To take God's name & die in Varanasi – this is interpreted by Hindus in India as liberation of the soul, release from constant cycle of rebirth and reach the ultimate destination called "Moksha". Kashi Labh MUKTI BHAVAN ("liberation house") is one such place in Varanasi where people check-in to die because they believe dying a good death in Varanasi forgives bad karma (culmination of deeds).
People from all across India, from diverse cultures of Hinduism come to this sacred hospice with their loved ones to celebrate their death, rather their "Mukti" (release of soul). Every moment after checking in to this hospice, they pray to God for death, they start counting the days. They all want the death to happen as soon as possible so that the remains of the body can be offered to River Ganga in Varanasi and soul will get holy escape from rebirth cycle. All the boarders have pious last 15 days of their lives to stay in this Bhavan which would lead them to the doors of heaven. Otherwise they have to return back to their home, the stairway to heaven would be closed down forever.
"While the rest of the world celebrates a new life when a child is born, similarly we celebrate death," said Bhairav Nath Shukla, the manager of 12 room free hospice MuktiBhawan, opening death register of last 100+ years of this hospice where more than 15000 names are listed who have died here. He believes that people are not dying here, otherwise it would be a haunted house. It is the last stop for them before the salvation from the cycle of reincarnation.
Debiprasad is an Indian freelance documentary photographer based out of Kolkata, India. He strongly believes that as a documentary photographer, it is his responsibility to showcase the social changes and its impact on human race and he is committed to leverage photography as the most powerful tool to capture the social changes & behaviors across the globe over the years. His photographic vision is not only to depict social, political and financial issues & conflicts but also to portray surreal beauty and the enduring power of the human spirit. That is why, while photographing Debi always asks himself what changes his photos can bring to the lives of his "subjects" suffering in the darkest corners of the world.
His photographs have been published in many international magazines/websites e.g. Vogue Italia, National Geographic, F-Stop (USA), Fotoforum (Germany), Rammajamma Images (Australia), Society of International Travel & Tourism Photographers (UK), The Telegraph, Life Force Magazine (UK), Dodho Magazine (Spain), Positive Magazine (Germany), Social Documentary Network, Private Photo Review, ViewFind (USA), Edge of Humanity, Monovisions, World Street Photography etc.
Debiprasad's photographs were exhibited in several exhibitions globally e.g. International Exhibition of Art & Photography at Alliance Française, Indo-French Cultural Center, New Delhi, Slovenia International Photographic Exhibition, Plovdiv International Photo Festival Bulgaria, The Search for Economic Justice Exhibition at University of Wisconsin La Crosse Murphy library USA, Photography Group Exhibition "Portraiture" Serbia, PONDY-ART 2016 – DRIVING FORCE Photography Exhibition, Pondicherry, India, Asian University for Women Bangladesh, Instagram First Ever Photography Exhibition in India, Spring Photo Festival Bardaf Slovakia etc.
Debiprasad is associated with many non-profit social organizations/NGOs like Consortium for Street Children (UK), Child in Need Institute (UK/IND), InterAction (USA) etc.
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A nonstandard smoothing in reconstruction of apparent diffusion coefficient profiles from diffusion weighted images
Yunmei Chen 1, , Weihong Guo 2, , Qingguo Zeng 1, and Yijun Liu 3,
Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, United States, United States
Department of Mathematics, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, United States
Department of Psychiatry & Neuroscience, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32653, United States
Received May 2007 Revised December 2007 Published April 2008
We present a new variational framework for simultaneous smoothing and estimation of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) profiles from High Angular Resolution Diffusion-weighted MRI. The model approximates the ADC profiles at each voxel by a 4th order spherical harmonic series (SHS). The coefficients in SHS are obtained by solving a constrained minimization problem. The smoothing with feature preserved is achieved by minimizing a variable exponent, linear growth functional, and the data constraint is determined by the original Stejskal-Tanner equation. The antipodal symmetry and positiveness of the ADC are accommodated in the model. We use these coefficients and variance of the ADC profiles from its mean to classify the diffusion in each voxel as isotropic, anisotropic with single fiber orientation, or two fiber orientations. The proposed model has been applied to both simulated data and HARD MRI human brain data . The experiments demonstrated the effectiveness of our method in estimation and smoothing of ADC profiles and in enhancement of diffusion anisotropy. Further characterization of non-Gaussian diffusion based on the proposed model showed a consistency between our results and known neuroanatomy.
Keywords: Reconstruction, smoothing, spherical harmonic series., diffusion weighted images.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 15A29, 94A0.
Citation: Yunmei Chen, Weihong Guo, Qingguo Zeng, Yijun Liu. A nonstandard smoothing in reconstruction of apparent diffusion coefficient profiles from diffusion weighted images. Inverse Problems & Imaging, 2008, 2 (2) : 205-224. doi: 10.3934/ipi.2008.2.205
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Every year for the past three decades on Christmas Day I have read an original Christmas story to the children who join us for worship at our morning service.
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While finishing her PhD in biomedical science, Allison and her husband moved to Tarrant County to be closer to his job. After running for office herself in the State Senate District 10 primary in 2018, she went on to manage the coordinated campaign for Tarrant County Democrats. This coalition of candidates and volunteers led to flipping 3 districts in the county, and Beto taking the county. Passionate about bringing this coalition-building potential to the 2020 cycle in Tarrant County, Allison formed the Tarrant Together PAC in order to empower all voters.
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Chicago in winter is hot, hot, hot for tourists
By Elizabeth Czapski, Staff Writer
Winter in Chicago means one thing—cold. Chicago might not be Miami, but Chicago gets visitors even in the depths of winter.
The reasons are as varied as the visitors. Some come for conferences and others come for vacation, but one no matter what, the city seeks to welcome all winter tourists with warm smiles and plenty to do.
"People think of the city as being very cold and unfriendly, but actually the weather in Chicago can be great in the winter time, and there are great things to do," Erik Grazetti, director of sales and marketing at the Loews Chicago Hotel, 455 N. Park Drive.
He explained that the city has done a good job of marketing itself as a destination for people in surrounding states who want to break out of winter's "cabin fever" by offering a variety of activities like the Chicago Auto Show, St. Patrick's Day celebrations, sporting events and concerts.
Colleen Sweitzer, marketing manager at the Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park, said in addition to events for the holidays, so much of Chicago's culture involves "great indoor fun," including museum exhibits, theater and music.
Once visitors do get there, there will always be a personal, smiling face at the ready. No matter what the reason or the season, Choose Chicago, the official marketing organization for the city, said their Chicago Greeter program pairs volunteer city greeters with individuals who may want a local to show them around.
The service is available all year long, except on major holidays and it could come in handy for those visitors who come to the city at the last minute and don't have a set itinerary. This sort of a visit is more common in the winter time than some might expect. "Seventy or 80 percent of our business on the [winter] weekends comes from within about a four hour drive of the hotel," Grazetti said. Local travelers, he said, can plan a trip more last-minute than someone who wants to plan a five or six-day trip. "Those types of people tend to go to the warm-weather destinations."
"In the Midwest, we kind of hunker down, so a trip to Chicago is a nice change of pace and a fun getaway in the winter rather than hibernating until spring," Sweitzer said. Fairmont Hotels & Resorts is based in Canada, and Sweitzer said the hotel sees many Canadian tourists in the winter as well.
"We're warm here compared to a lot of places in Canada in the winter," she said.
Still, fewer people are staying at Chicago hotels in the winter. Grazetti said from January to mid-March, the Loews sees a 60 percent room occupancy rate, compared to a 90 percent average during the warmer months. That's good news for winter travelers as fewer people in the hotels means generally cheaper rooms. Grazetti added, however, that occupancy is up, even in the winter time, compared with eight or nine years ago.
Grazetti praised Choose Chicago, which has "done a really good job, particularly I'd say over the last five years or so, in really promoting Chicago as a winter destination, and we've definitely seen the impact of that," he said.
Besides discounts and cabin fever, there's something else that brings people to Chicago in the winter: conventions. Grazetti called Chicago a "conference town."
"The hotel market in the city really kind of thrives on the convention business that is brought into McCormick place and some of the larger venues here," he said.
Grazetti said conventions bring in about 1.2 million people per year, with about 15 percent of those people during the winter months. Despite lower hotel prices, organizations tend to avoid booking conferences in colder months when bad weather could shut down an airport, he said.
The American Student Dental Association took that risk and held its national leadership conference in Chicago in mid-November. Tatum Newbill, Matthew McLeod and Chantol Peterkin, dental students from Howard University in Washington, D.C. attended the conference.
Peterkin said she had been to Chicago during the winter and wasn't worried about the weather. "If you have the time now, why not?" she said.
McLeod said the students discussed preparing for the weather the week before the conference. "I'm wearing layers right now," he said. "I hear it's nicer in the summer."
Other winter conferences this year included the Radiological Society of North America's (RSNA) which attracted tens of thousands of guests and the Muslim American Society's annual national convention at the end of December, hosted about 12,000 attendees. Both conferences were set for McCormick Place.
Bob and Gretchen Montgomery, along with four travel companions, made the trek to Chicago from Dallas and Denver and were taking photos in Millennium Park on a snowy November day.
"We love Chicago," Bob Montgomery said, adding the group had come to celebrate a birthday and an anniversary and to see Hamilton.
The weather in Chicago, they said, wasn't much different from the weather in their home cities. "Weather shouldn't be a hindrance to going somewhere, to have fun," Gretchen Montgomery said.
To find out more about the Chicago Greeter program, call (312) 945-4231 or visit their website at www.chicagogreeter.com or visit the Choose Chicago website at www.choosechicago.com
No 'paws' in winter fun for Fido: Indoor activities for your dog
By Stephanie Racine, Staff Writer
Doggy Paddle
Doggy Paddle, 1430 W. Willow St., has indoor pools for pups, allowing your four-legged friends to get some aquatic exercise even when the lake is frozen over. Swimming for dogs has many physical and psychological benefits, including improved flexibility and mobility and reduced stress and anxiety, according to Doggy Paddle. where, dogs can swim privately, or in groups based on temperament and experience. An instructor is always present while dogs are in the pool. In the new member pool, the instructor will help guide furry friends. Private swimming lessons are also available. Doggy Paddle also has an indoor dog park, use of which is included with a swim. Vaccinations are required and unneutered dogs can be booked for private swims only. Prices begin at $32 for group swims. For more information, visit doggypaddle.com
K9University
K9University, 2945 W Lake St., has an indoor open-play, climate-controlled dog park, open 9–11 a.m. every Saturday and Sunday that allows your dogs to get out all their energy on winter weekends. To use the park, customers pay $15 for the first dog, with $8 for any additional dogs in the family. Staff is on hand at all times, but owners are encouraged to watch and learn what safe play between dogs looks like, according to K9University's website. The space is also available for private reservations to throw a puppy birthday party or get-together. K9University recommends checking its calendar for special events or a specific pup party. Vaccinations are required. K9U also features boarding, training and daycare. For more information, visit k9uchicago.com
See Spot shop…
Running errands with a pup can kill two birds with one stone by giving your dog some exercise while you knock things off your to-do list. Certain stores and shops welcome pets in downtown Chicago, so you can bring your buddy along with you. Besides pet stores such as PetSmart or Kriser's, The Shops at North Bridge, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Bloomingdale's, at 900 N. Michigan Ave., are pet friendly. Be sure to enter in the Walton entrance for Bloomingdale's, as the rest of the mall does not allow dogs. Other stores that allow dogs include LUSH, Restoration Hardware, Anthropologie and the Apple Store.
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Blac Chyna's mom Tokyo Toni is suing Zeus Network! ASAP!
After starring on The Real Blac Chyna this summer, Tokyo Toni starred on her dating show Tokyo Toni's Finding Love ASAP. Both shows were streamed on Zeus Network, a streaming service that charges users $3.99 to access their original content focused on social media influencers. Zeus has shows starring Joseline Hernandez, Black Chyna, B. Simone, and of course Tokyo Toni. Toni, whose real name is Shalana Hunter calls herself "The Godmother of The Internet" and vlogs daily on her Shalana Hunter YouTube Channel. Since parting ways with Zeus, Tokyo has gone to YouTube to air grievances with the Zeus Network.
Tokyo claims they have not paid her what she was promised for both shows and neglected to promote the show properly. Tokyo, an executive producer of her show, also claims that Zeus did not put out the show that as it was agreed to be produced. Today, Tokyo revealed on her YouTube Channel that she has hired a lawyer and a private investigator which in efforts to file a lawsuit against the Zeus Network. Tokyo anticipated a monthly payment but received a cease and desist letter from Zeus which she also shared on her YouTube Channel. The back and forth between Tokyo Toni and Zeus Network made headlines throughout the blogosphere and social media.
The Wendy Williams Show covered both of Tokyo's Zeus shows, the latter which also features Love & Hip Hop mom Lyrica Garrett, and the recent controversy surrounding Tokyo's pay. Zeus Network posted screenshots of checks sent to Tokyo, which later appeared to have differing written legal amounts and numeric amounts. Lala Milan, star of BET's Boomerang reboot and viral sensation shared a similar experience. Milan commented, "The 'finance man' took forever to pay me too.. 2-3 months to be exact, if I would've never said anything they would've kept it pushing.. and I'm NOT the only person who had this issue. Unfortunately most of them problem won't speak up though" Check out Tokyo Toni's Youtube for more tea on Zeus Network, The Kardashians, and whatever she feels like talking about!


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Endangered Species Mural Project #21: Species of the Gila
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It's the 21st installment in the Endangered Species Mural Project! This one happened in Silver City, New Mexico, a beautiful mountain town on the edge of the Gila National Forest, near a wilderness area named for conservationist Aldo Leopold and just downstream from the high reaches of the Gila River, where Native leader Geronimo spent his formative years and cliff dwellings from 800 years ago maintain stately views over stands of burnt pine. Southern New Mexico is ground zero for a bitter fight to return wolves to the US landscape, and the landscape of the Gila holds an unpleasantly large list of animal, insect, and plant species that have been ravaged by society under capitalism.
Most of these murals are painted by myself and one other colleague, but this one is different. I partnered with the Mimbres Arts Council and the Silver City youth mural project to create a collaborative project with 45 of the towns youth, a group ranging in age from 8 to 23. 30 middle school summer-campers collaboratively selected five endangered species to represent, and then created a mural design, through much enthusiastic debate and agitation. We then spent a week installing the painting on the walls of Barnard hall at Western New Mexico University. The mural features the Mexican Grey Wolf, the Mexican Spotted Owl, the Narrow-headed Garter Snake, the Gila Mayfly, and the Gila Trout. One mammal, one bird, one reptile, one insect, and one fish- a balanced representation, and the first time we've been able to paint snakes and insects that aren't butterflies!
The Endangered Species Mural Project is sponsored by the Center for Biological Diversity and is always looking for more places to paint! If you've got a wall, get in touch. Check out the whole list of murals here.
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In June I travelled to the town of Selkirk, Treaty 2 territory, Manitoba, Canada, to paint a mural of the endangered Piping Plover. These charming small shorebirds are threatened by…
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As we know nothing is best. Everything has a two sides. Smart classes are more efficient than general classes for the some factor. It is very easy to make student understand. Each topic is not easy to explain with white board. Some topic requires diagrams but in traditional classes, it is very difficult to make a proper diagram with the help of marker but it can be made easy with the help of computer and projector. Students also get interest in the class.
In smart classes, teacher gets bored in teaching because everything can be explained with the single click. Students do not respect teacher because of online platform study. They say that this can be studied by my self also.
So i can say that every teaching style has individual effect on the students. As i explain, it may be positive and negative. So we should to use the combination of both pattern of teaching. neither teacher nor students will bored in the classroom.
" As we know nothing is best. Everything has a two sides. Smart classes are more efficient than general classes for the some factor. It is very easy to make student understand. Each topic is not easy to explain with white board. Some topic requires diagrams but in traditional classes, it is very difficult to make a proper diagram with the help of marker but it can be made easy with the help of computer and projector. Students also get interest in the class.In smart classes, teacher gets bored in teaching because everything can be explained with the single click. Students do not respect teacher because of online platform study. They say that this can be studied by my self also. So i can say that every teaching style has individual effect on the students. As i explain, it may be positive and negative. So we should to use the combination of both pattern of teaching. neither teacher nor students will bored in the classroom. "
Smart classrooms are being introduced now a days, many school already introduced smartclasses and many are still bringing the technology. Smart classrooms are better then traditional classrooms because in smart classroom student learn a particular thing and also he visualises that particular thing.
" Smart classrooms are being introduced now a days, many school already introduced smartclasses and many are still bringing the technology. Smart classrooms are better then traditional classrooms because in smart classroom student learn a particular thing and also he visualises that particular thing. "
The written room is my favorite room, in this room we have to write so many things.
Firstly I want to say that the writing is more important now a day's, the kid's are know the importance of writing very well.
I my life I gave the first preference to writing room.
" The written room is my favorite room, in this room we have to write so many things. Firstly I want to say that the writing is more important now a day's, the kid's are know the importance of writing very well.I my life I gave the first preference to writing room. "
As we know that Digitalization has taken capture human beings in today era. So, everything in this world has two side either pro and cons. As I support smart class teaching is a great advancement in term of teaching as compared to traditional teaching. Smart class teaching is beneficial for students to get practical knowledge in depth rather than traditional teaching.
It includes online live class, projector class or either presentation of video, files, documents etc which gets fitted directly into the minds of students practically. Traditional teaching includes a black or white board, chalks, markers where teachers can express his/her knowledge in a theoretical way or drawing diagram on board or solving equations.
As we human being has a great sense of power to learn anything either through mugging songs or watching the video. So, these are the advantage of smart class teaching as well as traditional teaching. Cons include teachers get bored due to clicking slides next and getting less interest in the deep study as they thought students get to understand. The students need not feel to attend class regularly due to content(syllabus, lectures) available on the internet, due to which teacher and students interaction get decreased.
" As we know that Digitalization has taken capture human beings in today era. So, everything in this world has two side either pro and cons. As I support smart class teaching is a great advancement in term of teaching as compared to traditional teaching. Smart class teaching is beneficial for students to get practical knowledge in depth rather than traditional teaching. It includes online live class, projector class or either presentation of video, files, documents etc which gets fitted directly into the minds of students practically. Traditional teaching includes a black or white board, chalks, markers where teachers can express his/her knowledge in a theoretical way or drawing diagram on board or solving equations.As we human being has a great sense of power to learn anything either through mugging songs or watching the video. So, these are the advantage of smart class teaching as well as traditional teaching. Cons include teachers get bored due to clicking slides next and getting less interest in the deep study as they thought students get to understand. The students need not feel to attend class regularly due to content(syllabus, lectures) available on the internet, due to which teacher and students interaction get decreased. "
Smart classroom are slightly more advantageous compared to traditional way of teaching. In the Smart classroom teaching, the students get to understand the concepts by the listening and picturising the concepts in the form of slides,video files. While, the traditional way of teaching is limited to black borad and chalk peice, where the teacher cannot explain certain topics without the help of diagrams,animations etc. For example, functioning of machine can be taught by teacher by writing the equations,where the student feels boring and doesn't pave the interest on listening. But in smart classroom, the student visualize the functioning mechaism through slides,videos and color ful diagrams. which makes the keen of student.
But just like having two sides for a coin,along with pros, there are even cons of the smart class teaching. The teacher loses the interest in teaching , because every single point of the concept is presented on large screen, he just need to flip the slides rather explaining them. The student feels not necessary of attending the class as there are sources present, displayed infront of his eyes through digitilazation. So, Smartclassrooms are advantageous being having certain cons, but the problems can be solved by the teacher not relying totally on the smart classrooms.
" Smart classroom are slightly more advantageous compared to traditional way of teaching. In the Smart classroom teaching, the students get to understand the concepts by the listening and picturising the concepts in the form of slides,video files. While, the traditional way of teaching is limited to black borad and chalk peice, where the teacher cannot explain certain topics without the help of diagrams,animations etc. For example, functioning of machine can be taught by teacher by writing the equations,where the student feels boring and doesn't pave the interest on listening. But in smart classroom, the student visualize the functioning mechaism through slides,videos and color ful diagrams. which makes the keen of student. But just like having two sides for a coin,along with pros, there are even cons of the smart class teaching. The teacher loses the interest in teaching , because every single point of the concept is presented on large screen, he just need to flip the slides rather explaining them. The student feels not necessary of attending the class as there are sources present, displayed infront of his eyes through digitilazation. So, Smartclassrooms are advantageous being having certain cons, but the problems can be solved by the teacher not relying totally on the smart classrooms. "
Introduction: As we all know the defination of smart classrooms and traditional classrooms. smart class rooms refers to the classroom which has new and advanced way of study using some projectors and other devices . on the other hands traditional classrooms refers to a classroom in which students have to listen to his/her teachers carefully and teachers teaches through only books. In my opinion both have different impact on the students.
smart classrooms are very interesting platform to students to learn something with fun and students enjoy it beacuse they do not have to stuck from the book. sometimes they see videos or visuals in the projector that makes them curious for the next class. In traditional classroom study means only black board and duster that is very boring i think.
" Introduction: As we all know the defination of smart classrooms and traditional classrooms. smart class rooms refers to the classroom which has new and advanced way of study using some projectors and other devices . on the other hands traditional classrooms refers to a classroom in which students have to listen to his/her teachers carefully and teachers teaches through only books. In my opinion both have different impact on the students. smart classrooms are very interesting platform to students to learn something with fun and students enjoy it beacuse they do not have to stuck from the book. sometimes they see videos or visuals in the projector that makes them curious for the next class. In traditional classroom study means only black board and duster that is very boring i think. "
At first teaching, itself means blackboard or whiteboard or we could say a traditional method of teaching.
We all know the importance of teachers and their teaching methods but nowadays as technology introduced we all forget about the traditional teaching method. In conventional teaching, teachers use chalk and board to explain particular concepts to students in a very easy manner. Before teaching to students a teacher must be prepared for the particular topics. While in a Smart classroom it's very easy to explain topics to students and the most important thing is that in a smart classroom, there are various new technologies are used for teaching purpose in such a way that students found interest in learning. The word "Dhrusham" means visions; Visions are the most powerful memory as all know. Today's world is all about technologies, and these technologies are rapidly changing and increasing, So for that reason, we should know that in this world where we stand. There are some cons also about smart classes because I've earlier mentioned that technology is very powerful but indirectly while using the technology we become lazy and forget our conventional teaching methods.
We should learn how to manage a Smart classroom and conventional classroom.
As per my opinion, we need both type of teaching after all learning is more important than how a teacher teaches us. All teachers should know about their students that how they want to study or learn something new. It doesn't matter what they (teachers) are using for teaching.
So according to me, we should follow both methods Smart classrooms as well as traditional classrooms as per our need.
" Smart classrooms or traditional classrooms teaching which are more effective and why?? At first teaching, itself means blackboard or whiteboard or we could say a traditional method of teaching. We all know the importance of teachers and their teaching methods but nowadays as technology introduced we all forget about the traditional teaching method. In conventional teaching, teachers use chalk and board to explain particular concepts to students in a very easy manner. Before teaching to students a teacher must be prepared for the particular topics. While in a Smart classroom it's very easy to explain topics to students and the most important thing is that in a smart classroom, there are various new technologies are used for teaching purpose in such a way that students found interest in learning. The word "Dhrusham" means visions; Visions are the most powerful memory as all know. Today's world is all about technologies, and these technologies are rapidly changing and increasing, So for that reason, we should know that in this world where we stand. There are some cons also about smart classes because I've earlier mentioned that technology is very powerful but indirectly while using the technology we become lazy and forget our conventional teaching methods. We should learn how to manage a Smart classroom and conventional classroom. As per my opinion, we need both type of teaching after all learning is more important than how a teacher teaches us. All teachers should know about their students that how they want to study or learn something new. It doesn't matter what they (teachers) are using for teaching. So according to me, we should follow both methods Smart classrooms as well as traditional classrooms as per our need. "
I think that smart classsrooms teaching method is more effective as compared to the traditional classrooms. The reasons are apparent. In traditional classrooms chalks and balckboards are used to describe the concepts or topics where it not only consumes time to make drawings and equations neatly but sometimes complex and intricate drawings are not even posssible to draw. But in case of smart classrooms we use internet and projector for teaching. This helps in getting in whatever one wants to learn in no time. Hence this method is very time efficient.
Other thing is that it does not require to come along with books and copies thus reducing burden of load a student carries in his/her back. In this method there is nothing like limited contents a book comprises of, we can access to any topic from across the world. In traditional classrooms every teacher must require to come to the classrooms everyday as the classrooms are located in a specific area. But in smart classrooms they can take lectures from anywhere and anytime. Thus it is very beneficial in modern days where traffic jam is common problem.
" I think that smart classsrooms teaching method is more effective as compared to the traditional classrooms. The reasons are apparent. In traditional classrooms chalks and balckboards are used to describe the concepts or topics where it not only consumes time to make drawings and equations neatly but sometimes complex and intricate drawings are not even posssible to draw. But in case of smart classrooms we use internet and projector for teaching. This helps in getting in whatever one wants to learn in no time. Hence this method is very time efficient.Other thing is that it does not require to come along with books and copies thus reducing burden of load a student carries in his/her back. In this method there is nothing like limited contents a book comprises of, we can access to any topic from across the world. In traditional classrooms every teacher must require to come to the classrooms everyday as the classrooms are located in a specific area. But in smart classrooms they can take lectures from anywhere and anytime. Thus it is very beneficial in modern days where traffic jam is common problem. "
I think smart classrooms teaching is more effective as compare to the traditional classrooms teaching.There are too many ways to improve the education system in smart classroom teaching. Children always want to see the movies or play games on their system so smart classes provide them,this kind of atmosphere in which they really feel same like as how they feel while playing games. I think it is very interesting way to study,so they are really interested about their study,which is very good for them. It is very easy to understand the things in smart classrooms teaching.If I take an example for a child than he always want see the movies in his laptop or TV,he never want read the stories from his notebook so if we show the same story which is in his notebook,on the laptop,he is really interested to see the story on laptop or projector. So showing stories,movies or any kind of activity is the part of smart classrooms teaching. Traditional classrooms teaching is always seems like a boring classes where we really don"t want learn anything.We are in the classrooms because we are bounded to sit inside the classrooms. It is not interesting to sit inside the classroom. On the other hand smart classes provide us to do study with our interest. So it is easy to understand all the things which are going around us. So obviously smart classrooms teaching are more effective as well as interesting as compare to the traditional classrooms teaching.
" I think smart classrooms teaching is more effective as compare to the traditional classrooms teaching.There are too many ways to improve the education system in smart classroom teaching. Children always want to see the movies or play games on their system so smart classes provide them,this kind of atmosphere in which they really feel same like as how they feel while playing games. I think it is very interesting way to study,so they are really interested about their study,which is very good for them. It is very easy to understand the things in smart classrooms teaching.If I take an example for a child than he always want see the movies in his laptop or TV,he never want read the stories from his notebook so if we show the same story which is in his notebook,on the laptop,he is really interested to see the story on laptop or projector. So showing stories,movies or any kind of activity is the part of smart classrooms teaching. Traditional classrooms teaching is always seems like a boring classes where we really don"t want learn anything.We are in the classrooms because we are bounded to sit inside the classrooms. It is not interesting to sit inside the classroom. On the other hand smart classes provide us to do study with our interest. So it is easy to understand all the things which are going around us. So obviously smart classrooms teaching are more effective as well as interesting as compare to the traditional classrooms teaching. "


I am Levi, a southern coyote currently living in the Atlanta, GA area.. An engineer by profession, I write as a hobby and post a few of my works online for others to enjoy. Most of what I write will stay offline, though. It's long and I have plans for it.
Sort of as a balance to the last, more serious story inposted here the other day, I'll let y'all suffer through a nonsense story I wrote last night. How's that sound?
Thank you for the fave, Mysterious Stranger who has never corrected me for improperly rating my work.
Wow your avatar is cool! Nice waork!
I did not draw my avatar! That is the excellent work of sirod. I hope you enjoy the stories though!
You're welcome. Here's hoping you get more attention drawn your way in the coming days.
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All women of Trinity Tower are invited to join W.O.W. for fellowship with the women of our church family. On Friday, September 21st, at 7:00pm, W.O.W. will have a bonfire, games, and fellowship. All women are welcome! For more information on Wisdom of Wisdom, contact the Church Office.
Sunday School for kids ages 3 through 6th grade will begin September 16. We are making a time change for this year. Sunday School will be from 9:30 to 10:15AM. Kids from both services are welcome!
Pastor Dale Reese will be leading a Bible Study on Using the Psalms to Pray. The study will be on Tuesday evenings at 7:00pm beginning September 11th. (If there is enough interest, he would offer a second study on Tuesday mornings.) A sign-up sheet is on the bulletin board in the Narthex.
You would be working with a team of teachers and teaching children ages preschool through sixth grade. If interested, please see Pastor Dale.


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Avoiding AV detection when running mimikatz with sed!
In this post I will be talking about avoiding AV detection when running mimikatz with sed! I came across this on the BlackHills Information Security Website, link here. Props to Carrie Roberts for sharing this. The classic Invoke-Mimikatz.ps1 from the PowerSploit suite located here, does get detected by many Anti-Virus vendors. This really is a great for the Enterprise. However whats not so great is the way in which AV vendors are detecting it and how it can be easily bypassed! Yes AV can easily be bypassed by modifying the powershell file. Using 'sed' in bash we can swap out various text in the ps1 file. For example swapping out mimikatz for mimidogz as in line 1 below.
I have talked about slowing down attackers who are using mimikatz in this post. This is where we can deny access to the clear text credentials in early versions of Windows (up to windows 7). In later versions of windows (8 and above) we can deny access to the hash and the clear text credentials. This will only slow attackers down though as the OS can be modified, however this will make noise on the network. This is really is a must for slowing down attackers. Harden your systems!
How do we remove specific text from each line in a text file in Linux? In this post we cover using Sed to remove text from a line in Linux.
Hopefully you will find this useful!
Using sed to add text to the end of each line in Linux.
In this example we are going to use sed to add text to the end of each line in Linux. More specifically in a text file in Linux using a bash one liner! Why would we want to do this? Multiple reasons if your penetration tester. Creating user name lists or adding ports to the end of IP addresses for example. Sed is used to perform basic text transformations you can read more about it here.
Or if we found we wanted to add 'adm' to the end of each line in a list of user names we would also use sed.
Having these small bash commands to hand is super useful. As a penetration tester I am always find that I need to script something in Bash or PowerShell or needing to produce one liners. Having these commands to ready and waiting saves time looking them up. Hopefully you will also find them useful. Don't forget the man pages for bash commands. Practice, practice and more practice.


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Movie news round-up
Posted On 05/21/2019 09/15/2019 By idarklight
Let's face it, all we really want is a Wu Jing vs Jackie Chan fight.
Ma Li will star in buddy comedy written by Karen McCullah (Legally Blond, Ella Enchanted, She's the Man) . Eva Jin (Sophie's Revenge) will direct. (Deadline)
The story centers on an unlikely pair of alpha females — Zoe, an American tech entrepreneur who relocates her company to China, and Maylin (Ma), a local female bodyguard who is hired to protect her. When Zoe's life is threatened, the odd couple must put aside differences and join forces in order to survive.
Gong Li signed on to star as volleyball legend Lang Ping in upcoming film. (SCMP)
Hu Ge signed on to play coach and husband Jiang Shan in upcoming Li Na epic by Peter Chan. Poster below the cut. (Sina)
Avengers and I, Tonya star Sebastian Stan will star in 355, the spy-thriller starring Fan Bingbing, Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong'o and Penélope Cruz. Marion Cortillard has dropped out due to personal reasons. Filming is expected to begin in July (The Hollywood Reporter)
Filming has concluded for The Climbers, a thriller about the climb to Mt. Everest. The film stars Wu Jing, Jackie Chan, Zhang Ziyi, Zhang Yi, Jing Boran, Hu Ge, and Wang Jingchun. Poster above.
Henry Lau joins the sequel of A Dog's Purpose (LA Times)
Chen Kaige, Guan Hu, Ning Hao, Wen Muye, Xue Xiaolu, Zhang Yibai, and Huang Jianxin team for a film project Me and My Motherland . The film will star Liu Haoran, Arthur Chen Feiyu, Ou Hao, Ge You, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Zhang Yi, among others.
News and analysis on upcoming sci-fi films in China, including a Infinitum Nihil, adaptation of Chen Qiufan's short story, The Year of The Rat. SCMP
Liao Fan attached to upcoming film "Taking Height 501", an war epic about a WWII event when 800 Chinese troops rescued 7,000 British forces from Japanese control. . (Variety)
Donnie Yen English interview, mostly for the final installment of his Ip Man series – Ip Man 4. (The Hollywood Reporter)
While Arthouse Films Struggle in America, in China They Thrive (Indiewire)
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Opening in 1971 the M4 has become an integral part of Berkshire life and these archive shots show the motorway route before it opened.
Following our series looking at the construction of the motorway we can now show you it from above.
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Inquiry Focuses on Leaked Documents at Starr King School for the Ministry
Suzi Spangenberg at the Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley, Calif., on Friday. She denied sending any leaked emails.Credit...Jason Henry for The New York Times
By Mark Oppenheimer
SAN FRANCISCO — Last May, the night before she was to graduate from Starr King School for the Ministry, in Berkeley, Calif., Suzi Spangenberg pulled up in her car to the school's graduation dinner. Before going inside with her son, Ms. Spangenberg, a candidate for ordination as a Unitarian Universalist, checked her iPhone. She was shocked by the email she found.
"A letter was emailed out saying my diploma was being withheld," Ms. Spangenberg said last week, at an interview at her lawyer's office here. "I had people coming from out of state! They asked everyone graduating, 'Please stand up.' And I had just been told I wasn't graduating. So I was sitting there."
Ms. Spangenberg and one fellow student were awarded their diplomas "conditionally" — which is to say, they don't have them yet. This was an early episode in a controversy that still clouds the already foggy skies over this small, pluralist Bay Area seminary. It's the story of a presidential search marred by leaked documents, an inquisition to find the malefactors and a religious community questioning the tolerance for which it is famous.
On March 30, as Starr King was completing its search for a new president, several students received an email — from whom, nobody knows, or will say. The attachment contained the results of surveys gauging support for the three finalists. The approximately 50 respondents, comprising students, faculty, staff and trustees, showed a clear preference for the Rev. Susan Ritchie, a Starr King professor.
The next Friday, the student body president called a meeting to discuss the email, which by then had been forwarded widely. At that meeting, word got around that a new president had just been selected: the Rev. Rosemary Bray McNatt, the minister of the Fourth Universalist Society, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Ms. McNatt was once an editor at The New York Times Book Review.
At the meeting, Abbey Tennis, the student on the search committee, advised students that the survey results were confidential and suggested they not look at them and delete the email.
But that Sunday, April 6, another anonymous email was sent, from an anonymous "Strapped Student," to dozens of students, faculty members and denominational leaders, with a more extensive leak attached: comments that school community members wrote about each candidate. (Copies of both emails were obtained by The Times.) Most comments were unsigned, but one faculty member, the Waldensian theologian Gabriella Lettini, used her name.
"What some of us in leadership have experienced," Professor Lettini wrote of Ms. Ritchie, is "a very individualistic, almost solipsistic way of working."
The Strapped Student email was particularly embarrassing, not just to Professor Lettini and the search committee, but to Starr King, which identifies as both Unitarian Universalist and multireligious. Seminary graduates, as ministers, must be trustworthy to guard confidences. So the school embarked on a quest to find the leakers. After a "restorative justice" consultant failed to resolve the issue, the board appointed a three-person ad hoc investigative committee.
On Oct. 6, that committee sent letters to both Ms. Spangenberg and Julie Brock, the other student with a conditional diploma, demanding that they turn over all emails from March 22 to March 31 "relating to" or "to/from any individuals at Starr King."
The letter also asks each woman to "provide access to your laptop that was in use" during that period. It refers to the board's May 19 letter stating its desire "to assess whether, and if so, to what extent" the two women "bear responsibility for the breach." In other words, the board harbored suspicion that the women were not saying all that they knew.
Ms. Spangenberg and Ms. Brock said that turning over their emails, even if they blacked out certain names, could betray confidences from their works as chaplaincy or ministerial interns. Besides, they said, they did not send either email, and in fact had not read the attachment from Strapped Student. Anonymity is not their style, they said — both pride themselves on their outspokenness.
"I was student body president last year, and Suzi was elected to the board of trustees," said Ms. Brock, who was interviewed from their lawyer's office. "The student body voted for me to take the issues of mistrust to the president, and say we wanted a student ombudsman."
One trustee has resigned in support of the students, as has Ms. Ritchie, who was passed over for the presidency. She said the students were persecuted for airing their views.
"They've both very vocal, and I believe responsible, critics of the Starr King administration," Ms. Ritchie said. "They were the only people inside the school itself who admitted having seen the documents" — the first email — "at a point when it was in very wide distribution." They are paying a price for "being forthright when nobody else in the community was."
Helio Fred Garcia, the chairman of the Starr King board, said that after being warned that the documents were confidential, Ms. Spangenberg and Ms. Brock "continued to circulate the documents and discuss the documents at a meeting they had called." What's more, he said, the two students intended "to distribute them further."
Both women denied calling the student meeting and also denied that they ever forwarded the emails or that they had ever planned to. They did discuss the surveys at the student meeting, after the first email had become a community issue. But Mr. Garcia's statement is "patently false," Ms. Brock wrote in an email.
Meanwhile, Ms. Brock wrote, other students inadvertently forwarded the documents, "but their degrees were not withheld."
Ms. Tennis, Professor Lettini, the three members of the ad hoc investigative committee and Rebecca Ann Parker, the recently retired president, either did not return calls and emails or refused to be interviewed on the record. Mike Vartain, a lawyer for Starr King, wrote in a statement that "the board has asked the seminary personnel to defer any interviews" until the board issues a report. Meanwhile, the board's ad hoc investigative committee has asked for an extension, in "the hope that it can be done by year's end," Mr. Garcia said.
Ms. Spangenberg and Ms. Brock, who cannot get permanent ministerial jobs without degrees, are working as hospital chaplaincy interns. They said they planned to sue soon for their degrees.
And they worry for their religious tradition.
"Unitarian Universalism is not a theologically grounded religion," Ms. Brock said. "If we mess up our principles and values, we don't have a theology to fall back on. We're not Catholic — we can't just keep giving communion until we figure it out. If we don't have our values figured out, our institutions become pointless bureaucracies."


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Nama sees preferred Ringsend Glass Bottle site bidder by end July
Agency has transferred €2bn in surplus cash to Government
Nama's remit to increase housing supply in a dysfunctional market has seen it and its borrowers deliver 17,380 new homes since 2014. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Joe Brennan
Nama chief executive Brendan McDonagh said he expects to be able to recommend a preferred bidder to develop the former Irish Glass Bottle site in Ringsend in Dublin 4 by the end of this month.
"We got four submissions on the 20th of April. We are working through those," Mr McDonagh told reporters at a briefing on Nama's 2019 annual report, without naming the parties involved. "We hope to get this to the board sometime in late July."
Sean Mulryan's Ballymore Group and US real estate group Hines have been among parties vying to take an 80 per cent stake in the 37-acre site, which was expected to achieve €130 million before Covid-19 struck earlier this year.
Developer Johnny Ronan's Ronan Group Real Estate (RGRE) and Los Angeles-based property company Colony Capital also submitted an initial bid last year to partner Nama in building 3,500 homes, 25 per cent of which are earmarked for social and affordable housing, as well as offices and shops on the site.
Nama had receivers appointed to two separate parts of the site between 2011 and 2012 as the owners ran into financial trouble. A company called Becbay, backed by developer Bernard McNamara, property financier Derek Quinlan and State agency the Dublin Docklands Development Authority, owned most of the land at that time. A company linked to boom-era developer Liam Carroll held the remainder.
In its annual report, Nama said it has shrunk by 96 per cent the size of the €32 billion balance sheet it started off with a decade ago by selling off the loans and property of many borrowers that were in default and working with others to maximise returns for taxpayers.
It has been left with loans with a carrying value of €1.23 billion out to 198 debtors as of the end of March, 124 of whom Nama was supporting or offering forbearance to. The remaining 74, or 37 per cent, were subject of enforcement action, including receivership, repossession or other legal proceedings, to recover owed money.
Nama paid a discounted amount of €32 billion, by way of senior and junior bonds, to buy more than €74 billion of risky property loans belonging to five Irish banks. In the past four months the so-called bad bank redeemed the final portion of junior bonds, leaving it debt free, as well as shares held by a group of private investors in a Nama special purpose vehicle (SPV). This SPV was designed to keep the agency's debt off the government's balance sheet at the height of the financial crisis.
The redemptions paved the way for Nama to start paying over the estimated €4 billion lifetime surplus. Some €2 billion was handed over to the exchequer this week, with a further €2 billion earmarked for transfer over the next two years, it said. The agency is scheduled to be wound down by 2025.
Nama posted €265 million of net income last year, its ninth consecutive year of profitability. Total cash generated from 2010 to end-2019 was €45.3 billion, including €39 billion from asset disposals and €6.3 billion from non-disposal income, it said.
Nama's remit to increase housing supply in a dysfunctional market has seen it and its borrowers deliver 17,380 new homes since 2014, of which 11,860 were funded by the agency, it said.
A further 2,250 units are under construction or approved for funding, while planning permission has been secured for an additional 6,200 units.
The agency said that all of its original interests in the special development zone in Dublin's docklands, representing 4.2m sq ft (380,200 sq m) of commercial space and 2,200 apartments, are either under construction, complete, sale agreed or have been sold with planning permission, it said.
Mr McDonagh said that there continues to be demand for office space being developed, despite the Covid-19 shock. "There really hasn't been any big adjustment in office pricing as of yet. But that's not to say there won't be," he said.
However, he noted that "it's no secret" that the retail sector is "very distressed" at the moment. He said that Nama has "very low exposure" to property let out to retailers.
Nama sees Covid-19 having a "material impact" on its cash generation this year. It said, for example, a 5 per cent decline in property values would equate to a €72 million charge, while a three-month delay in realising proceeds from debtor loans could result in a further €32 million profit hit.
Still, Mr McDonagh said he was confident about the €4 billion lifetime surplus target, or "hopefully a bit more if everything goes right".
Joe Brennan is Markets Correspondent of The Irish Times
National Asset Management AgencyBrendan Mcdonagh


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Gen X Needs a Spokesperson
by Kenneth Bator
Baby boomers may be the most 'famous' generation. Maybe that's because it is one of the largest, in terms of number of people in that age range. Or maybe it's because they are among the oldest still walking around.
Love 'em or hate 'em, millennials may be the most talked-about generation. If you attended any business or marketing seminar between 2005 and 2015, you probably heard how important it was for your business to connect with this group.
But what about Generation X?! Some call it "the forgotten generation." Others say these are the ones who have deliberately chosen to lay low to avoid the problems created by baby boomers and the whining that millennials are known for! (Hey, everybody has a right to their opinion… right or wrong.)
Born in 1974, author, comedian, and podcaster Jen Kirkman is quite possibly the perfect spokesperson for Gen X. She candidly shares her opinion on this topic (and whatever else is on her mind) on her shows, Anxiety Bites and No Fun (more so on the latter than the former).
Podcast Magazine® had a chance to grab some time in Jen's busy schedule to have a fun conversation about her podcasts (and their topics, like family and the differences in generations), writing, Netflix specials, and a whole bunch more.
"I think talking about your family is a really fun and easy way to highlight generational differences. If you do it right, it can be funny for both generations. I know that my parents are very special and funny, but they're no different than anyone else's parents. I try to explain things that I know other people experience, too, whether that's some weird thing my mom says about religion or advice they offer based on how they would have done things in the 50s. I think it's pretty relatable."
This interviewer had to know: which of Jen's two podcasts is her favorite (and the easy answer—"I love them both"—wasn't allowed)?
"Anxiety Bites is absolutely my favorite. These are very different shows, but anxiety is what I'm interested in talking and learning about. I also love every single person I've interviewed so far. I learn a lot from them. And I think I'm doing a good thing by getting this information about anxiety out there. I could talk about it 24/7."
Talking about anxiety 24/7 would probably make even the sanest person anxious. Fortunately, Jen doesn't have to, and neither does anyone else. Anxiety Bites releases a new episode every Wednesday, featuring new topics and Jen's interviews with a multitude of experts.
Jen can be considered a junior expert herself, at minimum, given her life-long panic and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD).
Anxiety Bites is yet another example of a talented comedian taking on a pure passion project that overlaps categories.
Interestingly, Jen doesn't recognize herself as a talented comedian. She even quips about how she thinks she's not that funny in the February 23, 2022 episode of Anxiety Bites—"OCD and Comedy."
Granted, comedy is relative. However, to many who listen to No Fun with Jen Kirkman or watch either of her Netflix specials, she is considered pretty darn funny… especially to her fellow Gen Xers.
Perhaps, then, she is simply overthinking or being too self-conscious. "I'm talking about myself on No Fun," Jen pontificates. "Or at least about things from my point of view. I do feel like it must be monotonous for people to listen to. It's not like I'm some cult hero listeners are obsessed with. They're probably out there saying, 'Calm down. I listen to you while I do dishes. Relax… it's fine that you talked about your world view for an hour.'"
Anxiety Bites is clearly number one on Jen's passion-priority list right now, as she quickly returned to it. "I can always find something to say about anxiety. I try to have different facets of anxiety within the topics we talk about every week, yet I'm still only scratching the surface. I'm leaving a lot on the table."
One might expect a bunch of laughs from a podcast like Anxiety Bites, hosted by an established comedian who has been diagnosed with anxiety. After all, if you want to hear the best jokes about alcoholics, you go to an AA meeting… right?
However, while there are certainly plenty of funny moments and stories in Anxiety Bites, Jen approaches her interviews with more of a serious and inquisitive angle.
"I think when you try to interject comedy into something that doesn't need it, it detracts from the content," Jen explains. "I'm not saying it doesn't belong at all. The premise of the podcast is that we're going to talk about anxiety in a way that's not so serious, but it also isn't 'funny.' The comedy is less in your face. For instance, I'm going to have a neuroscientist on, and he's going to use the word 'sh*t' instead of a clinical word. It's not 'funny ha-ha, laughing my *ss off,' but it's different in that it makes light of it. It's not two intellects going at it. I just want it to be easy to listen to and approachable."
Sometimes, the funniest stories are those that aren't intentionally comedic. The flipside is also true in that deliberately injecting humor into a conversation that wasn't meant to be funny can make it anything but, as Jen points out. "I find when you're really tuned into and interested in something, too many jokes can kind of snap you out of it. Have you ever talked to someone, maybe at a party or during dinner, and you're taking in this really interesting story when she brings a joke in, and you're like, 'But get back to the story! I don't need your jokes.' Jokes can ruin a story, too."
While Jen may not be a certified expert on anxiety, she certainly is knowledgeable about the subject and has a few stories herself to share. "I know a lot about anxiety. I have experience with it. I feel like I've had a ton of recovery and have a lot to share. This is just another side of me. I do think that things I've learned from being a funny person for a living definitely help certain aspects of the podcast. That may not be visible to the naked eye—well, to the naked ear—but I know that I'm bringing something a little different to it. It's a nice respite for me."
Someone without anxiety might wonder what it would be like to be diagnosed with anxiety yet still get up on stage in front of hundreds of people to make them laugh. "Ironically, the one place I never had any anxiety is on stage," Jen reflects. "Dr. Jud Brewer, who I interviewed on my show, explained it best. He said when you're doing something you love, whether that's being onstage or knitting, you're in your flow. There's no room for thoughts to come in and start attacking you. So, there's really no room for my brain to go, 'What if you died right now?' and other crazy thoughts. I feel normal feelings on stage. I don't know what it would be like to have stage fright or anxiety. Luckily, I've never had to experience that."
"My anxiety came into play while I was driving on the freeway and flying to and from gigs. It used to be that I'd avoid the things that made me anxious—avoidance was my first choice Then, I eventually realized that I needed to do the very thing in my life causing it, instead of avoiding it."
Fortunately for us, Jen worked hard on overcoming her anxiety. Otherwise, we may have never been exposed to her brand of comedy.
Both of Jen's shows prove one major point: whether you're a baby boomer, Gen Xrer, millennial, or Gen Zer. there's a lot that is funny about each of us. Maybe it takes a comedian, rather than a neuroscientist, to really help us understand that.
August 2022 Issue
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Anxiety Bites Podcasts
Jen Kirkman
No Fun Podcast
No Fun With Jen Kirkman
Comedy Isn't Funny Business
All Fun, Little Guilt
Ashley Hesseltine & Rayna Greenberg: Raw Sex (A)Spiel
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Rhein Gibson (born 1 February 1986) is an Australian professional golfer.

Amateur career
Gibson was a four-time NAIA All-American at Oklahoma Christian University.

Professional career
Gibson made the cut at the 2014 Open Championship, where in the 3rd round he played in a group with Tiger Woods and Jordan Spieth.  Gibson ultimately finished in 72nd place.

In December 2014, he finished fourth in the Web.com Tour qualifying tournament to earn a place on the 2015 Web.com Tour.  In 2015 he finished 33rd in the regular season, then tenth (excluding the regular season Top 25) in the Web.com Finals to earn a place on the PGA Tour for 2015-16.

Gibson finished 199th on the FedEx Cup and 30th on the Web.com Tour money list, but his PGA Tour season was highlighted by a double eagle on the par-5 18th at the Barracuda Championship, worth eight points under the tournament's Modified Stableford scoring system. The shot was worth $50,000 to a Nevada charity, plus $50,000 to a charity of Gibson's choice. Gibson chose Maximum Chances, the autism charity of tournament winner and countryman Greg Chalmers.

In January 2018, an incident involving Gibson and his temporary caddie Brandon Davis caused controversy. Playing in The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic on the Web.com Tour, Gibson was caught on camera throwing his putter headcover at Davis after the caddie had picked his ball up in a hazard – resulting in a one-stroke penalty.

World record
Gibson shot a 55 (−16) for a round of golf on 12 May 2012, at River Oaks Golf Club in Edmond, Oklahoma, setting a Guinness World Record.

Amateur wins
2008 Oklahoma State Amateur

Professional wins (5)

Korn Ferry Tour wins (2)

*Note: The 2019 BMW Charity Pro-Am was shortened to 54 holes due to rain.

Korn Ferry Tour playoff record (0–1)

NGA Tour wins (1)
2013 Avoca Classic

Other wins (2)
2010 Oklahoma Open
2013 Arkansas Open

Results in major championships

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

See also
2015 Web.com Tour Finals graduates
2019 Korn Ferry Tour Finals graduates

References

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Australian male golfers
Oklahoma Christian Eagles golfers
PGA Tour golfers
Korn Ferry Tour graduates
Golfers from Oklahoma
Sportsmen from New South Wales
1986 births
Living people

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