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Q: Creating permanent SSH tunnels in PHP I have a function that needs to return a PDO object to a remote host via an SSH tunnel in PHP.
I currently have it working in such a way that when the PDO object is requested, it creates the SSH tunnel, connects PDO and returns the PDO object.
I would like to be able to create the SSH tunnel once and have it stay there, so that when I have 100 requests for a PDO object to a specific remote server, I only create the SSH tunnel once.
At the moment, the SSH tunnel is destroyed when the script finishes running.
How can I set it up to achieve this?
Currently I have tried:
exec('ssh -fNg -L 13306:127.0.0.1:3306 user@host > /dev/null 2>/dev/null &');

and
exec('autossh -f -M 13308 -fNg -L 13306:127.0.0.1:3306 user@host > /dev/null 2>/dev/null &');

In both cases the tunnel is destroyed when the script exits.
Thanks!

A: That is an odd use case, and not something that I would particularly recommend to be accomplished via forking off of web requests. [or at all, really] However you might be able to leverage ssh's ControlMaster to handle persisting and multiplexing connections on its own.
Add the following options:

*

*-o ControlMaster auto

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*Enables the sharing of multiple sessions over a single network connection.

*-o ControlPersist 30

*

*Specifies that the master connection should remain open in the background after the initial client connection has been closed.

*-o ControlPath /path/to/socket/dir/%r@%h-%p [optional, but recommended]

*

*Specify the path to the control socket used for connection sharing.

Ref: https://linux.die.net/man/5/ssh_config
It's important to note that once the ControlMaster socket has been established any user that is permitted to access it can do so without authentication. You may want to segregate the socket paths from each other based on application authentication/authorization.
With the above the ssh binary itself handles what is essentially the dameonization necessary to persist the connection, wait for the timeout to expire, and gracefully close the connections. Though one thing to note is that if the ssh process is killed the sockets still exist and will need to be cleaned up manually before connecting again.
Also, this code relies on an IMMENSE level of trust in your users to not do anything stupid and/or malicious. At a minimum make sure you're making liberal use of escapeshellarg() and escapeshellcmd() on any and all user input that might make its way into an executed command.


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There is much to choose from in terms of restaurants and coffee shops along the boulevard. If you're lucky enough you will find yourself surrounded by Musical Erkindik, a recent regular event, when a large number of different-style musicians perform along the entire Erkindik boulevard, all at the same time.


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The title of this book is taken from Primo Levi's words about survivors of the Holocaust: `The survivors are divided into two well-defined groups: those who repress their past en bloc, and those whose memory of the offence persists, as though carved in stone.' The memories of Manny Drukier are indelibly inscribed on his mind, and in Carved in Stone he recounts them with honesty and precision.
In 1939, at the age of eleven, Drukier was forced by the Nazis to leave his native city of Lódz, in Poland. His narrative, prompted by his first visit back to Poland after fifty years, begins with his childhood, follows him in and out of various hiding places and to the labour camps, and describes his day of liberation and his later emigration to North America. But this is also the story of the day-to-day life of Jews both before and during the war, providing a detailed account of Drukier's friends and family, and their love, wit, and will to survive.
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Kyoto Hotel Offers Travelers Posh Pods
Japan always seems to be one step ahead of the rest of the world in space-saving living. Case in point is a capsule hotel in Kyoto called 9 Hours. The name is based on the idea of 1 hr to shower, 7 hrs to sleep and 1 hr to rest.
While capsule hotels have been around for a while in Japan, they have been more focused on function than form. 9 Hours' super sleek interior and ample amenities give a luxury feel to what is essentially sleeping in a cubby.
The developers express that they are not interested in replacing full-size hotels–merely providing an alternative for people who may literally need a place to sleep and nothing more.
The video asks if the US and Europe are ready for this style of hotel. We suspect it'll come down to cost. If a space is 20% the size and 20-30% the cost of a standard hotel room, it will create a compelling argument for booking a pod. Ultra-sleek environs like 9 Hours will make the decision to go with a capsule easier as well.
What do you think? Have you stayed in a capsule hotel? What was your experience. Would you? If not, why not?
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Irving Place Capital of New York agreed to acquire Alpha Packaging, a St. Louis, Mo.-based maker of plastic bottles and jars for the nutraceutical, pharmaceutical and personal care markets. The transaction is expected to close in September.
Irving Place Capital ("IPC"), a middle-market private equity firm, announced today that it has signed a purchase agreement to acquire Alpha Packaging ("Alpha"), a leading blow molder of plastic bottles and jars for the nutraceutical, pharmaceutical and personal care markets. IPC is investing in partnership with Alpha's current management team, led by President and Chief Executive Officer Dave Spence and Chief Operating Officer Dan Creston. The transaction is expected to close in September of 2010.
Alpha, which is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, manufactures plastic bottles and jars at five manufacturing facilities located strategically throughout the U.S., as well as a recently-opened plant in the Netherlands. The company's Technigraph division provides high-quality container decorating services to leading personal care brands. Stonebridge Partners of White Plains, New York, fueled the growth of Alpha with significant capital investments that allowed the company to triple in size during their investment period.
Dave Spence, President and CEO of Alpha, said, "I am enormously proud of the business we have grown over the last 25 years and excited about the bright future that we have in front of us with Irving Place Capital. We are constantly looking for ways to support our customers' growth by offering new products and technologies. We are committed to making our network of distributors and direct customers more competitive through additional investments in our existing operations and the completion of add-on acquisitions."
COO Dan Creston said, "Alpha's growth strategy will be accelerated when the company is recapitalized. Having IPC as an equity investor will allow us to continue our growth and make even larger acquisitions than those that we have made in the past."
Phil Carpenter, a Senior Managing Director at Irving Place Capital, said, "Alpha is an excellent platform for growth and is a great complement to our packaging portfolio. The company has a strong position in attractive end-markets, and we look forward to working closely with Alpha's management team to further expand the business."
This transaction represents a continuation of Irving Place Capital's focus on investing in packaging, a key area of focus and strength for the firm. IPC's other platform investments in packaging include Multi Packaging Solutions, Inc., Chesapeake Corporation and Mold-Rite Plastics, Inc.
Under the agreement with IPC, Alpha's top management team will stay in place. Dave Spence will remain as Alpha's President and CEO. Upon transaction closed, Dan Creston will oversee all acquisition integration as the Executive Vice President of Corporate Development. Mike DeFazio, who currently serves as Vice President of Operations, will become Chief Operating Officer. Alpha's Chief Financial Officer, Gary Seeman, and its Executive Vice President of Sales, Jack Baily, will remain in their positions.
About Alpha Packaging
Alpha is a leading manufacturer of plastic bottles and jars for the nutraceutical, pharmaceutical and personal care markets. Alpha's sales force sells its products directly to end-users and also through a network of leading packaging distributors, including international distributors in key markets. Alpha is ranked as the 26(th) largest blow molder in the United States according to Plastics News' 2009 rankings. Alpha is also ranked as the St. Louis region's 16(th)-fastest growing private company according to St. Louis Business Journal and was recognized by the Missouri Chamber of Commerce as a 2009 Missouri Fast Track Award Recipient. For additional information, visit www.alphap.com.
About Irving Place Capital
Irving Place Capital invests private equity capital in buyouts, recapitalizations, and growth capital opportunities alongside superior management teams. Irving Place Capital focuses on making control or entrepreneur-driven investments. Since its formation in 1997, Irving Place Capital has been an investor in more than 50 companies and has raised over $4.0 billion of equity capital, including its current $2.7 billion institutional fund. More information about Irving Place Capital is available at www.irvingplacecapital.com.
About Stonebridge Partners
Stonebridge Partners has over 24 years of experience recapitalizing and supporting the growth objectives of middle market manufacturing companies. Stonebridge has invested over $850 million of equity in approximately 52 acquisitions and is currently investing through Stonebridge Partners Equity Fund IV, L.P. which closed in July 2008. Stonebridge primarily focuses on value-added manufacturing companies, specifically in the packaging, infrastructure, building products and specialty manufacturing industries. In addition to providing capital for growth, Stonebridge utilizes its Operating Partner business model to assist talented management teams in achieving their strategic goals and to generate significant growth in sales and profitability. 2010 will be another very successful year for Stonebridge, with the commencement of three new platform acquisitions through its Fund IV and the sale of its two remaining Fund III portfolio companies. Please visit www.stonebridgepartners.com for more information.


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Diese Liste gibt einen Überblick über alle Orte und Objekte im texanischen Kaufman County, an denen von der Texas Historical Commission so genannte Historical Markers errichtet oder angebracht wurden. Mit diesen Gedenkplatten wird an historisch signifikante Orte, Einrichtungen, Gebäude oder Personen erinnert.

Bislang wurden im Kaufman County 84 Historical Marker angebracht.

Hinweis: Die Liste führt alle Historical Markers nach Städten geordnet auf. In Klammern wird das Jahr der Errichtung genannt.

College Mound

Crandall

Forney

Kaufman

Kemp

Mabank

Prairieville

Pyle Prairie Cemetery

Rosser

Scurry

Terrell

Weblinks
 Homepage der Texas Historical Commission, die die Historical Markers definiert (englisch)
 Unvollständige Liste von Historical Markers in der Historical Markers Data Base (englisch)

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Located in Romillo, El Puntual de Romillo Hostel has barbecue facilities and garden. All rooms have a kitchen and a private bathroom. The property provides a shared kitchen and free WiFi.
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Q: Failed to execute goal on project always looking in artifactory and not in lib folder I am trying to run an already existing maven application. While doing so, it is always looking for downloading the file from the artifactory (javaguru....). I have given the jar files in lib folder in the project but they are not taken into account. Anyone faced this issue? I did see a lot of questions based on this but the answers do not help me.
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artifactory/metasystems-snapshot/org/grails/grails-crud/2.3.4/grails-crud-2.3.4.pom. Return code is:
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        <dependency>
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A: Those dependencies will come from the repository configured in your pom.xml or settings.xml.It looks like your Maven is configured to resolve from Artifactory (which is a good thing to do).
If you want to add your own files to be resolved by Maven you should deploy them to Artifactory. If this instance is not in your control you should install your own instance of Artifactory inside your team/organization and configure your Maven installation to resolve from it.
I really recommend reading the DZone Refcard on this.

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TransLink announces CEO Kevin Desmond to leave organization in early 2021
TransLink today announced that CEO Kevin Desmond has advised the Board of Directors that he will be leaving the organization in February 2021. After almost five years as CEO, Desmond is stepping away from his role and returning to the U.S. where he will be seeking new career challenges.
"We want to thank Kevin for his outstanding leadership of TransLink since 2016," says TransLink Board of Directors Chair Tony Gugliotta. "During his tenure, TransLink has earned the trust and confidence of our customers, the communities we serve, and all levels of government. Without a doubt, we are sorry to see him step away from the CEO role, but Kevin is leaving behind an organization that is stronger and more responsive to our customers and our communities, and better prepared than ever for the future. We will now turn our attention to recruiting a new Chief Executive Officer to take on our next challenges as an organization – which includes a focus on rebuilding our ridership coming out of the pandemic."
"Kevin's leadership has been instrumental in advancing the Mayors' 10-Year Vision which has expanded transit and improved service throughout the Metro Vancouver region," says Mayors' Council on Regional Transportation Chair, Jonathan X. Coté. "We have seen how much we can accomplish when the Mayors and TransLink are working together and I have very much appreciated Kevin's leadership in bringing us all together to serve the common cause of making our Metro Vancouver region a better place to live and work."
Desmond has been TransLink CEO since 2016. During his 5-year tenure, TransLink has led North America in ridership growth for 3 consecutive years, was named North America's Transit System of the Year, reached new highs in customer satisfaction and on-time performance, and implemented significant increases in bus, SkyTrain, SeaBus and HandyDart service throughout the region. Over the last 5 years, TransLink has earned approval for two Investment Plans unleashing over $9 billion in new transit expansion projects; implemented "tap to pay" fare gates; introduced 10-minute SeaBus service, new RapidBus service, and Double-Decker buses; developed a touchless faregate system for people with disabilities, brought Seth Rogen's voice to transit, and delivered an industry-leading T2050 public engagement initiative.
"It's been an honour to serve this great region," says TransLink CEO Kevin Desmond. "When I arrived in 2016, I knew we already had a world-class transit system and I'm proud to have helped expand the breadth and depth of our services with a relentless commitment to our customers and public accountability. These achievements are thanks to a diverse team of nearly 8,000 employees across the enterprise committed to safety, reliability, a positive customer experience and improved public engagement. We have accomplished so much together."
The TransLink Board of Directors will retain an executive search firm and immediately begin a global search for the next CEO. The Board is seeking candidates who will continue the momentum of the last five years including an ongoing commitment to TransLink's values of openness and transparency with the public; a proven ability to advance the delivery of industry-leading customer experience in a transit system that is safe, reliable and convenient; and an ability to lead and manage within TransLink's unique governance model.
By Joe, A 12 for Transit, October 20, 2020 @ 1:37 pm
Many thanks for your awesome leadership of TransLink. You were almost as integral to saving TransLink as Bowinn Ma. Replacing you will be hard, very hard to do.
However there is a quite qualified replacement on staff popular with many. SARAH ROSS!
Thanks;
By Elizabeth, October 22, 2020 @ 2:55 pm
Thank you for your work for Translink, and good luck in the future, but PLEASE TAKE THAT STUPID BURNABY GONDOLA PLAN with you. Do it to someone else.
By Janet Morelos, October 22, 2020 @ 7:36 pm
This is the only CEO of Translink that is engaging with riders and community. The only one who did lots of high technology improvements for faster access of service. He really thought about the public in every decision he made. Farewell Sir Desmond I know you still have more great things to accomplish unfortunately not here in Canada anymore so sad


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The Accession of Queen Anne
The Old Currency Exchange / November 28, 2015
Anne was the Protestant full sister to Mary II, wife of William III, and she was crowned shortly after William's death on 8 March 1702. Her marriage to Prince George of Denmark & Norway was arranged in the early 1680's with a view to developing an Anglo-Danish alliance to contain Dutch maritime power. Her uncle (Charles II) unsuccessfully prosecuted no less than three wars against the Dutch during the 1660's and 1670's.
As a result, George was unpopular with his Dutch brother-in-law William of Orange, who was married to Anne's elder sister, Mary. William and Mary became joint monarchs of Britain, with Anne as their heiress presumptive, in 1689 after the "Glorious Revolution" deposed James II and VII, the father of both Anne and Mary
Since Anne's older sister (Mary) had moved to the Netherlands after her marriage to William of Orange, Protestant opposition to James II was therefore increasingly focused around Anne and George instead of Mary (then heiress presumptive, not Anne)
In her first speech to the English Parliament, on 11 March, she distanced herself from her late Dutch brother-in-law and said,
"As I know my heart to be entirely English, I can very sincerely assure you there is not anything you can expect or desire from me which I shall not be ready to do for the happiness and prosperity of England."
Soon after her accession, Anne appointed her husband (Prince George of Denmark & Norway) Lord High Admiral, giving him nominal control of the Royal Navy.
Anne gave control of the army to Lord Marlborough, whom she appointed Captain-General.
Marlborough also received numerous honours from the Queen;
he was created a Knight of the Garter and was elevated to the rank of duke.
The Duchess of Marlborough was appointed Groom of the Stole, Mistress of the Robes, and Keeper of the Privy Purse.
Anne was crowned on St George's Day, 23 April 1702
Anne was an amiable and dutiful Queen who presided over government without getting too involved in the disputes between the Whigs and the Tories. This was a marked change from the rest of her family (the Stuarts) who had fought bitterly with Parliament and fought (and lost) a civil war over its rights to rule. Most of the principal events of her reign are connected to the war of the Spanish Succession.
Anne's reign was marked by the further development of a two-party system
In general, the Tories were supportive of the Anglican church and favoured the "landed interest" of the country gentry
The Whigs were aligned with commercial interests and Protestant Dissenters
As a committed Anglican, Anne was inclined to favour the Tories
Anne supported the Occasional Conformity Bill of 1702, which was promoted by the Tories and opposed by the Whigs. The bill aimed to disqualify Protestant Dissenters from public office by closing a loophole in the Test Acts, legislation that restricted public office to Anglican conformists.
The existing law permitted non-conformists to take office if they took Anglican communion once a year.
Anne's husband, Prince George, was placed in an unfortunate position when Anne forced him to vote for the bill, even though, being a Lutheran, he was an occasional conformist himself.
The Whigs vigorously supported the War of the Spanish Succession
They became even more influential after the Duke of Marlborough won a great victory at the Battle of Blenheim in 1704
Many of the High Tories, who opposed British involvement in the land war against France, were removed from office
Queen Anne, at the time of her marriage – Scottish National Portrait Gallery
The eighteenth century began with a series of events in Europe making war inevitable as it was essential for England to have an Austrian Prince, rather than French, to ascend the Spanish Throne.
The Commander of the English Army, The Duke of Marlborough was arguably the best soldier ever produced by England and he soon routed a combined French and Bavarian army at Blenheim
Two years later he drove the French from the Netherlands following the victory at Ramillies
Instead of negotiating a treaty with France however England negotiated an Act of Union with Scotland, and in May 1707 the two parliaments were finally united
This uniting of the two kingdoms came to be called Great Britain and had as it's symbolic flag the 'Union Jack'
On 12 April 1606, the National Flags of Scotland and England were united for use at sea, thus making the first Union 'Jack'. Ashore however, the old flags of England and Scotland continued to be used by their respective countries.
When the red cross of England was put onto the flag of Scotland, a white border was added around the red cross for reasons of heraldry. (The rules of heraldry demanded that two colours must never touch each other.)
On 28th July, 1707, during the reign of Queen Anne, this flag was by royal proclamation made the National flag of Great Britain, for use ashore and afloat.
The Act of Union of 1707 resulted in a change in the Royal Arms, altering the design of the coinage
On the post-union coinage the English lion and Scottish lion are emblazoned per pale on the top and bottom shields.
The rose in the centre of the reverse of the gold coins is replaced by The Garter Star.
Despite shortages of coin, no coins were issued for Ireland during the reign of Queen Anne. English coins did not circulate in Ireland since they were, in theory, heavier and had a higher intrinsic value.
A full range of new coins were struck for England and Scotland
Gold Issues: Five Guineas, Two Guineas, Guinea, Half Guinea
Silver Issues: Crown, Half-crown, Shilling, Sixpence
Copper Issues: Farthing
In March 1708, Anne's Catholic half-brother, James Francis Edward Stuart, attempted to land in Scotland with French assistance in an attempt to establish himself as king
Anne withheld royal assent from the Scottish Militia Bill 1708 in case the militia raised in Scotland was disloyal and sided with the Jacobites. She was the last British sovereign to veto a parliamentary bill, although her action was barely commented upon at the time.
The invasion fleet never landed and was chased away by British ships commanded by Sir George Byng
As a result of the Jacobite invasion scare, support for the Tories fell and the Whigs were able to secure a majority in the British general election, 1708
Her most controversial and important piece of legislation would come in the year of her death: see link below
Blog Post – The Succession Crisis of Queen Anne
November 28, 2015 in 18th C, Historical background, history, Queen Anne. Tags: #Queen Anne
The Succession Crisis of Queen Anne
James II & his Gunmoney: June 1689 (timeline)
O'Brien Coin Guide: Irish 'Regal Halfpennies' of William & Mary
← Sir Isaac Newton, Master of the Royal Mint (1699-1727)
Timeline 1702-12: Ireland during the reign of Queen Anne →


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Q: How can I deal with multiple values in some attribute? I'm using WEKA tool for clustering data analysis, however in some of my attributes, there are many values within the domain. Specifically, I need to represent some information about proteins and the information that I need to include is the terms associated with their functions.
For example these values are include on the same attribute "Function":
"RNA-Binding protein", "RNA bindingstructural constituent of ribosomerRNA binding", "translation", "intracellularribosomeribonucleoprotein complex".
And these terms diversify hugely.
Can someone help me?

A: A common approach is to split categorical variables with n different categories into n binary dummy variables.
For example:
gender = {male, female} can be rewritten with 2 dummy variables as:

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*male = [0, 1]

*female = [1, 0]
In your case, it seems a function can contain several distinct values (e.g. 1 protein with several functions). This is easy to mold into dummy variables too.


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Posted on May 5, 2017 July 11, 2017
"I mean, family's all you got, right?"
Matt Pizur diligently clears his yard of the last post-winter leaves on an unseasonably warm spring afternoon. As he stops for a break, Pizur leans on his rake, looking out past dark sunglasses.
"I've learned that moderation is more than just a virtue — it's something that you should seriously practice. You know, he always said, 'Anything's okay in moderation,' but then he didn't practice moderation himself," Pizur says, referring to his late father.
Matt, who grew up on 9th and Euclid, not far from where he lives now, remembers walking to school, playing with other kids in the neighborhood and and skateboarding. "That's what everybody in the neighborhood was doin' at the time," he says. "It was, you know, the mid-80s … you tight-rolled your jeans and you tried to grow your hair like Tony Hawk."
The youngest of two, Pizur says he and his sister, who was four years older, would argue often, though theirs wasn't any more confrontational than other sibling relationship.
But it was Matt's relationship with his father that would have the biggest impact.
"One of his favorite lines was: 'Do as I say, not as I do,'" he says, adding, "There was a time in my early 20s where I did as he did and kinda lived the rockstar lifestyle, partied hard … But, then, I got out of it; I grew up."
While things worked out for Pizur, his father continued to get worse. "He kinda decided to stop caring, which is why he passed away," Matt says. "You know, he was supposed to be doing dialysis and he wasn't. He just kinda gave up, so I decided to sever ties.
"I stopped talking to him about three years before he passed."
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The course of Matt's life took a turn for the better after some introspection and a dash of external inspiration.
"I'd been arrested twice for drug possession and decided that I didn't want to be a career criminal, and a repeat offender, and in and outta jail all my life. So, that and, you know, I got back together with a high school girlfriend and, uh, she kinda really straightened me out. And, now, she's my wife."
"She was brought up more straitlaced than I was — her parents were kind of the opposite of my dad. And, you know, I mean, she hung out with me and she went to parties with me, and stuff, and she tolerated my behavior for a little while. And, then, eventually, she's like … 'Let's not be like this anymore.' And I think it kinda hit home."
He says the decision was a mutual one, and one that wasn't difficult. In fact, says Pizur, they've always "been inside of each other's heads" to a certain extent.
At this point, they've been married for 13 years and have two children of their own. He says the secret has been "Just understanding that, you know … life is strange; life is hard. And, you know, it's gonna be tough sometimes."
"The most important thing is that we always have had each other."
And, Matt says he loves "the whole package" of being a dad. "I mean, you know, just the unconditional love that you feel for them, and that they feel for you," he says.
These days, he's good friends with his sister — they talk "all the time" he says. His mother lives about a ten minute drive away and comes by twice a week to spend time with the kids. It's a here-and-now that isn't half bad. As far as the future, and what he's looking forward to, though, the jury's still out.
"I can't pick one thing … just keep on keepin' on, you know?"⬩
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Forget the headaches of traditional deckchairs, these Eco chairs are a joy.
They are of a simply beautiful Scandinavian design. Who would have thought, that a chair made from only wood and rope, could be so comfortable. Lay the smooth batons of wood on the floor, thread the rope through the pre-drilled holes then tie.
This only needs to be done once, as having been threaded it can be folded for storage. The rope allows the chair to find it's own level, so bumpy ground won't spoil your comfort.
In natural oiled oak, or grey oiled pine, they will sit in an upright or layed back position. The plump linen head rest slides into place.
A cute foot stool / table named Lilli is also available.
These Eco friendly pieces offer guilt free pleasure, and are happy to live both inside or outside.


The Ten Commandments at a Pennsylvania high school is finally moved! An Arkansas school district considers dropping prayer after FFRF complains. We celebrate Gloria Steinem's birthday by hearing part of her speech about the "taliban" in politics and Catholic bishops' opposition to women's rights. Staff attorney Sam Grover tells us about FFRF's newest lawsuit challenging a Texas judge who forces his courtroom to engage in Christian prayer. Then we speak with Iranian-born feminist, atheist, and human-rights activist Maryam Namazie, spokesperson for "One Law For All" and host of "Bread and Roses" TV show, who will tell us about the July 22-23 London conference on "Freedom of Conscience and Expression."


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The Walking Dead Season 2 review – I see too many dead people
Posted on January 30, 2015 by Sabor117
The first season of The Walking Dead by Telltale Games (and yes I am well aware of how easy it is to mix that up with the TV series given that their use of the word "season") is easily one of my favourite games from the past few years, is possibly within my top 10 of all time and it elicited the most genuine and heart-rending sadness from me that I have not experienced before or since from any other form of media. And I was far from alone in having this reaction to the game as well. So, saying that the sequel to the game has a big act to follow could not be any truer.
Fortunately the writers employed by Telltale have yet to let me down in that the second season was every bit as enjoyable and excellent as the first. It may not have climaxed with me a sobbing and broken puddle on the floor, but it did provide an utterly compelling story, tense and feverish gameplay and heartbreaking moments of emotion from the characters of the game.
Talk shit. Get hit.
In the original Walking Dead you played as Lee, a man thrown in at the deep end who ends up becoming an absolute badass (well, he was always a badass, but that's neither here nor there). He's the man with the plan, the unspoken leader of the group, the man who everyone looks up to and respects, even if you played him as a bit of an asshole. While this sort of role might not be out of the ordinary for any gamer, much of the game's unique emotional experience came from the fact that you were placed in charge of a young girl called Clementine. To me it is Lee and Clementine's relationship which provide the true core of the story in the first game, from when they meet, to building up a friendship, building up trust and even a fatherly love. It was a rather strange feeling that because I projected onto Lee I also built up something of a similar relationship with the girl, which made every struggle all that much harder.
Now in the second game, Lee is dead after having been bitten by a zombie (oh, um, spoiler alert?) and you now take the role of Clementine, still only at the tender age of 11. Much of the first game was spent teaching Clementine how to be a good person and how to survive in the zombie apocalypse, whilst still maintaining as much of her innocence as possible. Now though things feel a little darker, a little more despairing. Clementine has been forced to mature quickly and to learn quickly, whilst still holding true to Lee's teachings. Much of the game focuses on Clem slowly becoming a harder and tougher person whilst trying to remain the moral compass of the group (at least, in my game I always play as the good guy and not the dick).
Not quite so innocent any longer.
I personally was actually very impressed by how Clem goes from the young and kind-of innocent child to a much darker character towards the end. Even more impressive was actually how this same change in attitude began to effect my own method of playing. When playing as Lee there was always a sensation of hope that things would eventually work out, and so my play-style reflected this as I went out of my way to help others and trust people. Playing as Clem I slowly but surely began to do less of that, I played a far harder character, one more willing to do what it takes to survive. I was less trusting, less friendly and less accepting of bullshit and it's actually pretty stunning how the game managed to make ME undergo that change.
You ever been out-badassed by an 11- year-old?
A particularly memorable moment in the game is when you are given the option of watching the straight-up murder of a psychopath who has caused you nothing but trouble and strife. I didn't even have to think before choosing that I would stay and I would watch. It really hammered home that Clem was no longer young, innocent and defenceless but was actually an ice-cold, logical, surviving machine. Pretty brutal stuff.
Things in the Walking Dead, as they always do, go wrong big-time-stylee repeatedly and so the group of survivors that Clem is with is in a constant state of flux for the majority of the game. The characters are, as always, varied and interesting and with excellent voice actors. It's a pleasure to get to know each one, learning about their hopes and dreams, and their inevitable death never stops hitting hard. Thankfully in this game, unlike in The Wolf Among Us, you are given a few opportunities to talk to all of your companions and learn about them, allowing you to become more invested in their stories.
However, whilst the story itself remains enthralling and well-written, a lot of the plot points of the game are now starting to feel repeated and cliché. This is especially true if one has ever seen The Walking Dead TV show. A fair portion of the game is spent fleeing from a "Governor" type character and eventually fighting him. One of the big subplots of the game is a pregnant woman in the group and one cannot help but draw comparisons to Lori from the TV show there. These are two major aspects of the game and they just feel copied and pasted from the TV show.
The simple fact is that a Zombie Apocalypse is NOT an interesting setting for a story-driven game. Eventually it all comes down to the simple fact that everyone is going to die. Other than I Am Legend I have never heard of any Zombie Apocalypse ending with society being rebuilt or with a cure being found. Without anything of that sort one eventually is forced to accept that the only way the story ends is with everyone dead.
A major example of this is actually the flux of major characters, with new ones appearing to fill the holes left by the deaths or disappearances of older ones. In the both the first and the second season this makes perfect sense, after all death is a common thing in this sort of apocalyptic world, but in the second the deaths start feeling more and more detrimental to the experience. Every time a character died one could not help but think of the wasted time spent in getting to know them and getting them to be on your side. Each time someone new was introduced, making the effort to get to know them felt more and more forced. More importantly, each death started having less and less of an emotional effect on me.
Oh for fucks sake Sarah, shut the fuck up!
Now, it actually seems possible that this was the intention and might well have been the cause of my change in play-style. With the death of every single character apparently inevitable it starts becoming a lot harder to NOT become callous and cold towards each of the new-comers. So if it was an intentional thing then bravo to Telltale! I just can't help but feel that by this stage they simply kill off people in order to keep that air of "gritty realism".
The gameplay is, as with any Telltale Game, amusing enough with a variety of different styles ranging from slow and casual exploration, shooting gallery type sections and intense and nerve-wracking quick-time events. The real meat of the game is in its dialogue, story and decisions made.
I have to say that Telltale have done a rather outstanding job with the decisions (or at least the major ones) in Season 2. In both Season 1 and The Wolf Among Us, fairly regularly one would come across decisions which were no-brainers. The statistics at the end of the episodes would back this up, showing that only a small minority of people chose one option with a landslide choosing the other (such as a choice between saving a child or a grown man). Season 2 had, as far as I can remember, nothing like that. Every decision was actually much harder to make and this was reflected in how evenly balanced the community was in the decisions they made. It's definitely not an easy thing to do to craft game decisions which genuinely make one think, sometimes even long after the decision had been made.
Specifically, the very final decision of the game, made right at the end (and so I can't go into any detail really) is something I STILL torture myself over. I genuinely feel bad about my decision but also don't see how it could have gone any other way. It really is top notch stuff.
Unfortunately it's not ALWAYS so perfect; some decisions came across as not exactly "easy" but rather utterly ridiculous decisions to make. The big one which really springs to mind is fairly early on (so I feel comfortable that it is not a spoiler) when the group you have been travelling with merges with another group and you are given the option of whom to sit and have dinner with, at the risk of insulting the other side. It's totally fucking stupid and really ought to have not had any of the impact it did. But there you go, you take the good with the bad.
By this stage of the series I also can't help but feel that the smaller decisions and choices hold less weight than my impressions of the first game. I mean, when the game tells you that "such-and-such will remember that" it's harder to care because you know that not only will s/he not REALLY remember that but also that such-and-such is actually going to be dead in an episode or so anyway.
My main gripe about the game comes down to the fact that a zombie apocalypse is a boring and difficult setting in which to play a game designed to be story-based. The interesting and fantastic characters and plot are quite simply let down by their surroundings which hold the game back from the sort of truly exciting levels it might be able to achieve otherwise.
Next season we get to watch Clem die an we get a new protagonist for Season 4.
At the end of the day this review has a slightly superfluous feel to it. Because of its TV series-like style it makes very little sense to start playing from the beginning of Season 2, one could start from Season 2 and would likely enjoy it a great deal, but it just makes much more sense to start from the beginning. The issue then being that if you have played Season 1 then you will have a good idea whether or not Season 2 is for you. If you have never played a Telltale game before then I would absolutely urge you to play The Walking Dead but one ought to start at the beginning rather than half-way through.
Tags: Characters, Clementine, Decisions, Lee Everett, Review, Role Playing Game, RPG, Sarah, Season 1, Season 2, Story-based, Story-Driven, Telltale Games, The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead Season 2, The Walking Dead Season 2 Review, The Wolf Among Us, Zombie Apocalypse, zombiesCategories: Review, Story Based
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I'm both fascinated and appalled by Donald Trump's popularity in the political arena these days.
As a student and practitioner of public speaking, I think his popularity is rooted in his skillful appeal to people's sense of rage.
Rhetoric is the artful use of words to persuade.
The goal of rhetoric is not to educate or inform, not to entertain or amuse, not to convince or convert.
The goal of rhetoric is to move people to take action.
To induce people to act, you may have to educate, inform, entertain, amuse, convince, and/or convert them. But the goal of rhetoric is always action, action, action.
Logic and reason don't move people to act. Emotions do.
Rage is anger that is so intense it threatens to explode into violent action.
We may seethe with anger, but rage makes us want to lash out at someone.
Rage, like anger, is a reaction to the perception that someone has deprived us of something we value.
Loss: We no longer have something of value that we once possessed or think we had a right to.
Deprivation: We don't have it, because it was taken from us.
Adversary: "They" took it from us.
By itself the sense of loss does not fuel rage. The appropriate response to loss is grief.
Whereas anger is the impetus to make things right, to restore justice, rage seeks revenge.
Rage isn't satisfied with reclaiming what was lost. It wants to punish those who stole it in the first place.
Rhetoric and rage are made for each other.
Rhetoric wants to move people to act. Rage makes people want to act.
1. Remind people of what they've lost.
Have they lost their social status and the rights and privileges due to them? Have they lost their jobs or financial security? Have they lost the right to impose their beliefs and values on others? Have they lost their confidence in government, social institutions, and the very future?
Don't confuse them with facts or logic. They may not have possessed in the first place what they think they've lost. Or they may not have had the right to it. That's not the issue. What matters is that they think – or more importantly – they feel that they've lost it.
2. Frame that loss as deprivation.
Losing something of value makes people sad and powerless, which they don't like. So tell them it was taken from them. It's not their fault they lost something valuable: it's someone else's fault.
This is easy. Given the right mind-set, there's always someone to blame: immigrants, gays, women, terrorists, criminals, the one-percenters.
What do you think? Am I on to something? What would you add, subtract, or refute?
Rhetoric is the skillful use of language in speaking or writing in order to influence how people think, feel, and act.
Rhetoric is neither good nor bad in itself. Its legitimacy is determined by how it is used (honestly or deceptively) and for what end it is used (for good or for ill).
The deceptive use of rhetoric is nothing new, certainly not in politics, nor is it limited to any particular faction.
I would like to take a page from Rove's playbook as a lesson.
Make a malicious statement so that the idea, image, or phrase you used becomes part of the public discourse.


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Trivia Testers : Fly Runway WHAT?
September 10, 2001 July 7, 2018 ~ Jeff Pardo
Question: When a controller asks you to 'maintain runway heading', what does he REALLY mean?
It's an inside joke with controllers. It's like 'We'll do lunch' in LA. It means 'drop dead'.
Very funny. No, he really wants you just to track the extended runway centerline, compensating for any wind drift.
Close, but no cigar. It means that you should maintain the compass alignment of the departure runway, regardless of where you wind up.
It is a little known fact, but you should actually follow the precise magnetic heading to which the runway number is an approximation. (For example, taking off from runway 14, the actual heading might be 137.)
The answer is really number 3.
Subject: Wing Buds
Question: Air is thin stuff, but we can still fly in it. Just how small can the wings of a piloted piston airplane be, anyway? (excluding a NASA 'lifting body', that is)
The officially recognized 'world's smallest airplane' is the Bumble Bee, now on display at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, AZ. (There was also a similar airplane at the EAA museum in Oshkosh, WI.) It was (is) an experimental airplane built by an Arizona pilot. Its wingspan is only six feet, six inches!
Actually, the smallest airplane WAS the Bumble Bee II, built by the same person, which had a wingspan of FIVE feet, six inches. It was destroyed in a crash in 1988.
Antonin Przybylowicz (priz-BOL-oh-witz) of Buffalo, NY, flew his jet-powered experimental airplane, named Wingless Wonder, from the Mohave Desert in 1977. It had a takeoff speed of 220 kts, with a stall speed of 205 kts. It had NO wings, and obtained lift from entirely from the fuselage, which had a wing-shaped cross section and a width of three feet, four inches.
The late actor Michael Dunn flew a custom-build airplane for the 1960's television show The Wild Wild West, which had a wingspan of eight and one half feet. This was not a dangerously small aircraft, however, considering the sole occupant, Mr. Dunn, was a dwarf. (He was a licensed pilot, and did not use a stunt man. Incidentally, he also had an IQ well over 160.)
The answer is number 2. The builder, Mr. Robert H. Starr, of Phoenix, Arizona, was also the pilot. (He completely recovered from his injuries.) The Bumble Bee II cruised at 150 mph, had a top speed of 190, a stall speed of about 86 mph, and an empty weight of 396 lb. Choices 3 and 4 were alas almost completely fabrication. (Michael Dunn's IQ was really that high, though.)
Subject: Up, Up, and Away!
Question: Can you launch an untethered balloon (helium, or any other type) without calling the FAA?
If it is a toy balloon and it and its payload don't weigh more than four pounds, do your worst. You don't have to tell anybody. If it's over the four pound limit, better look at Part 101 of the FARs. There's a whole bunch of other stuff you'd have to have, as well, such as a radar reflector, auxiliary cut-down mechanism (and associated radio receiver and/or computer control circuit), filing NOTAMs, and keeping the FAA informed of planned flight parameters and progress.
If it's over six feet in diameter, you have to file a NOTAM. (A six foot helium balloon will lift almost nine pounds, by the way.)
There are no rules for balloons under 12 feet in diameter. If you've got a helium balloon that big and you're just fooling around, you have WAY too much free time, and probably more money than brains. (Go find a nice sturdy lawn chair, and have fun.)
Any balloon, especially metallized reflective mylar types, will play hob with any nearby radar installation. This is as-yet unlegislated territory, but someone will come along beforetoo long and liven up somebody's afternoon in the tower, don't you worry.
It's number 1. The criteria in choice 2 is for tethered balloons. Answers 3 and 4 are bogus.
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Adriana Cagan is a mompreneur from Seattle who understands what her priorities are and is living them out as owner of her own personal fitness training studio.
Connect with Adriana on IG, Facebook, or on her website.
Tips for starting a fitness routine
The books she mentioned is worth reading for sure! It's Atomic Habits by James Clear.
Well, welcome to This Mom Knows. This is a unique thing. This is the first live on site interview we've gotten to do and we're here in Nashville at the Gaylord. And we're both at Podcast Movement, and you have a podcast and you're a mom. And so I'm really excited to talk with you a little bit about what you do and how you integrate being a mom with being an entrepreneur. So why don't you tell us your name, where you're from, what your podcast is, and what you do.
Adriana Cagan
That's so great. It is so nice to meet you. And thank you for having me. My name is Adriana Medina Cagan. And I have a podcast called Being Fuerte it's time to speak. My business called Fuerte Fitness and it's out of Seattle, Washington, I have a studio and a personal training business, but I also train group training and corporate training as well as kids training.
Oh, excellent. So you do the whole family a whole all the way down? Yeah. So with kids...
I should say like young adults.
Okay. Not like children, children.
Okay, so my children, they just work out with me. Or they work out with their moms, because sometimes that situation is gonna happen. Yes. Yes. And I say don't let your kids be your excuse. Bring them right.
And model well for them.
Exactly. Taking care of self.
Yes. So what was it that caused you to stop and say, I want to start this business?
I think it was the connection. First, I would have great conversations with other moms, and realize that there was a common thread. In all the conversations, it was always finding time looking for those spaces, looking for those situations, and then making it happen. It may not be perfect and you may not you may have that attitude of it's either all or nothing. But something is better than nothing. Yeah. And like you said, just modeling that habit for yourself. But it's also showing your children the same thing.
Yes. And you know, I think the biggest enemy, we call it perfection, but really, it's it's grandiose, our biggest enemy is that all or nothing. And if we can make that all smaller, like if all I do this week is walk for 30 minutes, then we can make that progress. But when we go if all I can do is lose 100 pounds, we're never gonna do it.
We're never gonna do it. And you have to standardize, I read this book called Atomic Habits.
And he talks about standardizing a habit, and then you can optimize.
And that's just this week work on putting your shoes on and getting out the door for 20 minutes.
Absolutely. That is a fantastic book. And I'm going to put a link to that in the show notes. Because it is it's very influential. And it's what a lot of what I think is tied around rhythms and routines and building life around how we're wired and not trying to conform ourselves to what everyone else thinks we should do, or how we should do it. We want to do it in a way that that we can do it well.
Right. And also, look for those possibilities. It's so easy to think about the experiences that you had where you failed. But let's talk about the possibility of like, hey, let's see if there's three times a week this week that I can get 20 minutes in, Yeah, wow, I can do it while the kids are at the playground, I can do it while they're, you know, having a play day. And I can go around and partner up with another mom and say you take care of them this time. And I'll take care of them this time. And it just, there's those possibilities everywhere.
Yes. And I think you've just hit on something really helpful for us as moms and mompreneurs. Is that partnership and that accountability, and not accountability necessarily in a you know, overseer way, but in a mutual you know, we're gonna help each other way. Because it can be really easy to have intentions, but it can be hard to execute it because there are a lot of barriers.
And there's a community right there used to be that same takes a child, it takes a village to raise a child. Yes. Right. Yes. And so I have other moms that have single kids, or they have more than one three or so. And I will take them all and say why don't you take care of you for an hour? And vice versa. Go on a date. Go be a wife.
There's so many "selves" that we don't connect with because it's so we're just so uber focused on like taking care of, you know, our kids and being a mom that we forget about our needs to and our self care. So yeah,
I think it takes a village to be a mom. Like, that should be the new phrase.
It does, I tell you. Just through my experiences with with training moms, with training parents prior to becoming parents and then going through the process with them. And then 10 years later, I become a mom. And I understand like what it's like what they were going through. Yeah, I have so much more compassion. Yeah, just understand like, it's that's the self compassion aspect that you have to give yourself because I would notice when they're like I did not do anything this weekend, and they go down on themselves and I'm just like, so you're here today. You showed up! Yeah, that's part of the process is like, All right. Now let's do something. This will be one of your three days. Yeah. And then look for that space.
But that perspective is really, I think, why we need each other because it's hard to find that for ourselves. I have a group I meet with monthly, a mini mastermind, and that's what I noticed we're the best at is pointing out what, what each other is doing well, when we can't see it for ourselves, we see where we're failing, but they see where we're succeeding. Yeah, and that's really probably the biggest benefit of someone coming to someone like you and saying, "I have knowledge. But now I need encouragement and support to do this." Is that is that something you've just noticed?
It is and also as like a mom, an entrepreneur, a business owner, a trainer, I am the competitor as well, I should also part, um, I am the hardest person on myself. So I think when you see that, like how would I imagine Sophia? Like having these thoughts or ideas and I'm just like, wow, okay, check. I love myself, I love my body, I birthed this, you know, beautiful child, I fed this child through my body. It's just a beautiful thing. And then it just turns the table across like, Oh, my body can work in my response as well. My love for myself, it works out of love not out of I have to because once you get to that I have to situation. It's a it's a chore. And it's it's better to choose and I think that's another thing that he brings up as well as in Atomic Habits is like you choose into it. You choose to work on your body, you choose to work on email for half an hour. You choose to play with your kids for you know, an hour. Like those are things that are fun, and it's like you choose to go work out in the park, you choose to be out in the sun, you choose to sweat and feel and look younger. Not like an older mom. Yeah, those choices are really like liberating.
And it's so much easier to to just love than control.
It's too much pressure.
It's a lot of pressure.
It is! Yeah, you I can catch myself every now and then with that, like perfectionism or the get down on myself. I should have the Oh, and I'm like Okay, stop right now. Let's I got to do what I can.
Yeah. So how did becoming a mom - I mean, you mentioned that you did client work before - so how did becoming a mom shift, not only your perspective, but actually how you run your business?
Oh, my goodness, for one, I went from a 2000 Square studio, knowing I was I was pregnant, and I was going to have to start having more time for my child. So I started creating space around that. I merged with another partner, and just started creating a way to have a little bit more time with my child, and prepping people to prepping my clients to train with other clients while I was on maternity leave. So you build those I already build those relationships as well, should, we mentioned that already the other moms Yes, to train my clients to take care of my people. And so because I knew it was gonna be challenging, I didn't know how challenging it was gonna be. But it was pretty challenging to really figure out like, I still need to work on my business, but I still need to be on my business. But I have a newborn baby. And I have to create some habits around that. Yes, not being, you know, Mom, I still have to have dates, and all these other things, too. So I think it really helped me brainstorm ways on how to be a little bit more efficient, and how to keep a calendar and really stick to the appointments and put myself as an appointment as well. And I teach a semi private and while I was on maternity leave, I had another gal teach my semi private. And even as I was coming back, I thought I'd still want you to teach a semi private, but I'm going to be a mom too. I'm going to be taking that so and it helped me get back into shape as well. And she felt a little awkward cuz she was "this is your class" and I was like, Oh, right. I need I need you as like my mama partner, because I will take over after I feel a little bit more established. It was challenging. I moved studios, I moved spaces twice. Okay. And then I was already in the rhythm of creating, you know, business work. And I have two employees that were working with me at the time too that continue to do the back end of the business. So I needed help.
Well, good.
And I've been in business for about 20 years. I should probably tell you that okay, yeah 20 years. Two of those years I was with a company 24 Hour Fitness operation. And then and then I left and then created my business.
You started your own. Well and I think that's really interesting that you're talking about this need to to ease back into this because life is always changing. We're always creating new habits or tweaking how our rhythms and routines work. But I think there is nothing more inconsistent than birth to five years old, once they hit school, you get a little bit more of some set rhythms. But it seems like every 90 days, it changes. And so what you think you just established is now no longer working. And so I think there's a, there's a lot of pressure to go, okay, I've had my 12 weeks of maternity leave, or whatever it is and now I'm going to jump back in as if nothing has happened. But life has completely changed. And so I love that you said, I eased back into my job as a participant so that I was strong enough to take it back on, I think there was some great wisdom there.
There is and what I appreciated too, is my client, mamas would come by and visit me as I was home. And I could just - they're like, how are you doing? Yeah, it's asleep. Sleep deprivation, right? They brought me food and brought me clothing, I didn't have to worry about any of that. In the first, I would say, three years of having Sophia young. So I was, so I was very lucky and fortunate to have great, great clients and my community really pulled in. And secondly, I just felt like you mentioned everything changes all the time, you know, you don't know what to expect. And it kind of puts you in a situation where you're forced to ask for help. And I had people that were fortunate that were actually grateful to help me all the time. Yes. And so when I ease back into actually came back within five weeks, but it would just be like an appointment a day, and then take the class in the morning. And then just kind of slowly, a couple times, just bring in Sophia with me as well. Yeah, these are because when they're little You're right, they sleep a lot. Yes. And then I had a caregiver after that. So kind of I just did it like in incremental ways and it wasn't always perfect. It didn't always look pretty, there was always some cancellation, you know, of my caregiver or whatnot. But I remember bringing Sophia with me on a backpack on our, and training people, one of my clients was like, I thought you were gonna be easy on me.
I can do this with a baby on my back. You've got no excuses.
Which was so great. You know,
that's so so funny,
just to see their personalities. And you see they're softened up. I think that's just the beautiful thing about it, as well as seeing a baby, your heart just softens. And you know, you remember when your child was that young, and you have just so much more compassion? And it's, it's that's the compassion that you need as you're a mom. Yeah, went through these different stages, ages. And then you said it up until five, I think she's gonna start kindergarten pretty soon. So yeah, I'm sad, because I won't have as much time with her. But I'm kind of glad because it'll change up the dynamics. And I'll have a little bit more time to structure things. And I would remind myself that it's okay, like Sophia is only going to be here for, you know, the, at this stage of needing me this time and that kind of change. And my clients are so great, too, because they would see Sophia, especially with COVID come in through the back studio and say hi, and come out and say, I understand it's, easier. Yes, when they're 10, it's easier. I don't even think about it right now.
Right. But you've included her. And I love that. Because I think I mean, there's there's clearly some instances where you you have to make a choice in that moment between the business or the family. However, I think globally, we think we have to choose more often than we actually do. I think there's a lot of ways that we can integrate and include our kids and our spouses and do it in a way that doesn't elevate one over the other or sacrifice. That's the bigger concern, sacrifice one for the other.
And it's true. And she gets to see all this community as well. Like it's she's a little bit more open. I talk to my husband about this often. But I think there's an advantage of her having a mom that is a personal trainer that does eat healthy, that makes great food that has this lifestyle because she grows with that being a part of her life. And sometimes that's not how it is.
Yeah, I didn't grow up that way half. Most of my clients didn't grow up that way. But it's great. It's the same thing when a child is raised in the NFL kind of lead where their dad is an NFL in sport. Yes. It's the same idea. It's just the we create it on a different scale and different level. And if we if we involve them, then they see how fun it is. And they keep that as a lifestyle themselves. So we create a whole generations worth of like just healthy living.
Yes, yes. So do you. So we're talking about including our families. How do you and your husband balance, you know what he does with what you do with raising your child? How do you communicate about that?
Especially with Covid? It's very unique, right? We would take turns we would high-five each other like, "Okay, you got the morning we'll figure out appointments." And both of us work from home. The studio is at home. I used to work at another studio as well. And that kind of got back because I had Sophia. Yeah. And then she was going to a Montessori school. So we also took her in for three hours a week this summer, but last year, she wasn't going.
And so we had a lot of take care of doing tag teaming and coordinating. Yes, other moms, other parents in law, like that were comfortable with Yeah, the care and be an outsider inside. And I redid the studio. So it was all outside. So even if I did have the kids over, they were outside and they were under a pergola.
Yes. And so it sounds to me, like some of what I'm hearing you say is that by being a mompreneur and choosing to integrate them together, it's actually giving you a lot of freedom and flexibility.
Yes. And when I do podcasts, like, this is the solo important and other clients solo importance or solo sessions that are important, I should say, yeah, then I have let Matt know. Okay, I'm gonna record now. So I'm gonna be on a call with somebody outside of the state.
Yes, yes.
You got Sophia.
Yeah. Got it. Yeah, good.
So well, when it's really important like that, and when when we have situations that we're both in like, appointments, then we do bring Curious George in for caregiver, yes. You know, in one or two episodes, like, it's fine and special, it's special. And especially like with COVID, I learned a lot about like, I have to relax my standards of like, what is permissible and what is not because that's okay, too. We're in a unique situation. And so everything is okay. I think you have to just listen to like your needs and yourself and, and then talk with your husband and situate, like, create a balance between those two things. And we've also had another two young neighborhood gals that come and babysit for us to seldom, but we do. So...
yeah, well, good. So it sounds like you also work with not only local clients, but you do some remote work?
I do I have some clients in Maine and I have a client in Idaho, and I have a client in Texas, okay. So they're just they're all over the place. And and they travel and now with, with the zoom being a little bit more common to us. They're like we do this session online.
Yeah. So you live removed literally every excuse that anyone could possibly have for...
We have! And I've recorded a little bit more outdoor or 15 minute workouts for people to watch as well and make it easy for them. Because I'm telling you just seeing my clients get tighter and not moving as much not being able to touch their toes. Like I've had to include a lot more mobility and stretching into the workouts because they don't they no longer have that commute. They no longer have that stretch of time where they would be going downstairs to get lunch or whatnot, so it helps them have a good balance as well. Yes. Okay, we, I can spend an hour here.
I can do lunch here and actually take time.
Okay, so for the mom listening who, who says, I know I gotta get my health under control, do something differently. But if they're anything like me, and they a) don't enjoy sweating, and they b) tried to get out of gym class ever since kindergarten, what is one simple thing that they could start doing that would at least put them on that right track?
Take the time out just to stretch, you'll feel better. And when you feel better than you'll want more, I've noticed that you'll see a difference. And you'll be attracted to that difference, like your shoulder doesn't hurt anymore. Your hips aren't kind of poppin as they used to be. And it just changes that. So I would say and I have many of those situations, and I have plenty of 10 minute little mobility stuff. 10 minutes stretching that I can give them, you, like anybody that could just want something to move and self care. That's why I started the podcast because self care doesn't solely integrate the physical body. It also integrates the mind like you strengthen the mind along the way. Yeah, take a little time out to like give yourself that 10 minutes a day to stop thinking for a time or to pray and to set your mind right for the day. So that you are more in touch with like what you need to do, instead of what your monkey brain is telling you what to do. Yeah, that happens with me a lot. So I need 10 minutes a day to kind of set my time. And before I drink coffee before I get on the elliptical or whatever it is I have to make sure I'm doing what I need to be doing to serve you know, my myself, my family and my community.
Yeah, we have segmented so much of life. Which is funny because as women we multitask and men can compartmentalize, but we've still done it where we've segmented family, us and we always - generally speaking - put ourselves last. And yet, relationship is very involved. It's a relationship with ourself. It's a relationship with our spouse, it's a relationship with our children, its relationship with our extended family. And I think you are leading the trend for what I'm starting to see other people do that it's not just body, it's all of it, and that it's okay to not work out. If you need to take some time to sleep. It's okay to work on that mental headspace if it's going to help you be physically present, where you do these things, but that it's not just check this box, check this box and check this box.
No, there's no rules. It has a great thing. There's no rules. So you can't let yourself off the hook.
Yeah. No, I don't like where this is going.
You have to do what works for you. And I've noticed that with a pandemic, and we're starting the podcast, and like I mentioned before, working with other people, like women, we are we work in relationships, that's how we function. And men are different. They work on their strengths and like competing, and, you know, which is just a different way. They all work. But I think it's really important to sit down with yourself and figure out what works for you and then start there. And yeah,
So there's 100 different ways that could happen, but it needs to happen.
It just needs to happen.
Oh, well, that is great. Well, I, I thank you so much for taking the time to chat today. And I do love these events where we meet new people. And that's part of what This Mom Knows is about is introducing moms to the other moms that can enrich their life and add some value. And so in the show notes, I will make sure that we've got, you know, links to all the ways to find you. But thank you so much for being here.
Oh, you're welcome. It's so nice to meet you and so great for having me on your show and I love listening to it. So
Wonderful. Thank you