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Can You Afford To Be Vulnerable?
December 16, 2011 by Deborah Calla
"If you hold back on the emotions–if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them–you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely." — Mitch Albom
There is a great difference between being tough and being strong. Tough is a posture. Strength is the result of lessons learned and wisdom acquired. Opening our hearts and being vulnerable is a consequence of being strong.
When we are afraid of emotions it is often because our core is not strong enough. We are afraid of life's intensity. And we are afraid to feel hurt. When we feel stronger we can let go of our defense mechanisms and experience life in all its intensity.
But how do we get stronger? By creating an intimate relationship with our own selves. By learning to listen to our inner-voice. By trusting who we are and our abilities.
When we are stronger our emotions flow easily, because we know we don't have to hide; we will not crumble. Our vulnerability becomes anchored in the wisdom we have gained from being open to life's experiences. And life is richer for that.
Tags: detached, emotions, inner voice, Mitch Albom, open your heart, vulnerability
The Fine Line Between Loving With Our Entire Heart, And Losing It
July 4, 2010 by Deborah Calla
Walking the very fine line between expectations and fully committing is always a tough one when it comes to the affairs of the heart.
You just met someone and you are excited about the possibilities. Your emotional and sexual energies have been awoken. You know part of your excitement is self-created, meaning it is being fed by your imagination but how much do you let yourself go?
Tags: crush, emotional needs, emotions, happily ever after, huffington post, jumping off the mountain, love with abandonment, profound experiences
Owning Our Emotions
May 16, 2010 by Greta Fenley
There are times we know exactly why our emotions are what they are. Then there are times they take us by surprise and emotions become challenged. We often find ourselves trying to defend them. Explaining why we are feeling a certain way. Why?
As a kid I remember feeling that I was both the peace-maker in, and protector of, my entire family. As a little girl I would tell people it was rude to stare at my mom who was often in a wheelchair. Peruvian, my father spoke with a heavy accent. I found myself explaining what he said to salesclerks who, most often than not, didn't understand him. I remember vividly the store where a clerk kept telling my father "I can't understand you" rather than listen to me trying to explain. My father grabbed my hand and very slowly said to this man, "Go. To. Hell." Then he turned to me, "Come on honey let's go." I realized that my attempt to protect him, turned into him protecting me. One night, without telling my sister, I went to the store where her boyfriend worked. I found his car and waited for him to come out. They'd had a big fight and she'd been crying for days and no one was going to get away with making my sister cry.
I had all the courage in the world to protect my family. When faced with a situation in which I needed to protect myself however, that courage was nowhere to be found. I became the peace-maker wanting everyone to be happy, even if I wasn't. Then, when I couldn't deal with something, I would protect myself by taking the stance that it didn't exist. Retreating into my thoughts, I would carefully place situations in a box and put them away in a closet. Out of sight, out of mind.
Acceptance… to own our emotions is to accept them. The peace-maker will become our protector.
All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
Tags: bob dylan, courage, emotions, family, peace-maker, protector, thoughts
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. ~Honoré de Balzac
I have just come back from spending ten days in Brazil with my parents. I had a great time with them; we talked, had lunch and dinners together, and saw a couple of movies. It was also my mother's seventy ninth birthday.
I love my mother but ours wasn't always an easy relationship. She was always very emotional, and that scared me, and I, a little wild for her. As the years went on we tried to strike a balance; neither one of us forgetting we were a family.
I'm not a mother so it has taken me a long time to understand how my mother feels about me. I was made by an act of love, grew inside of her and then fed and protected by her, while I had my eyes on my life's road.
My mother and I survived all the years of misunderstanding because of the love we have for each other. That's the power of love; it keeps you there even when your mind tells you to shut the door.
Today, I admire my mother' wisdom and her still ever growing love for me. I'm no longer afraid of her emotions and she has come to understand my singular way of being.
So this Sunday, even though I never pay any attention to holidays, I will tell my mother how much I love her and how much she means to me. And I hope our love can color all the roads that lay ahead for me.
Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime.
~William Shakespeare
Tags: Balzac, emotions, family, love, mother, mothers, power, power of love, relationship, Shakespeare, wisdom
Why You Fear Love and Success
May 4, 2010 by The Love Project Inc.
Filed under Featured
I found this article on the Huffington Post and wanted to share because it talks about how our own happiness and contentment is up to us. And how much the work we do is within ourselves. I'm a firm believer our journey through life is a journey within.
by Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D.
In an earlier blog I quoted Rumi's Guesthouse poem in order to convey a radical approach to our difficulties in everyday life. He says:
This being human is a guest-house.Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
However, it's not always the difficult emotions we're trying to avoid. Sometimes there's a subtle, or not too subtle, aversion to the "positive" feelings like "love" or "joy" that come for life or success. Why might this be?
Well, one thing I've learned over time in my own life and as a psychologist is that emotions aren't so black and white. For example, anger doesn't just come with anger alone; at times it comes with sadness or other emotions. We just have these words to help us better define emotions as we do with other things.
In this same vein, when we're growing up we often have a natural love for our parents, but this can get mixed up with other uncomfortable emotions. If we grew up in a scary household perhaps love got mixed up with fear or if we grew up in a family of divorce, love may have been mixed with fear or the sadness or anger of separation or failure.
In other words, in order to feel love, we might also have to feel these uncomfortable emotions. So, acting in our best interest to avoid discomfort, some part of ourselves decided to keep the uncomfortable emotions at bay and at the same time keeps the love or joy at bay.
All kinds of tricks of the mind are deployed to have this work out. Perhaps we discount the positive and exaggerate the negative or maybe just go up in our heads and analyze over and over again to avoid the feelings…Continued
Tags: approach, courage, depression, emotions, fear, love, positive, radical, rumi
Emotions Outlast The Memories That Drive Them
April 26, 2010 by Deborah Calla
I friend has just sent me this link. It reminded me of my husband's 100 year grandmother. We used to ask her to play the piano and she would say she didn't know how, but when we walked her to the piano and she touched it, all these emotions would come back to her and she would sit and play smiling all the way.
A study of patients with amnesia finds that the emotion tied to a memory lingers in the mind even after the memory is gone.
The finding, published this week in the journal PNAS, Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences could have important implications for people with Alzheimer's disease and their families.
One of the loneliest things about loving someone with early Alzheimer's is the feeling that any good times the two of you share just don't matter.
Family Caregiver Alliance
"So often I'll listen to family members say, 'Oh, I don't go and visit Grandpa anymore because 10 minutes after I leave, he doesn't even remember I came,' " says Justin Feinstein, a graduate student in neuropsychology at the University of Iowa.
Feinstein had a hunch that those visits made more of an impression than anyone realized. To check, he turned to several people who, like Alzheimer's patients, have damage to a spot in the brain called the hippocampus.
He describes it as a "kind of a sea-horse-shaped structure right in the middle of the brain, no bigger than the pinkie."
Damage your hippocampus, and you can't hang onto new memories for more than a few minutes. It can happen through a stroke, epilepsy or Alzheimer's disease.
Feinstein says, "Your brain is no longer able to catch onto those experiences, so your day-to-day experiences, like what you had for breakfast this morning, what you did last Saturday night, those are gone. They're vanished."
But Feinstein suspected that the good feelings and bad feelings triggered by meaningful events might linger, captured by a different part of the brain.
So, to stir up some strong emotion, he threw a mini-film fest in his clinic. He showed several people who have damage to the hippocampus a string of short movie clips from tear-jerker classics.
One was the scene in Forrest Gump where he is crying all alone at the grave of his dead wife, Jenny.
It worked. Everyone who watched the film clips was visibly moved — some to tears. Yet a half-hour later, when quizzed about the movies, they didn't remember a thing — not even one woman who had sobbed during the films.
"We test her memory, her memory's gone," Feinstein says. "What happens to her emotions? Well, it turns out she's still sad…Continued
Tags: Alzheimer, damage, emotions, Forrest Gump, love, memories, relationship, tears
One New Yorker Asks, What Is Love?
January 28, 2010 by The Love Project Inc.
After seven years of talking about love with people on the street, Karen Porter Sorensen learned a few things that helped her when family members were ill.
By Marie Suszynski
Medically reviewed by Pat F. Bass III, MD, MPH
Some researchers say that love isn't just an emotion. It's a need — like thirst or hunger — and that romantic love can create such intense cravings that it feels like a drug.
Karen Porter Sorensen, the Brooklyn, N.Y., author of love (luv) n. who asked perfect strangers for their thoughts on love in New York City, saw first-hand that people do, in fact, have a yearning for love and connection with others.
She also learned that one of the most important gifts we can give someone — especially someone who's going through a health crisis — is love.
It's easy to get swept away by love when you're in a new romantic relationship. The real question is: How do you show love to a family member or a friend when you're filled with grief over their illness? Sorensen has some ideas.
What Love Research Revealed
For seven years, Sorensen ran a "love research booth" in New York City and offered people walking by a single rose in return for answering five questions about love, such as, "What is love?," "Who taught you love?," and "Has your love ever been tested?"
The hundreds of responses she got were across the board. An art educator told Sorenson that love is making a new universe with other people. A man whose partner was dying said that to love is to understand what the other person needs and find ways to make it happen.
Why did she embark on this project? In part because Sorensen's brother was diagnosed with a mental illness and he couldn't express his emotions. Suddenly her brother didn't believe in love anymore. "In some ways [the book] was a testament to him," she says.
Sorensen was also new to New York City and wanted to connect to the city in an interesting way. And she was engaged and wanted to explore what love really was.
Loving Someone Who is Ill
Her research also helped her learn how to love family members when they were going through a health crisis. Not only was her brother struggling with a mental illness, but her mother fought breast cancer and survived, and her grandmother also became ill and died a week before Sorensen finished her book. Here's what her research taught her about coping:
If nothing else, just listen. One of the greatest things you can do when someone you love is sick is to be available to her and listen to what she has to say without judgment and without having expectations of what you want her to say, Sorensen says.Being with a loved one living who is ill is uncomfortable, but it's important to put your own feelings of discomfort aside and focus on her. "If you can, make space available for people to share whatever they want to share," she says.
Be present, even when it's painful. "It's easy to check out and get caught up in your own grief," Sorensen says. But it's important to enjoy the moments you have left with someone who's seriously ill. She and her family played Hungarian music for her grandmother during the last days of her life, which was something her grandmother loved when she was younger. And everyone in her family decided to dance for her grandmother, even though their sadness didn't make them feel like dancing. "Find moments of joy even in the most difficult situations," Sorensen advises.
Wear bright colors. When Sorensen did her love research on the streets of New York City, she always wore a red suit and red hat. Simply bringing color to somebody is powerful, she says. She used the same philosophy when she visited her grandmother when she was sick. When she walked into the room wearing bright colors, she noticed her grandmother light up.
When the person who is ill wants to be alone, try helping their family members. People who are sick sometimes don't want others to see them vulnerable and in pain. Sorensen has a friend who volunteers to sit with people who have life-threatening illnesses to give them company. But she noticed that one of the men she visited, who had always been friendly and usually welcomed her, started sending her away. Instead of leaving, she sat next to his daughter in the next room instead and offered her a listening ear.
Looking for more love in your life? Sorensen put together 100 ways to do it, including sending a love letter to a stranger (which could be as simple as jotting a note of thanks to someone who showed you kindness), keeping a journal of where you see love, reading famous love letters, smiling at strangers, and spending the day telling the people who are important to you that you love them.
Tags: emotions, grief, how to help, how to love, love, overcoming pain, ways to help, what is love, what to do when someone you love is dying
Why We Cry
September 23, 2009 by The Love Project Inc.
By John-Paul Flintoff
Women do it 64 times a year, men just 17. Actors and politicians do it on demand. But why does crying happen in the first place? John-Paul Flintoff learns that even scientists are still guessing.
I had behaved badly, and feared the worst. I went looking for my father, gave him a reasonably accurate report, then did something that – now I think about it – seems rather odd.
Specifically, I released a salty, protein-rich fluid from my lachrymal apparatus, improvised adjustments in the muscles of facial expression, added a few non-specific and incomprehensible vocalizations, and convulsively inhaled and exhaled air with spasms of the respiratory and truncal muscle groups. To put it another way, I cried.
Like most boys, I sometimes allowed my conduct to deviate from the ideal: running around the house, gabbing on my brother, setting things alight. But the occasion I have in mind was different. Not because of the specifics of my crime, which I no longer recall, but because this time my father interrupted to tell me I was too old to cry. (How old? Somewhere between eight and 12, is my best guess.)
His point, I suspect, was that for years he had not expected me to take criticism tearlessly, but now he did. As it happens, he does not remember the incident – and insists he has never felt anybody can be "too old to cry" as such – but it lives with me still, the shocking realization that I could no longer squeeze out tears to escape trouble. A rite of passage for which there is no name, although we all go through this, or something like it
I have, of course, cried many times since then. Even relatively recently – in front of my father and others too – although not ordinarily to avoid a bollocking. As an adult I have cried for characters in films and books. I failed an important exam, once, because my eyes constantly flooded as I tried to put from my mind the death of a close relative the night before.
Bill Clinton was laughing and joking with colleagues at a funeral when he noticed he was being filmed, immediately became serious and welled up.
I burst into tears in front of a flatmate – a man – after my mother was made redundant some years ago. In my first job as a journalist, after spending a whole day sitting beside a nitpicking editor as he went through my work, I went home and cried to my girlfriend. After severing major blood vessels in my foot, I wept in front of my wife (as she had by then become) and a roomful of strangers. Four years ago, after reading the memoir of a woman dying from cancer, I drove to the reading group where that book had been chosen for discussion and cracked up on the freeway, allowing my tearful gaze to rest on a beautiful sunset and … driving into the car in front. (I stopped weeping, obviously, to exchange telephone numbers with the driver, but the incident provided still more reason for crying again afterwards.)
And let's not forget this one. Last year, on a fast road in Texas, a squirrel dashed out in front of my car; even the slight bump caused by driving over it, minimal though that was, thanks to the excellent suspension on my rental car, was sufficient to generate tears.
To write this is embarrassing, even shameful. To cry for a squirrel; how could I be so pathetic? But it is also self-serving, hinting at a sensitive soul – and a bold move, to put all this on public record. As I was researching this story, a glamorous woman told me something that I only hope others feel too: "There is nothing more powerful than seeing a grown man cry. It shows a sensitivity and vulnerability that is very appealing."
Over the centuries, as between cultures, the appropriate context for tears has varied considerably. St Francis of Assisi is said to have gone blind from too much crying. In the 12th century epic, Song of Roland, the lords of France weep bitter tears, pull their beards and faint from grief. As Tom Lutz writes in his brilliant and witty book, Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears, only Monty Python could do justice to the idea of 20,000 knights in armor weeping and fainting and falling off their horses.
Among later European classics, comedians could have fun with The Sorrows of Young Werther, in which Johann Goethe's hero sobs almost constantly, and many Victorian melodramas that came after. (Europe dried up, it is said, during the First World War, because there was just too much to cry about. But I reckon crying became unfashionable earlier, around the time Oscar Wilde joked that you would need a heart of stone not to laugh at the death of Dickens's Little Nell.)
A common ruse of journalism is to justify writing about something by claiming that it is on the increase. But to write that we are all crying a lot more these days would be absurd because any such change would be glacially slow. All the same, we tend to forget how often we do cry. In one study, researchers asked English speakers to keep daily records and, at the end of the year, to estimate how frequently they had cried. The guesses were much lower than the diaries showed: women cry 64 times a year, on average, and men 17.
To find out what sets us off, I recently looked up stories that appeared this year in two mid-market newspapers, in which the words "crying" and "tears" both occurred. The subjects they covered most often were, in roughly this order: the deaths, births and illnesses of children; and of parents; cheating husbands; and violent ones; absent fathers; pedophilia; rape; adoption; the hell of school exams; remembering lost loves; or retired guide dogs; accepting an award for acting; problems with builders; and onions. Most of these things, thankfully, do not arise often. The most common causes of crying are low-level frustration or sad moments on TV. Which may explain why, according to extensive research, adults cry most frequently when they are alone, at home, between 7pm and 10pm.
No other animal sheds emotional tears (as opposed to tears of irritation). Charles Darwin, who confirmed this in his book, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, acknowledged that crying could be useful to infants for attracting attention from caregivers, but ultimately concluded that tears were more or less useless; like the appendix, an exception to the rule that purposeless behavior and body structures will not be maintained during the course of evolution.
Perhaps he was right and we will eventually lose this faculty. If we do we may miss it because, as a means to stop intimidation, crying would seem to be less humiliating than the chimpanzee's preferred tactic of presenting the hindquarters.
The pageant of public life is frequently enlivened by tears from grown men (and women, of whom more later). These leaky outbursts, even following behavior more than usually shameful, can raise a man's popularity and immediately produce forgiveness – if not necessarily from the individuals he has hurt, then at least from anonymous millions who read the newspapers and watch TV.
But even the most powerful weapons in the armor of public relations do not always work. In the US, the Democrat Ed Muskie flunked the 1972 presidential primaries after crying in front of the press corps. (A hostile press had written that Muskie's wife was "emotionally unstable". He claimed they were not tears on his cheeks but snowflakes.)
In Russia, the former prime minister, Nikolai Ryzhkov, who also cried on camera, was forever after derided as the "weeping Bolshevik". But many others have turned tears to their advantage, including Oliver North in the Contra hearings, Jim Bakker, the fraudulent TV evangelist, and Bill Clinton, who always managed to tear up at need.
Once, notoriously, Clinton was laughing and joking with colleagues at a funeral when he noticed he was being filmed, immediately became serious and welled up.
Such weeping, less than fully sincere, may put you in mind of Lewis Carroll's walrus, in Through the Looking Glass, who weeps for the oysters as he cheerfully eats them. Or of the musician Liberace, who said after he was libeled that he would "cry all the way to the bank". Or the poet Robert Lowell, who memorably wrote that we "piss hogwash through our eyes".
Despite this roll of male dishonor, studies have shown that women, in particular, use crying purposely to manipulate others. This has long been suspected. Over the years women's tears have been described as "the world's greatest water power", and "stronger than any acid". According to one proverb: "Every woman is wrong until she cries." Outdated misogyny?
British Prime Minister's wife, Cherie Booth, had tears in her eyes during a speech defending herself against behaving improperly in a deal relating to her son's university accommodation. Several newspapers unkindly interpreted those tears as forced. She was faking, they insisted, to win sympathy that she did not deserve. But surely she is a bit old for that. Whatever would her father say?
At birth, most babies cry at C or C-sharp. (That is, according to one American study.) As they grow older, they learn to cry at different pitches, and with different intensities, durations and qualities. At around 10 months, they cease to cry primarily when alone, in favor of crying when a caregiver is present: crying becomes manipulative.
Along with the noise – and usually, as we get older, without it – come tears. Ordinary tears, which lubricate the eyeballs every waking minute, are produced continuously in the lachrymal gland, which rests between the frontal bone and the eyeball, at up to two microliters a minute, or nearly 10 ounces a day. They flow from the outside, upper edge towards the center and drain away through puncta, or holes, on the lower eyelid.
If the flow is excessive, as the result of yawning, coughing, vomiting or sneezing – or a poke in the eye – the 0.3 mm-wide punctum cannot handle the flow, and tears slosh over the edge of the eyelids. This also happens when we weep.
But what causes emotional tears? The philosopher William James, following Darwin, considered emotions to be little different from reflexes, occurring without prior rational thought. Only after experiencing the bodily sensations of, say, anger or fear, James argued, do we cognitively recognize the emotions. But this does not explain why the bodily sensations arise in the first place. Nor is it clear how James accounts for blushes, which, as anybody can testify, come after embarrassing thoughts, not the other way round.
And anyway, if bodily state alone determines emotions, why does the losing team in a football match feel miserable and the winning side euphoric – when both have played for the same duration, on the same pitch and in the same conditions?
More confusingly, the same thoughts can produce two different emotions. Pity and schadenfreude both arise from the contemplation of somebody else's misfortunes. So why does only pity make us cry? Hormones certainly have some influence: in tests, patients injected with adrenaline have reported feeling something like an emotion but not the emotion itself. ("I feel as if afraid," said one. "I feel as if I were going to weep without knowing why.") But neurologists are unsure of the precise pathways of the nerves controlling the glands that release hormones, let alone what happens in the brain to stimulate them.
They have, however, identified two different memory systems: one declarative and one emotional. People with brains damaged in accidents, who lose the use of only one of these systems, either (a) react with great fear to a person who hurt them, but without having any explicit memory of that person or the injury or (b) remember clearly the person and the injury but without strong feelings. This suggests that reason and emotions are not opposed to each other, as Plato long ago suggested. On the contrary, it indicates that reason and emotions need each other to function properly.
One person hoping to find answers to these mysteries is Ad Vingerhoets, one of a handful of academics, worldwide, to have devoted their attention to crying. Like Lutz, he recently came to London for a conference on adult crying hosted by the Freud Museum, but I meet him in Tilburg, in the Netherlands – a place best known for its soccer team, PSV Eindhoven, a rock academy, and the university where Vingerhoets is professor of clinical psychology.
Vingerhoets had worked for years on the psychophysiology of the emotions when somebody at a party set him thinking. "A man asked me, 'Is crying really healthy? I don't believe it.' I couldn't tell him. There's very little in the textbooks." Over time, the professor became consumed by the subject, which everybody thinks they understand, but which proved less comprehensible the more he looked into it. (Is sobbing fundamentally different from merely getting watery eyes, or for that matter a quivering lip? Nobody knows.)
At Tilburg, the study of psychology is scientifically rigorous, based on laboratory tests rather than mythology and metaphor. One of Vingerhoets' PhD students, Michelle Hendricks, is analyzing the distress caused by seeing somebody else cry. This morning, as part of an experiment, she has a volunteer coming in to watch a movie in the lab: a room at the end of the corridor has been specially prepared, with a huge TV set-up before a leather-effect sun-lounger.
The volunteers are undergraduate students, obliged to take part in a certain number of experiments each year, but allowed to choose which ones. Before the film begins, they are told what will happen and asked to sign insurance forms. Next, they complete a questionnaire about their mood and climb on to the sun-lounger, where Hendricks wires them up to monitors assessing, among other things, blood pressure, heart rate and sweating. They are also given a button to press whenever the film, Once Were Warriors, elicits tears.
When it ends, they must complete another questionnaire. One volunteer recently pressed the button eight times, reports Hendricks with evident satisfaction, but roughly three-quarters do not press it at all. "I think maybe the movie is not touching enough. It's pretty violent. Also the environment may affect them. They're in a strange room with all kinds of wires . . ."
Examining the forms from her latest volunteer, Hendricks says: "She was happy before the film. Not so much after."
I find this fascinating, but wonder if Vingerhoets and his team ever worry about the seriousness of their work. As he drives me to the airport, the professor seems to admit as much when he tells me about a friend and former colleague, a world expert in blinking, who gave it all up for a career in politics. "This would seem to be one answer to the question of 'why oh why?'."
I leave Holland little clearer about my own crying habits, let alone those of Cherie Booth. But soon afterwards I come across another piece of research, much like the one Donkers mentioned. In tests, individuals were asked about their own reactions to watching men and women cry, and also how they thought other people would react in the same situation. Most felt that "people" would be more bothered by male crying than they themselves were – indicating a substantial, if unacknowledged, acceptance of male crying.
This makes a lot of sense. The British soccer player Paul Gascoigne became a national icon in 1990 after he cried in the World Cup, even though his tears were entirely self-pitiful. Then there are the weeping movie stars. Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Tom Hanks are well known as sensitive types, but even the conventionally macho Mel Gibson, Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis have shed tears on film. Indeed, it has been argued that actors are more likely to win awards if their performance requires them to cry.
Thinking about this, I wonder whether, after decades of exhortation from pop psychologists – many of whom believe crying to be therapeutic, although this has yet to be supported by hard evidence – men have acquired a new license to cry in public. And whether, owing to the even mightier imperatives of feminism, women have felt an equal and opposite prohibition.
Lutz, in his book, hints at exactly such an idea. He believes this may be part of a more general trend towards the centre: just as politicians seek to position themselves away from the extremes of left and right, so men cry to prove they are "not too manly" and women suppress tears to prove they are "not too feminine". For me, this can only be good news. Cherie Booth, on the other hand, may regret making the mistake of crying while also not being a man.
But did she, as accused, fake her tears? I ask Mark Borkowski who, in addition to wearing pinstripes and advising major companies on public relations, has a background in performing arts. "In public life," he says, "you are always under pressure, and you have to show strength. We have a tradition where you can't show emotion; you're trained to deal with the media and not to be seen as who you really are . . . People do want to see the honest human face, and when someone cries, there's huge appreciation. But they might also think this has been manipulated.
"If you went into the street and asked people if they thought PR people were using tears for leverage, I think seven or eight out of 10 would say 'yes', so you have to take that into account. And there's too much light on the puppet strings, when it comes to the Blairs, so if I'd been asked I would not have advised her to cry."
But each client is different. "If someone said to me – before a press conference or interview – 'Look, I really want to keep a stiff upper lip'," continues Borkowski, "I would probably say, 'No, let it go, people want to see the real you.'
"If they said, 'I would like to pull out a hanky at paragraph eight in my speech,' I'd say no.
"Nobody has ever asked me, but it may happen. If somebody publishes conclusive research, there are going to be a thousand publicists telling clients to think about using tears."
If that happens, they may want to get in touch with Dee Cannon, an acting teacher who works at Britain's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and for private clients who have included actors Matthew Modine, Jon Voight, Courtney Love, the singer Craig David and the former soccer star David Ginola.
Cannon, who is in her 30s, wears sunglasses on the top of her head and sits back on the sofa with legs crossed – but leans forward urgently to explain the mysteries of the acting theory originated by Russian producer and actor Konstantin Stanislavsky, known as the Stanislavsky Method, and particularly his use of emotional memory.
In classes, she explains, students lie on the floor. To relax, they are encouraged to imagine themselves on a beach, or in a garden. Then she asks them to look back on a traumatic episode. "It's normally death, to be honest," she says. "Or it could be a car accident."
Whatever it is, the memory must be at least five years old, because the emotion associated with anything more recent may be too strong to control. Cannon invites them to shut their eyes and consider every aspect of that event. "You get them to go back to the beginning of that particular day," she explains. "Where were they? What were they wearing? What were the sounds and the smells? You try to get them right up to the moment when they picked up the phone and heard the bad news."
Gradually, this forensic attention brings most students to tears. Is it odd, for Cannon, to see everybody crying at her feet? "A little." But also gratifying? "Oh, absolutely."
Afterwards, she asks students to identify the precise detail that elicited the tears. "It could be the look in someone's eye, or an intake of breath, or the sound of the telephone." Whatever it is, that's the trigger they take with them into the studio, or on to the stage.
As in representations of drunkenness, says Cannon, the most effective criers appear to struggle against their condition. Thus, just as it is funnier to watch drunkards straining for sobriety than mere slurring and staggering, an audience is less likely to be moved by incontinent sobbing than by characters who fight back their tears.
"Well, it doesn't always take much to produce tears, especially if you're feeling a bit low in the first place . . ." She pauses, remembering something that is interesting, particularly for students of rock music, but which leaves me no more sure than I was before about my own tears; and less sure about Booth than my father was about me, justly, all those years ago.
"The point of acting techniques," says Cannon, "is that you are in control. Vulnerability and sensitivity are not techniques – although if you are clever you can use them. When I worked with Sinead (O'Connor, the Irish singer and actor) she would just tap into something and cry. It was amazing. But she would say, 'I'm on my period, I was feeling vulnerable before I came in'."
John-Paul Flintoff is contributing editor, Financial Times Magazine.
Tags: afraid of crying, cry, crying, Darwin, emotions, science of crying, tears, why do we cry

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Optimizing your website only requires time and a little guidance. Continue reading this article for some suggestions on SEO.
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Try not to use too much Flash on your site. It takes forever to load and isn't readable by search engines. Succeeding with a search engine crawler means that your content should be easily found and used by them.
There are many tricks that you can use to improve your SEO. There are many resources available. Many websites and books are available to help you with SEO.
Use a title tag that describes the page well so that search engines will comprehend your content. Use 60 characters of fewer because search engines typically will not display any more content than that. This also holds true for keywords appearing at the end of longer tags.
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A great search engine optimization technique you can use to improve your search results is to link within your own website. Link related keywords and keyword phrases to complimentary pages to get even higher rankings on search results. Avoid using keywords that are generic. Make your keywords as unique as you can think of.
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There are many different ways to optimize a search engine. Your site will show up in results more frequently if you use SEO effectively. User experience will be greatly improved as a result of increased performance.
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See if an informational site or .org domain will trade links with you. Search engines respond favorably to sites which reputable sources linked towards. If you put content that is unique and pertinent to showcase your website, reputable sites will be more apt to feature links to your website. Provide the kind of articles and information that reputable organizations find trustworthy.
Try creating a robots. txt file and applying it to the root directory. This makes certain files found on your website inaccessible to the search engine.
Site maps make the website easier to navigate and increases the traffic to your different pages. All your webpages will receive equal attention. Visitors will find the links on your site so it will drive traffic to your other pages.
You can greatly improve your ranking by including your keywords in a page's URL. If the URL has symbols or numeric characters that people don't usually use to search information, the page will not rank very high. You will receive more traffic by giving your site relevant keywords.
It isn't necessary to assign key words to your comment tags. Instead, you should focus on the actual content of your website.
You website needs to have a site map which contains all the main links and keywords for your website. A good site map helps your viewers by acting like an index of all your site's pages. Search engines use them in order to put websites in a higher position on the search lists, because the ease of access is an important facet in their ratings.
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You might want to try starting a podcast. Podcasts are either a video or an audio program, that are sometimes streamed live, containing timely and relevant information consumers would want to listen to or view. This content delivery method has really taken off among the general public, and all it takes to get in on this is a digital voice recorder or camcorder. Doing this will allow the description of your podcast to appear.
Design your site map to incorporate your chosen keywords. Site maps are excellent navigational tools as well as helpful for search engine optimization. Search engines use site maps to rank websites in the search results, due to the fact that they make a website more usable, and that is an important factor in their ranking systems.
An HTML title will yield better SEO results, if you use keywords and phrases in them. The keywords in your title tags carry more weight with search engines than anything else on a page. Place the most relevant keywords there, and watch as potential customers flock to view your information!
Try moving to the podcast arena. A podcast consists of informational content delivered in audio or video form, sometimes live, and they always should contain relevant information based on the topic of your show. Podcasts are skyrocketing in popularity and are remarkably easy to create. Description of your podcast may then appear in search engines.
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It is important to use captions within your site to improve optimization. Use articles, photos and other content to add keywords to. This will bring you more traffic.
Only try to master one area of SEO at a time instead of trying to implement them all at once. New techniques are cropping up every day, but mastering even one will dramatically improve the success of your content.
Be patient when it comes to search engine optimization. You have probably grown accustomed to instant gratification when dealing with the Internet. Creating and maintaining a successful website requires a true commitment of your time and devotion. Stay with it even if nothing happens at first. Eventually, your hard work will net dividends and you will see a surge in search engine related traffic.
Use anchor text when establishing your interlinks. There are some words that you should never use because they will not help you with your SEO endeavors. SEO specialists can assist you with knowing what anchor text should be used.
Search engines are smart enough to see through fraudulent manipulation of sites to garner higher rankings. They are designed to suppress these sites as well. Sometimes popular search engines even ban certain businesses from their results entirely. Be advised and ethically hone your search engine optimization!
Successful SEO requires a bit of time and a lot of patience. Everyone is excited to see results right away after all of their effort. Creating and maintaining a successful website requires a true commitment of your time and devotion. It is imperative that you stay with the process for a sufficient amount of time, and don't abandon it when it looks like nothing is changing with your site. Eventually your work will raise your rankings in the search results.
Knowing your search standing is crucial in utilizing SEO tips. Your SEO needs to be monitored so that you can see how you're doing. You can use Alexa or the Google toolbar to check your page rank.
Do not ever publish any article more than once on your website. Google believes this to be a form of cheating, which can cause your ranking to decline. This can also dilute your link count and drop your site's page rank.
Try optimizing one page with one specific keyword phrase. Stuffing a page with more than one keyword tends to lead to confusion. Keeping your focus on one topic with good content, will have your readers coming back more frequently. Having a loyal handful of readers tends to raise your website rankings and increase search engine optimization.
SEO, also known as search engine optimization, is a type of marketing. The key is to use words that will generate a higher ranking for your site. This makes sure that people looking for your products can find your website.
META description tags should be unique for each page. Don't use identical meta tags for different pages or you'll hurt your search rankings.
It doesn't have to be arduous to use SEO for your website. You just need to tweak your approach a bit, and invest a bit of attention into the detail of your site. Experiment with the tips from this article, and see if you can't get your site to rise in the rankings quickly.
Create numerous gateway pages related to your website. You want search engine crawlers to detect content on your site. Gateway pages provide great traffic from different types of searches, including searches for products or companies that are similar.


Vilhelm Hammershøi, Interior with an Easel, Bredgade 25, 1912, oil on canvas.
The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has added Interior with an Easel, Bredgade 25 (1912) by Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi to its collection. The work will go on view at the Getty Center tomorrow, December 18.
The painting was sold at Christie's for $5.04 million on October 31. A representative for the Getty told ARTnews that the museum acquired the work from Jack Kilgore & Co. in New York following the auction.
Hammershøi was well known for his contemplative interior scenes, which he began creating in the 1890s. Many of these works were informed by the Copenhagen apartments in which he lived; Bredgade 25 was the address of the place he was living when he died, in 1916. Like many of his other paintings, Interior with an Easel, Bredgade 25 lacks a human subject. The work shows a characteristically spartan domestic scene, with only an easel, a hung painting, and a table occupying two softly lit rooms.


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package org.jeesy.classinfo;

import org.jeesy.classinfo.converter.impl.BeanConverter;
import org.junit.Test;

import static org.jeesy.classinfo.TypeInfo.forClass;
import static org.jeesy.classinfo.converter.DefaultConverter.defaultConverter;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;

/**
 * @author Artem Mironov
 */
public class BeanConverterTest {
    public static class BeanA {
        private String field1;
        private String field2;
        private Integer field3;

        public String getField1() {
            return field1;
        }

        public void setField1(String field1) {
            this.field1 = field1;
        }

        public String getField2() {
            return field2;
        }

        public void setField2(String field2) {
            this.field2 = field2;
        }

        public Integer getField3() {
            return field3;
        }

        public void setField3(Integer field3) {
            this.field3 = field3;
        }
    }

    public static class BeanB {
        private String fieldUnknown;
        private Integer field2;
        private String field3;

        public String getFieldUnknown() {
            return fieldUnknown;
        }

        public void setFieldUnknown(String fieldUnknown) {
            this.fieldUnknown = fieldUnknown;
        }

        public Integer getField2() {
            return field2;
        }

        public void setField2(Integer field2) {
            this.field2 = field2;
        }

        public String getField3() {
            return field3;
        }

        public void setField3(String field3) {
            this.field3 = field3;
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void testBeanConversion() {
        BeanA beanA = new BeanA();
        beanA.setField1("field1Value");
        beanA.setField2("146");
        beanA.setField3(42);
        BeanB beanB = (BeanB) defaultConverter().converterByType(BeanConverter.class).convert(beanA, (TypeInfo)forClass(BeanA.class), (TypeInfo)forClass(BeanB.class));
        assertNotNull(beanB);
        assertEquals(null, beanB.getFieldUnknown());
        assertEquals((Integer)146, beanB.getField2());
        assertEquals("42", beanB.getField3());
    }
}

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Cheyenne music fans are in for another treat Friday, March 24.
Barrage 8 will take the stage at 7:30 p.m. The band features all instruments in the string family featuring 5 violins, a viola, a cello, and a double bass.
The group was the idea of John Crozman, Dean Marshall, and Tony Moore, who were the original creators of the hit show Barrage.
Tickets are on sale now at the Cheyenne Civic Center Box Office. You can also buy them online or by calling (307) 637-6363.


There are a few different methods that you can use to view work orders, depending on what you're looking for. For example, on the Workspace tab, you can click Work Orders to view a list of all work orders. This gives you access to information like due dates, statuses, and other work order information.
But when it comes to programming parts, sometimes, you might want to view a list of all work order parts that haven't been processed yet. And if you want to sort by material and thickness, the easiest way to do this is through the Work Order Parts List.
To view the Work Order Parts List, on the Workspace tab, click the arrow under Work Orders and select List Work Order Parts.
From this list, any parts which have been added to work orders can be viewed, filtered, and edited. Beneath each column title, you can type in a term to display only parts which meet that criteria.
You can also drag the column headers into the area above the list to group parts by specific parameters. For example, in the image below, the list has been grouped by material and then thickness to make it easier to add parts to the workspace.
Sometimes when using an automated method (such as SimTrans or a .wol file) to add work orders to SigmaNEST, certain parts are not associated with a valid CAD or part file.
In these cases, SigmaNEST creates a placeholder or "unassigned" part in the work order. You can then assign a CAD or part file to the unassigned part, or create it using the CAD functions.
Until the unassigned part is assigned valid geometry, it cannot be loaded into the workspace or added to a task.
The easiest way to fix unassigned work order parts is to import or create the geometry as a new part, then assign it to a work order through the Part Parameters screen.
To do this, create the part as usual. Then in the Part Parameters, click the ellipsis (…) next to the Work Order No. field and select the unassigned part.
This links the new part geometry with all of the work order part information so that no information has to be manually entered, such as the material, thickness, quantity, or any other required information.


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from maze_run.draw_maze import parse_grid
from maze_run.moves import move
from maze_run.moves import LEFT, RIGHT, UP, DOWN
from fixtures import level
import pytest

CRATE_MOVES = [
    (LEFT,  (3, 2), (3, 1)),
    (RIGHT, (3, 4), (3, 5)),
    (UP,    (2, 3), (1, 3)),
    (DOWN,  (4, 3), (5, 3)),
]

class TestCrateMoves:

    @pytest.mark.parametrize('direction, plr_pos, crate_pos', CRATE_MOVES)
    def test_move_crate(self, level, direction, plr_pos, crate_pos):
        """After move player and crate moved by one square"""
        print(direction, plr_pos, crate_pos)
        move(level, direction)
        assert level[plr_pos[0]][plr_pos[1]] == '*'
        assert level[crate_pos[0]][crate_pos[1]] == 'o'

    def test_push_crate_to_wall(self):
        maze = parse_grid("*o#")
        move(maze, RIGHT)
        assert maze[0] == ['*', 'o', '#']

    def test_push_crate_to_crate(self):
        maze = parse_grid("*oo")
        move(maze, RIGHT)
        assert maze == [['*', 'o', 'o']]

    def test_move_crate_to_corner(self, level):
        """Moves top crate to upper left corner"""
        for d in [UP, RIGHT, UP, LEFT, LEFT, LEFT]:
            move(level, d)
        assert level[1][1] == 'o'

    def test_move_crate_back_forth(self, level):
        """Sanity check: move the top crate twice"""
        for d in [LEFT, UP, RIGHT, UP, RIGHT, RIGHT, DOWN, LEFT, LEFT, LEFT]:
            move(level, d)
        assert level[2] == list('#o*   #')

PATHS = [
    ((UP, LEFT), 2, 2),
    ((LEFT, UP), 2, 2),
    ((RIGHT, UP, LEFT, LEFT), 2, 2),
    pytest.mark.xfail(((DOWN, DOWN), 0, 0)),
    ((LEFT,), 2, 3),
    ((LEFT, RIGHT), 3, 3),
    ((RIGHT, RIGHT), 4, 3),
]

class TestPlayerMoves:

    def test_move_to_none(self, level):
        """direction=None generates an Exception"""
        with pytest.raises(TypeError):
            move(level, None)

    @pytest.mark.parametrize('path, expected_x, expected_y', PATHS)
    def test_move_player(self, level, path, expected_x, expected_y):
        """Player position changes correctly"""
        for direction in path:
            move(level, direction)
        assert level[expected_y][expected_x] == '*'


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How Jonathan Huberdeau won the Calder Trophy
Sean Leahy
The official definition of the Calder Memorial Trophy states the award goes "to the player selected as the most proficient in his first year of competition in the National Hockey League," as awarded by the Professional Hockey Writers' Association.
Jonathan Huberdeau of the Florida Panthers was chosen as this year's winner. He beat out Brendan Gallagher of the Montreal Canadiens and Brandon Saad of the Chicago Blackhawks.
From the NHL:
Selected third overall by the Panthers in the 2011 NHL Draft, Huberdeau played in all 48 games for Florida and ranked second both on the team and among NHL rookies with 31 points (14-17—31). Among first-year players, he finished third in goals, fourth in assists and third in shots on goal (112). His 16:55 average time on ice also led rookie forwards, while his nine power-play points (2-7—9) placed fourth among all freshmen skaters. Huberdeau set two franchise records, becoming the first Panther to score on two penalty shots in one season (Feb. 21 at Philadelphia and March 5 vs. Carolina) and recording the most points by a teenager in team history (four more than Radek Dvorak in 1995-96).
Here's the voting breakdown:
There was a big outcry when Minnesota Wild defenseman Jonas Brodin was not named one of the three finalists. As we see, he missed the cut by 100 points, and was a clear fourth ahead of Nail Yakupov of the Edmonton Oilers.
Follow Sean Leahy on Twitter at @Sean_Leahy


Just few days ago, the Nokia Lumia 900 was launched in the US and they had a massive launch party at Times Square, New York. Superstar Nicki Minaj kicked off the party with here top hit songs and the whole Times Square was shut down for this event.
"Shutting down TIMES SQUARE!!!!!! Let's go #Nokia," was Nicki's tweet prior to her appearance on stage. A massive countdown clock displayed across the square drew the crowds who were anticipating a big event without knowing what was about to happen.
The launch event brought Times Square to a virtual standstill 30,000 people watched one of the biggest electronic take-overs of the iconic New York landmark.
Using the latest CGI technology, the team behind the massive Hollywood blockbuster, i-Robot, had created one of the world's largest LED displays. To top it off, Nokia also took control of nine of the square's famous electronic screens to ensure the crowd was immersed in light and music from every direction.
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An American inventor and businessman Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio on Feb 11, 1847 – October 18,1931 was one of seven children from a middle-class family. The fact that he attended only three months of formal schooling and gained self-education is a sign of recognizing self-improvement at the earliest age as an advantage in life. Most people don't know he was 90% deaf from a young age but did not let that fact influence his inventing, and on June 1, 1869, only 22 years of age came his first patent for the stock ticker. Thomas Edison is worldly known as the inventor of the electric light bulb, the motion picture camera, and over 1000 more different patents for inventions. He offered to help in the World War I, but he insisted that the weapons were used for defensive purposes only.
Nikola Tesla was in many ways and will be remembered as an eccentric and a genius. Born on 10 July 1856, of Serbian nationality in Smiljan, the Austrian Empire at the time, passed away on 7 January 1943, in a New York. He played a crucial role in the development of electromagnetism and other scientific discoveries of his time, he studied in Polytechnic in Graz, but he left searching for employment and again enrolled in the Charles Ferdinand University in Prague, but he left without finishing his studies. The greatest and most enigmatic scientists Nikola Tesla, even with his unbelievable number of patents and scientific discoveries, was underplayed during his lifetime and in his passing. He found his temper get the better of him and his innovations and innovative ideas and because of those reasons, he will always miss adequate recognition from the world.
Scottish inventor, most notably credited and famous for inventing the modern telephone is the next inventor for the eternity. Alexander Graham Bell is born in Edinburgh Scotland in 1847 and passed away on 2nd August 1922 in Nova Scotia. The inventor had various patents and scientific discoveries to his name but will be remembered as the person who invented the telephone and conducted the first call on August 1876. The silly thing is the fact that at the end of his life he did not want to have a telephone in his room.
These were just a few words to the people, to whom the whole world owes enormous gratitude for there inventions, the technology they left us and their legacy. Today, many people couldn't imagine inventions and business as separate.


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Vitéz Feketehalmy-Czeydner Ferenc (Piski, 1890. november 22. – Zsablya, 1946. november 5.) magyar katonatiszt (legmagasabb viselt magyar rendfokozata vezérezredes) harcolt az első és a második világháborúban. Az újvidéki vérengzés szervezője, majd önkéntes az SS-ben SS-Obergruppenführer rendfokozatban és a Szálasi-kormány alatt a honvédelmi miniszter helyettese volt. A második világháború után tevékenységei miatt elítélték és mint háborús bűnöst kivégezték.

Élete a háborúig
Erdélyi szász családból származott, 1890-ben született Piskin. A középiskola elvégzése után a Mödlingi Katonai Akadémiát végezte el, ahol 1910-ben hadnaggyá avatták. 1912-ben az újonnan felállított honvéd tüzérséghez lépett át és Lugoson teljesített szolgálatot. Az első világháború kitörése után, előbb az orosz, majd később az olasz frontra került, ahol megsebesült. Felépülése után a honvéd vezérkarnál teljesített szolgálatot egészen a háború végéig. A háború után Szegeden és Aradon szolgált a Nemzeti Hadseregben. 1920-21-ben elvégezte a hadiakadémiát, ami után Miskolcra került beosztásba. 1925-ben őrnaggyá léptették elő, 1927-ben vezérkari alezredes, majd 1933-ban a légügyi hivatal főnöke lett, de Horthy Miklós kormányzó 1938-ban leváltotta. 1940 februárjától 1941 júliusáig az 1. hadsereg vezérkari főnöke volt. Vezetése idején gyakoriak voltak a román- és zsidóverések, így leváltották és a szegedi V. hadtest parancsnokává nevezték ki.

A Délvidéki razzia

1941-ben Délvidék visszakerült Magyarországhoz, ahol nagy számban voltak olyan szerb lakosok, akik nem akarták elismerni a magyar fennhatóságot. Már a bácskai bevonuláskor kénytelen volt a magyar hadsereg harci cselekményekbe bonyolódni a lakossággal, később partizán tevékenység is kezdődött a területen, akik megfékezésére vitéz Szombathelyi Ferenc Feketehalmyt küldte ki.

Zsablya környékén súlyos partizánveszélyt jelentettek, tulajdonképpen ez indította el a délvidéki razziát. Mielőtt Feketehalmy a Bácskába érkezett volna, a magyar csendőrség Zsablya határában szétverte a "nagy partizán sereget" és körülbelül 80 szerb lakost őrizetbe vettek. Ezután végigjárta a bácskai községeket egészen Titelig. A látogatás során kiadta parancsba, hogy minden gyanús egyént "távolítsanak el". A csendőrök engedelmeskedtek a parancsnak és a gyanús embereket kivitték a Duna partjára, ahol legéppuskázták őket. A legnagyobb ilyen vérengzés Csurogon volt, ahol 260 személyt gyilkoltak le. Ezután elhatározták, hogy a razziát kiterjesztik Újvidékre és környékére is. Január 19-én Feketahalmy magához hívatta a razzia katonai végrehajtóját, Grassy Józsefet, valamint Zöldy Márton csendőr hadnagyot, akiknek kijelentette, hogy nincs megelégedve az eredménnyel. Másnap, január 20-án megkezdődött az az eseménysorozat, mely "újvidéki vérengzés" néven vált hírhedtté. Ennek során a kutatások szerint 3808, többségében szerb, vagy zsidó származású személyt végeztek ki. Az újvidéki razzia az egész világ közvéleményében nagy felháborodást keltett. Kállay Miklós miniszterelnök és sokan mások közbenjárására a kormányzó vizsgálatot rendelt el Feketehalmy és társai ügyében. A vádlott felettese, Szombathelyi Ferenc nem tartotta vizsgálati fogságban őket mert, mint később elmondta, nem nézte ki egy katonából, hogy a felelősségre vonás elől megszökjön. Márpedig Feketehalmy és társai ezt tették, a Német Birodalomba menekültek és beálltak a szerveződő SS-be.

Hátralevő élete
Szökése után önkéntesként tagja lett az SS-nek, és ott a valaha szolgált legmagasabb rangú külföldiként SS-Obergruppenführer rendfokozatot ért el. Közben kiderült, hogy gégerákja van. Bécsben megoperálták de nem gyógyult meg, állapota egyre romlott. A német megszállás után hazajött, a nyilas hatalomátvételt követően és ő lett Beregfy Károly honvédelmi miniszter helyettese. Új pozíciójában első dolga volt azokat az embereket és családjaikat meghurcoltatni, akik az ellene folyó perben ellene voltak. Ezenkívül részt vett Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Endre, Kiss János és társaik perében, akik megpróbáltak ellenállást szervezni a német megszállók ellen. A vádlottakat halálra itélték, a halálos itéleteket Feketehalmy is aláírta.

Gégéjét közben újra megoperálták, melynek következtében örökre megnémult. A háború végén nyugatra menekült, ahol amerikai fogságba került, akik kiadták Magyarországnak. A népbíróság halálra ítélte, de nem végezték ki, hanem cinkostársaival együtt kiadták Jugoszláviának. Itt egy rövid per után újfent halálra ítélték és 1946. november 5-én, Zsablyán felakasztották.

Jegyzetek

Források
 Zinner Tibor–Róna Péter: Szálasiék bilincsben, Lapkiadó Vállalat, 1986,

Az Osztrák–Magyar Monarchia katonái az első világháborúban
A Magyar Királyság katonái a második világháborúban
Erdélyi szászok
1890-ben született személyek
1946-ban elhunyt személyek
Piskiek
Kivégzett magyar háborús bűnösök

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Trevor Linden, Vancouver Canucks 'amicably' part ways
Associated PressJul 25, 2018, 9:30 PM EDT
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The Vancouver Canucks and president of hockey operations Trevor Linden have "amicably" agreed to part ways.
The team said Wednesday that Linden is leaving the organization to "pursue different endeavors." Canucks owner Francesco Aquilini said on Twitter that general manager Jim Benning is slated to take over hockey operations.
Linden spent four years in the role after talking over from Mike Gillis in April 2014.
"This team and this game hold a special place in my life and I leave very optimistic about the direction the Canucks are headed," Linden said. "Most of all, I am excited about the highly skilled group of prospects and young stars that we have assembled."
"From ownership to hockey and business operations, the club is as strong as it's been in years. Above it all, I can feel our fans' sense of hope again and I know the future for the Canucks is very bright."
The former Vancouver captain had 375 goals and 492 assists in 19 NHL seasons with the Canucks, Montreal Canadiens, New York Islanders and Washington Capitals.


City of York Council used to issue discount parking badges to residents. These badges were free of charge, saved 20-30p per hour on parking, and did not have expiration dates.
They recently changed this scheme, but were unsuccessful in letting everyone know they were changing the scheme. I contested the parking ticket, and it was only when they replied to it that I was informed that the residents' scheme had ended, to be replaced by a different programme, that required residents to pay for their discount badges.
Many thanks for your letter, dated 14th April.
On 11th April, I received a PCN attached to my windscreen at Castle Car Park. This surprised me, as I had paid for parking by telephone, and the PCN had been attached before the parking had run out. I had paid at the residents' discount price, as I have a residents' discount badge in my windscreen (see below).
Your letter stated that the discount badge was out of date. Of course, looking at the badge itself, you'll see that there is no expiry date on it, and I was completely unaware that City of York Council had removed this benefit to residents.
Your letter stated that "the Council aimed to conduct an extensive advertising and marketing campaign to ensure all residents were aware of the change before the cut off date of 31st of August" last year. I had never been informed, so although that was your aim, it was not completely achieved.
You stated, "This included articles in the York press". I don't read local newspapers, so did not see this.
This means that someone purchasing a ticket would need to be reading an old sticker at hip height, in order to know the detail, and you wouldn't expect someone to do that unless they were specifically looking out for it. It's not as if the Council has gone out of its way to make these stickers stand out in any way, is it?
Also, of course, a driver will only see these stickers if he or she is (a) looking down and (b) standing in front of the machine. Drivers (like me) who buy their parking tickets by phone or through the parking app will never get to see these stickers. On the phone payment system you could have a voice message stating that the old residents' badges are no longer valid, but you have chosen not to.
Your letter also states that the Council "commissioned a letter drop for every household in York which explained the changes in the resident scheme". I did not receive one of these letters. I also did not receive the annual household refuse collection timetable when it was sent out at the end of last year, but was told that I could order one online (at https://www.york.gov.uk/DoItOnline/Pages/NeighbourhoodServices/RefusePostcodeLookup.aspx). When I enter my postcode, however, my address appears not to be in the system. Try it. I suspect this is why I also did not receive your letter about the parking scheme.
The first I heard that my undated residents' parking badge was no longer valid was when I received your letter of 14 April 2015. I therefore continue to contest the ticket on the grounds that the contravention did not occur (as the Council failed in its duty to inform me that my discount badge was no longer valid) and that this was due to a procedural impropriety.
In your letter you accept that I was unaware of the changes, and that you will cancel the PCN if I buy a new discount badge. As the discount badges are now chargeable, and at a rate greater than the savings I would enjoy as a badge-holder, I will not be purchasing the new badge – I do not park in council-run car parks often enough to warrant paying the badge fee. It's a real shame that the Council has decided to remove the resident's discount benefit and replace it with a revenue-generating scheme instead.
So, I will not be purchasing a badge that will cost me more than the savings it offers, an I will continue to contest this PCN. Should you decide to not cancel the PCN I will appeal the decision. I am sure you will agree that it is fair to cancel this particular penalty charge. After all, it isn't as if I tried to get away without paying – I paid £2.40 for the hour (including pay-by-phone fees – see receipt copy, attached). That's 30p less than I would have paid, had I known the badge was no longer accepted. It's also exactly the same price I would have paid had I been a non-resident, paying at the machine.
It's also worth noting that your online system for contesting PCNs allows drivers to upload documents in support of their claim. However, it rejects .pdf documents. Can you guess in what format your PayByPhone parking system issues receipts? I'll give you a clue – it starts with P and ends with F.
If they don't play nicely, you might want to point out that, having NOT consulted with you, your council have failed in their duty under this guidance.


Understand your child's brain, some simple neuroscience why your child misbehaves!
Understand your parenting style to reduce permissive or over controlling parenting.
Use parental attention and presence effectively, bring joy and connection into your parenting (the Art of Play and the power of Descriptive Praise).
Some homework, practice some strategies to bring back and reflect on next time.
Time to feedback, share and reflect on how Part one strategies have been effective and difficult.
How to manage those difficult times, mornings, bedtimes and mealtimes and sibling battles.
Time for lots of questions and share with other parents who are going through similar situations as you are!
On this occasion I've offered this workshop in two longer parts, this was due to feedback from parents who attended last time. They said wanted more time to share, discuss and talk in the group!
No more than 9 parents attend ( no children). They are small and intimate. In my experience ( and feedback) a smaller group enables parents to ask questions, share and feel safe. All my workshops were sold out the last term, payment is in advance and non-refundable. You can, however, transfer the ticket to another party at any time if you are unable to attend. It is important that you can attend both days. There are no creche facilities and it is for parents only.
If you are wondering about investing time and money in your family's wellbeing. Ponder on this, research published in the Independent reported that parents argue with their children at least 49 minutes a day, the average spat is 8 minutes. That's a lot of wasted time every day when you could be implementing interventions that promote secure connections, problem-solving and joy. Make 2019 the year of change!
When you pay for your ticket, please keep the invoice/receipt as it has a PDF for Address and Directions. If this is not attached, please contact me.


When temperatures in Austin officially reach the "OMG WE'RE DYING" thermometer line, finding ways to stay cool and hydrated while enjoying the outdoors as summer drags on can pose a few challenges. Certainly, one of the best ways to cool off is to splash around in one of our numerous natural swimming holes, but in case you haven't gotten in the water yet, we put together this photo gallery of beautiful Lake Travis sunsets that will have you swooning — and swimming — in no time!
10.) We've all seen this view before, but that doesn't make it any less pretty.
"Lake 143" by Flickr user Jenn Deering Davis, CC licensed.
"Sunset Over Lake Travis" by Flickr user Jenn Deering Davis, CC licensed.
8.) Of course we love this epic piece of whimsy.
"231 – Lake Travis" by Flickr user eyeliam, CC licensed.
7.) The Oasis is well known as a perfect sunset viewpoint. Rightly so!
"At The Oasis – Lake Travis, Austin" by Flickr user Photography at Vine Ripe Design, CC licensed.
"Sunset at the Oasis" by Flickr user Nathaniel F, CC licensed.
Hit 'next' to see the rest.
5.) Aaaand now we're melting.
"Sunset on Lake Travis" by Flickr user Benson Kalahar, CC licensed.
"Sunset Over Lake Travis" by Flickr user Jonathan Vail, CC licensed.
"Lake Travis Filtered" by Flickr user Sam Butler, CC licensed.
2.) We've never been more sure — orange is the best color.
"Lake Travis Sunset" by Flickr user Jonathan Vail, CC licensed.
1.) But then again… this one's got all the colors!
"Lake Travis Sunset – Austin, Texas 2014" by Flickr user Anthony Quintano, CC licensed.
Still not feeling motivated to swim? Reading about some of Austin's most beloved spring-fed pools and natural swimming holes might help! If that doesn't do it for you, then grab a cold, craft beer at any of these amazing local breweries. Stay cool, Austin.
Featured photo: "Lake Travis Sunset – Austin, Texas 2014" by Flickr user Anthony Quintano, CC licensed.


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Q: Получить размеры python requests есть ссылка, надо получить размеры товара, но без клика на кнопку этого сделать невозможно(как мне кажется). При клике сервер отправляет post запрос, и только тогда появляются размеры. Помогите вытащить эти размеры без selenium если это конечно возможно. Уже всю голову сломал

A: post запрос
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data = {
    'productId': '188725',
    'viewName': 'PSizeSelect',
}
response = requests.post('https://tr.calvinklein.com/Urun/GetDetail', data=data)

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Bert Dunkerly is a historian, award-winning author, and speaker who is actively involved in historic preservation and research. He holds a degree in History from St. Vincent College and a Masters in Historic Preservation from Middle Tennessee State University. He has worked at nine historic sites, written nine books, including Redcoats on the Cape Fear, about the Revolution in Wilmington. His research includes archaeology, colonial life, military history, and historic commemoration. Dunkerly is currently a Park Ranger at Richmond National Battlefield Park. He has visited over 400 battlefields and over 700 historic sites worldwide. When not reading or writing, he enjoys hiking, camping, and photography.
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TEXMAL company will present its range of sewing accessories and present new items at the INTERFABRIC.B2B – Spring Textile Marketplace.
TEXMAL offers more than 40,000 models: ribbons, laces, cords, all types of elastic products – these products of European manufacturers are already available today in large and small wholesale. A variety of materials, an abundance of colors and an individual approach to each client will help to find solutions for various tasks.
TEXMAL is the exclusive representative of the French company Satab in Russia. Satab textile accessories are products that meet the highest quality standards for women's, men's and children's clothing, leather haberdashery, fashion accessories and footwear.
The quality, variety and versatility of the TEXMAL assortment have already been appreciated by the company HEKLA in professional premium corporate clothing; Cheryomushki is the largest Russian manufacturer of women's underwear; TM Pompa – in the production of women's clothing and a coat with a membrane; Russia's largest manufacturer of children's clothing Crockid; Fashion House "Vemina"; clothes and shoes manufacturer for all types of dance Grishko®; manufacturer of parachute systems "ParAAvis"; fashion brand "Fashion.Love.Story"; manufacturer of military, tourist and sports equipment GC "CONDOR"; Cartier and many others.
You can get acquainted with the premium segment of the world of fashionable accessories from TEXMAL at the 2nd International Textile Marketplace INTERFABRIC.B2B – Spring, which will be held on February 26-27, 2019, in the Expocentre Fairgrounds, in Pavilion 2, Blue Hall, In dates of the international exhibition CPM (Collection Première Moscow).


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Анатолий Константинович Недайвода (р. 16.04.1938) — руководитель работ по созданию и испытаниям ракетно-космической техники, доктор технических наук, профессор, заслуженный деятель науки РФ.

Биография
Родился 16.04.1938 в селе Приазовье Приазовского района Запорожской области.

Окончил физико-технический факультет Днепропетровского государственного университета (1961). Работал на Воронежском машиностроительном заводе (КБ «Химавтоматика»), затем — в Министерстве общего машиностроения СССР.

С 1965 г. в КБ «Салют», генеральный конструктор КБ — заместитель генерального директора ГКНПЦ (1994—2004).
В течение более 20 лет был техническим руководителем по подготовке и пускам ракет-носителей «Протон». Руководил заводскими и лётными испытаниями первых транспортных кораблей снабжения космического комплекса «Алмаз», модернизацией и разработкой ракет-носителей «Протон-М», «Рокот», «Ангара», разгонных блоков «Бриз-К», «Бриз-М».

Доктор технических наук, профессор.

Дважды лауреат премии Правительства РФ (1996, 2003), лауреат Государственной премии им. Маршала Советского Союза Г. К. Жукова (2003). Заслуженный деятель науки РФ, награждён орденами Знак Почёта (1980), Почёта (2002).

Сочинения:
 Теоретические основы натурной отработки ракет-носителей / А. К. Недайвода. - СПб. : Политехника, 1996. - 255 с. : ил.; 22 см.; ISBN 5-7325-0422-2
 Факторы и условия полета ракетной и космической техники : учеб. пособие / Анатолий К. Недайвода, Анатолий М. Шолом ; Моск. гос. авиац. технол. ун-т. им. К.Э. Циолковского. – М. : [Изд-во МГАТУ], 1995. – 266 с. : ил. – В надзаг.: Моск. гос. авиац. технол. ун-т. им. К.Э. Циолковского. – Библиогр.: с. 263. – 400 экз.

Источники
 Фото http://www.utkin-fond.ru/laureats-gallery/laureat-2004.html
 http://www.khrunichev.ru/main.php?id=1&nid=3575
 https://rvsn.ruzhany.info/0_2018/sergeev_2014_209.html
 фото http://epizodsspace.airbase.ru/bibl/50_let_4_niu/50_let_4_NIU_baikonur.pdf

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Boxer Announces Federal Bill to Codify Abortion Rights
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), flanked by pro-choice leaders, today announced new federal legislation to codify women's right to choose abortion. "The Freedom of Choice Act of 2004 (FOCA) would establish a statutory right to choose within the same parameters articulated by the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade," said Sen. Boxer on the 31st anniversary of that landmark decision. The legislation would strike down any restrictions placed on abortion apart from those in Roe, so poor women would be able to obtain abortions through Medicaid, public hospitals would not be allowed to refuse to perform abortions, women in the military overseas would be able to obtain abortions at military hospitals, and women would not be forced to endure waiting periods and anti-choice propaganda before undergoing abortions. "We need to take steps to secure our right to choose," said Boxer. "It is time to write Roe v. Wade into law."
At a press conference today announcing the Act, Boxer was joined by leaders of the pro-choice movement, including Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority; Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women; Kate Michelman, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America; Gloria Feldt, president of Planned Parenthood; and Vicki Saporta, president of the National Abortion Federation. "What the United States does impacts not only American women but all women worldwide," said Smeal. "One woman dies every three minutes from botched illegal abortions."
Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) also spoke at the press conference, emphasizing that a woman's right to choose is in greater danger today than it has been since before Roe v. Wade. Holding up a picture of President Bush signing the abortion procedure ban surrounded by a group of anti-choice men, Lautenberg called the group a "male-archy" that sent "a clear message to the women of this country: 'your right to make choices about your health and your body is in jeopardy."
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This is a 28″ custom made Human hair wig. It is a lace front wig that allows you to part your hair anywhere along the front portion of the wig from ear to ear. It is made of 12 ounces of virgin human hair, which is a full density.This hair can be washed, heat styled, colored and treated like your own hair.This is a custom blend of green hues including tones of mint, teal, jade and neon green. This piece can be cut and styled however you'd like and you may request it in a longer length. Please keep in mind that the price will increase or decrease according to the length.