLIAM BARBER II: I would not characterize yelling.
ATTORNEY: And that perhaps you can make your voice even louder than that.
REV. WILLIAM BARBER II: I'm not—I don't know what—how you're characterizing. I'm a preacher. And in the African-American tradition of preaching, in the evangelical tradition of preaching, in the Pentecostal tradition of preaching, there are ebbs and flows in our voice. That's all I can share with you.
AMY GOODMAN: So, that is Reverend Barber in court being questioned. Reverend Barber, would you like to—pardon the pun—amplify what you were saying there and also talk about what time the Legislature went into session that day?
REV. WILLIAM BARBER II: Yeah, well, actually, that is interesting, because the Legislature didn't even go into session until five hours after we were there. We came in in the morning. We had a right to be there. The Constitution says we have a right to instruct our legislators at the General Assembly. Our Constitution says, "Beneficent provision to the poor, the widowed, the orphaned and the unfortunate is the first duty of a civilized and Christian state." Our Legislature is in violation of all of that. When we got there, they closed the doors, told us that the offices were not open. So there were no one in the offices when we were outside of the offices, according to them. And we asked them, "What decibel level is free speech?" You can't regulate the decibel level of free speech. We won cases years ago, when they once used to tell us, Amy, we couldn't even come in the building. When the first people were arrested on Moral Monday, they said we had to stay outside on the side. We went in the building, and the judge ruled, "No, no, you"—in fact, it was a Supreme Court case that pushed it—"you can't tell people they can't be in the building and the rotunda."
So, really, the concern here is not even how loud the voice was. What they were arguing was, if anyone complains—now, listen, to your audience, this is where we are. This is the criminalization of democracy. If anyone complains and says that it bothered them, then they call the police, and the police can remove you. And they can complain anonymously. That is dangerous not only for people that were there with me, but it could be the other side. It could somebody else that's there for a whole 'nother reason. Free speech has to be free speech, the right to instruct your legislator at the place where they work. They also told us, "Well, you can meet with them by Twitter and email, or you can go out in the community and meet with them." That's not what the Constitution says. And so, this is a very serious case. And we're going to have to push these things across, because I understand there are some Southern legislators where they're making it a felony to be inside of the state capitol. We're really going to have to open up these state capitols, because so much that's hurting the poor and the vulnerable and the immigrant and women and children is happening in these closed-off state capitols, particularly through the South.
AMY GOODMAN: Reverend Barber, we have to break. We're going to come back, and I want to ask you about the events you have planned for this week and the Poor People's Campaign next week, and how you're going to be involved in presidential election politics. Reverend Dr. William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign, president of Repairers of the Breach. Stay with us.
AMY GOODMAN: Sam Cooke, "A Change Is Gonna Come." This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman, as we continue our conversation with the Reverend Dr. William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign, president of Repairers of the Breach.
I want to ask you about newly surfaced documents that reveal a senior Republican strategist who specialized in gerrymandering was secretly behind the Trump administration's efforts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. When the strategist, Thomas Hofeller, died in August, he left behind a computer hard drive full of his notes and records. His estranged daughter found the documents, among them a 2015 study that concluded that adding the citizenship question to the census would, quote, "be advantageous to Republicans and non-Hispanic whites" and "would clearly be a disadvantage to the Democrats," unquote. Can you talk about Thomas Hofeller's history in your state, North Carolina, Reverend Barber?
REV. WILLIAM BARBER II: I can. And let me talk about this, Amy, from a Southern perspective. I could talk nationwide, but let me talk from a Southern perspective and speak to why this is so important for the whole nation and for progressive politics. You know, it was Hofeller, and then, you know, Trump also tried to appoint a lawyer from here, Thomas Farr, who in fact was also involved in racist voter suppression and gerrymandering. And actually, the Republicans in Washington, D.C., blocked three black women from even getting a hearing, in order to try to promote somebody who was known to be engaged in white supremacy policy and voter suppression.
When we look at the South particularly, what has happened now is the demographics have shifted. Forty percent of people of color, of black people, are in the South now. If you connect that to progressive whites, Latinos, Asians and Natives, that is a total new voting bloc that can dismantle the solid South and the white Southern strategy. That day is not coming; it's already here. It has to be organized, it has to be politicized, it has to be mobilized, which is a lot of the work we're doing in the Poor People's Campaign, to mobilize and organize and strategize and register and be a power among the poor, because one-third of all the poor people in this country live in the South, and it's almost evenly split between black and white.
The GOP extremists are afraid. They know they cannot win if the people vote. They cannot win if we have fair districts. And so they are trying to do everything they can to cheat. The census would scare people away, would lower the population, would undermine how many representatives we have in Congress, would actually hurt in terms of the resources that states would receive. But they have such a lust for power, and ill-gotten power that's rooted in white supremacy, that they would be willing to do that. The census question, they know, would create a false number, a false understanding of the true population of this country.
And, you know, the 14th Amendment says anybody that is here on this soil has a right to equal protection under the law. Any person. The Trump administration disagrees with that. Extremist politicians have long disagreed with that. We have to fight it, because there's a connection between adding a census question, racist gerrymandering and racist voter suppression. But it's all centered around this deep fear, because they know that the South can transform this nation's politics, and the demographics are already there to do so, if we have movements, like the one we're leading and the one we're working on, to engage the people and politicize and to register to vote and to build power.
AMY GOODMAN: So, Reverend Dr. William Barber, if you could talk about what you're doing this week in Washington, on Wednesday, and then next week, the presidential forum, and how the Poor People's Campaign will be involved in presidential politics? And are candidates going to show up to your forum next week, presidential candidates?
REV. WILLIAM BARBER II: First, on Moral Witness Wednesday, Repairers of the Breach is joining with the Jewish community, Muslim community, Unitarian community, where clergy are coming to Washington, D.C., to register a prophetic indictment and a moral impeachment based on how the Trump administration—not just him, the administration—and his supporters in Congress have violated our deepest—two of our deepest covenants, our deepest religious values and our deepest constitutional values, each which call us to justice and the concern for all people.
We will march straight down Pennsylvania Avenue in full vestment. We've had over 5,000 people of faith and religious leaders to sign on to this letter of indictment and impeachment. We are following a scripture, Jeremiah 22, that says, when things are this bad, go down to the royal palace and tell the leader to stop hurting the poor, stop hurting the women, stop hurting the immigrant and stop murdering people, i.e., stop passing policies that create public violence. When you deny healthcare, people die. When you deny living wages, people die.
And we have to be conspicuous. We can no longer allow the so-called religious right, religious nationalism, to have the stage to themselves, especially when they're engaging in so much modern theological malpractice and, in many cases, heresy, when they do not even talk about the issues like the poverty, the sick, the immigrants, but they only talk about prayer in the school, abortion and guns and tax cuts. That is so far from our deepest covenant, and we have to have this witness. And we believe our witness will help other people stand up. We're not Democrat. We're not Republican. We're not left. We're not right. We're standing in the moral center of our deepest constitutional and religious traditions.
And then, the following week, Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis, myself, as the co-chairs of the Poor People's Campaign, along with hundreds of people from across the nation, 41 states that have engaged in the Poor People's Campaign, coming to D.C. for the first national moral—excuse me, Poor People's Moral Action Congress, three days.
Monday, we will be releasing a moral justice budget. We are going to challenge the lie that there is scarcity. We have plenty if we use it right, when it comes to addressing the problems of 140 million poor people, 43.5% of this nation.
Secondly, we're going to have a presidential candidate. Ten presidential candidates are coming, not just to talk, but to take questions from poor people, impacted people, coal miners from Kentucky and poor people from Alabama and veterans, to take direct questions from them.
And then, on the following days, we're having a whole day of training, as we are building power, as we are registering people for the movement and people who vote. And then, on the—
AMY GOODMAN: And what day and where is the presidential forum, where you say 10 of the candidates—
REV. WILLIAM BARBER II: On the 17th. On the 17th.
AMY GOODMAN: On the 17th.
REV. WILLIAM BARBER II: Monday the 17th at Trinity.
AMY GOODMAN: Will Biden be there?
REV. WILLIAM BARBER II: Biden will be there. Warren will be there. Booker will be there. Harris will be there. I don't have all of the names. But they are coming, yes.
AMY GOODMAN: Will Sanders be there?
REV. WILLIAM BARBER II: Sanders will be there. Yes, he will.
AMY GOODMAN: And they're taking—
REV. WILLIAM BARBER II: Because what we are saying to them—
AMY GOODMAN: Go ahead.
REV. WILLIAM BARBER II: —that they cannot just talk about the middle class and the wealthy. A hundred and forty million people are poor and low-wealth, 43.5%. We have to deal with systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy. And we're going to have them there to engage.
AMY GOODMAN: We're going to have to leave it there, but we thank you, Reverend Dr. William Barber, for joining us, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign, president of Repairers of the Breach. I'm Amy Goodman. Thanks so much for joining us.
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The rise of communalism in recent years as the major claimant to power in Indian politics has posed a serious challenge to the survival of democracy and is even threatening the fabric of the Constitution. Coupled with the fact that political discourse in the international arena has been increasingly using the language of religion, this phenomenon has posed a serious challenge to human rights movements worldwide. The seventeen original essays in this volume traverse a large canvas and critically interrogate Hindutva from multiple vantage points in the light of recent national and international political events.
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It is now over over 10 years since the idea of a 'socialistic pattern' of development, the model that the Indian ruling classes had adopted at the dawn of independence (Nehruvian socialism), and the rhetoric associated with it were officially given up. On 21 July 1991, Finance Minister, Manmohan Singh, obtained parliamentary sanction for his economic policy resolution.2 The decade also witnessed a rise in the use of idioms that accord no importance to the inequities that exist in the socio-economic order that was perpetuated by the elite who captured the Indian state apparatus at the time of independence. It is, ...
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Drew Barrymore Admits Her "Odd Childhood" Is What Makes Her A Better Mom
Emancipating herself at 14 taught Drew quite a bit about motherhood.
By Alexi Velasquez Published: Oct 28, 2015
While everyone's been freaking out about Drew Barrymore's post-baby body and wondering if she and hubby Will Kopelman are the next couple headed to Splitsville (we're calling bullsh*t on that right now), Drew's over here releasing her autobiography, Wildflower, and being awesome at life. But that doesn't mean life's always come easy to the celeb, as she's now admitting that her career—which started at seven with her role as Gertie in E.T.—gave her an "odd childhood" and tumultuous relationship with her mother, Jaid.
Drew was emancipated from her mother at the young age of 14, after what she says was a relationship of "zero protection, zero consistency" in her book.
"Our lifestyle together was not traditional, putting it mildly," Drew told Today. "So walking away from my mom, shaking hands and saying, 'we need to emancipate,' those were just the facts. That's where our journey led us to and we were actually okay with that that's where we needed to go at that point."
After that, Drew says she had to learn everything on her own. "The laundry is what took me down," Drew shared. "Ikea furniture will also send one into a very dark spiral. I feel like I could run a company, but that Ikea furniture—still to this day, I'm like, 'How is that going to erect itself?'"
But it's that non-traditional upbringing, along with growing up in the spotlight, that brought Drew the kind of career—and attention—she wanted.
"Having a very public experience when I was young taught me a lot about responsibility in a weird way," she said. " It definitely gave me a wake-up call...if everybody is going to know your business, maybe you'd like your business to be really classy. And that was a hard lesson, but it was a good lesson for me."
It also steered her down a more traditional road when it came time to raise her own daughters, three-year-old Olive and 18-month-old Frankie.
"If I hadn't had such an odd childhood, I'm not sure I would be this voracious to be traditional," she said. "I feel pretty complete now. I feel like certain things are settled and certain things feel like they're constantly needing cultivation to the garden, and I think things are good."
She also isn't afraid to talk about her earlier years with her kids, saying it's important that they get "the truth and nothing but the truth."
"When people are like, 'Aren't you worried your daughters are gonna end up like you?' I'm like, 'A, Thanks. [and] B, I in some ways hope they do, now in the later years. And in the younger years, they're not gonna have my life. You know, not going to Studio 54 at seven years old will probably make them a lot more normal than I was."
Oh, and since it seems like all these celebrity children are looking like their mom's twin these days, Entertainment Tonight had Drew watch a video of her first interview ever, and she couldn't help but notice the similarities to her daughter Olive. Check it out:
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After a breakup with a girlfriend, Patrick, a 36-year-old Los Angeles man, told his primary care physician he was feeling a little down. The physician wrote him a prescription for Wellbutrin, a selective serotonin-re-uptake-inhibitor (SSRI) anti-depressant.
Patrick took the drug and became one of the estimated one in 10 Americans who has taken SSRIs – which include the more popular Zoloft, Prozac and Paxil – since the medicines were approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1987.
Almost immediately, Patrick began to suffer side effects. He became nauseous and dizzy and "was flying higher than a kite," he says. He went to a psychiatrist, who tried a variety of other SSRIs over a period of several months. Patrick never did feel better about the breakup. In fact, after a while, he was physically ill.
Though millions of Americans have credited SSRIs with correcting the chemical imbalances that cause depression, a vocal group of mental health professionals and patients are opposed to both the drugs and the easy way they are prescribed.
Critics say patients are not warned adequately of serious side effects, especially debilitating ones that can occur when a patient discontinues the medication. They also take issue with the availability of prescriptions, many of which are written by primary care doctors with little mental health training, and they say patients who stay on the drugs for longer than a year or two are facing unknown risks to their health.
However, drug manufacturers, physicians and millions of people who have used SSRIs say the benefits of the drugs far outweigh the side effects, which, for most patients, are not that troublesome. Thus far, extensive testing has not shown use of SSRIs to be linked to violent or suicidal behavior or proved it to be a long-term health risk.
Still, detractors say SSRIs are given out like aspirin by busy medical professionals who may not have a clear picture of a patient's health.
"It is an approach that has gotten out of hand by sound medical standards. We have been sold a bill of goods that emotional disturbances are biological and genetic when, in fact, they are not. No drugs correct a biological imbalance. In fact, they all cause them.
In "Your Drug May be Your Problem," Dr. Breggin cites dozens of medical-journal articles that detail the effects from SSRI use and withdrawal.
In simple terms, SSRIs increase the supply of serotonin, the neurotransmitter that is critical to mood regulation and well-being. That means the drugs are effective for a number of afflictions, from long- or short-term depression to anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorders and panic disorder.
Sharon says the small number of side effects – a loss of libido and slight fatigue – are worth it for her.
Dr. Doyle says those side effects, along with weight gain, are common in people taking SSRIs.
However, Dr. Joseph Glenmullen, a Harvard Medical School professor of psychiatry and author of "Prozac Backlash," says those minor side effects are only the ones for which the drug companies will take responsibility.
Dr. Glenmullen maintains that SSRIs cause damage to brain cells and that the notion of a serotonin deficiency is a sales pitch to promote the use of medications. He also says side effects can include greater depression, mania, psychosis, even suicidal tendencies.
Detractors of SSRIs point out that Kip Kinkel, who shot his parents and schoolmates in Oregon in 1998, and Eric Harris, one of the gunmen in the Columbine High massacre last year, were both on SSRIs.
Eli Lilly and Co., which manufactures Prozac – the oldest and most popular SSRI – maintains the drug's link to suicide has been studied and no link has been shown.
Critics of the drugs also say the risks of taking SSRIs for years are unknown because most clinical trials lasted less than 12 weeks.
"Physicians who prescribe psychiatric drugs for long-term use believe that the drugs are useful, but their views are based on personal impressions and unproved assumptions rather than scientific evidence," Dr. Breggin says.
Jeff Stier, spokesman for the American Council of Science and Health, a New York consumer group, says the only way to test the long-term effects is to have the drugs on the market.
Another criticism is that anti-depressants are given out hastily and without monitoring.
"A lot of doctors give out anti-depressants like candy," Dr. Breggin says.
Dr. Doyle says primary care doctors often are quite skillful at recognizing and treating depression. That, along with the innovation of SSRIs, has changed the mental health profession for the better, he says.
Ideally, however, a combination of psychotherapy and medication is the best approach, according to guidelines of the National Institute of Mental Health.
Dr. Doyle says, in fact, that not enough people who could benefit from medication are taking it. He cites a recent Yale University study that surveyed 7,500 people ages 17 to 39. Of that sample, 312 subjects met the criteria for current, major depression, but only 23 were taking medication for it. An additional 216 people met the criteria for lifetime depression (having episodes in the past), but only 17 were on medication.
"The point, according to the study at Yale, is that less than 10 percent of those who should be getting medicine are," Dr. Doyle says.
Doctors on both sides of the SSRI debate agree on one thing: If a patient is going to stop taking drugs, he or she needs to go about it very, very slowly. Some of the worst side effects occur with sudden withdrawal.
Withdrawal effects sometimes can be confused with the return of depression symptoms, leading some patients to get right back on the drug, Dr. Breggin says. Other withdrawal side effects include balance and coordination problems, fatigue, insomnia, flulike symptoms and tingling. The symptoms could last days, weeks, even months.
Dr. Breggin recommends "the 10 percent method" for weaning off a drug – reducing the dosage by 10 percent every seven to 10 days until the goal is reached.
Then again, Dr. Breggin, who says scientists have never proved the theory of a serotonin imbalance, advises that some people not even take drugs.
"Life is difficult," he says. "Often it requires psychological and spiritual guidance, not tooling our brain.


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Sexual violence, including sexual harassment and sexual assault/abuse is gender-based violence. The perpetrator of sexual violence could be the woman's partner/spouse, someone she is dating, someone she knows at school, work or in the community or a stranger.
Woman abuse is intentional
The perpetrator uses abuse to gain and maintain power and control over the woman. He may do this by using physical or sexual force or by threatening to use that force. The abuser wants to control the woman's behaviour by making her afraid. The abuse is not because the abuser has "lost control." Most men who abuse women are not violent or abusive to other people. Alcohol use, stress and mental health issues do not cause a man to be an abuser but may trigger or exacerbate an abusive episode.
The United Nations General Assembly (1993) defines woman abuse as, "any act of gender-based violence that results in or is likely to result in physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty whether occurring in public or in private."
Woman abuse creates fear, can make the woman feel humiliated and gives the abuser power and control over the woman.
It can occur in both heterosexual and same-sex relationships.
A woman may be subjected to abuse by her partner during an intimate relationship, while she and her partner are breaking up or after they have separated.
Many, but not all, forms of woman abuse are against the law in Canada. It is a serious problem that occurs throughout society and has negative effects on the health and well-being of women, children, families and the community.
Tactics of abuse
Woman abuse is not usually limited to one act. It is a pattern of behaviour, involving a number of tactics. When it happens in an intimate relationship, the abuse usually follows a pattern and gets more serious over time.
The list below highlights the most common tactics of abuse in intimate relationships. In most situations, the woman is subjected to a combination of tactics. Whichever tactics an individual abuser uses, the goal is the same: to control the woman by making her afraid of him.
Physical abuse is the most obvious kind of woman abuse, but it is not the most common and is not necessarily the most serious. It includes such actions as:
slapping, shoving, punching, strangling, kicking, burning, stabbing and/or shooting
using a weapon or other objects to threaten, hurt or kill
abducting a woman or keeping her imprisoned
Sexual abuse/assault
Sexual abuse is any form of forced sexual activity, including:
rape/sexual assault
forcing a woman to watch or take part in pornography
ridiculing sexual performance or sexual organs
using weapons or other objects to penetrate
touching or acting in any way that a woman does not want
forcing or pressuring a woman into sexual acts
forcing a woman into prostitution
Psychological/emotional abuse
Many women say that they think psychological abuse is worse than physical abuse because it makes them feel humiliated and they lose their self-confidence. It can be difficult to explain psychological abuse to other people because there are no physical signs of it and the impact of it can last long after the abuse has ended. Psychological or emotional abuse includes:
verbal aggression/abuse including insulting a woman
belittling a woman through name-calling or descriptions such as "stupid," "crazy" or "irrational"
stalking or harassing a woman
controlling a woman's actions, time, dress, hairstyle, etc.
forcing a woman to do degrading things (e.g. eating cigarette butts or licking the floor)
forcibly confining a woman
engaging in deliberately threatening behaviours (e.g. driving dangerously or playing with weapons)
threatening to harm or kill children, other family members, pets or prized possessions
threatening to remove, hide or prevent access to children, or threatening to report the woman to the Children's Aid Society
threatening to have the woman put in an institution
threatening to commit suicide
denying affection or personal care
taking away a woman's mobility device, teletype writer (TTY), medication, hearing aids, or guide dog
leaving a woman without transportation or any means of communication, especially in isolated or rural communities
attacking a woman's self-esteem in other ways
Social abuse
Social abuse is behaviour that takes place in front of a woman's family, friends or co-workers or that is intended to isolate her from those people and can include:
putting her down or ignoring her in public
not letting the woman see her friends or family
making a scene or embarrassing her when she is with friends, family or co-workers
being charming with others and aggressive with her
embarrassing the woman in front of her children, using children as a weapon, not taking responsibility for children
placing limits on a woman about the people with whom she can talk on the phone or visit
cutting a woman off from friends and family
Stalking/harassment
Stalking includes repetitive harassing or threatening actions that make the woman afraid. A stalker may be trying to get his partner back or may wish to harm her as punishment because she left. It can include:
harassing her at work
repeated phone calls, sometimes with hang-ups
following or tracking her
using technology to find her
watching her with hidden cameras
showing up where she is, at home, school, work, in the grocery store, at a movie, or in a restaurant
harassing her with unwanted emails, text messages or through social media
sending unwanted packages, flowers, cards, gifts, or letters
monitoring her phone calls or computer use
contacting her friends, family, co-workers, or neighbours to find out about her
going through her garbage
threatening to hurt her or her family, friends or pets
damaging her home, car or property
using the children as an excuse to repeatedly her or to show up where she and the children are (at the children's school or day care, at their extracurricular activities)
engaging in legal bullying during family court proceedings
Legal bullying
Legal bullying is the use of family law/family court process to maintain power over and intimidate a woman. It can include:
dragging out the proceedings to wear the woman down emotionally or deplete her financial resources
refusing to sell the matrimonial home
delaying providing financial disclosure
appearing charming and conciliatory to the judge or other legal personnel and denying the abuse, raising questions about the credibility of the woman's story
not allowing children to call home on access visits
acting as his own lawyer
making repeated motions over minor or inappropriate issues
using intimidation and threats if the woman doesn't agree to financial arrangements that the abuser wants
pressuring her to accept mediation and joint custody arrangements or to trade away some legal rights (e.g. the right to property or financial support) in exchange for others (e.g. custody of the children)
contacting the woman out of court, claiming it is to talk about the case
threatening to obtain sole custody of the children if she insists on leaving
making malicious reports to the court and other officials (child protection authorities, police, housing personnel, Ontario Works, etc.) about the woman
threatening harm or death if the woman pursues legal proceedings
using stalking behaviours (property damage, excessive phone calls, phone threats and verbal abuse, phoning and hanging up, etc.), particularly if the woman takes a stand against what he wants
attempting to interfere in the professional relationship a woman has with her lawyer in an effort to reduce her confidence in her own lawyer
if he has been criminally charged, pressuring her to change bail conditions or to try to have the charges dropped
having her charged by the police
Immigrant abuse
Sponsored immigrant and refugee women as well as women who are in Canada with no legal status are especially vulnerable to abusive relationships. Some common tactics of abuse include:
threatening to have a woman deported
threatening to withdraw sponsorship
threatening to report her to the authorities
misinforming her about her legal status or the status of the immigration/refugee case
threatening to remove financial support
interfering with her ability to learn about Canadian laws, her legal rights and services that may be available to her
preventing her from attending ASL classes
telling her he will get custody of the children
threatening to remove the children from Canada
controlling her access to her passport or immigration papers
isolating her from her cultural, religious or linguistic community
threatening to harm her family in the country of origin
Economic abuse
Economic abuse includes any act or behaviour that gives the abuser the control of financial resources or maintains a woman's financial dependence. It can include the following:
withholding money for basic necessities (e.g. food, clothing, diapers, medication, transportation, etc.) or for emergencies
forcing her to pay a disproportionate share of household expenses
preventing a woman from getting to work, controlling where she works, not allowing a woman to work, forcing her to work
spending or mismanaging family income, including a woman's earned income and/or savings, and leaving her and the children with little or no money
controlling a woman's spending, including where purchases are made, what is purchased, etc. and forcing her to account for and justify all spending
using credit cards without her permission and destroying her credit rating
obtaining credit or incurring bills in her name without her knowledge or consent
forcing her to turn over benefit payments or entitlements
denying access to education/training opportunities that may lead to increased earnings or employment
threatening to make false allegations about fraud to Ontario Works
Some abusers use a woman's spiritual or religious beliefs to control her. This could include:
punishing or ridiculing a woman for her religious beliefs
preventing a woman from practicing her religious beliefs
forcing a woman to practice certain beliefs and engage in rituals
putting down or attacking her spiritual beliefs
preventing a woman from going to church, synagogue, temple or other religious institution of her choice
forcing a woman to join and/or stay in a cult
Homophobic control/transphobic control
The abuser exploits societal homophobia/transphobia and the woman's possible internalized anxieties about her sexual orientation/gender identity to further control her by:
threatening to "out" her to family, friends, employer, police, church or community
questioning or belittling her sexual orientation/gender identity
threatening to take custody because of her sexual orientation/gender identity
making homophobic/transphobic comments to the children
threatening her new partner
reporting her to child protection authorities for being unfit because of her sexual orientation/gender identity
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Betterhelp Penn State 2022 – Get Happier Today
Confronted with joining a desperately long NHS waiting list, Betterhelp Penn State…Joe Rackham went with online counselling rather. "I just felt that I could not wait any longer– I was inspired and prepared to handle my issues and quite liked the idea of doing so in the comfort of my own home," said the 29-year-old, who resides in London. After an online search, he found a therapist whose profile fit his requirements and scheduled a chat session for the next day.
Remote, text-based counselling is growing in appeal in the UK. The doctor app Babylon uses therapy to 150,000 active users, while PlusGuidance, an online counselling service, has 10,000 users. The US-based service BetterHelp likewise has 150,000 signed up UK users (though not all are active). Talkspace, another online treatment platform, reports it has 500,000 signed up users worldwide, with a lot of in the United States.
Online training recommends therapists on whatever from utilizing emojis to preventing misconceptions. They also require to protect clients' individual data– a problem that has caused controversy in the United States, where huge online treatment platforms have come under the spotlight.
Buckley stated clients must inspect services' personal privacy policies before signing up. "Not all online counselling websites utilize professionally trained therapists or abide by a principles policy, so ask your GP for a suggestion in the first circumstances. Similar to all kinds of services and support, what works for someone may not work for another person," he said.
Marc Bush, chief policy advisor at Young Minds, said that while online counselling services are important, "they should not replace face-to-face therapy with a skilled professional. If a young adult is having a hard time, we would encourage them to talk to their GP in the first instance, or to call a recognized service like The Mix, Childline or the Samaritans.".
For Rackham, who has generalised anxiety disorder, online counselling wasn't the ideal fit. "I felt it was near difficult for the therapist to truly get a sense of the problems I was handling, as all they needed to go from was my typed-out words. I believe I realised after that online session how crucial interpersonal interaction was.
" I'm a huge fan of using technology in all locations of my life as a service to daily issues. I have apps for whatever, however when it concerns psychological health, you have to choose how technology plays a role in your healing very thoroughly.". Betterhelp Penn State
The business describes BetterHelp as the "largest online counseling platform worldwide," geared toward assisting people handling concerns "such as stress, anxiety, relationships, parenting, anxiety, addictions, eating, sleeping, trauma, anger, household disputes, LGBT matters, grief, religious beliefs [or] self-confidence." The business's frequently asked question section on its website plainly specifies BetterHelp's app and therapists should not be utilized for individuals dealing with an extreme mental illness (schizophrenia, bipolar illness) or for people thinking about self-harm. Instead, the app prides itself on having actually licensed therapists and mental health professionals readily available to help people by means of text, telephone call or video chat. That's what lots of YouTubers who have actually accepted sponsorships from the company frequently say in their own videos, where they speak on the stresses in their individual lives and feelings verging on anxiety or depression. Bobby Burns, Elle Mills, Philip DeFranco, Heath Hussar, Boogie2988, Shane Dawson and ChandlerNWilson are all developers who have actually Betterhelp Penn State sponsors now.
Much of these creators have actually discussed psychological health problems in the past, but as burnout becomes a larger subject within the community– and traditional world– sponsorships including BetterHelp have actually increased, regardless of the app not being precisely what the creators are promoting.
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If by giving up a lesser happiness, one may behold a greater one, let the wise man give up the lesser happiness in consideration of the greater happiness.
What should have been done is left undone, what should not have been done is done. Of those who are puffed up and heedless the corruptions increase.
Those who always earnestly practise ``mindfulness of the body'', who follow not what should not be done, and constantly do what should be done, of those mindful and reflective ones the corruptions come to an end.
Having slain mother (craving) and father (conceit) and two warrior kings (views based on eternalism and nihilism), and having destroy a country (sense-avenues and sense-objects) together with its revenue officer (attachment), ungrieving goes the Brahmana (Arahant).
Having slain mother and father and two brahmin kings, and having destroyed the perilous path (hindrances), ungrieving goes the Brahmana (Arahant).
Well awakened the disciples of Gotama ever arise - they who by day and night always contemplate the Buddha.
Well awakened the disciples of Gotama ever arise - they who by day and night always contemplate the Dhamma.
Well awakened the disciples of Gotama ever arise - they who by day and night always contemplate the Sangha.
Well awakened the disciples of Gotama ever arise - they who by day and night always contemplate the body.
Well awakened the disciples of Gotama ever arise - they who by day and night always delight in harmlessness.
Well awakened the disciples of Gotama ever arise - they who by day and night always delight in meditation.
Difficult in renunciation, difficult is it to delight therein. Difficult and painful is household life. Painful is association with those who are incompatible. Ill befalls a wayfarer (in samsara). Therefore be not a wayfarer be not a pursuer of ill.
He who is full of confidence and virtue, possessed of fame and wealth, he is honoured everywhere, in whatever land he sojourns.
Even from afar like the Himalaya mountain the good reveal themselves. The wicked, though near, are invisible like arrows shot by night.
He who sits alone, rest alone, walks alone unindolent, who in solitude controls himself, will find delight in the forest.


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Laserchrist (Melodic Punk, UK) release debut video "Oh, Ethyl!"
September 25, 2018NewsComments: 0Mike Scott
Tuesday, September 25th, 2018 at 4:21 am
Melodic punks Laserchrist (from London, England via Durban) have signed to Plasterer Records to release their debut EP "DIY Bother?". They've released a video for "Oh, Ethyl!", the opening track from the five track offering, which you can watch below.
The band play Might As Well Fest in London next month.
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Rochester's Newest Taproom, Little Thistle Brewing, Opens Today
Steve and Dawn Finnie have been crafting unique microbrews for the past decade. Now, the husband and wife team are set to open their own family-run taproom, Little Thistle Brewing, bringing a distinctive, modern feel and approachable beer menu to this city.
For Finnie, brewing began as a hobby. After getting introduced to the craft from a friend, he began creating experimental batches for others to enjoy while gathering at the Finnies' home.
"We would just have people come to our house and make beer. We'd have parties and it was great to meet people from all over the world," he explained. "And then we just kept doing that and then I think the hobby got a bit more serious."
The brewing evolved onto such a scale that Finnie created a beer club, where friends would pay him $100 a year to help cover the cost of raw ingredients, allowing him to create even more beers. Many of these creations inspired the brews currently housed in Little Thistle's 10-barrel (or 310 gallon) brewing system.
Little Thistle Brewing- named in homage to the national flower of Finnie's native Scotland- is not the couple's first professional brewing endeavor. A few years ago, Finnie, a trained physical therapist, left a fifteen-year career at Mayo Clinic to help create another brewery in Rochester. Finnie exited that business about two years ago.
"I'm glad we had the opportunity. We did it and we showed that we could brew beer," he explained. "Now, this is exactly what we've wanted to do."
Even before opening that first brewery, Finnie was crafting a business plan to create something as small as a nanobrewery, Dawn explained. Today, the Finnies' vision is finally coming to fruition as they open the doors to Little Thistle.
While the process of launching the new brewery has been challenging, the largest hurdle, the Finnies explained, was finding a location for the business.
"We would get in the car every night with the kids and drive around for months until we found something," Finnie said.
The family traveled all over town knocking on doors to buildings, even buildings that were not for sale, Dawn joked, trying to find the ideal spot for their vision. The Finnies finally found the perfect location- a 5,000 square foot warehouse on two acres of land- in northwest Rochester nestled right next to the Douglas Trail.
Little Thistle Brewing is a taproom; no food will be served at the location without outside partnering.
"There is no confusion here. It's all about beer, beer education, community, family, kids, dogs," Finnie explained.
The taproom even has a motto: "Be humble, drink local."
"We want [potential staff and employees] to work with us, not for us. And we really want to build that community from the ground up," Dawn explained.
The business aims to appeal to everyone from the craft beer nerd to the light beer drinker.
"The beer is going to be the vehicle that brings people together. We want it to be unpretentious," Dawn said.
Little Thistle will brew traditional beers, light lagers, experimental beers, barrel-aged beers, and cask ales, a traditional style beer in the United Kingdom with lower carbonation that's served from a hand pump at a slightly warmer temperature. The brewery aims for quality versus quantity with the beers on tap, with most beers being served from more than one line to facilitate guest flow and enhance service at the bar area.
As the motto dictates, Little Thistle strives to support local businesses. The brewery looks forward to partnering with other Rochester establishments to provide different food options at the taproom. This "support local" approach extends to other breweries in the area as well, which Finnie does not view as competition.
"If someone goes to LTS or another brewery in town and they like the craft beer or never tried craft beer before, they are more likely to come to our place. …It just helps everyone," he explained.
After years of working towards this point, Little Thistle Brewing is set to open up to the public for the first time today at noon. In the weeks leading up to this unveiling, the Finnies have alternated between excitement, sheer terror, and feeling like they're just staying afloat.
"We're on the final lap of this long marathon, I think," Finnie laughed, "I'm just looking forward to being open and sitting on this deck and having a cold beer and watching people enjoy."
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