dead at the same age.
Oh to be 56; although I doubt if A and A thought so.
Happy birthday and many more!!
God save any fool who dares to stop you.
Happy birthday! I loved the poem.
As a member of the 56 in '56 club (Lorenzo too, as you know), I especially enjoyed your clever poem.
Avoid theaters? Ah, but you cannot. Life is a theater. And you must remain on center stage! Mystical poem, Tess. Perfect setup for the last day of October!
I like your reasoning. I think you're safe for at least another year. Many happy returns of the day!
I was born in 49 and I survived my 49th year..... except I wasn't sure I would survive my 50th birthday party at the conclusion of it, hee hee..... but I did. Looking forward to sharing your 57th, next year. Love and best wishes, dear friend. xoxo BTW- great prompt and poem.
I am trying to remember 56, both the year and the age.
Wishing you another year of love, inspiration and creativity. Quoth the magpie, "Evermore."
great words Tess and happy birthday!!
Happy birthday and great poem.
I'm not so sure about all this stuff...but like you, I want some of it to be true!
'56, the year I was demobbed from the RAF. Worst decision of my life, with hindsight. Should have signed on again!
56 is the new 40. So I think you are still so very young, and beautiful. As is your poetry. I wish you all you wish for yourself, and more.
Yes yes...the new 40...I like that...a lot!
Seems like a good idea!
Ah you spring chicken. Many happy returns Tess. Make sure you have some CAKE!
I did...I had chocolate cake!
Enjoyed that. Mindst you, I'm 57.
Hey Tess! Many happy returns to you - though I must say, you don't look anywhere near 56.
You ... beautiful you! Upward and onward ~~ 57, here I come!
Happy Happy Birthday Tess! I just turned 70....now I really want to stay away from politics!
Belated birthday wishes. I've been thinking more about this with the passage of the day. Math and numbers were always my least favorite topic in my youth, but with the passage of time I have come to embrace their beauty and elegance. My dad was a CPA and loved numbers. In his final years as he struggled with Alzheimer's he became obsessed with counting things and always with amazing accuracy, like an autistic child. It brought him great comfort, and initially annoying, I came to find it poetic and beautiful. In a world that no longer made sense, he found beauty in counting coins in the jar or leaves in the tree. In our final weeks together, our relationship became more primal and loving. I came to see aging, death and loss as an unexpected gift.
Superstitious- don't know- sometimes you just need to watch out- Thanks!
So happy birthday! I too was born in 56 and turned 56 this year--have a wild ride! Great piece!!
56? Madam, surely you are pulling my leg, what with a glamor shot like that. Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday and thank you for sharing it with us on your fantastic blog!
happy birthday. clever poem. may you have many more wonderful years of writing and living.
What a clever poem indeed, and your photo is just priceless...oh the stories one could spin! I hope you are have a special day....it's your day, or possibly your week, right!! Happy Birthday!
You're on top of it! Smart to stay out of politics, be Happy!!
Tess, lovely photo, Happy Birthday! This was such a fun prompt. At this moment when I attempt to link and I open your Mag page I only get the photo. This was not true 30 minutes ago. Ah well.
I've noticed you stay out of politics and that's perhaps the secret of your youthful looks! 46 was great! Or was it?
Wishing you a most Happy Birthday.
I was born in 1946 and turned 66 this year.
Choose well to make your golden years as happy as possible. I have been more myself in these later years.
Fifty six? You look fabulous! See you soon!
I loved the last line best of all- excellent poem!
Yes..avoidance is sometimes the best way.....esp.theaters!!!
Haha! Love your attitude here! May you have many more happy birthdays, Tess!
Happy Birthday! Many returns of the day!
Happy birrrrthdaaaay tooo yoooou, happy birrrrthdaaay toooo yooou, haapy birrrrthday dear Teeeess, haaappy birrrrthday toooo yoooou! (sung in my very best, off-key alto).
Belated birthday greetings, ma'am, and many more. On you, 56 could easily be 36--or less!
Happy Birthday - you look very very young, and write with a great sensuality that also belies your age. k.
Happy Birthday Tess....I cannot believe you are 56!!! You look AMAZING and BEAUTIFUL!!
I'm with you, Tess. Happy Birthday you!!!!
Hope you had a GREAT Birthday! 56 sure looks good on you! Now share with us your beauty secrets ~ pretty please!
Yes, you look wonderful darling, and you simply glow with the joy of being this joy; many blessings and ~Happy Birthday Tess all year long~enjoy~!!!


All new content and gameplay created since the launch of Grand Theft Auto Online, including an extensive array of new Jobs, an arsenal of new weapons, scores of new vehicles, new properties and player customizations will also be available for the PS4, Xbox One and PC with much more to come. In addition, the current community of players will have the ability to transfer their Grand Theft Auto Online characters and progression to their choice of PS4, Xbox One or PC.
Starting today, the first in a series of massive racing updates including five new vehicles, Racing and Adversary Modes, and much more comes to GTA Online with The Southern San Andreas Super Sports Series.
Kicking things off is the first of two new Racing Modes called The Hotring Circuit, made specifically for one of the latest vehicles to hit Legendary Motorsport, the Hotring Sabre. An homage to Vice City's classic Hotring mixed with the Cunning Stunts of GTA Online, The Hotring Circuit is available for up to 30 players and will be delivering Double GTA$ & RP from today until March 26th.
Alongside the Sabre comes two new Super cars, the Overflod Entity XXRand the ChevalTaipan. Additional new vehicles to Legendary Motorsport include The VulcarFagaloa station wagon and the rally-inspired Vapid GB200.
There's nothing more American than strapping yourself inside of the highly combustible turbo-charged death machine that is the new Declasse Hotring Sabre and tearing around a multi-lap track designed for up to 30 adrenaline-addicted maniacs. Embrace the intoxicating smell of burnt rubber and premium-grade gasoline across 10 stock car races made for the new Hotring Sabre, and get Double GTA$ & RP now through March 26th.
Put yourself at the mercy of the Taipan, Cheval's ruthless monument to pure speed and implausible curves.
The livery clad Declasse Hotring Sabre is the star of the all new Hotring Circuit. Tune up the engine, drop the suspension, slap your favorite corporate sponsor across the hood and hit the track with up to 29 other adrenaline-addicted maniacs.
The all new Entity XXR is a low-slung, pitilessly fast hypercar - now available exclusively from Legendary Motorsport.
The Vapid GB200 is a mid-engine, four-wheel, rally-inspired Sports class car ready to be decked out with all manner of customizations.
Not your typical family wagon. Embrace the customizable station wagon chic of the Vulcar Fagaloa.
Now hitting the showrooms of Legendary Motorsport and Southern San Andreas Super Autos, a range of new cars your garage just isn't complete without. In addition to the aforementioned Hotring Sabre, embrace the perfectly refined fury of two new Super cars, the Overflod Entity XXR and the Cheval Taipan. The Vulcar Fagaloa redefines station wagon chic with a range of customization options from full on wood body paneling to interior trim. And the Sports class series adds the highly customizable, rally-inspired, mid-engine four wheel drive Vapid GB200.
The ultimate playground for wheelmen and sharpshooters alike, Target Assault demands a mastery of both. A frantic race for up to 8 teams of 2 players each, where Gunners are tasked with destroying targets to score points from a mounted gun, while the Drivers outmaneuver the opposition for further points on each lap.
On May 1st, dodge underwater mines, glide over scenic raceways and boost through air gates as you take on 10 unique new Special Vehicle Races featuring the Deluxo, Stromberg and Thruster from The Doomsday Heist. Then, seven new Transform Races are making their way to GTA Online on May 29th - featuring a slew of new and classic race vehicles across a fresh batch of challenging courses.
For players who want to take their competition off the race track and into more combative territory, get ready for two new Adversary Modes, along with rotating double cash opportunities and discounts around some of our favorite modes, work, vehicles and more. And throughout the weeks and months ahead, look for new offerings from Pegassi, Overflod, Lampadati and more as a host of new vehicles hit the showrooms of Los Santos. We're also adding a heap of new tools and updates for the Creator coming later this Spring, including more weather options, custom team names and Warp Checkpoints for Transform Races, as well as a number of other highly-requested features.


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Guyana down 7 – 1 to Chile at Junior Pan Am Hockey Championship
Boasting the youngest team in the competition, Guyana went down 1-7 to Chile on the opening day of the 2016 Junior Pan American Hockey Championship in Canada on Friday afternoon.
Playing in Pool B, the Guyanese found themselves up against it very early, as they conceded two first half goals. Franco Becerra gave Chile the lead with a goal in the 20th minute, and then 13 minutes later, Juan Amoroso doubled the advantage.
part of the action between Guyana and Chile in the 2016 Junior Pan Am Hockey Championship
While the Guyanese did manage to score a solitary goal in the second half, the Chileans went on a rampage, slotting home five more goals.
Amoroso completed his double in the 44th minute; two minutes later, Nils Strabucchi made it 4-0. However, Aroydy Brandford breached the defence in the 58th minute to hand Guyana a reprieve, albeit the only one of the match.
Nicolas Renz then blasted in a double in the space of three minutes (60th and 63rd), while four minutes later, Jose Hurtado tucked in the final goal of the match.
In other results of the day, Argentina trounced Trinidad and Tobago 5-0, USA whipped Puerto Rico 8-0 and Mexico edged Canada 3-2.
Carifesta Avenue between Camp & Vlissengen Road undergoing improvement works
Almost half of GEA's electrical energy now supplied from a sustainable energy source
West Indies to start World T20 qualifiers against Scotland in Hobart

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Outbursts of rage land plenty of people in prison, and daily life behind bars provides many more opportunities to lose your temper. Whch makes it the ideal place to get to grips with the often scoffed-at anger management course. Does it work? Zoe Williams follows the progress of five Pentonville inmates to find out.
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Anger management is the least celebrated branch of the cognitive therapy tree; its main reputation is as a quasi-scientific means of controlling stroppy supermodels who've shouted at the stylist once too often. Naomi Campbell, I mean - not all supermodels are like this. Unlike cognitive training for anxiety and depression, with which it shares all the same principles and most of the same techniques, this tends to be the kind of therapy to which you are referred by an institution, rather than deciding upon yourself. I can't with complete certainty say why, but ultimately anger, unless it manifests itself in violence, is not thought of as a mental disorder that adversely affects the quality of your life. It's just put down as a filthy temper. And if it does express itself as violence, then, sooner or later, you're going to end up in prison.
Consequently, the best place to see an anger management course is in prison, and probably the best prison is Pentonville, the first British establishment to adopt the Canadian-devised Calm course (Controlling Anger and Learning to Manage it). The governor, Gareth Davies, is a kind of patrician liberal (he is patrician in the sense that he keeps Churchill speeches about prisons on his wall; liberal in the sense that Churchill was pretty liberal, prison-wise). His central interests are in making prison less agreeable for the so-called "career" offender, the lifelong criminal who sees occasional custody as an unavoidable hazard; and in making prison more productive for the spontaneous criminal, the offender who's wound up incarcerated for an offence (usually a violent one) that was unplanned and could have been avoided with the application of simple techniques for self-control.
Now, as I've said, anger-management principles are simply those of cognitive therapy. These are probably terribly familiar to anyone who's ever taken up regular therapy and got bored with slagging off their parents, but to recap: feelings come from thoughts, they do not arrive by themselves. Once this has been accepted, the thoughts can be identified - the distorted thoughts can be righted, and the feelings will cease to arrive. The tenets of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) are given the shorthand: thoughts-feelings, impact-action. There are three core mistakes at the root of all distorted thinking (these were identified by Albert Ellis, the 1950s "grandfather" of cognitive therapy and a major influence on Aaron Beck, the "father") - "I must do well"; "You must treat me well"; "The world must be easy." Once these assumptions have been excised, the aberrant thoughts and behaviour can be quelled.
The methodology and theory behind CBT are essentially practical - this is not about delving into anyone's childhood, or laying old events to rest, or anything else typically associated with talking cures. It is not, in short, the kind of therapy a brigadier (say) would call "stuff and nonsense" - the only real controversy there's been around the issue was that voiced by Noam Chomsky, in 1977: "Behaviourist therapy is pretty empty as an intellectual pursuit ... [but] in schools and prisons ... it provides a palatable ideology for the application of techniques of coercion." In other words, this therapy teaches people how to operate in society without causing trouble and, in the interests of so doing, teaches them not to strive for fairness, or justice, not to assume that "the world must be easy".
This is not necessarily the right way to proceed, from a political or philosophical point of view. Take as an example one statement on a psychometric test that prisoners have to fill in: "If I had had a better education, I would have a good job, and wouldn't need to commit crime" (prisoners who "agree strongly" have distorted thinking). Sure, it's kind of nonsense, since plenty of people don't commit crime, regardless of A-levels. But, on the other hand, it is the case that you don't find many people with degrees in prisons, and it's not because they have better morals (not as far as I know). Essentially, you have to train people not to think like this, since it will prevent them from addressing their offending behaviour. But from a wider perspective, someone has to think like this, otherwise there is no impetus for social change.
Anyway, I followed five offenders through a Calm course in Pentonville. On balance, I'd say that Chomsky's view of "coercion" is right, but that the benefit to prisoners is so extraordinary that it scuppers these reservations. One prisoner, in particular, who might as well have had reoffender tattooed on his forehead at the start of his sentence, admitted later on that he'd been spending all his spare time planning crimes to recoup the "earnings" he'd lost in prison and, after 10 weeks of Calm, was a different person. Maybe he was making that up for the parole hearing, but, if so, he's such a fine and perceptive actor that he's plain wasted in drug-dealing. Besides him, I'd say that one of them was never fully persuaded of his need to change; one was never going to change as much as he needed to, for all the courses in the world; and two weren't all that communicative with me, but the psychologists liked them.
Mark was an attempted arsonist in his late 40s. He'd served most of a four-year term for an offence that slightly changed texture every time you spoke to him. In each version, he was in a pub and had an argument with the landlord, who kicked him out. As he was being ejected, he threatened to burn the place down. Sometimes, he claims to have changed his mind on the way to the petrol station; other times, he's bought the petrol, abandoned it and been arrested on his way home; the truth is (and he will sometimes agree with this) that he was arrested with a can of petrol on his way back to the pub.
When I first meet him, Mark has missed one week of the course, having wounded his hand spectacularly by punching a wall. So far, he's the perfect subject for anger management - prone to spontaneous, manifestly self-destructive bursts of rage, and full of delusional notions about where they come from. He has some cockeyed theories, among them that he has a psychic ability not to feel pain down one side of his body, so long as he decides not to. Sometimes, he tells you complete nonsense - he was in the Foreign Legion, only they kicked him out because his skin was too fair and he kept getting sunburnt; his parents were blown up by the IRA, and his mother's head landed in his lap. Other times, he comes out with this very clear, unmelodramatic, melancholy picture of himself, and of how other people see him. "Whenever I read anything in the paper about a guy who's done something or other, and his neighbours are calling him a loner, and nobody in his job really knew him, and nobody could tell you what he did with his time - I think, I'm like that. I think I'll always end up in some sort of trouble. I don't think I'll ever get along with people."
Rodney is in his mid-30s, and is also coming to the end of his sentence. He's in for GBH - as far as he's concerned, it was a one-off event, and he's never had a problem with aggression before or since. He is self-assured, fastidious about his words and his clothes (harder than it sounds when your uniform is a tracksuit of the old school), articulate, persuasive - he reiterates his relatively non-aggressive nature every time I see him. It really gets on Simon Vallance's nerves (Simon is the course leader and a prison officer). "You say that," Simon eventually intercedes, "but you're in here, aren't you? You wouldn't be in here if you had no problem with anger." "I made one mistake. Everyone can make one mistake."
In fact, a lot of prison officers agree with this line, just in passing - that it's an accident of the stars, who happens to be outside a pub, on what particular night, when which particular fight breaks out. They're very "there but for the grace of God ..." Like the police, a lot of prison officers are ex-army - the police like to make out that they had to go into prisons because they weren't good enough for law enforcement. I think they're just not judgmental enough.
Rodney's back story is that he spent 20 years as a karaoke guy, who went round pubs with the machine. "I had every single bit of racist abuse you can get; I have been called everything under the sun that you can call a black man. And then it was just this one guy, following me around, saying this thing, over and over again ..." He never wavered from the line that, otherwise, he was a fairly placid individual. On the one hand, this is a classic example of the distorted thinking that anger management exists to overturn; on the other hand, as I say, he was very convincing - maybe there are some stresses that would drive anyone to violence. (Having said that, I never found out the full extent of the offence - the victim said Rodney had glassed him, and that's what he was sentenced on. Rodney said he'd just punched him.)
Adrian was in for a drugs offence, which wasn't an anger-management issue. But over the course of his term, he had notched up 68 extra days for outbursts of fury. This, technically, made him an inappropriate referral - "Calm is not intended for offenders who have a poor institutional history of anger and aggressive behaviour alone. The programme is aimed at those whose anger or poor emotional control lead to a criminal offence" (my italics). That said, he was the gold-star of the group. By about the third session, he'd noticed a change of behaviour in himself that he says he didn't really plan, it just happened. "Before," he said, "I used to go everywhere with a sharpened pencil. If people called me 'teaboy', or anything, I'd have a sharpened pencil. Now I only ever take a pencil if I'm going to a lesson. Sometimes, I take a pen." Teaboy is what people get called when they're on tea duty for the officers - it's a good job, allowing prisoners great freedom of movement, and unlimited access to the phone. However, communicating with officers, which you have to if you're going to find out how they want their tea, is the third worst thing you can do in prison, above grassing and having committed a sex offence with a child. So it's a bit of a mixed bag, and other prisoners, er, call them teaboy.
Sean was the only lifer in the group - he was in for murder, and had mainly taken the Calm course because he'd already done Enhanced Thinking Skills and found it very helpful. (ETS is the standard cognitive training all prisoners get - it's mostly about problem solving, attitudes to criminality and basic cognitive skills.) He didn't want to be interviewed for this piece, but agreed to have his picture taken. And Leon dropped out of Calm after two sessions, since his main problems were with addiction, and addicts have to be referred to drug programmes before anything else. Prison is not by any stretch the best place to go to come off drugs. In the words of John Hardwick, "Don't do drugs, because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison."
Apart from the fact that Adrian's aggression seemed to have surfaced inside prison, rather than outside, all the prisoners represented the ideal profile for an anger-management course. None of them was really a serious, constantly reoffending career criminal - anger-driven offenders tend not to be, since it's spontaneous, not a career decision. None of them was serving time for using violence instrumentally (that is, bouncers and gangsters, people who use aggression as a means to an end, rather than as an expression of anger). None of them was psychotic. The problems with trying to teach cognitive skills to psychotics are many, but sometimes the outcome is comically bad, as vividly illustrated in a story Simon remembered from a previous ETS course. "The worst one was when they sorted out a grass - basically, this guy was a grass, so they'd knocked him out and poured boiling water on his face and all over his neck. And then, when he'd woken up, he'd started screaming, but there was nobody around him to get in trouble for it. And the guy who did it later said he was actually really pleased he'd done ETS, because otherwise he'd have tried to do him in front of everybody, and he'd never have been able to do so much damage."
I spoke to the group before and after each session - I didn't sit in. Debbie Marsh and Ian Whitaker, forensic psychologist and prison officer tutor respectively, described the shape of the course. The first section is aimed at alerting the angry to the ways in which they could recognise their feelings of rage before losing control. The angry prisoner, in the interminable psychometric testing done at the start of the course, will agree strongly with statements such as "My anger is caused by what other people do"; "Once I get angry it's impossible for me to control myself"; "I have a fiery temper"; "I fly off the handle"; "I feel like I'm about to explode." His firm belief will be there was nothing he could have done to prevent his outburst.
Once the therapist points out the physiological changes that occur at the outset of rage (sweaty palms, faster heartbeat), these function as proof that the uncontrollable fury didn't just possess him, it built up from more wieldy emotions. When he's identified these, he can be called upon to locate the thoughts that triggered them; he can now address the thoughts, and see whether or not they're reasonable - mostly, they won't be, or there will be some way of rationalising them that prevents an escalation to blind rage.
Debbie Marsh says this is the most dramatic bit of the course. "Most groups are turned as soon as we start doing the arousal stuff. They're sitting there going, 'Oh my God, that's how I can tell I'm getting angry, because my heartbeat's going and my hands are sweating', and as soon as they see the physical cues kicking in, that's it for them - they're on board, they're active, they're completely gobsmacked by the idea that they can control it themselves." Results from the Focus On Violence course at Foston Hall women's prison shows that female prisoners tend towards depression at this point, as they revise all the aggressive behaviour of their past and realise that they could have controlled it, that it was all their own fault. Sure, male prisoners don't like it, either, but depression doesn't seem to follow on so much. "Obviously, it's hard," Debbie says, "because they've spent their lives blaming situations, other people, and all of a sudden they've got irrefutable proof - 'It's me. All my life I've wound myself up.' When they get to that point, you've got to be really quick to come in behind them and say, 'Well, if you created it, you can control it.' You have to give them a sense of their own power."
This is where some standard techniques, some of them recognisable from anti-panic attack systems, are introduced. It's no great surprise that anger and panic share approaches, according to Ian Crane, Simon's co-teacher of this group. "With anger, jealousy, anxiety, elation, whatever, it's very hard to differentiate between them, because the physical cues are exactly the same," he says. "When you're anxious, you're sweating, you're clenching your fists, you've got a knot in your stomach. When you're angry, it's exactly the same. So how can we tell the difference? Through our thoughts. What thoughts brought us there, and what were the distortions?"
Isn't elation good? Once in a while? "No, as daft as it seems, intense happiness can lead these guys into exactly the same situations that anger can. It can lead all of us like that. You get carried away by euphoria, you think you're superhuman." Debbie illustrates with some thoughts on love: "It's like the saying, 'Love is blind' - it stops you thinking rationally. We want them always to be thinking. If you're thinking, you're in control of yourself." It's when emotions are too intense, for too long and too often, that there's a problem, Ian concludes sagely. It's not the stuff high drama is made of but, as everyone keeps coming back to, where did high drama get you? It got you in here.
The basics are as follows: thought-stopping - which does exactly that, puts a halt on negative thoughts that are getting out of control and directs them elsewhere - fogging (learning to hear criticism without absorbing it), broken-record, negative assertion and negative inquiry (all assertiveness techniques). Most of them work best in conjunction with one or more of the others, and all of them will only work with constant practice, in real situations, not just in role-plays with psychologists who are only pretending to be annoying. Luckily, if you're looking for situations of heart-stopping frustration and rage on a day-to-day basis, prison is just the place.
So they're all given these work sheets, split into columns such as Situation/Physical Cues/Thoughts Experienced/Action Taken, and they spend as much of their week as keenness and bad situations allow reporting these incidences of rage. Minute but constant annoyances abound - being told to do two opposite things by two people of equal authority (not on purpose; it just seems to happen quite a lot), waiting an hour for the phone, having to go on a tea break when you're not thirsty. Mark describes an argument between two officers, neither of whom wanted to do some unspecified task - they kept sending him to tell the other one to do it. "I was piggy in the middle. And I want to say, 'When you two kids have sorted yourselves out, come back and let me know,' but I felt as if I was being used. It was a confrontation between two officers - it shouldn't have been anything to do with me." Now, this sounds like anger management, but the way Mark is talking, it's actually the opposite - the more he's remembering it, the more pissed off he's getting and the more ways he can think of in which they wronged him. In his parole hearing, he's told that he still has a problem with brooding - he replays situations in his mind, which makes him liable to hit out at someone who just happens to walk past and look at him funny. In fact, he's still thinking about those officers by the time of his parole hearing, and about the time he punched the wall; but he never stops trying to find a way to deal rationally with these events.
Rodney, being so placid, uses up very few worksheets. Adrian uses up loads - he was educated in Jamaica and has the incredibly neat, copperplate handwriting that the famously strict schooling there bestows. "I want to stab him in the eye," he writes, in flawless italics. "I want to kill him." Action taken? A mixture of fogging and thought-stopping. About four sessions in, Adrian's situation has changed markedly - crucially, he has stopped arguing with his girlfriend. He used to fight with her every time they spoke, and he used to beat her up before he got sent to prison. Their argument was always the same - he'd call the house, she wouldn't be there; he'd think, I have only one chance to phone, now I'm going to have to call her mobile, she knows I can't afford to call her mobile, she's doing it on purpose; then he'd call her mobile and she wouldn't be there, either; he'd think, she's left it at home because she's having an affair (he describes this with such mournful frustration that I'm getting angry with the woman myself, even though he's the one who's in prison and she's looking after three kids and can go where she likes); then he'd call the house again and she'd pick up, having missed it the first time because, whatever, she was upstairs. All it takes is for him to think, "Maybe she's upstairs", before he has all the other thoughts, and that's a screaming row they haven't had. But you need a lot of worksheets to get to "Maybe she's upstairs".
Giving up aggression is, at the final count, a lot like giving up smoking - you can accept that your life would be better without it and you can train yourself to a point where it's not a knee-jerk reaction, but you can't deny that it did have something going for it while it lasted. Aggressive people, when they're not in prison, do get their own way a lot of the time - relinquishing violence means accepting that you can't control other people. Clearly, everything's easier before you accept this. Ian Whitaker gives this example: "The classic case was a prisoner who felt that his partner was going to leave him. So, he knew he was responsible for his own anger, and he'd accepted that, but he also had to deal with the fact that where's it written that she can't leave you? She can. He can try as hard as he likes to change his behaviour completely, and she's still got every right to go. He'd always controlled her with his anger; even from prison, the pure threat of violence was enough to keep her at home. Whereas now, he'd got past his anger, but it left him with nothing to control her with. You can't control someone with assertiveness. And we don't have any miracle cures. We can't change any of their circumstances. And we certainly can't change the fact that they're in prison, and that's a good time for their partners to have affairs."
So, given that anger has things in common with addiction, a fair amount of the course is given over to relapse prevention. In the final session, everyone obviously thinks they won't relapse, but the prevention module is as much about not getting demoralised by one relapse as it is about not relapsing at all. Mark and Adrian are explaining why they'll never get into a fight again. "I hate to say it," Mark starts, "but in this day and age, nobody fights on a one-to-one basis. It's all gangs of eight. You think it's just one, and then you come out of the toilet, or whatever, and he's got six of his mates with him." Adrian agrees, "That's true, it's all gang-related. It's a system. You can't have a one-to-one fight with someone, he'll always get his mates, and they'll find the best place and the best time to attack. So it gets that there's no justification to fight." Even a guaranteed one-to-one Mark's dubious about: "OK, you might have just hit him once or just pushed him out of the way, but say he falls and bangs his head on the edge of the table, or on the edge of a kerb, or ... whatever, and that person dies, then the long-term consequence is you coming back to prison for a life sentence."
It's not a very moral business, managing anger - there's a section on the course about victim issues and envisaging the full reach of the life you may have ruined, but mostly it's about very pragmatic strategies for not ending up back in prison. The best way not to come back to prison is to make sure that everything you do is something you've consciously decided to do. If this has consequences for the greater social good, then that's good, too.
I undervalued Mark's achievements all the way through, it turns out, since his parole officer is astonished by the progress he's made: "He really worried me when I first met him. I thought this was a Broadmoor case, I never thought I'd be finding him somewhere to live so soon." Debbie said she thought he'd need fairly close watching and the parole officer replied, "Yes, I'm pleased we've found a hostel above the main parole office. I don't know how happy they'll be about having an arsonist, but there we go."
Adrian is the psychologists' favourite, though. "You were excellent, you really were," Debbie started. "We couldn't fault you, and we try to fault everybody," Simon continued. Adrian looked sheepish. I don't know, maybe I'm mad, maybe I imagined this, but I thought his landing officer had tears in his eyes. Adrian no longer smokes dope, and says, "I can look at myself in the mirror easier now." He doesn't get into any fights, and he doesn't fight with his girlfriend on the phone. He's been quietly supportive to the others in the group. Debbie says after he leaves, "He really is excellent. I'd trust him to do my bathroom." (He's a decorator, besides being a drug-dealer.) Until about two-thirds of the way through the course, he confesses that he'd been planning how best to retrieve the goods and time stolen from him by society - when he was arrested, the police fashioned some absurd scale (he says) to calculate his earnings, and then seized this amount in goods and money after he was convicted. He'd figured out how much society owed him by applying the police's earnings-scale to the time he'd spent in prison, and was intending to thieve or drug-deal exactly that amount in revenge, before he went back to his regular business of, erm, drug-dealing. "I'm not going to do that now. I'm very calm. I've got no plans like that."
Calm may have no moral agenda, it certainly has no interest in stopping people smoking dope (as far as I could make out), but anger is a defining interest - your future is defined by revenge strategies; your social life and addictions are determined by the need for a respite from all the strategising. Just like anxiety, it governs your life.
Rodney wasn't up for parole yet, but on the last day, just before the relapse session, he was having an argument with some other guy who wasn't doing Calm but was doing a course next door. Rodney was in a definite state of non-agreement, but wasn't going to burst any blood vessels over it, like the other guy was. The issue, as I found out from a third person, by no means a reliable one, was this: the blood-vessel guy was on kitchen duty with Rodney (another attractive job, better in some ways than teaboy, because nobody calls you teaboy). Blood-vessels and his associate had got caught cooking crack in the microwave, and now the whole detail (including Rodney) had been kicked off kitchen duty. Anyone would be annoyed by that - most people would be more annoyed than Rodney. Maybe he was, as he said, a placid person who got pushed too far one time. Maybe the whole crack story was cooked up for my amusement. I never got to the bottom of that (he clammed up a bit towards the end of the course). But Mark and Adrian were not the same when they left Pentonville as they were when they came in. It may be full of a thousand daily frustrations but, if you feel like it, you can get a lot more out of incarceration than GCSEs
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Yesterday mom and I took the Wish Dogs on the road (a few miles down the road, into the Bywater...) to the Piety Street Arts Market! We had almost no idea what to expect, as it was our first venture to Piety Street. We loved it!! There were tons of amazing vendors, with food, drinks, jewelry, art, clothes, books — anything and everything you could ever want. Highly recommended for local shopping and a fun Saturday outing!!
My "Night and Day in NOLA" Bead Dog got sponsored!! That means I got to pick one up to paint, and it will be on display at Trinity Episcopal School & Church in the Garden District. I'm very honored and excited, especially because the students apparently voted on designs and they chose mine! Nothing like being chosen by a discerning group on the merit of your art alone. I'm putting in my hours to make this the best Bead Dog I can make, as a thank you for their support and sponsorship.
Original paintings in addition to affordable limited-edition giclees on show at Cafe Carmo, 527 Julia Street!
I'm very excited to have my works here, not least of all because Carmo is one of my favorite NOLA places for lunch/dinner. Carmo has the perfect mix of local food and tropical flavors, I'm getting hungry just writing about it... They offer AMAZING vegetarian and vegan options, making exceptional use of faux meats and fresh fruits/vegetables to produce hearty meals that are totally craveworthy.
I'll be at the Cafe on December 3rd, to meet, great, and eat as part of the monthly NOLA Art Walk, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Please come out and check out the works, enjoy some incredible gumbo, banana cake, and veggie dishes, and take in all the artistic splendor Julia Street has to offer!!
Friends, Philanthropy, and Better Than Ezra!!!
People say things get busy in New Orleans in late September/early October. After painting, reading, and overheating all summer, I'm finally starting to see why the locals say NOLA heats up in the fall. Charity events, conferences, parties, festivals — recovering from each late night in time for the next event is a delicate process that takes much more practice than I currently have.
Yet, we have to say that yesterday and last night were totally worth it. The festivities kicked off at 2 p.m. with the 10th Annual Ezra Open, a charity bowling tournament held in Mid-City.
Pic from yesterday's bowling tournament!
At about 7 p.m. the bowling teams and other patrons gathered at the Theatre at Harrah's Casino for a party of epic proportions. The Better Than Ezra guys, who had partied, bowled, and graciously hosted all day, played a killer set with Harrah's twinkling blue and white stars glowing behind them. Items were auctioned to generous donors, friendships were made, scenes were caused, and funds were raised for the City of New Orleans. Let's hope it's the first of many good times for good causes!!!


Grants to Kansas and Missouri nonprofits for health and wellness programs that provide for the emotional and physical well-being of the Jewish community within the Greater Kansas City area. The priority areas for the current funding cycle are health and wellness programs for adolescents and seniors.
Grants ranging from $1,000 to $4,000 to Missouri nonprofit organizations, schools, and IHEs that offer classical music programs in Jasper and Newton Counties. Funding is intended to encourage and support the presentation of classical music, with particular attention given to piano performance and programs.


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Azza Soliman is a women's rights defender who has been persecuted by the Egyptian government for almost 30 years. Her crime? Simply fighting for the basic human rights of Egyptian women.
She faces years in prison on dubious charges. Her freedom is severely limited by an asset freeze and travel ban.
Tell President al-Sisi that he must drop these charges and restore Azza's freedom immediately.
Egypt: Drop absurd charges against Azza Soliman
Podcast: Khadija Ismayilova, blackmailed and imprisoned for investigating corruption
A journalist suspected she was being watched, but she didn't expect to be secretly filmed in her bedroom and blackmailed - by her government. Khadija tells her story from Azerbaijan, where she has been punished in a uniquely cruel and humiliating way for investigating corruption at the highest levels of government.
Your government knows a lot about you. It's likely that they are storing your private emails, calls, internet searches, locations, and more. The UK is one of the main culprits.
We have a right to privacy and free speech, which mass surveillance violates. In the wrong hands, our sensitive information can be used against us, and endanger our lives.
What is freedom of speech?
Freedom of speech is the right to say whatever you like about whatever you like, whenever you like, right? Wrong. Free speech is one of our most important rights and one of the most misunderstood.
Use your freedom of speech to speak out for those that are denied theirs. But use it responsibly, it is a powerful thing.
Shahidul Alam released on permanent bail
Thank you for all those who took action to release Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam. He is now free form prison.
Protect Amnesty India
Thank you for all those who took action to stand against this crackdown on civil society.
Liu Xia
Liu Xia: Chinese poet under house arrest
Liu Xia has been under house arrest since 2010, but her fellow artists have not forgotten her.
Saudi women arrested for driving - not cars, but human rights change
Women in Saudi Arabia will finally be able to drive legally in June 2018. But in a cruel twist, 11 of the women human rights defenders who led the campaign have been arrested.
Crackdown in Turkey suffocating civil society
LGBTI+ activists are being forced underground, victims of sexual violence and other vulnerable groups have lost vital support, and citizens who peacefully express their views are being silenced by the Turkish government.
Raif Badawi: Five years a prisoner
Five years on, and Raif Badawi is still in prison in Saudi Arabia for setting up a website focused on social and political debate. We will not rest until he, and all prisoners of conscience in Saudi Arabia, are released.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: What you need to know
The case of British mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been all over the media. So who is Nazanin, and why are we campaigning for her to be freed from prison? Here's what you need to know.
Free Nazanin
Help get Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe home
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is in prison in Iran, but she hasn't committed a crime. Join thousands of others in calling for her immediate release and help get Nazanin home.
Free activist jailed for calling out sexual harassment
Egyptian human rights activist and mother, Amal Fathy has been arrested for sharing her experience of sexual harassment on Facebook. Call for her immediate release.
Taking 1,460 selfies in protest
Every selfie marks a day in prison for Shawkan, who's still behind bars for no reason, has never faced a trial and yet will be tried for murder - because he took photos at a protest.
Chelsea Manning free
Chelsea Manning, human rights heroine and trailblazing whistleblower, will walk free
Chelsea Manning, human rights heroine and trailblazing whistleblower, has finally walked free after seven years in prison. She had faced incarceration in military prison until 2045, but your actions helped see her released.
Russian YouTuber facing prison for playing Pokémon Go
Five years in prison for playing Pokémon Go? That's the punishment facing 21-year-old Russian blogger Ruslan Sokolovsky, after he filmed himself playing the game in a church. He's under house arrest, barred from using the internet until his trial.
Chelsea Manning faces new charges for attempting suicide
Sadly, Chelsea Manning attempted to take her life in July 2016. Perversely, the US military authorities imprisoning her responded by leveling harsh new charges against her - including the prospect of indefinite solitary confinement.
Waleed Abu al-Khair, imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for defending human rights
Human rights lawyer Waleed Abu al-Khair is serving a 15-year sentence for his human rights activism.
Waleed was charged under Saudi Arabia's strict counter-terror laws for activities like representing activists like Raif Badawi in court and discussing human rights in his own home. We're campaigning for Waleed to be released immediately.
Atena Farghadani released early after being imprisoned for her art in Iran
She was punished for drawing political cartoons. After a year and a half in prison, painter and activist Atena is free, more than ten years earlier than expected.
Atena could still be reimprisoned on existing charges at any point in the next four years, as Iranian authorities try to stop her speaking out. But for now she is free from prison.
Burma frees student protesters
They found themselves in prison simply for protesting against an education law they found repressive. But a huge prisoner amnesty in Burma has seen scores of wrongly imprisoned students freed - including student union leader Phyoe Phyoe Aung and her husband.
Thousands upon thousands of you had taken part in our campaign for their freedom. Thank you.
Nabeel Rajab
Imprisoned for tweeting about his government. Beaten for peacefully protesting for human rights.
Nabeel Rajab has been targeted again and again by the authorities in Bahrain, who are determined to silence him. But Nabeel is equally determined to keep fighting for human rights. He speaks out on why he won't give up the fight.
One year since Raif was flogged, call for his freedom
In the year since Raif Badawi was flogged, Saudi Arabian authorities have continued their intense crackdown on free speech.
Raif is one of many people behind bars simply for exercising their human rights in the Kingdom. We continue to campaign for freedom for Raif and all imprisoned for speaking out.


What is Kiehl's Precision Lifting Pore-Tightening Concentrate?
As per the manufacturer Kiehl's Precision Lifting & Pore-Tightening Concentrate is a skin care formulation that visibly lifts the skin while at the same time re-shaping the contours of the face. It also noticeably tightens the skin in order to reduce the appearance of enlarged pores. It uses special active ingredients namely geranium essential oil and yeast extract which are both proven to improve the elasticity of the skin. The formula also helps reduce the severity of skin aging signs specifically fine lines and wrinkles. One 1.7 oz. container is priced $64 online.
Kiehl's is an American cosmetics company that specializes in premium skin, hair and body care products. It started in 1851 as a single pharmacy and the company has grown to more than 250 retail stores all over the world. The company was purchased by the L'Oreal Group in 2000 and has become one of the most popular brands in the beauty industry today. The company is known for their unorthodox marketing approach and it is well-known as a brand for men thus the simple and straightforward packaging of their products. The brand has established an impeccable reputation in the skin care industry.
Kiehl's Precision Lifting Pore-Tightening Concentrate Does It Work?
Kiehl's Precision Lifting & Pore-Tightening Concentrate uses a special combination of active ingredients that make the skin firmer and smoother. It also works to improve the appearance of the skin's contours and definition. The formula also reduces the size and appearance of pores that are enlarged due to any reason. The serum also helps restore the youthful elasticity of the skin in order to reduce the severity of fine lines all over the face. There are also ingredients that soothe the skin to reduce inflammation which improves its appearance and texture.
What are the Ingredients in Kiehl's Precision Lifting Pore-Tightening Concentrate?
Water/ Aqua: helps in retaining the moisture of the skin making it moist and soft with a glowy effect.
Butylene Glycol: beneficial ingredients to penetrate the skin, with the remainder sitting on the skin surface and doing little good for skin health. By increasing skin penetration, butylene glycol can boost the overall effectiveness of the product. But one of the likeliest side effects from this chemical is the potential for skin irritation.
It is a special formulation for reducing pore size, but can also reduce oil secretion making skin dry and scaly.
Apply Kiehl's Precision Lifting & Pore-Tightening Concentrate on clean, dry skin preferably after cleansing.
Apply the serum all over your face then massage gently into the skin to ensure thorough absorption.
Let it dry for several minutes and allow the formulation to be thoroughly absorbed by the skin before using other skin care products or wearing makeup.
Does Kiehl's Precision Lifting Pore-Tightening Concentrate have any side effects?
Perform skin testing to check sensitivity to the formula. If irritation occurs, discontinue use since this may indicate that you are hypersensitive to any of the ingredients. If you have highly sensitive skin, it would be advisable to consult your skin care professional before using this product.
After extensive inspection of Kiehl's Precision Lifting & Pore-Tightening Concentrate, it is a good skin care product specifically for enlarged pores. The formula offers good lifting and tightening effects on the skin using special natural extracts. The main problem is the high price of the product but there are many good reviews from people who have tried it saying it is an excellent skin care formula. Overall, this is an above average skincare product worth trying.


Homeowner, contractor, woodworker, architect—start off on the right foot with the right products. Stop in to browse our extensive inventory of quality lumber.
Lumber, timbers, slabs, poles – over 25 species are available in our yard. We specialize in hardwood slabs with a natural edge, thick stock for mantles and furniture, hard to find woods and reclaimed lumber. Wide or long stock is available.
No matter what you need, you can depend on us to help you out!
Common thicknesses in stock are 4/4 (1"), 5/4 (1 ¼"), 6/4 (1 ½"), 8/4 (2"), 10/4 (2 ½"), 12/4 (3"), 16/4 (4"), 24/4 (6"). We do not always have all thicknesses in every species. Call us for availability.
We have timbers in stock from 4" to 12" thickness. We can also cut or can order in custom timbers.
We do not publish lumber prices on the internet, however, we'd be glad to quote something for you in person, through email (phil@southeasternhardwoods.com), or over the phone (828)581-0197.
Whether for a table, stair treads, countertops, or any application where a thicker stock is desired, we probably have what you want. We have undoubtedly the largest selection in western North Carolina for these thicknesses of wood. Our specialties include walnut, cherry, sycamore, poplar, and soft maple. However, we sell these slabs in many species of wood from 1 ½" to 8" in both straight-edge and live-edge. We also have a small selection of barn wood timbers that customers use for indoor beams and mantels. Our experienced staff will work with you to find the perfect piece for you!
We stock timbers in pine, eastern red cedar, and locust. We can also cut or order any size timber you need in most species if we do not have the size that you want.
Custom orders are easily done for you. Whether we do it in-house or from one of our many suppliers, we can get what you need.
Through our manufacturing process, we have certain by-products that can be purchased and used.


The San Diego Comic-Con is now over, but the annual convention for all things movies, comics, TV and more has left us with some great new trailers for some highly anticipated movies.
THE CON — The San Diego Comic-Con is now over, but the annual convention for all things movies, comics, TV and more has left us with some great new trailers for some highly anticipated movies.
My guess is most of you didn't make it to San Diego this year, but that doesn't mean you should miss out on the best trailers from the event. Here's a look at some of the surprise trailers and also the ones we were hoping to see from Comic-Con.
We're just focusing on movie trailers here because if we included all the TV trailers, you and I would be here all day.
People were hoping to maybe see some images from DC's upcoming movie "Shazam!" but almost nobody was expecting a nearly 3-minute trailer. Not only was the trailer a surprise, but for me, it was the best surprise of the convention.
I wasn't sure what to think about this movie considering the comic is light-hearted and funny whereas the DC Comics movie universe has been anything but that up to this point. I thought the trailer nailed the tone of the comic and star Zachary Levi's charisma and charm is on full display.
"Shazam!" wasn't really on my radar, but now I'm eagerly awaiting it in 2019.
There was one trailer I couldn't wait to see and that was "Glass."
M. Night Shyamalan premiered the trailer for his new film over the weekend, and it did not disappoint.
The movie is a sequel to 2000's "Unbreakable" and a follow-up to 2017's "Split." The movie stars Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson reprising their roles from "Unbreakable" and James McAvoy returning with all of his personalities from "Split."
I wasn't sure where Shyamalan was going to take the story following "Split," but I do know I wasn't expecting what the trailer gave us. The movie looks tense, entertaining and creepy. I can't stop watching the moment in the trailer when Glass meets The Beast. I'm really excited for this one.
"Glass" debuts in theaters in January. Click here to watch the trailer.
A part of me forgot we were getting another "Godzilla" movie, but Comic-Con made sure to remind me.
Warner Bros. is trying to make a Marvel-style cinematic universe with their classic giant monsters. First, we got 2014's "Godzilla," which was a big let down and then we got the surprisingly enjoyable "Kong: Skull Island" in 2017.
"Godzilla: King of the Monsters" promises more monster mayhem with ensuing battles between the giant lizard and his classic foes, including Mothra, Rodan and King Ghidorah.
The visuals are impressive and the movie has a pretty great cast, but I'm having a tough time getting excited. The movie is due in theaters on May 31, 2019.
The "Aquaman" trailer was likely the most anticipated from Comic-Con and, for me, it was a bit of a letdown.
"Justice League" was a bit of a disaster, but Arthur Curry was one of the bright spots. This gave me some hope for the Atlantean's standalone film, but this trailer has me scratching my head.
The movie seems to be going for a lighter tone than "Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice" or "Justice League," but it also seems to be missing the magic that made "Wonder Woman" so great.
We'll get to find out if the trailer was just a miss or of the movie is another DCEU misfire in December.
Personally, I was a much bigger fan of 2016's "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" than I thought I would be. I'm hoping for more of the same with "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald," and my hopes are staying high thanks to the Comic-Con trailer.
The film appears to pick up where the first one left off and promises plenty of magic and intrigue as Newt Scamander and a young Professor Dumbledore try to save the world once again.
The trailer has a more serious tone and it worried me they were going to get away from the fun vibe the first film had, but the end of the trailer seemed to put those fears to rest.
"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Crimes of Grindelwald," is due in theaters on Nov. 16.
What were your favorite trailers from Comic-Con 2018? Let us know in the comments.


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Soccar will now be televised.
Television networks have been gaining interest in esports for the past couple of years, and today NBC Sports became the latest network to jump on the trend. It announced today that it'll broadcast a Rocket League tournament, marking the first time that Rocket League has been televised.
In a press release today, developer Psyonix detailed its new partnership with the NBC Sports Group. The network will broadcast a two vs. two tournament with a $100,000 prize pool this summer. The tournament will begin with regional online qualifying matches organized through the Faceit esports platform, then later rounds will be aired on the NBC Sports App.
The Grand Finals, which take place from August 26-27, will be broadcast on NBCSN, the network's TV channel, in the United States, and the Syfy channel in the UK, Germany, Australia, and Latin America.
According to Rob Simmelkjaer, senior vice president of NBC Sports Ventures, the network decided to make Rocket League its first foray into esports because it believed that the game is already close enough to sports to make it easy and entertaining for NBC Sports' current audience.
"We looked at lots of different games in lots of different genres," he told Mashable. "We ultimately landed on Rocket League for a number of reasons. Number one, it's growing at a nice clip. We see its audiences are growing."
"Number two, we thought that it had some sports DNA to it, which would be a good fit for us and for our audience--our sports-loving audience," he continued. "It's obviously got this sort of soccer mash-up with with motorsports, which are sports that we cover extensively on NBC Sports Network."
Psyonix's head of esports, Josh Watson, also said that the game's low barrier of entry makes it a good fit for the network. "Rocket League is an easy-to-understand game, which makes it the perfect introduction to esports for fans of all backgrounds and ages," he stated in a press release.
Other esports that have been or will be broadcast on TV include Heroes of the Storm on ESPN 2 and Injustice 2 on TBS.
Rocket League is currently available for PS4, Xbox One, and PC, and soon it'll launch on Nintendo Switch, as well. You can see its Switch announcement trailer at the top of this article. The Switch, Xbox One, and PC versions will have cross-play compatibility, but the PS4 is currently left out. It will be released on Switch this holiday season.


NCECA Awards: Honoring our exceptional members!
The last I checked – about 10 years ago – the entertainment industry had over 330 awards ceremonies every year. NCECA is somewhat more modest and circumspect in its awards. We offer one short educational program each year that tries to raise up the best of the best. It gives the awardees an opportunity to discuss their contributions to our shared discipline.
Because we consider these awards so prestigious we will give no more than 2 awards in each category each year, (and sometimes no one from a category rises to the level of deserving an award).
Honorary Members or those who have made significant life-long contributions to the field.
Fellows of the Council who are recognized for their service and contributions to NCECA.
Excellence in Teaching – which is self-explanatory I suppose, but honors those teachers at the end of their careers whose teaching has made a significant difference.
The Outstanding Achievement Award recognizes a unique contribution in the field during the year, or in recent years.
And the Regional Award of Excellence goes to people who have transformed the clay landscape in their region through consistent efforts over their lifetime.
Please attend this event and learn about the contributions of the awardees and support them in their moment to shine with NCECA.
AND REMEMBER – These are your awards as members! All of the names considered are brought forward by the membership for consideration, so if you think that someone is deserving please take the time to nominate them for consideration.


This is your chance to own very unique pieces from the cast and crew of Hannibal. Doodle4NF starts the auctions of these coveted celebrity doodles on May 7th and the run until May 18th, 2015. All proceeds benefit The Neurofibromatosis Network.
The following is the list of the submissions for the show. Make sure you follow @Doodle4NF on Twitter for their auction alerts. Additionally, you can also check out a list of X-Files Alumni Here.


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    4th week of learning python

    03/05/18

    Starting point
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    Did I reach my target?
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    Lesson Review

    How did I learn? What strategies were effective?

    I learnt by getting down to work straight away and going on code academy and learning python as soon as possible and sometimes I used the hint option so that I could understand and get more the question more easily when I didn't get what we had to do. I also read the information on the left so understand what i was supposed to do.

    What limited my learning? Which habits do I need to work on?

    Something that limited my learning was that i didnt peresevere as much with the questions that i thought i should've I thought that maybe is should not use the solution button which leads me straight to the answer and also do all the challanges which they have set me and not just one and then skip what they are trying to tell me

    What will I change for next time? How will I improve my learning?

    I will try not to use the solution option at the bottom of the screen and instead I will persevere and work more at the question and not go so easily to the answer.

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• 32 year old Swede Sofia Assarson is part of our local favorite band Castlewoods – together with Maja Fredriksson and Johanna Lannerö. A folk-indie kind of vibe, from Joni Mitchell via Kate Bush to Beach House.
The debut album was recorded at Studio Oodion, in classic Music A Matic's headquarters in Gothenburg. Where both Håkan Hellström and Joakim Thåström been before. It was intense, nine days recording with Swedish snuff and late night whiskey along with studio owner Henryk Lypps homemade fish soup and technician Thomas Andréns endless patience.
– It was magic! Now we just wanna hit the road and play live. An album today is an expensive business card, a chance to introduce ourself to the world, says Sofia. Right now she lives in Berlin. Doing her thing.
– I write new material and network. Berlin is beautiful, to meet and jam together, sleeping on someone's couch. I wanna make a living in music and there are no shortcuts. It's about working hard.
– We just got a tour booked in northern Europe through a booking agency and concept called Meta Projects. They chose us among a number of different bands and have a true love for Swedish folk-indie. It´ll be six dates in Germany and Amsterdam for starters, says Sofia.
• Lives: Gothenburg & Berlin.
• Reads: Right now the latest books of Haruki Murakami and Patti Smith.
• Listens to: Gillian Welch, Katzenjammer, José Gonzales, Jessica Pratt, I Wish I Was A Fish.
Until the album arrives, check out this vid; beach-India-style.
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This site lists all fireballs and meteorites image taken during their atmospheric entry.
It was created in 2004 for everyone to enjoy, on the same site, these unique and amazing pictures The events are organized by sections and in decreased chronological order.
For each meteors you can see photos, videos, access to detailed information: date, path, falling location, orbit etc ... obtain the references of publications and links to website. Enjoy reading!


This beautifully crafted necklace and earring set I created using clear Swarovski Pure Brilliance Zircons. Personally designed and created by me. The larger stones are 14mm in diameter and tier down to smaller sizes and the necklace goes on.
Necklace pictured measures 17 inches and extends to 19 inches with an extension chain and has a lobster clasp closure.


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An optical gas imaging camera is a highly specialized version of an IR or thermal imaging camera. It consists of a lens, a detector, electronics that process the signal from the detector, and a viewfinder or screen for the user to see the image produced by the camera.
Infrared (IR) thermal imaging cameras have been used for decades for a variety of oil and gas applications, including electrical/ mechanical inspections, tank level inspections, and even examinations of pipe integrity within process equipment. In recent years, new optical gas imaging (OGI) technology has been developed which can "see" hydrocarbon gases and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that are venting or leaking to the atmosphere. OGI can be used for meeting regulatory emission reduction requirements, while also helping to reduce product loss, which in turn provides positive return on investment. OGI cameras are a huge time saver compared to other inspection technologies and also offer safety advantages for operators. Major energy companies are using OGI cameras like the FLIR GF320 to quickly check thousands of components and identify potential gas leaks in real-time.
The U.S. natural gas industry as a whole emitted 162.4 million metric tons CO2 equivalent of methane in 2015. In addition to regulatory compliance issues, this equates to lost product for operators. The industry is faced with how to best find and repair natural gas leaks at potential escape points, including compressor stations, processing plants, hydraulically-fractured wells, and along transportation lines.
Before the development of OGI cameras, most oil and gas facilities used a toxic vapour analyzer (TVA), otherwise known as a "sniffer," to analyze gas concentration levels and quantify gas emitted to the atmosphere. TVAs are reliable, relatively low cost, and can identify most gases. The disadvantage compared to an OGI camera is that the operator must know exactly where to go to look for the fault - and physically touch it. In other words, sniffers are like playing pin the tail on the donkey, while optical gas imaging is the same game - but without a blindfold. Also, OGI is considerably (5-10 times) faster than a sniffer.
Optical gas imaging also offers several safety advantages over a traditional TVA. It enables remote detection of a gas that could potentially explode or cause health issues to those breathing in the gas. OGI cameras enable operators to remain at a safe distance away during inspections. Rather than standing in a cloud of gas, they can remain on the ground, point to a spot 10 or 20 feet high, and determine if it is leaking gas into the atmosphere.
Optical gas imaging can be likened to looking through a camcorder - the operator sees a plume of gas blowing out that would otherwise be completely invisible to the naked eye. The gas plume looks as if it is emanating from a burning object, almost like smoke from a cigarette or a cigar.
To see this plume of gas, an OGI camera uses a unique spectral filter method that enables it to detect a particular gas compound. The filter is mounted in front of the detector and cooled along with it to prevent any radiation exchange between the filter and the detector. The filter restricts the wavelengths of radiation allowed to pass through to the detector to a very narrow band called the band pass. This technique is called spectral adaptation.
OGI cameras use quantum detectors that require cooling to cryogenic temperatures (around 70K or -203°C). Midwave cameras that detect hydrocarbon gases such as methane commonly operate in the 3-5 micrometer (μm) range and use an indium antimonide (InSb) detector. Longwave cameras that detect gases such as sulfur hexafluoride tend to operate in the 8-12 μm range and use a quantum well infrared photodetector (QWIP).
OGI cameras take advantage of the absorbing nature of certain molecules to visualize them in their native environments. The camera focal plane arrays (FPAs) and optical systems are specifically tuned to very narrow spectral ranges, on the order of hundreds of nanometers, and are therefore ultra-selective. Only gases absorbent in the infrared region that is delimited by a narrow band pass filter can be detected. For the majority of gas compounds, infrared absorption characteristics are wavelength dependent.
If the camera is directed at a scene without a gas leak, objects in the field of view will emit and reflect infrared radiation through the lens and filter of the camera. If a gas cloud exists between the objects and the camera and that gas absorbs radiation in the band pass range of the filter, the amount of radiation passing through the cloud to the detector will be reduced. To see the cloud in relation to the background, there must be a radiant contrast between the cloud and the background.
To sum up the keys to making the cloud visible - the gas must absorb infrared radiation in the waveband the camera sees; the gas cloud must have radiant contrast with the background; and the apparent temperature of the cloud must be different than the background. In addition, motion makes the cloud easier to see.
Several regulatory standards affect which technology is used to detect gas emitted to the atmosphere. The sniffer remains the required method for some oil and gas regulations, with OGI cameras a secondary tool. For newer regulatory standards in the U.S. oil and gas industry, OGI is considered the best method, with the sniffer the secondary method.
In 2016, the EPA issued Quad Oa, short for Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 40, Part 60, Subpart OOOOa. These amendments to the EPA's New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) define emission standards for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and quantify necessary emission reductions. Quad Oa includes methane regulations that require upstream oil and gas facilities to limit emissions; the regulations apply mainly to well pads and compression stations. For Quad Oa, optical gas imaging is considered the best system of emission reduction (BSER).
In addition, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) and Alberta Environment and Parks (AEP) have recently launched new regulations that will require inspection of all equipment with either an optical gas camera or a sniffer by 2019.
Other countries around the world are likely to implement regulations similar to these proactive North American emissions control and methane reduction regulations in the years to come.
In recent years, new technology has come on the market to meet the need for OGI for oil and gas applications. For example, the FLIR GF320 works with the Providence Photonics QL320 to give users the ability to reduce emissions while quantifying benefits in terms of litres per minute, or grams per hour emitted - useful information for those looking for an economic justification for an optical gas imaging program. Not only can it be used to stop emissions and quantify leak detection program effectiveness, it can also be used to quantify and prioritize repairs. Embedded GPS data helps operators identify the precise location of faults and leaks, for faster repairs.
Another innovative technology from FLIR is the GFx320, an OGI camera that has been independently certified as Intrinsically Safe for Zone 2 and Class 1; Div 2 environments. This Intrinsically Safe designation means surveyors can work confidently inside critical safety zones and hazardous locations.
In addition, the FLIR optical gas imager can also be used to measure temperature as part of the more typical IR camera electrical/mechanical inspection tasks, so the cameras actually offer dual purpose functionality.
Optical gas imaging has been used to comply with regulations while saving money and improving operator safety. One example is Wyoming-based Jonah Energy, which began using optical gas imaging technology in 2005 to find fugitive emissions at its production facilities. The company inspects 150 facilities every month, and inspects the 1,700 wells within a one-year period. Jonah uses a FLIR GF320 infrared camera for methane and VOC detection, providing visual confirmation of leaks as small as 0.8 grams/hour.
Jonah Energy found that the main advantage of the FLIR GF320 is its ability to scan large areas and visualize gas plumes in real-time. This helps inspectors pinpoint the source of fugitive emissions and begin the repair process immediately, making OGI inspections more efficient than Method 21 surveys. In fact, during a field study conducted for the City of Fort Worth, TX, surveyors determined that scanning with infrared cameras was at least nine times faster than performing Method 21 scans on the same site equipment.
The speed of OGI scans makes it easier for oil and gas producers to survey equipment more often. The EPA notes that more frequent inspections and repairs can reduce fugitive methane and VOC emissions significantly. For example, quarterly surveys can cut emissions by 80 percent, while semi-annual monitoring surveys and repairs can reduce emissions by 60 percent.
Since 2010, Jonah has reduced fugitive emissions by 75 percent. It also reduced repair time from 705 hours to 106, cut labour costs from $58,369 to $7,500, and dropped its gas losses from $348,000 to $20,500. Emissions in tons went from 351 to 31.
Jonah Energy says that their monthly Leak Detection and Repair (LDAR) program using OGI technology has been both effective and consistently profitable. Their cumulative gas savings exceeded $5 million in the past six years, which more than covered the overall program costs.
Another example is ConocoPhillips, which performed an optical leak detection and measurement pilot study at 22 CPC facilities to test best management practices for fugitive emissions management. The study findings were used to evaluate the benefits of using OGI technology as part of fugitive emission management plan for the company's Canadian operations.
The study identified 144 leaking components, which collectively amounted to about $358,000 in lost product. The lost product resulted in methane leaks contributing more than 21,000 tons per year of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The study estimated that 92 percent of the sources could be repaired economically, resulting in net present savings of more than $2 million.
"We have been using certain contact measurement tools like laser detectors or leak sniffers," says Inspectair's Cailean Forrester. "But the problem is that you have to go right up to the object, which is not always safe or even possible. In other words, this approach is limited and not very precise. With an optical gas imaging camera like the GF320 however, you can keep a safe distance and still detect gas leaks with great precision."
Ron Lucier, an instructor at the Infrared Training Center in Nashua, NH, cites the importance of being able to check for gas plumes from a safe distance. "Methane and other hydrocarbons are not only flammable, but in high concentrations they can cause asphyxiation," Lucier explains. "With TVA gas 'sniffers' you know the gas is there, but you don't know how much. OGI users can immediately see the size of the gas plume - something that's impossible to do with a gas sniffer."
In April 2018, FLIR received the Technology Innovation Award for its GF320 camera at the Oil and Gas Methane Leadership Awards, given out the Global Methane Forum in Toronto, Canada. The award was given by the Center for Clean Air Policy, Clean Air Task Force, Environmental Defence Canada, Environmental Defense Fund, and the Pembina Institute.
According to the Pembina Institute, "FLIR was selected for its innovative sensing solutions including cost effective hand held cameras that can be used by industry to identify and stop fugitive emissions, thereby protecting the environment and saving money." They also stated that organizations "have used this technology to identify the source and magnitude of emissions and inform policy development."
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Q: Genetic algorithm to find minimum of a function of 2 variables I'm studying GA and i wanted to implent it to find a minimum of a f(x,y)
ex. z=sin3x+cos4y
Now, my problem is how i should treat chromosome x and y. Should they be 2 separate population? Should they be encoded in the same chromosome?

A: First of all - your function is separable. This means that you can optimize each dimension (x and y) separately - you fix e.g. y to 0 and you focus only on x and find minimum. Then you fix x and find minimum in y. Then you are done. If your function was not separable, you couldn't do that. The simplest example of an unseparable function is f(x, y) = xy.
To the GA stuff - it depends on what you mean by GA. If you really mean the classical GA evolving binary strings than that is a bad approach in real-valued optimization. Much much much better approach is to use a real-valued GA (or EA to be more precise). In that one the genotype is made of the real numbers themselves, i.e. both x and y (because both of them are a solution, not just one of them). You of course need to employ different mutation and crossover operators. Look at a post on my blog where I write exactly about that (you can safely skip to the "Real-valued Evolution" part).


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