I absolutely love this place. Creative Chakra resets everything- mind, body, skin…how much time do you have? Coming back with family and friends.
This hidden gem by the beach is the epitome of health! I have never experienced anything like the Ayurvedic glow. Every special detail is cultivated with love. I am rejuvenated from head to toe.
Lovely facial- . The Extractions were great. The massage was fantastic. Thank you!
It was really nice, the massage had strong hands and knew what she was doing. Thank you.
The massage was perfect. Not mechanical at all. Adjusted perfectly to meet my individual wishes. Perhaps a little too many activities in the beginning.
Loved my massage with Katie. She is a gifted massage therapist.
Oh my, this was by far the greatest Spa experience I've ever had! Sandy you and your staff were awesome : ) Thanks so much!
I had such a lovely time here. All the services were amazing and everyone was so lovely. I came because I thought this would be a nice way to kick start a 30 day detox. I am doing a diet and exercise program as a way to re-center myself and it was definitely the right choice. I feel zen and empowered to start and complete a healthy journey ahead. Thank you so much for everything. I will be definitely be back soon!
Our experience at this spa was wonderful. Our host was gracious was accommodating. We had the 2 hour fireside Massage. We were able to get an additional half hour. Our masseuse were great. We will definitely go back.
Great experience. I would definietely recommend the fireside massage experience from the sauna to the massage and the jacuzzi bath with aromatherapy. It was great!
Great space! Loved the massage and the jacuzzi bath! I also liked all the products in the bathroom,. The salad was great! Sandie was really welcoming and bubbly.
Julie did a great job working the knots out and my neck and shoulders!
What a lovely experience. I feel absolutely rejuvenated both physically and mentally. Thank you so much.
Wow. The foot massage was unbelievable! I went to another world! Everything was incredible.
Wonderful! So relaxing- I almost fell asleep. I was carrying a lot of stress in my neck and back and now that feels completely gone. Absolutely wonderful massage I will definitely be back.
Small and peaceful. No crowds of people. My type of place.
The rich smells emanating from your spa was a constant positive sensory experience. A wonderful massage, finished with a tingling salt scrubs and tapped off with infrared spa. Great!
Sandie, Erin and Julie treated us like royalty, never rushing us and making us feel at home. Their prices are extremely affordable. If you find yourself in Marina Del Rey or thereabouts, you MUST treat yourself and make an appointment at Creative Chakra Spa!!
My massage therapist was amazing, it was one of the best massages I've ever had! Thank you, we'll be back next time we're in town!
Everything was amazing. Massage was great, sauna very nice, a little cold outside, but the jacuzzi fixed that problem.
Oils were beautifully scented; Great pressure on the massage!
So relaxing and the stretches were good too!
I felt very relaxed to the point where I even fell asleep for a little! Would definitely come again – muscles are loosened.
A nice, much needed stress release.
Fantastic massage, wish it was endless!
Loved it. Really great Jacuzzi (with the oxygen of course)!
Loved the relaxing time, very soothing.
Very cute place. Excellent massage! Thanks!
Really good! I enjoyed the scalp massage very much, Thanks! Will come back!
I loved the care that my masseuse had for my body and the quality of training was excellent. Definitely coming back.
It was absolutely amazing from start to finish. I could have had shoulder work done the entire time and still be in complete heaven-it was like being worked by magic hands! Thank you, I will definitely be back!
I enjoyed the massage. The staff was very professional and knew what they were doing.
Lovely experience. People are kind and attentive. The massage was perfect and the facial left me looking 15yrs younger.
A heavenly experience which really nourished my body and soul. I took advantage of the Ayurvedic treatments. Dry brushing followed by massage and then the cleansing and focusing Shirodhara treatment. I was able to fit this in on my last day and am floating out onto the plane feeling relaxed and centered. Thank you!
Lovely space, calming music, wonderful technique, loved the sauna, and the lavender! So relaxing, thank you!
Great hideaway in the city! I fell asleep, I was so relaxed! Great birthday!
Feel very relaxed. Ready to take my husband home.
Great pressure on the massage and the facial felt great!
Sauna was great. Massage was just what we needed!
Found you online in 2014 and finally made it here. Your website is "zen"-sational!
Great atmosphere and infrared sauna is awesome. Great Massage! I feel so relaxed!
So relaxing! Fantastic massage!. Skin feels great! Thank you!
I loved the atmosphere, the knowledge and Erin. She was amazing. Erin did some reflexology on my feet for sciatic nerve pain and I was immediately relieved! I would like to integrate this as well as massage therapy in my health clinic to help decrease my pain patients reliance on narcotic analgesia! Thank you!
Relaxing and also invigorating. Loved it!
It was great! I even signed up for six more sessions!
Great service & the massage was very relaxing. Thank you!
Atmosphere was really good and exotic. You can have a sauna after the massage.
My concerns were addressed with care; I'm in a much better condition after Dana's great work. Thank you.
I loved how attentive everyone was as soon as I got here. We received tea upon arrival & I like how when I got a massage he asked me questions on pressure; I feel great. And there was a shower! I will be back.
Fabulous place and treatments feeling amazing after the massage. Thanks a million.
I loved the scrub and hydrotherapy bath. Very relaxing.
Massage was wonderful and enjoyed the bath.
It was a very calming and relaxing experience. A great first experience for a massage, sauna, and spa all in one.
I loved the way they treat their guests. They make you feel welcomed. Really thankful. Thank you!
Great massage and amazing energy. Thank you…looking forward to more.
Loved ambiance and felt so comfortable and welcomed. Great chakra massage.
Thank you! Best massage ever. So relaxing and the time flies by.
Best massage I have had; loved the sauna and I would highly recommend this place to anyone!
Powerful feminine and human nurture. Very positive and peaceful experience healing at one of its best.
It was very relaxing and Julie applied just the right amount of pressure. The mud wrap was excellent!!
First time here and I fell in love with the awesome massage that I received from Pat. She is great. She was able to relieve some tension that other masseuses were not able to fully relieve.
The pressure was perfect and soo relaxing. The head massage was a first for me and phenomenal. Am leaving so relaxed and refreshed. Superb!
This was my first "spa" treatment and I have a feeling all future experiences will not live up to it! Thanks so much!
Lovely experience. Everyone was friendly, the atmosphere inviting, the best massage I've ever had. Thank you!
Great massage! Loved the combination of styles and the aromatherapy used. Perfect pressure!
Loved the massage as well as the professionalism!
Facility feels like home. The therapist was warm, friendly. Felt like I knew her for years. My treatment was amazing.
This was the most in-depth massage I have ever received. Pat's massage techniques really helped to release tense muscle groups.
A very relaxing experience. Wonderful staff and amenities.
The salt scrub was a unique experience and the staff was incredibly helpful.
Proof that heaven is here on Earth. Erin was absolutely an angel. Her intuition and pure compassion spoke to me in a language my soul has been hungry for. She is love, Erin is love. Erin is light, Erin is beautiful, Erin is magical and cosmic. Thank you so much!
Entire experience felt like urban oasis. Fun to share "couples" experience with my wife. I was very happy with the full spa experience from "station to station." Having received a gift certificate, I was slightly confused as to what I should expect and everything that was included prior to receiving. Perhaps outline the full itinerary before entering massage room, just so I don't have to ask too much about how long/what's next, etc. Very happy with everything!
Great tissue massage – calm and peaceful environment; I feel rejuvenated. Relaxing music and great customer service.
Excellent job! I feel great. Expectations were met.
Comforting and relaxing. Just what I needed to decompress!
Took time for much needed extractions. Thank you!
Super good experience! Only thing would be more jacuzzi time, but other than that fantastic.
Thank you so much for getting us in on such short notice. Very relaxing experience. Hot tub was my favorite; would love longer time in there.
Great energy! Wonderful place to reconnect to your own self.
Amazing! I feel fresh and rejuvenated. Very relaxing and nourishing.
Pat was excellent!! The hospitality was even more awesome!!
We enjoyed the quiet, peaceful setting. It was very enjoyable!
Excellent massage! I feel so much better than before. Strong pressure and listened to feedback and focused on sore areas. Thank you!
Sandie was very warm and hospitable. My massage was relaxing. Thank you! I also enjoyed the sauna.
My massage was absolutely amazing! Pat was phenomenal! I needed an intense deep tissue massage and that's exactly what I received. She is extremely talented. She found all the areas that needed attention and I appreciated all her efforts in giving me a very healing massage.
The massage was excellent, exactly what I needed. I feel relaxed and at peace, a very beautiful, love-filled experience.
Loved the forearm, toes, and knee massages.
Come in feeling tired and worn out, left feeling like a million bucks. Thanks for everything.
I had a great experience at this spa! I feel relaxed and rejuvenated. Thank you kindly.
The services were amazingly tailored to my needs. Very relaxing.
It was wonderfully amazing. Thank you – we will be back.
The time to relax in the sauna before and after in the jacuzzi really helped make the massage even more effective. Exactly what we needed.
Amazing! Pat is the best ever!
I loved that she talked me through the areas she was working on and how my daily routine effects my body. Amazing. The indian head massage was incredible.
We loved that your spa was a relaxing oasis amidst the hustle and bustle of L.A. Truly a rejuvenating experience. We feel recharged!
Perfect for relaxation (ambiance). Two thumbs up for the massage!!!
Thanks Ms Sandie, I've tried countless spas and healing centers during my travels but Creative Chakra always reminds me why they are the best.
Very nice setting and relaxing. Perfect for what we wanted.
Therapist very kind and calming. Oils smelled amazing. Heal much more clean.
Everything was perfect from beginning to end. Very welcoming environment.
Lovely experience. I was able to unwind and relax. Thanks again.
We loved that your spa was a relaxing oasis amidst the hustle and bustle of LA. Truly a rejuvenating experience. We feel recharged!
Pat is amazing. I love the attention to detail inside and out. I can forget I'm in Venice. I always fell spoiled and leave feeling that I'm always treated better than I deserve. Very lovely. Thank you!
It was an amazing facial and massage. Probably one of the bestI've ever had.
Everything was so relaxing. Loved the head, stomach massage.
Wonderful people + wonderful experience. I left totally relaxed and recharged.
Absolutely wonderful! I came in with a terrible headache and sore neck and back. I feel so much better now and will definitely be back and will recommend to friends.
Thank you for a great relaxing experience. Washed out all the kinks!
Infuse! Just what I needed, and while we didn't plan on sticking around for the sauna, we're so glad we did it. The whole experience was fantastic.
Had a really great experience! I felt comfortable and very welcomed. Loved the massage, the fact that we got to use the sauna and the shower as well (great shower).
Everything was amazing! Very relaxing. So glad we met unexpectedly!
The stones felt awesome. I've never felt anything like that. It was very relaxing.
The overall style + interior was very relaxing. The staff was very accommodating and I liked being alone to go at my own pace.
I really liked the head massage and stones.
The vibe and the people are what made my experience. The service was very personalized, unique and authentic! I treated myself for my birthday here and was treated like a queen! Beyond grateful! Highly recommend coming here, I definitely will be coming back.
This was the best spa experience I have ever had. Massage therapist were very kind and friendly.The best graduation gift I can give my girlfriend.
This was the perfect experience for relaxation and massage.The therapists were very kind and accommodating. Thanks.
Amazing! Staff was great, everyone was friendly.
WOW!! Fantastic facial, amenities, LOVELY staff! Awesome Experience! Thanks!
Incredible amenities – best shower of my life, and a fantastic massage to boot. I will be back!
I feel a sense of renewal, clarity and peace every time I come to this lovely healing space. I haven't been able to come to Creative Chakra in over a year and a half and my thoughts always come back to it. The best in all of Los Angeles! Thank you Sandie!
Pat has wonderful technique! I've had many massages and I'm impressed by her ability to read my body's needs and areas that need attention.
Everyone was great, I got the relaxation that I came for. Thank you so much!
Great stuff you guys had that sets you apart from other places I've been to: location, tea, bathroom amenities, little boxes for my clothes, sauna, little comfy couches, friendly staff, nice decorations, Great massage!
Loved the warm environment, amazing massages and alone time with my husband on the island themed patio in the jacuzzi.
Was very peaceful! Would come back again. I felt very comfortable and relaxed. The whole treatment would definitely recommend.
It was wonderfully restorative and relaxing. Thank you for an amazing experience!
Lovely. Very relaxing and calming.
I loved the relaxing experience from beginning to end.
Oils were lovely and we enjoyed the sauna.
It was a very relaxing experience. My massage therapist was awesome.
First time, love the change. Thank you.
Really great experience. I love how you cater to exactly what I need. It's why I come back. Hard to find a place like this. I'm very relaxed. Thank you!
The environment, the vibes, the owner, the sauna, the shower, the food. Everything was amazing! Truly amazing! Thank you!
EVERYTHING was amazing. The service, the owner. Pat was wonderful and through. The food, the VIBE. I HIGHLY recommend it. Thank you for everything.
The massage was so great and relaxing!
Pat did an amazing job relieving the stress in my deep tissues. I would highly recommend her to anyone who asks and would love to come here again.
First timer! Very relaxing combo of sauna and massage!
Very intimate environment. Love the service!
I really enjoyed the place, definitely will leave a yelp review. One of the best places around!
Wonderful! You hit the right spots!
I felt there was actual physical progress made as opposed to just leisure. Best massage I've had in years.
Just what I needed. Relaxing and balancing and a little kneading out of knots.
Great massage, very relaxing, calming and refreshing!
Wonderful experience! Lovely paradise with attention to detail.
It was a very relaxing experience. My guy was awesome!
Very friendly and worked problem areas nicely.
The crystal bowls were amazing! Very relaxing and soothing to start the experience! The massage was great as well! Overall GREAT experience, thank you!
Was very peaceful! Would come back again. The crystal bowls were my favorite part – I felt really comfortable and relaxed during the whole treatment. Would definitely recommend it.
My massage therapist was incredibly attentive to my needs and made sure I was comfortable the whole time. She incorporated my feelings into the release of tension which was highly effective. I would be a regular if we lived in California!
Phenomenal! I will be back and I would like to see Sedona again. She read me very well and I appreciate her so much!
I thoroughly enjoyed my experience. I felt completely relaxed during the session, and even more so once it was finished. Very relaxing & very friendly!
I felt like I was in heaven, this is the kind of experience I hope for when going to a spa, "that you don't want to leave." I felt so comforted, & at peace. Sedona had the touch making me feel super relaxed and enlightened. Everything felt so amazing. I feel healed and healthy. The environment is perfectly beautiful and serene as well. Thank you!!
The jacuzzi before the massage! How quiet and calm the place was. I can feel the great vibes and energy which was stress free and peaceful! I truly was able to relax and escape reality for the few hours that I was here. Thank you so very much!
Thank you, thank you! My best friend and I came to you needing to heal mind, body, and spirit. The staff at this sanctuary of a spa really made sure we felt restored and rejuvenated. The small touches go such a long way. We will be back!
The massage was lovely; particularly the head massage!
Such a calming atmosphere, I loved every minute I was here. I was also happily surprised when I got to use the sauna! I will definitely be coming back!
My experience was incredible! I absolutely loved the hot stone massage!
While going through a hectic period of life, this experience certainly helped me relax and reflect. Much needed!
My neck had been so tight from traveling for the last three weeks, and the massage was amazing! Was so lovely to have the knots in my neck "ironed" out!
I absolutely loved the massage…it was the first time I felt something that deep and specific on my shoulders! Love the ambiance. Would definitely come back.
The massage and the sauna were great! I especially loved the massage, the privacy, and the music. Very cozy and intimate space. Overall was a lovely and relaxing experience!
The best part of my time at the spa was the massage! Super relaxing environment, friendly staff, outstanding facilities. Sandie is really personable and goes out of her way to make it the best experience for you. I wish I could have spent a lot more time here!
The jacuzzi bath and ambiance of the entire facility is excellent! I also love that the different areas create a spa journey of relaxation. My least favorite part was that I didn't get to spend the ENTIRE day here! I would book again here in a heartbeat. Definitely a must see for locals and tourists!
Peaceful location, relaxing environment. I give it a 10!
Had an excellent experience here at Creative Chakra! Julie is a wonderfully attentive and skilled masseuse. The staff were so helpful and friendly, and the facilities are amazing; the ambiance is peaceful and relaxing. I would definitely come back here!
Great communication from both my massage therapist and Sandie! Would definitely recommend and come back!
Personable, kind, and healing! What an awesome experience!
First and foremost I've been to a lot of spas, and I know when a staff is attentive and NOT! Sandie was amazing and the service is exceptional! This is not your cookie cutter McDonald's type of thing, it's personable, reasonable and most of all Sandie is a sweetheart! Go find out for yourself and see what I mean. Ciao!
I couldn't be more happy with the recommendation that I received to check out this location. They under charged and over delivered for 3 1/2 hours of service. From the moment we walked in we were immediately overwhelmed with a feeling of bliss. Everyone was friendly and extremely polite. It was a great experience. My wife and I being very new to this and not having the chance to get many breaks, we were extremely pleased. Sandie greeted my wife and I and went into a nice history of the facility and what they offer. She was Great! The infrastructure was surreal and comforting. I think going to a place knowing that it's authentic to the community and built by a single owner goes a long way. We were not looking for a large commercial facility, but somewhere that real people were grounded and connected to your wellbeing. I would recommend Creative Chakra to more people. It brings a unique ambiance that is well deserving for anyone needing a nice mental hiatus on life.
I have been a client for over 9 years, I get consistent quality massages, it is always clean and the staff are always friendly, kind and informative. True healers and great eco friendly products. It is steps from the sand and free parking too. This small business is always improving the facility and I enjoying visiting and seeing all the new additions that is done with passion.
Kristal Fiorentino 5/15/2016 Wonderful! Love the porch and great massages!
Creative Chakra Spa has an amazing vibe. My massage was fantastic and very spot on. The ambience was both spiritual and peaceful.
The overall experience was great. The massage therapists were very attentive to our needs and made the experience relaxing and rejuvenating. I really like the variety of treatments and options.
Very cozy and relaxing. My massage was fantastic. I had an awesome time!
What a great and relaxing time! It's definitely a nice and friendly place. I enjoyed every minute of my time there.
It was so amazing – really felt like exactly what I needed! Very satisfied. The sand is so close! I'm sure it's inevitable because of the beach, and so charming and interesting. The staff was informative and knowledgeable.
I felt very comfortable and relaxed. The staff was extremely kind. It was an all-around amazing experience and I will be back soon!
The experience was very comforting and healing in a beautiful setting – very balancing and calming. I loved my hand-mixed oils! The staff were very helpful. Sandie is an Earth Angel!
It was very relaxing, just what I wanted and needed.
It was marvelous, relaxing and great! Everyone was courteous and professional. Keep on doing what you do!
My honey and I kept saying we felt as though we had left LA and were on vacation! I spent my birthday here at CCS and it was the best choice I have ever made. It was so private, we literally didn't see anyone else there during our stay. Both of our therapist were professional and talented (I would know I'm an MT myself). And the owner and staff not only helped us, but guided us step by step from parking to leaving. This was the escape I needed for my bday!
Great prices for what you get! They treat couples like royalty.
Jenny J 3/07/2016 I had a really excellent massage. location is perfect, chill atmosphere. arrive early for parking (if you are parking on the street which is free at this beach area) prices are wonderful!
The experience was very peaceful, calm and beautiful. Perfect! Everyone was so nice!
Your Spa is a Miracle! You are everything a human body needs to heal, rejuvenate, balance, relax and evolve. Thank you so very much! The private areas to move from one experience to another are unsurpassed. I will return again and again and recommend you always!
Amazing. Most relaxing. Beautiful. Its perfect the way it is here at Creative Chakra Spa!
Amazing! I was satisfied over and beyond!
Very, very pleasant, relaxing and enjoyable, excellent massage, peaceful & delightful, everyone was friendly and accommodating. Perfect!
Excellent, extraordinary and beautiful, everything was wonderful!
Amazing tranquil, 10stars, it is perfect.
Very relaxing- the atmosphere was beautiful and the mint tea was a nice touch.The massage was very good. I like that I was asked about my pressure preference and explained what was going to take place during the massage before we began. It was pleasant and calm and relaxing. Everything was very clean.
It felt great, prefect pressure. Very relaxing, Yes! Both masseuses were friendly and attentive. Beautiful "micro-areas" & different seating. Relaxing areas. Gorgeous patio and Garden.
The space has cozy artisan feel; the oils were high quality an amazing; chakra teas were also very fresh and potent- as an Ayurvedic, I rarely say that! Sandie seemed in her element nurturing. Thank you for a lovely end to my week.
My therapist was amazing, intuitive and skilled- very nurturing. Love the music and the starlights on the ceiling. Lovely ambience,. The garden is beautiful.
This place is a hidden treasure. I will be coming back for sure. The sauna was amazing. My massage wrap and therapist were awesome. I left feeling like a new woman! I would definitely recommend.
Seriously good, loved relaxing outside afterward in the fresh air. We feel so well taken care of..
Very Ah-mazing. You all were wonderful! Thank You!
Music lovely and peaceful. Large spacious room, great front porch, and shaded garden.very delightful. Things were as described-owner very dedicated to peaceful experience. beautiful shower- a health filled atmosphere.
Not your typical "massage mill"! very personal attention. The staff clearly cared about your experience. A little out of the box hideaway.
Beautiful ambience, great staff, massage therapist did a great job of restoring my energy & body.
The staff was amazing. This was a very Agape experience and I would come back again. Very relaxing. The pressure was just right with my massage. Everything was perfect.
Beyond amazing, restorative she knew exactly what hurt and how to heal. Soothing, magical, relaxing, and mystical. Excellent sauna, magnificent tea products and great hair treatments.
Best Spa experience I've had, will glady come again and tell all my friends about this place.
Your therapists have magic hands and energy. I've had hundreds of massages and this one is at the very top of my list! Very peaceful, very zen, thank you.
I have been coming here for years, excellent & I always feel relaxed & rejuvenated when I leave, the facial is excellent. Perfect, very relaxing & soothing.
Outstanding facility, relaxing day, enjoyed the ambience, please keep doing what you do.
I came here for my birthday & I want to do it again next year! I felt like I had an out of body experience, the massage & facial was delicious.
Kyrina Bluerose 4/29/15 – I wanted to come here for years & finally got here. Massage has nice pressure & a variety of techniques. Everyone was very friendly & the body products were lovely. The infrared sauna is very smart to relax after a massage session. I have been to many spas & I like this place for the handcrafted products & the feeling of privacy.
Small, sound environment! Very friendly and courteous. Advertise more!
One of the best spa experiences. Perfect blend of therapeutic and relaxation. Sandy and Bryan were so amazing. Beautiful. Everything was perfect.
Najmah Muhammed 4/24/15 – It wasn't just relaxing, it was awakening! Excellent, wonderful, amazing, everything I needed!! Absolute perfection!!! Everyone is always very welcoming, and kind. To Julian, thank you so very much for your patience, your warm energy, and your kindness.
Very friendly, I just wanted to stay. Creative Chakra Spa has customer service, the client experience as well as the spa journey and spa interior design down to a science!
Very intimate, I love the setting and very appropriate for our party. I love the tea & amazing Mayumi, she really paid attention to my needs, especially the rejuvenation given to my shoulder and everyone was very attentive.
Everything was awesome! Wish I lived here so I could return! Will recommend to local friends!
Fantastic! Love the intimacy of the location! Flexibility of the staff! Great. Wow. Julian really listened to me: made adjustments. Very personal, relaxed and accommodating. Would love to return. Personal and thoughtful. Comfy robes!
Love the package, it was so relaxing. This is the best massage ever, very accommodating to me as I was feeling under the weather and also making sure I was comfortable, everything was great.
Everyone was very focused on my experience being the best, it was excellent & exactly what I needed. Julian fixed my knee! I highly recommend it, absolutely awesome & enjoyable.
It's as close to heaven as it can be. Everything has been thought of with great detail which gives you peace of mind. Sandie & the Creative Chakra Spa Team are beautiful beings focused on customer needs ensuring total relaxation.
Cozy, peaceful, good music, I liked outside too! The staff was friendly and courteous. I was greeted with pampering by my masseuse (Just perfect!) who offered me tea and an extra foot rub while I waited for my partner. Amazing fantasyland – Private suite is beautiful and soulful. And to shower and enter a private Jacuzzi through an inviting courtyard oasis was dreamy. PS: It's not just a massage, it's an experience. Especially by the beach! Great Prices for what you get! They treat couples like royalty.
My Experience was excellent at the end of the day. Sandie makes sure her clients walk away elated with the service. I am grateful! Julian touched the pads of the pressure points slowly and with care. It felt so relieving. Not too much pressure. I didn't flinch in pain once!
Great beach yoga watching the sunset. What a way to visit LA and wonderful, caring people. I did a lay-over from the airport as it is only 10-15 mins away from LAX and I had 4 1/2 hours to use wisely. A great retreat, I spent almost 4 hours, at the tea room, the beach, an excellent massage with a skilled and informative massage therapist and then we finished with the sunset beach yoga. I took some pictures for facebook of course, lovely, special memories. I will make this a regular ocurance as my routine is flying in and out of LA for work every 3 weeks.
In a way this is a follow-up review. Realizing that I needed help knocking out a stubborn ear/sinus infection I asked Sandie if she could suggest a sacral cranial massage therapist and she set up and appointment with Luna. Next day I came in for a 1.5 hour sacral cranial massage that provided significant relief – not only the pressure in my bead but issues with tension in my neck and shoulder that were affecting my main complaint. To my surprise, the treatment also put me in touch with emotional issues that I'd resisted dealing with and though i felt quite sad, I was grateful for being able to connect with those feelings. Luna also gave me a series of exercises that I've begun to do at my place which are helping release tightness and stiffness that I've acquired over time. Luna is extremely sensitive to the exact range of appropriate pressure in her work which I greatly appreciate having heard stories of what can happen when a massage therapist lacks that sensitivity. During the session I also had my first ever hot stone massage and just thinking about it makes me "Ahhhhhh!" and crave another one. Luna is a superb therapist and I highly recommend her and look forward to another session. Thank you Sandie for that wonderful suggestion!
Thank you so much for your wonderful support of Life Rolls On Foundation for the last 15 years, Jesse loves your massages so thank you for taking care of him. We could not be more proud to partner with Creative Chakra Spa at our beach events for all those with spinal cord injuries! You and your team are truly delightful to work with and our surfers could not stop raving about the AMAZING massages they received during They Will Surf Again year after year!
We look forward to working with you again soon, but until then, please know how much we appreciate your friendship. Best wishes for continued success and thank you for supporting our efforts to demonstrate that "life rolls on" after spinal cord injury!
The massage was very pleasant and refreshing. The ambiance was clean, warm, and with nice music all around. The facility overall is one of the best around. It's wonderful that they are expanding without increasing prices! Makes us want to come back again and again! The zen of the facility is very calming and relaxing. One suggestion would be that I would really love a cup of hot tea in addition to cold water while in the Jacuzzi. I loved it when Ting massaged my arms and finished with finger tips. It helps me relieve my tension. I love that everyone checked up on us. I love the couch with all the pillows, great relaxation area. Five stars! I'll be back.
Wow. My boyfriend surprised me with a couples massage package at the Creative Chakra Spa for our anniversary last night! I was overwhelmed with gratitude and appreciation when I saw all that was in store for me. We were warmly created by the owner, Sandie when we arrived and she had hot tea waiting for us as we relaxed for a few moments to fill out our one piece of paperwork. It was simple and easy. We then were guided into our couple massage treatment room where two tables were set up with heating pads and heating blankets, warm fuzzy bathrobes and nice professional massage sheets. Everything was fresh and CLEAN! There was a beautiful sofabed with a white regal canopy overhead. This was where we could lay our clothes and have our consultations with our individual therapist before the massage. It felt comfortable like a warm home while simultaneously being very proper and professional.
My therapist Michael was fantastic. His strokes were smooth and complete and his pressure was firm and even without going too deep. my boyfriend's massage therapist was Dana and he was making happy sounds the whole time so I think he was satisfied.
Dana who was helpful in guiding us to our next step after massage to the aromatherapy where we enjoyed water and allowed the steam to surround with aromatic bliss. It never got too uncomfortably hot in there but just the right temperature and for just the right amount of time, which was up to us to gauge when we felt complete. When we decided to move on from aromatherapy room, we went back to the main room to wrap up our evening package with facials by Sandie. Sandie uses all her own Creative Chakra products and they were quite yummy smelling and mostly natural ingredients.
I'm normally only interested in deep tissue as I have been an Athelete most of my life but the Chakra massage I received at the Creative Chakra Spa set a whole new standard for me! The Chakra Massage was delightful! It was the perfect combination of body work ,hot stones & energy work and they even have their own freshly made chakra oils. Not only was I relaxed at the end but I felt like my whole system was rejuvenated. I had a deep sense of calmness in my body ; a clarity in my brain. I felt like my whole body was communicating again! I highly recommend this treatment! Its worth every penny and more! Dana my therapist was excellent and the spa itself was so relaxing! I will be doing this again soon and this definitely part of my regular health routine!
I visited Creative Chakra Spa a few weeks ago while vacationing in Venice. I am a fairly experienced spa customer and I'm not easily impressed, or easily fooled. I can say with confidence that the owner, Sandie, is very invested in creating thoughtfully harmonized treatment experiences for her customers. Her staff members are knowledgable and professional. I would definitely return.
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Russian oligarchs manipulate American politics, media and elections
How do Russian oligarchs manipulate American politics and media to threaten democracy? Follow the money.
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Threat to democracy
A STATE OF EMERGENCY FOR DEMOCRACY. By attacking the rule of law, Republicans are helping Putin and Xi. - Hillary Rodham Clinton and Dan Schwerin
"Russian president Vladimir Putin pines for the old Russian empire and takes Ukraine's independence as a personal affront. But the invasion of Ukraine is not a limited regional dispute between neighbors. Putin is also motivated by a deep opposition to democracy more broadly. That is why he has waged a long-running shadow war to destabilize free societies and discredit democratic institutions in the United States and around the world. Ukraine is one flash point in a larger global struggle between democracy and autocracy—one that stretches from the steppes of Eastern Europe to the waters of the Indo-Pacific to the halls of the U.S. Capitol." - The Altantic
NRA - Russian - Trump connection
"For years, top NRA officials have cultivated close relationships with influential Russians with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Recently, we learned that political operatives close to the NRA attempted to broker a meeting between representatives of the Russian government and the Trump campaign on the sidelines of the 2016 NRA convention. Now, the FBI is "investigating whether a top Russian banker with ties to the Kremlin illegally funneled money to the National Rifle Association to help Donald Trump win the presidency."
The NRA spent $55 million – or perhaps tens of millions more, according to some reports -- to influence the 2016 elections. That's far more than they ever spent during a previous election. But no one knows where the money came from." - Every Town For Gun Safety
Putin's List
The database of the Free Russia Forum, "PUTIN'S LIST", does not replace the work of law enforcement agencies, but considers it necessary given the absence of an independent court system in Russia. The agency aims to collect and systematize data on crimes and those who use their connections to the government to evade legal responsibility.The project aims to gather information related to persons of the following categories:
The "POWER-HOLDERS" of Russia, who seized and unlawfully hold power in the country;
The "EXECUTORS", who, as public servants and MPs, directly implement the Kremlin's policy of felonious retention of power in the country;
The "TRANSGRESSORS", from among the judges, prosecutors, investigators, lawyers, law enforcement officers and their agents responsible for the direct implementation of the repression and prosecution of the opposition;
The "AGGRESSORS", who are responsible for carrying out the policies of war, occupation and chaos against other countries, in violation of international law, in the political interests of the leadership of the country;
The "BENEFICIARIES", foreign partners of the Russian government who contribute to the implementation of its felonious plans to undermine international law and global peace, justice and democracy.
The "OLIGARCHS AND CORRUPT OFFICIALS", who are responsible for plundering Russia on a state-wide scale, by direct membership in the Russian government or proximity to it through relatives and other proxies;
The "PROPAGANDISTS", who are responsible for creating and disseminating state information, deliberately deceiving people in the interests of the political leadership and creating an atmosphere of widespread hatred and intolerance;
The "ACCOMPLICES", who reap personal profit from cooperation with government authorities, to the detriment of the interests of the country and its citizens;
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Сэр Уильям Хобсон Миллс ;(6 июля 1873 – 22 февраля 1959) — английский .

Биография
Уильям Хобсон Миллс родился в Хаммерсмите 6 июля 1873 года. Он был старшим из пяти детей Уильяма Генри Миллса, архитектора и Эмили Уайлс Квинси (урожденной Хобсон). Осенью 1873 года семья переехала в родной город Эмили, Сполдинг, Линкольншир. Миллс получил образование в средней школе Сполдинга, а затем в Аппингем-скул.
В октябре 1892 года он поступил в Джизус-колледж в Кембридже и изучал естественные науки. Травма ахиллова сухожилия, полученная в Аппингеме, вынудила его взять академический отпуск в течение 1893-1894 учебного года. Он вернулся в Кембридж в октябре 1894 года и окончил 1 часть обучения по естественным наукам в 1896 году, а вторую часть обучения(по химии) в 1897 году. Миллс начал исследования в химической лаборатории Кембриджского университета под руководством новозеландского химика . Ему было предложено работать над преобразованием 2,4-дибензоил мезитилена в пентациклическую систему, содержащую две антрахиноновые группы.
В октябре 1899 года Миллс отправился в Тюбинген, чтобы поработать два года под руководством профессора , где он работал вместе с Невилом Сиджвиком. Они стали друзьями на всю жизнь. В 1902 году он был назначен заведующим химическим отделением , где он пробыл до 1912 года. В течение этого времени он вместе с другими сотрудниками работал над экспериментальным доказательством теории Ганча-Вернера об изомерии оксимов. Он также опубликовал совместную работу со своей женой Милдред Мэй Гостлинг о производных динафтантрацена.
В 1912 году трагическая смерть Хамфри Оуэна Джонса оставила серьезную брешь в штате органической химии в Кембридже. Миллс был назначен на должность демонстратора, а вскоре после этого был избран стипендиатом и преподавателем естественных наук в Джизус-колледж.
Во время Первой мировой войны лаборатории, руководимой Миллсом, было поручено определить структуру химического вещества пинацианола и определить надежный способ его синтеза. Химическое вещество было изобретено немецкой компанией в 1905 году и во время войны включалось в фотопластинки для повышения их чувствительности к красной части видимого спектра. Благодаря использованию пинацианола фотографии, сделанные немецкими самолетами, были более детализованы, чем фотографии, сделанные пилотами союзников на немецких фронтах. В его штате, в частности, была студентка-химик Фрэнсис Мэри Хамер (1894-1980).В результате их усилий "почти весь пинацианол, используемый в новой британской панхроматической пленке, был получен из Кембриджских лабораторий", которыми руководил Миллс. Это значительно улучшило изображения, сделанные на рассвете и помогло Британии в войне.
В 1919 году Миллс был назначен университетским преподавателем. В 1931 году университет создал для него персональную читательскую аудиторию по стереохимии, которую он занимал до своей отставки в 1938 году. В этот период своей карьеры Миллс продолжал свою работу по изомерии оксимов, а также изучал спироциклические соединения, стереохимию молекул с ограниченным вращением и метиновые красители.

Семья
Миллс женился на коллеге-химике Милдред Мэй Гостлинг в 1903 году. У них было три дочери и сын: Марджори, Сильвия Маргарет, Изабель и Уильям Джордж Куинси. Миллс умер в своем доме в Кембридже 22 февраля 1959 года; у него остались жена и дети. Милдред Миллс умерла в больнице  19 февраля 1962 года.
Сильвия Маргарет вышла замуж за зоолога Ричарда Джулиуса Памфри в Честертоне, Кембридж, в 1933 году. У них родилась дочь и двое сыновей.
Уильям Джордж Куинси, хирург, женился на Кэтрин Нон Хон в 1938 году. У них было две дочери и сын. Он умер в Паркстоне 25 июня 1988 года, оставив наследство в размере более 570 000 фунтов стерлингов.

Награды и звания
 Член Лондонского королевского общества , 1923
 Медаль Лонгстаффа Королевского Химического Общества, 1930
 Медаль Дэви Лондонского Королевского Общества, 1935
 Вице-магистр Джизус-колледжа, 1940-1948
 Президент Химического Общества, 1942–1943 and 1943–1944

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>> do want to point it out.
>> This is how I'd handle it, in my current code.
WebKit is fixing bugs related to it.
It's a lot better than the previous situation of using: style="opacity: 0".
That is, you can only send that click during a user gesture.
> your markup example? Only one role would ever be used; only "button"
> is defined, and that semantic is represented by the element anyway.
> future definition such as "represents a file".
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That's the same issue as #2.
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By ritchie58,
January 16, 2012 in Immunet General Forum
Scammers are posing as Facebook security in chat sessions to try to trick people into providing their credit card information, Kaspersky Lab warned.
"This Facebook phishing attack is pretty interesting because it does not just try to trick the victim into visiting a phishing Web site. It will reuse the stolen information and login to the compromised account and change both profile picture and name," writes David Jacoby, a Kaspersky Lab Expert, in a blog post.
"The profile picture will be changed to the Facebook logo and the name will be translated to 'Facebook Security'," he wrote.
After an account has been compromised, the scammers will use it to send out an instant message to the victim's contacts pretending to be Facebook Security, according to Jacoby. The message says "Last Warning: Your Facebook account will be turned off Because someone has reported you. Please do re-confirm your account security by:" and it provides a URL ending in ".vu" for the recipient to visit, he said.
The link redirects to a Web site that is made to look like a Facebook page and it prompts the visitor to provide name, e-mail, password, security question, e-mail account password, country and birth date, the blog post says. After that information is provided another page appears with a heading "Payment Verification" that asks for the first six digits of the person's credit card. A subsequent page then asks the visitor to verify the information by providing the full credit card number, expieration date and security code as well as billing address, Jacoby wrote.
A Facebook spokesman said the company was looking into the report and provided this statement:
Protecting the people who use Facebook from spam and malicious content is a top priority for us. We have spent several years developing protections to stop spam from spreading and have sought to cooperate with other industry leaders to keep users and their data safe. We've built enforcement mechanisms to quickly shut down malicious Pages, accounts and applications that attempt to spread spam by deceiving users or by exploiting several well-known browser vulnerabilities. We have also enrolled those impacted by spam through checkpoints so they can remediate their accounts and learn how to better protect themselves while on Facebook. Beyond these protections, we've put in place backend measures to reduce the rate of these attacks and will continue to iterate on our defenses to find new ways to protect people.
In addition to the engineering teams that build tools to block spam we also have a dedicated enforcement team that seeks to identify those responsible for spam and works with out legal team to ensure appropriate consequences follow.
As always, we advise people not to click on links in strange messages, even if those messages have been sent or posted by friends. This tip and many more can be found on our Facebook Security Page (
http://www.facebook.com/security
), which is followed by over four million people.
Meanwhile, there's another scam going on, this one involving e-mails, that's leveraging the Facebook brand. Scammers are sending e-mails purportedly from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg that claim that the recipients have won an iPad or iPhone as part of a special promotion sponsored by Facebook and Apple. The recipients are then directed to a page that asks for personal information and tricks them into agreeing to a small charge for participating in the offer.
Originally posted at InSecurity Complex By, Elinor Mills
This screenshot shows what the scam Facebook chat message looks like.
(Credit: Kaspersky Lab)


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Climate Change Discussion Gets Heated
Bend City Council to continue fine-tuning climate action plan
By Brian Jennings
At last week's City Council meeting, Mayor Jim Clinton asked his fellow council members, "Do you think city government facilities and operations should have a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?" They all said yes. Then he asked, "Do you think the community, at large, should have a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emission?" The answer was again yes, but with concerns raised by council member Victor Chudowsky that led to a heated exchange between Chudowsky and councilor Barb Campbell.
Chudowsky suggested that the city focus on specific actions rather than goals that may not be achievable due to circumstances that the city can't control, including economic fluctuations that consume more fossil fuels when the economy is hot and less when it is not.
"Rather than focusing on community goals and percentage reductions, focus on actually doing things," he suggested.
"I don't understand what you are saying," Campbell responded, and charged, "You don't want to have a plan."
Chudowsky replied, "You are putting words in my mouth."
The city's draft resolution for its climate action plan states: "By the year 2030 the city will make all City of Bend owned facilities and city operations carbon neutral, defined as zero net emissions of greenhouse gases." The resolution also states that by 2030, "The City of Bend organization will reduce its fossil fuel use by 40 percent and 70 percent by 2050."
The council stopped short of suggesting those same standards be extended to the private sector, but Mayor Clinton told the Source Weekly that he believes a majority of the council wants to extend the same goals community wide and he expects that discussion to occur at the next Council meeting, slated for Sept. 7. He says extending the 40/70 reduction goals is in keeping with the Paris Climate Change Agreement negotiated by 195 nations and adopted by consensus on Dec. 12, 2015.
The city resolution under consideration addresses the private sector. "Community wide (including businesses, governmental and non-governmental organizations, and individuals that live and/or work in Bend) fossil fuel reduction targets will be set through a collaborative process." Fossil fuel usage from 2010, or more recent years, will be used to establish a baseline for setting community-wide targets. Timelines would mirror City of Bend government targets. Mayor Clinton says nearly 200 businesses in Bend have signed on in support of the resolution.
Councilor Chudowsky, who says he will not run for re-election, also expressed concerns that a climate action plan should not address personal behavior such as food consumption and diet. Councilor Doug Knight responded, "This resolution in no way contemplates dietary direction. We're not going to tell people what to eat, how to wash their clothes or flush their toilets." Knight said the plan is an extension of what Bend represents. Mayor Clinton labels Chudowsky's concerns as "strawman arguments."
The Council also debated using softer language for its 2030 and 2050 goals. Rather than stating that the city will achieve a 40 percent reduction by 2030 and a 70 percent reduction of fossil fuels by 2050, Knight suggested less rigid language. "We will seek to achieve these goals by 2030 and 2050," he suggested.
The Council also agreed that a steering committee should be established in the 2017 budget cycle that would be staffed by a member of the City Manager's office. The Climate Action Steering Committee would be composed of 11 members from business, environmental agencies, local government, and institutions like OSU Cascades. At least one member will be 18 years old or younger at the time of initial appointment. The steering committee would help the city develop the overall city climate action plan for city operations and facilities. It would also provide the city with guidance and advice on whether to establish and adopt community and business targets for reduction of fossil fuels, including what those targets should be and how they should be implemented.
Councilor Campbell suggested that the city's climate action plan is "The patriotic thing to do," and follows the Paris Accords on climate change. Mayor Clinton agreed. "We're just joining the rest of the world to reduce carbon fossil fuels. We're going to be part of the leadership and do our part as a city." Addressing those who deny climate change, Clinton says, "There is plenty to worry about. Deniers shouldn't be so confident they are right. What if they aren't?" Using Bend as an example, Clinton told the Source Weekly that, "Bend is more vulnerable than other cities. We need snow and that won't happen if the climate continues to warm."
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Spending the day with Jim Harbaugh, main attraction
Big crowds, all kinds of questions follow the Wolverines coach, entering his second season with big expectations
Spending the day with Jim Harbaugh, main attraction Big crowds, all kinds of questions follow the Wolverines coach, entering his second season with big expectations Check out this story on Freep.com: http://on.freep.com/2a2vRu4
Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press Published 1:46 a.m. ET July 26, 2016 | Updated 10:50 a.m. ET July 26, 2016
Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh addresses the media during Big Ten Media Days at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago. Harbaugh, who is in his second season at U-M after coaching in the NFL, was a big draw all day long.(Photo: David Banks/USA TODAY Sports)
CHICAGO – It is 11:30 a.m. and the biggest name in college football has been found.
A Michigan assistant just ran into Jim Harbaugh in the restroom.
"So, he should be around here," the assistant said.
And inside the Hyatt McCormick Place in Chicago, which is spacious and stretches across a street, full with ballrooms and conference rooms and enough room to hide even the most recognizable of people, "around here" could be anywhere.
There is a room with radio stations broadcasting remotely. Harbaugh is not in there.
There is a room that serves Fox Sports as a makeshift studio. Not there.
A man in a black jacket with a gold, block "M" pinned to his lapel walks by. Harbaugh could be somewhere over there, past a Big Ten sign designating a television broadcast area, a rival coach and some players. There, outside a doorway to the Clark ballroom, is another Michigan man with a pin. And another. Harbaugh has to be in there.
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"Our goal is to get better every day," he says, sitting down for an interview with Sirius XM Radio's College Football Nation. It is not the last time he will say that today. He talks about improving each and every day and will talk about it again in the media workroom later, standing on a stage in front of hundreds of journalists on Twitter and television cameras focused on the fever that is Jim Harbaugh, which has infected the sport since he returned to U-M in January 2015.
He will say it again sitting on a podium after that, with reporters standing four and five people deep, cameras still centered, offering nonanswers to some questions, good answers to others and on at least one occasion, not taking the bait from an Ohio-based reporter trying to troll him for a sound bite.
Harbaugh was the main attraction at the first of two Big Ten football media days Monday. He has been throughout an off-season that saw him jet across the country for satellite camps and star in rap videos, drawing criticism and jealousy — none that he cares about — and leading him back to Chicago, where he was a longtime quarterback for the Bears, the momentum he has created at U-M evident thorughout the day.
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The first thing you notice about Harbaugh on this day is his cap.
He is wearing a navy blue U-M cap, with the skinny block "M" that he likes, and he is not wearing khakis. It is late morning and he is doing the first of many interviews with host Taylor Zarzour and former Alabama quarterback Greg McIlroy on satellite radio.
Harbaugh has a bad habit — his family has been trying to get him to quit — and he is spitting it into a mini diet Pepsi bottle. He is going back and forth with the guys, the banter turning to his wardrobe.
"I feel a bit silly," Harbaugh says about wearing a suit, plaid gray with a midnight blue shirt underneath. He is the only coach in attendance wearing a cap. Later, he explains it's because he needs a haircut and he likes the skinny block "M."
"It's a bit silly that we're all getting up here wearing suits together," he says.
Harbaugh talks about the team's quarterback battle and how he's too old to jump in and show them how it's done these days, but insists he hasn't lost it.
"When I was in my early 40's, I was more apt to jump in and show them," he says. "Now, it's, 'Is this the visual I want these guys to see? I still got it. Never really lost it, but it's more of a one-day thing."
Harbaugh is asked if he could see himself coaching at U-M forever. If he thinks that way.
"Yeah, I think that way," he says. "God willing."
It is 12:30 p.m. and Harbaugh is through the first portion of the day's interrogation. U-M staffers note how much more comfortable he appears this year, his second year, coming off a 10-3 season, than he did the previous year.
After the satellite radio interview, he disappears into the next room for another interview. Then, he participates in a video shoot for Big Ten Network commercials and marketing videos.
The production crew raves about Harbaugh.
"Even him doing nothing is funny," one says.
"It's like an onside kick is coming," another says. "You just wait for the other shoe to drop."
In some of the shots, he is texting. In others, just deadpanning to the camera.
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He walks out and takes his first picture of the day. It is with a U-M junior named Sam Elrad, who is an intern for Big Ten Network. He small-talks with ESPN.com senior writer Gene Wojchiechowski, who moments earlier describes Harbaugh as somebody "with his own strange football DNA that hasn't been replicated and probably never will."
Wojchiechowski, who has covered college football since the early 1990's, likens him to heart paddles put on people to revive them.
"That's what he did at Michigan," he says. "He's one of a kind."
After lunch, he emerges for the first of two media sessions. First, a quick question-and-answer inside the media workroom. A Big Ten Network videographer walks backward on his walk there. A photographer hustles past the U-M contingence to get a few shots. He signs a football for a young girl and a photograph of him and legendary coach Bo Schembechler for her dad. The further he walks, the more people trail, until he is ushered through a STAFF ONLY door.
After getting introduced, he talks at length about his three players in attendance: Cornerback Jourdan Lewis, tight end Jake Butt and wide receiver Amara Darboh.
The first question he gets is about his social media presence, and the off-season.
"I don't know how entertaining it has been," he says, simply. He's asked about the upcoming Real Madrid soccer game at Michigan Stadium and says he'll be rooting for whichever team plays the hardest. More questions, about what he has learned in a year, how the team will react to the spotlight, the Big Ten East and how he will utilize his impressive freshman class.
Harbaugh says playing time will be determined in meritocracy fashion and wonders if he has just made up a word. Disappointed in his efforts, he has not. Later, he speaks glowingly of Jabrill Peppers and says "anything's accomplishable" with Peppers. Now he has. He talks about the rap video with Bay Area rapper Bailey, and says, "I think the cool people liked it."
On the way to the first-floor podium room, where a number of coaches and players will take the podium for up to an hour, he stops to speak with a U-M alum named Wayne Brandt, who lives in northwest Indiana. Brandt collects U-M yearbooks and gifts the 1943 version to Harbaugh.
Brandt called him a "force of nature," which Harbaugh dismissed. "But he really is," Brandt says. He also collects steins, which Harbaugh signed, before strolling into the podium room.
It is around 2:25 p.m. when Harbaugh walks into the room.
There are nearly 40 people around his podium, which is unoccupied. He is live on set on Big Ten Network. There are nine television cameras pointed toward his empty seat, everyone anticipating the main event, which shows up at 2:34 p.m. One television reporter, WXYZ Channel 7's Justin Rose, boasts that he was the first to the scene, a "veteran move" given the crowd soon to follow.
Harbaugh first explains the cap. Then he starts answering question after question that he has undoubtedly answered before on this day, about his message to the players and the injury report and delving deep into a "submarine" for fall training camp.
"Jim, what resonates with you about being the face of the program?"
"Doesn't mean anything to me," he says. "Has no resonation for me."
"Jim, are you guys on schedule?"
"Yeah, we've scheduled practices. I have them all on my computer."
"Jim, about all the headlines you're in …"
"I'm not really in the headlines all the time," he says.
Asked about the rap song again, he says, "It's a respectable and good song."
He leaves the podium nearly an hour later, trying to stay on schedule for future commitments, which tonight includes speaking at an event for the late Chad Carr, the grandson of longtime U-M coach Lloyd Carr, who died in November from Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, an inoperable brain tumor.
Reporters stop him. When he is finally out of their reach, a man asks for an autograph.
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His name is Gerald Blanc. He lives in Chicago. He wants to show Harbaugh a tattoo on his right bicep, of a block "M," with "GO BLUE" underneath. Harbaugh has never signed someone's skin before, he says, but with a Sharpie pen, scribbles his name above.
The "A" in Harbaugh is not to his liking.
"I think I can do better than that," he says.
He tells Blanc to wash it off and come back tomorrow for another try. Minutes later, Blanc is unsure if he can bring himself to wash it off.
"But the fact that Jim Harbaugh is not 100% happy with it, I think I might have to take it off and have him re-do it," Blanc says.
Harbaugh looks at it again and says, "Yeah, we gotta wash that off. I'm not pleased with that."
"Nice bicep," Harbaugh says, and walks away.
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Opinion May 20, 2019
Is AI-generated music worth anything?
Cherie Hu
Virtual influencer Lil Miquela
Public recognition of AI-generated music as viable art has gradually expanded from the confines of esoteric research centers and experimental composers into the commercial, playlistable, VC-funded mainstream.
But amidst all the hype, fear, skepticism and capital around AI-generated music, there's still very little conversation about a core piece of information that any successful business should have: market value.
We've heard the types of songs that creative algorithms can output today, and we know how they can improve—but how much is AI-generated music actually worth?
I can imagine some people dodging this question by arguing that "the technology isn't there." But that doesn't mean the question is irrelevant, since market activity will prevail regardless of how "good" the tech is.
In this regard, the visual-arts world is now far ahead of music. OnOctober 25, Christie's auctioned off its first-ever AI-generated visual artwork for a total closing price of $432,000—43.2 times higher than Christie's maximum presale estimate of just $10,000.
The artwork in question was created by an AI using generative adversarial networks (GANs), which Paris-based art collective Obvious trained using a set of 15,000 portraits painted between the 14th and 20th centuries. The AI outputted a series of portraits of the "fictional Belamy family," one of which was auctioned off at Christie's and even "signed" with a not-so-user-friendly GAN loss function on the bottom right (pictured below).
'Portrait of Edmond De Belamy' was created in 2018 using artificial intelligence
How did the closing price rise so high to $432,000? Was it because of the quality of the end product, the quality of the underlying algorithm, the general novelty of algorithmic art—or something else?
In a followup analysis of the auction, computer science professor Ahmed Elgammal argued that the rise of AI-generated art as a practice is actually not a novelty at all, but rather is a natural extension of the decades-old art movement of Conceptualism, which values planning and production processes as equally as, if not more highly than, the end result.
"The art is not just in the outcome," writes Elgammal, but also "in the process that leads to that, including the curated [training] dataset, the choice of the algorithm and its parameters, and the post-curation [of finished works]."
We certainly see that emphasis on process over product in nearly all the media's coverage of the auction to date. In other words, there's a much greater public emphasis on, and fascination with, the underlying algorithm as the artwork's defining merit, rather than any surface-level features of the public-facing portrait itself.
19-year-old AI artist Robbie Barrat, who wrote much of the original code that Obvious borrowed to generate their Belamy portraits, puts it a bit more cynically: "No one in the AI and art sphere really considers them to be artists. They're more like marketers."
What happened at Christie's last week carries valuable lessons and signals for the future of AI-generated music, and in how its engineers, managers, labels, publishers, booking agents, etc. will value, market and profit from this music in the future.
Of course, the visual arts and music businesses are quite different from each other. Fine art still benefits from a sense of Instagrammable spectacle, exclusivity and scarcity (even if, in the case of algorithmic art, that scarcity is literally manufactured), which then drives up the value of its core product, namely the artwork.
In contrast, there is a wide perception that streaming and digitisation have not only driven down the value of music, but have also inextricably complicated the concept of a song's "market value" altogether. After all, digital music is increasingly like an information good: a stream is the new sale, at least on the charts, and affordable (if not free) access has replaced ownership as the primary consumer demand.
Scarcity does still exist in some form in the music business, especially in relation to legacy artist estates and catalogs. The legacy songwriter catalog market is steadily heating up with multimillion-dollar acquisitions, while rare vinyl records still sell for several thousand dollars on sites like eBay and Discogs.
But many investors see the benefit of AI-generated music as further fostering a "post-scarcity" economy—joining other automation technologies (self-driving transportation, robotics, search, marketing) in drastically lowering certain production and process costs, with the music business as its primary petri dish.
For instance, Spotify could use creative AI to slash licensing costs and populate a hypothetically infinite landscape of mood and activity playlists (hello, "fake artists"). Artists, labels and advertising agencies could use creative AI to reduce costs by expediting the songwriting and idea-generation process.
The worst-case scenario is that AI becomes sufficiently "independent" creatively such that it can churn out hundreds of songs in a day, register the proper copyrights for those songs and then flood platforms like Spotify and SoundCloud, which would make the online music landscape even noisier and more unnavigable than it already is today. And then the answer to "how much would you pay for an AI-generated song?" would probably be, well, nothing.
However, if we examine the AI-generated music that's actually gaining significant, consumer-facing traction and market activity today, it's not about "flooding the market" at all, and fans aren't buying into AI musicians for any reason to do with "lowering costs" or cheapening production. In fact, just as with the visual art world, entrepreneurs and marketers are trying to use AI musicians as a vehicle to elevate worth and value by gifting those artificial musicians with more human-like personalities, and hence an illusion of brand scarcity (without the backend costs involved).
To explain further, let's look at some recent developments in commercial AI-generated music and its closest siblings—e.g. CGI social-media personalities, hologram tours—and examine the scope and source of their market value based on publicly-available data:
Lil Miquela, a CGI Instagram influencer with over 1.5 million followers, released her latest single 'Hate Me', a collaboration with EDM producer Baauer, in August 2018. As of this newsletter, the track has been streamed over 3.8 million times on Spotify, and even got its own billboard in NYC's Times Square.
Miquela's 2017 summer single, "Not Mine," has racked up around 1.7 million streams so far. Beyond music, Miquela has also done several fashion-oriented magazine covers and brand partnerships with companies like Vogue, Prada, Ugg and Opening Ceremony.
Someone recently told me that major labels had the chance to sign Miquela a few years ago, but dismissed the opportunity because they thought it was rather frivolous and pointless at the time.
SKYGGE, a French AI/music collective founded by songwriter Benoît Perrier and computer science researcher turned Spotify exec François Pachet, released a full-length album Hello World last December, and has gotten a handful of placements on Spotify's New Music Friday playlist.
Their most popular single, the gibberish-sounding 'Magic Man,' has over 3.4 million streams on Spotify; next up is 'Hello Shadow' (ft. Kiesza), which has 2.6 million streams.
The creative process with SKYGGE is actually quite similar to how Obvious made its Belamy paintings: an AI ingests hundreds to thousands of songs of a particular genre (e.g. '80s French disco), and outputs melodies and chord progressions that it thinks fit the genre "best." Human composers and artists like Perrier and Kiesza then evaluate, curate, interpret and perform those results.
The late Roy Orbison's "hologram" (which is not actually a hologram, but rather a non-interactive laser video projection) has been touring the U.S. and Europe this year, "performing" some of Orbison's classics with local live orchestras.
Ticket prices in New York range from $49 to $99, and in Los Angeles from $39 to $79—a relatively expensive price point, but typical for any legacy artist, alive or dead. The production company behind the tour, BASE Hologram, is also planning tours with holograms of Amy Winehouse and Maria Callas, all with permission of those artists' estates. (If you're interested in reading more, I interviewed execs from Base Hologram, Orbison's estate and Paradigm Talent Agency for Billboard back in January.)
What do all three of these examples have in common? They all involve companies and technologists imbuing virtual musicians with an illusory sense of human identity, memory and/or experience—something that a typical standalone AI cannot possess as of now, since it's only working with a limited set of rules and rewards.
Several months ago, I argued in a Billboard piece that AI-generated music could only compete meaningfully with purely "human" artists in a commercial setting if the former had this type of identity-driven backstory behind them: The claim that "AI will replace artists" assumes that we prescribe value only to songs themselves, when in reality musicians are so respected because they are arbiters of culture and context, not just of sound … the people who help promote and develop artists (labels, distributors, managers, concert promoters, agents, etc.) are also selling the artists' backstories—personal histories, cultural and political upbringings, individual passions, etc.—as much as they are selling the musical works.
Until we can have an AI tell stories about itself and the music it writes, and until music companies feel comfortable promoting such "AI-generated backstories," human artists will still end up at the top and have the last creative word.
Visual artist Stephanie Dinkins reiterated this point in a recent profile in WIRED, which argued in favor of giving robots an identity. "In order to work with the technology," said Dinkins, "you have to be able to see yourself in it."
So, how much are people really willing to pay for AI-generated music? As with any other human artist working in the music industry today, it depends on their marketability.
Yes, you can currently download AI-generated tracks from sites like Jukedeck for no cost at all. But people are also willing to pay at least five figures per week to get Miquela an ad spot in Times Square; with hologram tours, up to $99 plus fees for a concert ticket to see a virtual artist in person.
The increasing commercial viability of AI-generated music may only further exacerbate a shift that I think has already been happening in the mainstream music business for years: namely, displacing value and enthusiasm away from the uniqueness (or lack thereof) of the song, and instead towards the more intangible scarcity of the brand. Process over product, marketing over art.
This article originally appeared on The Industry Observer, which is now part of The Music Network.
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Bill proposes suspension of instant payments in Brazilian state as crime surges
If the project is signed into law, Pix could be suspended in São Paulo state until security measures are introduced by the Central Bank.
Written by Angelica Mari, Contributing Editor
Angelica Mari Contributing Editor
Angelica Mari is a Brazil-based technology journalist. She started working at age 15 as a computer instructor and started writing professionally about technology two years later.
Posted in Brazil Tech on December 3, 2021 | Topic: Data Management
As crime increases in Brazil, a new bill is proposing the suspension of instant payments system Pix in the state of São Paulo.
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If the bill put forward by the São Paulo Legislative Assembly is signed into law, it will prevent financial services providers and payment institutions from processing payments through Pix until the Brazilian Central Bank introduces mechanisms to ensure consumer safety.
The Assembly can vote to revoke the law if the Central Bank presents a technical security report that demonstrates what measures have been implemented. The objective is to prevent situations like the so-called lightning kidnappings, whereby consumers are forced to make instant transfers to criminals while being held ransom.
Introduced in November 2020 as part of a broader modernisation of the Brazilian financial services environment -- which also includes ongoing initiatives, such as Open Banking -- Pix has more than 104 million registered users and has processed more than 1.6 billion transactions since it launched.
Around 75% of the transfers carried out via Pix in its first year of operation took place between individuals. According to the Central Bank, the system enabled financial inclusion at a significant scale; around 40 million Brazilians who had never made a money transfer before did so through the instant payments system.
Transfers are made through a Pix "key," which acts as a sort of nickname associated with a user's full account details, aimed to simplify the payment process. A Pix key could be a user's mobile phone number, tax registration number, email address, a randomly generated alphanumeric string, or a QR code.
The convenience introduced by the instant payments system created loopholes for criminal action, however, prompting the Central Bank to impose limits on the value of transactions made between 8pm and 6am and on weekends. Other measures included a precautionary block on the receipt of transfers for up to 72 hours in cases of suspected fraud, as well as a special return mechanism scam victims can use.
The author of the bill that aims to suspend Pix in the state of São Paulo, congressman Campos Machado, notes that banks did not anticipate that "the enormous ease and convenience [Pix offers] to users would also bring dexterity to criminals, who have discovered the comfort and speed of using it to their advantage."
The debate over instant payments in the context of increasing crime follows the first major data protection incident involving Pix that occurred in October. More than 395,000 Pix keys under the custody and responsibility of the Bank of the State of Sergipe (Banese) -- likely obtained through social engineering or phishing techniques -- were leaked.
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Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization: Beyond Thanksgiving, Fifteen Years of Gratitude
With Thanksgiving around the corner and the year coming to a close, the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) would like to thank everyone who has helped us reach our 15th anniversary milestone. This year, we have watched the Alan Reinstein Ban Asbestos Now Act make incredible progress, we took the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to court over our "Right to Know" about who is importing asbestos and where its going, we led educational sessions around the world, and we shared the stories of those impacted by asbestos.
We could not have done any of this without your support.
Thank you to ADAO leadership, who has been on the ground in this fight to ban asbestos for years — we deeply appreciate your dedication, hard work, and guidance.
To our volunteers: you are truly the people who create this movement. Thank you for always giving us your time and energy – we appreciate it more than words can say.
Our work relies on the generosity of our donors and sponsors. Thank you for your contributions and support, which allow us to do the work we know must be done to end the scourge of asbestos-related diseases. ADAO is grateful to all who made a contribution this year, and especially to our Platinum Sponsors Motley Rice LLC, Simmons Hanly Conroy, LLC, the Delaware Insulation Asbestos Disease Trust; and our Silver Sponsor: Early, Lucarelli, Sweeney & Meisenkothen, LLC.
ADAO is eternally grateful to the many lawmakers who have championed ARBAN. Thanks to them, we are one step closer to a ban of asbestos in the United States. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts to Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Representatives Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Frank Pallone (D-NJ), and Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), as well as to their respective staff. We are also grateful to the nearly 60 ARBAN 2019 cosponsors and the nearly 25 influential organizations who support the bill.
A special thank you to former EPA Administrators Gina McCarthy and William K. Reilly, who recently wrote The New York Times op-ed "Asbestos Kills Nearly 40,000 Americans a Year. Ban It." voicing support for ARBAN. We are honored to have your support, and it means so much coming from two people with your expertise and experience.
And a huge thank you to everyone who has spoken at our 14 Congressional staff briefings.
We would like to thank the 18 Attorneys General who have voiced support for ARBAN. We value your opinion and are grateful for your support.
Thank you to everyone who has shared their story online and at our Congressional Staff Briefings about how they or a loved one was affected by asbestos. Your stories remind us all why we are fighting this battle.
Last, but not least, thank you to the nearly 30 interns who worked tirelessly to understand the many facets of our nonprofit and help us to exceed our goals.
In closing, we would like to take a moment to thank those who have helped us over the past 15 years who are no longer here. We continue this fight in their honor and memory.
You have fueled our fight and there is no limit to what we can accomplish together.
Linda Reinstein
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Nivolas-Vermelle is een gemeente in het Franse departement Isère (regio Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) en telt 2141 inwoners (2005). De plaats maakt deel uit van het arrondissement La Tour-du-Pin.

Geografie
De oppervlakte van Nivolas-Vermelle bedraagt 6,1 km², de bevolkingsdichtheid is 351,0 inwoners per km².

Demografie
Onderstaande figuur toont het verloop van het inwonertal (bron: INSEE-tellingen).

Externe links
 Informatie over Nivolas-Vermelle

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