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Knell, George
George Knell
In the Matter of the Estate of : In DeKalb County County Court.
George Knell, deceased. : In Probate. Box 699
June 10th, 1913. Will filed, proved and admitted to record in open court.
I, George Knell, of the Village of Shabbona, DeKalb County, Illinois, being of sound and disposing mind and memory, do hereby make, publish and declare this to be my last will and testament in words and figures following, revoking and canceling all former wills made by me.
Clause (1) I hereby direct my executor or executors to first pay my funeral expenses and just debts.
Clause (2) I give and devise to my wife Harriet Knell all of the net income al all my property both real and personal during her natural life time after my death, and income to be for her maintenance and absolute possession so long as she shall live.
Clause (3) I give and devise to my grand-daughter Hattie G. Lovering Olmstead, her heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, the following described lands – commencing at a point on the half quarter section line of the Northeast Quarter of Section Thirty two (32) Township of Shabbona where a road running East to West from Allens Grove to Shabbona Grove crosses said half quarter section line (said road being known and traveled as a public highway) proceeding North one hundred seventy rods and seven links, thence East one hundred eighteen rods, thence South one hundred sixty three, thence Southwesterly one hundred eighteen and five links to the place of beginning, containing one hundred twenty acres, more or less, same being land conveyed to testator by deed from John L. Larson, December 18th A. D. 1865. Also the South West quarter of the South West quarter of Section Twenty nine, being forty acres, more or less, all in Township of Shabbona, County of Dekalb, State of Illinois, deed and passion of said land to be given said Hattie G. Lovering Olmstead after my death and the death of my wife Harriet Knell, provide also that said deed shall not be given said Hattie G. Lovering Olmstead before she shall attain the age of thirty years, the proceeds or net income of said land shall be given her after my death and the death of my wife Harriet Knell. In case of her death before she shall become thirty years of age and she leave no living children that shall become of legal age, this bequest shall go to my daughter (her Mother) Elizabeth L. Lovering, her heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, excepting such part as the law provides (if any) for her husband W.J. Olmstead.
Clause (4) I give and devise to my grandson William K. Lovering, his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, the following described lands:- The West one half of the North east quarter of Section twenty nine, Township thirty eight North of Range 3, East of the Third Principal Meridian, containing eighty acres more or less and known as the Moses Howes farm. Also the North West quarter of the South East ¼ and the North East quarter of the South west quarter of Section twenty-nine, township Thirty-eight, North of Range Three, East of the Third Principal Meridian, containing eighty acres more or less and known as the Allen Secor eighty, the above described lands are given and devised in the following manner, to wit:- The net income of said land to be paid to said William K. Lovering after he becomes twenty one years of age after the death of myself and my wife, Harriet Knell, the deed of said land to be made to the said William K. Lovering when he shall attain the age of thirty years and after the death of my wife Harriet Knell. In case of his death before he shall attain the age of thirty years of age and he leaves no living children that shall become of legal age, this bequest shall go to my daughter (his Mother) Elizabeth H. Lovering, her heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, excepting such part as the law provides (if any) for his wife if he shall have one.
Clause (5) I give and devise to Nicholas Ness, for many kindnesses shown me, Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) after my death and the death of my wife Harriet Knell.
Clause (6) I give and devise to my daughter Elizabeth H. Lovering, her heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, all the remainder of my property of whatsoever kind, both real and personal, including all income and profits after my death and the death of my wife Harriet Knell. It is my purpose that my entire property shall remain unimpaired until the death of my self and my wife Harriet Knell, then after these different bequests have been carried out, as herein provided, all the remainder of my property shall go to my daughter Elizabeth E. Lovering, her heirs, executors, administrators and assigns forever.
Clause (7) I hereby appoint George Lovering and Elizabeth E. Lovering as the executors of this my last will and testament and provide that they shall not be required to give bonds, if another or others are appointed bonds shall be required.
In witness whereof I, the said George Knell, have hereunto set my hand his 13th day of April A.D. 1912.
George Knell died on May 30th, 1913.
Harriet Knell predeceased him on January 2nd, 1913
November 9th, 1914. Final Report Filed and approved. Estate declared Settled.
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Industry revenue of »manufacture of irradiation, electromedical equipment« in Poland 2011-2023
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This statistic shows the revenue of the industry »manufacture of irradiation, electromedical and electrotherapeutic equipment« in Poland from 2011 to 2017, with a forecast to 2023. It is projected that the revenue of manufacture of irradiation, electromedical and electrotherapeutic equipment in Poland will amount to approximately 37,6 million U.S. Dollars by 2023.
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Not that I need another project/hobby/obsession in my life, but two weeks ago (on January 1, to be exact) I decided to start a 365 project in which I take one photo every day of 2013. I know, it sounds a bit insane, but it has already been really fun and creatively challenging - and I'm only 13 days in. And because it's Sunday night and I'm settled comfortably on the couch with so much TV to watch (Girls! Downton! Golden Globes!) I share with you a compilation of my favorite pics from the past two weeks. If you're an Instagrammer, follow me (@maspad) and my daily pictures with the hastag #365 - and enjoy!
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CSPs are targeting enterprises, but do they really know what they want?
November 25, 2021 Staff Writer Features, Videos 0
A new report from Analysys Mason and CSG found that digital transformation plans among most enterprises are accelerating, as are plans to increase cloud security spending. That would be good news for CSPs targeting the enterprise sector, except that most enterprises aren't coming to them for cloud or digital services. There's a couple of reasons for that: (1) selling to enterprises is a complex undertaking, and (2) enterprise service demands are too complex for most existing CSP billing systems.
According to the report, enterprises mostly see CSPs as connectivity providers. Only 25% of enterprises surveyed said they bought IT-related solutions from CSPs.
A key reason for this, says Ian Watterson, head of Asia-Pacific at CSG, is that most CSPs are set up to sell B2C services, but those skills don't translate well to B2B scenarios.
"There's a different approach to bundling and packaging things like cloud services, security, Microsoft 365 services, and then you have that stratification of large to medium to small enterprises, which means that CSPs also need to think about where they're going to target and what offers they're going to offer to each of those markets," he says.
That's mainly down to a lack of experience in the enterprise marketplace – Watterson recommends CSPs form a dedicated and driven enterprise team to focus on that segment.
A more formidable barrier to entry is CSP billing systems – which is ironic, given that billing is arguably the other major thing CSPs are good at besides connectivity. But according to the Analysys Mason report, while telco billing systems can meet current enterprise demand for billing and invoicing services, "it will be more challenging for them to meet future demand as more products are delivered 'as-a- service'."
Put simply, telco billing systems aren't designed to handle complex enterprise services at scale.
Source: Analysys Mason and CSG,
"Large enterprises' demand for communications and IT services: survey results 2021"
But that doesn't mean CSPs have to resign themselves to being fat pipes just yet. The rise of 5G and IoT create tremendous opportunities for CSPs to add value to connectivity by bundling services with connections leveraging 5G features like bandwidth slicing and edge computing, Watterson says.
Moreover, upgrading their billing systems would not only enable them to handle the scaling complexity of enterprise services, but also to monetize billing as a service in its own right.
"When you look at something like smart agriculture, that's not necessarily the CSP selling to farmers – that's the CSP selling to some intermediary agent who then offers that as a service," Watterson explains. "That intermediary agent is likely not to have the dynamic billing capability that they need in order to be billing all those thousands of farms, but the CSP does."
That's also good news for vendors like CSG who are already helping operators to use their strengths to capitalize on the enterprise opportunity to the fullest, Watterson adds.
"We've been around for 35 years, so we bring that to operators, and we're be able to show them what we've done for other customers … and even advise them on different elements that are not part of our spec. We are able to show them what we've done for other customers and advise on different elements."


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Quite the Colorful picture's eh.
"This person I knew, he too thought that if he just 'follow the rules' as you would say and gain as much power as he possibly could he would be able to protect those who were important to him. All he ever wanted was to lead an ordinary life, live in peace with his family, become a master swordsman like his mother, and who knows, maybe even become a Knight of the Round if he wanted to. But then… things happened and his life became anything but ordinary."
—Rai]
Code-Geass-Colorless-Memories by NSBleach00 is a Code Geass Fan Fic featuring Rai from the visual novel Code Geass: Lost Colors.
Like the game that he appears in, Rai lost his memories and ends up unconscious at the gates of Ashford Academy, found and taken in by Milly and Lelouch. Rai sets out on his quest to recover his memories while at the same time deciding how he will affect the battle for Japan.
In 11.05.2015, the author began a rewrite on Fanfiction.Net under the title Code Geass: Colorless Memories Redux. Last updated November 2016, unfortunately. Author gave update in July 2017, but has since not updated. As such, the fic is presumed dead.
Has its own Wikia page which is open for editing and adds information to the universe that is not stated in the main story i.e. the location of the thought elevators, and the territories of each faction.
It has a sidestory called Code Geass Colored Memories here and a supplementary worldbuilding Fic called Code Geass Colored Memories Archives .
It also inspired a Prequel to Colored Memories and Code Geass in general. That is called Roanapur Connection, which uses plot elements and character from both fics in a new fanfic continuity that Crossover with Black Lagoon.
This fic contains examples of the following tropes:
Absurd Cutting Power: Rai's mother's sword which is able to slice the tip off grasses, and is a mix between a katana and longsword.
The Ace: What Rai, Kallen and Tohdoh are for the Black Knights, and Suzaku and Sai are for Britania.
Adaptation Expansion: Colorless and Colored Memories fleshes out the backstories of a number of side characters. Increased focus on Japan's history and culture in CG world. Along with making Rai from the Code Geass: Lost Colors the main star and fleshing out his backstory in more details.
Adaptational Heroism: In comparison to the Visual Novel and the orginal version of Colorless Memories Rai is this. As in the redux version of Chapter 18 Rai doesn't kill his father or Brtiannian relatives to grab power, nor does he cause the death of his mother and sister by geassing them.
All There in the Manual: Companion fic Code Geass Colored Memories , it's main focus is on the POV of Kaguya, Suzaku and Kallen. It also add background stories to many characters like Colonel Kusakabe. It fleshes out other events that happen before or during the timeline of Colorless Memories, along with worldbuilding the Code Geass universe in more detail.
As mentioned above, the pages on Code Geass fanon wiki, there is information that is not stated in the main story that gives more information on the fic's universe, such as details to many of the Knightmare Frames , the thought elevators, full character list and information on each of the factions .
Along with a working in progress Colorless Memories Timeline of the fic's universe.
A number of the pages also include quotes, conversations and teasing of possible future developments in the fic's.
Alternate Continuity: The story is for a good part what you get if you add characters from most Code Geass medias, add a few original characters, and change certain events in canon while still following most of it.
Anti-Villain: Quite a few Britannian characters fit this status, with Oldrin Zevron and Princess Mirabelle being the best examples.
Bad Dreams: Mixed with Dreaming of Things to Come, Rai experiences a few dreams of someone calling out to him and in one particular dream. A shadowy figure who taunts Rai about his amnesia turns out it was E.E calling to Rai from Kamine Island.
Berserk Button: Mild example, but threatening or harming innocents or loved ones when Rai is around is a sure way to earn you an ass-kicking, as some thugs in Chapter 9 learned the hard way. Or, in the case of Rai's father and Britanian relatives, your death.
As with the series, harming insulting or threatening any Japanese people or loved ones is going to get you a whooping from Kallen.
Big Brother Instinct: As always, Lulu for Nunnally. Naoto was probably one for Kallen.
Birds of a Feather: Euphie and Suzaku as in the series. Lelouch and C.C as well when you consider how both act and how they connect and talk with each other.
Rai and Kallen as well as both are the aces of the Black Knights being Zero's Blue and Red Knights, they are both half breeds, have pretty similar views on the world and what they are fighting for, both have had problems with and reject their Britannian hertiages, both had a sibling they loved very much, and they go to great lengths to protect people they care about.
Big Brother Worship: As in canon, Kallen for her brother. Whom Ohgi tell's Rai of briefly in Chapter ten.
Blue Is Heroic: Played so straight with Rai that it borders on Up to Eleven. He has blue eyes, his Knightmare is colored blue, he wears a blue pilot suit and is actually referred to as Zero's Blue Knight In-Universe. He is often cool, calm and intellectual in his personality. and his contractor E.E has blue hair.
Bishōnen Along with canon examples in Lelouch and Suzaku. From the description of the text and released Visual Pictures. Rai himself counts with even at one point in Chapter Nine being called a Pretty Boy outright by one of the thugs he beat up a few chapters before.
But Not Too Foreign: Kallen as in series is a half breed of Japanese and Britannian, as is Rai, who turns out to be half Britannian-half Japanese. Along with hinted so far to be have blood connection to Kaguya Sumeragi. Which Chapter Eighteen confirms.
Cannot Spit It Out: Naturally Shirley for Lelouch.
Central Theme: So far there seems to be a undercurrent theme in Rai's arc in regards to what exactly he is looking for in his search for his memories, what his future could be and The truth behind his past.
There's also a recurring symbolic theme of the moon and the color blue in many of Rai's internal thoughts. All of which seems to have some correlation with his contractor E.E. Who has blue hair, wears silver clothes and has a moon generating a blue aura around herself.
The meaning of truth and facing certain uncomfortable truths as well.
Celibate Hero: Lelouch is this as usual.
Character Development: Rai as the fic goes on starts to become less passive and stoic around others and decides to join the Black Knights in their fight against Britannia.
Rai also starts to ponder on what he wants to do in the future and how he can achieve it. He gradually gains more confidence in himself and his interactions with other characters as the fic develop.
Childhood Friend: Rai and Lelia Malkal from Code Geass: Akito the Exiled.
Chess Motifs: As with the show quite a bit of this in the story with chess being played in a few chapters by Lelouch and Rai with Lelouch referring to Rai at one point as his extra piece of the board.
Combat Pragmatist: Zero is this as seen in the series with his tactics at Narita etc. Rai is one as well as he will use terrain, ambushes and smoke as shown in the battle of Narita and before that with ambushes when piloting a damaged burai while searching for his memories with Kallen..
Cynicism Catalyst: Quite a few character's have gone this way in the series but Rai and Lelouch are the one's who fit this trope the best.
Day In The Lime Light: The backstage chapters switch POV from Rai to other characters at different points of the fic. Word of God was that this was done to address criticism of the original fic of over focus on Rai's arc to the detriment of other characters.
Backstage Chapter One is entirely from the POV of Ruben Ashford, whom never appered in canon and gives his inner thoughts to Marianne and her children, as well as why he allowed Milly to let Rai stay at Ashford.
Backstage Chapter Two gives us the POV of Guildford and Darton on recent events and fleshes out some of Dalton's past that included the Knight of Eight and why he adopts orphans.
Backstage Chapter Three is from Suzaku and Michael Steinberg's POV that goes into how Tohdoh was captured by Britannia along with their first team fight against Kallen and Rai.
Backstage Chapter Four places focus on Kaguya Sumeragi's POV within Kyoto house, gives information about her family and hints to deeper mysteries going on if the Sumeragi Legacy is anything to go by.
Deadpan Snarker: C.C as always can't seem to go one chapter when she ain't snarking at something.
A few of Rai's internal thoughts contain hints of deadpan sarcasm as well.
Despair Event Horizon: Rai is hinted to have crossed this in the past by E.E in Chapter Seventeen.
Dramatic Irony: In Chapter 11, Suzaku is talking with Lloyd and they bring up Rai who Lloyd had offered a place in his unit only for Rai to turn it down as he had joined the Black Knights partly because of Kallen of whom Suzaku knew the two hung out with each other a lot and says to these lines in response.
Suzaku: Well you see... there's this girl that Rai hangs out with at school. If he were to join the military though, I fear he won't be able to see her that much anymore. I would hate for them to be separated because of something that I did."
Cecile:"So is this person his girlfriend or something?"
Suzaku: Well they never made any official statement or anything, but I think it's heading in that direction. I believe he would be safer with her than with me anyways."
Early-Bird Cameo: Quite a few characters make an appearance early before they are properly introduced in the story.
N.A of Peace Mark (whom on the Proto Gekka Knightmare Page is called Nathan by Rakshata) who is featured in a fair few of the Fanon Wiki's pages and quotes is the prime example, having yet to appear physically in either fic.
Easy Amnesia: Of course Rai whom for unknown reasons has lost his memories and ended up at Ashford Academy.
Empty Shell: It's subtly implied throughout the story that aside from being amnesic, Rai barely has any personality, thoughts, trouble with feeling of other people's feelings and emotions due to implications of a event in his past if E.E is to be believed that destroyed whatever he was before that event happened ala Shirou from Fate/stay night. The fic's main arc is in many ways Rai regaining a sense of self and connection to those around him.
Everyone Can See It: Along with Shipper on Deck, most characters notice how much time Kallen and Rai spend being together with each other and think they are in a relationship with each other, much to their disdain.
Evil Overlooker: Colored Memories cover has the villain overlooking the trio in the pale moonlight.
Expy: Rai, to a certain degree, is one to both Lelouch and Suzaku in that he has Lelouch's intelligence, ability to read people, strategy and leadership skills and physical features. While having Suzaku's athletics and Knightmare abilities (though he has a lot more skill than strength).
Fanart: Code Geass Colored Memories has Fic Cover that was designed and created by Jit-Art .
Fictional Document: Most of the Fanon Wiki pages are written as documents and messages found In-Universe by characters of different groups and also concerning different matters that each page touches upon.
Fish out of Water: Rai's main characterization in the fic, he ended up losing his memories at somepoint and found himself where he was surrounded by strangers and no one who had any clue as to who he was.
Foreshadowing: Quite a number of plot reveals and details are built up subtly in some of the early chapters and via Symbolic Dreams.
With specific examples include the following:
Chapter two when Rai get's given the surname Thurston, he feel it is familiar in someway to him. Chapter Eighteen confirms it's actually his surname from his father's side.
Same chapter C.C teases that we will all be amazed of who the real Rai is and then smiling to herself. She would know since she took Rai's memories in the first place.
Chapter three namedrops the Sumeragi's at one point when Rai is in the library checking out recent history, along with Rai taking an interest in Knightmare frames in particular. Backstage 4 establishes that the Sumeragi were key players in the Genpei war during the Heinan period. While Chapter Eighteen shows Rai having been trained in the Glasgow frame by his Father who was the Knight of Eight.
Chapter Nine while speaking with C.C. Rai collapses and envisions a Brtiannian looking girl with purple eyes, but in a blue military uniform different from Britannia's. Chapter Eighteen reveals it to be Leila Malkal from Code Geass: Akito the Exiled.
Chapter Twelve Rai when hearing Kaguya's surname during his infiltration of Kyoto he collapses and has a vision of two women who look similar to Kaguya with green eyes and black hair for the older woman, along with similar hairstyle to Kaguya with the pink hair girl. Kaguya also states she thinks she has seen Rai somewhere before in a photo or video. Turns out that it was Rai's mother and sister that he had a vision of and that he is related to Kaguya via their mothers.
Backstage Two makes a lot of references to the Knight of Eight and their influence on General Dalton. Chapter Eighteen reveal the Knight of Eight to have been Rai's father Jonathan Thurston whom was well respected and liked among the Knights of the Round.
Some of the Fanon wiki pages have hints of this, or possible Red Herring depending on which page the reader is viewing and their own interpretation of the page's contents.
The Gadfly: C.C as usual with Lelouch and Rai at various points of the fic, with the former in his quest to recruit Rai and just Geass him into serving him. The latter in regards to looking for his memories and wanting a better Knightmare. Counts as Foreshadowing with Rai considering she's the one who took his memories according to E.E meaning she's the reason for his quest in the first place.
Chapter Eighteen confirms that it was C.C who took Rai's memories.
Infinity -1 Sword: The special Knightmare Frames that Rai and Michael gets to pilot for the Black Knights and Brittanian Army, the Prototype Gekka and Lancelot Club respectively, are this. They lack the energy efficiency and power output of the Guren and Lancelot due to being built with spare parts, but they are still stronger than the average Knightmare Frame, and only they are capable of piloting them.
Insufferable Genius: Lelouch can be this at times as can Lloyd as well.
Jerk Ass Has A Point: Lelouch in Chapter Two, while he may still be treating Rai with Aloofness and cynical paranoia over someone with Amnesia. He brings up a valid point considering that Rai could be an Unwitting Pawn for those who would harm his sister.
Lelouch "Hmph…I'm being a little too paranoid huh? And you think someone as mysterious as him suddenly appearing to me after everything that has happened that last few weeks isn't a coincidence at all? Hah, I believe I have every right to be suspicious of him. For all I know, he could be a spy or agent sent from the Britannian Military or even possibly the Imperial Family...maybe even possibly from one of the other two superpower countries."
This is more potent when you consider E.E and the shadow figure that chased Rai in Chapter 11 and 18, along with their currently Hidden Agenda in regards to the plot and characters.
Martial Pacifist: Rai is one to a degree as C.C. put's it in chapter 9.
C.C: "From that one fight, I learned that you're not the fighting type by that I mean you're not the kind of person who would pick a fight with someone. Your moves are all self-defense, no offensive moves. Whoever taught you wanted you to be able to defend yourself, or possibly those precious to you in your past."
Mysterious Past: Quite a few characters in the story have pasts that affect the story in some way even a large amount has yet to be revealed or as the author has said won't make sense til later on in the story.
Meaningful Name: Searching for Adnormal Indviduals Michael Steinburgs codename considering what he's in Japan to look for and what he finds it fits him well the name.
Rai's name in Japanese tends to mean thunder, lighting and lastly but most commonly trust and it's somewhat a short form of the spanish name Raimundo which means protecting hands though Rai according to code geass wiki is somewhat derived on how the word Liar is written in Japanese interesting eh.
Myth Arc: So far one has been hinted and built up in the background of the fic that seems to relate to Kaguya Sumeragi's family that OSI agent Harald Thompson outright called The Sumeragi's Legacy.
Mystical White Hair: Or silver, as the case may be. Rai has a Mysterious Past, and his silver hair draws a bit of attention from other people.
Narrative Filigree: A number of the Fanon Wiki Pages are these, as they contain details that while irrelevant to the main plot. Add details to certain characters, Knightmare Frames and also hint to possible developments. With elements of Unreliable Narrator in places as well. Which was inspired by The World of Ice & Fire by George R. R. Martin. Whom blackmambauk the writer of most of the wiki pages is a big fan of.
Not Good with People: Rai Is like this at the start of the fic, though he gets better as time goes on.
Part of this aspect of his personality comes from the fact he's amnesic, while another part comes from a fear of losing people close to him again.
Original Character: Mostly averted the author has said he is trying to avoid creating them where he can but he is creating a few new kightmares for his story.
The writer of a few In-Universe documents found on the Fanon Wiki is one, as is OSI agent Harald Thompson. With the biggest being E.E, Rai's contractor.
Parental Issues: As in the main series a lot of the characters have issues with at least one of their parents.
Plot Threads: Quite a few going on in the story and they continue to build and increase as the story goes on more will probably follow as the author prepares the next arc of the story.
Pretty Freeloader: Like Lelouch and Nunnally, Rai is staying in the school clubhouse thanks to Milly being one of the Ashfords and thus having a lot of pull at the school. Rai at least feels guilt about this (despite Milly's assurances) and helps out at the student council regularly to make up for it.
Prolonged Prologue: The first seventeen chapters of the Fic overall mainly serves to set up and establish the characters, plot and setting of Colorless Memories, all the while the Myth Arc and Subplots are built up or Foreshadowed. Chapter Eighteen is where the main story get's into gear with revelations of Rai's past, more hints of Geass and that C.C was the one who took his memories and force him and the rest of the cast into starting the fic's storyline at Ashford and beyond.
The Quiet One: Rai rarely speaks more than a few words when asked on most matters, often only speaks when spoken to and tend to keep to himself. Justified due to being Amnesic and Fish out of Water at Ashford and later in the Black Knights.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: A few examples.
Kallen Red Rai Blue, hell that's the color of their knightmares.
Suzaku Red Michael Blue.
Reality Ensues: Zero runs into this in Chapter Eight when trying to recruit the main character Rai into the Black Knights, which C.C Lamp Shades. People don't just join your cause without having a reason to beyond vague proclamations, debates and discussions (Lelouch had been feeling Rai out in earlier chapters for his views and feeling in regards to Area 11 and Britannia).
Lelouch: "He understands the current situation of Area 11, he knows that what the Britannian Military is doing is wrong and he has the power to fight back, so why won't he…"
C.C: "Because he has no reason to do so; people don't do things without a purpose. Well, unless you use Geass on them, which is another possibility for you to use."
Being trained all your life to fight by your parents can give you a headstart than most, however it will not do you much good when you fight someone as skilled and experienced as The Knight of One as Rai can attest to.
Royal Blood: quite a few characters all members of the imperial family. As in canon Lelouch and Nunnually are part of that family. It's hinted in Chapter 12 when Rai runs into Kaguya that he is a Sumeragi himself.
Chapter Eighteen confirms that Rai is half Sumeragi via his mother's side of the family.
Shadow Archetype: Michael Steinberg is one for Rai as both have similar backgrounds suffered similar losses and similar personalities the difference lay in how these events shaped their views and which sides they end up on in the story.
Shout-Out: Chapter Backstage Three Suzaku pulls off a famous move we all know and love (or hate).
Shipper on Deck: Suzaku is to some degree one for Rai and Kallen to say that this came back to bite him big time would be an understatement. As is Milly who puts Kallen in charge of Rai, Shirley ships them as well for who Milly orignally did it for so she could be with Lelouch though that ship hasn't took off yet for reasons well known.
Shoot the Dog: Zero is willing to do this as is Rai at times as he tells Kallen in chapter 16 "We have to be prepared for what we must do. If Suzaku insists on being a Britannian soldier, we'll have no choice but to wipe him out.".
Smart People Play Chess: Leouch and Rai have quite a few games throughout the story while drinking tea no less
Spanner Inthe Works: if Rai hadn't collapsed near Ashford Academy things might've turn out differently for him, the other characters and the story.
Also Milly (unintenionally) as her decision to save Rai, let him stay at Ashford and make Kallen his guide affect the plot in a big way that she probably didn't intend.
C.C in regards to pretty much everyone in her decision to strip Rai of his memories, which led Rai to arrive at Ashford, become part of the Black Knights and also interrupt his own mission as well.
The Stoic: Given what other characters say about Rai he tends to remain calm act in a sedate manner and seems to be gennerally introverted Rai gives off more than a hint of this trope though it may be more due to events in his past.
Though Rai has a few Not So Stoic moments sprinkled in the fic, most potently in Chapter 17 when he is finally reunited with E.E his contractor whom he smiled and rushed over to her which threw E.E off track for a second.
The Strategist: Naturally Zero with all his tactic's in the series, Rai is one as well as he constanly assess's his situlation, his enemy and his tactic's and can think and change his tactic's on the fly. So in a way while Zero is the one who comes up with the plans and set's the stage Rai who Zero consults quite a few times on his plan is the one in more ways than one helps the most to make the plan come to fruition.
Super Prototype: The Gekka Pre-Production Test Type or Proto Gekka, Rai's blue knightmare that serves as the prototype to the units the four holy swords get and Todouh's own model being based on Rai's battle data. On the Britanian side the Lancelot Club serves as this for Michael, which ironically was made for Rai at one point and other protoypes are mentioned by Lloyd that he has built for other characters in the series.
Two Roads Before You: The early chapters play with this trope quite a bit as Rai has to make a choice that affect him and the story as a whole.
Unexpected Character: Literally no one expected the Knight of One to appear in Chapter Eighteen and with the sword Excalibur.
Wham Episode: The entirely of Chapter Eighteen with exploring the details of Rai's past and that it was C.C that was responsible for the loss of his memories.
Wham Line: A few lines in different chapters qualify, the first in Chapter 9 when Rai joins the Black Knights with C.C.
C.C : "after all that was the deal we made... E.E."
Next one in Backstage 4 when Kaguya runs into an OSI agent near her Family's Temple.
Harald Thompson "Now do you Kaguya Sumeragi know anything called the Sumeragi Legacy".
Chapter seventeen when Rai is reunited with E.E.
Rai I..I remember now.. it's all coming back to me.. E.E.
When He Smiles: Rai rarley smiles but when he does in chapter 13 Kallen says his smile is quite nice. Happens again when Rai smiles happily when he is reunited with E.E in chapter seventeen.
Whole Episode Flashback: Chapter 18 is a complete flashback to Rai's past to which the author has said events in will make more sense later on in the story
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New Attraction Provides a Different Kind of Buzz: Crystal Healing Immersion Experience – the CHI Chair Debuts in Ellicottville
Dec 21, 2022 | Lifestyle
Energy healer/local crystals shop owner launches free tourist attraction to demonstrate the healing powers of crystals; adding another exciting point of interest to one of the top rated towns for adventure, according to National Geographic.
BUFFALO, NY, December 21, 2022 /24-7PressRelease/ — Working with crystals is not a new-age trend, but an ancient healing practice, traceable to about 60,000 years ago.
Metaphysician and Holistic Psychotherapist, Suzy Woo, studies and works with quantum healing methods, crystal energy, planetary influence, and energy psychology in her healing practice. Ms. Woo is the creator of the Crystal Healing Immersion Experience station dubbed the "CHI chair."
"I did this to show people that the energy of crystals is not only real, but able to be felt quite strongly; and is powerfully healing in ways people would never imagine," Ms. Woo explained.
"This is where science and spirituality meet. Got a minute? Sit in it. Just sit, close your eyes and feel."
The CHI Chair attraction is a basic chair, with over 200 pounds of various crystals (including 96 pounds of selenite) in, beneath and surrounding it, with copper feedback loops and orgonite, which then had ancient frequencies and prayer programmed into the entire configuration.
Very strong vortices of energy continuously spiral from the crystal compilation. When someone sits in the chair, the flow of crystal energy travels up and down the energy centers (chakras) following the spine, which ultimately has the capability to heal ailments and symptoms on multiple levels, and can prompt powerful spiritual experiences.
White Selenite (satin spar var. gypsum) is a cleansing, calming, purification crystal said to embody high vibration energy that helps bring divine light down from the higher realms into the physical body, to help create personal transformation.
"There are no smoke and mirrors, everything is in plain view, right in the middle of the store," Ms. Woo added.
What can one expect to feel when they sit in the CHI Chair?
Because people vary in their sensitivity, it can range from light to very strong: tingling, pins and needles, a magnetic pull/push, warmth, coolness, breeziness, buzzy, or feeling uplifted to the degree that one feels they are floating.
One may experience a dissolving of heaviness, pressure, and stress, or may receive new insight to an old problem, receive a vision, an inspiration, a spiritual message, or even a scene from a moment in time which the crystal has witnessed. They may walk away without the pains they walked in with.
"Crystals store information, forming in the earth for millions of years. Imagine what they have seen."
The CHI Chair was announced the evening of December 18th, 2022 and opened to the public the following day.
One thing that people agree on who have sat in the CHI Chair – is that it feels really, really good.
One person said she "felt perfectly tuned."
The Crystal Healing Immersion Experience, or "CHI Chair," is on display for public use, free of charge, through spring, 2023, at Good for the Spirit Gifts, a crystals shop Ms. Woo owns, at 11 Martha Street in the village of Ellicottville.
Those who wish to learn energy healing can learn with Ms. Woo. She is offering a Certification Course in Spiritual Healing, a pilot launch to teach her method of spiritual energy healing that begins 1/11/23. "It is not the same as Reiki; it is much more powerful and does not wear off."
Ms. Woo plans to establish a healing center in the Allegany Mountains. For more on Suzy Woo please visit www.suzy-woo.com
Good for the Spirit Gifts hours are Monday through Saturday 11am-6pm, Sunday 11am-5pm.
Good for the Spirit Gifts is a spiritual wellness supply store in Ellicottville, New York. In stock gongs, tuning forks, chimes, singing bowls, a huge variety of crystals, crystal carvings, candles, cards and books, and local artisan items.
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This redesign would cut bias on Airbnb
A new study with 9,000 Airbnb users identifies one strategy for reducing bias in the sharing economy.
by Milenko Martinovich-Stanford Sep 6, 2017 3 minutes
In a study involving nearly 9,000 Airbnb users, researchers propose that implementing features that emphasize a user's reputation can offset harmful social bias.
The "share economy," in which people rent goods and services, including their homes and automobiles, has numerous benefits for people trying to make extra money. One downside, however, is the prospect of people's biases about race, gender, or other factors affecting their decisions about whom to do business with.
The new study that analyzes Airbnb users and data suggests measures that enhance a user's reputation, like stars or reviews, can counteract these harmful prejudices. The results, the Stanford University researchers say, indicate sites that use reputational tools create a fairer and more diverse online marketplace.
The share economy, also referred to as "collaborative consumption" and "peer-to-peer lending," has allowed everyday citizens to turn into entrepreneurs, taking advantage of an industry that's projected to grow to $335 billion by 2025, according to the Brookings Institution.
Share economy transactions are distinctive because, unlike most other e-commerce dealings, they have an intimate feeling to them. Think about when you purchase a pair of shoes online either directly from a retailer or from a third-party site: there's rarely, if ever, a human element to the transaction.
But when you reserve an apartment on Airbnb, there's a personal feel—you're staying at someone's home. Because of that element, you become attentive to the personal characteristics (ex. gender, age, etc.) of the home's owner or the guest, says Bruno Abrahao, a visiting assistant professor at Stanford's Institute for Research in the Social Sciences and the study's lead author. That attentiveness to details peripheral to the transaction can lead to bias.
The researchers in this study focused on a certain type of bias called homophily, a natural tendency to develop trustful relationships with people similar to themselves, and how best to counteract it. The study is part of a broader research project analyzing trust and technology at Stanford.
The researchers recruited nearly 9,000 Airbnb users for their experiment, conducted on an online platform external to Airbnb's. The participants were shown mock profiles of other Airbnb users with varying demographic and reputation information.
The researchers created two experimental groups. Group 1 included profiles with some demographic similarities to the study participant (ex. a single male in his 20s viewing a profile of a user with comparable age, gender, and marital status). Group 2 included profiles with completely different personal traits from the participant, but with better reputations—conveyed by impressive star ratings and number of reviews – than those in Group 1. (Profiles from Group 1 were included in Group 2 for comparison).
To test for evidence of bias, participants played a behavioral game where they were asked to invest credits in the various profiles. The amount of credits a person invested in each profile served as a measure of trust.
In the first group, participants invested greatly in the similar profiles. The more similar the profiles were, the more the participant trusted them, succumbing to bias.
In the second group, however, the researchers noticed a shift. Participants invested significantly more in users whose characteristics were completely different than their own, but who had better reputations. Those profiles' reputation mechanisms counteracted people's penchant for favoring users similar to themselves.
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Knowing the robust effects reputation features had in the experiment, the researchers then analyzed 1 million actual interactions between hosts and guests on the Airbnb platform. They found that hosts with better reputations were attracting more demographically diverse guests, as their data predicted should happen.
This finding offers evidence that reputation systems used by Airbnb and other sites on the sharing economy platform may allow users, like the study's participants, "to extend trust to those who exhibited a high degree of dissimilarity in the social space," the authors write.
Not only can offsetting these social biases be beneficial for users seeking services, but also for marginalized hosts offering them, Abrahao says.
"The fundamental question we wanted to answer is whether technology can be used to influence people's perception of trust," Abrahao says. "These platforms can engineer tools that have great influence in how people perceive each other and can make markets fairer, especially to users from underrepresented minorities."
Additional coauthors are from Stanford and Airbnb. The National Science Foundation supported the work, which appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Source: Stanford University
The post This redesign would cut bias on Airbnb appeared first on Futurity.
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Challenge #01967-E143: Irresponsible BeautysteemCreated with Sketch.
And Rael had just been about to look up instalment plans and loan agreements so he could purchase himself. He spent a solid minute pondering how the CRC would handle cognsicent genetech attempting to buy itself. Though the legal action now being taken against Wave of the Future's latest toxic move seemed to indicate that the Cogniscent in question would be lectured and possibly re-imbursed.
He could never have afforded himself anyway.
And it was truly disheartening to be where he was, economically, and come to the realisation that he was out of his own pay grade.
Someone was holding a red envelope in his line of sight. It had some Terran characters on it. One of the more popular written languages, but one Rael couldn't immediately decipher. The person holding it was also of asian descent. "Here," they said. "You look like you could use some luck. Spend irresponsibly and feel better."
What? Rael thanked them kindly anyway and didn't open the envelope until they were gone.
Three Hours in notes and change. To spend irresponsibly. That was part of the contract.
Rael's first thought was the All-You-Can-Gobble-For-An-Hour menu at Harga's Fried Eat, followed by attempting to get thrown out of an all-you-can-eat emporium. But then he thought of the human traditions of spending irresponsibly and how they usually did that. And when they did that, they usually spent it on something shiny, useless, and beautiful.
Rael set aside an Hour note for Harga's Fried Eat. Aimed himself off of his usual path, and into the objet d'art section of the Elemeno. He had packets of gorp. He could afford a half hour stroll to size up a purchase that he had never dared look at before. Flakk. He didn't even know he had an aesthetic.
He found love at an article printing place called Fabricati Diem, and a ceiling decoration that reflected and diffracted light in every direction. It moved with the slightest breeze and would turn an entire room into endless cascades of light and colour. And it suited his need for order, since it was made of geometric shapes and platonic solids. Order and chaos combined to make beauty. Just like the Universe.
He could only afford a smaller version with two Hours, and that was fine. The enormous one in the window wouldn't ever have fit in his modest singles-domicile, and the virtual preview showed that it would fit perfectly on a hook installed between his primary light and the main air vent. And it came with free installation, which he was heartily in favour of.
He would be coming home to beauty.
Just that thought made his day. And when he did come home, it was everything he imagined. He could watch it for hours, and feel his near-permanent anxiety ebb from the sight of it.
Human insanity and its traditions certainly had their moments.
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Book traces rough transition for juvenile offenders as they become adults
by Stan Paul, University of California, Los Angeles
What are the prospects for young men and women who grow up in and then age out of the juvenile justice system?
Research and the media paint a bleak picture for those whose formative adolescent years have been intertwined with incarceration and who may continue to traverse the revolving door of probation, detention and corrections into their adult lives.
Using in-depth interviews, UCLA social welfare professor Laura Abrams and Diane Terry, a senior research associate at Loyola Marymount College's Psychology Applied Research Center, present a more nuanced portrait of life after juvie in their new book, "Everyday Desistance: The Transition to Adulthood Among Formerly Incarcerated Youth" (Rutgers University Press).
Desistance is often defined as "the movement toward the complete termination of offending." In their study, the authors looked more closely at this process by collecting firsthand stories and insights from young adults who experienced it.
Abrams and Terry, who earned her M.S.W. and Ph.D. degrees at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, interviewed 25 men and women, ages 18-25, in Los Angeles who aged out of the juvenile justice system. Some interviews spanned numerous years so that the researchers could understand their subjects' transition to "emerging adults" and obtain a picture of participants' "everyday" experiences after growing up in the juvenile justice system.
The researchers said that they looked at those whose lives lie between the extreme narratives that predict failure or success against all odds. They focused on the challenges and opportunities facing those who neither gave up on their goals nor found a simple, straightforward pathway to success.
"Criminal desistance is not an end goal; it is a process. And it is certainly not linear," Abrams said. The book is the culmination of a decade of Abrams' work on juvenile reentry and desistance—research she started upon arriving at UCLA in 2006.
The book covers very different points of view and experiences of men and women in the juvenile justice system.
"The young women have a unique story, and much of their post-incarceration lives revolve around finding and experiencing a sense of 'home' that they didn't have in their youth," Abrams said.
One chapter, "You Can Run but You Can't Hide," points out the dangers that persist when youth transitioning to adulthood return to their old neighborhoods. Those youths said that they feel marked by their histories.
"We're all marked. Forever. All of us. No matter how much the transformation," said a young man named Oscar, whose story is featured prominently in the book.
Abrams and Terry said that they count this discovery as one of the most important lessons they learned from the interviews. "From the young men's world view, being marked was partially related to the stigma from appearance, age and race, but was also tied to navigating the urban environments of Los Angeles as former gang members, drug dealers and those whom law enforcement viewed as criminals," Abrams said.
Abrams and Terry previously wrote a paper based on these interviews, "You Can Run But You Can't Hide": How Formerly Incarcerated Young Men Navigate Neighborhood Risks," published in the journal Children and Youth Services Review. The researchers discussed how young men, including those with old gang ties, contend with everyday risks and how they devise complex survival strategies in high-adversity environments.
Abrams and Terry said that research from fields ranging from criminology to biology informed their newest study. But it was the insights gathered from more than 70 interviews that helped them understand the factors that may affect criminal desistance—age, maturity, social bonds, internal motivation and neighborhood conditions, among others.
"Although we fully acknowledge that the juvenile justice system continues to create a group of youth who are disadvantaged as they enter adulthood, we contend that these young men and women are a great deal more than their bleak odds," the authors wrote. They also note that, as juveniles age out of the system and are suddenly deemed adults left to their own devices, they are thrust into adulthood and responsibility earlier than their peers who may have access to more social and economic resources.
"Transitioning to adulthood with little support and an incarcerated past is hard," Abrams said. "There is a lot of trauma to contend with. Most of the youth were struggling with just daily needs. Their lives changed rapidly and unpredictably."
The authors recognize the limitations of social safety nets in providing youth with everything needed to overcome barriers to criminal desistance. They call for specific policies for this group, similar to those that exist for former foster youth.
"As we listened to the narratives of our participants and watched their adult lives unfold, we were amazed at the ingenuity and resilience of these young men and women to navigate immense obstacles they faced," Abrams said. "In the end, their stories taught us that all young people have the capacity to reach beyond the labels assigned to them."
Researchers seek juvenile justice alternatives for children under 12
More information: Laura S. Abrams et al. "You can run but you can't hide": How formerly incarcerated young men navigate neighborhood risks, Children and Youth Services Review (2014). DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2014.03.012
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Always Go Against The Tide' – Amit Patel Of MySetu
"Entrepreneurship is a challenging shoe to get into but with lurking frontiers. You can't afford to be scared. Think different…go against the tide. If you have faith in yourself and your product you are deemed to do well."
This is exactly what the MD and CSO of MySetu professes and is himself a live example that it works. Amit Patel is an entrepreneur with very humble beginnings. From a small town Nangelkhada, 100 kms from Rajkot to Mumbai and across the world this man has travelled far & wide and changed the way security was perceived in India. When we talk of security here we are talking about environment and sustainability via the IT way. So basically his company MySetu develops a suite of web-based applications that provide all key functionalities that are essential to build a world-class Environment Health Safety & Sustainability (EHS&S) and Total Productive Maintenance EIS. Setu's core focus has been saving and improving life of workers in plant/factory. And it is the only company in India to do so.
A post graduate of BIS from Melbourne university, Australia; Amit has spent more than a decade in the industry trying to reform security and environmental issues overlooked by corporates. But the journey hasn't been easy. 'I travelled to Australia to do my post grads in BIS on a scholarship. I was always adamant that I didn't want to spend my parents hard earned money on my risks and ambitions, says Patel. He wanted to do it on his own. But as parents are scared and concerned…he was married off and packed to Australia with a new wife, lots of ambitions, pretty less money and the pressure of settling into a new culture. It was tough initially but things started falling in place when one of his professors' got him a part time job in the university and his wife's hobby turned into a full time job, giving them some money to meet their ends in the far-away country.
However, the arrival of their first child brought them back to India. Once here Amit didn't know where to begin but was sure that he wanted to get into the software line and that a 9-to-5 job was not for him. Coincidently around the same time he met an entrepreneur who wanted to start an NIIT franchise. And Amit was more than glad to help him. After a year though he had saved enough money to start up something it wasn't even close enough to start an IT firm…so he decided to continue what he had been doing. He set up the second NIIT in Gujarat, at Vapi with the name Setu Infotech Pvt. Ltd. "Actually that opened doors for us. We were imparting IT training to fresher's as well as professionals. And it was at the same time I was introduced to Hindustan Unilever (HUL). They were running a program where their employees were being imparted IT training and our NIIT franchise was providing t to them in their preferred language, unlike other institutes. I was told they were appointing DuPont as a partner and I knew if I wanted to enter the industry I had to meet the IT head of HUL. After many efforts I was finally able to meet them and share my credentials. Probably luck favoured me because after a few discussions on my ideas they agreed to give me a few projects for building security software for their company." And then there was no looking back. After completion of a few projects they were handed over contracts for their other industries in Vapi and things started shaping up.
Today, MySetu handles the complete HUL account as well as accounts of most of the biggest companies in India. So from the Tata's to the Birla's, HUL's to the Saint Gobain's, MySetu provides its services to all. From the moment you enter a company/plant to the time you exit the premises, everything you see happening via IT and technology is provided by MySetu.
We spent some very valuable time with Amit (AP) and had an excellent conversation about the company, the challenges he faced and what the future beholds.
Pi: Why the name MySetu? It's very different.
AP: Setu is a Sanskrit word for bridge. Since the beginning I was very clear that whatever I will do in IT it will bridge the gaps. So the word Setu…all our products/modules act as a bridge between the company, the employees and various institutions. For example we bridge the gap between labours and the company by giving them automated data of what's happening in the plant, security concerns, lapses, accidents etc. On the other hand we bridge the gap between industry approved associations and the companies by giving them details about various compliances, sigmas, global parameters etc filling the gap between what they really need and what are the parameters to achieve them.
Pi: What were the bottlenecks you faced while setting up MySetu?
AP: One of the biggest challenges I faced was informing and making people aware of IT and their needs for the technology. People used to tell me that I was crazy to even dare to do anything on security technology. They used to tell me…You are nuts if you are trying to inform companies about security hazards and compliances. Grow up..think something else…try e-commerce. But I always preferred to go against the tide. If everyone is doing something similar I will not join the bandwagon.
Another challenge was that since Government laws and regulations were not that strong with regard to health and security, compliance and sustenance companies also didn't think it was necessary to adhere to international trends. For them it was if why do I need these services? Human intervention is enough.
Pi: Given the kind of technology development and the plethora of services you provide the MySetu team must be very huge. How do you keep employees motivated?
AP: (Laughs) I am not sure if you really want to know our team size…we are only a 16 member team. 11 are technology guys based out of Vapi and the rest 5 including me are based out of Mumbai. The Mumbai team is more into strategic planning, research, business development and client servicing.
Talking about motivation all my employees are entrepreneurs in their own capacity. We do not believe in an employee-employer relationship. I am more of a mentor to them and I want to see each of them grow and take care of all modules as separate business units in themselves. Infact we do a lot of programs where there are exchange of ideas, thoughts and challenges to the way forward.
Pi: What does the future behold?
AP: The future seems to be very bright for MySetu as well as the industry as a whole. We have 50+ plug-ins and we have signed one of our biggest deals with an Indian major to implement the complete set of modules for them. Also we are expanding our portfolio to include more modules in Total Productive Maintenance EIS and working with big corporates on the same.
In the last couple of years, the company has grown at a rate of 100 per cent YoY and is targeting an even bigger growth in the next quarter and the next financial year. Also apart from large organizations and enterprises, we are targeting SME's in power, petroleum, energy, FMCG and manufacturing sectors. We are moulding ourselves to become more of a product company.
From an industry point of view it's a big relief to see the Government taking an initiative in areas of Environment Health Safety and Sustainability. With this Indian companies come at par with international bigwigs and security standards. Apart from that the growth of industry associations, both national and international, has raised EHS&S standards and new parameters are coming into play. Also e-governance will have a big part to play in it.
Pi: What is your advice to bud
ding entrepreneurs?
AP: Entrepreneurship is a challenging shoe to get into but with lurking frontiers. You can't afford to be scared. Think different…go against the tide. If you have faith in yourself and your product you are deemed to do well.
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3 Generations (also marketed in some markets as About Ray) is a 2015 American drama film directed by Gaby Dellal and written by Nikole Beckwith and Dellal. The film stars Elle Fanning, Naomi Watts, Susan Sarandon, Tate Donovan and Sam Trammell. It premiered in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, under the title About Ray. The film was released on May 5, 2017, by The Weinstein Company. Teenager Ray (Fanning) realizes and pursues his true identity as male and his mother Maggie (Watts), lesbian grandmother Dolly (Sarandon) and absent father Craig (Donovan) must learn to accept him for who he is.


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Students from a Doncaster dance school will soon be gracing the stage previously occupied by Wagner, Frank Sinatra, The Beatles and Beyonce.
The Dance Space in Bawtry will be taking a dance troupe to London in May to perform at The Royal Albert Hall – and you can join them!
There will be six rehearsals at The Dance Space studios in Bawtry, where students will learn the choreography and be fitted for costumes. The performance at The Royal Albert Hall is on 2May 27, 2018. A coach will take the dancers from Bawtry to London and return the same evening. Principal Janice Cotgreave and a team of fully licensed chaperones will accompany the students, however parents are welcome to travel on the coach if they wish.
Spaces are extremely limited, so to guarantee your place please contact The Dance Space on 01302 710600 or email info@thedancespace.co.uk. ASAP.


Kirklees Council provides day opportunities for adults who have a learning disability and who may have additional physical disabilities too.
Day opportunities provide a safe, informal, friendly place for you to make friends and enjoy both community activities and activities in the centres. They can also give carers or family a break from their caring roles and take some time for their own interests.
having twice yearly reviews and regular planning meetings with you to ensure you are happy with the activities you access.
Provide effective pressure care management.
Other opportunities include therapies such as rebound therapy and sensory therapy in the sensory room / sensory garden.
We provide a snack type lunch, and you will be involved in choosing and preparing the food you prefer. We will cater for your dietary or religious needs, and healthy food options are available. You will have access to drinks throughout the day. You may like to go out occasionally for your lunch, and this can be built into your activity planning.
Once in the service we will develop risk assessments and support plans to enable you to access activities of your choice. We have annual reviews which are followed up on a six monthly basis to ensure you are happy with the service and support you are receiving and to plan any changes you would like.
We offer a wide range of activities, however, we are always open to new ideas and we try to find things that you find interesting.
We support people to access sports centres where there is swimming, a gymnasium, sit-down aerobics and bowls. We access activities in Community Centres such as cookery and arts and crafts. We visit libraries and museums and have in the past had photography groups and art groups where people's work has been exhibited. We support some people to access voluntary jobs. Whilst you are in the base, we offer different activities, Wii, computer, arts and crafts, games, cookery, snooker, table cricket to name a few.
We encourage you to provide your own transport, however you can access ours. We will organise pick up and drop off times and inform you and your carer about the details.
Everyone who uses the centre has their own Link Worker and their own individual support plan. A Link Worker is a member of staff who takes a special interest in your well-being and will build up a special relationship with you based on trust and knowledge. They will work with you and your family or carer to keep your support plan up to date.
There is a charge for our day service. Depending on your situation you may be able to receive some help, however your social worker will explain this before you start day opportunities.
There are small charges for transport and meals, and also for some of the activities that you access each week.
Smoking is not allowed, in any part of our building. However, if you are a smoker, you can smoke in the garden areas.
To get day care funded by the Council you must be meet our eligibility for care and support criteria.
If you meet the criteria we will need to take a close look at your situation, so we can work with you to decide if day care is the best option for you. We do this through an care needs assessment.
Kirklees Council runs two day centres Red Laithes Court, Ravensthorpe and Highfields, Huddersfield. Opening Hours:- Monday to Friday, 9.00am to 4.00pm.


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"Ask not what's inside your head, ask what your head's inside of" W. M. Mace.
"It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a sick society." Jiddu Krishnamurti.
How does your brain change when you are deeply distressed? Do those changes make it harder to recover? The real role of genes and brain changes.
The distress caused by the outside world, and the changes inside your brain come together. If the world keeps causing you deep pain, of course you'll stay trapped there for a long time, with the snowball growing, your genes are activated by the environment. They can be switched on, or off, by what happens to you.
Genes increase your sensitivity, sometimes significantly. But they aren't, in themselves, the cause of depression. Your genes can certainly make you more vulnerable, but they don't write your destiny.
Marc Lewis's friends thought he was dead.
It was the summer of 1969, and this young student in California was desperate to block out his despair any way he could. He had swallowed, snorted, or injected any stimulant he could find for a week now.
After he had been awake for thirty-six hours straight, he got a friend to inject him with heroin, so he could finally crash.
When Marc regained consciousness, he realized his friends were trying to figure out where they could find a bag big enough to dump his body in.
When Marc suddenly began to talk, they were freaked out. His heart, they explained to him, had stopped beating for several minutes.
About ten years after that night, Marc left drugs behind, and started to study neuroscience. He became a leading figure in the field, and a professor in the Netherlands.
He wanted to know: How does your brain change when you are deeply distressed? Do those changes make it harder to recover?
If you look at a brain scan of a depressed or highly anxious person it will look different from the brain scan of somebody without these problems. The areas that relate to feeling unhappy, or to being aware of risk, will be lit up like Christmas tree lights. They will be bigger, and more active.
Fifteen years ago, if you had shown me a diagram of my brain and described what it was like, I and most people, would have thought: that's me, then. If the parts of the brain that relate to being unhappy, or being frightened, are more active, then I'm fixed as a person who is always going to be more unhappy, or more frightened. You might have short legs, or long arms; I have a brain with more active parts related to fear and anxiety; that's how it is.
Wrong. To understand why we have to grasp a crucial concept called neuroplasticity.
Your brain changes according to how you use it. Neuroplasticity is the tendency for the brain to continue to restructure itself based on experience. Your brain is constantly changing to meet your needs. It does this mainly in two ways: by pruning the synapses you don't use, and by growing the synapses you do use.
For as long as you live, this neuroplasticity never stops, and the brain is always changing.
A brain scan is a snapshot of a moving picture. You can take a snapshot of any moment in a football game, it doesn't tell you what's going to happen next, or where the brain is going. The brain changes as you become depressed and anxious, and it changes again when you stop being depressed and anxious. It's always changing in response to signals from the world.
Social and psychological factors have the capacity to physically change your brain. Being lonely, or isolated, or grossly materialistic, these things change your brain, and, crucially, reconnection can change it back.
We have been thinking too simplistically. You couldn't figure out the plot of Breaking Bad by dismantling your TV set. In the same way, you can't figure out the root of your pain by dismantling your brain. You have to look at the signals the TV, or your brain, is receiving to do that.
They, the distress caused by the outside world, and the changes inside the brain come together.
Once this process begins, it, like everything else that happens to us, causes real changes in the brain, and they can then acquire a momentum of their own that deepens the effects from the outside world.
Imagine that your marriage just broke up, and you lost your job, and you know what? Your mother just had a stroke. It's pretty overwhelming. Because you are feeling intense pain for a long period, your brain will assume this is the state in which you are going to have to survive from now on, so it might start to shed the synapses that relate to the things that give you joy and pleasure, and strengthen the synapses that relate to fear and despair. That's one reason why you can often start to feel you have become somehow fixed in a state of depression or anxiety even if the original causes of the pain seems to have passed.
While it's wrong to say the origin of these problems is solely within the brain, it would be equally wrong to say that the responses within the brain can't make it worse. They can. The pain caused by life going wrong can trigger a response that is so powerful that the brain tends to stay there, in a pained response, for a while, until something pushes it out of that corner, into a more flexible place.
And if the world keeps causing you deep pain, of course you'll stay trapped there for a long time, with the snowball growing.
How much of depression is carried in your genes?
Scientists haven't identified a specific gene or set of genes that can, on their own, cause depression and anxiety, but we do know there is a big genetic factor.
Scientists studying the genetic basis for depression and anxiety have concluded that it's real, but it doesn't account for most of what is going on. There is, however, a twist here.
A group of scientists led by a geneticist named Avshalom Caspi did one of the most detailed studies of the genetics of depression ever conducted. For twenty-five years, his team followed a thousand kids in New Zealand from being babies to adulthood. One of the things they were trying to figure out was which genes make you more vulnerable to depression.
Years into their work, they found something striking. They discovered that having a variant of a gene called 5-HTT does relate to becoming depressed.
Yet there was a catch. We are all born with a genetic inheritance, but your genes are activated by the environment. They can be switched on, or off, by what happens to you.
If you have a particular flavor of 5-HTT, you have a greatly increased risk of depression, but only in a certain environment. If you carried this gene, the study showed, you were more likely to become depressed, but only if you had experienced a terribly stressful event, or a great deal of childhood trauma.
If those bad things hadn't happened to you, even if you had the gene that related to depression, you were no more likely to become depressed than anyone else.
So genes increase your sensitivity, sometimes significantly. But they aren't, in themselves, the cause of depression.
This means that if other genes work like 5-HTT, and it looks as if they do, then nobody is condemned to be depressed or anxious by their genes.
Your genes can certainly make you more vulnerable, but they don't write your destiny.
For example, we know that even if you are genetically more prone to put on weight, you still have to have lots of food in your environment for your genetic propensity to put on weight to kick in. Stranded in the rain forest or the desert with nothing to eat, you'll lose weight whatever your genetic inheritance is.
Depression and anxiety, the current evidence suggests, are a little like that. The genetic factors that contribute to depression and anxiety are very real, but they also need a trigger in your environment or your psychology. Your genes can then supercharge those factors, but they can't create them alone.
Is there some group of depressed people whose pain really is caused in just the way my doctor explained to me, by their brain wiring going wrong, or some other innate flaw? If it exists, how common is it?
Scientists have studied people who had been hospitalized for reactive depressions and compared them to people who had been classed as having endogenous depressions. It turned out that their circumstances were exactly the same: they had had an equal amount of things happen to them to trigger their despair. The distinction seemed, to them at that time, based on their evidence, to be meaningless.
There's no agreement and scant evidence that endogenous depression actually exists, but researchers generally agree that if it exists at all, it's a tiny minority of depressed people. This means that telling all depressed people a story that focuses only on these physical causes is a bad idea.
There are however situations, in addition to manic depression and bipolar disorder where we know that a biological change can make you more vulnerable. People with glandular fever, or underactive thyroids, are significantly more likely to become depressed.
It is foolish to deny there is a real biological component to depression and anxiety, and there may be other biological contributions we haven't identified yet, but it is equally foolish to say they are the only causes.
Why then do we cling to the idea these problems are caused only by our brains.
Junk Values. You can have everything a person could possibly need by the standards of our culture, but those standards can badly misjudge what a human actually needs in order to have a good or even a tolerable life. Our culture creates a picture of what you "need" to be happy, through all the junk values we have been taught, that doesn't fit with what we actually need.
Get a Grip. For a long time, depressed and anxious people have been told their distress is not real, that it is just laziness, or weakness, or self-indulgence.
The right-wing British pundit Katie Hopkins said depression is "the ultimate passport to self-obsession. Get a grip, people," and added that they should just go out for a run and get over their moaning.
The way we have resisted this form of nastiness is to say that depression is a disease. You wouldn't hector a person with cancer to pull themselves together, so it's equally cruel to do it to somebody with the disease of depression or severe anxiety. The path away from stigma has been to explain patiently that this is a physical illness like diabetes or cancer.
We have come to believe that the only route out of stigma is to explain to people that this is a biological disease with purely biological causes. So, based on this positive motive, we have scrambled to find the biological effects, and held them up as evidence to rebut the sneerers.
But does saying something is a disease really reduce stigma?
Everybody knew, right from the start, that AIDS was a disease. It didn't stop people with AIDS from being horribly stigmatized. People with AIDS are still stigmatized, greatly stigmatized. Nobody ever doubted leprosy was a disease, and lepers were persecuted for millennia.
Professor Sheila Mehta set up an experiment to figure out whether saying that something is a disease makes people kinder to the sufferer, or crueller.
Believing depression was a disease didn't reduce hostility. In fact, it increased it.
"This way is better", Marc said, "because if it's an innate biological disease, the most you can hope for from other people is sympathy, a sense that you, with your difference, deserve their big-hearted kindness.
But if it's a response to how we live, you can get something richer: empathy, because it could happen to any of us. It's not some alien thing. It's a universal human source of vulnerability.
The evidence suggests Marc is right, looking at it this way makes people less cruel, to themselves and to other people.
For decades, psychiatrists have, in their training, been taught something called the bio-psycho-social model. They are shown that depression and anxiety have three kinds of causes: biological, psychological, and social. And yet almost nobody I know who has become depressed or severely anxious was told this story by their doctor, and most were not offered help for anything except their brain chemistry.
The pharmaceutical companies are major forces shaping a lot of psychiatry, because it's this big, big business, billions of dollars.
They pay the bills, so they largely set the agenda, and they obviously want our pain to be seen as a chemical problem with a chemical solution. The result is that we have ended up, as a culture, with a distorted sense of our own distress.
Telling people their distress is due mostly or entirely to a biological malfunction has several dangerous effects on them.
You leave the person disempowered, feeling they're not good enough, because their brain's not good enough.
Secondly: it pitches us against parts of ourselves. It says there is a war taking place in your head. On one side there are your feelings of distress, caused by the malfunctions in your brain or genes. On the other side there's the sane part of you. You can only hope to drug the enemy within into submission, forever.
But it does something even more profound than that. It tells you that your distress has no meaning, it's just defective tissue.
This is the biggest division between the old story about depression and anxiety and the new story. The old story says our distress is fundamentally irrational, caused by faulty apparatus in our head. The new story says our distress is, however painful, in fact rational, and Sane.
You're not crazy to feel so distressed. You're not broken.
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