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Although chest pain can sometimes be triggered by some non-threatening disorders like excessive gas, anxiety, acid reflux or muscle strains, you cannot afford to waste precious time, if chest pain occurs.
Chest pain can be related to the following serious complications, a rupture of the aorta, angina, or myocardial infarction (heart attack).
The majority of patients in the emergency room with chest pain are most likely having a heart attack, and the proper testing is done immediately upon your arrival. The medical staff knows that in these situations, minutes can make a huge difference in your survival rate and can help to prevent the percentage of damage to your heart if diagnosis and treatment are performed early.
If you have chest pain, call 911! Do not delay in calling for help. The seconds you waste can be the difference between life and death.
The most common signs of a heart attack are:
• Chest pain
• Fatigue
• Lightheaded/fainting
• Chest tightness
• Sensations of squeezing, pressure or fullness in the chest
• Shoulder pain
• Neck pain
• Arm numbness
• Shortness of breath
• Sweating
• Nausea
In some cases, approximately 35% of the population suffering from a heart attack will not have any chest pain. This is usually the case for most women, compared to men. Women tend to experience excessive fatigue and neck pain when having heart problems.
The most advanced technology can diagnosis the area in the heart that is affected by the blockage through both non-invasive and invasive procedures. Diagnostic angiograms and PET scans can determine exactly where the treatment needs to be placed. You may be diagnosed with a complete blockage (STEMI) or a partial blockage (NSTEMI).
Treatment options are:
• Clot-dissolving medications
• Stents
• Drug-Eluted stents
• Balloon Angioplasty
• Coronary artery bypass grafting
Ways to help prevent a heart attack, or other heart disorders:
• Exercise multiple times per week
• Eat a healthy diet
• Cut down on stress levels
• Avoid excessive alcohol consumption
• Stop smoking
• Get professional help for cutting out narcotics and other drugs
• Practice relaxation methods
• Get physical examinations and regular checkups recommendations
Dr. Joseph Freedman MD, MBA
Dr. Freedman brings many years of experience as a cutting edge cardiologist specializing in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of all cardiac disease. He trained at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic, continually ranked #1 in Cardiovascular Care, where he focused on cardiac imaging. He achieved five board certifications in Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Comprehensive Adult ECHO, Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac CT. During his tenure as the lead noninvasive cardiologist at Florida Medical Center in Ft. Lauderdale, he helped lead the hospital to achieve Level 5 chest pain certification, the highest designation of cardiac excellence.
Please call Dr. Freedman's Office at
(239) 574-8463 to make your appointment today.
3208 Chiquita Blvd S., Suite 110
Cape Coral, FL 33914
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Beschreibung: http://www.davidleonardbooks.com/ A young orphan boy enters the Civil War from a farm in the Western frontier in Iowa. He becomes a regular soldier before the war ends. Later, he deals with a phobia with death which he has taken from the war. He seems to hear an echo of drums when he encounters death.
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I hope you enjoy the complete collection of #itjustflowspeopletype stories. Read the best of the stories here, and how they came to be.
Social Calligraphy Boosts Conections for Change
What if no one shows up? Maybe I've made a huge mistake. Those familiar ugly voices of fear begin to whisper.
After sending out promotional emails, I wait for people to register for the fifth Social Calligraphy workshop. Started by a serendipitous Instagram conversation, these workshops aim to carve out a collective space for creative community to gather, learn and grow our calligraphy skills, and dream up ways to use art to encourage and inspire change. It is also a way to raise awareness and funds to support the good work of organizations fighting for social change, including ending human trafficking. After starting off with a full, sold-out house of 12 at the inaugural launch, several workshops later we eventually drop down to two when we charge a small registration fee to secure a spot. Now, we take the leap to charge a specific amount, get a little more serious by producing practice worksheets and providing supplies (with 100% proceeds still going to charity.)
Nervously, I wait. Nothing comes. I know that by charging a minimum suggested donation, we will likely only attract those who are serious about calligraphy or serious about social change. I suspect numbers might drop, but now I'm bracing myself for a complete flop, with zero registrations, and no event.
Finally, one registration comes in from Anna Mae. Turns out she is the producer of a new event in Vancouver. Next Day Better seeks to empower migrant groups and multicultural communities through powerful storytelling through events and new media to make a meaningful impact and create a better future. She's the kind of person we want more of to come.
I was honoured and had a blast working with Anna Mae creating this chalkboard art for the Next Day Better Vancouver event.
Anna Mae's registration provides a tiny boost of courage, I post it in the Facebook group for SheLoves, a community of women who share the Social Calligraphy Collective's values of creativity, justice, and generosity. I wince, hoping it won't be seen as self-promotional spam.
Idelette signs up. She's the founder of SheLoves. She is one of my biggest encouragers to pursue the creative dream, and is a cheerleader empowering so many women around the world to find their voice and roar. She brings along two others, her 10 year old daughter, and a young gal finding strength in Mercy House, a ministry helping young women facing challenging issues.
Anna Mae and I could relate to T., as we both began calligraphy around the age of 10. I was super excited when she chose purple and yellow brush markers to take home with her – they are my favourite It Just Flows colours! She must be a soul sister. 🙂
Together the small, but mighty five of us blaze trails. After some warm up drills, we let loose in writing words of beauty and strength to send to the vulnerable people being helped by Beginning of Life, a small Moldovan organization with a very big heart, working to change the statistic that Moldova being the country with the highest rate of human trafficking in the world. We begin dreaming of a sisterhood trip to Moldova, where one day there may be opportunity to go first hand to give words of encouragement in person.
I call us mighty because even though we started late, we ended early – and we created more messages in this one workshop than all previous ones combined. The youngest ones created the most (not that it's a competition 😉 )
And it turns out *I* need to hear these messages too – I am not alone. I do not need to be afraid. I am Loved. So to those voices of fear I say, "Shhh! You're not welcome here!"
Add a heart of passion, a purpose bigger than ourselves, and community to create together, and good things happen to make change, think big, and chase dreams.
I love what happens when change makers, big thinkers, and dream chasers gather together. This was inspired by Kei of Bold Love, who was one of the speakers at Anna Mae's Next Day Better event.
Social Calligraphy Creates Community with Housing Friends
"Have I told you the story of how I did my calligraphy during the war in Iraq?" N. begins telling me his story of creativity and courage as we sit in a group, each drawing our own letters; some are conversing, while others are mesmerized and lost in their lines.
N. is one of my new friends I've had the pleasure of getting to know at the Social Calligraphy meet ups I have been gathering, in partnership with More Than a Roof (MTR). MTR does great work in providing housing and integration for low income residents in Vancouver, who are looking to get on their feet again.
K. (left) dug out some calligraphy she had done on as a teenager. N. (right), shares with me his story of calligraphy during the war in Iraq.
"I was detained in custody. The guard left me alone… for 20 days no one came back. I didn't know if they had forgotten me, or if anyone would come back," he says. "Even though I didn't have food or water, I didn't try to escape."
As I listened, watching N. draw his beautiful (and extremely complex) Persian calligraphy, I wondered how he obtained the supplies needed to write. "Finally a guard came back. I asked politely if I could go and get some food, visit my family and come back." Amazingly because the guard recognized his integrity in "staying put" as he was told, the guard granted his request.
"I went across the street to a nearby restaurant. While I waited for my order, I saw some bamboo growing outside." So what does a calligrapher do when he sees bamboo? Snatch some to fashion his own writing tool, of course! With just enough spare money, he bought some ink from a small shop. You know a true artist when you see him spend his last few funds on art supplies during a war!
B. (right) came out on the very first meet up, out of kindness. He wasn't sure if anyone else would show up, so he came so I wouldn't be discouraged.
N. is one of several who come to these social calligraphy meet ups, and bless me with the gift of their presence, creativity and stories of courage in adversity. Even R., who came unsure of himself, and left after the introductions, inspires me with his courage to take the scary step of showing up. Then there is C. who shares with me his beautiful sketchbook is full of raw and powerful art reflecting his healing journey, inviting me to go deeper in my own creativity and recovery. He shows great creativity and innovation in building structures from redeeming junk mail flyers.
C. shares his happy word of the day. One day he decided to remake junk flyers into something beautiful, even though he wasn't sure how it would turn out. His sketchbook reflects his healing journey.
I can't believe this open door almost didn't happen.
About a year and a half ago, I was first finding my legs on Instagram and exercising strength to establish "daily calligraphy muscles." The goal of building my calligraphy into my daily rhythms grew out of advice from many artists and writers to build the discipline of your craft. This is a challenge for many creative folks, who would rather create on inspiration. For me, it was often feast or famine, where I would save up all my pent up energy for a special art day once or twice a year.
So I began to post sketches on Instagram, mostly of key ideas or thoughts I was currently percolating in hopes of integrating them into my heart and life habits. Unexpectedly, people I knew began to ask if they could buy some prints. Lee Anne, an old friend asked for this quote on gratitude.
When it came time to deliver it, we were both so busy. I was tempted to let the busyness sweep over me and choose the more convenient option to just snail mail it, but something in my heart tugged at me. My values of relationship and community niggled and whispered to me. So I met her for lunch, near her office where she works with MTR.
As we caught up, I told her about how Social Calligraphy workshops began, gathering to create calligraphy to empower people and give back to the community by raising money to support social change, like fighting human trafficking. I shared how ultimately I'd love to do workshops directly with women and children who are establishing a new life of freedom, and other marginalized communities because I believe in the healing power of creating art, especially in community.
Lee Anne immediately responded, "Why don't you come and do a workshop with our folks?" Hello, wide open door!
Now, we are meeting more regularly, each time bringing old and new faces. For years I've wanted to find a way to love my marginalized neighbours in some way, but unsure how. I'm grateful for this opportunity that perfectly synergizes my passions into service and friendship. Something powerful, yet seemingly ordinary, happens when you sit side by side, sharing stories, and practicing strokes.
When you have courage to creatively show up every day, and pursue face to face connection instead of convenient-but-impersonal options, serendipitous things can happen.
Break through to Create Change through Social Calligraphy
"So, what's holding you back?" Ouch. The razor-edged question pierces my heart from across the table. This friend has never been one to mince words. Many times, her words and insight are sharp, often unearthing roots I have deliberately avoided, or am genuinely unaware of. Even though I don't see her super often, I can always count on her to speak the truth in love.
On this occasion, I haven't actually seen her in a few years. So we catch up and I share where I am in my dreams of starting a calligraphy business and how that relates to my vocation as an artist and communicator. She looks at me point blank and comments, "You're in the same place you were ten years ago." I blink, staring at her in a bit of shock. What? I've totally made progress. What is she talking about?! She zooms in on how 10 years later, I'm still calling it a "side hobby." She questions what is holding me back from fully embracing it as a "main thing," not just a side hobby.
As the seed sticks in my heart, growing in its meaning and implications, I see how this question cuts right to the roots, in any area we fail to progress. What's holding us back from truly seeking help to break destructive habits? What's keeping us from boldly taking steps forward in living out our calling in this world?
As if that wasn't enough for her to be a true friend to speak the truth I was blind to, she stepped up and championed me. Within a week of our reconnecting, she rounded up two friends and two teenage daughters of said friends for a private Social Calligraphy workshop. Social Calligraphy was ignited to gather creative community to spark change, by coming together to do art while raising funds and awareness to support the good work of organizations that fight human trafficking. (You can read the story of how it got started here.)
We had a great time doing some of my favourite activities in community – munching, chatting, creating and collaborating. I love when I see people helping each other with feedback and new ideas.
The plan is to continue on regularly with the goal of growing in creativity. Equally important we will raise funds for Servants Annonymous' new rescue missions in Europe, bringing victims of human trafficking into freedom, healing, and a new life.
Our name for this new branch of Social Calligraphy Workshops? Journey Home. So pumped for multiplying creativity and generosity! My heart is full. My cup overflows. I'm so glad for what came out of that uncomfortable, but oh-so-necessary conversation.
Find out more at www.socialcalligraphy.com. Join us in Vancouver for our next meet up. Or contact me to chat about starting one up in your city.
PaperGirl Leads a Cycle of the Art of Giving Art
Art. Community. Generosity. My heart sings whenever I get to participate in an event that shares my core values.
A global movement of encouraging "the art of giving art," artists of all levels and all ages are invited to donate their artwork to their local Papergirl or mail it to a Papergirl in another city in this beautiful world. Each city then holds the unjuried art show. After the show, a brigade of volunteer cyclists ride into the city and give the rolled up artwork as a gift to unsuspecting people.
What's not to love? Random acts of kindness, generosity, creativity, community all bring life to your heart, city and world.
Bonus: clear old art prints or progress-practice pieces, and discover new artists to follow! Plus, I got my daily lettering fix doodling up one of the blank canvases at the art station. Great addition this year.
Thanks to all the volunteers and staff at Yaletown Roundhouse Community who keep making Papergirl Vancouver a success year after year.
Visit Papergirl World to find the world of cities waiting for your art to be given with heart!
Be inspired by this beautiful video:
Exercise Your Heart by Giving Generously
HOSPITAL CHARITY AUCTION: Instagram's community of calligraphers is full of people generous with tips, tutorials, giveaways, and charity auctions. Imagine my delight to respond to a call for donations to an auction benefiting a hospital right in my own city.
All through July, Amanda (@amandaarneill) is running an online charity auction #fromlaurensheart to raise funds for BC Children's hospital who saved her daugthter's life from a rare heart defect. (Read her full story here.) In the annual effort to give back, her goal this year is to raise enough money for a new life support machine. 100% of money raised goes to the hospital.
The auction features beautiful items donated by many talented and wonderful Instagram and Etsy artists. Be sure to check them out!
- Auction packages run on Wednesdays and Sundays throughout July. Each package goes live at 9am PST, with bidding open for 24 hours, closing at 9am PST the following day (Monday and Thursday).
- My donation of this Theodore Roosevelt quote will be part of the auction package on Sunday, July 5.
- She is also offering flash sales on items throughout the month on her Etsy shop.
Follow her on Instagram and check back throughout July for more great items. Tell your friends too!
I believe the human heart leaps when we are given an opportunity to be involved with a purpose or vision greater than ourselves. The distractions, busyness or boredom of life are a continual threat to our hearts' longing for purpose and belonging.
After a bout of health challenges that hijacked my energy, I'm grateful that my creativity is back in full force, just in time to participate in several serendipitous opportunities to participate in compassionate and generous initiatives.
This series of blog posts shares the good work many are doing.
Dangerous Women Are Freedom Fighters
DARE TO BE DANGEROUS WOMEN: When Idelette McVicker, the Founding Editor of SheLoves Magazine asked me to do the chalkboard art and donate a silent auction item for the first face to face gathering of SheLovelies, I couldn't resist the invitation to join this amazing community of sisterhood I had glimpsed online, now gathering in the flesh.
The evening was stunning — gorgeous in looks with beautiful event design by Holly Bovet and her bestie Shaley. But more important, her heart was beautiful. Idelette shared her Triple Dog Dare — the figurative Mount Kilimanjaro she would climb in the next 90 days. She dared us to join her to complete our own dangerous dare with the goal of raising #dangerousdollars and awareness for freedom for women.
Half of proceeds went to Beginning of Life: a small Moldovan organization with the very big heart, working to change the statistic that Moldova being the country with the highest rate of human trafficking in the world. They live humbly, passionately, and dream big for more women to know freedom. The other half went to support SheLoves, to create new and fresh ways to mobilize and empower more women, locally, and around the world.
Idelette's "I Am Dangerous" poem inspired a new calligraphy piece, which I am donating proceeds to the continued efforts of these beautiful organizations. The Dare was also a perfect complement to the work I am already doing with using the Social Calligraphy Workshops to support organizations who fight human trafficking.
Buy a print, or come to our next workshop to support this great cause!
I believe the human heart leaps when we are given an opportunity to be involved with a purpose or vision greater than ourselves. The distractions, busyness or boredom of life are a continual threat to our hearts' longing for purpose and belonging.
After a bout of health challenges that hijacked my energy, I'm grateful that my creativity is back in full force, just in time to participate in several serendipitous opportunities to participate in compassionate and generous initiatives.
This series of blog posts shares the good work many are doing.
Birth of Vancouver's First Social Calligraphy Collective
It only takes a spark…that spark was my friend's recent Instagram photo of Uppercase Magazine's cover feature issue on calligraphy. Because sharing my passion for calligraphy is like eating candy to me, I offered to teach her. Another friend chimed into the thread, wanting in on it. By the time we moved it over to email, our fire was stoked. (Side story, we almost all ended up at Granville Island's Paper Ya and Opus Art on Sunday…instead we ran into each other online! When it's meant to be, nothing gets in the way!)
A divine convergence emerged as we fired emails back and forth late into the night:
- We all have childhood stories of our hearts ignited for calligraphy.
- We all believe in the power of beautiful words to build rather than destroy.
- We all are experiencing a reawakening to engage our creative muscles, not only for our own expression, but also for the greater good.
- We all have a heart for social justice and communicating with purpose.
Jazzed from the creative synergy of a "craft jam" I hosted the night before, and inspired by my recent branding conversations with another friend to build a business that fights for social justice, the idea for a "social calligraphy collective" was born.
The vision is to carve a collective space for creative community to gather, learn and grow our skills, and dream up ways to use art to encourage and inspire change. The busyness of life can squeeze out the important-but-not-urgent things, like creativity, relationships, and generosity. Hopefully this collective will help make room.
Come to the next workshop to:
- Dream of how we can use words to spark transformation
- Learn a basic design process to draw your concept from start to finish
- Experiment with a few calligraphy tools to ink your design
- Socialize and ignite your creative energy while giving to a great cause
Sign up. Spread the word. Let's create a bonfire.
Tragedy Triggers Prayers for Peace
"Only time Canada makes the headlines here (in the UK) is when there are insane killers on the loose."
That was the first Facebook headline from a Canadian friend overseas I read today in reference to the shootings in Ottawa, my dear nation's capitol. Ottawa holds a special place in my heart. I landed there when I first left the nest. It welcomed me to my first grown up, non fast food job – and it was on Parliament Hill.
Times of tragedy and loss draw our common humanity to unite. Senseless acts of violence shake and humble us, reminding us we are still never ultimately in control of the precious gift of life, no matter how far we have "progressed."
When there is a tragedy, the hashtag #prayer suddenly trends online, irregardless of people's spiritual background. There's something about prayer that works good in us and through us, bringing light and peace to counter the darkness within and out.


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"Being forced to think about getting professional experience through an internship is definitely a big help in getting the ball rolling in your professional career," said Management major Megan Flynn '20. The information and advice she picked up on resume-writing, interview skills and professional etiquette at workshops sponsored by Sage's Office of Career Planning helped her get hired as a Human Resources intern at the Vermont Country Store.
The multimillion-dollar retailer has stores in Weston and Rockingham, Vermont, and a modern ecommerce site, but is perhaps best known for its beloved catalog, still printed and mailed and full of unique, hard-to-find products. The company also runs a competitive paid internship program that emphasizes businesses' role in building strong communities.
Its Human Resources department specifically promotes several programs that support employees' overall well-being with benefits and programs that work for them, not just the business. This has meant more opportunities for Flynn. "I have been working on a lot of employee wellness projects. The first few weeks have been focused on our Health & Financial Fitness fair," she said. "I will also be working on orientation videos for future new hires, implementing a composting system at all of our locations, organizing and executing walking challenges to encourage employees to get outside and take walks, and more!"
On the Sage College of Albany campus, Flynn is a forward on the women's basketball team and a member of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee and the Sage Select leadership program. "Being able to play basketball played a big role in my decision," she said of choosing Sage. "I also really enjoyed the visits I made before deciding to attend. The people I met were really cool, and I was able to come in undeclared for a major, which allowed me to take a variety of courses before picking management."


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I haven't had time to reflect recently on it, but my life was once radically different.
Too often in the past, I felt a lot of pressure to do more than I could reasonably and honestly do, and as a consequence it always felt as if there never was enough time to get everything done. Like a good soldier though, I kept plodding forward: I had to do this, I had to do that, I had to systematically tick off all these milestones that were indications of successful living.
In that particular chapter of my life, I never once asked why I was pushing myself so hard and running myself ragged. I seemed surrounded only by friends who had such well-curated lives, and it was all I could do to keep up with the breakneck pace that everybody else seemed to thrive on.
Despite a growing sense of desperation both professionally and personally, I felt I had no other choice but to bottle up all my anxieties and fears and just keep going somehow. I was already practicing yoga at the time, and although I didn't recognize it, it was the thing giving me solace and real hope in a particularly bleak situation. my yoga practice became an anchor as I tried out different jobs looking for elusive career satisfaction and personal contentment.
When my worrying remained constant despite getting what I thought was an ideal job overseas, I finally understood that maybe something else had to give.
I decided to postpone my next job hunt and instead signed up for a month-long yoga immersion that allowed me to focus not just on things happening in the present moment, but gave me the opportunity to step back and consider what my life would be like in a decade or two if I kept making the same choices over and over again.
The terrifying and hard to admit truth was that despite the jumping from one environment to the next, I always ended up feeling anxious and defeated because I kept falling into the same patterns. I seemed to be perpetuating my own unhappiness in different settings by overlaying my old narrative of dissatisfaction onto every other experience experience of mine.
My struggles on the mat, and perhaps more importantly how I elected to deal with some and evade most others, became these very clear metaphors for all the others thing happening off my mat. it was only when I started to be okay with all the confronting aspects of my own practice that I started getting a sense of understanding and fulfillment out of all the things I was and still am going through.
These days, I still find myself regularly caught up in the hectic swirl of everyday living, but what has been such a welcome change are the times when I'm able to take a step back and realize that I have plenty of say in the kind and volume of work that I do and the situations that I find myself in.
Yoga practice doesn't make the challenges of everyday modern living magically go away; what it does is to patiently teach me that it really never is too late to change because we have this wondrous ability to keep shaping the way our lives play out in the big and small decisions we constantly make.
Marc Macadaeg is a Manila based yoga teacher (RYT 500). He is the Faculty Head of Urban Ashram Manila and teaches FNR, Vinyasa Flow 1,2,3. His classes are very insightful. Through pranayama and asana practice, his unique way of teaching and sequencing poses gently pushes his students to explore their edge and provides the space for them to discover more about themselves.


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Harry was storming off to Transfiguration - not having time after Snape's class was an unfortunate consequence of him devouring all the classtimes for all four Houses. As he crashed down the stairs, his footsteps booming like a giant's, He heard an odd chirping noise from... above him?
Harry looked up, easily spotting Luna Lovegood. "Luna?" He asked, erasing the what the hell are you doing up there?
"Harry! Your wrackspurts are forming a hideous horde!" Luna said, for once seeming scared.
"Oh, really?" Harry asked dryly. "I'd never have guessed."
Luna patted the stone beside her (her feet were dangling off the oddly jutting bit of stone... balcony, you might say. "Come up here with me!"
Harry shook his head, smiling indulgently, "I've got Transfiguration next, and Professor McGonagall doesn't like people being late."
"Not today." Luna said, smiling, "Today, you'll do better with me."
Harry paused, thought about it - specifically, at how angry he was, and how much that interfered with him concentrating. "You're right, Luna, just hang on."
As he turned around and rushed up the steps to the level which Luna was on, he felt curious - what/why had Luna asked for him? Was it to study the wrackspurts - whatever they were?
Hermione saw him coming, and groused, "You've got transfiguration next, Harry - McGnagall hates it when anyone's late."
Luna said, loudly, from above, "Refer to Section 4, paragraph 92, line 3."
Hermione turned her head upwards looking at Luna with wide eyes. Eventually she finished her recall search, saying, "Luna! I should have known." With a chagrined smile, she looked at Harry and said, "Have fun!"
Harry was amused, himself, at the ability of Luna Lovegood to work miracles. Anyone who could manage to get Hermione to allow him to skip class? Miracle worker!
Harry darted through the crowd, now that he was no longer completely lost to fury, it refused to part for him on instinct. When he scrambled off the stairwell onto the fifth floor, he started searching for the path that would lead to Luna's airy balcony. It was difficult to find - more than five minutes searching, and he'd know where it was, too!
Luna started as she saw him, and Harry would have worried she'd have fallen, if it wasn't Luna Lovegood, Resident Miracle Worker. Luna would probably just fly. "Oh! we aren't going to stay here. As the sun's up, let's try the top of the Astronomy Tower."
Harry would have said something about Luna burning, but she kept a pretty brutal pace, and he nearly had to jog to keep up.
[a/n: since harry's going to ask, and it's no secret - Luna's exploiting a clause in Hogwart's rules, specifically one about tutelage to teach children to control their magic. Aka, she's treating Harry like he's eleven, because he's not managing his magic well. Harry thinks it's been instinct that's been keeping his paths clear - it hasn't...
Leave a review! Did you really want to hear Harry hollering at Snape again? Because I thought a little variety would be nice!
And as to why Snape hasn't taught Harry control? Snape found him more useful without boundaries. Besides, who needs control when you can let your magic lash out at Death Eaters?]


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The INVOcell™ system is an exciting new fertility treatment option that could reduce costs for couples trying to conceive. At The Fertility Institute of New Orleans, our own Dr. Dunaway and his team recently performed the first successfully completed INVOcell™ Procedure in Louisiana. If you're trying to conceive, read on to see how INVOcell could help you.
What is the INVOcell procedure?
Conventional fertility treatments, like IVF, rely on laboratory incubators and equipment to support early embryo development. While these systems are expertly-designed, they do come with additional costs in order to maintain an optimal temperature, pH levels, and gas concentrations for the developing embryo.
INVOcell uses an environment that's already perfectly designed to do this: your own body.
Rather than incubation that takes place in a laboratory, the INVOcell device is part of an intravaginal culture system (or IVC). Fertilization occurs in the more natural environment of your own upper vaginal cavity, where temperature, pH levels, and gas are more constant and directly-matched to the needs of your embryo.
After three days, the INVOcell device is withdrawn and the best embryos are transferred to your uterus. The following diagram shows how the INVOcell system works.
What are the major INVOcell benefits?
The INVOcell procedure provides multiple benefits for couples who are trying to conceive, including:
- Is less expensive than IVF therapies (approximately half the cost)
- Has comparable efficacy and birth rates to intrauterine insemination (IUI) therapies
- Allows couples to attempt fertility treatment who may have been priced out of more expensive therapies
- Provides a natural incubation environment, which may have psychological, emotional, or mental benefits for parent and child
While INVOcell won't work for all patients, it does provide an affordable fertility option for many.
What are INVOcell success rates?
In a 2016 study in the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, researchers found no significant difference between traditional IVF and INVOcell (IVC) transfer (97.5% vs. 84.9%) and live birth rates (60% vs. 55%).
Researchers noted that:
"IVF was shown to be superior to IVC in creating quality blastocysts. However, both IVF and IVC produced identical blastocysts for transfer resulting in similar live birth rates. IVC using INVOcell™ is effective and may broaden access to fertility care in selected patient populations."
Dr. Dunaway notes that "it's a great option" that may replace typical insemination procedures for many fertility patients. He also recommends that the procedure should be performed at an IVF center.
How much does INVOcell cost?
We recently wrote about the costs associated with fertility treatments here. As we noted, there are many costs involved and health insurance plans generally don't cover Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) procedures.
If your doctor thinks INVOcell may work for you, it could make it much easier to afford fertility therapy. Because of the reduced equipment and lab costs, INVOcell is approximately half the cost of traditional IVF. What that final number depends on your location and any other therapies you need as well.
Should I consider INVOcell as my treatment?
For best results with INVOcell, Dr. Dunaway recommends that patients:
- Are under 35 years of age
- Have normal semen parameters, with no sperm issues
- Have a BMI of less than 32
- Are categorized at an AMH blood level of 1 or greater
If you have additional questions about INVOcell, talk to your fertility specialist. They can help you understand how this therapy could help you achieve your dream of having a baby. Further, INVOcell Bioscience (the makers of INVOcell), have an extensive list of FAQs on their site. These can help you learn more about this fertility system.
If you're in the Gulf South, we encourage you to reach out to us at The Fertility Institute of New Orleans. Dr. Dunaway performed the first successful INVOcell procedure in the state and can answer any questions you have. Contact us today!


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One of the things I do with my personal training as well as that of the athletes and clients I train is do my best to never repeat a workout exactly. Now, for total beginners I will usually have them work on a program that remains relatively constant with regards to exercise selection and order, TUT* etc. I do this because I want them to focus on learning proper breathing and specific exercise technique, as well as gaining the ability to work hard and challenge them selves. During the initial stages of training I also want to build a solid foundation of strength and flexibility throughout the entire body while targeting any imbalances that may exist. Once I am confident that they have learned good solid technique on the basic exercises as well as how to work hard and stay focused (This usually takes between 3 – 6 months) I will then begin to incorporate more and more variety into their training program. Eventually they will reach a point where they will go months and months without ever doing the exact same workout.
As I have written about in many of my articles and talked about in different pod-casts we need to take into account individual genetic limitations and abilities, needs, goals, and preferences as well as environmental influences when we design specific training programs. The truth is that our bodies are in a constant state of flux. Outside of the afore mentioned specific genetic limitations and abilities the other factors above may change on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. Also, as we progress and mature in our training our bodies grow more and more accustomed to the different stimulus they encounter. What once was novel and new now becomes second nature. If we do not change things around in our training, we can not expect to create a need for the body to react, adapt and change in the results it produces. Stated another way we can't continue to do the same thing over and over again and expect to get a new and different result.
So remember if you are a beginner to exercise it is a good idea to take the time to build a strong foundation of proper breathing and specific technique as well as correct any major strength or flexibility issues that may exist. Once you are confident that you have done this (usually 3 – 6 months for most) then you should begin to incorporate more and more variety into your training. For the absolute best results from both your fitness and nutrition programs, take a little time to track your progress from week to week and month to month. Just a few minutes of writing things down each day will go a long way to helping you get the most out of what your doing. For more ideas about ways to incorporate variety into your training check out my article Variety: The Spice of Life at www.hybridfitness.tv
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Also, check out a great article by Brian Johnston, one of the Hybrid Fitness advisory members. The article is called Muscle Hypertrophy: The Role of Adaptation & Variation. Read it here.
* TUT = Time Under Tension
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As we're entering the realm of kids' movies with Aidan, I've been thinking more and more about how Disney characters (especially princesses, in my case) affect the people we grow up to be.
I was one of those little girls with all the obnoxious pink stuff.
I also went through a rather unfortunate boy-crazy phase. Or two.
I love(d) anything that sparkles. A couple months ago I went online shopping with my mom, and one of the items I got was a great, simple black tee - with sequined shoulders. I can't help it. I love simple, uncluttered lines. But I also love things that sparkle.
When I was very little, my consequence for being disobedient was having to wear pants to church - instead of a dress.
Disney princesses fit my personality like the glass slipper fit Cinderella's foot.
I loved the classics, especially Sleeping Beauty. Being a 90's baby, of course I also loved The Little Mermaid, and Beauty and the Beast. Because I refuse to grow up, I also love Mulan, Pocahontas Tangled, Brave and Frozen. And don't even get me STARTED on Moana.
Then, I came across an article entitled A Feminist Ranking of All the Disney Princesses. And while I don't necessarily disagree with the article's views, I was sad to see that my sweet Aurora was at the bottom of the list. Yes, she spent most of the movie sleeping. Yes, she married a dude she met once in the forest and then kissed her. But is she really such a bad role-model for little girls?
Around the same time, I saw this, "Dream Big, Princess" commercial on Disney Channel, and I kid you not, I started to tear up.
No doubt, if I had a daughter, I would encourage her to be brave and confident like Merida, Mulan and Moana (maybe I just need to name her something that starts with "M"). But you know what? I would also encourage her to be sweet like Snow White, and even graceful like Aurora. (If she gets any of my genes, she'll need help in the klutz-department.)
I am glad that the message that princesses portray has changed. I'm glad we have princesses without love interests. But I also like when there is one. Because love is something we all long for at some point in our life. I am glad the princes actually have names now, and personalities. Or aren't princes at all.
Recently I was talking to a friend, and told her that I really like Anna in Frozen, and wish she'd been around when I was little. I totally identify with her clumsy, naive, chocolate-loving personality. My friend said she preferred Elsa, because Anna wanted to marry a guy she'd just met. That got me thinking. And you know what? I still like Anna better. And I'll tell you why. Because to me Anna represents a transition a lot of us go through. Or at least I did.
At first Anna falls in love with prince Hans "of the southern isles", and immediately wants to marry him. Later she meets Kristoff, and he points out how ridiculous her wanting to marry a total stranger is, and of course in true Disney fashion they end up falling in love.
I certainly went through the teenager crush phase, where I felt like this guy was TOTALLY the one. But then we grow up, and learn that that's not how true love works. You have to take the time to get to know someone, and preferably find out their quirks before you commit to living with them every day of your life.
I am glad Disney princesses have evolved. I am glad that if and when we have a daughter there are so many more strong, brave, even quirky role models to look up to.
But, if she wants to go skipping through a meadow picking flowers, wearing pink from head-to-toe with a tiara, I'm not going to stop her. I may try to nip the boy-craze in the bud, because that really isn't necessary, nor probably healthy. But if she does develop a crush, and I hear her humming "Someday My Prince Will Come", I will probably smile and join in.
So, what is this princess-rambling about? I don't know. Too much time on my hands? Watching too many princess movies? Maybe. Probably. But, I just wanted to say, that I'm a princess-loving-girly-girl, with unrealistic hair expectations, and that's okay. And I'm not sorry.
Dream big, princess.


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ALERT: Madison guitarist Steven Meyer will perform a FREE concert on "Sunday Afternoon Live at the Chazen" this Sunday, Sept. 1, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. in Brittingham Gallery 3. The program features music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Gustav Holst, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Fernando Sor, himself and others. Also included is music by the Beatles, jazz and folk music. For more information about the series, go to: https://www.chazen.wisc.edu/index.php?/events-calendar-demo/event/sunday-afternoon-live-at-the-chazen8/
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By Jacob Stockinger
This Saturday morning, Aug. 31, will see the last FREE Farmers' Market organ concert of the season.
The 45-minute concert, sponsored by the Madison Symphony Orchestra and played on the Klais concert organ, takes place in Overture Hall at 11 a.m. No tickets or reservations are needed and the public is welcome.
The performer is David Ball (below), who was trained at the Juilliard School in New York City and who is based in Orange County, California, at the Christ (formerly Crystal) Cathedral.
The program features music by French composer Jean Langlais, French composer Camille Saint-Saens, German composer Max Reger, British composer Herbert Howells, Argentinean composer Norberto Guinaldo, French composer Leon Boellmann, French composer Jeanne Demessieux, contemporary American composer Alan Terricciano and American composer John Philip Sousa. (You can hear David Ball playing a different work by Herbert Howells in the YouTube video at the bottom.)
For the specific works and much more background about the performer, go to: https://madisonsymphony.org/event/free-farmers-market-concert-2019-david-ball/
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During his long and successful tenure with Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra (below), music director and conductor Andrew Sewell has established a reputation for championing unusual repertoire and booking young or relatively unknown soloists as well as for offering insightful interpretations of classic masterworks.
But Sewell (below) seems to be surpassing himself with the concert he will lead this Friday night, April 19, at 7:30 p.m. in the Capitol Theater of the Overture Center.
For one, the concert features the British recorder virtuoso Piers Adams (below), who established his own reputation as a part of the unusual baroque quartet Red Priest, the nickname for Antonio Vivaldi, who was indeed a priest in Venice with flaming red hair. (In the YouTube at the bottom, you can sample Adams' virtuosity as he makes bird calls on the recorder while playing a section of "Spring" from Vivaldi's "Four Seasons.")
You can also go to the following websites for more information about Piers Adams:
The Ear can't think of another time any major group in the area offered a soloist on the recorder – a baroque wooden flute-like instrument — except for the Madison Early Music Festival.
True to form, Adams will perform baroque music with the WCO – specifically, the Concerto for Recorder in C Major by Georg Philipp Telemann.
But to add to the more unusual aspects of the concert, Adams will also perform a contemporary work with the WCO – specifically, a 1994 recorder concerto by the English composer David Bedford (1937-2011, below) that was commissioned by Adams and has proven popular both on a recording and in concert.
For more information about Bedford, go to:
To round out the program, Sewell has programmed two other rarely heard works: the "Brook Green" Suite by Gustav Holst, best known for "The Planets"; and the Serenade in E-Flat Major, Op. 6, by the Czech composer Josef Suk (below), a very accomplished violinist and composer who studied with Antonin Dvorak and then became his son-in-law.
For more information about the concert, including tickets ($12-$80) and notes on the performers and the program, go to:
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By Jacob Stockinger
This Sunday brings three chances to hear choral and orchestral music.
On this Sunday morning, April 14, at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m., in the Atrium Auditorium (below in a photo by Zane Williams) the First Unitarian Society of Madison, 900 University Bay Drive, will host its spring All-Music Sunday. The public is invited to attend FREE of charge.
The performers are the Society Choir and Friends, a pickup orchestra, and vocal and instrumental soloists.
The program lasts about one hour and includes the Concerto for Two Trumpets by Antonio Vivaldi and the early Mass in G Major by Franz Schubert. (You can hear the Kyrie from the Schubert Mass in the YouTube video at the bottom.)
At 2:30 p.m., at Edgewood College in the St. Joseph Chapel (below, in a photo by Ann Boyer), 1000 Edgewood College Drive, the Edgewood Chamber Orchestra will give its spring concert.
Director Blake Walter (below) will conduct the performance.
Works to be performed are: the Overture to the opera Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven; St. Paul's Suite for String Orchestra by Gustav Holst; and the Symphony No. 35, "Haffner," by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Admission is $5 for general admission, free with those with an Edgewood College ID.
Here are some program notes provided by Edgewood College.
"The Overture to Fidelio — Beethoven's only opera — is the first of four overtures composed for the opera, but is perhaps the least often performed.
"In 1904, Gustav Holst was appointed Music Director of St. Paul's School for Girls in London, and wrote the Suite for the small string orchestra and based it on popular English folk songs.
"Mozart completed his Haffner Symphony in 1785 and dedicated it to his patron, Sigmund Haffner the Elder, a wealthy businessman in Vienna."
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By Jacob Stockinger
Organist Chelsea Chen (below) makes her Madison debut on this Tuesday night, Feb. 19, at 7:30 p.m. in Overture Hall as part of the Madison Symphony Orchestra's Concert Organ series.
Ticket information is below.
Chen brings to her Overture Hall premiere an array of widely known classical pieces plus her own original composition.
Chen's performance begins with Ola Gjeilo's Sinfonietta and Edvard Grieg's First Peer Gynt Suite, Op. 46— continuing with Chen's original work, the Taiwanese Suite, Camille Saint-Saens' Finale from "Organ" Symphony No. 3, Ad Wammes' Miroir, and finally, selections from Gustav Holst's The Planets.
Composer Gjeilo (below) has praised Chen's interpretation of Sinfonietta, which the organist has performed at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia.
The First Peer Gynt Suite, Op. 46, by Grieg is one of the most easily recognizable compositions within the musical art form. Subtitled "Morning," it is the first of two suites that Grieg (below) transcribed from Henrik Ibsen's 1867 Norwegian play Peer Gynt.
The opus, albeit a short first movement from the suite, intends to instill imagery of the sunrise over the North African desert. Despite this, it is more commonly associated with the sweeping mountains, fjords and lakes that mark Norway's landscape.
Chen's own Taiwanese Suite combines the dynamic range of the organ with inflections of traditional Asian folksongs. It is composed of three movements: "Hills in the Springtime," "Moonlight Blue" and "Mountain of Youth."
Inspired by the works of Richard Wagner, Franz Liszt and others, Saint-Saens (below) composed a variety of arrangements and selections for numerous occasions. By age 10, the French composer and child prodigy had given his first concert. His Finale from "Organ" Symphony No. 3 is, as some consider, the pinnacle of his body of compositions. (You can hear Chen's playing of the Finale from the "Organ" Symphony by Saint-Saens in the YouTube video at the bottom.)
Miroir was composed by Dutch composer Ad Wammes (below) for Stephen Taylor to celebrate the organist's appointment to the Nicolaïkerk, a church in the Netherlands. In an unconventional mirroring — hence the title — the right hand repeats the higher voices in the same pattern throughout the song, whereas the left hand varies texture, voice and tone in the lower registers. The result is a calming, low hum that is lifted by the glistening echoes of the upper registers.
To Holst, The Planets suite could be framed as "a series of mood pictures," with its seven movements. Ironically, Holst (below) seemed to heavily dislike his explosive popularity resulting from the suite's compositional structure. Despite his supposed negativity towards the piece, its inherent superb qualities of each movement — no two are alike — became a staple of evocative composition.
Following an academic career at the Juilliard School and Yale University, Chelsea Chen has practiced under the tutelage of known names in the musical world, such as Paul Jacobs and John Weaver. For more information about her, go to: https://madisonsymphony.org/event/chelsea-chen/
Single Tickets are available for $20 each and can be purchased online at http://madisonsymphony.org/chen, through the Overture Center Box Office at 201 State Street, or by calling the Box Office at (608) 258-4141.
Groups of 10 or more can save 25% by calling the MSO office at (608) 257-3734. For more information, visit, https://madisonsymphony.org/groups
Student rush tickets can be purchased in person on the day of the concert at the Overture Center Box Office at 201 State Street. Students must show a valid student ID and can receive up to two tickets for $10 each. More information is at: https://madisonsymphony.org/studentrush
Discounted seats are subject to availability, and discounts may not be combined.
This performance is sponsored by Friends of the Overture Concert Organ (below) that was custom-built by Klais Orgelbau of Germany. Support for all Overture Concert Organ programs is provided by the Diane Endres Ballweg Fund. With a gift from Pleasant T. Rowland, the Madison Symphony Orchestra commissioned the Overture Concert Organ.
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By Jacob Stockinger
The Ear has received the following announcement to post:
This semester, the Madison Youth Choirs welcome guest artist Tony Memmel, a singer-songwriter and guitarist whose story of ingenuity and resilience will inspire young singers and audience members alike.
Born without a left forearm or hand, Memmel (below) taught himself to play guitar by building a homemade cast out of Gorilla Tape, and has become an internationally acclaimed musician, thoughtful teacher and ambassador for young people with limb differences. (You can hear Memmel talk about himself in the YouTube video at the bottom.)
On this coming Saturday night, Dec. 8, and Sunday afternoon, Dec., 9, at the Middleton Performing Arts Center that is attached to Middleton High School at 2100 Bristol Street, Memmel will join the Madison Youth Choirs in a Winter Concert Series called "Resilience" because it focuses on the ability to overcome challenges both visible and invisible, and along the way discover the limitless possibilities that exist inside each of us.
Here is the schedule:
Saturday, Dec. 8, at 7:00 p.m. – Purcell, Britten, Holst and Ragazzi choirs
Sunday, Dec. 9, at 4:00 p.m. – Choraliers, Con Gioia, Capriccio, Cantilena and Cantabile choir
Tickets will be available at the door, $10 for general admission; $5 for students 7-18; and free for children under 7.
These concerts are generously endowed by the Diane Ballweg Performance Fund with additional support from our sponsors, American Girl's Fund for Children, BMO Harris Bank, Dane Arts with additional funds from the Endres Mfg. Company Foundation, The Evjue Foundation, Inc., charitable arm of The Capital Times, the W. Jerome Frautschi Foundation, and the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation. This project is also supported by the Madison Arts Commission and the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.
About Madison Youth Choirs (MYC): Recognized as an innovator in youth choral music education, Madison Youth Choirs (MYC) welcomes singers of all ability levels, annually serving more than 1,000 young people, ages 7-18, through a wide variety of choral programs in our community.
Cultivating a comprehensive music education philosophy that inspires self-confidence, personal responsibility, and a spirit of inquiry leading students to become "expert noticers," MYC creates accessible, meaningful opportunities for youth to thrive in the arts and beyond.
For more information about supporting or joining MYC, go to: https://www.madisonyouthchoirs.org
SATURDAY, DEC. 8, at 7:00 p.m. Concert (featuring MYC Boychoirs)
Combined Boychoirs with Tony Memmel
"Clenched Hands, Brave Demands" by Tony Memmel
"Though My Soul May Set in Darkness," text by Sarah Williams, composer unknown
"Who Can Sail" Scandinavian Folk Song, arr. Jeanne Julseth-Heinrich
"Hine Ma Tov" Hebrew Folk Song, arr. Henry Leck
"Jerusalem," poem by William Blake, music by Sir Hubert Parry
"This Little Babe" from A Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten
"Keep Your Lamps," traditional spiritual, arr. André Thomas
"Out of the Deep" by John Wall Callcott
"Shosholoza," Traditional song from Zimbabwe, arr. Albert Pinsonneault
Combined Boychoirs
"Angels' Carol" by John Rutter
Tony Memmel
Selections to be announced
"Wie Melodien" (Op. 5, No. 1) by Johannes Brahms
"The Chemical Worker's Song" by Ron Angel, arr. after Great Big Sea
"Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight" by Abbie Betinis
Combined Boychoirs with Tony Memmel (below)
"America to Go" by Tony Memmel
SUNDAY, DEC. 9, at 4:00 p.m. Concert (featuring MYC Girlchoirs)
Combined Girlchoirs with Tony Memmel
"Clenched Hands, Brave Demands" by Tony Memmel
"Be Like a Bird," Text from Victor Hugo, music by Arthur Frackenpohl
"Art Thou Troubled" by George Frideric Handel
"Blustery Day" by Victoria Ebel-Sabo
Con Gioia
"Bist du bei mir" by Johann Sebastian Bach from "The Notebook of Anna Magdalena Bach"
"I Heard a Bird Sing" by Cyndee Giebler
"Ask the Moon" from Three Settings of the Moon by Ron Nelson
"I'll Overcome Someday" by C.A. Tindley
"We Shall Overcome" arr. by Marie McManama and Con Gioia
"i shall imagine" by Daniel Brewbaker, text by e.e. cummings
South African National Anthem by E.M. Sontonga and M.L. de Villiers
"Resilience" by Abbie Betinis
"Be Like the Bird" by Abbie Betinis
"Esurientes" from Magnificat in G minor by Antonio Vivaldi
"And Ain't I a Woman!" by Susan Borwick, adapted from a speech by Sojourner Truth
Tony Memmel
Selections to be announced by Tony Memmel
"Vanitas vanitatum" by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
"Chant for a Long Day" by Stephen Hatfield
"Wir eilen mit schwachen doch emsigen Schritten"(from BWV 78) by Johann Sebastian Bach
"The Storm is Passing Over" by Charles Albert Tindley, arr. Barbara Baker
"Ich weiss nicht"(Op. 113, No. 11) by Johannes Brahms, text by Friedrich Rueckert
"Widmung" (Op.25, No. 1) by Johannes Brahms, text by Friedrich Rueckert
"I Never Saw Another Butterfly" by Charles Davidson
Combined Choirs with Tony Memmel
"America to Go" by Tony Memmel
By Jacob Stockinger
The Ear has received the following announcement to post:
"This spring, the Madison Youth Choirs singers (below) are exploring the unexpected ways that elements of humor, from irony and incongruity to improvisation and timing, are reflected in a wide variety of classical and contemporary musical compositions.
"We're learning that music, like humor, is a kind of language, operating with its own sense of logic, patterns, and conventions that composers can twist to surprise us and take our musical journey to new places.
"As we study the complexity of humor as a mode of creative expression, we are discovering the power of satire, wit, and misdirection to help us reexamine our assumptions, musical and otherwise.
"In our culminating concert series, our singers will present works including "No, di voi non vo' fidarmi" by George Frideric Handel; Timothy Takach's "I Will Howl" by Timothy Takach; the "Fugue for Tinhorns" from Guys and Dolls; and the second movement of Chichester Psalms by Leonard Bernstein."
The MYC Spring Concerts, "Seriously Funny: Musical Humor, Wit, and Whimsy" will take place this Sunday afternoon and evening, May 13, at the First Congregational United Church of Christ, 1609 University Ave., across from Camp Randall Stadium.
Performance are: 1:30 p.m. for Girlchoirs; 4 p.m. for Boychoirs; and 7 p.m. for High School Ensembles.
Tickets will be available at the door: $10 for general admission; $5 for students 7-18; and free for children under 7. A separate ticket is required for each performance.
This concert is supported by American Girl's Fund for Children, BMO Harris Bank, Dane Arts with additional funds from the Endres Mfg. Company Foundation, The Evjue Foundation, Inc., charitable arm of The Capital Times, the W. Jerome Frautschi Foundation, and the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation. This project is also supported by the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the state of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.
About the Madison Youth Choirs (MYC):
Recognized as an innovator in youth choral music education, Madison Youth Choirs (MYC) welcomes singers of all ability levels, annually serving more than 1,000 young people, ages 7-18, through a wide variety of choral programs in our community.
Cultivating a comprehensive music education philosophy that inspires self-confidence, personal responsibility, and a spirit of inquiry leading students to become "expert noticers," MYC creates accessible, meaningful opportunities for youth to thrive in the arts and beyond.
For further information, go to www.madisonyouthchoirs.org or call (608) 238-7464.
Here is the Repertoire List for MYC 2018 Spring Concert Series, "Seriously Funny: Musical Humor, Wit and Whimsy"
"Bee! I'm expecting you!" by Emma Lou Diemer
"A Menagerie of Songs" by Carolyn Jennings
Con Gioia
"When V and I" by Henry Purcell
"The Fate of Gilbert Gim" by Margaret Drynan
"The Cabbage-Tree Hat," traditional Australian folk song
Capriccio (below)
"Papageno-Papagena Duet" (from The Magic Flute) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"Ich jauchze, ich lache" (from BWV 15) by Johann Sebastian Bach
"J'entends le Moulin," French folk song, arr. Donald Patriquin
Combined Choirs
"Funiculi, Funicula" by Luigi Denza
Combined Boychoirs
"Sumer is icumen in," Anonymous, 13th century Middle English piece
Purcell Boychoir
"When V and I" by Henry Purcell
"Modern Major-General" from The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan
"Weevily Wheat," arr. Dan Krunnfusz
Britten Boychoir (below)
"Gloria Tibi" by Leonard Bernstein
"The Plough Boy," Traditional, arr. Benjamin Britten
Holst Boychoir
"Il est bel et bon" by Pierre Passereau
"Hopkinton" by William Billings
Ragazzi Boychoir
"I Will Howl" by Timothy Takach
"Rustics and Fishermen," part V of Choral Dances from Gloriana by Benjamin Britten
"Fugue for Tinhorns" from Guys and Dolls by Frank Loesser
Combined Boychoirs
"Chichester Psalms" II. Adonai ro-i by Leonard Bernstein
"A Girl's Garden" from Frosting by Randall Thompson
"Love Learns by Laughing" by Thomas Morley
"Turn, Turn, Then Thine Eyes" from The Fairy Queen by Henry Purcell
"My Funny Valentine" from Babes in Arms by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart
"Etude 1 pour les cinq doigts d'après Monsieur Czerny" by Claude Debussy
"I Will Howl" by Timothy Takach
"Fugue for Tinhorns" from Guys and Dolls by Frank Loesser
"sam was a man" by Vincent Persichetti, text by e.e. cummings
"No, di voi non vo' fidarmi" by George Frideric Handel
"Cruel, You Pull Away Too Soon" by Thomas Morley
"This Sky Falls" by Jocelyn Hagen
"Svatba," Traditional Bulgarian, arr. H.R. Todorov
Cantabile and Ragazzi
Choral Dances from Gloriana by Benjamin Britten


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Chinese businessman greeting son on train platform
When a father travels for his job, family life feels it. Not only does he miss birthdays, holidays and special events like Scout ceremonies or dance recitals, but his being away disrupts any household routine that may have been in place. And don't think it's any picnic for him, either! Chances are he hates being gone and coming home to feel like he's missed out on the life he's building with you and the kids.
Don't fret, husbands and travel widows! I've been in this game for a long time, and I have some ideas to make the days and nights easier on your family, to stay bonded and to have a little fun in the process. Whether Dad is gone on a regular basis or only leaves for an occasional business trip, you still can make your parenting—and your marriage—work!
Mom: Try to keep routines you have in place, such as dinnertime, bedtime, etc. Of course, if you want to let the kids watch a little more TV than usual while you snuggle up to them and read a good book, you have my blessing. Being the equivalent of a single parent is hard, and you need to have a break now and then.
Dad: If you know the kids go to bed promptly at 8:30 and you're stuck in an evening meeting, try to sneak out for a brief FaceTime call to make contact before bedtime. Your wife will love you for it!
Make it fun.
Mom: Have a slumber party in the living room; go to a restaurant where you can eat and play; head to the park. We used to sleep over at Grandma's for a week at a time to make it seem like our own little vacation. Being pampered at Grandma's, plus the change of scenery, was good for all of us.
Dad: Try to send postcards or a special note every time you travel. Find coloring sheets and crafts of the kids' favorite characters online and email them to your children.
Mom: Don't let the kids get away with things just because Dad's gone. Sometimes my kids gripe about their dad's job or the fact that he's gone, and I remind them that without his job they could not take gymnastics lessons, enjoy living in a nice home and so many other things they take for granted.
Dad: Respect your wife and kids by respecting the routine! See above.
Mom: Try to talk every day to keep him in the loop, because we all know things change fast when you're a parent! Take advantage of technology like Skype, email and FaceTime. Also, try the Marco Polo app to leave video messages when it's convenient for you.
Dad: Tell them the "boring" details of your day. My kids always want to know things like what Daddy had for breakfast and what kind of car he rented. Return Marco Polo messages!
Information, please.
Mom: Put a calendar in the kids' room so they know when Dad leaves and returns. Small kids will have fun with a paper chain countdown like they make at Christmastime. Older kids can keep a journal and take digital pictures and videos.
Dad: Leave flight and hotel information with your wife, as well as any phone numbers of traveling mates so she can always get in contact with you.
Keep it clean-ish.
Mom: Some moms choose to let the house go all week then do a freakishly fast pickup job the day Dad's due to return (guilty!). Some prefer to keep it picked up daily. Go easy on yourself while he's gone and hit the paper plates and easy foods.
Dad: Go easy as Clean House Inspector when you get home or you'll start off on the wrong foot with your family. Don't forget they've been busy adjusting to your being gone, and emulating Martha Stewart probably was not your wife's number one priority. If everyone is alive and semi-sane when you get back, be grateful!
If you're going crazy …
Mom: Depending on what makes you happy, either get out of the house or have someone over who can give you some help and a listening ear. Checking in with other moms (there's that Marco Polo app suggestion again!) and understanding family members can also help your sanity.
Dad: Tell her it's okay to hire a sitter and get out of the house for an hour! Contact family and friends (maybe even supportive neighbors) nearby to have them check in on your wife.
A couple more ideas
Mom: If you are able, try to travel with him sometimes. One summer the kids and I drove to Phoenix with my husband, another to Wyoming. Even if you are in a place with a kitchen and still need to cook, keeping a tiny hotel room picked up will be a snap. We grabbed a local map and hit the zoo, libraries, parks, pools and more.
Dad: When you get home, try to give your wife some time alone while you spend time catching up with the kids. They've missed you!
Mom: I know it's hard, but try to give up a little control when your guy comes home. You've been in charge, and now it's time to ease back into working together again.
Kerrie McLoughlin (TheKerrieShow.com) is a mom of five and has been a travel widow off and on since 1999. She loves to hear from other parents!
Book Suggestions
The Business Traveling Parent by Dan Verdick and Scott Pollack
When Daddy Travels by Harriet Ziefert and Emily Bolam
When Mommy Travels by Harriet Ziefert and Emily Bolam


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California employers should be aware of a change in our state's lactation accommodation law as of January 1. Previously, an employer could satisfy the requirement for a private room for breastfeeding mothers to express milk so long as the room was not a "toilet stall."
Court says store must pay workers for unworked on-call shifts
Our state is known for its wide-reaching employee protections. A recent Court of Appeal case illustrates this in the context of a department store that required retail employees to call in two hours before possible on-call shifts to see if they had to report in person.
California court allows rounding software for meal-break tracking
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Cyber security threats are becoming increasingly serious by the day. It is imperative not only to adopt security technologies but to ensure the authenticity of data used, systems, and people. Fujitsu has introduced state-of-the-art technologies that are able to achieve trust and creativity in the digital age at Fujitsu Insight 2018, a security-themed conference held on December 4, 2018.
[Fujitsu Insight 2018 Security Seminar Report]
Fujitsu's Initiatives on Cutting-Edge Cyber Security Technologies in the Digital Age
The seminar began with Fujitsu's Junichi Iijima introducing the company's initiatives on cyber security measures.
Junichi Iijima
Head of the Cyber Security Business Strategy Unit
Fujitsu Limited
The global GDP is approximately eight quadrillion yen (72.4 trillion U.S. dollars), while the total net income of all companies worldwide is approximately 400 trillion yen (3.62 trillion U.S. dollars). Meanwhile, cyber attacks caused approximately 60 trillion yen (543 million U.S. dollars) of damage: the majority of damage inflicted on humanity today is attributed to cyber attacks. New attacks are developed daily, making it difficult for a single company to defend itself alone. Fujitsu is working to protect this digital society in which companies operate and people live by incorporating external technologies from security vendors and combining them with our core technology.
Co-creation with security institutions and companies is required
The Cyber Security Business Strategy Unit and Security Research Laboratory operate in an integrated manner within the Fujitsu group. Specifically, the heads of both organizations hold a strategic cooperation meeting quarterly and agree on strategies and tasks to entrust to each other.
In addition, two organizations promote mutual human resource exchanges. Technologies developed by the Laboratory are incorporated into Fujitsu's security services to offer them to customers. Fujitsu does not merely develop technologies; it pursues technologies for human development.
Trust and Creativity: The Key to the Digital Age
Next to present in the seminar was Hiroshi Tsuda of Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., who described the Fujitsu group's R&D on security technologies.
Hiroshi Tsuda
Head of the Security Research Laboratory
Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.
Today's first keyword is trust. I will explain what shape trust will transform into in the digital age and how society will change in terms of trust from the viewpoints of data, systems, and people as well as research on this topic.
In 1976, Fujitsu introduced the catchphrase, "Fujitsu: Reliability and Creativity." At that time, this "reliability" was associated with the robustness and precision of products that Fujitsu made.
In the digital age, what matters most is shifting from reliability to trust relationships between the company and others. As cyber attacks occur daily, focus is placed not only on trust in products but also on trust in data, systems, and people.
The second keyword is creativity. In the digital age, when everyone and everything is connected as data to be utilized, Co-Creation, or initiatives to create value along with customers, is more important than working alone. Based on this idea, it is safe to say that security is an important technology for supporting trust and co-creation.
Trust is divided into three phases. Trust 1.0 refers to local, interpersonal relationships. Taking money as an example, this corresponds to shells that began to serve as currency in the age of barter. Trust 2.0 is based on organizations' systems and contracts. This is analogous to the currencies that nations issue. Trust 3.0 is created by digital technologies such as a virtual currency generated based on blockchain, such as Bitcoin. This "trust" is created solely by technology, and is not reliant on any nation. In future digital business, security technology is of paramount importance to create such trust.
The Importance of Trust in Data: Data Terrorism Will Occur Sooner or Later
Fujitsu Laboratories is working to devise ways to defend, protect, and guarantee trust in people, data, and systems. I will now introduce case studies on trust in data, systems, and people in turn.
Let's start with trust in data. The point to consider is the types of data to protect, such as personal data or confidential data, are certainly defined in guidelines and laws. With regard to cyber attack countermeasures, what today's society demands is to be sure to protect only what should be protected.
In addition, consideration must be given to AI and security. With bad training data, AI will provide incorrect answers. "Data terrorism" that targets this characteristic of AI will definitely occur. How to protect data to train AI is a new theme to tackle now. Similarly, the security of blockchain, a technology whose applications are expanding from financial to non-financial areas, is another important matter.
Among all types of data, personal data has been called the new "oil" in the 21st century. This idea was presented at World Economic Forum 2011 and refers to the concept that oil can be a source of various industries. When personal data is considered oil, for example, transporting or carrying it from one country to another will be restricted. Such restrictions are imposed by the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and China's cyber security law. Japan is finally catching up with the west in data control legislation.
Managing Data Histories with Data Trust and Blockchain Technology
Going forward, what measures should we take to ensure trust in data? Fujitsu has developed a technology that enables companies that want to use AI and data to confirm how specific pieces of AI training data were created. This technology, announced in September 2018, is named Chain Data Lineage.
Chain Data Lineage improves trust in data distribution across industries and sectors.(Japanese)
When thinking about trust in data, attention should be paid to its history. Data will become more and more like products in supply chains: there is raw data, which is in turn processed to add other data. The idea of Chain Data Lineage is to use an immutable blockchain to manage all information on who made modifications to data at which timings throughout such a process.
In addition, some data (e.g., personal data) requires users' consent to be shared by third parties. Fujitsu has also devised a mechanism to recognize such data and to automatically refuse provision without users' consent.
Trust in Systems: High-Speed Analysis of Attack Logs
Trust in systems can be achieved with a technology known as high-speed forensics. Forensics is a technology for checking the logs of hard drives and other devices as well as to analyze how crimes are committed.
Cyber attacks, especially targeted cyber attacks, require sending malware, infecting targets, intruding from the outside, and searching the inside for important data to steal. High-speed forensics can reveal modi operandi, or proof of attacks and what attackers did, by keeping audit logs and analyzing operation commands. Its advantage is speed: a conventional method takes about three months to analyze server logs in a targeted attack incident, whereas high-speed forensics can conduct such investigations and analysis within an hour or so. This is also an example of joint research and co-creation with the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, a research institute of Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
In addition, an AI technology to represent attackers' activities as graph data to learn from is also applied. This malware analysis uses Deep Tensor®, Fujitsu's AI technology. Using Deep Tensor® to train AI with graph data, a type of data that previously people used for judgment because conventional AI implementations have trouble handling it, facilitates highly accurate analysis and detection. In an example using open data, the achieved accuracy was as high as 97%. Fujitsu plans to automate incident management as much as possible by integrating this technology in the future.
Trust in People: The Increasing Importance of Identity Management
The last topic is people. Identity management, including identity authentication, is becoming more important. Japan, too, is facing a cashless era, a time when focus is being placed on identity verification.
That said, biometric authentication for logging in to smartphones and PCs merely identifies the owners of such devices. In the coming era, biometric authentication technology that identifies the true owner from among tens of thousands of people will be required.
Fujitsu's palm vein authentication and fingerprint authentication technologies can identify the true owner from about 10,000 people, but what can be done to raise this number? The answer is biometric authentication with multiple options that, when needed, use them in combination—for example, users' fingerprints and veins instead of the customary face authentication. In our case, we selected a combination of face and vein authentication. Integration of these two technologies enabled hands-free payments for one million users.
Hands-Free Easy Payment based on face and palm vein authentication(Japanese)
Expanding the Circle of Trust in Cyberspace
The preconditions to manage cyber security risks are discovering incidents, collecting data, and visualizing such data. This management cycle is supported by three elements: correct data, healthy IT infrastructure (systems), and an appropriate scope of sharing (people). The Fujitsu group is working with our customers to expand and protect the circle of trust in order to maintain a healthy environment to make use of cyberspace.
Junichi Iijima
Head of the Cyber Security Business Strategy Unit, Fujitsu Limited
Hiroshi Tsuda
Head of the Security Research Laboratory, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.


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Short film 'THE LICK', which is written and directed by Stephen C. Horne of How Exciting! Films and features my cinematography, recently ended its festival run with a Special Mention Award at the 2018 Innuendo International Film Festival.
The film is a surreal, black comedy about the seductive power of our deepest ambitions. Stephen is an incredible filmmaker to collaborate with. He approached me with a very complete vision of what the visual style of the film should be. His references included Luis Buñuel, Jan Švankmajer and Terry Gilliam, specifically Brazil. Focal length choices were carefully considered for every shot. We used a 16mm lens for low angle close ups to distort our actors faces and create an unsettling vibe. We used a variety of different frame rates depending on the tone of each scene (from 18 to 96fps with too many to remember in between). The shoot was one of the most fun I have been involved in. Stephen cast a fellow filmmaker Elias Sommer as the lead and his performance is super entertaining, charming and funny.


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The 2011 Nissan Murano is a 2011 midsize SUV that is actually fun to drive, which is a rarity in its class. With good power, competitive fuel economy and nimble handling, reviewers said the Murano was a good SUV when it was new.
The 2011 Nissan Murano's #1 ranking is based on its score within the 2011 Affordable Midsize SUVs category. Currently the Nissan Murano has a score of 8.9 out of 10, which is based on our evaluation of 52 pieces of research and data elements using various sources.
In 2011, reviewers said that the Murano was a powerful and fun-to-drive family crossover. But what really impressed them was the Murano's interior. Some test drivers even compared this Nissan favorably with its luxury sister brand, Infiniti. Plus, unlike many SUVs, the Murano's fuel economy is the same in both front- and all-wheel drive models, according to the EPA.
The big news for 2011 was the addition of the convertible Murano CrossCabriolet to the lineup. This convertible crossover is the only one of its kind, and reviewers weren't sure what to make of it. It comes in one near-luxury trim, has seating for four and a soft-top convertible roof. When it was new, the Murano CrossCabriolet cost a lot more than most other trim levels, and many reviewers said it wasn't very attractive. Testers couldn't agree whether the convertible Murano was fun to drive or not, but as the only vehicle of its kind, it could be worth a look.
The 2011 Nissan Murano has a 3.5-liter V6 engine and is available in five trim levels: S, SV, SL, LE and CrossCabriolet. All have either front- or all-wheel drive, except the CrossCabriolet, which comes standard with all-wheel drive. The base S trim comes with standard features including dual-zone automatic climate control, push-button start and a stereo with a six-disc CD changer and an auxiliary audio jack. SL, LE and CrossCabriolet trims are outfitted almost like luxury SUVs, with a heated steering wheel, a Bose sound system and leather upholstery.
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