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My name is Mike Vosters. I've been building community and telling stories through music for more than 10 years.
In that time, I've spun more than 500 gigs at venues such as the Williamsburg Hotel, Hotel Chantelle, Goldbar, PhD, Freehold, Electric Room, VNYL, and 50+ more – as well as for corporate clients such as GQ and Amazon. I'm also the resident DJ for Filibuster NYC – an underground event collective.
Beyond that, I've also been a Wedding DJ and Corporate event DJ spinning events across the country.
I've done a bit of everything. I started out as an Oldies DJ hosting brunches, then switched to DJ'ing electronic festivals, and now have spent the past six years spinning top 40 pop and hip-hop.
Mike DJ-ed our wedding, and couldn't have done a better job. I've literally never been to a wedding where the dance floor was so packed for the entire night. It was incredible. He was also extremely professional and easy to work with throughout the entire process. We met in person several times and he asked lots of great questions that showed he really wanted to make the event perfect for us. He was super responsive whenever we had questions, and generally made the whole DJ thing the easiest part of the wedding planning.
This guy was an absolute legend. We hired him for my office's holiday party, and just nailed it. Office dance parties are always inherently awkward, and he created the perrrrrfect vibe to get people going...so much so that it inspired me to write this post. And I'm very serious about my music selection too. And on top of that, he was professional and so easy to work with. Loved him.
Mike DJ'd our wedding and I've never seen a DJ keep so many people on a wedding dance floor for so long. He avoided the cheesy cliche wedding songs but still had plenty of old school tracks and sing alongs to make everyone feel welcome. You want to scream and dance like a maniac? he can go there. You want to slow dance to a sneaky jam you haven't heard in years? He can go there. You want vibes for a sunset cocktail hour? He can go there. Bottom line: When Vosters is on the decks you can go anywhere.
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What types of events will you DJ?
This has never happened, but just so you know. For club gigs, I have a booking agent that has a roster of amazing DJs that would be available for your choosing.
Can I meet with you for a consultation before booking?
Of course. Just fill out my booking form and then I'll schedule a time for a call or to meet-up assuming you're local.
Yes, I have full liability insurance and can provide proof to venues when necessary.
Can I come to one of your gigs?
Of course. Shoot me an email or DM me on IG and I'll send you my latest schedule.
I'm happy to travel anywhere you'd like me to go. I factor in travel expenses into each quote.
Do you do LGQTQ weddings?
Of course. I was the resident DJ for a LGBTQ club promoter for a while.
To be honest, I don't have one anymore. I've gone through so many phases. I grew up on hip-hop, then went had a big electronic phase, then world sounds, and then I started DJ'ing a lot of Top 40, and now I just mix all of them up.
I grew up in the Midwest (Kansas), got schooled in the South (TCU alum), then moved up to NYC. My DJ'ing adventures began in high school. I obsessively burned mix CDs for every occasion, then bought giant speakers to throw parties and the rest is history.
I've DJ'd just about everything. In NYC, I started out spinning Electro-Swing at lounges and fashion parties under the alias Electric Gent, then was the resident DJ for Filibuster NYC – a somewhat underground electronic event community, and then got into the bar and club circuit doing Top 40 and Hip-Hop.


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Teen Pregnancy Rising in Zimbabwe
By Thandeka Moyo	Reprint | | Print | |En español
Zimbabwe has seen a significant increase in the number of teen mothers in recent years. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo/IPS
BULAWAYO, Mar 14 2014 (IPS) - She is only 17, but each morning is a reminder of her losses in life. As Pretty Nyathi* forces herself out of bed, feeds her baby, bundles him on her back and rushes to the market to buy vegetables to sell on the streets of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe she wishes her life were different.
"There is nothing fancy about being a teen mother," she told IPS. "I wish I could reverse the hands of time and go back to school and be like any other girl."
Five years ago her mother died and Nyathi went to live with her grandmother, who runs a shebeen (informal bar) in Tsholotsho, 116 kms north-east of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second-largest city.
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At age 14, she was raped by a shebeen client. "I tried reaching out to my grandmother but she would threaten to throw me out," she said.
Soon the grandmother forced the girl into prostitution with clients. "I have lost count of the men I slept with and I did not use protection," said Nyathi.
In 2012 she ran away to Bulawayo, where she lived in the streets and survived through commercial sex. Two months later she found herself pregnant and was told at the clinic that she was HIV positive. A pastor took her to a shelter, and Nyathi started antiretroviral (ARV) treatment at Mpilo hospital.
"By the grace of the Lord, my baby is HIV negative," said Nyathi.
She lives with a relative but struggles to follow the ARV treatment and have "a balanced diet that would help me live longer and at least see my daughter go to school."
Nyathi is one example of the trend of rising teen pregnancies in Zimbabwe.
In 2011, the fertility rate among teenage girls aged 15-19 was 112 births per 1,000 girls, compared to 99 births per 1,000 girls in 2006, according to the Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey (ZDHS).
"That is a significant increase," Stewart Muchapera, communications analyst with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Zimbabwe, told IPS.
Girls living in the rural areas, like Nyathi, are twice as much affected by teenage pregnancies, at a rate of 144 births per 1,000 girls, compared to 70 births per 1,000 urban girls.
Risky pregnancies
"Puberty is a time of rapid biological change and this stage of development needs to be well managed for young people to pass through it safely," said Muchapera.
Among the many causes of teenage pregnancy, he mentions the lack of adequate, accurate information on puberty, which leaves young people dependent on uninformed peer sources or unguided internet searches.
Some cultural or religious norms such as child marriage and social issues like intergenerational sex, sexual coercion and transactional sex also contribute to teenage pregnancy, he said.
The ZDHS reports that nine out of ten sexually active women aged 15 to 19 are in some form of a marriage, and that for two out of three girls who first had sex before age 15, sex was forced against their will.
In addition, the political and economic crisis of the last decade has brought widespread poverty and disruption of health and education services. Girls engage in risky transactional sex as a means to food, clothes, school and security.
Simanga Nkomo, a midwife in Bulawayo, told IPS that every year she assists younger mothers, some aged 14 and even younger.
"The increase is worrisome, as most of these teenagers are uninformed about maternal health and they risk succumbing to maternal mortality," she said.
The risk of maternal death is twice as high for girls aged 15 to 19 than for women in their 20s, and five times higher for girls aged 10 to 14 years.
Sipho Ncube* is another teen mother from Bulawayo. She had good grades in her last year of high school but quit studying when she fell pregnant and gave birth to a baby boy, now seven months old.
"It started as a fling and one thing led to another until I discovered I was pregnant. I had knowledge of contraceptives but for some reason I did not use any," she told IPS.
Ncube and her baby are HIV negative. But it could easily have been otherwise: national seroprevalence is nearly 15 percent among adults aged 15-49.
Some 120,000 young Zimbabweans aged 15-19 contracted HIV in 2012, and 63.000 of these were girls, estimates the United Nations Children's Fund.
Ncube's parents, who work in South Africa, visit three times a year and send a little money. She looks after her siblings, aged 13 and seven, in a two-room rented house in Mpopoma, a high-density suburb. The baby's father is working in Victoria Falls and helps financially whenever he can.
"I regret everything but I have to live with the silly choices I made," Ncube told IPS. "I wish to go back to school and be able to fend for the baby."
* Names withheld to protect privacy
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Johnson & Johnson pauses coronavirus vaccine study, citing 'unexplained illness' in volunteer
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Johnson & Johnson has temporarily halted its coronavirus vaccine trial after a trial participant contracted an "unexplained illness," the company said, though offered few additional details about the setback.
The pharma firm's 60,000-patient vaccine study was paused due to an adverse reaction in a volunteer, J&J confirmed to Stat News on Monday, citing privacy concerns while declining to outline the patient's symptoms.
"We must respect this participant's privacy. We're also learning more about this participant's illness, and it's important to have all the facts before we share additional information," the company said in a statement.
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While J&J said it had ordered a study pause, it clarified that the FDA has not yet placed the trial on clinical hold, which would entail a longer delay in the testing process.
J&J's vaccine candidate is not the only one thought to be linked to adverse effects in trial volunteers, as AstraZeneca's inoculation has also resulted in unexplained symptoms in two participants, at least one of which developed a "rare neurological condition" following her second dose, prompting the company to pause testing for a safety review. Though the second patient's symptoms have not been disclosed, an unnamed source familiar with the trial told the New York Times they exhibited the same illness as the first, a condition known as transverse myelitis.
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Berkeley Unified School District will discuss whether to eliminate, reduce or keep eight positions at its board meeting Wednesday.
According to BUSD spokesperson Charles Burress, none of the positions proposed to be reduced are currently full-time.
Burress also said in an email that which positions will be reduced depends on several variables and is yet to be determined.
"Variables that could determine what layoffs if any would occur might include future budget revisions approved by the School Board, revenue increases, changes in enrollment, opportunities for affected staff to pick up additional hours in other positions that have unfilled hours, reorganization of job or department responsibilities, and other such factors," Burress said in an email.
BUSD proposed a budget cut of $1.8 million earlier this year, which would include reduction of employees, and faced backlash for the proposed elimination of a vice principal at Malcolm X Elementary School.
To meet the $1.8 million budget cut, BUSD also agreed to reductions in safety officers, a behavioral specialist and a counselor. Additionally, the board agreed to make reductions of $50,000 from the homeless budget, $15,000 from the GATE program budget, $75,000 from legal costs and $127,404 from the child development fund from the General Fund.
The reductions to which the board agreed totaled $1,785,209 on Feb. 21. The board voted unanimously in support of these cuts.
Cade Johnson is the lead schools and communities reporter. Contact him at [email protected] and follow him on Twitter at @cadejohnson98.


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HOUSTON - United Airlines launched its new daily flights between Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) and Santiago, Chile, on December 7.
It is the only nonstop service between Houston and Chile's capital city, according to Chicago-based United Continental Holdings Inc.
Flight 847 will depart IAH at 9:35 p.m. and arrive at Santiago's Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport at 10:10 a.m. the following day. Flight 846 will depart Santiago at 11 p.m. and arrive in Houston at 5:55 a.m. the next day.
United will also add its new weekly Saturday service from Houston to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, on December 20. That flight will operate year-round and increase to daily service from June 4 to August 17, 2015.
Read more at the Houston Business Journal.


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"If you are wondering where the America went that you grew up in and what we can do to get it back….then this book is right for you.
If you are worried about the direction America is going, this is the book!
If you like the conservative way of living, like the Tea Party way of thinking, and dislike anything liberal….this is the book!
If you distrust the government and politicians…..this is the book!
Question: Without a counter revolution and/or radical change taking place, what do you think the probability is of not just stopping, but reversing the liberal/socialist/communist takeover of America over the past 80+ years? I think zero.
I don't care who or what political party is in power from now on: be it Republican, Independent, or anything else. It's too late for easy and/or conventional fixes to repair what is wrong with America. What conservatives need is a New Beginning without cancerous leftists, liberals, socialists, and communists leading them and the country astray and to destruction. There have been many people who have tried to stem these cancers that are spreading like wildfire in America and the world, yet all their attempts have failed miserably. Despite their efforts, these malignancies have only continued to spread and worsen.
It's like they say: "Tough problems require tough solutions" and "strong maladies require strong medicine." Easy, painless, and conventional measures have not and will not work against liberalism, Socialism, Communism, and the rest of their evil ilk. It's that simple: the proof is in the failed results. My plan to save conservative and Christian America from what the malignant cancerous ones have in store for it and us is not going to be easy and painless; but nothing worthwhile ever is. However, it will work if implemented.


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Renowned for its tradition of gracious hospitality, the Jerome Hotel offers all the amenities and services of a deluxe hotel. Built in 1889 at the height of the silver boom in Colorado, Hotel Jerome was the first hotel west of the Mississippi with electricity. In 2012, the Jerome Hotel completed a renovation project, which beautifully preserved the look and feel of this historic Aspen landmark, while providing contemporary updates.
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Andy's treasure hunting cafe and metal detecting blog: How to beach metal detect -part 2- locating the treasure!
and luckily all are quite easy to resolve, so let's get right to it.
The first and by far biggest reason you are finding crap instead of the goodies is because you are looking in the wrong area to begin with. I would hazard a guess that 99% of the time the guy who comes off the beach with the most gold and coins is the one who has put the hours in on that particular beach, never under estimate the value of local knowledge. To the untrained eye or someone that has never been to that beach before the whole beach might look game, but this just is not true. Every beach changes with every tide, sanded is moved from one area and dumped in another which can often lead to several feet of sand between your coil and the targets. I cannot emphasise enough how important it is to put in the hours and take note of the sand levels, failing this get on speaking terms with any local detectorists and ask for their opinions.
Another reason for this can be searching to high up the beach at the high tide line, ring pulls and cans ect are made from aluminium. Aluminium is a very light metal that is not very dense and because of this it will usually get pushed up the beach by the incoming tide and deposited towards the high tide line. Don't get me wrong though parts of the dry sand are defiantly worth investigating for modern losses but in my opinion the the higher up the beach you get, the more crap you will have to put up with.
If you are digging cans and ring pulls on the wet sand you are digging in the wrong area and need to move along. Light aluminium on a far out wet sand area is a big giveaway that the tide has shifted some sand and dumped it where you are detecting. Move along until you start hitting some denser metals such as iron and lead.
Metal detecting on rocks and gravel.
I have found one of the most productive areas of the beach to be areas that are rocky and gravel outcrops such as the one shown in the photo below.
This is because any heavy items such as gold and coins will inevitably find their way into the stones and gravel and get trapped until released by your spade or trowel. At this point I must stress that a small pointed digging trowel is essential for metal detecting in these areas as a big spade or sand scoop will not stand a chance of moving the stones and boulders. Once you have found the technique it will be a breeze and your finds rate will go sky high.
Metal detecting in cuts and troughs.
This is undoubtedly one of the most important tips for your beach metal detecting find rate. If you want to be an expert you need to read the beach and a big part of this is looking for cuts and troughs in the sand. These are caused by the action of the tide and strong winds which literally cut low points into the beach essentially getting you closer to the bedrock by many inches or even feet. Have a study of the photo below and you will see what I mean, not all cuts are as extreme but every inch deeper that you can get plays to your advantage.
Small coils are great on the beach.
One last tip for now is to invest in a small coil for your machine. Many of the manufacturers sell what are often known as sniper coils for their machines. These may not be great for coverings areas of flat wet sand but they are amazing for the rocky little outcrops and from in the iron infested areas. Depth is not necessary in these areas as the finds are closer to the surface stuck between the rocks and stones. There will usually be a lot of iron in these places as well and a large coil will mean you pick up to much iron and lead finds and maybe miss out on the smaller coins and rings. By switching to the smaller coin you will find you get a better response and target separation.
Thanks for sticking all the way through this beach metal detecting guide and please check back for more updates in the near future.
One of the best articles I have seen on this topic. Nice job!
Now you and me know that small coils do the biz - big style! Yet, we still see people using coils that are half the diameter of Yorkshire....find cola tins at 4-ft. Let 'em find out the hard way.
Haha your right there John, to be honest I learnt the hard way myself trying to weed my way through a clay and gravel bed towards the low water mark that was littered with rusty crap, there were good targets mixed in but because my coil was so big I couldn't pick up the good stuff without it coming through as iron!
Thanks for the article. It has some nice tips.


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Shaheen Calls for More Bipartisan Efforts to Boost Funding to Combat Opioid Epidemic
(Washington, DC)—Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) issued the following statement in response to the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Appropriations bill. The legislation outlines government funding for national health priorities, including programs to fight the opioid crisis that kills approximately 90 Americans each day. Today's markup of the bill didn't include substantial increases in funding to combat the opioid epidemic, despite the overwhelming effects this public health crisis has had on communities in New Hampshire and across the nation.
"The opioid epidemic killed hundreds of Granite Staters and thousands of Americans across the nation last year. New Hampshire, and other hard-hit states across the country, need funding to meet this growing crisis. Congress has made incremental progress through government funding and authorizing legislation, but unfortunately, this bill doesn't fully address the scope of this crisis," said Shaheen. "I supported the bill because it includes important investments that will help combat this epidemic, though those investments simply don't go far enough. As the appropriations process moves forward, it's essential that Congress continues to work across the aisle to increase the resources that first responders and treatment providers desperately need."
Senator Jeanne Shaheen serves on the Senate Appropriations Committee and is the lead Democrat on the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Subcommittee. Earlier this year, she helped secure over $700 million in additional opioid treatment resources. Senator Shaheen has been a leader in Congress on combating the opioid crisis, and was instrumental in efforts to obtain emergency funding through the 21st Century Cures Act that was signed into law by President Obama last year.


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Hurricane Irma: 5,300 evacuees hunkered down in 'hurricane proof' Germain Arena
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Some 5,300 evacuees at Germain Arena in Estero are getting ready for a long haul as Hurricane Irma bears down on Southwest Florida,
Shelter manager Bill Rice said the shelter is "hurricane proof," has a backup generator and is serving three meals a day.
More: More than 27,000 without power in Collier, Lee
More: Timeline of what to expect as storm moves into Southwest Florida today
"We don't know how long we're going to be here," he said.
Rice said the doors for outgoing traffic were closed for safety reasons. The shelter, which is run by the Lee County Emergency Operations Center, will continue to take evacuees in throughout the day and even through the storm, he said.
"We still got room for people that want to come in," Rice said. "But I doubt that we're going to get any."
Sunday morning, Rice said he had only counted two more people entering the shelter as heavy rains started to pour in the parking lot.
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To auto-create a GIF or not, that is the question. When you press and hold on the camera's shutter button, it rapidly captures photos one after another. Because Google Photos is awesome and likes... 15/09/2018 · In this Article: Uploading a GIF from Your Computer Sending a GIF from the Web Community Q&A. This wikiHow teaches you how to send a GIF image to a Discord chat from your computer or from the web, using a PC or Mac.
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So my mother's condo has been on the market for about 7 weeks now.
There has been some traffic and a lot of lookers are saying they don't like the set-up with the finished basement, which requires use of a staircase for access to it that is shared (just the staircase) with one other, adjacent property owner. So whenever you leave that lower level room, you'd always have to lock up.
People have also commented that they prefer wood or laminate floors to the wall to wall I just put down, but I mean, at this price point, beggars can't be choosers. The condo was listed at $158K with me chipping in $3K toward the buyer's closing costs. It's hard for me to believe that a 2 bedrm, 1.5 bath condo in Fairfield County, Connecticut could be had for so little money. This is a pretty expensive area to live in.
So my realtor said we should do whatever we can to set my unit apart from that one, price-wise, and to try to get mine sold first, cus otherwise, the sale of the other one would be used as a comparable against mine, and it might make mine look overpriced and force me to drop my price further.
I'm not happy about dropping my price by $5K, but the place needs to be sold, and the stress from having it hanging over my head is not something I want to have over the winter. My carrying costs are about $500 a month. That includes property taxes (discounted becus my mother was eligible as a low income senior but she would have to reapply next year and I'm guessing she would be ineligible becus she was no longer residing at this address), electric (which is $40 a month cus nothing but stove and hot water heater are running, tho this would rise even with minimal heat in the winter) and HOA fees, which are $363 a month.
I really wouldn't care so much about the price if, say, my mother had passed and the money from condo sale was just my and my sister's inheritance. But in this case, my mother's assisted living is running $69,000 a year (and will rise when her condition significantly deteriorates). I won't get much for the condo at this rate, given the already 1 price reduction, realtor's commission (which drops to 5% if they don't sell it in I think we said 2 months) and oh, i just learned of the $1200 or so conveyance fee, which state of CT collects from sellers, just becus it can.
So the net proceeds from condo sale would barely pay for 2 years at her assisted living place.
This weekend there is a weavers conference in Northampton, Mass, and I was able to get the woman I've been dealing with who manages the website for the CT weavers group to post a flyer I created at the conference inviting weavers to stop by my home to buy some cheap yarn on their way home from the conference. Northampton is a few hours away from here but this is a regional conference.
I learned about this conference very last minute from another weaver who stopped by here and so I don't think the webmaster would have received the flyer I mailed until yesterday. (Yeah, she could have just printed it out herself from an emailed copy from me, but she didn't suggest that and since she was doing me a favor, I didn't ask.) So hopefully she will look at her mail and post it today so I get some weavers calling me. I said "By appt only" so I don't have people popping in at all hours. I am hoping I will get at least a few tomorrow afternoon.
The liquidator for the art said he wanted to meet to discuss a few marketing ideas he had, but he failed to follow up after I told him I was working from home yesterday. I'm not sure I can count on him for anything, so at the same time I've been talking to another gallery person who was very interested in showing my mother's art.
On top of all this, my mother still leaves me phone messages saying she misses me terribly and she hasn't seen me in ages, even though I've seen her every weekend for the past year. As usual, stretched too thin, and the issues with selling this condo are also a worry hanging over my head.
I have to accept the fact that I can only do so much and that the condo will sell at what the condo will sell for. It would be better to sell it now at a lower price than refuse to negotiate or lower it further and then be stuck with it, and its monthly carrying costs, through this coming winter and into next spring.
I have to accept the fact that if my mother is still alive when she runs out of money at assisted living in about 4 years tops, I will have to put her in a nursing home. I have to accept that I cannot make everyone's lives perfect, even for those I love. I have to not allow guilt to goad me into stressing and worrying more about all the what ifs.


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