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A dime has 118 ridges around the edge, a quarter has 119.
A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.
A person infected with the SARS virus, has a 95-98% chance of recovery.
Rudyard Kipling refused to write with anything other than black ink.
Sales of Rolaids, Alka-Seltzer, and Tums jump 20% in December "
Salmon can jump as high as 6 feet.
Sandra Bullock is allergic to horses!
Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.
All babies are color blind when they are born.
Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.
There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.
There have been 47 Charlie Chan Movies, with six actors playing the part. None were Chinese!
There have been over 7,200 acts of terrorism against the US over the last 15 years.
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
There is a species of clam that can grow up to four feet long and weigh up to 500 pounds.
There is a town called Paradise and a town called Hell in Michigan!
There is more real lemon juice in Lemon Pledge furniture polish than in Country Time Lemonade.
There is no tipping at restaurants in Japan.
There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants.
There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!
Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
Three consective strikes in bowling is called a turkey.
Three Mile Island is only 2 1/2 miles long.

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University of New Mexico gets rare George Orwell collection
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A longtime advocate and employee of the University of New Mexico University Libraries is donating his collection of rare George Orwell books.
The university announced last week that professor and curator emeritus Russ Davidson has agreed to donate his Orwell book collection, which includes first editions of "Animal Farm" and "1984" in various languages.
Davidson's extensive collection also includes scarce editions of many of Orwell's other books, essays and journalistic writings.
The collection will be part of an Orwell exhibit in Zimmerman Library from September 2019 through spring of 2020.
Davidson worked at University Libraries for 25 years.
The British-born Orwell was known for his allegorical novella "Animal Farm" and dystopian novel "1984," both of which tackled totalitarianism. Orwell's "1984" has become a best-seller in the U.S. again during the Trump administration.


I am ending the work week and starting the weekend off with one of my favorite melanin goddesses of YouTube, Destiny Godley. I've mentioned her in passing on Fashion's Sense's social accounts. I have learned some very useful makeup tips from Destiny's videos. Once you give her videos a view you will find some useful tips and tricks, as well.
I love that Destiny represents the richer, darker side of the color spectrum. Faces like hers are much needed in the beauty industry. Especially when you know that there are cosmetics brands thinking they have women of color represented when they stop at my skin tone or a shade darker.
Destiny also teaches black women to embrace and enhance their features. She will give you tricks to call more attention to your beautiful full lips with no shame. She is all about enhancing her beautiful rich skin tone. Destiny also will sport a short natural as well as a lace front with confidence. She is not afraid of color and shows black women that greens, blues, and yellows are just as flattering as reds, pinks, purples, and browns on our skin.
I am only posting my favorite Destiny Godley YouTube videos. However, Destiny frequently posts live beauty videos on Facebook where she interacts with viewers. A lot of those live videos are edited for her YouTube channel.
Showing that dark skin looks beautiful with bright makeup.
My heart skipped a beat when she gushed over my favorite drugstore corrector kit and showed people how to use it.
She has helped me step my lip game up. If you guys follow me on Instagram, you will see some recent pictures where I increased my lips pout via adding lighter shades in the middle. Yep, I learned it by watching Destiny!
I truly don't understand what I've been doing with my life for me to have slept on this woman for so long. I was introduced to her last year by Lisa a la Mode -- who will be featured this weekend -- and I've been a fan ever since. I especially love that Destiny is not afraid to call out brands when she notices bias in the industry.
If you like what you see in her YouTube videos don't forget to subscribe. Also, follow her on Facebook and Instagram so you can watch live content from Destiny Godley.


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Players from English leagues have racked up nearly twice as much game time at Euro 2020 than any other country in the world.
Footballers who ply their trade in England have collectively clocked 24,698 minutes at the tournament, of which the majority represent Premier League clubs – considerably more than players from German (14,979) and Italian (14,256) teams.
Manchester City players have registered more minutes than any other club in the world at Euro 2020 with 3,458 to date, ahead of Juventus (2,914), Chelsea (2,910), Bayern Munich (2,805) and Tottenham (2,381).
Interestingly, Real Madrid still rank eighth with 2,069 minutes, despite not one player featuring in Luis Enrique's Spain squad – while a Manchester United cohort trail the La Liga giants by just three minutes.
Other surprises include Atalanta pipping Barcelona in 11th spot – ahead of clubs such as Inter Milan (14th), Leicester (16th), Liverpool (17th), Paris Saint-Germain (18th), AC Milan and (21st) Atletico Madrid (24th).
The progression of Spain, Ukraine, England and Belgium has powered Pep Guardiola's side into being the tournament's most represented club, with Aymeric Laporte and Oleksandr Zinchenko both playing every minute of every game – including 30 minutes of extra-time.
Club team-mates John Stones, Raheem Sterling and Kyle Walker have played almost every minute for England, with Phil Foden also getting 134 minutes and Ilkay Gundogan played in the first three group games for Germany before suffering an injury.
Ruben Dias and Bernardo Silva also reached the last 16 with Portugal, while Ferran Torres, Rodri and Eric Garcia (set to leave City) are representing Spain – and Nathan Ake clocked 52 minutes with the Netherlands.


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A couple of months ago we made little Love Bug Cupcakes in honor of Valentine's Day. I thought they were so cute, took pictures of them, promptly lost them somewhere on my hard drive and then found them again and decided to write a post on how to make them! They were so cute, and so easy!
Start with a box of cake mix, the frosting of your preference, a bag of marshmallows, pull and peel twizzlers, red sugar crystals, and something for the eyes. We used Silver Dragees, even though you're not supposed to. It was what I had in my kitchen at the time.
Make the cupcakes according to the boxed directions,and let them cool. While they're cooling, go ahead and decorate the Marshmallows. To do this, pour some of the red sugar crystals onto a plate. Wet the marshmallow with water, then roll it in the red sugar crystals. Then, just set them aside to dry.
I didn't want to make them all into love bugs, so what I did was took a heart shaped cookie cutter, set it on top of the frosted cupcake, and sprinkled some red sugar crystals into the bounds of the cookie cutter. Tip the cupcake from left to right to coat and then tip upside down to remove extra.
By now, your marshmallows should be dry. Pull apart the Twizzlers, and cut them into small pieces for the antennae, and larger pieces for the wings. All you do is stick them into the marshmallow. Do the same for the eyes and the bug is done! Now, stick a toothpick into the bottom of the bug, and then onto the cupcake. Voila! You have some beautiful love bugs!
My daughter just loved how cute they were!
I liked how they looked in groups alternating with the hearts. I just thought they were adorable!
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Inc. Magazine October 2018
Founded in 1979 and acquired in 2005 by Mansueto Ventures LLC, Inc. is the only major brand dedicated exclusively to owners and managers of growing private companies, with the aim to deliver real solutions for today's innovative company builders.
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the women who'll lead us
Most entrepreneurs pound a long and difficult road, but it's well documented that women have the toughest time. A small library's worth of studies has shown that female founders receive a tiny sliver of the tens of billions in venture capital that are invested each year. What's worse, a depressing number of those who have tried to secure such funding say they were discriminated against. Inc. partnered with our sibling publication, Fast Company, for our first-ever State of Women and Entrepreneurship survey (see page 53). It reveals that 62 percent of women seeking funding report that they have encountered bias in the process. These findings are stubborn and aggravating, yet the big picture for female entrepreneurship is far from bleak. Women are launching more companies now than in recent decades. And,…
what #metoo means for silicon valley
The venture capital industry, which last year doled out $84 billion to startups, manages a neat trick. While relatively new—and devoted to seeking out what's next for business and the world—it's as old-fashioned as it gets, comprising overwhelmingly male, overwhelmingly white partnerships who overwhelmingly do business with those who remind them of their younger selves. As of last year, at the top 100 venture firms, only 8 percent of investing partners were women. Two percent of venture capitalists were Hispanic. Not even 1 percent were black. And almost a quarter of VCs with MBAs got those degrees from Harvard. But some of that is finally changing. In September 2017, General Catalyst hired its first female managing partner. Union Square Ventures, First Round Capital, and FirstMark Capital soon followed. This year, BoxGroup, Redpoint…
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This spring, a typical workday for Tedra Cobb consisted of running communication and leadership training for a health care firm followed by glad-handing with hundreds of supporters at night. She's the founder of Canton, New York–based consulting firm Tedra L. Cobb & Associates—and the Democratic congressional candidate in New York's 21st District. Which, she admits, breeds a certain amount of chaos. "I haven't been getting in an hour per day at the gym, I'll tell you that," she says. Two other female founders are also juggling running businesses with running for Congress. One of them, Cindy Axne, co-founder of digital design firm Creation Agents in West Des Moines, Iowa, has a business partner—in this case, her husband—to share work duties with when her focus on being the Democratic candidate in Iowa's…
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ACCIDENTAL COLLABORATION • noun When "free-range" employees with unassigned workspaces have serendipitous interactions: "You see people around talking about, 'Hey, what do you see in the market?' and it spawns some new ideas." That's right, folks: They've invented the water cooler. Source: NBC Dallas-Fort Worth PLASTIGLOMERATE • noun A "multi-composite material made hard by agglutination of rock and molten plastic." Or: how capitalism is literally embedding our pollution into the foundations of the planet. Let's celebrate this achievement with commemorative key chains, Frisbees, and fidget spinners. Source: GSA Today SADOPOPULISM • noun "Promise people things, but then when you get power … you deliberately make the suffering worse for your critical constituency." Wait. Is this political, or is it iTunes? Source: Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom CYBERLOAFING • noun Think personal internet use on company time is "counterproductive work…
STARTUP NEIGHBORHOODS ▸ Legendary incubator 1871 is in the historic Merchandise Mart building in the River North nabe; around it is clustered the city's "biggest concentration of startup activity," says Julie Roth Novack. 1 She co-founded event-planner platform PartySlate, which is based there, as are personalized clothier Trunk Club, Groupon, and parking app SpotHero. ▸ West Loop—famed for world-class restaurants such as Avec 2—is "really hot," says Jennifer Fried, 3 co-founder of medtech firm ExplORer Surgical. Google 4 opened offices here in 2015. Also here: food data company Food Genius and workplace caterer Crafty. ▸ Medical device company Attune Medical, agtech firm Hazel Technologies, and battery-tech startup SiNode Systems call the up-and-coming Bronzeville home. 1871 CEO Betsy Ziegler says the area is a hotbed for "aspiring entrepreneurs on the South Side." WHO TO KNOW Shaniqua Davis…
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What should go through your customers' minds? Melissa Carbone knows what she wants for hers. "I don't want them to think about the crappy day they had at work or the dishes in the sink. All I want them to be thinking about is 'What's coming around this next corner to ruin me?'" Naturally: She and her ex-spouse, Alyson Richards, co-founded the Los Angeles–based Ten Thirty One Productions, creator of haunted houses and events intended to terrify. They got started in 2007, hosting haunted-house parties in their yard—their friends would dress as, say, werewolves and chase around a couple hundred kids, while parents sipped "witches' brew" (champagne). Halloween events could keep the company afloat—even though its haunted-house productions can cost $1.7 million, including $250,000 for costumes and makeup—but it has…
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After the Round 9 close victory over the Roosters and a week away from the NRL for international duties, the Warriors travelled to Pepper Stadium to face the Penrith Panthers.
After two rounds where the Warriors defence was a highlight this performance highlighted the Warriors defence in a negative light after the Warriors blew a 22 point lead to lose 36-28.
For the third round in a row, the Warriors started strong with Kieran Foran scoring 6 minutes into the first half.
The Panthers tried to strike back until David Fusitua snatched an intercept and ran the length of the field only to be tackled by a determined Waqa Blake 10 metres out, Waqa held onto to David too long and was sent to the bin.
The Warriors took quick advantage of one man overlap with two tries in quick succession to Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad and Ryan Hoffman.
The Panthers attempted to claw their way back into the match with a try to Isaah Yeo at the 25-minute mark.
Kieran Foran put a stop to that comeback attempt as he slotted a 40/20 on the next drive which leads to another try to Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad after a perfectly weighted grubber from Foran.
David Fusitua mirrored his play from earlier in the half and grabbed another intercept but this time managed to evade Waqa Blake to cross the line at the 40-minute mark to take the Warriors to a 28-6 lead at the break.
In the second half both the teams swapped ends and also swapped their form as the Warriors had nothing left to offer as the Panthers started to mount a comeback.
Isaah Yeo crossed 7 minutes into the second half, and the tries just kept coming with tries to Dallin Watene Zelezniak, Waqa Blake and Matt Moylan in the space of 10 minutes to give the Panthers a 30-28 lead going into the final 20 minutes.
My Warrior of the game goes to Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad.
In only his second outing in first grade Charnze is showing great potential, with Manu Vatuvei getting injured yet again and Ken Maumalo not performing consistently at first-grade level, Charnze has a great opportunity to cement a spot on the wing.
Although he is smaller than the wingers we have grown accustomed to on the Warriors edges, he has speed, is safe under the high ball and is defensively sound.
My Warrior who needs to improve is Roger Tuivasa-Sheck.
Roger came out after this match and said it was the worse 40 minutes of his career and I couldn't agree more, he had a right shocker in this game.
In a game where all the Warriors performed poorly in the last 40 minutes you could really pick any of them but given how well Roger has played this season to date I had to pick him.
His performance was out of character, missing tackles and making unforced errors.
I am confident that Roger will bounce back from this and make this performance nothing but a bad memory.
Well, where do you start after a performance like that?
After the past two rounds, I thought the Warriors had turned a corner this season and had started to show a defensive edge to their game.
I have no idea what happened in this match, in the first half it looked like the Warrior's attack was finally starting to click and as a result, the points started to pile up.
Their defensive pressure lead to two intercepts by David Fusitua and the Warriors looked well on their way to a high scoring win.
And then there was that second half, up by 22 points the Warriors had this game well and truly in control and were well on their way to obtaining victory.
The Warriors appeared to think the game was over and were punished as a result, Simon Mannering's absence was noticeable as the Panthers were able to break the line in the middle with relative ease.
The Warriors never seemed to be in this match once that second half start, they were mere spectators in an embarrassing display.
A collapse of this nature can not be tolerated in a competition as close as the NRL.
This performance is not the end of the Warriors season by any means but it has got to have set off some alarms at Warriors HQ.
Stephen Kearney and Co need address the lacklustre attitude that was so apparent in the last 40 minutes and talk to all the senior players that did not step up when the game started to get away from them.
If the Warriors cannot fix this attitude and learn to play for 80 minutes then it is going to be a long season for this team and fans alike.
This round the Warriors travel down to Hamilton to face the St George Illawarra Dragons, after their last performance, facing the Dragons is not an ideal situation given the Warriors poor record against the Dragons.
If the Warriors can go back to how they were performing against the Storm and Roosters then they give themselves a decent chance at getting a win here.
Having Ben Matulino back with the side should help combat the Dragons large forward pack in particular Paul Vaughan who has been a standout for the Dragons in 2017.
The Warriors need to get the win here, not only to keep them in the hunt but also to calm the ever vocal fan base that is frustrated with how this team has been inconsistently performing, so I'm picking the Warriors to get the win here by two.
So that Round 10, a loss that many including myself would like to forget, and as per usual I will leave you with some questions.
How would you change the attitude in the Warriors camp?
Is there still a chance the Warriors will play finals football in 2017?
Do the Warriors have a young player they can mould to be the next Simon Mannering?
What chance do you give the Warriors in getting the win in Hamilton this week?


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What is the difference between play and play therapy?
What are the disadvantages of play therapy?
What is the main focus of play therapy?
Does my child need play therapy?
What theory is play therapy based on?
Who is the father of play therapy?
What is Ecosystemic play therapy?
Do you need a Masters to be a play therapist?
What does a play therapist do?
Is play therapy evidence based?
Is play therapy ABA?
Is play therapy good for autism?
Is sand tray therapy evidence based?
What is the difference between sand tray and sandplay therapy?
What are the benefits of sand play?
How do you do sand tray therapy?
What is Jungian sandplay therapy?
Is kinetic sand therapeutic?
Who developed sand tray therapy?
What is sand play?
Where can I buy sand tray miniatures?
What is narrative therapy in Counselling?
What is the goal of narrative therapy?
When a special person or group of people are invited to participate in therapy conversations this is called?
What is the difference between play which provides a therapeutic benefit and therapeutic play? Play is self administered by the child. ... Therapeutic play has an objective related to improving the emotional development, behaviour or mental well being of the child.
Other disadvantages of play therapy include: Play therapy is not a "direct" form of therapy. It also doesn't "directly" deal with the trauma or issues. As a result, it can end up being more of a hindrance or distraction than assistance or relief.
In play therapy the emphasis is on the child and what is best for them. The therapy is child led, giving the child autonomy to take control back over their life and resolve whatever is causing distress to them, at their own pace, and through a medium which is comfortable, natural and familiar.
Although people of all ages can benefit from play therapy, it's typically used with children between the ages of 3 and 12. Play therapy may be helpful in a variety of circumstances, such as: facing medical procedures, chronic illness, or palliative care. developmental delay or learning disabilities.
Nondirective play therapy is based on the principle that children can resolve their own issues given the right conditions and the freedom to play with limited instruction and supervision.
Ecosystemic play therapy (EPT) integrates a variety of techniques and theories to create a single model that ''addresses the total child within the context of the child's ecosystem'' (O'Connor, 2000, p. 87). ... Play therapy uses a cluster of treatment modalities related to a theoretical model.
If you are interested in practicing play therapy, it is required that play therapists first become licensed mental health professionals with a master's or doctoral degree in any mental health field.
Play Therapists maintain the rules and boundaries of the therapy session to help children feel safe to explore difficult feelings in whichever way they choose – through imaginative play, role play, art, puppets, sand, music or however the child chooses.
Play therapy RCTs serve as credible evidence that play therapy is effective across ages 3 to 12 years old and with various presenting issues. All reviewed RCTs employed the use of random assignment, control or comparison experimental groups, clear intervention protocol, and appropriate data analysis procedures.
Play Therapy in ABA The benefits of play as an aspect of ABA therapy cannot be understated. Whether your child is at the clinic with their ABA specialist or with you and your family at home, introducing play into their sessions will positively affect their behavior.
Many experts offer play therapy to children who've been diagnosed with ASD. Play therapy can improve their social and emotional skills, help them think in different ways, increase their language or communication skills, and expand the ways they play with toys and relate to other people.
Sandplay Therapy is one of the internationally most widely applied therapy methods. SPT is applicable to numerous child and adult mental health problems. There is considerable evidence for the efficacy and effectiveness of SPT.
In sandplay, the therapist does not intervene with the client once the tray is created. Instead, the therapist keeps the focus on the unconscious of the client. By contrast, the humanistic sandtray therapist is actively involved in facilitating an experience of awareness and growth.
Benefits of sand play:Development of fine motor skills.Eye & hand coordination – watching and doing and coordinating these actions.Promote creativity and imagination through role and developing stories.Sensory- Development of the sense of touch.Meer items...•1 jan. 2012
Sandplay Therapy Techniques People in therapy are encouraged to use miniature toys, figurines, and objects in the sand in ways they choose while the therapist observes and later analyzes the person's interaction. The person in therapy can add water to the sand and place the miniatures in the sand tray in any order.
Sandplay therapy is a hand-on, non-verbal therapeutic process based on the depth psychology of C. G. Jung and Dora Kalff. It provides an opportunity for aspects of the unconscious to be experienced and expressed symbolically by playfully placing small images into a tray of sand.
Kinetic Sand is an ideal therapeutic material due to its versatility and its ability to offer a wide variety of benefits to the kids (and adults) who engage with it! Kinetic Sand is a hands-on material so, yeah, it can help develop fine motor skills! ... The fine motor benefits are seemingly endless!15 jun. 2014
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Sandplay is a powerful psychospiritual method for accessing the unconscious in a way that brings about profound change. It is a safe, effective way of working with preverbal and nonverbal trauma while simultaneously promoting healing. Sandplay therapy is based on the work of Dora Kalff and Carl Jung.
My Go-To Sites for Ordering Sandtray Miniatures OnlinePlay Therapy Supply. https://www.playtherapysupply.com. ... Child Therapy Toys. https://www.childtherapytoys.com/ ... Toys of The Trade. http://www.toysofthetrade.com/ ... Twice Upon a Toy. https://twiceuponatoy.com/ ... Kennedy's Minis. https://www.kennedysminis.com/ ... Misc. Marketplaces.
Narrative therapy is a style of therapy that helps people become—and embrace being—an expert in their own lives. In narrative therapy, there is an emphasis on the stories we develop and carry with us through our lives.
Narrative therapy is a form of therapy that aims to separate the individual from the problem, allowing the individual to externalize their issues rather than internalize them. It relies on the individual's own skills and sense of purpose to guide them through difficult times (Narrative Therapy, 2017).
Outsider witness practices. -involves inviting a special person or group of persons to participate in therapy conversations. -also sometimes called definitional ceremony.
What are the main differences between Freud's and Adler's theories of personality?
What is the main idea of the behavioral perspective on personality?
What are the types of personality theories?
What is the example of personality?
What does adlerian mean?
Can you lose your personality?
What personality is the most attractive?
Which sibling is the most intelligent?
What is the physiological theory?
What are the 5 components of personality?
Do firstborns get better genes?
Do narcissists have a superiority complex?
Do I have a neurotic personality?
What is a super trait?
Who put forward self theory?
How does inferiority complex affect a person?
Is Jungian psychology used today?
What is the main difference between Sigmund Freud and the neo Freudians?
Is it possible to have an inferiority and superiority complex?
How can I change my neurotic personality?


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By Laura Silverman
To All the Boys I've Loved Before meets You've Got Mail in this charming and hilarious rom-com following two teen booksellers whose rivalry is taken to the next level as they compete for the top bookseller bonus.
Shoshanna Greenberg loves working at Once Upon, her favorite local bookstore. And with her moms fighting at home and her beloved car teetering on the brink of death, the store has become a welcome escape.
When her boss announces a holiday bonus to the person who sells the most books, Shoshanna sees an opportunity to at least fix her car, if none of her other problems. The only person standing in her way? New hire Jake Kaplan.
Jake is an affront to everything Shoshanna stands for. He doesn't even read! But somehow his sales start to rival hers. Jake may be cute (really cute), and he may be an eligible Jewish single (hard to find south of Atlanta), but he's also the enemy, and Shoshanna is ready to take him down.
But as the competition intensifies, Jake and Shoshanna grow closer and realize they might be more on the same page than either expects…
Chapter One Chapter One
Barbra Streisand grinds and grinds before sputtering to a stop.
"Ugh!" I call out, and then plead with my car. "Barbra, sweetie." I place my hand on her dashboard and rub in soothing circles. "I need you to start. I'm going to be late for work. Will you start for me? Pretty please? Okay, ready?"
I turn the keys again. The grinding sound is worse this time, metallic shrieking. "Darn you!" I yank out the key. It's a freezing December morning, and as I exhale, I can see my frosted breath.
My phone buzzes with a text from Cheyenne: I just folded my 75th sweater of the morning. When do you get here?
The mall opens earlier than usual this week for the Christmas rush. Cheyenne has already been folding clothes at the Gap for an hour, and I'm supposed to be at Once Upon, the independent bookstore I work at, in twenty minutes.
I text back: Hopefully soon! Barbra won't start
She replies: Rough! I'll drive you home later
I send her an emoji kiss face, then step out of my car, tug my coat tight, and hurry inside. Mom and Mama are still home, but the house is silent. I peek into the living room first, then the kitchen. Nothing. I thud upstairs to their bedroom, but the door is shut. Muffled voices filter into the hallway at an inaudible murmur. Usually their door is open. Usually I'd waltz right inside and jump on their bed, playing with the tassels of a throw pillow while asking for a ride. But now their door is closed, dampening the tense voices inside.
I take a short breath, then square my shoulders and knock with two quick raps.
The voices stop, and moments later, Mom opens the door. We have the same brown eyes and the same curly brown hair, but her eyes are tired, and her hair is pulled back into a frizzy braid. It really needs a deep condition. I want to recommend a recipe for a great avocado hair mask I found online, but reading the room, now is not the time for hair-care essentials.
"Shoshanna," Mom says. "Aren't you supposed to be at work?"
Her voice almost snaps, like she's mad at me or something. I fiddle with my Star of David necklace and rock back on my heels. "Barbra won't start. Again. Can I get a ride to the mall?"
"That car should've been junked years ago," Mom mutters.
My pulse skips. She can't junk Barbra Streisand. Yes, she's old, passed down from my moms to me, but I need a car, and my Once Upon paycheck doesn't cover much more than gas and insurance. "Um." I clear my throat. "I don't want to be late. Christmas rush and all."
Mama walks over to us. Her blond hair is still wet from the shower, and she's wearing her silk peach bathrobe, cinched lightly above her rounded hips. It's strange, both of them standing by the cracked door, bare feet on their bedroom carpet, while I'm here in the hallway, boots on the hardwood floor.
"I wish I could take you," Mama says. "But I'm teaching a class soon and need to get ready. Sorry, love."
I give her a small smile. "That's okay, Mama."
"Fine." Mom's voice does snap this time. "I'll take you on the way to work, then. I'll be downstairs in five."
"Okay." I twist my fingers together. "Thanks."
Mom nods and slides back into the room, closing the door behind her. Their murmurs continue, slightly louder than before. I catch a snippet about dirty dishes. Dishes? Is that really why they're arguing?
I walk downstairs, but instead of going straight to the garage, I head into the kitchen. The coffeepot sits in the sink. Next to it are a spoon and a mug with an ounce of milky coffee at the bottom. It's a silly thing to fight about; I can fix it, just like that, and everyone will be happy. I slip off my coat, pull on our pair of ladybug-patterned dish gloves, and wash and dry each piece.
Mom pulls to a stop in front of the mall and then slips a lipstick out of her purse. She applies the creamy pink color in two easy strokes. When I was younger, I'd sprawl out on her bedroom floor, rummaging through her countless bags of cosmetics and perfumes, while she sat at her vanity rubbing in moisturizer and lining her eyes with soft brown pencil. It was calm, our little sanctuary.
"Do you need a ride home later?" Mom asks, capping the lipstick. She sees me eyeing it. "Go on."
Tension eases from my shoulders as I take her offering. She's not mad at me. Of course not. It's not like she was going to jump for joy upon hearing Barbra broke down yet again. "Cheyenne can drive me home," I say. "Thanks, though!"
I pull down the passenger mirror and apply the color, immediately smudging some onto my skin. I rub my finger at the corner of my mouth to fix it and try not to feel like a little kid playing dress-up. Then I press my lips together and smile. The color is a much softer pink than my jacket and looks nice with my rosy winter cheeks.
"Pretty," Mom replies. And then, "I need to get to work."
"Right." I place the lipstick in the center console. "Well, thanks for the ride."
I unbuckle my seat belt, grab my tote bag, and slide out of the car. But as I'm about to shut the door, Mom turns to me, her eyes softened. "I'll ask Eve to swing by later, see what it'll take to fix Barbra. Okay?"
I beam. "Okay!" Eve is our family friend and a mechanic. Mom met her in their kickboxing class like a decade ago, and Eve always makes house calls when one of the cars, usually Barbra—okay, always Barbra—needs fixing. "See you at Latkepalooza tonight?"
"Of course," Mom says. "See you tonight."
I shut the door, and Mom gives a quick wave before driving away.
Latkepalooza is our last-night-of-Hanukkah family tradition. We aren't the light-the-candles-all-eight-nights type of Jews, but we make sure to celebrate at least one evening with latkes and dreidel. My moms and I love spending time with each other, whether it's for Latkepalooza, a 90 Day Fiancé marathon, or a night out bowling. We just click, fitting seamlessly together like the two-thousand-piece puzzle we tackled last year. One summer we even made it through a sixteen-hour road trip to New York without getting into a single argument, which is probably like a world record for traveling families everywhere.
But things have been different lately. Open doors and TLC binges have been replaced with shut doors and arguments. And more common than fighting, there's been silence, all of us disconnected. As Mom drives away, I try to shake off my unease. It's probably nothing. Just petty squabbles over dishes. We've all been busy—Mom works a million hours a week, Mama paints on the screened-in porch, space heater running full blast, often well past dinnertime, and now that it's winter break, even I'm pulling double shifts. But tonight we'll all light the candles and open presents and eat stacks of fried potatoes with applesauce, the best topping, and everything will be good again.
The frigid December air cuts through my jacket as I walk toward the mall entrance. It's barely eight in the morning, but the parking lot is already half full. A silver sedan roams the packed front rows, looking for a close spot. I enter through the east-wing doors and sigh in relief at the burst of warm air. Most of the food court restaurants are still closed, but employees prep in the back, shouting to each other and blasting music. Starbucks is open, the line already fifteen people deep. I'm running late, so I ignore my taste buds begging for a peppermint mocha.
I reach the Gap and spot Cheyenne through the window. Her dark brown skin pops against the display of cream and peach sweaters. She startles when I knock on the glass, then sees me and grins, waving me into the store. I shake my head, saying, "Late! See you at lunch, beautiful!" She blows me a kiss through the window, and I catch it with a smile. We met in the cafeteria in seventh grade when we both went to grab the last slice of cheese pizza. Total rom-com meet-cute moment. We split the slice and talked for all of lunch, topics ranging from our love of Bob's Burgers to speculating if there's intelligent life on other planets to confiding in each other about our current crushes, and now our friendship is forever cemented by cheesy goodness.
I keep walking and pass the Disney Store and Pet Depot and H&M and the stand that sells Dead Sea lotions and always has these really hot Israelis working at it, and then finally, I'm here.
Once Upon.
The store marquee is written in blue cursive script, and there are vibrant displays in each window with new releases and old favorites. One of the books is angled a bit too far to the left, making the title hard to read. I make a mental note to fix it as I step into the store. The scent of books and the quiet hum of morning customers browsing the shelves welcome me. My body lifts with contentment. I'm home.
A few hours later, the store is packed with holiday shoppers, and I'm running around nonstop, restocking displays, ringing up customers, and reshelving books in the correct spots because god forbid someone puts a book back where they found it, or at least on a display table, instead of shoving it into a spot on the wrong shelf. On my way to the stockroom, I notice a middle-aged white guy standing in the philosophy section. He's wearing a gray sweater and jeans—and he's taking pictures of a book, one page at a time.
"Excuse me, sir—" I stop short. "You can't do that."
He doesn't even look at me, just flips the page and angles his phone.
"Sir?" I repeat, making sure he hears me.
He glances up this time, but his eyes don't register me as a threat. I guess my five-foot stature and chipmunk-print dress aren't very menacing.
"I'm almost done," he says, taking another picture.
"But you're not allowed to do that." I take a small step forward. "This is a bookstore. A writer worked hard on that book. You can't steal their work without paying for it."
"And yet," he responds, turning another page, "I can."
"Sir, please either take the book to the register or put it back on the shelf."
"Sweetheart," he snaps, voice hard and laced with condescension. "Stop talking."
The word "sweetheart" burrows under my skin and makes it burn. Ugh. There's a walkie-talkie attached to my dress pocket, and I want to use it to call security on this guy over the PA system. But this guy is a stranger, and very tall, and the domineering tone of his voice makes me think engaging him further is not a smart idea.
So instead of publicly shaming him, I rush out my next words: "This is wrong, and you're a bad person," and then make a run for the stockroom before he can respond. Patronizing, thieving jerk.
"Shoshanna!" a voice calls out to me as I rush past the children's section. I spin around to find my boss behind me. Her hair is cropped close to her brown skin, and the turquoise color of her blouse pops against her jet-black power wheelchair.
"Hey, Myra!" I clear my throat. "What's up?"
She tilts her head. "You okay?"
I'm probably flushed from that interaction. "Just some airplane food." That's our code phrase for a bad customer. "I'm okay, though."
"Okay, good." She smiles, and I feel myself relax. I love this woman. She opened Once Upon fifteen years ago. It's the only indie bookstore in Wakesville, Georgia, our midsize city ninety minutes south of Atlanta. Books are basically the best thing to ever happen to anyone ever, so I applied for a job the summer after my freshman year. Myra and I spent the hour-long interview discussing fan theories for our favorite series, Time Stands Still, and just like that, I was hired. "We have a new employee," Myra continues. "He's in the break room, and I need you to show him the ropes, all right?"
"Absolutely, captain!" I salute her.
She shakes her head. "Don't do that."
"Yes, ma'am." I bow.
"Don't do that, either."
"All right, Your Highness." I curtsy.
She points at me and grins. "Now that I like."
I curtsy again and then head to the break room. As I open the door, I cheerfully say, "Hello! Welcome to Once Upon! I'm Shoshanna and today—"
My spiel is cut short when I set eyes on the new hire.
The hot new hire.
The are-you-a-lead-in-a-Netflix-teen-movie freaking hot new hire.
He's white and has dark brown eyes and hair and a jawline sharper than the edge of our display tables I always bang my legs on. He must go to a different school because I definitely would have noticed him walking down the hallway of mine. Heat rises to my cheeks. How dare someone look so attractive this early in the morning? It's an attack, honestly.
I smile and hope my lipstick hasn't gone rogue and ended up on my skin again. "Hi, hello. I'm Shoshanna!"
"You mentioned," he says.
"Oh, right." I rock back on my heels. "And what's your name?"
"Jake." He stretches, pulling one arm behind his head and tugging it with the other. His flannel shirt rises up a bit, exposing the world's tiniest sliver of skin. I bite my lip. I should get out of this room. This small room with just us inside of it.
"Let's head out to the floor, Jake!" I clap my hands together. "Nothing special about the break room. Whiteboard has our phone numbers and the weekly schedule. Fridge, label your food, but most of us eat in the food court. Bring your own lock for the lockers. And…" I pluck a spare name tag off the whiteboard. "Here you go."
His hand grazes mine for a moment, and I squeak and jump back. He gives me a funny look and then glances at the name tag. "Peeta Pettigrew?"
"A little book humor. We give it to the new people. You'll get one with your own name if you stick around long enough."
"Right," Jake says. He stands and slips the name tag into his pocket.
"Oh, you actually need to wear it!"
"Sure," he responds. But he doesn't move to put it on. Huh, maybe he's team Gale or something.
Now that Jake is standing, I notice he isn't very tall, maybe five-six. But since I'm only five feet, he's probably the perfect height for my head to fit into the crook of his shoulder, which is not at all a weird thing to observe the first time you meet someone. He picks up a spiral notebook from the table, rolls it up like a newspaper, and shoves it into his pocket. "Are you a writer?" I ask. "I like writing too! I'm working on my first book. It's a disaster but not a total disaster, which I think is impressive for my first try!"
"No," Jake replies.
"Real monosyllabic, aren't ya, buddy?"
He just stares at me.
"Not even a single syllable that time!" I wait for a laugh but only get more staring. I tug on the sleeve of my cardigan, feeling a hint of unease. Why isn't he laughing? I'm being funny. "Anyways." I clear my throat. It's fine. Jake probably just has first-day jitters. I'm sure he'll warm up to me soon. "Off to the floor!"
I spin and push open the door. But it doesn't budge because it's the world's heaviest door, and I have the strength of the runt of a hamster litter. There's a button to open the door automatically, but I'm in too deep now to retreat. I push the door again with my shoulder and a huff, but it only cracks open an inch. Then an arm reaches out above me and shoves it open with one solid push, and I'm acutely aware of Jake hovering behind me and how if I leaned back, my shoulders would press against his chest, and my cheeks are heating even more, so I rush out onto the store floor, squeaking out the word "Thanks!"
Jake follows behind me, and I feel in control again. This is my domain. Okay, it's Myra's domain, but I've been working here for a year and a half now, and I'm totally her favorite employee even if she won't say it because favoritism or whatever. I usher Jake around each section of the store, explaining the shelving systems and different tasks he'll need to do. Jake is attentive but silent.
"Myra owns Once Upon," I say as we round the corner to the children's section. It's my favorite part of the store. There are shelves of books I devoured as a child and new ones out all the time. There are little tables and chairs where Mr. and Mrs. Murillo, retired schoolteachers and loyal customers, host story time twice a week. And Myra's husband, an architect by trade and carpenter by hobby, even built a wooden castle for the kids to crawl inside of and read. Sometimes, when I get to work really early, and it's only Myra in her office and me on the store floor, I curl up inside the castle with a good book and soak up the calm.
Yes, I can fit inside a children's wooden castle.
"You met Myra for your interview," I continue. "She's pretty great, as long as you follow shelving protocol. So, like, for example, don't shelve all the purple books together on Prince Remembrance Day, even if she's a huge Prince fan and you thought she'd appreciate it."
Jake raises an eyebrow. "Specific."
"I may or may not be culpable." I catch his eye and try for a grin. He doesn't grin back. The hint of unease grows. "Right," I muster on. "So we all have six-hour shifts, and we can take a half-hour break for food when we want. Like I said, I usually meet my friends at the food court. You could join us today—"
"I brought my lunch."
"Well you could—"
He cuts me off again. "No, thanks."
My back stiffens. I'm getting low-key thieving-jerk-in-the-philosophy-section vibes, minus the thieving. I don't know exactly what's going on here, but I do know this Jake guy doesn't have to be rude. "I'm just trying to be friendly," I tell him.
"And I'm just trying to learn how to do my job."
"Well, part of your job is being friendly. Like me."
Jake's response: raising his eyebrows.
I'm about to bite back when a young voice cuts in. "Um, excuse me, miss." I look to my left and see a young girl around eight wearing lime-green overalls. I ignore Jake and his attitude and his jawline and kneel down so I'm the same height as the girl. "Hi there!" I stick out my hand. "I'm Shoshanna. What's your name?"
She shakes my hand with a funny grin, then shyly says, "Marissa."
"Marissa! That's an awesome name." I glance back at Jake. "Isn't Marissa an awesome name?"
I make direct eye contact with his stupid-beautiful brown eyes. A challenge. I bet he can't handle a single customer interaction, especially with a kid. But he surprises me by smiling, and it's a ridiculously good smile that makes me blush, and thank hashem he's looking at Marissa and not me so he doesn't notice. "Definitely an awesome name," Jake agrees. He gives her a thumbs-up, and she giggles and gives him a thumbs-up back. Well, fine. Whatever.
"How can we help you today?" I ask Marissa.
"I want a book," she says. "But I've read all the Princess Doctor ones."
I smile approvingly. Princess Doctor is a series of early readers books about the Princess of Wynthrop, who gets a medical degree and goes around the world saving people. She's a total badass. "Those are great books! Some of my favorites! You know, I can think of a few other stories you might like.…"
Marissa trails me around the children's section as I pluck half a dozen books off the shelves for her. The stack is getting precarious in her small arms when her dad turns a corner and calls her name. She rushes over to him, and he looks aghast at the large pile of books clutched to her chest, but he nods and takes them up to the register. I give a satisfied sigh as they walk away. I seriously have the best job.
Then Jake asks, "So Princess Doctor is one of your favorite books, huh?"
I turn to him and narrow my eyes. "Your tone is quite judgmental. Your face is quite judgmental too." His smile is all amused, and now it seems like he's about to laugh. Jerk. "Princess Doctor is a fantastic series and feminist as heck. You're missing out." I cross my arms. "Why? What do you read? Great works of lit-er-a-ture?"
"I don't read, unless it's for school."
My mouth drops. "I'm sorry, what? You don't read?"
I can hear my voice getting louder. "Then why do you work at a bookstore?"
He speaks the next words slowly and laced with condescension thicker than the philosophy thief. "Because I needed a job, Shoshanna."
"Don't talk to me like that. Don't say my name like that."
The dots are starting to connect. No wonder this guy is standoffish. He doesn't read books. He's not even one of us. And he's talking down to me, treating me like I'm silly and naive probably because I like kids' books and chipmunk-print dresses. And it's even worse than that guy in the philosophy section because Jake works here. And here, Once Upon, is my second home, a retreat from the rest of the world, a bubble of comfort and security—an escape from closed doors and fighting parents.
And now, Jake threatens to destroy it.
My fingers twitch, automatically grabbing the walkie-talkie hooked to my dress.
"What are you doing?" Jake asks.
I press the PA button. The speakers crackle.
He takes a step forward. "Seriously, what is your problem?"
"Attention," I speak into the radio. "We have a code purple." Jake looks murderous as my voice booms out over the store. "The new hire doesn't read books."
Photograph (c) by Katie King
Laura Silverman is an author and editor currently living in Brooklyn, New York. She earned her MFA in writing for children at the New School. Her books include Girl Out of Water, You Asked for Perfect, It's a Whole Spiel, and Recommended for You. Girl Out of Water was a Junior Library Guild Selection. You can contact Laura on Twitter @LJSilverman1 or through her website LauraSilvermanWrites.com.
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"Hijinx and hilarity ensue in Laura Silverman's fresh spin on the workplace rom-com. With a lovable cast of characters led by rival booksellers who are impossible not to root for, RECOMMENDED FOR YOU is like stepping foot into your favorite local bookstore—cozy, comforting, and absolutely charming."
– Marisa Kanter, author of What I Like About You
"Sweet and endearing, with a headstrong heroine you can't help but root for, RECOMMENDED FOR YOU is the kind of story that makes your bookish heart sing. Laura Silverman delivers a cozy, swoon-worthy read dedicated to the bookworm in all of us."
– Ashley Poston, author of the Once Upon a Con series.
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Mike's trial practice includes the representation of plaintiffs in maritime personal injury, international and trans-national personal injury, including work and holiday injury claims, and insurance bad faith.
Mike is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and is a Fellow in the National College of Advocacy of the American Association for Justice. Mike has obtained many multi-million dollar verdicts, judgments, and settlements. These results include a jury verdict in 2004 of $2.56 million for a Jones Act seaman injured in the Gulf of Alaska (Reduced on appeal to $2,141,716.75 – Attorneys Fees: $936,772.52; Expenses: $77,625.97; injury – unoperated cervical herniation and leg lacerations); a jury verdict in 2006 of $4.3 million in an insurance bad faith case (Case has been remanded to trial court; no recovery achieved to date; injury – cervical spine and nerve injuries resulting from delay in payments of insurance); a jury verdict in 2007 of over $1.5 million increased to $1,752,767.44 with interest for a boat captain injured offshore Angola (Attorneys Feees: $788,745.35; Expenses $49,603.52; injury – unoperated spinal injuries and post traumatic stress disorder); a jury verdict in 2008 of $2.16 million for a passenger in a helicopter crash landing in the Gulf of Mexico (Attorneys Fees: $820,000; Expenses: $117,502.70; injury – lumbar injuries requiring surgery and post traumatic stress disorder); a jury verdict in 2008 of $1.6 million for a seismic operator injured in the Gulf of Mexico Jury (Attorneys Fees: $472,500; Expenses $61,135.03; injury – cervical injuries requiring surgery and unoperated shoulder injuries); a jury verdict in 2009 of $4.5 million for a marine mooring master injured in a personnel basket transfer in the Gulf of Mexico (Attorneys Fees: $1,860,000; Expenses: $105,452.29; injury – operated knee and lumbar injuries); and a verdict of $1.22 million for a leverman onboard a dredge vessel working near Memphis, Tennessee in 2009 (Attorneys' Fees: $400,000; Litigation Expenses: $47,276.54; injuries – operated lumbar spine injuries).
Mike's personal injury practice includes the representation of Jones Act and foreign seaman in disputes arising in U.S. waters and around the world. He also represents a number of U.K. residents injured in the U.S. on holiday, as well as working people from various countries who have been injured as a result of the actions of multinational companies.
Mike's insurance bad faith practice includes the representation of workers' compensation claimants who have had their claims delayed and denied by their insurers and adjusters. In addition, Mike has represented insureds and policy holders against domestic liability and excess insurers, and in transnational coverage disputes against U.K. and E.U. underwriters and company market insurers.
Mike obtained a B.A. in History at the University of Virginia and a J.D. from the University Of Texas School Of Law. Mike has also completed coursework in marine insurance, international law, and maritime law at the University of London, St. Mary's College of Law. Mike first practiced at Vinson & Elkins in Houston, then at Cook, Doyle & Bradshaw and The Doyle Law Firm, before forming Doyle Raizner LLP. Mike was admitted to the Texas Bar in 1990.
Mike also is an active leader in civic and community activities. He served as President of the Houston Trial Lawyers Association from 2007-2008, and he has been a member of the Board of Directors since 1999 and Chair of the Judicial Affairs Committee. He served as a member of the Board of Directors of Strake Jesuit College Preparatory School from 2002 to 2004; President of the Strake Jesuit Alumni Association, 2002-2004; and 1998 Alumni Fund Drive Chairman. Mike also served as a member of the Houston Advisory Board of the AFL-CIO Community Fund, the labor community's charity arm.


But when you are able to quiet your mind, and enter into the peace and calm within there is infinite blessings and possibility in this.
Archangel Metatron connects in this channeled message to guide you into this place of inner peace and power within you. You will learn a simple and effective way to shift out of spiraling thoughts and into the peace and calm of Divine love within.
If you are looking to connect with your inner power for healing, true life energy, to release the perils of a busy day or for support with new positive habits, this meditation is for you.
Archangel Metatron delivers a message that is mixed down with the beautiful music of Thaddeus. The combination makes for an audio experience that will help you feel refreshed, grounded and re-energized.
This angel message has also been transcribed for you below if you would prefer to read.
I'm thankful for the part you play in the ascension. I hope this channeled angel message helps you fill yourself with light so you can shine your unique light brightly in our world!
At this time, I ask that we be surrounded with light and with 100,000 angels. I ask that each of our highest, most loving guides and angels enter in and connect with us now in our own unique way.
I ask that Archangel Michael offer protection and that the highest, most loving possible channeling guide, come in, connect and channel a meditation, a message for us, through me now.
Indeed, we are here, and I Metatron, speak. You are of course surrounded with the energy of the light. And yet, you also have bright light shining within which is your inner fire, your heart, your spirit.
Now tune in to this inner power radiance. Tune into the light brightly shining within you.
Draw your breath in and feel your breath fanning the flame of fire, of your heart, letting it grow and build. And as you exhale, let this light, this blessing of well-being and love and peace then radiate throughout your body, throughout this room, throughout your earth. Breathe in to let your light build and grow, and breathe out, letting this light flow out from you, blessing all who are near, and rippling out through consciousness.
Your cosmic radiation indeed has a powerful effect to bring about positive change in your world. You are of course in a time of great change, and yet you hold within, great power and light to manifest joy and blessings, and not only in your own experience.
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The light you feel around and within is a part of you. The energy of your angels and guides is now enveloping you with love and blessing you with frequency and spirit. We in the angelic realm are not separate, we are all one energy, one consciousness.
Now focused within your open heart, your center, and return to your conscious knowing of your connection with love throughout all existence.
Enter inward, feel the peace, calm and stillness inside, and know that this inner peace and calm always awaits you.
Your mind may find all kinds of scenarios, doubts, and fears to distract you with, but despite whatever is happening in the physical world around you, you always have the choice and the opportunity to breathe and to drop inward.
In every moment, you are able to quiet your mind, open your heart, and return home, return to consciousness and love.
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Ascend, awaken, claim more of your power to live joyously and free and in love, follow your passions and your creativity, let your inner light shine and glow and radiate, so that your physical body now feels like it is tingling with light. You are glowing. You are radiant and vibrant from this place of clear mind, vibrant physical body, fully awakened spirit.
You are unlimited, you are not limited.
Your mind may think, get caught in the spiral of thought and present you with perceived limitations, but the truth of your heart and of consciousness is that your every desire, dream or wish for your life and for humanity can come to be. The doubt of the mind, can be released now. Let go, breathe it in. Breathe in thought, returning home to love, to still, peace, and calm.
There is nowhere you must be and nothing you must do or think. Simply enjoy this very moment and experience, where you are connected to your light and your power. And from this place of open heart, vibrant spirit, incredible light, you are able to start a wave, a ripple of conscious thought, beginning inward, extending outward, and through this sharing your blessing, your positive vision with all.
We see, that there is great love and happiness and empowerment awaiting you. To live, not following the guidance or ideals of another, but following the inner promptings and callings of your heart; for it is from your heart that you are able to open the portal within, to fully connect with your higher self, with your cosmic light, your spiritual body. As you do this, bringing more and more of your full energy, your full light, full awareness into being, the benefits will not end with you. Your light can take on the magical synchronicity of being connected to love, then extending outward, carrying unlimited blessing, hope, and love far beyond.
Consciously breathe in again now, the light that is all around you, activating and awakening your core, your spirit. Notice a tube of white light, connecting and anchoring all of your chakra energy centers to divine love above, not ending with your physical body, but rather extending upward into the universe, into the heavens, and also extending downward, grounding you to earth, the Mother Earth. United heavens and earth, divine energy are now intermixing in your heart. Open your heart and relax into the stillness, peace and calm of this now.
Your inner light, your inner light and peace always awaits you. Remember to return to love, to return to consciousness. When thoughts of others in the outside world overwhelm you, breathe them in. Return thoughts to conscious love, return to the still, calm knowing of your divinity, of your power, and of your full spiritual nature and energy.
You are physical, but you are spirit. With your clear mind and open heart, you are able to access all of the creative potential of your spirit now. The light of your spirit does not stop with you. It weaves through all of existence. You have great potential and ability to bring about positive change.
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Q: open-source app for API composition - i.e. receive a list of HTTP requests to a single endpoint, run them in parallel and aggregate the response At the company where I work we use a COTS business rules engine. I don't know too much this product, but I asked the 'experts' and they said that everything needs to be defined using a proprietary DSL (Domain Specific Language) and you can only execute HTTP requests sequentially.
I have a 'purchase decisioning' scenario where I need to execute 3 HTTP reqeusts and I'd like these to run in parallel so that I can optimize the performance.
Is there open-source product where I can specify a list of HTTP requests to a single endpoint and it will expand those requests and run them in parallel and return an aggregated response?
FWIW I have a couple fallback options, but I'd prefer something like I described above as this will be the least overall effort e.g.

*

*I could run these 3 requests concurrently outside the business rules engine and then pass in the responses (or an aggregated response) as a parameter, but ideally I run these requests inside the business rules engine as we need to execute this 'purchase decisioning' scenario from multiple apps and I don't want to duplicate the data retrieval logic in multiple places.

*I could build something bespoke (e.g. containerized .NET Core app or something) to do the HTTP request expansion and run them the requests in parallel (e.g. await Task.WhenAll(tasks)), but hoping there's something already out there that I can grab.

Kind regards.
EDIT -
I've done a bit more research and the pattern I'm trying to implement is sometimes called "API composition", "API Aggregation", or "Aggregation Gateway". So far I haven't found any open-source or third-party tools other than building something with bespoke elements e.g. as described here using AWS Lambda.

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Codem Composites - U.K.
Free ALPHACAM Licence Helps Codem Produce Urgent PPE
And Blackman & White MD gives up weekends to personally cut NHS scrubs
A free evaluation licence from ALPHACAM meant that a manufacturer could put a machine tool that hadn't been fully commissioned and was standing idle during the Coronavirus crisis, to work producing essential PPE for front line health workers.
Codem Composites had recently invested in a previously-owned Blackman & White CNC machine with a bed capacity of 2.2 square metres, for cutting carbon-fibre pre-impregnated with an epoxy resin, to make components for the motor sport industry and satellite dishes.
"It hadn't been fully commissioned, and we had post-processing issues with the software and interface. We didn't want to invest several thousand pounds in software immediately, given the uncertainty brought about by Coronavirus," explains Managing Director Kevin Doherty. "But when we got the call asking for help in cutting NHS scrubs, we approached ALPHACAM, which is part of the Hexagon group, to help us get the machine up and running.
"We have a good working relationship with Hexagon, as we've used one of their portable CMM arms for collecting surface geometry measurements of our products since 2018. "We'd already discussed switching our CAD/CAM to products from Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence's production software portfolio when we need to review our existing licences, and are also in the early stages of looking at investing in an ERP system from them.
"ALPHACAM supported us by giving a free evaluation licence for us to cut the scrubs."
The software gave them complete flexibility and speed of production, by optimising nests. "A full scrub comprises several components, and comes in a variety of sizes, ranging from small to double XL. The tunic is made from a front, back, sleeves, collar, V at the front, and a couple of pockets. Trousers are a left and right leg both front and back, two standard pockets on the side and a patch pocket on the back. To utilise the material properly and avoid waste, we may nest a number of left legs, for example, together with tunic fronts or collars and sleeves."
Running at a capacity of around 500 full scrubs a week, the Blackman & White machine cuts components for a group of volunteers in Northamptonshire to put together. "Previously, they'd been cutting them by hand, so with us taking on the cutting they can now spend more time sewing."
Kevin Doherty says ALPHACAM accurately interrogated the DXF file for each of the patterns, and computed all permutations and variables. "So rather than someone having to work everything out manually, such as what we were going to cut, how we were going to cut it, and what's got to go where, we simply inputted which components we needed in which sizes, and ALPHACAM did the rest, including helping us with the correct cutting speeds and feed rates. The first cut parts came off the machine within 24 hours of installing the software."
It comes as no surprise to the Managing Director of Blackman & White that Kevin Doherty found ALPHACAM to be the perfect software for their machine. "It's a highly cost effective and productive tool," says Alex White. "We match it up with our machines regularly when we're assembling them, and offer it as part of an overall package for our customers."
Blackman & White have been established for more than 50 years, and promote themselves as being the only UK manufacturer of multi-purpose industrial cutting equipment that can be used for routing, knife-cutting and laser cutting across a wide range of substrates.
Alex White says many of their customers found the COVID-19 crisis meant there was no longer an immediate requirement for the products they were cutting, and turned their hand to manufacturing PPE for the NHS. "We've been supporting our customers with opportunities for the right tooling and programs for their machines to be able to cut visors, gowns and scrubs."
That even extends to publishing a variety of ALPHACAM files on their website for customers cutting NHS scrubs, which came about after Alex White gave up his weekends to personally cut around 300 sets of PPE.
Although the company doesn't undertake contract cutting, they have their Genesis-V model on show in the demonstration area of their factory at Maldon in Essex. The machine supports laser and knife cutting, and also carries a router for rigid and thin metals, along with wood.
While it would normally be used for cutting a variety of materials such as carbon fibre pre-preg composite, it was perfect for adapting to the needs of specialist PPE scrubs. "As I carried this work out personally, I learned to generate ALPHACAM files which cut these components perfectly. We made these DXF files free on our website for anyone with spare capacity on their cutting machines to manufacture this much-needed PPE. Several customers are using them."
He sums up why Blackman & White offer ALPHACAM as part of a package with their machine tools wherever appropriate. "It's absolutely perfect for many of our customers. ALPHACAM has powerful CAD tools for digitising parts or templates to generate the outer profile from a scanned image. This is then turned into a smooth contour with the correct profile to meet the needs of the application, before collecting the individual components together that comprise the complete assembly, and laying everything out on the material in the most efficient way. ALPHACAM's powerful set of nesting tools generate an efficient nest which makes the cutting of material both cost-effective and fast."
Hexagon Manufacturing IntelligenceのProduction Softwareソリューションは、多様な製造業分野に適用可能なCNCシミュレーションソフトウェア、ファクトリオートメーションソリューション、およびコンピュータ支援設計製造(CAD CAM)パッケージを提供します。


Picking your brain cuz I'm at a loss....lol...The machine stays in one mode. Keeps telling me to lift handle so I assume it always thinks it's closed. Whether the lift is open or closed, screen wont budge.
I did everything, cleaned the inside top and bottom to make sure it's not clogged. Paper clipped the holes, cleaned underneath where the water comes out, cleaned the cup sensor.
Researched if there's a reset method but didn't find anything.
It was unplugged for the entire weekend and this morning, after heating cycle, bam, back at lift handle.
Nathalie will be eternally grateful.


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Q: com.fasterxml.jackson.module.jaxb.JaxbAnnotationIntrospector not found --- while using Swagger my first post on SO and expecting good stuff in return :-)
I have developed a small java restful services app and integrated with Swagger. I have @Controller -> @Service -> @Repository architecture. I have deployed on Glassfish (4.1.1), when I use Chrome's 'Advanced Rest Client', I am able to perfectly send and receive rest calls (GET/POST etc), but when I use Swagger, it throws the following exception 'after Controller returns the correct response'.
I have been struggling with this by changing the maven entry versions, changing the moxy jar, delting felix as suggested in some forums etc, none seem to help.
Here are more details ...
Exception:
  StandardWrapperValve[com.xxx.config.ApplicationConfig]: Servlet.service() for servlet com.xxx.config.ApplicationConfig threw exception
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.fasterxml.jackson.module.jaxb.JaxbAnnotationIntrospector not found by com.fasterxml.jackson.jaxrs.jackson-jaxrs-json-provider [130]
    at org.apache.felix.framework.BundleWiringImpl.findClassOrResourceByDelegation(BundleWiringImpl.java:1532)
    at org.apache.felix.framework.BundleWiringImpl.access$400(BundleWiringImpl.java:75)
    at org.apache.felix.framework.BundleWiringImpl$BundleClassLoader.loadClass(BundleWiringImpl.java:1955)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)

Code:
@Controller
@Path("/document")
@Api(value = "/document", description = "Document Controller ")
public class DocumentController {

    @Inject
    DocumentService documentService;

    @GET
    @Path("/{id}")
    @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
    @ApiOperation(value = "Get Document.", notes = "Get Document Call")
    @ApiResponses(value = { @ApiResponse(code = 200, message = "OK"),
            @ApiResponse(code = 500, message = "Something wrong in Server") })
    public DtoDocument getDocument(@PathParam("id") Integer docId) {
        Document doc = documentService.getDocument(docId);
        DtoDocument dto = toDto(doc);
        return dto;
    }
}

@Service
@Transactional
public class DocumentService {

    @Inject
    DocumentRepository repository;

    public Document getDocument(Integer id) {
        return repository.getDocumentById(id);
    }

}

@Repository
public class DocumentRepository {

    public static final String COLLECTION_NAME = "document";

    @Inject
    private MongoTemplate mongoTemplate;

    public Document getDocumentById(Integer Id) {
        Document doc = getMongoTemplate().findOne(Query.query(Criteria.where("id").is(Id)), Document.class, COLLECTION_NAME);
        return doc;
    }

}

@ApplicationPath("/rest")
public class ApplicationConfig extends Application {

    @Override
    @SuppressWarnings({ "unchecked", "rawtypes" })
    public Set<Class<?>> getClasses() {
        Set<Class<?>> resources = new java.util.HashSet();

        resources.add(com.wordnik.swagger.jaxrs.listing.ApiListingResource.class);
        resources.add(com.wordnik.swagger.jaxrs.listing.ApiDeclarationProvider.class);
        resources.add(com.wordnik.swagger.jaxrs.listing.ApiListingResourceJSON.class);
        resources.add(com.wordnik.swagger.jaxrs.listing.ResourceListingProvider.class);

        addRestResourceClasses(resources);

        return resources;
    }

    private void addRestResourceClasses(Set<Class<?>> resources) {
        // Custom resources in the project (all restful services)
        resources.add(com.xxx.web.rest.DocumentController.class);
    }

}

beans.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/beans_1_1.xsd"
    bean-discovery-mode="all">
</beans>

swagger entry in the pom.xml
<dependency>
            <groupId>com.wordnik</groupId>
            <artifactId>swagger-jersey-jaxrs_2.10</artifactId>
            <version>1.3.13</version>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>com.sun.jersey.contribs</groupId>
                    <artifactId>jersey-spring</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
                    <artifactId>jersey-client</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
                    <artifactId>jersey-server</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
                    <artifactId>jersey-core</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
                    <artifactId>jersey-servlet</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
                    <artifactId>jersey-multipart</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
                    <artifactId>jackson-mapper-asl</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
                    <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.module</groupId>
                    <artifactId>jackson-module-jaxb-annotations</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>

Appreciate if anyone can tell me what exactly is the issue ... its been a frustrating week & am stuck with this, not making any progress.

A: The stack trace mentions: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.fasterxml.jackson.module.jaxb.JaxbAnnotationIntrospector not found by com.fasterxml.jackson.jaxrs.jackson-jaxrs-json-provider
and you are excluding the JAXB annotation module:
<exclusion>
   <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.module</groupId>
   <artifactId>jackson-module-jaxb-annotations</artifactId>
</exclusion>

The exclusion means a dependency is not resolved, and therefore you'll get the ClassNotFoundException

A: This worked for me:
Steps:
1-Stop domain
2-Remove content of this folder: Glassfish\glassfish\domains\DOMAIN_NAME\osgi-cache\felix
3-In this folder: C:\Glassfish\glassfish\modules
Substitute jackson libraries by the 2.4.4 version:
jackson-module-jaxb-annotations-2.4.4
jackson-jaxrs-json-provider-2.4.4
jackson-jaxrs-base-2.4.4
jackson-databind-2.4.4
jackson-annotations-2.4.4
jackson-core-2.4.4
4-Start domain
I hope it helps  :-)

A: Add 2 Dependency - it worked for me
   <dependency>
        <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.module</groupId>
        <artifactId>jackson-module-jaxb-annotations</artifactId>
        <version>2.10.1</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
        <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
        <exclusions>
            <exclusion>
                <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.module</groupId>
                <artifactId>jackson-module-jaxb-annotations</artifactId>
            </exclusion>
        </exclusions>
    </dependency>

A: I don't know if this applies to 4.1.1 as well, but Glassfish 4.1 was shipped with old Jackson version and that was the cause to the issue you bring above.
To solve it, you'd have to force Glassfish to load Jackson 2.4.5 at least which is the minimum requirement for swagger-core. Upgrading Jackson in GlassFish 4.1 covers this procedure.

A: My application is with springframework and I also had this problem.
I noticed that different versions of springframework and Jackson are incompatible with each other.
The problem was solved by removing all Jackson dependencies from the pom file.


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Q: php session can not pass variable to other page I have a formal code, but the session variable can't be passed to another page.
So here is my sample code. However, the result of this code is 0.:
page1 code:
<?php
session_start();
$_SESSION['try'] = 5;
header('Location: page2.php');
?>

page2 code:
<?php
session_start();
$test = $_SESSION['try'];
echo $test;
?>

A: From the manual:
session_start() creates a session or resumes the current
one based on a session identifier passed via a GET or POST request,
or passed via a cookie.

pay attention to the last two lines of code:
<?php
// page1.php

session_start();

echo 'Welcome to page #1';

$_SESSION['favcolor'] = 'green';
$_SESSION['animal']   = 'cat';
$_SESSION['time']     = time();

// Works if session cookie was accepted
echo '
page 2';

// Or maybe pass along the session id, if needed
echo '
page 2';
?>


Following the killing of over 17 people in the predominantly Christian town of Jos, the Plateau State capital in the Middle Belt region of Nigeria, the former governor of the state, Jonah David Jang, has called on Christians to rise and defend themselves.
Jonah Jang, whose eight years of governance in the state was also bedevilled by attacks on communities by both Boko Haram Islamic terrorist group and Islamic Fulani cattle herdsmen, has initiated and insisted that the constitution must be reviewed to allow the creation of state police.
Last Thursday, 27 September, 14 people, including a family of nine, were killed by Islamic Fulani militia on Rukuba Rd in Jos. The killing was followed by reprisals by youths who were angry and frustrated by the over a decade of blood letting in the state without any effective action by both the state and federal governments to stop the killings.
Meanwhile another wave of attacks erupted in Jos on Sunday, 30 September, as Christians were coming out of churches services. Unconfirmed reports said a woman was killed by Muslim youths as she was walking home after a Church service around Dutse Uku in Jos. In an immediate reprisal, the youths in the community killed a Muslim and within two hours, the entire township was engulfed in crisis as different communities in the religious divide were seeking the other to kill.
Two students of the university of Jos were reportedly killed by soldiers who were saddled with the responsibility of enforcing peace in the state in since 2010. Unconfirmed numbers of people were reportedly killed in Jos as the attacks in communities continued through to Sunday night.
There has not been any official statement about the attacks and killings in Jos yet but the State Police commissioner, Undie Adie, had called for a shutdown streets and forced people indoors in communities around Students Village, Bauchi Ring Road, Bauchi Road, Tina Junction and Angwan Rukuba all in Jos.
A similar call for Christian to defend themselves, was made earlier this year by a former Defence Minister, Theophilus Danjuma. He said the Nigerian army is compromised and cannot he relied upon to stop the Fulani Islamic militia nor can President Buhari be trusted to safeguard lives and property. Danjuma's call had generated a lot of debate but many more groups, including the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, have joined in calling on Christian communities to defend themselves otherwise "they will all be wiped out" Danjuma had said.


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Q: PhoneGap 3.3 and Mobile Services HTML App on Android I've installed the latest PhoneGap version (3.3), packaged my Mobile Services HTML application and hit the known authorization issue:
Login is only supported from http:// and https:// URLs. Please host your page in a web server
I've searched internet for this issue (http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsazure/en-US/a2386093-73cd-44fb-a418-4fa83a36c800/phonegap-apps-using-the-new-html-client-for-azure-mobile-services-is-not-working?forum=azuremobile) but the solution does not work for me. The project created by phonegap references <script type="text/javascript" src="phonegap.js"></script> but even when i changed it to <script type="text/javascript" src="cordova.js"></script> it does not work.
Is there any solution for this issue?
My source code:
<html>
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <title>Report</title>
    <meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="user-scalable=no, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, width=device-width, height=device-height" />

    <script type="text/javascript" src="cordova.js"></script>
    <script src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/mobileservices/MobileServices.Web-1.1.0.min.js"></script>
    <script src="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.0.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <script src="myscript.js"></script>
</head>

myscript.js
var app = {
    initialize: function() {
        document.addEventListener('deviceready', this.onDeviceReady, false);
    },

    onDeviceReady: function() {
        var client = new WindowsAzure.MobileServiceClient(
            "https://myapp.azure-mobile.net/", "XXX");
        client.login("google").done(....
    },
};

$(document).ready(function documentReady() {
    app.initialize();
});

Edit 21.12.
Apparently PhoneGap 3 does not report its version in window.device.cordova anymore where Mobile Services checks it. But even faking it did not help - after authorization on Google, it goes to empty page.

A: The version issue has been fixed recently with an update to the device core plugin.
device.cordova.version should correctly state what version you are running.
So if you intended to do a work around with it, you might be able to do it now.