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An Effective At-Home Approach to Treating Your Child's Anxiety and OCD
My guest this week is Dr. Eli Lebowitz, a professor at the Yale School of Medicine Child Study Center who directs the Program for Anxiety Disorders while studying and treating childhood and adolescent anxiety. Dr. Lebowitz's research focuses on the development, neurobiology, and treatment of anxiety and related disorders, with special emphasis on family dynamics and the role of parents in these disorders. He is the lead investigator on multiple funded research projects and is the author of research papers, books, and chapters on childhood and adolescent anxiety. Dr. Lebowitz's work has been recognized by private and public organizations including the Brain and Behavior Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, and The National Center for Advancing Translational Science. He is also the father of three great boys.
In this episode, Dr. Lebowitz and I discuss the steps to an effective at-home approach to treat children's anxiety and OCD. By utilizing the scientifically proven program, SPACE, Dr. Lebowitz demonstrates how this parent-focused approach can result in improvement not only for the child suffering from anxiety or OCD but for the entire family unit. Dr. Lebowitz gives parents and caregivers the tools for empowerment and success to help their child overcome anxiety and OCD in his new step-by-step book, 'Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD'. To learn more about SPACE and Dr. Eli Lebowitz click here.
Connection Between Anxiety and OCD
Most of the disabling impairment of an anxiety disorder actually stems from the fear of experiencing anxiety
Ex: Not wanting to possibly relive an experience that induced anxiety
We don't officially classify OCD as an anxiety disorder but it still very much is
Similar to not wanting to relive and experience anxiety again, someone with OCD will develop compulsive rituals to try and banish the possibilities of experiencing that fear again
They will try to fix/correct them and end up trapped in a loop of obsession and compulsion out of fear
What You'll Find In The Book
A full parent-focused treatment approach with clear steps on how to treat your child's anxiety and OCD
You will learn how to respond to your child when they are anxious in a supportive manner and clear steps on how to do so
Relaying a message of confidence as a parent to your child with success
How to not over-accommodate for your child and how to cope with your child's response to reduced accommodations
Dr. Lebowitz's promise: "You will not be asked to make your child do something or to make your child stop doing something. It's all going to be about your own behavior, about the one person that you actually do have some control over, and that's yourself."
Start practicing being supportive through acceptance and confidence
Start using supportive words
"I see this is hard for you and I believe you can cope."
Help your child see a vision of themselves as someone who is both understood and accepted and who CAN cope
Learn more about SPACE!
Where to learn more about Dr. Eli Lebowitz…
SpaceTreatment.net
Breaking Free of Childhood Anxiety and OCD
SPACE Provider Directory
SPACE Resources
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Connection Between Anxiety and OCD …00:08:15
The SPACE Treatment … 00:19:50
What You'll Find In The Book … 00:24:00
Parents, You Are NOT To Blame … 00:31:00
First Step … 00:38:30
Hi everyone, welcome to the show, I am Dr. Nicole, and on today's episode, we're doing a follow-up to an episode from last year with Dr. Yara Shimshoni on a parent-focused approach to anxiety treatment called SPACE. So many of you expressed interest in this, we got feedback, we got comments, "I've never heard about this, I want to learn more!" And you were excited to understand how you can use new strategies to positively impact your child's anxiety symptoms. Anxiety continues to be a leading mental health issue for children and teens, and even more so now with the pandemic situation that we've been living through over the last almost year. So we need new and innovative approaches to treatment and the great thing about a parent-focused approach is that parents can be in control of moving the process forward.
So today, I have the pleasure of having Dr. Eli Lebowitz on the show to talk with us specifically about his new book that he has written for parents, called 'Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD'. Now, this is a book focused on parents that's going to allow you to understand your child's anxiety and work on reducing it in some new ways, even if you don't have access to trained professionals. So let me tell you a bit about him.
Professor Lebowitz studies and treats childhood and adolescent anxiety at the Yale School of Medicine, Child Study Center, where he directs the Program for Anxiety Disorders. His research focuses on the development, neurobiology, and treatment of anxiety and related disorders, with special emphasis on family dynamics and the role of parents in these disorders. Dr. Lebowitz is the lead investigator on multiple funded research projects, and is the author of research papers, books, and chapters on childhood and adolescent anxiety.
His work has been recognized by private and public organizations including the Brain and Behavior Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Center for Advancing Translational Science. He is also the father of three great boys, so he's a parent, just like us. Dr. Lebowitz, welcome to the show.
Dr. Eli Lebowitz:
Thank you for having me, it's great to be here.
So I've been wanting to ask you this: You and I have had interactions outside of doing the podcast. I had the great privilege of taking your practitioner training over the summer, so there's a question I've been wanting to ask you, which is how you've developed an interest or a focus in studying and treating childhood anxiety disorders in the first place. Was this always an interest of yours? Were you doing something else and sort of stumbled on this? Tell us the story of that.
I've actually been interested in child anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder for many years. But my interest in parent-based approaches actually stems in part from an experience that I've had many years ago when I was working in a large children's hospital and I was actually working at the same time in two programs there. One of them was an anxiety and an OCD clinic where we did cognitive behavioral therapy with kids. The other program that I worked at was a parent-guidance unit or parents of youth with severe externalizing behavior problems, and there, as is often the case, we worked with parents because youth with really serious behavior problems are not always ideal candidates for direct therapy themselves. One of my jobs in the anxiety programs was actually to screen incoming new families and try to gauge how good of a fit they would be for our treatment program.
And one really big question that I would ask right away is, "Does your child want help? Is your child interested in therapy?" Because we know that cognitive behavioral therapy and exposure and response prevention for OCD require a high level of motivation and collaboration and engagement on the part of the child. So if the answer was "No", I could already let them know that there wasn't a great likelihood of this succeeding. But I really became increasingly frustrated, because on the same day, I might be having that conversation with the parents of a child with anxiety or OCD and telling them, "Look, if your child's not interested in treatment, we may not be able to help you", but on that very same day, I might meet with the parents of a child with behavior problems and tell them "We don't need your child to be here, we can work with you. We're going to give you the tools to overcome this problem." And that just made me really frustrated and led me to think a lot about what we can be doing with and for parents of children who have anxiety or who have OCD where their child is maybe not going to benefit from cognitive behavioral therapy, and how do we not have anything to offer those parents? That really led me to think about what we could do to help those parents, which ultimately contributed to the development of this treatment, SPACE.
I love that story and it connects so much to my own experience of working with kids in the realm of more significant autism spectrum disorders, severe emotional and behavioral disorders, and being trained in and taking a very parent-based approach to that, and then noticing, like why aren't we doing this everywhere? We've sort of just been doing that at our clinic, and then when I happened to come across an article about SPACE a while ago now, I was like, "Yes! That inherently makes perfect sense to me because why wouldn't we work through the parents?" So I love that that's how you came to that as well, and it's so needed in the realm of anxiety and OCD. Because what you're saying is so true that the typical approach of cognitive behavioral therapy really does require that the child be engaged and we've seen so many families at our clinic, where they're like, "My child was exited from treatment/they said they couldn't work with us/they said they were discounting because my child won't engage, he won't do the work, he doesn't want to come to sessions", so I think that's such a powerful difference with what you're offering here.
Yes, that's exactly it. And even when a child is willing to engage in CBT, we know that the treatment is not going to be effective for everybody. Clinical trials show that approximately half of children who get cognitive behavioral therapy are really going to have very good responses. They're going to be a lot better after treatment, and that's fantastic. If you are a glass half-full kind of person, then that's really good news when we think about how prevalent these problems are and they really are so prevalent in the population. But it also leaves another half of the glass empty. So, certainly for children who are not going to do CBT at all, but even for children who are, having another tool in our toolbox, another approach in our arsenal of how we can help these families is just tremendously important.
I completely agree, and I'm of the mindset as a professional that we need to be aiming a lot higher than 50% in our outcomes with people, and if we're not, let's explore why we're not and what else we can do, which is exactly what you and your team are doing in the realm of anxiety and OCD. I want to get into, in a minute, some of the really practical things that you talk about in the book, but before that I want to sort of pave the way for that by having you talk a bit about what you think parents need to understand about childhood anxiety and OCD. And maybe even touch on why the anxiety and the OCD are connected, why write a book about anxiety and OCD together? What do you think that parents need to understand about that that most parents don't? Or maybe another way of looking at that is: What are we missing in how we typically approach this?
Yeah, it's a really fantastic question, and I think there are some big points here that can be made and that are really important to understand. One of them is that the real heart of any anxiety disorder, the core of the problem is actually not entirely about being more anxious than somebody else. So often when we think about anxiety disorders, we think, well, that's a child, or an adult, for that matter, who simply has more anxiety than someone else. And that is true, but it's not the whole story. Most of the impairment of the real disabling, sometimes really crippling impact of an anxiety disorder actually stems from the fear of experiencing anxiety. From not wanting to feel anxious. That is what drives so much of the impairment in these very common problems.
So that may sound a little confusing, but think about it like this: You may have, say two children, who have a frightening experience. Maybe they're walking home from school and a really big dog barks really loudly next to them, and they're both scared at that moment. They will both be equally startled and afraid in that moment. But after a minute or two, they're going to start calming down. And if one of those children walks away from that thinking, "Well, that was scary, but okay, it's over." And the other child walks away from it thinking, "That was horrible, I never want to feel like that again, that was so unpleasant and aversive for me that I just never want to have that experience," That's the child who is going to develop the anxiety disorder" because the next day, they're going to cross the street when they go near that house. And the next day, they're not going to want to walk down that street at all. And soon, they're not going to want to leave the house at all because there could be a dog somewhere. Or maybe they won't want to see a movie that has a dog because it reminds them of that horrible experience.
So a lot of the impairment actually stems from not wanting to feel anxious. And one thing that parents can really do that is so tremendously helpful for their children is convey to them the message and the idea that it's actually okay to feel anxious some of the time. It is uncomfortable, but it is okay. It's something that you can handle and it will pass, as opposed to "It's a horrible experience that we should avoid at all costs." Because then you're going to really have the anxiety problem. And that's one thing. I think that's one really important message that it's just so useful for parents to really get. You said something really interesting, which is "What have we been missing?" Actually, I think that's a really great question to ask because SPACE, as a treatment, actually builds on a really important aspect of child anxiety that we have been missing for decades in how we conceptualize these problems and how we think about treatments for them. If you were to compare a treatment manual for cognitive behavioral therapy, for example. If you were to compare a treatment manual for children and a treatment manual for CBT for adults with anxiety, what you would see is that they are the same. They're essentially the same thing.
Of course, we use a somewhat different language when we talk to a 7-year-old and we use other words. When we talk to a 47-year-old because they're older and more mature, but the principles of the treatment are the same because we're thinking about the anxiety in the same way. And here, there really is something missing because child anxiety is actually meaningfully different from adult anxiety. There's a lot that's the same, but there's something special about child anxiety that is different. And that is children's natural tendency to respond to fear by looking to their parents to protect them. Children know, instinctively, that they're not able to protect themselves. We're born not able to defend ourselves and protect ourselves. So in children, and this is different from adults, in children, we respond to fear by relying on our parents. What that means is that if a child has an anxiety disorder, they're going to be looking to their parents all the time for reassurance, for protection, for soothing, and regulation.
What it means is that when a child has an anxiety disorder, it's not only the child that has the anxiety disorder. It's the family system, it's the parents as well. Not because the parents are necessarily more anxious, but because they become involved in their children's anxiety. Because they're stepping in to try to provide that protection and that regulation and that soothing. This is a meaningful difference that hasn't really been captured in our established typical treatments for anxiety, and it's something that SPACE really does in a big way.
Absolutely. And I think to me, that's such a great description of something that we have been missing across the board in our approach with that and probably explains a lot of why parents, even if their child has been through rounds of cognitive behavioral therapy, still end up feeling sort of frustrated, or sort of at least — we've had parents come in and say, "But what can I do? What do I do when my child is coming and repeatedly asking me these questions, other than tell them 'Use your breathing strategies or try to distract yourself'" or whatever. So I think parents, a lot of them inherently realize, there's some role that I am playing in this. I want to know how to do this differently.
Right. That's exactly it. You asked another important question, which I'll just touch on briefly, and that was about "Why OCD? Why is OCD in there?" I mean, it's in the title and it's part of what the treatment is for. And even though we don't formally classify OCD as an anxiety disorder anymore, although we did back until 2013, even in the DSM, the Merck Manual of Mental Health officially classified OCD as an anxiety disorder. Even though we don't do that formally anymore, actually, in many ways, OCD is an anxiety disorder, and it goes to exactly what I was saying: Lots of people are going to have obsessive thoughts, intrusive thoughts, but the child who develops OCD is going to be that child who doesn't want to have that experience, who thinks "This thought is so horrible to me, it's so scary to me/embarrassing/strange/weird and frightening, that I never want to have that thought."
And that child is then going to develop the compulsive rituals of OCD to try to banish those thoughts, to try to fix them and correct them, and they're the ones who are going to be trapped in that loop of obsession and compulsion because it's always fear that is the driver of OCD. Nobody has obsessions about winning the lottery. People are not scared about winning the lottery. Actually, this is maybe the most important thing for a parent of OCD to know about OCD is that a child's OCD thoughts don't tell us what that child secretly wants, they don't tell us, "Here are some hidden truths about the child." What they tell us is what the child fears, what they are afraid of. Anxiety and fear are the fuel that drive the engine of the OCD. So treatment for OCD is very similar to the treatment of other anxiety disorders. That's true for cognitive behavioral therapy, it's true for medications and it's also true in this.
Yeah. And I think that's important to touch on the connection there. Really, how I think about this and explain this to parents and to kids, it's all about managing uncertainty, right? We have different thresholds to that, there's uncertainty in the world. But a parent is just going to say, "I just want my child not to be anxious." It's like, well that would be really weird, and actually a problem, right? If your kid was never anxious or if you were never anxious. The goal is that we increase our threshold, our tolerance level for being able to manage uncertainty in our lives, uncertain things that happen. To me, this is really about helping kids to better calibrate that. Some kids are just more prone to that, their tolerance for uncertainty is really low. So everything feels scary and they're driven to avoid, whether that's an anxiety disorder where it's truly like more avoidance of it or ruminating about it, or it's obsessive-compulsive disorder with the way that they're trying to deal with managing that uncertainty and that fear is their rituals and their compulsions, it's all aimed at the same thing. As human beings, we don't like to feel uncertain, do we?
No, we don't. We definitely don't. We like predictability, we like control, we like certainty, these are things that are not always achievable, they're not always there for us. So learning to live with lower levels of certainty is actually the best way to not go through your life suffering because of anxiety. The real goal of any treatment for an anxiety disorder is actually not entirely about just "I want to be less anxious." It's a lot about getting better at being anxious. If you can be anxious and handle that, you're going to have less anxiety in your life and when you are anxious it's not going to be as big a problem. When you feel like you can't be anxious and you shouldn't be anxious, that's when you're going to get more anxiety and more impairment to go along with it.
That is the quote of the day right there for those of you who are listening, I want you to just really take that in, that the goal is to really get better at handling it and that's our goal for our kids. It's not to create a world where they don't experience the discomfort of anxiety, it's to help cultivate within them the sense of "I can feel anxious and I can handle it, and that's it right there."
Yes, exactly.
So, it occurs to me that we should, for people who maybe did not hear the previous episodes, I Want to have you say what SPACE stands for, and then I want to get into some of the things that you feel are most important to touch on with what parents will find in the book. What are some of the key things that you really wanted to impart to parents in writing this book, because obviously, you felt there was a need for this, there was something that drove you to say "I need to create this for parents and not just focus on training professionals." So I want you to then talk about what the things that parents can take from it are.
Yes, so first of all, SPACE stands for Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions. The book is something that I have been really wanting to do for a long time. I am so excited that it is coming out and it will be available for parents, and that's partly because I know that not every parent is going to be able to access a skilled, trained therapist. Sometimes there's just not anybody in your area who is able to provide that help. Sometimes, it is too costly. Sometimes you do not have the resources to be able to devote the time, the money, the energy, etc. To actually go to therapy. There are so many people who are struggling and are just not going to be able to get the kind of care that you might get from a specialized, skilled therapist. So I've really been wanting to do this for a long time, and I'm really happy that it is going to be available now.
The book itself is a real guide to working your way through this treatment process in the way that you might do if you were working with a therapist and so it is not just about the principles, it's not a theoretical book to just understand anxiety in principle, which is a great thing to do and certainly valuable and a useful thing, but it's not enough.
If I'm the parent of a child with anxiety, I am faced with endless specific challenges and questions and dilemmas every moment of every day. So just having a principle or an idea is often just not going to be enough. What I need is a systematic plan. Something that will really take me through this one step at a time. And that is the goal with this book, that parents will be able, if they take the time to read it and to work through the steps as they're laid out in the book, to really be able to treat their child's anxiety. That is an ambitious goal, but that is really the goal.
I've had a chance to look at the book ahead of time, and I think you really accomplished that. And I just want to say this for all of you parent listeners: Sometimes there are books about treatment protocols or things that you might pick up to read to try to help your child and it's really dense and it's hard to figure out how do I apply this? This book is really geared towards the practicalities of what you need to understand and here's how to do this. I really firmly believe that any parent can walk away from this, even if you didn't read the whole thing cover to cover, and you took pieces of it, it really does hit the nail on the head in terms of giving practical strategies and ways to think about the things that you can start doing differently with your child. I think it's important to say that because some of you are thinking, "Oh, another book that I'm supposed to read." But this really is a practical guide, so I really think you accomplished your goal with that.
Well, thank you. First of all, really, thank you because that is awesome feedback and it is certainly my goal and what I was going for, for that reason, the book is written in a very readable, relatable, I hope, language. I wrote it, yes, as a therapist and a doctor, but also as a parent and as a parent of a child who is often very anxious. I'm in the same boat as every other parent who deals with their children and with child anxiety. So that's really where I'm writing from. That's why it is written that way, why it is not longer than it has to be and not more expensive than it has to be, because the goal is really to try to make this as accessible as we possibly can.
In terms of the actual principles, what can parents really take from this? What are the real principles here? We can boil down everything that parents are going to learn to do through working through this book into two main things.
That then breaks down into a lot of very specific steps, but there are really two big picture things, two main goals: The first is to learn how to respond to your child when they're anxious in a supportive manner. To be supportive. We have a very clear definition of exactly what is meant by a supportive response. Because ten people could have ten different ideas of what is supportive. But I have a really clear and specific definition. You're being supportive when you show your anxious child two things: You show them first of all and this is so important, that you get it. That you believe them, that you understand it, that you accept and acknowledge it. You can not be supportive if you can't accept that your child is genuinely struggling. Even if you don't really understand why or even if you feel differently yourself or you wish that they felt differently. If you can't accept that that's their experience, then how can you really be supportive of them? And that's one part of the supportive message.
The other part and this is also so important is a message of confidence. The idea that I, as your parent, believe that you actually can tolerate and handle the stress. That you can be uncomfortable now and still be okay. So often, our responses to children when they're anxious actually don't convey that message. Very often we convey "I need to rescue you from this because you can't be anxious/it's not okay/it's going to damage you in some way." You think about it from a child's perspective, it's great if there is somebody to always rescue me, but it's not great to feel like I always need to be rescued. That's such a vulnerable feeling. So if you are vulnerable, it's great to have someone there to rescue you, but it is better to know that you're actually okay. Just like it's great to have somebody always feed you, but actually it's pretty good to be able to feed yourself and won't need to always have somebody else step in and do it for you. When you put those two things together, the acceptance and the confidence, that's when you're being supportive. That can be a really simple thing, it can be as simple as saying something like, "I get it. This is really scary for you. And I believe that you can handle it." I'm not asking the child to say that they believe it. I'm just telling you what I believe. And that's one of those two big picture things that parents can really learn and there is a lot of very specific guidance for how you come up with those phrases and how you respond, etc.
The second thing is really about those accommodations. All of those changes that parents make in their own behavior because their child is anxious. And it's the most natural thing in the world, it's not — this is not like you are doing something bad and evil because you accommodate, it just means that you are a sensitive, loving parent who wants to help your child. It's the most natural response in the world. So for example, your child is really worried, you want to reassure them, you want to tell them "It's okay, that thing is not going to happen/you're healthy/you're not going to mess up." Or maybe your child is socially anxious. You want to make it easier for them, you want to speak in place of them because they get awkward and uncomfortable. Maybe they have separation anxiety. You want to be close to them so they feel safe. Maybe you're sleeping next to them at night so that they're not scared when they are alone.
These are well-intentioned accommodations, but a huge amount of research now shows that when you do these accommodations, even if your child is feeling better in that moment, actually, over time, they're not getting less anxious. They're getting more and more anxious over time, and so you're just pouring tons of time and energy and reserves, sometimes even money into trying to accommodate, but your child is not getting less anxious. And the second thing parents will learn to do in a very clear and systematic way is first of all figure out: What accommodations am I doing? Maybe I'm not even aware. So there's real guidance on "How do I identify accommodations?"
And then, how do I pick one thing to focus on, we're not just going to say, "Okay, never accommodate anything at all", that would be overwhelming for your child, and you probably could do it anyway. So how do I pick one specific thing. How do I make really clear plans for reducing that accommodation? And crucially, how do I cope with my child's response to me reducing the accommodation? Maybe my child gets upset, maybe they get angry at me. Maybe they say something really painful for me to hear like, "Don't you care about me anymore?" These are hard things. So there are a lot of very clear tools for coping with those responses in a supportive and loving way while continuing to reduce that accommodation to help your child get better.
The last thing, I know this is a long answer to your question, but the last thing I really want to emphasize because I think it's so important for parents to know is a promise that I make to parents, and that promise is, at no point in this treatment am I going to ask you to make your child do anything. You're not going to have to make them practice a skill, you're not going to have to make them not do anything, because it turns out, oftentimes, you can't. I can give you great advice like, "You've got to make your child practice this wonderful skill." Then you go home, your child says, "I'm not interested. I don't want to do it." Now you're stuck! That's my fault as a therapist, because if I told you you have —" How do I make them do anything! So throughout this entire process, this is my promise: You will not be asked to make your child do something or to make your child stop doing something. It's all going to be about your own behavior, about the one person that you actually do have some control over, and that's yourself.
Which is such a freeing and important thing because so many parents, especially if they have been through a lot of other treatments, it's like they want to get involved in power struggles like they want a hole in their head. It's like you can tell me all these things, but how do I do this? And I think that that's really the empowering part of that and the flip side of that that I want you touch on: Sometimes parents take that and say, "Oh, so you're saying that it's my fault that my kid is anxious or has an anxiety disorder", which is not the case, but I want to have you touch on that.
And I'm glad that you raised that, because nothing could be further from the truth. Not only am I not suggesting that parents are to blame for their child's anxiety, it is factually not true. It's just not right. Our whole field, mental health, psychology, psychiatry, social work: We have done so much harm in the world by blaming parents for children's mental health problems. Parents have been blamed for everything: Schizophrenia, autism, eating disorders, anxiety problems, everything! And time and again, empirical research shows that it is simply not true. Not only is it hurtful and unhelpful, it's also just wrong. In the vast majority of cases, a child has an anxiety disorder because they were born with a predisposition, a vulnerability to anxiety, not because you did too much of this or not enough of the other thing. It is of course possible to behave so atrociously as a parent that you could damage your child's mental health, yes that is possible if you severely neglect your child, if you abuse them physically and emotionally, you're going to do harm.
But that is not the story for almost all the cases of child anxiety. So I think it's so easy to make that leap from, well, you're saying treat the parents and so you're probably blaming the parents. And I cannot say emphatically enough that it's simply not true. Just like if your child has a physical illness, you're going to have to help them to overcome that. You're going to have to do things different because your child is sick. That doesn't mean you made them sick. It just means you care about them. You love them, you want to help them. So the message here is parents can be a solution to their child's anxiety problem, but they're not the cause of the child's anxiety problem in the first place.
Such an important thing for parents to understand, and I think what's been interesting, both in just treating families and working with parents for a long time but also specific to doing SPACE treatment with families. While the emphasis is on parents changing the way that they're managing things to support the child in better managing their anxious feelings, there is also this synergistic effect where parents who tend to have more anxiety about things and to recognize that for themselves have some new awareness and some improvement that they discover in themselves as well through going through the process. And I'm curious if that's something you've seen in your treatment.
It's 100% something we have seen in treatment and in fact, we've even studied that empirically through research. So we've done randomized control trials of SPACE treatment, and the main goal there is to assess: Is this treatment making the child less anxious? But we assess parent anxiety as well. And what we see is that parents are reporting lower anxiety levels following space. Even though the treatment is all about the child, we're not trying to directly treat the parents anxiety, but they're reporting less anxiety. We're also seeing other beneficial impacts. Maybe this is an important one to highlight: We're seeing improved parent-child relationships. And I stress that because sometimes parents are concerned, like "I"m going to start removing these accommodations and maybe my child is going to get upset with me, is this going to damage the relationship? Are they going to feel abandoned or neglected or rejected?" Or something like that. What we see is the opposite. Both parents and children report better parent-child relationships following SPACE treatment, even if there are some difficult moments along the way. Maybe in that first week or two, your child is a little bit more upset with you, and if we ask them right then, "How are you feeling about what your mom and dad are doing right now?", they may say, "It sucks, I don't like it." But when we do it in a supportive way, A: They see that we're acting out of love and care, B: They're getting better and their anxiety is going down. And what we see at the end of treatment is actually improvement. We shouldn't forget that the burden of accommodation actually takes a toll on the relationship. It's exasperating, it's frustrating, there can be resentment and anger and that takes a real toll on the parent-child relationship. So It's actually wonderful to see that relationship improving.
To me, it's just one of the many benefits of doing parent-focused treatment is not just the direct benefits to the child but the benefits that everybody in the family system get, and even we could touch on siblings here as well while the treatment may be directed towards the child who is struggling with managing their anxiety, there are all kinds of dynamics that emerge in families where parents are accommodating a child's anxiety, and then siblings get dragged into it, so I would go so far as to say that when parents are working through the steps that you outlined in the book, this has a very positive benefit for the entire family system.
Yes, that is 100% true. Siblings are very much impacted by their siblings' anxiety. Sometimes really directly. So maybe I have a child with an anxiety disorder, the whole family can't do certain things, and the sibling is paying a price: They can't have playdates/we can't go to your baseball game because we have to be with the other child who has the anxiety." The burden is shared and everybody is impacted. So one reason that siblings benefit is that the sibling is getting less anxious and the impact on me is improving. Another reason is often siblings also have anxiety. By treating the parents rather than the child, it means that they're learning tools that they can apply for their other children as well. And finally, I think it's a really positive thing, even if you are not the child with the anxiety, being in a family and seeing, "My sibling has a problem, my parents help them. My parents knew how to step in and help them to get better." That's a wonderful thing for me to observe as a sibling as well, because these are my parents too. When I have a problem, they're going to help me. And so I think you're absolutely right. Working with parents gives us an opportunity to really have a beneficial impact on the whole family: The child with anxiety, the parents, and the siblings as well.
Fantastic. So many more things we could talk about. I know we're running low on time. Obviously, everybody listening to this is going to be ordering the book right away. We'll tell them how in a moment, but I want to give people something to latch onto in the meantime. It's going to take a few days to get the book in their hands. If there was one thing that you would encourage our listeners to start with, something that you know, they get done listening to this, they're like man, this makes sense, I want to start working with this: What would be something that everybody could begin with?
The very first thing is to start practicing being supportive. Come up with your own supportive phrase, just have those two ingredients: Acceptance and confidence. I see it's hard for you and I believe that you can cope. Start using those words. Maybe just saying that one time is not going to erase your child's anxiety disorder completely, but you're starting to show them a vision of themselves as someone who is both understood and accepted, but also someone who can cope and you're starting to introduce that language into your interactions with a child. So number one, just start practicing being supportive. And learn more about SPACE.
You can visit, even before you have the book, there is so much more information, you can visit the website which is spacetreatment.net, I'm sure you'll have a link. There are so many resources there for parents and for therapists to learn more about these treatments. There are videos that you can watch, some longer and some shorter. There are many articles, those research articles, case studies so you can read about the treatment of another family and many media articles like in The Atlantic or NPR or CNN and just those are really written for the general public reader. There are podcasts like this one and others! There are even forums so that you can interact with other parents who may be coping with the same issues and that's such a supportive and strengthening experience just to be able to say, "Yeah, I'm working on this too and this is how it's going for me." and just sharing that. So there is a forum where you can have those conversations, you can do it anonymously if you prefer. You don't need to give your name or your child's name. So I think that's a good resource in the meantime and throughout.
Absolutely. I'm glad that you brought up the professional piece because for those of you who are in our professional community who are listening to this, I've mentioned earlier in the show: I've been through the professional training with Eli and his staff, can't recommend it enough. Go on there and look. Even right now you're doing the virtual trainings because it can't be in person, there's a wealth of resources there if you are a professional in a variety of fields who is interested in bringing this information and these strategies into your work with kids and with families, great resources there as well. I believe there is also a directory. Obviously the book is a resource for parents to sort of do the do it yourself mode, but for families who are interested in seeing if there is someone in their area, there is a directory on the website too.
Yes. And thanks for mentioning it. Absolutely, there is a directory of therapists who are trained in SPACE with their contact information, it's searchable by state within the United States, we now have at least one person in almost every state, not the full 50, but we're getting there, we're close. And if you're in another country, increasingly more and more countries are represented as well, we don't have the whole globe covered yet, but we're working on that too. So you can find somebody to work with and so many people today are doing tele-treatment that even someone further away may be able to work with you as well.
Right, so if you are getting the book and you say I'm going to start working with this myself and you hit some patches where you are like, "I'm not sure how to work from this", it's a great combo. I think it's great, and if you are already a parent who is working with a practitioner doing SPACE, having the book is a great resource for you to have to refer to at home, so those dovetail well. The book is out right now and let's tell people where they can go to get it.
Yeah, the book is out. It's called Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD. I'm the author, Eli Lebowitz and you can get it where you get your books. You can get it on Amazon, probably lots of people are getting it on Amazon, you can get it in bookstores and even directly from Oxford Press, who is the publisher.
Yeah and we'll have the links as always in the show notes, highly, highly encourage all of you to go and check that out. We will be referencing it and recommending it widely here in our clinic, so I recommend it for all of you. Eli, thank you so much for taking the time out of your very busy schedule, especially with the new book launching to be here with us to talk to our community about this. Such impactful information, so important that we're spreading the word about this, so really appreciate your time.
Well thank you so much for having me, it was really a pleasure being here.
And as always, thanks to all of you for being here with us and listening, we'll catch you back here next week for our next episode of The Better Behavior Show.


A total of 65 athletes from 17 countries will be attempting to swim from Cape Dezhnyov in Russia to the United States in 40 hours, as part of an international swimming relay across the Bering Strait.
The Eastern Military District's press service announced that its assistant commander in charge of strength and conditioning, Col. Nikolai Khitrik, has sent a team of "walruses" or "polar bears"—this is what cold-water swimmers call themselves—to take part in a long-distance race from Russia's Cape Dezhnyov to the shores of Alaska.
Every stage of the relay race lasts 20 minutes, with three competitors in the water at a time. The route from Cape Dezhnyov to Cape Prince of Wales in Alaska is 53.4 miles; however, the athletes must swim against the tide for the entire course, and organizers estimate the real distance along the Bering Strait to be closer to 74.5 miles. Competitors plan to cover the distance within 40 hours.
An MB-16 hospital ship from the Pacific Fleet will be on hand to ensure the safety of the race, which will take place in water temperatures of 32–33 degrees Fahrenheit, in a sea state of up to three (which means waves of up to 3.2 feet in height).
On the day before the race, a granite plaque was installed in Chukotksky District of Uelen, in honor of the first international swimming relay. An exact copy of the plaque will be installed at Cape Prince of Wales at the end of the race.
The international swimming relay is dedicated to the 365th anniversary of Semyon Dezhnyov's pioneering voyage across the Bering Strait, the 100th anniversary of the Yakutsk division of the Russian Geographical Society, and the 70th anniversary of the air passage between Alaska and Siberia, along which U.S. war planes flew over to Russian during World War II.
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Learning to live without cars
Anik See
Posted 19 Jul 2015 19 Jul 2015 Sun 19 Jul 2015 at 10:28pm , updated 20 Jul 2015 20 Jul 2015 Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 6:41am
Three generations ride a cargo bike in Copenhagen. (Mikael Colville-Andersen/ Copenhagenize; Flickr.com/CC/BY-NC-ND/2.0)
Our love affair with the car has turned into a relationship of dependence, shaping our lives and our cities. But what if our lives would be better without automobiles? Anik See explores what carless life is like on three different continents and for three different generations.
I've always lived without a car. Even coming from Canada, where the going mentality is that a car is like a limb—you don't choose not to have one.
Cities are becoming far better places because they are less car-dependent. The six most walkable cities in the US are 38 per cent wealthier, they have a higher GDP than the rest.
I'm not against cars, though I do think a billion of them on this planet is maybe a few too many. To me, they're more trouble than they're worth. Permits. Losing your keys in the middle of nowhere. Washer fluid. Snow tires. Radiator juice. Speeding tickets. Cracked windshields. Knowing which streets are one way and negotiating your way around them. Finding parking. Buying a ticket. Stopping for gas. Oil changes. Repairs. Insurance. Registration. The cost! The endless traffic jams and, most of all, all that time where you can't do anything but drive.
It feels like too much fuss to me, especially when there's a much simpler freedom easily available: the one you feel while walking or riding a bike. Getting where you want to go, powered strictly by your own body.
More and more people are now choosing to live without cars, and cities around the world are trying to adjust by providing alternative forms of transportation—from shared bicycles and automobiles to streamlined taxi, bus and tram services.
Those changes have mostly stemmed from low points. In the Netherlands in the late 1960s, for example, automobiles had taken over the world's most famous cycling city, Amsterdam. 'Cars were everywhere,' says Pete Jordan, city resident and author of In The City of Bikes: The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist.
'Even just finding a place to park your bike was difficult because there were cars parked on the sidewalks and on the squares. It was extremely dangerous—there were more than a 100 traffic deaths per year at the beginning of the 1970s, including a great many children ... now we have three or four or five, so it's a tremendous difference from how it was at its lowest point.'
That transition was a relatively quick one; by the late 1970s, the Netherlands was fully committed to providing a functioning infrastructure for alternative transportation and continues to develop it today.
Peter Newman, professor of sustainability at Curtin University, says our reliance on automobiles goes beyond infrastructure and convenience. 'I think it does, in all kinds of subtle ways, affect the way we live and think about ourselves. The automatic reaction is to reach for the keys if you need to go anywhere, even if it's a few hundred metres.'
But research shows we've reached 'peak car': car ownership and usership are both beginning to decline. 'And cities are becoming far better places because they are less car-dependent,' Newman says.
A family out biking together. The young girl couldn't quite make the distance home so she got a lift. (Anne and Tim/Car Free Days; Flickr.com/CC/BY-NC-ND/2.0)
'The six most walkable cities in the US are 38 per cent wealthier, they have a higher GDP than the rest. So it's a significant factor of competition between cities now that if you really want to progress and facilitate the knowledge economy, then you must make walkable, transit-oriented areas. If you don't, you won't be competitive; you will slowly decline the way Detroit has, because it's just a consumption-oriented city now.'
Not using a car changes your perspective on a few things—like neighbourhood and pace. Musician and ardent urban cyclist David Byrne has spent the last thirty years in his bicycle seat, extolling its virtues: 'It's the liberating feeling—the physical and psychological sensation—that is more persuasive than any practical argument,' he writes in his book Bicycle Diaries.
'Seeing things from a point of view that is close enough to pedestrians, vendors and storefronts combined with getting around in a way that doesn't feel completely divorced from the life that occurs on the streets is pure pleasure.'
And let's face it: cars are expensive. Even before cars became something everybody had, William Ashdown warned in The Atlantic Monthly in 1925 that 'the habit of thrift can never be acquired through so wasteful a medium as an automobile'.
'Instead, the habit of spending must be acquired,' he went on, 'for with the constant demand for fuel, oil, and repairs, together with the heavy depreciation, the automobile stands unique as the most extravagant piece of machinery ever devised for the pleasure of man.'
For a long time, the convenience of owning a car outweighed the expense, but now, 90 years after Ashdown's prescient critique, the tables have turned. Having a car is a hassle, and not owning one is far more convenient. Fewer and fewer young people are buying cars, or even getting their drivers' licenses.
Helsinki has taken one of the boldest approaches to automobile dependence; the city is implementing a system that makes it redundant to own a car. They've hired 25-year old Sonja Heikkilä to head up the project, which is all about regarding mobility as a service. The idea is to create a network of transportation operators who can interface to help users with all aspects of their trip, from buses, trams and metros to shared taxis, cars and bikes. Users type in their destination via a mobile app, view their travel options and book and pay for everything in one go. Heikkilä expects to see a version of the system up and running in about a year, beginning the transition from ownership to usership.
It's not just the young who are less interested in owning cars, and it's not just happening in Europe. Hannah Evans, an urban planner I know in Toronto, told me it's easy to live there without a car too. 'In my group of friends, who range in age between late twenties and early sixties, I can think of maybe three of them who have cars,' she says. 'The rest of them are not car owners. They may have memberships to auto-share, they may rent cars, but most of their day-to-day-living is car-free and that's because it's easier, cheaper and more convenient.'
Indeed, the other day, I heard someone suggest that the car might become 'the cigarette of the future'. And given the changes afoot, that doesn't seem very far off.
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Solway es una ciudad ubicada en el condado de Beltrami en el estado estadounidense de Minnesota. En el Censo de 2010 tenía una población de 96 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 36,06 personas por km².

Geografía
Solway se encuentra ubicada en las coordenadas . Según la Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos, Solway tiene una superficie total de 2.66 km², de la cual 2.66 km² corresponden a tierra firme y (0%) 0 km² es agua.

Demografía
Según el censo de 2010, había 96 personas residiendo en Solway. La densidad de población era de 36,06 hab./km². De los 96 habitantes, Solway estaba compuesto por el 96.88% blancos, el 0% eran afroamericanos, el 0% eran amerindios, el 0% eran asiáticos, el 0% eran isleños del Pacífico, el 0% eran de otras razas y el 3.13% pertenecían a dos o más razas. Del total de la población el 0% eran hispanos o latinos de cualquier raza.

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The EMI TG12413 Zener Limiter is the ultimate TG Limiter issued in celebration of the 75th birthday of Abbey Road Studios. The Zener Limiter was conceived by Chandler Limited designer Wade Goeke and is based on the vintage EMI circuits used to record The Beatles and Pink Floyd.
A simple Limiter from the rich past of EMI and Abbey Road has now come full circle into a modern powerhouse suitable for recording, mixing, and mastering. The rest is NEW Chandler Limited/EMI/Abbey Road history.


After all, nothing would make Lake angrier than turning her secluded location into a tourist trap. That'd show her for being his rival gate!
Still feeling under the weather, but happy I got this strip done. I'm pretty proud of that punchline. Ha ha.


Colonel Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte, where the fugitive Libyan leader is believed to sheltering, is under fierce attack. However, reports have emerged saying that Gaddafi could have left the country already.
British warplanes have bombed SIrte in the last 24 hours, according to NATO. The town has been targeted many times lately, but it remains one of the few places the Libyan leader could still be hiding in, with most of its population reportedly supporting the colonel.
A rebel detachment is heading there to the town, which is located some 400 kilometers east of the Libyan capital Tripoli, their aim being to find Gaddafi so that they can officially oust him from the leadership. Sirte remains one of the very few places Colonel Gaddafi can go.
Meanwhile, Egyptian state news agency MENA reported on Saturday that six armored black Mercedes cars crossed the border and headed to Algeria. Colonel Gaddafi could have been in one of the cars, the report says. According to Reuters news agency, rebels tried to follow the cars, but had to give up due to a lack of munitions. Libyan military sources said the Mercedes bullet-proof cars, thought to be carrying Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his sons, left Libya for Algeria through the border, without any pursuit from the rebels.
But a high Algerian official said that it is very unlikely that Gaddafi could have fled into Algeria, as reported by Italy's La Repubblica. The newspaper says the official, who is in a high position at the border with Libya, spoke on condition of anonymity.
In the meantime, more countries are joining in to 'offer' shelter to the fugitive colonel. The political opposition in Zimbabwe claims their spies saw Gaddafi arrive in the country on a Zimbabwe Air Force jet provided by Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. Al Jazeera TV channel, meanwhile, reports the Libyan leader is now said to be heading for Angolan exile under a South African-brokered deal. However, the South African international relations minister brushed aside the claims.
Blogger Christopher Keeler, who writes for "Notes from a Medinah" blog, believes there are reasons why Colonel Gaddafi has not fled the country – besides the fact that he vowed he would never do so.
"Just the other day the rebel forces were able to take the border with neighboring Tunisia under control, meaning it would be very difficult for Gaddafi to get through that border," Keeler told RT. "There is also the fact that he vowed that he was going to stay in the country. His presence in Libya would be the only inspiration that Gaddafi loyalists still have to continue fighting. Should word come out that he has fled, the remaining Gaddafi loyalists will follow immediately".
Meanwhile, Libyan rebels captured the Ras Jdir border post on the boundary with Tunisia, a possible escape point for Gaddafi to flee the country. Over 100 rebels arrived at the post on Friday, but it is reported there were no real clashes.
"There were not any real clashes; the loyalists took off and the rebels' flag was raised at the border post," a Tunisian official told the Express Tribune.
On Thursday, the National Transitional Council (NTC) moved many of its top figures from Benghazi to Tripoli, just days after rebel fighters overran Tripoli and seized Gaddafi's headquarters.


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Here's a puzzle inspired by the classic series Reading Rainbow. In the list of authors above, each is name colored according to the title of a book he or she wrote. For example, if you saw "Steven Crane" in red letters, that's a clue to The Red Badge of Courage. When you're ready for the answers, take a look, it's in this post, way down the page! (And If you'd like more puzzles like this, consider booking a scavenger hunt with DFW Scavenger Hunt!)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
Tom Clancy - The Hunt for Red October
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
Dr. Seuss - Green Eggs and Ham
Fannie Flagg - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Walter Mosely - Devil in a Blue Dress
Alice Walker - The Color Purple
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
E.L. James - Fifty Shades of Grey
Mark Bowden - Black Hawk Down
Donald J. Sobol - Encyclopedia Brown (many editions)
In celebration of our newest scavenger hunt in Grapevine, here's a quick puzzle to get your brain thinking. In each blank, insert a word that will form a common expression or compound word on either side. For example, if you saw KANYE ________ VIRGINIA, you'd answer "WEST."
BACK _________ FRIGHT
LIFE _________ CARTER
COMMON _________ FRIDAY
BREAKING _________ GUY
COYOTE _________ DUCKLING
BRICK _________ TAPE
MISSISSIPPI ________ PHOENIX
Come to think of it, all the answers may have something in common.
Need the answer? Scroll wayyyyy down the page.
Sorry we're stonewalling.
Keep scrollin'.
I'm judging you.
Nearly there...
BACK STAGE FRIGHT
LIFE COACH CARTER
COMMON GOOD FRIDAY
BREAKING BAD GUY
COYOTE UGLY DUCKLING
BRICK RED TAPE
MISSISSIPPI RIVER PHOENIX
And of course, each answer word can be found in the title of a classic Western movie.
The Grapevine Scavenger Hunt is Here!
Every scavenger hunt we build comes with a theme, from a wild art heist in the big city to an adventure in a mysterious forbidden land. But for whatever reason, our Texas business had never done a western-themed hunt. Until now. We're excited to announce The West of the Story in Grapevine, a thrilling chase through this historic town. With opportunities to peer inside a genuine frontier cabin, monuments to the pioneers who built the town, and even a run-in with a couple of bandits, it's an only in Texas experience that will get your brain galloping!
Why We Created a Scavenger Hunt in Grapevine
Back in the 1840s when Sam Houston set up camp in the area that would become known as Grapevine, it's not likely he imagined what the city would come to be. But we love exploring the streets of downtown, and our hunt is built on celebrating the rich history of the city, from the trains to the cowboys, from the art to the architecture.
Explore a real old-timey cabin when you try our Grapevine Scavenger Hunt!
A town like Grapevine is the perfect spot for a scavenger hunt. There's so much history to explore, so much art to discover, and so many places to track down clues. From museums to sculpture to murals, Grapevine provides plenty of opportunities to create our diverse puzzles that give everyone a chance to shine. Plus, between the wineries, museums, and shops, there's so much to do even when you're done, and we love bringing people outside to new neighborhoods.
Why a Scavenger Hunt in Grapevine is Right For Your Group
When you try our Grapevine scavenger hunt, you'll solve puzzles by exploring the city, getting an up close look at the many historic sites that have been preserved in Downtown. Marvel at the trains of the Grapevine Vintage Railroad, get up close and personal with a few honored citizens, and peer inside a genuine frontier cabin. Just watch out for the Would-Be Train Robbers who appear atop the Cotton Belt Hotel every couple of hours.
Booking a Grapevine in scavenger hunt is a great solution to your company's team building puzzle. Our hunts present a budget-friendly solution that gets your team outside and collaborating in a fun way. With lots of easy parking, light traffic, and proximity to Irving, Southlake, and DFW Airport, a Grapevine scavenger hunt offers an excellent option for a fun event during your conference or meeting.
What our Scavenger Hunt in Grapevine is All About
Race on foot to find clues and solve puzzles in a fun, funny hunt with a Wild West theme. Chase down robbers, round up some answers, and say howdy to a few strangers. Combining urban exploration with puzzle solving, word games and trivia, the Grapevine Scavenger Hunt is kinda like an escape room, just with waaay more room!
Interested in booking a scavenger hunt in Grapevine? Get in touch and find out what we can wrangle up for you.
Matchmaking: A Puzzle For Valentine's Day
Brains are great, but this Valentine's Day, we put together a puzzle to test your heart. Well, sorta. In the picture above, every item but one has a match. Pair them up to determine which item is left lonely. Alongside that remaining item, the answer to the puzzle will create a perfect pair.
If solving puzzles like this makes your heart soar, book an indoor scavenger hunt for your group and discover what your brain can do!
Restaurants in Downtown Plano
One of our favorite things about hosting a scavenger hunt in Downtown Plano is getting to spend time in such a cool neighborhood. Full of locally owned shops and restaurants, the neighborhood offers a small-town vibe and presents plenty of opportunities to support small, local businesses. In particular, that comes into play when people get hungry. We've put together a list of restaurants in the neighborhood so that if you're planning a scavenger hunt in Plano, you'll have some ideas of where to stop when -- or even before -- you're done!
Urban Crust a great place to play a game of Buzzered while polishing off that final bite of cheesecake.
Urban Crust is a tasty spot offering delicious pizzas and Italian food. The restaurant has a sizable private room that you can book for parties, and we've even hosted an episode of our game show Buzzered from this spot. Don't miss 32 Degrees bar upstairs on the patio, offering cocktails and a great view of the street below.
Jörg's Cafe Vienna is a piece of history in the center of Downtown. Offering authentic Austrian cuisine like schnitzel, bratwurst, and plenty of beers, it's a Plano institution that just feels like a party. But like a lot of parties, there's not a lot of space for bigger groups. Prepare to get cozy. And just make sure you're going at the right time, as their hours are a little tricky.
Lockhart Smokehouse offers some of the best BBQ in Texas, and it's been a fixture on Texas Monthly's occasional Top 50 BBQ joints list. There's a big space upstairs with room for groups. The line is rarely too long and the brisket is top notch. It's a great place to eat in Downtown Plano, or anywhere, really.
Urban Rio is known for its great happy hour, tasty Mexican food, and great views of the city from its cool patio. With a private tequila room that you can book for groups of 30, it's a fantastic option for relaxing after time exploring the town. Or head upstairs to visit the rooftop bar, with even better views of the city!
It's been said that a cocktail can actually make puzzle solving easier. Don't ask us who said it.
Fillmore Pub sits right on 15th street and can provide a welcome spot to sit, nurse a drink, and finish your puzzles. Friendly service and good prices mean you can focus on figuring out answers instead of how to split the check.
Around the corner from Downtown is Hub Streat, a welcoming spot with a huge patio and lots of tables. Don't underestimate the joy of spending an afternoon outdoors eating yummy apps and drinking a cocktail or two.
Zalat is dedicated to pizza, and we mean dedicated. You can head here for a slice or a whole pie, and reminisce about the many times you passed it while you were scrambling through the town searching for clues.
XO Coffee Company. Cute hats not required.
If you need a coffee break during your hunt, don't miss XO Coffee Company, a charming spot with plenty of warm drinks. It's great for finishing off a puzzle during the cooler months... trust us!
Downtown Plano is a hidden gem, a quiet spot with so much to discover. That's what makes it perfect for a scavenger hunt, and perfect for a meal too! Book a Plano scavenger hunt with us and treat your mind and your belly!
No One Told You Life Was Gonna Be This Way
Our scavenger hunts are carefully planned out and structured, so if you're following the directions, you should have no trouble completing the puzzles. But as much as we plan, it's just as much fun to discover the surprises. It's the unexpected moments that turn an activity into an adventure.
Say, for example, the time a team stumbled on the Friends couch, plopped right in the middle of Klyde Warren Park. Was it part of the hunt? No. But should they stop and take a picture with it? I mean, could it be any more obvious?
Sometimes a surprise can be an unexpected benefit. On a hunt in July, one team was delighted to have located a hidden historical marker, but as they headed back down the lawn, the sprinklers turned on, giving them all a soak. And let's be honest, it felt fantastic.
An occurrence that used to surprise us was the many weddings we'd encounter while hosting hunts. Eventually, we came to realize that a course that passes the gorgeous Cathedral Guadalupe is pretty likely to encounter a wedding party. In fact, one group had to wade through an entire wedding party to find their way to the next clue. Nobody had any rice to throw, so they settled for taking a picture. Since then, we've incorporated these happy occurrences into the hunt, and challenge players to take a photo with someone in a tuxedo.
Other times, it's the players who surprise us. We meet so many fascinating folks, from DFW, from Texas, and around the world, and it's always fun to discover what people know. Take the woman who immediately knew that the answer to one question was "Charley Pride" — because he was her uncle! Or in some cases, it's what they don't know. We pity that poor team from Toronto who had to get a little help sorting out a clue about Tex Mex. Don't worry, we got them fed before they went back up north.
And then you'll be surprised at the lengths team members go to just to catch that last picture. We once witnessed a player sprint across Klyde Warren Park just in time to snap a selfie with a passing orange car. And the prompt to take a picture with a live animal has led our players to meet oh so many dogs. Because why settle for a squirrel?
If you ask us, life's more fun when you don't know what's coming your way. When you're on a scavenger hunt in Dallas, that's pretty much guaranteed.
Where To Eat in (and around) the Dallas Arts District
When dining apres-scavenger hunt, matching outfits are encouraged.
We love our city, and one of the reasons we started a scavenger hunt business was out of a love for introducing people to the parts of the community they might not know about. For the purposes of the hunts, that often comes in the form of featuring a cool piece of public art, or highlighting a surprising bit of trivia about the area. (Did you know that Barney the Dinosaur was created right here in DFW?) But when the hunt is done, there's still lots of neighborhood to discover, and our guests are often hungry to learn more -- or just hungry! Which is why, in the spirit of community awareness, we're going to highlight some of the best places to eat when you're done with a hunt. In this, Part 1 of an ongoing series, we're looking at some great restaurants near our Scavenger Hunt in the Dallas Arts District.
We'll be honest -- you get your steps in on a hunt. All that exercise is bound to give you an appetite, and you'll probably be a little thirsty, too. Below are several great options for unwinding, comparing stories, or gloating about your big win.
There are so many great Tex Mex options in the Arts District that it's tough to make a choice. El Fenix is legendary, and has big tables with room for large groups. Taco Lingo is a bit farther off the course, but it's got a relaxing cantina-style vibe that's great for conversation. Taqueria La Ventana serves delicious food at a great price, but keep in mind that the tables on its funky patio don't have much room for big parties. And don't forget Tortaco, a bit further south, with several great-tasting dishes. Of course, all of these spots will supply you with a margarita or two to toast to your success.
The patio at Savor offers cool breezes, plenty of libations, and adequate seating from which to solve those last few puzzles.
If you're craving authentic Mexican, and something a little less casual than the above, Miriam is a new chef-driven restaurant just across from Klyde Warren Park with fantastic food and a slightly more formal atmosphere. In the park itself, there's Savor, a tasty gastropub with a gorgeous view. There's also a nice patio that's perfect for post-hunt refreshments. In fact, it's not uncommon for a team on a hunt to arrive at Savor early and sip a cocktail while they finish their puzzles.
Drinks and Bites
While most of the previously mentioned spots offer happy hour options, there are a few additional spots in the neighborhood that offer a casual, relaxed atmosphere, perfect for unwinding and treating yourself. Village Burger Bar is nearby, offering several yummy burgers and a range of sandwiches, apps, and beers on tap. Happiest Hour earns its name, with plenty of space and lots to do, but you'll be bumping up against the cool kids after a while. This place gets hopping in the evening!
Klyde Warren Park is host to a wide variety of rotating food trucks, serving a diverse selection of cuisines. Pizza, BBQ, Mediterranean, even ice cream sandwiches are on offer. While these make a great mid-hunt snack option, be warned that most of the trucks depart in the late afternoon, so don't count on them for a dinner option.
Restaurants also provide a perfect spot to capture a photo with your incredible scavenger hunt host.
You'll do plenty of searching on your scavenger hunt through the Arts District. The last thing you'll want to do is go looking for the right restaurant when you're done. Our recommendation? Plan ahead, book a spot at one of the spots above, and enjoy! And remember, if you're scheduling a hunt, we can set up your finish line at nearly any point in the area, including any of these fine establishments.
Ho-Ho-Ho. Now You Have a Holiday Party to Plan!
Holiday Scavenger Hunt Options in Dallas
It's beginning to look a lot like holiday party planning time, and if you're sitting in Dallas trying to come up with a great idea for your holiday party, a scavenger hunt is a nice option for your list. As Christmas approaches, you're likely scrolling through DFW Christmas activities in search of something that's fun, affordable, and unique. DFW Scavenger Hunt provides everything you're looking for, all wrapped up in a neat package.
While we have several scavenger hunts in Dallas, Frisco, Plano, and Richardson, our most popular option this time of year is the Dash Away All Hunt through the Dallas Arts District. Dressed in holiday style, you'll explore the city sidewalks (busy sidewalks!) on a quest to find clues, solve puzzles, and answer a festive holiday riddle. You'll be laughing all the way!
Weather outside too frightful for you? No problem. We also offer a few indoor scavenger hunt options, including a challenging puzzle hunt that'll get your antlers in a twist as you try to see just how gifted you really are. It's a great option for teams that want to stay in one space, or an easy addition to a dinner or happy hour.
And if you still haven't found what you really want this year, give us a holler and we'll put our little helpers to work building something great just for you!
All that talk's got us in the mood for a puzzle, so here's one with a fun festive theme.
The answer to each clue below is a word that can be formed by taking the name of one of Santa's nine best-known reindeer, removing a letter, then scrambling what's left. For example, "Complainer" can be answered with CARPER, which is formed by re moving the N from PRANCER and rearranging the rest. You will use a few reindeer more than once, and a few not at all. Good luck!
1. Bank robbery
2. Wood used in a lot of furniture
3. Eastern European pancake
4. Destroy, as a document
5. Unmanned aircraft
6. Transport for Tarzan
7. Large book
8. Heron relative
9. Bunnies
10. Blood vessel
Answers below!
1. HOLDUP (RUDOLPH)
2. CEDAR (DANCER)
3. BLINTZ (BLITZEN)
4. SHRED (DASHER)
5. DRONE (DONNER or DONDER)
6. VINE (VIXEN)
7. TOME (COMET)
8. CRANE (DANCER)
9. HARES (DASHER)
10. VEIN (VIXEN)
What Happens When The Weather Doesn't Cooperate?
Just because the weather outside is frightful doesn't mean your team event is all washed out. We can create exciting, entertaining -- and dry -- gatherings for your group. Here's an example.
A Plano business contacted us in August with interest in planning a scavenger hunt, and selected our newest hunt in Frisco. With plans to bring nearly 100 folks from around the country, we were all very excited to show off some of DFW's great art, to solve our new puzzles, and to get them out of their offices after a long day of meetings.
As the summer went on, we remained in constant contact, trading team building ideas and making sure everything would be ready for their event. But as the day grew near, and eventually became visible in the 10 day forecast, we realized that bad weather loomed. Rain and icy temperatures seemed imminent. We remained optimistic, but the 10 day forecast became the 5 day forecast, and at that point we recognized that we were not looking at ideal scavenger hunt weather.
Can you do anything? Asked the client, reluctant to cancel and eager to entertain the scores of conference attendees. Our answer? Yes. We can make it work. We learned that the client had access to a large conference room, as well as plenty of community space just outside the room. In a matter of days, DFW Scavenger Hunt was able to construct a customized indoor hunt just for them.
Based on our existing indoor hunt, the challenge expanded to include a series of challenges that had to be completed before teams could move on. Sometimes the challenges included taking a series of photos. Sometimes they meant composing a haiku, or drawing a picture. Sometimes the teams had to go running through the halls in search of hidden items. And there was dancing, so much dancing.
In the end, the client was delighted, noting that "everyone had a really wonderful time," and calling it a "great experience." And best of all, everyone stayed dry. If you think an indoor scavenger hunt is what your team needs this winter, let us know! Of course, if an outdoor hunt is what you really want, feel free to book, knowing that we've got a great backup in store if Mother Nature decides not to cooperate.
Team Building that Can Be Done at the Office
We get it. We're all about think outside, and get up and get moving, and explore this neighborhood, but sometimes it's just not realistic. We understand that there are plenty of valid reasons why it might just not work for your team. Someone has to be near the phones. Someone else sprained their ankle last week. It's really cold outside! We recognize that a lot of people need options for team building that can be done at the office.
Well... (superhero sound effect) we have just the thing. Our newest hunt is called Present: Tense, and it can be done from anywhere, including your office. Including your desk, if you insist! Based entirely on solving puzzles, the game asks you to search for the perfect present for a Dallas bigwig. A fun, funny challenge, it tests your skills for wordplay, creative thinking, and pop culture knowledge. Teams work together to collaborate on solving, and the more clues they answer, the bigger the points they score.
This event takes about an hour, and is a great options for indoor team building, a party activity, or just for fun. There are, of course, prizes for the winners, and it's hosted by a member of our team. This event can also be reserved as a backup in case your outdoor hunt is threatened by dangerous weather.
This is probably a good time to mention Buzzered! as well. Buzzered! is our comedy quiz show, a game show-style event complete with a host, several rounds of trivia and games, and of course, buzzers. We can bring this event right to your door. Perfect for groups of around 20, teams match wits and play games, all in the spirit of fun and learning.
Contact us to see what indoor team building event is right for you!
Since we're talking about being inside, here's a puzzle about being inside. It's called Party Animals. Inside each of these sentences, the name of an animal is hidden. The number of letters in the animal name appears at the end of each. The names can span across spaces and punctuation. Can you join the party and track down all the beasts?
1. Melissa and Erica met weeks before and decided on key elements of the party's theme. (6)
2. Martin thought his gold amulet would be appropriate party attire. (4)
3. Helen was distraught when she spilled chili on her new party dress. (4)
4. Steve texted to let Melissa know he would be arriving with a date. (4)
5. Erica's friends were all amazed at how lavish the decorations were. (5)
6. As usual, Derek came late to the party, but no one minded. (5)
7. An abundance of chianti, German beer, and tequila led to a riotous affair. (5)
8. Everyone knew the party was out of control when Tom was naked in the front yard. (5)
9. The well-known author sensed it was time to leave when the cops arrived. (5)
10. Everyone knew it was time to go at the moment the music stopped. (4)


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Sea views from a grand original in Monkstown for €3.45m
21 Trafalgar Terrace is the size of substantial country house and offers period features
Thu, Sep 10, 2020, 06:00
Bernice Harrison
Address: 21 Trafalgar Terrace, Monkstown, Co Dublin
Price: € 3,450,000
Agent: Sherry FitzGerald
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Trafalgar Terrace, the handsome line of grand stucco houses built as Monkstown was expanding in the 1840s, has seen countless changes in its time. The most recent was just this summer, when the layout of the road to the front was improved to include two cycle lanes, and so last Saturday when the sun came out the car traffic there – now restricted to a single lane and one-way heading into the city – was sparse, while family groups of cyclists pedalled by and hardy swimmers made their way up from Seapoint.
The sea-facing Trafalgar Terrace is a cul-de-sac, set high from the road behind railings and with parking and a strip of lawn to the front, its neatness suggesting a collective community spirit among the residents.
The houses vary in size – though none could be called small – depending on whether they have a return or if they are two, three or even four storeys in height over roomy basements.
Number 21 is one of the larger houses, coming in at 510sq m (5,490sq ft) – the size of a substantial country house and notably big for a terraced house. The houses on Trafalgar enjoy uninterrupted sea views on all levels, a major selling point in a property with easy access to the city.
On other nearby period terraces many of the vast houses were, during the 20th century, carved up into bedsits and flats, with the loss of original features. That process was rare on Trafalgar Terrace, with most of the houses staying as single family homes, and number 21 had a valuable custodian in conservation architect Chris Southgate and his wife Susan, who during their years there restored it to a meticulous standard.
Mr Southgate was said to be particularly proud of the highly decorative and intricate plaster cornices and mouldings in the first-floor reception rooms, which he reckoned to be among the finest of their period in Dublin.
Other original details abound, including superb marble chimney-pieces in several rooms, newly restored six-over-six paned windows and working shutters, matt varnished floorboards and a fine encaustic tile floor in the entrance hall.
Two-bedroom cottage minutes from Phoenix Park for €350,000
Use of space
The current owners moved in in 2001 when their three children were very young, and they live in the house largely as was intended, using the fine interconnecting rooms on the first floor as their living- and formal diningroom. The marble chimney-piece, particularly if it has a roaring fire, is usually the focus in rooms of this period. But here the eye is drawn to the sea view out towards Howth from the pair of tall sash windows. The rust-coloured walls in the rear diningroom were given a rag roll paint treatment in the 1990s – a look that hasn't stood the style test of time.
The two interconnecting rooms at hall level are used differently – the front room is a home office with units fitted by Oakline (which was commissioned also to fit wardrobes in several rooms), while the back room, used by previous occupants as a recording studio, is an informal livingroom.
A rear hallway leads to a large room, which with its two windows and fireplace feels wasted in its use as a utility and general store, especially given that it opens via double doors to a lovely patio. This could be a playroom or even a kitchen.
The next return up has a handsome bathroom with a free-standing bath, and – unusually – a mirrored cupboard that hides a false door leading through to a guest bedroom with a solid fuel stove in one corner.
There is a sunny bedroom on the next return on the climb towards the two second-floor bedrooms. The bathroom on the next return has a free-standing bath and a triple-size walk-in shower.
At the top of the house – on the fourth floor concealed behind the parapet – is a large bedroom and a tiny box room that could be converted to a bathroom.
Basement access
Unusually for this terrace – and for most houses of the period – there is no access to the basement level of number 21 from the front. (It must have existed at one time – how else could the team of servants have gained access?) And so, subject to planning, it probably could be reinstated by new owners, who will be decorating and doing some updating anyway.
Down in the basement to the rear is a large pantry, a showerroom and a walk-in cellar with original brick wine-bins. The kitchen is also down here to the rear; it was recently fitted with caramel-coloured glossy contemporary units. The room to the front at basement level is a gym – which the owners say was a boon for the family during lockdown.
The rear garden is about 30m long – the original brick stables went many decades ago – and was very smartly landscaped by previous owners in a formal style with tall raised beds, a fountain, paths with reclaimed brick, and box-edged borders. At the end of the narrow garden is a sheltered barbecue area.
21 Trafalgar Terrace is now seeking €3.45m through agent Sherry FitzGerald. This is the third time it has been on the market in 30 years, each time with eye-watering price jumps. In September 1993, the estate agents were confident it would fetch "over £200,000". It subsequently made £262,000 under the hammer, which, at the time, was considered a strong price.
In 2001, in what was described as a jittery market, the property came on the market seeking £1.35 million, at which time the current owners – now downsizing in the neighbourhood – bought it. Now it is being sold through Sherry FitzGerald, asking €3.45 million.
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A very of-the-moment restaurant: casual vibe, pleasant service – and very tasty fish


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Matthew Stogdon 26th August 2018
ALL FIVE TEAM NAMES REGRETTABLY LOST; my bad
1. How many Dalmatians do George and Jane end up with at the end of One Hundred And One Dalmatians?
ONE HUNDRED AND ONE
2. "Grease is the word" is the poster tagline for which film?
3. Which animation studio released Monsters Inc in 2001?
4. What is the title of the sequel to The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers?
THE LEGEND OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
5. Which two actors played the respective title roles in Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid? (one point per correct answer)
PAUL NEWMAN / ROBERT REDFORD
6. What is the title of the Jon Turtletaub film about Nicolas Cage stealing the declaration of independence?
7. Who played the role of Uncle Fester in The Addams Family and The Addams Family Values?
8. How many Scary Movie films have been released to date?
9. Who played the lead role in Enter The Dragon?
10. The following is a quote from which film, "Nobody puts Baby in the corner"?
ROUND II: Filming [Geographical Location Titles Special]
1. Which Bond film followed From Russia With Love? Goldfinger? Thunderball? Dr No?
2. Who directed 2008's Australia? John Hillcoat? Baz Luhrmann? George Miller?
3. Munich was released in which year? 2002? 2005? 2007?
4. What type of animal is Marty, the character voiced by Chris Rock, in Madagascar? Lion? Giraffe? Zebra?
5. Who plays the lead role in the martial arts series Once Upon A Time In China? Jackie Chan? Jet Li? Donnie Yen?
JET LI (later replaced by Vincent Zhao
6. This Is England is set in which year? 1983? 1986? 1990?
7. Who directed 1984's A Passage To India? David Lean? John Boorman? Richard Attenborough?
8. The following quote is from which film, "I've been on my own since I was 18. I never really fit in, even in the army"? Captain America: The First Avenger? Captain America: Winter Soldier? Captain America: Civil War?
9. How many clones of Hitler are made and adopted in The Boys From Brazil? 64? 94? 124?
NINETY FOUR
10. 2016's Train To Busan was South Korea's first mainstream release to feature zombies. True or False?
1. Name the three titles in Sergio Leone's Dollar Trilogy. (one point per correct answer)
A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS / FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE / THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY
2. Dante is the name of the dog in which Pixar film?
3. Mark Ruffalo, Channing Tatum and Steve Carrell appeared together in which film?
4. Which of the five DCEU films is the lowest grossing to date?
5. What is the title of the film in which Viggo Mortensen played Sigmund Freud and Michael Fassbender played Carl Jung?
6. The Castle Of Cagliostro was released in which year?
7. What is the name of the cinematic universe made up of the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts films?
8. The following is a quote from which film, "Yes, they do let women do some things at NASA, Mr Johnson, and it's not because we wear skirts, it's because we wear glasses. Have a good day"?
9. In Colossal, Gloria manifests as a kaiju in South Korea, when she walks through which area of town?
10. Which film featured Ben Stiller, Tim Robbins, Jack Black, John C Reilly, and Colin Hanks?
TENACIOUS D IN THE PICK OF DESTINY
1. How many of the 8 Nightmare On Elm Street films did Wes Craven direct? 1? 2? 3?
TWO (A Nightmare On Elm Street / Wes Craven's New Nightmare)
2. Doc's dance with Clara in Back To The Future Part III is a cover of a song by which band? ZZ Top? Aerosmith? Lynyrd Skynyrd?
3. The following quote is from which film, "You may dispense with the pleasantries commander, I am here to put you back on schedule"? Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World? The Right Stuff? Return Of The Jedi?
4. Apocalypto is set in which contemporary country? Mexico? El Salvador? Belize?
MEXICO (Veracruz)
5. Which of the following films did not feature Kevin Bacon? Planes, Trains and Automobiles? Frost/Nixon? Flatliners (2017)?
6. Which of the following did not appear in Bone Tomahawk? David Arquette? Matthew Fox? Vince Vaughn?
7. Bad Lieutenant was released in which year? 1979? 1986? 1992?
8. The Big Sick is set in which US city? Chicago? San Francisco? Atlanta?
9. What was the title of Oliver Stone's film about George W. Bush? George? W? Bush? [bonus point for naming the actor who plays Bush]
W [Josh Brolin]
10. In addition to Bollywood, India has many nicknames for different sections of its film industry such as Tollywood, Lollywood, Dhallywood and Kariwood. True or False?
TRUE (there are around thirteen different divisions based on language, content and region)
Screenshots: Batman Forever / Wayne's World 2 / E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial / 50 First Dates
Poster: Titan A.E.
Actor: Drew Barrymore


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Musical Monday: Song of the Islands (1942)
In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals.
"Song of the Islands" (1942)– Musical #393
Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Thomas Mitchell, Jack Oakie, Billy Gilbert, George Barbier, Hilo Hattie, Harry Owens and His Royal Hawaiians
Eileen O'Brien (Grable) returns to her beachcombing father's (Mitchell) home in Hawaii after going to school in the states. At the same time, Jeff Harper (Mature) shows up on the island with his buddy Rusty (Oakie) on the island to help transport his father's (Barbier) cattle. Jeff and his father want Dennis O'Brien's (Mitchell) land to build a pier to help transport the cattle. The cattle business gets in the way of the budding romance of Jeff and Eileen.
Betty Grable was worried about Thomas Mitchell starring in the film since he never had been in a musical. However, they got along and she frequently asked him for acting advice, according to The Films of Victor Mature by James McKay
Dances choreographed by Hermes Pan
20th Century Fox was trying to get the concept of "Song of the Islands" off the ground since 1937. Originally it was created for Joan Davis and in 1938 it was considered for Alice Faye and Don Ameche, according to McKay's book.
The original plot concept would be a "The Philadelphia Story "-type story but set in Hawaii, according to McKay's book.
John Payne and Robert Cummings were both considered as leading men, according to McKay's book.
The song "Blue Shadows and White Gardenias," performed by Betty Grable and Victor Mature, was cut from the movie
Filming for "Song of the Islands," based in Hawaii, was completed on Dec. 6, 1941, the day before Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was attacked by the Japanese, according to Hermes Pan: The Man Who Danced with Fred Astaire by John Franceschina
Producer Bill Le Baron wanted Robert Cummings to star in the film after the successful teaming of Cummings and Grable in "Moon Over Miami " (1942), according to an Aug. 7, 1941, article "Betty Grable to Wear Sarong in Next Photoplay"
Film debut of Hawaiian actress Hilo Hattie
George Barbier and Thomas Mitchell
-The cast
-Thomas Mitchell
-The Technicolor island scenery
-"Sing Me a Song of the Islands " performed by Betty Grable
-"Down on Ami Ami Oni Oni Isle " performed by Betty Grable
-"O'Brien Has Gone Hawaiian " performed by Betty Grable
From the moment this movie starts, you're bound to have a smile on your face.
We're greeted with Technicolor island scenery and a frazzled Thomas Mitchell. Soon after we have a close up of lovely, honey blonde Betty Grable singing "Song of the Islands."
Admittedly, the plot is fairly weak and isn't as interesting as other Grable films like "Moon Over Miami," but it's still a lot of fun.
A large part of this fun has to do with the cast. You generally don't think of Thomas Mitchell in a musical, but he was one of my favorite parts of this movie. I also always love to see George Barbier, who always ends up being an adorable softy. Jack Oakie usually isn't one of my favorite actors but his character is entertaining in this one.
And of course, there's Betty Grable and Victor Mature. The two both look very attractive and Grable's island-themed costumes are wonderful. I think Grable looks particularly gorgeous in this film because this is the period in her career when her hair was still honey blonde and not yet peroxide white.
Grable looks so gorgeous and healthy in this film, you just sigh and wish you were here-hulaing all over the place.
The island setting also gives us some fun variations of dance, mixing the hula with traditional tap dancing and even Irish dancing, thanks to choreographer Hermes Pan. One particularly fun number is "O'Brien has Gone Hawaiian," which mixes Hula and Irish dance. Thomas Mitchell's delighted laughter during this number is infectious.
While this isn't an Academy Award-winning movie, it will put a smile on your face. If you can't take a vacation this summer, "Song of the Islands" will do the trick.
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and a comprehensive set of monitoring tools make it suitable for a range of enterprise-class applications.
At least two metadata servers, which work in master-slave mode for failure recovery. Their role is also to manage the whole installation, so the active metadata server is often called the master server. The role of other metadata servers is just to keep in sync with the active master servers, so they are often called shadow master servers. Any shadow master server is ready to take the role of the active master server at any time. A suggested configuration of a metadata server is a machine with fast CPU, at least 32 GB of RAM and at least one drive (preferably SSD) to store several dozens of gigabytes of metadata.
A set of chunkservers which store the data. Each file is divided into blocks called chunks (each up to 64 MiB) which are stored on the chunkservers. A suggested configuration of a chunkserver is a machine with large disk space available either in a JBOD or RAID configuration, depending on requirements. CPU and RAM are not very important. You can have as little as 2 chunkservers (a minimum to make your data resistant to any disk failure) or as many as hundreds of them. A typical chunkserver is equipped with 8, 12, 16, or even more hard drives. Each file can be distributed on the chunkservers in a specific replication mode which is one of standard, xor or ec.
Clients which use the data stored on LizardFS. These machines use LizardFS mount to access files in the installation and process them just as those on their local hard drives. Files stored on LizardFS can be seen and simultaneously accessed by as many clients as needed.
The replication-mode of a directory or even of a file can be defined individually.
this mode is for defining explicitly how many copies of the data-chunks you want to be stored in your cluster and on which group of nodes the copies reside. In conjunction with "custom-goals" this is handy for geo-replication.
xor is similar to the replication-mechanism also known by RAID5. For Details see the white paper on lizardfs.
ec mode is similar to the replication-mechanism also known by RAID6. In addition you can use parities above 2. For Details see the white paper on lizardfs.
storage for media files / cctv etc.
LizardFS will be working on any hardware, you can use commodity hardware as well. Minimum requirements is two dedicated nodes with a bunch of disks, but to achieve proper HA installation you should have at least 3 nodes. We recommend that each node shall have at least two 1Gbps network interface controllers (NICs). Since most commodity hard disk drives have a throughput of approximately 100MB/second, your NICs should be able to handle the traffic between the chunkservers and your host.
What makes LizardFS a mature enterprise solution are additional features developed on the basis of a constantly improving core. They can transform the probably best distributed file system in the world into Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM), help to build Disaster Recovery Center with asynchronous replication between sites, reduce disk space required for replication, effectively manage storage pools (QoS, Quotas) and many more. If you see any other use case for LizardFS that would require any other functionality please let us know, we might put it into our Road Map or develop it especially for you.
LizardFS offers native support for LTO libraries. Storing archival backups may consume a lot of memory, even though those files are almost never read. Such data can be efficiently stored on a tape, so LizardFS offers a simple way to cooperate with back-end LTO storage. Files can be chosen to have a backup copy on a tape by setting a tape goal. Examples of tape goals can be found in chapter "Advanced configuration".
Setting a tape goal to a file makes it read-only for obvious reasons - tape storage does not support random writes. Reading from tape storage is a timely process (may last 48h or require manual work to insert correct tape to library), so data stored in there should be archival - meant to be read very rarely.
After running this command, all needed data will be read from tape storage and loaded to the file system, making the file accessible to clients.


Joy, Bryson, Echo and I first met at Jacobson Park for holiday card photos before heading out to do couples portraits at Shakertown. We wanted to go to the waterfall just outside Shakertown, but the creek had flooded and we didn't want to get our feet wet. This is my advice for other photographers: find out whether the footpath has flooded before you make the drive all the way to Shaker Village. Just kidding. Fortunately, there are plenty of other beautiful spots to take photos, and we also had the best sunset lighting I've photographed in all year.
It was so, so cold outside. Echo even had a green sweater to keep warm in. You cannot tell in the photos because Joy and Bryson are amazing models.