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Every 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse' Easter Egg You Missed in Theaters
On the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Blu-ray, producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller say there are so many Easter eggs in the film, they don't even know how many there actually are — or even if they themselves know them all. And they challenge fans to see if they can find them all.
I found 116. I don't know if that's every single one, but it's a heck of a lot for a two-hour film.
I've collected them all below. Everyone defines "Easter egg" differently; for me, it's any bit of obscure Marvel Comics lore (like the cover of Amazing Spider-Man #40, which you'll find on Miles' dorm room floor), or a sneaky reference to another movie (like, say, another fine Lord/Miller animated production), or a very hard-to-find joke (like the one about Bitcoin that appears for about half a second on a screen in Times Square). Basically it's anything that suggests an obsessive attention to detail, continuity, and history. And Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse has a ton of all three.
If I'm being honest, I'm sure there's stuff I missed. The Blu-ray extra about Easter eggs mentions that several members of the Spider-Verse creative team have cameos in one scene; odds are if there's one shot like that, there are many others, featuring other animated versions of the Spider-Verse team that I wouldn't recognize even if I knew where to look for them. Still, I'm pretty confident this is a very high percentage of the Easter eggs in Spider-Verse. I went through the film, shot by shot, multiple times. Which, given that this is Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse we're talking about, was no hardship. (It should go without saying, but there will be extremely granular SPOILERS ahead.)
So here they all are, in roughly chronological order. And hey, if you find more, let me know; I'll add them to the list. I consider this task my great responsibility.


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Now, on to my TREE HUGGER project. If you're a regular reader of I Love It All, you already know that we live in the mountains and have lots of trees {duh} in our immediate view....so, you know, we love our trees!
...and this is the back of the same transparency with another page pebble to cover up the plain back side. I used a Scenic Route cardstock journaling sticker directly on the photo of the girls driving their Prowler up the driveway to Nana's and Papa's for our last swim of the season. Love, love, love those journaling stickers. I have them in every color imaginable.
And, of course, back-to-school certainly signals that Fall has arrived! It's getting easier to get used to a quiet, empty house after years of having a house full.
Here's Duke, Dukie, the Dukester, Dukie Duke...you get the idea. Our family dog. He's a border collie so he likes to herd. The horses, the cats, the children.


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To life's many small irritations, you might add filling prescriptions.
Starting this year, many Americans may be surprised to find that their local Walgreens pharmacy is no longer in their network. That's because of a contract dispute between the nation's largest drugstore chain and a company that manages prescriptions for health insurance companies.
To figure out if you're affected by the fight, look on the back of your insurance card. If it says Express Scripts, you can no longer fill your prescription at Walgreens or its affiliates like Duane Reade under your insurance plan.
Express Scripts is one of the nation's largest pharmacy benefit managers. These are companies that health insurers and others hire to negotiate prices for drugs and oversee prescription drug programs. Express Scripts' clients include the insurance giant WellPoint.
Express Scripts had been negotiating a new contract to keep Walgreens in its network. But Express Scripts spokesman Brian Henry says the pharmacy chain was asking for too much money.
"Their rates and terms would be as much as 20 percent more," Henry says, "and our clients aren't willing to pay that premium for basically the same service you can get at many other thousands of our pharmacies."
That's a charge that Walgreens adamantly denies. "We did not propose any increase in our rates," says Michael Polzin, a spokesman for the drugstore chain. "So there would not be any significant savings to Express Scripts clients for excluding Walgreens from their network. So it's really a situation of all pain and no gain for their clients."
Why can't the companies just get along? Sean Brandle, a pharmacy benefits consultant at the Segal Company, a New York-based employer benefits firm, says tussles between pharmacy chains and pharmacy benefit managers are pretty typical.
"There's like this dance, and at the end of it, normally what you expect is that some kind of deal is going to be struck," he says. "But I guess in this instance, it looks like they were just too far apart."
Brandle says he's surprised Walgreens would walk away from so many pharmacy customers and all that in-store foot traffic. Express Scripts says of the 750 million prescriptions it processed last year, about 90 million were filled at Walgreens.
Caught in the middle of this dispute is one of the nation's largest health insurance companies, WellPoint, and millions of its customers, like San Francisco resident David Forer. There's a Walgreens just down the street from his office, and he used to stop in weekly to pick up insulin for his daughter, who has Type 1 diabetes.
"They knew me on a first-name basis," Forer says, adding, "They would ask how she was doing. And now I can't go there anymore."
Forer has switched his family's prescriptions to a CVS pharmacy. But while CVS is a national chain, it doesn't have nearly as many stores in San Francisco as Walgreens does.
"I imagine there will be huge line ups," Forer says, "because there are very few CVSes, and so many people are going to have to switch to CVS. So this is a major inconvenience."
WellPoint says nationwide, there's another in-network pharmacy typically within a half -mile of a Walgreens. The insurer is trying to help its customers make the transition.
Pharmacy benefits consultant Brandle says there could be an upside to all the hassle. Brandle says Express Scripts should be able to negotiate steeper discounts with CVS and other pharmacies, since excluding Walgreens will mean more business for them.
This story by Sarah Varney is part of a reporting partnership that includes KQED, NPR and Kaiser Health News.
Copyright 2023 Kaiser Health News. To see more, visit Kaiser Health News.


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Assignment Evidence-Based Project: Part 1
Evidence-Based Project, Part 1: Identifying Research Methodologies. Is there a difference between "common practice" and "best practice"?
When you first went to work for your current organization, experienced colleagues may have shared with you details about processes and procedures. Perhaps you even attended an orientation session to brief you on these matters. As a "rookie," you likely kept the nature of your questions to those with answers that would best help you perform your new role.
Over time and with experience, perhaps you recognized aspects of these processes and procedures that you wanted to question further. This is the realm of clinical inquiry.
Clinical inquiry is the practice of asking questions about clinical practice. To continuously improve patient care, all nurses should consistently use clinical inquiry to question why they are doing something the way they are doing it. Do they know why it is done this way, or is it just because we have always done it this way? Is it a common practice or a best practice?
In this Assignment, you will identify clinical areas of interest and inquiry and practice searching for research in support of maintaining or changing these practices. You will also analyze this research to compare research methodologies employed.
To Prepare:
- Review the Resources and identify a clinical issue of interest that can form the basis of a clinical inquiry. Keep in mind that the clinical issue you identify for your research will stay the same for the entire course.
- Based on the clinical issue of interest and using keywords related to the clinical issue of interest, search at least four different databases in the Walden Library to identify at least four relevant peer-reviewed articles related to your clinical issue of interest. You should not be using systematic reviews for this assignment, select original research articles.
- Review the results of your peer-reviewed research and reflect on the process of using an unfiltered database to search for peer-reviewed research.
- Reflect on the types of research methodologies contained in the four relevant peer-reviewed articles you selected.
Part 1: Identifying Research Methodologies
After reading each of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected, use the Matrix Worksheet template to analyze the methodologies applied in each of the four peer-reviewed articles. Your analysis should include the following:
- The full citation of each peer-reviewed article in APA format.
- A brief (1-paragraph) statement explaining why you chose this peer-reviewed article and/or how it relates to your clinical issue of interest, including a brief explanation of the ethics of research related to your clinical issue of interest.
- A brief (1-2 paragraph) description of the aims of the research of each peer-reviewed article.
- A brief (1-2 paragraph) description of the research methodology used. Be sure to identify if the methodology used was qualitative, quantitative, or a mixed-methods approach. Be specific.
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Interview: Steve Vai talks about his solo studio recordings
Interview: Steve Vai talks about his solo studio recordings
"Did I ever envision this kind of journey? It's a good question.
"I knew that I was going to have a life as a musician, because I always felt the pull. I don't remember ever having to make a choice. There was never a point where I said, 'OK, I can either be a musician or I'll do… this.' Because, really, if I was in a position to make a choice, that would've meant there was an option – and there wasn't.
"I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.
"I didn't have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember somebody once said that if a rock musician goes on tour, he goes insane. I was very impressionable and I carried this useless weight of fear around with me about going on tour, all because of this thing somebody said.
"It was strange: I knew I wanted to do this, but I didn't know what it entailed. It took me a long time to get hold of that. There was a pinnacle moment when I was on tour with Frank [Zappa], and I was confronted with this fear. At the same time, I loved making music so much, and I was making it for myself, really.
"If I had to point to a particular frame of mind that perpetuated itself, I remember when I was young I would listen to music in my sister's room when she wasn't around. I'd put the headphones on and listen to Led Zeppelin and Hendrix and that kind of stuff, and I'd imagine myself performing. It was like meditation. I could see it. I created this picture of this character who would play the guitar effortlessly, who had no limitations, performing beautiful music, and he moved around with great acrobatic skills, just capturing the audience and being a great entertainer. He wielded the guitar like it was a magic sword, being completely confident.
"It's totally OK to dream that kind of stuff. In your own mind, no matter how insecure you are, whatever your circumstances are, you always have the ability to go into your imagination. I know that sounds cliché, but if you talk to scientists and spiritual leaders, they'll tell you that you create who you are by how you think.
"I came to understand that as one of the most fundamental truths of reality. I saw myself becoming the person I was imagining in my own head. So to answer the question, 'Did I ever envision this kind of journey?' Yes… and no."
On the eve of his new release, The Story Of Light (due out 14 August), Steve Vai discusses his solo studio recordings on the following pages.
Flex-Able (1984)
"I loved the idea of recording. The idea of sound-on-sound-recording captured me as a young kid, and once I realized what it was I had an epiphany. Before I was even playing the guitar, I would create these lists of how I would record things and overdub them, like Led Zeppelin songs: 'I could put this guitar on this track...' and so on.
"When I moved out to California, the first thing I did when I had any scratch was buy a four-track machine, and I started recording and recording everything – television commercials, you name it. I was working with Frank, who showed me how to edit. Man, he was so great! I remember he recorded something, then he recorded something else and he cut the tape. I was like, 'Oh my God, what is he doing? He's cutting the tape!'
"But once he glued the two pieces together and played me what he did, I was in shock. Suddenly, just like that, I understood the whole editing process. I said to myself, 'I have to do that.' It was so funny, because I said to him, 'Holy shit, that's amazing!' And he said, 'Yeah, it makes every day like Christmas.' [laughs]
"So I just recorded tons and tons of everything. I don't think there was anything I didn't document. And then I began to formulate these things into songs. Because I was so entrenched in Frank's music, I really loved quirky, compositional humor. I had no aspirations for what it would be – it was really something for me and my friends to get a kick out of.
"I bought an eight-track Fostex machine, and that was like heaven. Eight tracks! I recorded the whole album, but I did it really sloppily. But I was also working with Frank, who was so precise, so I learned from that. I scratched the whole album and rerecorded everything. That was the beginning of my production life. I decided, This isn't finished until I've done it to the best of my abilities.
"There's so much on it, so much diversity. If I had a whole album of Attitude Songs, it would've sold millions of copies. But I had so many things that weren't genre-specific, and I really liked that. I didn't care what anybody would think because I never thought that anybody would hear it.
"Even so, I did my research and I found out that all I needed was a distributor, and I found one, Important Records, run by a man named Cliff Culteri. He was a fan. He started to distribute the record, which was unbelievable. Because I was with Frank, I sold 1000 copies. To get $4,000 in one lump sum was amazing to me. And it kept going, another thousand and another thousand. Once The Attitude Song hit Guitar Player, that was it – it went crazy.
"By the time I joined David Lee Roth's band, CDs were available, and I was getting $7.50 on each one through my own label, Akashic Records. I wound up selling 400,000 units, so do the math. Incredible!
"It was a peculiar little record, and it was made with complete artistic freedom."
Passion And Warfare (1990)
"I bought a 24-track machine and got really serious. I started to record Passion And Warfare, but I had a lot of distractions – I joined Alcatrazz, and then I joined Dave's band. I kept thinking, I better take this, I better take that… By the time I was in Dave's band, Passion And Warfare was almost done, but it didn't seem appropriate to release it while I was on tour with him.
"I waited a while. After I left Dave's band, I thought, All right, all that rock-star stuff is done. I won't make any more money, but I was OK with that. But it was with the same frame of mind that I recorded Flex-Able that I made Passion And Warfare, except the musical ideas were very different.
"I had so much fun working on the record, because again, I thought, Nobody's ever going to hear it. I can do whatever I want. That's all there was to it. I locked myself in the studio and made the record.
"I had a deal with Capitol, but when I brought them the record they said, 'We don't know what to do with this.' They were going to put it out, but they weren't going to give me the money they originally told me. So I stood my ground, same as before, and it was all because I was tutored by Frank. He was my mentor. He told me that most musicians get desperate, and that's when they compromise. I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't compromise.
"Lo and behold, I got off of Capitol and I signed with Relativity, and I got a dream deal. The record went gold in a week. Another extraordinary story."
Sex & Religion (1993)
"I couldn't figure out how to tour with Passion And Warfare. I wanted a frontman. I didn't want to be the guy in front playing instrumental music – I mean, I dreamed of that, but I didn't think it would work. So I went through the Whitesnake phase, and when I got done with that I got tied up with a lot of other projects that I probably shouldn't have.
"But then I thought, OK, people are buying my music. I'd better step it up and get professional. I hired a management firm that didn't understand me, really, and I decided to make a record with a singer, and I found one, Devin Townsend. He was unbelievable, with such a unique voice.
"I really loved what Devin could do, but he was probably an acquired taste, and since this was in the early '90s, it wasn't what people were interested in. The grunge thing was hitting. I wanted to make a more commercial record with a band and potential radio songs. I wanted it to have some twists in it but not be as esoteric as Passion And Warfare and Flex-Able, so I made Sex & Religion.
"It just didn't work for me. Any band is usually something where a bunch of guys get together and contribute with unconditional acceptance. But I couldn't do that. And with somebody like Devin, who is so unbelievably creative, he was like a colorful bird trapped in a cage with me.
"The album wasn't accepted terribly well. It was too aggressive to a lot of conventional ears. The heavy metal thing didn't hit yet – it was all grunge – and the record was very musical; it had a lot of my quirky conceptual qualities. But I thought it was a great album. The only complaint I have is that I don't like a lot of the sounds because of some of the gear I was using.
"I realized that I compromised my true musical desires, my inner ear, to try and make something more commercial. Not totally commercial, but I was pressured by record companies and managers, radio and all the shit that goes along with trying to sustain a pop-type career."
Alien Love Secrets (1995)
"At this point, I realized that I needed to be independent. I had just had it with trying to juggle a band. I decided that I worked best when I do whatever I want, and I needed to release something that was a true expression of the guitar.
"I went jogging in the hills, and I said, 'You're going to make a record that's stripped-down; it'll be a guitar, bass and drums-only EP, and then you'll make another magnum opus.'
"So I wrote and recorded Alien Love Secrets in four weeks, which is unheard of for me. I just did it, and it's one of my favorite records. It's stripped-down, in your face, it's not over-produced, and it's all beautiful guitar songs."
Fire Garden (1996)
"After Alien Love Secrets, I hunkered down and went to work on Fire Garden. I really wanted to sing. I always loved singing, and I like the sound of my voice. I thought that people would have to get used to it or they'd hate it because they were expecting something else. But you know, you can't function like that. You get trapped in your own prison cell.
"I thought, Why don't I have some songs where I can sing live, and then I can have some of the heavy stuff? I did the Fire Garden Suite, which is one of my fans' favorite pieces of music – it's very compositional and interesting. But I also have those vocal songs, which I really enjoyed doing.
"It was very well received. It didn't sell as much as some of my other records because there is no radio outlet for me. Also, there's a natural decline in record sales for all artists. You have bombs here and there, but whatever. It was a fabulous experience. I put a wonderful band together, I toured with Mike Mangini, and I had a great time."
The Ultra Zone (1999)
"This was such a great, fun project. There's so much freedom when you let go, when you stop thinking about people's expectations, and you say, 'OK, what do I really want?' So that's what I did on this album. It might have been a little more of the same in some ways, but it was more evolved simply because we evolve.
"I enjoyed doing all of the in-between projects, like the live records and compilations that I started to put together. All this time, I was still with Sony, and they were doing a great job with getting the records out there.
"Plus, I had gotten my touring chops together. When I went out on the road with Sex & Religion, I lost a fortune. We sold out every place, but I was spending way too much. So when I got with [former manager] Ruta [Sepetys], she set it straight. She encouraged me every step of the way to just make the music that I wanted to play, because I'd never have that chance again. Don't compromise at all. That's the way that I felt, but it really helped to have somebody saying that to me every day. Ruta was an angel."
Real Illusions: Reflections (2005)
"When it came time to do Real Illusions, with all of this beautiful encouragement from Ruta and the sense of freedom I felt that I could make a living doing this, I kind of decided to test my audience to see how many demands I could put on them.
"I wanted to do something very different: a concept record. I had this idea, this story… Everybody has this, a moment of clarity. Time stops, and you can even remember your environment, what it looked like, smelled like, the colors, everything. We all have those. They're elusive, but they do happen.
"So I set forth and outlined the whole story for Real Illusions, and I started to create that record. It was the first movement in this large-scale concept, and it unfolded beautifully.
"The fans that really get you, they stay with you. Real Illusions is one of their favorite records. Passion And Warfare is a favorite for a lot of people because it might have been the first one that they knew, but the people who really get what you're doing, every next record is their favorite.
"You can only have that when you do what really matters to you and what comes most naturally to you."
The Story Of Light (2012)
"Like I said before, when we go into our creative element, we gravitate to the things that are the most important and the most interesting to us. I've always taken the esoteric, spiritual route, and it filtered my desires and my understandings and my seeking nature through my music.
"Some people are interested in sex or love or fast cars or whatever, and if that's important to them, that's fine. Other people want more of an understanding of reality. In the whole scheme of the Real Illusions trilogy, The Story Of Light is part of it. So in talking about The Story Of Light and the spiritual concepts of it, I'd have to include the Real Illusions trilogy.
"When I sat down to make the album, I took the same approach: What do you want to do? What do you like the most for this? It doesn't encompass my entire desire for creative output, because I have released orchestra records, and I haven't even brought up the Sound Theories releases, because we're talking about studio albums.
"With the song The Story Of Light, it was another one of those moments of clarity that artists have when they go, 'Ahhh! I know what I want to do.' And I wasn't thinking about anything else. I wasn't thinking, Is radio going to like this? Are fans going to like this? The fans will like what is most inspiring to you. That's why Bruce Springsteen and David Bowie and Alice Cooper and Led Zeppelin were so successful. It just so happens that the things they were most excited about were more accessible than the kinds of things that I'm excited about. [laughs]
"If you listen to Charlie Parker, he was totally engrossed in what he was doing at his potential. You can't find your potential unless you're really excited about something. That's your armor through the storms. That's what you need to create, and you can't do that if you let distractions get in the way. And when I say 'distractions,' I mean 'my noise.' You have to get away from that if you're going to create what you want to your fullest potential."


text: The classic first two albums by German black metal act DARK FORTRESS return as revamped and restored reissues! Completely remastered and mastered for vinyl in 2016/2017 by the band's own V. Santura (also guitarist in Triptykon and producer for bands like Secrets Of The Moon, Obscura), the new editions of "Tales From Eternal Dusk" (2001) and "Profane Genocidal Creations" (2003) offer quite a bunch of aural and visual treats. Whereas "Tales…" contains the entire "Towards Immortality" EP recording session and the band's 1996 demo (the latter is only available on the CD version), "Profane…" features cover versions of Emperor and Unanimated (only on the CD version) as extras. A real revelation occurred when both album artworks were re-scanned from the original paintings by Kris Verwimp (Marduk, Absu, Vintersorg) as the original versions of both albums had been re-coloured. Now, you can see these in their actual colouring, which is significantly different. Musically, DARK FORTRESS were still under heavy influence from 90's greats such as Emperor, Satyricon, Dissection, and Enslaved at that time, so feel invited to discover a chapter of German black metal history in its ultimate form.


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'Consumer Culture, Advertising and Literature in Ireland, 1848-1921' is a three-year research project by the English departments of the Universities of Sunderland and Durham. It is funded by the Leverhulme Trust. This website offers a diary of events and an internet resource for lectures and research material. |
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Dr Alison Younger, University of Sunderland, gave the fifth in the 2009/10 Sunderland Leverhulme Public Lecture Series on Wednesday 3rd June 2009. Her topic was 'To Buy or Not to Buy, or As You Hype It: Advertising on the Dublin Stage from 1742 to 1898'. See video. |
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Dr Stephanie Rains, NUI Maynooth, gave the fourth in the 2009/10 Sunderland Leverhulme Public Lecture Series on Wednesday 29th April 2009. Her topic was 'The Development of Modern Consumer Culture in Dublin: Department Stores and the Irish industrial Exhibition of 1853'. See video. |
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Professor Willy Maley, University of Glasgow, gave the third in the 2009/10 Sunderland Leverhulme Public Lecture Series on Wednesday 17th March. His topic was 'Look Back in Hunger: Ireland in Famine's Wake from Munster to The Maze, or The Faerie Queene to Steve McQueen'. The lecture, very well attended, was included in Sunderland's 2009 St Patrick's Day activities organised by NEICN. In addition, Prof Maley also gave a public poetry reading of his own work in Sunderland City Library. The City Library and Art Gallery also hosted an exhibition of Irish historical advertising in March 2009. See video. |
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All that money, nearly a half million dollars worth of racetrack winnings, couldn't help her as she thrashed in panic and fear.
Flailing beneath the hooves of 30 other terrified horses, last December in a tractor-trailer heading for a Canadian slaughterhouse, once-winning race mare Press Exclusive had lost her balance on the truck, and her place in the world.
No longer valuable as a racehorse or a broodmare — she gave birth to nine foals—she fell down among the legs and hooves of the other slaughter-bound horses, and was pummeled as she struggled beneath them, writhing in the shavings and manure.
"By the time she made it to Ottawa, where the kill buyer off-loaded her to do paperwork before proceeding to the slaughterhouse, a sale-barn vet wanted to kill her immediately because she was in such bad shape," says Mindy Lovell, longtime Thoroughbred rescuer, owner of Spring Hill Farm and operator of Transitions Thoroughbred Program.
Press Exclusive
Sire: Press Guard
Dam: Gosh
Foal date: May 5, 1996
Earnings: $436,810Covered from head to toe with deep cuts and abrasions, Press Exclusive sustained four fractured ribs and blows to the face that caused grotesque swelling.
Of all the horses Lovell has pulled from the junk heap of discarded horses, the mere mention of Press Exclusive brings her to tears.
"She made $436,000 on the track and produced nine foals, one after the other, as soon as she retired. The last foal that was weaned off her just ran through the Select Yearling Sale at Woodbine and sold for $16,000!" Lovell says. "With a horse like that, with high earnings and nine foals, Jesus, God, that's not what she deserves at the end of the day."
And so on a fateful day in December of 2012, as a veterinarian hovered near, insisting the sorry animal be euthanized on the spot, her poor condition making her unfit even for slaughter, Lovell and her personal horse-shipper intervened.
The veterinarian who manned the Ottawa holding facility where the truckload of slaughter horses had stopped and temporarily unloaded, agreed to send the mare on to Lovell, despite deep skepticism. Already labeled "condemned" for meat sale, the once flourishing horse wobbled on weak legs to a transport waiting to carry her off to Lovell's Ottawa farm.
And when she arrived, a few days before Christmas, and Lovell saw her for the first time, fear clawed her heart.
"I'd seen a lot of emaciated horses before, but there was something really wrong here," she recalls. "I asked my vet if it was necessary to euthanize her, and she said it was worth giving her a chance. She said the next 48 to 72 hours would tell us if she would make it. If she stopped eating, or she got down in the stall, it would be 'game over.' "
Lovell had agreed to purchase the animal, sight unseen, after receiving word from her network of horse-rescue associates of the animal's need. She'd raised the necessary funds to purchase the mare from the meat buyer, and when she finally saw the animal's condition, she couldn't give up. Not yet.
Even after Lovell's veterinarian judged the mare's body to be a 0 on a scale of 1-5, and the horse's fate seemed hopeless, Lovell started in immediately trying to get proper nourishment and medication to the injured animal.
The mare was given antibiotics and Bute, and coaxed to keep eating, even when it seemed all hope was lost.
"The biggest worries I had with Press was her reluctance to eat," she says. "So I started feeding her peppermints."
The peppermints led to a healthy, fattening diet of hay, hay pellets, 18 pounds of daily grain, beet pulp and nutrients to aid digestion.
Gradually, signs of defeat were replaced with a reawakening of spunk.
"The day I walked into the barn in the morning and found her pawing for her breakfast, I was absolutely ecstatic, which is the opposite reaction I'd usually have to a horse pawing for feed," Lovell says.
For months she kept vigil over the horse, and it took even longer before she was able to slow her hurried step to the barn to double check, one more time, on the fragile animal's wellbeing.
By late winter, Press Exclusive was well enough to take a walk outdoors.
Her eyes were no longer swollen, and the cuts and other signs of trauma had also healed sufficiently for the mare to eagerly walk on the lead line, tentatively at first, and with increasing vigor.
"When I began to notice shavings on her coat, I knew she was able to lie down at night" and this reassured Lovell that she was out of the woods.
As she recovered, many fans and interested parties, shocked by the horse's condition, had their eyes opened to the horrible fate that can befall a racehorse, she says.
Fans, as well as those who had been touched by the once great mare, opened their hearts and wallets to aid her recovery. An owner of one of her offspring even paid the "bail" money to make the initial purchase that rescued her from the slaughter pipeline and an executive at Purina paid for six months worth of feed, Lovell says.
"A lot of people came through to help Press," she says. They included Susan Wagner, executive director of New York-based Thoroughbred charity Equine Advocates, who offered the biggest gift of all: sanctuary.
On Sept. 10, fully restored of her strength, her swagger, and her Alpha Mare personality, Press Exclusive was relocated to her permanent new home, where she won't be asked to do anything except to enjoy a romp in green paddocks with other horses.
In a transfer facilitated by Marlene Murray of the Race Fund, Wagner and Lovell agreed that the best thing for the fine mare was R&R, with no possibility of being bred or sold.
"Everybody followed her story. I remember waiting for her to arrive, and we were all waiting to see what she looked like, and what her condition was. We'd never seen a picture until she arrived right before Christmas," Lovell recalls. "It was so bad that I had to warn people that it wasn't pretty. She actually fell when she stepped off the van for the first time."
She adds, "People were so shocked. She was such a great horse, and my hope now is that if her story can help make a difference, and inspire people to find other options for their horses, then she's done her job. Press Exclusive was not an isolated incident, so I hope she will help a lot of people think twice about where their horses are winding up."
—Author's note: Stories like this one on Press Exclusive are now made possible through the sponsorship of the nation's oldest and largest Thoroughbred charity, the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation. Please consider clicking this link and reading about their very special Special Chances program: http://www.trfinc.org/trf-second-chances-program/


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Graph Queries And Indexes
- You can query indexes using graph queries.
- Graph queries use various indexing methods, depending on their characteristics.
- You can create Map Reduce definitions that would lift some of the workload from the graph engine.
- In this page:
Graph queries and Indexes
Querying Indexes
To query an index, define it as a data node using the
explicit syntax.
Use from index
rather than the ordinary "from", with the index name as a parameter:
with {from index 'Orders/ByCompany'} as orders
The following query for example uses the Orders/ByCompany
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with {from index 'Orders/ByCompany' where Count > 10} as bigOrders
(bigOrders) -
[Company as company] ->
(Companies as companies where Address.Country = "Germany")
How Are Graph Queries Indexed
Any graph query over the bare minimum is interpreted to several types of queries, each with its own measure of indexing and resource usage. Complex queries may combine methods mentioned here.
No Indexing
This query creates no index, since retrieving a whole collection requires no searching.
match (Orders as orders)
Auto Indexing
The node clause shown here will trigger RavenDB to create an auto index for queried orders, as done with non-graph queries.
match (Orders as orders where ShipTo.Region = "Nueva Esparta")
Handled by the graph queries engine
Queries with edges are handled by the graph queries engine before handing them to clients, to fathom the relations between data nodes.
match (Orders as orders)- [ShipVia as shipvia]-> (Shippers as shippers)
Graph Queries and Map Reduce
It is sometimes "cheaper" to transfer work load from the graph engine to Map Reduce
for the "heavy lifting", and let the graph engine handle just the final results.
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There are 32 bars of energy that run through and around your head that connect to different aspects of your life. We call all of the points you touch when using this modality "The Bars."
They store the electromagnetic component of all the thoughts, ideas, attitudes, decisions and beliefs that you have ever had about anything.
For example; every thought you have ever had about money that you considered important, the energy of that thought is stored in the Bar called "money."
There are Bars for healing, body, control, awareness, creativity, power, aging, sex and money; 32 different ones in all. Each Bar corresponds with that aspect or area of your life that it is named.
Touch one Bar and you begin to clear away the energy locked up in that area or aspect of your life just by touching it. Add in touching another Bar and you not only get the "issues" from the first Bar, you also begin clearing the "issues" stored in that second Bar. As well you clear all the points of view about those two Bars in relation to each other, allowing for exponential change.
Just by gently touching the Bars you effectively erase everything you have ever stored there. Just five minutes can erase 5,000 to 10,000 years of stored points of view. What is the value of erasing this bank of data you have stored all this lifetime, and every lifetime?
When you are functioning from preconceived points of view about what is possible in life, what is not possible in life, and have it rigidly defined of how the world works, you can not be aware of anything that does not match that.
Each thought, idea, attitude, decision or belief that you have fixed in place solidifies the energy and limits your capacity to change anything in that area. You change the energy, you change how that part of your life shows up. What is the most simple and easy way to change energy? Get your Bars touched! When you do, something different can show up in your life with ease.
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Source: Ss Cyril & Methodius Orthodox Church
Originally posted on October 23, 2019 ~ FR GREGORY
Excerpts from the intervention of His Eminence Metropolitan Ignatius of Demetrias, Chairman of the Synodal Committee for Inter-Orthodox and Inter-Christian Relations During the Extraordinary Session of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece
(12th October 2019)
Your Beatitude Archbishop of Athens and all Greece, Brothers in Christ,
The Synodal Committee for Inter-Orthodox and Inter-Christian Relations, which I am honored to chair, explicitly followed the mandate of the Standing Holy Synod of the Church of Greece. In this light, I would like to summarize the prevailing perspectives during the Committee's discussions, drawing your attention to the following five points:
1. The Ukrainian Orthodox people
As His Beatitude pointed out in his opening address, we are concerned with the Orthodox people of an independent state, which Ukraine constitutes today. We are dealing with millions of Orthodox faithful, who have historically suffered from policies of either Poland or Russia. Therefore, our focused discussions on the validity of Ordinations and the stance of Bishops must take into account the existence of millions of believers for whom we are responsible.
As the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece underlined, shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the declaration of independence of Ukraine, the latter requested that its local Church be granted the status of autocephaly, in accordance with the pattern of the other Autocephalous Churches. This original request was a genuine one. The fact that it was co-signed even by the current Metropolitan Onufriy is a strong indication that it was a comprehensive request, in the sense of reflecting the desire of the entire people and the hierarchy, so that they would achieve independence from subservience to the Russian hierarchy. Unfortunately, this general request was not answered adequately and the issue remained pending. Nevertheless, we are dealing with an independent Ukrainian state, a people with a particular identity, to which the Orthodox faith has also contributed.
2. The role of the Russian Orthodox Church
I think that it is also appropriate to explore the role of the Russian Orthodox Church. And I insist on the term 'Russian Orthodox Church', inasmuch as experience has unfortunately demonstrated that our brothers give priority to the adjective 'Russian' over the adjective 'Orthodox'. Regretfully, this is a reality that has been already observed since the fall of Constantinople. In fact, while the Russian Orthodox Church had every opportunity to resolve the issue by taking steps towards autocephaly, or at least by proposing a solution that would be acceptable to the Ukrainian people, it sadly failed to do so. Despite a long-lasting dialogue of nearly thirty years on the matter, the Russian Orthodox Church did not want to provide any solution. Meanwhile, the Ecumenical Patriarchate had also contributed to this dialogue in an effort to show its support. However, after Russia's invasion of Crimea, all of these efforts collapsed. Today, no one believes that the Russian Orthodox Church could provide any solution that would prove satisfactory to the Ukrainian people. Such a view clearly belongs to the past. No solution will ever emerge from that side.
Indeed, not only did the Russian Orthodox Church fail to present any solution, but its attitude during the preparatory process for the Holy and Great Council of 2016 was moreover completely negative. As we all know, autocephaly was among the questions discussed during this preparatory process. Thus, in the 1980s, the Ecumenical Patriarchate even appeared to consent to a relativization of its own privileges. Accordingly, adhering to a strict process, the Ecumenical Patriarchate requested pan-Orthodox consensus for the granting of autocephaly.
During the pre-conciliar meetings leading up to the Holy and Great Council of Crete, we were asked to address the question of signatures consenting to autocephaly. There was no further discussion on the text itself, which had already been agreed upon. This was without a doubt precisely the point that demonstrated the contention of the Russian Orthodox Church and its obsession with refusing the Ecumenical Patriarchate's proposal. The proposed process followed the precedent of granting autocephaly to the Church of Greece and adopted the terms 'determines' and 'codetermines', signifying that the decision is 'determined' by the Ecumenical Patriarch and 'codetermined' by the rest of the Primates.
We attempted to explain to the Russian Orthodox representatives that once the Ecumenical Patriarch had signed the decision, it could not be questioned. On the contrary, Autocephaly would already have been granted. Nevertheless, the term 'codetermine' still implies a powerful action because it indicates participation in the actual decision. Nevertheless, the persistent contentiousness of the Russian delegation was inconceivable. Allow me to share with you that I personally reminded the senior representative of the Russian Orthodox Church, 'The Ukrainian issue is at hand. Do you not see this? Can you not comprehend what will happen?' In response, he invoked his Patriarch's insistence that he should not retreat from his position on this matter. I am not quite sure whether his claim was legitimate after all. Today, it might even be questioned.
The Russian opposition arises in the context of the international theological dialogue between the Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church. In this regard, it emanates from the unwillingness on the part of the Russian side to accept any concept of primacy in the Eastern Church. This is the heart of the problem. For it seems that the representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church believe that, if the Ecumenical Patriarch had signed [the Tomos of]Autocephaly in the proposed manner[1] during the process of granting autocephaly, then they would somehow accept that 'there is a Primate'. This remains a problematic point for the Russian Orthodox Church.
As a result, the question of granting autocephaly was not discussed at the Holy and Great Council of 2016. Had it been discussed there, there would have been no issue today. Not only was it not included in the agenda, but the Russian Orthodox Church also chose not to participate in the Council, invoking the absence of the Patriarchate of Antioch. We believe that it could in reality have also played a part in Antioch's participation in the Council. If the Russian Orthodox Church had participated in the Council, we firmly believe that it would have been able to ensure and record in the proceedings the pledge of the Ecumenical Patriarch not to proceed with granting autocephaly without its consent.
3. The Ecumenical Patriarchate and its obligation
The Ecumenical Patriarchate considers that it was obligated to take action. With very few exceptions, everybody recognizes that it had and still has the right to grant autocephaly, a privilege that the Holy and Great Council certainly did not deny. The Ecumenical Patriarchate is concerned about the ecclesial and spiritual life of the faithful that I mentioned. For that reason, it provided a solution to a problem that could not otherwise possibly be solved. It acted in a particular way, because this is precisely the ministry of the Patriarchate, its task within Orthodoxy.
Granting autocephaly is a prerogative of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, which in the case of Ukraine does not negate the ecclesial entity headed by Metropolitan Onufriy and the Russian Orthodox presence in Ukraine. The status of these does not change; they are neither excommunicated nor led to schism. The Ecumenical Patriarchate has not broken communion with them. On the contrary, it is they who have broken communion with it. The Ecumenical Patriarch continues to commemorate Patriarch Kirill according to the diptychs. Thus, he continues for his part to be in communion with Onufriy, while at the same time offering the possibility of ecclesial communion to the Ukrainians belonging to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. No one can dispute this prerogative of the Ecumenical Patriarch.
4. The Church of Greece and its unity
Let us turn now to our own Church of Greece. Herein lies the most vital point, Your Beatitude. I agree with you when you cite Article 3 of the Greek Constitution [which concerns relations between Church and State]that we safeguard and do not wish to change.
As the President of the Hellenic Parliament has rightly pointed out, Article 3 does not merely concern the relationship between State and Church, but it also relates to the unity of our Church with the Ecumenical Patriarchate. This is a unity that we cannot call into question or permit to be jeopardized in any way because it involves the unity of the Body of our Church and our hierarchy, especially since a considerable number of our hierarchs in the so-called 'New Lands' belong spiritually to the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and only administratively to the Church of Greece. We should never become embroiled in a conflict with the Ecumenical Patriarchate over the Ukrainian issue because this would lead to our own division, our own problematic relationship with the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Why would we ever do that?
5. Geopolitical developments and national matters
Without doubt, the current situation also has geopolitical dimensions. We recognize our own responsibility today. For better or worse, no autocephaly was ever granted with reference to intra-ecclesiastical factors alone. It always had to do with geopolitical developments as well. I am sorry if some do not understand what is happening in our time: where we belong and how responsible we are for the outcome.
What the Russian Orthodox Church will do after the recognition of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church by the Church of Greece is up to the Russian Orthodox Church. In any case, it always operates in a way inappropriate to an ecclesial ethos and is not respectful of the autocephaly and independence of our Church. This will be demonstrated if it decides to break communion with us, which in turn will prove precisely that we must maintain our own unity, support the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and – as you have rightly argued, Your Beatitude – recognize the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. If we maintain unity, we will be able to overcome any omissions and correct any mistakes; whereas if we are divided, we will never be able to contribute to that which all of us desire, namely the oneness and unity of the Orthodox Church.
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration today announced that Dorel Juvenile Group (DJG) is recalling 794,247 child safety seats because the harness locking and release button does not always return to its locked position. A button that is not in the locked position can allow the harness adjustment strap to slip back through the adjuster as a child moves around in the seat and results in a loose harness, increasing the risk of being injured a crash
DJG said the problem involves certain restraint systems manufactured from May 1, 2008, through April 30, 2009, which have a "Center Front Adjuster" (CFA) for the harness. These include infant, convertible , and booster child restraint systems which were sold both as stand-alone seats or part of a travel system (with a stroller).
Click here to view more information from Dorel about the recall, including a complete list of the models being recalled.
DJG said it intends to provide consumers with a remedy kit consisting of a small tube of non-toxic, food-grade lubricant to be applied to the CFA to prevent sticking and allow it to properly engage the CFA strap . Instruction on how to apply the lubricant will be provided, along with a label to indicate that the repair has been completed.
Until the remedy has been applied, consumers can continue to use the seats , however, parents and caregivers should make sure the harness is properly adjusted and the lock/release button is fully in the locked position. After adjustment, pull on the shoulder part of the harness to make sure it is secure and does not loosen.
NHTSA began a formal investigation of this issue on March 5, 2010, and indicated it would continue to keep the investigation open to further evaluate the adequacy of the recall scope .
Consumers who want more information about this recall should contact the manufacturer directly at 1 866-623-3139 or via email to email@example.com.
Consumers are reminded that they can get additional information about all child safety seat recalls, and recalls for all vehicle makes and models as well as tires at NHTSA's safety web site: www.safercar.gov. Consumers can also sign up at this site to receive free, automated electronic notification of specific vehicle, child seat and tire recalls as soon as they are announced.


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CHARLOTTE – The playoff picture still hasn't come into focus, with the Panthers in position to earn the No. 2 seed as the NFC South champions but not even assured of making the playoffs at all.
So in head coach Ron Rivera's mind, the playoffs begin now.
"The next two games as far as I'm concerned are exactly that," said Rivera, whose Panthers could clinch a playoff berth and get a major leg up on the No. 2 seed with a victory next week versus the New Orleans Saints. "There's a lot of importance to this game because of the importance going forward. This is about as big as it gets."
The Panthers helped put themselves in such a promising position by improving to 10-4 with a 30-20 victory over the New York Jets, and they got some help when the Saints fell to 10-4 with a 27-16 loss at St. Louis.
The Panthers again control their division title hopes, though it didn't work out the way they hoped the last time they were in this position. Eight days ago in New Orleans, Carolina had a chance to take command but fell flat, falling 31-13 to the Saints.
"There were some mistakes in that game, some things that we didn't do very well and that we have to do better," Rivera said Monday. "We'll take a real good look at it as we formulate a game plan tomorrow night. I'm not sure how different it will be, and I'm not sure how it will be the same because the last few weeks they've had some struggles themselves. Some of the things Seattle did (in a 34-7 win over the Saints in Week 13) were really good, and some of the things the Rams did were very good.
"We'll have to take a real good look at it and see which of those things mesh well with what we do and maybe try to incorporate those things as well."
While the Panthers may tweak some things in the much-anticipated rematch, they want to better take care of their own business as much as anything.
Carolina's offense entered the Jets game ranked fourth in the NFL in touchdown percentage in the red zone (62.5 percent), and the defense was tied for first (39.4 percent). But against New Orleans, the Panthers' first two drives of the game resulted in field goals in the red zone, while the Saints' next three drives resulted in touchdowns.
The 21-6 deficit proved too much to overcome despite a better second-half showing.
"We've got to be able to score touchdowns in the red zone, and when they get down there we've got to make them kick field goals. That was one of the biggest differences early on in that game," Rivera said. "But I wouldn't say there have been a lot of problems. Last week was probably one of the first times where we didn't score touchdowns and had to settle for field goals.
"We missed a block here, we missed a run there, we missed a throw there, dropped a ball here. But it's not like something that's been persistent all year."
In the simplest of terms, Rivera is banking on the Panthers playing more like themselves in the rematch and on the Saints playing more like themselves for that matter.
The Saints are 7-0 at home this season but 3-4 on the road with losses in four of their last five contests away from the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. The Panthers, since losing their season opener at Bank of America Stadium in a nail-biter against Seattle, haven't lost at home.
"I really have a lot of confidence in us, and I really feel like the circumstances play well for us now. We're at home for a big game, and I believe our fans are going to show up and give us the support that we need," Rivera said. "It has been exciting this year. Our fans have really responded, and we've given them a reason to.
"I believe our players understand the significance and are going to come out and play well. It's going to be a heck of a football game."


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The Albertsons Companies Begins Fall Season Fundraiser to Combat Childhood Hunger
Hunger Is in-store campaign, featuring Viola Davis, to raise donations and awareness for issue that affects one in five children in America
Boise, Idaho and Los Angeles, California –September 8, 2015 – The Albertsons Companies and its store brands, in partnership with the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), will join together for an in-store campaign featuring Academy and Emmy Award®-nominated actress Viola Davis to benefit Hunger Is, a charitable program of the Entertainment Industry Foundation. Hunger Is raises awareness and funds to fight childhood hunger in America. The Albertsons Companies store brands include Albertsons, Safeway, Amigos, Star Market, Pavilions, Tom Thumb, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, ACME Markets, Randalls, Carrs, Market Street, United Supermarkets, Vons and Super Saver.
Taking place in September, this effort will be the first fall season in-store campaign to support Hunger Is, enabling shoppers to contribute to solving a problem that affects one in five children in America. The Hunger Is print PSA featuring Davis, which appears year-round in an array of media outlets, will be adapted for point-of-sale displays and other materials to be featured in select stores during the in-store campaign.
Shoppers across the country will be able to support this important cause at 2,200 locations in 33 states. In addition to individual shoppers' contributions, sales of select products from participating vendors will generate donations to Hunger Is, up to $1 million. Vendors include Marie Callendar's, Healthy Choice, Bertolli, P.F. Chang's, Campbell's, Coca-Cola, Kellogg's, Unilever and Albertsons' private label brands, O Organics and Open Nature.
To date, Hunger Is has raised over $10 million for programs connecting hungry children to healthy food. Today, Hunger Is continues to encourage individuals and communities to come together in an effort to improve access to school breakfasts, out-of-school and summer food programs, increase access to healthy foods and develop a lasting solution to childhood hunger.
"I couldn't be more proud of the incredible success we have had with Hunger Is. The support of our communities and our neighbors has made a tangible impact in our fight to eradicate childhood hunger in this country," stated Davis. "I am continually grateful to represent Hunger Is in its work to change lives and put an end to a problem that has gone on for far too long."
Funds raised through the initiative will go toward programs focused on fighting childhood hunger and improving health-related outcomes for hungry children and their families. In addition to supporting programs that connect hungry children to healthy food, Hunger Is will continue its focus on determining the best methods to link clients to resources that can help prevent food insecurity on a long-term basis.
"We are so grateful to have Viola Davis continue her active role in our shared mission to end childhood hunger in America," said Christy Duncan Anderson, Director of Community Relations for the Albertson Companies. "We cannot begin to express the level of gratitude we have for our customers in communities across the country. With the generous support of our vendors offering a wide array of participating products, we are able to expand this in-store fundraising campaign even further to make a larger impact. Their generous support throughout this campaign shows just how much this issue affects each and every one of us. We, along with our partners at the Entertainment Industry Foundation, stand with Viola as we share our goal of providing a brighter future for our youth."
Since 2014, Hunger Is has awarded grants on a national scale, which includes impact grants to organizations to evaluate "best practices" that might be implemented widely to help expand meal programs, increase access to nutritious food for families in need and improve state/local policies related to public nutrition programs for children. These supported programs will be evaluated to determine ongoing grant programs to make a sustainable impact on childhood hunger.
Hunger Is grant recipients were selected with the help of the Hunger Is Advisory Committee (HIAC), comprised of leaders from the most respected hunger advocacy organizations in the U.S., including the Center for Hunger-Free Communities, Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Drexel University, Feeding America, Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), Growing Power, New York City Coalition Against Hunger, Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign, and WhyHunger. The HIAC provides guidance in defining and addressing needs and makes funding recommendations for approval by the Albertsons Companies stores and EIF Boards of Directors.
"We are honored to continue to pursue our goal of ending childhood hunger alongside the Albertsons Companies stores and our passionate Ambassador Viola Davis, whose personal experience struggling with hunger not only moves us all but provide a powerful voice for the children who struggle with hunger on a daily basis," said Lisa Paulsen, EIF President and CEO. "Together we will continue helping families across the nation as we move toward a solution."
For more information about childhood hunger, along with simple ways for individuals to get involved and donate, visit HungerIs.org. For information about the fall campaign and participating brands, go to Albertsons.com/HungerIsUs.
About Hunger Is
Hunger Is, a joint charitable program the Albertsons Companies, through The Safeway Foundation, and the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), is designed to build awareness and raise funds in an effort to eradicate childhood hunger in America. Funds raised through Hunger Is directly benefit programs focused on combating childhood hunger and improving health-related outcomes. For more information, visit www.HungerIs.org.
About Albertsons Companies
The Albertsons Companies is one of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States, with both a strong local presence and national scale. The company operates stores across 33 states and the District of Columbia under 18 well-known banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, ACME, Tom Thumb, Randalls, United Supermarkets, Pavilions, Star Market and Carrs.
About the Entertainment Industry Foundation
Founded in 1942, the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) is a multifaceted organization that occupies a unique place in the world of philanthropy. By mobilizing and leveraging the powerful voice and creative talents of the entertainment industry, as well as cultivating the support of organizations (public and private) and philanthropists committed to social responsibility, EIF builds awareness and raises funds, developing and enhancing programs on the local, national and global level that facilitate positive social change. For more information, visit www.eifoundation.org.
The Albertsons Companies
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Hunger Is Social Media:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/hungerisorg (Page name: @Hunger Is)
Twitter: www.twitter.com/hungeris (Handle: @HungerIs)
Instagram: www.instagram.com/hunger_is (Username: @Hunger_Is)
Viola Davis Social Media:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/viola.davis (Page name: @Viola Davis)
Twitter: https://twitter.com/violadavis (Handle: @ViolaDavis)
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Art as a Creativity Catalyst: Featuring Grace and Spencer Townley-Lott
How do we keep our sense of connection and creativity through the caregiving journey? That was a question I often asked myself. I wanted to share this story of an extraordinary couple– artist, dementia advocate, and social worker Grace Townley-Lott and her husband, puppeteer, actor, and playwright, Spencer Townley-Lott. Both use art as a creativity catalyst in their work and throughout their lives.
Their elders inspired them. Grace and Spencer were teenagers when her grandmother and his great-grandmotherwere going through a dementia journey. The experience was difficult and impactful.
Grace became a social worker, specializing in older adults and learning how to communicate with people who were living with dementia, often through art.
"It's incredible how the arts open people up," Grace says. "Someone who hasn't painted in 20 years picks up a brush and creates something beautiful. Someone who hasn't spoken in ages delivers a zinger of a one-liner. Every day, I see how creative people are and the connections that are still possible."
As Grace unfurled her work experiences, Spencer gained a new understanding of his great-grandmother's last years. He used those insights to create a critically acclaimed play, Blossom. This play, which utilizes puppets, was funded by a Jim Henson Foundation Grant. It focuses on James Blossom, a retired painter who is living with dementia and his family's changing relationships.
Caregivers often wonder: "How do we keep creativity alive?" Grace and Spencer were kind enough to share some ideas.
Engaging in New Endeavors: Grace
Try to be in the moment, despite your list of tasks. Respond to and validate emotions. Be willing to go with the flow so you can allow creative sparks.
Pay attention to facial expressions as you invite your loved one to engage. If you start dancing, do their eyes light up and do they laugh? If you offer watercolors and cue your partner to touch the brush to wet paper, does he respond with joy when the color blooms on the page? If you're having a hard time getting your partner to take a shower, croon a song and waltz with him into the shower. If it doesn't work, that's okay, too! But if it does work, it's a lovely and practical way to connect, create, and take care of physical needs as well.
Sometimes it takes reframing the situation to view the possibilities. An outside person or idea can often expand your thinking.
Creativity Tips for the Care Partner: Spencer
Sometimes, physical actions can help release tension to allow for more creative thinking. Deep breaths and stretching can help you loosen up at first. In the theater world, we start every rehearsal with a physical game or action to help us get focused and leave our stress at the door. Try wiggling and shaking your feet and hands, giving yourself a brief facial massage, stretching as tall as you can, and twisting gently left and right. You're getting the blood flowing, leaving the worried part of you in the hallway, and getting ready to create.
Allow room for surprises. Try to set the tone by modeling joy and openness. Be willing to try again.
Connecting through Art: Grace
I love viewing art with people who have dementia. Art is so subjective, so there's no wrong answer to the question, "What do you see?" You can take that first question and lead it along into a fascinating conversation, one question at a time, building a fulfilling conversation with an individual or a group.
In these art viewings, a discussion about a painting can tap into emotions that would otherwise be left undiscussed, or it could lead into a beautiful conversation about the person's childhood, for example. You never know where the conversation will lead! This creates a failure-free situation where a person with dementia can excel and their answers are valued.
Connecting through Puppets: Spencer
Puppets offer a level of separation for the care partner. For people living with dementia, a puppet's cues may be simpler to decode, dramatically expressing joy or sorrow. The puppet can place a hand on a shoulder and offer many opportunities for sensory engagement.
Puppets can also encourage intergenerational play, creating connections between family members who may be unsure who to communicate with their loved one with dementia.
Keeping Your Creative Flow: Spencer and Grace
"Creativity is inherent in all of us," Spencer says. "It's a muscle you can strengthen. Be patient with yourself. The first day, you can only do one push-up. The second day, you can accomplish two or three. That's what creativity and artistry feels like. Start small. You are laying the foundation. And it gets easier."
"Be present and be ready for anything," Grace says. "By asking your loved ones for advice, truly listening to them, and just being with them, you can form beautiful interactions throughout life."
To learn more about Spencer, visit
To learn more about Grace, visit
gracetownley.com and theartfuloven.com
Grace is the Director of Truly Inspired Outreach and Education for True Care Home Health.
Deborah Shouse is the author of Connecting in the Land of Dementia: Creative Activities to Explore Together and Love in the Land of Dementia: Finding Hope in the Caregiver's Journey.


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Master Degrees in Ethics & Philosophy Graduate Programs in Louisiana
For the student exploring Liberal Arts and Humanities degree options, with a passion for intellectual enquiry, issues of moral conduct, psychology, and philosophical thinking, enrolling in a masters in ethics program might open the door to for you to pursue different career options.
What is Ethics? Ethics is the branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right or wrong. Some of the questions that ethics investigates are "What is the best way for people to live?" and "what is the right decision to take in these particular circumstances?" Ethics is concerned with questions of human morality, concepts of good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice and justice and crime. Philosophy and ethical studies can be interdisciplinary; ethics affects many other fields of study, including science, physics, business, law, politics and leadership, the environment, journalism and religion, as beliefs and theories can form the basis for ethical and philosophical inquiries.
Applied ethics is a broad discipline in philosophy attempts to apply ethical theory to real-life situations, and has many specialized fields including engineering ethics, geoethics, public service ethics and other particular fields which students can choose to focus their graduate studies in. These include:
- Bioethics: this is the study of ethics that has formed as a result of advances in medicine and biology, and is concerned with questions that come up in biotechnology, politics, law, medicine and philosophy. Think cloning, DNA and human genetics.
- Business Ethics: also called corporate ethics and professional ethics is concerned with examining ethical problems that arise in business, business conduct, and relates to both individuals and corporations.
- Relational Ethics: is concerned with the ethics of care, and personal relationships. It can be used in qualitative research, such as ethnography and contextual therapy.
- Political Ethics: is concerned with public ethics, moral judgments, political decision-making and justice.
What skills Might I Potentially Cultivate by Earning a Masters in Ethics Degree in Louisiana?
Some of the skill-sets that might be honed in ethics masters program might include:
- Debate: Studying philosophy in general, and ethics in particular, a student can learn how to reason through profound and mundane questions. Typically, this type of reasoning involves learning how to form an argument for debate.
- Attention to Detail: Being able to read, and read between the lines in order to formulate a point of view involves attentiveness and observation as well as a methodological mind-set.
- Critical thinking: Learning how to think outside of the box, solve puzzles, analyze and organize one's thoughts are skills that can be developed in Ethics Masters programs
- Writing: Learning how to express point of view using clear and focused written skills is a useful ability.
What types of Ethics Masters Programs in Louisianaare there?
There are different types of Masters Programs in Ethics listed on the GradSchools.com site that students can browse. Some of these programs are on-campus, while others allow students to pursue their masters degree in ethics online. Masters Graduate Programs in Ethics range from general master's programs in ethics and philosophy to ones with specific concentrations. Some of these concentrations include Biotechnological Law and Ethics, Anthropology, Bioethics, Business Ethics, and Theology and Ethics and National Ethics. Choosing a program can be a question of determining where one's interests lie, and what potential vocational aspiration one is trying to attain, or whether the Master's in Ethics is a stepping-stone towards earning a Ph.D in ethics, Law or Even Medicine.
What Careers Might I Potentially Pursue With a Master's Degree in Ethics in Louisiana?
A Master's degree in ethics might prepare you to pursue potential career opportunities in a variety of fields, depending on one's emphasis of study, whether business or medical ethics based programs, as well as other factors, such as depth of studies. A career in medical ethics generally requires advanced degrees, such as a Ph.D., for instance.
Some graduates might end up pursuing potential career opportunities writing or advising on ethical matters, reviewing company policy, working in biomedical ethics, or acting as leaders in business, government, or justice. Some potential career paths might include:
- Financial Examiners: Ensure compliance with laws governing financial institutions and transactions. They review documents such as balance sheets, evaluate the risk level of loans, and assess bank management
- Compliance Officers: Examine, evaluate and investigate eligibility for conformity with laws and regulations governing contract compliance of licenses and permits, and enforcement inspection activities not classified elsewhere
- Political Scientist: Study the origin, development, and operation of political systems. They research political ideas and analyze governments, policies, political trends and related issues[v]
- Auditor: Prepare and examine financial records. They ensure that financial records are accurate, that taxes are filed on time, and assess financial operations to ensure businesses and organizations are run efficiently
- Lawyers: Advise and represent individuals, businesses, and government agencies on legal issues and disputes
- Top Executives: Devise strategies and policies to ensure that and organization meet its goals. Corporate and ethical issues can affect reputation and revenue, so handling ethical disputes can be vital to the success of a business
- Reporters, Correspondents and Broadcast News Analysts: Management and business ethics are popular topics. A writer, analyst or reporter with a degree in Business ethics might have the understanding of regulatory issues, and be able to communicate effectively through various media platforms
Ready to search Ethics Masters Programs in Louisiana?
Earning a Master's Degree in Ethics may be a solid academic choice. Start looking through the listings on GradSchools.com to find the masters program in ethics that could help advance you towards your goals!
State | Employment | Annual Mean Wage |
New York | 3,800 | $69,120 |
California | 1,630 | $80,950 |
Texas | 1,500 | $68,210 |
Pennsylvania | 1,340 | $73,580 |
North Carolina | 1,050 | $68,950 |
Schools with Master Degrees in Ethics & Philosophy in Louisiana
Program | Institution | Degree Awarded |
Philosophy – Master | Tulane University | MPhil |
GradSchools.com offers 1 Master Degrees in Ethics & Philosophy in Louisiana
Tulane University