These are a few other things that I occasionally make and sell. None of them are limited editions, but most of them are a bit of a hassle and as a consequence there won't be many of them made. The (modern) petroglyphs can be considered as original works of art. Some of these can take a bit of time to make, so again, I encourage you to send me an email regarding time of delivery. For the heavier items I may have to add on a bit for shipping as well. For the cast boxes and frog bowls I can do custom color combinations.
Sand cast bronze with a hardwood top and bottom, the corners are bent (and rebrazed where they do not survive the bending) with the fourth corner also brazed. These are heavy but I expect they will last a long time.
7 1/4" x 7 1/4" x 4"
The same material as the jewelry; much harder to cast in bigger sections. The corners are chamfered and glued, the top and bottoms are whatever wood I can reasonably acquire, rubbed with linseed oil.
These are cast from the yew wood carving I did a few years back. These are available in the same range of color combinations as the jewelry.
This piece was carved in walnut, approximately 18" x 22", and was inspired by a carved door by Bill Reid featuring waves and fishes that I greatly admire.
While teaching a rock art field school in eastern Oregon, I had some of my students do petroglyph replication projects. We learned what kind of hammerstones worked best, the approximate time to execute various groove depths and designs, how the structure of the parent rock affected the results, and other aspects of how prehistoric stone art was probably made. Some of the conclusions reached by my students are that the coastal sandstones and greywackes are easiest to work, that the basalt and hematite beach cobbles make the best hammerstones, and that the basalt columns of the Columbia Plateau are a very difficult rock "canvas" to execute petroglyphs on.
Interestingly, granite boulders, while seeming hard and durable, are much easier to execute petroglyphs in than basalt. While such replication studies are an important tool for understanding prehistoric rock art, please don't make modern rock art at or near any prehistoric site. I have found that one can make quite passable modern petroglyphs in one's back yard on portable boulders. These will weather into a respectably ancient appearance in a few years of rainy northwest weather. Casting replicas in fiberglass resin is a much more complex process, but can yield a result which looks like a real rock and yet be displayed on an interior wall as fine art.
Longest dimension 27", from sandstone from western Oregon, this is about 15 years old at present and weathered nicely to fit into a landscaped yard or garden. In the style of northwest coast petroglyphs.
Longest dimension 26", actually hand laid in a fiberglass mold, this is then retouched with an enamel wash to simulate the lack of repatination as seen east of the mountains. The design is based on a Shoshone petroglyph from eastern Oregon. These have hangers laid into the back so they can be hung on an interior wall.
Length approx. 48", this is cut from ¼" steel based on the pattern of a Tsimshian salmon amulet from northern British Columbia. These look nice in the garden or yard.
This is cut from ½" steel, length approx. 48". I usually add a gill slit, but this one I did not. It is similar to one in a local golf course; I like to think of the sound of golf balls hitting it.
Description and illustration of all Coast Salish rock art in Washington State. Data and illustrations of previously undocumented Makah sites are also included, as well as a discussion of site distribution, style boundaries, and chronology. If you are not a scholar of rock art, and don't live in western Washington, you might find this rather dry reading. It is however, the only complete source on southern Coast Salish rock art. About 60 pp., Stapled binding, Xeroxed, $15.00.
Note: These pieces are not for sale.
I worked on this little yew bowl off and on for over a year.
This piece was carved from a 2" slab of teak.
This was carved from an exotic mahogany; I spend most of my time using a wood rasp to get the shape, but a lot of sanding was involved. I did not do the painting and gold leaf.
Carved from teak, on my 32' sailboat, from a sea wolf design on a silver bracelet illustrated by Boas in Primitive Art.
This is from a piece of oak from the Midwest, and is the product of about 4 months of coffee breaks and lunch breaks while working for Boeing Aircraft in 1966. The top of the knights I copied from a set my grandfather carved, but the rest of the designs are my own.
This piece is carved from teak, and was intended as a hotplate, having stubby legs set into the base.
This was a "fresco" I painted into freshly troweled concrete, intended to resist poured water on the floor of a sauna, note drain in navel.
This was a nearly spherical rock I found down by Mt. Rainier, painted with enamels as I imagine the earth from space.
The "children's god" is a Buddhist saint found all over Japan. I found this naturally shaped stone slab in SW Oregon and eventually made it into a small shrine in my yard.
The handle is from a cow rib found while doing archaeological survey in E Oregon, the blade is flaked volcanic glass from Glass Butte, also in E Oregon.
The sea monster on the gable was inspired by drawings of Hal Foster in Prince Valiant comic strips, illustrations of lock plates on Hudson's Bay Company trade muskets, and Coast Salish carvings. It is 3/8" plate steel, and a small pipe enables the "dragon" to spout water into a cast iron bathtub.
The original carvings for one of my jewelry designs, in Asian argillite.
This is the museum piece that my carving is based on.
A small westcoast style sea wolf based on stuff found at Ozette that I carved for a friend.
A small bowl with a basically 2D design wrapped around it; I gave this one to Bill Holm.
a small carving inspired by a comb from Nootka Sound made before 1778.
Another small yew bowl and other trinkets I carved in the early '80s. The bowl represents a beaver.
Carved from an antler button shaped like a flounder.
an early attempt to do a "landscape", train tracks at the bottom, neighborhood landmarks, plants, birds, the West Seattle skyline, the Olympic Mountains, a jet in the sky, all from found objects. This is part of a sidewalk.
a trowel handle carved in the early '80s.
this is based on the museum piece described above.
These are some old briar pipes I carved NW coast (a frog and hawk) and folk art designs on.
A mosaic made from scrap countertop, in Latin, "beware of the dog".
Close-ups of pipe described above, I carved the stem from a piece of antler.
A canvas sailing hat that I adorned with a frog design while living aboard my sailboat.
Another close-up of a briar pipe.
An example of attempting to carve NW coast art while knowing nothing about its structure; I carved this with as much enthusiasm as ignorance in the mid '70s.


The Philly Block Project is a yearlong, socially engaged collaboration that has provided a visual narrative of South Kensington's past and present through photographs.
The yearlong Philly Block Project, created by the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center (PPAC), provides a look into South Kensington's past and present through photographs. As the project begins to reach its end, the PPAC will unveil a new exhibit in the series.
Beginning on Sept. 8, the PPAC Gallery will showcase "The Block." Artists collaborating on the photo exhibition include Hank Willis Thomas, Wyatt Gallery, Lisa Fairstein, Hiroyuki Ito and Will Steacy.
Five hundred photographs will cover the walls of the gallery, beginning with floor-to-ceiling images of neighborhood row homes. As attendees make their way through the exhibit, the photographs will become more intimate. Smaller portraits of residents will showcase the inhabitants of Kensington.
"Older residents relax on lawn chairs, while young children rocket down the driveway on pogo sticks," a press release on the exhibition states.
"While one neighbor shows love through his 'Kenzo' tattoo, another sports a 'DAD' ring alongside a wallet-sized image of his daughter."
The photographs will remain in the gallery through the end of November.
To celebrate the unveiling of a new exhibit, the PPAC will host a block party on Sept. 10. The day will feature live music, games, art workshops (such as mural painting and silk screening) and a few carnival rides. The public party was made possible through a $25,000 crowdfunding campaign.


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The Republican and Democratic conventions have been a desert on the most important political issue of our time: human-caused climate change and what to do about it. That was painfully underlined in Bill Clinton's hour-long speech last night nominating Barack Obama for President. Clinton is very smart, very informed, and has created a foundation doing good works around the world, but his myopic focus last night was persuading voters that Democrats would generate more jobs, more stuff for the "middle class." There was nothing in his artful speech that even hinted that continuing efforts to "grow" the American economy were trashing Earth's natural systems. President Obama's acceptance speech tonight will likely be a long call for "more," for more material comforts, for a higher standard of living, for more investment in education to help people acquire "more" of everything for their families.
The utter poverty of current politics, its unwillingness to deal with the light at the end of the tunnel, the freight train of climate change, is a tribute to the effectiveness of propaganda efforts financed by oil and gas corporations and others since the 1960s. Just as the tobacco industry worked diligently to undercut federal efforts to limit smoking, much of corporate America has responded to evidence of global warming and climate change by massive efforts to poke holes in what objective scientists tell us. We have experience; the tobacco industry shills continued to attack science linking cigarettes to cancer and other health problems even as its paid-for-experts were buried under a flood of evidence that cigarette smoking kills.
Admittedly climate change is much tougher than tobacco. Cutting greenhouse gases means that people consume less "stuff," and that's not the American way as so eloquently sketched by Bill Clinton last night. Most of us want to shut out a message that "we consume too much" and proceed with the serious business of getting "more now" for us and for our families, and much of corporate America has done what it can to reinforce our natural aversion to "less." Michael E. Mann, a climate scientist, just published "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars" in which he describes the ongoing corporate assault on climate science in America. He gives this summary of business standards for evaluating science:
"The true metric applied by industry special interests is, of course, not the actual quality of the underlying science, but simply this: Are the scientific findings in some way inconvenient to their clients (the health insurance industry, the pharmaceutical industry, the chemical industry, the fast food industry, or, of course, the fossil fuel industry)?"
H. L. Mencken once said that "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people," and the climate-change deniers seem to relish that maxim. A U.S. Senator built an igloo outside the U. S. Capitol after a freak Washington snow storm as his derisive rebuttal to Al Gore's claims that burning massive amounts of hydrocarbons was warming world climate. News media, in their continued, crippling efforts to cover "both sides" of any controversy, give bullhorns to deniers who push a gospel that a "liberal conspiracy" is behind climate change science.
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Q: Regular expression for repeating sequence I'd like to match three-character sequences of letters (only letters 'a', 'b', 'c' are allowed) separated by comma (last group is not ended with comma).
Examples:
abc,bca,cbb
ccc,abc,aab,baa
bcb

I have written following regular expression:
re.match('([abc][abc][abc],)+', "abc,defx,df")

However it doesn't work correctly, because for above example:
>>> print bool(re.match('([abc][abc][abc],)+', "abc,defx,df")) # defx in second group
True
>>> print bool(re.match('([abc][abc][abc],)+', "axc,defx,df")) # 'x' in first group
False

It seems only to check first group of three letters but it ignores the rest. How to write this regular expression correctly?

A: What you're asking it to find with your regex is "at least one triple of letters a, b, c" - that's what "+" gives you. Whatever follows after that doesn't really matter to the regex. You might want to include "$", which means "end of the line", to be sure that the line must all consist of allowed triples. However in the current form your regex would also demand that the last triple ends in a comma, so you should explicitly code that it's not so.
Try this:
re.match('([abc][abc][abc],)*([abc][abc][abc])$'

This finds any number of allowed triples followed by a comma (maybe zero), then a triple without a comma, then the end of the line.
Edit: including the "^" (start of string) symbol is not necessary, because the match method already checks for a match only at the beginning of the string.

A: The obligatory "you don't need a regex" solution:
all(letter in 'abc,' for letter in data) and all(len(item) == 3 for item in data.split(','))

A: You need to iterate over sequence of found values.
data_string = "abc,bca,df"

imatch = re.finditer(r'(?P<value>[abc]{3})(,|$)', data_string)

for match in imatch:
    print match.group('value')

So the regex to check if the string matches pattern will be
data_string = "abc,bca,df"

match = re.match(r'^([abc]{3}(,|$))+', data_string)

if match:
    print "data string is correct"

A: Try following regex:
^[abc]{3}(,[abc]{3})*$

^...$ from the start till the end of the string
[...] one of the given character
...{3} three time of the phrase before
(...)* 0 till n times of the characters in the brackets

A: Your result is not surprising since the regular expression
([abc][abc][abc],)+

tries to match a string containing three characters of [abc] followed by a comma one ore more times anywhere in the string. So the most important part is to make sure that there is nothing more in the string - as scessor suggests with adding ^ (start of string) and $ (end of string) to the regular expression.

A: An alternative without using regex (albeit a brute force way):
>>> def matcher(x):
        total = ["".join(p) for p in itertools.product(('a','b','c'),repeat=3)]
            for i in x.split(','):
                if i not in total:
                    return False
         return True

>>> matcher("abc,bca,aaa")
    True
>>> matcher("abc,bca,xyz")
    False
>>> matcher("abc,aaa,bb")
    False

A: If your aim is to validate a string as being composed of triplet of letters a,b,and c:
for ss in ("abc,bbc,abb,baa,bbb",
           "acc",
           "abc,bbc,abb,bXa,bbb",
           "abc,bbc,ab,baa,bbb"):
    print ss,'   ',bool(re.match('([abc]{3},?)+\Z',ss))

result
abc,bbc,abb,baa,bbb     True
acc     True
abc,bbc,abb,bXa,bbb     False
abc,bbc,ab,baa,bbb     False

\Z means: the end of the string. Its presence obliges the match to be until the very end of the string
By the way, I like the form of Sonya too, in a way it is clearer:
bool(re.match('([abc]{3},)*[abc]{3}\Z',ss))

A: To just repeat a sequence of patterns, you need to use a non-capturing group, a (?:...) like contruct, and apply a quantifier right after the closing parenthesis. The question mark and the colon after the opening parenthesis are the syntax that creates a non-capturing group (SO post).
For example:

*

*(?:abc)+ matches strings like abc, abcabc, abcabcabc, etc.

*(?:\d+\.){3} matches strings like 1.12.2., 000.00000.0., etc.

Here, you can use
^[abc]{3}(?:,[abc]{3})*$
          ^^

Note that using a capturing group is fraught with unwelcome effects in a lot of Python regex methods. See a classical issue described at re.findall behaves weird post, for example, where re.findall and all other regex methods using this function behind the scenes only return captured substrings if there is a capturing group in the pattern.
In Pandas, it is also important to use non-capturing groups when you just need to group a pattern sequence: Series.str.contains will complain that this pattern has match groups. To actually get the groups, use str.extract. and
the Series.str.extract, Series.str.extractall and Series.str.findall will behave as re.findall.

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Knobe, Joshua. (2003) "Intentional Action and Side Effects in Ordinary Language." Analysis, 63, 190-193.
Summary: The paper is an experimental investigation of the role that moral considerations play in people's concept of intentional action.
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You may be wondering what a basilisk is, at this point, and what subtype the 'Roko' variant is. Look no further. The basilisk is a mythical creature from European folklore. Supposedly, it's gaze petrifies those who have the misfortune of meeting it.
It is similar to the Medusa, whose visage also turns the viewer to stone. There's a picture at the top of this post. Basilisks are also familiar to players of video games and Dungeons & Dragons, where they are common foes to defeat.
Now for something completely different. In the field of game theory, the prisoner's dilemma is a well-known decision making problem.
Imagine two criminals who are apprehended by the police. They are put in cells and not allowed to communicate. There's barely enough evidence to convict them, so if they both keep their mouth's shut, they'll both only get a one-year sentence. If one of them makes a statement against the other, then they will go free and the other one will get a ten-year prison sentence. However, if both of them rat each other out, they'll both get a three-year sentence.
If B rats me out, I am better off ratting B out, because I get a 3 year sentence instead of a 10 year one.
If B does not rat me out, I am better off ratting B out, because I get no sentence instead of a 1 year one.
Both actors will follow this reasoning, and so both will give up the other, and both will get a three-year sentence. This is not the optimal outcome for either of them.
The decision-making process above is rational, but it doesn't lead to the optimal outcome for either party. Alternate decision making processes have been developed, which can lead to different outcomes. These processes often involve communication between the actors before hand, or knowledge of each other's decision process.
If you replace the prisoner's dilemma situation with comparable traffic situations, like changing lanes during a traffic jam, you can imagine why this decision making process is important for AI development.
A user on a the 'Less Wrong' community forum called Roko, posited that one of these alternate decision making processes could lead to a very disturbing result.
I'll not go into the nitty gritty details, but Roko argued that one such alternate decision making process could lead to an AI with some awful properties. This AI, when it bootstrapped itself into super-intelligence at some point in the future, would start torturing all people who had not helped bring about its ascension when they could.
The reason why it's called a basilisk, is that reading about the potential existence of this AI – like you are doing now – and then not starting to work on bringing it into this world, would open you up for future torture. You read about it, and it tortures you for that at some point in the future.
The idea is frightening, of course.
First off, it's important to note that the Roko's Basilisk is (hopefully) not really a thing. It's a thought experiment about decision-making processes and AI. Thinking about this is useful to help figure out the shortcomings of certain decision making processes in that field.
Claire Boucher combined Roko's Basilisk with the idea of rococo, a style of decoration from the 19th century, creating the Rococo Basilisk. It's silly, but Elon Musk came up with the same joke recently, and found he wasn't the first. Love ensued, apparently.
Now you know what Roko's basilisk is.
I'll be off now to bring about its coming. Really, I am.


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A sincere student of Geeta is transformed within himself and is freed from all unrest in him.
In a Yajna, Lord Fire is invoked in the sacrificial trough and into it are offered oblations by the devotees. From this analogy, the term Jnana Yajna has been originally coined and used in the Geeta. Study of the Scriptures and regular contemplation upon their deep significance kindle the "Fire-of-Knowledge" in us and into this the intelligent seeker offers, as his oblation, his own false values and negative tendencies. This is the significance of the metaphorical phrase Jnana Yajna. Therefore, here the Lord admits but a truth in the Spiritual science when He declares that those who study the Geeta – contemplate upon its meaning, understand it thoroughly – and those who can, at the altars of their well-kindled understanding, sacrifice their own ego-centric misconceptions about themselves, and about the world around them, are certainly the greatest devotees of the Infinite.
When a rusted key is heated in fire, the rust falls off and the key regains its original brightness. So too, our personality, when reacted with the knowledge of the Geeta, is chastened, since our wrong tendencies, unhealthy vasanas and false sense-of-ego which have risen from false-knowledge (Ajnana), all get burnt up in Right-Knowledge (Jnana).


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you have been looking for mental health treatment for really any period of time, you probably have realized that it is very difficult to have access to a therapist. And most of the time you're gonna wait long, long time, or you're not going to hear back from a therapist. Maybe you, you may a phone. Hoping to, to schedule a session and nobody calls you back. That's a problem. And today we're gonna talk about making mental health treatment more accessible with Randy Foreman and Cynthia Grant in this episode. Of the mental health today show, Welcome back to the mental health today show my name is John Cordray. I am a licensed therapist and the host of the mental health today show. And I am so delighted that you're here again today. And with me, I have some very special guests that I cannot wait to introduce to you first. It's Randy Foreman. And Cynthia Grant, they are both from a mental health tech company called path. And we're gonna learn a little bit more about each of them, but also more about this mental health tech company, Randy, Cynthia, welcome to the show.
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nice. Nice and sweet. I like that. So, Cynthia, I wanna jump right to you. I know that you have a lot of clinical background in your history and I would love to learn a little bit more about that. And really, how did you get involved with path?
Cynthia Grant: 1:37
Yeah, I'd be happy to talk about that. And John, I love that you're leading with this because one of the things that ultimately is part of this story is how valuable and important it is to have clinical leadership in these mental health tech companies. So happy to tell folks a little bit about myself. I have been a practicing social worker since the mid nineties. And so I've been around the block for a bit. I. Started my career in crisis work and doing a lot of emergency department settings, really learning how to have good intuition and judgment, and also how to stay calm. I made a transition to community mental health and ultimately to private practice, probably about 10 years into my career. And private practice was really a nice spot to be able to have autonomy and to select and sort of work with the clients that were the best fit for me. I really enjoyed it, but ultimately knew that I wanted to be able to be around people and make. More of a macro impact if you will. So I went back to school, I got my PhD in social work added to my clinical repertoire, if you will. And then also picked up quite a few research skills. So from there, I took an academic role and spent about four years as an associate professor realized that was not the right setting for me. And decided to pursue a job that in allowed me to do more research and clinical practice with veterans. And so I was working out of the VA here in the Denver area, but even the VA still just didn't quite hit home for me. And so I wound up full circle back to working in community mental health. And I had a wonderful experience here again in the Denver area. And I wound up working as the chief operating officer and the chief clinical officer in that setting and really had great people, incredibly mission driven that we were really working together to be able to move things forward. I wound up going to school again, every time I make a little bit of a career switch, I. A degree. And I got my MBA in healthcare administration really, so that I could get a better handle on trying to help lead and. Oversee a clinical business. This was all in the nonprofit space. And for all of your listeners out there who work in that setting, you know how much harder we have to do have to work to be able to rub two nickels together. Mm-hmm . I did that for about eight years. And then I had an opportunity to be able to join this company that I hadn't heard of before I was doing some consulting on the side and I wound up meeting some folks at path. and I was just blown away at the possibilities and the potential to be able to reach a very different client population. As you can imagine, a lot of my work had been with some pretty acute clientele and overseeing programs that really hit on more intense mental health needs. And this was something new. And so being able to work in a for-profit setting, fully remote, doing exclusively telehealth after the start of the pandemic was something that I was really excited to be able to give a try and it has not disappointed. So I'm hoping we can talk a little bit more
about that.
Yes, that is amazing. And I, I really appreciate what you said. Earlier where it's important for these mental health tech companies to have clinicians in leadership roles. I completely agree with that. And I'm excited to see what's happening in the mental health space with technology. And now we're starting. I mean, for the longest time in mental health technology, We were way behind and now it's like, wow, all this technology in mental health. And we're trying to figure out how this is all work. So, Randy, I would love to hear more about you and your background in how then you got involved with
path. Yeah. Awesome. Well, spoiler, I am not a clinician, so I have to have to pause Cynthia here, but you know, I've spent 20 years, past 20 years or so of my career in healthcare. I've touched almost every area of healthcare, a across those 20 years. And I've spent the last 10 years focused on digital health and really focused on some of the bigger problems facing our country from a healthcare perspective, things like chronic disease, behavioral, and, and mental health. So prior to path, I helped start a company called Livongo health, which was focused on chronic conditions like diabetes and hypertension. And eventually we made our way into the behavioral health space. That company was acquired by tele health just about two years ago. And then I joined path earlier this year, but you know what I saw, you know, talking to. Clients. So we, you know, at Livongo, we would partner with large self-funded employers and health insurance companies or large health systems. You know, mental health always, always comes to the top of the list of, of sort of the challenges that they're seeing in their populations, their members, or, or their patients. And, you know, the there's a variety of different models out there. And, you know, we were, we were selling direct to an employer. There's another part of the business that's direct to consumer and you know, what, what, what I took away from that was that it was great that they were chipping away at this problem, but they weren't creating access for all. So if you could afford, you know, the hundred kinda out pocket cost to find a therapist, you had access, or if your employer happened to be innovative then and buy the solution you had access, but that wasn't really access for all. And. You know, I was when I met the founders of path, just about two and a half years ago when they started the company and, and we've stayed in touch over those two and a half years. And I learned about the model and sort of what made path different. What I saw was that they were really looking to sort of break down those barriers and create true access. And we still have a long way to go. You know, we're right now, we're focused on, on creating access for those that have commercial insurance, but, you know, student look to get into Medicare, Medicaid, you know, our, our goal is to make sure that every American has access to these services. And, and that's, that's part of my job is to be out in the market and. You know, partner with large health systems or employers or college student counseling centers, and make sure that they're aware that, that this solution exists and that we can create create more equitable access.
That's fantastic. And you had mentioned earlier that it, you discovered something about path that made it different from others. And can you, can you tell me a little bit more, can you explain a little more about what makes path different?
Yeah. You know, It's interesting because the, the sort of path solution is. Is not the most high tech solution out there. So, you know, what we're doing is simply creating access O obviously leveraging digital health. We can now deliver services remotely from the comfort of your living room or your couch or wherever you are. The big difference is actually doing the hard work and, and making these services available and covered through your insurance, which is not how it works everywhere. And, and part of the problem. We're facing in this country, we have a, a supply shortage of providers and that's exacerbated by the fact that over half of mental health providers don't take a single commercial insurance. And so, you know, if we could actually fix that, if we could make it attractive enough for providers to come work at a company like path and allow them to serve those patients, you know, we can. Make a huge dent in the problem. And so that's where we're starting. There's obviously a, a variety of different ways that we can create access. You know, we could create digital self guided programs, CVT programs that people can, can go through, but, but simply like many people want to talk to a therapist and it's really hard to find one. And so that's where we're starting is sort of the low hanging fruit let's make that. And, you know, the analogy that I like to use is that right now people are fumbling through the yellow pages, trying to find a provider. When, you know, there is the technology is made it so that more of an open table, like experience can exist and you can find what you're looking for, you know, find the right provider for you that can actually see you when you wanna be. That will take your insurance and will help you get better. And that all sounds simple, but for some reason that kind of a solution has alluded, alluded the market for for years. And so that's, that's where we're starting. That's where we're focused. And you're exactly
John Cordray: 11:22
right. We are in a, a mental health crisis and there is a shortage of therapists. And I, I think that speaks to the frustration of so many people who are seeking services for mental health, and they're wanting help. They're looking for help. And yet they can't find it or, or they can't find it very quickly. And there is a problem there, and there is a gap that needs to be filled and, and I think path has a wonderful job with that. So, Cynthia, I wanna pass it off to you. I'd love to hear a little bit more from you on the clinician side. So if there. Therapist who are interested in pursuing more information about path. Can you tell me a little bit about the clinical side and then as well as I know you wanted to talk about some of the, the exciting things that are happening with path. Love to hear about that
Cynthia Grant: 12:13
too. Yep. Definitely. You know, being a clinician at path is very freeing and we have great, our, our providers are really happy and I think that's something that we all need to be take, be able to take a minute and be proud of. We make it really easy for providers to be able to show up and do clinical work with the clients that they want to work with. So from a provider perspective, it is, it we're really taking all the burden off of providers, everything from credentialing, with insurance panels, to being able to get referrals, to doing all of the billing. Things that private practitioners for years have always known are really the, the detractors from doing this work. And you all, we were talking about access and access. When you have commercial insurance is an absolute nightmare because of the nightmare that a provider has to go through in order to be able to get paid for the work and path is helping address. For providers. It's one of the things that I know our providers are very happy with, but the other thing about that, cuz there are other places that take insurance is that we, we really take care of our providers too. Mm. You know, we have. Support for them so that they can pick up the phone or send an email when they need help. They get their, we have somebody to hold their hand to walk them through the entire onboarding process. We have a provider success team. These are concepts that I never saw in the nonprofit world. And they're, they're really spectacular in terms of being able to have someone who has the clinical skills to do the work. And it's, it's hard work that's being done, but to be able to do that and then know that you have someone that you can reach out to, if you get stuck on any of the administrative pieces and that we're there for the provider, I just feel really strongly that companies that are taking care of providers are therefore taking the best care of their clients. And in particular, because we've been growing so large in the states where we're active, we're just able to reach such a wide variety of people. And when people are seeking care, they often want to find someone who looks like them or has a similar life experience, or maybe they want someone who has a particular theoretical approach. And our system allows for patients to get matched with exactly the person they need. And. In addition, you know, there's websites or portals, you can go in with an insurance company and you'll see a list of 200 providers. But as you mentioned at the start, you know, you start picking up the phone and calling all these places and no one's no one's available or they're no longer taking that insurance. Path cuts through all that noise and only gives when we match people, we really only give people three to five therapists. You know, if you're looking for an African American female therapist in Illinois who specializes in postpartum, Depression, we will give you three people. Mm-hmm we won't give you a whole list of all these people who may or may not have specialties that specialty or who may not be on your panel. And that is that that's a special something mm-hmm that I think really makes a difference. And because of that, in part, because of that matching and because we've. Some phenomenal therapist. We are able to show that some of the outcomes associated with receiving care at path are very, very strong. I mentioned to you at the start that when I was doing some consulting and when I started considering a role with path, the co-founder, the founders were actually able to show me data. That they had already been collecting from the get go about whether or not a person's depression or their anxiety got better as a result of receiving care. And in many, many spaces, we talk about how important it is to have tangible, quantifiable data about how we know that the work we're doing actually makes a difference for people. And very few places have that. Hmm. And path has had that really from the start. There's data and I'm not gonna, I, I don't have the exact numbers right in front of me, but I know that there is anywhere from a 30 to a 50% improvement in the measures that we use to look at depression and anxiety, things like the PHQ nine and the GAD seven. And so even at, at a preliminary level, Path is just light years ahead. As far as being able to share that information. When Randy's talking with partners and health plans, people wanna know that this work that's being done behind the computer with a real person, that's making a difference. Mm-hmm and that's something that we've been a that's something that path has been able to do, which I, I just find, I just find remarkable.
Oh, that's fantastic. So, Randy, I wanna throw it back to you kind of piggyback off what Cynthia was talking about. So can you tell me a little bit more about that?
Randy Forman: 17:59
Yeah. Yeah. You know, obviously the outcomes piece is, is, is really important. Being able to demonstrate the outcomes, but we have to start, you know, by measuring outcomes. And, and that's something that I, I think you'll see path really on, on the leading edge and driving true measurement based care. But you know, the other thing Cynthia mentioned just about the, the ability to curate the, the. Match between the patient and the provider super important. And we're actually, you know, we see data that that shows basically two improvement in the outcome. When you give the, you know, language spoken clinical experience, when you're able to make that match, which path is able to. I think the latest data that I saw was about 98% of the time were able to match the, the patient to the provider that they're looking for. We see a significant improvement and, and I think that's super important again, you know, if we just created access for everyone to high quality providers, that would be a great start, but you know, where we can actually improve upon that by getting people, not just through a warm body that can treat them, but to the right person. I think we're gonna see a huge impact through that.
That's amazing. Randy, we have to add to, we do it so fast. People are used to, people are used to not being able to find a provider, let alone a really good one, but then they have to wait. So even when people, when people do this on their own, myself included, I mean, I have two. Adult children. And one of my boys, young men needed a provider and it was just, it was so difficult. We have commercial insurance. This was obviously before I joined path, it was so difficult to be able to find someone and path will not only find someone in network that is the right fit, but then people get in for services almost immediately.
Amazing. Yep. I, I'm pretty sure that we, we probably have, I dunno, 10, 15 minutes left here. I'm sure. In about half that time, I could go into the path website, find the provider and have my first appointment within 72 hours. Yeah. Wow. It's that? It's literally that easy. Yep.
So, alright. I, I, I gotta pause you guys here for a minute. I gotta just process this what right now. So what you're saying. Is that path is allowing people who are looking for a therapist, not just an eight therapist, but a therapist that they feel like they can really truly identify with and feel safe with that's important. And they're able to find somebody and then you would path would be able to produce up to three therapists that matches what they're looking for. And not only that to be able to do it within what, 72 hours. That's
incredible. Yeah, you can be scheduled. You can, you can be scheduled or booked within minutes and have your first appointment within 72 hours. So
for those of you who are listening, if you have ever tried to find a therapist, let alone contact one. And if you did contact one, make an appointment and get in, it will probably be weeks. If not, months to get. And what Randy and Cynthia are, have just said with the path, they are able to be able to help you, who are looking for a specific type of therapist. You'll be able to get in very quickly. And the providers that you'll have, there are three to choose from not 200 as Cynthia was talking about. So you're not gonna be overwhelmed and path will vet them. So they're not gonna give you just any therapist. They're gonna just hand pick these therapists for you to choose from. And that is incredible. And, and I, and if you've looked for a therapist, you know how amazing that is so well done path, this is, this is amazing. And I think you are really, really honing in on a big problem and coming up with a solution. Now, Cynthia, I wanted to come back to you to follow up with that. Cuz you had mentioned path is only available in certain states, right? Can you tell me a little bit more about.
Half has been pretty deliberate about where we are providing services. The company started in California and many of the decisions about which state we operate in depends on the percentage of people in that state that have commercial insurance. And so we are specifically targeting states that have a very high number of people with commercial insurance, so that we. Are able to make sure that we're delivering services to those people. The next state that we opened in, in tech was in Texas. And so you see a pattern here with like some very big high population states. And as we have grown in each new state that we've taken on. What we've found is that we're essentially carving out the market for mental health clinicians. There are so many path clinicians in the state of California and growing in Texas in Illinois, New York, Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia, Randy, what am I missing? did I get 'em?
I think you got most, yeah. New York, Ohio, Virginia, Florida, North Carolina, Texas, Illinois, California, I think. Yep. I think I got all of them there.
Yep. I might have missed my Florida peeps. So the fact that you can, that we are. Attracting therapists in these different states allows us to make sure that we have more and more access for people that have commercial insurance in those states, which is great. And again, yep. You, you, you called this out John, that these are really good providers. Most of our providers have many years of experience. We have a lot of people that are doing kind of like what I did early on in my career. They may have a full-time job, but then they do private practice on the side. So they'll see, you know, a small caseload of 10 or 12 people. We have other people who are making a transition from one job to be able to do private practice full time. We have very experienced therapists who are towards the tail end of their career, and just have so much value to be able to add. And so I, I also think that's important. You know, these are all licensed providers with many years of experience. They tell us what they wanna specialize in. They tell us what type of client they're looking for. And we listen to that. Mm-hmm . And so, you know, we talked a lot about how easy it is for the client. But it, I would be remiss to sort of call out again that it's really easy for the provider also mm-hmm cause providers tend to know what they're really good at. They tend to know what client kind of clients they're going to have the best fit with how they're going to treat how they're, what populations they work best with. And that is just as I. You know, and that is part of what we know will strengthen the therapeutic Alliance, which is something that we're gonna be starting. We're we're starting to measure that path along with some other outcome measures, to really be able to tell the story and identify some quality control issues so that we know that our providers are doing the work that we. That they've set out to do. And so that they can really have a partnership with the client and being able to track how's this relationship going? How are you progressing? Whether that's because of substance misuse, or if it's because of suicide, suicidal ideation, anxiety, we really wanna be able to keep a. Watch on that. And that's part of where those outcome measures that we've alluded to a little bit throughout this call really give us an advantage. And so we're right on the cusp of being able to know truly all of the different variables that make a difference for our clients and our providers. Well,
that's fantastic.
I was just gonna jump into Cynthia. You sort of touched on a little bit or maybe think about the, the sort of scope of services that, that we provide. And, and I think that's also a differentiator. I therapy companies out there focus. You know, anxiety and depression, where for a variety of reasons, which, you know, Cynthia, maybe you can dive deeper on, but we're able to, to handle the more complex cases. So substance misuse eating disorder, PTSD. And part of this is because of some of the other services that we wrap around care coordination services, the ability to kinda follow that patient, be able to help find different levels of care if, if path isn't the right or the only place where they need to seek care. And generally you don't get paid for that work. But that's part of the, the service that we provide that I think is a huge differentiator. So there's really. Wouldn't be a whole lot that you wouldn't be able to come to path for and, and, and not be able to address
that is awesome. Simply awesome. So I, I wanted to, Cynthia, I, I, I wanted to kinda go back to the states cuz you, you and Randy kinda listed off the different states, does path have a plan to open up more states?
Well, that's a good question. Randy might be better equipped to be the one to give the answer to that. I can tell you that from my perspective, at the executive level, the focus is on doing a phenomenal job in the states where we operate. Mm-hmm . and as companies continue to scale, it is very important not to grow too fast. Mm-hmm to, because you don't wanna lose the ethical nature of how your business operates. You don't wanna compromise on quality. And so my understanding and what we often talk about is that our focus right now, and that may change cuz we are a tech company. So things happen fast mm-hmm . But my understanding right now is that we're really focusing on doing a fantastic job in those states where we currently exist. Randy, what else would you add to that
narrative? Yeah, I, I think that's right. I think, you know, this. Two a two-sided marketplace and you have to have a healthy balance of supply and demand when you stand up this market, because if you have a bunch of supply, so if we have a lot of providers, but we don't have demand, then we have unhappy providers who schedules aren't being filled. And again, that's a big part of the value proposition that we provide for our therapists is that we are, we do the work that will fill their schedule and, and fill it with the right, the right patients. So we, we wanna create healthy marketplace. This is part of, you know, what I spend every day doing, try to create awareness about what path is doing. Our biggest limiting factor is that we don't have, you know, tens and hundreds of millions of dollars to go market and have ads on TV. And so, you know, people don't know that this really easy solution to, to find access exists. So we spend a lot of time trying to find these partnerships again, like large health systems who refer a lot of patients, outpatient therapy to, to create a partnership where they can, you know, very easily refer those patients. They have folks who, who spend their whole day trying to help. Their patients get to the right care and they go through all this work and we can make that a lot easier for them. And by the way, we do this at, at, at no cost to, to those those partners. Hmm. But yeah, so, so, but, but to answer the question, we will eventually, I think have a national footprint again, we wanna grow responsibly. You know, the, the old mantra and tech is move fast and break things, but you can't do that in healthcare. And so we need to make, this is working for all our constituents, which are providers and our patients. You know, there are other ways that we will expand. So we just launched psychiatry services in California. We'll start to fast follow those services in, in other states, you know, we have a high demand for other populations. So Medicare, Medicaid, as I mentioned, obviously we have growing demand for these services and folks under 13, which today we serve 13 and above. Obviously there's an opportunity there as well, but so short answer is yes, we'll, we'll get there, but you know, we, we wanna do so in a, in a healthy and responsible. I liked it a lot
because it, to me that describes the integrity of the company. And that is important to me. And I know it's important to, to my audience as well. Very excited that to learn more about path and I just want to encourage my listeners to, to go and check it out, go check out the website and it's there for you to look at. And you know, there's a lot of good information there. So before we leave, though, Randy and Cynthia. I am interested in hearing from each of you. What I, I talk a lot about self-care and to take care of ourselves, cuz we are helpers and we are you guys, you, you guys are busy, I'm busy. There's certain things that I do that I enjoy. I go outside, I, I ride bikes and go on for hikes with my wife. Love to know what, what is it that you do each of you for your own self care and rainy? I'll let you go first.
Oh man. Well, let's see. I you know, I try to stay active. And so that is, I either go for long walks or I'll go swim. I, I do like to golf, so I'll go mindlessly, hit golf balls for an hour. And, and, and that's a big destressor for me, but otherwise I spend time with my family. I have I have two kids 10 and two year old daughters. We have a gigantic golden doodle. So, you know, family time is, is sort of the, the way we decompress unless they're having a meltdown. And then that is creates more stress, but , but yeah, no, try to stay active and yeah, long walks are probably the, the best one for me. Yeah. I
love that Cynthia, about you. Yeah.
I, I, I do a lot of those things as well, and I have the added bonus that I'm in the mountains. And so I can add skiing in the winter. I go roller skating on Sundays in town. And so that's fun, but I think that the other thing that's always important for me to remember is I, I also, I, I. I mean, I am a human right. I like to connect with people. And so whether that is having a chit chat with a coworker, even in a remote world I was just talking with someone about a book that I finished over the weekend. What she's reading. We have little coffee talks that we use to decompress and you can get paired with other people. I take my lunch outside with the dog every day. I, I think that some of that human connection that we are so used to having in an office environment, what I have to do to make sure to take care of myself is to be sure that I'm recreating that in small ways. Mm-hmm so that I still activate that part of who I am. Because I'm, I'm still a clinician. I still see clients in private practice. I have friends that are clinicians. I definitely have a community of people who, you know, we're coming from the same space and we need to be able to decompress, but I think it's been really great to be able to see how you can do that in an online community as
Absolutely. You are speaking music to my ears there. Being able to, to talk about the connection even virtually. Yeah. Very, very important. Well, our time is run short here and I, I wanna give each of you one more thing that to leave us with in regards to path. And as I'm talking here, I want you to be kind of formulating that because I want you to leave us with one final thought with path and maybe one of you can give the, the website that people can go to. I will certainly have it in the show notes as well, but I, I just wanna thank you both. And for being here and taking the time to come on the show and so give me one final thought from each of you in Cynthia. I'll let you go first.
So you nailed it. When you said earlier that this is a company that is filled with integrity. And I think that that is extremely important, given all the different information that we hear about not just mental health services, but telehealth services. This is a highly ethical, high quality. Organization with clinicians who are truly, truly compassionate and committed to helping people get better. And so to me, that is one of the biggest takeaways that I wanna make sure that anyone who is looking for services understands that not all mental health companies are created the same and that when you can get really, really good care from someone who cares about you. You're going to see that it makes a really big difference in your life.
Oh, that's fantastic. Randy, how about you?
You know, I think innovating in healthcare is hard. It's definitely hard for earlier startup companies like path. And so, you know, what I would say is for, for the folks out there listening, you know, when you lean in, when you, you know, reach out to learn more, you know, it, it takes. Folks leading in to help companies like catheter solving real problems, but to help us to create that awareness and to help us scale, which, which helps us better serve you. And so, you know, sort of my call to action is to help, help spread the word and, and to reach out, you know, those partnerships that, that are sort of the, the fuel that will keep us going and allow us to deliver this amazing service. And so don't be shy, reach out. We'd love to love to.
And can you, Randy, give us the, the
website. Yeah. So you can go to path mental health do com so www path, mental health.com. Fantastic.
That's simple enough. Well, Randy and Cynthia, I just really want again to thank you for coming on the show. It's been a delight to talk with you and learn more about you personally, but also about path and what path is doing to help people in need. It's been fantastic. Getting to know you. Thank you,
John. This has been really fun.
Oh, that's great. I, I, I am glad to hear that. Well this is really the end of the show. I just really thank you all for listening. I appreciate you. And I want to encourage you to continue to take care of your mental health. And as you know, the mental health today show has been championing your mental health since 2015. Take care. Bye.
Cynthia Grant
Head of Clinical Care
Cynthia is the Head of Clinical Care at Path, a national mental health telehealth company. Her areas of passion are quality, compliance, and clinical ethics associated with providing
behavioral health services to individuals, couples and families.
Prior to joining the start-up world she held leadership roles in community mental health, hospital, academic and research settings. She holds a PhD and MSW from Loyola University Chicago School of Social Work and has practiced as a licensed clinical social worker for more than 20 years. Cynthia earned her MBA
in Healthcare Administration from the University of Colorado-Denver, her BA from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and is Dare to Lead(™) trained, which contributes to her
approach as a warm, trustworthy, and highly committed leader.
Cynthia participates in multiple local, community-based initiatives to improve access to behavioral healthcare for all people. She is a Board member at Rocky Mountain Human Services and Karis Community in Denver, on the Advisory Board for Prime Health, and serves as a pro-bono provider to military families and Veterans through Give an Hour.
Randy Forman
Randy is the Chief Commercial Officer for Path Mental Health. Prior to Path he was the founding commercial team member at Livongo, which was later acquired by Teladoc, and held a variety of sales and leadership positions. Randy was also previously the Chief Commercial Officer at Vida Health. He has a BA from Yale University and resides in Chicago with his wife, 2 girls, and a gigantic golden doodle.
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Evernote is a fantastic tool for information gathering & storage. For a Realtor, it can be a real time saver and streamline your marketing efforts. You can clip articles, websites, images and content from any website and store it for easy retrieval from any device and any place. Great for gathering content for blog posts.
Keep notes about every conversation in specific client notebooks. Group notes by buyer name in a buyer notebook and keep qualification notes, consultation notes, property tour notes, negotiation notes, and transaction notes, as well as all associated documents in one place.
Create a customized property tour including the MLS sheet of all homes customers will preview. Include hyperlinks to the map and a calendar entry for the associated showing times right inside one single note.
Forward all client-related emails directly to your Evernote account for a complete repository of all communications with your buyer over the course of the buying lifecycle in one, easily-searchable place.
You can even snap a photo of your handwritten notes and send it to your clients Evernote account for review later.
This free newsletter program is one of the top email marketing service providers around and it is free. It is used so widely I don't think anyone ever gives a second thought to the Mailchimp branding at the bottom of your emails. With one of the most complete platforms available MailChimp has proven itself as an extremely useful and effective email marketing provider. It has great analytics for tracking emails. Lots of templates to choose from and importing client information is intuitive.
MailChimp is excellent for "drip" email campaigns where you create a series of 4 emails that go to your new prospects on a timed basis. After you have met someone add them to the mailing list and the first email can go out the next day. A second email can be sent a few days later explaining more about the service you offer, what you do and inviting them to join your newsletter mailing list.
You can also set up a market update newsletter template that you email monthly to your mailing list just changing the statistics each time, but retaining the same look and feel.
You can create a signup form which you can add to your website to manage newsletter signups. They enter their information and it goes directly into the mailing list.
In short, it's a new platform that makes it easy to manage all of your Google accounts in one place and add in your real estate business hours, photos of your company, and information about your services. This will not only help you get found better through organic searches but also get more visibility for your Google+ profile.
Setting up Google My Business can easily improve your online presence for real estate by keeping your business information centrally located on Google. And as long as you continue to follow SEO best practices for your real estate website and Google+ page, this will boost your brand awareness and search optimization.
If you want to be found in a Google search for Vancouver Realtor as an example, setting up a Google My Business account is a key step in the process.
Managing your social media becomes much easier with Hootsuite. Think of it as a dashboard where you can monitor everything going on in your social media accounts and you can post to one or all from one place. It lets you update and keep track of your Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other social media accounts all in one spot – a huge time saver!
Schedule tweets for specific c times and dates.
Tweet the same content from multiple Twitter accounts, simultaneously.
Track retweets and mentions of user-selected hashtags or keywords.
Track tweets that mention you or a topic you are interested in on any or all of your Twitter accounts.


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This campsite, in the nature reserve Parc Naturel Régional du Verdon, offers good facilities, generous camping pitches, comfortably furnished caravans and chalets and a special fun swimming pool with a triple slide.
This modern decorated mobile home is provided with a spacious kitchen-living room combination with a bar, a stove with 4 rings, refrigerator-freezer combination, microwave oven and a large living room, a bathroom with a separate toilet and 3 bedrooms. The mobile homes have a beautiful covered terrace with terrace furniture.
This compact mobile home is provided with a kitchen-living room combination, a microwave oven, a refrigerator and a cosy sitting- / dining area. Further there are two bedrooms, a bathroom with shower and washbasin and a separate toilet. All mobile homes are provided with terrace furniture.
The spacious and luxurious decorated chalets have three bedrooms, a bathroom with shower and washbasin, a toilet and a kitchen-living room combination. All chalets are provided with a veranda and garden furniture.
This modern decorated mobile home is provided with a spacious kitchen-living room combination with a bar, a microwave oven, a spacious refrigerator- freezer combination, a cosy sitting area and a sitting area and a dining table with 4 chairs. The mobile home has two bedrooms, a bathroom with shower and washbasin and a separate toilet. All mobile homes are provided with a terrace and terrace furniture.
As the name suggests, RCN les Collines de Castellane is situated on hilly ground. The camping site has been terraced to provide all campers with a spacious pitch on the sunny southern slope which has plants and trees that provide some shade.
This modern decorated mobile home is provided with a spacious kitchen-living room combination with a bar, a stove with 4 rings, refrigerator-freezer combination, microwave oven and a large living room, a bathroom with a separate toilet and 2 bedrooms. The mobile homes have a beautiful covered terrace with terrace furniture.
Experience camping in a whole new way in a safari tent! You stay in a luxury safari tent on a beautiful location. The safari tent, also called summer lodge, is on stilts and has a beautiful terrace. With the modern and luxurious interior you are fully equipped. You have a private bathroom with shower, sink and toilet. A kitchen equipped with a 4-burner cooker, refrigerator and kitchen inventory. Camping in the safari tent is glamour in nature. So for 'glamping' you must come to RCN holiday park Les Collines de Castellane.


If you want to send Valentine Day Gifts to your friends and loved ones, you will have to hurry! It is not late yet… there is still good enough time left for you to hop and jump through a few shopping sites before freezing on the one from where you want to order one! The Valentine's Day gifts stores are overflowing with ideas as well as gifts in all shapes and sizes, budgets, and categories.
Online shopping sites have become very professional, very proactive, and very charming; and are doing all kinds of events and advertisements to arrest our attention as we get ready to go online to shop for Valentine's Day gifts to make the day special for our loved ones. If you want to shop valentine gift go online. There is so much variety to see without you having to step out of the house. Shopping online saves all the trouble of hopping from one store to the other, going through all that traffic and taking all that pollution and worst of all, taking time out to shop. Nobody has the time these days! And it gets boring sometimes to go alone as it is not possible to tag someone along all the time.
So to send Valentine's Day gift this season, go shop online and check out the huge, massive collection that these stores offer. New gifts, new concepts, innovations that you can see online, you may not be able to find offline. Not that they are not there offline but it may not be so easy to get to them. Online shopping can happen with a click of a button and you can visit a dozen stores within half an hour. Which is not possible if you are driving or walking up to the store; or taking a cab.
You can only cover 10 stores in half an hour if you are online. It offers not only huge collection of gifts for Valentine's Day but also huge convenience of doing it from home. You can have your Valentine's Day gift sent to your loved one via same store. They arrange it for you, all you do is choose a gift, place an order, give them delivery address and that's it!
So this year, make your loved one feel special on Valentine's Day and send a gift online!


In their exhibition Beauty, Sagmeister & Walsh create a sensual appeal for the enjoyment of beauty. They engage all the senses of the visitors and their exhibition is spreading across the entire MAK at the Stubenring. In doing so, they want to make beauty become tangible as a central, functional aspect of appealing design but also show that beauty is more than merely a superficial strategy.
Central to the MAK FUTURE LAB is the question how architecture can contribute to an increased quality of life and which role beauty plays in this context.


A substance abuse evaluation is required whenever an individual has been arrested for a crime associated with drugs or alcohol such as possession, minor in possession (MIP), disorderly conduct or DUI. The evaluation is carried out by a certified/licensed professional specializing in addiction and substance abuse. The assessment determines the appropriate treatment or intervention.
During the evaluation, a complete review of substance abuse is conducted. This usually involves a face-to-face interview and analyzing any NEEDS Assessment outcomes from the DUI/Risk Reduction School, Lifetime Arrest Reports, 7-year Department of Driver Services reports and other relevant assessments. A drug and alcohol screen is performed if requested, indicated or required by the courts.
The whole interview process lasts 60-90 minutes. Within a week of the assessment, a written evaluation report is sent to either the individual or agency stated on the release of information form. From the evaluation, the appropriate level of care is determined. Any of the following may be recommended.
Hospitalization programs provide comprehensive medical care during detoxification. Once stabilized, the client transitions to a less restrictive treatment setting, such as a residential treatment program or an intensive outpatient program. Hospitalization through an inpatient rehabilitation program is generally only considered for people presenting with severe withdrawal symptoms, particularly those that are complicated using multiple drugs or if the person has a history of delirium tremens (a withdrawal condition characterized by tremors, anxiety, disorientation and hallucinations). Typically, depending on the substance, a stay can be anywhere from 3-28 days.
A partial hospitalization program (PHP) is also sometimes known as "day rehab." This program provides the client with the intensity of a residential treatment program, but also allows the client to spend evenings at home, transitional community living or sober living. The PHP for alcohol or drug addiction has many of the same components as a full-time residential inpatient program and can be just as effective. Typically, 20 or more hours a week are spent at the facility.
Intensive Outpatient Treatment (also known as IOP for "Intensive Outpatient Program") is a primary treatment program recommended in some circumstances by a clinical and medical assessment. IOP may be recommended for those who do not need medically-supervised detox. IOP can also enable people in recovery to continue their recovery therapies following successful detox, on a part-time yet intensive schedule, designed to accommodate work and family life.
Participants start rebuilding their personal lives and mending important family ties right away, when living at home and participating in Intensive Outpatient Treatment. With the Intensive Outpatient Treatment program, you can establish a foundation for long-term recovery support in your local community from the beginning of treatment, instead of waiting until you return from living in a rehab center. Intensive Outpatient Treatment typically requires nine or more hours a week at Kennedy Addiction Recovery Center.
The Outpatient Program (OP) is the final phase of our recovery process. Kennedy Addiction Recovery Center's Outpatient Program allows clients to obtain support as they continue their sobriety while attending school, work or other outside activities. This phase and last four months and heavily focus on relapse prevention. Outpatient Program treatment typically requires less than nine hours a week at the facility.
Residency at a halfway house may be required by the court as a condition of probation or parole. These institutions ensure that an individual will be successful and productive without supervision once reintroduced to society. Halfway houses are staffed with trained supervisors and generally a higher-level treatment, as opposed to sober living where there is no paid staff.
In Transitional Community Living, patients receive treatment a clinical campus, where they take part in holistic and comprehensive treatment in the form of individual, group, and family therapy, intensive case management and vocational/educational programs.
Each patient receives individualized treatment through an assigned Primary Therapist, along with additional individual and group treatment with a focus on trauma, gender specific issues, family dynamics, process addictions and spirituality. Patients also address medical and psychiatric issues through a Medical Director and medical staff, with a holistic focus on medical issues related to addiction and mental health. Family-focused treatment programs, vocational/educational programs, community-driven programs and structured living programs all combine in Transitional Community Living to offer a comprehensive treatment approach to the disease of addiction for every patient.
Sober living homes are typically located in residential neighborhoods, with easy access to transportation, shopping, and businesses. Many of these residential homes are affiliated with substance abuse treatment centers, which allows clients to move easily from inpatient treatment to a community-based setting when they have advanced to that stage in their recovery.
In this setting, clients can continue to practice their coping skills while participating in meetings, support groups, and other sober activities.
Sober living is NOT treatment. It is a place to go after formalized treatment and can be a place to stay while continuing Intensive Outpatient Treatment (IOP) or Outpatient Programs (OP), but it provides no treatment for clients.
Here is a simple process to follow when treatment help is needed for a loved one.
Step 1 — Make the call, the BIGGEST step of all – the problem WILL NOT just go away. Research good facilities and treatment centers through people you know – not just web searches.
Step 2 — Prepare for the evaluation by calling, asking questions and then GOING in to a facility where you can meet the staff. This is where you find out what level of treatment is needed. There are many different levels.
Step 3 — If needed and recommended, ALWAYS go to inpatient detox first. In most cases, this is done in a hospital or residential facility.
Step 4 — Follow a continuum of care through PHP/IOP step down treatment. This can be done living at home or in community living and going to facility all day.
Step 5 — The next step is to enroll in a good Outpatient Program focused on relapse prevention and family counseling.
Step 6 — Good, quality sober living is the goal.
Recover from addiction and lead a fulfilling life. It begins with a single step. Recovery is possible and attainable for people who want to recover. Begin your journey by contacting us today.


Fourth Trailer for American Horror Story: Coven Released.
Okay, I've got to say that I wasn't all that interested in American Horror Story: Coven to begin with. However, their trailers have definitely made me take a second look. What do you think about it?
This October, stakes aren't the only things we're raising. American Horror Story: Coven, Series Premiere Wednesday, October 9 at 10p only on FX.


From the outside, this little gem looks like your average grocer but we'll have you know, it's so much more than that. Sure, if you want the real deal when it comes to off-the-shelf Filipino goods, Panlasang Pinoy is your go-to but these guys are also cranking a mean barbecue. And just a warning, the drool is real.
You'll find juicy suckling pig, pork skewers (actually, all the skewers), chicken skin, fish balls, sour fish soups, fried rice and the Filipino national dish—adobo (made up of meat and vegetables in a spicy soup).
Around here, you'll also come across a karaoke machine blaring in the corner and a small area so you can actually dine-in if you so choose. Because we guarantee that after indulging in the meaty affairs here, you'll want to dig into the halo-halo ice-cream sundae with green leaf jelly and taro ice-cream.
And just so you know, there's an all-you-can-eat buffet every Friday, Saturday and Sunday. You're welcome.


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Gamblit Gaming Machines: A Different Bet for a Different Generation
5 July 2018 by Dustin Jermalowicz
When I attended the Global Gaming Expo (G2E) in 2016, no casino game developer caught my eye more than Gamblit Gaming. The company had a huge ooth at the show, and worked hard to show off their vision for the gambling industry, where they make gaming machines more attractive to younger gamblers. The company was working to find a casino to distribute their games, and they met some success when major industry presence Caesars Entertainment picked up the games. I took a trip back to Las Vegas in June 2018, and one of my major goals was to try out the Gamblit machines for real money play. What you'll read below is my experiences and how Gamblit is looking to shake up the gambling industry.
Lowering the Demographic
In a Game Informer article from May 2018 (Issue 301), Gambit CMO Darion Lowenstein spoke about his desire to change the nature of gambling machines. "Slot machines have gotten bigger brands and better screens, but the gameplay is still sitting there hitting one button, right? It just completely misses our generation," he said.
That's the point. To many gamblers under the age of 40, slot machines are boring. You don't have much to do, other than hit a button and watch the game play out in a pre-set way. This doesn't jive well with younger players, who grew up with video games and are looking for more interactivity should they decide to put real money in on games.
As a 33-year-old man, this rings true to me. I am around slot machines all the time, and most of the time I'm bored. I'd rather be playing my PlayStation or my Nintendo Switch where I have a say in the outcome than with a generic slot machine. Sure, there are excellent developers like Rabcat that draw my attention in, but excellent slot machines are few and far between. When I saw the Gamblit machines at G2E, I wanted to try them out. I spent a lot of time in their booth and walked out optimistic about things changing on casino floors.
Apparently, things are looking positive for Lowenstein and Gamblit as well. He claims that the average slot player in Nevada is 58, but the average Gamblit player is 36, bringing casinos a whole generation of player that have otherwise been overlooked.
A Different Breed of Machine
When I walked up to a Gamblit terminal at the Linq Casino, there was plenty of traffic around. Two of the terminals were taken, with a player and multiple people standing behind them yelling excitedly about decisions to make. This machine is known as a TriStation and has three different gaming machines tied together. Each of these machines has multiple titles available. My station had Lucky Words, Into the Dead, and Catapult King. I dropped some cash into the machine and decided to give each a try. Here are my thoughts on the individual games.
Lucky Words: This game reminds me of something you'd play on your smartphone. You're essentially playing a game like Boggle, albeit with money on the line. You need to try to match up as many words as you can in 30 seconds. The more words you match, the more money you win. This game had a lot of input from my wife in the back, with her adding some words that I may have missed otherwise. It was a fun experience if a bit simplistic for some.
Into the Dead: This game is a zombie apocalypse game, where you try to gun down as many zombies as possible in a limited time. The amount of money you wager helps decide your loadout in terms of getting extra ammo to shoot while you play. You then have three missions you try to complete. Completing one mission gets you a lower payout, two gets you a bit higher, and three missions gets you a high prize.
Playing the game, you have control over firing the weapon as well as running left and right through a hoard of zombies. Gunning them down helps you get further, which also helps your score. I honestly didn't care much for this game, and only played it once, only earning a bit back on the game as I blasted away.
Catapult King: This game is another one that I swear I played on my smartphone at some point. It's a lot like Angry Birds, where you aim to use a catapult to knock down makeshift forts and castles in an attempt to cause destruction and earn money. Honestly, this game was the best of the bunch. You can buy power-ups and change difficulty in an attempt to win bigger prizes, which helped with the strategy aspect. It was fun knocking the castles down and seeing your credits add up for money, more-so than a normal slot.
It should be noted that my time with the Gamblit machines was pretty limited. I can't say that I sank much time in, as my wife and I were on our way to a show when I stopped by. Still, I could see myself playing these if they were at my local casinos, and my wife (a non-gambler) agreed.
Having actually seen these machines in the wild, I am excited to see what else Gamblit can come up with. They really need to hit home runs in terms of game quality to get people to play at these machines. Gamers can smell out crap from a mile away, and if the titles on offer are subpar, then the machines will be empty. It does look like Gamblit knows this, as they've signed on to offer new titles like Jetpack Joyride and Pac-Man Battle Casino, both of which show promise for real money play.
Have you tried your luck with a Gamblit machine at a casino? If so, let me know your thoughts in the comments below.
Source: Game Informer May 2018
Dustin Jermalowicz // News Editor
Dustin has a long-standing passion for gambling. He has been writing professionally on the subject and breaking industry news for Casino Listings since 2011. His favorite casino games include Blackjack, Poker, and Hi/Lo. A proud native of Detroit, Dustin currently lives in Michigan.
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5 July 2018 - 6:51pm
I'm trying to scrounge some photos of these games to do them a bit of justice. They certainly look interesting.
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13 July 2018 - 2:48pm
Yeah, definitely sounds interesting mate, it's like playing video games for cash rewards, the only problem for me would be that you could loose some money before understanding fully how exactly to play them or before getting better in it.
On paper it should mean you'll start earning more the better you're getting at it and that's OK with me, otherwise I think these will be popular because they look to be a high quality games and titles which gets the attention as you mentioned above.
I though you'd say that the Zombie game is the top one.
Nah, the zombie one was lame. I really liked the Catapult Kings one. That game was like Angry Birds jacked up. It's fun too because you can draw a crowd and it can get real excited. Almost like craps but on video games.
Yeah I played Angry Birds couple of times but I can't even imagine what it would be playing that with real cash more so a game that is on steroids compared to it..must be exiting..no video for that one?


Lynne Conner is associate professor of theater arts at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Spreading the Gospel of Modern Dance: Newspaper Dance Criticism in the United States, 1850-1935 and coauthor of In the Garden of Live Flowers. Her arts commentary and performance reviews have appeared in a wide variety of journals, newspapers, documentaries, and radio broadcasts.
Pittsburgh has a rich and diverse theatrical tradition, from early frontier performances by officers stationed at Fort Pitt through experimental theater at the end of the twentieth century. Pittsburgh in Stages offers the first comprehensive history of theater in Pittsburgh, placing it within the context of cultural development in the city and the history of theater nationally.By the time the first permanent theater was built in 1812, Pittsburgh had already established itself as a serious patron of the theatrical arts. The city soon hosted New York and London-based traveling companies, and gained a national reputation as a proving ground for touring productions. By the early twentieth century, numerous theaters hosted 'popular-priced' productions of vaudeville and burlesque, and theater was brought to the masses. Soon after, Pittsburgh witnessed the emergence of myriad community-based theater groups and the formation of the Federation of Non-Commercial Theatres and the New Theater League, guilds designed to share resources among community producers. The rise of local theater was also instrumental to the growth of African American theatrical groups. Though victims of segregation, their art flourished, and was only later recognized and blended into Pittsburgh's theatrical melting pot.Pittsburgh in Stages relates the significant influence and interpretation of urban socioeconomic trends in the theatrical arts and the role of the theater as an agent of social change. Dividing Pittsburgh's theatrical history into distinct eras, Lynne Conner details the defining movements of each and analyzes how public tastes evolved over time. She offers a fascinating study of regional theatrical development and underscores the substantial contribution of regional theater in the history of American theatrical arts.


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Q: Spree Rails multi store subdomains does not work on live server I am using spree-multi-domain
store1.localhost:3000 is working fine locally
but when I moved my code on the live server I am unable to make it working.
When I hit URL store1.mydomain.com it is giving me an error.
ERROR:
    This site can't be reached
    abc.mydomain.com's server IP address could not be found.
    DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN

Also I have tried adding this
config.action_dispatch.tld_length = 2

in config/enviroments/production.rb
I am on apache server . Do I need to do anything on server side as well to make it working ?
Apache Config:
<VirtualHost *:80>
    # The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
    # the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
    # redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
    # specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
    # match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
    # value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
    # However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
    #ServerName www.example.com

    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        ServerName mydomain.com
        ServerAlias mydomain.com rails
#        ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:3000/
        ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:3000/
    #DocumentRoot /var/www/html

    # Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
    # error, crit, alert, emerg.
    # It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
    # modules, e.g.
    #LogLevel info ssl:warn

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

    # For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
    # enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
    # include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
    # following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
    # after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
    #Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
</VirtualHost>

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in /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

A: Server name missing from your apache config for subdomain:
<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName store1.mydomain.com
  # Tell your app's 'public' directory path
  DocumentRoot /var/www/store1.mydomain.com/public
</VirtualHost>

For dynamic or n subdomains:
<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName mydomain.com
  ServerAlias *.mydomain.com
  # Tell your app's 'public' directory path
  DocumentRoot /var/www/mydomain.com/public
</VirtualHost>