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Groundbreaking Held for SECU Dormitory at NC FFA Center in Bladen County
RALEIGH, N.C., Aug. 03, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A groundbreaking was held Wednesday afternoon marking the beginning of a new 72-bed dormitory being built at the North Carolina Future Farmers of America (NC FFA) Center in White Lake. With the support of State Employees' Credit Union (SECU) members, SECU Foundation provided a $400,000 grant to the North Carolina Agricultural Foundation, Inc. for the facility's construction. The SECU Dormitory will create additional female housing space and will also allow FFA to grow and expand their programming year-round.
Cynthia Jolly, SECU Foundation Board Chair, spoke during the event and noted, "Future Farmers of America is a wonderful youth organization that helps prepare students for success in a broad range of agricultural careers. As long-time advocates of education, SECU members recognize the tremendous benefits and positive impact FFA's educational programs and services are making for North Carolina's young citizens. We are proud to provide funding for the SECU Dormitory to help further support the successful work being accomplished through the Center."
Roughly 1,300 campers visit the NC FFA Center each summer, and the new accommodations will support 1,800 campers once the SECU Dormitory is complete. The extra housing and enhanced level of services will help reduce crowding, improve the living environment, and ultimately increase the number of well-trained student leaders in North Carolina's school systems and communities. There are more than 20,000 NC FFA members in 263 chapters, and the organization has roughly 319 FFA programs in middle schools and high schools statewide.
"We are excited to receive this gift from the SECU Foundation," said Gerald Barlowe, State Agricultural Education Leader at the NC FFA Association. "It's an important gift – an investment in the future of our organization and its members, allowing us to expand our capacity for female FFA members to attend our camps and leadership training. The enclosed, heated and air-conditioned SECU Dormitory will also give us the opportunity to utilize camp services beyond the summer for additional activities throughout the year. Thank you for this gift that will truly impact the lives of our current and future members."
About SECU and the SECU Foundation
A not-for-profit financial cooperative owned by its members, SECU has been providing employees of the State of North Carolina and their families with consumer financial services for 81 years. The Credit Union also offers a diversified line of financial advisory services including retirement and education planning, tax preparation, insurance, trust and estate planning services, and investments through its partners and affiliated entities. SECU serves over 2.3 million members through 263 branch offices, nearly 1,100 ATMs, 24/7 Member Services via phone and a website, www.ncsecu.org. The SECU Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization funded by the contributions of SECU members, promotes local community development in North Carolina primarily through high impact projects in the areas of housing, education, healthcare and human services. Since 2004, SECU Foundation has made a collective financial commitment of more than $130 million for initiatives to benefit North Carolinians statewide.
Contact: Jama Campbell, Executive Director Office: 919-839-5562 | secufoundation@ncsecu.org
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Fotis Dulos, charged in murder of missing wife Jennifer Dulos, attempted suicide, lawyer says
"I am told Mr. Dulos is en route to the hospital with a pulse. Our thoughts and prayers are with him," the lawyer told NBC News.
Fotis Dulos, charged in murder of missing wife, attempts suicide
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By Janelle Griffith and Minyvonne Burke
Fotis Dulos, a Connecticut man charged with the murder of his estranged wife, Jennifer Dulos, attempted suicide Tuesday morning at his home in Farmington, his lawyer Rich Rochlin said.
As of Tuesday afternoon, Dulos was in critical condition at the University of Connecticut Health Center, Lt. Timothy McKenzie, a spokesman for the Farmington police, said at a news conference.
McKenzie said officers had responded to Dulos' home at approximately 11:54 a.m. to conduct a well-being check because he was late for a court appearance.
When officers arrived at the house, they could see Dulos sitting in his vehicle in the garage "in obvious signs of medical distress," McKenzie said. The officers forced entry and began lifesaving measures, he said. Dulos was taken by ambulance to UConn Health, where he is being treated for carbon monoxide poisoning. A spokeswoman for UConn Health declined to comment, citing patient confidentiality.
Another of Dulos' lawyers, Norm Pattis, told NBC News that Dulos was being moved or had already been moved from the UConn Health to Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, where he will be placed in a hyperbaric chamber. He described Dulos' condition as "perilous."
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Dulos, 52, had been scheduled to appear at a bond adjustment hearing Tuesday.
Ryan Flanagan, deputy chief clerk for the Superior Court in Stamford, said Dulos did not show up for the hearing.
Dulos was arrested earlier this month and charged with capital murder, murder and kidnapping, according to Connecticut State Police and was later released on the $6 million bond.
His girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, 45, was also charged with conspiracy to commit murder.
Pattis said he was in Washington, D.C., Tuesday morning on an unrelated case, when he learned there was going to be an emergency bond hearing.
"Questions had arisen regarding the collateral to post the $6 million bond, and we were ordered to appear in court at noon," Pattis said.
The potential for a bond revocation was devastating news to Dulos, Pattis said.
But, Pattis said, it had never occurred to him that Dulos might attempt to take his own life.
Jennifer Dulos.Courtesy Carrie Luft
Dulos and Jennifer Dulos, who was 50 when she went missing May 24 after dropping her children off at school, had been involved in a drawn-out divorce and custody battle. Her body has never been found.
Investigators said that on the morning Jennifer Dulos vanished, Fotis, a real estate developer, was seen in surveillance footage traveling between Farmington and New Canaan, where Jennifer lived, in a red Toyota pickup truck belonging to one of his employees.
Another camera showed the pickup parked 100 feet away from where Jennifer Dulos' 2017 Chevrolet was found later that day, abandoned and with apparent bloodstains.
Police said they had evidence that proved Dulos was "lying in wait" at Jennifer Dulos' home the day she disappeared. He told "Dateline" in September that he did not have anything to do with his wife's disappearance and he believed she was still alive.
Jennifer Dulos' estranged husband, charged with her murder, has bond set at $6M
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Troconis was also charged this month with conspiracy to commit murder. And a Connecticut lawyer, Kent Mawhinney, a close friend of Dulos, was also charged with conspiracy to commit murder. Mawhinney's name appeared on alibi scripts written by Dulos and Troconis, according to an arrest warrant for Troconis.
Days after their investigation began, police arrested Dulos and Troconis on charges of evidence tampering and hindering prosecution.
If you or someone you know is in crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255, text HOME to 741741 or visit SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for additional resources.
Janelle Griffith
Janelle Griffith is a national reporter for NBC News focusing on issues of race and policing.
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Minyvonne Burke is a breaking news reporter for NBC News.
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Kem Sokha Release 'Not Enough': Congressman
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FILE PHOTO - Opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party President Kem Sokha shows off his ballot before voting in local elections in Chak Angre Leu on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Sunday, June 4, 2017.
Kem Sokha is now placed under house arrest and is still denied access to his former colleagues at the Cambodia National Rescue Party, which was banned in November.
WASHINGTON DC —
The recent release of Cambodia's former opposition leader into house arrest does not go far enough to appease critics of Prime Minister Hun Sen's government, according to US Congressman Alan Lowenthal.
Sokha was released from prison on health grounds this week after more than a year in pre-trial detention on treason charges. He is now placed under house arrest and is still denied access to his former colleagues at the Cambodia National Rescue Party, which was banned in November.
"I am relieved that Kem Sokha has been released. I wish him the very best and hope his health improves quickly. The case against Kem Sokha is yet another example of the abuses of power by the authoritarian regime of Prime Minister Hun Sen to dismantle any and all political opposition prior to the recent national election," Lowenthal said.
"Now that Hun Sen has emerged victorious from the sham election he engineered, he believes that the international community will reward him for his seeming beneficence after the fact. We will not. We will continue to advocate for free and fair elections that the Cambodian people were promised, and we will hold the Hun Sen regime accountable for its attacks on Cambodian democracy.
"More than ever, the Cambodian Democracy Act, which imposes sanctions on the Hun Sen government and passed the U.S. House in July, needs to be immediately brought up and passed in the U.S. Senate."
Steve Chabot, a Republican lawmaker for Ohio, echoed Lowenthal's remarks.
"Since Hun Sen began his most recent round of abuses I have called for a strong response. Of course, I am pleased that Kem Sokha was released, but the bogus charges against him have not been dropped and he has little freedom of movement. Without real changes, this is not a step towards democracy, rather a ploy in a tyrants playbook," he said.
Sokha is the highest-profile of almost two dozen activists, journalists, and academics jailed in the lead-up to the July election, most of whom have either been released on bail or pardoned in recent weeks after the ruling party won every seat in the National Assembly.
Sophal Ear, an associate professor of diplomacy and world affairs at Occidental College in Los Angeles, said the release of Kem Sokha on bail was, however, a good sign.
"This is a positive development, especially since it looks like he was headed to another six months of arbitrary detention. I believe his health condition was such that to continue holding him like that could lead to some serious problems, the worst-case scenario is if anything happened to him while in detention," he said.
Ear who also the author of "Aid Dependence in Cambodia: How Foreign Assistance Undermines Democracy" and the "The Hungry Dragon: How China's Resources Quest is Reshaping the World", said that US Congress will continue to move the Cambodia Democracy Bill ahead.
In a report released on Wednesday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the Cambodian government should immediately and unconditionally release all those detained for peacefully exercising their rights.
"Cambodia has jailed a Who's Who of prominent critics of Hun Sen and his ruling party," said Brad Adams, HRW's Asia director. "The government should immediately release all political prisoners and drop all charges, including against opposition leader Kem Sokha. Hun Sen should commit to ending the arrest of critics, which he continues to use to prop up his dictatorial rule."
However, Cambodian government's spokesman Phay Siphan said on his Facebook page that the release of Kem Sokha and others was under the remit of Cambodia's court system.
"The Royal Government of Cambodia does not have the position to violently act to intimidate and made the arrests. The court carries out its functions and jurisdiction like in other countries."
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Horry County police responded to a call of shots fired at the PNR Club at 268 N. Green Sea Road around 2:30 a.m.
"Multiple victims were found suffering from gunshot wounds and were transported to a local hospital," Dotson said on Sunday.
After multiple requests for more information from The Sun News, Dotson confirmed to all news outlets Wednesday evening that five men and one woman was injured in the shooting. One of the wounded men died from injuries on the way to the hospital.
Thirty-seven-year-old Laquint O'neil Boyd from the Loris and Tabor City areas was pronounced dead at Loris Medical Center around 3:35 a.m. from a gunshot wound to the chest, said Horry County Deputy Coroner Tony Hendrick.
A responding officer was told by people at the club "that everyone left the scene" and that some were heading to a hospital, according to an incident report that excluded the name of the hospital. One witness, who said he was a security guard at the late-night hangout, told police that "there was an argument inside the club between a couple of unknown black males."
A bouncer at P&R told police the men were arguing about something that had happened in the club as they were leaving and the two started shooting at each other when they went outside.
The security guard said that's when he grabbed his gun and began firing at the shooters, the report stated.
The men fled the scene in a red Dodge Charger and a silver Nissan Altima, the security guard told police in the report. As the Charger was leaving the scene, one of the suspects began shooting out of a window and the guard returned fire, according to the report.
Dotson confirmed Wednesday night that a drive-by shooting that happened less than an hour later in Longs is now also believed to be related to the club shooting.
One man was killed and another man was injured when a suspect or suspects opened fire on homes along Freemont Road around 4 a.m. Sunday.
Rainey Valentine, 57, was shot at his home in the Freemont area of Longs, where he died, around 4:30 a.m., according to Horry County Chief Deputy Coroner Tamara Willard.
Valentine was found on a couch in the living room, according to the report. He "was not moving and had blood on his upper body," officers noted. Children at the home when the shots rang out did not report seeing anything. The kids ranged in age from 1 to 11 years old.
Multiple houses were struck along Freemont Road, but the exact number of homes remains unclear in redacted reports on the shooting.
"We do not have a suspect in custody for the homicide at PNR Club or Freemont Road. This case is still under investigation," Dotson said.
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Why Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman finds Carl's death 'exciting' for show's future
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Even though it's never been advisable to get too attached to characters on The Walking Dead, the death of Carl Grimes (Chandler Riggs) shocked and upset many fans (and even some of its stars). But Walking Dead creator and executive producer Robert Kirkman thinks that killing Carl may in fact be a good thing.
In the live after show Talking Dead following Episode 810, Kirkman said the death of the character frees up possibilities for the show's future and prevents it from being simply a clone of the comic book series on which it's based. "Really, if anything, it just makes me more excited," said Kirkman. "I think that any time that path is not set, any time you can't look at a comic book series and go, 'Oh, I know exactly what's going to happen,' it makes things a little bit more exciting."
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Added Kirkman: "And dealing with those unknowns, when we're in the writers' room, when we're working on Season 9, all those changes that kind of snowball out from that, it just makes for a better show."
The one-eyed hero Carl shoots himself in The Walking Dead's mid-season premiere, Episode 809, "Honor," after revealing in the midseason finale, "How It's Gotta Be," that he had been bitten by a walker. Carl's death marks one of the show's biggest deviations from Kirkman's monthly comic (since he's still alive in the comics).
Kirkman's remarks on Carl's death ties in with what executive producer Gale Anne Hurd told ComicBook.com back in May: "From the very beginning, Robert said, 'Look, these are two different types of media,'" she said. "Because we have characters that were never in The Walking Dead comic, like Daryl Dixon, that automatically changes that dynamic. He basically said, 'If this was a panel-by-panel adaptation, it would be a different thing.'"
Well, what do you think? Is Carl's death a good thing for the show? Feel free to let us know in the comments below.
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Ganns' Top 10 – June 19 2010
This week witnesses the second #1 debut for 2010, and it comes at the hands of Atlanta band The [M]useum. Its new single, My Help Comes From the Lord, becomes the second single to debut at #1 after Show My Love by Bostonian vocal group Ashmont Hill. My Help Comes From the Lord leads two other songs into the Top 10: Keep Changing the World by mikeschair and Life by Beckah Shae. All in all, a tight top 10. Don't honestly know how this chart'll look next week. I know at least six songs that could be #1 soon. (See the links to individual song reviews underneath the chart.)
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You can read my reviews of the following songs:
The Museum's "My Help Comes From the Lord"
Chris August's "Starry Night"
John Wilson's "Before The Morning"
Jonny Diaz's "Waiting Room"
Phillips, Craig and Dean's "Great Are You Lord"
Ashmont Hill's "Show My Love"
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Risk of cancer and acid suppressant treatment
Michael Langman1,
Richard Logan2
1Division of Medical Sciences, Medical School, University of Birmingham, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK
2Division of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Nottingham Medical School, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK
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Professor M Langman
Division of Medical Sciences, Medical School, University of Birmingham, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham B15 2TH, UK; m.j.s.langman{at}bham.ac.uk
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/gut.2007.120188
Garcia Rodriguez et al (Gut 2006;55:1538–44) use data from the General Practitioner Research Database (GPRD) to report that the odds ratios (ORs) for incidences of non-cardia gastric cancer were increased fourfold in those who received acid suppressant treatment for ulcer indications, compared with those who did not, and fivefold for oesophageal adenocarcinoma in those with oesophageal indications. They consider that the increased risks reflect the indications for treatment and not drug toxicity. Although their conclusions may be right, their data raise some important concerns.
The GPRD has particular strengths in recording prescriptions, but case details can be less complete, which may explain why 482 of the oesophageal cancer cases were excluded because of unspecified histology, leaving 287 with adenocarcinoma for comparison with their controls without cancer. The assumption that these …
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Gastric acid suppression and risk of oesophageal and gastric adenocarcinoma: a nested case control study in the UK
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Traumatizing events destroy our stable view of the world. From these ashes, growth is possible. We get back up, re-examine our world, adjust our expectations and move forward, a little wiser and stronger.
We are only six months into this forsaken year. A car in front of me sported a bumper sticker begging, "Let It End Already!" Our worlds have been disrupted. We endured months of isolation, assaulted by the COVID-19 epidemic. Just as recovery appeared on the horizon, the disturbing video of George Floyd's death provoked nation-wide protests, riots, and hate. If this was not enough, adding to the instability, the economy teeters at the beginning of another worldwide recession. Our politicians, elected to govern and protect, are too bothered by bipartisan charades to reassure their constituents. While the world is stunned, our personal tragedies don't wait, compounding the morass of intolerable anxiety. We are driven to ponder the new masked reality. With security shattered and hopes dashed, we must move forward—but how? Can we resiliently gather the shards of broken dreams and march with greater wisdom, strength, and determination? Resilient people emerge from intense struggles with a new sense of power. They grow in the aftermath of trauma.
Over the last two and half decades an extensive body of scientific researched examined post-traumatic growth (PTG). Lawrence Calhoun and Rischard Tedeschi led this research movement with a series of provocative articles in the mid-90's (1995, 1996, and 1998). They cemented their legacy with a seminal publishing in 2004 (Post-traumatic Growth: Conceptual foundations and empirical evidence). While Calhoun and Tedeschi gave the academic boost to post-traumatic growth, the concept isn't new—trial and growth has been a part of religious and philosophical teachings for centuries.
Key Definition:
Post Traumatic Growth is a theory in psychology that examines personal growth occurring after tragedy.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1888) famously wrote, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."
Perhaps, we survive this year and make it to 2021 a little stronger. While Nietzsche's words give hope, they may not be entirely correct. Living through struggle isn't the only requirement for growth. Often struggle invites bitterness, depression, or fear. A nasty life episode alters actions and can negatively impact wellness. Many respond to extreme conditions by adopting dysfunctional strategies to cope, squashing realistic examination. When reactions injure healthy cognitions, growth falters; we risk languishing in unfulfilling lives haunted by ugly pasts.
Living through struggle isn't the only requirement for growth. Often struggle invites bitterness, depression, or fear.
Calhoun and Tedeschi's Posttraumatic Stress Inventory (PTSI) provided the conceptual framework for the new body of research. Utilizing their inventory, researchers published numerous findings to broaden our understanding, uncovering correlations between traits, behaviors and conditions that invite growth.
Growth expands psychological functioning, providing greater ability to navigate life's vicissitudes. Brooks et al. (2017) wrote that "survivors typically report greater appreciation of life, greater personal strength, improved interpersonal relationships, a new life philosophy, and spiritual development (p. 287).
"Posttraumatic growth is the individual's experience of significant positive change arising from the struggle with a major life crisis" (Calhoun, et al. 2004, p. 521). Calhoun and Tedeschi's research focus on traumatic events significant enough to challenge basic assumptions. While ordinary struggles, hurts and bruises fail to rise to this level (at least they shouldn't), we still draw some wisdom from this interesting field of research.
Triplett et al. explains that "the greater the felt need to reexamine core beliefs, the higher the likelihood of experienced growth" (2012, p. 400).
Core Beliefs and Basic Assumption
Ronnie Janoff-Bulman theorizes in her inspirational book Shattered Assumptions that most children learn to rely on three basic assumptions:
The world is benevolent
The world is meaningful
The self is worthy
The events of 2020 have magnitude, certainly enough to disrupt foundational assumptions. Our security is shaken, leaving an unsettling doubt about the benevolence of our world, provoking stinging questions about meaning, and weakening confidence in our ability to navigate the new reality.
We have a complex schema of assumptions, more than Janoff-Bulman's basic three. We develop a structured lens to disentangle the complexity of a chaotic world. Our assumptions individualize our view, creating a stabilizing foundation to guide predictions and availability of resources. We draw from family, culture, and language a complex schema of the world to narrate a solidifying story about our lives (see A Healing Narrative). Trauma cruelly smashes this ordered existence, shattering stabilizing assumptions, destroying the bonds that hold life together.
After a personal trauma, I compared my life to a perfectly set table, adorned with the best china, matching silverware, and crystal glasses. The events that shattered my expectations were like the tablecloth being rudely yanked from the table, sending the ordered settings crashing to the floor. I was left with chaos—hopes and dreams scattered across the floor. My fundamental beliefs collapsed. The pressures of divorce, wayward teenagers, and a lawsuit pulled me under. Life didn't play out as expected; I struggled to stay psychologically afloat.
Emotions are positive when experience confirms assumptions; uncomfortable when experience and presumptions contradict. When we act, underlying the action is an invisible scaffold of assumptions and predictions. When life plays along, we experience peace and joy. We sense control. However, when life contradicts, we feel pain and fear. Experiences that collide with assumption require reconciliation. Emotions that disrupt "life as usual" intrude on tranquility, and we ruminate.
Brooks et al. argue that increased perception of control over the future enhances psychological functioning (2017, p. 288). I presume, then, that decreased perception of control typically decreases psychological functioning.
We resolve dissonance between assumptions and experience in a variety of ways. We can simply distract ourselves, coping by ignoring, and eventually forgetting the conflict. Many addictions extinguish disruptions but destroy our lives in other ways. We can assimilate the contradictions into our current beliefs, creating a loophole, allowing for exceptions; or we accommodate by adjusting beliefs to fit the incongruent experience.
Janoff-Bulman explains that assimilation is "a process involving changes in the new, incoming information such that there may be a good fit with preexisting schemas." She continues, "accommodation, on the other hand, involves changes in these preexisting schemas so as to maximize the fit between the old and new" (2010, p.29).
Posttraumatic growth typically belongs to the latter, accommodating experience by revising beliefs. Accommodation isn't necessarily the best path. Sometimes we're best served through assimilation, or even distraction. Accommodation doesn't always improve schemas. We may adopt dysfunctional assumptions, leading to more decay than growth. A person, for example, that responds to trauma by adopting the radical dogma of a destructive movement isn't progressing. Different isn't always better.
Growth Factors and Psychological Wellnes
Calhoun and Tedeschi's model of growth isn't measured by subjective wellbeing but more substantial psychological wellness. "Psychological well-being includes high-levels of autonomy, environmental mastery, positive relationships with others, open to personal growth, purpose in life, and self-acceptance" (2012, p. 318).
The Post Traumatic Growth Inventory identifies five factors for growth:
Personal strength
Spiritual changes
Appreciation for life (Joseph et al. 2012)
Resilience and post-traumatic growth share some similarities. Post-traumatic growth requires resiliency. Steve Southwick and Dennis Charney wrote in their book on resilience that, "when stress can be managed, it tends to be very good and even necessary for health and growth. Without it, the mind and body weaken. If we can learn to harness stress it can serve as a catalyst for developing greater strength and even greater wisdom" (Southwick & Charney, 2018, location 833).
Coping is a hallmark of resilience, enhancing the livability of our existence. We shouldn't allow small events to throw our lives into an emotional tizzy. A disagreement with a spouse shouldn't trigger frightening ruminations about divorce; a correction by a supervisor shouldn't shake self-esteem; and a relapse doesn't suggest recovery is impossible. We need healthy coping, sprinkled with Martin Seligman's positive psychology (2006). We stumble, stand-up, assimilate, and move forward.
Security is essential for wellness. We need continuity of experience. While some accommodation catapults us to greater wisdom, constant shifting of beliefs creates a feeble foundation. We can't let each challenging event reorder beliefs. Our conservative cognitive machine fights against changing assumptions. Sometimes cognitive conservatism is good; sometimes it's bad. Often, the best solution is to cope and move forward in the same direction. But events can't always be easily assimilated when assumptions are faulty. Reality often clashes with misconstrued fundamental beliefs; no matter how hard we try; the experience fails to resolve and melt into the past. We suffer from the cognitive disruptions—Festinger's cognitive dissonance (see Cognitive Dissonance). We must accommodate. We can't unexperience what we experienced.
However, we must be cautious, extensive coping may mitigate disruptions worth closer examination. We soothe some emotions, allowing problematic behaviors to continue—defensive mechanisms. Perhaps our spouse is abusive, and the relationship is incompatible to psychological wellness; our boss may be a deranged narcissist, or our technical work skills are subpar. Ignoring impinging ruminations may be detrimental when the cognitive alarm points to correctable problems.
Research suggests there is a window of opportunity when stress is neither too little nor too much. (Joseph et al. 2012, p. 320). With too little stress, experience doesn't intrude on cognitions with enough force to demand reconciliation; we continue as we always have. If too much, stress destabilizes and we can't function, the intrusion overwhelms, and accommodation isn't possible (at least not at that moment). We may, overtime, settle emotions enough to objectively examine the experience and promote growth.
Researchers discovered that higher levels of traumatic exposure are associated to both Post-traumatic stress and post traumatic growth (Triplett et al., 2012, Dekel et al., 2011). Post traumatic growth doesn't belong to resilient people that magically escape the devastating blows of trauma. Growth arises from the ashes—events that seriously impact wellness.
Southwick & Charney explain, "a resilient person may be deeply affected by a traumatic event, and may experience psychological symptoms such as depression, recurrent intrusive memories, or hypervigilance – but it (resilience) does mean being able to carry on with the important facets of one's life in spite of painful and distressing symptoms. . ." (2018, location 365).
Rumination and Thought
Traumatic events intrude because they are impactful. They invade cognitions with intrusive thoughts. Later, if our adaptive functions work correctly, the thoughts transform from bothersome intrusions constructive plans. Cognitive thought processes create a pathway for post-traumatic growth. However, thoughts don't always progress; they easily lodge in destructive ruminations, agitating rather than settling. The initial stirring of disturbing rumination is necessary to motivate change; but prolonged brooding fails to move forward, settling in the gloom of tragedy.
Calhoun et al. explains that rumination "refers to several varieties of recurrent [event related] thinking, including making sense, problem solving, reminiscence, and anticipation" (2004, p. 522). We naturally think incessantly about stressful situations, leading to disconnection and loss of sleep. Our minds try to "understand, resolve, and make sense of what happened" (2004 p. 522).
Sometimes thoughts aimlessly bounce, sucked into a negative vortex. We stubbornly cling to our broken world, refusing to accommodate but incapable of assimilating. Our cognitive wheels turn, the motor tires, and we collapse, depressed and despondent, missing growth promoting opportunities to reexamine our presumptive world. When thoughts are not "exclusively negative," they are predictive of posttraumatic growth. Healthy rumination is "a cognitive struggle to rebuild a presumptive world" (Scrignaro, et al., 2018) to reestablish security and predictability.
Intrusive ruminations prime the mind for more deliberate problem solving. This shift is essential for growth. The intrusive ruminations are associated with greater distress, which for some people activates more deliberate ruminations that are associated with PTG. (Brooks, et al. 2017, p. 289).
We must carefully examine ruminations to avoid incessant brooding and encourage productive reflection. Our cognitive musings can mold trauma into something that heals or something that beats us into stunned helplessness. It's not necessarily the event, but the meaning we give to that event that holds power over us. Harold Kushner wrote in his classic book, When Bad Things Happen to Good People:
"Let me suggest that the bad things that happen to us in our lives do not have a meaning when they happen to us. They do not happen for any good reason which would cause us to accept them willingly. But we can give them a meaning. We can redeem these tragedies from senselessness by imposing meaning on them. The question we should be asking in not, "Why did this happen to me? What did I do to deserve this?" That is really unanswerable, pointless questions. A better question would be "Now that this has happened to me, what am I going to do about it?" Kushner, H. (p. 138)
Viktor Frankl based his therapeutic theory (logotherapy) on giving life meaning. In his must read book, Man's Search for Meaning, he wrote:
"In the way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity. . .to add deeper meaning to his life… And this decides whether he is worthy of his suffering or not" (2006, p. 67).
Frankl later explains our response will be the immortal "footprint in the sands of time… for better or for worse. . . the monument of (our) existence" (p. 121)
"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Within the framework of Posttraumatic Growth, our "why" is shattered and must be restructured with new meaning. We can grow in a variety of ways, utilizing different foundations. Research has associated post traumatic growth with hope (Umer & Elliot 2019), religion (Seyed Bagheri et al. 2019), spirituality (Khursheed & Shahnawaz, 2020), social resources (Shang et al. 2020), and self-compassion (Chen et al. 2020), only to name a few.
Perhaps, Barbara Frederickson's broaden and build theory casts some light on a unifying factor that joins with various paths to enable growth. She suggests that shifting away from the exclusive negative, intrusive thoughts to positive deliberate ruminations is essential. The broaden and build theory posits that experiences of positive emotions broadens people's momentary thought-action repertoires, which builds their physical, intellectual, social, and psychological resources (Frederickson, 2001). Positive emotions foster factors essential for flourishing, necessary for resiliently adapting to life challenges.
There are many ways to elicit positive emotions. The research documented associations between posttraumatic growth and hope, religion, spirituality, social connections, and self-compassion, perhaps, may just be illuminating the avenue used to alleviate exclusively negative thoughts, allowing the mind to draw upon growth oriented mindsets.
Fredrickson explains that, "positive emotions are worth cultivating, not just as end stages in themselves but also as a means to achieve psychological growth and improved well-being overtime" (2001). Both positive and negative effect have adaptive survival qualities. Most basic psychology courses explain the importance of negative affect. Fear, anger and other negative affect emotions narrow attention on immediate threats. Attention zeros in on the moment, exciting biological systems to fight or flee. Positive affect, however, broadens attention. When affect signals security, we approach, continue and explore.
Positive emotions, typically, are not adaptive to life-threatening situations. However, they broaden our ability to integrate once a threat has subsided. Fredrickson writes, "In contrast to negative emotions, which carry direct and immediate benefits in situations that threaten survival, the broadening thought-action repertoires triggered by positive emotions are beneficial in other ways. Specifically, these mind broadening mindsets carry indirect and long-term adaptive benefits because broadening builds enduring personal resources, which function as reserves to be drawn on later to manage future threats" (2001).
Both positive and negative emotions are natural. Ann Masten wrote that, "resilience appears to be a common phenomenon that results in most cases from the operation of basic human adaptational systems. If those systems are protected and in good working order, development is robust even in the face of severe adversity" (2001).
We invite positive emotions with realistic optimism. We must, at some point, escape the dread that life will always be overshadowed by the trauma. Realistic optimists nurture positive expectations that promote active striving. This is an upward spiral. The realistic optimist doesn't exclusively focus on Pollyanna escapisms; but effectively integrates relevant negative information with positive expectations of recovery. Depression, on the other hand, is an example of negative emotions helplessly slipping into a downward spiral. The negative affect amplifies feelings of inescapability, which then inhibits goal directed action. Often medication and therapeutic professionals must be called upon to stop the avalanche of depression and anxiety, creating space for the broadening and building states of mind.
During my post-trauma depression, I began a practice of meditation. After a period of time, I experienced a fleeting feeling of peace—just a brief glimpse into the possibility of recovery. This passing moment slowly expanded in hopeful optimism and effortful behavior. The small emotion blossomed into a full experience of newness. The meditation was a new avenue of coping for me and it worked.
Healthy coping assists moving disastrous emotions from problematic intrusions to deliberate striving. Southwick and Charney list three coping mechanisms that broaden attention: positive reappraisal, problem-focused coping, and infusion of meaning (2018). Joseph et al. adds acceptance and seeking social support (2012) to the list of useful coping strategies. I found that meditation serves as a momentary comfort, creating space, giving an opportunity for more growth oriented coping practices.
The magic of growth is less miraculous than we think. Post traumatic growth is a product of a well-working adaptive system. We have access to healthy coping practices that can soothe intrusive emotions and create room for a broadening exploration of hurt. These explorations integrate the hurt into a new healing narrative of self. We can utilize mindfulness, hope, self-compassion, spirituality, or religion as mediums for growth. However, success is only achieved when we first create the emotional space to explore, learn and integrate.
2020 still hurts; but for the resilient, this year marks the beginning of change, inviting powerful, life developing growth. The changes shouldn't be confined to the individuals but with an army of changed people, the posttraumatic growth may expand to the nation and world, making this year, in an odd way, the best year ever.
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Music Diaries: White Room
Fashion Lewis Evans-Martin
Fashion assistant NESSADH CAREY
White Room. A young five-piece collective delivering a classic British sound that has felt neglected for a while. Upbeat melodic vibes leave no uncertainty about the support and admiration this group has of a number of big names in British music. Despite on the surface looking like just another group of young people around Brighton, and leading day-to-day lives working and studying, it's hard to believe that they are in fact producing outstanding music. It's a sound that is beyond their years; inspiring and unique.
Following our previous print catch up with the band, this time photographer Sophie Mayanne visits their home town and captures them on their seafront doorstep; their natural habitat if you will. The seaside town is a music mecca, and the colourful sounds of White Room are steam rolling the group to success. Lewis Evans-Martin styles them in uniform stripes and shirts, simple and fun, keeping spirited even with the sharp gusts of harsh wind. Settling down in an obscure and humbling mismatched pub, adorned in old-school retro attire, they unwind and indulge in conversations on their prospective futures and what it's like growing up today.
Having announced their second tour supporting the Modfather himself, Paul Weller, their future is looking brighter with every single. The tunes are psychedelic and engaging, an aching yearning for summer resonates within you as the music fizzes around and fills mind. They're addictive and the promise of music a little later this year has us on the edge of our seats. Having already announced a great number of appearances for the upcoming festival season, there's no way to question the musical prosperity and charm of White Room.
If you guys could say your names and a little bit about yourselves.
Jacob: I'm Jacob and I play guitar in White Room.
Josie: I'm Josie and I play bass and backing notes.
Tristan: I'm Tristan. I play a combination of instruments; the guitar, the organ, the synth.
Jake: I'm Jake and I fish.
Henry: I'm Henry. I like peanut butter.
How did you guys find the shoot today?
Tristan: It was cold, it was windy, it was really hard to keep your hair together, but all in all it was a successful shoot. We all looked very good and it was fun.
Jake: Had some chips.
Josie: Took Floyd for walk.
Henry: Had some nice clothes given to us to wear.
How would you describe one another?
Jake: Hen's a cheeky little scheming drummer boy. Always scheming and talking in riddles.
Hen: Jacob is a big giraffe.
Jacob: Josie is… fun and new.
Josie: Fun and new? T… T is Mr. Mowgli Man.
Tristan: Yeah, someone emailed a really serious message to us on Facebook, and I replied with 'Hello there, Mowgli bear!' - it was a very bizarre thing. Jake is 'exact replica (of) Floyd'. Look at his hair - human replica of Floyd. Make that in to three somehow.
Jacob: 'Looks like Floyd'.
How did you guys meet?
Jake: Me, Tristan and Jacob were in school together and we met Hen through Tristan - they're cousins. Me and Josie were in college together while Josie was doing her own stuff. She's a singer/songwriter, a bloody good one, and I did some recording with her. When another member left, we were like; 'get Josie in the band!'.
Henry: The perfect fit.
Jake: Now she's here.
Tristan: Fun and new.
Josie: I've been in the band about 7 months. When you look back at it, we've done a lot.
Jake: Josie got thrown into the deep end, 'cause she joined mid-festival season and her first show with us was Y-Not festival. We did one warm up under a different name, but the first White Room show was a festival and we smashed it.
Josie: I had dabbled in bass a little before joining and then within a month of being in White Room, properly learning bass, they were like; 'we're playing Reading and Leeds'. I was like; 'why are you doing this to me?'. It was terrifying, but it was fun.
What was your first performance together as White Room like?
Jacob: I think our first as White Room was in a place called The Horn.
Tristan: It was a show that had 300 capacity and we managed to get it more or less sold out. We made it a really big deal, got all our friends along and they brought the mosh pits.
Josie: I actually supported that gig.
Jake: You supported the first White Room show and now...
Tristan: Two and a half years later!
Jake: You were watching like; 'you know what there might be a little trick in there'.
Josie: I have a song called 'The Trick' as well!
I've heard you have quite a stage presence, how do you like being on stage and performing?
Henry: It's the best. Amazing.
Jake: It gives you more of a buzz than anything else in the world does. You can't really compare it, especially when you're playing to a responsive crowd, it just gets you going all night. I always find afterwards you're just still feeling fizzy, which is a feeling you don't really get in a lot of other things.
Do you have any pre-show rituals?
Jake: Someone made up a rumour about Hen…
Jacob: But no set rituals really.
Jake: We just always make sure we gather beforehand, talk about going out there and smashing it.
Henry: Have a little team talk.
Josie: I feel like the better gigs are when we gather.
Jake: When you find yourself just falling on stage, being told you're about to go on and you haven't sort of clocked it, or a few people are up on stage already setting up, it all gets a bit rushed.
Henry: It's a lot better when we're altogether getting in the zone all at the same time.
You excitingly announced just yesterday that you're touring with Paul Weller. How are you all feeling about that?
Jake: We're going to have a load of new songs in that set. We're off to the studio a couple of weeks before hand - in Paul's studio actually - to start recording our next big batch of songs we're going to release before summer. It's going to be very new, so we're going to work hard getting it ready.
Tristan: You want to feel comfortable with the songs, otherwise you're not comfortable on stage and people will see that.
Jacob: To have a new batch of songs, regardless of how good they are, they need to fit in the set list. So that's also something to bare in mind.
Tristan: The set is a half hour and that's what we usually play now, so to be playing a lot of new songs we're going to have to get rid of a lot of old ones, which really takes us out of our comfort zone, but that's alright.
Jake: Yeah, there's a difference. We've been playing tracks from the EP for quite a while now, and it was last time we were playing here at The Hope that we played a completely new set list. Six out of the eight were completely new tracks, unreleased with the two latest single releases too. It was a very, very different mind set. When it's second nature it's fine, but I got on stage about to do a load of new songs and I was like; 'shit, I think I've had too many drinks, I can't see properly'.
Considering you're going to start recording soon, what have you been listening to yourselves?
Jake: For me personally, I've been getting into Lemon Twigs from America, they're really good. King Lizard… Oh Baxter Dury, Ian Dury's son, listen to some of his stuff, it's so good! He sounds like Ian Dury, but kind of more electronic, female vocals and things and he steps in with some spoken word. Really good tunes.
Jacob: There's a lot of new albums out at the moment. The new Warpaint album is pretty sick.
Jake: Also liking stuff from Strange Bones, they've got sick music.
Where would you say you draw your artistic influences from?
Jake: I think at the moment it's a lot to do with what's going on in the world. Whether it's political or social change, lyrically I've been drawing on a bit of that, looking for escapism and how you can slip out of the mundane pains. You see these posts and videos every day that you can't even bring yourself to click on, because you don't want to sit and watch it - even though you know you have to, because you want to be aware what's going on. The whole idea of escapism for me personally is a big thing with what I'm writing about.
Josie: It is something we're going to involve a lot more in our band as a whole as well. We're getting two of our good friends who are artists for our future releases, and hopefully our Weller tour as well to get some projections in our live show. We have a bit of a concept going on.
Jacob: We've always been quite a visual band, whether that be videos or look. It goes hand in hand.
Jake: It's nice to work with young up-and-coming artists as well, it goes both ways. We'll have really great album covers from their artwork, and by using them they are being exposed to a whole new crowd of people. It's beneficial to have the collaborative mindset.
Do you often work as a collective writing your songs?
Jake: It varies. There's a lot of demoing, writing tunes and then sharing it, and working on bits we like. It moulds and progresses.
Jacob: Yeah, it's a mixture. Altogether we'll rehearse and there will be a lot of writing to come out of that, but also we do our own things and bring it in.
How does it make you feel that you are influencers to other people?
Jake: We were talking about that the other day actually when we were talking about concepts. We were thinking about how it would be amazing, if a few years down the line, people were figuring little things out that you've put subtly in the music. If you're a musician or artist, you want to be an influence to other people. Just the idea of someone being like; 'I want to learn that song', or 'I want a melody like that', it's just what I want to do.
Josie: That's what surrounds us as musicians. We do that all the time with others, and if people did that to us, that would be mad.
Jake: Whether you're playing sold out shows at Wembley or playing to a small pub down the road, if someone leaves that gig going; 'I want to go home, play guitar and write a song', then you've won.
What sort of things do you want to say with your music?
Jake: We're not a massively political band, but there's obviously so much going on right now that you just couldn't not mention it - it's so important.
Jacob: Even writing about your personal stuff, your personal thoughts will be that at the moment.
Jake: We want to give people the opportunity to go to a venue, dance, have an amazing time, and escape from it all. Get people moving again.
What's the deal with your next single releases?
Jake: We're going to be doing a big batch of songs released over time. It's an undecided number, but it'll be a fair few. We're going in to the studio mid March, record like four, and then start doing some online releases. At the end of that when it's a big body, we'll put that out as a physical around August.
Jacob: It's going to be the most music we've released in such a short space of time.
Jake: It's going to be like; 'boom, here's a song; boom, here's a song'. I think it's the way to go, because nowadays; people don't listen to albums as much or listen to things as a flow. If you do it like; 'here's a track; here's a track; here's a track', it's going to get heard and received a lot better, waiting for the next one.
Do you think your experience of being young is different to people that you know?
Tristan: To an extent, yeah.
Jacob: Majority of our friends have got the uni lifestyle. I'm at uni myself - music college - but I would say there's a difference.
Henry: There's definitely a difference, because they've all had that opportunity to go to uni, leave and make new friends, when we've all stayed in Brighton working on this thing.
Jacob: It was a collective decision while we were finishing school. We definitely thought we should give this a go.
At Boys by Girls we are curious about what shapes our identities growing up. What do you think shapes young men growing up today?
Jacob: Unfortunately, it might just be the growth of this 'Snapchat generation'.
Jake: No one has an attention span, and people don't have the ability to just be bored. I think boredom is such an important thing. You sit there doing nothing and you have to think about what you can do. It makes you do something instead of watching ten thousand videos or playing Angry Birds.
Tristan: Angry Birds? It's 2017 not 2013, come on.
Jake: I especially think with young kids now, you see people satisfying their boredom with an iPad, telling them to play a game. Just go and be really bored. Find some worms.
Jacob: People are being spoon fed sudo-intellectualism by these people on Snapchat, spouting these ridiculous motivational phrases to inspire you to pick up your phone and take a selfie.
Jake: We're in a sound bite generation. And that's a sound bite.
Tristan: At the same time, the Internet and all these social media platforms, they're all helping us as a band. As much as you hate it, that's the way it has gone, you can't fight against it.
Jacob: There are huge benefits to it as well. You can write a post and your fans will know what you're doing and what's going on instantly. It's just people being glued to it that's so negative.
How do you think it effects the way people look at themselves?
Henry: People post unrealistic ideals for people to try and aspire to, when it's just never going to happen. Bands can post the best picture of their lives and fans look at that thinking; 'oh, I wish I could do that', but under all that they're unhappy about so much.
Jake: People can hide behind a screen and build up their own sort of persona and you meet them in real life, they don't have anything to say for themselves. They can have such strong views on everything, then when you actually talk to them in person, they really simmer down.
Tristan: 'Got paid to say that'. I'm thinking on the bigger picture.
Jacob: Basically, something needs to change on this.
Would you say that men are more vulnerable than previous generations?
Henry: Definitely.
Jake: I think it's clear with the rise in mental health issues. Mental health has always been there, but recently it's just gone up and there are so many ways of people getting attacked and so many more opportunities for people to overthink little things, and for it to really effect them. Social media feeds these things.
Jacob: It highlights problems that don't even seem like problems, but because of the world we live in they have become just that.
Jake: Everything is under a spotlight now.
Henry: Anything you say online is for everyone to see.
Tristan: There are so many people at gigs these days watching it through their phones.
Jacob: In the future days of virtual reality, you might even see empty gigs. Just artist playing to empty venues and people watching at home.
Jake: That would be the most disgusting thing. You don't always need to be looking at the world through your phone screen. Just enjoy the night.
Aside from music, what do you guys do in your spare time?
Jake: I do love a bit of fishing.
Henry: I'm a summer fisherman, he's an all-round year fisherman.
Jake: It's nice when you get back from a run of shows and you're able to chill for a little bit and go down to the beach. I like cooking as well.
Josie: Before joining White Room I was going to go to art school in London, so something that I'm enjoying about this new project that we have is incorporating normal art, and it's something I can involve myself in.
Tristan: I quite like puns.
Henry: Me and T love a bit of climbing. We're an active group of people.
Tristan: You've got to be active these days.
What would you do if you weren't in a band?
Jake: Living on a fishing boat.
Henry: I'd be depressed.
Jacob: I'd be watching lots of other bands. Live a very jealous life. Or be in another band maybe.
What would you say was the ultimate goal?
Josie: You said it the other day, just to have a body of work that we're proud of.
Jacob: I say a lot.
Jake: Being in a situation where we can write music and release it when and as we please. Knowing that we have a following that's going to stay with us forever, really getting in to it. I think the ability to know that for the rest of my life, all I have to do is release albums - that is perfect. You get to do what you love doing for the rest of your life.
Henry: I could not agree more.
Tristan: Yeah I agree, but I'd also say that the ultimate, ultimate goal was Peter Crouch, 40 yards out on the touch line, volleys it - that's the ultimate goal.
Above: Jake (Left) wears Jacket by UMBRO, Jacob (Right) wears Jumper from CHAMPION
Above left to right: Tristan wears Jacket by WOOD WOOD, Josie wears Jacket by CARRIER COMPANY, Jacob wears Jumper by CHAMPION, Jake wears Jacket by UMBRO
Above: Jake wears Jumper by SAINT LAURENT BY ANTHONY VACCARELLO
Above left, from left to right: Henry wears Shirt by FARAH, Jeans by WAVEN, Shoes by CLARKS, Tristian wears Shirt by DKNY, Jeans by OUR LEGACY, Jacob wears Shirt by FRENCH CONNECTION, Jeans by WAVEN, Shoes by RED WINGS, Josie wears Shirt by MOSS BROS, Jeans by OUR LEGACY, Shoes by RED WINGS, Jake wears Shirt by FILIPA K, Trousers by UMBRO, Shoes by RED WINGS
Above right: Jake wears T-Shirt by SAINT LAURENT BY ANTHONY VACCARELLO
Above from left to right: Jake wears T-Shirt from BILLIONAIRE BOYS CLUB, Henry wears T-Shirt by UMBRO, Jacob wears Trousers by YOU MUST CREATE, Shoes by BASE LONDON, Josie wears T-Shirt by WOOD WOOD
Above left, from left to right: Jacob wears T-Shirt by FARAH, Jake wears T-shirt by NANAMICA, Josie wears T-Shirt by YOU MUST CREATE, Tristian wears T-Shirt by FARAH, Henry wears T-Shirt by FARAH
Above right: Jake wears Jacket and Jeans by SAINT LAURENT BY ANTHONY VACCARELLO


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Thermosphaeroma smithi is een pissebed uit de familie Sphaeromatidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1981 door Thomas Elliot Bowman III.

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Q: Accordion menu has a jumpy transition I have an issue where where the accordion menu looks fine on my codepen, but when I actually implement the accordion menu on my site it has a jumpy transition. You can check out the codepen below:
https://codepen.io/tiffany-koval/pen/OJRVKGp
CSS
* {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    -webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
    -moz-box-sizing: border-box;
    box-sizing: border-box;
}

body {
    background: #fff;
    font-family: "Avenir Next Demi Bold";
  font-size: 13px;
  letter-spacing: 3px;
  line-height: auto;
}

ul {
    list-style-type: none;
}

a {
    color: #000;
    text-decoration: none;
}
.line-break {
  border-bottom: 1px solid #ebebeb;
  max-width: 800px;
  margin-left: auto;
  margin-right: auto;
}
.faq h1 {
   font-family: "Avenir Next Medium";
  font-size: 24px;
  font-weight: 500px;
  letter-spacing: 3px;
  margin: 0;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  text-align: center;
  line-height: auto;
  margin-bottom: 10px;
}

.faq h2 {
  font-family: "Avenir Next Medium";
  font-size: 12px;
  font-weight: 500px;
  letter-spacing: 3px;
  margin: 0;
  text-align: center;
  line-height: auto;
  margin-bottom: 60px;
}
.faq {
  margin-top: 100px;
}

@media screen and (max-width: 720px){
    .faq {
  margin-top: 40px !important;
}
}
/** =======================
 * Accordion
 ===========================*/

 .accordion {
    width: 100%;
    max-width:800px;
    margin: 30px auto -5px;
    background: #fbfbfb;
 }

.accordion .link {
    cursor: pointer;
    display: block;
    padding: 18px 15px 18px 15px;
    color: #000;
    font-size: 14px;
    font-weight: 700;
    border-bottom: 3px solid #fff;
    position: relative;
    -webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease;
    -o-transition: all 0.4s ease;
    transition: all 0.4s ease;
}

.accordion li:last-child .link {
    border-bottom: 3px solid #fff;
  margin-bottom: 0px !important;
}

.accordion li i {
    position: absolute;
    top: 22px;
    left: 12px;
    font-size: 18px;
    color: #000;
    -webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease;
    -o-transition: all 0.4s ease;
    transition: all 0.4s ease;
}

.accordion li i.fa-chevron-down {
    right: 12px;
    left: auto;
    font-size: 12px;
}

.accordion li.open .link {
    color: #000;
}
.accordion li.open i.fa-chevron-down {
    -webkit-transform: rotate(180deg);
    -ms-transform: rotate(180deg);
    -o-transform: rotate(180deg);
    transform: rotate(180deg);
}

.accordion li.default .submenu {display: block;}
/**
 * Submenu
 -----------------------------*/
 .submenu {
    display: none;
    background: #fbfbfb;
    font-size: 13px;
  letter-spacing: 3px;
 }

 .submenu p {
    border-bottom: 3px solid #fff;
 }

 .submenu p {
    display: block;
  font-family: "Avenir Next";
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #000;
    padding: 15px;
    padding-left: 18px;
    -webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease;
    -o-transition: all 0.25s ease;
    transition: all 0.25s ease;
 }

 .submenu p:hover {
    background: #fbfbfb;
    color: #000;
 }
/**
 * More FAQs
 -----------------------------*/
.accordion + .more-faqs {
  margin-top: 0px !important;
  background: none !important;
}

.fa-chevron-right {
  margin-left: 115px;
  font-size: 10px !important;
}

#more-faqs {
  font-size: 13px;
  letter-spacing: 3px;
  font-family: "Avenir Next Medium";
}

Javascript
$(function(){
    var Accordion = function(el, multiple) {
        this.el = el || {};
        this.multiple = multiple || false;

        var link = this.el.find('.link');

        link.on('click', {el: this.el, multiple: this.multiple},this.dropdown)
    }

    Accordion.prototype.dropdown = function(e) {
        var $el = e.data.el;
            $this = $(this),
            $next = $this.next();

        $next.slideToggle();
        $this.parent().toggleClass('open');

        if(!e.data.multiple){
            $el.find('.submenu').not($next).slideUp().parent().removeClass('open');
        }

    }

    var accordion = new Accordion($('#accordion'), false);
});

I keep thinking it has something to do with the padding or the height of the accordion menu itself, but playing around with the code results in no change. How could I make the accordion menu on my site look more like my codepen? Any ideas?

A: On the store page, you have an additional margin of 1em 0 on the <p> element (rule .content-asset p from style.min.css). This vertical margin seems to disappear and re-appear at a different moment than the rest of the <p>, even though the margin seems to have no visible effect. Setting this margin to 0 removes the jumpiness, as far as my tests indicate. You might have to override it (define anew, or even enforce it with !important), in case you have no control over style.min.css.
I think the root cause of the jumpiness is that you have a "target" margin on the element, but not a real "source" margin in the same direction for the transition to base itself on. A transition needs clearly defined start and end points for every transitioned property.

A: I had the same problem on a web page where I had two accordions, where clicking on one accordion moved the other one up and down. Once I put on the background colors I saw that blank spaces in the elements were over lapping.
Try and throw distinctive background colors on the elements to see if any of the elements are overlapping each other. If the width and height of elements are not set in CSS or HTML sometimes blank space in elements will overlap and may cause things to move around un-intentionally on the web page. Also I did not have top or bottom margins on the specific accordions, due to float usage. (However if use the position: fixed; style in your CSS then set the margins to get it where you want it, should not move when you click on the accordion).

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Received Visiting Professorship for Culture Exchange Ceramic Art Program from the Japan Foundation (Kokusai Koryu Kikin) to U.S.A.
Visiting Professor : Teaching Ceramic Art at Peters Valley Educational Art and Craft Center Layton, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Organized Peters Velley Anagama Project Committee members to found kiln operation. Members included Susan Peterson, Rudy Audio, Robert Turner, Peter Voulkos, Jun Kaneko, Toshiko Takeezu, Fredrick Marer.


Lemar will hit the MTV offices this Thursday (Feb 4) to takeover our Twitter account and take questions from you lot!
The singer is returning with new single The Way Love Goes- released on February 15- and a greatest hits album out soon.
Previously he appeared on Fame Academy in 2002 and released big tracks like 50/50, If There's Any Justice and It's Not That Easy.
So if you want to ask anything about his career, new album or just wanna know what he had for breakfast then hit Twitter tomorrow.
Follow MTVUK and message us a question then watch Lemar answer from 12pm tomorrow.


If you like to eat tuna and other sea fish then don't miss the cafe called "Maguroya" in Urayasu city, Chiba prefecture. Everything is fresh and splendid to the taste. In the menu you will find many "kaisen don" - raw fish of one or different fish kinds on boiled rice, fried and baked fish and many others. If you don't know which dish to choose there are "day dish" and "seasonal dish" which will be kindly explained by the cafe staff.
Come for the food, stay for the decor!
Magic, Mickey Mouse and memories for a lifetime: Disney - where dreams really do come true!


Key West Historic Photos. Beautiful giclee fine art prints of memorable photographs from Key West's colorful past printed using archival ultrachome ink sets and museum quality digital inkjet paper.
All prints available as prints only, matted prints, and framed prints.


This lamp represents a small improvement in manufacturing process beyond its 4th generation predecessor. The sodium-indium-thallium chemistry of Philips HPI lamps is particularly sensitive to variations in arc tube dimensions, which influence the temperature of the region where the molten metal halide salts condense. This determines the halide vapour pressures, and as a result the colour and efficacy of the light output.
Earlier designs attempted to limit the variation from lamp-to-lamp by providing a deliberate cold spot, thanks to a sharply-defined cylindrical arc tube. Although effective, that arc tube had to be hand-formed from three pieces of quartz - a labour-intensive operation. The intentional cold-spot also imposed a limit on vapour pressures, and light quality / efficacy.
The lamp featured on this page was made possible as a result of improved process control in shaping the quartz arc tube dimensions. It employs a single-piece quartz body of narrow diameter, whose central portion has been inflated to a larger diameter. The shape of the area around the electrodes has been precisely formed by blow-moulding during the process of pinch-sealing the quartz. The small increase in cold spot temperature brings about a small improvement in efficacy and colour. The result is a simpler and better arc tube, whose costs could be further cut by transfering its production to the high speed automatic MH360 machine, according to a design that Philips inherited from its takeover of Westinghouse.
The mount frame has also been simplified, the new shape allowing welds to be made directly to the arc tube. This delivers improved mechanical strength while also eliminating the former metal support strap at one end of the arc tube.
References: 1) Philips UK Catalogue, 1994.
2) Philips UK Catalogue, 1997.
3) Philips Germany Catalogue, 1997.
4) Philips UK Price List, 4th December 1996.


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"Gaga, oh la la..." Offering an iPad2 to each of her Twitter followers -- ah, sorry, "monsters" (her term of endearment for her adoring fans)...Let's see (pulling up the calculator app), that's a tidy sum exceeding $9 billion dollars to keep a hacker's promise of an iPad2 to each of Lady Gaga's 17,113,943 Twitter followers. (No similar offer/hack was made on her Facebook page where she boasts 45,775,157 "monsters"!)
Joining the ranks of U.S. President Barrack Obama and Britney Spears, Lady Gaga found her Twitter account hacked, repeatedly offering an iPad 2 to her followers. Even a bit much for a super-rich social media superstar who was the first to hit one billion YouTube views.
I spotted the story when TechCrunch first tweeted about it, less than an hour into the hack. I immediately started tracking Lady Gaga's Twitter account to see how the communications crisis would unfold. There was a running battle of the iPad offer appearing, being deleted, and reappearing.
With no message interjected from her Twitter account during the pitch of battle explaining what was happening, viewers were left to puzzle over what was really going on, though some math would have made it more likely than not that it was a hack, given the $9 billion dollar pricetag. (No, I didn't click on the tempting link as I feared my own adoring Twitter fans...ok, friends...would soon be receiving a promise of a free iPad2.)
After about two hours, the running battle ended with Lady Gaga emerging victorious:
The tweets from her account that followed this announcement were her typical tweets.
3 Lessons In Crisis Communications
From Lady Gaga
1. Plan for Your Social Media Account To Be Hacked
"Wait, I'm not a superstar. I'm just running a small business and trying to be social." It doesn't matter. Scores of social media accounts are hacked every day. Some hacks happen because someone trustingly taps a malicious link. Others happen because someone knows how to do it and you're their unfortunate victim. Others happen because one of the apps you use is "leaky". Plan on being hacked and what you'll do when it happens. (Having a secondary account already set up is a good way to start correcting the facts while you struggle with the task of wrestling back your account.)
2. Pay Attention to Your Social Media Accounts
Social media is 24/7, viral and real-time. If someone has hacked your account, you need to stop the bleeding as quickly as possible, as NBC News learned when its Twitter account was hacked and the account messaged a false report of a new attack on Ground Zero. In the case of NBC, the account was taken down within ten minutes. In Lady Gaga's case, the battle raged for about two hours.
If you can, have more than one person monitoring your account. Know that social network monitoring needs to continue even after 5:00 p.m. and on the weekends and holidays. You owe it to your customers, "monsters", and to your brand. It's the price of social business.
3. Tell People What Happened, Where It Happened -- and Return to Business
For Lady Gaga, the return to business took place in a measured way, with a tweet announcing the hack was over, then two quick tweets about her normal routine and her appreciation for her fans...I mean, "monsters".
Don't ignore a social network hack or other communications crisis on your social network account. Let your customers know you ran into a problem, what the problem was, and that the problem's been fixed -- then return to your normal routine. (Yes, an apology is always good idea, too.)
If you can, communicate during the crisis what is taking place. Stay calm. Return to your routine after you've cleaned up any mess and offered the appropriate apologies or explanations.
What might you have done differently?
6 Lessons From Red Cross Beer Tweet
And please feel free to join me and my "monsters" on Twitter! @GlenGilmore
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Shopping Online For The Holidays - Don't Get Ripped Off - Hallo Home Based Business, n the article you read this time with the title Shopping Online For The Holidays - Don't Get Ripped Off, we have prepared well for this article you read and download the information therein. hopefully fill posts Article brick and mortar stores, you write you can understand. Happy reading.
We are quickly approaching that time of the year where the Internet pays off in spades - the holidays. Here's a primer on protecting yourself while buying online.
I hate going to the malls during the holidays. They are packed with people, elbows are flying and I inevitably get in line behind the person who needs a price check or lost their checkbook. Thankfully, the Internet has largely solved this problem.
Millions of people now do most or all of their holiday shopping online. Frankly, it is hard to imagine how many brick and mortar stores stay in business. While shopping from your desk is great, you need to keep in mind the following legal cautions.
In a few weeks, you are going to get bombarded by emails from businesses. Unfortunately, there is no way to be sure the email messages are actually from the business in question. Phishing scam artists have become masters at kicking out email messages that look extremely authentic. If you get an email message and want to visit a site, do not click the link in the email message. Instead, type the site domain name directly into a browser or find it through a search engine. Doing so will get you to the real site, not a fake.
Most people have multiple credit cards and use them willy nilly. When shopping online, try to limit all of your charges to one credit card that doesn't have a massive credit line on it. Also, print out all receipts. If a scam artist gets a hold of your credit card information, this should limit the damage. When you receive the credit card statement, make sure to check the charges against your receipts. If you find unauthorized charges, report them immediately.
Sites selling products online have to comply with "prompt delivery" rules. To this end, sites are encouraged, but not required to tell you how long it will take to deliver products. In addition, they absolutely must deliver within 30 days unless stated otherwise on the site. When ordering gifts, make sure you note how long it is going to take to receive the item. If you are going out of town, make sure you keep the departure date in mind before you leave.
The Internet is a godsend when it comes to avoiding the stress of holiday shopping. Just keep an eye on those credit card statements!
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Tyszkowice (ukr. Тишковичі) – wieś na Ukrainie, w rejonie mościskim obwodu lwowskiego.

Historia
Dawniej wieś w powiecie mościskim.

Przypisy

Bibliografia
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Linki zewnętrzne

Wsie w obwodzie lwowskim
Rejon mościski


Aug. 4, 2018 9:15 p.m.
CALGARY — The Calgary Stampeders have opened a CFL season 7-0 for the first time since 1995 with a 27-18 win over the B.C. Lions on Saturday.
Stampeders quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell threw for 370 yards, including a 53-yard touchdown pass to Kamar Jorden.
Backup quarterback Nick Arbuckle scored a pair of touchdowns on one-yard carries. Rene Paredes kicked a 44-yard field goal for the hosts.
Jorden totalled 185 receiving yards in the game.
Jeremiah Johnson rushed for a touchdown and Bryan Burnham had a touchdown catch for the Lions, who fell to 2-4. Ty Long kicked a 40-yard field goal for B.C.
Lions quarterback Travis Lulay completed 23 of 36 pass attempts for 281 yards and was intercepted once.
Lulay's eight-yard toss to Burnham in the end zone late in the fourth quarter cut the deficit to 27-17.
.@RealBBurnham closes the gap: 4:19 to go in 4th.
Calgary led 25-10 early in the fourth after Arbuckle's second short-yardage touchdown of the game and a Paredes convert.
Johnson, back in B.C.'s lineup after a July 14 ankle injury, scored a five-yard rushing touchdown late in the third.
A 57-yard punt return by B.C. running back Travon Van early in the quarter gave the Lions the ball on Calgary's 21-yard line.
B.C. failed to capitalize on that field position, however, and turned the ball over on downs after three consecutive incomplete passes by Lulay.
Calgary led 17-3 at halftime in front of an announced crowd of 25,075 at McMahon Stadium.
Starting from Calgary's eight-yard line late in the first half, Mitchell marched the Stampeders offence downfield with a 62-yard pass to Jorden, a 19-yard throw to DaVaris Daniels and a 22-yard toss to Marken Michel.
Arbuckle's one-yard plunge to score finished the drive with 43 seconds remaining in the half.
Paredes' convert ticked on an upright, but was still good for the single point. He booted a 44-yard field goal earlier in the quarter.
The Lions turned the ball over on Calgary's 27-yard line late in the first quarter when Stampeders linebacker Jameer Thurman grabbed a deflected ball.
The hosts scored on their first possession of the game. Mitchell scampered out of the pocket and connected with Jorden, who made an over-the-shoulder catch for a 53-yard major.
The Lions mustered a field goal on the game's opening drive with Long good from 40 yards.
Calgary has a bye week before a road game Aug. 19 against the Saskatchewan Roughriders. The Lions are at home Thursday to the Edmonton Eskimos (5-2).


In case you're living under a rock, Funko POP's figures are everywhere! As you may have already known, The Netflix's remake, Voltron is a great success, so to celebrate, Funko POP! have released a new adorable collectible figure of Voltron - perfect for any robotic lions fan! This figure stands for 3 3/4 inches and comes in a window display box. Check out the other figures from Funko!


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February 28, 2020 by Annie I
J.K. Rowling's Story Is An Inspiration For All Young Writers Today
Famous writer J.K. Rowling, who created the magic world of Hogwarts, is truly a modern day Cinderella. Only, she did not have to find a prince, but unleash her own power of creativity to make her fortune. From a single parent living on welfare to becoming the recipient of an OBE title (Order of the British Empire – a prestigious British order of chivalry granted to persons who bring great contributions to arts and sciences), J.K. Rowling has come a long way. And she remains a constant source not just of writing inspiration but also of an exemplary determination to never give up.
One thing that stands out in the case of J.K. Rowling, is her constant drive to become a writer. In an interview given back in 1998, she detailed how she wrote her first story when she was 5 or 6 years old. This, and other little stories, was created for the benefit of her younger sister, Dianne.
In the interview, the famous writer and creator of the Harry Potter universe said: "Certainly the first story I ever wrote down (when I was five or six) was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee. And ever since Rabbit and Miss Bee, I have wanted to be a writer, though I rarely told anyone so. I was afraid they'd tell me I didn't have a hope."
Not Giving Up on Her Dream
The circumstances certainly seemed to work against J.K. Rowling's dream of writing stories and making a living out of them. None of her parents went to college and the family lived within a small income. However, the future novelist managed to go to college – the University of Exeter, where she studied French.
This type of education became useful when she started writing the Harry Potter novels and she had to think of names for the various spells used in the books. Her first job was that of secretary for the Amnesty International charity. She quickly found out that she was really not cut for this kind of job. The only perk of it, according to the famous writer, was being able to sit down in front of a typewriter to create stories,
A Late Train – The Moment that Generated a Wondrous Literary Universe
If you are looking for writing inspiration in special and select places, you may miss great opportunities in mundane circumstances. At least this is the big lesson that any aspiring writer can learn from J.K. Rowling.
She stumbled upon the idea of a gifted boy who gets invited to study in a special school for wizards as she was sitting in a delayed train. It was 1990, when J.K. Rowling was 24 years old. Over the next several years, she kept developing the plot, adding new characters and secondary storylines.
However, her life would be sidetracked by two major events, before she managed to submit her ideas to an editor. In 1991, J.K. Rowling's mother died after a long fight with a debilitating disease. The famous writer states that it is still the most traumatic event in her life.
One year later, in 1992, J.K. Rowling took up an English teaching position in Portugal, where she met her husband, a television journalist. By the end of 1993, she would be divorced and the mother of a girl, Jessica.
The Struggling Years
J.K. Rowling returned to England with a baby girl and "half a suitcase was full of papers covered with stories about Harry Potter." Jobless, living on welfare, she would go to cafés and keep writing.
Discipline helped her stay on track and continue writing stories. "You've got to work. It's about structure. It's about discipline. It's all these deadly things that your school teacher told you you needed… You need it", is the number one advice the famous writer still gives anyone who asks her.
She also admits that she never follows trends and "must-do" recommendations: "The truth is that I found success by stumbling off alone in a direction most people thought was a dead end, breaking all the 1990s shibboleths about children's books in the process." Instead, if you want direct writing inspiration from J.K. Rowling, her five guiding lines are:
Resilience and humility
Independence.
No Is Not an Option
Young single parent J.K. Rowling certainly needed courage to pursue her dream of becoming a writer. Her first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was rejected by no less than 12 publishers.
Finally, Bloomsbury agreed to publish it, but only in 500 copies, in 1997. By March 1999, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone sold in 300,000 copies in the United Kingdom. Next, J.K. Rowling sold the rights to the book in the United States for the then unprecedented amount of $100,000. At this point, she purchased her first home.
Another aspect that makes J.K. Rowling a writing inspiration for anyone is the way she uses her own life experiences in her books. During the darkest time of her life, struggling to provide for her child, she suffered from depression and even had suicidal thoughts. She used this debilitating experience in describing the Dementors and the effect they have on Harry Potter.
The end of the Harry Potter saga was not the end of this famous writer's career. J.K. Rowling reinvented herself as and author of novels for adults. Under the penname Robert Galbraith she wrote the Cormoran Strike series of detective novels, the most recent being published in 2018.
Do you want to be able to revive your writing career after each turn like famous writer J.K. Rowling? Then subscribe to The Content Fair to receive helpful tips and tricks straight in your inbox!
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For KING & COUNTRY took top honors at the 2017 K-LOVE Fan Awards, broadcasted for the first time ever in 500+ movie theaters across the country through Fathom Events. Four-Time Grammy Award® Nominee Matthew West and Emmy Award® Winner Elisabeth Hasselbeck returned as hosts for the evening at Nashville's iconic Grand Ole Opry. Presented by Fathom Events and John Sanders LLC, "The K-LOVE Fan Awards: Ignite Hope" invited fans to share in the ultimate fan experience of the fifth annual awards show in the comfort of their local movie theater.
Among those honored were for KING & COUNTRY for Artist of the Year, Duo of the Year and Song of the Year with "Priceless," Danny Gokey for Male Artist of the Year, Lauren Daigle for Female Artist of the Year, Big Daddy Weave for Worship Song of the Year with "The Lion And The Lamb" and Zach Williams for Breakout Single of the Year with "Chain Breaker." A full recap of Sunday night's winners is listed below. Big Daddy Weave, Britt Nicole, Colton Dixon, Crowder, Danny Gokey, for KING & COUNTRY, Jesus Culture, Mandisa, Matthew West, MercyMe, Natalie Grant, Tauren Wells, Zach Williams and more performed.
Unique to this year, the K-LOVE Fan Awards partnered with the Military Warriors Support Foundation (MWSF). Alongside a partnership with K-LOVE, all votes for this year's awards went towards MWSF, placing two military heroes and their families into move-in ready, mortgage-free homes.
Fans came from all over the country to Nashville, Tennessee's Music City, for the K-LOVE Fan Awards weekend to participate in concerts, breakout sessions, a songwriter showcase, K-LOVE's Run For Love 5K benefitting the Hands and Feet Project, the fan zone featuring artist autograph signings and more.
Tickets are already on sale for the 2018 K-LOVE Fan Awards and Ultimate Fan Experience Weekend, set to return to Nashville May 25-27 of 2018.


This month we interviewed emerging jeweller Marina Antoniou. Marina's new collection has just launched at Courtesy of the Artist and in this interview we step inside her studio to find out about her processes and who and what inspires her.
Tell us a little bit about yourself? I am a Sydney based jeweller and jewellery designer who hand crafts limited run and bespoke jewellery using precious metals, carefully sourced diamonds and unique gemstones.
Who/what are you inspired by? A lot of things! I am particularly inspired by master craftsman of the past and present. Makers of beautiful things. Fashion. Travel.
How do you describe your signature style? The work I make is a fusion of measured design and spontaneous making. I blend seamless forms with unprompted shapes, colours and textures.
How would you describe your process? I rarely draw and most of the time just scribble in black pen in my sketchbook. I experiment in metal - mocking up in brass, copper and scrap silver. My design develops and a lot of the time will change during the mockup stage - sometimes moving so far away from my initial sketch. I file, sawpierce, solder, hammer, bend and form with pliers. These are the processes I enjoy the most, and a lot of the time they determine and help me finalise my designs. I don't see any point in designing something that I wouldn't enjoy making!
I love shaping metal, filing it away, heating it, accidently melting it, starting all over again. I like to have control from start to finish.
What's next for you? I am currently working on three engagement ring commissions which is really exciting. I have loved every minute of working closely with these clients, it's what I love most about what I do. Next year I hope to release a new collection as well as continue making bespoke jewellery. It's the perfect balance for me!
Give me three words that describe your work? Delicate, handcrafted, precious.
View Marina Antoniou's work here.