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OCD Love Story352
In this "raw and well-crafted (Kirkus Reviews)" romance, Bea learns that some things just can't be controlled.
When Bea meets Beck, she knows instantly that he's her kind of crazy. Sweet, strong, kinda-messed-up Beck understands her like no one else can. He makes her feel almost normal. He makes her feel like she could fall in love again.
But despite her feelings for Beck, Bea can't stop thinking about someone else: a guy who is gorgeous and magnetic…and has no idea Bea even exists. But Bea spends a lot of time watching him. She has a journal full of notes. Some might even say she's obsessed.
Bea tells herself she's got it all under control. But this isn't a choice, it's a compulsion. The truth is, she's breaking down…and she might end up breaking her own heart.
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About the Author
Corey Ann Haydu is the author of OCD Love Story, Rules for Stealing Stars, Eventown, and several other critically acclaimed young adult and children's novels. She currently teaches at the MFA Writing for Children program at Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and daughter. Learn more at CoreyAnnHaydu.com.
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OCD Love Story
LUCKY FOR ME, I DON'T get panicky in small dark spaces or anything. I'm a different breed of crazy.
So when the power goes out, I don't do much of anything except try to avoid the horny high school guys trying to feel up girls in the dark. I go to dances at Smith-Latin Boys' Academy two, maybe three times a year, but nothing like this has ever happened before. Electricity must be out all over the town. There is a hit of silence, like a preparatory inhale, and then chaos.
Maybe it's true what they say about being blind: Your other senses get stronger. 'Cause the second the lights and music cut out I realize how disgusting the smell in the gym is. And for a moment the sounds of classmates cackling and tumbling over each other and screaming in fake fear take over. Then I hear a familiar noise, a rhythm I know well. It's the strained, superfast pace of a panic attack. It's coming from somewhere just to my left, so I use that as a kind of lighthouse to find my way out of the thick of the crowd.
The short gasps turn into longer, more strained inhales, and the poor guy having the attack is choking on his own breath. And this is something I know everything about: I've just been lucky enough to come up with ways to stop my panic attacks before they happen. So I sit next to the guy gasping for air; I find his ear and whisper into it. Tell him to slow down and take deep breaths, and I reach in the dark for his forehead, where I can fit my hand perfectly. He relaxes on contact and I do it to myself, too, put my free hand on my own forehead. The touch feels good, this intimacy with a total stranger, so I guess I'm kinda loving the power outage. This is something that would never happen under fluorescent lights. I guess that's true of a lot of things, come to think of it.
"That feels good," his still-choking but less-panicky voice says. "I don't know what just happened."
"Panic attack," I say. I'm ready to list all the symptoms and causes and give him the same advice Dr. Pat gives me when I get them, but just as I'm taking a breath to start talking again he cuts me off.
"Got it." I think it's on purpose, not letting me talk more, but it doesn't sound like a dismissal, more like an attempt to save me from myself, which I've got to appreciate. As a rule it's best if I quit while I'm ahead when it comes to talking to strangers. Although in the dark I seem to be pretty good at reading people. I shut my mouth. Take two deep breaths. Then let myself try talking again.
"Is this your first panic attack?" I say. I'd ask this in full daylight, but it feels even more natural in the dark. His body is still twitching a little in the aftermath of the rush of anxiety, and his skin has a cooled-off, sweaty texture. I let my arm stay against his. With all the craziness going on around us it's good to just have something against me. Someone.
"Guess so," he says. Then nothing.
"I'm Bea," I say to fill the air. It's not that it's quiet: The room is even louder now than it was with the shitty Top 40 jams blasting at full volume. But this guy is quiet and soon the power will go back on and the reality of our visibility will almost certainly make everything more awkward.
"Beck," he says.
"Weird name."
"Yeah, you too."
I stretch my legs out in front of me. Now the silence between us feels more like an agreement, a pact, and less like a struggle.
It's funny how my nerves work: pulsing one minute and retreating the next, leaving me totally spent. If the sense of camaraderie I feel with Beck's heavy breathing and sweaty hands is right, then he must be riding that exact seesaw right now.
"Wanna try to make our way outside?" I say. Nothing's changing in here. Teachers are trying to talk louder than the students and it sounds like the middle of the gym/dance floor has turned into an impromptu rave. If we were at Greenough Girls' Academy instead of at Smith-Latin, I'd be able to find my way to the library, where I could hide out until this whole power-outage thing ended. I'd have everything I like at my fingertips: couches, portable book lights, the smell of those century-old rare books that our librarian is obsessed with. I'm hoping Beck knows a similar location at Smith-Latin. I'm hoping his sense of direction isn't impaired in the dark. I'm hoping most of all that his face matches his voice: low and sweet and a little gravelly. Can faces look like that sound, I wonder? And is this the kind of guy I've been looking for, instead of the mass of ugly-faced, beautiful-bodied high school athletes I keep finding myself with?
"I can't move," Beck says. I reach for his legs, like maybe he has a cast or brace or a missing limb or something. A moment too late I realize this is a really awkward move to make, but as usual I can't stop myself. My hand is too far up his thigh and it stays there a moment longer than it should.
Good lord, I'm awkward.
I swear I can feel his legs tense and maybe something else shift as well.
"You seem okay to me." I slide my hand off his leg.
"You should go outside if you want," Beck says. "I just can't. I mean, won't. I'm not going anywhere until the lights are back on, okay?"
"Nothing to be scared of. You know, aside from really horny football players. No offense if that's what you are. Or are we avoiding someone? Maybe an ugly Greenough girl you hooked up with by accident?" Beck laughs just enough for me to know he doesn't mind the teasing.
"You're the only Greenough girl I've talked to tonight," he says, and I'm grinning in the dark like a total loser, like some eight-year-old, which is exactly how I would look if anyone could actually see me. There's even a space between my front teeth that supposedly gives me a sweet, little-girl smile.
"Well, in that case I better stake my claim," I say. Things crash around us: people, DJ equipment, school banners. I can't believe I am so heart-thumpingly into the sound of his voice and the idea of getting him to myself for a few minutes, even though I still don't know what this guy looks like. I move my other hand from his forehead to his hand, and when our palms find each other, he squeezes. Then again. And again. After a few more squeezes, he exhales. We settle into the hand-holding for a few moments before he starts to panic again. Then he lets go.
"I'm telling you, you'll feel better with some fresh air," I say. In the dark I can't tell if Beck nods his head or anything, but he definitely doesn't say no, and I'm a glass-half-full kind of girl so I take that to mean he'll leave with me. I pull him to his feet. It takes some serious effort; he pulls against me in an attempt to stay seated on the floor. I don't care. "Are you scared to let me see you? Are you superugly?"
I wait for him to laugh but he doesn't, and it hits me that maybe he is really ugly, and not in some subjective way, but truly disfigured. I have a knack for saying terrible truths to total strangers.
"Um, that was a superawkward thing to say. I'm like that sometimes. Sort of awkward. Or, I like to think quirky. Awkward and quirky." This right here, this is why I scare guys away.
"So am I," Beck says. I knew there was a reason I liked him.
The gym is emptying. Teachers are working to herd people out to the parking lot where they can keep a better eye on us. I hear them shouting orders over the chaos. Enough time has passed that most of the other kids are giving in to the request. After all, we're out of booze for sure and the thrill of touching strangers' bodies or bumping into your friends in the literal sense has drained from the room.
"Stay quiet and don't move," I whisper. I have a feeling that if we are patient we'll have the whole gym to ourselves. My best friend, Lisha, and I are always trying to find secret spaces where no one will think to look for us. Like a kind of hide-and-seek with the world. When we were little, we decorated the inside of my walk-in closet with glitter paint and pillows and did all our playing and talking and snacking in there. All cozy and ours. I'm thinking staying behind in the dark gym with Beck would be something like that. Lisha, wherever she is in this dark swarm of heavily perfumed teenage bodies, would approve.
I almost call her name, so she can find us, but I know she wouldn't mind me taking an extra moment alone with the hopefully cute, definitely appealing Smith-Latin boy.
In just a few minutes the gym has gone from mostly crowded to mostly empty and the car lights from the parking lot don't reach the corner we've holed up in. If we stay quiet something great could happen. From the sound of Beck's sharp inhale, I'm worried he's starting to panic again (is this kid afraid of the dark or what?) so I find his shoulder and follow the line of his arm down to his hand again. He squeezes.
I consider leaving it at that. At least until I find some way to see a glimpse of his face.
Instead I walk my fingers back up Beck's arm, wrist to elbow to shoulder to neck until I find his face. And then his lips. And despite the shaky legs holding him up and the heavy ins and outs of his breath, I kiss him. It's a soft thing that he must get lost in for at least a few seconds, because his body stills against mine. Just as quickly as he relaxed, he tightens right back up again and I let my mouth leave his.
He tasted like wintergreen and cooled-off sweat. Minty. Salty. Perfect.
I really had him, for a second.
"Let's stay here," I say. Not sultry, 'cause I giggle on the last syllable. I'm nervous too, just not as amped up as him.
Beck's feet tap and his breath sounds trapped and he steps back so that he is closer to the wall. He stays glued there.
"I can't," Beck says when I take another step toward him. "I should get home. I'm feeling weird. I'm kind of messed up right now." His voice is a mumble. I can feel the heat of his blush, even from a few inches away. I want to reassure him with a touch, maybe even kiss him again, but as I reach out someone else hurtles into me, full force, knocking me over. I scramble up. Beck has moved away.
"I'm messed up too! I'm totally messed up!" I call out after him, and I think he's still in the room; I think he's heard me, but the dark is too heavy for me to see even the slightest movement. I feel for the wall and follow it in the hopes of reaching him, but I don't come across him in any corner or clinging to any doorframe. He's left the gym. I guess somehow he's more scared of me than he is of the dark.
What People are Saying About This
"Warning: this book could cause obsessive compulsivereading. Funny, honest and real, OCD Love Story stars one of themost likeable narrators in recent YA fiction. Once you start this book, youwill find that, like Bea, you just can't help yourself.
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This is one of those books where finding the right thing to say is actually really hard because at first I didn't enjoy the book. But then I really started to feel for Bea and everything that she was feeling and going through, she had all of these emotions, and she didn't know what to do with them. Right off the bat Bea gave me an off feeling. I knew what I was getting into, the title doesn't hide anything about it, but Bea gave me an off feeling the way that she latched onto Beck right away. I think that to go into this book you need to get rid of any pre conceived notions that you may have had. You really need to learn to accept these characters for the crazy flaws that they have otherwise you will never be able to get through the beginning and see what an amazing story this is. Bea was a great character, granted her obsession made my stomach churn at some points, but I felt badly for her that this terrible event happened to her and triggered this response that got her hung up on people. I otherwise found her funny and sweet how she tried so hard to make all of the things in her life fit including her obsession with this man and her relationship with a sweet boy. I felt that the characters were well developed. I kept rooting for her therapist to make a break through and see what Bea was really up to, and I wanted Beck to realize how what he was doing was really hurting them both, and lastly I wanted her best friend to go shove it. I was rooting for each of these characters to grow through the book and grow they did. This was an amazing story of this girl who swam through the river Denial, and managed to survive it. This roller coaster is one that you need to be prepared for, and before you go cry "Instalove!" remember that this is a girl who has a problem with getting attached to people, so before you judge it to harshly, give it a chance.
I love this book SO much! She did such a awesome job of making this book like real OCD. I had such a great time reading this book; I only wish this book was longer. I could not put this book down! Such an emotional and motivating book! I love the characters; they were SO real. <3
One of the best books ive ever read
One of the best depictions of OCD ive ever read. After struggling with it for years, and hating the stima we get from the media, its nice to read a book thats the real thing
For any one that feels an obsession or just enjoys a love story tho is the perfect book to read my friend learned the connection with someone you stalk and someone you love
If I took any "points" off this book, it would be because at times, it was an incredibly difficult read, in the sense that Haydu takes you so far inside the main character's head, and it's not really a pleasant place to be. But I opted not to take points off for the fact that the author did a fantastic job presenting a disorder with which I have no experience. Bea was definitely not the sort of main character I've ever seen before, nor Beck the sort of love interest. But this book really and truly was a love story, about two people who struggle daily with their own minds, with other people's reactions to them, and with incidents in their pasts that have changed their lives, trying to "fix" themselves in order to make space for another person to be in their lives. Particularly fascinating to me was the way each person with OCD in the book was presented as having the common thread of OCD while also being so unique that none could truly understand the other's compulsions. I really loved the backdrop of the therapy group for this reason, and I thought the secondary characters served the story terrifically well. Not a light-hearted read, but one I would definitely recommend.
OCD Love Story takes an in depth look at obsessive compulsive disorder, it doesn't just skim the disease, it shows what I would imagine it is like to have verified OCD. And it is not all fun and games. From the eyes of Bea, we get a girl whose disease is worsening before her eyes, and at first she doesn't really think that anything is wrong, but when she starts going to support group and meets Beck who is in the middle of his first full blown panic attack, which she is familiar with, she begins to see things through a new view. Including herself. We get a healthy dose of humor in this one, and Bea is very self deprecating, making light of things, but that is how she deals, and it also provides a bit of relief for the reader. We see many ways how OCD can work itself out and manifest, and dealing with anxiety myself, I feel for these kids. I see little bits of myself in them and I am so glad that I haven't crossed into that territory (yet and hopefully never). Bea grows as a character in this one, through her friendships, through her trying to be supportive family, her therapist Dr. Pat, and the support group. But it also shows that the battle with OCD isn't something you can take a vacation from. It is part of who you are and while meds and therapy can help, there is no real cure. So, it doesn't give a false view of the mental disorder in that sense, but it does show a sense of hope for the future, and for management. Though of course, Bea has to get to all time lows in order to accept that help, but you expect nothing less from a contemporary novel. Bottom Line: Gritty contemporary that faces mental illness head on with a side of humor.
booksbysteph says "It's Like Being Inside the Head of a Person with OCD" Reading this book is like being inside the head of a person with OCD. I always thought OCD was just anal people who had to have a place for everything and freaked out if you disturbed anything. This book teaches you that there is so much more to the illness than making sure your remote controls are lined up by size. This book takes you through a mental illness. From denial to realization and acceptance. Then fear of people knowing and judging and what therapy is like. Surrendering is torture. There were parts of the book where I felt Bea's fear, anxiety and pain and I cried along with her. I feel this is a good book to give to kids who may have OCD. It shows you do not have to be afraid of it and there is help, if you let people. Until next time, live life one page at a time!


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THE last stronghold of the Moors in Europe was Granada which was in the south of Spain.
Spain in the Moorish period was known as Al Andalus which was Arabic for 'land of the Vandals'.
Since around 1000 CE, the Pope had gathered together all white nations against the Moors and this led to waves of attacks on the blacks of Europe.
These attacks are remembered as the 'crusades'.
Although these crusades were largely unsuccessful, they were a clear indication of what was to come after the Moors – a new world order which would be intolerant of black people.
The crusades were an eye opener to the white people of Europe in that they began to appreciate the full extent of the riches and lavishness in the Moorish territories. This would inspire them to take over control of the land from the Moors. Meanwhile, the Moors did not appear to appreciate the fact that the crusades were a serious threat to their rule in Europe.
As such they continued to fight among themselves,
By the 13th century, the Catholics began winning pockets of control in places like Spain and although they did not vanquish the Moors, their pockets of control became snares on the Moors.
Christian kings would enter the Moorish territories and break irrigation systems, burn trees and so on.
For some time there was hunger in these areas because of the acts of sabotage that were conducted by the whites.
Sometimes the whites would accept money from the Moors in exchange for the security of their properties.
The whites were simply envious and marvelled at the sophistry of Moorish properties and what they saw.
For about 100 years, the whites of Al Andalous ran the Moorish territory as a mafia living off the wealth of the Moors corruptly acquired to guarantee the safety and security of Moorish properties.
Indeed these white people were living up to their name of 'vandals' – a term which would eventually attain the meaning it carries today.
Some white kings, after asserting their strength in Moorish strongholds, would actually request to have buildings of Moorish architecture built for them by the Moors.
In 1248, a white king called Peter who was Christian had a Moorish style castle built.
It even had inscriptions from the Quran on its walls and it was the pride of his day because Moorish architecture was the most beautiful and the most sophisticated in Europe.
During the wars between the whites and the Moors, the Moors recruited men from the Almoravid dynasty of West Africa to boost their armies.
This created new problems for the Moors because the Almoravide despised the lavish lifestyles of the Moorish Muslims of Andalous.
They despised the corrupted brand of Islam practised by the European Moors thus the fact that they entered into treaties with whites and non-Muslims.
The Almoravide saw images of singing girls in Moorish buildings (something unacceptable in traditional Islam) and decided to take corrective action by destroying some of the images to return to ethical Islam.
The degrading of Moorish rule was a slow process which took centuries yet in Spain there is an event which is remembered as the 're-conquest' suggesting that there was a full- fledged holy war which led to the victory of the Christian whites over the Muslims, but this is not entirely correct.
The fact is that the Moors were admired in Europe and many people in Spain had turned to Islam in order to be admitted in Moorish universities.
This was unacceptable to the Catholic Church.
Today the European renaissance is often attributed to Italian scholars who regained an interest in the classics.
This, however, is only intended to downplay the influence of the Moors in this respect.
Taleido is a town which was seized by the whites from the Moors in 1085 CE.
It was in Spain and it was there that the Spanish population would access Moorish education.
These people learnt Arabic and the Spanish followed in the footsteps of the Moors. Europeans from many countries would come to Taleido to learn.
This continued for hundreds of years and was the real reason for the European Renaissance.
Over time, Moorish territory kept dwindling.
The Moors who were 70 000 strong remained in control of Granada for some time. In 1236 Cordoba fell to the whites, then followed Valencia and Seville.
In the places that they lost, the Moors were forcibly baptised into Catholics or expelled.
Spain was then divided into three kingdoms namely, Moorish Granada in the South, Castile in the west and Aragon in the east.
The king of Castile handed over his kingdom to his niece who was known as Isabella.
Isabella in 1469 married her second cousin who was heir of the throne of Aragon in the east.
This political move united the Catholic kingdoms into one powerful force.
Granada was blocking Isabella's vision of a unified Spain and so she focused on the eradication of the Moors in Granada.
With the help of Italy and the Catholic Church, the city of Granada was besieged for a year until it finally surrendered.
It was on January 1 1492 when Isabella and Ferdinand took the keys of the palace of Alhambra and ousted the Moorish ruler who was known as Bhu Abdul.
Isabella and Ferdinand were both dressed in elaborate Moorish outfits which they had especially made for this occasion for Moorish clothing defined pomp in those days.
A few years after the conquering of Granada came the 'inquisition' which was an act of ethnic cleansing which made it impossible for Muslims to practise their religion openly in Europe.
The inquisition was not only targeted against the Moors, but also the numerous Europeans who had taken up Islam.
The whites wanted to get rid of the Moorish influence on Europeans once and for all.
The campaign to convert people from Islam to Catholicism intensified.
Those that resisted were excommunicated.
Some were burnt to death.
Most had their homes and livelihoods taken away from them.
In 1526, the Spanish inquisition went to Granada where there were reports of resistance and people who were still practising Islam.
They had the choice to convert to Catholicism, leave the country or face the wrath of the inquisition.
The Moors of Granada resorted to pretending they were Christians, but would secretly live as Muslims.
They redesigned their houses to block outsiders from seeing what was happening inside.
The inquisition went door to door in search of violators and a number of Moorish leaders were expelled leaving mostly women and children in Granada.
In 1609, there was a full scale expulsion of the Moors because it was feared that they secretly collaborate with the Turks and other Muslim powers which were rising in the region.
Catholics feared or hated Islam to the extent that they even expelled their own Iberian (Spanish) kinsmen who did not denounce Islam.
The 250 000 Muslims fell victim to the expulsions of 1609 and by 1619, the Moors were all gone.
Most of them found refuge in North and West Africa and some fell victim to slavery and were sent to different parts of the world.
The inheritors of Ferdinand and Isabella's kingdom moved out property from the Moorish mosques and castles and built cathedrals therein.
These still exist in places like Cordoba to this day.
Even on Ferdinand and Isabella's graves there is an inscription in Arabic, "There is no god, but Allah."
The downfall of the Moors in Europe
THE last stronghold of the Moors in Europe was Granada which was in the south of Spain.


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These letters were written by Sergeant Charles H. Shattuck (1835-1899), 4th Independent Massachusetts Light Artillery. Charles was the son of Nathaniel B. Shattuck and Sally H. Cook of Wenham, Massachusetts. He wrote these two letters to his wife, Louisa M. (Hayes) Shattuck (1845-1909). He makes frequent reference to his daughter, Josephine L. Shattuck (b. 1859) who he calls "Jossie."
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Dauphin Island, Mobile Bay
March 17th 1865
Dear wife,
It is with pleasure that I sit down to write you a few lines to let you know that I am well and hope these few lines will find you and Jossie enjoying the same great privilege. There is not much news to write.
The troops are arriving here every day. They are A. J. Smith's — they Sixteenth Army Corps. They are a rough set of men as I ever saw. They have been on a march for a year steady and they look dirty and ragged. The troops are leaving here today. The most of the division that we belong to are under marching orders and we are expecting orders every moment to pack up and be off to Mobile.
There was nine of our men discharged today. They are men that enlisted in 1862 for the term of the Battery. They reenlisted as veterans and came home with us but they had not served two years so they had no right to reenlist but we did not know it till now so they get their discharge today. I wish that I was one of them but I don't think that the war will last long. I think that it will end by next fall sure. I hope so for I am tired of it.
Write and let me know if Plummer lets you have that money that I spoke about in my last letter. I don't think that we shall get our pay for some time yet as it is awful hard times with us for tobacco. But we manage to get along. We have got three days rations in our haversacks but Tom & I have eat all of ours up so that we should have to go without if these men had not give us theirs so that I am alright. And one of them gave me fifty cents so that I can get a plug of tobacco. Then I shall be alright for two or three days.
Tell Jossie that I send her a thousand kisses and you a thousand hugs. Give my love to all and take a share for yourself. I am in a great hurry so I must close for we are off in a short time. from your ever loving husband till death, — Sergt. Chas. H. Shattick
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Spring Hill, Alabama
May 1865
Dear wife, It is with pleasure that I now sit down to write you a few lines. I am well as usual. I got a letter from you yesterday. It is the first that I have got from you for six weeks. I sent you a hundred and seventy-five dollars by Adams Express to Wenham. I did not know that you had left there. I hope that you will get it without any trouble. I did not get all of my pay — only a part of it — and I kept some for myself. I got that tobacco that you sent me and I was very glad to get it. I have wrote to you five letters since I came here and have not got any answer from any of them. I have begun to think that you had forgot me.
I like it here at Spring Hill very well. It is a lonesome place. There is about two hundred people lives here.
This morning all of the troops are leaving here and going to the city of Mobile. ¹ There was a magazine exploded in the city last night and killed about a thousand people and broke all the glass that there was in the city. Tell Maria that I have not forgot the old times that we used to have. Tell Jossie that I am coming home to go berrying with her and to go to camp meeting. I think we shall be at home in two months. They have begun to discharge some of the troops now.
There is not much news to write. You must keep up good pluck for I shall be at home in a few days. The Wenham Boys are all well. My pen is poor so I must close by bidding you goodbye for the present. From your husband, — Sergt. Charles H. Shattuck
¹ On May 25, 1865, in Mobile, Alabama, in the Southern United States, an ordnance depot or "magazine" exploded, killing some 300 persons. This event occurred just after the end of the Civil War, during the occupation of the city by victorious Federal troops. The depot was a warehouse on Beauregard Street, where the troops had stacked some 200 tons of shells and powder. Some time in the afternoon of May 25, a cloud of black smoke rose into the air and the ground began to rumble. Flames shot up into the sky and bursting shells were heard throughout the city. In the nearby Mobile River, two ships sank, and a man standing on a wharf was blown into the river. Several houses collapsed from the concussion. A reporter for a local newspaper described "bursting shells, flying timbers, bales of cotton, horses, men, women, and children co-mingled and mangled into one immense mass." He continued: "The heart stood still, and the stoutest cheek paled as this rain of death fell from the sky and crash after crash foretold a more fearful fate yet impending … old and young, soldier and citizen vied with each other in deeds of daring to rescue the crumbled and imprisoned." On the heels of the explosion came fires, which burned until the entire northern part of Mobile lay in smoking ruins. A huge hole where the warehouse once stood remained for many years, a reminder of the disaster. The exact cause of the magazine explosion was never determined. Some northern newspapers tried to pin the blame on an imagined gang of unreconstructed Confederate officers. Most people, though, accepted that it was the result of simple carelessness on the part of workers handling wheelbarrows full of live ammunition.


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You're the Voice – John Farnham
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Age of Reason – John Farnham
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Both smules were recorded in July 2018
NB. I will re-record both songs on Smule, and post here, as a comparison
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Both smules were recorded in July 2018
NB. I will re-record both songs on Smule, and post here, as a comparison
I adore this song…. its just, beautiful – very elegant and such a sweet melody. I took the entire day and enjoyed singing… just simply recorded in my (unpadded) humble office – no sound equipment – just, Garage band and a set of headphones. I pray one day, I can record in a beautiful studio again…. if anyone listening/reading this post wants to give me that chance… don't be shy – use the CONTACT form !
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Backing track (these two wonderful musicians are hero's in my book – revolutionizing the classically trained to do 'out of the box' work – they seriously rock – and I adore them – I hope my humble singing effort does justice to their beautiful work): 2CELLOS – Shape Of My Heart [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
Lyrics… read on:
By request ~ For Simon… For your decency and kindness.
Sung with love, this was an incredibly challenging song to nail down – I hope you will hear the vocal effort, despite the very humble office recording circumstances…. One day, I sincerely hope to work in a proper studio again. For now, I will keep working on perfecting, strengthening and challenging myself to stretch into new pieces. And, may the planet choose and decide upon, Love.
~Jaya Khoobsurat, 5th December, 2015
Remember When It Rained V6 – JK Cover
A magnificient Josh Groban Song that I have been working on for three years – this is my latest effort to Master it.
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JK Cover – Forgotten Promises (Sami Yusuf original)


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Demon Possessed Girl
Healing a Demon Possessed Girl
Matthew 15:21 – 28
To what extent will you go for your children's medical condition? Will you follow a doctor down a hospital corridor? Would you chase a doctor down the street? This woman did!
I. She is a believing mother, 15:22b. It is grace, not the place that makes believers. In Bethany, this may not have been such a great statement.
II. The disciples were impatient, 15:23.
III. She is a persistent mother.
A. She came the first time, 15:22.
B. She crieth after us," this implies multiple times, 15:23c.
C. She was humble and respectful, "Lord, help me," 15:25. She knew there was no one else to help her.
D. Everything was against her. She was a Gentile, she was a woman an ordinary Rabbi may have ignored her. The disciples/apostles seemed against her. She may have thought Jesus was against her, he did not answer at first.
IV. She is a praying mother.
A. John 4:46ff
B. Matthew 9:18ff
C. Fathers and mothers need to remember the case of this mother.
D. We cannot give our children a new heart. We give them a Christian education, we show them the way to live, but we cannot give them a will to choose Christian service or a mind to love God. There is one thing we can always do. We can pray for them.
E. This woman prayed for someone who could not. "Even when they will not let us speak to them about religion, they cannot prevent us speaking for them to God."
V. Jesus' reply to the woman, 15:28. He was trying to draw out an answer and draw out her faith. This woman had "mega faith."
Mark 7:30 – the verb tense implies that by the time the woman arrived home, the demon had been gone from the time Jesus had spoken. It was something that happened in the past with effects in the present and future.
To what extent will you go for your child's spiritual condition? Will you bring them to church? Will you pray for them for years? This woman did.


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Currently working for Esoteric Software on Spine, the 2D animation software. Also taking freelance work from time to time.
Communication Design 2nd level course at Politecnico di Milano.
New Technologies for Art at Brera's Academy in Milan.
Premi – Prizes:
Most Innovative Videogame per TwinEye – Global Game Jam, Milano, 2014.
Best Videogame per Splash 'n' Squash Party- Global Game Jam, Milano, 2017.


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Phil Bowen
Yesterday, the Lord Chief Justice was up in front of the Justice Select Committee. As has been the way before when the legislative branch cross-examines the judicial, it was less a grilling and more a light poaching. But for those of us interested in justice reform, there was much to take heart from the Lord Chief's remarks, especially around the criminal courts.
Perhaps most welcome are his comments that he would prefer to "avoid sending certain people to prison" by putting them on "really tough, and I do mean tough, community penalties." These comments were not least welcome as they came shortly after the former Lord Chancellor Michael Gove's admission at the Longford lecture that, in his time in office, he "swerved" the inconvenient truth "that we send too many people to prison."
Therefore, the Lord Chief's remarks add to a growing number of people who recognise that we would be better served, and just as safe, if more people were successfully rehabilitated before the courts were left with no option but to imprison. Both see the role that more problem-solving approaches can play in community supervision, as ways of reducing re-offending and providing alternatives to shorter prison sentences.
If there were moments for reformers brows to furrow in the evidence session, they were only ones where there feels like a dissonance between the Lord Chief's hopes and the technocratic words of the court service. For example, when questioned about court closures and rural access to justice, the Lord Chief reasonably has hopes in pop-up courts in council buildings and town halls. A lot of good work has been done on this, by JUSTICE and others. But the experience of court closures over the past five years does little to suggest that anything will actually be done to get the courts to come out to the people.
Online criminal courts
Or take the new proposed online criminal court process for low level offences.
When asked, the Lord Chief's view, rightly, is that process must be open to the light, transparent and that digital justice must improve, rather than retard, access to justice. This view is largely in line with our own response to these proposals and indeed the concerns raised by organisations like the Magistrates Association.
If the Lord Chief had his way, those concerns would be satisfied. But one can understand the pessimism of some that, after a period of consultation on some proposals, the court service may just continue what it was planning on doing anyway.
In short, if the judicial view prevails, we can be confident that British justice is in safe hands. But the question remains about whether the executive is prepared to follow where the judiciary leads.


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We're making changes to how variants are matched with options when products are updated.
We're making a change to how variants are matched based on any given options when you update products. Although we don't expect this change to impact existing apps, please review the following information to make sure that your own apps don't include any use cases that might be affected.
Currently, our Product Update endpoint takes a variant ID as an optional argument when you update a variant. If you provide an ID in your request, then the existing variant with that matching ID is updated as expected. However, if you don't provide a variant ID, then Shopify will attempt to search for the variant that you want to update based on matching on the options provided (such as "option1": "Small"). If we find a matching variant with all of the provided options, then we delete the existing variant, and create a new variant with all the previous and newly updated information from the API call. This results in a new variant with a unique ID.
The following example shows a product update API call where a variant ID isn't supplied:
PUT /admin/api/2019-04/products/#{product_id}.json
"product": {
"id": 632910392,
"variants": [
"sku": "Updating the Product SKU",
"option1": "Small" # we will attempt to match any variant with this option.
} ]
What's changing?
As of June 3, 2019, if you don't pass a variant ID in a product update API call, then we will update the related variant if it matches the provided options rather than deleting it and creating a new one. The variant that's returned in the product update call will have the same ID as the previously existing one, rather than a new ID. If we can't determine a match based on the provided options, then a new variant is created with a unique ID.
From an API point of view, the variant returned in the product update call will have the same ID as the previously existing one, rather than a new ID.
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Happy 2nd Birthday Bristol. 2 years old today, It has gone so fast. Bristol is the sweetest little girl you will every meet and has the biggest heart. She loves life and is always smiling. She weighs close to 40 pounds. She is super smart and can talk really good.
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I think NYL will win 3-1 or 4-0.
I hope we'll see Pine play a lot like yesterday!
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I think NYL will win 3-1 or 4-0.
I hope we'll see Pine play a lot like yesterday!
wait it's a BO4! you can't win 2-1
I think SD wins it 3-1! but it's gonna be close(at least I hope so)!
and I hope my boi Pine has a good game.
INnoVation started playing Overwatch? Kappa
GO GO GO KD civil war it's gonna be close or so I hope
Yeah I'm glad It's MA vs AFB
GO GO run away you can do it
I just hope Void do well on other heroes
LWB fucked up you can't release a player at the deadline with out telling him before hand now he must wait a whole season because all the roster is already decided. It's really unprofessional they should have bench him.
Oh okay now I understand the Drama
LW fucked up and did something despicable
No please Mano stay healthy
And Pine was good on Ana During their 2nd match against Conbox . But we will have to see the official announcement
Okay now with the twit of flower and the story with KDU fan girl( ready to help Luna packing is stuff to KDU team house) it's really going to be interesting
Yeah it's surprising but we might have predicted this, when Mano joined, LWB try to compete against LH so they might as well change more players to create a Dream Team
Why the uproar ? They "Just" release Luna no?
Oh bois so Pine is going to be the Main Healer ? O_O
Who also seems to be release from LWR O_O
ArHaN said on this AMA : "Yes, Brek will be the main tank. I believe that he will be able to fill Mano's place well.
I'm sure AFB didn't drop Mano LWB must have make a better offer :D
LWB now really look scary
I'm really looking forward to see the new KD and MA in action
Hi bois, Inven organised an AMA with AFB ArHan, we can also Win free Blizzard card
The Live AMA start at 6PM PDT but we can already ask him some questions
Okay at least We were able to discover a new young team :D
Yes good news, I hope more good girls can find a team.
I agree with #17 Korean culture is different If they want to accomplish something I'm sure they will figure out a way.
And I think FaZe was a bad example they never were a super star team 'til NiKo join them. And after he joined they were a great team.
If we want to look at a super team how failed I think the SC2 SKT roster in 2014 is a good example they had : PartinG SoulKey Rain FanTasy INnovation soO Classic so 5/7 are on the top 20 created by TL and they didn't win the Proleague.
Edit: Maybe SC2 Isn't the best team Game x) but I can't think of a better example
Yes now we need Rogue and some more teams like EUnited and other good EU team and we'll have a good show.
Man they managed to pressure SK PogChamp
Even when they had 6 ults or were 5vs6 it wasn't enough for the Russian team
BTW the pealing from SK during the 6 ult push was really well done
I think Singapore can at least take 2 maps
Oh bois RIP Russia.
I still hope that we will be able to see same good/close games.
99WP SK played well but I don't Know if they are trolling or they just don't want to play dive or simply fun heroes ? Reaper did nothing on Lunar and on 66 the DPS duo was pretty much useless on offense
Yeah, We are all hyping MA And Hoon's Zarya but Void might be weak on other heroes
Damn Birdring Rascal Bdosin and Curious in the same team O_O
BTW have we ever seen Void not playing D.Va?
Since it's a showmatch maybe they tried to bring us a 5th map?
Yeah it's a amazing match really fun with unusual set up
Yeah !!! It's really surprising that AFB got to play this game, KDP would have been a better choice since none of their roster is on the national team
I'm looking forward to see KDU play, and watch some good games.
according to teamliquid it's a bo7
WOW it was a sick first round.
Or the group B wasn't that bad and the group D was bad x)
Yeah I agree with you, But they might had some difficulties during their screams against Conbox. ArHan also said that since they lost to Conbox last season they won't choose them.
If AFB didn't choose Conbox it was because Conbox use a lot of unusual strats
Man it was so close.
Or at least the first map was close, but KDU played poorly with huge mistake.
On TeamLiquid, C9 vs movistar is at 15:15 CEST and not 17:15 so they shoudn't be playing at the same time
Happy new year
I think the Freecs should be able to win this.


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Making It Easier to Afford Medical Bills
What You Should Know When Facing Medical Bills
Accidents or illness can happen quickly and unexpectedly. Further, many who are hospitalized may find themselves not being able to work for some time. No work and medical bills can create a "double whammy" effect. All of this can create an enormous amount of stress and financial hardship for you and your family.
While this time in your life can be very difficult, there may be ways to make bills easier to afford. Read on to learn about possible options for managing your finances while you or your family members recover.
Help With Credit Card Bills
Before we look at medical bills, know that you may be able to get help with your credit card bills during this tough time, too. When you discover that you are unable to make payments to your credit card company, don't be afraid to contact them to ask for help.
Understand that credit card companies may want to work with you and offer what help they can during difficult and challenging times. Contact your credit card company as soon as you can. After learning about your circumstances, your credit card company may offer to waive fees or offer a custom payment plan.
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Sometimes when faced with an emergency medical situation, you may end up in a hospital that is outside of your insurance network, or the physician or surgeon may be outside of the network. If this is the case, then the hospital could end up billing you directly instead of the bills going to your insurance provider. This is called surprise billing.
If you live in any of the following states: California, Illinois, Florida, New York, or Connecticut, your state may require health care providers to charge the in-network rate, even if they're out-of-network. You can check this tool to see what protections may exist for surprise billing in your state.
You may also get charged for balance billing or extra billing. When there is a difference in what your insurance provider covers and the total hospital bill, you may be charged the remaining amount. Sometimes balance billing costs are small amounts, while other times they can be substantial. If you receive such a bill, contact your insurance company to determine if there has been confusion between them and the hospital.
Finally, if you have received unexpected medical bills that are confusing to understand, there are resources available that can help you. CoPatient.com will review your medical bills, and if errors are found, they will negotiate with the health care provider to reduce excessive or unnecessary billing. If you are unsure of how to pick an insurance plan, Healthcare.gov has information that can help you decide how to pick one that is suitable for your needs.
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If you do not have health insurance or your coverage still leaves you with bills you can't afford, you can speak with the hospital about financial relief. Hospitals and health care providers may reduce your bills if you do not have insurance. Or the hospital may offer a zero percent interest repayment plan. While this option will not reduce the bill, it can allow you to more easily pay your medical bills without a finance charge.
Another option for helping you to pay unexpected medical bills would be to look for organizations beyond an insurance company or hospital. Several programs exist to help people afford medical costs. Major organizations that may be able to help individuals who can't afford medical bills include the Healthwell Foundation, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, and the CancerCare Copay Assistance Foundation. As with any type of financial assistance, eligibility requirements apply.
If you are suffering from a chronic disease, you can discover organizations dedicated to helping those with a specific disease as well as help pay for expensive prescription medications.
- The Aubrey Rose Foundation helps those with heart conditions.
- The Jamie's Heart Foundation helps children with congenital heart disease.
- The Abbott Patient Assistance Foundation helps patients with diabetes medication.
- The Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Relief Grant program offers financial grants for families with Alzheimer's disease.
- The Kidney Fund helps with dialysis and medication.
- The Partnership for Prescription Assistance helps with low-cost or free medication for COPD, diabetes, cardiovascular, and other chronic diseases. If you are in the military and if someone in your family is in the hospital, the Fisher House offers lodging, hotel, and airfare assistance, often for free or greatly discounted prices.
You can also reach out to smaller organizations that work with people at the local level. For example, The United Way is one resource for medical assistance. Although the organization does not help pay medical bills directly, it may be able to help you find resources that do help with financial assistance. To find local nonprofits that offer this help, search for your city's name along with "medical assistance nonprofit." You may be surprised to learn what type of help is available.
Experiencing a medical emergency and loss of income can be stressful; however, hopefully knowing that resources may be available to help you during this time is uplifting. Taking the time to read this article is a positive step in the direction toward reducing and eliminating your medical debt.
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Moonwalking Agent
1. Go to Leonardo Da Vinci's time period.
2. Unlock the door to the balcony with the key found in the keyhole.
3. Hold down the option (Mac) or control (IBM) key while you go through the door.
4. The enemy agent will dance and moonwalk until you stop pressing the option/control key.
Caldoria Explosion
At the Main Menu of Buried in Time, press and hold Ctrl on the PC, or Option on the Mac, and while holding the key, click "NEW GAME". I think you have to have "PLAY INTRO" selected. Instead of the normal intro, a clip of Caldoria exploding will play, after which you will be taken back to the Main Menu. Note: the timing of the key pressing is the same for the Moonwalking Agent egg.
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"I was nine years old when my mother brought me to Amsterdam. Djibouti was no longer safe, what with the war, and in Amsterdam I could live with my aunt. My mother had to return, as she had had to go into debt when purchasing the flight tickets and these debts had to be paid off. Of course, the transition was hard without my mother, but also in coming from one of the hottest countries in the world to the cold weather here. I saw snow for the first time and was amazed to see people walking or skating on the canals. In Djibouti you become independent at a very early age and help with the housework. So I went alone to school, via tram, and did the shopping. The city was very large and busy, but I quickly found my way around.
After two years I was placed with a foster family in Andijk. Suddenly I was the only coloured boy. At the time of my puberty this was especially hard. I wanted to be just like the blonde kids in my class and brushed my hair back with gel, just like them. I constantly felt different, and thought that everyone was looking at me. I missed Amsterdam, where no-one stands out and you can just be yourself.
In Djibouti the mentality is totally different. The man is always head of the household. In a house full of women, even a ten year old boy is boss, as he's male. This mentality made my stay in the foster home difficult. They knew nothing about my upbringing and couldn't understand why I behaved the way I did. Eventually they did, and then they explained to me how things worked over here.
I have become extremely Dutch. I have never returned to Djibouti. I would love to. I always promised myself I would return with someone that I really loved. That's my wife. She is pregnant, so now is not the right time, but I would love to show here where I came from and show her all my childhood memories."
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London, UK – October 3, 2019 - Outpost24, an innovator in identifying and managing cyber exposure, today announced it has acquired Pwnie Express, the leading provider of threat detection for...Read More >
Boston - Small and midsized organizations (SMEs) are taking more steps to protect themselves from security risks associated with the Internet of things (IoT) than large businesses, according to new data from IoT security leader Pwnie Express. Released today, the "Is Bigger Better?" research paper found that small businesses are more likely to close the IoT security gap and better protect mission critical systems and business operations from malware and other threats.
In short, the Pwnie Express research of 950 IT security professionals finds that despite fewer security resources than their larger counterparts, smaller organizations are doing more to identify potential threats and assess potential dangers introduced by connected devices.
"It's a bit counterintuitive, because large companies have the finances and the people to secure their connected devices and critical infrastructure, but smaller operations are doing more with less," said Pwnie Express CEO Paul Paget. "That said, it is clear that the introduction of IoT into the enterprise is challenging the status quo of IT security across the board."
Especially troubling was the fact that 41 percent of IT security professionals at companies with more than 1,000 employees did not know what types of attacks (i.e., ransomware, malware, man-in-the-middle attacks) had hit their IoT devices in the last year. Only 25 percent of IT security pros at SMEs were unaware of attacks – a number that is still too high, but much better than the results from the larger companies.
Respondents from organizations with fewer than 1,000 employees were also more likely to:
All was not lost for large enterprises, however. Larger enterprises were more likely to:
"It's one thing to say you are ready, but we believe you can't really be ready if you don't know what connected devices are coming into your office," Paget said. "The research shows enterprises have a lot of work to do. Large organizations would benefit from thinking more like the SMEs we saw in our research – knowing what is connected to their networks, regularly assessing the devices in their environment, and being ready to respond to IoT threats coming their way."
Additionally, Pwnie Express researchers suggested large organizations:
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About The Internet of Evil Things Research
This is the third year that Pwnie Express interviewed IT security professionals about their level of IoT security. 950 people responded to at least one question from this year's Pwnie Express survey, with 868 completing all the questions. The margin of error of a survey with 800 respondents is roughly ±3%. Respondents answered Pwnie Express questions between December 14, 2016 to January 5, 2017. Researchers regarded any company with 1,000 or more employees as a large company.
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NTP users are strongly urged to take immediate action to ensure that their NTP daemons are not susceptible to being used in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Please also take this opportunity to defeat denial-of-service attacks by implementing Ingress and Egress filtering through BCP38.
ntp-4.2.8p14was released on 03 March 2020. It addresses 2 medium-severity security issues in ntpd, and provides 47 non-security bugfixes and 4 other improvements over 4.2.8p13.
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Luiz Fernando Beltrami
Luiz Fernando Beltrami is a Brazilian which turning point in life was when he became a father. Paternity was a great call to the adventure that happened in his life, which has generated and is generating great and intense transformations. He believes that what motivated him today, is precisely this quest to be someone better, to evolute, and part of this process is to be open and available.He has a Bachelor's Degree in Advertising and Marketing and a specialization in Cinema, Video and Photography, both in São Paulo, where he was born and lived most part of his life. Currently, he lives in Atibaia with his family and works at a communication consultancy and education company called La Gracia.


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London Audiences See Spark of the Divine in Shen Yun
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Dazzling colors, outstanding dance techniques, and a live orchestra that blends east and west, London audiences have described Shen Yun as a spectacle. "Very good. The show is all I expected it to be and more. It's spectacular," said Owner Richard Bednall. "It's very interesting in terms of the history and the historical aspect which I hadn't realized, and obviously the quality of professionalism is amazing, very, very good." "The sleeves was just something that was absolutely divine," said Simon Earthrowl, a former manager. "I mean, how they managed to catch the sleeves, synchronized, choreographed and then just throw them out and keep them all balanced like that was just amazing." They attended the performance at the Eventim Apollo in London on April 24, and applauded the Shen Yun dancers, who danced with their souls in showing the traditional Chinese culture. "I think that's a good idea. There is so much culture that I'm sure been lost. Every culture has lost some," said Earthrowl. "But it seems as though China has lost an awful lot more. And that's a shame because it was the seat of culture and the seat of humanity for many centuries, well before Europeans." "I think some of those cultural benefits have been significantly lost. To get those back, and to balance against the ever-changing fast-paced world is extraordinarily difficult," said Simon Jenner, a chief operating officer. "And I wish everybody all the greatest success and music such as this and dance shows such as this and choreography as presented here can help." "I think in relation to ensuring that Shen Yun keeping the traditions alive but reflecting also on modern cultural approach to them as well. I think it's very important," he added. "I think to have that embedded in cultural society is extraordinarily difficult at the moment. " NTD News, London


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STWC Holdings upgrades stock listing to OTCQB
Change improves capital market transparency for Denver-area cannabis company
LAKEWOOD, Colo. (Feb. 26, 2019) – Publicly held-STWC Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: STWC), the nation's foremost consulting firm in the development of cannabis-related businesses, has qualified for listing on the OTCQB stock exchange.
The evolutionary step for STWC Holdings is considered an upgrade from its previous status as a member of the OTCPK (pink sheets), and company executives expect that investors will appreciate the additional transparency into the company's financial picture.
"This progression into the OTCQB confirms what we have already been telling investors, that STWC Holdings is perhaps one of the most well-respected in the cannabis industry," said Erin Phillips, chief executive officer of STWC.
Under the DBA name of Strainwise®, the company has been completing projects all over the country, wherever people can benefit from the Strainwise® knowledge of ways to turn legal marijuana and hemp-based CBD products into respectable, economically healthy businesses. Most recently, STWC announced the opening of a CBD store near the Will Rogers Airport in Oklahoma City, located next door to a shop that will soon open as a Strainwise® medical marijuana dispensary.
The OTCQB has tighter reporting standards, and analysts tend to focus more regularly on companies listed there, meaning investors should receive more detailed information from a third-party perspective. The change also typically translates into greater liquidity of the equities. The promotion to the OTCQB will also qualify STWC for consideration by institutional investors, who typically have policies against investing in pink-sheet companies. To be eligible for the OTCQB, companies must comply with stricter reporting requirements, verify the integrity of its business practices on an annual basis, and gain management certification. The OTCQB says it is for "established, investor-focused U.S. and international companies."
About STWC Holdings, Inc. Headquartered in Lakewood, Colo., STWC Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: STWC) plans on becoming a complete ecosystem of entities and services that support the burgeoning cannabis industry. From capital, strategic partnership, and seed-to-sale consulting to design, marketing and advertising services, we intend to be highly diversified within the industry. We are a team of highly capable industry veterans that creates value for our partners by providing access to our comprehensive suite of assets. We develop made-to-order solutions to address the range of challenges that cannabis entrepreneurs and businesses face. ¬¬We believe in the value of cannabis, and we're laying the foundation for its future. For more information: 303-736-2442, or go to StrainwiseConsulting.com.


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Dena van der Wal PLA, ASLAAssociate, Landscape Architecture
Dena is a landscape architect and designer. She has significant experience with ecologically-focused projects and strives to consider the needs of the entire community of life when designing outdoor spaces. Her portfolio of work includes public parks, urban plazas, transit-oriented developments, amenity decks/green roofs, and nature-based playgrounds. Actively engaged with all phases of projects, she is fascinated by the process by which an initial design concept transforms into logical construction documents, and finally takes shape in the physical world.
Dena strongly believes in the benefits of spending time in beautiful outdoor spaces, and the connection between healthy environments, quality of life, and social justice. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from The University of Chicago, and a Master of Landscape Architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology. She is actively engaged in community gardening efforts in the neighborhood of Bowmanville and is involved in the Illinois chapter of the American Society for Landscape Architects.


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A MUM-of-two has revealed that smoking weed is what's "getting her through" self-isolating with her children – and insists it's the same as having a…
Support the Daily Express campaign to help disabled children
Since he was a tiny baby, Jacob's view of the world consisted for the most part of the inside of his family's mud and wood hut. Four simple walls, with tarpaulin roof, Jacob didn't go to school and stayed with his mother and baby sister in a refugee camp in the northern Gulu region of Uganda.
When he did venture outside, he was excluded and treated with suspicion and sometimes contempt – even by relatives.
Jacob, now 12, was born with cerebral palsy and is among 2.5million children with disabilities in Uganda. Like most of them he did not go to school.
According to a 2014 Unicef report, only nine per cent of Ugandan children with disabilities attend primary school. This drops to six per cent for secondary school, compared to a national average of 92 percent.
There is a huge stigma around disabled children in Africa so many are hidden by their families.
"I felt rejected by my parents and, most of the time, I spent at home playing with my little sister," says Jacob.
"As boys my age were at school, I felt my parents didn't like me. The children I know are not in school, they are kept at home. Two of them who can't walk have no wheelchairs, they crawl on the ground and sometimes they are carried by their parents."
This year, however, Jacob has started attending boarding school in Gulu thanks to an initiative by British charity, Motivation.
Under its motto "freedom through mobility", Motivation helps children go to school by funding wheelchairs suitable for rural terrain.
Potholes, unpaved roads, open drains and uneven paths create challenging terrain for wheelchair users in developing countries.
The charity's wheelchairs are designed to allow disabled people to navigate their environment with confidence. Tough, durable materials are sourced locally, and easily maintained or fixed by local technicians.
Its campaign, Motivation All-Stars also modifies school buildings to improve accessibility, and works to change the way disabled children are seen by encouraging able-bodied children to play with them.
Jacob attends one of the three schools in Gulu which has benefitted from the appeal.
Channel 4 presenter Jordan Jarrett-Bryan, a former wheelchair basketball star, disability sport mentor and Motivation supporter, said: "At 13, I was told that I couldn't be part of my football team anymore – it was crushing. I couldn't join in with my friends and for the first time it felt like my disability was holding me back.
"But when I discovered wheelchair basketball everything changed: it totally restored my belief in what I could do with my life. So I'm delighted to support Motivation's All-Stars Appeal and help give disabled children in Uganda the chance to be champions too
"By using sport and play to break local stigma around disability, Motivation will ensure all children can go to school and build positive futures."
Another huge benefit of going to school for Jacob is that he now has a best friend, Isaac, also 12.
Isaac has five siblings and, like Jacob, lives in a refugee camp of 10,000 South Sudanese families.
Isaac also has cerebral palsy and has used a wheelchair for as long as he can remember. He stayed at home until he was seven.
"I was happy to join in but when I was excluded I felt disappointed and rejected," he says.
"I know many people with disabilities back home and some are children, others are adults.
"The majority of children do not go to school because their parents say the best thing for them is to take care of them at home as they will not be useful even if they are taken to school.
"The adults with disabilities I see are being cared for by their relatives. Some sit by busy roads and beg people passing by."
Now both boys are enjoying the freedom of school, and their new-found love of sport, together.
"We like playing games together at break time, and playing sports with all the other children," says Isaac.
"I love sports. I love athletics and taking part in races by running on my hands. I really enjoy sitting volleyball and playing with my classmates.
"I enjoy being part of the team. I love competitions and I love to play with other children who are different from me. Playing sports is special to me because it makes me confident and I feel like I am accepted."
Jacob agrees: "I am lucky to have Isaac to keep me company. I walk well and sometimes I even run well too. I don't yet play sports. I feel shy.
"But I would like to feel confident to play. Isaac plays sports so maybe I can too. I would like to feel confident to become a teacher when I grow up so I can help children."
Motivation began life in 1989 when David Constantine and Simon Gue were studying design at the Royal College of Art and won a competition to design a robust, affordable wheelchair for disabled people in developing countries. They took their prize money to Bangladesh and built a prototype, soon afterwards creating their first wheelchair workshop.
Since registering as a UK charity in 1992, the team has worked in Eastern Europe, Cambodia, Nicaragua, Afghanistan and, in 1998, in Africa.
David says: "It is shocking to think that so many disabled children in Uganda miss out on education, simply because their teachers and families don't see their value. We want to change that.
"By using sports and play to create an inclusive environment, we will support disabled children to show what they can achieve when given an equal chance."
Monica, a Motivation All-Stars sports coach in Uganda, has mentored and inspired countless disabled children – and able-bodied children – to gain confidence together through sports over the past eight years.
"Those with disabilities often feel lonely and say 'no one can play with me because I am different' so these games truly help to change their lives," she says. "It is helping disabled children to get exposure, gain confidence and be included."
Motivation All-Stars appeal
The Daily Express is urging its generous readers to support the Motivation All-Stars appeal.
Your donation will help disabled people become mobile, independent and empowered.
To donate please go to https://www.motivation.org.uk/daily-express Give before March 3, 2020, and your donation to the All-Stars Appeal will be doubled by the UK government which supports the All-Stars project in Uganda.
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The 3rd annual "re-boot" of the iconic Emerald Isle Beach Music Festival will be held on Saturday, September 29 on the beach strand at the Western Ocean Regional Access off Islander Drive. Please join us for a great day of sun, sand, and music! Admission is FREE!
The 2016 and 2017 events attracted an estimated 8,000 - 9,000 people, and the Town looks forward to another great crowd on September 29. The festivities begin at 10:30 am, and will continue all afternoon long, with performances by Sammy O'Banion, Band of Oz, Fantastic Shakers, Chairmen of the Board, the Embers, and the Tams!
For more information, and to view the official commercial, please visit https://www.emeraldisle-nc.org/3rd-annual-emerald-isle-beach-music-festival-saturday-september-29--.
Make plans now to be in Emerald Isle for a beautiful early fall weekend!
The US Army Corps of Engineers dredge "Currituck" is touching up the main navigation channel in Bogue Inlet, and is also removing shoals in the nearby Coast Guard channel. This work is expected to be complete in early September, and will result in safer navigation channels for area boaters heading into the fall fishing season.
The "Currituck" is a hopper dredge, which is akin to a floating dump truck. The dredge spoils are collected in the "hopper" and are being deposited just offshore from The Point in the Atlantic Ocean. This type of dredge is different than the "Merritt", the sidecast dredge that usually completes navigation maintenance dredging in Bogue Inlet. The sidecast dredge simply "casts" the dredge spoils out of the navigation channel into nearby shallow waters. The Town is hopeful that the use of the "Currituck" for this round of dredging will promote a more stable navigation channel for a longer period of time.
The work in the Coast Guard channel is funded exclusively by the United States Coast Guard. The work in the Bogue Inlet navigation channel is funded through a partnership between the State of North Carolina, the Town of Emerald Isle, and other nearby local governments, including Carteret County, Onslow County, and the towns of Swansboro, Cedar Point, and Cape Carteret.
It has now been more than 13 years since the Town successfully relocated the main ebb channel in Bogue Inlet away from The Point. In 2005, the main channel was threatening numerous homes and infrastructure, and the Town relocated the channel to a more central location between Emerald Isle and Bear Island. The sand removed for the new channel was used for beach nourishment along 4 miles of ocean beach in western Emerald Isle in 2005.
The main ebb channel has remained away from Emerald Isle, and is currently located approximately 1,300 feet from the vehicle ramp at The Point. The entire area remains stable, and is enjoyed by many beachgoers, fishermen, boaters, and wildlife. The Point is arguably the most beautiful spot in Emerald Isle, and the Town remains committed to preserving this local treasure. Prior to the 2005 relocation, the Town's engineers predicted that the main ebb channel would eventually migrate back toward Emerald Isle in approximately 15 years. The Town continues to monitor the position of the main ebb channel, and plans to relocate the channel again when it moves within 1,000 feet of The Point vehicle ramp. The Town is in early planning stages for the next relocation, which is tentatively planned for 2022, and the sand removed will again be used for beach nourishment at that time.
The Point - 2004
The Point - 2017
A contractor for NCDOT has begun significant maintenance work on the underside of the Emerald Isle bridge, and crews have established a work base on the mainland side of the NC 58 bridge. This work is intended to extend the projected life of the bridge and will continue for the next several months, but is not expected to result in significant vehicle lane closures.
NCDOT's contractor will also be installing new guardrails on the bridge prior to the 2019 tourism season. The new guardrails will have a similar appearance as those on the Atlantic Beach - Morehead City bridge. The current concrete railings are approximately 28 inches high, and the new steel railings will extend an additional 26 inches, resulting in a total guard rail height of 54 inches. The photo below shows a simulated view with the new guard rails in place.
The Town is currently working with engineers and nearby property owners to determine specific improvements to Islander Drive and the Western Ocean Regional Access (WORA).
Improvements currently under consideration include a new beach access walkway, shower and bathroom improvements, EmeraldFest stage improvements, a new pedestrian walkway through the parking area at the WORA, additional on-street parking on Islander Drive, potential conversion of overhead electric lines to underground, decorative street lighting, landscaping improvements, and more. These improvements will be funded by State grant funds and sale proceeds from the recent sale of Town-owned property that previously included an abandoned go-kart track and bumper boat facility.
The Board of Commissioners is expected to finalize plans in October, and the Town hopes to complete construction no later than May 2019. Associated private development of approximately 30 residential and commercial condominium units is expected to begin in early 2019.
The Town has included funding in the current budget to replace an aging 60" pipe culvert under Lee Avenue that allows Archers Creek to flow east toward Bogue Sound, and also allows tidal influence into areas west of the culvert. The existing pipe culvert was installed in the late 1970s, and has deteriorated to the point that the Lee Avenue roadway could become compromised. The Town originally planned to replace this culvert with an identical sized culvert in early 2019, however, in response to concerns from nearby property owners, the Town is now exploring the potential installation of a larger culvert or multiple culverts to enhance tidal flow in this area and promote the health of the adjacent coastal marsh.
Town staff are currently working with engineers, State and Federal regulatory officials, the NC Coastal Federation, and nearby property owners to determine the appropriate scope of work, identify practical and/or regulatory issues, and identify potential grant funding sources. It is likely that the Town will pursue this more significant effort, which would delay culvert replacement until 2020 or later, depending on the ultimate project design.
Town staff have completed the the installation of new landscape lighting along the NC 58 right of way near the base of the Emerald Isle bridge. The new lighting represents yet another effort by the Town to enhance the aesthetics of the NC 58 corridor through Emerald Isle, and the Town will be considering additional lighting enhancements in the future.
The Town has awarded a contract for the construction of a new pedestrian bridge over Archers Creek to nature trails in McLean-Spell Park. The new pedestrian bridge is expected to be completed by the end of September, and will enable easier access to the new park. Park visitors will then be able to park at the Community Center, cross the creek right outside the Community Center building, and enjoy this great new Town park in Emerald Isle. Public restrooms are also available adjacent to the Community Center parking lot and tennis courts.
The popular beach driving season begins on Saturday, September 15, and will continue through Thursday, April 18 (the beach driving season ends early this year due to the timing of Easter week). Beach driving permits are available now at the Town Administration Building, and the permit application and additional information are available at https://www.emeraldisle-nc.org/beach-driving .
The new NC 58 roundabout near the Publix grocery store opened on March 1, and has functioned very well through the first summer season. The new roundabout was constructed instead of an originally proposed new traffic signal, and as a pilot project to enable our community to evaluate roundabouts for other potential locations in the future. The new roundabout allows traffic to flow continuously while allowing for turns on to and out of Mallard Drive.
Other than one incident caused by an intoxicated driver traveling at a speed in excess of 80 miles per hour during the middle of the night in March, there have been zero accidents in the new roundabout. (Fortunately, neither the driver or others were hurt in this incident, and there was no significant damage to nearby infrastructure.) Since March 1, there have been a total of 104 motor vehicle accidents at other locations in Emerald Isle, including 14 accidents at the Town's four existing signalized intersections.
The Town continues to monitor the function and safety of the new NC 58 roundabout, and any future decisions for other NC 58 locations will be made in future years after additional analysis by NCDOT, additional public input, and further review of the new NC 58 roundabout near Publix. There are now more than 300 roundabouts in North Carolina, and thousands more across the United States.
The Town's new Dog Park Development Committee is hard at work on design and fundraising efforts for the new dog park to be constructed at McLean-Spell Park. If you are interested in making this project a reality sooner rather than later, and would like to make a donation, please visit https://www.emeraldisle-nc.org/dog-park-development-donations . All donations are tax-deductible.
The Executive Committee for the 1st Annual Emerald Isle Fall Fishing Tournament has set the dates for the inaugural event: Friday, September 20, 2019 (Captain's Dinner) and Saturday, September 21, 2019 (fishing, prize ceremony, and other activities). The new fishing tournament will include boat, kayak, and surf fishing divisions angling for king mackerel, spanish mackerel, flounder, and bluefish. Proceeds will fund local scholarships and provide funding for future navigation dredging in Bogue Inlet.
The Town looks forward to the addition of this new event to our annual lineup of special events. To volunteer, sponsor, or contribute to the tournament, please contact Tournament Director Mark Taylor at email@example.com . For more details about the new tournament as they develop, check out the official tournament Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/EIFishing/ .
The Emerald Isle Sea Turtle Program includes a great group of local volunteers who monitor and assist nesting sea turtles and their hatchlings. The volunteers also do a great job helping to keep Emerald Isle's beaches clean, and recently completed beach sweeps at two locations in Emerald Isle. On August 18, 17 volunteers, assisted by team members from the West Johnston women's basketball team, completed a beach sweep at both the Eastern Ocean Regional Access and at The Point. The Town greatly appreciates their efforts to keep Emerald Isle's beaches clean!
The Emerald Isle Police Department and the Neighborhood Watch Program are pleased to host the 3rd annual Golf With a Cop event on Saturday, October 20 at Star Hill Golf Club in Cape Carteret. Golfers, come on out and play a round with EI's finest and the dedicated volunteers in the Neighborhood Watch program! To learn more, please visit https://www.emeraldisle-nc.org/3rd-annual-golf-with-a-cop-2018-10-20 .
The 4th annual Sound to Sea Paint Out and Art Show / Sale will be held from October 19 - 21 at various locations in Emerald Isle! The weekend event culminates with an art show and sale at The Trading Post restaurant on Sunday afternoon at 3 pm. If you're interested in painting, or just interested in looking, please visit https://www.emeraldisle-nc.org/4th-annual-sound-to-sea-paint-out-art-show-and-sale-2018-10-19 to learn more.
The Town congratulates Emerald Isle pet store / coffee shop "Muttigans" (also known as K9s and Coffee) on its recent recognition by Pets+ as one of America's "Coolest Pet Stores"! To learn more about "Muttigans" and this recognition, please visit https://muttigansplace.com/f/selected-as-one-of-americas-coolest-pet-stores .
Nearly all of Emerald Isle's ~ 3,200 acres of land have been platted since the early 1950s, however, there are still a total of 828 vacant lots in Emerald Isle. These vacant lots are scattered among the various subdivisions in Emerald Isle.


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AARP Foundation Tax-Aide and Hudson Valley CASH Coalition Service Suspended Until Further Notice
As coronavirus (COVID-19) developments change hour by hour, AARP Foundation is doing its part to prioritize the health of taxpayers, our volunteers, and the communities we serve. Accordingly, we have suspended AARP Foundation Tax-Aide services until further notice. We will continue to assess whether we can open again in some or all Tax-Aide sites now that the tax filing deadline for both federal and state has been postponed to July 15, 2020.
Please check https://www.aarp.org/money/taxes/aarp_taxaide/ for most up to date information. For those that are interested in exploring free online filing options please visit https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-for-free for more information.
The Hudson Valley CA$H Coalition (Creating Assets, Savings and Hope) is dedicated to helping families and individuals in the Hudson Valley save money and improve their financial stability. The coalition provides free federal and state tax preparation for taxpayers living in New York counties of Dutchess and Orange. To ensure the quality of the service, tax preparers receive many hours of training and are certified by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. In 2019, over 7,977 tax returns were prepared and filed in Orange and Dutchess counties.
To get more information about the 40 tax preparation locations in Dutchess, Orange and Putnam counties, call 2-1-1 or 800-899-1479 (daily, 9AM to 7PM).
Appointments start the first week in February, but reserve your space now.
Tax preparation sites are open from early February through April 15, 2020.
Federal and state tax returns for tax year 2019 will be prepared and filed electronically.
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Back in August I blogged about faxing a HIPPA compliance form to Johns Hopkins Hospital to get some medical records from my 1967 heart surgery. I already had the records, actually, but I had managed to misplace several of them. So I filled out another compliance form and faxed it to the Medical Records office.
Hopkins responded by sending all of my medical records from that first surgery, not just the 12 sheets I already had. I returned to Hopkins several times for check ups until I was about five years old, but none of those records are included. So now instead of 12 sheets, my stack is about an inch thick. This was a lot more information than I expected, and every bit of it is interesting.
I have Catherization reports, – one of which destroys a family legend; I always thought that we arrived at Hopkins at roughly 10:30 PM, but the Cath report says that I was brought into the Cath Lab at 6:16 PM. Daddy says we arrived at Hopkins about 3:30 pm, and the surgery itself began at 10:30 PM.
There are Radiological reports but no X-rays. I wonder if they deteriorate over the years. Possibly they are filed away in a different place, since all my records are copies, most likely made from microfilm.
Quite a few pages of Nurse's reports (I can – and probably will – make an entire post about those!) and –
Oh my goodness…
The title of the sheet is OPERATING ROOM REPORT. And this is the entire report, not just the summary and the little bits and pieces of my operation that I assume from what I already know.
After the temperature was down to 32 degrees we used inflow stasis and during a three-minute period of inflow stasis dissected a sizable portion of the Atrial Septum.
I was too small for the heart/lung machine, so the surgical team stopped my heart temporarily by hypothermia – They literally put me in ice and cooled me until my heart stopped. During a three minute period of no blood flow doctors cut into my heart and enlarge an Atrial Septal Defect (ASD). For the heart to work (and its owner to survive) blood has to be able to complete the Cardiopulmonary circuit: flow from the body into the heart, move from the heart to the lungs, then back to the heart, and once again out to the body. Because my normal pathway is blocked my blood "escapes" through an Atrial Septal Defect (ASD), and that earlier Catherization had revealed that my ASD wasn't quite big enough.
…at the end of this part of the operation we proceeded to prepare the vessels for a right Pulmonary Artery anastomosis after the technique of Glenn.
This is a phrase that I type often and Funky Heart readers are probably tired of seeing: I don't have the Glenn Procedure that is currently in use. That's known as the Bi-Directional Glenn, because blood is rerouted to both lungs. I have the original version of the operation, the "Classic Glenn" or sometimes called the Unidirectional Glenn. In my version, the right branch of the Pulmonary Artery is cut and sewn into the Superior Vena Cava, so the majority of my blood flows into my right lung. CLICK HERE to see the best drawing I have ever seen of the Classic Glenn Procedure.
Chest was closed in layers with #00 catgut and skin with Dermalon. The patient tolerated the procedure well.
Wow. Just…wow.
Tags: ASD, Atrial Septal Defect, Catherization, CHD, Cnogenital Heart Defect, Funky Heart, Glenn Procedure, infant, Johns Hopkins, Surgeon, Tricuspid Atresia, Vincent Gott