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Q: Linux: Same files different size I've 2 configuration files in linux. One file size is 177bytes and 2nd one is 183 bytes.
Checked size by following command:
wc -c Config

both files have 100% same text, same name (different folders). I matched word by word as there are only 6 lines. Also compared by using CompareIT in windows. Now problem is that when I run my program with Config file of 177 bytes, then it works. and when I run my program with Config file of size 183 then it doesn't work. Now I'm unable to understand that how can I distinguish between both files? what is the difference that is creating problem as i have to keep checking every time that I'm using file of 177 bytes. that configuration files contains:
Company="ABC"
FromEmail="Email"
UserName="user"
Password="Pass"
ToEmail="Email"
SMTP=smtp.gmail.com:587

Kindly help me to identify difference. thanks in advance.

A: We have the technology to show the difference between two files automagically.  diff is the canonical option, and will show you which lines are different (so you can narrow down your search).  cmp, in contrast, won't give you such friendly output, but it does tell you exactly which byte in the file is different.
I'd say, however, that any program that barfs just because whitespace has changed in it's config file probably is one you want to be running away from very quickly (preferably after putting the author of said nightmare out of their misery -- for the sake of anyone else who might come across them in the future, if nothing else).

A: The difference is probably just white space. Open up each in a hex editor to verify.

A: The difference is either in whitespace or the newline char.
On windows, the newline char (char that gets you in the new line). On unix systems, it simply \n. On windows systems it's \r\n (carriage-return, newline (linefeed)).
Check it with the hex editor, or find "dos2unix" tool to convert and then compare with "diff".
If one of the files was created on Windows and the other on a unix box, that would probably be the difference.

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It is possible Sting's musical The Last Ship will never leave the harbour, yet alone dock in a major theatre. It will certainly never again be seen as I saw it on Friday night at Live Theatre when the actors had the script in their hands. Even the following night's second try-out performance on Saturday was different, by all accounts. This, then, cannot be a review of a finished product. A work of progress it was at the weekend and a work of progress it will remain for quite some time. Having said that, The Last Ship has more going for it than most embryonic musicals...
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Q: Distribution over functions that integrate to 0 This question is about Gaussian processes interpreted as distributions over the space of functions.  Gaussian processes have the property that their integrals are Gaussian random variables; cf. this StackExchange post for a derivation.  In particular, the integral of a zero-mean Gaussian process $X(t)$ over $t$ is almost always nonzero.
Does there exist a "canonical" distribution over functions $X(t)$ over $[0,1]^n$ that integrate to zero (almost always)?
Ideally, it'd be great to identify a distribution that's easy to work with computationally, e.g. one for which we can draw samples of $X(t_k)$ for some fixed/finite set of values $t_k\in[0,1]^n$.
Of course the simplest thing to do would be to subtract the mean, i.e. to take a standard zero-mean Gaussian process $X(t)$ and define a new function $X_{\mathrm{centered}}(t):=X(t)-\mathbb E_{t\in[0,1]}[X(t)]$, but I'm worried that this distribution is hard to work with computationally because it couples different $t$ values together in a way that requires knowing $X(t)$ for all $t$ to evaluate the function.

A: Finding the distribution and sampling from it should be straightforward for continuous covariance and mean functions which have readily computable integrals.
Let us assume for convenience that $X$ is defined on $[0;1]$, zero-mean with continuous covariance function $K$. It should not be very difficult to generalise from this. Define $Y=\int_0^1X(s)ds$ as your integrated process.
Existence and properties of $Y$
If $$\int_0^1 \int_0^1 K(s,t)dsdt < \infty$$
then $Y$ is a constant Gaussian process, i.e. a Gaussian random variable. This random variable (not the process) is zero mean and has covariance $C=\int_0^1 \int_0^1 K(s,t)dsdt$.
Joint properties of $(X,Y)$
$X$ and $Y$ are joint Gaussian processes, i.e. they have a joint Gaussian distribution. Their cross covariance function is
$$ Cov(X(t),Y) = \int_0^1 K(s,t)ds.$$
Conditioning on Y
As it is true for any Gaussian process, conditioning $(X,Y)$ on $Y$ will give you a Gaussian process again. So define the new Gaussian process as
$$Z = X | Y=0$$
Sampling from $Z$
Using the conditioning formula for Gaussian processes you can draw samples from $Z$ in pretty much the same way as you would draw samples from $X$.
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Black-tailed prairie dogs are helpful homebuilders, gardeners and gourmet meals according to recently published research in Conservation Biology. In "Associations of Grassland Bird Communities with Black-tailed Prairie Dogs in the North American Great Plains,"authors David J. Augustine and Bruce W. Baker reveal that the areas in which the iconic rodent is present also support higher densities of at least 9 other vertebrates. From black-footed ferrets and prairie rattlesnakes to burrowing owls, mountain plovers and horned larks, it seems that prairie dogs are living up to their "keystone species" moniker.
In response to the study, we contacted Dr. David Augustine to learn more about his work. David, who is a Research Ecologist with the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Fort Collins, CO, studies plant-herbivore interactions, the ecology and management of semi-arid rangelands, and conservation biology. He received his MS in Wildlife Conservation from the University of Minnesota, and PhD in Biology from Syracuse University. Prior to joining ARS, Dr. Augustine worked for as a Wildlife Biologist for the Comanche and Cimarron National Grasslands in Colorado and Kansas. His past research has examined the role of herbivory in a variety of ecosystems including savannas of East Africa, sagebrush steppe in Yellowstone National Park, and deciduous forests of eastern North America.
American Prairie Reserve: You've conducted research on grasslands far and wide, including America's Great Plains and the savannas of East Africa. What draws you to these ecosystems?
David Augustine: For me, the draw has always been the relationship between the herbivores and the overall ecosystem. Grasslands are places where so much of the sunlight is eventually converted into mammalian herbivores, which allows the herbivores to both respond to and influence everything from soil microbes to bird communities.
APR: We're a little biased in our interest in the northern Great Plains, where American Prairie Reserve is located. How does this region to compare to others that you've studied?
David: When I first moved from Africa to the Great Plains, the lack of ungulate diversity was a bit disappointing – I went from working on a ranch in Kenya with cattle, sheep, goats, camels and 14 species of native ungulates to places that just supported cattle and pronghorn. The APR represents one of the few places in the Great Plains where a full suite of native ungulates is being conserved in combination with livestock and a diverse suite of wildlife species of conservation concern. This along with the sheer size of the relatively unfragmented prairie landscape in and around APR makes it truly unique.
APR: In the recent study on black-tailed prairie dogs and grassland birds, your results indicated that "large complexes of prairie dog colonies in the northern Great Plains contribute to a substantially more diverse bird community" than areas where prairie dogs are absent. What are some of the relationships that exist between prairie dogs and grassland birds that make this possible? Who needs the prairie dog to survive?
David: Black-tailed prairie dogs influence so many species because they affect grassland ecosystems in multiple ways. First, they are a prey source for a large number of predators, from specialists like black-footed ferrets to snakes, swift foxes, and raptors. Second, the burrows they dig provide underground refugia for other species, like burrowing owls and some reptiles, to escape from predators, storms, or extreme temperatures. Third, prairie dog grazing modifies the vegetation substantially, creating vegetation that is more prostrate (low to the ground), sparse, and dominated by forbs – this can provide a unique breeding habitat for some bird species that are adapted to these conditions, like mountain plovers, killdeer and McCown's longspurs. And finally, the contrast between short, sparse vegetation on their colonies and the taller, denser vegetation off prairie dog colonies can be valuable to some species that benefit from having both types of vegetation near one another – examples include long-billed curlews and mourning doves.
APR: As explored in some of your previous research, black-tailed prairie dogs in northeastern Montana have been significantly impacted by plague (Yersinia pestis). What has been the impact of this disease on the landscape?
David: One major effect is that plague prevents colonies from occupying a large portion of the landscape. Just when a colony or local cluster of colonies grows to a size where they are beginning to function as a major component of the landscape, we typically see a plague epizootic move through, returning the colonies back to small, isolated pockets of surviving prairie dogs.
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David: After a plague epizootic, all of those functions that prairie dogs perform – serving as prey, modifying vegetation, and generating belowground refugia – are soon lost. Clearly their role as prey is gone first. With one average growing season, the effects that prairie dogs had on vegetation structure are lost. And even the belowground refugia begin to collapse and lose their value to other wildlife species within 2-3 years after the plague outbreak.
APR: Mountain plovers were also mentioned in our last interview on the topic of rarity in nature with WWF Lead Scientist and author Eric Dinerstein. What, in your opinion, makes this species remarkable or unique?
David: For me, mountain plovers are remarkable because they are so closely tied to disturbance regimes in the Great Plains, both prairie dog colonies and recent burns. Mountain plovers are an expression of the processes like grazing and fire that have been operating to sustain a variable landscape in this region for thousands of year. It's also amazing to watch how well-adapted they are to living in such sparse and prostrate vegetation. One moment their white breast stands out like a beacon on the prairie, and then when they turn their back to you, they just disappear into the prairie.
APR: What are you working on now?
David: The past several years I've mainly studied intense or recent disturbances, like prairie dogs colonies and prescribed fire. Now I am beginning to focus on the other side of the equation, which is the role and function of grassland lacking recent disturbance. In particular, we are starting new large-scale experiments to examine how periodic, pulsed livestock grazing – where an area is grazed heavily but then rested from grazing for a year or more – affects grassland structure and habitat for native wildlife. This is another part of sustaining the variable landscape that characterized prairie landscapes historically.
APR: And for the hardest question – favorite prairie species?
David: That is hard. One of my favorites has to be the long-billed curlew. Their large size and long beak seem so incongruous with open prairie, yet when sitting on their nest, they are perfectly camouflaged as a cow pie. Another example of the long coevolutionary relationships between grazers and birds in this region.
Augustine, D. J., and B. W. Baker. 2013 Associations of grassland bird communities with black-tailed prairie dogs in the North American great plains. Conservation Biology, 1–11.
Augustine, D. J., and J. D. Derner. 2012. Disturbance regimes and mountain plover habitat in shortgrass steppe: large herbivore grazing does not substitute for prairie dog grazing or fire. The Journal of Wildlife Management 76(4):721–728.
Augustine, D. J., S. J. Dinsmore, M. B. Wunder, V. J. Dreitz, and F. L. Knopf. 2008. Response of mountain plovers to plague-driven dynamics of black-tailed prairie dog colonies. Landscape Ecology 23:689-697.
Augustine, D. J., M. R. Matchett, T. B. Toombs, J. F. Cully, T. L. Johnson, and J. G. Sidle. 2008. Spatiotemporal dynamics of black-tailed prairie dog colonies affected by plague. Landscape Ecology 23:255-267.


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The British Type C and Type C* Depth Charges were small anti-submarine weapons adapted from Aeroplane bomb R.L. Pattern 22262 described in the Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915.[2]
Adapted from Aeroplane bomb R.L. Pattern 22262, it was streamlined like a small bomb and had 25 pounds of T.N.T. or Amatol initiated by 0.75 pounds of Tetryl, yielding a 10 foot danger radius.
The Type C was triggered by a float at either 40 or 80 feet, and the Type C* was hydrostatically triggered at 50 feet. With an overall weight of just 90 pounds, these were among the lightest depth charges. They sank at 10 feet per second and were about to be issued to small craft in October 1915. By early December, the Type C was being issued and the Type C* was soon to be ordered.
↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915. Plate 83.
↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915. pp. 164-5, 172-3, Plate 73, Plate 83.
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As the moderator of this Public Lecturer, Mahfud Sholihin, PhD, the Head of Accounting Department FEB UGM, opened the event by greeting and explanation. Dr. Mohammad Hudaib continued with greeting and prayer which then followed by explanation about Accounting. He also questioned to the audiences, "What is necessary for 'the alternative and critical accounting research' to emerge?".
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Cooper Union (in full, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art) is a private institution of higher learning in New York, New York. The school was endowed in 1859 by merchant and philanthropist Peter Cooper. Green Camp, a 1,000-acre (400-hectare) tract in Ringwood, New Jersey, was acquired in 1941–44 for an additional educational and recreational facility. In 1955 the institution acquired property adjacent to its original site for a school of engineering (completed 1960).
Cooper Union offers bachelor's degree programs in its schools of art, architecture, and engineering; these are supported by a core curriculum in the liberal arts. The institution also awards master's degrees in architecture and engineering. Total enrollment is roughly 1,000 students, the great majority of whom are undergraduates. Until 2014 the college was tuition free.
Several national agencies for social welfare were founded at Cooper Union, and a number of U.S. presidents have spoken in its historic Great Hall. The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (until 1976 the Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration) was opened in 1897. It provides important resources for designers in the decorative arts and is administered by the Smithsonian Institution. Cooper Union's library was the first free public reading room in New York City, New York.


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The Sleeping Beauty solution
In delay there lies no plenty;
Then come and kiss me, sweet-and-twenty,
Youth's a stuff will not endure.
One of the things that keeps me interested in MAZE is the way it acts as a departure point for enjoyable free association. This can be a worthwhile result in itself, but Room 5 is an example of how this kind of thinking led me to what I think is a pretty satisfying solution via a convoluted path of mental connections.
I was looking at Room 5 (rendered here in this lovely digitally-coloured chalk drawing by Crouchman) and thinking about the two best doors to take in that room, which are Room 20 and Room 30. Here is a recreation of what happened:
Twenty, thirty, twenty, thirty.
Twenty… twenty….
"Come and kiss me, sweet-and-twenty…."
Where did that thought come from? It's a Shakespeare quote, isn't it?
Google Google Google, oh right, Twelfth Night. Hmmmmmm…
(We now pause for many minutes of fruitless but fun analysis of plot and text of Twelfth Night, despite the only apparent connection between Room 5 and Twelfth Night being the mention/presence of the number twenty.)
OK, so it's a song from a Shakespeare play.
But then why do I associate a pen-and-ink illustration of a young woman with that quote?
Wait, didn't I once own a picture book that had the lyrics of the song as a theme throughout? I remember a man-a forest-a sleeping girl-oh right! It was a retelling of Sleeping Beauty.
Sleeping Beauty.
SLEEPING BEAUTY!
You can check out how the rest of it went on the Abyss. Quite a bit more Googling and checking of books and posting ensued. The short version is, the Grimm fairy tale we now know as Sleeping Beauty was called "Little Brier-Rose," and a briar rose looks just like the one in Room 5, indicating the two safe doors. The solution doesn't have anything to do with the number twenty or the "Come and kiss me…" song, but it was those linked thoughts that led me to the idea.
My fellow MazeCasters roll their eyes at the Sleeping Beauty solution, for the usual reasons ("Those aren't brambles!" -vewatkin), but I think it's solid, and it was one WR hadn't thought of, making it extra-satisfying. (Although he did find the image of the briar rose once the idea was raised.) More importantly, I had a good time getting there, and I learned a lot about the Sleeping Beauty story that I didn't know before. For example, it seems obvious now, but I hadn't thought to read the pricked finger as the onset of puberty, or the hundred years and thicket as a metaphor for a way to allow the fifteen-year-old girl to grow up a little more before she starts entertaining errant princes. (Phillip Pullman describes this reading, Bruno Bettelheim's, in an afterword to "Briar Rose" in his excellent collection of retellings, Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm.)
As an added bonus, I got to relive my childhood terror of Maleficent in dragon form. Brrrrrr!
After all this went down it was driving me crazy that I couldn't remember the title, author, illustrator, or anything much else specific about that children's book, other than that it quoted the Shakespeare song and was about Sleeping Beauty. My mom, ever the librarian even in retirement, found it among the many children's books of ours that she had saved, going only by my vague description of the cover.
The book is The Wedding Ghost, written by Leon Garfield and illustrated by Charles Keeping. In an ASTONISHING COINCIDENCE, it was published in 1985, the same year as MAZE. It's a strange work-a picture book that is not really a children's book-sound familiar? It tells the story of a man, Jack, about to get married to Jill, his plain and solid sweetheart. He receives a mysterious map as a shower gift and ends up finding his way through a dense forest full of bones to the castle of a sleeping princess, a magnificent beauty who, once woken by Jack's kiss, says nothing but "Oh!" Further odd events follow, and Jack somehow ends up married to both Jill and the Beauty.
As a ten- or eleven-year-old I loved the creepy and slightly racy pictures, and these are as fantastic as I remember them. But what was really rewarding about reading the story again as a middle-aged person (how has THAT happened so suddenly?) was being able to appreciate and ponder some of the things it was saying about marriage and love and desire. I am grateful that MAZE and Room 5 helped me find it again.
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The millennium. A portal is opened. The chain of time is broken. A young man is transported into the past, altering the course of history and the outcome of the future. He has to find his way home, but first he must travel to the outer edges of time to repair the worlds chronology. On the way he encounters strange friends and foes, utilizes incredible devices and vehicles, and penetrates and neutralizes the fortresses of the past, present, and future. A paradox has been created. If he does not restore the order of time, nothing will ever be the same. He is the one who will become a hero. He is Crono.


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Brighton Jewry 250 | Shabbat sermon 23rd July 2016
23, July 2016 – 17 Tammuz 5776
On July 14th, the Jewish community of Brighton and Hove joined the city's dignitaries to unveil the blue plaque fixed at 22 East Street in honour of Israel Abrahams, the first Jewish resident of what was then a town called Brighthelmston, who came to live there in 1766. Today, Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue, established in 1935, is paying tribute to this milestone.
There is much to celebrate. Uniquely, past Jewish residents of the city made such a significant contribution that several streets are named after them – some of which lie within a few hundred yards from here: Somerhill Road and Somerhill Avenue; Palmeira Square and Palmeira Avenue; Holland Road; Davigdor Road; Goldsmid Road; Montefiore Road and Lyon Close. And we shouldn't forget that two of the most iconic landmarks in the city are connected with Jews: Brighton Station, designed by David Mocatta, which opened in 1841, and the 'Peace' Statue on the seafront, on the old border between Brighton and Hove, erected in 1913 with the support of the Sassoons. Meanwhile, St Ann's Well Gardens, by Somerhill Road, is associated with the Goldsmids and Sassoons.
We can be justly proud of the history of Jewish life in Brighton and Hove. We can also be very proud of the Jewish life that we are generating today. As we pay tribute to the past, we do so as a living Jewish community. Importantly, Brighton Jewry 250, the fascinating 'Anthology of the Brighton Hove Jewish Community, 1766 to 2016', edited by Godfrey Gould and Michael Crook, both, surveys the history of Jewish life in the city and includes articles on all the different synagogues and groups and that constitute the Jewish community in Brighton and Hove today.
At this service, we have focussed on four of the organisations that undertake the care and welfare activities that make such a difference to the lives of individuals: the Welfare Board, the Housing Association, Hyman Fine House and Helping Hands, and I'm delighted that representatives of these bodies are here with us and have participated in reading the relevant passages from the book.
As we celebrate 250 years of Brighton Jewry, we are challenged to continue to undertake the sacred work of tz'dakah and g'milut chasadim – loving deeds – alongside all the other vital tasks of Jewish life, so that the vibrant community we enjoy today may continue into the future.
Remembrance of all those Jews whose names are commemorated on several streets, and whose contributions are evident in city landmarks, also challenges us to participate in the wider community of Brighton and Hove. First and foremost, all-too-familiar with the experience of being migrants and refugees, we need to play our part in welcoming refugees to our 'City of Sanctuary'. Here at BHPS, for example, a weekly collection of non-perishable foods and toiletries goes to Brighton Voices in Exile, a charity which supports refugees in the city. BViE has told us that these collections are desperately needed and much appreciated, and they would welcome contributions from as many communities as possible.
Fostering connections between the various faith and ethnic communities in Brighton and Hove is another vital task. The Interfaith Contact Group has played a leading role in this area for several years, and on November 20, BHPS will be hosting the annual IFCG Interfaith Service that brings together faith groups to share our different traditions in a spirit of mutual respect.
There are so many ways we can contribute to the life of Brighton and Hove. On the cultural front, the city is a major centre, and now back in our congregational home, in May 2017, the Shul will be an Open House once again on Sundays during the Brighton Festival, displaying an exhibition of Jewish, Christian and Muslim art.
The history of Brighton and Hove Jewry demonstrates that in addition to focusing our efforts on maintaining the Jewish community, for Jewish life to thrive we also need to engage with others in the wider community.
This week's Torah portion, Pinchas, relates how the five daughters of Tz'lophchad petitioned Moses to allow their father's property to pass to them after his death, since he had no sons. We read that when Moses took their petition to the Eternal One, he received this response (B'midbar/Numbers 27:7)
Kein dov'rot b'not Tz'lophchad – The daughters of Tz'lophchad speak correctly: You shall surely give them a hereditary holding among their father's kinsmen; and transfer their father's inheritance to them.
We learn from this story that Jewish teaching should be and can be responsive to the needs of the people. We also learn that we have a responsibility to take the steps needed to ensure that the Jewish inheritance we have received passes to the next generation.
Hinneinu – Here we are: this generation of Brighton and Hove Jewry celebrating the generations that went before us. The Torah relates that when Moses was apprehended achar ha-midbar – 'behind the wilderness' – by the Divine voice, speaking to him out of the midst of a burning bush that was not consumed by the flames, he responded: Hinneni – 'Here I am' (Sh'mot/Exodus 3:4). Hinneni – 'Here I am': fully present in this moment. Paradoxically, throughout millennia those who have said hinneini, 'here I am', have also signalled their readiness to move on. In Moses' case, a fugitive in the land of Midian, he was challenged to return to Egypt and play his part in the liberation of the slaves. As we celebrate the 250th Anniversary of Brighton Jewry and reflect on Jewish life in Brighton and Hove, past and present, let us say, hinneinu, 'here we are', and take steps to ensure a dynamic Jewish future in this wonderful city of ours.
Kein y'hi ratzon – May this be our will. And let us say: Amen.
Rabbi Elli Tikvah Sarah
Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue – Adat Shalom V'rei'ut
23rd July 2016 / 17th Tammuz 5776
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#179 – The Logic of Our Fantasies with Michael Bader
by James | Jun 1, 2021 | Latest Episodes, Most Popular, podcast, Published Authors
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The Logic of Sexual Fantasies
Michael Bader, the author of the book Arousal: The Secret Logic of Sexual Fantasies joins me in a fascinating conversation about sexual fantasies. We get to hear his ideas about sexual fantasies and what they mean.
Decoding Sexual Fantasies
Michael recognized the need for an applicable approach to sexual fantasies to help patients with their shame and guilt surrounding their sexual fantasies and preferences. His arguments originated from a theory from Joseph Weiss. Michael argues that sexual fantasies are constructed to express our sexual desires and arousals in a way that is acceptable to our guilty conscience.
Michael gives an instance of dominance and submission, and the fantasy of having or giving up control over our sexual stimulation. That control could look like a masochistic fantasy or desiring partners with a rough exterior or self-centered. Curating this fantasy is exciting because 'they don't have to feel guilty about hurting the other person.' A person assuming the role of a dominant knows that they are going to assume control over this person and that person would feel aroused by it and not be hurt and the same goes for the person assuming the submissive role. This fantasy dissolves the guilt of hurting each other. Sexual fantasies are strategies that our mind unconsciously develops to allow us to free our sexual excitement from things like guilt.
The Purpose of Sexual Fantasies and their role
Michael believes a person's sexual fantasies act as a window into their unconscious psyche. When a person harbors feelings of guilt, shame, or responsibility for another person's wellbeing, it inhibits the person's sexual desires and thus resulting in the development of sexual fantasies to avoid such feelings. These inhibited sexual desires can interfere with other aspects of life. In the consulting room, when we analyze these sexual fantasies what we discover is "the revelation of someone's core beliefs'', which show up in the other parts of life and not just sexually. Analyzing these sexual fantasies can help the patient's guilt and shame around their desires and also inspect the roots of their beliefs that caused their sexual fantasies.
Sexual Fantasies Are Not Meant To Be Changed
As long as there's an innate need for attachment, the feelings of worry, care, responsibility, and guilt towards loved ones will be present. These needs tend to almost always show up in people's sex lives. There won't ever be a time where people will stop feeling these that stem from our core needs. And since sexual fantasies arise to overcome those feelings, they will always be needed as a way to express our sexual desires.
Are there Problematic Fantasies?
Every fantasy is enjoyed by somebody. Porn has tons of types of pornography for every population and some of the unpopular categories wouldn't exist if there weren't people to consume it. The problems with these fantasies coming true are they produce porn and sex addicts that take people away from being emotionally and sexually present in relationships and marriages. These fantasies could be anything.
Talking about limits to our sexual fantasy, Michael says, unless our sexual fantasies take us away from being psychologically present, being aligned with our values, and doing something meaningful from other people, sexual fantasies are not problematic. Michael also believes sexual fantasies that are illegal in reality are not problematic to think about unless they're acted even slightly in any way.
Michael Bader, DMH is a psychologist and psychoanalyst with over 40 years of clinical experience in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has written extensively about the interaction of psychology, culture, and politics and has produced a podcast – Mysteries of the Mind—about these issues. He is the author of Arousal: The Secret Logic of Sexual Fantasies, and Male Sexuality: Why Women Don't Understand It, and Men Don't Either.
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#176: Trauma Sensitive Sex – Cass Biron
by James | May 11, 2021 | podcast
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Trauma Sensitive Sex
Today's episode covers trauma and how it can obstruct our ability to connect our body and arousal to our emotional and social being, and later obstruct the way of connecting intimately with our partner. Cass Biron talks about the structure and ways people can approach this and overcome the struggle by integrating play and flexibility with their partner.
Cass's Entry Into This Line of Work
Cass's interest in this line of work stemmed from a young age of asking questions about how bodies work. She later enrolled in the Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy training in New York City and first heard about the vagus nerve and Polyvagal Theory. She dove deep into understanding the interaction between the different states of the nervous system present during sex and how they play a role in enabling richer sex lives and relationships.
Polyvagal Ladder by Dep Dana
Cass explains the model of Polyvagal Ladder by Dep Dana which consists of a top head region where all the social and emotional connections originate. It involves reading facial cues to detect the inner feelings of a person and is especially present during sex. It functions as non-verbal cues that help strengthen the connection and intimacy between the partners. Lower down is the fight or flight area of the torso where our energy is stored. Cass explains the fight or flight function that causes the increase of blood flow, higher heart rate, and heavy synchronized breathing. The bottom of the ladder is the freeze response resting in our genitals between our hips. Cass says it's present in bodies with a vulva as it facilitates the freeze response that happens with orgasm. However, men have a "jerky kind of orgasm".
During any sexual encounter or orgasm, we're in all three states at the same time. Sometimes sex starts from the bottom up and vice versa. Cass talks about identifying physical health through our ability to orgasm by quoting Laura Geiger. She says it's because we can identify the part of the nervous system that's having trouble connecting during sex.
Where Does Trauma Show Up In This Picture?
Trauma is held in our physical form and it shows up differently for everyone during sex. Cass says it takes understanding and recognition of how and where we're holding that stress and tension and pinpointing the occasions that trauma shows up. It takes awareness to incorporate trauma-sensitive sex. Trauma-sensitive sex is about integrating that knowledge about your body into your sex life. To be trauma-sensitive, according to Cass, is understanding your trauma and your partner's trauma and using that knowledge to build a foundation of communication, consent, and trust. It's a habit that needs to be circled back every time. She challenges the norm of the "top-down" process by explaining how bottom-down can be just as powerful. Masturbation and sex with yourself can be used as a tool to move through trauma.
Mindful Masturbation
Cass talks about mindful masturbation as a tool to release trauma from your body. She talks about "Masturbation bingo" to help them challenge the ways they think about sex. She suggests picking the video of something you've never watched before and suggests deciding on the setting of the room. She starts by having them write down their intentions before beginning. By changing up the routine they've built for themselves, they can shift the trauma that's settled in the muscles of their body to loosen up.
Mindful masturbation teaches the three states of our nervous system to awaken and welcome pleasure rather than reject it. She talks about the challenging experiences people face during this exercise but also talks about how to train your mind to remind you of the present to keep you grounded. It's about training your nervous system to integrate and work together.
Cass suggests playing as a medium to build a space filled with curiosity and without judgment. Play is the time when our nervous systems are trying to integrate and sync with each other, as well as with our partners' nervous systems. It facilitates a social-emotional connection between people. Cass urges people to incorporate seduction and flirting into any sort of play. She says play doesn't have to be something typical, you can introduce seduction into cooking or playing UNO, or getting ready with your partner. The friendly banter and suggestive flirting can in everyday tasks can be play, it's about understanding what seduction looks like for you and where you want to incorporate it in your day.
Playing outside the bedroom is crucial to building the rapport between partners to handle stressful situations calmly. When something goes wrong in the play, you don't escalate the situation because it's just a game. It can be transferred into the bedroom play, says Cass.
Gay Community Expands The Binary Thinking of Sex and Sexuality
Cass takes Alok Menon, a gay writer, artist, performer, and designer as an inspiration to model the expansion of binary thinking of masculine and feminine that limits how we express sexuality. She talks about the challenges that love between couples outside the bedroom has been taken outside the box and how that can be incorporated into people's sex lives. The act of "penis-vagina sex" confines sex into a box of social conformity and restricts the freedom to be creative in the way we can have sex. She calls on people to examine the ways we used to relate sex to HIV or used to determine our bodies as "gross" because that's when we learn how these ideas can originate and take root in society. Having been told that the rights to her body were not hers being a catholic, she fights to break the limitations set on having spiritually free and amazing sex.
Cass Biron is a clinician and a sex educator offering parenting workshops and trauma-sensitive sex workshops for universities and organizations. She works within a pediatric clinic that serves families and children within the foster care system in Queens, NY where she works in a behavioral health team offering expertise on sexuality development, puberty, and how to support children with a high ACE score.
A former sexual health educator, Cass received her Masters in Social Work from the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College. While extensively trained in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Cass incorporates somatic theories, the polyvagal theory, art activities, and movement therapies to provide each client with tools for coping and thriving.
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#165 – Stepping Into Your Feminine Wild – Natalie Frasca Surmeli
by James | Feb 23, 2021 | podcast
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Natalie Frasca Surmeli is here today to talk about stepping into your feminine wild and what it means. This episode talks of awakening feminine desire and pleasure by slowing down and getting familiar with your own body. Natalie shares her insight of pleasure practices, practicing a new way of being and why it matters.
Natalie's Story – what did she unlock?
Natalie shares the story of her journey that brought her into this path of discovery. Being a mom of 3 at a brink of divorce, overwhelmed and falling into depression, she sought out her therapist's advice to slow down. The scientist in her rattled between the ideas of the universe guiding her and a lack of proof. When she gave in to the idea she realized that her presence, her actions and what she puts out into the world matters.
She came to a realization that doing more and working harder is not the answer to a fulfilled life. Natalie works with women in teaching pleasure practices to help them slow down and reconnect with their desires, which ultimately leads to a better sex life and intimacy.
Reconnecting with your body – Gender difference
When it comes to exploring self it doesn't matter where on the gender spectrum you are or who your partner is. Natalie gives yoga, meditation and movement practices as examples to get in touch with your desires. It's important to be intimate with your body and self before sharing it with your partner.
Advice that drove her away from divorce
Natalie points out advice from her father and later from therapy that drove her away from divorce. To obtain different results you have to start doing things differently. She says it's a commitment, a process that takes time. It's intentional work put forth by both partners to grow together. Natalie also talks about introspection. She points out that it's your partner's greatest pleasure to please. It's less of a responsibility and more of a desire and a learning curve to discover what you like.
Pleasure Practices
Natalie gives out a few please practices to implement in getting to know yourself. To explore your body in a sensual way, to discover new areas of your body, she suggests self-oil massage, dance practice with closed eyes and mirror staring in the morning. There's a number of things we are not taught about our own body and pleasure and it's time that we explore it. Desire can be accessed in all moments of our life. Awareness practices in which we think about things that make us feel good. Natalie describes these things as the most simple and mundane activities we perform just for the sake of our pleasure. She suggests writing down 3 big to-do things for the day and something else that gives you pleasure. For Natalie, it's taking a walk in the woods. Make a conscious effort to recognize the simple pleasures of your day and gradually transfer it to sexuality.
What ifs
Women who want to make a change, Natalie says, they've to make a choice. A choice to take out time from their busy life, reach out and make a commitment. For all the time spent in taking care of everyone around, it's time to regain that energy for yourself.
Benefits of non-sexual pleasure
Natalie emphasizes non-sexual pleasure with self and a partner. Natalie calls to embrace the human being's desire to be seen and to surrender. The greatest intimacy with a partner or with yourself can be built by exploring your bodies.
Feminine and Masculine energy
Natalie describes feminine energy as desire, surrender, flow and creation. Feminine energy calls to slow down while masculine energy strives to move forward and achieve. A balance is needed to be formed between the two for an individual to embrace it to the fullest. It's the same for all genders.
How to have a conversation about sexuality with kids?
Natalie offers her insight on how to have conversations with kids about sexuality by giving an example of her daughters. She starts by talking about masturbation. She says it's their duty to get to know their bodies and to explore their own pleasure before exploring it with a partner. She reflects on her own childhood when these conversations didn't exist in her catholic family. Unlike her upbringing when she was taught bodies to be shameful, she makes it a principle to encourage these hard conversations in her family. It goes beyond sexuality to everyday tasks. Natalie and her family prioritizes activities that excite them and family time over extra math classes. "It's about making space to explore other interests", as Natalie says.
Natalie Frasca Surmeli is the founder of "Tribe of Wolves", a mentor, coach, speaker and a mom of 3. She guides women to explore their feminine wild by making a "Feminine plan". She teaches the fundamentals of Divine Feminine, Divine Masculine and Universal Energy and how to tap into these energies every day. She helps women reconnect with their self and bodies using pleasure practices.
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#70: DJ Burr [Personal Story] – Recovery Saved My Life
by James | Apr 30, 2019 | Personal Stories, podcast
In this episode of the Better Sex Podcast, it is my honor to welcome DJ as he shares his personal journey with you. Having people come in and share the details of their life is one of the best parts of this platform!
DJ is a therapist who works in the Seattle area. He specifically works with patients who are struggling with sexual addiction, codependency, and other process addictions. He is the best-selling author of I Just Wanted Love: Recovery of a Sex and Love Addict, and his story is one of bravery, honesty, and hope.
Listen along and learn more DJ's story!
#69: Dr. Lori Brotto – Mindfulness and Sex
by James | Apr 23, 2019 | Most Popular, podcast, Published Authors
My guest is Dr. Lori Brotto. She works at the University of British Columbia Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Lori has a Ph.D. in psychology with an emphasis in psychophysiology. She is a practicing psychologist and also spearheads a lab, which focuses on mindfulness-based approaches for the sexual health of women.
And within this episode, she talks specifically about mindfulness and its many powerful applications to sexuality, alleviating sexual dysfunction and performance anxiety, and overall increasing the enjoyability of sex in general. There's so much to say about experiencing each and every moment. Listen along and enjoy!
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Fixing the Supply Chain with AI and Robotics
Automation, industrial robots, and other technology solutions have allowed manufacturers to shorten their supply chains, while also making them more efficient and reducing labor costs. One of the many lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic was just how fragile the global supply chain is. For decades, much energy has been spent streamlining the supply chain, building efficiencies, and finding low-cost options — but the result has been an increased vulnerability to shutdowns, labor shortages, and other disruptions tied not just to the pandemic but also to the global economy and the war in Ukraine. "With COVID, the level of volatility in supply chains rose to a level that was unprecedented and caught a lot of people by surprise — and not in a very good position," says Claudio Knizek, global leader of Advanced Manufacturing and Mobility at EY-Parthenon. "There's always been interest and appetite to understand and predict the supply chain, but now more than ever many companies are looking for technologies and software to predict supply chain issues before they happen." Technology solutions range from an ever-increasing use of industrial robots to tapping into more powerful uses of data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to gain effective insights. Organizations are looking for new ways to run their manufacturing and distribution operations with fewer people, while making more prescient decisions that can help avert shortages. Adding Automation to the Supply Chain The digital technology conglomerate ABB surveyed hundreds of American and European business executives on topics including supply chain plans. Just under half said they plan to use robotics and automation to build supply chain resiliency. Technology solutions range from an ever-increasing use of industrial robots to tapping into more powerful uses of data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. A key aim, of course, is increased efficiency, and one result of relying a bit less on human efforts is added flexibility when making location decisions. A big factor in the recent supply chain turmoil has been the increasingly global reach of operations. If finding cheaper labor was a big driver behind overseas operations, automation can make it more feasible to locate operations closer to home. Indeed, the ABB survey found that more than a third of executives were making plans to bring production back to the U.S., and a third said they'd look at nearshore locations for new operations. In all, the survey found that 70 percent of companies are considering reshoring or nearshoring projects. "There is an increased appetite to bring manufacturing and supply chains closer to end markets, closer to the U.S.," Knizek says. "There are benefits to having sourcing closer to the U.S., Mexico, or South America." To be sure, costs remain lower in China and Southeast Asia, he says, and China has noteworthy supplier infrastructure advantages. "But increasingly, firms are looking to find ways to move production back to U.S. but need to lower costs and make the return on investment work." "Around 2015 to 2016, technology kind of finally caught up to a certain extent with promises it was making," says Jason Bergstrom, Deloitte's Smart Factory Go-To-Market leader and a partner in the firm's manufacturing practice. Manufacturing, he says, has really started to shift from a human-centered operation to a process that's increasingly automated. "We've seen technology really catch up and advance at an exponential rate and have made that shift to what we now think of as a hybrid — humans and machines operating together." The Future of Automation Automation is getting better and cheaper all the time, on the production line and in the warehouse, according to Bergstrom. "The level of the bar between what should be done by a human and what can be done by a machine continues to fall on a cost basis and rise on a capability basis," he says. "What made sense to automate in 2015 looks very different today because of the continually falling costs to automate combined with the fact that you can now do so much more as you transition from weak automation to strong automation." Less than a decade ago, he says, "you'd see just the automating of transactional, discrete tasks that required really no logic," he explains. "A series of steps…a human used to do them, now a machine does them — easy to codify, with almost no logic." To use an automotive manufacturing example, imagine having a piece of plastic move into a fender press, and rather than have a human run that press, a machine conveys the plastic through and […]
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NEW YORK: In a flurry of unrestrained tweets and with the "RoseArmy" at her back, Rose McGowan has emerged a kind of whistleblowing avenger in the Harvey Weinstein saga, leaving a scorched path behind her across social media.
After long referencing a past incident with Weinstein, McGowan on Thursday for the first time said it outright: "HW raped me," the actress wrote, apparently referring to the embattled former Weinstein Co co-chairman. Weinstein representative Sallie Hofmeister said "any allegations of non-consensual contact are unequivocally denied by Mr Weinstein".
McGowan's accusation was the latest development in the fast-unravelling saga surrounding Weinstein.
McGowan last year said that she had been raped by a "studio head". The New Yorker expose that ran Tuesday reported that Weinstein had allegedly sexually assaulted three women, though the third woman was unnamed. The New York Times earlier reported that Weinstein paid a financial settlement of $100,000 to McGowan in 1997 after an episode at a hotel room during the Sundance Film Festival in Utah.
That settlement included provisions about speaking about the case in the future, but McGowan has increasingly refused to mince words. "It's on", tweeted McGowan before launching into a series of tweets directed at Amazon head Jeff Bezos.
Authorities are also seeking evidence against Weinstein, who in a video posted by celebrity website TMZ was shown Wednesday outside a Los Angeles home telling the paparazzi he's "not doing OK" and that he "needs help".
London police were also looking into a claim it had received from the Merseyside force in northwest England, British media reported Thursday. Merseyside police said the allegation was made a day earlier and concerned "an alleged sexual assault in the London area in the 1980s".
Some 30 women — including actresses Angelina Jolie, Ashley Judd and Gwyneth Paltrow – have spoken out recently to say Weinstein had sexually harassed or sexually assaulted them. Weinstein was fired Sunday by The Weinstein Co, a studio he co-founded with his brother.
The Summit County Sheriff's Office, which shares a records system with Park City Police, had no reports or calls involving Weinstein or McGowan in the past 30 years, sheriff's spokesman Lt Andrew Wright said.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr said prosecutors decided there wasn't enough evidence to prosecute the case.
"I, like they, were very disturbed by the contents of the tape," Mr Vance said.


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It was a lot of fun! Life, love, and condoms? Couples from different countries meet, fall in love, and then, have 90 days to decide if they will marry and stay together once they secure a K-1 visa. Not only moving to a different country but moving to a farm over city life.
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I had never watched the hit show until Season 8 premiered this past Sunday. Kristi K. Higgins The Progress-Index.
The show is one of TLC's biggest hits and has spawned numerous spinoffs, including "Pillow Talk" where former participants are filmed watching and critiquing the current show. Brandon shared with me that he was kind of hesitant to pursue a virtual-type relationship when he was first in contact with Julia even though he fell in love with her instantly.
It's a guilty-pleasure type of show that highlights the clash of cultures between here and "overseas". Payne was notified in advance that the engaged couple desired to shoot footage at one of his other restaurants in Old Towne Dj's Rajun Cajun, however, it was closed on Mondays. According to Brandon, he and his family moved to Dinwiddie from Powhatan when he was around six years old. It got really tough sometimes.
Did Brandon give online dating any thought before meeting his future bride? According to Brandon, his friend living in Russia introduced Julia Trubkina to him via a video chat. Then, they applied for a visitor's visa for Julia to visit the U. After five months and one meet-up, Brandon invited her to Iceland where he proposed to her. Good Vibes couldn't remember exactly which appetizers they ordered but definitely recalls making them rainbow shots to drink.
It is a long process. The Kardashians have nothing on the Gabor sisters.
Within weeks of meeting Julia, he flew to Russia to ask her in-person to be his girlfriend. So, Julia pushed me to do it. Apparently, his mom used an adorable picture of Brandon with a mini-goat as his profile photo.
Jekyll and Mr. I may need to tune into Episode 2 since the preview showed Julia taking a pregnancy test with Brandon by her side.
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Where did the youngest couple of Season 8 who were sleeping in separate bedrooms according to the house rules go on dates while living on the farm? Kardashians, step aside, the Gibbs family has arrived. Ron and Betty establish house rules and question whether the love birds are practicing safe sex. Facebook Twitter. Gibbs is the first Tri-City resident to be on the show.
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I was determined to go. Contact Kristi she, her at khiggins progress-index. The show tracks Americans who have started online relationships with people who live in other countries and follows the progress of their relationship when they finally meet and spend the next 90 days deciding if they can turn that relationship into a lifelong commitment.
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The Hellboy cast includes David Harbour (Stranger Things) as the title character, Ian McShane (American Gods, Deadwood) as Hellboy's adoptive father, Professor Trevor Bruttenholm, Milla Jovovich (upcoming Monster Hunter, Resident Evil films) as villain Nimue, aka the Blood Queen, Sasha Lane (American Honey) as Alice Monaghan, Penelope Mitchell (Hemlock Grove) as the elder witch Ganeida, and Daniel Dae Kim (Hawaii Five-0, Lost) as Major Ben Daimio.
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A: Well, \scalebox works in center, but not the other way round; and a center environment within a figure environment is usually frowned upon since it introduces unwanted vertical space, see Should I use center or centering for figures and tables?. I propose here a slightly different implementation
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I find it very strange that you force a 13/8 ratio for all pictures; also the vertical and horizontal spaces you are inserting manually look very suspicious to me.


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The Science Behind Our New Assistant Principal: Mr. Luther
December 9, 2019 · by maggieguba	· in ap bio, mr. luther, Our Morgan, Student Life.	·
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2019 at Morgan has been a year of many changes. One major change has been our assistant principal. In October, former Assistant Principal Tyler Webb left Morgan to pursue a position at Wethersfield High School. Mr. Webb's exit left an open position for a new assistant principal.
The answer to the call… Science Instructor and Department Chair of Science and Social Studies Departments Christopher Luther. Mr. Luther was recommended by a diverse selection committee and underwent an in-depth process to be officially selected. The official decision was made on November 4 by the Board of Education.
In order to become an assistant principal, Mr. Luther completed a two-year program, known as an 092. The 092 refers to the state of Connecticut's Intermediate Administrator Certification. According to Principal, Keri Hagness, "there is always a listing posted about any available position at Morgan, and anyone who's either part of the Morgan community or not has the ability to apply for the job."
After the initial application, letters of recommendation, paperwork, a resume, applicants participated in three rounds of interviews. Eventually, the pool of candidates was between one other candidate and Mr. Luther, who ultimately was selected.
Mrs. Hagness explained that she, "would consider Mr. Luther one of my go-to people." She said, "When I needed something whether he was busy or not, he was always open to talking with me on topics like what to do for Professional Development." She acknowledged that "his leadership was always something that showed."
English Teacher Paul Serenbetz, has been at Morgan long enough to have seen assistant principals come and go. Mr. Serenbetz is "glad he [Mr. Luther] is going to stay in the system. He got his own 092 to become assistant principal and he could've it anywhere so I am glad he is not leaving Morgan, really glad."
The one downside to Mr. Luther becoming assistant principal is the loss of him as a teacher. He described being in the classroom as, "when you're in a class with your students you kind of have almost like a family dynamic. You have your ups and your downs, which connect you together in a way because it is a consistent relationship over the course of 183 days."
Junior, AP Biology student Callie Andrews said, "I think it's great for him but sad for the AP Biology students who will be losing their teacher later on in the year."
Spanish teacher and Department Chair of World Languages Laura Luther, wife to Mr. Luther, said that she is, "very excited for him to start this new adventure." She knows "he will be a tremendous asset to the faculty and staff at the school."
Although this may be new territory for Mr. Luther, he is very excited and hopes, "to have a big, positive impact on the school and the school community."
Mr. Luther ultimately decided to pursue this position after seeing that he was able to help in the science department as an instructional leader by providing support for students and teachers. As an administrator, he is able to make a bigger impact because by helping many teachers, he is impacting all of their many students.
Mr. Luther will be shadowing Acting Assistant Principal Cindy Schneider next Tuesday, December 17. He will officially assume his new role as assistant principal on January 2, 2020.
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I'm a girl in my 20s. I recently started dating a guy I'm falling in love with. He invited me to a party to meet his friends, and I'm nervous. He's "objectively" more attractive than I am (6-foot-2, brawny, and incredibly handsome) and very successful. I'm attractive, but I see the looks women give him, and I can't help but feel his friends will question why he's interested in me. I'm thinking of backing out of the party, but maybe I should back out of dating him entirely, given the pressure.
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The other guests are going to a party; as you see it, you're on trial, and they're the jury. The invite: "Drinks, tunes, and executing the borderline attractive girl at dawn."
Tell somebody you might end it with this guy because you're afraid his friends will be all "Eew, why's he with her?" and they're sure to scold you that you shouldn't care what other people think of you. They mean well, but this is ridiculous advice — akin to telling you not to get hungry. We evolved to be people who care what other people think. That's built into our psychology, same as the urge that drives us to nab a burrito, which keeps us from passing out, dying, and being eaten by raccoons.
Successfully handling other people's appraisals of you starts with throwing out everything most of us believe about self-esteem. I explain in "Unf*ckology" that this "I like me!" state we've been told to strive for "makes little functional sense. Psychology researchers and therapists far and wide failed to ask the 'why?' question that evolutionary psychology demands: Why would it be evolutionarily advantageous for you to like yourself — for you to sit around saying, 'I'm fabulous! Kiss the royal hand!'?"
What would've helped our ancestors survive and mate is other people liking them: respecting them, wanting to get it on with them, and sneaking them seconds on the bison frittatas. Accordingly, psychologist Mark Leary explains that we developed an internal monitoring system that tracks "the degree to which other people accept versus reject" us. Our resulting feelgood or feelbad (erroneously called "self-esteem") is actually part of a three-part process: 1. Our perception of what other people think of us, which leads to 2. Feelings in us (from happy to fearful), which motivate us to 3. Maintain our social position or try to repair it.
So, "self-esteem" is really "what other people think of us"-esteem — a measurement of our social standing — triggering emotions that drive us to preserve or fix it. In light of that, advice to "raise" your self-esteem makes no sense, because how you feel about yourself isn't the problem, and changing that fixes nothing. (It's like trying to feel better about your overheating car instead of putting water in the radiator.)
While being popular has many benefits, panicking at potentially being rejected made more sense when our survival in a harsh ancestral environment depended on our maintaining our social cred with a small, consistent band of people. We now live in vast cities teeming with strangers. If somebody in our social circle decides we've got adult cooties, we can pretty easily slide into a whole new social circle simply by hanging out at different bars.
So, your terror about meeting his friends — "LIFE OR DEATH, GIRLIE!" — is driven by psychology that's seriously outdated: mismatched with our modern environment. Recognizing this can help you put your yearning to be liked into a more modern perspective: Great when it happens but merely a major bummer, not a death sentence, if it doesn't.
Lowering the stakes like this should be helpful because pressure to excel could cause you to overfocus on your performance. This can lead to clutching anxiety that impairs your ability to perform ("choking under pressure"). Amazingly, research by Harvard Business School's Alison Wood Brooks suggests a way to prevent choking is "reappraising" the pounding heart of anxiety as the pounding heart of excitement. Say to yourself repeatedly, "I'm so excited to go to this party and meet his friends!"
It should also help to approach the evening with a relaxed set of goals: 1. Having fun. 2. Getting to know his friends. Because you're with him, they'll probably assume you're special — which is surely why he's with you. (A handsome, high-status guy doesn't get involved with a woman he finds physically and otherwise meh.) At the party, instead of trying really hard to be liked — a surefire way to be instantly unlikeable — ask people about themselves, and listen with genuine interest. They'll warm to you, probably without knowing why. Sure, some hearts might remain hardened, but it's the rare person who'll cut themselves off, mid-"me, me, me!" to pelt you with canapes and chase you out of the party with a broom.
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Steelers' Roethlisberger leaves loss with elbow injury
Reuters September 15, 2019
Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger sat out the second half of Sunday's game against the visiting Seattle Seahawks due to a right elbow injury.
He will undergo an MRI exam Monday, according to NFL Network's Ian Rapoport.
The team announced at halftime that Roethlisberger was questionable to return after he was hurt late in the second quarter.
Roethlisberger was seen grabbing at his elbow and shaking out his arm, but it's unclear when he was hurt. He finished the Steelers' last drive of the half, then went to the locker room briefly while the Seahawks had the ball, but returned to the sidelines before the half ended.
Second-year quarterback Mason Rudolph started the second half and played the rest of a game, with his rally falling short in a 28-26 loss. Rudolph finished 12 of 19 for 112 yards, two touchdowns and an interception, which came on his second pass after the ball went through the hands of wide receiver Donte Moncrief.
Rudolph's touchdowns both went to tight end Vance McDonald, from 8 yards and 3 yards out. The latter got the Steelers within two with 5:34 to play, but Pittsburgh's offense did not get the ball back.
Roethlisberger was 8 of 15 for 75 yards before departing the game, which the Steelers led 10-7 at the half.
Early in the fourth quarter, James Conner left with a knee injury and was ruled questionable to return. He did not come back, finishing with 11 carries for 33 yards and a touchdown.
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