We know that one of the greatest obstacles facing many house builders is the prohibitive risk involved in bringing forward planning applications, and that risk and cost are often hugely disproportionate on the smallest sites. Outline planning permission was originally meant to provide a means of managing these risks, but over time even obtaining an outline permission has come to involve the submission of large amounts of information and detailed pre-application discussions, creating significant upfront cost in return for an uncertain outcome.
Many smaller house builders are unable to spread these risks over a number of sites and different applications. SME house builders are likely to be financing applications through their own funds or private loans and so the risk of investing in a planning application and not receiving permission can be quite prohibitive. PiP is intended to address precisely these risks and is designed to be closer to the old fashioned 'redline' type application.
Did the Federation of Master Builders play a part in the introduction of PiP?
applicant to invest in the more costly Technical Details stage.
So, although it has changed from the original proposition, it is still an improvement?
Yes indeed. We believe that for many house builders and developers undertaking smaller sites, PiP might prove to be one of the most beneficial changes to the planning system in recent years. It has been designed to reduce the upfront costs and hassle involved in getting an 'in principle' decision, thereby reducing some of the risks involved in planning and allowing greater investment in the technical details process, once the principle has been established. It is also available to be applied to any site on the Brownfield Register to encourage the development of those sites identified as suitable for housing. The Housing and Planning Act 2016 also allows for PiPs to be automatically placed on all eligible sites allocated within local and neighbourhood plans, although this element is yet to come into effect and has possibly been shelved for the time being.
In effect, it's a two-stage process to full planning permission. A PiP application consists of a two-page form containing basic information about the site, a plan which identifies the site in question, and a fee. The statutory time limit for PiP applications to be determined is five weeks. The grant of PiP will last for three years, during which time a developer will need to apply for a 'Technical Details Consent' (TDC) to convert this into a full planning permission. The focus of PiP is strictly limited to location, land use and amount of development. All other matters are dealt with at the TDCstage.
Has it been welcomed by everyone?
In general yes, although some local authorities, perhaps not unexpectedly, have not been universally positive about the new application route, which is one reason why you might not yet have heard of it. In addition, there are bound to be some teething problems and its success will always be dependent to some extent on its being implemented roughly as intended.
How will you know if it's working asintended?
We believe that this new PiP route, as set out, will prove to be a significant advantage to the industry and more particularly the SME housebuilding sector going forward. We will monitor this closely and we'd really like to hear from developers and other property professionals with their views on PiP and how it's being implemented in their areas. At the FMB we see it as one of a number of steps which can help to encourage and reinvigorate the SME housebuilding sector for the good of the country.


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Why it´s good to have Tea with your dead Aunt once in a while
In my late twenties and early thirties, I was really into Zen Buddhism. I took zazen meditation lessons (stopped it, I think it´s just not for me…), practiced martial arts, and read almost anything related I could get my hands on. I remember a story that was about conquering our fears, where a monk would lay his head inside a dragon´s open jaw – in order to rid himself of the fear of…well…dragons.
I deeply sympathize with this approach of "accepting what´s there" – it´s one of those crucial points where the more helpful spiritual and therapeutic traditions of East and West regularly meet and become friends (e.g., see Kristin Neff´s outline on self-compassion to get an idea for a more Western take on the concept).
I've got 99 problems and 93 of them are completely made up scenarios in my head that I'm stressing about for absolutely no reason. (multiple attributions)
While writing this, I remember another sage basically taught me the same lesson almost a decade before my deep-dive into Buddhism. One of my all-time favorites on TV is Ally McBeal. Every other year or so, I start another binge-watching weekend. I still love the affectionately exaggerated characters, the idea of visually externalizing the protagonists´ feelings, and the fabulous blending of music with plot and personal development. Here´s the dialogue that came to my mind:
John: I used to have a hallucination where my dead aunt kept wanting to have tea with me. It went for two years before I finally stopped her.
Ally: How did you stop her?
John: I had tea with her.
Here´s to our dead aunts!
Ally McBeal, Buddhism, Fear, Kristin Neff, Psychotherapy, Self-Compassion, Spirituality, Zen
Sharing our gifts with the world is the most powerful source of connection with God
A friend advised me to read The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown – and I do right now. I'd like to share this quote with you that, in my mind alludes, among other things, to the concept of character strengths in Positive Psychology.
Character, Direction, God, Purpose, Spirituality, Strengths
What Positive Psychology can learn from the Humanities
Inspired by James Pawelski
In 1998, Martin Seligman was elected president of the American Psychological Association (APA). Looking back on a fruitful career in research and teaching mostly on clinical psychology, especially the causes and treatment of depression, he had an epiphany that led to the formulation of a societal need for a positive psychology, a branch of psychology that would investigate a wide array of positive phenomena in human life, such as love, character strengths, high achievement, and in general: well-being and human flourishing. He proposed these issues should be investigated exerting the same scientific rigor that psychology has applied pertaining to negative phenomena (depression, anxiety, aggression etc.) for the first 100 years of its existence as an academic discipline. Equally, the rigorous scientific approach was meant to distinguish positive psychology from the extant self-help literature that partly expounds similar topics of interest (Seligman & Csíkszentmihályi, 2000; Seligman, 2002).
Academic disciplines that employ empirical approaches based on "hard" methods from the natural sciences (controlled experiments etc.) are oftentimes contrasted with "softer" approaches of (academic) inquiry such as the humanities (de Solla Price, 1986). Webster´s Third New International Dictionary (1971) defines humanities as "the branch of learning regarded as having primarily a cultural character and usually including languages, literature, history, mathematics, and philosophy"; and the Random House College Dictionary (1984) defines it as "a. the study of classical Latin and Greek language and literature. b. literature, philosophy, art, etc. as distinguished from the sciences."
In spite of the aforementioned (conjectured) antagonism, the purpose of this essay is to shed light on the manifold interconnections between the humanities and positive psychology as a (comparatively) "hard" science. Specifically, the goal is to
to show how insights from the humanities have informed (and still continue to inform) theories about the antecedents and characteristics of (psychological) well-being and what makes for a "good life";
how the humanities help to refine research on human flourishing in its different facets;
how the humanities inform the practice of human flourishing and help to design interventions that are based on the insights of positive psychology.
1) How the Humanities inform Theories of Human Flourishing
For many centuries now, mankind has taken an interest in fostering its own psychological well-being and helping its fellow human being to lead a "good life". Long before (positive) psychology, there has been an abundance of religious and spiritual leaders (such as the Buddha and Jesus Christ), philosophers (such as Aristotle and Marcus Aurelius), and writers/poets (such as Henry David Thoreau and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) that have disseminated their concepts of ethics and morals, character and virtues, and what leads to joy and meaning in life (McMahon, 2012). For the sake of brevity, in this section I will only describe how writers and poets have sown the seeds for extant theories in positive psychology.
Telling stories is almost never done for sheer fun of it, or for objectively reporting on some occurrence. Telling stories, be it in traditional oral style, in print, or some audio-visual presentation mode, almost always has some instructive or prescriptive quality to it. Whoever creates or narrates the story typically wants to instill a change in the recipient, wants him to know or be something else when the story is over (Niles, 1999). This educational facet of storytelling can be traced through the literary history, from Homer´s "Iliad" and "Odyssey" and Aesop´s fables, to early religious accounts such as the "Upanishads" and the Bible, to medieval works such as Dante´s "Divine Comedy", Shakespeare´s works of drama (e.g., "Hamlet"), to the early (e.g. Goethe´s "Wilhelm Meister´s Apprenticeship") and later (e.g. Dickens´s "Great Expectations") "Bildungsroman" – all the way up to 20th century masterpieces such as de Saint-Exupéry "Little Prince" and New Age classics along the lines of Bach´s "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" or Coelho´s "Alchemist". Oftentimes, this educational element is conveyed by carefully depicting the protagonists´ lifestyles – in order to then confront the recipient with the outcomes of these modes of existence.
By way of example, both Leo Tolstoy´s "The Death of Ivan Ilych" (1886/2010) and Willa Cather´s "Neighbour Rosicky" (1932/2010) try to educate the reader (among other things) on the value of and human need for close relationships. While Cather portrays the distinctly positive outcomes of understanding that "no man is an island", Tolstoy´s narrative describes Ivan Ilyich as a human being that literally dies of social and emotional isolation. So, while both stories do not contain any "how-to advice" such as modern self-help books, it remains unequivocal that they try to convey some underlying and implicit understanding of human well-being, that they represent a prescription for "a life well-lived". As such, they can be likened to a kind of ideographic research, case-studies, a deep-dive into the personal experience of human beings as individuals (Jorgensen & Nafstad, 2004). Positive psychologists can draw on these sources to generate hypotheses about the general nature of human well-being (nomothetic research). They can take those extant descriptions and prescriptions, abstract and turn them into verifiable scientific hypotheses, and conduct large-scale and longitudinal empirical research to see if they turn out to be valid propositions.
By way of example, the sonnet "An sich" by German 17th century poet Paul Fleming endorses a multitude of concepts and recommendations that are accepted as being beneficial to psychological well-being in positive psychology and (most self-help literature as well):
Sei dennoch unverzagt! Gib dennoch unverloren! Weich keinem Glücke nicht, steh höher als der Neid, vergnüge dich an dir und acht es für kein Leid, hat sich gleich wider dich Glück, Ort und Zeit verschworen.
Was dich betrübt und labt, halt alles für erkoren; nimm dein Verhängnis an. Laß alles unbereut. Tu, was getan muß sein, und eh man dir's gebeut. Was du noch hoffen kannst, das wird noch stets geboren.
Was klagt, was lobt man noch? Sein Unglück und sein Glücke ist ihm ein jeder selbst. Schau alle Sachen an: dies alles ist in dir. Laß deinen eitlen Wahn, und eh du fürder gehst, so geh in dich zurücke. Wer sein selbst Meister ist und sich beherrschen kann, dem ist die weite Welt und alles untertan.
Among other things, Fleming advises his recipients to:
retain an optimistic mindset in the face or hardships (Seligman & Schulman, 1986) and cultivate hopefulness (Snyder, 2002);
exert self-control (Tangney, Baumeister, & Boone, 2004) and tackle setbacks with a "gritty" attitude (Duckworth & Seligman, 2005);
practice mindfulness (Brown & Ryan, 2003) and "look inside" for sources of joy (Bryant, Smart, & King, 2005);
express gratitude (Sheldon & Lyubomirsky, 2006) and avoid feelings of envy and regret (Fredrickson, 2004).
All the aforementioned concepts can by now be considered "mainstream positive psychology", as they are to a varying degree and scope building blocks of Seligman´s PERMA framework of human flourishing (2012). And while I am in some doubt whether the founding fathers of positive psychology have really been inspired by a German poet from the a 17th century, I am positively sure would they very much agree with what the latter had to say.
2) How the Humanities inform Research on Human Flourishing
As described in the introductory section, positive psychologists stress the importance of empirical research to back the claims made by this still rather new branch of psychology. While it might not be as apparent and straightforward as the insights from the first section of this paper, the humanities can also help to increase the quality of research in positive psychology. For instance, positive psychologists could draw on methods from philosophy to either improve existing methods within the field, or introduce largely new methods.
By way of example, methods from hilosophy can help positive psychology researchers to create better constructs and thus, questionnaires by engaging in conceptual clarification of central notions and frameworks in the field. Pawelski (2012) demonstrates how one of the core concepts in positive psychology, namely, the notion of "the positive" may still be severely underspecified. When the discipline was founded at the onset of the third millennium, it was not really clear what the term "positive" in positive psychology is actually referring to. 15 years later, science has made at least some progress pertaining to that question. Based on philosophical inquiry, Pawelski (2012) points out that the "positive" in positive psychology cannot just be the absence of something negative. Well-being cannot be explained by looking at what is not there (e.g., unhappiness, mental illness) – it has to look for something that is there in its own right.
In her essay, Tiberius (2012) tries to show how unique methods from philosophy can be introduced to the field of positive psychology to gain deeper insights into some topic of inquiry. For example, she demonstrates how the specific use of "intuition pumps" (short educational thought experiments) can shed valuable insight into functioning of human decision-making and moral reasoning. Schneider (2001) ultimately reminds positive psychologists not to be too sure of themselves when talking about the results of their research or judging the results of others. She insists that our perceptions and thus, knowledge, are necessarily characterized by a considerable degree of fuzziness – with all the benefits and disadvantages this entails. To that effect, philosophy can help positive psychology to stay humble – but also hungry for more knowledge.
3) How the Humanities inform the Practice of Human Flourishing
Man has been described – among many other analogies – as the "cultural animal" (Baumeister, 2005). Most people expose themselves to parts of our "cultural achievements" (music, books/writing, art, theater/films, spiritual rites etc.) on a daily basis. By way of example, listening to music is a pervasive element of most people´s lives.In a study using experiencing sampling, a method where subjects are to record what they do in their lives at certain intervals, it was found that music was present in 37% percent of the samples. Additionally, the researchers found that this exposure to music influenced the emotional state of the listeners in 67% of these events, and that this influence was oftentimes induced by the listeners on purpose, e.g., as a means to lift their mood (Juslin, Liljeström, Västfjäll, Barradas, & Silva, 2008). While other cultural practices are used for the same reasons (and several other "positive motives") as well*, in light of this paper´s limited scope, I will concentrate on the question of how (and via which mechanisms) music may contribute to our psychological well-being.
Listening to music can lift our mood, has been shown to alleviate psychological stress as well as physical pain, and to contribute to our overall well-being (Västfjäll, Juslin, & Hartig, 2012). This may be a consequence of the uplifting effect of listening to music, but could also be a byproduct of its social aspect, since it is often performed and listened to in the presence of other human beings (MacDonald, Kreutz, & Mitchell, 2012). Additionally, making and listening to music is able to induce flow (Csikszentmihalyi, 1996). For all these reasons, it is also used in a wide array of psychotherapeutic settings (Västfjäll, Juslin, & Hartig, 2012).
What is more, listening to music often leads us to moving our bodies/dancing, at least pre-consciously. In an article on the benefits of pursuing different forms of dancing as a hobby, Quiroga Murcia, Kreutz, Clift, and Bongard (2010) were able to demonstrate that dancing can:
strengthen our immune system, thereby helping us to stay physically healthy;
fight stress by decreasing the concentration of cortisol in our blood;
improve our physical fitness, e.g., by fostering coordination, flexibility, and stamina;
help us coping with pain;
improve our self-esteem and build confidence.
In another study by Campion and Levita (2014), just five minutes of light dancing (alone) improved lateral thinking abilities of managers at work, and decreased their symptoms of fatigue.
In this sense, listening to music (and additionally, dancing) could very well be described as a positive intervention in its own right. It´s cheap, it´s available almost all over the planet, and – there are virtually no side effects. Of course, it´s important to keep in mind that different people display different tastes in music. Accordingly, Västfjäll, Juslin, and Hartig (2012) explain that the (beneficial) effect of music has to be understood as an interaction effect between the musical stimulus and its recipient: "Thus, there are no "pure" effects of music that will invariably occur regardless of the specific listener or situation. The response will depend on factors such as the listener´s music preferences and previous experiences, as well as on the specific circumstances of the context" (p. 408). Yet, assuming that most people are able and willing to choose what music they listen to at most times in their lives, it becomes clear that it is a potent ingredient of a life well-lived.
To close this section, I´d like to describe how I intend to use the extant knowledge on the connection of the humanities and well-being in my future professional life. I have been working as a management and life coach since 2008. Early on, I developed the habit of prescribing some homework to my clients in-between sessions. Once in a while, I would prescribe watching a film for inspiration, or seeding a certain idea (e.g., "The Kid" starring Bruce Willis, for the notion that it is possible to change our past; or rather, its emotional valence) by re-framing and re-evaluating certain experiences. To that effect, I also knew of the existence of "cinematherapy", a rather recent branch of psychotherapy that utilizes the exposure to movies as a means to support the treatment of psychological disorders such as depression (Sharp, Smith, & Cole, 2002). All the more, I´ve been delighted to learn that positive psychology has also taken to this mode of delivery, namely in the form of Niemiec and Wedding´s (2008) tome "Positive psychology at the movies: Using films to build virtues and character strengths". Over the upcoming months, I will read the book and watch as many films therein as possible to experience their impact – so as to build up my reservoir of movies to prescribe to my coaching clients. I am sure this will become a valuable addition to my "coaching toolbox".
The objective of this essay was to demonstrate how insights from the humanities have influenced theories on the antecedents and characteristics of human flourishing, how the humanities help to refine research in this area, and how the humanities inform the practice of positive psychology and help to design beneficial positive interventions. I have pursued this objective by explaining how many of the core ideas in positive psychology can be traced back through our (literary) history, by showing how philosophy can improve research methods in that field as well as the "talk" about that research, and by illustrating how music can be used as an "active ingredient" in positive interventions.
Metaphorically speaking, positive psychology is still a very young tree, but it is a sapling with strong and far-reaching roots. These roots can be traced back in time looking into the realms of music, art, religion, philosophy, as well as oral, written, and audio-visual storytelling. In order to continue growing and ultimately becoming a strong and mighty tree, it´s of uttermost importance to get to know, acknowledge, and to treasure these roots. Mindfully exposing ourselves to the different manifestations of the humanities is such an approach to honor the roots of positive psychology.
Baumeister, R. F. (2005). The cultural animal: Human nature, meaning, and social life. New York: Oxford University Press.
Brown, K. W., & Ryan, R. M. (2003). The benefits of being present: mindfulness and its role in psychological well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84(4), 822-848.
Bryant, F. B., Smart, C. M., & King, S. P. (2005). Using the past to enhance the present: Boosting happiness through positive reminiscence. Journal of Happiness Studies, 6(3), 227-260.
Campion, M., & Levita, L. (2014). Enhancing positive affect and divergent thinking abilities: Play some music and dance. Journal of Positive Psychology, 9(2), 137-145.
Cather, W. (2010). "Neighbor Rosicky." In Obscure destinies (pp. 1-38). Oxford, UK: Oxford City Press. (Original work published in 1932).
Costello R. B. (1984): Random House Webster's College Dictionary. New York: Random House.
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihály. (1996). Creativity: Flow and the psychology of discovery and invention. New York: Harper Collins.
de Botton, A., & Armstrong, J. (2013). Art as Therapy. London: Phaidon Press.
de Solla Price, D. J. (1986). Little science, big science… and beyond. New York: Columbia University Press.
Duckworth, A. L., & Seligman, M. E. (2005). Self-discipline outdoes IQ in predicting academic performance of adolescents. Psychological Science, 16(12), 939-944.
Fredrickson, B. L. (2004). Gratitude, like other positive emotions, broadens and builds. In R. A. Emmons & M. E. McCullough (Eds.), The psychology of gratitude (pp. 145–166). New York: Oxford University Press.
Gove, P. B. (1971). Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language: Unabridged. Springfield: G. and C. Merriam Company.
MacDonald, R., Kreutz, G., Mitchell, L. (2012). What is music, health, and wellbeing and why is it important? In R. MacDonald, G. Kreutz, & L. Mitchell (Eds.), Music, health and wellbeing (pp. 3-11). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
McMahon, D. M. (2012). The pursuit of happiness in history. In I. Boniwell & S. Davis (Eds.), Oxford handbook of happiness (pp. 80-93). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Niemiec, R. M., & Wedding, D. (2008). Positive psychology at the movies: Using films to build virtues and character strengths. Cambridge, MA: Hogrefe.
Niles, J. D. (1999). Homo narrans. The poetics and anthropology of oral literature. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Pargament, K. I. (2002). The bitter and the sweet: An evaluation of the costs and benefits of religiousness. Psychological Inquiry, 13(3), 168-181.
Pawelski, J. O. (2012): Happiness and its Opposites. In I. Boniwell & S. Davis (Eds.), Oxford handbook of happiness (pp. 326-336). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Pawelski, J. O., & Moores, D. J. (2012). The Eudaimonic Turn: Well-being in Literary Studies. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
Quiroga Murcia, C., Kreutz, G., Clift, S., & Bongard, S. (2010). Shall we dance? An exploration of the perceived benefits of dancing on well-being. Arts & Health, 2(2), 149-163.
Schneider, S. L. (2001). In search of realistic optimism: Meaning, knowledge, and warm fuzziness. American Psychologist, 56(3), 250-263.
Seligman, M. E. (2002). Authentic happiness. New York: Free Press.
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Seligman, M. E., & Schulman, P. (1986). Explanatory style as a predictor of productivity and quitting among life insurance sales agents. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 50(4), 832-838.
Sharp, C., Smith, J. V., & Cole, A. (2002). Cinematherapy: Metaphorically promoting therapeutic change. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 15(3), 269-276.
Sheldon, K. M., & Lyubomirsky, S. (2006). How to increase and sustain positive emotion: The effects of expressing gratitude and visualizing best possible selves. Journal of Positive Psychology, 1(2), 73-82.
Snyder, C. R. (2002). Hope theory: Rainbows in the mind. Psychological Inquiry, 13(4), 249-275.
Tangney, J. P., Baumeister, R. F., & Boone, A. L. (2004). High self‐control predicts good adjustment, less pathology, better grades, and interpersonal success. Journal of Personality, 72(2), 271-324.
Tiberius, V. (2012). Philosophical Methods in Happiness Research. In I. Boniwell & S. Davis (Eds.), Oxford handbook of happiness (pp. 315-325). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Tolstoy, L. (2010). The death of Ivan Ilych. New York: SoHo Books. (Original work published in 1886).
Västfjäll, D., Juslin, P. N, Hartig, T. (2012). Music, subjective wellbeing, and health: The role of everyday emotions. In R. MacDonald, G. Kreutz, & L. Mitchell (Eds.), Music, health and wellbeing (pp. 405–423). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
* Please refer to Pargament (2002) for an overview of the connection of religious practices and well-being, to de Botton and Armstrong (2013) for a framework of how people use art to cultivate flourishing, to Niemiec and Wedding (2008) on the use of story-telling (especially movies) for building character strengths, and Pawelski and Moores (2012) for a treatise on the "eudaimonic turn" in literary studies.
To himself
Be yet still undeterred! Accept yet still no loss! Bend to no bad luck's blow, stand higher than ill will. Take joy, you, in yourself and think it is no woe. If all against you – luck, place and time – have sworn.
That which afflicts or cheers, hold all as predesigned. Take what your fate declares. Let there be no regret. Do what must now be done, ere one dispatches you. What you can hope for still, that will yet still be born.
Why wails, why lauds one still? One's hardships and one's luck, Is each one for himself. Examine every thing; This all is within you. Discard your fond illusion. And, ere you further step, go back into yourself. Who his own master is and keeps himself in check. He o'er the outspread world and all things there does reign.
(Paul Fleming)
Essays, Positive Psychology Insights
Art, Humanities, Literature, Martin Seligman, Optimism, Philosophy, Positive Psychology, Religion, Spirituality, Well-Being
Reblog: The Habits Of Supremely Happy People
I´m in London for a couple of days. No time to blog. Still, you might want to check out this comprehensive article on Positive Psychology from the Huffington Post:
The Habits Of Supremely Happy People
Altruism, Martin Seligman, Positive Psychology, Positivity, Relationships, Resilience, Spirituality


Treepython is a variation of python which works in my structure editor textended. I am planning to write a computer game using this new language this February. In this post I will be adding new semantic patterns into treepython. It hopefully explains my motivation to break up with plaintext programming.
Here's the samples/clearscreen.t+ from textended-edit. When I run it, it grabs the editor display and colors it black.
The 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0 represents the black color here. Programmers see their colors like this, which stands to explain where the term "programmer art" is coming from.
The star stands for variable number of arguments. The rgba_to_vec4 produces 4 values in a list, but glClearColor wants 4 values. The star expands the list to fill 4 argument slots.
If you coded in trees, you could represent the color right here. Next I'm going to show how that happens. First we annotate a string with symbol float-rgba. This will represent our hexadecimal colors and should translate to a tuple, each channel represented by a floating point number.
If we try to evaluate the program, it returns us an error. The editor highlights the bad construct and shows the error message on the right.
The error message tells that it cannot be recognised as an expression. Lets extend treepython to recognize strings that are labeled float-rgba.
Treepython is a translator between textended tree structures and python ast, so the above code resembles a lisp macro. It's up to the language's implementor to decide how his language is extended.
I intend to get it overlay this error over the file, just like it did small while ago. Anyway you may see why it's happening here. We are passing a tuple to the call.
That there's vararg implemented may give you a false sense of completeness of this project. I just coded in the support for variable argument semantics while writing this blog post.
As you may see now, we've improved readability of our program. Why show the hexadecimal if you can just show the color? That's because the editor needs a visual form to change the color. I think I'll be able to loosen that requirement later on.
...Well you could do this kind of things in lisp of course! But when was the last time your lisp looked like python?


In this example we will look at what makes our program behave unusually – you pick a line hit Del button and nothing happens? , When you double click at Mtext nothing happens?
For Civil 3d Users – When I right click on an object there is no Civil 3D functionality?
Controls whether you can select objects before you start a command.
So if you want to "Repair" your AutoCAD just type Pickfirst and hit 1. Now everything should work normally.
In AutoCAD 2017 tough if pickfirst is turned off (value 0) if you try to use a command like erase, AutoCAD will automatically ask you if you want to turn Pickfirst on which is great! It will save lots and lots of worries.


Sala, G., Greiner, J., & Primak, N. (2008). Looking for black-holes in X-ray binaries with XMM-Newton: XTE J1817-330 and XTE J1856+053. In S. Chakrabarti, & A. Majumdar (Eds.), Observational Evidence for Black Holes in the Universe (pp. 183-188). Melville, NY, USA: American Institute of Physics.


I've been rather busy getting various courses underway this last week, but today was a great treat - travelled over to Halifax with my friend Jane to view the SSI 90th Anniversary calligraphy exhibition.
The exhibition is in the Piece Hall which is a beautiful place to visit anyway, and although I'd seen the catalogue of work, full of excellent photos, they cannot capture the brilliance of the pieces when you see them for real.
Add to that seeing many good friends - what a great day!
I hope your exhibition will be held properly and you will get high volume of response from others.


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Christianity and the Witch-Hunt Mentality
By David Madison at 2/15/2019
It's alive, potent, and dangerous
It isn't hard at all to come up with a hundred verses in the gospels and epistles that would shock Christians. We would hear, "How can that be?" or "Well, I don't believe that!" or "That's not part of my religion." Robert Conner doesn't exaggerate: "The overwhelming majority of Christians know bupkis about what's in the New Testament." Even if, at one time or another, they've come across the alarming texts, they become masters of denial; their 'nice religion' remains invincible. Jesus too remains intact, despite many of the despicable things he (supposedly) believed and said.
Nor do most of the folks in the pews have much of a clue about the full scope of horrors committed through the centuries by Christian zealots who have gained positions of power. All in the name of protecting the faith. How many Christians have read substantive histories of the church? William Zingrone sums it up pretty well: "Most regular folks don't know shit about their own religion. If they did, they would quite likely be able to see it as if from the outside, as they do all other religions…" (The Arrogance of Religious Thought: Information Kills Religion, p. 59)
When Christopher Hitchens died, and many Christians found out for the first time that one of his books was titled, God Is Not Great, they lit up social media with hate and venom…more or less proving Hitchens' title. In 2014, John Loftus published an anthology whose title is a nod to Hitchens, Christianity Is Not Great: How Faith Fails. It includes 23 essays about the harms done by this major world religion. Four of the essays are by Loftus himself, including one called, "Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch to Live: The Wicked Christian Witch Hunts."
Even if Christians are vaguely aware of this Bible-based atrocity, they shrug it off. "Oh, that was long ago and far away. Not my fault." But, no, that won't do. There are lessons to be learned from the theologically based witch frenzy, lessons that apply to—are predictive of— Christian behavior today. Loftus' essay provides insight into what people are capable of when they think they're 'doing the Lord's work' to protect the faith.
Theology had caused such incalculable damage, and Christians would do well to be suspicious of any and all of it. Loftus quotes from Outbreak! The Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behavior by Evans and Bartholomew: "The witch culture against which the Christian Church took up arms was an artificial construct created by their theologians." (p. 109)
An artificial construct. Theology is good at this sort of thing, and most such constructs fade or crumble as human knowledge of the world has advanced. No matter how much popular piety still flirts with demons—and shame on the Vatican for being a primary cheer leader—Loftus points out the inconvenient truth:
"…no reasonable, scientifically minded person in today's world should believe that the devil (or Satan), who commands a host of demons and empowers witches who cause great harm using their black-magic spells and potions, actually exists." (p. 109)
Scientifically literate Christians—though we now fear they are in the minority—cannot assume that all such nonsense is in the past. Loftus lists about ten counties in Sub-Saharan Africa in which 'witch beatings and burning' are contemporary practice. And since these are "carried out by Bible-believing Christians, the earlier which hunts are not merely an historical anomaly. Witch hunts could arise on Christian soil whenever conducive conditions arise." (p. 110)
Loftus points out that blame for this Christian horror rests largely with one of the most famous theologians:
• "In the thirteenth century Thomas Aquinas provided the arguments that inspired the European witch hunts. Contrary to the Canon Episcopi, which instructed that heretics were merely to be ejected from the church, Aquinas argued heretic should be killed…Since heretical ideas could send people to an eternally conscious torment in hell, it was the greatest crime of all. So logic demanded that the church must get rid of them." (p. 113)
• "All it took for the witch hunts to begin was a sizeable number of powerful people who accepted Aquinas's ideas and had the political need to follow through on them." (p. 113)
Hold that thought: "The political need to follow through on them." It has implications for Christian wickedness that we see around us in our own time.
It cannot escape notice that this devastating chapter in Christian history is another major blow to theism itself—well, against the concept of a caring, powerful God. Loftus describes what happened:
"Between 45,000 and 60,000 people, 75 to 80 percent of them women, were killed as witches during the early-modern witch hunts that took place in Europe…While little could be universally said about all these witch hunts, the common denominator is the Christian belief in the devil and the black witchcraft arts." (p. 110) There are plenty of biblical texts that feed the superstition, including the much-quoted Exodus 22:18: "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."
Jesus himself chatted with demons—the gospel of Mark specializes in this kind of reporting—he could even transfer them into pigs. Matthew, in his expansion of the Temptation Story, provides the dialogue that took place between Jesus and Satan. It's no wonder that a demon-haunted world has been taken for granted down through the centuries. Loftus shows just how rotted the brain of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, had become:
"Giving up of witchcraft is in effect giving up the Bible. With my latest breath I will bear testimony against giving up to infidels one great proof of the invisible world; I mean that of witchcraft and apparitions, confirmed by the testimony of all ages." (p. 112)
What a strange thing for a Christian theologian to concede, that one great proof of the invisible world is witchcraft.
But how do theologians handle the scandal of God's inaction? He couldn't think of ways to intervene in the killing of 45,000 – 60,000 witches? Of course, this is but one example of colossal human suffering that God has allowed on his watch—he's got the whole world in his hands, right?—as the millennia rolled along.
Of course, they invent excuses; that is their specialty, as Loftus points out:
"Christian defense lawyers, called apologists, seek only to get their divine client acquitted no matter what the intellectual or moral cost. Rather than face the evidence that shows their God to be nothing more than the product of ancient people…these apologists use convoluted legalese to obfuscate and confuse the jury…
"Tens of thousands of people, mostly women, suffered intensely and were killed needlessly because this God didn't do anything to help them." (p. 118)
If you've got the stomach for it, read Loftus' major section of the essay on the use of torture in the interrogation of witches. Once the theology was in place that witches were evil creatures in league with the devil, then mercy was no longer a consideration. "It was believed that witches could withstand greater pain for extended periods of time due to the power of the devil…In come cases, the lack of a confession under extreme torture was even considered to be strong evidence that the accused was in fact a witch." (p. 124)
Christians today will usually grant that these 'un-Christian' excesses are to be deplored—well, maybe the zealous persecutors in Sub-Saharan Africa won't—but the basic problem hasn't gone away: theological certainty remains a clear and present danger. By no means are we free of the witch-hunt mentality; now that witches are passé, Christians settle on other targets, and the suffering is just as terrible.
The Natural Function of Women, According to Men…of course
It would be impossible to calculate the damage done by religion-based patriarchal assumptions about male superiority. What a surprise: Christianity has participated in this sin—along with most religions—precisely because men invented the Judeo-Christian faith and, overwhelmingly, still run it. Misogyny is embedded in the Bible in so many subtle and overt ways. No surprise that most accused witches were women, the corrupt descendants of Eve. Witch-hunting was theologically based terrorism, and the prevailing misogyny today still is.
In a 2013 article titled, "Twenty Vile Quotes Against Women By Church Leaders from St. Augustine to Pat Robertson," Valerie Tarico describes the complicity that should shame defenders of the faith:
"Why has the main current of Christianity produced a steady diet of misogyny for over 2000 years? The answer may lay partly in human biology and culture. But it also lies in the Iron Age texts of the Bible itself. The Judeo-Christian tradition of building up men by tearing down women goes all the way back to the most ancient parts of the biblical collection, to the opening pages of Genesis, and continues unabated through the New Testament."
Now, back to that earlier thought: "The political need to follow through on them." Namely, Aquinas' ideas about killing those who cooperate with demons. There was a political need to go after them, namely to protect the power of the church, and secondarily, I suppose, of the faith as well. According to the patriarchy, women have an established, sacred and limited role, primarily the bearing of children. With a nine-month gestation period, and years of child dependency following that, women had their place. Period.
Nor did men want competition in their spheres, and any intuitive man can sense women are just that. Hence theological terrorism was brought into play: the place for women had been determined by God. Anything that could exempt women from their sole destiny as child-bearers had to be resisted based on theology as much as possible.
The modern hysteria about abortion must be seen in this context: come up with anything to force women to carry a fetus full-term. In a recent article in Harper's Bazaar, Jennifer Wright offers a stinging condemnation of Catholic hypocrisy about abortion, and includes this observation: "It was only in 1869 that the fetus was considered ensouled since the moment of conception, and excommunication was considered a punishment for all abortions. In other words, the idea that personhood begins at conception doesn't date back to the time of Christ. It barely predates light bulbs."
It really doesn't matter when Catholics started to believe that 'ensoulment' happens at conception. Such talk is irrelevant theobabble, fake news. How would they possibly know that? Soul itself is a bogus idea. Where are the reliable, verifiable data to back up such claims? William A. Zingrone points out the trap that theologians have set for themselves:
"Most religious anti-abortionists imbue the zygote with a soul and/or personhood from the moment of conception, and then attempt to shame us into decrying abortion for killing an unborn human; for being baby-killers. The lack of reality and ultimate irony in this sleazy sensational and emotional claim of the pro-life movement, is that their god (if he existed), whichever one they believe in, kills 50-70% of developing blastocysts and embryos in the first few weeks of development, making their god the biggest abortionist of them all by their own definition." (p. 76, The Arrogance of Religious Thought)
God is the biggest abortionist? What could be the rejoinder to this? Maybe challenge the 50-70% figure? Or that it's God's prerogative to kill whichever embryos he chooses, for whatever reason he wants? This amounts to the most intrusive theism imaginable. If God does indeed tinker at this level in human bodies, how does he remain guiltless as we survey the countless genetic diseases?
Back to the politics. What is the motivation for theologically based terror? In an article on the Debunking Christianity Blog last year, Teresa Roberts called it correctly:
"The big divide has narrowed between the religious right and the rest of us. This has created a huge problem for those who are in need of a moral high ground in order to insist that the rest of us are either going to hell or are politically depraved. Abortion is one of only a handful of things left. The religious right has little else. They are divorcing and remarrying, having sex before marriage, choosing spouses from other races, living together before marriage and if they get pregnant, they reserve the right to live in plain sight and keep their babies.
"Why is the religious right currently so politically obsessed with abortion? Abortion has evolved into a single driving issue of such monumental proportions in part because society has become far more secularized than we realize. The shift away from a moral code dictated by churches and enforced by government has caused a great deal of discomfort for individuals and institutions that once wielded so much power over our lives.
"They feel the shifting tide as they continue to lose their tight grip on the reins of society. It has turned them into crusaders, not just for the protection of the unborn but for a return to the glory days when the church had the final and last say over what would be tolerated and what would not."
The Other Favorite Target of Evangelical and Catholic Crusaders
What could be worse than a witch? Religious zealots, driven by ferocious theology, are sure that LGBTQ people are an offense to God—enough for him to unleash hurricanes and plagues to get even. The 'clobber texts' in the Bible provide sufficient fuel for their anger, with no hint that they've tried to probe the reasons for widespread cultural revulsions against gay people; no hint that they've shown any curiosity about studies of human sexuality during the last half-century. We've heard too many of the zealots calling for 'death to gay people'—acted upon by street gangs—to imagine that the Christian witch-hunt mentality has faded away.
Some Christians manage to manipulate faith into innocuous new shapes; they have toned down their religion derived from earlier savage eras. There are the mild-mannered pious, but by their silence they enable the contemporary witch-hunters in modern disguise. It is all so tiresome.
At the close of his essay, John Loftus notes
"…the willingness of Christians to revise their beliefs due to the changing times and harsh realities of life, just as they have always done, and just as they will continue to do. They'll never give up on faith. They'll never give up on God. They'll just change what they believe. I for one am utterly and completely unimpressed." (p. 132)
David Madison was a pastor in the Methodist Church for nine years, and has a PhD in Biblical Studies from Boston University. His book, Ten Tough Problems in Christian Thought and Belief: a Minister-Turned-Atheist Shows Why You Should Ditch the Faith, was reissued last year by Tellectual Press with a new Foreword by John Loftus.
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A 78-year-old Bronx woman was found dead yesterday morning in the bedroom of her Co-op City apartment, and the police say she might have been beaten to death by a robber who surprised her when she arrived home.
The body of Ann R. Beckman was found at about 11 A.M. by her niece, a police spokesman said. Mrs. Beckman, lived alone in the apartment on the 26th floor of 120 Donizetti Place, according to the spokesman, Officer Fred Elwick.
He said Mrs. Beckman had bruises on her face, apparently from a beating. The apartment had been ransacked and the police were investigating the possibility that a robber had surprised her, and then pushed her through the front door after she unlocked it.


Modern corn hybrids produce more plant material and take up, on average, the same amount of nitrogen as earlier varieties, in spite of being more crowded and having less nitrogen available per plant, reports Natalie van Hoose on Ag.Purdue.edu/AgAnswers.
In an analysis of 86 field experiments, agronomists found that corn hybrids released after 1990 prove more resilient than their predecessors in multiple ways.
Modern hybrids maintain per-plant yield in environments with low nitrogen, can bounce back from mid-season stress and have an improved ability to take up nitrogen after silking, even if they suffered from nitrogen deficiency during flowering.
The study suggests reserving a portion of nitrogen fertilizer to apply later in the season could be a good bet for growers, said Tony Vyn, professor of agronomy.
Nitrogen is an essential building block of plant proteins and plays a vital role in boosting grain yields. It's also notoriously mobile, said Sarah Mueller, doctoral student in agronomy and first author of the study.
Sarah Mueller"Once that nitrogen is in the soil, you start losing it," she said.
Growers want to keep the costly fertilizer in their fields and crops and prevent the loss of excess nitrogen to the atmosphere and water systems where it can cause environmental damage. But synchronizing nitrogen applications with plants' nitrogen uptake remains a challenge.
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the ...
von William Scott (teacher, Edinburgh.)
ways and ineans of obliging, which will ever escape the unconcerned, the indifferent, and the unfeeling.
The most proper objects of your bounty are the necessi. tous. : Give the same sum of money, wbich you bestow on a person in tolerable circumstances, to one in extreme poverty; and observe what a wide disproportion of happiness is produced. In the latter case, it is like giving a cordial to a fainting person ; in the former, it is like giving wine to him who has already quenched his thirst--" Mercy is seasonable in time of afiction, like clouds of rain in time of drought."
And among the variety of necessitous objects, none have a better title to our compassion, than those, who, after have ing tasted the sweets of plenty, are, by some undeserved calamity, obliged, without some charitable relief, to drag out the remainder of life in misery and woe: who little thought they should ask their daily bread of any but of God; who, after a life led in affluence, " cannot dig, and are ashamed to beg."
And they are to be relieved in such an endearing manner, with such a beauty of holiness, that, at the same time that their wants are supplied, their confusion of face may be prevented.
There is not an instance of this kind in history so'affecting, as that beautiful one of Boaz to Ruth. He knew her family, and how she was reduced to the lowest ebb: when, therefore, she begged leave to glean in his fields, he ordered his reapers to let fall several haudfulls, with a seeming carelessness, but really with a set design, that she might gather them up without being ashamed. Thus did he form an artful scheme, that he might give, without the vanity and ostentation of giving; and she receive, without the shame and confusion of making acknowledgments. Take the history in the words of scripture, as it is recorded in the book of Ruth. " And when she was visen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young inen, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and rebuke her not; and let fall also some of the handfulls on purpose, and leave them that she may glean them, and reproach her not.' This was not only doing a good action; it was doing it likewise with a good grace:
It is not enough we do no harm, that we be negatively good; we must do good, positive good, if we would "enter into life." When it would have been as good for the world, if such a man had never lived; it would perhaps have been better for him, "if he had never been born." A scauty fortune may limit your beneficence, and confine it chiefly to the circle of your doinestics, relations and neighbours; but let your benevolence extend as far as thought can travel, to'the utmost bounds of the world : just as it may be only in your power to beautify the spot of ground that lies near and close to you; but you could wish, that, as far as your eye can reach, the whole prospect before you were cheerful, every thing disagreeable were removed, and every
thing beautiful made more so.
IV.-On Happiness. THE great pursuit of man is after happiness: it is the first and strongest desire of his nature ;-in every stage of his life he searches for it as for hid treasure ;-courts it under a thousaud different shapes ;-and, though perpetually disappointed-still persists-runs after and inquires for it afresh-asks every passenger who comes in his way, "Who will show him any good ?"-Who will assist him in the attainment of it, or direct him to the discovery of this great end of all his wishes ?
He is told by one, to search for it among the more gay and youthful pleasures of life ; in scenes of mirth and sprightliness, where happiness ever presides and is ever to be known by the joy and laughter which he will see at once painted in her looks.
A second, with a graver aspect, points out to hin the costly dwellings which pride and extravagance have erected ;-tells the inquirer that the object he is in search of inhabits there ;-that happiness lives only in company with the great, in the midst of much pomp and outward state. That he will easily find her out by the coat of many colours she has on, and the great luxury and expense of equipage and furniture with which she always sits surrounded.
The miser wonders how any one would mislead and wilfully put him upon so wrong a scent-convinces him that happiness and extravagance never inhabited under the same roof; that, if he would not be disappointed in his search, he must look into the plain and thrifty dwelling of the predent man, who knows and understands the worth of money, and cautiously lays it up against an evil hour: that it is not the prostitution of wealth upon the passions, or the parting with it at all, that constitutes happinessbut, that it is the keeping it together, and the having and holding it fast to him and his heirs for ever, which are the chief attributes that form this great idol of human worship, to which so much incense is offered up every day.
The epicure, though he easily rectifies so gross a mistake, yet, at the same time, he plouges him, if possible, into a greater: for hearing the object of his pursuit to be happiness, and knowing of no other happiness than what is seated immediately in his senses-he sends the inquirer there;-tells him it is in vain to search elsewhere for it, than where nature herself has placed it in the indulgence and gratification of the uppetites, which are given us for that end: and in a word if he will not take his opinion in the matter--he may trust the word of a much wiser man, who has assured us—that there is nothing better in this world, than that a man should eat and drink, and rejoice in his works, and make his soul enjoy good in his labour-for that is his portion.
To rescue him from this brutal experiment-ambition takes him by the hand and carries him into the worldshows him all the kingdoms of the earth and the glory of them-points out the many ways of advancing his fortune and raising himself to honour,-lays before his eyes all the charms and bewitching temptations of power, and asks if there be any happiness in this world like that of being caressed, coerted, flattered, and followed ?
To close all, the philosopher meets him bustling in the full career of his pursuit-stops him-tells him, if he is in search of happiness, he is gone far out of his way :- That this deity has long been banished from noise and tumults, where there was no rest found for her, and was fled into solitude far from all commerce of the world ; and, in a word, if he would find her, he must leave this busy and intriguing* scene, and go back to that peaceful scene of retirement and books from which he first set out.
In this circle too often does a man run, tries all experiments, and generally sits down wearied and dissatisfied with them all at last-min utter despair of ever accomplishing what he wants-not knowing what to trust to, after so many disappointments--or where to lay the fault, whether in the incapacity of his own nature, or the insufficiency of the enjoyments themselves,
In this uncertain and perplexed state-without knowing which way to turn or where to betake ourselves for refuge 80 often abused and deceived by the many who pretend
thus to show us any good-Lord ! says the psalmist, lift up the light of thy countenance upon us.-Send us some rays of thy grace and heavenly wisdom, in this benighted search after happiness, to direct us safely to it. O God ! let us not wander forever without a guide, in this dark region, in endless pursuit of our mistaken good'; but enlighten our eyes that we sleep not in death-open to them the comforts of thy holy word and religion-lift up the light of thy countenance upon us, and make us know the joy and satisfaction of living in the true faith and fear of Thee, which only can carry us to this haven of rest where we would be-ihat sure haven, where true joys are to be found, which will at length not only answer all our expectations but satisfy the most unbounded of our wishes for ever and ever.
There is hardly any subject more exhausted, or which at one tinie or other has afforried more matter for argument and declamation than this one of the insufficiency of our enjoyments. Scarce a reformed seusualist, from Solomon down to our days, who has not, in some fits of repentance or disappointment, uttered some sharp reflection upon the emptiness of human pleasure, and of the vanity of vanities which discovers itself in all the pursuits of mortal man.-But the mischief has been, that, though so many good things have been said, they have generally had the fate to be considered either as the overflowings of disgust from sated appetites which could no longer relish the pleasures of life, or as the declamatory opinions of recluse and spleneric men, who had never tasted them at all, and, consequently, were thought no judges of the matter. So that it is no great wonder, if the greatest part of such reflections, however just in themselves, and founded on truth and a knowledge of the world, are found to have little impression where the imagination was already heated with great expectations of future happiness ; and that ihe best lectures that have been read upon the vanity of the world, so seldom stop a man in the pursuit of the object of his desire, or give him half the conviction, that the possession of it will, and what the experience of his own life, or a careful observation upon the life of others, does at length generally confirm to us all.
I would not be understood as if I were denying the reality of pleasures, or disputing the being of them, any more than any one would the reality of pain--yet I must observe, that there is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For though there can be no happiness without pleasure-yet the reverse of the proposition will not hold true.-We are so made, that, from the common gatifications of our appetites, and the impressions of a thousand objects, we snatch the one like a transient glean, without being suffered to taste the other, and enjoy the perpetual sunshine and fair weather which constantly attend it. This, I contend, is only to be found in religion-in the consciousness of virtue--and the sure and certain hopes of a better life, which brightens all our prospects, and leaves no room to dread disappointments because the expectation of it is built upon a rock whose foundations are as deep as those of heaven or hell.
Aud though, in our pilgrimage through this world some of us may be so fortunate as to meet with some clear fountains by the way, that may cool, for a few moments, the heat of this great thirst of happiness--yet our Saviour, who knew the world, though he enjoyed but little of it, tells us, that whosoever drinketh of this water will thirst again :and we all find by experience it is so, and by reason that it always must be so.
I couclude with a short observation upon Solomon's evidence in this case.
Never did the busy brain of a lean and hectic chymist search for the philosopher's stone with more pains and ardor than this great man did after happiness. He was one of the wisest inquirers into nature had tried all her powers and capacities; and after a thousand vain speculations and idle experiments, he affirmed at length, it lay hid in no one thing he had tried : like the chymist's projections, all had ended in smoke, or what was worse, in vanity and vexation of spirit. The conclusion of the whole matter was this that he advises every man who would be happy, to fear Cod and keep his commandments.
V.-On the Death of Christ. THE redemption of man is one of the most glorious works of the Almighty. If the hour of the creation of the world was great and illustrious, that hour, when, from the dark and formless mass, this fair system of nature arose at the Divine conimand ; when " the morning stars sang, together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy;"- no less illustrious is the hour of the restoration of the world, the hour, when, from condemnation and misery, it emerged into happiuess and peace. With less external majesty it


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Home > Explore/UWP Information > News > Alumni Spotlight: Jeffrey Wamboldt
Alumni Spotlight: Jeffrey Wamboldt
By: Tessa Weber, Career Ambassador, Alumni Relations Associate
Jeffrey Wamboldt '17
As high school graduates head off to college, it's worth highlighting that not all college students fit the 18-year-old mold. UW-Parkside continues to see strong enrollment of "nontraditional" students who start or return to college later in life, balancing their studies with work, family, and other commitments.
Jeff Wamboldt '17 was a "typical nontraditional" student when he returned to UW-Parkside for a degree in Criminal Justice. Jeff was no stranger to the subject, with a 27-year career in the Kenosha Police Department. Jeff has taken on a variety of roles in the PD that has contributed to his success at Parkside. He has served as a third shift patrol officer for 11 years before transitioning to a School Resource officer for five years at Indian Trail High School. Jeff currently serves as a Crime Prevention Officer. Jeff has been recognized for his success in these roles through the following awards: Winner of the Crime prevention Program of the Year Award in 2010, the Kenosha Landlord Recognition Award in 2014, and the Kenosha Shrine Club Community Safety Person of the Year in 2019.
Returning to the classroom, Jeff was able to contribute professional perspectives to criminal justice concepts. He was a guest speaker for several of his UW-Parkside courses regarding law enforcement related topics.
Jeff graduated in December 2017 and has seen the influence of his UW-Parkside experience: "UW-Parkside has helped in the development of the skills I use every day, not only in my career, but in my daily life. From critical thinking to seminar development to teaching in the classroom, the education I received at UW-Parkside was of great value and influence."
Giving back to his community, Jeff ran for the seat of the Kenosha County Supervisor for the 17th District. He was re-elected in 2018.
Jeff and his wife, Debbie Barnett Wamboldt '87, understand the importance of a healthy work-life balance. While the two keep themselves busy with their careers, they also find value in spending time together. They invented a family travel game called Random Roadtrip to help people escape their daily routines and get them to experience all that life has to offer out in the world.
It is because of alumni like Jeff and Debbie that we are bursting with pride and will continue to applaud our UW-Parkside alum!
Jeffrey Wamboldt
Jeff giving a presentation
Jeff at graduation


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Unpacking Equity Series
Unpacking Equity: Ending Drinking Water Advisories in First Nations Communities
Sanya Ramnauth
Everyone in Canada should have access to clean and safe drinking water. Sadly, many of Canada's First Nations have been denied this fundamental human right. Inadequate funding over several decades has led to contaminated and undrinkable source water in over 297 First Nations across Canada. Unlike municipalities in Canada, where drinking water is protected by provincial legislation and enforceable drinking water standards, there is no binding federal standard that holds anyone accountable for the provision of clean and safe drinking water in First Nations. This leaves First Nations drinking water in a regulatory void, with unsafe drinking water that that the federal government is grappling to address.
Continue reading at the Public Policy and Governance Review.
Unpacking Equity is a collaboration between the Public Policy and Governance Review and the Equity, Diversity and Public Policy Initiative at the School of Public Policy and Governance. This series aims to explain equity-related policy issues and break down complicated topics involving equity, diversity and inclusion. Policy professionals can gain a better understanding of these complex issues in order to incorporate an equity lens into their practice.


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Q: Deadlock in __cxa_guard_acquire First the code:
#pragma once
#include <type_traits>

// assign unique identifiers to types
template<typename ...>
class Family
{
static std::size_t identifier() noexcept
{
  static std::size_t value = 0;
  return value++;
}

template<typename ...>
static std::size_t family() noexcept
{
  static const std::size_t value = identifier();
  return value;
}
public:
using family_type = std::size_t;
template<typename ... Type>
static family_type type() noexcept
{
  return family<std::decay_t<Type>...>();
}
};

// usage
using introspection_family = Family<struct IntrospectionRegistry>;

template<typename Structure>
void addIntrospectData(DataType introspection[MAX_TYPES], DataType const& dataType)
{
  /* reserve index for this type in the introspection register */
  const auto num = introspection_family::type<Structure>();
  assert(num < MAX_TYPES);
  introspection[num - 1] = dataType;
}

This code give an integer to each type and I use it in some kind of C++ introspection implementation.
The application isn't multi threaded.
When I compiled it in -O0, sometimes, the call to introspection_family::type<Structure>() blocks at __cxa_guard_acquire@plt and I get a deadlock.
When compiled with -O3, I don't have any problem, but that might just be because it becomes very difficult to reproduce.
__cxa_guard_acquire is used to ensure that the static variable is constructed before we access it but here it should be irrelevant as I'm not even in a threaded application.
Does anyone have any idea why this is happening ?
I use:
CXXFLAGS=-std=c++14 -O0 -g3 -pthread -Wall -Wextra -Werror
LDFLAGS= -g -pthread -lGLEW -lGLU -lGL -lSDL2_mixer -lSDL2

And I use gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.10) 5.4.0 20160609

A: Adding the compile option -fno-threadsafe-statics helped. Since your application is single thread, this is OK.
I had a similar issue. However, the reason in my code was recursion. __cxa_guard_acquire will block when called recursively. A proper fix was needed. I did not check your code if this could also be your problem.
Additional info: The lock used might have a different name than __cxa_guard_acquire. It might also work with recursion, but this is compiler/libc++ specific and you should not rely on that.


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Kansas Jayhawk News and Notes
Kansas Jayhawks News and Notes 3.24.15
Two days before the day after tomorrow... wait... omigod... that's... TODAY!!
By Mike.Plank Mar 24, 2015, 7:16am CDT
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The Day After: Waived by the Wheat Shockers | Tale of the Tait | KUsports.com
Wichita State's veterans outplayed the Jayhawks in just about every way and even the KU players said after the game in the locker room that they thought the Shockers wanted it more. That's a tough pill for any team to swallow and was the most obvious reason why the Jayhawks' season ended in the Round of 32 for the second year in a row.
Tough slate awaits Kansas basketball again next year | KUsports.com
Amazingly, if that game (Kentucky) materializes and the Maui tourney pairings fall the right way, KU could face Kentucky, Michigan State, Indiana and UCLA in the same season.
Glass for Kansas Jayhawks going forward is more than half full -- but who's going to fill it? | FOX Sports
"It's the biggest game of the year and the biggest game of most of our careers, and we didn't take it seriously," Selden said, eyes still glazed. "(Including) myself. As a leader, you know, I take a lot of that." Thumbs outnumbered fingers as pointing went in the KU camp early Sunday night at CenturyLink Center, a good sign. Coach Bill Self fell on a few dozen swords, when offered. Selden, his sophomore off-guard, did the same.
College basketball world reacts to KU's Round of 32 exit | All Eyes on KU | KUsports.com
When the season ends for Kansas, it doesn't just move the needle in the Sunflower State, the college basketball nation takes notice. Below is some of the Twitter chatter, photos, stories — and trash talk — that showed up after the Shockers bounced Kansas from the NCAA Tournament.
Kansas Football Opens Spring Practice Tuesday
Kansas head football coach David Beaty and the Jayhawks will begin spring practice on Tuesday, March 24, as KU will go through the first of its 15 allotted practices. The 2015 spring schedule will conclude with the annual Spring Game on Saturday, April 25. Kickoff is slated for 1 p.m., in Memorial Stadium.
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"There's gonna be a high premium on focusing on ourselves," Beaty said. "The way we're gonna get better faster is by being the most disciplined team in the country and being a smart football team. You're gonna see a ton of ball-security drills. And there'll be a ton of time put into the hidden third of the game, which is special teams. We feel like if we do those things well, we give ourselves an advantage and a chance to get better faster."
The Past, Present, and Future of Kansas Jayhawks Quarterbacks
It is certainly difficult to develop a quarterback. There are many things that go into finding a true leader and contributor at the quarterback position. So, while recruiting as most definitely been a struggle at that position, the most diehard KU fan will always continue to draw hope from the future.
Softball - No. 22 Kansas Hosts Drake for a Midweek Match Up
Kansas softball continues its 12-game homestand with a midweek match up when the Jayhawks host Drake on Tuesday, March 24 at 6 p.m., at Arrocha Ballpark at Rock Chalk Park. The contest is the first of four appearances for KU softball on the Jayhawk Television Network/ESPN3.
Baseball - Jayhawks Trek to Missouri State for Mid-week Contest
After dropping its final non-conference weekend series to Iowa, the Kansas baseball team looks to get back to its winning ways with one final mid-week tune-up game at Missouri State, Tuesday, March 24, before opening up Big 12 Conference play this weekend.
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NFL suspends its TV blackout rule for 2015 season - CBSSports.com
The league has suspended the policy for one year. The NFL "will evaluate the impact of the suspension after the season."
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The Bengals owner told the team's official website that his lone "no" vote had nothing to do with the blackout policy and everything to do with a clause that was connected to the vote.
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WATCH: Crying Villanova piccolo player plays on 'The Tonight Show' - CBSSports.com
Villanova pep band member Roxanne Chalifoux -- otherwise known as Crying Piccolo Girl -- has had her life flipped, turned upside down in the past 48 hours.
WATCH: ICYMI, here's Florida stealing home on 'trick play' vs. FSU - CBSSports.com
During the course of last Tuesday's game between no. 4 Florida and no. 10 Florida State (a 14-8 win for the Gators), Florida shortstop Richie Martin stole home. What's even more notable is the lengths to which Florida went in order to abet said theft of home.
Three Bros Explored The Abandoned Astrodome
On Reddit, user "loserfame" shares a handful of photos from early 2012, when he and two friends snuck through a gap in the fence and found themselves inside the Astrodome, which hadn't been used since 2003.


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The Impact of Neighborhood-Based Processes on Demography and a Decline in Species Diversity in a Temperate Deciduous Forest
Graduate Dissertations and Theses at Illinois
Lin, Yi-Ching
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Title: The Impact of Neighborhood-Based Processes on Demography and a Decline in Species Diversity in a Temperate Deciduous Forest
Author(s): Lin, Yi-Ching
Doctoral Committee Chair(s): Augspurger, Carol K.
Department / Program: Plant Biology
Discipline: Plant Biology
Degree Granting Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree: Ph.D.
Genre: Dissertation
Subject(s): Agriculture, Forestry and Wildlife
Abstract: Understanding the maintenance of species diversity is a central question in community ecology. Ecological processes explaining the maintenance of species diversity, including density-dependence, interspecific competition, and disturbance, should be able to elucidate not only the causes of the maintenance of species diversity, but also its decline. This study investigated how these three processes contributed to a decline in species diversity, associated with the rise of one dominant species, Acer saccharum (Sugar maple), in a deciduous forest in central Illinois, U.S.A. during 1939--2001. First, the impact of density-dependence, interspecific competition, and disturbance on mortality and recruitment of tree species was evaluated. Second, neighbor-specific transition matrices and integrated megamatrices were used to evaluate the relative importance of different neighbor interactions for the great population expansion of A. saccharum. Finally, the causes of spatial patterns of disturbance in three species forest fragments in central Illinois were evaluated at both forest- and individual-tree levels. All trees with diameter at breast height (DBH) ≥ 7.6 cm in eight discrete quadrats (48 x 68 m) and one large quadrat (216 x 260 m) were mapped in Brownfield Woods in 1939, 1951, 1988, and 2001. The results indicated that the decline in species diversity in Brownfield Woods was caused by the demographic advantage of A. saccharum, while rare species were reduced by interspecific competition with A. saccharum. Disturbances, including Dutch elm disease, did not help to maintain the rare species, but facilitated recruitment of A. saccharum. The population of A. saccharum grew at an accelerated rate during the 62 years, despite the operation of density dependence of its mortality and recruitment. The neighborhood analyses indicated that the demography of A. saccharum depends on specific neighborhoods. Its density-dependent mortality was compensated by disturbance-facilitated recruitment. Finally, spatial patterns of disturbance did not reflect the environmental variation at the forest level, including forest edge, aspect, and soil drainage, but rather corresponded to the distributions of preexisting gaps. Disturbances were more likely to occur adjacent to canopy gaps. This study indicates the importance of multiple-scaled and process-based approaches in studying the maintenance/failure of species diversity.
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Elite private universities got much wealthier while most schools fell behind. My research found out why.
In recent weeks, elite universities announced some of their largest-ever endowment investment returns. In the Ivy League, MIT led with a 56 percent annual return, growing its endowment from $18 billion to $27 billion. Brown University's returns also topped 50 percent, and Dartmouth, Cornell, University of Pennsylvania and Yale University were all above 40 percent.
What is the fate of Hong Kong's universities under Xi?
These are dark days for universities, and more generally civil liberties, in Hong Kong. In the early 1980s, China's president Deng Xiaoping outlined the principle of 'One Country, Two Systems' for the reunification of Hong Kong with China as part of negotiations with the United Kingdom.
There would be 'One China', with distinct Chinese regions such as Hong Kong and Macau, which would retain their own economic and administrative systems. Mainland China would continue to pursue "socialism with Chinese characteristics".
Order silencing Florida faculty reflects rising neo-nationalism, scholar says
It is the sort of activity that U.S. university professors engage in every day: testifying in court about a law or policy that falls within their area of expertise. But when three faculty members at the University of Florida planned critical testimony about a controversial, Republican-backed bill to restrict voting, university leaders barred them from speaking.
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Universities in an Era of Neo-Nationalism
To varying degrees, universities are feeling the brunt of the rise in neo-nationalist movements and governments, usually led by powerful political demagogues.
US-China research collaboration: A call to action
Since the late 1970s, when China started re-opening to the West, Chinese universities have made important contributions to the country's economic development through global engagement: they have increased research productivity, risen in the world rankings and served as the headwaters for downstream commercial development.
In order to achieve these goals, the Chinese state has given universities substantial autonomy when it comes to global engagement and transnational research collaboration.
Covid 'provides cover' for autocrats' higher education power grab
From party faithful imposed as leaders to scholars sent into 'civilian death', institutions face a range of grave threats, argues editor of new collection. Registration required.
Torture, prison, dismissal used to silence academia
Mustafa Özben, an academic, was walking towards his car in Ankara, the Turkish capital, in broad daylight when he was seized and forced into a black transporter van.
"They pulled me out of the van and stripped my clothes off," the academic told judges of the Turkey Tribunal, a civil society-led symbolic international tribunal established to adjudicate recent human rights violations in Turkey, on Monday.
Özben was locked up in a small cell with just enough light for the camera inside the room to operate.
When are universities leaders or followers?
In assessing the current and future role of universities in the nation-states in which they are chartered and largely funded, it is useful to ask: When are universities societal leaders, and when are they followers – reinforcing the existing political order?
The Autocrats Playbook For Subduing Universities — What Can Be Done About It?
Neo-nationalism is on the rise–a term that describes the emergence, and in some cases revival, of extreme right-wing movements in key areas of the world, often characterized by anti-immigrant and xenophobic rhetoric; economic protectionism; constraints on civil liberties; attacks on critics, including journalists and academics; denial of science related to climate change, the environment, and even vaccines; and the emergence and empowerment of demagogues and autocrats.
How to stop neo-nationalist leaders subduing universities
In many parts of the world, neo-nationalism is on the rise – a term that describes the emergence, and in some cases revival, of extreme right-wing movements in key areas of the world, often characterised by anti-immigrant and xenophobic rhetoric; economic protectionism; constraints on civil liberties; attacks on critics, including journalists and academics; denial of science related to climate change and the environment; and the emergence and empowerment of demagogues and autocrats.
Under attack: universities and neo-nationalist movements
Over the past two decades, a wave of nationalism has gripped much of the world. Donald J Trump's surprising 2016 election as president and calls for 'America First' policies; Brexit with its elongated uncertainties; nationalist movements in France, Italy, Germany, Brazil and India; and the rise of illiberal democracies in Hungary, Poland and Turkey.
Biden Has Big Plans for International Education – Revisiting Some Recommendations
After decades of neglect, the Biden administration appears to be on the verge of developing a coherent federal strategy for promoting the international engagement of American higher education with the larger world.
Thus far, and unlike many of our economic competitors, international engagement has largely been self-funded and pursued by individuals and by universities and colleges, with the exception of what is in reality a small-scale Fulbright program, and vacillating visa policies.
Berkeley study: major university rankings may be biased
Global university rankings may be distorted by the business activities of the ranker, including selling consulting, analytics and other services to universities, according to a new study from the University of California (UC), Berkeley's Center for Studies in Higher Education
Study finds link between uni rankings and QS contracts
Research from UC Berkeley's Center for Studies in Higher Education has claimed that Russian universities that have contracts with rankings creator QS do significantly better in rising up the QS World Rankings than universities that do not work with the group.
Buying Progress in Rankings?
International rankings of universities raise numerous questions. How can you fairly compare universities that operate in different countries, with different sources of funds and different missions? Despite the obstacles, several players do such comparisons: Times Higher Education, U.S. News & World Report and QS are three. And despite the concerns of many educators about rankings, they are very popular with international students (and many host countries).
In the Beginning – Recalling the Legislation that Established the University of California
Today, March 23, marks the 153th anniversary of the 1868 legislation that established the University of California, also known as Charter Day. The following provides a reflection on the intent of that legislation and its initial organizational principles that remain relevant today for one of the largest and most prestigious multi-campus public universities in the world.
Becoming a State
Nature Human Behavior
Skill levels and gains in university STEM education in China, India, Russia and the United States
University research and the vaccine race – who benefits?
A little over 40 years ago, in the waning days of his presidency, Jimmy Carter signed the 1980 Bayh-Dole Act launching a transformation in the pursuit and purpose of science in the United States. Before 1980, federally funded science was largely focused on meeting the Cold War defence needs of a nation in a science and technology race with the Soviet Union.
The 1980 act, named after the two sponsoring senators, Birch Bayh of Indiana and Bob Dole of Kansas, initiated in earnest the recognition that the advancement of science was also vital for global economic competitiveness.
University Research and the COVID Vaccine Race – Who Owns What IP?
A bit over forty years ago, in the waning days of his presidency, Jimmy Carter signed the 1980 Bayh-Dole Act launching a transformation in the pursuit and purpose of science in the United States. Before 1980, federally funded science was largely focused on meeting the Cold War defense needs of a nation in a science and technology race with the Soviet Union.
UC Berkeley study reveals obstacles for graduate students amid COVID-19 pandemic
A survey published by UC Berkeley's Student Experience in the Research University, or SERU, Consortium took a closer look at how the COVID-19 pandemic may hinder graduate and professional students from completing their degrees on time.


For the past 18 years, DesignIntellegence has conducted and published the results of the America's Best Architecture & Design Schools Survey, which asks hiring professionals, academics, and students to provide their perspective on the strengths of programs throughout the United States.
We encourage you to participate in the 2018-2019 survey, which is open until June 15th, 2018. If you are a person in your firm who hires architects or landscape architects, or are a student or recent graduate, you are invited and encouraged to share your experiences and perspectives.
The results will be published to a new website as the 2018 America's Top Ranked Architecture & Design Schools. As a member of the CAPLA community, we value your support and participation in this year's DesignIntellegence survey.
CAPLA Alumni and all other professionals who have a hiring role in the United States are encouraged to participate. The survey will require approximately 15-20 minutes of your time, and can be completed in more than one sitting.
Students will be asked how programs prepare them for practice and what their intentions are for applying their training after they graduate. This survey should take approximately 20 minutes to complete, and needs to be done in one session.
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Democrats Raise Questions About Where GOP Candidate For Governor Lives
By Lauren Dake
Published July 27, 2018 at 9:13 AM PDT
Emily Cureton
Republican candidate for Oregon Governor Knute Buehler speaks about his plans for health care at press conference in Bend on Wednesday, July 18, 2018.
A day after a poll showed the governor's race possibly tightening, the Democratic Party of Oregon asked the secretary of state to investigate whether GOP gubernatorial candidate Knute Buehler is violating the state Constitution by basing himself out of Tualatin, Oregon, while campaigning.
Buehler, who is currently a state lawmaker representing Central Oregon in the statehouse, mentioned in an interview that he has moved from his district in Bend to Tualatin.
Mark Mason on 1190 KEX in Portland opens an interview with Buehler by saying, "Knute Buehler of Tualatin now."
Buehler responds, "Of Tualatin now, yeah, just down the street."
"No longer Bend?" Mason asked.
"Yeah, and soon to be a resident of Salem," Buehler replies.
Jeanne Atkins, the chair of the Democratic Party of Oregon, said Buehler's admission that he lives in Tualatin is a violation of the state Constitution, which requires a state lawmaker to inhabit the district they have been appointed to represent.
Buehler put his "political ambitions above the people who he was elected to serve," the Democratic party chair said in a statement.
"Once he won re-election to his House seat in 2016, he turned his back on his constituents. He hasn't had a town hall since April of 2017 and has done little to serve his constituents since he decided to run for governor," Atkins said.
Buehler's campaign called the complaint a desperate attack. A statement from his campaign said Buehler has a temporary apartment to stay in while he campaigns in the Portland and Willamette Valley area. But the couple still own their home in Bend, where his wife spends the bulk of her time, where they are registered to vote, pay their property taxes and where their cars are registered, the statement from his campaign reads.
"This is a nonsense, desperate attack from a campaign that cannot defend Kate Brown's record of failed leadership – from schools to foster care," Buehler said.
Although there are no residency requirements for governor, Buehler's campaign points out that Brown also maintains two homes. When she became governor, Brown made it clear she was leaving her home in Portland to move into the governor's mansion, known as Mahonia Hall.
Brown's office said in the past two years, since July of 2016, the governor has spent 325 nights in Salem and 211 in Portland. In 2016, Democrats filed a similar eligibility complaint against Republican Rich Vial, saying he lived out of his district and was ineligible to run for the contested seat.
The Elections Division, according to The Oregonian/OregonLive, declared the complaint "moot."
Atkins said if the Elections Division were to find the Buehler complaint valid, another Republican would be appointed to fill out the remainder of Buehler's term until January.
The Secretary of State's Office said they are following "normal complaint processing procedures."
Copyright 2018 Oregon Public Broadcasting
Lauren Dake
Lauren Dake is a political reporter and producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting. Before OPB, Lauren spent nearly a decade working as a print reporter. She's covered politics and rural issues in Oregon and Washington.
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Gehi & Associates is a New York law firm specializing in extremely complex immigration and deportation cases.
It is not unusual for Gehi & Associates to be retained by clients not entirely satisfied by their previous attorneys or applicants looking to retain a seasoned attorney to handle their complex immigration cases. Several Immigration cases at Gehi & Associates are often referred by other law firms, especially because of the firm and its attorneys' expertise in handling complex deportation removal matters before immigration judges and federal courts in New York.
The firm has had several battered spouse cases, where the US citizen spouse has been reluctant to assist the foreign national spouse. Without any help from the US spouse, Gehi & Associates has helped many clients in obtaining permanent residency by filing petitions as battered spouse, if the spouse has been a victim of extreme cruelty.
Gehi & Associates is also retained by large corporations and H1-B visa applicants, including software engineers, IT professionals, physical therapists, architects and so forth. The law firm also deals with employment-based immigrant petitions on a regular basis.
The principle of the law firm, Immigration Attorney Gehi is a long-standing member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and has been a speaker at AILA meetings (American Immigration Lawyers Association), having also served on the panel of "Ask The Experts" for AILA's New York chapter.
Attorney Gehi has handled extremely complex immigration matters, including, terrorism and criminal cases; deportation removal maters and complex employment-based RFE (Request for Evidence); battered spouses and cases before the federal court in New York. Attorney Gehi is licensed to practice law in the Eastern and Southern District of New York, and in the State of Connecticut. He is also admitted to the Court of Appeals. Attorney Gehi holds a Master of Laws degree from the University of Georgia.
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THOMAS F. RILEY WILDERNESS PARK ENGAGEMENT – TYLER AND MARISSA – ORANGE COUNTY, CA.
We met Tyler and Marissa at Avensole Winery a few months ago for a consultation about their upcoming wedding at Fazeli Cellars and instantly hit it off. Tyler and Marissa first met each other at police academy, but they had to keep their dating a secret because apparently dating in the academy is forbidden. To me, that just makes their story even more exciting. They both work in law enforcement where Marissa currently works as a patrol officer and Tyler works undercover. Tyler is a cheesecake and chocolate fountain guy which instantly qualifies him and John as besties.
Marissa recommended Thomas F. Riley Wilderness Park for their engagement session. We haven't been there before but the images on Google looked great so I was really excited. We had a super fun session with them and they were a dream to photograph. We're so looking forward to seeing them again at their wedding!
LOVE ALL THE PICS, ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL !!!
Tyler doesn't like to take pictures so I am thrilled with how well they all turned out. All of the photos are stunning and capture the true love between Tyler & Marissa.
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