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Reorganized in a More Sustainable Way

This week’s headline items: the second Saturn/Uranus Square of the year becomes exact on Monday early evening; Mercury starts to station again (i.e. it slows down) on Wednesday; the first Quarter Moon in Virgo becomes exact on Thursday late evening; Jupiter’s Station intensifies on Friday and Neptune’s Station does likewise on Saturday!

On Sunday late morning, Jupiter comes to a halt in Pisces (starting its 4-months Retrograde phase); in the late evening, the Sun changes signs from Gemini to Cancer (this also marks the Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere).

There will be three Moon VoC phases this week: Tuesday early afternoon (for a little over 9.5 hours), Thursday late evening (for 5 hours), and Sunday morning (for a little over an hour).

Now, this week’s Forecast…

Monday, June 14th:

Monday, the Moon remains in fun and attention-loving Leo all day. It will journey there until Tuesday late evening. We may lack objectivity and struggle with backing down or compromising. We all love to be admired — or at the very least acknowledged — for our greatness 🙂

So hand out some compliments — let people know how proud you are of them, tell them how much you love them. Come from the heart in this and all other things… be honest and authentic, as best you can. Fun, games and romance are a big part of this energy as well. You might also enjoy spending time with little ones.

If there are no “outer children” around, how about getting in touch with your “inner child” — it’s definitely easier for the next two-and-a-half days. What are you most grateful for today? What would be heaps and heaps of fun? What would be so much fun, you let out a tiny squeak, just thinking of it?

Monday early evening, the second Saturn/Uranus Square of the year becomes exact, at 6:01pm EDT. We started to feel this aspect build from January 18th on, it will remain strong until July 18th (due to Saturn’s Retrograde phase that began in May).

The first Square between these two planets was exact on Feb.17th. Think back to that time and ask yourself: What did I learn since January about myself, others, or society as a whole, in connection with spaciousness? How about when it comes to Freedom? Differences? Allowing myself to feel uncomfortable?

This aspect asks us to stretch a little or a lot (individually and collectively). We can’t expect much of anything during this time… expect the unexpected!

Future visions and humanitarian causes — especially those connected to like-minded people — are quite likely to experience disruption, calling for flexibility and creative solutions.

During this transit, we feel a great need to make progress, as we feel quite restless — maybe even anxious — but if we’re unclear on what is in our best interest, we might focus on things that don’t serve us in the long run.

This aspect tells us that if we redefine our need to fit in and belong, we can find a more authentic connection with our own values; we are also invited to stay detached in our social dealing with others — honoring our own individuality without making anyone else wrong for being different or “themselves”.

Ask yourself: Are other people’s choices and preferences really about me (in other words, do I need to take them personally)? Could I give the “choosing” of other people the space that it needs, so I can honor what’s important to me, without taking things personally?

What might become possible if I expressed myself fully, knowing that others may have a different opinion to me, and that’s ok? How might that impact my current communities (whether physical or online)?

Saturn in Aquarius wants us to focus on realistic progress with our technologies, inventions, and long-term visions for the collective. While in Taurus, Uranus, on the other hand, prods us to get back to the basics — to what really matters, what is sustainable (for the whole planet), and what is best for all living beings.

Given this, ask yourself: What does my body require before I can think about connecting with others? Where am I feeling a need for more spaciousness? What does my physical reality require before I can think about what to create for the future? Where do I need to “think out of the box”?

Could I give myself permission to hold some space for things to reorganize themselves physically? How about mentally? Could I allow for this to happen slowly? Without needing to rush into anything? Without pushing others or myself?

Keep in mind that things sometimes need to break down in order for them to be reorganized in a more sustainable way. Individually, this can be related to the area of life in your birth chart that Saturn and Uranus are currently transiting through; collectively, it can show up in sudden shifts and changes in our social or financial structures (or in physical shifts in the Earth’s structure).

If you had to sum this year up with one word, “unexpected” would be a great one to pick — and as best as you can, embrace rather than fear this — see it as opening possibilities for tremendous progress, long-term changes in social interactions, and more beneficial relationships to the planet, and to our physical and material world.

Remember, this only feels uncomfortable because it’s new, different, unfamiliar. Could you allow yourself to be 5% more comfortable with being uncomfortable?

If you would like to learn how the Saturn/Uranus Squares in Aquarius/Taurus will impact you personally throughout 2021, feel free to watch my webinar on the subject — we looked at our own birth charts to see what the impact might be to us personally.

To purchase this webinar, click here (if you have already seen this webinar, feel free to rewatch it to best align with the current energies. Active Star Members received the recording of this webinar on February 26th).

Do you have your Ascendant, Career Point (or personal planets) in 10-16 degrees of Aquarius, Taurus, Leo, or Scorpio? If so, you will feel this aspect quite strongly. This is also true for those of us who have our Ascendant or Sun-sign in Aquarius or Capricorn (the Saturn rules Capricorn; Uranus rules Aquarius).

Monday evening, a somewhat challenging Mars/Jupiter aspect becomes exact at 8:39pm EDT. We started to feel this aspect build from last week Friday (June 11th) on, it will remain strong until this week Thursday evening. We feel uneasy about something, sort of awkward — and we need to make adjustments  — first though, we must develop an inner awareness of what exactly needs adjusting.

We come to realize that we might have become overly enthusiastic and optimistic about life; what’s more, our drive for inner spiritual expansion — in other words, for connecting from an intuitive place and for going within to experience spiritual growth — is actually leaving us feeling drained, and frustrated. At the same time, we harbor a strong desire to connect with our inner child, and have some fun creating and playing.

It will help us manage both these energies if we look more closely at how we use our own energy: simply put, are we in tune with our heart? Our physical and intuitive bodies? Could I be outgoing and still find time for spiritual growth?

It’s also worthwhile to examine how our personal belief systems impact our connection to our “Higher Self”. Can we stay open to new spiritual perspectives and what they offer us? And perhaps toward our desire for more expansion of the heart-energies internally and externally?

Ignoring conflict will not serve us now, nor will being overly naive or sensitive; as best as you can, slow down and stay tuned in to your heart, and your physical and intuitive  body.

Ask yourself: Where might I be bringing an attitude that doesn’t in fact serve my joyful connections with others? A good place to “aim” this question is toward one’s “Higher Self” or intuitive “knowing”.

Here’s another question you may find helpful: If I were to check my energy body in the present moment, how do my assumptions or “stories” impact my relationship to joy and the experience of gratitude?

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Social status alters chromatin accessibility and the gene regulatory response to glucocorticoid stimulation in rhesus macaques

Noah Snyder-Mackler, Joaquín Sanz, Jordan N. Kohn, Tawni Voyles, Roger Pique-Regi, Mark E. Wilson, Luis B. Barreiro, Jenny Tung

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Low social status is an important predictor of disease susceptibility and mortality risk in humans and other social mammals. These effects are thought to stem in part from dysregulation of the glucocorticoid (GC)-mediated stress response. However, the molecular mechanisms that connect low social status and GC dysregulation to downstream health outcomes remain elusive. Here, we used an in vitro GC challenge to investigate the consequences of experimentally manipulated social status (i.e., dominance rank) for immune cell gene regulation in female rhesus macaques, using paired control and GC-treated peripheral blood mononuclear cell samples. We show that social status not only influences immune cell gene expression but also chromatin accessibility at hundreds of regions in the genome. Social status effects on gene expression were less pronounced following GC treatment than under control conditions. In contrast, social status effects on chromatin accessibility were stable across conditions, resulting in an attenuated relationship between social status, chromatin accessibility, and gene expression after GC exposure. Regions that were more accessible in high-status animals and regions that become more accessible following GC treatment were enriched for a highly concordant set of transcription factor binding motifs, including motifs for the GC receptor cofactor AP-1. Together, our findings support the hypothesis that social status alters the dynamics of GC-mediated gene regulation and identify chromatin accessibility as a mechanism involved in social stress-driven GC resistance. More broadly, they emphasize the context-dependent nature of social status effects on gene regulation and implicate epigenetic remodeling of chromatin accessibility as a contributing factor.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1219-1228
Number of pages10
JournalProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Issue number4
StatePublished - Jan 22 2019
Externally publishedYes

  • Chromatin accessibility
  • Dominance rank
  • Epigenomics
  • Gene regulation
  • Social status

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Runner Duck is easily one of the most creative developers working in games today. They debuted with Bomber Crew that brought fresh new ideas whilst not being afraid to tinker with some popular mechanics. Their next game Space Crew is a continuation of the Bomber Crew format, but this time with a little bit of Star Trek in it.

Courtesy of Curve Digital and Runner Duck, we were fortunate to get the opportunity to preview the opening section of the game and check out its gameplay. The great news is that we had a lot of fun playing the game, and our first impression is positive!

Space Crew takes place in a future where an alien race has defeated us. This attack prompts the different nations of Earth to unite to combat the extraterrestrial threat to reclaim our home.

Just like its predecessor, Space Crew centres around managing your ship efficiently, putting you in control of different crew members, ranging from a captain to engineers. Each role has its unique benefits that allow them to keep the ship running in different ways. It plays similarly as well, where you can move any of the crew members around freely to interact with other parts of the ship.

Since this is a voyage themed game, you do get extra features around space travel, giving your engineer the ability to reroute power based on your situation. You do have a set number of power bars to begin with, and aspects like Shield, Gravity Generator, Weapons, or Engine do require at least one bar to work. It feels like a useful mechanic in the scope of the game whilst paying homage to classic sci-fi shows, where you’d hear the captain shout about rerouting power.

Whilst it might seem simple on paper, optimal management of your power levels does require a bit of strategising to get out of the more challenging encounters. You’d want to keep your space crew moving around as often as possible based on the situation. Whilst this does take some effort, it does feel rewarding when you complete a challenging encounter.

Like Bomber Crew, the game uses a tagging mechanic for moving to a destination or attacking enemy ships. You do this through a camera that you can orbit around your ship, finding points of interest by aiming at them. Enemies have to be similarly tagged so your gunners can fire at them.

The game’s progression is split between standard missions and bounties, each giving you a different task to complete. Some of the early objectives saw us either delivering a package, rescuing people, or salvaging items. Each mission states its difficulty as well, prompting you to prepare in advance.

Preparation is just as crucial as crew or power management in this game. Through the game’s varied customisation options, you can personalise your crew and ship to your playstyle and taste. You can customise everything from what your team looks like to the visuals of your ship.

Customisation options for your crew are split between cosmetic and non-cosmetic items, letting you change name and appearances as well as their clothing. However, specific gear can affect performance, which makes you consider the strength of your crew members and their duties in order to equip them with the best loadout. If someone like the engineer moved around a lot, you would want to pay attention to their mobility, or armour for the combatants.

The ship can be customised as well, allowing you to choose everything from your colour scheme to different liveries. You are free to rename the vessel to your liking and similarly to the crew, there are non-cosmetic items that you can equip, allowing you to place certain pieces of equipment around the ship, like spacesuits, weapons, and more since your characters do not inherently carry these.

The various customisation options, as mentioned above, come together to give you ownership of your team, whilst making certain choices a matter of life or death. The crew can level up as well, further presenting another management freedom that lets you invest in your favourite characters. You can also recruit new crew members after rescuing them!

Visually, the game follows a similar low-poly aesthetic as seen in Bomber Crew. This art style prefers exaggerated style over realism. Not to mention, the sci-fi sound effects mix with the sweeping orchestral music to intensify the atmosphere. It makes you feel as if you are playing a grand space opera, throwing you in bouts of both tension and awe.

We were especially pleased to see that there was an option for enlarging your UI, which will help people with visual disabilities and those that prefer to play on a bigger screen in a higher resolution.

Overall, we enjoyed what we have played so far, and are excited to jump back into the game once it releases on the 15th of October. Space Crew will be available for the PC, Playstation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. Those interested can give the available demo a try on Steam as well.

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Farewell Bette Durrant

Beatrice (Bette) Durrant August 18, 1926 – October 24, 2018

Survived by her children John(Marian),Perry(Heidi),Jeff (Angela) and Geraldine (Cam); her grandchildren Jourdain, Carly (MIke), Stefani (Sean), Megan, Laura, Gillian (Mark), Travis and Jamieson and her great grandchildren Eric, Mila and Henry.

Born to John and Julia, she had a wonderful and fulfilling life. Married to “my Bob” for 66 years, together, always together, they left everyone and everything they touched better. Spiritually, Mom ran the Silver Lining Ministry and could turn any outcome to the positive. However if you asked her for advice you had to be ready for the answer as she had no filter and told you exactly how she felt. A sharp mind and great sense of humor to the end, she will be missed.

Memorial service will be held at Church of the Holy Trinity 15115 Roper Ave, White Rock at 1 pm November 10th, 2018.

Click here if you like to make a donation in lieu to Atira Women’s Resource Society (Durrant Transition House)

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I Know What You Watched Last Summer…Sort of

Call it healthy curiosity, call it chronic nosiness, but I* always want to know things about other people. The cashier at Walgreens, the bus driver, construction workers, everybody. I suspect that I’m not alone in this, but our social norms don’t allow strolling up to strangers and interrogating them about their breakfast preference, income and relationship with their parents.

Maybe that’s where the overheated, monotonous fixation on famous people comes from in pop culture. It’s not polite (or, in some cases, legal) to photograph your next-door neighbor and speculate wildly about who the people coming and going from her apartment might be. But it’s considered just fine to do it to someone we see on TV. Would the world be different if it was okay to want to know a little bit more about people right in our neighborhoods instead of being told everything about people we don’t even care about?

For better or for worse, we might be on our way to finding out.

Check out this infographic at The New York Times showing the relative popularity, by ZIP code, of 50 frequent Netflix rentals in Atlanta and 11 other major metro areas.

The map can be moved around a bit by click-and-drag, and the results can be sorted by alphabetical order, popularity or by the movies’ respective Metacritic scores.

There are limits to what the map really tells us, though. The fact that a lot of people rented something doesn’t mean that that they all liked it, sat through the whole thing or watched it at all. I just returned the first disc of Mad Men, utterly un-watched, after having it sitting around for a week. But just my having had it in the house contributes to its popularity rating.

Also, the viewing habits of a pretty small group of people probably unduly influence the results. Some people just love movies and are about as discriminating as a starving goat in a compost heap about what they’ll watch. Subscribers with the more expensive plans are probably less selective, so wouldn’t those households’ choices influence the results a lot? Finally, there’s no way of telling just how many people in any one ZIP code even use Nextflix. Cable, Redbox, the ubiquity of bootlegs or even a good library keep lots of people off the Netflix bandwagon, so it’s impossible to know just whose preferences we’re really looking at. Strangely, there’s no accompanying article to explain how or if any of those factors were considered.

Even just a sidebar telling how the reporters created the map, how long it took to put it together, what tools they used to create it and how easy or difficult it was to get Netflix to share the data would have been great, but maybe they didn’t have time to get the infographic and a story done by deadline.

All that said, it is really cool and I spent a good 20 minutes playing with it. Census data it’s not, but there are some conclusions you can jump to things you can learn about your neighbors.

*The cart is well in front of the horse here, as I’m posting this before I’ve even finished my “Hi! I’m Tamra”-type post. But this was much more interesting than talking about myself.

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  1. james hervey (jeherv) on January 14th, 2010 @ 8:16 am

    welcome aboard!!! great post.

  2. bking on January 14th, 2010 @ 10:30 am

    Welcome! glad you are here to help us out! I, too, spent a considerable amount of time looking at those maps. I thought some of the twilight maps were interesting – there were some areas I was surprised to see their strength.

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High Impact

Striking design elements and high-tech appliances make a bold impression in this chastain park kitchen, creating an inviting but elegant space.

Bold shots of color aren’t necessary in the kitchen of a new French-style abode by Atlanta architecture firm Harrison Design. Instead, a black matte CornuFé range and gracefully curved vent hood from François & Co. are the unexpected pieces that make a dynamic statement.

Homeowner Margaret Sallee says that a photo in The Welcoming House: The Art of Living Graciously by Jane Schwab and Cindy Smith inspired the design and finish choices, particularly the stove. The stone vent hood, with its fluid shape and bands of brushed metal, is a subtle nod to French Country design.

“Everything about this kitchen is just soothing and calm,” says Laurie Lehrich, the Design Galleria Kitchen & Bath Studio designer who created the kitchen for the Sallees. Honed finishes and a subtle palette give the kitchen an
approachable, inviting feel, says Lehrich, while the stone hood is a fresh contrast to the herringbone tile backsplash. The gold-veined quartzite countertops blend with subtle gray cabinets, brass accents and warm metals that balance each other.

A handmade iron chandelier complements the vent hood and is substantial enough for the long island, where the family’s teenagers spend time with friends. A drop-down with a walnut countertop extends the work surface.

Beside a fully integrated Sub-Zero refrigerator, Lehrich created a nook with a built-in Miele coffee maker and easy-to-reach built-in microwave. Mirrored upper cabinets reflect light and add brightness to the space. “The cabinets became a backdrop,” Lehrich says. “They were supporting actors for the architecture.”

ARCHITECTURE Bill Harrison, Harrison Design KITCHEN DESIGN Laurie Lehrich, Design Galleria Kitchen & Bath Studio VENT HOOD The Cinto by François & Co. RANGE CornuFé Series by La Cornue COUNTERTOPS Taj Mahal quartzite through Marmi Natural Stone BACKSPLASH Specialty Tile Products, Traditions in Tile and Stone FAUCETS Renaissance Tile & Bath SINKS European Kitchen & BathWorks REFRIGERATOR Sub-Zero BUILT-IN COFFEE MAKER AND MICROWAVE Miele REFRIGERATOR DRAWERS KitchenAid HARDWARE Matthew Quinn Collection ISLAND AND TABLE LIGHTING Solária Lighting PANTRY OVERHEAD LIGHT RH SCONCES Barbara Barry for Visual Comfort & Co. BARSTOOLS Barbara Barry for McGuire DRAPERIES Sudi Rafi through Home Accent Inc.


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GRAND LAKE, N.S. -- People who live on Grand Lake outside Halifax want more information from the province about the blue-green algae contamination in the water and the health risks associated with it.

Residents have been told not to use wells that draw from Grand Lake. The Municipality of East Hants had been handing out drinking water, a program that is coming to an end.

The minister of environment and climate change was asked Thursday about the province providing assistance to those affected. Keith Irving’s comment was clear.

"Short answer is no, homeowners are responsible for the cost of getting safe drinking water to their home whether they hook up to a municipal system or dig a well," Irving said.

As for using the lake recreationally, the province's stance is to do so at your own risk. Health experts say ingesting contaminated water can cause health issues.

"If you did drink some lake water during an algae bloom, you might have some stomach upset, vomiting and diarrhea, you might get a headache and some cramps," says regional officer of health Dr. Austin Zygmunt.

Long-time Grand Lake resident Mike Murphy isn’t sure how to proceed, he says the province needs to provide more information to people who live in the area.

"Jury is out for me at the moment," Murphy said. "I’m waiting to hear what happens, I think the government does owe us further information. I know there’s a lot of folks that are pretty concerned about the situation."

Late Thursday afternoon, the department of fisheries and oceans repealed their fishing prohibition on Grand Lake and the Shubenacadie River.

The Halifax Regional Fire Department will continue to provide bottled water to residents in the area.

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HALIFAX -- The province is introducing the P.E.I. Pass to help with ease of travel to Prince Edward Island.

The pass is a form that will expedite entry to P.E.I. and will take effect June 27 at its points of entry.

It confirms Islanders and travellers meet all criteria to be exempt from self-isolation in P.E.I. after travel within the Atlantic provinces.

All Islanders, Atlantic Canadians and visitors who have lived in the region for a minimum of two full weeks, and have received at least their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine 21 or more days before entering P.E.I., can now apply online for a pass.

Applicants will need to include a government-issued ID, as well as proof of their vaccination record.

Anyone 12 years old and over will need to provide their own P.E.I. Pass when entering the province. Until July 31, anyone 12 to 15 years of age is only required to have their first vaccination to be eligible for the P.E.I. Pass; they do not need to wait 21 days after vaccination to apply for the pass.

Permanent residents of the Magdalen Islands, Que. will also be eligible to apply for the P.E.I. Pass under the same conditions as Atlantic Canadians.

Magdalen Island permanent residents will also require proof of a negative COVID-19 test within 72-hours of arrival.

Canadians from outside the Atlantic region and the Magdalen Islands can begin applying for their P.E.I. Pass as early as July 7.

Due to the anticipated high volume of submissions, those travelling in early July or later are asked to defer their P.E.I. Pass application until late June.


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Month of March 2016

Emulating ZX Spectrum graphics in JavaScript

I'm using EcmaScript 6 Proxy objects to keep track of dirty blocks in emulated ZX Spectrum video RAM in a browser. I describe how the ZX Spectrum video RAM works, and implement an emulator using modern JavaScript.

Using Source Maps with CSS

When CSS or JavaScript is minified, there is a mechanism called Source Maps that can help you inspect the original code directly in the browser. Sometimes it requires some extra configuration.

FizzBuzz in CSS

Creating a FizzBuzz solution using only CSS is probably impossible, but with just a little HTML added, it's perfectly doable, using a combination of CSS counters and the nth-child() pseudo-class selector.

Converting from Type to SqlDbType

The .NET type system and SQL Server types are not very easy to map to each other. In SQL, variables don't just have a type, but can also have precision and maximum length, which is not possible to translate into simple .NET types. Here I show a naïve approach at translating from one type system to another.


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Gone to the Dogs in Massachusetts

Herbie, Acrilic Portrait by Artist Annie Salness http://www.anniesalness.com/herbie.html

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Gone to the Dogs: Service Animal Law and Leash Law in Massachusetts

Sometime last year, in the small town of Oxford Massachusetts, a Veteran with a service dog entered a restaurant. The restaurant was very small and very local. The restaurant owner was also a local business man. The restaurant owner didn’t know the Veteran and visa versa. Neither did the restaurant owner know why the dog came into the restaurant with the Veteran, a very average looking man. The Veteran wasn’t blind.  He didn’t appear physically disabled.  The Veteran had no physical impairments, visible to most people.  Unfortunately, this is where the trouble started.

Apparently, the service dog was not appreciated inside the restaurant owners place of business.  People were eating there.  Food was prepared there.  The restaurant owner was so concerned, that he asked the Veteran to remove his dog.  The Veteran protested.  The Veteran tried to explain his situation and the circumstances.  The restaurant owner didn’t believe him.  Others chimed in. It all turned into one big mess. According to local news stories, the restaurant owner did not understand why the service dog was required by the Veteran or what the Veteran’s motivation for having the dog inside was.

Even so, this one simple transaction turned into a situation. It wasn’t pretty. The restaurant owner and the Veteran exchanged words. People were angry. The Veteran was asked to leave. Then, the police were called in. The Restaurant owner was upset, very upset. Patrons left the restaurant.

The next day, all the nasty details were reported in the local news paper. The news sparked even more interest. Dog owners, people with disabilities and Veterans from far and wide formed groups to protest the tiny restaurant in Oxford. Dogs dogs and more dogs, come with dog owners to voice their opinion. A few people sided with the restaurant owner. Even so, bad publicity is never a good thing. The restaurant owner lost customers. The bad publicity was not good for business and embarrassing to say the least.

In this instance, the service dog was used as not only a companion for the Vet but a tool to help him manage his disability, post traumatic stress disorder. The Veteran’s PSTD was a medical condition, directly related to his service. The restaurant owner never heard of this before. The restaurant owner made an incorrect assumption that the Veteran was not disabled.

Eventually, after a few very emotionally charged discussions, the restaurant owner apologized.  His apology was made public.  The public apology was a newsworthy story of success and communications, based on the efforts of the Veteran and the restaurant owner.  The Veteran accepted the apology.  They both shook hands. The Veteran and his service dog were welcomed back into the restaurant. The two became friends.

Eventually, life went back to normal in this sleepy little Massachusetts town in Southern Worcester County. People stopped protesting. Newspapers stopped reporting. Oxford returned to its regular state of normalcy.

This story sheds a little light into various legal reasons why someone would need to have a dog in a public place. It also sheds light as to a few things a dog owners must consider, before they bring their dogs into public places. Every town or jurisdiction in Massachusetts has important local rules or regulations pertaining to health, housing, service dogs and pets.

Other important laws regarding dogs or “service animals” can be found in the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) the Fair Housing Amendments Act (“FHAA”) and the Air Carrier Access Act (“ACAA”). It’s important to have a good understanding about these laws, especially if you are a dog owner and a business owner.

The Federal Code of Regulations (“CFR”) provides an understand of terms like, public accommodations and service animals. According to Title 28 CFR Section 36.302, business owners must make public accommodations to serve people with disabilities and those with limited capacity to access services. Subsection (c) talks about Service Animals. Service “animals” includes service dogs. The Veteran’s dog, who entered the Oxford restaurant with the Veteran, was a licensed service dog. Generally, people with disabilities have documentation that shows a dog is a service dog. If need be, service dog handlers should be able to present service dog identification to public business owners.

Generally, a public accommodation is the modification of policies, practices or procedures that allows people with disabilities to use their service animal on the premises. Under the CFR, a store or business owner should do whatever is reasonable to permit service animals onto their business premises so that the service animal can help the disabled person shop and conduct business as best they can. This is the right thing to do.

There are only a few exceptions as to why a business owner may exclude a service animal, under CFR law.  First, a service animal can be excluded if the service animal is out of control. If the animal’s handler does not take effective action to control the animal, the business owner may ask the service animal and the handler or owner, to remove the animal. In this situation, the business owner is not required to make a public accommodation for the service animal.

Next, if a service animal is not housebroken, for example a dog urinates or defecates in unacceptable areas, the store owner is not required to accommodate that service animal. This makes sense. Another exception is that a business or store owner is not required to accommodate the disabled person in caring for or supervising the service animal. In other words, the owner/handler is responsible for supervision of their own service animal if they want to take the service animal in public places.

Another key aspect of service animal law is that a service animal under must be on leash, harness, or other tether. If the handler is unable to put the animal on a leash or harness or tether, because it is not safe for the service animal, then the service animal must be under the handlers control by some other means. Again, in another sense, this means that if the owner/handler can not control the service animal, the animal may be excluded from the business premises. Examples of this sort of legal control are voice, hand signals or some other effective means of control. There is lots of guidance and case law on means of control.

For dog owners in general, it is important to note that federal law does not always trump local leash laws or ordinances. Many Massachusetts town ordinances and state laws regarding leash laws differ and are dependent upon each situation. This means that each fact pattern, or individual situation, can be different and may involve alternative duties, responsibilities and liabilities. If you are unsure about the leash laws and dog ordinances in your particular jurisdiction and situation, ask an attorney. Your attorney should be more than happy to research the laws for you and help you to understand how to obey your local laws in your area.  Taking to your attorney is a good way to become a more informed and responsible dog owner.

When I was growing up, I had the opportunity to watch service dogs being trained in the streets and on the sidewalks in Morristown, NJ. A school for service dogs for the blind was nearby.  Watching service dogs being trained was a beautiful sight. The dogs were harnessed and steady. They peered into the eyes of their handlers. The dogs were lively, yet always sat when asked and at the appropriate times.  The dogs walked quietly. They always stayed close to their handler. Unlike most dogs I’ve ever seen, these dogs didn’t randomly sniff at people and bark at things. The service dogs did not jump. There was no dog feces or urine in any public places. Never did these dogs intimidate or scare people or children. They didn’t even bark at other dogs.

Service dogs at work ignore all sources of stimulation, like other dogs, children and food. Service dogs are attentive, only to their handlers and the work they do in each moment.  Watching service dogs and their handlers is a treat.

I remember once walking up to a service dog, wanting to pet the dog.  I was about 10 years old at the time.  My mother told me, no.  I was a bit crushed, because I really love dogs, so I asked my mother why?  My mother explained to me that often handlers of service dogs ask visitors not to touch or pet the service dog. I understood and listened to my mother. I also wanted to encourage the dogs to be good. From that point on, I never touch a service dog unless I first get permission from the dog’s handler or owner.  I do this for all dogs now, hoping to help all dogs mind their manners.

Because I am an adult now, and an attorney, I understand most laws and policies of service dog handlers.  When service dogs are “at work,” they must be allowed to remain quiet and attentive to their handler. Petting the dog is a big distraction. This is important to know, for both dog owners and non dog owners.

The CFR discusses what to do when a store owner or business owner, for good reason, is unable to make a reasonable accommodation for the disabled person’s service animal. According to the Code, if a public accommodation properly excludes a service animal under 28 CFR Section 36.302(c)(2), the business shall give the individual with a disability the opportunity to obtain goods, services, and accommodations without having the service animal on the premises. This means that the store owner has a legal duty to assist and accommodate the disabled person, reasonably, even if store owner or handler must keep the service animal off the premises for whatever reason.

Appropriate, respectful and lawful exclusion or inclusion of dogs in and out of business is the right thing to do. This does not mean all dogs must be legally accommodated in all places. Each situation is different, under the law. It is not always appropriate, lawful or prudent to take your dog shopping in most public places. Massachusetts state and local health and housing regulations may prohibit pets, animals and dogs from many public places. Likewise, not all dogs can be excluded from public places and businesses, with only a few exceptions.

In Massachusetts, civil laws may impose strict liability onto dog owners for any and all harm to others or property, caused by the dog they own. This means that if a dog causes harm or damage to people or property in Massachusetts, the owner of the dog will be held liable for any damages. Dog owners also have a legal duty to prevent their dogs from harassing or frightening others. This includes not permitting your dog to frighten children with sensitivities and people with disabilities. It is also important for dog owners to know, property owners are not legally obligated to accommodate dogs, unless they are service animals.  Then, there are local leash laws.

The town of Charlton Massachusetts is the town my law office is located.  In Charlton, dogs are not permitted to be outside without a leash or a harness.  Dogs must be on a leash, even when the handler or owner is not the property owner. Property owners have a duty to keep all dogs visiting their property on leash, even when property owners don’t own any dogs. Property owners failing to keep all dogs on-leash, visiting or otherwise, may face legal consequences. Although it may seem different or strange, obeying leash laws in Charlton is the responsibility of property owners in Charlton. The same type of leash law ordinance applies to West Brookfield, Oxford and Dudley, Massachusetts and other cities and towns.

Leash laws are one reason why it’s a good idea for dog owners to talk to the host or property owner when visiting, before bringing dogs on the premises. Before allowing your dog off-leash in any area, communicate with host or check the policy of the property owner. Good dog owners not only genuinely care for their dogs, they care about people. Responsible dog owners learn what to do in each situation, before bringing their dog.

Personally, one of my favorite past-times is walking near the Buffamville Dam in Oxford. This is a good spot for me to get my doggie fix.  Almost always, someone is walking their dog.  I ask if I can pet most all dogs on leash.  This is fun, to me.  It’s also fun for families and children to play at the park and at skateboard parks in Charlton and Oxford. Wherever permitted, dogs are found on-leash.  Attending local football games or taking a child to the YMCA playground in Southbridge is an awesome experience.  Keep in mind, however, it’s not always wise or permissible to bring a dog.

If it isn’t permissible, reasonable, healthy or legal to take your dog to a public place, think twice. Summer is upon us. I’ts time to enjoy the outdoors.  Bring your dog to outdoor places only when it makes sense.  Show respect for others.  Showing respect is not only good for you, it’s best for your dog.

If you are a business owner or a pet owner, and you do not fully understand your legal rights, the health regulations, the story of the Oxford restaurant owner and the Veteran is a very good lesson. Local leash laws and dog ordinances, and laws about service dog accommodations are important to know. Please, talk to your attorney if you need help in any of these areas of the law. Being concerned about others is good for business. Knowing the law and our responsibilities under the law is our duty and a good way to gain trust and respect from others. Trusted and respected business owners in Massachusetts are such a great benefit.

If you are a pet owner or dog owner or have been harmed in some way because of an out-of-control animal or a dog, please call your attorney right away. Consider the statute of limitations law in your jurisdiction. Plan to contact your attorney before the time to take legal action runs out.

If you need an attorney, and need experienced and approachable help, feel free to call our office. We are here for you. All consultations are confidential. First consultations are free.

Enjoy your spring.  Enjoy your summer.  Enjoy your dog and the great outdoors!

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The artist who painted the featured illustration “Herbie” is Annie Saliness.  Annie is an Artist full of hope, grit and true artistic talent. During her career, Annie had a stroke which took away her ability to use her right hand and more.  Annies’ struggles, triumphs and victories over her disability and other things, is a wonderful story. Annies story is as beautiful as her art. To read more about Annie, her triumph over adversity and more, follow this link > http://www.oregonlive.com/north-of-26/index.ssf/2012/10/cedar_mill_artist_annie_salnes.html

More of Annie’s artwork can be found on Annie’s website at http://www.anniesalness.com.  Take a look at Annie’s art and things. You’ll be glad you did.

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Many collectors attach children’s books “like a lightning bolt to memories and emotions of childhood,” says Winston

Darren Winston. Photo courtesy of Freeman’s.
Darren Winston. Photo courtesy of Freeman’s.

Freeman’s May 28, 2020 auction, The Martin Magovsky Collection of Children’s Books, presented an outstanding collection of children’s books, including many first edition examples from the last mid-century onward. We spoke with Darren Winston, Head of Department, Books and Manuscripts at Freeman’s, to learn more about children’s literature and this eye-catching sale.

Auction Daily:  Please give our readers an introduction to the category of children’s literature. Who are the primary collectors?

Darren Winston of Freeman’s: The category consists of two types of literature. The first is books written for children. An example of this is the series of Winnie the Pooh books penned by A.A. Milne and illustrated by E.H. Shepard in the 1920s. The second is books that were not originally intended for children, but have been adopted as favorites over time by children. For example, Treasure Island, written by Robert Louis Stevenson in the late 1800s, became a children’s classic as its storyline and illustrations really resonated with younger readers.

I’ve noticed that collectors basically fall into two camps. The first are adults who were affected by books as kids, and those books become talismans to them – connecting them like a lightning bolt to memories and emotions of childhood. The second are people – like Mr. Magovsky, the consignor in our recent sale – who simply love extraordinarily well written and illustrated children’s books. They get great pleasure finding these tales from any era and relish in their stories and images.

Auction Daily: What makes a first edition so desirable to collectors? How can someone identify a book as a first edition?

Winston: First editions have an undisputable cache with collectors. For many, they are the most important, exclusive, and prestigious examples of any given publication. A good analogy would be sitting in a concert hall for a performance. Diehard enthusiasts want to sit in the first row – not the second – and always quest for that premier seat. Collectors also love the challenge of finding first editions, which often were printed in smaller numbers.

Identifying first editions can be challenging, as there are no standards over time or across publishers. It is not usually simply a matter of a date or numbering system. For example, first edition books published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in the 1920s onward simply had a capital letter “A” printed in the middle of the copyright page, while later editions did not feature this notation. Other publishers used intricate, binary numbering systems reflecting dates and editions. Bill McBride’s A Pocket Guide to the Identification of First Editions is a great tool for collectors. This reference spells out the different ways publishers over time identified their first editions.

Lot #11 of The Martin Magovsky Collection of Children's Books auction. Photo courtesy of Freeman's.
Lot #11 of The Martin Magovsky Collection of Children’s Books auction. Photo courtesy of Freeman’s.

Auction Daily: Lot #11, Ron and Judi Barrett’s Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs was estimated at USD 200-300 but realized $1,063. What helped this lot exceed expectations?

Winston: This lot truly was “the package.” Because they are so few and far between, books made into films are of great interest to collectors, and this tale was made into an animated movie in 2009. It was a first edition and signed by both author Judi Barrett and illustrator Ron Barrett. It also was personalized with a little doodle on the book-plate, adding even more interest to the book. Everything really came together here.

Auction Daily: Tell us about some noteworthy children’s book sales. What made those examples so desirable?

Winston: In 2000, I handled a $30,000 sale of a first edition of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, which was first published in 1997 in the United Kingdom. What is fascinating here is that only 300 copies of this book were produced, with 150 going to libraries and 150 going to local booksellers. A collector challenged me to find one of these original 150 copies, and I was able to do so at auction. These copies have only increased in value over time.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling: This signed, first edition, first printing hardback issue of the first Harry Potter book realized $153,600 at Hindman's November 5, 2019 "Library of a Midwestern Collector" sale. Photo from LiveAuctioneers.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling: This signed, first edition, first printing hardback issue of the first Harry Potter book realized $153,600 at Hindman’s November 5, 2019 “Library of a Midwestern Collector” sale. Photo from LiveAuctioneers.

Dust jackets also impact the price of literature. A 1908 copy of The Wind and The Willows by Kenneth Grahame with its original dust jacket traded hands for about $50,000. The sale would have been a fraction of that if the book did not have its dust jacket. Dust jackets are ephemeral and tend to get lost to time. In the 1920s, publishers started paying attention to dust jackets and illustrating them lavishly. At that time, readers often removed the dust jackets from books when they put them on their bookshelves. This was to avoid a “wall of color” in their libraries. As such, classics from this era – like a fine, 1925 first edition copy of  The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald with its dust jacket – can sell for six figures.

Auction Daily:  And finally, how do collectors display their collections of children’s literature? And do collectors actually read the books?

Winston: Some have them on shelves, others have them in drawers; I know of a collector who displays their items on stands with the books open to certain illustrations or passages. Bibliophiles usually don’t read or handle fine examples from their collections but have a “reading copy” on hand.

Regardless of display preferences, there are a few rules of thumb that are essential in maintaining a book collection. Keep all examples away from sunlight and in a dry place. Sunlight fades books, and damp books invite mold. Smoke is the enemy and is essentially impossible to remove from books, so if you are a smoker, do so far away from your collection. And keep books clean and dust free. When you dust books, wipe them down carefully from the spine to the far edge. It is very easy to damage the headcap – the part of the book at the top of the spine – if you clean the books from the edge to the spine.

Freeman’s, established in 1805, is America’s oldest auction house. Headquartered in Philadelphia, the company also has offices in Richmond, VA, and Wayne, PA. For more information, please visit their website.

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j.r commented on 2021-06-04 10:04

Please do not explicitly pin the adwaita-qt version this package provides, because it does always provide the latest version and now we have the situation qgnomeplatform needs 1.3.1 but could not use this package because it explicitly provides 1.2.0 although it does provide 1.3.1 in reality.

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OK, I checked and it works for me.

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How a puzzle reminded me of what the Bible says about procrastination

Tomorrow — June 23 — is Typewriter Day, so I’d like to share the story of the typewriter jigsaw puzzle in my office. And, as silly as it seems, how that puzzle reminded me of what the Bible says about procrastination.

what the bible says about procrastinationAs soon as I saw the puzzle on the shelf at our local bookstore, I knew I would buy it. After all, I’m a writer and the puzzle is an old typewriter. I was so happy to find that puzzle and could picture it framed and hanging on my wall at work.

What I couldn’t picture was how long it would take for that to actually happen.

Putting the puzzle together took less time than I expected. We finished it in about three days, with all four of us pitching in at different times. Then the anxiety set in.

I had never glued and framed a puzzle. And this one was a bit intimidating as a starting point since it’s contoured instead of straight-edged and big — a bit more than 20 inches across. What if I messed something up when I glued it? Once I glued the front, what if it fell apart when I flipped it to glue the back?

I dealt with the anxiety by ignoring it. The puzzle lay on the dining room table for a couple weeks, until just before family came over to celebrate our son’s birthday. I slid a piece of posterboard under it and carefully relocated it to my office downstairs.

That typewriter puzzle claimed a spot on my office floor for weeks … then months … then more months. As embarrassing as it is to admit, it stayed on my floor for more than a year.

Yes, more than a year. All because I was afraid something would go wrong when gluing and then taking it to the frame shop.

What a silly reason to procrastinate! I wish I could claim procrastinating is unusual for me, but it’s easy to do for all sorts of things. Scheduling a doctor’s appointment. Cleaning out the fridge. Starting a new exercise or eating program. Getting back to church after watching online services for so many months. Carving out prayer time. The list goes on.

For some situations, procrastinating can seem valid because something really could go wrong. In other situations, though, all procrastinating does is create a roadblock that doesn’t have to be there.

What the Bible says about procrastinating

Of course, the Bible includes plenty of verses chiding people who procrastinate, even labeling those people as sloths, sluggards and lazy. Ouch! Here are a few of those verses (realizing I’m not digging into their full context here):

  • But everything should be done in a fitting and orderly way. (1 Corinthians 14:40)
  • Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap. (Ecclesiastes 11:4)
  • If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them. (James 4:17)
  • As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. (John 9:4)
  • One who is slack in his work is brother to one who destroys. (Proverbs 18:9)

It’s easy to agree that everything should be done “in a fitting and orderly way.” But to compare someone who slacks in their work to one who destroys? That’s a zinger.

We assign ourselves “to-do’s,” but some also come from God. While it’s clear that we need to do whatever work is in front of us, procrastinating on some things — like gluing and framing my typewriter puzzle — won’t necessarily make much difference in the big picture of life.

Procrastinating on the things we believe God wants us to do is more serious. Whatever those things might be, if God wants us to do them, He’ll show us how. We might not need to jump in and do everything overnight. But as long as we take small steps in that direction, God will help us keep moving where He wants.

We might even look back later and realize our procrastination was pointless. That’s what happened with my puzzle. I put several layers of glue on the front and nothing fell out of place when we flipped it. I put a couple more layers on the back and had no trouble getting it to Hobby Lobby. The framing department was having such a quiet day that they finished it while I wandered the store for a while (which is easy for me to do there!).

So, yes, the puzzle I procrastinated about for more than a year was mounted, framed and ready to take home less than an hour after I took it to the store. I hung it in my home office that afternoon instead of waiting to take it to work.

Now it’s a focal point that always makes me smile. And a constant reminder that the things that make me anxious — the things that tempt me to procrastinate — can sometimes be things that aren’t worth worrying about in the first place.

Lord, it’s so easy to put things off because we’re anxious about what might happen, but that’s crazy because we’re not the ones in control anyway. You’re the one in control and we’re so glad for it. Help us keep moving forward the way you want us to go instead of letting ourselves get bogged down by procrastination. Amen.

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On Wednesday, August 1st, Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed, a non-profit, private security firm located in Austin, Texas, will upload the blueprints for 3D printed guns, known as Ghost Guns, to the internet.

3D printed guns are made from a type of plastic or polymer, and can be produced right from your home for very little cost. In fact, Defense Distributed sells a 3D printer that can be used to manufacture these guns for just $250.

How did this possibly happen? Why hasn’t anybody stopped this Cody Wilson jerk from uploading these plans to the internet?

Well, the federal government tried.

Cody Wilson made his first 3D printed pistol, called The Liberator, in April of 2013. He then uploaded the plans for the pistol to the internet. It didn’t take long for more than 100,000 people to download the plans, and not much longer for the government to allege violations of the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR), threaten him with prosecution, and to demand he remove the plans for the gun. Wilson did so, and then sued the federal government for violation of his first amendment rights.

Shockingly, he won. On June 29th of this year, the federal government entered into a settlement with Wilson, paid him $40,000 for his legal fees, and created an exemption in the ITAR regulations, allowing him to publish his plans for 3D printed firearms for international distribution.

Gun safety advocates, liberal lawmakers, and social justice warriors everywhere went nuts when the news was released.

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Cal.) all sent letters to Attorney General Jeff Sessions demanding an explanation for the settlement with Wilson. New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal and Los Angeles City Attorney Michael Feuer sent Wilson cease and desist letters threatening him with legal action if he made his plans available to residents of those jurisdictions. (Wilson has sued both of them for intimidation and harassment.)

Three gun control organizations — the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, Everytown for Gun Safety and the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence — attempted to get an injunction against Wilson by filing an emergency motion with Federal Judge Robert Pitman in Austin. Pitman denied the emergency motion, ruling in favor of Wilson.

Congressman Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) wrote this letter chock full of fear mongering to the Judiciary and Foreign Affairs chairs in the house, demanding an emergency hearing. As far as I can tell, they seem to have ignored these demands.

Well known screamer and social justice warrior Chelsea Handler felt the need to weigh in on a topic she knows zero about, of course.

None of these last-minute attempts to censor and control the internet have worked, and the plans will be free to all on August 1st when Wilson releases them.

The problem with all this liberal fear-mongering and screaming, as anyone with even a hint of a working brain could figure out, is that you can’t un-ring a bell. The plans for this gun were uploaded in 2013 and downloaded hundreds of thousands of times! That means they are available. In fact, it took me all of five minutes of searching to locate the plans on the file-sharing site They are on other torrent sites as well. The plans exist already and they can be downloaded by anybody who wants to spend just a little bit of time searching already, right now.

The other problem, as anybody who’s ever shot a gun can figure out, is that when a gun fires, a violent explosion occurs. Plastic guns are not equipped to handle violent explosions. An ATF test done on several types of 3D printed guns showed that many of them will explode in the user’s hands, perhaps even fatally injuring the shooter. Now, Wilson’s Liberator gun did perform well in the tests and that is the concern that many lawmakers have, however, the idea that a new law prohibiting him from uploading the plans for that gun will stop people from making it is just silly. Mainly because…wait for it…

It’s already illegal to own a gun that can defeat metal detector technology!

The Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 was enacted in response to Glock’s manufacture of the Glock 17, the first gun that was made with a large amount of plastic or polymer components. The law states that no gun shall be made or owned that contains less than 3.7 ounces of stainless steel, or whatever amount is the minimum detection level in metal detector technology. It also states that no gun can be created or owned that is undetectable to weapons imaging technologies. (Meaning guns that don’t look like guns.)

This federal law means that if you were to make a gun made entirely of plastic, it would be illegal. You must insert a metal plate that makes it detectable to magnetometers.

Another problem (and this should be really obvious) is that nobody has figured out a way to make a plastic bullet or shell casing. So even if you have an illegal plastic gun, the shells still have to be metal.

Now, the fear mongering that’s happening out there is obviously ridiculous, but let’s address their concerns. The first is that criminals will have easy access to firearms now that they can just make them in their garage. First of all, there are millions of illegal firearms already out on the streets, available for sale for way less than the cost to build your own. Not only is it easier for a criminal to just buy an illegal gun, it’s much more lethal to own a real gun that fires multiple times without blowing up, than it is to trust a plastic gun that might blow your hand off or might fail after firing a few times.

“Ghost guns are as scary as they sound — a terrorist, someone who is mentally ill, a spousal abuser or a felon can essentially open a gun factory in their garage. No background check, no training,” Sen. Chuck Schumer

The second is that criminals will be able to sneak a gun onto a plane or into a courthouse. This may be true, however, they still can’t sneak the bullets through. And, to be clear, the plans for these guns have been downloaded already hundreds of thousands of times over the last five years. Thousands of these guns have been created successfully. Nobody has successfully used one to take down a plane or shoot a judge in that time.

The true purpose of this technology is not to build a gun that can be used to sneak through a metal detector. It is to build components of firearms to make guns cheaper and lighter. Defense Distributed will be uploading plans to replace components of many popular firearms with polymer DIY components. These guns still contain a large amount of metal, including all of the actual firing components including the firing pin, the barrel, and usually the receiver. Keeping these parts metal insures they have the structural integrity necessary to fire safely and repeatedly.

Ghost Guns, scary as the name may sound, are effectively useless for anybody with any criminal intent. Making your own gun is no scarier than buying a gun from a gun show, your neighbor, or a local hood on the street, and not nearly as useful. People who decide to make their own guns will do so as a hobby and nothing more, despite the fear-mongering tactics of the liberal left.

Not only this, but the idea of criminalizing and censoring knowledge should scare all of us. The plans to create a 3D printed gun are no different than the plans to create a metal gun using a metal lathe and boring machine, despite the difference in skill, cost, and time to create that metal gun. It’s a slippery slope once the courts start to decide what information we’re allowed to learn.

With more than 300 million actual firearms floating around this country, having a few plastic ones is not going to change a thing. Now, other countries where guns are illegal and don’t really exist, countries such as Australia and Great Britain may actually have something to worry about. If you live in a place where you can’t easily buy or steal a gun, being able to 3D print your own gun makes things much easier. It will be interesting to see how those countries react to the Ghost Gun uploads and what kind of internet censoring they’ll be willing to do to try to stop them.

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If you don’t read comic books, should you really be writing one? How do you write a short song about joy and hope that’s under 30 seconds and then record it? Matthew and Ryan answer both of those and discuss fidget cubes! But first, we introduce our brand new inside joke.

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  1. “Schlumpsched” does not appear to be a word, but we can change that.

  3. Matthew, we’ve already determined that your blood type is Maple Syrup.

  4. “He was in the trailer.” In this case, doesn’t mean it was in the movie…

  5. If forgetting to script an opening means Ryan ends up making more puns, y’all should forget things more often.

  6. LOVE the commercialization station. It gave me the realization station that you should rule the nation station.

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Health benefits of L-Theanine

Drinking tea is almost customary among all social strata today. However, little did the person who was documented to have first drunk tea back in 300 A.D at the Yunnan province of China know how important it would become in the centuries to come. So, what makes a hot…

Drinking tea is almost customary among all social ong all social strata today. However, little did the person who was documented to have first drunk tea back in 300 A.D at the Yunnan province of China know how important it would become in the centuries to come. So, what makes a hot cup of green tea so special? It is the presence of a vital compound called L-Theanine, which makes it an antioxidant. To begin with, let us first learn what L-Theanine is.

What is L-Theanine?

L-Theanine is a kind of amino acid that is not produced by the human body. It is possessed naturally by black tea, green tea and some specific types of mushroom. So, yes, all that green tea you have consumed to cut down body fat does yield other benefits as well! L-Theanine is known to affect the presence of some definite chemicals like dopamine and serotonin in the brain. Both these compounds are known to influence emotion, cortisol, mood and sleep, all of which greatly help the human body deal with stress. An alteration in the balance of these two chemicals can majorly affect your stress levels or mood and make you feel like a nut. A few tests conducted on animals and small studies indicate that L-Theanine might offer a wide range of benefits to the human body. L-Theanine enhances your cognitive functions through a reduction in NMDA-dependent CA1, a long-term potentiation.

Benefits of L-Theanine

Sleep deficiency, anxiety disorders and a loss of focus are some common problems that most people, especially millennials experience in today’s time. People even tend to get stressed over the right choice of clothes! Well, L-Theanine is the solution for most of these problems.

Diminishes Stress & Anxiety

Anxiety feels like being strapped to a chair while you stare out of an open door. It feels miserable. A steaming cup of tea can help you feel at ease. But according to research, it is mostly beneficial for people battling high levels of anxiety. A total of five randomly controlled-trials comprising a total of 104 participants deduced that L-Theanine was capable of reducing anxiety and stress in people experiencing depression. Another study found that it could enhance relaxation without making you feel drowsy. So, basically it relaxes your mind without you drooling off on your armchair.

Improves Memory, Focus & Attention

In some cases, stress and anxiety might not be your focused area that needs improvement, but your focus might be. If so, surrendering yourself to the qualities of L-Theanine might help you. Some human studies have found out that L-Theanine can increase focus, attention, memory and even visual processing. Long-term consumption of the compound protects the brain neurons from death and injury. Not just that, L-Theanine has proven a significant aid in improving cognitive dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease by reducing oxidative damage.

Possesses Strong Antioxidant Properties

Antioxidants are great when it comes to removing excess free radicals from the human body. Free radicals cater to a range of greater issues and invite diseases like diabetes, cancer and heart problems. L-Theanine protects your brain cells against this oxidative damage and acts as an antioxidant. Apart from enhancing the production of antibodies, it provides protection against neurotoxicants.

Improves Sleep

A good night’s sleep can do wonders for your body. However, given the lifestyle of individuals in this stressful, competitive world, a lot of us are sleep-deprived. You may have experienced sleepless nights spent tossing and turning in beds, which made you wonder if you were eventually transitioning into a night owl. However, research has found that L-Theanine can greatly help enhance sleep in both humans and animals. About 200 mg of it can reduce the heart rate and help you relax.

Maintains Body Weight

Did you just figure out that you were a bit oversized for the amazing new dress you bought last month? That must have been heartbreaking! So, if you wish to get back into shape, it’s time for you to follow a calorie-controlled diet. You can replace your oily snacks with a large cup of green tea or some other hot low-calorie beverage that will help you lose weight. However, green tea is a great choice, given the presence of L-Theanine which creates a flavour known as the umami flavour. This particular flavour helps reduce appetite, thereby aiding weight loss.

Side Effects and Risks Associated with L-Theanine

L-Theanine is considered to be safe when consumed in the form of green tea. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), however, advise against the consumption of more than five cups. Most avid green tea drinkers, owing to their biased love for the beverage tend to gulp down several cups throughout the day without really keeping a count. But, that can be bad. Owing to the caffeine content, too much green tea consumption can lead to diarrhoea, heartburn, headache, irritability and even insomnia. It is also not a great idea to intake L-Theanine in combination with lipid lowering medicines, chemotherapy drugs and sedatives. Pregnant women, children and nursing mothers must steer clear of the overconsumption of L-Theanine.

Our thoughts

While stress, anxiety and sleep disorders are common intruders in our happy space, L-Theanine has been proven useful for many. If you are someone seeking natural alternatives for health and wellness, then a good place to start is with a cup of hot tea.

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