Anguilla is a small island in the heart of the Caribbean, spanning just 35 square miles. It is here that visitors won't find cruise ships, crowds, or casinos, but rather 33 beaches and a tight-knit community. When you arrive in Anguilla, you are immediately treated like family.
Albeit a small island paradise, Anguilla boasts an unmatched level of luxury at the Four Seasons Resort & Residences Anguilla. The Residences have 136 keys comprised of Point House Residences, Beach Residences, and Villas. There's something for everyone here, from studios to five-bedroom homes.
There are a variety of layouts, sizes, and levels of privacy throughout Four Seasons Resort & Residences Anguilla and luxury design is standard in all. Except for studios, all residences have full-size kitchens with stainless steel appliances. There is plenty of cabinet space, and many units have large marble islands. A design element that is consistent through every residence is the silver travertine floors. Starwood Capital Group, the owner of Four Seasons Resort & Residences Anguilla, even bought its quarry to guarantee a consistent supply.
All residences feature ample-sized bedrooms: one bedrooms start at 870 square feet and five bedrooms up to 9,500 square feet. Large open-concept layouts grace the residences that lead to expansive terraces with infinity pools, barbecue and lounge areas. Some patios have outdoor showers, while all residences boast fantastic views of the ocean. Interior designer Kelly Wearstler intentionally incorporated neutral hues throughout the property to enhance the pure and natural beauty of Anguilla such as the turquoise sea water, and native flora and fauna that make the island one of a kind.
The Villas offer outdoor wet rooms draped with silver travertine as well as outdoor lounge areas that create the ultimate sense of privacy and serenity. Penthouses and Villas have large terraces which feature lap pools with attached Jacuzzis, in which the water can be heated or not. All the master baths are spectacular, quite oversized with marbled-encased, deep soaking tubs and dual sinks. A glass table with "tusk" legs as the centerpiece serves as a great example of Wearstler's design acumen.
At Four Seasons Resort Anguilla, amenities run the gamut including a spa, sports pavilion, fitness center, and a children's center with daily onsite activities. The sports pavilion includes basketball, tennis, rock climbing, and more with complimentary clinics for both adults and children. The fitness center has many classes including boot camps and yoga. You will never miss a workout while on vacation. The resort's Sea Centre is fully equipped with snorkeling gear, Hobie Cats, boogie boards, paddle boards, and kayaks, all of which are complimentary. Off-site, Four Seasons Anguilla offers a multitude of water sports and activities including private boat excursions, scuba diving, snorkeling, sunset cruises, and motorized water sports.
The resort boasts three heated outdoor pools and four onsite restaurants. The adults-only Sunset Pool is an infinity-edge pool set between two restaurants. Sunset Lounge is a must for excellent sushi complemented by a long list of vintage Caribbean rums, classic island cocktails and stunning views over the sea. On the other side is Cobá where the menu includes local and international steak and seafood on par with the finest steakhouses in Manhattan. The resort's third restaurant concept, Bamboo Bar & Grill, overlooks Meads Bay and offers island-inspired cuisine adjacent to Bamboo Pool. Located along Barnes Bay, Half Shell Bar & Restaurant, a casual beachfront eatery, offers Caribbean classic cuisine and is one of the hidden treasures of the island. The third Aleta Pool is architecturally impressive with a number of signature palms planted in precise geometry surrounded by large cabanas— a vast aquatic garden designed for family gatherings.
Four Seasons Anguilla is a spectacular resort. Throughout the entire property, there's not a single place where you won't enjoy the cool ocean breeze. Once one discovers Anguilla's beauty, it is a place you come back to year after year. Four Seasons Anguilla has designed beautiful residences with this in mind, geared toward individual lifestyles and preferences. For guests who want to be home in the heart of resort life, the Point House Residences are for you. Situated in the heart of the resort, the residences are steps away from the pools, restaurants, spa, and fitness facilities. For a more private bespoke lifestyle, the Villa and Beach Residences are great options. Beach Residences are set on mile-long Meads Bay Beach near the Sea Centre and Sports Pavilion. Villa residences are nestled along Barnes Bay Beach offering the most seclusion and privacy. Whatever the preference, Four Seasons Anguilla has it. The spacious and remarkable homes encompass luxury, art, and style, while the turnkey lifestyle and generous outdoor spaces are designed to appreciate the island's beauty. For anyone who has been seeking an island paradise to call home, Four Seasons Anguilla is calling.
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Combat veteran Michelle "MACE" Curran led an impressive career as an F-16 fighter pilot during her 13 years in the United States Air Force. From 2019-2021, she flew as the only female pilot for the Air Force Thunderbirds and performed for millions across the country and internationally. Flying under the callsign "MACE," she was the second woman ever to fly in the lead solo position for the Thunderbirds since the team's founding in 1953. Before joining the Thunderbirds, Curran completed high-impact combat missions across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, where the challenges were tough, but the rewards were greater. Always a thrill seeker at heart, she has a passion for pushing her limits and changing lives.

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Alexa - Meaning Of Alexa, What Does Alexa Mean?
The name Alexa is of Greek and English origin.
The meaning of Alexa is "defender of mankind".
Alexa is generally used as a girl's name.
It consists of 5 letters and 3 syllables and is pronounced A-lex-a.
Alexa is a form of Alexius. See Alexius for further details.
Embraced by many parents, the name Alexa, is one of timelessness and grace.
Bold yet appealing, the name is a great blend of character and flair.
Some famous bearers of this name include: Alexa Davalos, and Alexa Nikolas.
In the U.S. in 2017, it ranked 65 in baby name popularity for girls with 3,883 occurrences. It ranked 12,264 in baby name popularity for boys with 5 occurrences.
In contrast, the year before it ranked 51 in baby name popularity for girls with 4,766 occurrences. It ranked 12,233 in baby name popularity for boys with 5 occurrences.
The trend's your friend. See how Alexa has changed in popularity since 1880 by visiting the Alexa Name Popularity Page.
Alexa is a form of Alexius.
Variants of the name Alexa include Alekia.
The name Alessa is a form of Alexa.
Then take a look at the Numerological Report For Alexa.
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The WAT: Correspondent wakes up disoriented, naked, reads about League Cup exit
Sources confirm that "weekly" The Weekly Arsenal Thing columnist, Alex Johnson, woke early Friday morning, stark naked, sweating, and completely disoriented.
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"Jesus, it's November?", croaked the barely audible and now clinically dehydrated and malnourished Johnson, gleaning the dateline from the top of a stack of unread newspapers, which had accumulated under the front door mail slot.
"Oh, the Red Sox won the World Series. That's cool," Johnson reportedly said, before rushing out to make sure his black, 2011 Honda Civic, with moon-roof, remained unmolested where he had last parked it. "Phew," Johnson released in a follow-up statement. "The old girl looks all right."
"Shit!" Johnson announced to the press after thumbing awkwardly through the Sports section, overshooting, then returning to and checking page D6 for soccer scores, "We're out of the League Cup!", before issuing a follow-up verbal statement: "Whatever, it's the League Cup, I guess. Sucks that it was Chelsea, though. Was the game even on TV?"
Johnson then proceeded to discuss the result, while attempting to complete the current day's Cryptoquip in pen. "These things can be a real fuckshow if you're not careful, especially if you aren't using pencil or erasable pen." When asked to comment on Arsenal's League Cup knockout, Johnson reluctantly acquiesced.
"Well, sure, it sucks to miss another opportunity for silverware. But how happy would Arsenal fans really be with the League Cup? It's not very prestigious, nor does it have any pull over Champions League qualification ... . OK, I think 'G' is probably 'A.'"
The still undressed Johnson then sipped slowly from a large cup of hot coffee -- milk, no sugar -- a rogue ray of light cutting through the overcast sky, through a dusty set of storm windows and terminating on his dewy, glistening skin. "The trick is that any letter that's by itself is probably 'A'."
Johnson, stretching languorously, then placing his coffee on the table in order to adjust "himself," eventually continued: "Yeaaahh, you know? Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Maybe this is a blessing in disguise? This will give the boys a little extra rest so we can focus on the Premiership and responding to Dortmund away next week. This is the stuff that matters."
"Aww, shit," Johnson continued. "I forgot about 'I'. 'I' can be by itself too. Do you have any whiteout?"
At press time, Johnson had given up on the impossible Cryptoquip and settled leisurely into a warm and inviting Daily Jumble.
In other news, the Arsenal look forward to a potential tooth-and-nail match against Liverpool tomorrow, depending on how long Luis Suarez's fingernails are.
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Phonebox Magazine : Odeon IMAX opens this Friday in Milton Keynes!
Odeon IMAX opens this Friday in Milton Keynes!
This Friday, the new Odeon cinema opens at the Milton Keynes Stadium, with an IMAX screen- which will be Milton Keynes' biggest screen. As well as the addition of the recent restaurants at the MK1 area by the Stadium, this cinema is set to be yet another attraction bringing people to the city. With the recent opening of the 4DX and 'Superscreen' at the Cineworld in Milton Keynes, film fans are now going to be spoilt for choice as to what to see and where. As well as 11 screens, including the IMAX, there will be a wide selection of refreshments, including a metropolitan Costa coffee shop, Ben and Jerry's, the usual popcorn and drinks, SNOG frozen yoghurt and more. There will be premier seating available in all screens, and well as 'The Gallery', which is Odeon's VIP experience- where guests can enjoy extra wide seats, added leg room, unlimited popcorn, nachos, soft drinks and a great view from their own area of the cinema. Guests can also enjoy a drink in the private bar before the film.
Seeing a movie nowadays has become more and more flashy, and the focus is now on the whole experience, rather than just seeing the film. So if you're a film-buff or just interested in what the new place looks like, why not pay it a visit this weekend? The pictures show what it is set to look like- see how it compares!
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Katie Jiang is a 17-year-old junior at Canyon Crest Academy in San Diego, California. She is the co-president of her high school's youth chapter of NOW, a club that she started after learning about NOW in her world history class and subsequently contacting the local NOW chapter. Katie considers herself a feminist because she strongly believes in the equality of all humans and recognizes the need for society to dismantle the oppression that women in the world face today. Katie is especially passionate about intersectionality in feminism, representation in media, and economic justice for women. Through her school club, Katie has enjoyed forming new connections with other feminists and discovering ways to play a more active role in the feminist movement in her community. In the future, Katie hopes to use CCA NOW Club as a platform for greater change and to empower her peers to fight for equality.


The Football Association believes it has set prices at a "sensible" level for the FA Cup final between Manchester United and Chelsea on 19 May.
The event returns to Wembley after the stadium was rebuilt and tickets will be £35, £60, £80 and £95, with a limited number at £17.50 for under-16s.
"It was important to set ticket prices at a sensible and affordable level," said FA chief executive Brian Barwick.
"We believe these are very competitive for what will be a historic match."
Manchester United beat Watford 4-1 to reach the final, while Chelsea booked their Wembley place with a 2-1 extra-time win over Blackburn.
Chelsea were the last winners of the FA Cup when the final was played at the old Wembley.
They beat Aston Villa 1-0 in 2000.
Both clubs will decide on their allocations after meetings this week and tickets will then be sold via Chelsea and Manchester United ticket offices only, with no general sale.
However, the Football Supporters' Federation believe the lowest ticket price should be between £15-20, not £35.
Chairman Malcolm Clarke said: "That would have been quite reasonable. The two clubs could certainly afford it.
"Football in general is rapidly pricing itself out of the reach of a lot of ordinary supporters and this is just the latest example."


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Date is exactly "1914 - 1918"
"At the Empire's call." The sturdy members of the Australian Expeditionary Force marching throught Melbourne
"Sturdy sons of the Empire." The Light Horse of the Australian Expeditionary Force, Collins St., Melbourne
"Throats which speak for the Empire" 18-pounder guns of the Australian Expeditionary Force at Broadmeadows
A city of tents. The camp of the Australian Expeditionary Force at Broadmeadows
A view of the artillery lines of the Australian Expeditionary Force in camp at Broadmeadows
Australian Expeditionary Force, Ballarat. "Soldiers in the making" Eager to uphold the traditions at the front
Australian Expeditionary Force, Geelong. Lunch time - A welcome respite from their arduous training
Australian Expeditionary Force, Geelong. Some of the "Finest soldiers in the World," ready to face anything, anywhere
Members of the Australian Expeditionary Force undergoing drill exercise at Ballarat, Vic
Ready to fight for the Empire. Australia's splendid troops in camp at Broadmeadows
Souvenir de la Grande Guerre
Souvenir from France
Also includes a Includes card titled "Greetings from France"
The Allies aerial service. A bi-plane leaving the British lines on scouting work in Flanders
The artillery of the Expeditionary Force at the review by the Governor-General, Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson
The Australian Expeditionary Force passing the Govenor-General in front of Parliament House, Melbourne, Vic
The Australian Expeditionary Force, Broadmeadows. Breaking camp prior to their depature for the front
The Australian Expeditionary Force, Broadmeadows. Dinner time - Assembling at the "camp kitchen"
The farewell parade of the Australian Expeditionary Force. Infantry marching along Collins St., Melbourne, Vic
The farewell parade of the Australian Expeditionary Force. The troops marching along Elizabeth St., Melbourne
The farewell parade of the Australian Expeditionary Force. The light horse in Collins Street, Melbourne, Vic
The Governor-General, Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson, arrives at Broadmeadows to review the Expeditionary Force
The Great War. A.I.F. cemetery, Aubigny. The Graves of heroes killed at Villers Bretonneux
The Great War. All that is left of the Great Cloth Hall, Ypres
The Great War. Fifth Division Engineers constructing a bridge over the Somme
The Great War. German prisoners and wounded, near Villers Bretonneux Aug. 1918
The Great War. Large mine crater near Wytschaete, blown up by 120 tons of explosive
The Great War. One of the famous German pill boxes captured by A.I.F. Oosterverne Wood
The Great War. Reconstructing a bridge over the Somme, near Peronne
The Great War. Ruins of the church, Proyart, France
The Great War. The crew of a British tank, with captured machine guns Aug. 1918
The Great War. The ruined front of the Ypres Cathedral 1917
The parade of the Australian Expeditionary Force. Lunch time at Royal Park, Melbourne, Victoria
The war - Colossal Russian eleven-inch siege guns, now investing the German fortress of Konigsberg
The war - Great Britain's invincible Navy. The fleet steaming for the North Sea under sealed orders
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We'll laugh until the lights shine again
Six cartoons about World War I, with a poem, "Mirth," folded to form an envelope. The cartoons are signed "Mick."


All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players….
You had one eye in the mirror, and you watched yourself so hard.
If "the selfie" was the dominant theme this year in social media and personal photography (1, 2), I would argue that the theme of "self absorption" (or, "the absorption of self") applied as much to news photography. Studying the New York Times 2013 "The Year in Pictures" edit, what struck me is how much the photos dealt with a dominant central figure, often dramatically lit, in a setting that felt — no matter how dire, dangerous or squalid — like a theater set or stage.
• how much did aesthetics draw us closer to conflict, to complexity, to diversity, to context, to editorial content versus how much did it usurp the available bandwidth with drama and the aura of significance?
• how many of the admittedly striking images this year were more memorable in and for themselves rather than for a subject or event?
• To what extent were the top pictures this year portals into the story as opposed to discrete objects and consumables themselves?
To the extent imagery seeks to impress more than express and stimulate more than inform, that can be understood as self-absorption.
I mentioned that many of the photos, like this one, from Port Said, Egypt, felt like theatrical spaces highlighting a central dramatic figure. A variation on the image with the "central protagonist" was the gorgeous "ensemble scene," offering a cast of figures presented in an almost operatic arrangement more evocative of choreography.
It's going to be very interesting to see what the World Press and Picture of the Year juries do in February in the wake of this NYT Picture of the Year edit. (That's especially true after articles about Molhem Barakat, the young Reuters freelancer recently killed in Aleppo established the financial premium placed on any image that appears in a NYT "Picture of the Day" slideshow). Will these organizations find a way to recognize and honor vivid imagery that details and elucidates current events or will they reinforce this "self absorption" by further canonizing it? Who knows. But after a year of self-absorption, perhaps we'll finally turn a corner.


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YouTube paused Logan Paul's Ad revenue temporarily.
YouTube brand face Logan Paul is again in highlight for cut off in his Ad revenue. YouTube has temporarily paused his Ad revenue from his YouTube channel. The action was taken after he posted a video of a suicide victim in Japan. Logan Paul posted that video and was found laughing on it. He has been suspended with all the Ad on his YouTube channel. Logan Paul had monthly revenue of around $40,000 to $600,000 per month using his YouTube channel which has now stopped temporarily.
On Twitter, the creators of YouTube posted his "recent pattern of behaviour," as a reason for the suspension. It's not like that Logan didn't reacted on this, he posted an apology video and asked everyone to forgive him for the mistake he did. With that video, he was encountered with several comments over his attitude and behaviour towards that suicide victim in Japan. He wasn't banned with his revenues just for that video, but later he again started posting videos showing dead fish and the teasing of a dead rat.
What had Logan Paul lost now? He lost laid down, dropped his ad revenue, been cut from YouTube Creators' Original series and also lost a YouTube Read deal for a sequel to his film, The Thinning. Logan also posted on Twitter about this cut off in his ad revenues and said this was done because he swallowed Tide Pods and tried to monetise a video which wasn't falling under YouTube's advertiser policy.
YouTube later bifurcated the matter as "This is not a decision we made lightly … we believe he has exhibited a pattern of behaviour in his videos that makes his channel not only unsuitable for advertisers but also potentially damaging to the broader creator community," a spokesperson wrote. This was one of the significant action seen yet for with any publisher of videos.
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Opening Firefox and then clicking on the "Bookmarks" drop down menu at the top of the web browser window. If your menu bar isn't enabled and you don't see the "Bookmarks" option, enable the Menu bar by utilizing this alternative guide.
Next, click on "Show All Bookmarks".
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On the new computer, open Firefox and then click on the "Bookmarks" drop down menu.
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Next, click on "Import and Backup".
Click on "Import Bookmarks From HTML File".
Next, select the bookmarks file that you copied from the original computer and then click on "Open".
Afterwards the window will close and your imported bookmarks should now be present on the new computer.
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» Vehicle collision kills 1 worker, injures another
Vehicle collision kills 1 worker, injures another
On behalf of KMA Law Office | Oct 23, 2019 | personal injury |
Automobile accidents often trigger workers' compensation claims in Maryland, but at least one of the claimants is usually in one of the vehicles involved in the collision. A recent collision involving a pickup truck and an SUV killed one worker and injured another, and neither of the workers was in either of the vehicles.
According to Hagerstown Police, two construction workers were working in the parking lot adjacent to the police department. An SUV was traveling north on Burhans Blvd. when it was struck by a pickup truck heading westbound on West Washington Street. The crash threw the SUV into the police department parking lot, where it struck both workers. The SUV also struck a vehicle in the parking lot that had another worker inside. When police arrived on the scene, they found one of the workers had been killed when the SUV was thrown into the parking lot. The other worker suffered non-life threatening injuries. Police believe that one of the involved vehicles may have run a red light.
The two workers who were struck by the SUV are eligible for workers' compensation benefits. The family of the worker who was killed will have what are called survivors' claims, and the injured worker will have a claim for medical expenses, lost wages and any resulting disability. If the police are correct in suspecting that one of the vehicles precipitated the accident by running a red light, The injured worker and the family of the deceased worker may have claims against the driver that will not be subject to the limitations of the workers' compensation statute.
Anyone who has been injured or lost a loved one under similar circumstances may wish to pursue the negligent third party for damages for medical expenses, lost income and pain and suffering. An experienced personal injury lawyer can provide helpful advice in evaluating such claims.


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Saint Joseph's Season Comes to an End With Loss to St. Bonaventure
This time last year, Phil Martelli and his Saint Joseph's Hawks were making a run through the Atlantic 10 Tournament that would culminate in the Hawks senior-heavy squad cutting down the nets at the Barclays Center.
With a much less experienced roster this year, the Hawks went through quite a bit of growing pains throughout the season.
Saint Joseph's 2014-2015 season would culminate in disappointing fashion - a 60-49 loss to St. Bonaventure in the second round of the A-10 Tournament - but with just one senior starter on this year's squad, Martelli's team could look much stronger with another year of experience under their belts come November.
The Hawks would get off to a fast start Thursday night at the Barclays Center, jumping out to an 18-9 lead just past the midway point of the first half before heading to the locker room with a 28-23 advantage at the break.
Saint Joseph's shooting would go ice cold in the second half, however, as the Bonnies surged to a 36-34 lead with 13:02 remaining.
St. Bonaventure would not relinquish the lead from there, taking advantage of the Hawks' 17.2 percent (5-for-29) second half shooting on its way to a 60-49 win.
Isaiah Miles would lead the Hawks in the loss, notching 19 points, while DeAndre' Bembry was held to just 12 points on 3-for-14 shooting from the field.
Senior Chris Wilson would be held scoreless in his final game for Saint Joseph's going 0-for-6 from the field.
With the season over much earlier than they would've liked it to be, the Hawks will begin to look to the future and try to grow the program around Bembry, their First Team All-Atlantic 10 standout.
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Q: Getting Number from Element's Text and Injecting into an xpath string via ProtractorJS Background
Essentially what I want to do is to grab text from an element on one page. Parse that grabbed text into a number but which remains in string format, so I can further use it for an xpath query string. See the code below
var bookingRefString = element(by.css(".panel-header span")).getText();
var bookingRef = String(bookingRefString).match(/\d+/);
element(by.id("menu_item_control")).click();
element(by.xpath(".//tr/td[1]//*[text()='" + bookingRef + "']/../..")).click();

The error I get back
Failed: No element found using locator: By(xpath, .//tr/td[1]//*[text()='null']/../..)

What I can conclude from this problem
So to conclude it's quite clear that it's not parsing the bookingRefString for the number as stated from 'null' being injected into the xpath.

A: Try that:
element(by.css(".panel-header span")).getText().then((bookingRefString) => {
    var bookingRef = bookingRefString.match(/\d+/);
    element(by.id("menu_item_control")).click();
    element(by.xpath(".//tr/td[1]//*[text()='" + bookingRef + "']/../..")).click();
});

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How quickly we ignore our own wrongs and accuse others of theirs.
The very next day after Moses had committed murder, he tried to sort out an argument between two men who were fighting. One of them was 'in the wrong'. How? Had he punched and knocked the other man to the ground? Did he have him in a hold, ready to strangle him or to snap his neck? Was he holding a knife to his opponent's throat? Had he picked up a nearby brick or stone in order to bash his head with it? It appears that Moses condemned the stronger assailant, and that he felt superior to the two men, and that, conveniently, he had put the memory of his own prior crime to one side.
There are, of course, times when we should intervene sensibly and carefully when we see a problem, but that is not the issue being addressed here. Moses' question, "Why do you strike your companion?", is one to which he would have known the answer had he examined himself. Moses himself had struck someone before in vengeful rage.
In Matthew 7:1-3 Jesus commanded his followers, "Judge not that you be not judged…why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?" Sometimes we condemn others for committing the type of sins of which we too are guilty. For example, do we criticise others for lying when in fact we don't always tell the truth?
I wonder whether Moses would have acted differently if he had known and taken to heart the words of Jesus. What if Moses had said something like, "Don't do it. I understand, I too have lost my temper and hurt someone else. It's not worth it. Don't do it!"? We don't know what happened next save that Moses ran away in fear. But did the man in the wrong proceed to kill the other person?
Next time, before we accuse someone, let's examine ourselves…who are we to judge another?
Father of compassion, help me please to resist judging others. With the guidance of your Spirit help me to be aware of my own problems. In Jesus' name.


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Why This Is The Time to Invest in Healthcare REITs
Never before in world history has such a large—and wealthy and entitled—population moved into their golden years, as presently in the United States.
Throughout world history, "old age homes" have been synonymous with straitened circumstances, or even poverty. But the 76 million people born in the US from 1946 to 1964, and additional immigrants now in their senior years, are, if anything, better financially off than younger cohorts, and generally entitled to Medicare benefits to boot.
Stating the obvious, spending on healthcare is hardly discretionary, especially for those with silver hair. Whatever dollars or resources on command the oldsters have, healthcare and related outlays will get top consideration.
That said, investing in health care is hardly a turkey-shoot. Some medical treatments will be replaced by better and cheaper ones, and other healthcare enterprises will fail. Practitioners and providers may strain under slow-paying insurers or government cutbacks.
But there is a way to get financial exposure to the tsunami of healthcare dollars in decades ahead that is somewhat insulated from the market and regulatory turmoils: Property rented to medical enterprises, such as hospitals, senior living facilities, or outpatient treatment centers.
Medical facilities, in general, must be near major population centers, and the rent must be paid, by contract and lease. Owning properties rented by the healthcare sector is an excellent manner to capture the upside and avoid much of the risks.
There are 16 healthcare real estate investment trusts (REITs) traded on Wall Street that own portfolios of medical properties that pay dividends to shareholders, and that over time, generally appreciate in value.
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What Should Potential Investors Understand About Healthcare REITs?
First, healthcare REITs, like all listed REITs, pay out 90% of their taxable income to shareholders, in the form of dividends. In essence, REIT shareholders collect rent from the healthcare industry.
More broadly, healthcare REITs own and develop healthcare-related real estate, usually farming out management and operations to industry experts and providers. REIT-owned facilities include senior living communities, hospitals, medical office and outpatient facilities, life science R&D properties, and skilled nursing facilities.
The healthcare REITs generally rent their facilities out through "triple net" leases. This lease structure requires the tenant to cover maintenance, real estate taxes, and building insurance—thus, a lot of the variable risk is pushed onto the lessees. Because of that, healthcare REITs collect a predictable stream of income.
Like any investment, there are risks associated with healthcare REITs. The big one is tenants do not pay, but in general, REITS lease to large commercial tenants with good credit ratings who honor contracts.
There is the risk of oversupply and lower lease rates, but in general new construction in the US is becoming more tangled in red tape, not less. Plus the main target population, particularly seniors, is growing, not shrinking.
There is also interest-rate risk for all REITs. Higher interest rates will both make rival bonds more attractive to investors, and raise REIT borrowing costs. Healthcare REITs, like nearly all REITs, grow on borrowed money.
That said, higher inflation (often the cause of higher nominal interest rates) will lessen the drag of existing debts (as revenues rise with inflation) and also tend to limit new competition. And historically, REITs have outperformed the S&P 500 in times of higher inflation, reports the National Association of REITs, or NAREIT.
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The Three Big Reason to Buy Healthcare REITs
1. Recession resistant
To state the obvious, healthcare spending is largely non-discretionary, perpetual, and in the US often financed by the government or employment-connected insurance. So, people who need to go to a doctor, hospital, or medical facility do so, and moreover, often have only minor or no financial incentive not to.
And as mentioned, healthcare REITs are largely insulated from what vicissitudes exist in even this steady marketplace, by leasing facilities to creditworthy tenants. There are risks in any investment, but healthcare REITs are about as risk-free as the private sector can get.
2. Aging Americans
Almost all residents need healthcare, especially older residents. And American is aging: The number of Americans ages 65 and older is projected to nearly double from 52 million in 2018 to 95 million by 2060, and the 65-and-older age group's share of the total population will rise from 16% to 23%, according to the Population Reference Bureau.
It is better to be in a growth industry than not, and America's healthcare REITs are perched in front of a tsunami of demand.
In addition to the general aging of the population, there will be a spike in some of the oldest age categories. "The number of adults ages 85 and older, the group most often needing help with basic personal care, will nearly quadruple between 2000 and 2040," recently advised The Urban Institute.
3. Pandemic effects
While the 2020-2022 pandemic had mixed results for the healthcare REIT industry, the long-run impact is likely to be positive. Although too soon to make bold predictions, in general, Western governments will likely recognize the need to bulk up medical facilities and bed capacities in the event of future pandemics.
Senior-living facilities have faced challenges in the pandemic as customers stayed away, even as certain compliance costs rose, as did wages due to labor shortages. But given the set-in-stone demographics, and the eventual conclusion of the pandemic, such hurdles will likely recede into the past.
Other Aspects of Investing in Healthcare REITs
On the plus side, REITs in general and healthcare trusts, in particular, can add ballast and diversity to the investor's portfolio. Indeed a 2019 study from Tilburg University found that healthcare. REITs do in fact boost portfolio diversity.
In general, the empirical analysis implies that investors are able to reach desired diversification benefits when healthcare REITs are added in a mixed-asset portfolio," concluded the study, entitled, The Role of Healthcare Real Estate Investment Trusts in a Multi-Asset Portfolio.
In brief, not only do individual healthcare REIT stocks offer generally good reward-to-risk ratios but adding such REITs to a portfolio tends to boost the overall reward-to-risk profile.
Healthcare REITs pay dividends, at an average of a little more than 4% in 2021, reported NAREIT.
By the way, healthcare REITs returned a total of 20.6% in appreciation and dividends in 2021, a solid return despite it being a challenging year in which the pandemic boosted a variety of health and labor costs, yet also kept customers away from some medical facilities, especially in senior care.
With prospects for higher interest rates in the 2020s, there will be some pressure on healthcare REIT shares, since many investors buy REITs for the predictable dividends. On the other hand, about of higher interest rates may also present a rare buying opportunity.
A Few Healthcare REITs to Consider in 2021
1. CareTrust REIT (CTRE)
CareTrust primarily owns and leases out skilled nursing, seniors-housing, and other healthcare-related properties, nationwide. The $1.7 billion market-cap CareTrust is excellently poised to gather business from the gaining demographics of America and owns 191 triple-net leased facilities across the country, with a good geographic spread.
Despite being in the right place at the right time, CareTrust shares have roughly traded sideways on Wall Street for years, although shareholders have been rewarded by solid dividends since the REIT was listed on the Nasdaq eight years ago.
The REIT's dividend yield tops 6%, and dividends could be hiked in years ahead, particularly after pandemic issues ease.
There are reasons investors earn such a high yield, and that is due to some risk in CareTrust shares. Credit-rating agency Fitch in 2021 rated the company's credit at "BB+" which is considered a speculative-grade, but with a "stable" outlook. CareTrust, like many REITs, has borrowed to make acquisitions, and then ran into higher compliance and labor costs during the pandemic.
Nevertheless, the REIT has maintained its dividend and plans to shed some less-desirable assets, as management has explained in recent earnings conference calls.
In addition, CareTrust has kept net debt to recurring operating EBITDA (earnings before taxes, interest, depreciation, and amortization) well under "Fitch's 5.0x negative rating sensitivity," said the credit-rating agency. In other words, CareTrust can likely handle its debt loads.
For investors who like yields and are willing to wait for appreciation, CareTrust is worth a look. With interest-rate concerns and geopolitical tensions, a buying opportunity may present itself.
2. Medical Properties Trust (MPW)
One of the largest owners of hospitals and other medical facilities, Medical Properties Trust has 438 properties in its portfolio, with 43,000 licensed beds, primarily in the U.S. and the United Kingdom. It rents the properties out through "triple net leases," in which the tenant pays property taxes, insurance, and maintenance.
The REIT pays a 5.5% dividend, and shares have roughly traded sideways on Wall Street for the last two years.
Moody's gave Medical Properties Trust a "Ba1" Rating in late 2021, considered one notch below investment grade, but with a "positive" outlook.
The REIT does have large exposure to a single tenant, Steward Health Care System LLC, and medical facilities, in general, have been challenged by the pandemic environment. Medical Properties Trust has borrowed heavily over the years to make acquisitions but has also consistently raised dividends.
Of 14 Wall Street analysts who covered the REIT in early 2022, eight had "hold," "underperform" or "sell" ratings.
Still, for investors looking for dividends in the post-pandemic outlook, Medical Properties Trust is an intriguing option. The REIT's profits rose in 2021, a pandemic year.
While rising inflation may raise nominal interest rates, and increase this REIT's new borrowing costs, the higher prices and revenues will also decrease the drag or burden of existing debts. This REIT could pay great dividends for many years to come.
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3. Community Healthcare Trust (CHCT)
This REIT primarily owns acute-care and outpatient healthcare services facilities in target non-urban sub-markets throughout the U.S. The REIT owns 153 facilities in 33 states and has a market cap of about $1 billion.
In its six years as a listed public REIT, Community Health Trust has steadily raised its quarterly dividend from just under $0.37 to just under $0.44. The REITs current dividend yield is near 4.1%.
In the fourth quarter of 2021, the REIT posted an increase in adjusted funds from operations (or AFFO, a REIT metric that is akin to adjusted EPS for non-REITs) to $0.61, up 8.9% from $0.56 a year earlier, and achieved that increase in a tough, pandemic year.
Despite a good track on income growth and paying dividends, Community Health Trust earned only a "B-" rating from Fitch in late 2021, a non-investment grade mark considered "highly speculative." Like all REITs, CommunityHealth Trust borrows money to make acquisitions and thus is leveraged.
Perhaps of interest, in 2021 ratings-agency Fitch reported that Community Health Trust had completed "two transactions that Fitch determined were distressed debt exchanges in June 2018 and December 2019." Yet the REIT also managed to keep paying rising dividends to shareholders. Fitch also said the REIT has been improving profit margins and shedding assets to pay down debt.
Like other healthcare REITs, Community Health Trust may face higher interest rates in coming years, and that will tend to suppress share values—and this after the REIT's stock has already traded mostly sideways for four years.
However, as experienced investors know, the time to buy is not when the sun is shining and financial clouds chase over the horizon. Given the inflation outlook and geopolitical tensions, a contrarian investor might place a bet on CommunityHealthcare Trust.
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Emotion (stylized as E•MO•TION) is the third studio album by Canadian singer and songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen. It was released on June 24, 2015, in Japan and on August 21, 2015, worldwide through 604, School Boy, and Interscope Records. Looking to transition from the bubblegum pop-oriented nature of her second studio album, Kiss (2012), Jepsen found inspiration in 1980s music and alternative styles. She enlisted a team of mainstream and indie collaborators, including Sia, Mattman & Robin, Dev Hynes, Ariel Rechtshaid, Rostam Batmanglij, Greg Kurstin, and Peter Svensson of the Cardigans, culminating in a largely synth-pop-centric effort.

Emotion received generally favorable reviews from contemporary music critics, who praised its pop escapism, but were divided over its lyrical content. The album underperformed worldwide, debuting at number sixteen on the Billboard 200 with 16,153 units. However, in Jepsen's home country, it became her third top ten, peaking at number eight in Canada with 2,600 copies. The album fared better in Japan, debuting at number eight with 12,189 physical copies sold and subsequently being certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) for shipments exceeding 100,000 copies.

The album was preceded by the release of its lead single, "I Really Like You", which reached top five in several territories including the United Kingdom and Japan. It was followed by "Run Away with Me" and "Your Type", the former of which found renewed interest as an internet meme. Jepsen embarked on the Gimmie Love Tour in support of the album in November 2015, with a second leg commencing in February 2016. In April 2016, she toured Canada in support of the album as the opening act for Hedley on their Hello World Tour.

In lieu of commercial success, Emotion reinvigorated Jepsen's career as an "indie darling", garnering her a cult following. The album was shortlisted for the 2016 Polaris Music Prize. A companion EP entitled Emotion: Side B (2016) was released on its first anniversary and features eight songs that were cut from the original project.

Background
Following the sudden worldwide success of "Call Me Maybe" in 2012, Jepsen found that the song had become "[this] huge, ginormous thing that really overshadowed the rest of our project" and further singles issued from Kiss failed to gain traction. Jepsen viewed her predicament as an opportunity to retract from the spotlight and contemplate the direction of her next album. She met with her record label and management after The Summer Kiss Tour wrapped up in late 2013, stating: I want you to put your faith in me that I'll come back when it's ready,' and they did and I'm very lucky to have a team that wasn't about trying to mass produce things and was really more looking at the quality of it."

Jepsen spent time regrouping; searching for a "detour" that came to be in the form of a Broadway role: "I thought, how amazing would it be to take a left turn, somehow, and still come back to this? [...] but 'left turn'—I didn't know what that meant." She was approached by the producers of Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella to audition for the titular character, and was formally offered the part after auditioning in Los Angeles and passing callbacks in New York. Jepsen assumed the role for twelve weeks from February 2014 to June 2014, and during this time she decided to handle her own A&R. With help from guitarist Tavish Crowe, Jepsen began emailing artists she admired to see if they were interested in collaborating, including Tegan and Sara, Rostam Batmanglij of Vampire Weekend and Shellback.

Under the pressure of matching "Call Me Maybes success, Jepsen recorded an entire indie-folk album during her run on Cinderella as an act of "rebellion". Jepsen felt that the demo project was developed for the wrong reasons–out of superficiality–and it was ultimately scrapped: "I think there is a natural rebellion when you have success in one area to completely rebel against that. I needed to get that out of my system, I think. I made really weird music." Jepsen's work on Cinderella provided valuable perspective in terms of being defined by a single attribute, particularly from her costar Fran Drescher: "Everyone still calls her 'the Nanny'. I realized you can't give in to other people's perception of you. Everyone's gonna be known for something.""[Emotion] had to not be about trying to prove something. I feel like if you're writing music just to have a different identity in the public's eye, it's sort of the wrong motive. It's gotta be coming from a place of what you love and what you're passionate about."

Writing and development
Due to her dissatisfaction with Kiss's constrained timeframe of two months, Jepsen went into Emotion with the intent of crafting a project that was authentic and allowed her to approach different avenues. Whereas Kiss was developed in an acquiescent manner, as Jepsen was simply grateful for the opportunity, Emotion was spurred by her desire to take more creative control. Jepsen commented that much of the album is about "trying to get some power back" after exiting a relationship and subsequently settling down in New York. She sought to channel a "heart-on-your-sleeve sensibility" reminiscent of 1980s pop music after attending a Cyndi Lauper concert in Japan. These themes were further explored through "old-school" Prince and Madonna records on morning runs before Cinderella rehearsals: "What I loved was how potent some of those [1980s] lyrics were—how heart wrenching, how everyone's tea leaves are just right there on their sleeve. In music today, everything is a little more coy, but I wanted that romance and that fantasy, and I think that a lot of people [my] age do."

An epiphany came to Jepsen after finishing "Emotion", the album's title track, where she found that a 1980s pop sound, combined with a more "alternative" production, was what she had been seeking. This fashioned the album's direction entirely–Emotion developed as a midway point between the "pure" pop she recorded in Los Angeles and the indie-folk effort that was scrapped in New York.

Jepsen combed through Dev Hynes' discography after becoming infatuated with "Losing You" by Solange, to which she found his name listed in its production credits. Jepsen sought to collaborate, stating she was a fan, which Hynes hesitated to believe. He was eventually "won over" by Jepsen's demonstration of her vocal ability and work ethic, and credited her with genuine intentions of "[developing] a new aesthetic" versus pursuing "Pitchfork-approved artists" for the sake of indie credibility. The pair worked in a Chelsea studio between Jepsen's Cinderella performances. Hynes sent a demo of what would become "All That", where Jepsen wrote the bridge and produced the vocals herself. Ariel Rechtshaid was brought in for additional work on the song. In a similar affair, Jepsen's admiration of Sky Ferreira's work led her to Rechtshaid and the pair began meeting for coffee dates, figuring out a session date as he was in the midst of producing with Brandon Flowers. Rechtshaid further contributed to Emotion by aiding in the selection process of its track list and finalizing the production on its closer, "When I Needed You".

Rostam Batmanglij was a prior fan of Jepsen's work when he reached out to her in the summer of 2014, after learning that she was in Los Angeles writing with various people. Jepsen was "over the moon" and the pair developed "Warm Blood" over the next year, the first verse recorded as Jepsen sat on the carpet of Batmanglij's home studio. Batmanglij announced the track's existence via Twitter on April 29, 2015.

Jepsen spent a month in Sweden recording for the album, per her label's suggestion. These sessions materialized in its lead single "I Really Like You", written with Peter Svensson of the Cardigans, "Your Type" with Rami Yacoub and Carl Falk, and the Mattman & Robin-produced "Run Away with Me" which developed over two separate trips to the country. The duo flew to Los Angeles for one last session with Jepsen, finishing "Gimmie Love" in a day.

Prior to starting full-fledged work on Emotion, Jepsen had sketched several of its demos on her tour bus as she supported Kiss back in 2013. Of these, "Boy Problems" would eventually finalize its form with Sia and Greg Kurstin. Sia wrote the bridge to "Boy Problems", and contributed the outside cut "Making the Most of the Night", which Sia originally developed with the members of Haim. "I Didn't Just Come Here to Dance" existed as early as 2011 according to matching lyrics on a tweet authored by Jepsen. It would eventually be presented to Max Martin after the pair finished work on "Tonight I'm Getting Over You" in 2012; intending to cease their session at midnight, the song compelled Martin to stay for two extra hours. It was confirmed that she had worked with Josh Ramsay, Ryan Stewart, Benny Blanco and Stargate, though none of these producers appeared on the finalized project. A total of 250 songs were composed over the course of the album's development. Speaking to the Herald, Jepsen stated that she worked on Emotion past deadline and finished right before its Japan release date on June 24, 2015.

Composition and lyrics
Emotion contains elements of synth-pop and new wave. Consequence of Sound summed the record up as a "more mature, sophisticated version of her [Kiss] hyperpop", Jepsen elaborating: "I wanted to kind of blur the lines of what [a pop album] needed to be." She found it a challenge to repurpose the album's 80s influences into a modern context without delving into "empty nostalgia", stating that the album is not strictly a "period piece", but is "tinted with shades of that era".  The lyrics on Emotion "shade her old ebullience with darker, more complex feelings", and it is sonically grounded with "earthier textures" from 80s R&B–cleansing herself of the Cinderella performances during the record's production. Elsewhere, Jepsen explores funk and disco on "Boy Problems", and house music on "I Didn't Just Come Here to Dance".

Jepsen singled "All That" out as most representative of the goals she sought to accomplish with Emotion. Lyrically: "['All That'] holds a special place in my heart because it is so revealing: It's talking about the desire for intimacy with somebody. And I think with songs like 'Call Me Maybe', that can be quite light and a little bit more surfacey, it's fun to get a little deeper." Jepsen penned "Your Type" with Rami Yacoub and Carl Falk at four in the morning when she was "losing her mind": "They got me hooked for a week on those little fake cigarettes that taste of strawberries. You can hear it in my voice, I sound all gritty. It's because I was vaping for a week."

"Warm Blood" was produced by Rostam Batmanglij and co-written with Tino Zolfo and Joe Cruz. It initially held the hook "warm love feels good" to which Batmanglij misheard as "warm blood", sticking as its main motif as he was drawn to its physical rather than abstract connotations. Jepsen explained: "The more we chipped away at it, we couldn't get away from how much better 'blood' felt and how realer it was. It's almost like that warm skin or that feeling of intimacy." The song has been noted for its experimental vocal effects, with Batmanglij scattering distorted vocal cuts throughout, a "creepy" quality that the pair immediately liked. Elsewhere, sections of "Warm Blood" were sung in a lower pitch; Jepsen was to re-record these parts as she came to the session with "shot vocals", however its "smokier" quality abandoned these plans. Brad Nelson of The Guardian compared Jepsen's performance to that of Ezra Koenig's "machine-produced flexibility" on the Vampire Weekend song, "Diane Young".

In a session with Tavish Crowe, the closer "When I Needed You" was written to process a break up where Jepsen realizes the faults of her seemingly "perfect" relationship: "[...] but in order to stay in it, I would have to be quite a different person than who I naturally am [...] and that sacrifice didn't seem worth it in the end." Dan Nigro and Nate Campany composed the "happier-sounding" instrumental, to which Jepsen felt a sense of catharsis in concealing a "very serious" emotion. Ariel Rechsthaid reworked the chord progression in order to invoke a sense of "desperation", droning through it with a series of bell notes that made the composition sound "a little bit more somber". The "five-string, funk-R&B" bass line was played by Ethan Farmer, and the drum fill, "an 80s kind-of snare with a big reverb on it," was inspired by John Mellencamp's "Jack & Diane".

"When I'm Alone", a song written and co-composed by Jepsen during sessions for Emotion, was eventually purchased by SM Entertainment and given to K-pop girl group f(x) for their album 4 Walls. "Cut to the Feeling" and "Runaways", both written by Jepsen during sessions for Emotion, were recorded for the soundtrack of the 2016 film Ballerina. "Wildflowers", a song written during the sessions for Emotion which leaked online in 2016, was covered by Elle Fanning for the soundtrack of the film Teen Spirit (2018).

Title and artwork
Eternal Summer was a running contender for the album's title, in reference to Los Angeles being an "eternal summer in sunshine" where time perspective is lost. It originated from the song "Eternal Summer" which Jepsen developed for a scrapped indie-folk effort; the song was ultimately cut from Emotion as well. Per suggestion from her A&R, the song "Emotion" was retrofitted as the album's title as Jepsen was fond of its strength, both as a one-word title and its complexity as a concept. Jepsen further stated that the song "Emotion" itself encapsulated her feelings of clarity, as its writing process steered her in the direction of 80s emotional pop". Jepsen was "sold" on the title Emotion after she was sent its phonetic spelling, which is reflected in its stylization (E·MO·TION).

The album artwork features Jepsen sitting in a reserved position as she dons a technicolor sweater and black tights: "There were a few different pictures that had more of a decided facial expression, but I kind of liked the fact that I can't totally read what I was thinking in that picture. It could be many things, and this album, to me, was sort of a collection of many different emotions." The artwork's typography bears the dictionary entry of "Emotion" as a noun.

Release and promotion

Jepsen announced the title of the album on April 11, 2015, and released the cover artwork on April 15, 2015. The track listing was unveiled on June 2, 2015. The album's lead single, "I Really Like You", was released to the iTunes Store on March 2, 2015. The song reached the top 40 in Australia, Canada, Japan, and Netherlands, and has reached number 39 on the US Billboard Hot 100, number 3 in Ireland and on the UK Singles Chart, and number 1 on the Scottish Singles Chart. The music video was released on March 6, 2015, featuring Tom Hanks and Justin Bieber. The album's promotion was kicked off with a live performance of "Really Like You" at Good Morning America on March 5, 2015. "All That" was issued as the first promotional single on April 5, 2015. The following day, Jepsen performed the track at Saturday Night Live.
On May 1, 2015, Jepsen performed "Run Away with Me", "Emotion", "Your Type", "Black Heart" and "Gimmie Love" at a show in Beijing, China. The album's title-track was released on June 3, 2015. "Run Away with Me" and "Your Type" also premiered on a Spanish radio station prior to the album's release on June 22, 2015. "Run Away with Me" was released as the album's second single on July 17, 2015. The music video for "Run Away with Me" was released on July 17, 2015 and directed by Jepsen's former boyfriend, David Kalani Larkins. The video was filmed in Tokyo, New York City, and Paris. The track was premiered on Hit FM in Spain on June 22, 2015. "Warm Blood" was released as the second promotional single on July 31, 2015. "Making the Most of the Night" was released as the third promotional single on August 7, 2015. "Your Type" was released as the fourth promotional single on August 14, 2015.

On August 21, the release date of Emotion in the United States, Jepsen performed "Run Away with Me" on Today. During her tour in South Africa in October 2015, she performed "Run Away With Me" on Idols South Africa. "Your Type" was re-released as the third official single on November 9, 2015, in Europe. An official remix package was released on December 11, 2015, in Europe and Oceania and on December 18, 2015, in North America. Its music video, directed by Gia Coppola, premiered November 3, 2015, and follows Jepsen on a Cinderella-inspired story where her character fantasizes about becoming a pop star.

A music video for "Boy Problems" premiered on April 8, 2016. It was directed by Petra Collins and stars Tavi Gevinson, Barbie Ferreira, Paloma Elsesser, among others.

Critical reception

Emotion received positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 77, based on 24 reviews. The album was praised for its "pop perfection" in catchiness, cohesion and production value. Sasha Geffen of Consequence of Sound wrote, "Few artists have taken a logarithmic hit like "Call Me Maybe" as a sign to push even further, to make something better, more human, and more electric. But Jepsen is the kind of singer who thrives on the stakes that unapologetic pop music offers." Annie Zaleski of The A.V. Club said, "If there's any justice, Emotion will propel her to superstardom—but even if it doesn't, she can at least rest easy knowing she made one of 2015's most interesting, effervescent records." Peter Tabakis of Pretty Much Amazing stated that "Emotion is so good, it's formed sky-high expectations out of thin air." Slant Magazine's James Rainis writes, "Emotion is further proof that Jepsen is capable of translating broadly understood emotions and experiences into unshakable earworms."

Opinion was divided over the album's lyrical content, which some reviewers have deemed as immature or bland. Corban Goble of Pitchfork commented, "It's unfair to deeply scrutinize lyrics on a pop record—the goal is to write smart, but skew broad—but Emotion fails to tell us who Jepsen is or wants to be." Her "absence of an identity" was further compared to her contemporaries for their image-conscious work. While Adam Downer of cokemachineglow opines that the album's "retro-pop bliss without angle or ego lends it a refreshingly timeless quality", further contexualizing it [in] "a year where pop stars fight for brand supremacy"; Alexis Petridis of The Guardian states that the issue isn't Jepsen being without an "outrageous, headline-grabbing persona" like Rihanna or Miley Cyrus but that "she doesn't do anything to stamp her identity on the songs [...] It's one problem that all the expensive names in the credits can't solve." Similarly, Jon Caramanica of The New York Times scrutinizes the heavy-lifting done by Emotion's cast of collaborators: "Maybe Ms. Jepsen's choices merely reinforce the new centrist pop model of '80s sleekness [...]; but why fall under the spell of someone else's cool when you can luxuriate in the stink of your own cheese?"

In a more negative review, Billy Hamilton of Under the Radar critiques the poptimism narrative surrounding Jepsen and her perceived effort to appease "indie tastemakers", regarding her as "the pet project of a creative hipsterati that's determined to prove pop is cooler than you, or I, could possibly ever imagine," further expressing that "Carly Rae Jepsen and her production team try overly hard to be clever." In a similar conclusion, Evan Sawdey of PopMatters writes that "Emotion is still a very pleasing album if not just a shade overambitious, clearly trying too hard to make the same genius pop moments that Kiss churned them out with effortless flair."

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The album debuted at number 16 on the US Billboard 200, earning 16,153 album sales in its first week. By the end of 2015, Emotion had sold a total of 36,000 copies. In Canada, the album debuted at number 8 with 2,600 copies sold in its first week. In Japan, the album debuted at number 8 with 12,189 physical copies sold in its first week. On April 2, 2016, Jepsen revealed via Twitter that Emotion was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of Japan, having sold over 100,000 copies there, these copies represent physical sales of the album only. The album entered the UK Albums Chart on September 25 at number 21 with sales of 4,150 copies in addition to streaming figures.

Legacy
Emotion is considered a crucial factor in Jepsen's "unlikely" career trajectory, following her stint on Canadian Idol and the ubiquity of "Call Me Maybe" to "cult idol". Marked as a transitional piece, publications commended Jepsen for cultivating her sound, which "[reestablished] herself as a pop star for grown-ups". Carrie Battan of the New Yorker posed that Emotion spared Jepsen from "falling to her death" and instead descended her to the bottom akin to a rising "mindie" artist, online buzz and "underground cred" in tow: "Jepsen, the woman behind one of the biggest songs of this century, now resembles someone whom she never had the opportunity to become at the beginning: an indie darling."

Emotion was labelled a "commercial flop" as its promotional cycle waned. James Rettig of Stereogum writes, "The lead-up to Emotion played out like a lesson in what not to do with a pop singer sitting precariously on the edge between cultural ubiquity and cult following." Some blamed its promotional roll-out, with a Japanese release arriving two months ahead and therefore susceptible to leaks. Elsewhere, others focused on creative choices–Rettig criticized "I Really Like You" as lead single, the "most damaging misstep" that hindered Jepsen's ability to showcase her artistic growth. FasterLouders Jules LeFevre noted that Jepsen's decision against promoting any archetypal identity rendered herself "indistinct" in the "crowded pop landscape".

The record grew to become a cult hit with Jepsen labelled as an "underdog" as it spread by word-of-mouth. Whereas music critics were "compelled by the narrative of a one-hit wonder trying to rebuild herself", as quipped by Battan, Caitlin White of Uproxx writes, "I think Emotion wouldn't be as meaningful if we had to share it with capitalism's steely machinery; its commercial failure is part of what makes it continue to feel intimate, ours." Emotion is noted for garnering Jepsen a large LGBTQ audience, Brandon Tensley of Pacific Standard opining that her music "taps into a shared queer history of escape, possibility, and disappointment", likening her to Kylie Minogue.

NPR called Emotion a "modern touchstone", by which they compared the Aces and Paramore's After Laughter (2017) to. In developing her EP Now That the Light Is Fading, Maggie Rogers resolved to make pop music after being inspired by Emotion. Jay Som counts Jepsen as a notable influence on her debut album Everybody Works: "I felt very assertive with [Everybody Works] because I was also listening to her music. I liked how energetic and youthful the spirit is—and it's just so not ashamed to be this pop record." A tribute album was released digitally by Something Merry on November 21, 2018. The album is a track-by-track cover of Emotion, including covers made by Wild Pink, Cheer Up, Future Teens, Gabe Goodman, Good Looking Friends, Kiki Maddog, Lilith, Mandancing, oldsoul, Photocomfort, Pushflowers, the Aux, the Superweaks, Tuft.

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Personnel
Credits per the liner notes of Emotion''.

Music

Noonie Bao – backing vocals
CJ Baran – all instruments
Rostam Batmanglij – keyboards, piano
Ajay Bhattacharyya – synths
Peter Carlsson – solina
Samuel Dixon – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, synths
Carl Falk – instruments, guitars
Ethan Farmer – bass
Wojtek Goral – saxophone
Oscar Görres – backing vocals
Zachary Gray – bass, synths
Jeff Halatrax – drums, synths, keyboards, bass
Svante Halldin – violin
Oscar Holter – backing vocals
Devonté Hynes – guitars
Wouter Janssen – all instruments
Carly Rae Jepsen – lead vocals, backing vocals
Jakob Jerlström – backing vocals
Tommy King – keyboards
Daniel Farrugia  - keyboards, piano
Greg Kurstin – bass, drums, guitar, keyboards
Katerina Loules – backing vocals
Lukas "Lulou" Loules – all instruments
Roger Manning, Jr. – synthesizers
Mattman & Robin – backing vocals, bass, drums, percussion ; guitars ; vocoder, synths
Missy Modell – backing vocals
Daniel Nigro – guitar
Emre Ramazanoglu – synths, percussion, drums
Rami – instruments, bass
Ariel Rechtshaid – synthesizers, percussion
Sibel Redžep – backing vocals
Ben Romans – all instruments
Ludvig Söderberg – backing vocals
Marlene Strand – backing vocals
Peter Svensson – drums, synths, keyboards, bass, guitar
Greg Wells – drums, synths

Production

Henrique Andrade – engineering assistance
CJ Baran – production, programming
Rostam Batmanglij – production, engineering, drum and synth programming
Ajay Bhattacharyya – production, recording, drum programming
Mikaelin 'Blue' Bluespruce – recording
Mario Borgatta – mixing assistance
Julian Burg – engineering
Martin Cooke – engineering assistance
Rich Costey – mixing
Tom Coyne – mastering
John DeBold – engineering assistance
Samuel Dixon – programming
Micky Evelyn – engineering assistance
Eric Eylands – engineering assistance
Carl Falk – production, programming
Nicholas Fournier – engineering assistance
Kyle Gaffney – engineering assistance
Chris Galland – mixing assistance
Serban Ghenea – mixing
Zachary Gray – production, recording
Gene Grimaldi – mastering
Josh Gudwin – vocal production, vocal recording
Jeff Halatrax – production, engineering, programming
John Hanes – mix engineering
The High Street – production
Devonté Hynes – production, programming
Chris Kasych – engineering
Greg Kurstin – production, engineering
Lukas "Lulou" Loules – production, engineering, mixing
Eric Madrid – mixing
Manny Marroquin – mixing
Mattman & Robin – production ; programming
Mitch McCarthy – mixing
Scott Moore – engineering
Daniel Nigro – additional production, programming
Robert Orton – mixing
Alex Pasco – engineering
Noah Passovoy – additional vocal recording
Emre Ramazanoglu – programming
Rami – production, programming
Ariel Rechtshaid – production, programming ; recording ; engineering, drum programming
Ben Romans – production, programming
Will Sandalls – engineering
Matt Schaeffer – engineering assistance
Ike Schultz – mixing assistance
Wesley Seidman – recording
Kyle Shearer – production
Shellback – production
Laura Sisk – additional engineering
Stint – production
Shane Stoneback – engineering
Peter Svensson – production, engineering, programming
Juan Carlos Torrado – engineering assistance
Randy Urbanski – engineering
Jaime Velez – engineering assistance
Robert Vosgien – mastering
Vincent Vu – mixing assistance
Greg Wells – production, programming
Wired Masters – mastering

Business

Scott "Scooter" Braun – executive production, A&R, management
Greg Carr – marketing coordination
Lisa DiAngelo – publicity
John Ehmann – A&R
David Gray – A&R
Pamela Gurley – legal representation
Brad Haugen – marketing, creative direction
Laura Hess – management, marketing
Dyana Kass – marketing
Allison Kaye – management
Steve Kopec – management
Evan Lamberg – A&R
Kenny Meiselas – legal representation
Katherine Neiss – A&R coordination
Olivia Zaro – A&R

Packaging
Jessica Severn – art direction and design
Karla Welch – styling
Matthew Welch – photography

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

References

2015 albums
604 Records albums
Albums produced by Greg Kurstin
Albums produced by Rami Yacoub
Albums produced by Rostam Batmanglij
Albums produced by Shellback (record producer)
Albums produced by Mattman & Robin
Albums produced by Dev Hynes
Albums produced by Ariel Rechtshaid
Albums produced by Greg Wells
Carly Rae Jepsen albums
Interscope Records albums

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Are you running a side hustle? Here are a few simple ways to set it up for success.
Globally, more and more people are creating side hustles while employed. In America, for instance, according to Bankrate, there are 44 million people who have a second job. These numbers are only set to increase as many realize the power of the gig economy.
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You – like many small business owners – likely use Excel to create and manage invoices. Afterall, Excel is what you know; it's what's familiar.
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Having a side hustle means that you're doing extra work on top of your existing job. That means that you'll likely be cramming in extra work in your free time. But, if you're not careful that can quickly destroy your lifestyle.
You may not notice this at first, especially if your side hustle is your passion. And so, working on weekends may be common. Perhaps, you find yourself doing some photography for clients, or writing a few blog posts for publications you love? The truth is that this is still work, and any work requires downtime to rejuvenate and fuel those creative fires.
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A side hustle is a fantastic way for you to make to make extra money and get paid for doing what you love.
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Pyrex dishes or other heat resistant containers to use as pots to heat and mix your glue or paints for applications. Expecially nice when mixing glue with several paint colors for one project.
Pan large enough to fill with water for heating your paint and glue pots (this is the "double boiler" method).
Applicators for glue or paint such as as stiff bristle brushes, a stylus, or modified bone brushes for painting on rawhide.
These recipes are starting guidelines. Each artist may develop a technique and ratio unique for their particular application.
1 part glue granules to 1 part water.
Thin: 1 part glue granules to 2 parts water gives a basic paint wuitable for painting on rawhide where you may want a more translucent color without the texture.
Thick:1 part glue granules to 1 part water gives a very thick opaque texture paint similar to the look of acrylic. Not recommended for flexible surfaces.
It may be necessary to place the pan back on LOW heat in order to reach the correct temperatire 140 to 150° F. It is important that you DO NOT OVERHEAT the glue.
Your glue is now ready to use, or mix with natural pigment for painting. When in use, your glue must remain at 140 to 150° F. The glue mixture can remain at this temperature for as long as 8 to 10 hours if covered when not in use to prevent the evaporation of water. Allowing glue to cool and reheat is possible but not recommended as the glue weakens with each reheating.
Measure enough hot glue into a dish for the area to be painted. Remember that a little goes a long way. Add pigment at a ratio of 1 part pigment to 1 part hot glue. Stir well to make a smooth mixture.
During the painting process it may be necessary to reheat your piant ot keep it warm and prevent separation. If necessary, place your paint mixture back in the pan of hot water and stir. Dip your applicator lightly and only apply a very small amount of paint at a time to achieve the look you want, (your mixture will go a long way so alway start with a small amount on your applicator). Use a small separate container of hot water while painting to dip your applicator into to help spread the paint and dilute it as it is applied.
For painting on rawhide, a thin application is best as it will be more translucent with little or no texture. Stiff brushes or other stiff applicators are used to apply the piant and actually work it down into the surface of the hide. Many authentic old rawhide items were painted when the hide was staked out and wet, allowing the natural glues in the hide to mix with the pigments. Since most modern applications are done with dry rawhide, a paint and hide glue mixture will obtain a similar result.
When dry, your painting can be finished by sizing it with a spray varnish, or a very weak glue mixture to further seal and give it a sheen. Howerever the glue mixed with the paint should produce a colorfast application. Note: It is best to mix only enough paint for a single painting session. While a pint mixture can be stored and reheated, subsequent reheating will weaken the glue in the mixture so this not recommended.
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