37 Christ centered Easter activities for kids will help you focus on the real meaning of Easter including Easter treats games, crafts, and other family tradition ideas.
My husband and I had the incredible privilege to sing lead roles in a production of Rob Gardner's Lamb of God a couple of weeks ago. I sang the part of Mary, the mother of Christ, and my husband sang the role of the apostle Thomas ("Doubting Thomas"). It was so fun to sing such gorgeous music and to be on stage again, especially together and singing with such an astonishingly talented cast of soloist, a large, fantastic choir, and a magnificent full orchestra! However, even more than the *fun* of performing, it turned out to be a deeply spiritual experience.
I had never given a ton of thought to Mary's reaction to the crucifixion of her son. I had pondered on her experience with the entrance of the Savior into this world, but not on her experience with His exit from this world. It was an extremely intense and almost overwhelming experience to attempt to step into her shoes for a few days. What an extraordinary privilege. I am so grateful for that opportunity and pray to have it again someday. Nothing bring the Spirit of God into my heart more quickly or more powerfully than music.
I am also so grateful to Mary herself for the tender love and devotion that she gave to her beloved child, the most important child to ever be born onto this Earth. Most of all, I am so grateful for Him, my Savior, Jesus Christ, and the incomparably priceless gift that He gave to all of mankind when he offered up His own life so that we could all live again. Without His Atonement, we would be nothing, and all hope and the possibility of redemption and repentance would not exist. The song that I sang was entitled "Here is Hope," and I felt that message soaring in my heart and soul as I sang it each night. I pray that I was able to convey the truth and power behind that message to some of the people who came to our performance. I have included a YouTube video of this gorgeous song below. (This is not me singing.) It is a beautiful and powerful depiction of what this song meant to the composer as he wrote it. The empty tomb at the end is what the entire song is about. As I sang, I felt that hope enter into my heart early in the song, and words that had me fighting tears a moment earlier had me soaring into joy the next moment.
I don't often get publicly religious, especially on the internet, but this performance of Lamb of God has caused me to have so much more reflection and reverence this Easter season than I have ever had in years past, and I felt compelled to share at least a few paragraphs on my feelings. I came home burning with the Holy Spirit in my heart and wanted to share that powerful gift with my children with a few Christ centered Easter activies.
I know how much my children love interactive activities with me, especially arts and crafts projects, so I turned to Pinterest and searched out the best Christ centered Easter activities, crafts, games, and traditions for kids that I could find on the web.
I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but I pulled traditions from bloggers of many different Christian denominations. If your particular denomination of Christianity isn't specifically represented it is only because I didn't come across a craft that caught my eye from a blogger of your specific faith. Please share your ideas and even links to posts below in the comments section! I would love more inspiration to enhance our family's Easter season!! I love that, despite some differences in doctrinal beliefs, we as Christians all share a common love for, devotion to, and gratitude toward our Savior, Jesus Christ.
Now on to the fun! We will begin with my favorite Christ centered Easter activity for kids: Resurrection Eggs! My son came home from his Evangelical Christian preschool with Resurrection Eggs several years ago and I absolutely loved it! I had never seen this idea before! I turned to the internet and saw Resurrection Eggs from bloggers of every Christian denomination under the sun. And, guess what? They hardly differed at all! The New Testament's account of the last days of Christ dictate what goes into these eggs, and variations are minimal. I will share three of my favorite posts about Resurrection Eggs below, but if you are looking for more just Google it or search on Pinterest!
This version from Messes to Memories features colorful scripture printables to go along with the items. She uses hers as an Easter Egg hunt with her kids.
This version of resurrection eggs from Raising Busy Chickadees uses all printable pictures (included!) instead of having to gather items.
This toddler version from Happy Home Fairy is easier for little kids to understand without being too graphic. I have shown my kids all twelve eggs from the preschool, but each time I do I cringe a bit at the more gruesome aspects of the crucifixion. Yes, they need to understand the suffering that our Savior went through for them, but I feel that there is plenty of time for that at an older age.
So many amazing Christ centered Easter activities, right?!? The internet can be so awesome!
If you are looking for excellent Bible videos there are a wealth of videos HERE. Different scenes from The New Testament and all SO beautifully done! Check out different clips or show your family THIS excellent seven-minute video which covers Holy Week.
THIS is a lovely post written by my sister of other (non-crafty) ideas for simple ways to teach children the true meaning of Easter.
Please tell me other Christ centered Easter activities you use to celebrate with your family in the comments below and feel free to leave links to other activities that you think I should see as well!
Happy Easter, everyone!! I hope you have a lovely, peaceful weekend with your families!
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Ok, I love that!!! The Mary Magdalene legends are amazing – I love it! I love that even though women aren't mentioned that much in scripture in general, they still played a huge and important role in Christ's life!
Wow! Awesome post! From the personal thoughts at the beginning to all of the ideas–incredible. Thank you.
Dear Sarah, thank you for your blog. As a teacher i find it very difficult to teach kids in a realistic and enthousiastic way about Jezus. It's nice to see the ideas that you put here. I'm very sorry for the mistakes in my comment, i'm a belgian teacher so my motherlanguage is dutch but i'm triying very hard! I was looking for some inspiration for a celebration in church with kids at the age of 6 and 7 years old and so I followed a link to your site. I saw a link to "holy week in handprints" and liked it very much. The theme for our celebration is "hand in hand" and the font you are using to write "handprints" is perfect for that. Would it be possible to find the font you are using? I already looked at some font-sites but could not find that font. Thank you already fot the inspiration you give by this site.
Hello! Thank you for your kind words. I'm not sure which font you are referring to. If it is the one on the title header then it is called "Playball." If you are referring to another one I don't know, sorry.


I'm not on Twitter myself. I've thought about it many a time, but have always drawn back from the brink for some reason.
Nonetheless, there are Twitter accounts which I follow assiduously, so I think it's only fair that I list them on the Links page.


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Larry Summers bleg
Paul Krugman argues that Janet Yellen is a better choice for Fed chair than Larry Summers. I agree. But this puzzles me:
First of all, what do we need in a Fed chair? Above all, a committed dove "" someone who will not succumb to the pressure to tighten policy too soon, and almost equally important, someone who will be seen by investors as resistant to this temptation. We've just seen how much damage even a hint of Fed hawkishness can do; it's really critical to not follow the far worse step of making an appointment that gives the wrong signal.
As it happens, both Janet and Larry have good credentials on those grounds, at least in terms of what they've said in recent years.
Maybe he's right, but every Summers piece I've seen on monetary policy has been appallingly bad. I know of no evidence that Summers pressed Obama to appoint committed doves to the Fed. Or that he complained Fed policy was too tight. Krugman often complains Fed policy is too tight.
So here's my request: Please send me articles where Larry Summers says sensible things about Fed policy over the past 5 years.
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33 Responses to "Larry Summers bleg"
the window washer
and silence………..
Jack Cunningham
He seems to be a Keynesian on fiscal policy and most Keynesians share the same view on monetary policy. But he shouldn't be Fed chairman as one of the architects of the financial crisis.
Bob Murphy
You're "puzzled" Scott? Krugman also said upon Bernanke's reappointment that there's no one he'd rather see in the position. Yep, Bernanke was the best Fed chair on planet Earth, according to Krugman.
Summers is a "good guy" like Noah Smith, Scott, and so that's why Krugman is letting him down easy.
"Maybe he's right, but every Summers piece I've seen on monetary policy has been appalling bad."
Summers wrote something about monetary policy? It must have slipped my notice. So far as I can tell the last time he wrote anything significant about monetary policy was in 1993.
ChargerCarl
Delong seems to be a big supporter of Summers for chair, perhaps he knows something we don't?
This is the clearest 'statement of purpose' by any candidate or potential candidate for Fed Chair. It´s a blueprint that could make the public hold her accountable. Unlike Bernanke on Japan which was several years old by the time he took office, this one is fresh and contemporaneous:
http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~cromer/It%20Takes%20a%20Regime%20Shift%20Written%20(Second%20Revision).pdf
By the way I'm not kidding. December 1993 to be precise:
http://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/crcspp/v39y1993ip95-140.html
Marcus,
Given Romers advocacy for a fiscal multiplier at the national level, she is the last person I'd like to see as fed chairman. Similarly, where is the evidence Yellen understands how monetary policy works? Dove yes. Coherent model of monetary policy, no. Lets go get lars svensson.
http://people.su.se/~leosven/papers/prm_130422_eng.pdf
His dissents on Swedish policy were crisp and accurate. Plus the guy is principled as his resignation shows. The names floated for fed chairman in the US show how disfunctional is the public understanding of MP.
Any choice is just the best we can do in a bad situation because Scott Sumner wasn't picked.
Although, if Sumner were picked, I would be afraid of what Rick Perry would do to him down in Texas.
Negation of Ideology
J – I know the odds of Obama appointing Scott Sumner Fed chairman are barely higher than zero, but it is interesting to speculate what the reaction would be. I assume he'd suddenly be attacked by much of the right wing as a liberal. The Rick Perry types would attack him for "printing money to help Obama" rather than printing money to help America, or the unemployed. I suspect he'd be confirmed easily, but with more than half of Republicans voting no.
Such is the sorry state of the Republican party today.
W. Peden
The answer is obvious: Lars Svensson.
In an age of outsourcing, why not outsource policymaking?
Patrick R. Sullivan
Here's another guy who ought not to be considered for Fed chair (or even head bookkeeper);
http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2013/07/joe-gagnon-understanding-21st-century-monetary-policy.html
'Monetary policy consists of printing money to buy assets. …. Fiscal policy consists of selling assets to buy goods, cut taxes, or increase transfers….'
Taxation is fiscal policy, does that include 'selling assets'? T-bonds are liabilities to the govt, so that's not selling assets, it's incurring liabilities.
Selling Yellowstone Nat'l Park or an aircraft carrier would be, but…how often does that happen.
Patrick Sullivan,
He seems to mean 'stimulus' when he says 'policy'. Not a good sign!
Even if the government hasn't created the T-bonds yet, they already exist in the sense that the government has expected future revenue streams. That is an asset. Incurring a liability is pretty much the same as selling the asset defined by future revenue streams.
So here's my request: Please send me articles where Larry Summers says "the Fed should target NGDPLT" over the past 5 years.
Let's stop pretending.
Scott Freeland
The choice of Summers would be potentially terrible in other ways as well. He's not someone who's exactly free of political baggage. Many on his own side of the isle dislike him and think he's corrupt and/or incompetent. And to say he's not the greatest public speaker is an understatement. Can you imagine the kinds of communication problems he might have, vis-a-vis markets?
Also, he has a reputation for arrogance and insensitivity as an administrator, having been run out of Harvard on a rail and having had some people say some pretty unflattering things about him who worked with him in Obama's first term. Is that really the reputation the chairman of a conservative institution should have?
Benjamin Cole
Krugman is right about a key point however—the markets and the economy are stridently signaling they want sustained QE, while the Fed recklessly drops hint-bombs it may stop QE. Let alone the loose cannons on the FOMC deck firing in every direction at will.
Aside: Rhetoric is powerful, language is powerful. In discussing monetary policy we, by default, are cast into the lot of using the language of monetarism, with "doves" being those who advocate growth, and where increasing the money supply becomes "debasing" and so forth.
I still say a necessary part of Market Monetarism is the creation of new catch phrases, such as :"monetary bulls" or "growth-oriented monetary supply." A tight money supply is "asphyxiating."
Summers? Such a modest seeming fellow. Can he learn to be a Market Monetarist?
What damage did "the hint of hawkishness" cause?
Stocks are back at all time high.
The emerging markets are down, but they have been under-performing for years now. This year, the under-performance became more pronounced, yes, but the trend was there before.
I think Krugman might be confusing market noise and a temporary uptick in volatility with "damage".
Otherwise, yes, Yellen would be (a lot) better than Summers.
Two worrisome points:
1- In the past week, online wagering odds for Summers as Fed Chair went from 8-to-1 to 5.5-to-1.
2- A bloomberg board member and former SEC chairman, on radio this week, says the Administration does put some weight on loyalty.
And still silence on the "last five years" request.
So Scot I think you can presume there isn't anything.
He's two decades out of date it seems.
TallDave
Found one!
Those kinds of structural adjustments are very important, but they need to be coupled with measures that would promote demand. And it seems to me that more effort to provide common support and common approaches to the recapitalization of the European banking system, more mobilization of Europe's overall fiscal capacity in support of growth, further intensified structural reform and a clear bias of monetary policy towards supporting growth are all important elements in the European situation.
So, there's that. I could be misreading but I infer a criticism of the ECB there.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/06/04/transcript-larry-summers-on-austerity-more/
OTOH, virtually everything else he says in that interview is horribly wrong.
"while monetary policy is still constrained by zero bound"
Zombie theories really do eat brains.
Ashok Rao
Been saying this too. Though let me change that last line. Please send me articles where Larry Summers says *anything* about Fed policy over the past 5 years.
http://ashokarao.com/2013/07/18/money-printer-general-larry-summers-or-janet-yellen/
The debate is very distorted on both sides. The anti-Summers crowd is saying nothing that they couldn't have said about him with regard to his appointment as NEC chair in 2009. And the pro-Summers crowd isn't saying anything different either ("he's smart, etc.").
That means for the one position charged with an extremely specific mandate, we're having a ridiculously ambiguous conversation. Here's a quote:
"It almost goes without saying that Yellen is far more established as a academic and policymaker insofar as monetary policy. All we need is a quick Google search to see the extent to which this is (perceived to be) the case. As former Treasury chief and NEC chairman – and in general a brilliant academic – Summers is the more eminent personality: yielding 6,310,000 search hits to Yellen's 467,000.
But change the query to "[Larry Summers/Janet Yellen] monetary policy", Yellen comes ahead at 206,000 to Summers' 131,000. Now I'm not suggesting this is a particularly smart way to judge scholarship on a subject, but it gives a very visceral sense of Yellen's online footprint insofar as monetary policy is concerned. Moreover, Yellen's hits are almost entirely pages that are really concerned with relevant policy.
Deriving from his comparative fame, even Larry Summers' "monetary policy" search hits are of no relevance. At the top are links to his Wikipedia entry, a brilliant profile comparing Larry Summers and Glen Hubbard, something about healthcare, and firelarrysummers.blogspot.com."
That said – as I noted – I don't think LS would be a bad choice. But as an outsider (insiders presumably know a lot more about what he thinks of monetary policy) I just have no way of forming an opinion. But everyone angry at him for deregulation is also missing the forest for the trees – not to mention trees in the wrong forest.
Fwiw, Miles Kimball's tweets me that "[he] expect[s] Larry Summers to have similar views on monetary policy to those expressed by @delong on his blog".
I don't know from where such expectations are formed but this, to me, does not sound that bad.
davidpaff82
comrade summers in 2011:
"It is far too soon for financial policy to shift towards preventing future bubbles and possible inflation, and away from assuring adequate demand. The underlying rate of inflation is still trending downwards and the problems of insufficient borrowing and investing exceed any problems of overconfidence"
http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2011/06/how-to-avoid-a-lost-decade.html
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b3c143b6-952d-11e0-a648-00144feab49a.html (not paywalled)
Jack, Not at all. Lots of Keynesians have supported Fed policy over the past 5 years, and lots have opposed it. I suspect Summers was one of the supporters, whereas Krugman has opposed it.
TallDave, If monetary policy is still constrained by the zero bound (in the ECB case) how can we infer that the rest of his comment is implied criticism?
Ashok, There is no reason to be angry at Summers for deregulation, as the experts seem to agree that the deregulation he was involved in (ending Glass Steagall, etc) played no role in the banking crisis.
Everyone. My commenters have let me down. I'm simply asking for some statement out of Summers that monetary policy has been too tight, at some point over the past 5 years. Even during the period when we were not at the zero bound (2008.) And you give me nothing? We've had the slowest growth in NGDP since Herbert Hoover was president–surely you can find a Summers article criticizing the Fed?
'Even if the government hasn't created the T-bonds yet, they already exist in the sense that the government has expected future revenue streams. That is an asset.'
Could you point me to something in GAAP that says potential revenues can be carried on your balance sheet as an asset.
Professor Sumner,
I'm sorry, but I'm not sure you have the readership to create a human flesh search engine. Maybe Tyler Cowen commands a large enough audience.
Of course there is that whole Brooksley Bourne fiasco Summers can always fall back on. Derivatives certainly played a large role in the failed "risk is properly mitigated" thoughts among most financial firms. No one understood how these firms were interconnected and derivative regulatory failure was a large part of the reason.
I'm not sure if the whole "experts seem to agree that the deregulation he was involved in (ending Glass Steagall, etc) played no role in the banking crisis' is serious or sarcastic. Some 'experts' would disagree.
Joe, Derivatives were allowed before deregulation.
Coleton Stirman
Yep, I believe these posts proved Larry Summers is not our man.
It looks as though of the current people listed, and Romer's previous experience with Obama, it's Romer vs. Yellen.
I think Mr. Nunes has a point with Romer's recent work there, looks as though she's the best available choice to be an agent of change in global monetary policy.
Alex Richard
I'm fairly confident that that blog post was Krugman trying to say nice things about Summers so as to not make an enemy of him, while at the same time basically endorsing Yellen. "But if the final choice isn't Janet Yellen, I think the president is going to have to offer a very good explanation of why not, or face a lot of grief from people who want to think the best of his administration." Strikes me as a pretty clear endorsement in a situation where he doesn't want to engender ill will on either side.

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The modern hipster's views on marriage and family
By DJ Stevens, July 23, 2014
Image by Ryan Polei
Mr. Hipster:
My friends are getting married this summer and I have a sneaking suspicion they will be throwing one of those "hipster weddings" that I've been hearing so much about. I would have thought hipsters as a group would be more anti-marriage. Either way, how should I comport myself at a hipster wedding?
You might expect hipsters to eschew traditions of monogamy, being countercultural figures in their way, but many hipster couples put great stock in fidelity and marriage, even going so far as to exaggerate conventional relationship models. Manly men, ladylike women; the third-wave ideology of ironically reenvisioning the social structures that older generations found oppressive.
Picture Miranda July, living the dream of the nuclear family and writing self-referential stories about adventurous post-punk lesbian edginess, and you'll get the picture of the modern hipster's views on marriage and family.
Hipsters are getting unconventionally married everywhere, from vintage-inspired pop-ups (see the Reader cover story), to barns, and every non-church venue in between. The only constant is the organic cocktails in Mason jars. Treat a hipster wedding just as you would a more conventional affair, but don't expect everybody to get up and eagerly dance to "Footloose."
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INSURANCE, continued; A glimpse at what an insurance "policy" really is.
Insurance companies like to refer to their contracts as "policies" What an insurance contract (policy) actually reads like is a "take it back promise." (They will provide coverage on one page and then tell you their exceptions/exclusions for the remaining four pages.) Be careful and understand what they say.
(you gotta be kidding!) many others.
You want to focus on which of your legal fictions is the named insured per insurance contract.
Also, sometimes, there are simply eventualities that local/regional "insurance" companies simply will not cover even if you are willing to pay extra premiums.


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Q: How to embed fonts in a Microsoft Store Application I'm developing a C# desktop application with Visual Studio 2019. I have a WPF application with some custom fonts and I don't know how to install them for every customer that downloads my application from Microsoft Store.
I've tried many things but I can't find a way to install the font files in an accessible folder.

A: There are three ways to package Fonts in WPF project.
1.Adding Fonts as Content Items
2.Adding Fonts as Resource Items
3.Referencing Font Resource Items from Code

Did you follow any method above?

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A performer died after an accident during a Cirque du Soleil show in Las Vegas, authorities and the company said on Sunday.
Sarah Guillot Guyard, 31, a member of the cast of the "KA" show at the MGM Grand hotel and casino, was pronounced dead shortly before midnight on Saturday, the Clark County Coroner's office said. The cause of death has yet to be determined.
Guyard, who performed as "Sassoon" in the show, which involves aerial acrobatics, had been part of the cast of "KA" since 2006, Cirque du Soleil said in a statement.
"I am heartbroken. I wish to extend my sincerest sympathies to the family," Cirque du Soleil Founder, Guy Laliberte, said in a statement.
"We are reminded, with great humility and respect, how extraordinary our artists are each and every night. Our focus now is to support each other as a family," he added.
Cirque du Soleil gave no further details about Guyard's death, which it described as "accidental." The company said performances of "KA" were canceled until further notice.
It was the first death of a performer during a show in Cirque du Soleil's 29-year history, a spokesman said.


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The Surprising Power of Joy
As a culture we are obsessed with the pursuit of happiness, and in the process, we forget about joy.
Ingrid Fetell Lee Founder of The Aesthetics of Joy
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We're often taught that our surroundings are incidental to our well-being, but an emerging body of research shows that the physical world can be a powerful tool for cultivating happier, healthier lives. Studies show that workers in colorful offices are more alert, friendly, and confident than those in drab ones, that windows can speed healing, and children progress faster in classrooms with better lighting. Join Ingrid Fetell Lee, author of "Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness," as she shares how simple changes to the world around us can improve our health, stimulate creativity, facilitate social harmony, and of course, promote joy. Underwritten by Sotheby's.
Ingrid Fetell Lee
Founder of The Aesthetics of Joy
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Happiness and joy are often used interchangeably, but they're actually two very different things. Happiness is a broad evaluation of how we feel about our lives over time, says designer Ingrid Fetell Lee, and the varying degrees of happiness — the ups and downs — make happiness hard to measure. Sometimes, we're not always sure just how happy we are. But joy is much simpler and more immediate, she explains; it's "an intense momentary experience of positive emotion." It's observable in direct physical expressions like smiling, laughter, and a feeling of wanting to jump up and down.
If I asked you what anxiety feels like in your body, you could probably tell me instantly. But we forget that joy has a feeling too.
Joy carries a plethora of positive impacts. Research shows that joy helps us be up to 12 percent more productive. It increases our cognitive flexibility and strengthens our relationships. "We live in this state of burnout," says Lee, "but if we make room for small moments for joy, they can help us be more resilient over the long haul."
As a designer, Ingrid Fetell Lee wanted to understand the physical elements of joy. She found that things like cherry blossoms, bubbles, swimming pools, treehouses, rainbows, and rainbow sprinkles are universally joyful. The patterns she noticed became categories to organize the type of joy certain things elicit. Lee explains these different aesthetics of joy:
The aesthetics of joy
We live in a world that is so sharply divided and polarized that sometimes it can feel like our differences are so stark as to be insurmountable. To me, there's something really powerful in the idea that we all find joy in some of the same things. That underneath it all, there's this part of us that has this silly attraction to things like googly eyes and rainbows.
We all start out joyful, says Ingrid Fetell Lee. "But as we get older, being colorful or exuberant opens us up to judgment," and we worry about "being dismissed as childish or superficial or frivolous or self-indulgent." Give yourself permission to do what feels joyful to you, Lee says, and ask yourself, what is something I loved to do when I was younger that I stopped doing, for some reason?
Sensorially enriched environments can forestall the progression of cognitive decline.
"We often see joy as a distraction from success, something that we put off to our nights and our weekends because it doesn't belong in the workplace, when in fact joy can be a catalyst for our success," says Lee. Though it can be tempting to postpone joy during stressful times at work, it is ultimately one of our best tools to restore well-being.
"We have a massive untapped opportunity to use our spaces in ways that can help people thrive," argues Ingrid Fetell Lee. The lack of joyful design is most extreme in the places that house the people who are most vulnerable in our society, she says — places like schools, hospitals, nursing homes, and jails. Lee discusses a city in Albania and a youth development program in New York CIty that are making radical changes to their communities through simple pops of color:
When we say that color is a luxury and housing projects shouldn't have that because they should only have the bare minimum, and when we say that people in poverty don't deserve small joys in their day-to-day lives, it's inherently dehumanizing.
Our physical surroundings can help us cultivate happier and healthier lives, both individually and socially — but at the same time they can be used to further marginalize people who are vulnerable. "This is an emerging public health issue and public health opportunity," says Lee, and one that deserves attention.
A simple way to be more attuned to joy is what Ingrid Fetell Lee calls joyspotting, or noticing all the tiny joyful things in the environment immediately around us. For more joyful relationships, Lee emphasizes the importance of sharing joy and celebrating our partner's joy with them. In designing living and working spaces, she suggests "joy is a palette we can work with" for "finding the right aesthetics for the right environment."
The first moment of genuine joy is the moment of commitment to the human experience. Joy is what makes us human. When we deny that, when we push joy off to the margins, when we say it's extraneous, or it's a luxury, we lose a piece of our humanity.
Joy is often the first thing to go when we're stressed or experiencing a crisis. "If you feel yourself entering a mode of chronic stress, where it's relentless, it's very easy to dig in and say, I just have to get to the other side," Lee points out. "That's a good trigger to say, I should do some small and joyful thing now."
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Though this is not the first time that we've said "goodbye" to Inspector Robbie Lewis, actor Kevin Whately insists that, this time, the beloved character is leaving the screen for good.
But before we say our final farewells, Kevin Whately joins us to look back on his incredible 30 year career as Robbie Lewis — the once "second banana" turned leading detective and star.
When the Morse finale aired 16 years ago, we said "farewell" to John Thaw's Inspector Morse and his sidekick, Kevin Whately's Robbie Lewis.
And though we were saddened when Inspector Morse died on screen and the show came to an end, we weren't starved of new Oxford mysteries for long.
In 2006, ITV announced that Kevin Whately would get his own spinoff as Detective Inspector Lewis.
But some had reservations, including Kevin Whately himself.
Kevin Whately: I didn't think it would work as a character on its own, or as a leading character.
Jace: But Inspector Lewis did work — and the show ended up running for five more seasons before it was rumored that the sixth season would mark Lewis's retirement from the screen.
Kevin Whately: We just wanted a year of to do other things really and and have a summer at home (laughs), but I think that this time, definitely, we've finished, yeah.
Jace: And even though Kevin Whately promises the eighth season is Lewis' last, we can't help but wonder: is this ACTUALLY the end of Robbie Lewis?
In this episode, Kevin Whately reminisces about playing Robbie Lewis for the past 30 years, and recalls the dramatic series finale…bombs, "goodbyes," and all.
Jace: This week we are joined by Kevin Whately. Welcome, Kevin.
Kevin Whately (Kevin): Hi, Jace.
Jace: You've been very outspoken about your desire for a break from Lewis. What are the challenges of playing Robbie for 3 decades, and is there any trepidation about having that sort of longevity in a role?
Kevin: No trepidation at all. I'm very proud of what we did, but the reality is that in this country we're meant to retire at 55 — the police are — and I'm 10 years (laughs) beyond that age, and so I didn't want to be a 70 year old TV cop really that's the basis of it.
Jace: Why do you think the popularity of Lewis, Morse and Endeavour continues to endure? And why do you think these series hold such a fascination for viewers?
Kevin: I think originally when we started making Morse exactly 30 years ago now, in June 1986, it was quite a risky thing; a 2 hour TV program was unheard of, and and having that amount of time to tell a story was great. And it took off immediately and set a good standard for drama, I think, TV drama, which we've tried to stick to ever since with the Lewis spin-off.
Jace: How much of a role does Oxford, as a setting, play in that affection do you think?
Kevin: It's huge. Oxford's just great wherever you point a camera it looks good and unusual. And the fact that it is a university town like Boston with all its universities means that you have these weird and wonderful academic characters, and you can get away with all sorts of outrageous stories (laughs) as a result, with these big-brained people.
Jace: What has it been like filming in Oxford over the last 30 years? And do you miss the "city of dreaming spires" now?
Kevin: I would always miss it, but I live quite near it — 30 miles away — so I get to go over there quite regularly. It's become very much more of a tourist destination since we started doing it, possibly as a result of the popularity of the shows.
We were welcomed very much when we first went there, and then the colleges realized that we were causing a lot of traffic jams (laughs) and they weren't so keen on the tourists in academe, so we weren't so welcome for a while. But then, as time's gone on, they've come to appreciate us again, I think.
Jace: Did you ever anticipate that Lewis would run quite this long?
Kevin: Not at all, Jace.
Kevin: No. Once the pilot took off I thought we might get another couple of seasons out of it. But as I say, it's like a moving train, and then the crew become close pals and family, so you feel you owe it to them to keep going as well, because it's a lot of people's livelihood. So we might have run it a bit longer than it should've done, but it felt about right — 10 years to finish.
Jace: Unlike the end of Morse it's a far happier ending for Robbie Lewis here as he sets off with Laura for a 6 month trip to New Zealand. Can a copper like Lewis ever truly retire and was that meant to leave the door open for a potential return or just to give Robbie a a sort of happy, fulfilled ending?
Kevin: Yeah. I think it would've been difficult to kill him off in the same way as we did with Morse. I didn't want him to die.
To be honest we we didn't know, when we got that last script and a bomb goes off at one point in the story, we didn't know if one of us was going to be killed (laughs). But it… I'm glad that it finished the way it did.
Jace: I think it does offer a nice counterpoint to Morse in that unlike Morse, Robbie doesn't end up alone. He does end up with a new wife, with a new chapter to his life, and I thought that was a fitting way to distinguish the ending as being different from that of Morse.
Kevin: Yeah, I think that's right. I mean when we began Lewis, I was slightly concerned that they wanted to turn him into another Morse; they killed off his wife and made him a bit of a lonely, glum character. But, by the end he was back more like his old self.
Lewis: Yeah I know. First it felt like a betrayal, but no. I'm just turning over the page on a new chapter.
Jace: How much of a formative moment was the hit and run death of his wife, Valerie?
Kevin: I think that was huge and it was sprung on me rather that idea. Maureen who played my wife originally had been at drama school with me, so we were old friends. And when I got the the pilot script I had to phone her up and say, "Maureen, there ain't a job for you here." And it took a bit of adapting too, because he was very much in mourning throughout the first 6 or 7 films, and it's very difficult to energize anything when you're being down beat and slightly depressed it makes the job more difficult.
Jace: Looking back, how has Robbie Lewis evolved since you first started playing him 30 years ago?
Kevin: I think he's pretty much the same character. I'm very reticent to change a character once it's established. I've done 3 long running series now, and I always think you're cheating a bit to suddenly bring some very different characteristic in. But he has, obviously, aged a lot (laughs). But, I think basically, he's as diligent and honest, and pretty much the same character as he was 30 years ago.
Jace: Now, taking a look back to 1987's "The Dead of Jericho," the first Morse episode, what was it like stepping foot onto set that day? Did you have any inkling that this would be the start of a 30 year run as this character?
Kevin: Yikes. No. If I can remember back that far, we … that was the only film, "The Dead of Jericho" where we we actually used a studio, which was unusual for me. I'd done quite a lot location stuff, but not much studio. And I didn't know John at all, so I was getting used to working with John, who was much more experienced than me. We were sharing a caravan. I learned more in the first 2 weeks I think, working with John, than I had in 8 or 9 years as an actor before that.
But yes, I can remember the feeling and the trepidation. I had no idea. I thought, "Well, we're doing 3 films here," and I recognized it was a great script and that John had a magnificent voice, but that's all I remember thinking about it.
Jace: And what was that first meeting like with John?
Kevin: I'd been asked to come down from the Northeast. I was on my brother-in-law's farm helping with the lambing. My agent had sent me to a library to to read one of Colin Dexter's books, and the Lewis character was this 60 year old detective who ate egg and chips.
Kevin: And I (laughs) I couldn't quite work out what they wanted. But when I got to the the audition John was there with his amazing blue, gimlet eyes staring across the room at me, watching me, and not saying much. And luckily it worked out.
Jace: Do you think that those changes — making him a younger Geordie cop — is one reason why his and Morse's partnership worked so well on television?
Kevin: Yeah. I think Anthony Minghella and the powers that be on the first few films… Anthony wrote "The Bible" for it and he realized, "John Thaw always looked much older than his age. He died at 61 and he always looked 80," he said, "from the the minute he left RADA." But…so to have a 60 year old sidekick would've been slightly odd, I think, and it gave it a nice counterpoint, as you said, to to have a younger Geordie.
Jace: And what is your fondest memory of John Thaw?
Kevin: Just, hours and hours, often if … the best days were if it was pouring with rain and we couldn't work. We'd just sit in our little caravan and chew the fat. And he was a wonderful raconteur, John. Yeah. Very shy man, but he told stories like an Irish storyteller, and he would have you howling with laughter, and he was just great, great company you know, and a very loyal friend, and great to work with.
Jace: And it was his decision that you two share a caravan to sort of initiate that bonding process, correct?
Kevin: It was. He'd had this huge success with a series called The Sweeney, a different cop thing, very high energy thing, and had a partnership with Dennis Waterman. And he and Dennis had shared a caravan. They were a similar age, and they were both heavy smokers, and drinkers, and things (laughs) and they'd palled up so I had to live up to Dennis a bit, which wasn't easy.
Jace: Now, I can't think about the the "Goodbye Sir" scene in Morse, "The Remorseful Day" without a tear springing to my eye. What was it like shooting that particular scene in which Lewis says "goodbye" to his mentor?
Kevin: Yeah, it wasn't easy. There's a hospital near Pinewood Studios called St. Peter's and they had a disgusting old Victorian mortuary at the back, which has been knocked down now. We'd used it a lot for mortuary scenes, and it always gave John the creeps just to be in there in a suit, but to be actually lying on the slab was much worse for him obviously. And I think I was trying to lighten (laughs) the day and try and make fun of it, send it up a bit, but John wasn't having that at all because it was such a disgusting place to be. So that's my main memory of that, because it wasn't the last scene we shot obviously; it was in the middle of the shoot so after that we sort of celebrated and and sent it up a bit.
Jace: Do you remember what the final scene was that you shot on Morse with John?
Kevin: Um… Do you know I don't at all, Jace. I can't remember. I have no memory of of finishing at all. Nope. Gone. Isn't that strange?
Jace: Now, is it true you nearly turned down Lewis when it was offered to you? What were your reservations about stepping back into Robbie's shoes?
But the reservations I had about spinning the the Lewis character off were just that he was very much just a counterpoint to Morse, and I didn't think it would work as a character on its own, or as a leading character. But because they were clever with introducing Laurence's character, Hathaway, it took off immediately, so then we were back on a moving train, and 10 years later we were still going.
Jace: Now, looking back at the pilot, what was it like to film the first episode of Lewis, which was filled with so many winks at Morse?
Kevin: Yeah, I think we did that for the first 2 or 3 years that there was a little Morse reference in almost every film. But it was strange.
In some some ways it was very familiar because we managed to get a lot of the original crew together and the way of working was very similar, but Laurence and I were getting used to each other, I was getting used to carrying the show, so it is a very different job to being the sidekick, the second banana, and that took some getting used to.
Kevin: Yeah, I just thought that a woman would be more interesting and then maybe a Muslim as well because that was was starting to hit the headlines and I thought it would give us a lot of story– potential story lines, but they'd already decided at ITV that they wanted a sort of young Morse prototype. And they were right. It fitted the bill and Laurence was great.
Jace: How was working with Laurence Fox different than with John? And and what have you learned from each of them?
Kevin: Well as I say, John was very shy and hugely experienced as a film actor, so I learned any technique that I've got from him very quickly. Laurence is exactly the other extreme: very self-assured, incredibly bright, and could keep a running gag going with every single member of the crew. He would needle away until he found your Achilles Heel and then play on that with with 30 or 40 people at once. But again, a very loyal friend, hugely talented.
His concentration… John had a fierce concentration. Laurence can– his concentration can be everywhere and just having fun, and then "click," switch it on as soon as the camera rolls and give a much better performance than me so… It's a bit galling really.
Jace: It does beg the question, because he is so infamous for his running gags, what was his gag with you?
Kevin: Well one of them was my name. He bumped into an American tourist down in Mexico about 3 years ago, who said, "Oh, what a fine actor that Donald Whately is," and this tickled Laurence, so from then on I was Donald, and (laughs) he was delighted with that. Me, not so much.
Jace: What do you think makes Lewis and Hathaway's dynamic so unique? Is it the juxtaposition of Geordie's straightforwardness with lofty intellectualism?
Kevin: (Laughs) I think you hit the nail right on the head there, Jace. Yeah, and it's a… largely a lucky thing. A pure, pure luck if… We know of screen chemistry where the actors don't get on. I've been very lucky working with John Thaw and then Laurence, and I adored both of them, I thought they were great fun to work with, and the chemistry worked both times.
Jace: Now, Clare Holman joined the Morse universe in 1995 at the start of the specials as pathologist Laura Hobson. What has it been like working with Clare?
Kevin: Yeah. I was just going to add Clare to that list. I thought I ought to so you've asked the right question.
Kevin: Clare's been great. I mean since she came on board. She had a difficult job because she was meant to be quite sort of flirty with Morse and then (laughs) transfer her affections to me when Lewis spun off.
Hobson: No this is a social call, I'm having a party. It's a special sort of birthday. Think of a number, then forget about it immediately.
Hobson: Oh, if you'd like to bring anybody.
Lewis: Well, I haven't really got anybody.
Hobson: You can always bring the dishy Sergeant Hathaway.
Kevin: But a difficult job really coming in for 2 or 3 days on each film and trying to make a character sparky and original, and she did a great job. She was always great fun on set as well, and made a real character out of Laura and a believable one.
Jace: One of the most surprising developments over the last few seasons was Robbie and Laura falling in love. Were you resistant at all to having the 2 get together?
Kevin: I thought the the whole thing it could've become a bit soapy so in the end I said, "Look we've done enough of this 'Will they? Won't they?'" And and asked if they could get together, and so I was glad when they did, and then you're exploring a slightly different relationship.
Jace: Now, their relationship is made public in the episode "The Ramblin' Boy" when Laura kisses Robbie at the pub in front of Hathaway and Innocent. What did you make of how that reveal was handled?
Jace: Why was Lewis so torn between going with Laura to New Zealand and staying? What was he afraid of? And what did he acknowledge by finally turning up?
Kevin: I think he was afraid of being put on the scrap heap, that if he went he would never get back into the job; they would never use him as a consultant again, which they probably wouldn't actually, but he obviously came to realize that the relationship with Laura was much more important.
Lewis: I think I've been a bit of a fool. Well, actually I've been a lot of a fool. I'm really sorry.
Jace: And that final episode of Lewis features, as you mentioned earlier, a quite spectacular explosion, which is a real rarity for the show. Were you happy to go out with a bang as it were?
Kevin: We were, yeah. I love doing stunts the… We've tried to burn Morse alive. And actors tend to be very gung-ho and foolish, so when they were setting that up, we're very aware as well that special effects boys, we call them special defects, tend to overpower these explosions, make them much bigger than they're meant to be, and that's what happened (laughs) in that shot.
We're expecting quite a big bang, but we said to the stuntman, "Look, we'll just watch you and as soon as you start to turn away from the blast, we'll go as well." Well, the blast went off (laughs), I think I'd moved about a millimeter in my nose before the blast hit us and knocked us over. And it was so big it actually– a piece of shrapnel, a piece of balsa wood actually cut Laurence's face.
Jace: So those little… those little butterfly bandages are not just for show then maybe?
Kevin: No, no (laughs). But they're good fun. As I say, it's always quite exciting when there's a stunt in in the middle of a shoot, we look forward to it.
Jace: …you're even in the same shirt you wore in that pilot episode.
Kevin: Yeah Michael Chris, a dresser at at one of the costumiers in London, searched for 3 days to find that same shirt. We knew where we'd hired it from the first time, and he managed to find it in amongst all the junk at the back. It particularly disgusts my wife, that shirt. She really hates it, but it didn't bother me.
Jace: Now, their farewell scene is so understated.
Jace: What was it like filming this final scene for the series in which there's so much left unsaid between the two men?
Kevin: I think that was exactly it. We we we tried to make it that in saying nothing they said a huge amount to to each other, but filming it in Heathrow Airport like that isn't too conducive to any sort of subtlety, but we were very lucky.
There was a, I think, a Korean Airlines being checked in behind us — well they were certainly from somewhere that didn't see the program anyway — so they weren't really interested in the feelings, so we got to film it without too many people, what we call, rubbernecking the camera and what have you but…Yeah. Difficult to film in a big public place like that, to try and get some subtlety into the into the scene.
Jace: The final shot of the series is Hathaway turning and walking away alone. What do you feel viewers should make of that shot?
Kevin: I think, whatever you like.
I'm pretty sure they won't spin Hathaway off; I hope they'll find something totally different for Laurence to do in his own series, but we'll see what happens.
Kevin: We were in the studio, and I think the whole day had sort of built towards it, again because for some of the crew it was 28 years of work, for me it was 30 years of work finishing.
I never feel that that it's "goodbye" to anyone. Actors always bump into each other again. Laurence and I see each other regularly now and talk on the phone, and it's never goodbye, so in that way it's not a sad occasion at all, I don't think. We didn't feel sadness.
Jace: And finally, what do you hope that fans take away from Robbie Lewis' journey these past 30 years?
Kevin: As I say, I'm immensely proud of the the films, and I'm already thrilled with the fact that those Morse films from 30 years ago are still doing the rounds on cable telly, and people are still enjoying them. I hope that in 20 years time people will still be watching the Lewis films as well.
Jace: Kevin Whately, thank you so much.
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Q: weird behaviour when $_POST-ing text which includes "Location:" I have made a simple html+php solution for uploading events. When in the description of the event, there is the following text:
blabla ... Location: blabla ... the script fails with:
Forbidden You don't have permission to access /pathto/adminAddEvent.php on this server. At all other times it works.
html:
        <form id="formUploadFile" method="post" action="adminAddEvent.php" enctype="multipart/form-data" target="iframeUploadFile">

Event Start Date

<input name="EventStartDate" id="EventStartDate" type="date">

Event End Date

<input name="EventEndDate" id="EventEndDate" type="date">

Event Time

<input name="EventTime" id="EventTime" type="text">

Language

                        <select name="EventLanguage" id="EventLanguage" style="width: 200px;">
                            <option value="GR">Greek</option>
                            <option value="EN">English</option>
                        </select>

Description

<textarea name="EventDescription" id="EventDescription" style="width: 300px;"></textarea>

Facebook Link

<input name="EventFBLink" id="EventFBLink" type="text" maxlength="1024" size="50">

Image

<input type="file" name="inputUploadFile" id="inputUploadFile" onchange="jsOnFileSelected()"/>

                    <button id="btnUpload" type="submit" style="position: relative; top: 0px; left: 0px;">Add event</button>

        </form>

adminAddEvent.php:
require_once("con_db.php");

date_default_timezone_set("Europe/Athens");

if ( isset($_POST['EventStartDate']) && isset($_POST['EventEndDate']) && isset($_POST['EventDescription']) ) {
    $EventStartDate = trim($_POST['EventStartDate']);
    $EventEndDate = trim($_POST['EventEndDate']);
    $EventTime = trim($_POST['EventTime']);
    $EventLanguage = trim($_POST['EventLanguage']);
    $EventDescription = trim($_POST['EventDescription']);
    $EventFBLink = "";
    if (isset($_POST['EventFBLink'])) {
        $EventFBLink = trim($_POST['EventFBLink']);
    }
    if (strlen($EventStartDate) > 0 && strlen($EventEndDate) > 0 && strlen($EventTime) > 0 && strlen($EventLanguage) > 0 && strlen($EventDescription) > 0) {
        $authuser_PRST = $PDOCONN->prepare("INSERT INTO tblevents (EventStartDate, EventEndDate, EventTime, EventDescription, EventFBLink, EventLanguage) VALUES(:EventStartDate, :EventEndDate, :EventTime, :EventDescription, :EventFBLink, :EventLanguage)");
        $authuser_PRST->bindValue(":EventStartDate", $EventStartDate);
        $authuser_PRST->bindValue(":EventEndDate", $EventEndDate);
        $authuser_PRST->bindValue(":EventTime", $EventTime);
        $authuser_PRST->bindValue(":EventDescription", $EventDescription);
        $authuser_PRST->bindValue(":EventFBLink", $EventFBLink);
        $authuser_PRST->bindValue(":EventLanguage", $EventLanguage);
        $authuser_PRST->execute() or die($PDOCONN->errorInfo());

        $lastInsertedID = $PDOCONN->lastInsertID();

        $folder = "../events/" . $lastInsertedID;
        if (!file_exists($folder)) {
            mkdir($folder, 0777, true);
        }
        $target_dir = $folder . "/";

        $target_file = $target_dir . basename($_FILES["inputUploadFile"]["name"]);
        //$temp = explode(".", $_FILES["inputUploadFile"]["name"]);
        $uploadOk = 1;

        if (file_exists($target_file)) {
            $uploadOk = 0;
        }

        if ($_FILES["inputUploadFile"]["error"] > 0) {
            $strRes =  "Error: " . $_FILES["inputUploadFile"]["error"] . "
";
        } else {
            if ($uploadOk == 0) {
                $strRes =  "Error: the file already exists";
            } else {
                if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES["inputUploadFile"]["tmp_name"], $target_file)) {
                    $authuser_PRST = $PDOCONN->prepare("UPDATE tblevents SET EventImage = :EventImage WHERE id = :id");
                    $authuser_PRST->bindValue(":EventImage", $target_file);
                    $authuser_PRST->bindValue(":id", $lastInsertedID);
                    $authuser_PRST->execute() or die($PDOCONN->errorInfo());
                    $strRes = "event addedd successfully";
                } else {
                    $strRes =  "Error: something's wrong with saving file";
                }
            }
        }

        echo $strRes;
    } else {
        echo "Error: Wrong Parameter Length";
    }
} else {
    echo "Error: Missing Parameter";
}

So, I'm not sure why this is happening and what I'm doing wrong, I know "Location: " has a specific meaning in PHP, but I don't see why should it be parsed like this.
php version is: 7.0.33
Thank you advance.
EDIT:
Apparently it's not a PHP problem, but a modsecurity filter issue, from error_log:
[Mon Jul 26 12:09:54.353453 2021] [:error] [pid 12975:tid 140555522520832] [client 255.255.255.255:60940] [client 255.255.255.255] ModSecurity: Access denied with code 403 (phase 2). Pattern match "[\\\\r\\\\n]\\\\W*?(?:content-(type|length)|set-cookie|location):" at MATCHED_VAR. [file "/etc/httpd/conf/modsecurity.d/rules/comodo_free/12_HTTP_Protocol.conf"] [line "148"] [id "211080"] [rev "2"] [msg "COMODO WAF: HTTP Response Splitting Attack||www.myexample.com|F|2"] [data "Matched Data: location found within MATCHED_VAR: dfdsfds\\x0d\\x0alocation: dffds\\x0d\\x0asadfsdfsd"] [severity "CRITICAL"] [tag "CWAF"] [tag "Protocol"] [hostname "www.myexample.com"] [uri "/myadminfolder/adminAddEvent.php"] [unique_id "YP574tdofF2tOu4ovUS1IQAAAGY"], referer: https://www.myexample.com/myadminfolder/addevent.php

A: The problem was caused by mod_security COMODO WAF filter. I disabled it.


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Transgenders Outed In Armenia On Social Media
May 21, 2020 by Rémy Bonny, posted in Eastern Europe, LGBT
On April 23, two transgender women, E.P and A. Gh., reported to Armenian Trans Rights Organisation Right Side that a number of people had posted photos and information of their passports on Facebook and Instagram.
The concerned transgender women were subjected to discrimination and hate speech via social media: "they received numerous threats, mocking and insulting comments", according to Right Side NGO Director Lilit Martirosyan.
In this regard, Right Side NGO submitted a report to the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Armenia on the crime of illegally collecting, keeping, using and disseminating information pertaining to personal or family life (provided in Article 144 of the Armenian Criminal Code).
Based on the report, a criminal case was opened, specifically against Narek Malian for illegally disseminating the personal data of transgender woman E.P.
"Narek Malian was a consultant to the former head of police of the Republic of Armenia. Now, he's mainly active as an anti-LGBTI and anti-women activist.", Emil Avetisyan from Right Side NGO tells me.
The mentioned misconduct is punishable with a fine of two hundred to five hundred times the minimum wage, or imprisonment for a term of one to two months, according to the Armenian criminal code.
Covid-19: A Risk To Trans People Their Health
"We called several members of the trans community and asked them individually what the impact of Covid-19 is on their lifes. The answers were very sad. Because none of them are owningW their houses they can't afford the rent, food, utility etc.", says Emil Avetisyan (Right Side NGO) to me.
"The trans people that are now on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) can't afford medicines as well. This can effect their health in the future.", they continue.
"Many of them are hopeless and don't even know if they aj re going to survive the quarantine or not, and that's when you see how invisible and unheard trans people are in Armenia. It really is a humiliation.", Avetisyan concludes.
Post-Soviet Conservatism
Armenia is one of the most conservative countries within the Council of Europe. It is sandwiched between the post-communist Russian, Turkish and Iranian transphobia.
Since the liberal revolution of two years ago, the country has economically looked more and more to the West. But Russia is doing whatever in their power to wage a cultural war in Armenia. The Kremlin still has a not to be underestimated influence on politics in Yerevan.
The most influential transphobic and homophobic power in Armenia is the Armenian evangelical church. The population is still very religious and the only message they get from church on LGBTI-people is 'how bad they are for the country'. LGBTI people are being silenced by religion and society in Armenia.
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Le Scheitholt ou Scheitholz (« pièce de bois » en allemand) est un instrument de musique à cordes pincées anciennement répandu en Allemagne à partir du .

C'est une ancienne cithare alpine proche du monocorde, dont l'épinette des Vosges est la variante française (bien que localisée dans un périmètre restreint des Hautes-Vosges) et l'Hexenscheit ou Hexaschit (bûche de sorcière en allemand), la variante suisse jouée encore dans le canton de Berne.

Le Scheitholt s'appelle également la "Hummel" dans le Nord de l'Allemagne, en Suède et se retrouve sous les variantes phonétiques "hummeli" en Finlande et "hommel" dans les pays néerlandophones.

Lutherie
La caisse de résonance de 50 à  de long a une forme longitudinale, relativement plate. La table d'harmonie est percée en son centre d'une grosse ouïe, un chevalet étant fixé juste à côté.

Elle est montée de deux cordes de jeu et de deux ou trois cordes de bourdon, des frettes étant présentes sous les cordes. Des chevilles en métal ou en bois assurent fixation et accord.

Technique et répertoire
Pour en jouer, on pose le scheitholt horizontalement, sur une table ou sur les genoux, par exemple, et on pince les cordes avec un onglet ou un plectre métallique ou en plastique.

Le répertoire habituel couvre la musique traditionnelle ou folklorique des pays alpins ainsi que des pièces musicales religieuses.

Sources et liens externes
  Martin Kesserling, Saiteninstrumente selbst gebaut 2, vom Scheitholt zur Guitarre, Zytglogge Werkbuch, 1990.
  Site consacré à l'instrrument
  Article de Andreas Michel consacré au Scheitholt

Instrument à cordes pincées
Instrument de la musique allemande
Cithare
Instrument de musique ancien

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US lessor Aircastle is unimpressed by the Airbus A320NEO programme, with chief executive Ron Wainshal telling the FBR Capital Markets conference in New York on 30 November that it would have a negative impact on residual values of existing A320-family aircraft.
"This will be the first time in history where the same generation airplane will be replacing itself," said Wainshal. He calls the NEO a "half-way measure" that he predicts will be eclipsed by Boeing with a 737NG replacement model.
"I don't see lessees paying more for a fast-depreciating NEO than they do for current generation airplanes. I am very happy with the NG family we have, which is earlier production airplanes, because residual value exposure is much less than those in later years."
Airbus chief operating officer for customers John Leahy has brushed aside Wainshal's criticism. "Residual values will be affected in a positive way because [the A320NEO programme] keeps A320s in production for much longer," he says, adding that all-new aircraft programmes "trash" residual values.
"We expect significant orders from major lessors," adds Leahy.


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Q: Two new conjectures related to Lemoine's and Goldbach's Lemoine's conjecture can be written:
$2n + 1 = p + 2q$ always has a solution in primes $p$ and $q$ (not necessarily distinct) for $n > 2$.
It appears that the following very similar conjectures (also applying to the relations between an odd number, a prime and a semi-prime)  can also be verified for values of o greater than 2 millions.

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*$O = 2n + 1 = p - 2q$ always has a solution in distinct odd primes $p$ and $q$ for $O \geq 5$

*$O = 2n + 1 = 2q - p$ always has a solution in $p$ and $q$ with $q < p$, $p$ being an odd prime and $q$ being 1 or an odd prime and $O \geq 1$

The second can also be written as:
For every odd positive integer $O$ there exists two distinct odd primes (from primes and 1) $p_0$ and $p_1$ such that $p_1$ is the average of $O$ and $p_0$.
which makes it very similar to one of the possible formulations of Goldbach's seen in Is every composite number the average of two primes?
Has anybody seen these two conjectures anywhere before?


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Ricardo Muñoz is a former member of the Chicago City Council, having served as alderman for the 22nd ward, which includes Little Village and Archer Heights. Muñoz was appointed to this position by Mayor Richard M. Daley in 1993 and served until 2019. He was the longest tenured Latino and fourth longest tenured member of the Chicago City Council.

Early and personal life
Ricardo Muñoz was born in Monterrey, Mexico. His family immigrated to the United States and settled on the Near West Side of Chicago. The family later moved to Little Village where he and his wife Betty currently own a home. During his teenage years, he was arrested three times and pleaded guilty to two weapons violations and one charge of cocaine possession. Each time he was given a year of court supervision. He later graduated high school and earned a bachelor's degree in political science at Northern Illinois University.

Chicago City Council (1993–2019)
Muñoz was first appointed as alderman for the 22nd ward by Mayor Richard M. Daley in 1993, to replace his mentor Jesús "Chuy" García, who joined the Illinois Senate. Muñoz was the youngest member of the City Council when he first joined the body in 1993. "Alderman Ricardo Muñoz is one of the few independents on the City Council who isn't afraid to speak out against the mayor when he sees fit," wrote the Chicago Tribune in endorsing Muñoz for re-election in February 2003. "He has presented a number of innovative ideas... a terrific choice for voters."

As of June 9, 2018, Muñoz sat on the following committees: Budget and Government Operations; Committees, Rules and Ethics; Education and Child Development; Finance; Human Relations; Public Safety; and Council Office of Financial Analysis Oversight. He was a founding member of the Progressive Reform Coalition and the Latino Caucus.

On August 2, 2010, Muñoz took the unusual step of admitting that he was an alcoholic just six months before standing for re-election.

Muñoz endorsed Chris Kennedy in the 2018 Democratic gubernatorial primary.

Muñoz did not run for reelection in the 2019 Chicago aldermanic elections. He considered running in the 2019 Chicago mayoral election after Rahm Emanuel announced he would not seek reelection, but ultimately did not.

Controversies
In August 2009, Muñoz acknowledged that he called Whitney Young High School's principal Joyce Kenner to find a spot for his daughter whose test scores were not sufficient for admission.

In January 2019, Muñoz was arrested and charged with misdemeanor domestic battery, stemming from an incident with his wife on New Year's Eve. In an order of protection filed with Cook County Domestic Violence Court, Betty Torres-Munoz alleges an intoxicated Muñoz grabbed and pushed her, causing injury to her head, back, and left arm, and that she feared for her well being. He pleaded not guilty to the charges, and was acquitted in June 2019.

In April 2019, reports emerged that Muñoz had spent nearly $37,000 from the funds of the City Council Progressive Reform Caucus' political action committee (PAC), for which he had served as the treasurer, on "questionable" expenditures including $13,000 paid to himself. Caucus members reported that the discrepancy had been discovered in January and reported to the state board of elections and the Cook County State's Attorney. Muñoz claimed that the incident was a "misunderstanding" and that he would pay back the funds. In April 2021, Muñoz was indicted by federal prosecutors on 15 counts of wire fraud and one count of money laundering related to the use of Caucus PAC funds between October 2016 and June 2020 and pled not guilty to the charges. In September 2021, he changed his plea to guilty on one charge of wire fraud and one charge of money laundering in a plea agreement. In March 2022, he was sentenced to 13 months in prison, 18 months probation and ordered to pay $6,000 in restitution.

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2008 United States presidential electors
2012 United States presidential electors
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Сербская бановина или Сербский банат ( / Бановина Србија), официальное название — Сербские земли (Srpske zemlje / Српске земље) — план по созданию административной единицы Королевства Югославии. План был предложен после создания Хорватской бановины в 1939 году, однако, из-за оккупации и разделения Югославии в 1941 году так и не был реализован.

Предложение
Вопрос о создании Хорватской бановины в 1939—40 годах был согласован между премьер-министром Драгишем Цветковичем и хорватским лидером Владко Мачеком (из Хорватской крестьянской партии) в марте—августе 1939 года и урегулирован на основе соглашения 26 августа. Хорватия теперь стала единственной бановиной, созданной по национальному принципу, названной в честь большинства населения (за пределами которой осталось лишь меньшинство), и таким образом, близкой к национальному государству. Соглашение получило мало поддержки среди сербских политических партий, а Сербская православная церковь и югославская армия выступили против него. Создане Хорватской бановины открыло вопрос о политическом статусе сербского народа в Королевстве Югославия («сербский вопрос»). Некоторые сербские интеллектуалы (особенно члены Сербского культурного клуба) и политики (включая отдельных членов югославского правительства), предложили план создания Сербской бановины, которая бы включила территории существовавших Врбаской, Дринской, Дунайской, Моравской, Зетской и Вардарской бановин. Хорватская бановина включала в себя значительное количество сербского населения, в то время, как в Сербскую бановину должно было войти значительоне количество несербского и неславянского населения. В 1940 году эти планы были подтверждены в февральском номере журнала Glas, издавемого Матицей сербской. Было указано, что кроме Хорватской бановины, только Сербская и предполагаемая Словенская бановины имеют прецедент и право на формирование и существование, как государства трёх этнических групп, образовавших Югославию, то есть Государство словенцев, хорватов и сербов и Королевство сербов, хорватов и словенцев. Процесс создания Сербской бановины должен был похож на процесс в Хорватии.

Демография
Согласно югославской переписи, существовавшие бановины, которые, согласно предложению, должны были войти в состав Сербской бановины, имели следующее население:
 Врбасская бановина: 1 037 382 человека, из них 600 529 (58 %) православных;
 Дринская бановина: 1 534 739 человек, из них 992 924 (65 %) православных;
 Дунайская бановина: 2 387 295 человек, из них 1 393 269 (58 %) православных;
 Моравская бановина: 1 435 584 человека, из них 1 364 490 (95 %) православных;
 Зетская бановина: 925 516 человек, из них 516 490 (56 %) православных;
 Вардарская бановина: 1 574 243 человека, из низ 1 046 039 (66 %) православных.

Примечания

Литература

История Югославии
История Сербии
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Working on comprehensive plans for responsible growth and community development.
Making recommendations to City Council on all requests for zoning, annexations, subdivisions and related land-use issues.
The City of Sunland Park is seeking to appoint two new members to the Planning and Zoning Commission Board for a two (2) year term and is accepting applications from anyone interested in serving in this capacity.


Organizations retain or increase market share, increasing sales or revenues.
You will have consistent, repeatable processes and a common system.
You will have fewer problems with failures in service or product quality.
Your people know what to do and how you want it done.
You will have more business, because you can sell to new markets or having the endorsement will distinguish you in the marketplace.
You'll know more quickly if things are going wrong, and where; you stop spending money or wasting time on the same old problems. Many problems will disappear because you know how to prevent them; if they do come up, you'll know how to fix them faster.
Better management control and reporting – which means that you know how your business is doing.


Windows Live Essential Wave 4 (Beta) leaked!
Finally, after a long time of lack-of-update period for Microsoft Windows Live Services, we are able to have some test drives on the latest update of Windows Live Essential that intended to be released to closed beta testers. In the package, it can be found that there are 3 beta programs included: Windows Live Messenger Beta, Windows Live Mail Beta, and Windows Live Writer Beta, along with some other small applications (You can have a glance on the screenshot below).
I would say the beta version of WLM is one of the biggest changes in Windows Live Essential pack. It still looks familiar to the current stable release of WLM, but it does have some interface changes, as well as the new social networks integration added in. During the starting up of the WLM Beta, it gives you an option to choose between the Social Highlights interface or Friends List interface (which can be changed easily later).
For me, I see this interface changes as a very good move from Microsoft Windows Live team. Similar to Windows 7, they has finally listened to the users' opinion and allow them to control the messenger to suit different liking. If you doesn't like the changes that Windows Live Team made for you, no worry, you still can revert the whole WLM interface to the traditional design with only a single click (a slide button at the top right corner). Besides that, the new WLM also has the long-awaited tabbed-conversation which has been realized by Messenger Plus for ages.
Another additional functions in the latest WLM would be the integration of the social networks into the WLM. As you can see at the below screenshot, it can add some social networks (Facebook, Twitter, WordPress etc.) into your WLM (that will automatically publish any updates from them to your friends), which can be managed at your Windows Live Homepage.
One of my most favourite applications in Windows Live Essential. Besides WLM, it also has been given quite a significant facelift, which can be seen by the new ribbon UI integrated in WLW.
A new Ribbon UI in Windows Live Writer!
If you has been using the currently open beta Microsoft Office 2010, you will be instantly familiarized yourself with the new Ribbon UI featured in WLW. At the time of writing, I am using the WLW Beta and I am loving it! Although I have found a tweet from Additive Tips complaining about the location of the 'split post' feature which I couldn't agree more (I am finding that button for a few minutes under the Home tab), but all in all, the latest update has made my blogging experience even richer and easier.
After some looking here and there, I found that there is no extra major function been added in to the latest WLW (still no image caption etc.), but it does have some minor one: Superscript and subscript, Word Count, Emoticon (it doesn't exist in the older WLW isn't? Or I have been overlooked?), and it also allows us to refresh theme for preview right under the Blog Account tab.
Similar to Windows Live Writer, Windows Live Mail Beta has its interface changed to the familiar Ribbon UI. I always prefer the web-based email (for my Gmail) rather than Windows Live Mail, but the latest changes seems to be worth a try to turn my attention to WLMail in managing my emails.
A new Ribbon UI in Windows Live Mail!
You want to try? Here's how.
First, get the Windows Live Essential Beta Wave 4 (scanned with avast!, no virus found) which allows you to update your Windows Live Messenger, Mail and Writer to the Beta version. However, for Windows Live Messenger, it is not intended for public use, thus you will not able to sign in after the update. There is a patch from windowsette.com (scanned with avast!, no virus found) that patches the WLM beta to allow non-beta-testers to sign in their own account (install the patch only AFTER you get your Windows Live Messenger updated to the latest beta version). Happy exploring (or you might want to swank them to your friend) and wait for the final version from Windows Live Team patiently!
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This piece was created in February 2017 by the Women's Creative Group – and features a busy scene of village life.
In our painting, we are depicting social life which includes human beings and animals doing day to day activities. Here is a scene from daily life – a typical wedding scene in the village. One of the central aspects is the "Tarpa dance"- Tarpa, a trumpet like instrument, is played in turns by different men. People entwine their hands and move in a circle around the Tarpa player. The formation of the dancers is said to be a resemblance of the circle of life. A very basic graphic vocabulary is used; a circle, triangle and square and are derived from the observation of nature, the circle representing the sun and the moon, the triangle derived from mountains and pointed trees and square indicating a sacred enclosure or a piece of land. The depiction signifies the harmony and balance of the universe, man's harmony with each other and with nature.
You can find out more about the Women's Creative Group HERE.


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Antivirus software maker accused of deceiving investors
Antivirus software entrepreneur John McAfee charged with fraud and money laundering conspiracy crimes in new unsealed indictment in New York
Through LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press
5 March 2021, 23:15
• 3 minutes to read
NEW YORK – Antivirus software entrepreneur John McAfee has been charged with fraud and money laundering conspiracy, alleging he and his cohorts have made more than $ 13 million deceiving zealous investors in the emerging crypto market -currencies, authorities said on Friday.
McAfee, 75, was indicted in a newly unsealed indictment in Manhattan federal court with Jimmy Gale Watson Jr., who served as executive adviser on what prosecutors described as the "so-called team of cryptocurrency "from McAfee.
Prosecutors said Watson, 40, was arrested Thursday night in Texas and will appear before a federal judge in Dallas for the first time on Friday. McAfee, authorities say, is being held in Spain on separate criminal charges filed by the tax division of the US Department of Justice.
Lawyer Arnold Spencer, representing Watson, said his client was a decorated former Navy Seal.
"He has fought for the rights and freedoms of others, and he has the right and is looking forward to his day in court to exercise some of those rights," he said in an email.
"Criminal indictments are blunt instruments, not precise scalpels," Spencer added. "This is not the right place to debate whether advanced technologies like cryptocurrencies are securities, commodities or something else."
It was not immediately clear who could represent McAfee. There was still no lawyer registered for him in federal court in Memphis, Tennessee, where tax charges were filed against him in October.
"McAfee and Watson have harnessed a widely used social media platform and the enthusiasm of investors in the emerging cryptocurrency market to earn millions through lies and deception," said US lawyer Audrey Strauss in a statement describing the crimes committed in 2017 and 2018.
"The defendants allegedly used McAfee's Twitter account to post messages to hundreds of thousands of its Twitter followers touting various cryptocurrencies through false and misleading statements to cover up their true self-interested motives," she added. .
In October, McAfee was indicted in Tennessee on tax evasion after failing to report income generated from promoting cryptocurrency while working as a consultant, speaking and selling the rights to his life story. for a documentary.
McAfee developed the first Internet security software and has been called upon by authorities in the United States and Belize in the past.
The Tennessee indictment stated that McAfee did not file tax returns from 2014 to 2018, despite receiving "considerable income" from several sources.
In July 2019, McAfee was released from detention in the Dominican Republic after he and five others were suspected of traveling on a yacht carrying large caliber weapons, ammunition and military-style equipment, told the era of the makers of the Caribbean island.
Elastic changes software license to better protect Elasticsearch and Kibana
Supplier software license audits have become more frequent. Are you ready?


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Musical Space: When An Actor Starts A Band
Lots of actors and actresses try their hands at being musicians. It shouldn't surprise me I suppose, but once I started researching it, my list of names became unmanageably long.
Musical Space: Brilliant Mistakes
Singing "Mack the Knife" to a live audience, Ella Fitzgerald realized she had completely forgotten the lyrics and had to ad-lib four whole choruses. The result was a brilliant display of improvising that ended up on the Grammy-winning 1960 album Ella in Berlin.
Musical Space: The Jazz Tenor Sax March Madness, Part 2.
The battle continues.
We're hearing an example of a tenor battle--two jazz tenor sax players going head to head, taking turns trying to one-up the other. This one is John Coltrane challenging Sonny Rollins on a tune whose name sums up the spirit of the competition: Tenor Madness.
Musical Space: Local Spaces
Cory Norton
Last time I talked about musical geography — how style springs up from places that artists and audiences can identify with. I gave lots of examples from all over the country, but the most important aspect of this is that there is a musical nexus right here.
Musical Space: Musical Spaces
Musical Space, the podcast
Music becomes distinctive when it reflects its own geographic space. This could be a neighborhood, a bar, a church, or even a sports arena; things click when a group of musicians feel a connection to a particular place.
Migration & Music, Part 2 | Musical Space
By Mark Foley • Jan 31, 2017
Musical Space, the podcast | Migration & Music, part 2
As I was saying last time, immigration is the driving force of American music. Many American immigrants are now from Mexico; sales of tomato salsa have famously overtaken those of ketchup. It's inevitable that Mexican-American music will also have a cultural impact.
Other than what was here before Columbus arrived, all American music is the result of migration. It's been happening since Plymouth Rock; music is carried in with waves of immigrants and thrown into a Darwinian mosh pit, subjected to opposition, transformation, juxtaposition, synthesis, and evolution. And the sounds that survive change from being "World Music" into "American Music."
Musical Space: Musical Wish, Part 2
By Mark Foley • Jan 3, 2017
Last time we talked how I wanted 2017 to be as musically revolutionary as 1977 - how punk rock shook things up exactly 40 years ago.
Musical Space: New Year's Musical Wish
By Mark Foley • Dec 20, 2016
My New Year's wish is that 2017 would be as musically important as 1977. Though you wouldn't know it from looking at that year's Billboard Hot 100 chart, an undercurrent of experimentation and subversion suddenly changed our musical space.


The Black Chester Ortho Mattress is part of our ever growing range of in house mattresses.
Each of these units are hand made within our own factory, with every example coming with a 13.5g Bonnell Open Coil Spring base. This has been designed to meet orthopaedic standards, providing excellent back posture support and pressure relief.
I have done a lot of searching for a good mattress and also visited a lot of local furniture stores etc (and we have plenty of them in Croydon) but. I was shocked to find the prices some companies charge. For a similar mattress to this one here some places want upwards of £1200! I didn't want to have to get a bank loan to buy a new bed so decided to give this one a go.
After sleeping on this for a couple of weeks I must say I am very pleased I took a chance on something that may not have been a good buy given the low price. It has a quality feel and is supportive and comfy. I no longer wake up with a bad back and my GF who sometimes stays over but who prefers a soft bed also sleeps well on it.
I expect to get a long shelf-life from this item.


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Our State Magazine is North Carolina's premier statewide magazine devoted to travel, history, people and places. Published for 82 years, Our State showcases the beauty of North Carolina through stunning photography and is the perfect source of information for those who've lived here all their lives or for those looking to visit!
As one of the fastest growing cities in the nation, Raleigh is transforming into a thriving metropolis and someone needs to keep up with what's going on. That's why Raleigh Magazine is an integral part of the Triangle community. We are an informative and entertaining resource that covers everything from dining to drinks, art to entertainment, plus a healthy dose of news and features.
The Triangle Downtowner Magazine is a locally-owned and operated monthly magazine focusing on the Triangle area. We feature articles on dining, entertainment, local business, events, music, fashion, wine, arts and culture, books, history, food trucks, and much more. Our readers live and work all around the Triangle, and enjoy downtown regularly. The magazine reaches over 115,000 readers every month with our print and online media as well as our online news blog here keeping you informed on events and news that occur between our monthly print magazines.