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Take a listen to Me Myself & My Trigger by Seven30 on Artist Sounds. Seven30 is an up and coming artist based in Queens, NY who has been using music as a way to escape the daily trials and tribulations of being diagnosed with Multiple Personality Disorder. The song "Me, Myself and My Trigger" is an ode to the notion that you really can't trust nobody, so really "you" is all you got. From the first listen, you can easily tell that your listening to an artist that knows what he's doing. His music has a polished sound to it and its completely original. That's actually one of the best parts about Seven30 is that he has a unique sound and uses it to make the type of music other artists are either unable or scared to make. Don't sleep on Seven30 or his new song "Me, Myself and My Trigger". You can stream more music from Seven30 by connecting with him on SoundCloud.
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Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, the German political scientist contributes the famous model called "Spiral of Silence". In 1947 Neumann and her husband found "Public Opinion Organization" in German and also she was a President of "World Association for Public Opinion Research" in 1978 to 1980. Through this Spiral of Silence theory Neumann indirectly explains the Jews status during World War II under Nazi's control. Here, Adolf Hitler dominated the whole society and the minority Jews became silent due to the fear of isolation or separation.
The one view dominated the public scene and others disappeared from the public awareness as it adherents became silent. In other words, the people fear of separation or isolation those around them, they tend to keep their attitudes to themselves when they think they are in the minority. This process is called "Spiral of Silence".
In a company, the managing director decides to increase their working hour from 8 to 10 and send e-mail to all employees. Majority of them accept this time changes and few employees are not satisfied with his decision. But they cannot or ready to express their thought publicly.
1. They may feel unsupported by the other employees.
3. "Fear of Rejection" By rejecting their personal opinion from the public will help to avoid fight.
4. They may try to save their job by suppressing or avoid personal statement in public.
1. Spiral of silence theory describe as a dynamic process, the predication about public opinion in mass media which gives more coverage for the majorities in the society and gives very less coverage for minorities.
2. In this social environment, People have fear of rejection to express their opinion or views and they known well what behaviors will make a better likelihood. It's called "fear of Isolation".
3. Being the part of Minority. People loss their confidence and silent or mute to express their views because of the fear of isolation or they feel alone or unsupported.
4. Sometimes the minorities withdraw their expressed opinion from public debates to secure themselves from the majority.
5. Maximum numbers get more vocal space in the society and lesser number become less vocal space or become silent.
1. Spiral of Silence theory has both micro level and macro level explanatory process.
2. It works well during the public campaign, Senate and Parliament.
3. Spiral of silence theory – which helps to raise question about considering the role and responsibility of media in the society.
4. The theory which is not considering the other explanation of silencing. In some cases the person may feel the majority's ideas or opinion is much better than his own view.
5. It portrait overly negative view of media influence the average people.
what circumstances force someone in the minority side to speak up?
Today I don't know if this theory holds up. I think that it is actually the majority that is silenced. After the terrible events on 9/11 we as a people have been forced to believe that the people in government (the minority) know what is best for us. The American people are afraid to speak out because they will be labeled anti American or traitors. (Social Isolation) Which is a real concern now with the passage of the National Homeland Defense Act. Which gives the government the right to arrest any U.S. citizen with out due process and hold them indefinitely if they are suspected of "Domestic Terrorism". What I think will cause the majority to speak up is finally coming to the realization that when people have as much power as the people in political office do they are bound to use it for there own interest.
Thank you for sharing this and all the excellent comments here. In discovering the spiral of silence, I have decided to stand up for Ron Paul in a community that is largely pro-Romney. I am not sure what will happen, but I refuse to go out silently.
I think this theory not work when minority has power of media.
I think this theory not work when minority has power of media specially they are opinion leader.
You are right at his opinion but the time when spiral of silence model was intrduced or founded , at that time yhe jews were in minority……….
I also think theory is working upside down. the majority have entrusted the minority to represent them. what is happening is the minority are creating fear and tension to the majority so as to get support from the majority.
During 1900 – 1950 jews were consider as minority in all over the world. In german also they are minority but the settled very well and they were not shows any interest towards the poor german and nation. Again and again minority jews can able hold the top position. Germans are became refuges in their own country and poverty kills many. Hitler take this issue as a propaganda and killed jews.
That's why the theory works upside down. Conflict between poor and rich rather than majority and minority.
am realy supporting Elizebath in this theory.if at all you have any opinion or idea which you think after giving it out will leave you to look like afool please keep it for yourself because you willbe isolated and get thorough embarasement in the public.but if you think that you are in line with majority please dear go ahead .
yes, in the developing country, you'll find many aspects to become majority and minority samples, such as ideology/religion, in Asia, especially south east asia, the majority and minority become a problem..
And this theory has explained it, thanks..
Actually, if you read the theory, it isn't based on actual minority or majority, it is based on perceived minority.
Thanks to Elisabeth Noelle Neumann for her efforts to come up with the Spiral of silence theory because it is indeed true in as far as public opinion formation is concerned. I think it is important to understand that it is true that human beings fear isolation and will do what it takes to make sure that they gain acceptance and not neglected since we are not solitary animals and that is why St. Augustin said thayt man is by nature a social animal.
owing to the world of today nobody will keep quiet due to fear of issolation but its better to die and leave the other generation in peace.
this model will not work while minority people have the media in society. they will express their views by their own media.
This theory is appropriate now a days also.Not only in the society..but it is applicable in the family also.when majority decides something minority is forced to support them.if they dont,then they have to argue..n basically people doesnt like to argue….
I can't see the previous comments, so I'm not sure if someone's mentioned this before. Your overview of Noelle-Neumann's theory is good. However, it wasn't the Jews in Nazi Germany that felt the need to be silent in this theory – it was the Germans that didn't buy Hitler's rhetoric. The Jews (and other "undesirables") would be sent to camps and/or executed whether they were silent or not. Your run-of-the mill Germans would have every incentive to go with the flow and not put themselves out as disagreeing with the Nazi regime.
Minority are still an existing opinion that need be exposed, all you need is power and encouragement to oppose your thoughts.
Indeed that was a great theory but though even up now,the majority have a say and the minority have no say at all.


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Somewhere in our past – and even our present for many of us – we can recall someone who has reached the limits of physical pain. They have hit the wall of emotional strain. Perhaps felt the crushing blow of loss. Could be the loss of a loved one. Or loss of self worth. We empathize and want to help. We want to ease their suffering. We want to wave a magic wand or call in a favor from G_d, then *poof* the miracle changes everything. We don't have that kind of power. So our relationship with this person changes. They want out. Or they decide to give up because they are tired of fighting the pain. They let go and leave… forever. They release their grip on this realm, but we refuse let go of their memory.
After seven years of touring and writing songs and studio efforts, the band Breaking Benjamin was able to address the kind of sorrow that humans face when badgered by hopelessness, age, cancer, and worst of all pain in their bodies and minds. The band formed in 1999 with Benjamin Burnley as lead vocalist and guitars, Aaron Fink as lead guitarist, Mark Klepaski as bassist, and Chad Szeliga (originally Jeremy Hummel ) as drummer.
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For hundreds of years there have been people who for one reason or another needed to avoid a king's authority. Maybe they were thieves. It could have been that they broke some posted or some obscure rule or order. Of course, they may have been in opposition to the crown because religion or family ties. However, when it comes to the laws of love we have so many reasons to be in it, even when it may be forbidden because of another person who is supposed to be receiving our affections. There are so many complications attached to a new romance when we are in the middle of an established one. This drive is usually what causes the deceptions and fibs associated with an affair. There are only a handful of books and websites that teach us how to spot someone being untruthful. It seems that only a few errant lovers have the ability to hide in plain sight.
For a southern California band that began covering rock standards, writing songs about people with a love agenda was a strength for the band known as the EAGLES. They had formed in 1971. A year later they debuted their self-titled work which caught the attention of rock, folk and country music fans in America and around the world. The band is ranked #75 on the Rolling Stone magazine list of 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. EAGLES band members Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Bernie Leadon, Don Felder, Randy Meisner and Jim Ed Norman had relationship problems themselves.
By 1975 Bernie was replaced by Joe Walsh, a legitimate rock star in his own right. Don and Glenn over the years had developed such a contentious relationship that by the 1990s they were overheard threatening each other on stage between songs. Glenn eventually had Don fired from the band business, Eagles Ltd. Soon after Don sued the corporation for breach of contract. If we had ever seen them in concert, we would have never known they were struggling inside. It seemed like that these two artists rarely saw eye to eye on their business matters the way did with their compositions.
While the band was producing Top 40 hits and touring, they were hiding their betrayals in plain sight. They smiled at the crowds and produced memorable arrangements, then sang the most beautiful of harmonies. The sweet lyrics on their 1974 iconic hit, "Best of my love," insists that the singer is a devoted lover. But the band members' issues were not in any lack of effort, rather they were in a lack of forgiveness and compassion from the heart. By 1975 the band finally expressed in music the way to tell how someone who says I love you is not being honest about their feelings. Have we ever been the person who caused heartbreak for another? Is it very easy to hide our feelings from the person who believes in the growth of our relationship when we have virtually given up on that same promise?
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HomeENVIRONMENTMan the solver: recycling C02 to make fuel and increase greenhouse crop yields
Man the solver: recycling C02 to make fuel and increase greenhouse crop yields
Not just solving the C02 problem but turning it to our advantage
May 4, 2019 Steve Cook ENVIRONMENT 0
The entrepreneurs turning carbon dioxide into fuels
The race is on to prove that CO2 can be taken from the air and recycled into profitable, carbon neutral fuels. But cost and investment obstacles remain.
Climeworks, the world's first direct air capture plant, opened in June. It hopes to sell its concentrated CO2 to companies producing fuels. Photograph: Julia Dunlop
Climeworks, the world's first direct air capture plant
In an industrial greenhouse about 30km from Zurich, plump aubergines and juicy cherry tomatoes are ripening to perfection. Growing Mediterranean crops in Switzerland would traditionally be energy intensive but these vegetables are very nearly carbon-neutral. The greenhouse uses waste energy from a nearby refuse plant, and carbon dioxide from the world's first commercial direct air capture plant.
The facility, designed by Zurich-based start-up Climeworks, pumps the gas into greenhouses to boost the plants' photosynthesis and increase their yield, it hopes, by up to 20%. Climeworks says it will extract around 900 tonnes of CO2 a year from the air.
The company's end game is not plumper tomatoes but something far more ambitious – proving that carbon dioxide can be recycled from the atmosphere and turned into something useful. If this installation is a success, Climeworks wants to sell its concentrated carbon dioxide to companies producing carbon-neutral hydrocarbon fuels.
The greenhouse supplied by Climeworks. Photograph: Julia Dunlop/Climeworks
With concentrations of CO2 at their highest in the last 400,000 years, the world needs to remove the greenhouse gas from the atmosphere – as well as cut emissions – if we are to avoid catastrophic climate change.
Of course, nature has been recycling carbon dioxide for millions of years. Photosynthesis turns sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into sugars which fuel plants, which provide us with food, wood and complex sugars for fuel. But most plants turn less than 1% of the solar energy they receive into useful energy-rich compounds.
Scientists and entrepreneurs are working on technologies that they hope will improve on nature and make recycling carbon dioxide a profitable industry.
The World Economic Forum and Scientific American recently named an artificial leaf as one of the top emerging technologies of 2017. Dan Nocera, a chemist at Harvard University, is one of the scientists working on developing this "leaf", which looks like a small, plain computer chip.
Nocera's leaf has an energy efficiency of around 10%, according to his paper published last year in Science, a peer-reviewed academic journal. It has two processes. The first is an electrochemical system that uses metal catalysts and electricity from solar panels to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. Then the hydrogen, along with carbon dioxide, is fed to bacteria commonly found in soil and water. The bacteria convert the gases into alcohols like methanol and ethanol that are the precursors to liquid fuels.
These "solar fuels" – so called because they are made from nothing more than sunlight, water and air – could be a carbon neutral drop-in replacement for today's fossil fuels.
Nocera's ultimate vision is a cheap, standalone solar-powered system for developing countries to turn water into fuel for vehicles, cooking or power generation. His initial target market is India, where he hopes local scientists and entrepreneurs will help to commercialise the system, although he admits that his technology is years from commercialisation.
In the meantime, several start-ups are trying to beat Nocera to a practical system to recycle CO2 into useful products. Like Nocera's leaf, all are designed to run on a trickle of electricity from solar panels.
In 2015, Staff Sheehan left Yale University and founded Catalytic Innovations to use metal catalysts like Nocera's to turn carbon dioxide and water into ethanol, a biofuel that is already added to petrol in many countries to reduce its carbon footprint.
Another start-up, Opus 12, recently spun out of Stanford University in Silicon Valley says it's "recreating photosynthesis, but at warp speed". The company says its tech can be used at any source of CO2 emissions to produce syngas. This mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide can be burned like natural gas or used to produce a range of industrial chemicals.
And at the annual American Chemical Society meeting in Washington DC last month, a small company called Dioxide Materials said that it had developed electrolysis technology that could split carbon dioxide into oxygen and carbon monoxide – a precursor for methanol – with twice the efficiency of previous systems.
In order for CO2 recycling systems to operate efficiently, however, the gas has to be captured and concentrated from sources such as factories and power stations – or extracted from the air using a system like Climeworks'. And that isn't cheap.
Capturing CO2 at a factory chimney could cost up to $80 per ton, according to research from the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions. Extracting from thin air is pricier still. Climeworks says it currently costs around $600 to extract a ton of CO2, although it expects that price to halve in its second-generation plant.
"Technologies to capture CO2 from the air, like Climeworks' units, have the potential for the sort of steep price declines that we've seen from solar, wind, and batteries, which are also factory manufactured products," says Matt Lucas of the Center for Carbon Removal, a non-profit dedicated to curtailing climate change.
"But if we want to compete with gasoline," says Sheehan, "that cost has to be practically nothing."
There are a couple of dozen large-scale projects underway to capture and store carbon dioxide from industrial facilities, including a pilot in India turning CO2 into baking soda. However, the International Energy Agency says they are not on track to meet its objective for more than 100 projects by 2020.
Another challenge is the swift change in the political climate. "Traditionally, solar-fuelled artificial photosynthesis has been a government-funded effort," says Dick Co, director of the Solar Fuels Institute, a global team of scientists working to recycle CO2 into fuels. "But accelerated by the US election last year, we're seeing a quick shift from government money to philanthropists like Bill Gates and Tom Steyer." It's unknown whether these philanthropists will be committed to funding solar fuels over the years and decades they will need to reach commercial reality.
For young companies like Catalytic Innovations, that means seeking out every source of funding. Sheehan's start-up has made it to the semi-finals of the NRG Cosia Carbon XPrize, a $20m competition to recycle waste carbon dioxide from power plants into valuable fuel or building materials. He is now looking for money to build a larger prototype in the hope of making it to the final round – which would come with half a million dollars seed money.
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'The Muppets' Tribute Album Features Weezer, OK Go, Andrew Bird, My Morning Jacket & More
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Yes, sometimes we're cranky, snarky and cynical but we're also big pushovers for gooey entertainment that hits the sweet spot just right, and from what we've seen of "The Muppets" so far in the multiple trailers, it is a film that is blending nostalgia, reverence for what makes those characters work and a rare, genuine sense of fun that we can't wait to be a part of.
Even though the film doesn't hit until Thanksgiving, Disney is getting the marketing campaign started very early, and in fact, a tribute CD of covers, "Muppets: The Green Album," will be arriving in stores by the end of the summer and it boasts some… 'interesting' choices. Running twelve tracks strong, the first thing to note is that Jim James — originally hired to pen songs for the movie before "Flight of the Conchords" star Bret McKenzie got the gig — still gets one song in here, with his band My Morning Jacket delivering "Our World." Weezer teams up with Paramore's Hayley Williams for a song we're pretty sure we don't want to hear. And perhaps even more damaging to the eardrums will be a pairing between Atreyu's Brandon Saller and Good Charlotte's Billy Martin. A band we didn't know still existed, The Fray are here too along with "punk" band Alkaline Trio. And oh yeah, Amy Lee of Evanescene fame shows up to warble as well. A bit more up our alley, Norwegian songsmith Sondre Lerche contributes, as does whistler extraordinaire Andrew Bird who gets to sing "Bein' Green."
The disc will hit stores hella early on August 23rd, with the movie arriving three months later on November 23rd. Check out the full tracklisting below, in addition to two covers of "Bein' Green" by Andrew Bird — both live — one in English and one in French — as well as a new batch of stills. [American Songwriter/You Ain't No Picasso/Cinema Blend]
"Muppets: The Green Album" Soundtrack Tracklisting
1. OK Go: "Muppet Show Theme"
2. Weezer and Paramore's Hayley Williams: "Rainbow Connection"
3. The Fray: "Mahna Mahna"
4. Alkaline Trio: "Moving Right Along"
5. My Morning Jacket: "Our World"
6. Amy Lee: "Halfway Down the Stairs"
7. Sondre Lerche: "Mr. Bassman"
8. The Airborne Toxic Event: "Wishing Song"
9. Atreyu's Brandon Saller and Good Charlotte's Billy Martin: "Night Life"
10. Andrew Bird: "Bein' Green"
11. Matt Nathanson: "I Hope That Something Better Comes Along"
12. Rachael Yamagata: "I'm Going to Go Back There Someday"
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Top Gear have collectively always been known for pushing the boundaries of modern vehicles, and coming up with new, innovative ways of showcasing the amazing abilities of automotive power.
They also always find a way of making sure the challenges feature some element of danger, as they seek to produce the most entertaining form of television for their audience - more so now they've made the primetime move to BBC One for this current series. And in this week's episode, they certainly did not disappoint with the introduction of their incredible Wall of Death.
The Wall of Death is one of the most intimidating challenges we've seen on the show - and that's quite some statement, considering previous tasks on the shows included car darts, caravan conkers, motorhome destruction derby, Toyota Aygo Football and Bungee jumping cars.
And who could forget the time they drove through the south of America sporting offensive slogans all over their vehicles? As you see, Top Gear have never shied away from controversy with their challenges, and their latest stunt was unquestionably one of their most ambitious.
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Men Can't Hear: Sex-Linked Sensory Differences
The differences between men and women make a lot of sense.
By RADHA CHITALE<br>ABC News Medical Unit
July 20, 2009— -- When it comes to the difference between men and women, there may be no accounting for taste -- but you can account for smell.
Men's senses and women's senses are a combination of sense stimulation and the brain processing information. There are often pronounced differences in the ways men and women perceive smells, sounds, and sights. There are fewer differences between men's and women's senses of taste and touch, but in general, men underperform compared to women in the sensory department.
Men are more likely to suffer hearing loss, they have a less developed sense of smell, and the idea that they prefer the taste of beer more than women do is false.
"In general, women seem to have a slight edge up on men in terms of abilities," said Dr. Paul Breslin, a professor of Nutrition at Rutgers University and a member of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia.
Some of these differences evolved over time, allowing men and women to choose the best foods or select their optimal mate.
And some of these differences can still be physiological. Men don't experience the pronounced hormonal changes women do, during pregnancy for example, but their bodies change as they become older.
"All the senses decrease as you get older," Breslin said. "Olfaction takes a nosedive, you lose vision."
No one's senses are immune to the ravages of time.
The following is a list of some of the unique aspects of male senses.
Lacking the extra X chromosome goes a long way toward vision differences between men and women, especially when it comes to detecting color.
Human color vision is based on three light sensing proteins, two of which have genes located on the X chromosome. For women, who have two copies of the X chromosome, if one of the genes does not function properly, there is a greater chance that the extra copy of the gene on the other chromosome can compensate.
But in men, one mutated gene is enough to significantly affect their vision, and the most common defect is red-green color blindness.
"This is a typical X-linked trait that is much more common in men than in women," said Dr. Jeremy Nathans, a professor of molecular biology and genetics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
People with red-green color blindness have difficulty distinguishing colors at which light travels at longer wavelengths -- reds, oranges, yellows. People with one defective color vision gene -- known as dichromads -- make up approximately 2 percent of the caucasian male population, according to Nathans, while those with an altered color gene make up between 6 percent and 7 percent of the caucasian male population.
Nathans said color blindness in African and Asian populations is less common by half, but the reasons for this are not known.
While color blindness can be a burden as far as distinguishing colors at long wavelengths, Nathans said there are situations where the trait can be helpful.
"Dichromads do better at tasks where color acts as a distraction," he said, in situations where spotting camouflaged objects is important, for example.
If you think men don't listen, it may be because they actually can't hear.
According to a study from Johns Hopkins University, men are five and a half times more likely than women to experience hearing loss as they age, starting as young as 20 years old.
"Basically, men have overall worse hearing than women as they age, but it's hard to isolate behavioral risk factors," said Dr. Charles Limb, an associate professor in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Differences in men's hearing ability versus women, however, is the result of environmental factors. When they are born, boys and girls exhibit equivalent hearing, meaning there is nothing that genetically predisposes men to have worse hearing than women.
Limb pointed out that risk factors like cardiovascular disease and smoking are more prevalent among men and could contribute to hearing loss, but that men are more likely to be in situations of high noise exposure -- working in construction, for example, or being in the military -- and less likely to use earplugs or protect themselves otherwise.
And the hearing problem doesn't resolve as men get older.
"Men are more likely to need hearing aids, but women are more likely to wear them," Limb said.
When it comes to every day smells, men and women aren't so different. But the scents of other people is a different story.
"Body odor is influenced by gender and sexual orientation," said Dr. Charles J. Wysocki, an olfactory expert at the Monell Chemical Senses Center. "Perception of body odor is also influenced by both of those factors."
Wysocki said studies have shown that heterosexual males, heterosexual females, lesbians and gay men have specific preferences for body odors from other people. Given the choice between heterosexual male body odor and gay male body odor, heterosexual men and women and lesbians prefer heterosexual male body odor, but gay men choose the gay male body odor.
But in general, men are less sensitive to the subtleties of body odor than women are. In another study to determine if certain scents could mask body odor for men or women, out of 40 different materials, one third were effective at masking male body odor from men while none were effective at masking male body odor from females. Out of 45 different materials, half were effective at masking female body odors from men while only two were effective at masking female body odor from female.
"For a biologically relevant [body odor], it is very difficult to reduce the impact of that odor in the nose of females," Wysocki said. "It is much easier to reduce the impact in the nose of males."
Wysocki said this may be because body odor is predictive of the underlying genes associated with the immune system and that females are more likely to be tuned to choose mates with immune systems that are as different as possible from their own because they have a more limited capacity to reproduce successfully in their lifespan.
"Males can reproduce daily," Wysocki said, and there is less evolutionary pressure on them to gain more information from potential mates.
"There's small, subtle differences here and there ... but that's not particularly pronounced in terms of taste," Breslin said. "All of that gets wrapped up in culture. It doesn't necessarily tie in with physiology and biology."
Taste perception may be one of the most subjective of the five senses, but there are few biological differences between men and women.
There are times when a woman's sense of taste will become more sensitized to certain flavors -- during pregnancy, for example -- and there is no analogous change in taste for men at any point in life.
But overall, sense of taste tends to be consistent across gender as well as across age.
"Taste probably resists decaying with age the best of all the senses," Breslin said. "We know people can live just fine without vision or hearing. But if you can't taste, truly can't taste, it can be a real problem for people."
Taste buds and tongue tissue is highly resilient, regenerating itself constantly and resisting change over time, but Breslin pointed out that people can lose their sense of taste, through chemotherapy for head and neck cancer, for example, and they can have a difficult time eating and getting enough nutrition to sustain themselves.
"It's probably the one sense that, more than any other sense, would be difficult to live without."
Touch perception varies greatly from person to person, male to female, with little evidence yet that there are major differences between men and women.
Touch is a subset of our peripheral senses. Nerve cells transmit information to the spinal cord and brain where the sensation is interpreted. Some nerves are activated by intense, painful pressure, some are activated by light touch, some remain active for a long time, and some become sensitized to a stimulus quickly until it changes.
"Of all the mechanical senses, the two that are most likely to show some gender differences are in pain sensitivity ... and sensual touch, I would guess," said Dr. Mike Caterina, an associate professor of biological chemistry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Ongoing research on low-threshold C-fibers, which are smaller and thinner than other neurons that perceive touch, have shown them to be involved in some of the sensual aspects of touch, Caterina said.
"They are involved in a lot of social interactions -- maternal-child bonding or sexual situations -- tactile information that is transmitted back and forth," Caterina said.
Further research might indicate greater differences between how males and females perceive touch from these low-threshold C-fibers.


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PHILADELPHIA -- Phillies manager Gabe Kapler is one of baseball's most progressive thinkers, but he is not planning on starting a game with a reliever such as Seranthony Dominguez, Luis Garcia or Edubray Ramos on the mound anytime soon.
The Rays started relief pitcher Sergio Romo twice over the weekend against the Angels, who have a right-handed-heavy lineup. He struck out six of the nine batters he faced over 2 1/3 scoreless innings. His success allowed the Rays' starters to start against a weaker portion of the Angels' lineup. It has many in baseball wondering if other teams will employ that tactic in the future, including the forward-thinking Phillies.
"I haven't even thought about that," Kapler said Tuesday afternoon at Citizens Bank Park. "I don't know that that would be even on the radar frankly. I can promise you it hasn't been thought through."
"It's not going to work with all personalities," he said. "One of the things we've said pretty consistently is we need to be responsive to emotion and how that impacts the personalities on a club."
MLB.com's Mike Petriello wrote about why it made sense for the Rays. First, Romo dominates right-handed hitters (.194/.263/.387 line against them since the start of 2017), and the Angels have had right-handed hitters bat in the top four spots of their lineup 97 percent of the time this season. It is a best-case scenario for Romo.
Third, the Rays don't have five strong starters.
The Phillies, however, like their rotation with Aaron Nola, Jacob Arrieta, Nick Pivetta, Vince Velasquez and Zach Eflin. If this were 2015, when the Phillies started pitchers such as Jerome Williams, David Buchanan, Sean O'Sullivan, Chad Billingsley, Severino Gonzalez and Kevin Correia, it might make more sense. But not now.
"I think there's some gamesmanship there, but I also think there's some respect," Kapler said. "If we get indication from a club that they're going to have a starter going the next day, we're going to put our lineup in to account for that. But the [Angels are] not going to change the first three hitters in their lineup because those are the first three hitters in their lineup."
Nick Williams has started five of the past seven games after starting only 15 of the first 39. Kapler's use of Williams and Aaron Altherr remains a hot topic of conversation, considering both have the talent to play on an everyday basis.
Kapler said Altherr is likely to start Wednesday against Braves left-hander Luiz Gohara.
"Nick's had some really good at-bats," Kapler said. "Teammate behavior has been off the charts. I'm not sure if everybody in this room has read his quotes on him watching Aaron coming in to hit that big bomb yesterday, but they're really enlightening. This genuine excitement, happiness for his teammates. He's identifying the fact that as long as they're both performing well and the team is winning, he understands that's what's best for the team.
"They understand that they're really responsible for how often they get into the lineup. If one of those guys were so dominant that we couldn't take them out of the lineup, that would probably happen, but right now they're just performing admirably, and we're able to mix and match with them."
Shortstop J.P. Crawford (strained right forearm) continued his defensive work in Clearwater, Fla. Right-hander Pat Neshek (strained right forearm) played catch again. Kapler said it went well.


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Q: Delphi, TWebBrowser and IE8 -> application freeze on closedown In our applications, we display a webpage in a TWebBrowser component.
After installing IE8, some of our application started to stop responding on closedown.
We have found the following to be true:

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*It only freezes if the webpage have been shown

*Which application that freeze, depends on what url is shown. If we switch url between two applications, the working application freeze, and the other close down normaly.

Have anybody experienced something similar?
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One url that does not freeze the application: http://www.finale.no/avstemming_meldinger
** UPDATE **
We have now found a pattern, a pattern thats kind of strange, but it's no less a pattern...
When the page that we display contains images, and the images is scaled, our application freezes. For now, we will just remove or rescale images.

A: Long shot: did you put OleInitialze OleUinitialze in your app?

A: Sounds like there may be a thread deadlocking. I would run SysInternals Process Explorer on your application when it is deadlocked. Add a reference to the Microsoft symbols (Options -> Configure symbols). Now double-click the process, and choose the Threads tab. Look through IE's threads and see if you can figure out if one is deadlocking and why, especially from the stack.
I recommend doing this in Process Explorer instead of the Delphi debugger since Process Explorer understands the Microsoft symbols.

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Season of birth distribution of elite tennis players
O'Donoghue, Peter
Edgar, S
Published on behalf of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences [Routledge]
This research investigated birth months of top ranked junior and senior tennis players over a two year period. A significantly skewed month of birth distribution was found in both junior and senior players of both genders. The birth month distribution was more pronounced in senior female players than junior female players suggesting that the relative age effects were largely psychological for females. By contrast, the birth month distribution was less pronounced in senior male players than junior male players suggesting that the relative age effects were of a more physical nature for male players.
Journal of Sports Sciences
Journal of Sports Sciences 23 (10), pp.1013-1020
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02640410400021468
Relative age in tennis
O'Donoghue, Peter (University School of Physical Education in Poznań, 2009)
There is a skewed birth month distribution of Grand Slam tennis players with more players than expected being born in the first half of the year. The current investigation found that (a) female players in Grand Slam ...
Relative Age Effect In Female Club and University Hockey Players: A Quantitative and Qualitative Investigation
Perham, Sian (University of Wales Institute Cardiff, 2008)
Relative age effect is shown to exist in sport and is associated with the cut off dates for junior competition. However there is some debate as to whether the phenomenon exists in non-elite levels of sport. The purpose of ...
Relative age effect on elite tennis strategy for players born before and after 1st January 1985
O'Donoghue, Peter (Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2014-08-01)
Relative age influences participation in professional tennis. The purpose of the current investigation was to compare the %net points played between players born in the first 6 months of the calendar year (H1 players) and ...


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NewsInternational NewsGuatemalan Campesinos March to Demand President Jimmy Morales Resign
Guatemala City, May 26 (RHC)-- A new wave of protests has shaken Guatemala, similar to the 2015 "Renuncia Ya" marches which helped oust former President Otto Perez Molina. Campesinos coming from all across the country started a national strike this week to demand the resignation of President Jimmy Morales, whose popularity has plummeted since his brother and son were caught up in a corruption scandal.
The protests, organized by the Committee for Rural Development and the National Coordination of Campesinas Organizations, CODECA, denounced the corruption of political elites, including the president and the representatives who have allegedly received bribes from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.
Gathering at Constitution Square like on March 7, they demanded justice, as well as general elections, the nationalizations of basic goods and services, and the convocation of a constituent assembly in order to renew democratic institutions.
Since they staged several massive marches against the current government, various CODECA leaders have been criminalized by the Public Ministry and the business sector, with some of them persecuted or arrested.
A former comedian, Morales was elected president in 2015 on pledges to clean up Guatemalan politics. He came to power after protests over a widespread corruption scandal that toppled his predecessor retired General Otto Perez, who remains in jail. The predominantly rural protesters, who headed to the main square, said they had been tricked by Morales.
In September, a judge barred Morales' son, Jose Manuel Morales and his older brother and adviser, Samuel Morales from leaving the country, pending an investigation into suspicious payments linked to the mother of Jose Manuel's girlfriend in 2013.
In January, both were arrested, claiming their innocence. At the time, Morales said he would support his family, but also respect the law.
Thousands of Campesinos Demand Political Change in Guatemala
Guatemalan High Court Blocks President from Expelling Head of U.N. Anti-Graft Unit
Protesters Demand Resignation of Corrupt Officials


The relationship between social media and PR has changed as social media has evolved into a powerful two-way communication platform between organisations and their customers.
The essence of PR in the last few years has always been about securing media coverage for clients – either helping them to get into the press or keeping them out for whatever reasons. Either way, the name of the game was always about influencing the media and a client's audience (the public) to maintain a good reputation and enhance business bottom-line.
Now, the ripple-effect of digital channels and social media means that everyone can have their say, be it your client's friends or foe. These days anyone can build a blog, make a vlog, set up a Facebook or Instagram page or Twitter account. This means that the public can make or break a business through this element of sharing in a relatively short amount of time, however, the PR consultant's role in the digital landscape is arguably more important today in the art of steering the 'public conversation' than a few years ago.
Many businesses today are choosing digital channels over traditional media to share their news, but traditional media is still equally relevant. The UK now has many more magazines, newspapers, and broadcasters than ever before – some titles have got progressive and built digital models, but traditional media is and always will be highly influential. The key role of the PR consultant is to ensure that relationships with these media models thrive. PR has always been about people, about building media relationships with a view to influencing the public through the content of stories in publications, on TV and on the radio.
Social media has taken this to a new level, which means that the PR expert has to successfully manage what has become a very public relationship on the internet by going straight to the coal face of digital, joining the social airwaves and cutting out the middleman. Where storytelling has always been part of the traditional skill-set, the PR consultant's new role in sharing a client's news still lies in seeking out the angles and telling stories.
In social media, this means sharing the information in shorter bites for content creation for digital channels, where it can be shared. And this ability to drip-feed and share a positive story is, in fact, a PR-man or woman's dream – after all, we can always post links to the bigger picture or even a video! These storytelling skills are as valuable in social media as in the form of the traditional press release, they just need to be adapted for the digital age.
Digital PR is all about combining traditional PR with content marketing, social media, and search: transforming static news into conversations. News can be spread further, faster, and more directly to a specific target audience than ever before in history. It allows us to maximise news like never before. Instead of being satisfied with a single placement, your news can be shared exponentially.
PR might not be all about controlling the conversation anymore, but what a good PR man or woman can do is engage with the public to facilitate discussion and bring influence to the table via the new digital channels – just like we used to do through a press release.
We are presented with a new market, a new landscape whereby brands are at the beck and call of the demanding consumer. And with that comes a need for change. A need to embrace the new and perhaps most importantly the need to integrate. People consume their content in new and different ways. For its part, content marketing has become so popular that there's a "lowest common denominator" effect, with mediocre or redundant content dominating and crowding digital channels.
But when they work in concert, PR and content marketing are a 1+1=3 situation. Here are some ways to enhance the collaboration and make it work harder.
Today's PR campaigns are about telling stories that engage prospective customers or partners. We still tell plenty of stories through editorial media, but the old days of email blasts and "smile-and-dial" tactics are over. The smartest PR professionals help product or service companies identify their most powerful differentiators, shape a narrative, and tell their story where it counts. Breaking through with quality material will become more difficult as content marketing approaches a saturation point.
If PR is all about content, it follows that SEO is a critical item. When it comes to content, quality and relevance have replaced sheer quantity as a key metric. To be shareable, content must be optimized, so fluency in SEO basics is a necessary skill.
B2B executives in professional or technology services have long distinguished themselves by linking their corporate brand to a compelling idea or point of view. But today so-called "thought leadership" is also relevant to consumer product companies. The explosion of digital and social media has made every factor of corporate reputation―from customer service to CEO behaviour―relevant to brand image, and therefore to PR. Even consumer brands need to position themselves and their companies as leaders. They must offer ideas and inspiration, not just great products and services. That means more PR professionals are at work on executive visibility and content programmes and reputation management is built into every campaign.
Some confuse influence with popularity, but the two are not the same. Just because someone has a large social following doesn't mean they are influential. Not only that, but the way we go about generating influence has changed. A survey of 500 PR and marketing professionals found that 82 per cent are using influencers to help get their story out, and many in that group are engaging social media personalities.
The rise of data-driven marketing has been a difficult transition for some PRs because few of us are trained in analytics, and there's been no industry standard for evaluation of earned media outcomes. But the new rules for PR professionals are catching up with the introduction of new measurement models, such as PESO (Paid, Earned, Shared,Owned).
Have joint planning sessions. This is obvious, but many agencies outsource social media management, and it's easy to lose something in the process. Whether handled internally or outside a PR agency or department, it's helpful for the teams to plan and brainstorm together so that each can learn from the other.
Unify PR and digital marketing under a singular theme. In many cases, the narrower, the better. Broader topics may seem easier for informing an editorial calendar, but a more targeted theme often works better for attracting true prospects, not just browsers. Long-tail keywords are rarer than the broader, "fatter" terms, but they are far more likely to attract serious prospects.
Never discount earned media. It's still extremely important for any B2B or consumer content marketing programme. Backlinks from top-rated domains major newspapers or news sites boost SEO to high levels, and a good content marketing programme can amplify glowing earned media like product reviews or feature stories.
Let influencers be a bridge. Influencer marketing is one way to build a connection between the earned media relations of a PR programme and a content marketing outreach. A white paper or e-book that offers insight and ideas from industry figures like analysts or bloggers can help build relationships with those very influencers while heightening the credibility necessary to generate earned media mentions.
Corporate blogs carry a stigma of self-serving promotion, and the general public is still more likely to trust traditional news outlets. PR reminds content teams to focus on the public. What stories are the most interesting? How are current events shaping our industry, and where can we be involved in those trends? By working collaboratively, PR can bring fresh insights, creative angles, and a greater perspective of the public into content marketing production. PR's goal is to share a story that is so compelling that members of the media eagerly want to publish the story on their front page. The distribution vehicles may vary, but the results are the same – good stories that engage your targeted audiences.
PR and digital marketing really are working toward the same goals – increased brand awareness, educated audiences, increased thought leadership, better industry positioning, and customer loyalty, to name a few. While modern marketing has certainly changed practices, one thing has remained constant: There's always an opportunity to tell a better brand story to a larger audience.


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China to invest $1.3 trillion in BRI states by 2027
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China plans to boost two-way trade with Pakistan from $12 billion to $20 billion
ISLAMABAD: Chinese scholar Dr Zhang Yifeng on Friday said that China aims at investing $1.3 trillion in Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) member states by the year 2027 which would become the single-largest investment by any state to help boost regional and trans-regional connectivity and trade.
Addressing the participants at a seminar titled "CPEC: An overview of current developments" held under the aegis of Muslim Institute, the Chinese scholar from Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, China, said that China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has truly become a gateway to prosperity by linking Western China with Pakistan. He said that China has entered into an era of geo-economic relationship with Pakistan and it plans to boost two-way trade from $12 billion to $20 billion.
Other than Dr Zhang Yifeng, Prof Zamir Ahmed Awan from National University of Science & Technology (NUST) Islamabad, Dr Hassan Yaser Malik, chartered member of Institute of Logistics & Transportation, UK, defence analyst Brig ® Asif Haroon Raja, Muslim Institute Chairman Sahibzada Sultan Ahmad Ali, former Islamabad Chamber of Commerce president Zafar Bakhtavri and Institute of International Relations, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, China Deputy Director Dr Li Kaisheng also spoke on the occasion.
Dr Zhang said that CPEC is the cornerstone of BRI which is rooted in the Silk Road. He said that CPEC is the spirit of peace, cooperation, openness, inclusiveness and mutual benefit.
"BRI provides Pakistan and the surrounding countries a great opportunity by giving an integrating platform for over three billion people in Central, West, South Asia as well as the Middle East and Africa," he said.
The Chinese scholar said that CPEC is aimed at boosting the economic growth of Pakistan while ensuring energy security, development of agriculture sector along modern lines, the establishment of Special Economic Zones (SEZs), tourism development, human resource development, national integration and regional linkages as well as technological innovations.
"Asia remains the epicentre of 21st-century transformation as the centre of economic power is shifting from the West towards the East. Regional cooperation is becoming the need of the time. Trade and economic cooperation in the backdrop of geopolitical and environment portfolio have increased manifold. Pakistan-China relationship has reached new heights under BRI due to its economic and strategic importance," he added.
Dr Li Kaisheng was of the view that irrespective of the opposition of CPEC from some corners, the geo-political scenario is fast changing and things are brightening up for Pakistan after its long hard journey.
He said that Russia wants to join CPEC and is warming up with Pakistan and establishing military ties with it.
"China and Russia are strategic partners and boosting their respective strategic ties with Pakistan. Successive governments will have to remain focused as well as committed until the completion of projects in hand," he added.
He said that provinces should focus on completion of industrial parks, railway lines and to make Gwadar Port operational as early as possible.
"Gwadar-Chahbahar Ports should complement each other to derive mutual gains. To ensure cooperation, Pakistan and Iran will have to strengthen bilateral relations. For Iran, CPEC provides a window of opportunity to break its international isolation," he added.
Dr Li said that the CPEC connected to Gwadar has the potential to radically alter the regional dynamics of trade, development and politics.
"CPEC is a game changer for the entire region. It will uplift the lives of about 3 billion people across China, Central Asia, South Asia and the Middle East," he concluded.


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Luiz de Castro Pereira CSJ (* 18. Januar 1768 in Porto, Portugal; † 1. August 1822) war Prälat von Cuiabá.

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Luiz de Castro Pereira trat der Ordensgemeinschaft der Josephiner vom hl. Leonardo Murialdo bei und empfing am 25. Mai 1793 das Sakrament der Priesterweihe.

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import ch.qos.logback.core.spi.FilterReply;
import com.dottydingo.service.tracelog.TraceManager;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.slf4j.Marker;

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{
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Fu iniziata alla wicca all'età di diciannove anni da Alex Sanders, fondatore della tradizione alexandriana, e da sua moglie Maxine. Qualche anno più tardi ricevette anche l'iniziazione alla tradizione gardneriana nella linea Whitecroft. È l'unica persona conosciuta a essere stata, dagli anni settanta, membro di congreghe sia gardneriane che alexandriane.

Biografia
Vivianne Crowley, da bambina, crebbe nella regione di New Forest, nel sud est dell'Inghilterra, la stessa dove Gerald Gardner era stato iniziato, carica di reminiscenze wiccan. All'età di quattordici anni chiese di entrare nella congrega alexandriana di Alex Sanders a Londra, ma l'ingresso le fu rifiutato, secondo i canoni dell'iniziazione wiccan, perché era ancora minorenne. In seguito lasciò New Forest per recarsi a studiare alla University of London, dove ottenne la laurea e il dottorato di ricerca in psicologia. In quel periodo, all'età di diciannove anni, chiese di nuovo e finalmente ottenne di essere iniziata nella congrega dei coniugi Sanders, che ella ammirava molto.

Nel 1973 i Sanders si separarono. La loro separazione comportò grandi cambiamenti per la loro congrega e la Crowley si unì a una coven gardneriana. Fu iniziata a quest'altra tradizione da Madge Worthington e Arthur Eaglen, i fondatori della linea Whitecroft, che erano stati iniziati da Eleanor Bone, a sua volta iniziata nel 1941 alla stregoneria tradizionale della regione della Cumbria e nel 1960 da Gerald Gardner alla wicca.

La stima di Vivianne Crowley per Alex Sanders, comunque, rimase immutata fino alla sua morte: nel decimo anniversario della sua scomparsa, avvenuta nel 1988, la Crowley lo ricordò come una persona amabile e meravigliosa, un mago potente, e un vero e devoto sacerdote della Dea. Sebbene la Crowley porti avanti entrambe le tradizioni, è definita come «quanto di più vicino la Gran Bretagna possieda a un successore di fatto di Alex Sanders».

La morte di Sanders, però, cambiò la vita di Vivianne Crowley e quella del marito Chris in modo considerevole. Da allora la Crowley ha lottato per riunire le tradizioni gadneriana e alexandriana. La congrega da lei fondata ha combinato con successo le due tradizioni e ha generato diverse congreghe figlie, sia in Gran Bretagna, che nel resto d'Europa, Italia compresa.

In quello stesso 1988, accettando l'invito di alcune wiccan locali, Vivianne Crowley collaborò alla conduzione di un campo estivo nella Repubblica Federale Tedesca, che contribuì a creare una rete di wiccan nella Germania occidentale e divenne col tempo un meeting annuale, dando vita a una wicca europea. Dopo l'esperienza tedesca, la Crowley pensò che in Inghilterra la wicca dovesse essere resa più accessibile e diede il via al Wicca Study Group, attivo nell'insegnamento della wicca nel Regno Unito.

Sempre nel 1988, la Crowley, sotto la presidenza di Prudence Jones (al secolo Leonora James), anch'essa iniziata alla tradizione gardneriana da Madge Worthington e Arthur Eaglen, divenne segretario della Pagan Federation, con il marito Chris come tesoriere Nei successivi anni novanta Crowley e Jones divennero per il mondo pagano britannico «come la luna e il sole».

Nel 1989 Vivianne Crowley pubblicò il suo primo libro, Wicca: The Old Religion in the New Age (I poteri della Wicca), un best seller internazionale, che ha dato alla stregoneria britannica «una scrittrice con un potere spirituale paragonabile a quello di Starhawk». Nel libro la wicca è ritratta come un insieme di misteri neoplatonici, in cui ogni stadio dell'addestramento e dell'iniziazione corrisponde a parti della psiche umana e conduce all'integrità personale. Gli dei sono rappresentati come archetipi junghiani. Il testo è colmo di riferimenti all'uso della wicca come manifestazione pratica della psicologia analitica junghiana. La magia, in questo cammino, è una metafora per la profonda trasformazione della psiche umana, indotta dai rituali e dalle pratiche meditative, che hanno un potente impatto sul mondo circostante.

D'altra parte, Vivianne Crowley è una psicologa professionista, che ha insegnato psicologia delle religioni al King's College, prestigioso istituto della University of London. Ha insegnato anche come professore aggiunto allo Union Institute di Cincinnati (Ohio). È stata inoltre docente presso il Cherry Hill Seminary, un istituto di formazione a distanza per sacerdoti pagani, dove si occupa di counseling pastorale. Ha insegnato psicologia delle religioni anche all'Heythrop College, anch'esso parte della University of London, dove ha contribuito a fondare la prima facoltà di questa disciplina in Europa, destando scandalo, perché una "strega confessa" insegnava in un'università cattolica.

Citazioni
Vivianne Crowley, durante una conferenza nel 1990, interrogata sulle differenze tra le tradizioni alexandriana e gardneriana, così rispose: «Gli Alexandriani vengono preparati meglio, ma i Gardneriani fanno molta più guarigione spirituale e pare che si divertano di più!»

In uno dei suoi testi principali, dopo aver sottolineato che due delle principali fonti della wicca sono la magia popolare e la magia cerimoniale, ha evidenziato che i gardneriani sono più propensi verso la prima, mentre gli alexandriani sono più propensi verso la seconda. Inoltre ha sottolineato che in America la tradizione gardneriana si è sviluppata in modo molto più formale rispetto a quella britannica ed europea.

Opere
 Wicca: The Old Religion in the New Age, Element Books Ltd, 1989. ISBN 978-0-7225-3271-3 (riedito nel 1996 come Wicca: The Old Religion in the New Millennium e nel 2003 come Wicca: A Comprehensive Guide to the Old Religion in the Modern World)
 Phoenix from the Flame: Pagan Spirituality in the Western World, Thorsons Publishers (Reissue edition), 1994. ISBN 978-1-85538-161-2
 Principles of Paganism, Thorsons Publishers (Reissue edition), 1996. ISBN 978-1-85538-507-8
 Principles of Wicca, Thorsons, 1998. ISBN 978-0-7225-3451-9
 Principles of Jungian Spirituality: The Only Instruction You'll Ever Need, Thorsons, 1998. ISBN 978-0-7225-3578-3
 Celtic Wisdom: Seasonal Festivals and Rituals, Sterling Pub Co. Inc., 1989. ISBN 978-0-8069-7056-1
 The Goddess Book of Days, Vega Books, 1989. ISBN 978-1-84333-623-5
 A Woman's Kabbalah: Kabbalah for the 21st Century, Thorsons, 2000, ISBN 978-0-7225-3879-1
 Wild Once: Awaken the magic within. Unleash true power, Century, 2022, ISBN 978-1-5291-2489-7

Opere pubblicate in Italia
 I poteri della Wicca, Armenia Edizioni, 2013. ISBN 978-88-344-2904-4
 La Cabala della Dea, Phanes Publishing, 2021, ISBN 978-88-94635-93-5
 Ritorno alla Magia, Armenia Edizioni, 2022, ISBN 978-88-344-4082-7

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Voci correlate
 Magia
 Stregoneria
 Neopaganesimo
 Wicca
 Gerald Gardner
 Alex Sanders
 Psicologia
 Carl Gustav Jung

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