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Physical Literacy
What is Physical Literacy?
Physical literacy is the integration of physical, psychological, cognitive and social capabilities that help us live active, healthy and fulfilling lifestyles:
- Physical – the skills and fitness a person acquires and applies through movement
- Psychological – the attitudes and emotions a person has towards movement and the impact these have on their confidence and motivation to move
- Cognitive – a person's understanding of how, why and when they move
- Social – a person's interaction with others and the environment in relation to movement
Australian Definition of Physical Literacy
In June 2016, the Australian Sports Commission (ASC) engaged 14 Australian and International researchers to explore the concept of physical literacy for the Australian context.
The researchers involved in developing the definition included representatives from nine Australian Universities and four international institutions, with expertise in areas including motor skill development, psychological factors (confidence, motivation, attitudes), education, sport participation and physical activity.
This work provides a means for all sectors (including sport, health and education) to work collectively to support Australians to improve their physical literacy. The research team supports the below statements as a coherent, practical and appropriate way of defining physical literacy for Australia.
Physical literacy is lifelong holistic learning acquired and applied in movement and physical activity contexts.
It reflects ongoing changes integrating physical, psychological, cognitive and social capabilities.
It is vital in helping us lead healthy and fulfilling lives through movement and physical activity.
View the Consensus Statement defining Physical Literacy
Download the Physical Literacy: Informing a Definition and Standard for Australia report that informed the development of a physical literacy definition and standard for Australia.
Why is Physical Literacy important?
Australian society has changed and continues to change. Australians are not moving as much as we used to. This is leading to increases in preventable disease and poorer health across the nation.
Increasingly, Australian children are unable to perform basic fundamental movement skills such as running, throwing, kicking, catching or jumping. They lack the confidence, ability and motivation to move and to be physically active. Australians are also living increasingly sedentary lives, spending more time using screens than being physically active.
Motivating Australians to move more is a complex problem. Focusing on developing physical literacy can help to get and keep people moving.
With well-developed physical literacy skills in early life, people will be more likely to have the confidence and capability to participate and be physically active throughout their lives.
Physical literacy enhances a person's:
- ability to perform a variety of fundamental movement skills competently and confidently
- attitude toward physical activity and sport and can increase the motivation to be active
- understanding of how to adapt to different movement settings and engage effectively with others
- knowledge and understanding of how and when to apply tactics and strategies in games.
The development of physical literacy is a lifelong process that is ongoing and dynamic. It is not developed to a point of completion but requires continual refinement and re-focusing based on life stage and circumstances, paving the way for a healthy and physically active life.
Benefits of Improved Physical Literacy
The earlier we learn to move competently and confidently, the more likely we are to continue to be physically active for life. Research tells us that early development of motor skills provides a foundation for engagement in diverse forms of physical activity and sports, and has a positive effect on health and wellbeing. People who are more physically literate in their early years are more likely to engage in more frequent and higher levels of physical activity throughout life.
Participating in physical activity more frequently and at higher levels leads to health benefits such as healthier blood sugar levels, reduced risk of obesity and other non-communicable diseases. People with improved physical literacy and physical fitness display a healthier body weight status and greater cardiorespiratory fitness. Effective physical literacy helps to reduce injuries through the development of improved body mechanics and awareness of the physical environment.
Today's children have the most to gain from developing physical literacy. Physical literacy will contribute to the core components of a child's holistic development supporting their health and lifelong wellbeing. Educating children from a young age builds their skills, self-confidence and motivation which means they are more likely to be physically active throughout their lives.
What does Physical Literacy mean for me?
|For Schools and Teachers
|Physical literacy is the whole-child learning that occurs through movement and physical activity experiences provided to students. It requires the integration of physical, psychological, cognitive and social development.
|For Parents
|Physical literacy is what your children learn through movement and physical activity; about themselves, other people and the world around them. It involves developing physical skills, thinking skills, life-skills, attitudes and values. Encouraging your children to move more will help them to lead healthy, fulfilling and productive lives.
|For National Sporting Organisations (NSOs) and coaches
|Physical literacy reflects all learning that occurs when participants engage in sport or recreational physical activities. It includes physical skills, problem-solving, life-skills, attitudes and values. It continues throughout life, so what people learn (positive and negative) from any experience of sport/activity remains with them in some way
|For policymakers in health, education, spot and recreation
|Physical literacy is what people learn through movement; about themselves, other people and the world around them. It represents the combined development of physical, emotional, cognitive and social capabilities. Encouraging people to move more throughout life will help them to lead healthy, fulfilling and productive lives. Policy makers are able to champion policies that promote movement in order to create healthier communities.
|For children and adolescents
|When I move, I learn – about myself, about other people and about the world around me. When I am active or playing sports and games, I learn how my body moves, what I like, and how to work with other people. Movement is an important opportunity for me to learn important life lessons, as well as enjoy myself, and stay healthy. If I enjoy movement now, and stay involved, it will help me be healthy when I am older.
|For researchers
|Physical literacy reflects: a network of learning processes and capacities – developed in movement and physical activity - that are continually evolving throughout life and a developing response to interactions with the environment. It reflects the holistic integrations of physical, pschological, cognitive and social development.
For further information click here to download Physical Literacy - What does it mean for me?
The Draft Australian Physical Literacy Standard
The Draft Australian Physical Literacy Standard (the Standard) builds on the development of the Australian Physical Literacy Definition to provide a framework that all Australians can use to support lifelong participation in movement and physical activity.
It can be used by anyone, at any life stage, and at all levels, to develop physical literacy.
The Standard is designed to build a consistent understanding of physical literacy and how it can be developed, meaning it can be used by everyone including children, parents, coaches and educators.
Find out more about the draft Standard.
ASC CEO Kate Palmer discusses the importance of Physical Literacy for Australia
Sport, education and research stakeholders share their thoughts on Physical Literacy
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Glutamine for Weight Loss
Glutamine is considered the most abundant amino acid in our body and has been a popular ingredient to supplement with for many years. While it's popularity has decreased in recent years, newer research being conducted may just result in a resurgence in its sales. Glutamine is most commonly used in clinical settings to speed up recovery thanks to its abilities to combat stress induced protein breakdown. It can also help to support more balanced glucose and insulin levels and has even been shown to prevent obesity in animal models. This latter effect in slowing down and even reversing the progression to obesity is the basis for one of a recent Italian study.
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|James "Jim" Preston Cook
October 2, 1921
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|2006 inductee into the West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame
|Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series career
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James Preston Cook (October 2, 1921 – November 29, 1983) was a stock car racer who competed in the NASCAR Grand National Series and NASCAR Pacific Coast Late Model (PCLM) Series. Born in Illinois, Cook lived in Boston before relocating west across the United States to Norwalk, California.
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After his accident left him using a wheelchair full-time and with large medical and hospital bills, benefit races were held for him at Southern California tracks.
Cook was murdered on November 29, 1983, by a drifter who broke into his Oceanside, California apartment and beat him to death with one of his racing trophies.[1]
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Retailers are trying to find ways to better compete with online stores. Many are using high tech analytic tools to track consumer behavior through their mobile devices.
A company called iInside uses Bluetooth on mobile phones to tell big box stores, grocers, and even airports about consumers movements — where they go and how long they spend there.
Consumer tracking has raised the hackles of some privacy experts, but iInside's CPO Patrick Blattner says his company is committed to protecting customers' privacy.
Blattner joins Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson to discuss how his company's technology benefits business without compromising privacy.
- Patrick Blattner, chief product officer at iInside.
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And when you go online, you got to assume you're being tracked, especially if you're shopping. But what about when you go to a physical brick-and-mortar store? Well, you might be being tracked there too. Because if you're carrying your smartphone, companies could be able to track you. They want to know what you're doing, where you go in the mall, inside grocery stores, even in airports. Now, some privacy advocates say it is spying, but tech companies say the information collected is anonymous and can't be traced to an individual.
iInside is one company that helps retailers track and analyze consumer behavior with mobile technology. And we're joined now by the chief product officer there, Patrick Blattner. Patrick, welcome to HERE AND NOW.
PATRICK BLATTNER: Hey. Thank you for having me.
HOBSON: Well, your company uses Bluetooth to track people's shopping behaviors through their smartphones. How does the technology work?
BLATTNER: So what we do is we set up these nodes around stores, so in different locations. And what we can do is set the radio frequency size from a meter to up to 50 feet. And what we do is when you're in a store and you have your Bluetooth enabled, our devices listen. When you get within the proximity of one of our zones, we then understand the MAC ID address, and we encrypt and anonymize that, and then we can understand where that consumer is pathing(ph) through the store.
HOBSON: And why do you use Bluetooth instead of Wi-Fi?
BLATTNER: Good question. So when you look at Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi ping signals can be every 45 seconds, if you will. So you can walk a good distance in a store before you ping. In a Bluetooth setting, it's for close proximity, and you're constantly pinging signals. So we can pulse, if you will, every couple of seconds. So we can get close proximity and then dial down real small zone sizes in the proximity of about, let's say, three feet across. So...
HOBSON: So you want that real, precise information. And tell us why. What exactly are you able to do with that data?
BLATTNER: We've been able to understand where the customer goes first within a store, and we can actually set the visit length. So you have to spend a little bit of time in a certain zone before we count you as a visitor. And a lot of these areas, especially when you think of stores changing with store and store environments, and they have, you know, small 10-by-10-foot sections, you want to be able to precisely and accurately know where those people are within the store in the first location.
And the reason that's important to the retailers, because it's tied with awareness and intent to purchase from the promotion. So they can look at the promotions that have been going on and understand the first place that people go and tie that to awareness and intent to buy.
HOBSON: And you can figure out, for example, if somebody is lane hopping. Tell us about that.
BLATTNER: Yeah, in a grocery store. So think of yourself, right? So you're standing in line. You're checking out. What ends up happening a lot of times is, let's say, the manager comes over. He opens another lane up. So then you opportunistically jump over to that lane. Well, one of the findings that we found in a regional grocer was that people were lane hopping to the tune of 18 to 20 percent, which, you know, we weren't sure if that was a big number or if it was just for this regional grocer. And then we started to find out that this was a basic common phenomenon that was going on.
So of that 18 to 20 percent of people that were lane hopping, what became very important about that is that half of that, like, nine to 10 percent were actually lane hopping twice. And what that does to the customer is it adds an additional two minutes and 14 seconds onto your visit going through checkout if you lane hop.
In one of the grocery stores, it has 4,000 customers a day. And if 18 percent or around there are lane hopping on a daily basis, that's a quarter of a million people a year, right? And if you take that two minutes and 14 seconds and add that onto that, that's 10,000 hours a year, which equates to over 400 days a year of time wasted in lanes.
Now, carry that across a regional grocer of 300 stores, and if your most valuable resource is time, that's a huge, impactful opportunity for the grocers to use as a new benchmark to bring down.
HOBSON: Although it doesn't do anything about my dilemma, which is getting into the 10 items and under lane and being behind a lot of people that have a lot more than 10 items in their cart. But anyway, we'll leave that for another day. Patrick, what about what you're doing in airports? People might find this pretty fascinating that you want to monitor how much time people are spending in the TSA lines so that the retailers on the other side of security can have more time with their customers.
BLATTNER: Airports are probably the most profitable malls in America. If you think that the amount of people travelling through airports and the disposable income they have to spend, you know, come to find out that for every minute you're on the other side of TSA, it's about a dollar in revenue to the airport. So there is huge money and huge revenue tied to it. So more efficiencies in getting people through TSA are important.
HOBSON: OK. So there is some criticism, and I'm sure that some people listening to this are saying, wait a minute, who gave you the right to monitor what I'm doing with my cellphone or where I'm moving around within a shopping area or an airport?
BLATTNER: Mm-hmm. You know, one of things, we've been advocates in and lead the way in the privacy council that's been enacted about a year and a half ago. And most recently, there was a code of conduct that was signed with Senator Schumer of New York, and we were a lead in that. And what we do, I have no information on the consumer at all. We encrypt and anonymize and aggregate all the data up. And so we're trying to lead the way in being consumer advocates but also helping retailers, you know, grocers, as well as mass transit areas, be more efficient in their businesses.
HOBSON: Well - but do you think anybody is going to believe, especially given all we found out about how much we're being spied on, that you can't go in and figure out exactly who it was and un-encrypt your data?
BLATTNER: Well, you know, our whole business is founded on this premise, and that's why we're leading the way with the privacy council. And we've gone through a number of - we've had to go through a number of hoops in having people kind of look through how we encrypt and anonymize to prove that what we are saying is accurate and that you cannot backwards engineer it to then go and access the customer at a later date. So we've gone through a number of hoops to actually be able to get into airports and work with airports as well as grocers and big box retailers.
HOBSON: What's the next step for you? What's the future of this technology?
BLATTNER: Well, you know, it's a good question, because as, you know, as you look at what it takes to actually get into these locations, you have to put hardware inside. So if you think about GPS, GPS takes you up to the store. But you're going to have to put hardware in big box retailers or grocers to actually understand traffic patterns and behavior. And historically, there's been cameras, you know, for theft protection, et cetera, set up in stores and grocery stores.
But where these things are going is the big box retailers have to compete with the online companies such as Amazon, right, as they have these physical spaces to optimize. So what we're able to do is we're able to help them understand how to more effectively optimize. And where you then can take it is getting more granular in the detail and the data and understanding where the employees are versus where the customers are to help better engagement for the retailer with the customers who have spent time to go into their stories.
HOBSON: In other words, so long to that 15-minute break that was supposed to only be 10 for the employee and the store.
BLATTNER: You know, it's being more efficient in your business, right? And we have a number of ways to display this information that are helping retailers, kind of, pair those two together. You know, a lot of companies think in terms of having a help button, right? You press the help button, someone would come and help you. But if we can show the retailer where the majority of the customers are at different times of days a week, you know, we can help them more effectively staff appropriately and pair those two together so they can help the customer.
But also, at the end of all of this, if retailers do not optimize their stores with these physical footprints spread across the country, the online retailer is going to put them out of business. So they have to get more effective and more efficient in how they do business, and some of that is using technologies like ours.
HOBSON: Patrick Blattner, chief product officer for iInside, which helps businesses track and analyze consumer behavior. Patrick, thanks so much for joining us.
BLATTNER: Thank you very much for having me.
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My next project is a short film called The Evolution of a Gen-X Music Purchaser
It's a project I've been thinking about for close to a year now. It's based upon this blog post I wrote in 2010. It tells the story of one man's travels from the 90s til now with milestones in his life tied to way he's able to consume music.
It's a short film I hope to crowd fund. I'll be launching that Kickstarter campaign in the next month or so. Right now I'm still figuring out how much we need to raise. Currently I'm hoping to license music from groups such as A Tribe Called Quest, Suicidal Tendencies, Slayer, Nine Inch Nails and Rage Against the Machine.
While it's a short film, it could almost be described as a long form music video.
I hope we pull it off.
While I didn't hit my funding goal last time, I'm confident that this time I'll have something at the end of the campaign to show to everyone.
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This past October, I participated in a debate at North Carolina State University sponsored by the Libertarian group Young Americans for Liberty. The YAL debates join a libertarian, conservative and a liberal. I held down the liberal pole. Why two positions to right of center and only one to the left? Good question, given that I find the potential breach within the the Democratic coalition—between, you might say, Keynesians and austerians, Krugmanites and Obamaites—more profound and potentially more portentous than that between conservatives and libertarians within the Republican coalition, but that's an issue for another post. For this one, though, my inaugural post, the first of my thrice-weekly missives I'll be blasting your way here at TheNation.com, you get a manifesto: my opening statement at that debate.
Richard Kim, the editor of this site, asked me for a few lines about what I'm going to be writing about here. I wrote back, "I'll be interpreting contemporary political developments in light of their historical context. I'm especially interested in educating folks on the left about the organic continuities in right-wing thought and action—since the 1960s, since the 1920s, even going back to the eighteenth century. Too often we act as if the forces we're fighting came about only the day before yesterday." But first, before I get into all that, here are some "priors," as the philosophers put it, some thoughts about where I'm coming from and why, the very best brief statement I could muster, for an audience of mostly conservative Southern college students about why I am a card-carrying liberal, and why they should be to.
A "liberal." Yes, I'll own the designation, not, as many on the left do, preferring the identity "radical," disparaging "liberal" as a synonym for all that is anodyne, weak-kneed, not really leftist at all (see the classic statement by Phil Ochs here). I own it in part for the reason that liberalism, done right in this all-too-reactionary nation, is always already radical; for the reason that what most of the people putting their lives on the line to make left-wing political change around rest of the world—in Iran, say, in India, in Greece—are fighting for is liberalism; because a politics not merely of tolerance but of recognition—radical recognition—of those "different" from contingent cultural norms also is liberal, properly understood; and because frankly most of what I think is worth doing to create an economically just society is pretty damned liberal, too. If it was good enough for Franklin Delano Roosevelt to call himself a "liberal," saying stuff like this (start reading at the part about "our resplendent economic autocracy" and "the individualism of which they prate"), it's good enough for me.


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Town of Chester residents and visitors listen to the classic and contemporary rock music of the Master Cylinders band during a 2013 concert, an installment of the popular 'Music on Main Street' series' with featured performances on the Chester Municipal Center lawn. These concerts, offered at no charge every other Thursday, are jointly sponsored by the Tri-lakes Business Alliance and the town of Chester. The Alliance is launching new events and activities to revive downtown Chestertown as well as the entire northern Warren County region. Photo by Cindy Mead
A variety of summer entertainment events are planned in August and September for the towns of Chestertown and Horicon — the most in recent history.
Following several recent near-sellout events at the revitalized Carol Theater, the next performance features Laura Roth, a world-class, seasoned singer, actress and comedienne featured onstage Saturday Aug. 2, according to Cindy Mead of the Tri-Lakes Business Alliance.
The Business Alliance has been responsible for establishing a wide variety of events in town as well as revitalizing commerce. Their spinoff group, the Adirondack Performing Arts Council, is now booking events for the Carol Theater, which until a few years ago was vacant and shuttered.
Tickets for Roth's performance are $15.
The theatrical group Shakespeare in the Raw will be performing "The Tempest" Saturday Aug. 9 at 7:30 p.m.. This troupe will be presenting "Henry V" on Saturday, Aug. 23 at 7:30 p.m. Ticket prices for either performance are $20 to $25 with children under 12 free.
The same venue will be hosting rock groups Last Daze and Flackjacket in concert Wednesday August 13 at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $10.
For more information on Carol Theater events, call the Performing Arts Council hotline at 494-4495.
The Tri-lakes Business Alliance has also started a biweekly series of Thursday concerts on the lawn of the Chester Municipal Center in Chestertown.
About 140 people turned out for a performance of Stony Creek Band July 24 in an installment of the "Music on Main Street" series.
Upcoming performances in this series include the Steven L. Smith Band on Aug. 7 with their hard-driving country rock, and the Master Cylinders on Aug. 21 with their straight-ahead rock music. Both concerts are free and occur from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m..
In other news from the Business Alliance, their benefit golf tournament July 26 had nine foursomes participating and the proceeds from the event were about $2,500.
Alliance officials expressed appreciation to Doug O'Brien, Penni Cargioli, Ron Walker and all the businesses who donated raffle items.
Rum Runner's Weekend, a smash hit in its debut last year, is scheduled for Sept. 12 through Sept. 14. This celebration of the area's prohibition-era exploits is sponsored by the Tri-lakes Business Alliance.
The next meeting of the committee planning the Rum Runners Weekend is to be held 5 p.m. Aug. 6 at the Panther Mountain Inn.
Plans to date call for car shows, speakeasy nights, restaurant specials, a Babe Ruth Baseball competition, a vaudeville show at the Carol Theater, a bootlegger's car chase over Landon Hill and a Charleston dance contest — all popular aspects of the events last year.
New for 2014 is a scavenger hunt that features participants' progress displayed on the Internet as they visit "Mystery 1920 locations" around town. The website is to be developed by Adam Parish of Amps Computer Service.
Business Alliance members noted at their recent meeting that an impromptu Bike Hop was held at the Panther Mountain Inn on July 18 with 22 motorcycles participating. The Alliance members voted to sponsor such motorcycle shows in the future.
A brand new event announced this week by the Alliance officials is Adirondack Shindig, set for Saturday Aug. 9 in the hamlet of Adirondack, to be held on the same day as the 15th annual Adirondack Yard Sale. The Shindig, a community music and dance event, starts at 5 p.m. Adirondack General Store and Mike & Kathy Hill are organizing this community event.


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Dulcinea Pitagora holds a Master of Arts in Psychology and a Master of Social Work, and is currently pursuing AASECT certification in sex therapy and a Ph.D. in Human Sexuality. Pitagora has a practice in New York City that includes individual, couples, poly/leather family, and group therapy. Pitagora's practice is person-centered and strengths-based, and focuses on self-determination and empowerment. Pitagora has published articles in peer-reviewed journals and presented at conferences on the topics of alternative sexuality and gender diversity. Pitagora also conducts research, lectures, and seminars pertaining to these communities.
Lee M. Faver, PhD, ABPP
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I am an openly gay licensed and board certified psychologist, experienced with a broad population of 15-75 year old people. I provide individual and couple therapy from a highly integrated, self-psychology based approach.
My experience in the arenas of sexuality, orientation, gender-reassignment, BDSM and polyamory spans 20 years. I am a sex-positive professional with experience helping people in opposite-sex and same-sex relationships.
I am an experienced trainer and teach about sexual orientation, therapy with GLBTQ people, sexuality, HIV and HIV prevention in a variety of settings. For a decade, I was a program development consultant at AIDS Community Services of Western NY, and I continue to remain active in prevention. Additionally, I supervise other mental health and sexuality professionals, and I am a family/divorce mediator.
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New York, NY
Richard Horowitz provides services to clients of all lifestyles, career paths and financial abilities; however, his background in theater, French/German languages and committed relationship with NYC's GLBT community has developed added insight into the issues faced by entertainers, European newcomers and GLBT adult/youth.
Joe James, PhD
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I've been working with members of the BDSM, poly, swinging, fetish and GLBT communities since 1989. Many of my clients see me because of issues related to the lifestyles, but many also see me for things unrelated or quasi-related to their lifestyle because they know that I will not make it an issue if it is not posing one in their life. My theoretical background is dynamic and humanistic and I strive to create a non-judgmental environment in which you can comfortably explore whatever concerns have caused you to seek therapy. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or for more information.
Marta Helliesen, PhD
New York, NY
I have been in private practice in New York City since 1995, and have developed unique inter-disciplinary treatment approaches to sexual problems, based on my background in neuroscience, Gestalt therapy and sexology. I provide a safe and supportive therapeutic environment for clients to heal sexual wounds and expand and integrate their sexuality. I have vast experience with alternative lifestyles including: LGBT, BDSM, fetishes, cross dressing, and more. I work with individuals and couples of all genders and sexual orientations. I am Scandinavian with academic training in both Europe and the US.
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Twila L. Preston, Ph.D. has been serving individuals and families in northeast Nebraska since 1997. She provides psychological evaluations, consultations, and psychotherapy. She has experience working with individuals of varying cultural, economic, lifestyle, and spiritual backgrounds. She is aware and supportive of the kink community.
Katherine Rachlin, PhD
New York, NY
Many people do not tell their therapists the whole truth about their sex lives or fantasies. My office is a kink-friendly place and you can bring your whole self to therapy. I am a licensed psychologist, experienced psychotherapist, and certified sex therapist. People come to see me because they want a therapist who has an expanded awareness of sexuality and gender. I welcome individuals and partners, whether, they want to work on challenges related to fetish, fantasy or lifestyle; or want to address issues that are completely unrelated. Fantasies which cause distress and problems for some people are a source of joy and strength for others. An advantage in seeing a specialist is that I will not make it an issue if it is not a problem for you. Many people may seek out a Kink-Aware therapist because they want to find ways of making the relationship more compatible. Sometimes people come to counseling to explore the meaning of sexual fantasies in their life. And sometimes they want a therapist who can affirm their sexuality or lifestyle and help them with life challenges such as family, work, relationship, emotional problems, and major decisions. I work with people who live private and conservative lives as well as people who are out in alternative communities.
Gregory Wells, PhD
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I believe psychotherapy offers an opportunity for growth and change. My goal is to work collaboratively with my clients to support them in identifying their core values in life and then setting goals to help them create a life that is rich and meaningful. I have experience working with individuals, couples, and those in multiple relationships as well. I am proud to work with the LGBTQ and BDSM/Kink communities. Please contact me for an initial phone consultation free of charge.
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I offer a warm and supportive environment which affirms the diversity of each individual, and I enjoy helping people to find creative ways to solve problems and become more fully themselves. I am experienced in working with members of the poly, kink/bdsm, bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgender, HIV+, and sex work communities, as well as people from a variety of faiths. Other specialties include relationship work, depression, anxiety, substance and internet addictions, codependency, anger management, and self-acceptance. I am the author of What Psychology Professionals Should Know About Polyamory ( http://www.polyamory.org/joe/polypaper.htm ) and I have given many lectures about working with clients from the leather/kink and poly cultures.
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Diane Hughes, LCSW, PhD
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I have provided psychotherapy and counseling to individuals, couples, and families for 30 years. I have worked with anxiety disorders, mood disorders,personality disorders, eating disorders, and relationship issues. I also have extensive experience in working with people who choose to live in alternative life styles including GLBTQI individuals, couples and families. I have years of experience working with people who choose polyamory as a lifestyle and years of experience working with people who are involved in BDSM and in the leather community. I have been familiar and involved with the GLBTQI, poly, and BDSM communities for over 30 years.
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Many people celebrate different things in December, but it's the Holiday Season (so far as I know) to everyone. So let this here be a nice place where we can all wish each other a Merry... whatever.
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Anecdotal Evidence with Daniel Johnson, MD
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Our lives as we live and experience them can be thought of as the stories we're writing every day. In his work as a psychiatrist, Daniel Johnson, MD has been deeply moved by the healing stories that have been shared with him over the years. Join him from his home in Asheville, NC where he shares long-form conversatons exploring the interesting and inspiring aspects to life's growth. His guests include practitioners of the healing arts as well as clients and others with compelling healing stories. Every life matters, every story is valuable - the evidence may connect you to the next chapter you're writing in your own life.Read more »


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NEWARK — NJ Transit brought its mobile ticketing program to two more rail lines, the Raritan Valley and North Jersey Coast, moving one step closer to a systemwide rollout. MyTix enables customers to purchase and display rail one-way tickets, weekly passes and monthly passes anytime, anywhere, using their smartphones.
NJ Transit first introduced MyTix in April as a pilot program on the Pascack Valley Line, as well as between Penn Station New York and the Meadowlands Rail Station for special events, to test the functionality of the app and determine the feasibility of expanding it to include other rail lines. In September, NJ Transit expanded MyTix to the Main/Bergen County and Port Jervis lines, followed in October by the Montclair-Boonton and Morris & Essex lines, as part of a gradual systemwide rail rollout of the program, to be completed by the end of the year. Some improvements made to the agency's MyTix app were a direct result from valuable feedback from customers using the app during the gradual rollout.
"We continue to expand NJ Transit's mobile ticketing app as part of our ongoing efforts to tap into the latest technology to improve the overall customer experience," said NJ Transit Executive Director James Weinstein. "When the rollout of MyTix is completed by the end of this year, all NJ Transit rail customers will have the ability to treat their smartphones as both a ticket vending machine and rail ticket or pass all in one, providing for a seamless travel experience."
MyTix is available for free download on any web-enabled iOS or Android operating system, via the App Store for iOS devices and the Google Play Store for Android devices. To purchase tickets via MyTix, customers must first install the app and then create an account, which will save customers' profile information and history of ticket purchases for ease of use. Purchased tickets must be activated prior to boarding the train and displayed to train crews upon request (one-way tickets expire two hours and 45 minutes after activation; monthly passes self-activate on the first day of the calendar month and remain active for the entire month; weekly passes self-activate at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday and remain active through 6 a.m. the following Saturday). Customers transferring at Secaucus Junction or traveling to and from Newark Liberty International Airport Station will need to scan the ticket barcode on the fare gate readers to pass through the gates.
MyTix was designed with input from customer focus groups, as well as NJ TRANSIT frontline rail employees and customer service staff.
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Staff Sgt. Juan Arreola has honored the dead the way Marines do -- stone-faced with crisply folded flags and a sad bugle cry. He knows that has its place.
On the Day of the Dead holiday this weekend, Arreola, 33, honored the dead the way Mexicans do.
The Joliet man said he wanted to celebrate five fallen Marines when he ran in the 5K Race of the Dead on Saturday in Chicago's primarily Mexican neighborhood of Pilsen, surrounded by jaunty mariachi music and playful skeleton figures meant to mock death.
Arreola once thought he'd never walk again, much less run competitively, after an improvised explosive device wounded him three years ago near Fallujah, Iraq. Still healing after about 25 surgeries, the Mexico native also sees the race as a celebration of his own life, prolonged.


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My faith and my trueness are crippled and torn, ...
but never forget the weight that for you was born.
A suffering king, tortured Lord,
A savior of men, and we held him to the sword.
We beat and we battered,
on the cross blood was splattered.
King above all, ruler of hearts,
right here and now, is where your faith starts.
Kindle the fire, thicken the flame, ...
I understand now, and I will not be lame.
I will not lay quietly, I will not lay still,
the word of the Lord is mine to fulfill.
I'm a servant of God, my soul is committed,
my soul and my heart with Jesus is fitted.
My soul is on fire, my heart is not dead,
my soul is finite, my heart is like lead.


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Friday's Rio Nightlife Pick – Start the Carnaval off right with the festa Braza, which is back for a very special edition at Mansao Niemeyer in Leblon. Expect the best of soul, funk, old school beats, afrobeats, breaks and rare grooves from 3 of Rio's finest crews.
After 3 editions, Braza has proved to be one of the funkiest parties in town, creating an atmosphere and vibe that speaks for itself. Tonight local crews Brazilian Wax, The Groov and Botafogo Social Club will throw down in true Carnaval form. This is not to be missed at the incredible Mansao Niemeyer. DJs include The Ambassadors, DJ Saraiva, Pedro Piu from Brazilian Wax, and Botafogo Social Club residents Mike Frugaeltti, Doug Gray and Tee Cardaci.
Carnaval Samba Parade – Access Groups at the Sambadromo (Lapa)
Composed of 19 of Rio's biggest samba schools, the competition is fierce in this category, as the winner makes it to the Special Group parade of the following year. This is the best option for those who do not want to spend huge amounts of money, but are still interested in watching exceptional performances.
Sambadromo – 10PM
Rua Marquês de Sapucaí, Santo Cristo – Tel: (21) 2533-0354
Entrance: Check with venue
Braza (Centro)
Start the Carnaval party off with a funky bang as Botafogo Social Club, The Groov and Brazilian Wax team up to bring you Braza. One of the few parties in Rio that will mix up funk, soul, breaks, rare groove, Brazilian funk and much much more.
Mansao Niemeyer – 11:30PM
Av. Niemeyer 99- Leblon – Info:firstname.lastname@example.com
Entrance: R$20 with guest list, R$30 without
Circo Loco (Copacabana)
The Rio Music Conference began this week with their official awards ceremony. Now its time to kick off the parties. Tonight will provide Rio with a fantastic variety of music from such well known DJs and producer Seth Troxler, DJ Sneak, DJ Wild and many more.
The Week – 11;30PM
Rua Sacadura Cabral, 154 – Saúde Tel: (21) 2253 -1020
Entrance: R$30 with guest list, R$40 without
Bloco Deixa que eu Deixo (Lapa)
A diversity of rhythms are incorporated into this bloco, making it one of the most eclectic musical fusion scenarios in Rio, blending samba with maracatú, marches with pop music, afoxé with sambarock and more.
Rio Scenarium – 11PM
Rua do Lavradio, 20 casa – Lapa – Tel: (21) 3147-9000
Entrance: R$60
Bloco Boêmios da Lapa (Lapa)
This bloco epitomizes the bohemian district of Lapa in which it is set so expect a huge crowd made up of residents and travelers. The scene is very informal but with a distinctive party vibe and bars are open late as usual for anyone wishing to carry on through the night.
Bloco Boêmios da Lapa – 8PM
Mud Bug (Copacabana)
With two locations in Copacabana, Mud Bug providing a great selection of beers and a menu as well. There isn't much missing from this American style staple. Also expect to hear live jazz, blues, MPB and rock from time to time.
Mud Bug – 5PM
Rua Rudolpho Dantas 16, Copacabana – Tel:(21) 2543-5052
Entrance: Free
Mab's Restaurant and Bar (Copacabana)
The new American-owned beachfront restaurant and bar on Copacabana Beach is a great place for food and just drinks to kick off Saturday night.
Restaurante Mab's – 5PM
Avenida Atlantica, 1140, Copacabana – Tel: (21) 2275-7299
Entrance: Free
Lapa Irish Pub (Lapa)
If you are up for some Irish beer and a nice environment to drink it in, this is the place to go. With its trendy decor, this pub attracts many different kinds of people and offers Guinness and the German brand of Erdinger.
Lapa Irish Pub – 5PM
Rua Evaristo da Veiga 147 – Lapa – Tel (21) 2221.7236
Entrance: R$10
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Vantage Point: Correct Terminology
Though Shakespeare's Juliet tells us, "That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet," it is generally agreed that correct terminology is extremely important. Benjamin Lee Whorf hypothesized years ago that words of a language help determine its speakers' world view. Eskimos, with 15 words for different types of snow, are arguably more observant of nuances in precipitation than are English speakers.
Take the term "pharmaceutical marketing research." In 2012, this phrase and each of the words in it seem a little wrong. Misleadingly wrong!
Perhaps we should change "pharmaceutical" to "healthcare," or maybe "wellness," to reflect the breadth and depth of our field in 2012 and beyond.
"Marketing" has generally meant the you-hold-'em- I'll-hit-'em kind of promotion that Seth Godin calls "intrusion marketing." We all know that this approach isn't working very well in this increasingly noisy, social-media driven world.
Finally, when we think of "research," we think of watching physicians in focus groups through a one-way mirror, or having consumers respond to an online questionnaire. Such efforts tend to be "one off" rather than ongoing, with sponsors often being anonymous and with project deliverables being final reports rather than decisive actions. Not quite right!
In 2013, watch for the terminology to change. Please, don't call us "pharmaceutical marketing researchers" anymore. Shakespeare would say that "healthcare stakeholder outcomes facilitator" or some such phrase does not come trippingly to the lips. But Professor Whorf might find this term more reflective of our role in the new healthcare environment, and thus likely to lead us to do more relevant work.Richard Vanderveer is chief solutions officer, rbV3.


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New Orange Amps, Pedals And Bass For NAMM 2016
Happy birthday to a legend!
All the big names in the world of guitar equipment have something special to show at NAMM 2016, and British institution Orange are no exception. As well as rightly reflecting on past successes, they are also continuing to expand outwards from amplifiers and producing some quite remarkble new bass guitars and effects pedals in the process. Let's take a took at what we can expect from Orange in 2016…
Tiny Terror
Ah, 2006. Casino Royale restored peoples faith in James Bond, Zidane ended his international with a bang and people were obsessing over the debut album by a young band called the Arctic Monkeys. Time flies, doesn't it?
It's hard to believe that 2016 also marks the 10th anniversary of the Tiny Terror amp. As the original lunchbox amplifier, the impact of this small piece of kit is hard to overestimate – Guitarist magazine hailed it as the as one of "the most important guitar products of the last 30 years".
10 years on, Orange have announced the release of a very limited tiny terror, code-named "Shiny Terror" – try not to touch your screen, we know it's beautiful. Orange UK Custom Shop have only produced 110 of these stunning models which is a "point-to-point hand-wired version of the original, housed in a stunning mirror-effect, polished stainless steel chassis". Included with the amp (not available separately) is the open-back speaker cabinet. The racing green theme is a nod to the British heritage of Orange, and has never been offered before. Get them while they're hot.
The Orange O Bass
Not renowned for products outside the world of amps, the introduction of the Orange O Bass is a brave and ultimately triumphant move by Orange. There have been murmurings and glimpses of this model previously. Originally introduced at NAMM 2014 the O Bass made its first appearance to ticket holders only – without the general public being allowed to set eyes on it. As it tends to do, information about the O Bass found its way on to the internet and spread quickly, leading to guitarists and bass players alike calling for the company to put it into production. 2 years later and Orange have answered their prayers.
Being the brainchild of vintage gear aficionado Technical Director Adrian Emsley, the Orange O Bass has been designed with retro tones in mind. It is perfect for players who want to capture a Motown groove, and a softer touch will yield great earthy overtones. However, the bass also responds well to more robust treatment, and can produce some brilliant retro rock and roll tones. As designer Adrian Emsley puts it, "It growls like a policeman's dog!"
The source of these great tones lies in the custom-wound split–coil humbucker – simple yet effective.
It has a maple neck and rosewood fretboard, with medium-jumbo frets. The choice of Okoumé wood for the body makes this bass lightweight yet resonant. Plus, it just looks so cool!
The Orange O Bass is currently available in Sunburst, Off-Black and, shockingly, Orange.
Two Stroke Boost EQ
The Orange Two Stroke Boost is the brand's take on the 'clean boost' but with more added Orange flair. This pedal packs and active dual-parametric EQ and up to 12dB of output boost helping you push the sound of your amp that little bit further and helping you stand out with those solo's. Tweak the pedal to complement your amp's existing sound and add that push you need or mess around with the EQ to create entirely new sounds. Boost – lead or crunch – you want it, you got it.
One of the best things about the EQ option is that the Two Stroke allows you to push the high mids to stand out when playing and can offer that low end reduction you need to remove the woolliness sometimes associated with regular boost pedals.
Regardless of how you set the pedal though, the Two Stroke pedal's charge pump circuit (which doubles the internal voltage and massively increases the headroom), works awesomely set before or after your other pedals – a great addition and forward thinking design feature from Orange indeed.
OB1-300 Combo
Go from clean, smart bass tones to completely gnarly crunch at the turn of a knob with the Orange OB1-300 Combo.
The inspiration for the OB1-300 combo came from the age-old trick bass players have been doing when it comes to combining bass and guitar amps to great effect -see Royal Blood, Kyuss and Middle Class Rut for example. So Orange posed the question – why drag two amps on stage when you can have those harmonics, overdrive and gain partnered with a core bass tone? The answer is the OB1-300 combo.
The unique sound comes from the new 15″ Eminence neodymium speaker and front-ported cabinet for added punch and attack. The footswitchable blend circuit allows for a superior control over gain and increased harmonic content to the upper registers of the input signal whilst the lower frequencies are left pure to retain that bass sound you need. Tweak the Blend control to go from warm glowing bass to dirty, filthy grind.
Available in Orange or Black.
Amp Detonator
Running two amps in unison and switching between the two is a hell of a lot of fun. Relying on a poor quality ABY box/line selector is not. In response to the need of a high quality ABY box, Orange have gone and created their own allowing you to run two amps in unison or switch between the two seamlessly and reliably.
If you've suffered with an unresponsive ABY box that destroys your tone or causes hum issues due to non-isolated outputs you'll be pleased to know that The Amp Detonator from Orange is good to go and gig ready.
The Amp Detonator is a small, active and buffered ABY pedal that can be powered by a 9v battery – in fact its the ONLY active ABY switcher that can be powered by a 9V battery.
It's been designed to be as transparent as possible without changing any of your tone regardless of the length of your cable. Both outputs have been buffered with a low noise linear circuit to maintain clarity which corrects the tone altering characteristics of some other ABY boxes. It's your two amps, how they should sound.
A key feature comes in the form of the push-button polarity switch to correct common phase issues between amplifiers – a great addition that can fix phase problems instantly allowing you to achieve the tone you want.
Click here to see the full range of Orange products at the Dawsons website.
About Lee Glynn
Lee Glynn is a guitarist and multi-instrumentalist who lives in Liverpool, England. After moving to the UK from Perth, Australia, Lee enjoyed a successful career as guitarist in Liverpool based rock band Sound of Guns.
After releasing two albums, a myriad of EP's/singles and touring extensively around the world for 6 years including stops at Glastonbury, Latitude Festival, as well as the coveted Reading & Leeds Festivals, Lee decided it was a time for a change of scenery.
Utilising his experience in music journalism, Lee now works within the web team at Dawsons Music, where he can still relay his passion for music by producing great content for the Dawsons blog and social media. Lee is still an avid guitar player and writer.
Here are some fun facts:
- Before moving to the UK, Lee used to host a radio show in Australia at the age of 18. Lee presented the unsigned bands segment at Twin Cities FM in Perth, WA.
- Sound Of Guns enjoyed a short but successful career in music with many of their songs being used in television adverts, sports channels and the extremely successful videos Road Bike Party and We are Not Crazy We are Amazing.
- He also can't play bar chords due to an accident so learned to play power chords by studying Black Sabbath songs and Tony Iommi's playing style.


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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. The mental faculty by which one deliberately chooses or decides upon a course of action: championed freedom of will against a doctrine of predetermination.
- n. The act of exercising the will.
- n. Diligent purposefulness; determination: an athlete with the will to win.
- n. Self-control; self-discipline: lacked the will to overcome the addiction.
- n. A desire, purpose, or determination, especially of one in authority: It is the sovereign's will that the prisoner be spared.
- n. Deliberate intention or wish: Let it be known that I took this course of action against my will.
- n. Free discretion; inclination or pleasure: wandered about, guided only by will.
- n. Bearing or attitude toward others; disposition: full of good will.
- n. A legal declaration of how a person wishes his or her possessions to be disposed of after death.
- n. A legally executed document containing this declaration.
- transitive v. To decide on; choose.
- transitive v. To yearn for; desire: "She makes you will your own destruction" ( George Bernard Shaw).
- transitive v. To decree, dictate, or order.
- transitive v. To resolve with a forceful will; determine.
- transitive v. To induce or try to induce by sheer force of will: We willed the sun to come out.
- transitive v. To grant in a legal will; bequeath.
- intransitive v. To exercise the will.
- intransitive v. To make a choice; choose.
- idiom at will Just as or when one wishes.
- auxiliary v. Used to indicate simple futurity: They will appear later.
- auxiliary v. Used to indicate likelihood or certainty: You will regret this.
- auxiliary v. Used to indicate willingness: Will you help me with this package?
- auxiliary v. Used to indicate requirement or command: You will report to me afterward.
- auxiliary v. Used to indicate intention: I will too if I feel like it.
- auxiliary v. Used to indicate customary or habitual action: People will talk.
- auxiliary v. Used to indicate capacity or ability: This metal will not crack under heavy pressure.
- auxiliary v. Used to indicate probability or expectation: That will be the messenger ringing.
- transitive v. To wish; desire: Do what you will. Sit here if you will. See Usage Note at shall.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- To wish; to desire; to incline to have.
- As an auxiliary, will is used to denote futurity dependent on the verb. Thus, in first person, "I will" denotes willingness, consent, promise; and when "will" is emphasized, it denotes determination or fixed purpose. In the second and third persons, the idea of distinct volition, wish, or purpose is evanescent, and simple certainty is appropriately expressed. To emphasize will denotes (according to the tone or context) certain futurity or fixed determination.
- n. The power of choosing; the faculty or endowment of the soul by which it is capable of choosing; the faculty or power of the mind by which we decide to do or not to do; the power or faculty of preferring or selecting one of two or more objects.
- n. The choice which is made; a determination or preference which results from the act or exercise of the power of choice; a volition.
- n. The choice or determination of one who has authority; a decree; a command; discretionary pleasure.
- n. Strong wish or inclination; desire; purpose.
- n. That which is strongly wished or desired.
- n. Arbitrary disposal; power to control, dispose, or determine.
- n. The legal declaration of a person's mind as to the manner in which he would have his property or estate disposed of after his death; the written instrument, legally executed, by which a man makes disposition of his estate, to take effect after his death; testament; devise. See the Note under Testament, 1.
- intransitive v. To be willing; to be inclined or disposed; to be pleased; to wish; to desire.
- intransitive v. To exercise an act of volition; to choose; to decide; to determine; to decree.
- transitive v. To form a distinct volition of; to determine by an act of choice; to ordain; to decree.
- transitive v. To enjoin or command, as that which is determined by an act of volition; to direct; to order.
- transitive v. To give or direct the disposal of by testament; to bequeath; to devise; ; also, to order or direct by testament.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A As an independent verb.
- To wish; desire; want; be willing to have (a certain thing done): now chiefly used in the subjunctive (optative) preterit form would governing a clause: as, I would that the day were at hand. When in the first person the subject is frequently omitted: as, would that ye had listened to us!
- Would in optative expressions is often followed by a dative, with or without to, noting the person or power by whom the wish may be fulfilled: hence the phrases would (to) God, would (to) heaven, etc.
- To have a wish or desire; be willing.
- B. As an auxiliary, followed by an infinitive without to.
- To wish, want, like, or agree (to do, etc.); to be (am, is, are, was, etc.) willing (to do, etc.): noting desire, preference, consent, or, negatively, refusal.
- To be (am, is, are, etc.) determined (to do, etc.): said when one insists on or persists in being or doing something; hence, must, as a matter of will or pertinacity; do (emphatic auxiliary) from choice, wilfulness, determination, or persistence.
- To make (it) a habit or practice (to do, etc.); be (am, is, are, etc.) accustomed (to do, etc.); do usually: noting frequent or customary action.
- To be (am, is, are, etc.) sure (to do, etc.); do undoubtedly, inevitably, or of necessity; ought or have (to do, etc.); must: used in incontrovertible or general statements, and often, especially in provincial use, forming a verbphrase signifying no more than the simple verb: as, I'm thinking this will be (that is, this is) your daughter.
- To be (am, is, are, etc.) ready or about (to do, etc.): said of one on the point of doing something not necessarily accomplished.
- In future and conditional constructions, to be (am, is, are, etc.) (to do, etc.): in general noting in the first person a promise or determination, and in the second and third mere assertion of a future occurrence without reference to the will of the subject, other verb-phrases being compounded with the auxiliary shall. For a more detailed discrimination between will and shall, see shall, B., 2.
- In such constructions will is sometimes found where precision would require shall. See shall, B., final note.
- [Would is often used for will in order to avoid a dogmatic style or to soften blunt or harsh assertions, questions, etc.
- In all its senses the auxiliary will may be used with an ellipsis of the following infinitive.
- To wish; desire.
- To communicate or express a wish to; desire; request; direct; tell; bid; order; command.
- To determine by act of choice; decide; decree; ordain; hence, to intend; purpose.
- To dispose of by will or testament; give as a legacy; bequeath: as, he willed the farm to his nephew.
- To bring under the influence or control of the will of another; subject to the power of another's will.
- To wish; desire; prefer; resolve; determine; decree.
- To exercise the will.
- Astray; wrong; at a loss; bewildered.
- To wander; go astray; be lost, at a loss, or bewildered.
- n. An abbreviation of the personal name William.
- n. Wish; desire; pleasure; inclination; choice.
- n. That which is wished for or desired; express wish; purpose; determination.
- n. Wish; request; command.
- n. Expressed wish with regard to the disposal of one's property, or the like, after death; the document containing such expression of one's wishes; especially, in law, the legal declaration of a person's intentions, to take effect after his death.
- n. Discretion; free or arbitrary disposal; sufferance; mercy.
- n. The faculty of conscious, and especially of deliberate, action.
- n. The act of willing; the act of determining a choice or forming a purpose; volition.
- n. At pleasure; at discretion. To hold an estate at the will of another is to enjoy the possession at his pleasure, and be liable to be ousted at any time by the lessor or proprietor. See estate at will, under estate.
- n. Especially— A testamentary act by two persons jointly uniting in the same instrument, as their will, to take effect after the death of both.
- n. A similar instrument to take effect as to each on his or her death. These two classes are more properly termed joint or conjoint.
- n. Wills made in connection by two persons pursuant to a compact, binding each to the other to make the dispositions of property thus declared.
- n. Wills made to bequeath the effects of the one first dying to the survivor. These two classes, and particularly the last, are more appropriately termed mutual. The legal effect of such wills is often a matter of doubt.
- n. The power of doing right on all occasions.
- n. That freedom of which we have an immediate consciousness in action. This is, however, only the consciousness of being able to overcome some unspecified resistance to some unspecified extent, which implies and is implied in the fact of resistance, and is in fact but an aspect of the sense of action and reaction.
- n. The power of acting from an inward spontaneity, not altogether dominated by motives. This is what most of the metaphysical advocates of the freedom of the will specifically contend for. It is a limitation of the action of causality, even in the material world. Some would restrict the spontaneous power of the mind to making particles swerve without variation of their vis viva; but this is untenable, since the law of action and reaction, which would thus be vitiated, is far more securely proved than that of the conservation of energy, the evidence for which is imperfect, while the objections to it are weighty. It is contended on the one hand that such spontaneity is an indispensable condition of moral action; and on the other that, if it exists, it has no direct reference to morality except this that, so far as a being is spontaneous in this sense, he is free from the moral law as well as from that of causation, and that there is neither sense nor justice in holding him responsible for mere sporadic effects of pure non-cause. Responsibility, it is argued, ought to imply that a man's conduct can be regulated by principles as efficient causes, and is not free from the influence of causation.
- n. Sincerity; right intention.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. determine by choice
- n. the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention
- v. leave or give by will after one's death
- n. a legal document declaring a person's wishes regarding the disposal of their property when they die
- v. decree or ordain
- n. a fixed and persistent intent or purpose
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Oroboros, I just don't understand why all this parsing hasn't given you a crashing headache by now. ;-)
A parsing challenge: Will will will Will's will, will Will?
"Man does at all times only what he wills, and yet he does this necessarily. But this is due to the fact that he already IS what he wills." --Arthur Schopenhauer
I.e.: You can want what you will, but you cannot will what you want. The fist cannot grasp itself, nor the eye behold its seeing.


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For our second "A" restaurant, we stopped into Amory's Seafood Restaurant. I love seafood but I am always disappointed by the chain seafood restaurant by the mall. We went to the Chesapeake Square location after reading about this local gem. We were very pleasantly surprised. The food was excellent!
I ordered the fried bit of everything platter (that is not what it is actually called sadly.) The tilapia was okay. The crab cake was very good. But the shrimp and scallops were amazing. The shrimp had a very mild taste. Scallops are often rubbery or slimy but these were done exactly right. The sides were also delicious. For the finish I had a tiny red velvet cupcake which was the perfect size.
I had no problem with the atmosphere but if you are coming here looking for white cloth table clothes and romantic candle light you will be disappointed. If you are looking for great food and good service in a no-frills atmosphere, this is your place.
Overall we give Amory's 4.5 out of 5 stars.
2449 Taylor Road
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Phone: (757) 488-9488


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I didn't like the plot of this movie.
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Quick & Easy Pixelation Effect
Usually, designers try to reduce pixelation in their images, and keep designs crisp and clean. The Pixelated look can actually add a flare of personality to a design however. In this tutorial, I'll show you a quick and easy way to pixelate your graphics.
I recently had someone express interest in creating Pixelated images. If you're not familiar with the term, Pixelation is the result of stretching raster graphics or bitmaps. When stretching image data beyond it's maximum size, the individual pixels which make up an image can be easily seen as they are also increased in size.
Example of Pixelation:
Typically, Pixelation is a bad thing to have in practice. Designers and Photographers usually want ther images crisp and smooth as shown in the upper left frame.
However, Pixelation can also be used as a technique which enhances compositions, and has become a style of it's own.
How To Pixelate a Graphic
There are a few ways to go about pixelating images. The easiest way is probably by putting the Mosaic Filter to good use (especially when you want to work with individual layers).
Open up a graphic you'd like to work with:
Select the layer you'd like to Pixelate. Apply the Mosaic Filter onto this layer (Filter > Pixelate > Mosaic). A Mosaic Settings Box will pop up. Move the slider to adjust the size of the pixels.
That's really all it takes to pixelate a graphic in Adobe Photoshop!
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