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Michael Fassbender embodied the perfect gentleman in Tom Ford.
Bryshere Y. Gray earned double the style points with his double-breasted jacket, superbly tailored by DSquared2 and this awesome pose.
Just weeks from the worldwide release of Batman V Superman; Henry Cavill channels the Man of Steel in a velvet tux jacket and bowtie.
Ryan Gosling closed out the 2016 award season perfectly in a classic shawl collar tuxedo jacket and white silk bowtie.
I love a power couple; and John Legend & Chrissy Teigen brought the style power to the red carpet at the 2016 Oscar red carpet. e always-handsome Legend wore Paul Smith and wife Tiegen glowed in a lace Marchesa gown.
Chris Evans is dashing in black tux and beard. We like clean cut on the red carpet, but Captain American can do no wrong when he suits up.
Ryan Gosling & Brad Pitt presented at the 2016 Golden Globe Awards in well executed Black Tie; Gosling in a white dinner jacket; and Pitt in a Navy tuxedo.


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With a population of over 380,000, Canberra is Australia's biggest inland city. Located 287 km south of Sydney.
The location for the Nation's Capital city, and home to the Australian Parliament was chosen in 1908 and is unusual in that it was planned outside of the existing states. After an international city design contest was held, the plan by Chicago architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin was chosen, construction commenced in 1913.
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When first entering Canberra, it is easy to ponder where the folk who live, work and play in this well laid out and clean city actually hang out and shop etc. The main roads in and out of Canberra are tidy and free from the usual conglomeration of shopping strips, malls and large retailers. Everything seems to be neatly tucked away, hiding from visitors.
Make sure to collect a map and information from the Tourist Centres on entering the city boundaries as this will give you an insight into the layout of Canberra and where to find the shops, restaurants and nightlife as well as the attractions that the A.C.T. is famous for.
Construction of the current Parliament House began in late 1980 and the building was officially opened on 9 May 1988, by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The new Parliament House was built to support the work of Australia's federal Parliament for at least 200 years.
Original Parliament House – known formerly as the Provisional Parliament House, was the house of the Parliament of Australia from 1927 to 1988. The building was used from 9th May, 1927 as a temporary base for the Commonwealth Parliament after its relocation from Melbourne to the new capital, Canberra, until a more permanent building could be constructed. In 1988, the Commonwealth Parliament transferred to the new Parliament House on Capitol Hill.
View towards Parliament House, Canberra with the War Memorial in the foreground.
The opening of Parliament House by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 9 May 1988 by Marcus Beilby. his huge painting hangs in the Parliament Building, open to the public.
Telstra Tower was officially opened on May 15, 1980 by the then Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser. Built on the summit of Black Mountain Canberra, it soon became known to the locals as Black Mountain Tower.
The Pod Playground, National Arboretum, a unique playground featuring banksia cubby houses, acorn-shaped pods connected by rope tunnels and tube slides; a discovery trail and climbing nets.
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National War Memorial "The Australian War Memorial combines a shrine, a world-class museum, and an extensive archive. The Memorial's purpose is to commemorate the sacrifice of those Australians who have died in war. Its mission is to assist Australians to remember, interpret and understand the Australian experience of war and its enduring impact on Australian society".
Canberra's National Arboretum is located on a 250-hectare site just 6km from the centre of Canberra, Australia and near Lake Burley Griffin.
With an aim to become one of the greatest arboreta in the world, the Arboretum is a place of beauty with forests featuring trees which are threatened or rare. First opened in February 2013, the Arboretum is attracting many visitors from Canberra, Australia and around the world. It is already contributing to the protection of tree species and tree diversity worldwide, as well as generating new research and understanding of how trees grow, survive and adapt.
The Testra Tower on Black Mountain is well worth visiting, prices for admission are not overly expensive and the views are stunning by day and night.
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26 Free Things to do in Canberra by the Travelling Pinoys is a really extensive article on Canberra and will keep visitors busy for days.
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Poems & Poetry
Haiku Story About The Little Red Hen Chicken Poem
Updated on September 8, 2013
Debby Bruck
Polish Crested Top Hat
Here chick, chick, chick...
The Little Golden Books
Do you remember reading or hearing "The Little Red Hen" as a child?
Who's Going to Take the Lead?
Cleaning out an old drawer, a torn-edged, yellowed paper fell out of a book onto the floor. On it was this poem that was printed in the newspaper, probably 30 or 40 years ago. Perhaps this is an omen. What does it say to you?
Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody.
There was an important job to be done,
and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.
Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.
Somebody got angry, because it was Everybody's job.
Everybody thought that Somebody would do it.
But Nobody asked Anybody.
It ended up that the job wasn't done,
and Everybody blamed Everybody,
when actually Nobody asked Anybody.
Speckled chicken pecks
all day stirring up the ground
turning the brown soil
Egg Recall due to Salmonella
That poem reminds me of the fable of "The Little Red Hen" from my childhood. Do you remember reading those Little Golden Books and making a collection of shiny edged Golden books on your shelf?
We learned the virtue of hard work, effort and reaping what was sewn. Some historians say the folktale originates from either England or Russia. Both countries probably had some variation on the same theme, or else the story traveled along from oral tradition. Joseph Jacobs was supposedly the first person to put it to pen.
The different versions have either a mouse, cat, dog, goose, duck, cow and or horse. All of them are lazy, sleeping, or playing with undesirable character traits, and not obliged to helping their friend the chicken on the friendly farm.
Alternately, the chicken wants to turn the grain into some baked good. As in our life, we are given the seed, some material from heaven, which we utilize and transform into something useful in our world.
In the end, would you share your finished product, if all your friends didn't pitch in to help? What would be your attitude? How can the problem be solved?
Here is one version of the story:
One day the Little Red Hen was scratching in a field, she found a grain of wheat that had dropped from heaven.
She asked herself, "This wheat should be planted."
Then asked her farm friends, "Who will plant this grain of wheat?"
"Not I," said the Goat
"Not I," said the Pig
"Not I," said the Goose
"Then I will," said the Little Red Hen. And she did.
Soon the wheat grew to be tall and strong.
"The wheat is ripe," said the Little Red Hen. "Who will cut the wheat?"
When the wheat was cut, the Little Red Hen said,
"Who will thresh the wheat?"
When the wheat was threshed, the Little Red Hen said,
"Who will take this wheat to the mill?"
She took the wheat to the mill and had it ground into flour.
Then she said, "Who will make this flour into bread?"
She made and baked the bread.
Then she said, "Who will eat this bread?"
"I will," said the Goat
"I will," said the Pig
"I will," said the Goose
"Oh no you won't!" said the Little Red Hen. "I will do that." And she did.
Chicken Therapy
Montana woman uses chickens as therapy animals
You've heard of equine rehabiliation, the comfort of dogs and cats for the elderly, swimming with the dolphins, keeping a canary, and now there is chicken therapy. Therapy dogs can be a comfort for seniors and those recovering from illnesses and injuries.
Jana Clairmont of Polson, Mont., calls her therapy birds a white rooster and Cornish game hen "Fowl Play." She takes them out to resident homes at Polson Health and Rehabilitation Center in northeast Montana. "Many seniors were raised on farms," Clairmont says, "and holding a chicken can bring back memories."
It is true. Watching chickens scratch around with their constant movement, watching them preen is like watching a fish aquarium which calms the heart and mind. Holding them in your lap and stroking their feathers is like having a soft kitten that loves you no matter what.
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Chickens Become Urban Pets
Google this title, "Chickens Become Urban Pets" ~ Seems they do not allow LINKS to ABC News site anymore.
They don't bark, bite or require daily walks. They even offer tokens in return for their care.
More and more urban and suburban elite are moving beyond keeping poodles and cats and adopting another kind of animal to coddle: the chicken.
"They're just so relaxing to watch," says Robin Fox, a Miami resident who began keeping chickens in her apartment in the late 1990s. "They're friendly birds, they're fluffy and they give you eggs. Dogs don't give you eggs."
While some immigrants have long recognized the benefits of keeping chickens in urban lots (free fresh eggs and chicken breasts) the concept appears to have taken flight, so to speak, among urban yuppies and suburban elite who build elaborate coops for their flocks.
And then there is Fox, who says she must have chickens in her life, no matter the inconvenience.
"The only problem is they can't be potty trained. You have to change their paper every day," says Fox who reports some of her furniture is spotted by chicken droppings but she's sure only she can see the stains.
Chicken Rules
Steven Keel, the owner of Egganic Industries in Ringgold, Va., says that sales of his elaborate $1,500 Henspas — low-maintenance, high-comfort homes designed for urban and suburban chickens — are up 15 percent. The McMurray Hatchery in Webster City, Iowa, reports they're sending more mail-order chicks (ranging in cost from about $1 to $5 per chick) to addresses in upper-class suburbs.
And the City Chicken Workshop sessions at the Seattle Tilth Association have been filled to standing-room only. The two-hour classes held four times a year teach new chicken owners the basics in building coops and keeping their animals healthy. Director Pamela Burton says they'll soon be adding classes.
"The demand is too great," she says. "We're thinking we'll have a beginning chicken class and then add intermediate classes."
What's there to learn about keeping chickens in urban lots? For starters, says Burton, it's good to know if it's legal.
HOW TO KEEP CHICKENS IN A CITY ~ Chickens in Diapers
Join the "urban chicken movement" and raise your own backyard flock. Chickens are both fun and useful to keep. Don't expect to keep a breeding flock with noisy roosters, but your hens will earn their keep and provide enjoyment by laying eggs for you. Chickens can provide you with healthy, home grown eggs and meat, quality nitrogen-rich fertilizer, pest control and companionship. Perhaps surprisingly, a reasonable number of chickens can adapt very well to the constraints of an urban environment. It is even possible to keep chickens indoors through the use of diapers.
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In the end, would you share your finished product, if all your friends didn't pitch in? What would be your attitude? How can the problem be solved?
Dear Marisa ~ What a surprise for you to visit and leave a note. Many community members of small counties, cities and towns have found they must fight for the right to own and keep chickens. Hopefully, their legislators and governing officials will see the benefit to everyone to provide permission for these enriching animals to be kept both as pets and productive animals. blessings, Debby
Marisa Herrera
Loved the poem and the 'Little Red Hen' fable. Chickens are amazing and beautiful animals! More people are discovering this by keeping them as animal companions vs. keeping them as commodities to eat.
You deserve the best part of the bread, Georgie. And you can divy up the pieces to those mongrels who only want to eat up without putting in their fair share of the work. Thanks for reading a number of hubs. I often do that when meeting someone new in the community. It's so much fun to dive it. Blessings, Debby
Georgie98
Hmm...would I share? Oh alright then, only with people I like though. And I get the best bits since I did all the work! :)
Dear Brenda ~ Thanks for reading. Please explain how this story tells about your life? Blessings, Debby
Brenda Holstine
7 years ago from Denton, Texas
Debby, The little red hen has always been my personal hero and it's also pretty much the story of my life.
Thanks so very much, Vinaya. It is a traditional children's story in America.
Vinaya Ghimire
7 years ago from Nepal
I did not read The Little Red Hen as a child but as an adult I loved your version. Nice work
Thanks for the memories, Keith. Instead of trashing the paper, I thought this Hubpages could seal it in our memory and bring joy to more readers. Glad you enjoyed! Blessings, Debby
attemptedhumour
7 years ago from Australia
Hi Debby the poem that you unearthed is cleverly written. I have vague memories of the house i was raised in and the chicken coop is one of the few things i remember, but we moved to a larger house (still smallish) when i was five. This is a fun hub, cheers.
Hi FossillLady. This is one of my first Hubpage efforts. Thanks for scratching around. Many people do adorn their homes with chickens and especially roosters. I have just one glass rooster in the foyer that's been their forever. Blessings, Debby
8 years ago from Saugatuck Michigan
Fond memories of The Little Red Hen, Hadn't thought about it in years. My grandmother loved chickens and roosters which adorned her house in ceramic and glass figures. They raised them on their family farm; my mother was in charge of their daily feeding and cleaning the hen house. The trend is catching on it seems! Great hub
Hi SherryLou ~ So sweet of you to comment. And I love the sound of your name. Blessings.
sherrylou57
8 years ago from Riverside
This is a cute hub, Debby. I love to write poetry. Thank you for sharing this with us.
Hi Jan ~ Thanks for making this hub a center of learning. It's true. G-d gave us the ability to earn our rewards which gives self respect and feeds our soul. Love, Debby
janddplus4
The Bible says in the book of Proverbs that he who does not work should not eat. I noticed that some of your readers answered your question that they would share. I'm sure they would mean well, but they would be harming rather than helping their fellow farmyard friends. Working to earn an honest living is an important lesson. The story of the Little Red Hen is a tool to teach this lesson to children. I have four small children. They know that if they do not do their jobs, they do not eat. At their ages, 5, 4, and almost 3, their job is simply to go to the table and sit when I call them to dinner. But as they get older, they will have to learn more responsibility, setting the table, etc. My five year old helps set the table when appropriate. This story is not only referring to food, but to other rewards. It is not fair for those who put out no effort to be rewarded by someone else's effort. I do not include in this category those who had no opportunity to work. The unemployed should be helped. We should by all means share with those who are unable to help themselves. But far too many well-meaning people have worked themselves to the bone to "help" others remain dependent on them.
Ah! I suppose those hens give the best of the sweet egg bread. It's up to you to put the ingredients together and into the oven to bake.
Rochelle Frank
10 years ago from California Gold Country
I have a red hen, a specked brown and tan, ablack with white speckles-- they lay nice fresh eggs, but I haven't seen a loaf of bread yet. Waiting.
Hi Karen ~ some are givers, others takers. Mom's really do give, give, give. We do not expect a reward, but hope the children grow to maturity with values and compassion.
I actually have a red hen, and brown and tan speckled one, and a black speckled with white. They give us nice fresh eggs-- but I'm still waiting for that fresh loaf of bread. So far, I've had to do it myself.
Montana Farm Girl
10 years ago from Northwestern Montana
Yes, I would as well.... I so enjoy sharing and giving, I think that comes with be a mom... we learn to give of ourselves and it just continues to grow as our children do... We see the little things we can do, that makes a difference and in turn, it fills our heart with joy to see them happy...it's an unending circle ... and nice one to be in :-) ... such a nice hub....
Aw, Kari. No one to blame. You have a huge burden and responsibility. Everyone does what they are able. That's all you can do.
Loved the somebody, anybody, nobody, everybody ... living alone, one gets used to just doing it all, and if it doesn't get done, I know who to blame. :)
Hi Tom ~ I took a look at the recommended Stinky Cheese Man Book. Was that story "Chicken Little" - The Sky is Falling, or did he also write a story about "The Red Hen"?
Thanks for joinning fan club. I guess Haiku and Homeopathy are a fun mix. Happy, Happy New Year
Tom rubenoff
10 years ago from United States
In "The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales" the Little Red Hen gets a rather different treatment. My kids really enjoyed the satire. Here it is on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Stinky-Cheese-Other-Fairly-S...
Daer Alexander ~ so glad you are visiting and posting comments on my hubs. When people are supported and encouraged they have the strength to plow forward, on and upwards. Hope is what moves us and our spirit. The Little Red Hen is so independent, no matter that her friends won't lift a 'claw' or even give her the time of day. Then she could say, "see what I made from all my hard work!" Maybe the next time they would help.
RGraf and WordPlay ~ What I like the best is the 'sing-songy' sound and rhythm of the story that is found in so many children's books. The child becomes familiar with the pattern and can say the whole story by heart.
Carla Chadwick
10 years ago from Georgia
I didn't remember the story of The Little Red Hen until I read your hub, and then I instantly zoomed back to my childhood. I must have read the book many times, because once I was prompted I remembered every word.
Thanks for that trip down memory lane!
Rebecca Graf
10 years ago from Wisconsin
I really enjoyed this. Both are familiar to me, but I had not thought of them in a long time. If only we could learn from these lessons.
Alexander Thandi Ubani
10 years ago from Lagos
'The Little Red Hen' is quite an interesting and dictatic story. Life is full of lessons and the better we learn the much we gain. Situation no matter how unpleasant, should not melt our morale. Instead, we fight with our last pint of blood to remain dogged in the pursuit of our goals. I am quite touched about how resolute and strengthened you are in times of distress as you mentioned. Cancer is really not an easy thing to have but it takes strength and courage to counter it.
I am delighted and most thrilled beyond words to see someone who expresses such courage and joy in the face of severe trial. Kudos to you for inspiring many a heart.
Alexander C Ubani
Ken ~ What an unusual story. It's sad when you lose a good chicken. We have one little Golden Bantham that was hand-fed who likes to sit on our shoulder. Very very tame. They each have their own personality.
Ken Devonald
10 years ago from Edinburgh
Thanks for the photography tips Debby, I will have to try it. The first hen we owned since we moved to Scotland had been living rough for weeks before we caught her up, and she weighed nearly nothing. There was a time I would have tapped her on the head and thought it was better for her, but I chucked her in an old ferret hutch I had, and gave her a load of peanuts which was all the food we had that we thought would suit her.
She was in such a bad way that she lost all her feathers, but they grew back and she was so tame we were always standing on her. My old GSP grabbed her once and would have killed her I suspect but my son saved her. Now I don't have a particularly vivid imagination, but when I put her in the hutch later that day I SWEAR she said 'Thank You'. Quite unsettling. She eventually died a couple of years ago, having given us a great deal of pleasure and eggs.
It's gratifying to see folks read these poems and stories. Thank you for visiting.
Bob Ewing
10 years ago from New Brunswick
sharing is the essence of life. I remember the Golden Books.
You're good hearted and generous. We need more people like you in the world. However, if there is a problem, there must be a solution. There are organizations that provide education in technical skills, or giving farm animals to begin producing community farms. Thanks for visiting.
10 years ago from America
I would share. There is no way to solve the problem you can't make people do what they don't want to do. Some people will starve before they would work to eat.


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By Amaar Burton on December 20, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )
Amir Khan donates $47K shorts to Peshawar school
Amir Khan (left) defeated Devon Alexander on Dec. 13.
Less than a week after one of the biggest victories of his boxing career, former light-welterweight world champion and Olympic silver medalist Amir Khan experienced a profound sense of loss.
On Saturday, Dec. 13 in Las Vegas, Khan (30-3, 19 KOs) was dominant in a unanimous-decision win over Devon Alexander. The performance put the 28-year-old on the short list of future opponents for Floyd Mayweather Jr., the undefeated pound-for-pound ruler and top draw in the sport.
On Tuesday, Dec. 16, Khan watched with the rest of the world as the horrible news broke out of Peshawar, Pakistan, that militants representing the Taliban stormed a school and killed more than 130 children.
On Thursday, Dec. 18, Khan donated the shorts that he wore in the Alexander fight — featuring 24-karat gold thread in the waistband and estimated to be worth $47,007 — to the school in Peshawar. Khan is a Muslim Brit of Pakistani descent.
"It was just very sad to see innocent kids being killed," Khan told BBC radio. "I can only imagine what the parents are going through. I want to donate the shorts for the Peshawar cause, rebuild a school and strengthen security around the area.
"We are very lucky in England," Khan went on. "We have good security and I will be able to send my little girl to school and know she will be fine, but in Pakistan you cannot do that. They send the kids outside the house and do not know if they are going to come back."
Because of the Taliban's murderous and un-Islamic actions, the tragedy in Peshawar has — to the surprise of no one — led to more blanket stereotyping and negative backlash from media and the public against the world's entire Muslim population. Of course they will overlook that the victims in Peshawar are mostly Muslim, and that the Pakistani government that the Taliban is fighting is mostly Muslim. Clearly this, like most similarly heinous and terrorist acts, is about politics more than it is about religion, since almost everyone involved claims the same religion. Pakistan is reportedly more than 95 percent Muslim.
But you likely won't hear that from any mainstream media source, nor will you see much attention paid to the generous actions of Muslims like Amir Khan who are trying to help in the healing.
May Allah bring peace and His blessings to the families of the victims and the families of the misguided perpetrators, all of whom are surely in pain right now. May Allah open the doors of Paradise to the victims, and bring due punishment upon their attackers.
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Майкл Эндрю Маклорин (; род. 13 июля 1962 года), более известный как Майкл Джейс — американский актёр и преступник. Наиболее известен ролью полицейского Джулиана Лоу в сериале «Щит». Помимо кинематографической деятельности Майкл Джейс приобрел скандальную известность в 2014 году после того, как был обвинён в убийстве своей жены. За это преступление 10 июня 2016 Джейс был приговорен к пожизненному лишению свободы.

Биография
Майкл Джейс родился 13 июля 1962 года в городе Патерсон. Детство и юность Майкл провел в городе Хакенсак, где посещал школу Hackensack High School, которую окончил в 1980 году. В школьные годы Джейс занимался спортом и входил в школьные команды по бейсболу и баскетболу. После окончания школы Майкл поступил в колледж, где впервые стал принимать участие в театральных постановках. После этого он решил сменить сферу деятельности, бросил колледж и переехал в Нью-Йорк где стал посещать курсы актерского мастерства. В конце 1980-х он нашел работу актёра в театре «Classic Stage Company», расположенном на боро Манхэттен

Кинокарьера
Первую роль в кино Майкл Джейс исполнил в 1992 году в одной из серий телесериала «Закон и порядок». На протяжении последующих двух лет он исполнил ещё несколько эпизодических ролей в таких телесериалах как «Закон Лос-Анджелеса», «Приключения Бриско Каунти — младшего», «Звёздный путь: Глубокий космос 9», «Детектив Раш». В 1994 году Джейс исполнил небольшую, но запоминающуюся роль члена партии Черные пантеры в фильме Форрест Гамп. Фильм оказался коммерчески успешным и выиграл 6 премий «Оскар», благодаря чему многие снимавшиеся в фильме актёры, в том числе и Майкл Джейс получили определённую известность. После этого Джейс получил небольшую роль в фильме «Прямая и явная угроза», снялся в сериалах «Надежда Чикаго» и исполнил роль боксера Митча Грина в биографической драме Тайсон, посвящённой жизнеописанию боксера Майка Тайсона. В 1995 году Джейс снялся в фантастическом триллере «Странные дни» и исполнил свою первую большую роль в комедии «Большой белый обман». В последующие годы он продолжал много сниматься в таких сериалах, как «Детектив Нэш Бриджес», «Скорая помощь», «Золотые крылья Пенсаколы», «Теперь в любой день», «Полиция Нью-Йорка», «Справедливая Эми».

В этот же период он исполнил второплановые роли в таких картинах как «Ночи в стиле буги», «Планета обезьян», «Дублёры», «От колыбели до могилы». В 1999 году Майкл Джейс получил свою единственную в карьере главную роль — в спортивной драме Майкл Джордан: Герой Америки, исполнив роль Майкла Джордана. В 2001 году он исполнил одну из главных ролей в полнометражном фильме «Она написала убийство. Последний человек», основанном на телесериале «Она написала убийство». В 2002 году Майкл получил одну из главных ролей в телесериале «Щит». Всего было выпущено 6 сезонов и Майкл Джейс принял участие в съемках всех 89 эпизодов сериала, а его персонаж — патрульный Джулиан Лоу стал одним из самых запоминающихся. Сериал оказался коммерчески успешным и 5 раз номинировался на премию Эмми. В 2002 году сериал получил 2 премии Золотой глобус в категориях Лучший телевизионный драматический сериал и за лучшего актёра сериала (драма). Впоследствии сериал ещё трижды номинировался на Золотой глобус. В 2006 году сериал выиграл Peabody Award. Последний сезон получил в 2008 году награду AFI Award. Пик известности Джейса пришелся на эти годы. В 2010-х он продолжал сниматься в сериалах и на телевидении. В эти годы он появился в сериалах «C.S.I.: Место преступления», «Риццоли и Айлс», «Черная метка», «Менталист», «Никита». Последней работой в кино для Майкла Джейса стало участие в съемках криминального телесериала «Саутленд», после чего из-за проблем с законом он в 2014 году был вынужден завершить кинокарьеру.

Проблемы с законом
Вечером 19 мая 2014 года в своем доме, расположенном в районе Лос-Анджелеса под названием Гайд-Парк, Майкл Джейс в ходе продолжительной ссоры застрелил свою жену 40-летнюю Эйприл Джейс, при этом свидетелями убийства стали двое несовершеннолетних детей Майкла и Эйприл. Услышав выстрелы, соседи позвонили в полицию. Вскоре после убийства Майкл Джейс также совершил звонок в полицию и заявил об убийстве своей жены, после чего был арестован явившимися на вызов представителями правоохранительных органов прямо на пороге своего дома. Ему было предъявлено обвинение в убийстве второй степени. После ареста бывшая жена Джейса, с которой он развелся в 2002 году, заявила что тоже подвергалась домашнему насилию со стороны Майкла, а в 1997 году в результате избиения получила черепно-мозговую травму. Также выяснилось что перед совершением убийства Джейс испытывал финансовые трудности, подал заявление о банкротстве и пребывал в тяжелом психическом состоянии. Судебный процесс открылся в мае 2016 года. Джейс и его адвокаты настаивали на том, что актёр не планировал совершать преступление, а совершил непредумышленное убийство в ходе самообороны, однако показания детей Джейса и характер ранений жертвы указывал на то, что актёр трижды выстрелил в жену, находясь у неё за спиной. В конечном итоге 31 мая 2016 года Майкл Джейс вердиктом жюри присяжных заседателей был признан в совершении убийства второй степени, на основании чего суд приговорил его к наказанию в виде пожизненного лишения свободы с возможностью условно-досрочного освобождения по отбытии 40 лет заключения

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How to Get Tickets to the 2020 Food & Wine Classic in Aspen
Martha Stewart, Andrew Zimmern, Rick Bayless, Richard Blais, Stephanie Izard, Kwame Onwuachi, Jacques and Claudine Pépin, Nancy Silverton, and Geoffrey Zakarian will headline the event.
By Bridget Hallinan / FoodandWine.com
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Every year, Food & Wine heads to Colorado for the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, a weekend full of cooking demos, wine tastings, and panel discussions with world-class chefs and industry experts. During last year's event, NBA legend Dwyane Wade poured his favorite wines in the Grand Tasting tent and Martha Stewart showed us how to make a summer clambake. Tickets are now officially on sale for the 38th annual Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, which takes place June 19 through June 21, 2020.
"The Food & Wine Classic in Aspen is the most important weekend of the year for our team and our culinary community, and we're thrilled to bring the brand to life and share the best of what's new and next in food and drink with 5,000 passionate fans," Food & Wine Editor-in-Chief Hunter Lewis said. "As always, we're assembling the country's most talented chefs, winemakers, and tastemakers in the gorgeous mountains of Aspen, and that alchemy of people and place add up to a world-class event unlike anything else."
This year, culinary stars including Rick Bayless, Richard Blais, Food & Wine's Justin Chapple, Stephanie Izard, Kwame Onwuachi, Jacques and Claudine Pépin, Nancy Silverton, Martha Stewart, Geoffrey Zakarian, and Andrew Zimmern will be in attendance. On the beverage side, you'll get to see Ariel Arce, Shayn Bjornholm, Andy Chabot, Food & Wine's Ray Isle, David Keck, Amanda McCrossin, Garrett Oliver, Mark Oldman, Ivy Mix, June Rodil, Sabato Sagaria, Leslie Sbrocco, Bobby Stuckey, Laura Werlin, Josh Wesson, and Kelli White. The Best New Chefs dinner will be taking place on Saturday, June 20, featuring tasting dishes from our 2020 class of Best New Chefs.
In total, there will be over 80 demos, talks, and tastings for guests to enjoy, spread out over three days, plus a non-alcoholic beverage seminar, which is being added for the first time this year. You can purchase weekend passes here. Act fast—they sell out quickly!
This Story Originally Appeared On Food & Wine


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***Hello! Laura and I are gone for summer relaxing and working on some cool new stuff for all you. But we'll be sharing our most popular posts while we're away. We hope that you learn something from them and we look forward to creating new things when we return in August. As always we are so grateful for this incredible tribe of enthusiastic storytellers! *** A few years ago, I approached a nonprofit that worked with the homeless in DC and offered my services free of charge for a fundraising video for their nonprofit. Most of you know that I do photography and video professionally. I make my living off of nonprofit work so going around offering my services for free seems contradictory.
In fact, I teach business workshops that explicitly tell photographers that they should not work for less than they're worth. I've spent a fair amount of time thinking about the value of doing pro-bono projects. And here's why I have a double standard: I believe in giving back. I want to build a community of nonprofits that understand the value of media storytelling. I also want the opportunity to stretch myself creatively, and often feel uncomfortable doing creative experimentation on paid projects. A few years ago, I built a set of criteria for the types of projects that I am willing to do for free and I sometimes take on pro bono projects.
Lately this has started to feel like a failed experiment. The last three free projects I did were uninspired at best and total flops at the worst. In the first, I made solid work and gave the organization what they said they wanted. They used a few images but never updated their website, which is why I was brought on in the first place. I ended up putting the images to use in my print portfolio, but the organization barely touched them. The second, I shot two months for a six-month multimedia project and then the person coordinating my visits had some personal things come up and simply stopped communicating with me. Finally, the nonprofit I approached in DC was willing to do the project but wouldn't allow me use the work in my portfolio (which is kinda why photographers work for free). So I walked away from the deal.
I have to ask myself the question, Do organizations actually value photos they receive for free? My experience consistently keeps telling me, No. I can't give away what other organizations are paying me thousands of dollars to do.
I recently stumbled upon the best reason I have ever heard on why photographers work for free in a book about human motivation. This behavior boils down to three words: autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Photographers work for free because we want creative freedom (autonomy). We want to be better at our craft (mastery). And we want to feel like we are doing something good in the world (purpose). Nonprofits look like the perfect solution for us to do all three of those things.
But why do nonprofits want photographers to work for free? This one isn't difficult. They simply want to spend less money. I find that nonprofit organizations do want me to work for free. They want to me to come in, do what they ask, and leave. They don't really care about all of my creative ideas or how I could use storytelling to increase their fundraising. I'm just a budget line item that was cut.
I'm beginning to think that the only way free projects work is if you have a team that is as emotionally invested in the project as you are. A team that is also striving for autonomy, mastery, and purpose. A team that's not just worried about saving money, but is instead motivated to fundraise using storytelling. The truth is that this only seems to happen in my paid work or in my personal projects.
This year, I'm giving pro-bono work one last shot and working with a nonprofit organization in Nepal that is building homes post-disaster. I love the sustainable way that the project is being undertaken and the organization meets all of my guidelines. Call me an optimist but I can't quite give up on the idea what free work can do for me. If this fails, I think I'll just go back to doing personal projects.
What do you think? Does your organization value the photography you pay for more than the volunteer work you get for free?


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Super Santas cut a real dash in Blackburn for air ambulance charity
By Peter Magill @peter_magill Business Editor
TWO legs, three wheels or four paws were enough to tackle Blackburn's Santa Dash.
Hardy runners braved a chill Sunday morning to complete a five kilometre fun run around the town centre.
And the second annual North West Air Ambulance challenge attracted an array of different entrants.
Little Joseph William Henry, not yet one-year-old, who was pushed around the course by parents Graham and Sue in his tinsel-decked pram, remained oblivious for much of the proceedings.
And cockapoo puppy Archie, who took part with owner Michaela Harvey, was simply straining at the leash to set his own pace.
Elsewhere there were plenty of Blackburn Harriers and Blackburn Road Runners represented on the run, which started and finished outside the town hall and was precded by a festive warm-up.
First to cross the finishing line was fleet-footed Harrier Harry Sambrook, 13, who attends St Bede's RC High.
His dad Stuart, who came home just minutes later, said: "We just saw the signs around the town centre and thought we would give it a go."
Mayor of Blackburn, Cllr Jim Shorrock, was on hand to officially start the event, which saw runners complete three laps to the cathedral and back.
Cllr Shorrock also reminded the participants of what their fundraising means to the air ambulance charity, which has a store in Cherry Tree.
He said: "Nine pounds can fuel an aircraft for one minute of a mission, while £25 can buy a warming blanket, essential to maintain the body temperature of severe trauma patients such as those who have suffered a cardiac arrest.
"And £100 could be enough to help save the life of a seriously-ill patient by buying a surgical airway kit, crucial in life-threatening situations, such as airway obstruction or facial trauma."


Beer and food. Too often, one of these is an afterthought, or the opposite — an $80 beer dinner in a fancy restaurant. While these events tend to be worth every penny (a chef with a palate for beer and food pairings is a fine, fine thing), I don't see enough people bringing the practice into their own humble kitchens. Pairing great, simple foods with beer at home is a rewarding experience, whether a quick sandwich for yourself over lunch, or a generous spread for friends that will bring the beers you're sharing to life.
My good friend, Emily Berman of "52 Meals," is a trained chef, mother, and companion of picky men who love great beer. Many weekends are spent dining at her table and sharing drinks (she makes some amazing cocktails) — and she makes it all seem so enjoyable. While she may be a trained chef, her real talent is breaking down a recipe to its most simple, no-nonsense components, sharing it with friends, and passing along some tid-bits of knowledge that make it seem completely shameful that we all don't follow her lead. In short, she's motivating, and most of my own kitchen successes come from her inspiration.
I wanted to share the genius of Emily's cooking with the rest of the beer world, and so we hatched the GBH Provisions series together. I picked a beer that was perfect for the season, in this case the new offering from Brewery Ommegang called Goudenhop — a bright, hoppy Belgian-American blonde with a citrusy nose, along with notes of coriander and clove, and a dry Belgian finish using the house Ommegang yeast. We discussed the aromas, the flavors, and the mouthfeel of the beer, and Emily went to work considering a wide variety of ingredients and preparations that would pair well.
Stir to combine in a large bowl, and spread on everything from crackers, to bread, or make a grilled cheese! Keeps for about a week, if it lasts that long.
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I ventured off to Balham last week, as a guest at The Supper Club London, where I was greeted with a glass of Codorniu sparkling wine and a warm welcome from the host, John. He and his lovely assistant busied themselves in the kitchen as the guests all got acquainted over their fizz. Before long we sat down for dinner and I was lucky to share a table with four really fun diners, including two Greeks, an Italian and a Welsh St Lucian. It was a continental laugh-a-minute!
The starter was a cream of cauliflower soup which was certainly creamy and came with a plate of homemade savoury biscuits. However, it was rather lacking in presentation and just a bit bland, but nothing a sprinkle of croutons, a sprig of garnish and a hint of seasoning couldn't put right. Next came the main course of game pie with seasonal vegetables. More of a stew than a pie really, the meat was a medley of tender venison, rabbit and pheasant in an interesting orange-infused gravy all topped off with a perfectly baked individual pastry crust to give it the 'pie' touch. Personally, I'm not a big fan of celeriac or pearl barley, so the pale soft side dishes really didn't appeal to me, although the mange tout and green beans did add some necessary colour and crunch to the dish. Meanwhile, the wine, wit, company and conversation continued to flow at such a great pace, that even Splodge the Cat decided to join in!
The piece de resistance was the pudding. Pears poached in Sauterne with homemade chocolate ice cream. I think poached pears must be the Pud du Jour as they've popped up at several supper clubs I've been to of late. But this was unique as it came with some very impressive sugar work - delicate thin caramelised sugar legs gently leaning against the pear as it nestled in a pool of seriously good chocolate.
As a lecturer by day, John enjoys using his spare time to pursue his interest in cooking, hence The Supper Club London. He really was a great host and you can tell he thoroughly enjoys orchestrating his supper evenings, putting his all into it. Despite the fact that some of the dishes weren't necessarily to my taste (and not forgetting it is a supper club, not a restaurant) on a culinary note, I would say the food offered is good, wholesome, home-cooked grub. I especially like the fact that the vegetables and herbs are grown in John's nearby allotment - a nice personal touch.
Whilst some supper clubs charge absurd amounts for a fairly mediocre meal, and others are perhaps justified in charging more due to their exceptional, almost professional chef quality type meal, John has got it just right by charging a reasonable £20 per head for a respectable 3 course dinner. It was a happy, relaxed and most enjoyable evening and due to the excellent company, it carried on very late into the Balham night. There are various dates coming up at The Supper Club London, so check the website to make a booking. Just add wine!


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Could farmers make money by helping clean up Florida's water supply?
What residents put on their lawns can have an impact on waterways across Southwest Florida.
After a tough summer on the beaches with red tide and tons of deaf fish, people in Naples are standing up, petitioning for stronger rules around fertilizer.
"Now our paradise is gone, said Naples resident Wanda Klopf.
Klopf says enough is enough.
"It's just like I'm in this big cloud of fertilizer," Klopf said.
She lives near a beach, three golf courses and works on the water.
"In the summertime to put fertilizer on anything and watch it go down the street into the sewer and into our waterways it's just illogical," Klopf said.
She says this is the worst she's ever seen the waterways.
"The animals- they're the first to let us know man hey we die, you die," Klopf said.
The petition she's backing wants the City of Naples and Collier County to ban fertilizer in the summer, when it rains the most.
Both the city and county already have ordinances around fertilizer use, and agree nutrients from fertilizer can cause algae to grow and kill fish.
"Everybody wants pretty lawns and this is the price we're paying," said Naples resident Michael Perrotta.
The City of Naples says they used to have a summer ban. It was lifted last October when experts told the city it's best to fertilize plants when they're actively growing so they can absorb nutrients.
Otherwise, the fertilizers will stay in the south and get washed into the water. The county says when they adopted their fertilizer ordinance in 2011, they deeply considered a summer ban, but they decided against it for the same reason.
"I don't have the answer but it is definitely a problem," Perrotta said.
Perrotta, a local fisherman, said he thinks making the ordinance stronger is a good way to fight this mess.
"The water will be like a dead sea around here," Perrotta said.
The City of Naples says they're always looking at new research and are reviewing the ordinance. The county says they plan to present a new ordinance to commissioners later this month.


Imation today announced that it has acquired Nexsan Corporation, provider of disk-based storage systems. As the Company continues to execute its strategy, Imation is leveraging its deep data storage core, building a platform for long-term growth and improving operating margins in high-growth data storage and security solutions markets.
The acquisition of Nexsan brings to Imation a proven technology platform and a robust portfolio of disk-based and hybrid disk-and-solid-state storage systems with more than 11,000 existing customers worldwide. It is expected to significantly accelerate Imation's growth in the small and medium-sized business (SMB) and distributed enterprise (SME) storage markets. Imation will provide the Nexsan business with global scale and a well-known storage brand for global expansion. With SMBs and SMEs struggling to address their rapidly increasing data storage and management needs, the combined Imation and Nexsan portfolio will offer customers an attractive, price / performance alternative to competitive offerings.
The combination cash-and-stock transaction included approximately $105 million in cash and 3,319,324 Imation common shares, the equivalent of approximately $15 million.
"Imation's acquisition of Nexsan is an exciting next step in our strategic transformation, which includes investing in growth platforms in data storage and security solutions, where we are targeting markets with strong growth rates," said Mark Lucas, president and CEO of Imation. "Our strategy includes focusing on the underserved SMB market with purpose-built storage systems and appliances. This is a market that Nexsan knows well. Nexsan's management team has grown this business from start-up to more than $80 million, with strong gross margins. Nexsan is a successful company that is addressing some of today's fastest growing trends in storage, and we are pleased that its management team, including CEO Philip Black, will join Imation. The combination of Nexsan's products, technologies, and talented teams with Imation's global reach and infrastructure will be an excellent accelerator for our growth strategy in storage solutions," concluded Lucas.
Nexsan's 2011 revenues were $82 million and are continuing to grow, with gross margins in the 40 percent range. This acquisition is expected to be immediately accretive to Imation's EBITDA.
Approximately 200 employees, based in the U.S., U.K. and Canada, have joined Imation with this acquisition. The Nexsan business will continue to operate within Imation from Nexsan's current headquarters in Thousand Oaks, Calif., under existing management. Integration and global expansion activities between Imation's Tiered Storage and Security Solutions business and Nexsan will be determined in first quarter 2013.


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Therapeutic ultrasound is a treatment modality commonly used in physical therapy and has been proven to provide quality results.
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Many people are familiar with the term ultrasound in the context of pregnancy, but ultrasound is also a therapeutic modality that has been used by physical therapists since the early 1940s. The use of ultrasound has only grown in popularity since then, and many physical therapists and rehabilitation experts throughout North America and Europe have adopted the practice. Our practitioners have found ultrasound therapy to be very effective and incorporate it into their treatment plans when deemed beneficial.
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Chancellor Rishi Sunak warns of 'hard choices' as he vows to get 'debt back under contr
Written by Gavin on 5th October 2020
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has warned there will be no "easy cost-free answer" as he vowed to "balance the books" following his spending splurge during the coronavirus crisis.
In his speech to the Conservative Party's virtual conference, Mr Sunak listed the various schemes he has introduced in a bid to shore up the economy amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
He also promised the "overwhelming might of the British state will be placed at your service" to those struggling financially, with ministers braced for millions to be left unemployed in the coming months.
But, in a hint at tax rises or spending cuts in the future, the chancellor also used his noticeably short address to assure Tory members he would "protect the public finances".
Mr Sunak set out his intention to "over the medium term" get the UK's borrowing and debt "back under control".
"We have a sacred responsibility to future generations to leave the public finances strong," he added.
"And through careful management of our economy, this Conservative government will always balance the books.
"If instead we argue there is no limit on what we can spend, that we can simply borrow our way out of any hole, what is the point in us?
"I have never pretended there is some easy cost-free answer. Hard choices are everywhere.
"I won't stop trying to find ways to support people and businesses. I will always be pragmatic."
Mr Sunak said it was "only because of ten years of sound Conservative management of our economy" that he had been able to "act with the pace and scale we have in responding to coronavirus".
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Physical Intimacy After Infidelity: Regain Sexual Confidence
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Physical intimacy after infidelity – how do you begin to feel sexually confident once a partner has committed an affair?
Society narrows post-adultery as a case between staying with a cheater or calling it quits. If a person does stay, focus revolves on learning to rebuild trust and commitment rather than feeling sexual and attractive again. When a friend opened up about her long-term boyfriend's infidelity, she addressed her confusion over why: What made him stray? What did she do wrong?
This analysing echoed across social media when Beyoncé referenced Jay-Z's affair on her album "Lemonade". Some comments remarked, 'If Beyoncé can get cheated on, anyone can'. I believe there is an assumption that when a person commits adultery, the faithful partner either gave up on sex or didn't satisfy their partner's needs. This train of thought can cause sexual insecurity, which has its own societal stigma.
Accredited psychosexual and relationship therapist and certified psycho-sexologist, Kate Moyle, recognises the taboo surrounding insecurity with sexual performance. A 2019 BBC Sex on the Couch therapist (a six-part series) and UK expert for intimate lifestyle brand Lelo, Kate has featured in Cosmopolitan, The Telegraph and The Guardian, among other publications. Here Kate discusses how to rebuild sexual confidence after an affair, including advice for people who want to help their partner with any bedroom self-doubt after their adultery.
"The anxiety that we feel about 'not getting sex right' can be so detrimental to people's sex lives and relationships, and this is even more impactful because most people feel very alone in what they are experiencing. The majority of people who come for Psychosexual Therapy realise logically that they can't be the only person in the world feeling this way, but still struggle to see any representation of their experience around them which creates feelings of isolation", says Kate.
Sex anxiety is something I've felt uncomfortable mentioning. In the past with a trusting partner, I couldn't tell him about my bedroom nerves. Revealing I didn't feel good about my skills sounded too unattractive; it's no secret we link sexual attraction to confidence. This problem isn't tied to women alone. "Sexual performance anxiety impacts both men and women, and when it's strong enough it can interrupt sexual functioning; and often what I see when working with people therapeutically is a vicious circle of anxiety and performance difficulties", writes Kate.
So how much does a partner having an affair typically affect a person's sexual confidence? "Obviously every person's experience, and every relationship is different; but most people are in some way impacted by infidelity. Even if a relationship hasn't been working, it still can knock our self-esteem if we feel that our partner has chosen someone else over us, or that they don't care about losing the relationship enough to risk losing it. In terms of sexual self-confidence, we may carry that lack of trust, or impact to self-esteem forward with us to our next relationships and that can stop us from letting go when we are with someone new", notes Kate.
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How to rebuild a relationship after cheating
My post on defining cheating in relationships reveals an affair is one of the biggest reasons couples split. The BBC reported on statistics suggesting "75% of men and 68% of women" have confessed to some form of unfaithfulness. To help move forward and enjoy better physical intimacy after infidelity, it helps for the adulterer to explain their feelings leading up to their affair.
"Good communication is at the heart of any sexual relationship, and where there has been a rupture it's likely that this will play an even more important role in repair. It's absolutely possible for couples to work through infidelity, but the partner who has cheated will need to be honest with their partner, reassure them and communicate about how they were feeling when the cheating happened, and help them to work through it together.
In terms of rebuilding a sex life, it may take time and may also involve changing the way that you do things, distracting thoughts e.g. to do with lack of confidence or thinking about their partner having cheated may also take them out the moment; and so mindful sex techniques could be helpful for both parties. The reality is for a sex life to work, both parties have to feel comfortable being intimate and vulnerable, and this may feel more challenging after infidelity", says Kate.
Don't internalise everything that happened
Regaining sexual confidence
Opening up about bedroom insecurity can feel as intimate as sex in itself. It can take a lot of vulnerability to disclose sexual uncertainty, particularly if you begin a sexual relationship with a new partner. In my case, me and an ex were doing a Ross and Rachel: we were on a break. When we got back together, knowing he had slept with another woman during our separation made me analyse potential comparisons. Although I didn't classify his sex as cheating, I did suffer from self-doubt.
"Don't internalise everything that happened and make it all about you. Relationships happen between people, and turning it all inwards will not help you in future. In fact, it will get in the way of your relationship with a new partner as you will be seeing the relationship and them through the filter of the past infidelity when it's not that partner's fault. If you have a new partner, then explain to them that there may be certain or particular triggers, and then they will know to avoid them. They can't know what these are unless you communicate them, they aren't a mind reader. Try and treat each new sexual experience as a fresh start, and to focus on what's happening in the present rather than focusing on what happened in the past", advises Kate.
In addition to communication and learning to not over internalise, there are helpful resources. "Try mindful sex techniques (there are great resources online e.g. Diana Richardson's Ted Talk ) which help you to keep you in your body and experiencing the physical sensations, rather than being distracted and preoccupied by negative thoughts which can impact both desire and arousal.
If you are really struggling then reach out for help e.g. psychosexual therapy, or try and rethink sex by listening to podcasts, and reading resources which might help you to add points of view to your perspective", says Kate.
Physical intimacy after infidelity: When to consider therapy
In some situations, talking to a partner and looking up online information alone isn't enough. If you're finding your feelings too difficult to deal with by yourself, it might be worth considering therapy. "Therapists are different to friends as they are completely separate from the rest of your life, and so you can feel confident being completely open and honest and a) that it's confidential and judgement free, and b) that they will not be offering feedback based on their own personal, and subjective experiences but based on an empathetic and professional one.
Psychosexual Therapy is a great resource for those that need it, but opening up to someone can be really scary, and so do your research and find a couple of therapists that you feel may be a good fit for you, and see if you can have a phone call with them in advance of booking a session; it will give you a feeling for how they may work with you. You don't have to be at rock bottom to seek therapy, you can use it to help you at any stage", Kate expresses.
Regardless of your stance (if you choose to stay with a partner who cheated or find someone new), feeling good about physical intimacy after infidelity can take time and effort. Doubts over performance in bed are nothing to feel ashamed of – it's more common than you likely realise. But luckily, it is not something you have to suffer with.
What are your thoughts on physical intimacy after infidelity?
Kate Moyle specialises in helping people facing difficulties with their sex lives and sexuality. Each week, she interviews sex and relationship experts on Instagram, in a series entitled The Sexual Wellness Sessions. (Old episodes can be viewed to IGTV).
Follow Kate on Instagram @KateMoyleTherapy and Twitter @KateMoylePsyc
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crystalsandcurls says
What an interesting read! I definitely think I would struggle with my confidence if my partner cheated on me; I imagine it would help to know the emotional reasons behind it and try to not link it to a lack in myself xx
Thank you! I think it's such a natural thing to self-blame. And I do think with cheating, there are some people who think the faithful partner must also be at fault somehow. Knowing the emotional reasons is so important, and I hope I get that closure if it happens to me. xx
Paula Loreti says
I've never been cheat on (that i know of) and I think it would be super hard for me to have intimacy after that lost of trust but your point of view is super interesting!
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Thank you. I think intimacy after infidelity is really hard and certainly something that takes time to work on. But it's nice to know they're steps to help 🙂


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I was born on March 14, 1946 in Iola, Illinois, a whistle-stop town in southern Illinois of approximately 300 persons.
My Father was a Tenant Farmer/Truck Driver/Construction Laborer, and my Mother, a School Teacher.
I remember in my youth one-room country schools, and hitching posts before the general store.
After graduating from a public high school of 200 students in Braidwood, Illinois, a small rural town of 2000 residents 60 miles south of Chicago, I attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a scholarship and received in 1968, two Bachelor of Science degrees: one in Industrial Management from the MIT Alfred P. Sloan School of Business, and one in Electrical Engineering. In 1972 I was awarded a Juris Doctor from the Harvard Law School. At both MIT and Harvard, I was in the top 20% of my class.
In 1972 I traveled to Alaska to clerk in Juneau for the Alaska Supreme Court (Justice Robert Boochever—who was subsequently appointed a Judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit), and worked for two and one-half years as a Trial Lawyer/Appellate Attorney with the Alaska Public Defender Agency, in Anchorage.
I have been in private practice with my own law firm since 1976, focusing on trial and appellate work and as a criminal defense attorney in the State of Alaska and Federal Court(s), and as a plaintiff's trial lawyer on behalf of individuals in catastrophic injury and/or death cases. There are two other lawyers in my firm, Michael Cohn, and Lisa Rosano.
I have never worked as a prosecutor in criminal matters, nor accepted money from insurance companies or large corporations.
I have been selected for listing in the National Directory of Criminal Defense Attorneys, and Best Lawyers in America, and have an AV rating in Martindale Hubbell.
In addition to American Association of Justice (formerly ATLA), I am and/or have been a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys, California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, Washington State Trial Lawyers Association, and Alaska Academy of Trial Lawyers.
I am and have been a member of the AAJ (formerly ATLA) Board of Governors for over 20 years, as well as a Stalwart Member for many years, also serving as an officer and/or member of the Board of Governors of the Alaska Academy of Trial Lawyers. I have also been a member of the AAJ Leaders Forum.
I have assisted in instructing trial practice at the University of Oregon Law School in Eugene, Oregon, and at the Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and at the National College of Criminal Defense Attorneys in Macon, Georgia. I have also provided numerous presentations/seminars at CLE programs conducted by the Alaska Academy of Trial Lawyers and/or American Association of Justice as to trial lawyer techniques, ethics, and relationships with the Judiciary.
I am admitted to practice in Alaska and California. I am a member of State Bars for Alaska and California, and admitted to practice before United States District Court(s) for Alaska and California, the Ninth and Second Circuit Court(s) of Appeals, the U.S.A.F. Military Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.
I have tried numerous cases to jury verdict in both the criminal and civil arenas, including acquittals and/or dismissals in murder cases and serious State and Federal Court criminal cases, and have obtained numerous plaintiff's verdicts and/or settlements for sums in excess of $1 million and/or in multiples of $1 million in products liability, aviation, construction accidents, wrongful death, medical malpractice, and toxic tort matters, with some in excess of $7 to $10 million.
As a part of the Exxon Valdez 1989 Grounding in Prince William Sound Oil Spill Litigation, on behalf of two fish processors, I obtained a recovery for tens of millions of dollars in compensatory damages.
Some of the products liability cases and/or anti-trust litigation, and/or other cases, included litigating under the Hague Convention against Swedish, German, and Japanese defendants, (with discovery in Sweden, Germany, and Japan), and against major gun manufacturers. (The Defendants included Trelleborg, Dahlmag, E.I. DuPont, Remington, Mossberg and Cessna). I have also assisted in significant estate related litigation in Germany, including claims that relate back hundreds of years, under the ancient Fideikommiss Laws. I have obtained recoveries in multiple millions of dollars from the Federal Government in Federal Tort Claim cases, as well as millions of dollars of recovery in medical malpractice and civil rights cases.
I and my firm have successfully represented numerous individual Plaintiffs and/or Estates in aviation/air crash litigation, including matters involving products liability against Cessna. This includes litigation arising from crashes of commercial aircraft flying from major airports, as well as "Alaska Bush" carriers. The cases are numerous, and the most noteworthy representation was in the Alaska Airlines litigation arising from the crash of an McDonnell Douglas MD-83, Flight 261 off Point Mugu, California, returning to the U.S. from Mexico, [(loss of jack screw function in horizontal stabilizer) Hague Convention and Admiralty Litigation], the Penn Air/Cessna litigation arising from the crash of a Cessna caravan on takeoff in Dillingham, Alaska, and products liability litigation as to a defective throttle/firewall connection on a Cessna 206 flying from Lake Hood in Anchorage, Alaska, on a sightseeing trip to Mt. Denali.
Some of the matters I have litigated and/or tried on behalf of Plaintiffs and Estates involve maritime and admiralty jurisdiction and law. The Point Mugu crash case involved same, as well as a wrongful death action we tried and settled mid-trial, in Kenai, Alaska, arising from a fatal scuba diving incident in the Pacific Ocean near Seward, Alaska. I also have successfully prosecuted medical malpractice cases and cases involving defective medical products.
My most well known criminal defense trial achievement was obtaining acquittal of John Kenneth Peel for eight counts of first degree murder and one count of arson after two trials—the first consuming eight months (in Ketchikan, Alaska, approximately 1,000 miles from my office in Anchorage, Alaska) with a hung jury, and the second consuming five months in Juneau, Alaska (approximately 900 miles from my office in Anchorage). We obtained an acquittal on all counts in the second jury trial (in Juneau) by resting at the close of the Government's case, relying on cross-examination, with no defense witnesses.
After the verdict I pursued a civil rights/malicious prosecution/defamation/slander claim for Mr. Peel and his family against the State of Alaska in Federal Court, and we reached settlement.
As noted, I have tried numerous criminal matters involving allegations of homicide and have obtained, in certain instances, acquittals and/or compromised verdicts on substantially lesser charges.
I have also successfully defended military personnel in Court-Martial proceedings before Military Juries as to charges brought by the U.S. Army and/or U.S. Air Force, including an acquittal for homicide, an acquittal for serious assault charges and a dismissal of all charges against a U.S. Air Force surgeon, (with successful appellate representation affirming the sitting judge's dismissal), obtaining from the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska, a Writ of Habeas Corpus and Order freeing him with an Honorable Discharge from the Air Force, (the Air Force had refused to discharge him), which is one of the few reported instances of the civilian courts issuing a Writ of Habeas Corpus against the military. That surgeon went on to an immensely successful orthopedic practice at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, subsequently serving patients in a rural hospital in Minnesota.
In another major homicide case in which I was defense counsel, (serving as same, largely pro bono under a voluntary court appointment for reduced fees), I defended Peggy Gustafson-Barnett in U.S.A. v. Peggy Gustafson-Barnett, Case No. CR-92-01038-R-1, in the United States District Court for the District of Alaska.
The Defendants therein were charged with conspiracy as to the fatal bombing of the father of a witness who had testified against Mr. Cheely and Mr. Gustafson, in a successful prosecution for first degree murder in Alaska State court that was defended by other counsel. In the subsequent bombing, via a mail bomb with plastic explosives, wherein the witness was a target, the witness' father, was inadvertently killed and his stepmother maimed. There were allegations that my client, Ms. Gustafson-Barnett, had mailed the fatal bomb at the direction of her brother, Mr. Gustafson, who was a defendant in the State murder prosecution.
All of the defendants in the Federal Court matter faced the death penalty, under the old Federal Death Penalty Statute.
Working with co-counsel, we obtained a ruling from the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska that said death penalty statute was unconstitutional, and could not be applied, and I then proceeded to reach a Rule 11 resolution on behalf of Ms. Gustafson, where she received substantial time to serve, but significantly less time than she was facing if convicted at trial, and she will soon be released on parole.
One particularly satisfying acquittal was on behalf of my father, Phillip Marion Weidner, who was indicted in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Chicago) in 1975 for dealing in firearms without a license. Although there was a 98% conviction rate in the Federal District Court at that time, we obtained an acquittal on all counts by a jury after 20 minutes of deliberation.
There have also been many noteworthy successes at the appellate level in the Alaska Supreme Court and/or Alaska Court of Appeals, including: (1) at the start of my career, the landmark case involving the right to counsel of one's choice (McKinnon v. State, 526 P.2d 18 (Alaska 1974)); (2) due process rights of trial counsel facing court sanctions for zealous advocacy (Weidner v. State, 764 P.2d 717 (Alaska App. 1988) and Weidner v. Superior Court, Third Judicial District, 715 P.2d 264 (Alaska App. 1986)); (3) the right to the psychotherapist-patient privilege (Allred v. State, 554 P.2d 411 (Alaska 1976)); (4) the rights of injured plaintiffs to sue the State of Alaska notwithstanding claims of sovereign immunity (State of Alaska v. Sanders, 944 P.2d 453 (Alaska 1997) and Guerrero v. Alaska Housing Finance Corp., 6 P.3d 250 (Alaska 2000)), Guerrero ex rel. Guerrero, 123 P.3d 966 (Alaska 2005); and (5) the rights to seek civil relief against a company for the job site death of a worker Estate of Milos v. Quality Asphalt Paving, Inc., 145 P.3d 533 (Alaska 2006), as well as others.
I was class counsel for over 5,000 fishermen in Alakayak, et al. v. All Alaskan Seafoods, Inc., et al., in the Superior Court for the State of Alaska, and before the Alaska Supreme Court, a price-fixing action concerning antitrust violations of processors, (including multi-national Japanese defendants), who victimized fishermen in the Bristol Bay red salmon fishery. That case also involved Hague Convention litigation and discovery in Japan. We recovered well over $40 Million Dollars.
I am a strong supporter of the U.S. and Alaska constitutions, and have done many civil rights cases.
I am an avid supporter of the Bill of Rights, and especially the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th amendments and the sister provisions of the Alaska Constitution.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S. Elec. Eng., 1968; B.S. Indust. Man., 1968)
Harvard University, J.D., 1972
1973, Alaska and California; 1975, U.S. District Court, District of Alaska; 1976, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 1977, U.S. Supreme Court; 1987, U.S. Air Force Court of Military Review
Listed in: National Directory of Criminal Defense Attorneys; The Best Lawyers in America. Highest rated among peer-reviewed Lawyers from: Super Lawyers, Martindale-Hubbell, Lawyers.com
Anchorage and Alaska Bar Associations; State Bar of California; Alaska Academy of Trial Lawyers; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America (Member, Board of Governors); National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; National Lawyers Guild; California Attorneys for Criminal Justice; Washington State Trial Lawyers Association.