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The Russian Navy has tested a new control system with artificial intellect elements. Air, ground and sea forces were for the first time united into a single information contour at an exercise in the Caspian Sea, the Izvestia daily writes.
Volgodonsk (Picture source: mil.ru)
Target data was loaded into the system in real time for the command to select the weapon. For example, objects detected by marines were destroyed by seaborne Kalibr and Yakhont cruise missiles. The exercise engaged over three dozen warships and close to 1.5 thousand men of the Caspian flotilla.
The snap check engaged 35 warships of the flotilla, including the Tatarstan missile ship, the Astrakhan, the Grad Sviyazhsk, the Uglich, the Volgodonsk, the Makhachkala small missile and artillery ships, as well as minesweepers, artillery boats and supply vessels. Over 1.5 thousand flotilla navymen, including marines, operated on land. The check had to verify the readiness to ensure security in Central Asia where major terrorist threats exist, the Defense Ministry told the newspaper.
For the first time Caspian flotilla warships and ground forces engaged a multi-contour reconnaissance-strike combat system. It was in charge of information exchange between headquarters, firepower and scouts. The Caspian flotilla force comprised warships, barrel and rocket artillery, and aviation. Marines and drones were also engaged in the reconnaissance force. They had to determine target coordinates.
The information was transmitted to the command post and analyzed by the automatic arms and troops control system with artificial intellect elements. In particular, the electronics provided real-time recommendations to the commander on the choice of weapons for the destruction of hardware and troops accumulations.
In order to provide a maximum objective picture of the theater of warfare, the system collected and processed information from video cameras and radars, warships, aircraft and drones, as well as marines. It was decided to deliver a strike with Kalibr and Yakhont missiles from small missile ships. The command controlled the strikes with the use of drones.
There were electronic missile launches, but they tested and confirmed the effectiveness of the multi-contour reconnaissance-strike system.
The time interval between target detection and destruction was not disclosed. However, it did not exceed 3-4 minutes at the drills of the Central Military District in South Urals. No precision weapons were engaged there. The conditional adversary was attacked from mortars, barrel and rocket artillery, heavy Solntsepek flamethrowers, Su-24M frontline bombers and fire support helicopters.
"The new hardware radically decreases the troops control cycle. The detection of the adversary, decision-making and the destruction take place in close to real time. Such combat intensity provides initiative on the battlefield and at sea," expert Viktor Murakhovsky told the Izvestia.
A single integrated air defense automatic control system has been recently deployed in Crimea. It comprises the firepower of antiaircraft missile units, a radio-technical regiment, the Black Sea fleet and its air defense, aviation, as well as air defense of motorized infantry units. All air force and defense formations deployed on the peninsula are fully armed with the latest weapons, including S-400 Triumph and Pantsir-S missile guns, the Izvestia said.
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Forget Paying for Medicare for All—We Can't Pay for the Medicare We Have
A new report predicts Medicare spending will rise faster than private health care spending.
For the last several years, political conversations about Medicare have revolved mostly around either preserving the program in its current form or expanding it. While campaigning for president as a Republican in 2015 and 2016, Donald Trump repeatedly stated his opposition to any Medicare cuts, and since then has positioned himself as a defender of the federally run health program against the encroachments of "socialism," a rhetorical maneuver that was subsequently adopted by other Republicans.
Democrats, concurrently, have increasingly focused on expanding the program, either by allowing people who are not currently eligible to buy their way in or by using the program (or at least its branding) as the basis for single-payer insurance or something like it. Roughly speaking, Democrats want Medicare for All, while Republicans want Medicare for Those Who Have It Now.
The left side of this debate has been dogged—rightly—by questions of affordability and fiscal soundness. Multiple estimates put the cost of Medicare for All, in the single-payer form envisioned by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.), at around $32 trillion. How would a program like this, which even under rosy assumptions would require more than doubling individual and corporate income taxes, be financed?
This is an important question, but for the moment, at least, it remains a hypothetical. This question is not: How are we going to pay for the Medicare program we already have?
This week, Medicare's actuaries released a new report projecting that over the next decade, national health spending will grow 0.8 percent faster than the economy each year, eventually reaching $5.96 trillion. As a result, health spending as a percentage of gross domestic product is set to grow from 17.9 percent last year to 19.4 percent in 2027. Health care spending will then consume nearly a fifth of America's total economy.
That figure accounts for both public and private payers, but the government-run programs are the largest drivers of the growth, with Medicare by far the biggest of the bunch. Over the next decade, Medicare spending is expected to rise by 7.4 percent each year, while spending on Medicaid, the joint federal-state health program for the poor and disabled, is set to rise by 5.5 percent annually. Spending on private health insurance is projected to rise as well—but at 4.7 percent annually, the increase won't be as fast. Increased spending on Medicare (and to a lesser extent Medicaid) is the main factor.
That increase is primarily a result of demographic change as more seniors enter the program. More enrollees means higher costs. But Medicare won't just cover more people. It will increase the average amount it spends on each person—and that increase will be larger than the commensurate increase in private health care spending. Supporters of Medicare for All sometimes argue that although the government cost would be significantly higher, total national health spending would decrease. That only holds under the improbable assumption that health care providers could absorb large reimbursement cuts without service disruption. In any case, these estimates suggest the weakness of attempting to control overall spending growth through Medicare, which is expected to substantially outpace private insurance spending growth.
There are other ways to break down the projected increase: Spending on drugs, hospital visits, and doctor services are expected to rise rapidly over the next 10 years. But Medicare, the nation's largest public payer for health care services, contributes to all of these categories. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that Medicare is the dominant factor in the projected increase in overall spending.
This is not a new phenomenon. Health care spending began its rapid rise as a percentage of the economy around the time that Medicare and Medicaid were introduced. The business and practice of medicine have obviously changed dramatically in the intervening decades; as with any economic transformation, multiple factors are in play. But there has long been a case that, when it comes to rising health spending, Medicare is the primary culprit.
In addition to the program's larger effects on the economy, the program's internal finances are in increasingly dire shape. Last year, the program's trustees projected that its main trust fund (which is itself a kind of accounting fiction) would be depleted in 2026, three years earlier than previously anticipated. The program wouldn't simply stop, but revenues would only be sufficient to cover 91 percent of expenses, a percentage that would decline over the next 15 years. Over the next 75 years, the program faces $37 trillion in unfunded liabilities. Macroeconomic projections are admittedly difficult and prone to mistaken assumptions, but even if the figures aren't precisely right, that provides a sense of the scale of the problem.
Today, Medicare and Medicaid are widely acknowledged as the biggest drivers of the federal government's long-term debt. Broadly speaking, America's biggest fiscal problems are health care spending problems. And America's health care spending problems are largely problems stemming from increasing spending on Medicare.
And those are problems that approximately no one in national politics wants to deal with, or even meaningfully acknowledge. Although national political figures occasionally nod to Medicare's fiscal challenges and their various economic ripple effects, there is now no significant political movement to address them.
I am under no illusion that building such a movement would be easy or immediately popular. Medicare is generally well-liked, which is why Democrats have branded single-payer as Medicare for All. The program so well-liked, in fact, that one of the most effective criticisms of Medicare for All is that it would undermine current Medicare. But independent of whether they are easy or popular, reforms will eventually become necessary. Yet our nation's political class now seems intent on either ignoring the problem or making it worse.

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A wanted convicted felon with a decade-long criminal history is in custody and facing new charges from a Christmas Eve burglary and a Dec. 26 pursuit.
Law enforcement caught up to Richard Michael "Mick" Reed last week after he evaded them in a pursuit the day after Christmas that started on U.S. 180 West at Iron Bridge when his vehicle crashed on a side road and he fled on foot.
At that time Reed was wanted for probation violations and failure to pay fines in Grant County. He is also now facing charges in the pursuit and the Christmas Eve burglary in Silver City in which the homeowner came home and allegedly found Reed in his home and confronted him as he was trying to steal some guns. The homeowner attempted to hold Reed at gunpoint, according to the affidavit for arrest, but Reed had a pistol in a holster on his right hip and left the scene while the homeowner was calling 911.
Reed has a long criminal history dating back to 2008 with convictions in Las Cruces District Court for fraud and theft of a credit card in 2008; burglary and larceny in 2009; and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and burglary in 2012.
In 2016, he was convicted of receiving stolen property in Catron County in Socorro District Court, and in a repeat offender plea and disposition agreement in May 2016, he received an 18-month suspended sentence and probation, despite having three prior felony convictions. In that case, the state did not oppose probation and imposed no additional habitual offender enhancements for his prior convictions. Reed could have received up to eight years additional prison time for his three prior felonies, according to state statute.
While on probation for that charge, he violated his probation by committing new crimes in Grant County. In October 2016, he was charged with seven felonies, including two counts of unlawful use or theft of a debit or ATM card, two counts of forgery $2,500 or less, three counts of identity theft, and one misdemeanor count of fraudulent use of a credit card $250 to $500.
In October 2017, he once again received a suspended sentence and probation in a plea agreement in that case, this one in Silver City District Court, approved by Judge J.C. Robinson and Deputy District Attorney John Holguin.
According to the plea agreement, Reed received:
"The basic statutory sentence in Counts 1 through 7, consisting of 18 months in the Department of Corrections for each of Counts 1 through 7, plus one year of parole, and 364 days for Count 8.
"Counts 1, 3, 5, and 8, shall run consecutive to each other. Count 2 shall run concurrent to Count 1; Count 4 shall run concurrent to Count 3; and Counts 6 and 7, shall run concurrent to Count 5, for a total sentence of five and one-half (5 ½) years, less one day."
The entire sentence was suspended and Reed was placed on probation once again.
While on probation this time, he was charged with several more crimes again.
On Oct. 3, 2017, he was charged with driving with a suspended license in Bayard Magistrate Court. On Oct. 5, he was charged with resisting and evading arrest in Silver City Magistrate Court, and on Dec. 27, 2017, he was charged with the Christmas Eve aggravated burglary, a second-degree felony; being a felon in possession of a firearm, a fourth-degree felony; and attempt to commit a felony, a misdemeanor.
Reed has been linked to other burglaries in Silver City and Grant County, and more charges are potentially pending.
Catron County Undersheriff Cliff Snyder confirmed Reed has been in custody there since Jan. 2. He is scheduled for a preliminary hearing at 11:30 a.m. Jan. 24 in Silver City Magistrate Court on several of the new charges, including the aggravated burglary, possession of a firearm by a felon, attempt to commit a felony (larceny of a firearm) from the Christmas Eve incident, and misdemeanor charges of resisting arrest, criminal trespass and criminal damage to property from the Dec. 26 pursuit, and the Oct. 5 misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest.
He is also facing 19 more charges in Catron County from Aug. 26, 2017, including identity theft, credit card theft, and receiving stolen property, all fourth-degree felonies; and dealing in the credit cards of another, a third-degree felony. According to the New Mexico courts website, that case has been bound over to Seventh Judicial District Court in Socorro.
Christine Steele may be reached at christine@sc dailypress.com.


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This husband-and-wife team, both professors at Tianjin Conservatory of Music near Beijing, have mastered the art of playing the ancient Chinese instruments of qin and xiao.
Wang plays several instruments, including the di, xiao, xun, sheng, and hulusi. Over the past two decades, he has conducted master classes, performed solo recitals, and played with contemporary music ensembles in Singapore, Malaysia, Russia, Japan, Poland, Hong Kong, and the United States. He was honored at the International Jiangnan Sizhu Music Competition in Shanghai in 1987.
Li Feng-yun is an expert on the qin, China's most ancient instrument, which in 2003 was registered by UNESCO as one of the masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. She earned an undergraduate degree in pipa and qin performance and has won numerous awards in qin performance, including the National Guangdong Music Competition, International Jiangnan Sizhu Music Competition, and the Hangzhou Qin Invitational.


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I. Lists and registers of experts
The Ministry of Justice holds a register of judicial experts. The register distinguishes between experts in 12 areas. It is available to all professionals and the public here. While the register was designed for criminal and administrative matters, it is also used for civil and commercial matters. Courts are not obliged to appoint experts appearing on the register, but they typically do so.
Professionals apply to the Ministry of Justice to be listed. A complete file (including a diploma in the field in question, evidence of professional experience, a CV and the extract of the criminal records) is sent to the Ministry of Justice, which then starts a procedure of verification i.a. of the trustworthiness of the expert. The ministry decides whether to register the expert by checking the candidate's qualification (including degrees in the field and further education) and experience. If admitted to the register, experts have to swear an oath in court.
Once designated by the Ministry of Justice and sworn in by a court, the content of the register is published in the official Journal of Luxembourg. Once listed, experts have no particular obligation. They do not need to send any activity report to the ministry. They are not under any obligation to follow continuing education. The register is updated [AF1] at regular intervals.
Experts may be revoked if they violate their obligations or professional ethic rules or for other serious reasons. Such reasons occur if they no longer fulfil the required qualification, have been found neglective of their duty or no longer present the trustworthiness required, e.g. they have been found guilty of a crime. An expert is dismissed by decision of the minister after having taken the advice of the public prosecutor and having heard the concerned expert. The dismissal will take the form of a revocation by ministerial decree. The revocation can be challenged before the administrative court. There is no specific code of conduct or ethics applicable to experts. However, ethic or other professional codes that apply to the expert's specific profession have to be complied with.
II. Experts'qualifications
Experts have to obtain a certain educational level in their specialised discipline in order to call themselves experts. Such degrees will be essential for them to be registered in the register of experts held by the Ministry of Justice. Experts neither have to be a member of a professional body to practise as an expert, nor to improve their skills regularly (there is no system of continuing legal education, but experts may follow training on a voluntary basis).
III. Remuneration of experts
The remuneration of experts is fixed by a regulation. In specific cases, especially if the expert's mission is particularly complex, the court can decide to not apply the legal tariff. In practice, experts usually request the parties to agree to paying a higher amount than the legal tariff. In civil matters, when appointed by the court, one party is obliged to pay the expert in advance. Experts can receive advance payment on their fees that exceed the legal tariff. But at the end of the proceedings, in the judgment on the merits, the court decides who has to bear the final burden of costs. The burden of costs may be shared between the parties. The parties may obtain legal aid with regard to the expert's remuneration with prescribed rates.
In criminal matters the advance on costs is always paid by the state. The defendant only has to pay the expert's remuneration if the defendant is sentenced. Experts requested by the prosecutor can also be paid by the State.
IV. Liability of experts
There is no specific rule applicable to the liability of experts. Their action is thus governed by general tort and contractual rules. Such rules do not provide for any cap of liability. There is no obligation to cover the expert's possible liability via professional indemnity insurance.
V. Additional information about expert proceedings
The appointment of experts is regulated by a specific statute of 7 july 1971, the "Loi du 7 juillet 1971 portant en matière répressive et administrative, institution d'experts, de traducteurs et d'interprètes assermentés et complétant les dispositions légales relatives à l'assermentation des experts, traducteurs et interprètes". This law pertains only to criminal and administrative matters. No specific law exists in civil matters. Certain provisions of the codes of criminal or civil procedure are relevant, as well as the general statute on administrative procedure of 21 June 1999, the "loi du 21 juin 1999 portant règlement de procedure devant les juridictions administratives".
There are no fundamental differences between the appointment procedures in civil, administrative and criminal matters. However, in criminal matters, the defendant has more extensive rights than in other matters. The vast majority of judicial experts is appointed in preliminary proceedings, prior to trial. At least half of the requests for appointment of an expert are initiated in preliminary proceedings. Appointment of experts during main proceedings are not very common.
1. Appointment of experts
In Luxembourg, judicial experts are appointed by courts or hired by the parties. Only judges can appoint experts with the status of judicial experts, either upon request of the parties or on their own motion. In criminal matters, the investigating judge, the "juge d'instruction", often appoints the expert, either upon request by the defendant or the prosecutor. The investigating judge can also appoint the expert on his own motion. Since the decision of the investigating judge is a preliminary decision, the principle of adversarial proceedings does not apply.
In criminal law, there are special rules for co-experts or counter-experts who are at the disposal of the defendant.
In civil, commercial and administrative matters, an expert can be appointed prior to trial if there is a special urgency.
a) Appointment by a court
During the main proceedings, a court appoints a judicial expert when it needs advice on technical matters arising in the course of the proceedings. Courts may do so on request of the parties or on their own motion. Experts must report any conflict of interest with a party.
A pre-trial appointment of an expert is possible if the matter is urgent or the expertise is required in view of an upcoming litigation on the merits. The appointment of the expert at this preliminary stage is the sole purpose of the proceedings, requiring that the parties file a specific application. Generally, these proceedings cannot be started without the defendant having the opportunity to be heard by the judge. However, in cases of extreme urgency, judicial experts may be appointed immediately, but in this case, the respondent has to have an opportunity to be heard at a later stage.
When applying for the appointment of a judicial expert or commenting on the suggestion by the court to appoint one, the parties may propose names and agree on a specific expert. If a court decides to appoint a judicial expert on its own motion, it should give notice of this to the parties and seek their comments before making such decision. Courts are not obliged to appoint experts appearing on the register of experts, although it is typically their practice.
b) Appointment by the parties
While the parties [AF2] never appoint judicial experts, the parties can be involved in the appointment of an expert by the court. They might agree on the mission of the expert, on the burden of the costs and even on a specific expert. They would then send a common letter of appointment to the chosen expert. If both parties agree, the judge can allow that expert to be appointed. This happens very often in preliminary proceedings.
2. Procedure (Civil)
Once appointed, the judicial expert will convene the parties to discuss the case with them. Experts usually communicate through the lawyers with the parties and also inform the court of the developments. There are no specific rules on how this is managed except for the requirement to respect the principal of adversarial proceedings at all times: each party has the right to express its view on all aspects of the case at all times.
There are two attenuations of this principle. These concern the expert's examinations of pure factual aspects and investigations invading the private sphere (i.e. medical examination). But in these cases, the expert has to present the results of the investigations to the other parties before finalizing his report.
The progress of the expert's investigations is monitored by the competent court. Where petitioned to that effect, the court can agree that the expert is not sufficiently qualified and designate a different expert. As, in the vast majority of cases, only one expert is appointed, there is no procedure whereby an expert meets before trial to narrow down the issues.
a) Expert report
The expert delivers his or her report in writing. There is no particular structure that the expert has to follow in his or her report. The expert has the obligation to execute his mission loyally and in the respect of the principle of adversarial proceedings. He has to address all factual questions contained in his mission but is not allowed to answer legal questions. The expert's mandate will be confined by the court, except for procedures where the expert was appointed by the parties, without the intervention of the judge, where he will address the parties' concerns.
A preliminary report is not mandatory, but can be produced if required by the circumstances of the specific case. This is especially the case if new questions arise during the execution of the mission or if the parties fail to collaborate with the expert.
Cases where the expert might have to deliver an additional report are rare. This may occur where the expert did not answer all the questions included in his mission or where additional questions arise later on. The court will issue a new order stating the need for additional input and specifying the questions that need to be answered. The parties can make a request for further clarification to the judge. However, in practice, it is more likely that another expert is appointed, depending on the parties' satisfaction with the first report.
Experts' reports can be challenged both by the parties' statements and by a counter expertise. Courts are not bound by the opinion expressed in expert reports. Case law states that the court may depart from the expert's opinion if there are good reasons to do so, i.e. if one or both parties prove the expert to be wrong. Contradictory reports have the same probative value, irrespective of whether the expert was appointed by the court or by the parties. Reports initiated by one party, or contradictory reports as well as reports written without the expert having respected the principle of adversarial proceedings, may be produced and discussed in trial, but they do not have the same probative value as reports delivered in respect of this principle.
b) Court hearing
Experts do not need to attend to any preliminary hearing. They should attend a hearing in order to answer questions by the court after delivering their report. They will not be cross-examined in court.
The information presented here was gathered during the Find an Expert Project from contacts per country selected by the European Expertise Experts Institute EEEI.
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Here Are The Powerful Memories 5 Millennial Women Have Of 9/11 & Its Aftermath
If you want to ask a millennial where they were on 9/11, everyone has a story. No matter where you were, if you or your family were personally affected or not, everyone remembers — it's our generation's where were you when JFK was shot. Everyone can remember.
On Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked four planes in a coordinated attack. Two planes were flown into New York City's World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon, and one crash landed in Pennsylvania, killing nearly 3,000 people combined. For many American millennials, who were children or in their teens when 9/11 changed the landscape, it was our first experience with a national tragedy and first exposure to terrorism. "[A traumatic event like 9/11] shatters young people's feeling of safety and security," Dr. Janice Cohn, a psychotherapist who specializes in children's grief and worked with 9/11 widows, tells me in an interview with Elite Daily. "There was no way of anticipating it, of protecting oneself from even the possibility that something like this would happen. And then it does happen, and depending on the age the questions are, 'why did it happen, how did it happen.'"
I talked to five young women, both those who were in New York and those who were far away, about what they remember and what they think the legacy of 9/11 is for the millennial generation. Here's what they told me.
Warning: some of the stories that follow may be upsetting.
"I remember [waking] up, and it was the most beautiful, crystal clear, deep blue sky," says Kathy Zhang, who was 15 on 9/11. A sophomore at Stuyvesant High School in lower Manhattan, her school was less than half a mile away from Ground Zero — so close that when the second plane hit the tower people at the school could feel the heat of the explosion. Classmates in her homeroom saw people jumping from the burning building. She was still in homeroom when the towers collapsed. "It was a mini-earthquake, but the loudest thunder you could even imagine," she remembers. "I can't quite explain it."
For Iman Hariri-kia, who was 8 years old and in a first grade classroom on New York's Upper East Side when the planes hit, a big part of her memories are that she doesn't know what she actually remembers versus what she's filled in from what she's learned since. (Disclosure: Hariri-kia is an Elite Daily employee.) "A large part of my memory is that I didn't fully understand what was going on," she says. The first she learned of what had really happened was when she sat with her grandparents, who had picked her up from school, and watched the news footage of the attack "for hours" while her grandparents spoke over her head in Farsi.
I remember thinking it looked really quiet and peaceful.
"All I remember is how scared they looked," she says. "I understood something bad had happened with a plane, but I just could not make the connection between a plane had crashed into a building and the fact this had happened to New York."
A number of the women in or near New York spoke vividly about the beauty of the day, and the contrast of the horror that they were seeing, or described walking through the empty city after the towers' collapse as beautiful. "The atmosphere had been completely diluted and it looked purple, and kind of like a perpetual sunset, a very smoky sunset," Hariri-kia recalls. "I remember thinking it looked really quiet and peaceful."
Zhang too recalls the strange stillness of the day. "The city was so still and quiet. Almost post-apocalyptic, but in a beautiful, sunny fall day." She remembers, she says, certain details very vividly — when the first plane hit, she was in the guidance office arguing her way out of a class she didn't want to take, and she can still remember the teacher's name. However, she can't remember anything of the weeks after. "Honestly, I don't even know what classes I took sophomore year of high school," she says. "I can't even tell you that."
I had no idea that that was a thing that could even happen.
According to Cohn, strange effects on memory — what stands out clearly, what's been forgotten — aren't abnormal for children and teens after a traumatic event.
"We all have, to a degree, selective memory," Cohn says. She describes a phenomenon which can occur with children and teens after terrible trauma. "That can have two effects," she says. "It can mean that they cannot process the emotions that they feel because they are so frightening or upsetting, so they just shut down. And the same thing is with memory," she says, noting that as Zhang describes, nearly every account of the day includes a mention of the beautiful blue sky. "Then afterwards, when you have to come to terms with [the trauma], it's almost impossible for adults, much less young people, to process thousands of people dead."
For many millennials, 9/11 was our generation's first exposure to the concept of terrorism, and many of the women said that although they might not have grasped the nuance of the political impact, it was the first time they felt their own home lives threatened. Many people in then-13-year-old Brianne Doherty's commuter town on Long Island worked in Manhattan, and she remembers the way her world was shaken. "I always felt safe in America," she says. "It was probably like the first time when I was like, 'Oh my God. Something like this can happen here.'" She remembers her dad taking her outside that evening and asking her if she could smell the smoke from the collapsed towers.
Considering everything that was lost on that day, my innocence or the potential loss of my innocence is really nothing.
Jackie Reitz, who was 14 at the time, agrees. "I think that was the first time we even talked about terrorism, in any way. I had no idea that that was a thing that could even happen," she says. Living in a suburb of Chicago and well-removed from the violence happening on the East Coast, like many Americans, she was at first afraid the attacks would continue. "The rumors were that Chicago was going to get hit," she recalls. In her school, TVs on rolling carts played footage of the attack throughout the day. "We were just waiting to see a plane fly into the Sears Tower. Everyone was convinced that would happen." But she looks at the rumors of an attack on Chicago as a way for people to make it about themselves, despite the fact that the same rumors were cropping up in every major city in the country, as people worried for their loved ones. "I think it's a little immature to focus it on yourself," she says.
Some of the women note that thinking back on 9/11, there's an element of guilt for feeling so affected by it, since none of their families were directly touched by the tragedy. "I sometimes wonder if part of the grief that I'm experiencing is the loss of this said 'innocence,' but it seems too selfish of me to do so," says Zhang. "I mean, considering everything that was lost on that day, my innocence or the potential loss of my innocence is really nothing."
Cohn isn't surprised that there are complex feelings from those who were teens. "For those young people who had parents who came home, or who had classmates with parents that did not come home, it's very hard then to think, 'how can I think about my soccer game when my best friend's father just died?'" she questions, adding that these are the normal concerns of adolescence, and what teens should be thinking about. "After the backdrop of 9/11 normal adolescent concerns became — one feels like one shouldn't be worried about these things."
If 9/11 hadn't happened, would I have been as cognizant of the world?
For some of the teens, information became the way to deal with figuring out what happened. Reitz says she coped with the aftermath by learning as much as she could about the attack, devouring the news. "I remember reading everything I could about it," she says. She found an emotional defense in becoming informed on the news and politics. "That's kind of what started getting me to understand how important it is to understand what's going on in the world, and be up-to-date on things like our foreign policy and what people in charge of the country are doing," she says.
She's not alone. Zhang and Hariri-kia also say that they, as adults, have found it important to be politically aware, which they think comes in part from 9/11. "I think it made me more of a informed person nowadays," says Zhang. "If 9/11 hadn't happened, would I have been as cognizant of the world and potential misinformation, particularly in this day and age?" she asks rhetorically.
Hariri-kia, who is of Iranian heritage, had political awareness somewhat thrust upon her, thanks in large part to the rise in Islamophobia post 9/11. According to FBI data, hate crimes against Muslims spiked from 28 in 2000 to a whopping 481 in 2001. "I remember a girl I went to school with ... repeatedly asking me to pick a side, what side I was on, on the playground," she recalls. "She's now a really good friend of mine, she doesn't even remember it. But it's something that I always come back to."
You saw a lot of people helping each other out.
But the one bright point that came out of the horror, the women agree, was how all of their communities came together. For then-12-year-old Emily Carter in Austin, Texas, it was the first time she recalls feeling extremely patriotic. After the fear of further attacks subsided — in Austin, the rumors were that terrorists would attack structural dams — she recalls the community banding together. "I felt like people were really [proud] of standing behind New York, and standing behind our country," she says. "I definitely noticed my community change in that way." She remembers local events and donations supporting first responders in New York.
"You saw a lot of people helping each other out," Doherty says. She remembers seeing her father, who worked what she calls a "suit and tie" job, put on a hard hat and volunteer to help clean up at Ground Zero. She herself participated in funeral services for the husband of a teacher.
As for the lasting political effect on millennials, Reitz can count off any number of major consequences. "The Iraq War was people, later, that were our age," she says. "I had classmates that have direct family members, or even themselves that joined the army and went overseas. That had a direct impact on our generation."
"I did not understand on that day how we're still affected by that today," she says. "We're not out of those woods."


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To celebrate our 3rd year blogging, I painted an 8″x10″ gouache portrait (of you) for you. I'll mail it to you soon!
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UPDATE: It's been 4 years now!
Joni started Cote de Texas the same year I started my blog. I have watched with great excitement – Joni's 'Blogebrity' is huge! Joni is the anchor of the decorating blog world. And the sail, the wind and the exhilarating thrill of it all. The Grande Dame of feature articles, interviewing and Top Ten's. She is also a partner of the talented The Skirted Roundtable radio podcast blog with Megan Arquette of Beach Bungalow 8 and Linda Merrill of Surroundings.
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The CSUN women's basketball team will try to bounce back from a disappointing loss against Loyola Marymount when it travels to play in back-to-back games at UTEP on Friday and New Mexico State on Sunday.
After a slow start to the season for the Matadors (0-7), which have yet to win a game, they can find solace in the improvements the team has been making from game to game.
The same could not be said on Tuesday as the team suffered a set back in a 69-52 loss to the Lions at home and questions about the teams inconsistencies and weaknesses continue to loom.
By far the greatest improvement the Matadors must make is in the rebounding department. Against the Lions, the Matadors were out rebounded 47-24, which led to a 15-4 disparity in second chance points.
Northridge was out rebounded by 19 against Pepperdine, by 20 against Wichita State and by 23 against Loyola Marymount and on average the Matadors average 32.9 rebounds per game while their opponents average 42 per game.
The Matadors must also show an ability to start the game off on the right foot as they have frequently gotten off to slow starts this season and have had to play from behind from the outset. Against the Lions, the Matadors were outscored 17-2 to start the game and never recovered as the lead jumped to as many as 24 points at one point.
The only positive Northridge can take away from the losses as of late is that Jasmine Erving has emerged as a force in the post and Janelle Nomura has also surfaced as a vital scorer in the back court and has the ability to consistently break down the defense.
The Matador's first opponent on their road trip this weekend is UTEP (4-2) who only has two losses a 80-75 loss in overtime to New Mexico State and a 59-56 loss against Arkansas in the Fourth-Annual UTEP Thanksgiving Classic championship game, but has been competitive in every game thus far.
The Miners are led by three players that average double figures in scoring in Gloria Brown, who averages 13.2 points per game to go along with 6.5 rebounds. Dietra Caldwell, who averages 11.8 points per game to go with 4.7 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game and Kayla Thorton who averages 11.2 points and 8 rebounds per game.
The Miners have yet to play a game on the road this season and will not play their first road game for another week when they'll travel to play Big West rival UC Santa Barbara. For the Matadors this would be just their second true road game, the first was against Hawai'i in the Jack in The Box Rainbow Wahine Classic in a 66-58 loss where free throws made the difference in the tight matchup.
The Matadors second opponent is going to be another team with only two losses in New Mexico State (5-2) who has already defeated UTEP, the Matadors first opponent on this road trip.
The Aggies also hosted a thanksgiving tournament of their own and triumphed in a 72-63 win over Northern Iowa in the championship game to take.
The Aggies are a high scoring team and have four players who average double figures in scoring including guard Jasmine Lowe, who averages 15.6 points and 3.3 assists per game. Like the Matadors, the Aggies are not a good rebounding team and only average 37.3 rebounds, while allowing 40 rebounds per game to their opponents.


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The Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, board convened Wednesday to rename Le Conte Elementary School as Sylvia Mendez Elementary School.
Sylvia Mendez Elementary School is located in South Berkeley and offers a two-way immersion program in which students learn to be bicultural and bilingual in Spanish and English, according to the school's website. BUSD's Naming Advisory Committee, composed of parents, neighbors, and staff, solicited input from various community members in the decision process.
After narrowing an initial list of 118 names down to the names of seven different people, groups and things, the committee ultimately recommended Sylvia Mendez.
Sylvia Mendez was the plaintiff in the landmark 1947 case Mendez v. Westminster. The case challenged the "whites only" policy of four Orange County school districts, and ultimately the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in favor of Mendez. Two months after the suit, then-California governor Earl Warren signed a bill ending public school segregation in California.
"Bringing Sylvia to Berkeley is exciting. She is a living legend," said board member Beatriz Leyva-Cutler at the meeting. "We still have schools in the United States that are segregated, so it's still a living issue for many of us."
The committee also conducted meetings with several different groups, including Parents of Children of African Descent and the District English Learner Advisory Committee, according to the committee's report. Discussions at these meetings informed the decision-making process.
Other proposed names for the school included Dolores Huerta, a Mexican American labor rights activist; Chochenyo, the name for one of the divisions of the Ohlone people, who are native to the Bay Area; and Arcoíris, the Spanish term for rainbow.
Several board members at the meeting commended the "democratic" approach that the committee took. Board member Ty Alper called the process "comprehensive" and "inclusive."
"I think this is something that other school districts can learn from," said BUSD board member Josh Daniels during the meeting. "Everything from the policy, to the leadership at the site, to the community process, the staff leadership (and) the parent leadership."
Implementation for the school's renaming, which includes changes to signage and social media, and an official request to the California Department of Education will take place over the summer. Estimated costs will total about $25,000, the report said.
The board members present at the meeting were Josh Daniels, Judy Appel, Ty Alper, Beatriz Leyva-Cutler and BUSD student director Uma Nagarajan-Swenson.
At the meeting, the committee also recommended ways to educate students on the people and ideas that were proposed to be the namesake but were not selected. These recommendations included making a book on Dolores Huerta required reading and painting a rainbow on the transitional kindergarten playground.
"In lifting up the story of Sylvia Mendez, the committee and community also wants to continue to recognize the names, ideas and stories that were shared," said Grace Kong, chair of the Naming Advisory Committee.


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Nicaragua's National Police said the 22 men and two women were detained in the Caribbean coastal region the previous day. Police said indigenous residents told them the attackers were armed with sticks, stones and machetes.
Nicaraguan authorities have been slow to investigate such attacks, and activists said Friday that the settlers had actually been detained by residents, who turned them over to police.
"They didn't detain the settlers. It was the local residents themselves who caught them," said María Luisa Acosta, a lawyer who heads the Center for Legal Assistance for Indigenous Peoples.
The arrested settlers were taken to a jail near the capital, Managua, and would be charged with organized crime, land seizure and environmental crimes, officials said.
But activists expressed doubts about whether the government would really follow up on the case, after years in which it has allowed indigenous communities to be attacked.
"This is the first time the government has announced the detention of those who invade indigenous territory," said environmentalist Amaru Ruiz, director of the Del Río Foundation.
He added that "we have to be extremely cautious" about the arrests. "They have detained these kind of people before and later let them go," Ruíz said.
The Mayangna and Miskito communities have been hit by a number of attacks in recent years that have been blamed on settlers who invaded indigenous lands. Ruíz has said that at least 28 indigenous leaders and community members have been killed in recent years.
Several attacks in 2021 and 2022 killed Miskito and Mayangna people around Bosawas, a protected area. The reserve has been hit by illegal mining and logging.
Indigenous activists say the government of President Daniel Ortega has not done enough to address the problems in the jungled region, something his administration denies.
Activists say many of the settlers moving onto the lands are former soldiers linked to timber and illegal logging interests.
The Del Río Foundation says about 60% of the Mayangnas' territory has been invaded by about 5,000 settlers since 2015, displacing some 3,000 indigenous inhabitants.
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Some people actually bought that Steam game's £27 PDF certificate DLC
"A couple of people got angry, but there wasn't much market for outrage."
Last week we reported on Steam game Hadean Lands, which released a PDF certificate as £27 DLC.
Hadean Lands, from Boston-based indie developer Andrew Plotkin, is an interactive fiction game done in the old adventure game style. There are no graphics. You simply type your commands and read what happens next.
It's important to note that Hadean Lands does not come with hints or a walkthrough, because that's what this DLC revolves around.
The £26.99 DLC is a certificate that says you, the player, promise to finish Hadean Lands without looking at any hints or walkthroughs on the Steam forums or anywhere else on the internet.
Most took the DLC as a joke on the part of Andrew Plotkin. Some took it seriously. Here's one Steam user's take:
"It wouldn't have been funny if I didn't mean it seriously," Plotkin told Eurogamer over email.
"Or, put it this way: it's really up to the player whether to take it seriously. If you put down money, then you're being serious about the notion of playing without hints. And then it doesn't *matter* whether I meant it as a joke."
A cursory glance at comments on Eurogamer's report suggests most were on board with the DLC. Here's a snippet:
There was the odd dissenting voice:
"A couple of people got angry," Plotkin said of the reaction, "but there wasn't much market for outrage. I've been completely up-front about how the DLC works; nearly everybody respects that."
The DLC was picked up by a number of outlets, including, obviously, Eurogamer, which shone a light on Hadean Labs. I had thought, as some have suggested, this was the entire point of the DLC.
"Obviously I hoped that the idea would catch people's interest," Plotkin explained. "Nobody has done it before, as far as I can tell.
"But I didn't expect to get more articles about the DLC than about the game! I figured it would be good for 'that was clever' mentions at the tail-end of a few reviews.
"Well, the articles all mentioned that _Hadean Lands_ is a good game. So I'm happy."
What I wanted to know, however, was whether anyone actually dropped £27 for the DLC PDF certificate. I had thought no-one would, but Plotkin, while keeping his cards close to his chest, confirmed he's had at least one sale.
"I can't talk about sales figures," he said, "but it is safe to say that a non-zero number of people have bought the certificate."
So, what's next? Plotkin plans to release a minor update for Hadean Lands this weekend, but his focus is on the launch of the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation.
Once both are up and running, Plotkin will return to a game idea called The Flashpaper War.
"That's an unconventional IF idea which I started working on last year," he said. "My first draft didn't really hold together, so I trashed it and started from scratch."


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I worked for years with a group of, let's call them people, who would insist, and I mean absolutely insist, that they could not do specific functions of their job without Photoshop.
Can't do it. Not gonna happen. We need Photoshop.
This job entailed, as far as I could tell, opening and closing pictures. And from the quality control side of things, I would argue that they didn't even look at them, but that's another post. In the end, we had to waste thousands of dollars on Photoshop licenses because they were able to convince the right people.
Gus Mueller, of Flying Meat, has put together a great image editor that has just been updated and made even better. Why anyone would spend all that money when Acorn is available for $29 is beyond me.


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An adorable cowboy print in the most gorgeous rainbow of colors - a fantastic focal point for a little boy's room.
A classic red and white bamboo trellis fabric - and this one is indoor/outdoor so perfect for the patio.
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SANTA MONICA- Comedian and actor Don Rickles passed away on Thursday in his Los Angeles home. He had developed a bacterial infection a few months ago which stopped him from completing some of his recent performances. However, he was still in the process of filming pieces for an upcoming internet series. He passed away at the age of 90 years old, having had a career full of laughs, warmth, and mockery.
Rickles was often known as "Mr. Warmth" due to his somewhat insulting humor, something that he attributed to his lack of ability to tell traditional jokes.
He insisted his humor came not from ill willed insults, but rather, from exaggerating the truth in the name of comedy. "If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny," he once said according to Reuters.
In fact, it was that same humor that won over the respect of Frank Sinatra. Rickles famously told Sinatra, "make yourself at home, Frank – hit somebody." It was a line that sparked their friendship and his career. Sinatra praised Rickles humor and encouraged others to see him.
Throughout Rickles decades of working in entertainment, he is most well known for his roles in Run Silent, Run Deep, Kelly's Heroes, comedic appearances on Dean Martin Celebrity Roast and then on his own show C.P.O. Sharkey. He was even the voice of Mr. Potato Head in Toy Story.
He left behind a legacy of laughs, commitment to humor, and smart comedy. He also leaves behind his 52 year old wife, Barbara, their daughter Mindy Mann, and two grandchildren.
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These were UN Inspectors in Iraq just before the US demanded they be withdrawn so that the US could attack. they had reported at that point that they had the cooperation of the Iraqi government but could find no weapons or programs still in existence. They asked for more time. They were denied the time.
At present the US government, evidently repeating in great detail the "Wag the Dog" scenario that worked well for the Bush Administration is once again dismissing in advance any and all findings that ight come from the present UN investigators who were in Syria. pl


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How did I do on my goals?
1. Attend one spinning class per week- done (well except I don't think I am going to any this week, but some weeks I did 2, does that count?)
2. Attend 2 classes at Healthworks per week- fail. I barely made it to 1 per week. I guess this is why I don't belong to Healthworks as my real gym, it's just not close enough to be convenient. But I did attend 2 Healthworks classes this week...does that help? Not to change the topic completely but I had the unfortunate experience of showering at my normal gym today and it became IMMEDIATELY clear why Healthworks was voted the best all female gym in Fitness Magazine this month. No offense Y...but you will not be winning any awards any time soon.
3. Plan something exciting every weekend. Hmm, kinda forgot about this goal. I think most weekends I did at least 1 fun thing?
Overall I think my goals, and my attempts to reach them were pretty weak this month. Truthfully though, I don't care- I am just happy to make it to April!
I'm hoping to set some better goals for April- I'll post those either tomorrow night or Friday morning.
Tonight Eric and I went to his parent's house for a birthday dinner for his brother's girlfriend. Eric's mom decided to make her cooking debut when 10 people were coming over...good idea, huh?
It ended up being a bit of a family effort...
Nah, just kidding...it was a one woman show:
She made chicken piccata...yum
Blogger Confession Time:
#1- I took a bite out of my roll before taking picture of my plate. I was hungry!
#2- I really ate like twice this much. Oops.
Obviously the Captain Zoom Birthday Song came back...
On another happy note, tomorrow is an exciting day because
#1- it's kind of like Friday, since I took Friday off to go to the Cape with my family for Easter. I'm sick of being the only one in my family who doesn't have a long weekend so this year I took matters into my own hands :)
#2- it's 100 days til Eric and my wedding! WOOOO!
Hopefully I'll have a chance to post tomorrow before I leave for the Cape but if not I'll catch you guys on Friday morning.
Are you happy March is over? How did you do with any goals you had for March?


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8 degrees and very windy at the start (4:44 AM). 11 degrees and still windy at the conclusion (8:51 AM).
Bird Highlight: Golden-crowned Kinglet
Botany Highlight: Sickle-leaved Golden Aster (Chrysopsis falcata)
Species list: common loon, American bittern, great blue heron, Wilson's snipe, belted kingfisher, northern flicker, pileated woodpecker, yellow-bellied flycatcher, alder flycatcher, least flycatcher, blue-headed vireo, red-eyed vireo, blue jay, American crow, common raven, black-capped chickadee, Philadelphia vireo, blue jay, gray jay, American crow, common raven, boreal chickadee, red-breasted nuthatch, winter wren, golden-crowned kinglet, ruby-crowned kinglet, veery, Swainson's thrush, hermit thrush, American robin, ovenbird, northern waterthrush, Tennessee warbler, nashville warbler, mourning warbler, common yellowthroat, american redstart, magnolia warbler, chipping sparrow, savannah sparrow, lincoln's sparrow, swamp sparrow, white-throated sparrow, dark-eyed junco, red-winged blackbird, common grackle. (46 species)
Breeding Bird Surveys are run on predetermined routes of 40 kms in length. At the start, a timer is set for 3 minutes and a list of birds seen or heard during that time is dictated to an assistant who has a clipboard and a data form. We then drive 0,8 kms, stop and repeat the same procedure. Each survey consists of 50 stops.
A recent cut-over:
During a 4 day visit to Moose Factory near James Bay, a resident informed me that his parents had retired down south. Thinking of Florida, I asked him where they had gone to. His response: Cochrane.
Tomorrow, we leave at 4 AM to begin the Smooth Rock Falls survey at 4:48 AM
After that, we drive to Geraldton in north-western Ontario.
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My vow to update my blog post at the first of each month is being sorely tested. On October 1 this year, I was winging my way to Huntington Beach, California, in order to participate in the third annual Ladies of Intrigue conference, hosted at the Huntington Beach hotel by Mystery Ink bookstore. It was a day-long conference featuring more than 15 women mystery writers. including Carolyn Hart and Robin Burcell. This was, according to her, Carolyn's career event finale, and since she has no plans to travel out to this part of the country again, she particularly asked me and former Type M-er Hannah Dennison if we would participate in the conference this year. Of course we said yes. Carolyn has been a mentor and a friend from the beginning of both of our mystery writing careers, and we would both do anything she asked. So off we flew for one day in California, where we mingled and served on panels along with eleven other fun and fabulous authors. Then Carolyn, Hannah and I schlepped back to Phoenix for an appearance at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore on October 4.
Oh, and the first night I was in California, I had dinner with the lovely and very impressive and daunting Mara Purl, whom I met a few years ago when we did an event together here in Tempe. To say this woman is accomplished would be damning with faint praise. She's an actress, a teacher, and a writer, and if you are in the mood to be impressed (and feel like a slacker) check out her web site, here. The photo below is me and Mara at Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe a few years ago.
After Carolyn and Hannah flew away home, I spent the next day preparing for the workshop I am conducting for several emeritus professors at Arizona State University. I'll do one two-hour class a week for ten weeks, and yesterday was week four. When they asked me if I'd like to facilitate the workshop, they said, "this shouldn't be too much work." When I repeated this to one of my author friends in California, she said, "the words workshop and work can't be separated." I'm enjoying the group mightily, but there is quite a bit of prep involved, I admit.
The workshop will be finished mid-November, but in then meantime, I must get cracking on the task of setting up promotional activities for The Return of the Raven Mocker, which is scheduled for publication in January. I'm preparing to add all the information on Raven Mocker to this website next month, I hope. In the meantime, the book is already available for pre-order at my publisher's site, here. (and Amazon, of course)
And don't miss this month's recipe for pecan pie. It's easy and it's unspeakably delicious and oh, so Oklahoman.


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The Ballroom at the Ellis Preserve Wedding to Kick off 2019
The first week of January and wedding season already seems like it's upon us! Kate and Armond who are huge Philadelphia Eagles fans were very excited that the birds game for the wild card playoff fell on the Sunday of the weekend when it very well could've fallen on their wedding Saturday. The father of the bride even made that a part of his speech lol.
Ballroom at the Ellis Preserve is always a pleasure to shoot at. Clearly they've got some of the most beautiful scenery but the Maitre D' Megan is always so on top of her game! She works so hard to make her couples experience effortless and even does everything she can to help us photographers out!
Excited to kick the year off with this amazing couple at this amazing venue out in Newtown Square, PA.
More photos of the sneak preview on the way!
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Love your bridesmaid dresses. Who makes them?ReplyDelete
@sarah- thank you- they are by j.crew in sweet papaya- the closest thing i could find to coral. j.crews bright coral is like a light pink, not coral.ReplyDelete
seriously, all the details are so sweet.ReplyDelete
The gifts are awesome but what I really love is the photo of you and Chris with the cake!ReplyDelete
thank you for the AMAZING shout out, you are so sweet to think of me & I couldn't have been happier to make those necklaces & bracelets for you! Keep your eyes peeled for a little goodie that will be drifting along in the mail to you in the next few weeks! Again, it was such a pleasure to work with you!!ReplyDelete
love the ideas! The striped socks are too cute!ReplyDelete
i wore a bracelet by padgett at my wedding and got a necklace for my mother-in-law to wear! i love her and her jewelry. you're girls looked great!ReplyDelete
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My name is: Desirée Pais.
My stomping ground is: Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
I'm known for being: Founder of Benshen.co.
I'm talking about: Our new Benshen.co Co-Working Retreats. We had our first one this past January in upstate New York. It was a winter wonderland-style incredible weekend with an amazing group of women. We spent three days in this gorgeous house, had morning and evening meditation classes and workshops, food prepared by Zoe Johnston and heavenly gift bags with beauty and wellness offerings from Lesse, Osea, Rachel Saunders Ceramics, Prismatic Plants and more. It was so nice to have a weekend.
You can find it at: Our next retreat is April 8th-10th.
Before I launched this, I was: Running Benshen.Co virtually and Benshen Course once a month.
My interest was sparked when: I used to go upstate a few times a year with a group of friends. We would rent a big house and drive up. Most of us are creatives, freelancers or entrepreneurs of some sort. After a few times, I realized I loved going, not just to get away, but to be surrounded by people I love who I was inspired by and genuinely had an incredible time with. We would cook dinners together, spread out about the house working during the days, drinking wine by the fire at night, laughing, singing karaoke, going for hikes, swimming in the rivers. I absolutely loved it and looked forward to it every time. And upstate New York is truly magical all year round.
What inspired me to start this was: For me, while I love going away on retreats, it's hard for me to shut off completely for a week as a business owner. Ironic, I know. I realized that so many people want to actually just get out of town and get some fresh air/new perspective, and I find that I'm always inspired and actually create better work or get new ideas when I'm in a new place and around people that inspire me. So I thought, what if we planned three-day getaways where we could combine co-working with a yoga/meditation retreat?
What we offer is: An opportunity to get away for the weekend in beautiful upstate New York with an incredible group of women, deep dive into kundalini yoga and meditation practices and come out feeling inspired and rejuvenated.
What makes it different is: I think the co-working aspect is something that I haven't seen too much. I love that we combine the opportunity to work together, whether it be on your business or your vision, and then take time to enjoy the rejuvenating aspects of being on retreat, as well.
One thing you can't miss is: Zoe Johnston's food—and the gift bags.
My favorite secret detail is: There's a hot tub! Who doesn't love a Venus moment?
What it means to open your heart is: To open your heart is to get to know yourself. I think the more we can begin to run into ourselves instead of away from ourselves, the better. When we know ourselves and how to love ourselves, we can show others how to love us too rather than creating expectations for them to love us in a certain way and then being let down when they don't.
When you show self-love, it opens your heart because: You really learn how to take care of yourself, so even when there are hard moments (and, of course, it's important to have a solid support system), you know how to take care of your own heart. It might not be easy every time, but we get better and better at it as we practice learning how to tend to ourselves and our hearts.
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Build a test
In this chapter, you'll apply what you learned about test suites in the previous chapters. To do so, you will build a simple test using the various test suite items.
In this chapter
The screencast "build a Ranorex Studio test suite manually" walks you through the information found in this chapter.
Download the sample solution
To follow along with this tutorial, download the sample solution file from the link below.
Install the sample solution:
Unzip to any folder on your computer.
Start Ranorex Studio and open the solution file
The sample solution is available for Ranorex versions 8.0 or higher. You must agree to the automatic solution upgrade for versions 8.2 and higher.
Define the test
Before we start building our test, we need to define what it'll do. We're keeping it simple, so our test will only add an entry to a database and then validate whether it's been added. Our AUT will be the Ranorex Demo Application. The required steps are:
- Start the Ranorex Demo Application.
- Click the Test database tab.
- Enter the first name in the First name field.
- Enter the last name in the Last name field.
- Select the department from the Department drop-down.
- Enter the age in the Age field.
- Select a gender from the Gender box.
- Click Add Entry.
- Validate that Number of entries has changed from 0 to 1.
- Exit the Ranorex Demo Application.
Animated test definition
Review the recording modules
Our sample solution already contains the required recording modules. Let's take a look at them.
The modules are organized in two folders. The application functions folder contains the modules needed to control the application itself, i.e. starting and exiting the Ranorex Demo Application. The database functions folder contains the modules related to adding an entry to the database.
The modules in these folders are quite specific, as you can see from their names. They each contain only the actions necessary for an individual step in our test definition. Modules built in this way are easier to reuse. This gives you more flexibility when building tests.
Assemble the test
We've got everything we need, so let's get to business and start building our test. There is one test suite in our project,
RxDatabase.rxtst. It should already be open. If it isn't, simply double-click the file in the project view.
Add a setup region
In the test suite view, you'll see that the test suite is mostly empty, except for a single test case with the default name. Our test definition lists starting the AUT as the first step, so that's what we'll add first. Starting the AUT is a perfect example of a module to include in a global setup region because, without it, no other test steps will work. To add a global setup region:
In the test suite view, right-click the test suite and click Add setup.
Adding a setup region using the context menu
From the module browser, drag the module StartAUT to the setup region. In addition to starting the demo application, the StartAUT module also clicks on the Test database tab, which is step 2 from our test definition.
Add the database test
Steps 3 to 9 in our test definition represent adding an entry to the database and validating it. This is the core of our test, so it should get its own test case. We can use the existing test case, but let's first give it a more meaningful name.
To rename it:
Click the test case and press F2.
Rename it to SimpleDatabaseTest and press Enter.
Renaming a test case
Now we can fill the test case with the required modules. These are, in test definition order: InsertName, SelectDepartment,
To add the modules:
From the module browser, drag the modules to the test case.
- You can add them individually or select several modules at once using Ctrl + Click.
- If you misplace a module in the test suite view, simply drag it to its correct place.
Create a module group
The modules InsertName,
In the test suite view, select the four modules using Ctrl + Click or Shift + Click.
Right-click the modules; and then click Group selected modules.
The newly created module group opens in the module group view.
Creating a module group with direct grouping
Rename the module group to InsertPerson and close it.
The test case now contains the module group InsertPerson and the module group also appears in the module browser for reuse.
Add a smart folder
As tests grow larger and more complex, it can become difficult to manage the test suite. Smart folders are a useful structuring item to overcome this issue. Instead of filling a test case with 50 modules that all logically belong to the same test, add smart folders to the test case and organize the modules in them. Smart folders also make it easy to exclude particular parts of a test case from being run during test execution. This is exactly what we're going to use a smart folder for in our example. We might not always want the validation to be carried out, so it will get its own smart folder. To add ValidateEntries to a smart folder:
Right-click the test case SimpleDatabaseTest and click Add > New smart folder.
Adding a smart folder
Drag ValidateEntries to the new smart folder.
Filling a smart folder with a recording module
Rename the smart folder to Validation.
Excluding items from a test run is explained in Ranorex Studio fundamentals > Test suite > ⇢ Execute a test suite.
Add a teardown region
Our test is almost complete. We only need to add the last step, exiting the Ranorex Demo Application. This is a perfect example of a step that should be in a global teardown region because, after it, no other test actions can be
In the test suite view, right-click the test suite and click Add teardown.
Adding a teardown region
From the module browser, drag the module ExitAUT to the teardown region.
Run the test
Congratulations, you've just built a test in the test suite. You can apply the basic principles of this tutorial to any other test you'll create.
This is the point where you'll run your test. We'll cover the details and advanced options of running tests in the next chapter. For now, just press the large RUN button in the test suite view and enjoy your database test executing!
Running tests is explained in detail in Ranorex Studio fundamentals > Test suite > ⇢ Execute a test suite.


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I was 54 years old. I had served my country in the military for 24 years. In shock, and with eyes glued to the television all day, I became very angry when learning it was a terrorist attack. The worst blow to our nation in my lifetime left me craving revenge and wondering how we had let this happen. In a few hours, with a semblance of composure, my mind began to shift from the tragic death of almost 3,000 people to what the American response would be. I began to see a potential silver lining to all the bloodshed. This could set our country on a pursuit of renewed patriotism. It could restore the national unity that had been waning. It could turn American hearts back to God.
For over 30 years, America had been in decline morally and spiritually. Family values were being set aside and divorces were becoming as common as marriages. Homosexual activity was becoming shameless and even popular with the establishment of a gay pride month of parades and celebrations. Abortions had become rampant with the Supreme Court ruling of Roe v. Wade. American colleges were trending toward cultural liberalism with some actually advocating socialism. America was in dire need of revival and restoration. It was against this backdrop that 19 foreign men commandeered four commercial airliners and carried out the unthinkable orchestrated by al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
For some months following, America demonstrated a solidarity that it hadn't experienced in decades. Almost all the socialist and liberal thinkers were quieted. Church attendance was at an all-time high. Urges for prayer were heard from public places. Patriotism was more widespread than in anyone's memory. The latest fashions sported reds, whites, and blues. Congress was more bipartisan toward unleashing the commander-in-chief and the military to do whatever it took to ensure the security of the United States. Citizens were accepting of inconveniences and encroachments on their freedoms in order to reduce vulnerability to terrorists. There seemed to be a rebirth of what had made America great and a determination to merge back into alignment with faith in God and the values of our founding fathers. But that rebirth was short-lived.
The next 20 years saw an exponential decline in the moral and spiritual character of our nation. With sadness of heart, I watched American cultural norms plummet as family priorities gave way to pursuit of careers, wealth, and pleasures. Church involvement and spiritual development were ignored. Infatuation with sexual identity was encouraged, even in our children. Abortion became more pervasive taking on radical support. Divisiveness was stoked by the "woke" movement, cancel culture, the racist mindset, and political partisanship. Lawlessness, from theft to drug use to homicides to the anti-police movement, paralyzed major cities.
Our political and military leadership has also failed us. Not only have our leaders contributed to the moral and spiritual dearth through their actions and inactions, but they have lost much of the nation's global power and influence. Our allies trust us less, and our enemies fear us less than they did 20 years ago. The federal government has been fiscally irresponsible spending us into the verge of bankruptcy. The most formidable military in the history of mankind has become seemingly more interested in social experimentation than in defending our freedoms and keeping us secure.
As I memorialize and meditate on this profound anniversary, I will be remembering those innocent victims of the demonic terrorists and the heroic first responders. I will recall the subsequent unification and patriotism of all Americans resolved to become stronger and more godly as a nation. But I will also be concentrating on how we missed the opportunity for that to be a lasting resolve. I will be thinking about my grandchildren's future study of September 11, 2001, and my generation's response to it. I'm afraid it will be seen as an opportunity missed to set a new and better direction for their America.
Will God give us another chance to repent as a nation and correct our moral, spiritual, and political failings? Will we still have the opportunity to preserve the America of yesterday for our progeny of tomorrow? I guess that depends on who we decide to be as a people. Let us start by praying for our nation and its leaders.


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Oooh. I have editted my book shelves so room for more books is available. I do luv journaling!!!ReplyDelete
Since I already have a number of journal books, Beth, maybe this should go to someone else...However, I will see it it's in the library!ReplyDelete
I have just taken up journaling and need all the help I can get!ReplyDelete
Open to internationals Beth???ReplyDelete
Wiuld love to try and journal, been told it helps quench your artist inside. Have never done this before. Would love to try. Thanks for your many ideas that stirs my brain. Pam GonzalezReplyDelete
Wiuld love to try and journal, been told it helps quench your artist inside. Have never done this before. Would love to try. Thanks for your many ideas that stirs my brain. Pam GonzalezReplyDelete
Would love a copy....just starting out in journaling and can use all the ideas I can get!ReplyDelete
Count me in - not journaling would love a push to start. This could be it.ReplyDelete
This is the topic to be discussed at our art group retreat in January!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous03 December, 2016 21:41
Looks like a great book. Thanks for the chance to win.ReplyDelete
I don't journal now, except for what ends up on my blog. Perhaps reading this would change my mind!ReplyDelete
One more inspiring book to fuel my procrastination! Sure! I would love to check it out! Thanks!ReplyDelete
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