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Inconceivable, a Deceivingly Relatable Queer Webseries
In the age of streaming services and YouTube, queer content is easier than ever to find (as long as you're not on restricted mode *le sigh*). If I'd had half of what's available now at my fingertips as a teenager, I would have been thrilled and felt far less alone in the world. However, quality queer content can still be difficult to find. Cheesy lesbian movies in which the whole plotline is queerness (or more specifically, gay panic) abound, while others are just thinly veiled soft-core porn. We ask Hollywood for interesting stories and complex, relatable characters but oftentimes don't even create them for ourselves.
Recently, I was lucky enough to stumble upon a gem of an LGBTQ webseries based in Vancouver, BC. Titled Inconceivable, the show follows Rita, a 24 year-old lesbian who's been knocked up by a guy she had a fling with. Sound incongruous? Rita's unexpected sexual fluidity has not triggered a crisis of identity for her so far in the series, though it has caused some confusion for others.
Inconceivable has a six-episode first season, and the producers are currently seeking funding for a second season. So if you love it, show your support with thumbs ups. The first four episodes have already dropped, and I will recap and review the first three here, then tackle episodes 4-6 once all of them are out. If you want to watch episodes 1-3 before this recap spoils them for you, links are listed below. New episodes are being released every Wednesday on This Is a Spoon Studio's YouTube channel.
1×01: "Pilot"
The series begins with Rita at the clinic, staring at her positive pregnancy test as the doctor piles on more things she's not ready for, like prenatal vitamins and pamphlets. Thankfully, the pamphlet is about her options and not filled with pictures of aborted fetuses, because this is Canada. Still in shock, Rita returns to the waiting room to tell her friends Trina and Tony, both of whom are also super gay.
Tony entertains the idea that this could be "destiny's child" and whips out a pack of tarot cards, while Trina urges Rita to look at the facts. "You did not leave your hick-ass homophobic cow town to be knocked up by a dude," she reminds her. When the cards give no clear answer, she tells Rita she needs to talk to Adam.
Rita: You know how some straight girls 'experiment' with other girls in college? Well, you could say Adam was my lesbian version of that.
Adam is a rather goofy, chill guy who acts in and produces a web series called Average Dicks. (Incidentally, this is a real thing that the actor who plays him is involved with. Talk about meta.) He gets Rita's text to come over and bring a stress reliever, and as one might expect from a dude, he immediately assumes she's talking about his penis. He already has a Tinder date lined up for the night, so he's feeling pretty lucky. Adam's roommate and collaborator, Mac, is not so high on his love life. He's still mooning over and Facebook stalking a girl named Michelle who he went out with twice a few months ago.
Back at her own place, Rita is rehearsing various ways to break the news to Adam. "What's got two thumbs, and is super pregnant??" She has little opportunity to say anything once he arrives anyway, as he starts rambling on about what he's been up to and only stops when he notices the pee stick sitting on the table and asks what it's for. Once she says she's pregnant, he's the dumbstruck one, and she's the one babbling nervously.
"You're pregnant?" he finally breaks in, the beginning of a barrage of questions. How did this happen? Didn't she take the morning after pill? Is she sure it's his?
Adam: Have you had sex with anyone else?
Rita: No one else with a dick, if that's what you mean.
Adam's tone is not accusatory so much as disbelieving, as he is understandably in shock. They took all the necessary precautions. Rita's quick to point out that he used cheap vegan condoms, to which he says that they were actually expensive but he bought them because he wanted her to think he cared about animals, for some reason. Good old lesbian stereotypes. "Why does everything vegan suck?" he ruminates. A question for the ages.
Rita wants to hang for the night and talk about their options, but Adam still has that Tinder date. Quite the Tinder aficionado herself (as we see next episode), Rita takes it upon herself to evaluate this new girl. "She's actually pretty. 'I love beer and watching hockey.' Gaaaaay."
The date ends up cancelling before Adam gets the chance, and Rita slips a conciliatory arm around his shoulders. A moment later they start spontaneously making out. When they break apart long enough to question it, Adam begins to ramble again, about how he's scared and originally thought this was a booty call. Considering this and his remark about how his erection still thinks it's a booty call, Rita points out, "Well, it's not like I can get more pregnant" before jumping him.
It's only a brief reprieve. Once they come down from the high, it's back to reality. As it sets in, their smiles fade, and Rita sums up the situation with a muttered, "Fuck."
1×02: "My Dream Life"
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Episode 2 is an exposition episode, setting up how Rita came to be in this situation in the first place. Like many a gay young person, Rita got a job in the city to escape her closed-minded small town. It's revealed that her job is a mental health worker in East Vancouver, which sounds like a pretty rough gig.
Rita's girlfriend Jessie helps move her to Vancouver, and over beers congratulates her for being "an adult who is not living with [her] parents," which is sadly a huge accomplishment these days. The idea that a single mental health worker could afford her own one bedroom above-ground apartment in Vancouver is more inconceivable than anything, but okay. Jessie assures Rita that she will be by to visit every weekend and proposes that she move in after her semester is over. Rita awkwardly explains that she wants a fresh start now that she's moved, since she's never had a chance to be single. Jessie is understandably pissed, not least of all because she's driven to Vancouver six times to help Rita move. She calls Rita heartless and storms out.
Brushing that off, Rita sets up her home and revels in how the first step of her Dream Life has been achieved. What follows is a montage of Rita cruising girls on the street and continuously swiping right amidst a parade of Tinder dates. There's also a deleted scene where one of her dates asks her to accompany her to a family event. She turns her down as awkwardly as she broke up with Jessie, stating that she doesn't want anything involving commitment.
Rita: God did not give me this long and pointy tongue just for catching snowflakes.
Basically, Rita's a lesbian f*ckboi.
While walking down the street one evening, Rita gets stopped by this dude who's promoting an event inside, a showcase of local webseries productions. She's convinced by the offer of $3 beers (Canadian dollars, remember), and heads on in. She ends up spending $5 per beer anyway to tip the server, because she's a player like that. In any case, this is where she meets Adam. Adam and Mac are chatting up a couple girls who run a different channel when this overenthusiastic dude gets up in Adam's face and totally cockblocks him. Mac takes off with Michelle, one of the girls, so Adam grabs Rita to use her as an escape. Adam asks if she has a pipe or rolling papers, and they head outside to smoke up.
Rita: I can't believe you live in Vancouver and you don't know how to roll a joint.
Turns out, Adam can't roll a joint, but Rita refuses to do it for him and teaches him instead. They chat easily and ooze chemistry, platonic or otherwise. The next morning, Rita wakes up to find Adam naked in her bed and promptly freaks out.
When she tells Trina and Tony what happened via group chat, Tony demands "pics or it didn't happen!" and her camera's shutter noise wakes Adam up. Rita feels the need to tell him that she doesn't usually do this, and he assumes she means hooking up with strangers, forcing her to clarify further. Adam ends up just as confused as she is.
Rita: I don't usually hook up with dudes, ever.
Adam: Wait, what? So you're bi, then?
Rita: No. I identify as lesbian.
Adam: But we did have sex though, right?
Rita: How 'bout, you know, you just identify you and I'll identify me?
Adam is cool with that, and suggests they hang out again. Rita automatically assumes he means he wants to get involved, but he says he just thinks she's a fun person. Rita concurs that she had fun also, and Adam leaves.
In narration, Rita chalks this up to everyone acting out of character sometimes and admits she never thought anything would come of her and Adam. "The truth is," she says, "we were just two strangers specifically looking for nothing."
1×03: "Adulting"
Back in the present, episode 3 opens with Rita crying in the bathtub as the weight of everything crashes down on her. Her Dream Life collage mocks her from its place on her wall as she gets ready for work. She and Adam go about their days in shock, and in the evening they each take their own approach to dealing – or not dealing – with the situation.
Let's start with Adam. Upon arriving home, he finds Mac has cleaned the house to impress Michelle because she agreed to have coffee with him again and he's hoping she'll come back to their place and see how he's changed. Adam is so beyond caring or trying to sugarcoat anything, like how Michelle doesn't care about Mac at all. He drops the news that he got Rita pregnant and pulls out a bag of mushrooms, saying they've got some reflecting to do.
Adam: If I keep it, how am I supposed to make movies if I'm busy changing diapers? Like I'd be like a full adult.
Tripping out and wearing a lace shawl as a headscarf for some reason, Adam ruminates on all he stands to lose. Like his career and freedom and ability to go to Disneyland and experience all the magic and the wonder. Equally high, Mac zones out and stares at one of Michelle's videos until he decides he needs to talk to her and stumbles out of the house.
Meanwhile, Rita is attending a party at Trina and Tony's place. They ask how she's doing and how her talk with Adam went before she even gets in the door, to which she says, "Could we have like just one night where we didn't talk about my uterus at all?"
After kicking Tony out because no boys allowed, Trina promptly introduces Rita to the only other single girl at the party before running off, leaving them to it. Awkward. That's been done to me, and I just can't. Thankfully, Rita and the girl, Grace, hit it off. They bond over how they feel way too immature for this event with all the domestic coupled lesbians, and escape outside to smoke. (Rita doesn't actually smoke because pregnancy, but she'll take the company.)
Grace: This is such a grown-up event. I've never seen so much quinoa salad in my life.
One of these things is not like the others.
During their conversation outside, Grace remembers that they made out one time at Pride a couple years back before Rita ran off to deal with some ex-girlfriend drama. (This show hits it right on the head with common lesbian experiences, right down to the kiss being in an alley and the ex throwing a tantrum and running away.) Rita apologizes for running off but says if it's any consolation she remembers the kiss being great. Grace pretends not to remember so Rita will offer to prove her skills, which she does. They're about to kiss when Rita's phone starts ringing.
Ignoring the call from Adam, Rita goes ahead and kisses Grace. But he calls back immediately, so she gives in and picks up. Adam's freaking out because Mac's high and about to do something stupid. He convinces Rita to come get them. Grace seems unsurprised that Rita is running off again, and asks if it's more girl drama. Admitting it's boy drama this time, Rita explains, "So I'm still gay, very much gay. It's just lately, I've been sort of gay for this guy. And then we stopped. But now I'm pregnant."
The fact that she said "gay for this guy" instead of "straight for this guy" surprised me and gave me a chuckle. Anyway, the pregnancy part seemed to be what shocked Grace more than Rita sleeping with a guy, so that's a good sign. Biphobia and gatekeeping can be prevalent among lesbians, and I'm so over it.
At Michelle's house, Mac has sort of a Romeo and Juliet moment with Michelle when he makes a declaration of love from her yard while she stands on the balcony. She's not having it, though, rejecting his advances and his questions about who she's with now.
Mac: Michelle, I love you!
Michelle: Yeah, well can you just do that by yourself, please?
Rita shows up moments later, and Adam drags Mac into her car. Mac assures them that they'll be great parents and they can still go to Disneyland and it will be even better with a kid, and then passes out. Rita tells Adam she kissed a girl and is relieved when he reacts by asking if she was cute. Adam assures her she doesn't need his permission seeing as they don't know where they stand, and goes on to say, "I know we don't really know where we're headed right now, but… I love you. You are a lovely person."
Can I just say, I loved the juxtaposition between the two love confessions. One was infatuation from afar that held an expectation of reciprocation, while the other was an honest statement of affection. Rita returns the sentiment and starts the car to go get them some hot chocolate.
Writing and Acting
Rita is played by Katie Stuart, who has an extensive acting resume but is probably best known to lesbians for playing queer-coded gunner Zoe Monroe on The 100. She also had a bit part on The L Word as a lesbian teenager whose brother died in a homophobic attack. Stuart plays the Shane prototype to a T, with an impeccable lesbian swagger and slouch, but she also captures the vulnerable side of her character. The lead-up to her telling Adam about the pregnancy is particularly well done, with Rita's usual slick and chill demeanor giving way to nervous mannerisms.
Bruce Novakowski also inhabits his character convincingly, navigating Adam's emotional extremes with enthusiasm and humor. Adam's a rather clueless guy, but Novakowski makes him lovable. His tentative body language and concerned but helpless expression in the scene where Rita is crying in the bathtub in particular caught my eye.
The supporting cast who play Mac, Trina and Tony also do well in limited screen time. Shawn Richards stands out to me the most in the role of Tony, with his organic portrayal of the flamboyant gay man. Trina and Tony have tangible chemistry with each other and with Rita, and I especially loved the moment when Trina is shoving Tony out the door despite his protests. "What am I supposed to be? Homeless??"
Mac is a rather one-note character thus far, the brooding lovelorn boy, but the actor plays the trope nicely and I look forward to seeing how he portrays any character development in the second half of the season. Across the board, there's definitely some overacting in terms of facial expressions, but it's done for comedic effect and played well.
The writing on this show is some of the best I've seen in a web series. Admittedly, I am biased because I enjoy puns and humorous miscommunications, and I get all the gay in-jokes. Still, the dialogue is as witty as the show's title and fosters the good comedic timing we see from the cast. I already highlighted many of my favorite lines in the recap portion of this article, but here's another for you.
Adam: So… there's a baby inside you.
Rita: No, no no no no. Nope. Clump of cells. As soon as we start calling it a baby, the whole deciding whether or not to keep it gets way more intense.
Adam: Have you thought about, you know, 'taking care' of the cell clump?
Rita: Actually, I've been thinking about that a lot more than I thought I would. But I've also been considering an abortion.
As I mentioned in the recaps, the show also captures queer culture well, especially that of the Canadian west coast. I live across the water from Vancouver and have spent plenty of time there, and the show does a good job of capturing that vibe and the particular style choices one might see in the region. (Except for the shirt Rita was wearing for the party. It did not strike me as stereotypically gay, but then again maybe I'm a year behind the style trends.) That is, of course, a credit to the costume and location departments as much as the writing staff, but it all combines to feel very West Coast authentic.
Rita's experiences are extremely relatable to me and probably many other lesbians. Being blatantly set up with the only other single lesbian at a party. Enjoying the newfound freedom as a queer in the big city. Pride shenanigans with girls with crazy dyed hair. The show also playfully addresses a number of stereotypes, such as quinoa salad and veganism (and U-Hauling, in later episodes). It's fair to say that the show in some ways feels like a big lesbian in-joke, which I'm totally down with.
Speaking of stereotypes, it should be addressed that the lesbian sleeping with a man is a rather annoying TV trope, and I can see why the premise of this show could therefore bother some lesbians. However, this story tackles it from the POV of said lesbian, and it's not to tittillate the audience or give a male character bragging rights. It's not a punchline or a side story — it is the story. To be honest, I can relate to Rita's unexpected attraction to a singular guy and the questions that can raise in yourself and others about your identity. Sexual fluidity among lesbians is somewhat of a taboo issue, and I'm glad to see it being addressed with humor and openness.
This outfit rides the line between authentic and satirical. All she needs is a pair of aviators.
Sexual and romantic orientations exist on a spectrum, and while there can be great power in claiming an identity for yourself, it can also trap you. Women who identify as gay but sometimes dabble in the boy waters can be subject to shunning and a lot of ridicule, labeled as traitors or told to just call themselves bisexual even if that identity is less accurate. It is refreshing to see Rita's friends not react that way. Do we call every straight woman who has fooled around with the odd woman bisexual? Generally, no. There's nothing wrong with being bisexual, of course, but identity policing is an ugly phenomenon prevalent in the queer community.
But while pressure from within the community can play a role, I think the main reason we see fewer lesbians than straight women experimenting or testing our orientation is because we have already had to examine ours. Unfortunately, because of that there is this assumption that if you identify as gay, you must be sure of your identity because you consciously discovered it. But human sexuality is fluid, and lesbians are humans too.
The show also tackles the disillusionment of young adulthood as a major theme. The opening lines of the series are Rita's reflections on how she expected her life to go versus what has actually happened. The Dream Life mood board she keeps on her wall is a nicely placed symbolic prop. It reminds her and the audience not only how far astray life has taken her, but of the blind idealism and hope for the future Millennials were raised to have. And how disappointed many of us have ended up.
Life's curveballs are not all that's explored here. Navigating the edge of youth and adulthood is especially explored in the aptly named episode "Adulting", with Adam's reflections about his possibly impending fatherhood making him a full adult and Rita feeling out of place with domestic coupled lesbians. However, it's also mentioned in other spots, like Jessie's congratulations to Rita for moving out of her parents' house. That was not always such an accomplishment, but young adults today are reaching the traditional milestones of adulthood later than previous generations. It's often not because we are unmotivated or immature or entitled, like the Baby Boomers love to say in their think pieces about us, but because the economy is awful and our society revolves around money.
Overall Impressions
As must be obvious from what I've said, I love this series so far. It's funny, of course, but it manages to address some pretty deep topics within its mostly comedic structure. Relatability is its best asset, especially as far as humor goes, but the witty writing also does its part.
As for downsides, most of the things I found disappointing/distracting were just sloppy continuity errors, because I notice tiny things like that. I won't list them here, because I'll ruin it for everyone else, but they involved things like mismatching locations. However, those are entirely forgivable sins for low-budget indie productions.
The other thing is that, for a series that feels authentic and relatable, the living conditions were higher than seemed appropriate for the characters given Vancouver's ridiculous rental market. Adam and Mac live in a run-down little house, a bit more believable, but Rita's place seems above what her budget should be. Same goes for Trina and Tony's house. This is a background thing, of course, and as I said, it mostly bothers me because everything else feels so spot on. The show maybe set its bar a little too high in my head with everything else, and hey, that's an excellent problem to have.
Inconceivable balances relatability with its unique premise, one that could be approached in a degrading way but instead is handled with humor, compassion, and an open mind. It's a meeting of the universal and the absurd. The sharp writing is fully realized in the hands of Stuart and Novakowski, who skillfully portray the layers of their stereotyped characters. Overall, this is one of the better and more interesting LGBTQ webseries I've seen to date. I recommend it to any young queer person who is exploring issues of identity or simply wants to see a unique story.
Images courtesy of This is a Spoon Studios
Lisa is a gay(ish) writer and stand-up comedian from Canada's west coast. A longtime fanfic author who recently made the jump to journalism, she is prone to gush ad nauseum about her OTPs. Stubbornly Watsonian and literal, she can't stand characterization and continuity errors.
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Public Servants Do Get Student Loan Forgiveness. Meet One of the First.
Michael Mitchell, a professional musician with debt from graduate school, turned to social work and received a master's degree in 2006. His diligence in following a federal program's rules erased his $170,000 student loan debt.
In recent months, as I've written about the vagaries of the federal public-service loan forgiveness program, I've heard from scores of people who have been tearing their hair out trying to qualify and get their loan servicer to give them coherent status updates.
In theory, millions of borrowers are eligible to have their debts forgiven after a decade of public-service work. In practice, the program has produced a litany of frustrations. One doctor was flummoxed enough that she handed the mess off to her lawyer — who also happened to be her mother — to try to make sense of it, to no avail. Another lawyer who actually works at the federal Department of Education, which administers the program, has also run into brick walls.
But there is at least one person who has made the 120 qualifying payments and now has a zero balance as a result, thus joining a very small club of the forgiven. He is Michael Mitchell, a 47-year-old New York City musician turned clinical social worker and counseling psychotherapist. For years, he also had a proofreading side hustle, which helped him turn the interpretive back flips necessary to analyze the program at its birth in 2007. In the ensuing years he navigated a system so confounding that it recently drew $350 million of additional federal money to help the many people in incorrect repayment plans who were stymied by the complexity.
How did Mr. Mitchell do it? It took him over two hours to tell the story sitting in his apartment in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, with his husband, Ted Altschuler, filling in some details. Between them sat a two-inch stack of loan documents and an iPad containing the list of electronic files that document Mr. Mitchell's loan history.
Mr. Mitchell had set out to change careers, not become a pioneer. A professional musician with debt from graduate school, he turned to social work and got a master's degree from Hunter College in 2006. His debt from all of his degrees was about $129,000 by then.
While searching the internet for information about state loan forgiveness programs for social workers, he stumbled onto a website for financial aid professionals about a fledgling federal public-service loan forgiveness program. It was still a proposal, but Mr. Mitchell tracked it through its passage.
Then he did what very few people seem to have done: He printed out the entire bill that made loan forgiveness the law of the land and read it. Then he read it again, over and over and over.
"I read it like a proofreader," he said, having spent years doing that professionally for books ranging from a cultural history of the penis to parts of "The Joy of Cooking."
The forgiveness program seemed simple at first glance: Work 10 years as a public servant and the federal government will forgive your loans. But deep, repeated, near-Talmudic parsing of the words revealed the following: Borrowers need to be in exactly the right kind of federal student loan. They need to be in the right kind of repayment plan. They need to pay on time in exactly the right way. And their full-time work has to qualify as proper public service.
Mr. Mitchell already had the right kind of direct federal loan. He was also in the right repayment plan, namely one tied to his income. As for sorting out the rest of it, he was entirely on his own in those early years of repayment. The Department of Education wasn't issuing much detailed guidance. And when he called his loan servicer for advice, his requests were often met with silence or confusing advice that made him doubt that he was on the right track.
"I'd come away thinking that I'd better go over the law again to make sure I'm as clear about this as possible," he said. "So I would pull it up and reread it every six months or so, and sometimes I'd read it and think, 'That looks different now.'"
The anxiety was warranted. Like many people in income-driven repayment plans with modest salaries and large amounts of debt, Mr. Mitchell was making monthly payments that were so low they weren't even covering all the interest each month. So his balance was going up, not down, and rather quickly. Any mistake could lead to enormous financial consequences.
In 2012, he had a good scare when the Department of Education introduced its employer certification forms. Borrowers needed to fill them out to make sure their job qualified for the program and that their payments were counting toward the required 120 months. At first, the word back was that he had made no qualifying payments at all. Only later did it become clear that his two jobs at the time did indeed add up to full-time employment.
So Mr. Mitchell marched ahead, biding his time and crossing his fingers. "It would be Saturday morning, and I would be reading The Times and he'd be in bed looking at regulations like some treasure was going to pop up," Mr. Altschuler said. "And I'd be thinking, 'Thank God I don't have to do this, because I'd never have the patience.'"
By 2016, it was clear that few people had made as much progress as Mr. Mitchell. While the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has estimated that one-quarter of the United States work force could potentially qualify for the forgiveness program, only 139 people had made at least 97 qualifying payments toward their goal of 120 as of 2016, according to figures that the Department of Education presented at a conference.
This lack of successful uptake represents a huge systemic failure, and as Mr. Mitchell surfed the internet for more information and started reading horror stories about the administration of the program, he became more determined not to mess anything up.
He began recording all his phone calls with FedLoan, which services loans for people trying to qualify for forgiveness. He left a comment on a column of mine from last year, and we became email penpals. And as he approached 120 months, he also asked for a complete accounting of all of his payments, to check for any discrepancies between his records and FedLoan's. His diligence and follow-up eventually prompted an internal review, causing his payment count to temporarily fall into the 50s, wiping out years of credit.
"I had no idea what was going on," Mr. Mitchell said, while replaying his call to FedLoan for me. "You can hear my heart beat faster."
"You freaked out and didn't sleep all night," Mr. Altschuler added.
All turned out to be fine, and FedLoan restored the payments and submitted his account to the Department of Education for one last review. Weeks passed. Mr. Mitchell kept making monthly payments, just in case something was awry. And on the day I visited his apartment, he logged in and saw the magic number for the very first time: Zero. There was no balance left; after making just over $24,000 in payments over a decade, the federal government had wiped away his balance of roughly $170,000 tax free.
As long as the public-service loan forgiveness program continues to exist, there should be fewer high-wire stories like Mr. Mitchell's. Awareness will spread further, and people will find their way into the program sooner and face fewer obstacles later on.
That will probably take many years, however. Mr. Mitchell said he felt a bit weird about being one of the few successes so far. He knows he was lucky that he had the right loan and repayment plan at the outset and lucky, too, that he did not have distractions, like children, that might have kept him from devoting so much time to staying on track.
But it should not have been this hard. "I'm always helping my patients figure out how to tolerate uncertainty and not freeze up in an uncertain world," he said, "and that's one of the things that has gotten me through this. I didn't stick my head under a rock because it was freaking me out. I leaned into it."
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Jason Nevins
Break the Ice
Break the Ice (Britney Spears song)
Fei Comodo
Jason Nevins (born December 15, 1972) is an American songwriter, producer and remixer, who is most widely known for his dance productions, including his multi-platinum, multi-million selling production of "It's Like That" by American rap group Run–D.M.C.. He achieved his first global recognition in 1998 with his production of Run-D.M.C's "It's Like That" which had close to 5 million worldwide sales with over 1 million in sales in both Germany and the UK.
In the 1990s, Nevins began releasing singles under various monikers through every big underground dance label, but achieved global recognition in 1998 with his 1997 production of Run–D.M.C.'s "It's Like That" which was released under the title 'Run–DMC vs. Jason Nevins', reaching number-one on the pop chart in over 30 countries, with close to 5 million worldwide sales and over 1 million in sales in both Germany and the United Kingdom. In the UK, the single also halted the Spice Girls' (then record) run of six consecutive number-one's with their first six singles, holding the Spice Girls' seventh release, "Stop", at number 2. The record also knocked Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997" from the number-one slot. In 1998, Nevins won an RTL television number-one Single award for the famous TV show, Top of the Pops. The same year he also won a Comet Award for the number-one Dance Act.
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Break the Ice may refer to:
"Break the Ice" (Britney Spears song)
"Break the Ice" (Stratovarius song)
"Break the Ice", a song by TNT on their album Knights of the New Thunder
"Break the Ice", a song by Accept released as a bonus track on the CD version of their album Eat the Heat
"Break the Ice", theme song of the 2012 Junior Eurovision Song Contest by Kim-Lian
"Break the Ice" (music festival)
Icebreaker (facilitation)
Don't Break the Ice, a game manufactured by Milton Bradley
Icebreaker (disambiguation)
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"Break the Ice" is a song recorded by American singer Britney Spears for her fifth studio album, Blackout (2007). It was released on March 4, 2008 by Jive Records as the third single from the album. The song was written by Nate "Danja" Hills, James "Jim Beanz" Washington, Keri Hilson and Marcella Araica, while production was handled by Hills and vocal production was handled by Washington. "Radar" was originally planned to be released as the third single from Blackout, but "Break the Ice" was released after it was chosen by a poll on Spears's official website. Musically, "Break the Ice" is an electro-R&B song with influences of rave and crunk. The song opens with a choir and features synthesizers. Its lyrics deal with an attraction between two people. "Break the Ice" received positive reviews from music critics, who deemed it as a strong electronic track from the album.
The song was a moderate success, reaching the top ten in Belgium, Canada, Finland and Sweden and charting within the top forty in Australia, New Zealand and many European countries. In the United States, the song reached number forty-three on Billboard Hot 100, while peaking at number one on the Hot Dance Club Songs chart. An accompanying music video, directed by Robert Hales, was released on March 12, 2008. The anime-influenced animation video was based on the superheroine character of Spears' "Toxic" music video, and portrays her destroying a highly secured laboratory with several clones, including one of herself. A remix version of "Break the Ice" was used as a video interlude during The Circus Starring Britney Spears (2009) and was performed for the first time during her Las Vegas residency at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, Britney: Piece of Me.
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Fei Comodo were a 5-piece post-hardcore band from Essex, United Kingdom. They were signed to Small Town Records and developed a strong fanbase since their formation through playing many live shows across the country. They released five EPs, two singles, and one studio mini album. Renowned for an energetic live show the band completed several UK tours with other hardcore and metalcore bands from the South East, such as InMe and Bury Tomorrow.
On 3 May 2012, the band announced they would be disbanding following the release of Behind the Bright Lights and subsequent tour.
Formation and early years
Fei Comodo formed in May 2003 with an original line-up consisting of Marc Halls (vocals and guitar), Will Phillipson (guitar), Phil Walker (bass) and Richard Duvale (drums). After a series of line up changes, they finally recruited their current line up with Mike Curtis (guitar) being added and bass being inherited by Jay Styler and drums by Rob Clemson.
During this period, the band released four EPs, Fei Comodo, One Man Stands Alive, This One's for Us and Go, Go! Emo Rangers. One of their first gigs was at the infamous 'Whoopfest' event in the New Windmill Hall in Upminster. In September 2007, Fei Comodo toured as support for fellow Essex band InMe.
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Ultra.Weekend 5 released: 2009
Ultra Dance 10 released: 2009
Jason Nevins Remix released: 2008
Pushing It Hard released: 2004
The Funk Rocker released: 2004
uni - vs - al [universal] released: 1999
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I'm In Heaven, Jason Nevins
I'm In Heaven
Heaven..
I'm in heaven with you,
The only one for me
The only one for me.
Dont want to be the one,
To tell you how I feel
When these feelings I have,
Really are for real
The time is right for this,
Our love to shine on through
But you gotta tell me,
What you wanna do.
I'm in heaven with you..
Only one, only one,
Your love,
The only one, the only one.
Everytime you're near,
I start to lose control,
When the thought of you,
Hits my very soul
When you're lying in my bed,
Right next to me
That's when it starts to feel,
Feel like ecstasy
Only one, only one.
Only one, only one
Only one for me


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Benjamin Franklin Papers
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Samuel Tucker to the American Commissioners, 29 April 1778: résumé
Samuel Tucker to the American Commissioners8
ALS: American Philosophical Society
<Bordeaux, April 29, 1778: I have received your orders but cannot carry them out immediately; repairs will take another two weeks and more. Mr. Livingston will be my second lieutenant,9 and I am obliged to you.>
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
8. Published in Taylor, Adams Papers, VI, 73.
9. In the commissioners' letter of the 13th they had recommended Livingston as first officer, but Adams hoped he would agree to be second: ibid., p. 68.
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-26-02-0316
Note: The annotations to this document, and any other modern editorial content, are copyright © the American Philosophical Society and Yale University. All rights reserved.
Franklin Papers
Tucker, Samuel
American Commissioners
Lee, Arthur
"Samuel Tucker to the American Commissioners, 29 April 1778: résumé," Founders Online, National Archives, accessed September 29, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-26-02-0316. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 26, March 1 through June 30, 1778, ed. William B. Willcox. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1987, p. 376.]


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› Health Board News
› Cancer Patients share their stories
Cancer Patients share their stories
A compendium of patient stories which opens the door on the personal journeys and experiences of people living with cancer in the county has been created and published as part of the Improving the Cancer Journey in Powys programme.
Developed following detailed conversations and interviews with Powys residents who got in touch with the programme, each story provides rich insights into how and what a cancer journey looks like, feels like, what support is in place and what gaps exist. The compendium includes ten stories from people who have received a cancer diagnosis plus five from family members who have cared for but lost loved ones.
Each story ends by listing the key themes that were identified like pre-diagnosis, diagnosis and prognosis, the co-ordination of care, relationships and communications, emotional support and care, transport and travel, patient voice and choice, and carers rights and voice. During the past 18 months over 40 patient stories have been captured and analysed drawing out ten key themes which reoccur for people living with cancer in Powys.
The stories have been uploaded onto the programme's website alongside a detailed progress report and an infographic which outlines the key milestones met during the first stage of the three year Macmillan funded programme. Powys County Council and Powys Teaching Health Board are key partners in delivering the programme.
Richard Pugh, Head of Partnerships for Macmillan Cancer Support in Wales, said:
"People living with cancer are at the heart of our programme. This compendium of patient stories has allowed us to not only hear their voices loud and clear, but to share them so as to raise awareness and better understanding of the cancer journey being taken by Powys residents, their unpaid carers, families and those important to them.
"Their experiences and insights are invaluable in shaping how and what it is we need to put in place in Powys to better support people once they have a diagnosis and I'd like to thank everyone who has been in touch and shared their story with the ICJ team to date."
Councillor Myfanwy Alexander, Cabinet Member for Adults Services at Powys County Council said:
"We have learnt so much already from these stories but have more to do to improve the cancer journey for our residents. That's why this programme exists. Our aim is to ensure we offer each and every resident the chance to talk through all their thoughts, concerns and worries - not just their medical ones - at the start of their cancer journey so they can access any support they need or want. We currently have three pilot projects in place through PAVO, Credu and the Bracken Trust which offer people diagnosed with cancer the chance to have a supportive conversation using Macmillan's trusted holistic needs assessment tool as a guide. Please see our website for more details or email ICJPowys@powys.gov.uk"
More details about the programme and the holistic needs assessment offer can be found in the compendium and on the main webpage. https://www.powysrpb.org/icjpowys
Comprehensive information and support, including Macmillan's latest guidance and advice on the impact of coronavirus on cancer care, is available on www.macmillan.org.uk


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Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries an Act was passed 'For Punishment of Sturdy Vagabonds and Beggars' [Henry VIII 27 c 25. 1536] and for the first time relief of the poor was vested in the parish. The Act's main provisions were:
Vagrancy outlawed and all vagabonds to return to their place of birth or dwelling and be set to work
Encouraged 'voluntary' alms to be collected weekly in each Parish
This was followed in 1547 with an Act of Edward VI that required that weekly Collections were to be made for the poor, and 1552 with another Act that set-up the basic organisation and systems of poor relief in the Parishes.
In 1572 an Act of Elizabeth I repealed all the previous poor law Acts and gave each parish new responsibities:
To provide for its own aged, impotent and sick poor
To appoint Overseers of the Poor with the power to assess the parish poor rate
To make refusal to work for lawful wages or work provided by the Overseers a punishable offence.
From 1597 parishes were permitted to levy a compulsory poor rate.
The Poor Law Act of 1601 divided the poor into 3 categories: able-bodied and willing to work, able-bodied and unwilling to work, and unable to work. It also provided that in each parish two or more substantial landholders should act as Overseers of the Poor, together with the churchwardens, and collect the poor rate. This Act remained largely unaltered until the Reform Act of 1834.
The documentation created by the Overseers of the Poor between 1601 and 1834 is invaluable to the family historian, but their survival is very patchy. Fortunately, Overseers' Accounts for Ellerton survive, covering the years 1801-1829 and 1837-1886.
To give a flavour of what can be found inside these account books I have transcribed a few sample scans from the first account book.
The transcripts have been grouped under three headings:
1: The Cover of the Poor Book, and Miscellaneous entries
2: Disbursements, 1801-1808, 1821, and 1828
3: Assessments, 1802-1808, 1829
The Disbursements record all payments of poor relief, and often not directly to the pauper concerned, but rather to the landlord for rent, or to the coalman for coal, etc.
The Assessments are particularly useful, as all householders of the parish, whether owner or tenant, were required to pay the assessment.


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China delivers final blow to PetroDollar – welcome to PetroYuan
Eugene Abramoff
China finally launched last month its yuan-denominated crude oil futures that have been in the works for years, after several delays.
The start of the new contract trading was successful, attracting interest from institutional and retail investors, and major commodity trading houses Glencore and Trafigura.
Yet, it's too soon to call the less-than-a-month-old contract a total success, because it still faces a long road toward building reputation and history, analysts say. They have also identified the single biggest risk factor for western investors—the extent to which China could meddle with government regulation in the yuan crude futures, as Beijing is known for little tolerance toward wild price swings in its markets and has a history of intervening.
This is also the conclusion of China's biggest crude oil supplier, OPEC. In its April Monthly Oil Market Report, the cartel—which accounts for close to 60 percent of China's crude oil imports—said that "the extent to which the INE contract is independent from government interference is currently the main risk factor facing western investors, which is in addition to a currency risk, given that the INE is settled in yuan."
According to Reuters' John Kemp, possible Chinese intervention on the yuan crude future market could be one of the three elements that could doom the new contract. Citing the paper 'Why Some Futures Contracts Succeed and Others Fail', Kemp argues that the third key element to a successful futures contract—public policy should not be too adverse to futures trading—could be the stumbling block to the Chinese crude futures, while the new contract could easily meet the other two criteria for success. These are 1) a commercial need for hedging and 2) a pool of speculators must be attracted to a market.
OPEC, especially its Middle Eastern producers, will be closely watching the futures contract because once established, the Chinese reference crude price could act as a regional benchmark for negotiations of spot or term crude oil prices. The contract is made up of seven medium-sour crudes prevalent in the Chinese market—six freely traded Middle East grades (Basrah Light, Dubai, Masila, Oman, Qatar Marine, and Upper Zakum), and China's Shengli crude.
"At this level of imports from OPEC, Middle Eastern producing nations will be watching closely as they could, in time, face pressure from their Chinese buyers to adopt this benchmark for pricing their physical crude contracts," the cartel said in its monthly report.
The fact that OPEC dedicated a special article on the Chinese yuan crude futures in its closely watched report shows that the cartel is taking seriously the possibility that at some point in the future, its Middle Eastern members may have to price the oil they sell to China versus a Chinese crude benchmark.
While the official goal of the new futures contract is to establish a regional benchmark for more useful pricing of the crude grades prevalent on the Chinese market, analysts see the yuan oil futures as a step toward China seeking wider acceptance of its currency in global trade, including the oil trade, and establishing a petro-yuan that could challenge, in the future, the dominance of the petrodollar.
China is now the biggest crude oil importer in the world, and the pace of its oil demand growth is capable of influencing the oil market and the trade in the two most traded crude futures in the world, Brent and WTI. So it makes sense for the top crude importer to want to use oil as a means to promote its own currency on international markets.
According to Dr Mohamed Ramady, an energy economist and geopolitical expert on the GCC, the launch of the yuan crude futures contract has two key rationales—politics and pragmatism. On the practical side, such a contract would better reflect the crude grades on the Chinese market that often differ from the grades underpinning the Brent and WTI benchmarks.
On the political front, "Denominating oil contracts in yuan would promote the use of China's currency in global trade, one of the country's key long-term goals as an alternative to the dollar – making this even more appealing to sanctions-threatened countries relying on the dollar," Ramady wrote in The National.
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ST. LOUIS, Nov 11, 2003 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- TALX Corporation (NASDAQ:TALX), a leading business process outsourcer of payroll-related and human resource services, announced that new clients signing up for their first TALX service during the second quarter of fiscal 2004 included the University of Louisville, Cooper Tire & Rubber, Alltel Corporation, and L.L. Bean Inc., among others.
"Signing up for The Work Number(R), UC eXpress(SM) and W-2 eXpress services from TALX is like getting a separate payroll department to handle the paper-intensive payroll-related processes," said Julien Carter, vice president of human resources for the University of Louisville. "With these new service enhancements, our HR and payroll staff will be free to handle the core employee-centric functions."
"We feel very fortunate to have these dynamic organizations choose TALX payroll-related services," said Bill Canfield, president and CEO of TALX Corporation. "By continuing to grow our client base, we will remain the market leader in unemployment cost management services and automated employment and income verification services, where verifiers obtain instant answers to requests for employment information from lenders, pre-employment screeners, property managers and social services agencies."
TALX Corporation is a leading business process outsourcer of payroll-related and human resource services. TALX holds a leadership position in two key employment-related services -- automated employment and income verification services via The Work Number(R) services and unemployment cost management services via UC eXpress(SM). TALX also provides paperless payroll services, W-2 services, and automated time entry and approval services. Based in St. Louis, Missouri, TALX empowers user to complete transactions independently utilizing available multimedia including Web, interactive voice response, speech recognition, fax and e-mail. TALX Corporation common stock trades on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the symbol TALX. For more information about TALX Corporation, call 314-214-7000 or access the company's Web site at www.talx.com.


One survival trick, when stalked by challenges in the March of our discontent, is simply to take a deep breath, which I accomplish to some degree by studying the Winter Counts. Winter Counts were kept by many of the plains tribes - Mandan, Pawnee, Lakota, Dakota - usually on hides (but sometimes muslin or paper) painted with pictographs. This was a mnemonic practice: the pictographs recorded one or more significant events of the year that spurred the memory and gave people things to remember and talk about during those long, dark winters on the plains.
1825 - A great flood on the Missouri River. Many people were drowned.
1832 - A white man killed another white man.
1833 - The stars fell out of the sky. The people were much afraid.
But even with the fascinating winter counts looking back at me from the pages of a book, I can admit to some cabin fever this time of year. That's likely because there are much bigger storms stacked up in the atmosphere - and try as I might I can't see them altering course any time soon.
1841 - Feather in the Ear stole thirty spotted ponies from the Crows.
I've skipped the Cohen Testimony turbulence because I've lost interest in almost anything that happens east of the Ohio River. I've essentially "gone to the mattresses" where politics are concerned because there isn't anyone who works out there, in that howling integrity wilderness, that I would trust as far as I can throw my barn.
Maybe you trust them - and I praise those who keep the faith - but from our lodge, Washington looks like a tired Broadway anachronism and once respectable and reliable news organizations look no better than the aggressive and often salacious paparazzi hired by People Magazine.
1852 - The Nez Perce came to Lone Horn's lodge at midnight and were not killed. They were lost and cold.
Still, in America we have it better than most, even if the valorization of all things victimhood too often confuses real issues and obfuscates the truth. Sadly, when that game is played well it can be lucrative - and so was apparently too much for television actor Jussie Smollett, who succumbed to temptation and ruined himself while trying to cash in on hate-memes.
1851 - A buffalo cow was killed and she had an old woman in her belly.
Smollett earned some decent jail-time and should probably seek help from a mental-health professional, but I still haven't heard enough praise for the oft-maligned Chicago PD, who taught the world a lesson in restraint while brilliantly navigating the reactionary media minefield.
1861 - The buffalo were so plenty the tracks came up close to the tipis.
It's likely that there isn't a cop alive - since cops deal with liars for a living - who didn't wince when the Smollett story broke because the narrative was hinky from the outset. For those assigned to the investigation it was probably infuriating. But Smollett, like many folks, apparently assumed that cops are stupid and that somehow his rigorous listing of every conceivable bigotry bogeyman made for a convincing tale of woe. It never did, but there is a strain of modern activists who rarely, if ever, examine their own biases before putting them out on display.
1865 - Many horses died because there was no grass.
There was another storm in Vietnam last week involving the President and a dictator, but I'm not sure what actually happened. That's partially because every time I catch an image of John Bolton I instantly hear Jello Biafra singing "Holiday in Cambodia," leaving me too startled to figure out what was actually accomplished in Hanoi. Not that the effort was wasted - why not try to get the homicidal fat kid to give up his nukes? - but it's also true that deep snow would serve as a more convincing image of tranquility if people would learn how to drive in it.
1867 - Many flags given by the peace commission.
Turning the page, I found a pictograph that might serve for our own winter count. It is an image meant to represent heavy snowfall to its contemporaries, but which to the modern eye looks like three balloons, trailing their strings, rising into the sky on a breeze. This is a valuable image against our occasionally real, and occasionally manufactured, despairs. Plus, on the national level, balloons are an appropriate symbol for the nonstop clown show put on by our alleged representatives in government.


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Installed | Travis Boyer and Hayden Dunham at Jackie Klempay
The artcore journal series Installed are posts for the artcore (b)log that include written information provided by the institution, gallery, or artist's website along with a selection of images taken by an artcore correspondent. The initiative is to provide readers with the photographer's unique perspective of exhibitions, performances, and/or events in situ. The artcore (b)log is a platform for new series that are posted continuously, in addition to the biannual issues but do not necessarily reflect the current theme. If you are interested in participating as a correspondent for the Installed series on the artcore (b)log please contact us directly for more information.
TRAVIS BOYER and HAYDEN DUNHAM: Surprise Inspection
Jackie Klempay, Brooklyn, NY
Jackie Klempay presents an inaugural show: an exhibition of new works by New York-based artists Travis Boyer and Hayden Dunham
Travis Boyer and Hayden Dunham, installation view at Jackie Klempay, Brooklyn, NY. Image courtesy of Jackie Klempay.
Travis Boyer and Hayden Dunham, installation view at Jackie Klempay, Brooklyn, NY. Image courtesy of Jackie Klempay
Travis Boyer in Surprise Inspection at Jackie Klempay, Brooklyn, NY. Image courtesy of Jackie Klempay.
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"The artists are united by their contemplation of intimacy and the subsequent potential scrutiny. Materiality, lushness, and inquisitiveness distinguish the works in this exhibition. Additionally, maneuvering personal relationships is essential to both artists' processes. This practice is reflected in the viewer's own experiences of the work in that most of the objects presented are on a scale of one-to-one. Boyer and Dunham share a belief that the interpretation of objects comes first from human sensibility and an innate understanding then follows. "
Travis Boyer (born 1979 Fort Worth, TX) Is a New York based artist and holds a MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts at Bard College. He has exhibited nationally at Johannes Vogt Gallery, NYC; Participant Inc., NYC; John Connelly Presents, NYC; Evas Arche, NYC; Louis B. James Gallery, NYC; Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn NY; Andrew Kreps Gallery, NYC; SOMA Arts, San Francisco, CA; and internationally at Galleria Glance, Torino, Italy; Piso 51, Mexico City; and Kunstverein, Amsterdam, Holland; and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland. He was among the first artists awarded the Fire Island Artist Residency. Boyer has been invited as guest lecturer and performer at Yale MFA program; RISD, Providence, RI; CCA, Oakland, CA; and MICA, Baltimore, MA.
Hayden Dunham (born 1988 Austin, TX) studied applied psychology, visual aesthetics and gender studies at New York University's Gallatin School. She has participated in exhibitions and performances at PS1, Queens, NY; New Museum, New York, NY; Colette, Paris, France; Soloway Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Hat Gallery, Valencia, Spain among others. In 2011 she co-founded Other Travel, an interactive publication and metaphysical experiment. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn NY.
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Q: Windows and Linux using same Firefox profile I dual-boot Windows 10 and Lubuntu 16.04.3 on one machine. I use Firefox on both OSs. For a long time, I had them both using the same Firefox profile. In Windows, I left the profile in the default location. In Linux, I'd run Firefox with the -profile switch, and point it to the profile. This worked well for a very long time. All configs and extensions, and all profile data, everything worked perfectly in both.
However, since one of the recent major version updates, this doesn't work anymore. This doesn't work since FF 54 or 55, don't remember which. It works halfway only, as follows.
From Linux, everything is fine.
But then when I go back to Windows, the profile is botched, but only somewhat. All custom configs are still retained. But I lose all extensions. The about:addons page shows no extensions installed.
This does not happen the other way around. After loading the profile in Windows, then booting into Linux, the profile is fine. Everything is ok.
So, to summarize: After loading the profile in Linux, it's messed up in Windows.
Anyone know what I can do to get it working seamlessly again? Or have definitive info that this cannot work anymore in current versions?
Hope it's clear.
Thanks

A: Based on the answer of skierpage, I could come up with a seemingly permanent fix for this annoying issue. This is a really ugly hack but works for me! The whole solution works only because Windows does not properly handle upper case path names and linux symbolic links. (Change the content of { } brakets to match your setup.)
Start Firefox in Windows, and let it create the profile.
Reboot into Linux and set the profile path in ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini
The file should contain the following text:
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1

[Profile0]
Name=shared
IsRelative=0
Path={Path to Windows partition}/Users/{Windows User}/AppData/Roaming/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/{Windows Firefox Profile Name}
Default=1

Now rename pkcs11.txt to start with upper case P:
$ cd {Path to Windows partition}/Users/{Windows User}/AppData/Roaming/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/{Windows Firefox Profile Name}/
$ mv pkcs11.txt Pkcs11.txt

Now start firefox and let it recreate the pkcs11.txt file:
$ firefox

Now close Firefox and move the freshly created file to you linux partition, and make a soft link to it:
$ mv pkcs11.txt ~/.mozilla/firefox/pkcs11.txt
$ ln -s ~/.mozilla/firefox/pkcs11.txt {Path to Windows partition}/Users/{Windows User}/AppData/Roaming/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/{Windows Firefox Profile Name}/pkcs11.txt

And enjoy :-) I hope it works for you too!

A: Mozilla doesn't promise that sharing a profile across architectures will work; instead engineers recommend that you have separate profiles and use Firefox Sync to share bookmarks and such.
I use separate profiles for Windows and Linux in the usual places (%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\profiles.ini in Windows and $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini in Linux). Each specifies Path= in the native format for that operating system, and the Linux one is the path to my mounted NTFS volume where I keep the shared profile.
My uBlock Origin and Ghostery extensions seem to work fine. But I just looked at extensions.json in my shared profile and I notice Firefox Monitor, Web Compat, and WebCompat Reporter have hardcoded O.S.-dependent absolute path keys, so they probably don't work cross-platform. I haven't tried removing these keys or specifying relative paths.
The big problem I have had for months is my saved logins were empty on Linux, plus I had Sync failures. With help from the NSS team ❤ I figured out that the problem (bug 1541284) lies in pkcs11.txt: it has an O.S.-dependent configdir parameter, which in my case was parameters=configdir='sql:C:\Users\myname\FIREFO1\BLAHBL1.MYN'..., which obviously won't work on Linux. But if you don't have any special public-key cryptography settings, it seems you can delete pkcs11.txt from your profile the first time you boot in the other O.S., and Firefox will recreate this file.
I also share a Thunderbird profile directory containing all my mail between Windows and Linux. I haven't noticed problems with this, though it too has an OS-dependent configdir parameter in pkcs11.txt.

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Is this a lost da Vinci work?
The research proves, married people are happier, healthier and richer. All aspects of love are experienced, learned and perfected only within the family relationships. In the Culture of Heart, Rev. Moon promotes, every child should be loved by true and loving parents; every home should be filled with peace, love and harmony.
Recent studies show, it's time to stop directing research toward what makes us mentally ill and start studying what makes us happy. This new subfield is called positive psychology.
We have the ability to generate happiness. Yes, happiness can be synthesized. Positive psychology helps us change our views of our world, so we can view differently our state.
We have this power of thought. If we express it with other words, we should learn to create our own happiness, rather than just wait happiness to come. Meaning, learn to find the right attitude to happiness no matter what the external circumstances.
For example, the most persecuted religious leader of out time, Rev. Sun Myung Moon, when put in a Communist Concentration Camp, instead of seeing that as disadvantage he thought of it as prepared by God. He came out victorious where most have died and started, the so called, Revolution of Heart. Today millions of couples have found happiness inspired by his great vision.
There is one undeniable fact, "Happiness arises when our desires are fulfilled", clarifies the Unification Principle of Rev. Moon. Yet, we have good and bad desires. Today humanity is still confused of what's good and what's bad.
Recent study found that people who embracing the materialistic and humanistic philosophy presume they are happy, yet statistically there are most suicides among them. They falsely presume that external things make them happy.
On the other hand, people led by their spiritual mind always felt that investing for others is the true way to happiness. Parents who invest all their energy for their children gain the greatest happiness in life.
Study shows that the fastest and healthiest way to happiness is to stop worrying of ourselves and start living for the sake of others. To give a smile, or say a good word costs us nothing, yet the joy it gives to others returns multiplied times greater joy in our own hearts.
The Unification Psychology recognizes that to be happy we need to start giving, to be spiritually and mentally healthy we have to start do something positive.


Reports in France this evening suggest that Chelsea and Real Madrid may have come to an agreement over a fee for the transfer of Eden Hazard.
Hazard has been linked with a move away from Stamford Bridge all summer, following a season in which Chelsea finished fifth in the Premier League, failing to qualify for the Champions League.
That cost Antonio Conte his job, with Maurizio Sarri brought in to replace him at the weekend.
Hazard shone at the World Cup in Russia, helping Belgium to the semi-finals and when asked about his future following the tournament, openly admitted that his time at Chelsea could be up.
The Belgian star said: "After six wonderful years at Chelsea it might be time to discover something different. I can decide if I want to stay or go, but Chelsea will make the final decision - if they want to let me go. You know my preferred destination."
His preferred destination alluded to an interview he gave prior to that when he stated that the white jersey of Real Madrid was "special".
Sarri has urged Hazard and Thibaut Courtois - also linked with Madrid - to wait to decide their futures until they meet with him personally to discuss his plans for Chelsea.
But Le10Sport are reporting this evening that the Blues and Real may have come to an initial £170million agreement for Hazard, though they remain unsure as to whether that figure is just for Hazard, or includes Courtois too.
Even if a transfer fee had been agreed, there remains a long way to go before there is any more concrete information, with no news on how that fee will be paid, but it is a big development in the story.
Chelsea themselves are hoping to tie up a double deal, with owner Roman Abramovich reportedly travelling to Italy to oversee negotiations for the transfers of Gonzalo Higuain and Daniele Rugani to Stamford Bridge from Juventus.
You can read the full exclusive Le10Sport piece here.