Flat tummy?

Hi Judy Ann, Is it really possible to shrink a woman's tummy while eating MORE food? Even at any age? Fortunately, YES. Movie stars do it all the time. Even while being tempted with savory high-calorie meals and delicious drinks. The trick? Get your two major flat-tummy hormones into balance. First is estrogen. It flattens your tummy by helping your body process carbs... and gives you that get-up-and-go energy. Second is progesterone. It works by protecting against the fat-inflating side effects of stress--a problem for nearly ALL women. Here's how to do it: ==> Here's a fast and easy way to rebalance BOTH your flat-belly hormones ASAP (all natural) To your health, -- HealthMinute

No cell phone so does not travel

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Thanks for the memories! Best of friends always

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Recipes keto hot cocolate and pumpkin spice recipes

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Asking follow-up questions

Asking follow-up questions Ask follow-up questions in the interview to ensure that you are listening to what the interviewer has been saying, and to be actively engaged and involved in the conversation. Interviewers keep note on if the interviewee is really interested in the conversation at hand, and is not just simply throwing a question out there for the sake of it. By asking follow-up questions, you are building that connection with the interviewer, and the interviewer is recruiting not only talent, but also people that fits well into their culture. Be reactionary and be sharp on your feet and listen about the interviewer’s response and ask clarifying questions if necessary. Asking interesting, relevant questions Try to ask questions that are current and something that is not regular. For example, a question that could possibly be asked is asking about the company’s operations during COVID-19 times, and their preparation or response to it. This is an interesting question because 1) it is current to today’s times, but also 2) it is relevant to the company that you are interviewing for, and wanting to know more about how the company has dealt during these times.

Not all caps

“It’s like a heart attack to trick you into opening the email,” she says. “It’s the internet equivalent of yelling, and no one likes to be yelled at. Scammers and people trying to spam your inbox use these techniques, and they’re no longer effective.” Users who wrote an email with an all-cap subject line received a reply 30 percent less often, according to a Boomerang study. If something is truly urgent, Moah recommends skipping all caps and simply stating the urgency in the subject. “If you have a deadline, explicitly state it in the subject line,” she says. While all caps are bad, a completely lowercase subject line is also bad. Emails that were started with a lowercase letter got a reply 28.4 percent of the time, compared to a 32.6 percent response rate for those with proper subject capitalization, according to research by Boomerang.

Quantum revolution for the world quantum revolution september 21, 2020S1:Ep12

https://www.gaia.com/video/quantum-revolution-world?fullplayer=preview https://www.gaia.com/video/quantum-revolution-world Quantum Revolution for the World A revolution in physics is occurirng, and we are a part of it! To realize this, it will take a transformation of technology and science, and an awareness of how your consciousness can extend to an infinite potential within every atom in your body. Nassim Haramein asks us to not be discouraged by the daily news and the many challenges that our world faces. He explains that we are very close to the solution to these problems. There is a bright future for humanity, and we are very close to creating it.

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FREE WORKSHOP Are You Sabotaging Your Memory? Learn one thing you should never - and, I mean never - have 2-hours before bed Learn why not all "age-related" memory loss is irreversible What 1-ingredient in your kitchen is most responsible for anxiety and depression The one vitamin you need to start taking NOW And much more... heart-brain Your Hostess: Julia Lundstrom, Neuroscience and Brain Health Educator Join me in my new FREE workshop and learn the quickest, easiest way to help prevent Alzheimer's and Dementia and boost your memory in the next 30 days. Hi. My name is Julia Lundstrom, and I am a neuroscience and brain health educator. My mission is to help 1 million people make measurable improvements in their memory. My journey began when my most cherished aunt was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. It is terrible to see someone you love in pain. Her decent was as tragic as it was fast. Within a year, she had forgotten who I was. In 2 years – she forgot my dad - her brother... After just 3 years, she couldn’t recall the names of her children.

Listening Ear?

That someone to tell your woes, dreams and wishes too! We need to hear our dreams out loud at times, for them to become real to us and so we can act on them! Search instead for making big desions Here are ten tips on how to be mindful as you make important decisions and determine what's best for you. Slow down. ... Accept that making important decisions can be hard. ... Aim for integrity. ... Aim to reduce your stress. ... Understand that there are many paths that can nurture your soul. ... Go with the flow. ... Breathe. More items... • Jun 30, 2017 How to Mindfully Make Important Life Decisions | Psychology ... Deborah L. Davis Ph.D. Laugh, Cry, Live How to Mindfully Make Important Life Decisions Ten tips for mindfully choosing your best option. Posted Jun 30, 2017 Important life decisions can be challenging to make. They are often complicated, involving many factors, some of them with competing interests. The stakes may also be high, and you are right to be concerned about making the best decision possible 1. Slow down. Deborah L. Davis Source: Deborah L. Davis Mindfulness means taking your time. Sometimes, this isn’t possible, such as with medical emergencies or sudden, time-limited offers. In these cases, mindfully gauge your gut reaction. Otherwise, take the time you need to reflect on your priorities, your goals, and your values. Let the options percolate in your mind as you take stock of your strengths and talents, as well as your true interests and desires. Your slow, deliberate reflection can grant you clarity. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/laugh-cry-live/201706/how-mindfully-make-important-life-decisions. 2. Accept that making important decisions can be hard. Big decisions often have big, long-lasting consequences. Even when the outcome is happy, you may have doubts. And some decisions can be heart-wrenching to make, even when you’re certain your choice is for the best. Instead of wishing a big decision were easier, honor the fact that it’s not, nor should it be. Embrace the thoughts and feelings you have as a testament to the significance of this crossroads. 3. Aim for integrity. This means being true to your authentic self, your priorities, and your values. If an option requires that you compromise your ethics, downplay your priorities, or go against your nature, this is a red flag. Only consider options that are aligned with what’s truly important to you. 4. Aim to reduce your stress. Reducing the stress in your life is good for your physical health and mental health, both of which are keys to living a contented, fulfilling life. Focus on reducing your stress—for example, choosing simplicity over complications, choosing ease over difficulty, or choosing interesting over boring. Then you can better pinpoint what’s best for you. 5. Understand that there are many paths that can nurture your soul. There may be times when you reach a fork in the road and all paths look equally appealing, with balanced pros and cons. When multiple options are “right,” but you’re forced to choose just one, you may feel angst contemplating “the path not taken.” But this angst doesn’t indicate the potential for a bad decision. It just means you’re lucky enough to be surrounded by viable options. To choose one more wisely, read the previous post about “gut decisions.” Your gut can give you the extra clarity you seek. 6. Go with the flow. Taking the path of least resistance is often the best option. Whether the funding comes through, or you’ve been eager for an opportunity like this, or you finally feel “at home,” or your friend keeps trying to set you up on a blind date, it’s as if life is presenting you a neon sign that reads, “Go This Way!” Even if you’re skeptical about stars aligning, grab the brass ring whenever it’s handed to you. 7. Breathe. If you’re faced with an opportunity that involves leaving your comfort zone, it’s normal to feel hesitant or fearful at the prospect. But feeling scared doesn’t necessarily mean you should shy away from that option. Sometimes the “right choice” is The Brave Choice, particularly because it can entail positive change, new skills, and worthwhile risks. But how can you tell if you’re cringing because it’s requiring you to stretch and grow, or cringing because it’s truly not right for you? Here’s how: Physiologically, the difference between fear and excitement is breath. If something seems scary, by mindfully taking some deep breaths, you may transform your fear into excitement. With deep breathing comes relaxation, which can change your thoughts from “Danger: Do not proceed” to “Thrilling: Proceed with excitement!” But what if it’s truly scary and not right for you? You’ll remain hesitant or fearful. The wisdom in your gut will see to that. Deborah L. Davis Source: Deborah L. Davis 8. Focus on being, not doing. What you do is not as important as who you are. Strive to be trustworthy, responsible, and kind, and you will attract people with the same stripes. Likewise, what you do isn't as important as who you do it with. For example, which would you rather: Dig ditches with a group of fun, trustworthy, kind people, or work your dream job with a group of mean-spirited, two-faced, manipulative people? It’s not the doing, but the being that is most important. 9. Ask others to tell you about the hard decisions they've faced. It can be immensely helpful to hear other people reflect on the choices they've made. Doing so can help you mindfully reflect on your options, and others' insights may lend clarity to the choices you face. Reading about others' journeys can also be helpful, including memoirs, biographies, or explorations of this terrain, such as the book Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life by Gregg Levoy. Also, listening to and reading about others' decisions can make you feel less alone in your struggles. 10. Trust the process. Whatever you decide to do, it's impossible for you to make a wrong decision. Even if you have regrets with hindsight, you can learn extremely valuable lessons from mistakes and failures—lessons that can lead you down a path of even greater fulfillment. You can also adopt the calming perspective that your life will unfold as it should, which means you’re always exactly where you belong. And you'll leap when you're ready and able. When that time comes, keep a calm, open, curious mind, and watch the net appear. Even if you feel caught between a rock and a hard place, take heart. By tapping into your gut’s wisdom and harnessing your brain’s mindfulness, you can determine the path that is best for you.

Black Ice , Concrete and knees Don't Mix well

Joints are the places in the body where different parts of your skeleton come together. Joint injuries occur at these intersections. There are four main types of joint injuries: Strains: occur when muscles and/or tendons are overextended Sprains: injuries to ligaments that hold bones together Fractures: breaks, chips or cracks in bones Dislocations: separation of a bone its normal position at a joint Causes of joint injury Joint injuries can be the result of direct trauma, overuse, or repeated wear and tear. How long does it take for a deep tissue injury to heal? Which bone takes the longest to heal? Feedback Knee pain - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic www.mayoclinic.org › symptoms-causes › syc-20350849 Mar 7, 2019 — Knee pain may be the result of an injury, such as a ruptured ligament or torn cartilage. Medical conditions — including arthritis, gout and ... ‎Diagnosis and treatment · ‎Hyperextended knee · ‎Mayo Clinic Q and A Knee Injury: Types, Symptoms, Exercises, Treatment ... www.medicinenet.com › article Treatment of knee injuries depends on the type and severity of the injury and can involve RICE therapy (rest, ice, compression, elevation), physical therapy, ... ‎Sprains and Strains · ‎Torn ACL · ‎Chondromalacia Patella

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Washing your face!

What is double cleansing? It’s quite simply washing your face twice, but with two different cleansers (or just a makeup remover swab as your first cleanse) meant to accomplish one thing: actually clean skin. “The first cleanse removes surface debris such as makeup, oil, and even pollution, while the second cleanse is considered a ‘true cleanse,’ ensuring that everything accumulated on the skin has been adequately removed, providing a pure canvas for all products that follow, ultimately allowing for maximum penetration,” say Kim and Zoe Roebuck, founder of Australian skincare line Dr. Roebuck’s.110317_CG_BeautyStillLives_2017_01-4crop.jpg Photos by Cody Guilfoyle. Washing your face seems rather foolproof, right? I mean, just grab some soap, lather between your palms, massage on, and rinse off. Do you really need a whole article on how to wash your face? Actually, yes, yes you do. Because as simple as it might sound, washing your face is complicated business. Or more specifically, washing your face correctly is complicated—turns out we’ve been kind of slacking on washing. Not removing our makeup entirely, washing too often or too little, messing up the pH balance—yikes! Let’s do a quick 101 just to be on the safe side. One of the most beneficial washing techniques—for skin, makeup removal, and pH wellbeing—is the practice of double cleansing, something skincare obsessives have been doing for centuries. “In the Miyakofuzoku Kewaiden [basically the bible of Japanese beauty], the 1813 beauty book that our collection is based on, skincare is the first chapter, and cleansing is the very first step of the ritual,” says Victoria Tsai, founder of Tatcha. “Unburdening the skin and bringing it back to its most pure, fresh state is crucial in properly caring for it.” What is double cleansing? It’s quite simply washing your face twice, but with two different cleansers (or just a makeup remover swab as your first cleanse) meant to accomplish one thing: actually clean skin. “The first cleanse removes surface debris such as makeup, oil, and even pollution, while the second cleanse is considered a ‘true cleanse,’ ensuring that everything accumulated on the skin has been adequately removed, providing a pure canvas for all products that follow, ultimately allowing for maximum penetration,” say Kim and Zoe Roebuck, founder of Australian skincare line Dr. Roebuck’s. And not to gross you out, but your face is pretty damn dirty at the EOD. “Did you know that your face is the dirtiest place on your body?” asks celebrity esthetician (and Domino favorite) Renee Rouleau. “Yes. You touch your face all day and transfer bacteria directly onto the skin.” “It may not look like it, but by the end of the day, there’s a lot on our skin: makeup, sunscreen, pollution, sweat, even dead skin cells,” says Tsai. “Double cleansing helps to reduce the look of pore size, diminish the appearance of fine lines, wrinkles, and sun spots, and refine the surface texture of the skin.” And it’s a pretty old school practice of skincare, too. Leave it to the brilliance of Asian women to master the double cleansing technique to remove heavy makeup, sunscreen, and city grime. “The double cleanse started in South Korea and Japan, and then came to Europe and US,” says Verso founder Lars Fredriksson.

The Art of Re-storying Your Life ?

Dear Judy, I want to share an exercise with you today that is particularly timely. It involves the second Key to unlocking your Quantum Powers: Living a New Story in Your Life. One of the most critical aspects of the transition into living your Quantum Life is to realize that change is actually the foundation of your entire existence. In every moment you live, your thoughts and experiences change you in some way. For most people, most of the time, this change is so small as to essentially go unnoticed, and as it is all too easy to become invested in resisting change and keeping things known and comfortably the same, that tends to slow things down even further. But once you begin to embrace the truth of this constant state of change, it is then up to you how profoundly that change unfolds in your life, through the thoughts and experiences you open yourself up to or consciously choose to pursue. So, it becomes exceedingly important that you not hold on so tightly to whatever you see as your "story" now, but to instead create a daily experience of wonder and astonishment that reinvents your story as it happens in real time. In order to do this, you must take hold of the moment you are in and make choices that will lead you to the story you want to live, allowing you to quite literally leap beyond your current boundaries into that life you have dreamed for yourself. You must discover new ways of creatively engaging yourself in even the most mundane of everyday activities, like getting dressed or preparing food or walking from room to room, as well as finding more significant and inspiring challenges. You must move out of conditioned habits and into experiments, exploring new possibilities for your interactions with yourself, others and the world. This generates opportunities for new pathways to arise that will lead you to the future you feel called to create. Once you do this, you will quickly begin to see the synchronicities reaching out to you at every turn, connecting you more and more deeply to all you are and can be, and so many aspects of your life will simply fall into place, and become, in a word, extraordinary. Here is an experiment that will help you more easily move into this place of greater possibility: The Art of Re-storying Your Life First you must suspend disbelief and imagine very vividly that you can enter into the place where your own life story can be re-patterned and re-storied from the one you're living now. Think of it as a second chance, a kind of re-genesis. You've had up to now a good deal of life experience, and chances are you've learned much and experienced a full spectrum of joys and sorrows but now wish to consciously enter into the co-creation of an improved, more vital, more creative story for the years ahead. To start, close your eyes and take a few deep breaths. Then imagine yourself traveling to that Quantum place where anything and everything is possible. Feel the energy of that higher realm coursing through you as you change levels, as you change frequencies and leave your current story behind. Now, in this higher realm, see the vast domain of all possibilities before you and begin to engage those possibilities in the form of a new plan for yourself, a new pattern for your life to come. Feel this new life coming toward you, rising out of the frequency waves—a potent, positive and creative tide, carrying the elements of your new story. See it right there before you, inviting your engagement. Now begin to sense and consider what this new story of your life will be. Perhaps you'll choose a new career, a new art form to learn and explore, a furthering of some skill or activity you've only dabbled with in the past, new friends and relationships that will grant you the full range of emotional expression. Perhaps there are adventures in store, visits to strange lands, meetings with new cultures and peoples that astonish and inspire you as they bring you more experience, more life, more delight, and more learning. Perhaps you see a new story in which your spiritual life becomes more prominent, where you discover sources and resources that gift you with beauty, meaning and purpose. Allow these and so much more to arise, along with the belief that these wonderful changes are not only possible but probable. Try each possibility out on the screen of your mind and choose those that resonate for you. See them, feel them, and above all, know them as potential realities that can manifest into the physical space-time world where you currently reside. Continue to do this until you truly feel the living force of their reality. And know, too, that the Quantum Field is drawn into your vision and is adding elements, coincidences, and resources to the vision, as well as the people, ideas and opportunities to help you in the realization of your new story. This is the interdependent co-arising of you and the Universe together. The more you use this exercise, the more your new story will grow in you, eventually to the point where what began as an imaginative possibility will become an actualizing probability. And then, as opportunities arrive that begin to fit into the new story you have set in motion, meet each of those opportunities with deep gratitude and joy for the gifts they bring to you.

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Awakening the Wisdom of the Sage

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Hey Ann,

Image Hey Ann, I hope your weekend is going great so far :). We’re all going to get older, but you don’t necessarily have to age! Sounds contradictory, but hear me out… We can’t slow down the progress of time, which means we’re going to get older one day after the other. But aging is the process that causes our bodies to decay, our muscles to shrink, our skin to sag, our digestive tracts to work less efficiently, wrinkles to form on our skin, and countless other problems. You can’t fight the progress of time, but you can do everything in your power to slow down aging and keep your body as fresh, healthy, and youthful as possible. Here are a few anti-aging secrets that you should adopt today if you want to stop aging from stealing your youth prematurely: Exfoliate regularly – Exfoliating removes the dead skin cells that build up on your skin, allowing your body to produce new, fresh, and healthy skin cells. Using an exfoliating scrub containing alpha hydroxyl acid or beta hydroxyl acid (AKA salicylic acid) regularly—at least three or four times a week, depending on your skin—will do wonders to keep your skin in good shape and slow the signs of aging. Be Sun-Smart – You need to spend at least 30 minutes in the sun every day in order to absorb enough Vitamin D to remain healthy. Vitamin D is critical for your internal functions, playing a role in everything from bone density to fat loss. However, you need to be sun-smart, which means protecting yourself from excessive sunlight and radiation. Make sure to use a UV-protective sunscreen whenever you spend more than 30 minutes in the sun, or use UV-tinted makeup and skin creams to stop the sunlight from damaging your skin. Stand Up and Move More – Spending a lot of time sitting down will age your musculoskeletal system faster than nearly anything else. All that inactivity will weaken your muscles and put added pressure on your spine. Make it a habit to stand up and move around more. Try using a standing desk, or at the very least get up and take a short walk every hour. Sleep Better – Make a sleep schedule and stick to it, even if that means sacrificing some fun. Good quality sleep will help you manage and lose weight, improve your metabolism, maintain good brain function, increase productivity, and so much more. And remember, your body does most of its repairs overnight, so the more you sleep, the more you give your body time to repair from damage done to your organs, skin, muscles, joints, and bones in the daytime. Lift Weights – Running and low-intensity cardio can help to keep up your cardiovascular endurance, but resistance training is the #1 secret to staying young, active, and fit well into your later years. Not only will stronger muscles protect your bones and joints more effectively, but you’ll find that you move more easily and have a much lower injury risk. Drink More Water – The main ingredient you can give your body to prevent aging is water! Water is critical for hydration, and it helps to keep everything in your body healthy—your skin, your internal organs, your digestive system, your metabolism, your liver, everything. Make it a point to drink at least 3 liters of water per day! Eat and Drink Less Sugar – Sugar ages your body far faster than you might realize. Not only does it pack on the pounds of unhealthy body fat and clog your arteries, but it decreases your immune efficiency, messes with your blood sugar levels, and leads to skin problems. You’ll find that cutting back on sugar will clear up your skin, improve your hair health, keep your teeth healthier for many more years to come, and make you healthier in literally every aspect of your life. Cleanse and Moisturize – Taking care of your skin is a multi-step process, but there should always be two steps in your routine: 1) cleansing to get rid of dead skin cells, pollutants, and cosmetics; and 2) moisturizing to add a layer of protective oil between your skin and sunlight, toxins, and pollutants, and locking in nutrients. Boost Your Metabolism – A healthy metabolism burns off excess fats, keeping your body tight and trim and preventing aging. Exercise is the #1 metabolism booster, but you can try all kinds of things, from remedies (like green tea and yerba mate) to eating a healthier, metabolism-friendly whole foods diet. Care for Your Mental Health – Meditation, mindfulness practices, stress management, and good emotional self-care will keep your mind sharp and stop mental aging. Trust us, if you’re dealing with depression, anxiety, and stress, you’ll feel a lot older than you really are. Caring for your mind is as important as caring for your body! I hope you find this 10 tips for slowing down the signs of aging helpful and I wish you a great rest of the weekend :). Much love & health, Stefan

Atomic Tornado?

Wow! Film I watched reminded me of driving through Oklahoma! Picked up off one high way and was placed down on another higway about 38 miles South! Car banged up underneath, even put a round hole in one tire! White Oldsmobile was pretty dirty with pretty black mud! Wow! a tunnel of white funnels on both sides of me, so just drove into the big black one ahead of me!

How Alone Are We?

Reading a book? A visit to the Library? Buying on line? Watching TV ? Soap Operas? Sports? PBS education films? Still not interacting! How cut off are we really? Going to a bar to drink just sitting there with a glass or cup ? Same as with a Cafe and a cup of coffee? Or cup of tea? We are sitters and watchers! No really think about it! Better to go to a park and kick a ball around! Smile How many would join in? Maybe even try to steal your ball? Lol Then you could chase them all the way home trying to get it back? I did that as a child in a near by gypsy camp trying to get my ball back, at seven years of age! No never saw the ball again! The mothers bought biscuits from my father,so I guess we were paid back for the yellow tennis ball??

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Good Points?

checkmark icon Verified by Psychology Today Hilary Jacobs Hendel LCSW Emotion as Information 5 Qualities to Look for in a Life Partner Dating tips for finding emotional intimacy and connection. Posted Oct 13, 2020 Recently I was thinking about how I used to behave in relationships—before I learned about the science of emotions and attachment My Ground Rules We don’t insult each other. We don’t walk away in the middle of a discussion without stating our intention to return and resume talking. We don’t shout. We remind each other that we love and care about each other even though we are angry. We don’t dismiss each other’s feelings. We don’t threaten to leave each other. A conversation isn’t over until both people feel understood and better. But it is OK to take a break as long as we return at a later time or day to resolve the conflict. How wonderful would it be to know exactly what your partner needs when he/she/they are upset so you could do something to help them? How wonderful would it be if when you felt upset your partner knew just what you needed for comfort and gave it to you? How wonderful would it be to know how to handle disagreements before they happen? When you look at each other in the midst of a fight wondering, "What was it that I once liked about you?” you will be happy you discussed this moment before. Maybe you will even laugh together or take pride in the fact that you prepared for this moment, sharing, “Well, here we are, just like we discussed!” Hopefully, that brings some relief to the misery that a fight with a loved one brings. Finding a partner with these 5 qualities may not be easy. And you will have to be somewhat vulnerable, summoning the courage to talk about these qualities. Hold on to the belief that you are worth it and that you deserve to be in a mutually satisfying relationship. Also, hold on to the fact that many people in the world want loving partnerships. These 5 qualities will guide you to finding your loving partner. I was tough on guys. When my relationships were going smoothly, it was easy to act nice and be understanding. But during times of conflict, like when my guy wanted to see his friends instead of me, or watch a game on television rather than tend to me, or when he left his dirty socks in our living room, I took his actions personally. Didn’t I matter? What about me? I got angry and sometimes I said mean things, which I almost always later regretted. I’d speak in extremes: “You never do _______________!” Or, “You always do ___________________!” My training as a psychotherapist for couples and individuals taught me the power and value of positive communication. What I learned changed my personal life. Romantic relationships are a challenge for everyone. No matter how great couples look on Facebook, no matter how many loving, hugging, kissing photos you see of your friends, no intimate relationship is trouble-free. That’s because of two facts that are in complete conflict with each other: 1. All of us have inborn needs for love, care, and attention, which, when not met, trigger core emotions of anger and sadness in the brain. Over time, we can defend against these needs in a variety of ways. But that doesn’t mean the emotions aren’t happening;  we’ve just blocked them from conscious experience. 2. People in relationships cannot realistically meet all of the needs of their partner. Given these two facts, inevitably there will be times when we feel unloved, uncared for, unappreciated, hurt, and angered. That is not bad. That is not good. It just is! Research by The Gottman Institute showed that how we handle our inevitable conflicts is a major predictor of relationship longevity. We can become pros at handling conflict. But, as the saying goes, it takes two to tango, so we must pick a partner who will work with us to build a long and satisfying relationship. Following are 5 qualities to look for in a partner. These qualities help ensure that you will be able to move through the tough times and even grow closer as a result. I would even recommend putting these requirements on your dating profile page to weed out those not interested in healthy communication. Here’s a sample: PARTNER WANTED: Someone who values empathy and emotional intimacy, and understands the importance of talking to work out problems. Must have prior knowledge of how the brain and emotions work in intimate relationships or be willing to learn. Must have a willingness to discuss relationship values. The 5 Qualities 1. The capacity for empathy. Empathy is the ability and willingness to put yourself in the skin of another person and imagine how they feel (which can be completely different from how you see and feel things). Without empathy, how do we understand each other? Without a capacity for empathy, treating you with compassion, kindness, and consideration will likely not be a priority for your partner. 2. Humor. When relationships are strained, humor can defuse a struggle and transform a moment from bad to better. For example, Wayne knew just the right time to use humor with Jenna. He could tell when her mood shifted for the worse. Jenna all of a sudden became critical of Wayne, nitpicking at things she usually didn’t mind. Wayne could sense that Jenna was irritated with him. Instead of getting defensive or withdrawing, two strategies that rarely help, he would say to her with warmth in his eyes and a goofy voice, “Are you trying to pick a fight with me?” It stopped Jenna dead in her tracks and forced her to contemplate his question. “Am I trying to pick a fight?” she asked herself. “Yes, I guess I am.” His humor made it possible for her to become aware of, and own, her anger. Now that her anger was conscious, she could figure out what was bugging her and talk about it with Wayne directly. She would not have been able to do that were it not for his humorous “invitation” to talk. Humor is not always the right approach. But when it works, it works well. 3. The willingness to keep talking. Two people who love each other and are motivated to stay together have the power to work out virtually all conflicts. Working out conflicts, however, takes time, patience, and skillful communication. Partners have to find common ground or be all right with agreeing to disagree. It takes a while to resolve conflicts because there can be many steps to cover until both people feel heard. Talking involves clarifying the problem, understanding the deeper meaning and importance of the problem, making sure each partner understands the other’s position, allowing for the emotions the topic evokes for each person, conveying empathy for each other, and brainstorming until a solution that feels right for both is found. Problems have to be talked out until both people feel better. 4. Understands the basics of how emotions work. During strife, emotions run the show. Emotions are hard-wired in all of our brains the same way. No matter how smart or clever we are, no one can prevent emotions from happening, especially in times of conflict and threat. It is only after emotions ignite that we have some choice about how to respond. Some people react immediately, indulging their impulses. That's how fights escalate. Others pause to think before they act. Thinking before we speak or act is best because it gives us much more control over the outcome of our interactions. Without an understanding of emotions, your partner won’t understand you as well and she/he/they might criticize you for your feelings or react badly. We want someone who won’t take our moods and gripes too personally; someone who instead of reacting will get curious and ask what has upset us. We want someone who will listen without getting defensive—or at least strives for that. We want someone who knows that sometimes there is nothing to fix and that listening patiently is a powerful tool for couples. And we want a partner who demands to be treated in the same understanding and caring way. Honoring emotions does not mean you take care of your partner’s emotions at the expense of your own; that leads to resentment. Honoring your partner’s emotions also does not mean you allow yourself to be abused. It does mean that you care when your partner is upset and try to help. 5. Understands the importance of establishing ground rules. In the beginning of a relationship, things usually go smoothly. But when the courtship period ends, differences and disagreements start to come up. Before conflicts emerge, it is a good idea to talk about establishing a set of ground rules for arguments. Ground rules are the rules for how to fight constructively. The goal is to learn specific ways that you can help each other in the midst of a disagreement. For example, you can agree to talk in a calm voice versus shouting at each other. In setting ground rules, the idea is to anticipate conflicts and arguments and rehearse how to do damage control. You do this before the fight because during fights neither you nor your partner will be rational or calm, since you’ll be highjacked temporarily by your emotional brain. The goal is to stay respectful and connected while working through conflicts. Your partner learns how not to make matters worse for you; and you learn how not to make matters worse for them. Because each of you is the expert on yourself, you teach each other what you need when you feel bad, sad, angry, and the like. Everyone has different triggers. An eye roll can send one person over the edge while having no effect on the other partner. So a ground rule might be DON’T ROLL EYES. Actions like walking out on a person in the middle of a discussion, threatening to break up, making your partner jealous, diminishing each other with insults, or being physically aggressive are all examples of threatening moves that trigger primitive survival reactions in the brain. No good ever comes from that. My Ground Rules We don’t insult each other. We don’t walk away in the middle of a discussion without stating our intention to return and resume talking. We don’t shout. We remind each other that we love and care about each other even though we are angry. We don’t dismiss each other’s feelings. We don’t threaten to leave each other. A conversation isn’t over until both people feel understood and better. But it is OK to take a break as long as we return at a later time or day to resolve the conflict. How wonderful would it be to know exactly what your partner needs when he/she/they are upset so you could do something to help them? How wonderful would it be if when you felt upset your partner knew just what you needed for comfort and gave it to you? How wonderful would it be to know how to handle disagreements before they happen? When you look at each other in the midst of a fight wondering, "What was it that I once liked about you?” you will be happy you discussed this moment before. Maybe you will even laugh together or take pride in the fact that you prepared for this moment, sharing, “Well, here we are, just like we discussed!” Hopefully, that brings some relief to the misery that a fight with a loved one brings. Finding a partner with these 5 qualities may not be easy. And you will have to be somewhat vulnerable, summoning the courage to talk about these qualities. Hold on to the belief that you are worth it and that you deserve to be in a mutually satisfying relationship. Also, hold on to the fact that many people in the world want loving partnerships. These 5 qualities will guide you to finding your loving partner.

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During the event, Jean will be showing you how to overcome your limitations, accelerate your evolution, and have a greater impact on the world. During this unique online presentation, you'll discover how to... Expand time so you can do more in less time than ever before without adding stress to your life Experience "sustained fire" to keep you operating at your highest energy level throughout even the longest, most challenging days Partner with the energy of the Universe to more easily accomplish your goals and fulfill your dreams Deeply express your creativity without sacrificing your daily responsibilities Hi Judy, it's Naomi Adams, Jean Houston's Program Director, writing to remind you about her Free Online Event! 'The 3 Keys To Unlocking Your Quantum Powers' TONIGHT, Tuesday, October 20, 2020 5:30pm Pacific / 8:30pm Eastern ACCESS THE EVENT PAGE HERE

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Hurricanes Destroy Beachside Homes, But Not This One

Hurricanes Destroy Beachside Homes, But Not This One The engineering that helped one Mexico Beach, Florida, house outlast Hurricane Michael. Popular Science Eleanor Cummins Read when you’ve got time to spare. CYJCV6OMAXPQ5F7XU4RZKHKCIU.jpg All photos by Ryan Ketterman. On Oct. 10, 2018 Hurricane Michael spun Category 4 winds around the upper reaches of the Sunshine State. With sustained winds of 155 miles per hour, the tempest was the strongest to ever hit the Florida Panhandle—and the fourth worst to make landfall in the lower United States. Almost every structure at Tyndall Air Force base suffered structural damage. The seaside town of Apalachicola, 54 miles down the coast, saw an 8-foot storm surge. And Mexico Beach, which sits halfway between the two, saw three-quarters of its homes, municipal buildings, and businesses damaged. But one structure withstood the storm, despite its front step sitting only 150 yards from the wet and windy Gulf of Mexico. Christened the “Sand Palace” by its owners, the blocky beach home survived not by luck or magic, but good design, says Lance Watson, vice president of Southeastern Consulting Engineers and lead engineer on the project. Here’s how—with money and expertise—the crew outmaneuvered Michael, and made this home a model of resilient architecture. 64T65MMCFG2IYQHLJU2AIZEAWY.jpg Open Plan Debris from Hurricane Michael marred the Mexico Beach landscape for months, but some of that trash was intentional. Engineers designed the walls encircling the ground floor of the three-story house to break away. These wooden slabs looked like any other wall, but bore no load. (That’s what the stilts are for.) When beating waves deliver 20 pounds of pressure per square foot to the storage space, the partitions wash away with the tide. According to Watson, if the walls had the hardy concrete construction of the upper floors, the material’s structural resistance would have inadvertently increased the pressure of the storm surge, threatening the integrity of the stilts and the living spaces above. 3PJHPMQ7QPOX6LS7IIOBBH4MIA.jpg Deep Dig The Sand Palace has great ocean views, but its proximity to the beach places it in a FEMA-designated high velocity flood zone—meaning it's susceptible to the worst of a hurricane's frothing waves. To compensate, building code dictates that the house must sit above the projected surge: In this case, that means the two occupied upper floors start 24.4 feet higher than sea level To support such a spindly structure, engineers had to burrow. Concrete pilings dive 28 feet into the sand. The depth accounts for the total height of the home, with some wiggle room for wind-driven erosion. A hurricane can quickly strip six or more feet of ground cover. EQZTEUZMRK4WTU6WIRGCPTEL4E.jpg Cement Sandwich Insulated concrete forms (ICFs) shape the upper floors. To make each 6-inch-thick wall, contractors pour concrete into precast frames and lace it with lengths of horizontal and vertical steel rebar. Two-and-a-half inches of foam on each side provide insulation and strips of polyethylene stagger throughout the block to act like studs. This setup lets contractors anchor sheetrock or siding into the core of the house, rather than superficially slapping them on the outside. Each additional component screws directly into the durable plastic. IJNWJTMRFBS5IN54FN6VRVXNXQ.jpg Stand Alone No house, even a bulletproof one, is an island. The Sand Palace outlasted this storm, but local utilities did not. It took almost two weeks for homeowners to get back electricity—and only in the form of backup generators. Water pipes, the sewage main, and municipal power lines are still disconnected. “We made it through this one,” says homeowner Russell King. “Whether we make it through the next one, it’s anyone’s guess.” ZXOV2BBFSZKR6WQNQXFVIODENI.jpg CaptionPhoto by (Xavi Gomez/Cover/Getty Images) Unbroken Glass One fractured window can be the difference between an intact home and a bare concrete slab. When wind finds its way through the seams of a domicile, it can cause a shift in pressure strong enough to rip off a roof. Each window in the home has three parts: an exterior pane, a small spacer, and a laminated interior pane. "It's like a glass sandwich," says Rodney Miller, president of Custom Window Systems, the firm that designed the panes. The exterior sheet may shatter—one in the Sand Palace's upstairs bathroom did—but the interior laminated sheet is stronger. It's forged from two panes fused around a synthetic resin called polyvinyl butyral. It's withstood two hits from a 2-by-4 travelling at 50 feet per second during wind tests. In the worst-case scenario, it will crack like a car windshield, creating a spider-web effect. RANXH5WJNWAM5IQXUF5AWJ3EMI.jpg CaptionPhoto by (Xavi Gomez/Cover/Getty Images) Hangs Out “The corners of your house get the most wind pressure,” engineer Watson explains. The gusts act like a crowbar, pushing up against the overhangs. That’s why the owners originally considered building a round home. In the end, however, they opted for a method to reduce pressure on a traditional square building: slimming porches and minimizing awnings. 2CBOAJYDK5JLXLYGB5EGED4TOE.jpg Top Side In the eye of a hurricane, shingles become shrapnel. The Sand Palace's interlocking 26-gauge steel roof won't rip apart and keeps a tight seal. Studies have also shown that the "hip roof" layout seen here, with four sloping sides, better withstands pressure from hurricane-force winds than a traditional gable roof, which has just two sloping sides. 4H5LTZ5RU4O7EGSGYO7KA26TAQ.jpg CaptionPhoto by (Xavi Gomez/Cover/Getty Images) Strong Ties Top to bottom, truss connector plates from California-based Simpson Strong-Tie hold the house together. Fangs on the underside of the steel plate secure it to each of the wooden planks in dozens of spots. The joints can withstand a load three times greater than the house itself, a margin that made the engineers confident the home would hold up even in inclement weather. “A lot of design is theoretical,” Watson says. “Simpson, they are not theoretical.” AGOPWTHNLT3NV3UA5LYF7UU2L4.jpg A Village Building codes and human ingenuity can stand up to Mother Nature—for a price. The owners estimate weatherproofing added 20 percent to the cost of construction, so many Floridians are priced out of resilience—especially since state and federal support is sparse. True resilience takes place at a community level. Engineers have yet to formally validate this hypothesis, but some media outlets and passersby speculate that the only reason the house behind the Sand Palace is still standing is because its neighbor acted as a shield. The parts the Palace covered are intact, while balcony railing that extended beyond its shadow was ripped free. At the same time, another storm-girded house designed by Southeastern Consulting Engineers suffered structural damage when a nearby domicile flew off its foundation and into the ostensibly impregnable facade.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZKXToGbgXo ThinkingAllowedTV 56.1K subscribers http://www.thinkingallowed.com/2jhous... NOTE: This is the full broadcast portion of the interview. It was continued in-studio with an additional 58-minute discussion which is available on our 86-minute DVD. We are living at a unique historical moment when the cultures of the entire world are available to us, and we are challenged as we have never before been. In part one of this two-part program, Dr. Jean Houston describes the range of human capacities that are found in different cultures. She focuses on language as an expression of the way societies cultivate human potential. In part two of the full DVD, Jean expands upon the learning experiences she had with Margaret Mead, elaborating on her own experiences working with different cultures. To illustrate her work in human capacities training, she leads an exercise called "Cleansing the Doors of Perception." Then follows a powerful poetic reading by actress Peggy Nash Rubin. Jean then elaborates on how these experiences may call forth within the viewer new visions and deeper understandings. Jean Houston, Ph.D., is founder and director of The Mystery School, a program of mythology and culture. She is past-president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology and also director of the Human Capacities Training Program. She is author of numerous books including Search for the Beloved, Godseed, Lifeforce, Mindgames, Listening to the Body (coauthored with Robert Masters), The Hero and the Goddess and The Possible Human.

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Famous Last Words | Academy of American Poets poets.org › text › famous-last-words Oct 29, 2017 — Famous Last Words - While poets may not always experience the most poetic ... home in August, Brontë was in high spirits and good health, writing to a friend, ... But Brontë's symptoms only became worse; she became emaciated and spent ... Byron clearly had forebodings of death and initially resisted the .../////// Famous Last Words: 15 Authors' Epitaphs - Flavorwire www.flavorwire.com › famous-last-words-15-authors-e... Oct 22, 2012 — After the jump, read the final goodbyes to fifteen famous authors, and let us ... However, he also got billing on the family grave. ... “This Grave contains all that was Mortal, of a Young English Poet, Who, on his Death Bed, in the ... on a theme that preoccupied him throughout his career as a writer for the stage.'/////// John Keats - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org › wiki › John_Keats John Keats was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second ... He had a significant influence on a diverse range of poets and writers. Jorge Luis Borges stated that his first encounter with Keats' work was a great ... During 1820 Keats displayed increasingly serious symptoms of tuberculosis, .../////// Dylan Thomas - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Dylan_Thomas Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion"; the "play ... During his final school years he began writing poetry in notebooks; the first poem, dated 27 April (1930), .../////// Emily Dickinson and Death – Emily Dickinson Museum www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org › special-topics › emi... The poet's death on 15 May 1886 came after two and a half years of ill health. ... The effect of these strains, the symptoms of severe headache and nausea ... late directions, they circled her flower garden, walked through the great barn that stood ... There Emily Dickinson was interred in a grave Sue had lined with evergreen .../////// Poetry about dying | Dying Matters www.dyingmatters.org › page › poetry-about-dying Poetry can sometimes help in dealing with grief and loss. The poems ... Writer and broadcaster Clive James is "saying goodbye" through his poetry. ... The first poem, All nature has a feeling, was suggested by Mike Grenville, who read it at his father's funeral. ... Till at last she fades from the horizon, ... Good about death?/////// With dying family pets and family members? The body fluids draining , body gases passing? Raspy , rattled last breathe Death Rattle: Cancer, Duration, Treatment, and Breathing www.healthline.com /////// While a loved one's passing is never easy to consider or see, there are some symptoms that may indicate a person is dying. An example is a death rattle./////// That is when the nurse sitter, came an awoke me from a nap! After my turning him every two hours day and night, so no bed sores were on his body! She would stop by to let me take a nap, but the last day his breathing changed and she hurred up stairs to awake me and have me hurry to his bed side. Good Bye my dear one! Rest In Peace! RIP, Ann / JAGE

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The Brain Maps Out Ideas and Memories Like Spaces

In the parable of the blind men and the elephant, each paid attention to a different aspect of the creature. The brain may do something similar by mapping out the qualities of perceptions, experiences and abstract concepts along various dimensions, with the help of the same system that it uses to map out physical spaces. Credit: Alexandre Tamisier for Quanta Magazine. We humans have always experienced an odd — and oddly deep — connection between the mental worlds and physical worlds we inhabit, especially when it comes to memory. We’re good at remembering landmarks and settings, and if we give our memories a location for context, hanging on to them becomes easier. To remember long speeches, ancient Greek and Roman orators imagined wandering through “memory palaces” full of reminders. Modern memory contest champions still use that technique to “place” long lists of numbers, names and other pieces of information. As the philosopher Immanuel Kant put it, the concept of space serves as the organizing principle by which we perceive and interpret the world, even in abstract ways. “Our language is riddled with spatial metaphors for reasoning, and for memory in general,” said Kim Stachenfeld, a neuroscientist at the British artificial intelligence company DeepMind. In the past few decades, research has shown that for at least two of our faculties, memory and navigation, those metaphors may have a physical basis in the brain. A small seahorse-shaped structure, the hippocampus, is essential to both those functions, and evidence has started to suggest that the same coding scheme — a grid-based form of representation — may underlie them. Recent insights have prompted some researchers to propose that this same coding scheme can help us navigate other kinds of information, including sights, sounds and abstract concepts. The most ambitious suggestions even venture that these grid codes could be the key to understanding how the brain processes all details of general knowledge, perception and memory. The Amnesiac and the Hexagons On September 1, 1953, Henry Molaison, a 27-year-old man the world would come to know as “Patient H.M.,” went under the knife in a risky, experimental bid to cure a debilitating case of epilepsy. A neurosurgeon removed the hippocampus and surrounding tissues from deep within H.M.’s brain, alleviating some of his seizures but inadvertently leaving him a permanent amnesiac. Until his death more than half a century later, H.M. couldn’t encode new memories: not what he’d had for breakfast, nor the most recent news headline, nor the identity of the stranger he’d been introduced to just a few minutes earlier. H.M.’s story, though tragic, revolutionized scientists’ understanding of the role the hippocampus plays in how the brain organizes memory. Years later, another hippocampus-centered revolution transpired and earned its pioneers a Nobel Prize: the discoveries, decades apart, of two types of cells, which made it clear that the hippocampal region’s fundamental functions included not just memory but also navigation and the representation of two-dimensional spaces. The first of these came in 1971, when researchers uncovered “place cells,” which essentially fire to indicate one’s current location. John O’Keefe, a neuroscientist at University College London, and his colleagues monitored the brain activity of freely roaming rats and observed that some of their neurons fired only when they were in specific parts of their cages. Some became active as a rat sniffed around, say, its enclosure’s northeast corner, but otherwise remained quiet; others fired in the cage’s center. That is, the cells encoded a sense of place (“you are here”) — and together, they created a map of the entire space. (When the rat was put in a different cage or room, these place cells “remapped,” encoding different local positions.) These findings inspired the proposal that the hippocampus might be creating and storing “cognitive maps” (an idea first put forth by psychologist Edward Tolman in the 1940s to explain how rats could suss out new shortcuts to rewards in mazes) beyond spatial ones. At the very least, the hippocampus seemed like a promising place to start looking for hints of such maps. That work eventually led a then-married pair of scientists at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser, to direct their attention to the entorhinal cortex, located just next door to the hippocampus. The region provides major inputs to the hippocampus — and is also one of the first areas of the brain to deteriorate in Alzheimer’s disease, which affects both navigation and memory. There, the researchers found what they called grid cells, which experts now think may be the most compelling candidate for cognitive mapmaker. Unlike the place cells, grid cells do not represent particular locations. Instead, they form a coordinate system that’s independent of location. (As a result, they’re popularly known as the brain’s GPS.) Each grid cell fires at regularly spaced positions, which form a hexagonal pattern. Imagine the floor of your bedroom is tiled with regular hexagons, all the same size, and each hexagon is divided into six equilateral triangles. As you walk across the room, one of your grid cells fires every time you reach a vertex of any of those triangles. Different sets of grid cells form different grids: grids with larger or smaller hexagons, grids oriented in other directions, grids offset from one another. Together, the grid cells map every spatial position in an environment, and any particular location is represented by a unique combination of grid cells’ firing patterns. The single point where various grids overlap tells the brain where the body must be. This kind of grid network, or code, constructs a more intrinsic sense of space than the place cells do. While place cells provide a good means of navigating where there are landmarks and other meaningful locations to provide spatial information, grid cells provide a good means of navigating in the absence of such external cues. In fact, researchers think that grid cells are responsible for what’s known as path integration, the process by which a person can keep track of where she is in space — how far she has traveled from some starting point, and in which direction — while, say, blindfolded.

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The Canvas of a Lifetime Brothers Adam and Aaron Wolken paint their way into history at Springfield’s Wonders of Wildlife National Museum & Aquarium 506f3fcc34c8dbf6e214bf493f6a2b435682dfc9 adam mcmullin 201931 m Written by Adam McMullin on September 26, 2017. Home articles The Canvas of a Lifetime https://wondersofwildlife.org/ Sitting outside Bass Pro Shops® Outdoor World®, Adam Wolken pulled out a paint splattered iPad and began flipping through photos of breathtaking, hand-painted murals created by him and his brother, Aaron. The Wolkens were taking a short break from their dream job to talk about helping create one of the largest, most immersive conservation attractions in the world — Wonders of Wildlife National Museum & Aquarium. As they swiped through photos representing their years of painting inside the new facility connected to the original and largest Bass Pro Shops in the world, they reflected on the work they’ve done and the amazing opportunity it represents for them. Sink or swim Aaron Wolken (left) and Adam Wolken (right) stand in front of a mural they painted in Wonders of Wildlife National Museum & Aquarium in Springfield, Missouri. Adam, 37, and Aaron, 35, from an early age were encouraged to push their creative boundaries. As kids, they drew everything from caricatures to comics and carried that passion into their college years. After college, Adam set up shop in a small art studio where he fell in love with painting murals. Almost immediately, Aaron joined him, and after a couple years of learning the trade, they were on their own and making their mark for Bass Pro. “Honestly, it was sink or swim,” said Adam. “[Bass Pro Shops] asked if I could paint a 250-foot-long marshland scene with 100 ducks at their store in Toronto, Canada, in 15 days. This was my first large-scale landscape, and I did it." The big gig Sheep Mountain in Wonders of Wildlife National Museum & Aquarium in Springfield, Missouri. As Bass Pro Shops founder, Johnny Morris, laid out his vision for Wonders of Wildlife, he commissioned Adam to create the first mural in the 315,000-square-foot facility — Sheep Mountain in the wildlife galleries, a stunning 360-degree view of the Himalayas. “From day one, we knew this was a momentous project,” Adam said. “The reception to the Himalayan scene was so great, they decided to expand the original design to completely surround the viewer.” Just as the brothers finish each other’s sentences when talking about their work, they also finish each other’s meticulous paint strokes — working together to help create one of the biggest, most immersive experiences in the world. “We paint very close to the same style, but there are little things that we do differently,” said Aaron. “So we tend to work in a space for awhile, and then we switch places.” Creating an experience Africa section of Hunting Heritage Hall in Wonders of Wildlife National Museum & Aquarium in Springfield, Missouri. One of the most visually impressive areas of the museum is the Africa section of Hunting Heritage Hall — wildlife galleries that bring visitors eye-to-eye with a huge collection of record-setting big game animals from North America, Africa and the Arctic. Visitors will be transported to an African bush camp prowled by lions at night and into a cavernous hall complete with elephants, giraffes and other game that bring the African savannah to Springfield. It took the brothers nearly a year to complete the painting. “I don’t think there is anything in the world like it, especially the African section, because it’s one huge piece and it’s hard to tell it was painted by two different people because of its cohesiveness,” said Aaron. From the intricate details on a blade of grass, to different tones of blue that make up the grand African sky, the brothers spared no detail — all with the experience of the visitor in mind. Aaron said part of the challenge with large-scale dioramas is making a seamless mesh between the painting and the 3-D elements, including big game, that stand in front of the murals. “We started them without the 3-D elements in place and then once they bring in the rocks, grasses, etc., then we’ll go through and match their foliage in terms of color and tone so that the line between 2-D and 3-D disappears,” added Adam. Over the course of their careers, Adam and Aaron have painted just over a half million square feet of murals. They believe they’ve been given the “canvas of a lifetime,” and are excited to push the envelope in their approach to painting. A piece for generations Aaron Wolken works on a mural in Wonders of Wildlife National Museum & Aquarium in Springfield, Missouri. Reflecting on the last nine years they’ve spent helping bring Wonders of Wildlife to life, the Wolkens said they are “humbled and blessed.” At the grand opening of the museum in September 2017 with former presidents Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush in attendance, Morris recognized the Wolken brothers and other artists for their contribution to history. “I wanted to say a special thanks to the unbelievable amount of work that the craftsmen and women, the artists, the painters, the metal workers, the woodworkers and many others have put into this,” said Morris. “It’s more than an attraction, it’s part of our country's history and the effort, the relentless hard work and dedication of these people and their talent is unbelievable.” https://wondersofwildlife.org/wildlife-galleries/ Visit wondersofwildlife.org for ticket information.

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That upper book case shelf is dusty! Opps it is over at my trailer Home, Wow have not been there in 2 years! Can just imagine how much dust is on that shelf now? lol Still paying lot rent, electric and water bills! The water bills went up to $130.00 a month using water or not! Ouch!

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Only for 50, 60, and 70's ? Smile lol Shucks! There goes all my fun right out the window! And here? Most romantic dream I have ever had! LOL A cup of hot cream and sugar coffee, with a bowl of dry sweeten cheerios, after that with my morning B 12 vitamins! Watching the red copper leaves on a tree out the kitchen window, blowing in the wind! Good Morning to you!

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Aha I can see them now! Like a sheet of plastic in fromt of my eyes! A cataract is a cloudy area in the lens of your eye. Cataracts are very common as you get older. In fact, more than half of all Americans age 80 or older either have cataracts or have had surgery to get rid of cataracts.Aug 3, 2019 My son is for removing them!

How to Navigate Friendship as an Adult

How to Navigate Friendship as an Adult It’s hard, but it doesn’t have to be. NYLON Taylor Bryant Read when you’ve got time to spare. GettyImages-1032315984.jpg Photo by Simona Pilolla / EyeEm / Getty Images. I've been thinking about friendship a lot lately—forming new ones, strengthening old ones, letting go of broken ones. I've been thinking about it a lot because I'm of the age where my friends are entering into different areas of their lives: getting married, buying houses, considering having kids. And, as such, it feels harder to maintain the same connection we had when we weren't bogged down by responsibility. "The busyness and structure of adulthood just isn't set up for helping us to make and keep friends," friendship expert and therapist Miriam Kirmayer says. This makes me think of a quote I saw recently (on the internet, where else), that reads: "Adult friendship is saying 'let me call you back' hanging up and calling back 3-4 days later and no one takes it personally." If you're over the age of 24, this probably hits home—and that's because it's true! Adult friendships require adjustments, which can be hard and complicated and confusing. But it doesn't have to be. As Shasta Nelson, founder of GirlFriendCircles.com and author of Friendships Don't Just Happen!, explains, generally, there are three requirements for a well-rounded friendship: positivity, which means, "the relationship needs to feel enjoyable, you need to feel more good than bad after we hang out with each other." Next is consistency, which is "the regularity and the history that we build with each other through our interactions." Last is vulnerability, which is "our self-disclosure and sharing or feeling seen by each other." All three are important to start a friendship, but absolutely necessary if that friendship is going to deepen. As Nelson sees it, the three requirements can be placed on a triangle, with positivity on the bottom and consistency and vulnerability on the sides. Most friendships, she says, will have the "fun" aspect and not much else. These might be your work friends or your not close sorority sisters, your friend you only hit up when you want to go to the movies, or the one who's always down to go to a concert. These can be your close friends, but usually, they're the ones you keep on your periphery and hang out with for something specific. They might slide up and down the triangle at points, but, for the most part, they're surface-level friends, and that's just fine because surface-level friends are necessary. Then there are the friends who land on top. Those are the few with whom you've been close since college or childhood and with whom you share more than just a surface-level connection. These are the number ones, the BFFs; the future bridesmaids and godparents to your children; the friends with whom you share almost everything. As a child, everyone you meet is your best friend, but with time and age, you realize only a handful make the cut. That's not to say these relationships are perfect. The positivity is established, but maybe as we get older, the consistency is lacking and, as a result, the vulnerability. This is normal, Nelson says. "We actually have to create our own consistency, and we have to initiate and plan and schedule to see each other when we get older, so that can be harder," Nelson explains. "But one of the things that can get easier over time is that we get more practice at self-disclosure and being seen and knowing who we are. It gets easier to articulate things when we feel more confident, and that comes with age sometimes." It can feel weird and even a bit slimy to categorize your friends, but Nelson says it's important because it helps to establish healthy expectations. "I would say that most friendship disappointments or fights or breakups come down to us wanting them to have behaved like a best friend and they didn't act like that," Nelson explains. "And so it's a mismatch of our expectations of what we hoped for the friendship and what we had created or developed in that friendship." Like, for example, your work friends don't need to be the same friends who help you pack up your boxes and move, and your book club friends aren't supposed to be the ones who show up when you break up with your boyfriend. "That doesn't mean they're bad friends, that just means that the only thing you've built up with them so far is book club," Nelson says. Another reason categorizing your friend group becomes helpful is it forces you to look at the quality of your friendships. Nelson explains that there's an "ebb and a flow" to every friendship and that not all last forever. In fact, she says, one study shows that we replace half our close friends every seven years. "The sooner we evaluate our friendships, the sooner we can say, 'Oh, this friendship is fun, we see we have a good time, and we see each other all the time, but it's not as meaningful as it could be because we're not really self-disclosing or sharing or confiding in each other.'" That then gives you a chance to ask: Do you want to increase the vulnerability or are you fine with it staying where it is? Or, is the friendship not serving you anymore and is it time to let it go? It sounds harsh, but this ends up being better in the long run. "As we age, we also develop a better sense of our needs and values and the kinds of people we want to surround ourselves with," Kirmayer says. "This often allows us to have fewer, better relationships—the kind of friendships that are formed from a genuine connection, based on mutual understand, and withstand the ups and downs of adulthood." She adds that our needs change "depending on our life stage or experience." Evaluating and re-evaluating your friendships also allows you to "take stock of the types of friends or support you may be missing." I've also been thinking about friendship a lot after reading Elena Ferrante's book (now also an HBO series) My Brilliant Friend. The book is the first in a series of Neapolitan novels that follow the friendship of Lenu and Lila in Naples, Italy. Their friendship is complicated and often rivalrous. The book, which was translated from Italian to English, became a cult favorite in part because Ferrante doesn't tiptoe around the hard bits of friendship. The dynamic between the two girls is given depth and intensity and attention in the same way romantic relationships often are. Which is appropriate, given that friendships and partnerships are similar in a lot of ways. "We're having to practice the same three actions—positivity, consistency, and vulnerability—in all of our relationships, whether they are romantic or platonic," Nelson explains. Obviously, the actions manifest differently in a friendship than a partnership, but both need to be cared for and nurtured. They have ups and downs and they come with expectations. Like a romantic relationship, the goal isn't to find the perfect friend but to develop a healthy friendship. As Nelson says: "It's on us to create the consistency, we can always add positivity and think of how to have more fun together and how to express our gratitude more and how to bring more latches to the friendship."

From Ketchup to Pineapples: The Food That Should Never Be Kept in a Fridge

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Sorry Folks! Yes Lost My Face Book with Messages

I spoke or replyied to the wrong people? How are we to know? Unless you give them a poison sign? Skull and Cross bones? That they are not to be replyed to? Ouch! So miss my kind people, well kind to me at least? But the sun still shines and life goes on , for me at least:) Some very rich people own Face Book! So maybe it is for the supper rich in $$$$$ cash only? Hey, thats okay! They need their own clubs of owner ship. Some of us are rich in other departments ! Are with the creator of the Universe club. And his little creatures he made on the earth For us to see and enjoy in his beautiful forests and mountains and sea shores. Yes, A Club way richer then money and fancy bars. Getting drunk on hard drinks? Enjoy your time now! Maybe that is all you have? Love to the Earth, Buffalohair and Annie Always!

Wow! A Con Artist at Work!!

Shaun Rootenberg, romance scammer Heartbreaker To women in search of love, Shaun Rootenberg seemed like a catch. What they didn’t know: he’d spent decades stealing from just about anyone who crossed his path. Lonely women on dating sites were only his latest prey By Katherine Laidlaw | September 28, 2020 The first thing Victoria Smith noticed about “Shaun”—no last name, no picture—was his passion for adventure. It was hard to miss: his eHarmony profile mentioned it three times. She knew she could use some adventure in her life. Before her divorce, she had travelled widely, and even now, in her 40s, living alone in Toronto’s west end, her kids nearly grown, she tried to maintain that spirit. She’d recently visited Hawaii, exploring the lush, rubbery green of its rainforests and smelling the burnt ochre of its craters. But she wanted someone to share those experiences with. She clicked match. Soon, her phone pinged: he’d clicked match right back. They began exchanging emails. Shaun told her his last name was Rothberg—which was close to his real surname, Rootenberg—and that he was a Toronto entrepreneur with a master’s degree. Like her, he was divorced and had two kids he adored. He liked hockey, though his first and deepest passion was soccer. He still dreamed about playing in the World Cup, which struck her as boyish and charming. He wanted to wake up every day, he said, trying to understand how he and his partner could ever have been apart. When she asked him about his travel philosophy, he volleyed back: “When are we leaving? My bags are packed.” He sent over some pictures. He was handsome, in his 40s, with a strong chin and dark, penetrating eyes. He had a deep, even tan and an understated sophistication—linen shirts, cashmere V-necks, designer sunglasses. “I really am fortunate,” he wrote to her, “that I have a pretty great life. The only thing missing from it is someone to share both the good and bad times with.” Smith sent back a photo, showing her high cheekbones and long blonde hair, and told him that she liked collecting art and searching for new music online. They compared notes on what they considered the most important elements of a relationship. Chemistry and communication, they agreed. The ultimate dealbreaker? “Lying,” she wrote. In August 2013, less than a month after their match, they met at a café. She walked in to find him more dapper than his photos suggested: his silver-flecked hair and square glasses gave him an air of seriousness. At five feet, eight inches, he was short, but had a strong, athletic physique. He was a gregarious and engaging storyteller, practically brimming with extraordinary, rollicking stories of his business career, of making millions off a deal and of champagne-soaked dinners with the billionaire Richard Branson. Smith was enamoured, and they met again and again. He introduced her to his two young sons. It struck her as strange that he drove an SUV and not the Aston Martin he often mentioned, but he explained that away: he sometimes drove his brother-in-law’s car because as a very private, very wealthy person, he liked to keep a low profile. “In mid-September, a month and a half after they met, she handed over a bank draft for $160,000” Smith had been a stay-at-home mom when her kids were young and came away from the divorce with her home, a condo that she rented out and around $600,000 in the bank. As their relationship progressed, Shaun often steered the conversation to his various business ventures, one of which was an idea called Trivia for Good. It was a gaming app, sort of like a forerunner to HQ, but with a charity angle, and it intrigued her. One day, he made his pitch: “Most of the company has been invested in, but there are still a few opportunities,” he said. She would get regular dividends and, later, if she wanted, she could sell her shares for a profit. Smith was excited to be involved in an endeavour that would make her money and do some good in the world. In mid-September, a month and a half after they met, she handed over a bank draft for $160,000. Smith had suffered through a painful divorce and adjusted to the prospect of a life alone. It had been a long time since her future looked bright. Now, reluctantly, finally, she allowed herself to feel something like hope. Lovers make the easiest marks. In the dating world, there is no consumer protection agency, no regulatory body or task force looking out for earnest seekers of love. That leaves the romantics—open-hearted, primed to trust, longing for intimacy—to fend for themselves. They’re led not by reason and logic but by the belief that somewhere out there is the person who’ll make their life shinier and easier, happier and complete. We all want to believe we’re too smart to fall for a con. But our propensity to believe in something, or someone, rests far more on our state of mind than some predisposition. Someone going through a major life change—a lost job or a bad breakup—is more susceptible, because their equilibrium is off, but anyone anywhere can be had if the scammer is skilled enough. In the U.S. in 2019, some 25,000 people reported being the victim of online romance scams, with losses estimated at more than $200 million (U.S.). In Canada in that same year, 760 Canadians lost $22.5 million to romance scammers, according to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre and the RCMP. In both countries, according to the FBI, romance scams now constitute the highest-loss form of consumer fraud. Scammers lurk on all platforms—dating apps, social media, even online games. They construct elaborate excuses for why they can’t meet in person: they’re away on a foreign military posting, an oil rig or with an international aid organization. They offer even more elaborate reasons why they need money, and then take it and run. But Rootenberg wasn’t running your average romance scam—a cash grab performed from a safe distance. Not only did Rootenberg meet his victims in person, he worked his way into their hearts, homes and beds. Around the same time Rootenberg and Smith’s relationship began, a woman named Kim Barker logged on to eHarmony. She was a 43-year-old doctor and newly single mother of three from Toronto who had just become medical officer of health at Algoma Public Health, in Sault Ste. Marie. Far from her adult kids and alone in a new city, she decided to try online dating. One profile caught her attention: “Shaun” said he worked in mergers and acquisitions in Toronto. There was no photo on his account, but looks were unimportant to her anyway. She was legally blind, a result of contracting malaria during a six-year stint in Tanzania working for UNICEF in her early 30s. But she could still discern the broad strokes of things, like the outlines of a man’s face if he was close enough to her. She could still read a computer screen, too. Under the heading “One thing you wish more people knew about you,” he’d written: “That I really do care.” She’d devoted her life to helping others, and that line resonated. She clicked match. Soon, they were speaking by phone at least twice a day. The glamorous life he described fascinated her. His latest venture, he told her, was a platform he was launching with Richard Branson, and he was flying to London weekly for visits. “It will transform media and advertising,” he said. “I have to be honest with you, Shaun,” she said. “I feel like you’re totally out of my league. I just don’t swing in those kinds of circles.” “That’s what I like about you,” he replied. “You’re down to earth.” Rootenberg with Barker on a work trip to Israel in February 2014, three months after she’d hired him as the interim CFO of Algoma Public Health Barker knew she needed to learn to trust people. It had never been her strength, and years of breakups had chipped away at what little trust she had left. It helped that she was drawn to him. He had a mysteriousness that both unnerved and enticed her. In September 2013, as Shaun’s relationship with Smith was growing more serious, he drove to Sault Ste. Marie. Barker was surprised when he arrived in an SUV and not the Aston Martin he had mentioned. As a person of immense wealth, he explained, he was constantly concerned with people tracking him, so he borrowed his brother-in-law’s car. “When you make as much money as I do,” he said, “you like to stay private.” Their relationship progressed quickly. They spoke on the phone multiple times a day and met in Toronto on weekends. He told her all about Trivia for Good, and how the proceeds would go to helping people in need. He urged her to invest, but she declined. “This is what happened with my wife,” he said. “She didn’t want to be involved with me and what I believed in. She didn’t trust me.” Barker’s stomach tightened. She might lose the first man she’d grown to care for in years, and who wanted her in return. She wrote him a cheque for $100,000 and made it out to “Shaun Rothberg.” When the bank called to verify the transaction, they told her she’d made a spelling mistake. Shaun’s last name was Rootenberg, they said. When she googled that name and discovered that he had a criminal record, she felt betrayed. She confronted him and he mounted an impassioned defence. He had been charged with fraud, he said, but it was all a misunderstanding. He told her how he’d sued RBC and won (a lie), sued the Toronto Star (a lie) and was in the middle of suing the courts system for a terrible miscarriage of justice (the application was dismissed; so was the appeal). He showed her court documents as proof. He’d been mistreated by the banks, the media and the courts, and all he wanted was a chance to start over. He just needed someone to believe in him. She decided that someone could be her. In late September, they travelled together to Big White resort, near Kelowna. Barker was a frequent flyer, and she assumed he was, too: Rootenberg had called her from the Maple Leaf Lounge before—or so he said—so on the day of the flight, she went there expecting to find him. He wasn’t there. When she reached him on the phone, he explained that he didn’t like the risk of missing the flight so he always sat by the gate. Once she got there, she found him surrounded by luxury magazines, poring over pages filled with cars, yachts and vacation spots. It was bizarre, she thought, that he would buy so many magazines that were available for free in the lounge. When she said as much, he turned it around on her. He felt irritated by her interrogation and reminded her of the importance of trust in their relationship. They smoothed things over, but she couldn’t shake the feeling that it all seemed a bit strange. Shaun Rootenberg was born into a life of opportunity. His parents, Abraham and Vivienne Rootenberg, were immigrants from South Africa who moved to Toronto to become real estate agents and raise their four kids. Shaun, their youngest, attended the private United Synagogue Day School and then Crescent School in North Toronto. He was a strong athlete, a good math student and generally popular, but he was most gifted at self-mythologizing. He discovered early on that a well-placed lie could make him sound and feel more important than he was. One friend remembers Rootenberg as a chronic exaggerator. He’d claim to have scored high on nearly every test yet never finish the year atop the class, and he’d tell unbelievable stories of the many attractive girls he’d hooked up with during the summers. After high school, Rootenberg studied at the University of Western Ontario. He tried out for varsity soccer but didn’t make the team, so he told friends he’d instead been recruited to play for the elite Maccabi Canada rep soccer team in Israel. According to one source, Rootenberg went so far as to buy the uniform and travel to Israel during the tournament. By that time, Shaun’s siblings were establishing their careers: his brother Jonathan would become a renowned forensic psychiatrist, his sister Terry an occupational therapist and Michael a car salesman. Sources I spoke to said that while Rootenberg had a brilliant mind, he was a terrible speller and had trouble constructing a coherent paragraph. They suspected he had an undiagnosed learning disability. After university, a friend offered him a job at a collections agency, and, left with no better options, he accepted. Hounding borrowers for repayment was hardly glamorous, but he was good at it. On the phone, he could be assertive and bend the truth as far as he needed to get the borrower to pay up. “I’m going to sue you,” he’d say in a flat, icy tone. “If you don’t pay, I’m going to take you to court.” After he was promoted to manager, he lied to his supervisors that he kept the Jewish Sabbath and he needed to leave early on Fridays and could never work Saturdays. Around the same time, Rootenberg met a physiotherapist named Lana Rotstein. She had chestnut-brown hair, had also attended Western, and they had mutual friends. At their wedding, in the late ’90s, Rootenberg’s new mother-in-law lauded his charm and intellect in her speech. “We’re thrilled our daughter is marrying someone so successful,” she said. “Though we still don’t really know what it is you do.” The crowd laughed along. The Rootenbergs soon welcomed two boys, the first of whom was born with autism. Rootenberg’s in-laws loaned them money toward a down payment on a home in Lawrence Park, according to a source. Rootenberg’s job didn’t afford him the lifestyle of his neighbours, but that didn’t stop him from spending like it did. He bought himself a Porsche. When Lana wanted to improve her cooking, he flew her to Italy for classes. “He crowed about the multimillion-dollar deal he brokered that got the attention of Richard Branson, who invited him to his castle in Scotland” Rootenberg found collections work gruelling, so he created a fake resumé and, with a colleague, formed a management consultancy. He talked his way into a business strategy role at Dell. From there, he moved on to Compaq Financial as a salesperson in the business development division. The ruse lasted until his bosses realized he didn’t have the skills he claimed—but before they could fire him, he’d talked his way into another business role, as executive vice-president of the venture capital group SKG Interactive, which was also short-lived. The pressure began to mount—his mortgage was large, and he had other debt, too—so he returned to the collections racket. For some, that would have been fine: it was steady and honest in theory. But he had bigger aspirations. Rootenberg created a corporation called Jonevan Investments and joined Magna Golf Club, the private club opened by auto parts and horse racing magnate Frank Stronach. On the course, he went to work, using the truth as a base then layering on lies as needed. He would say that he’d attended Western University’s Ivey Business School, played varsity soccer and earned an MBA from Georgetown University. After that, he’d moved back to Canada, married the heiress to a diamond fortune (Rotstein’s father owned a jewellery store) and became a successful investor. He crowed about the multimillion-dollar deal he brokered that got the attention of Richard Branson, who invited him to his castle in Scotland. Rootenberg said he advised the city’s power players on their investments. He offered returns big enough to entice, but not so big as to invite suspicion. It worked. A doctor invested $20,000, and when he got a 20 per cent return, invested another $75,000, which disappeared. A senior lawyer at a Bay Street firm bought in; so did an NHL player. Of course, their money was never invested—it just went into his personal slush fund. At the time, Ponzi schemes weren’t a mainstream phenomenon—it would be eight years before the New York financier Bernie Madoff’s fake empire would fall. The key to a Ponzi scheme is trust: the mark needs to believe that the person they’re handing money to has the pedigree and the genius to beat the market. Rootenberg bore the hallmarks of success—the expensive car, the North Toronto house—and he talked the talk. For many, that would be enough. While his Ponzi scheme was taking off, Rootenberg continued to work at the collections agency, where he was seemingly soaring: he was blowing past his monthly targets and earning thousands of dollars in commissions. He was the star of the company, until his bosses received calls from strangers asking why money had been withdrawn from their accounts. The company discovered that the account numbers Rootenberg had written on deposit slips were real but didn’t belong to the debtors he purported to collect from. He was fired but managed to talk his way into another agency. According to a former co-worker, within a week, regulatory officers walked in, pulled him from his cubicle, tore up his licence and banned him from the industry. Rootenberg kept up appearances—he took his wife and kids on expensive vacations—but fault lines were starting to show. The couple took out multiple mortgages on their home, and, according to one source, they were forced to sell. When the couple finally divorced, Lana’s credit was so decimated that she had trouble buying a car. He forged his mother-in-law’s signature to secure a mortgage on his in-laws’ North York home, and walked out of the bank with $320,000. When Rootenberg’s father-in-law’s jewellery store was robbed at gunpoint, one friend couldn’t help but wonder if Rootenberg was involved. He was never charged—no one was—but the speculation alone was a sign of how fractured his relationships had become. Of course, that hardly mattered. Rootenberg knew he was charismatic enough to start over with new friends, who would soon become marks, and the sick cycle would begin again. In 2006, Rootenberg found his next victim, an executive from Montreal. (She requested anonymity so her name wouldn’t be linked to Rootenberg’s online.) After dating for a while, and after she’d loaned him more than $200,000, they bought a home next door to where his brother Jonathan and sister-in-law Karyn lived, a five-bedroom house in Lawrence Park. She thought she’d met the father of her future children. He thought he’d discovered a gold mine. By this point, he’d perfected his sales pitch. When she introduced him to friends, he bombarded them with hyperbole and rapid-fire sentences. “He talks too fast, and it sounds great, and it’s convincing,” one executive says. “He’ll lie straight to your face, and even when he gets caught with his hand in the cookie jar, he’ll deny it.” A tech entrepreneur named Guy Vadish gave him $250,000. A Florida financier named Jeremy Schwimmer who runs an investment fund wired him $400,000 for a deal supposedly related to the former retail chain Music World. He pretended he was their friend, generously covering meals and drinks. Of course, it was usually with their own money. “There’s a difference between thieves and fraudsters,” one former friend says. “Both are stealing from you, but one of them’s doing it right in front of you.” When it came time for the Lawrence Park house to close, Rootenberg couldn’t come through with his portion of the funds, and the relationship with his girlfriend quickly deteriorated. In the months that followed, she came to understand the extent to which she’d been conned: he’d used her bank account to move money and her network to find new marks. “He doesn’t think the way people normally think,” she says. “We simply can’t imagine someone so close to us being that disingenuous until the evidence is overwhelming.” When Schwimmer and Vadish inquired about their investments, Rootenberg told them there had been a mix-up and the deal had gone ahead without them. When they asked for repayment, he doled out excuses. When they became irate, Rootenberg wrote Jonevan Investments a personal cheque for $1.75 million (U.S.) and had his lawyer deposit it. He printed out the bank balance and showed everyone the slip, which calmed them down. Two days later, the cheque bounced. Vadish called the police, and Rootenberg was arrested, but his sister, Terry, and his brother Jonathan posted bail. Rootenberg served three years and six months at Beaver Creek in Gravenhurst, on the same unit as three other well-known white-collar criminals His pen pals, from left: Joseph Grmovsek, infamous insider trader; Garth Drabinsky, former theatre impresario; and Myron Gottlieb, Drabinsky’s former money man Rootenberg continued to try to outsmart the law, consequences be damned. Later that summer, he walked into a bank at Bayview and York Mills and introduced himself as Jonathan, handed over his brother’s passport and a notice of assessment on his property and said he wanted to apply for a $650,000 mortgage on his home and a $550,000 line of credit secured by the property. He forged Jonathan’s signature and walked away with a $100,000 loan and a Visa in his brother’s name. When the bank approved the $1.2 million in funds, Shaun went on a spending spree. When Jonathan and Karyn found out, they called the police. Shaun learned the cops were after him and hopped into his car and disappeared. Police issued a Canada-wide warrant for his arrest and traced him to Vancouver, where he’d been using Jonathan’s ID and credit card. Yet the police couldn’t pinpoint his exact location—they suspected he was living in his car. On March 12, 2009, after an article featuring his mug shot ran in the Toronto Star, he walked into a North York police station and surrendered. He approached the cop on duty and said, “I just want to deal with it.” He pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud totalling $2.2 million—against his friends, his girlfriend, his brother and his sister-in-law—just a tiny portion of the scams he’d pulled. A former best friend, Jeff Greenberg, saw the news about the sentencing. To the Star, he called Rootenberg’s scamming “pathological” and delivered an eerily prescient quote: “He’s probably on dating sites, too. He’s probably trying to find a girl.” “His mug shot had been in the paper, and the word was out on Bay Street. Rootenberg needed a new scheme where he could put his skills of deception to use. And he found it in online dating” At Beaver Creek Institution in Gravenhurst, Rootenberg typically slept for just four hours a night. He’d never needed much sleep, even in childhood. Around 2 a.m., he’d climb down from his bunk and watch TV until the lights flicked on at 6 a.m. His cellmate was Joseph Grmovsek, a Canadian lawyer convicted of insider trading in 2009, and he shared a unit with Garth Drabinsky, the former theatre impresario who was convicted of fraud in 2009 for a scheme that cost investors an estimated $500 million. “Garth and Shaun avoided each other. The joke among the other cons,” Grmovsek says, “is that they each knew the other was full of shit—because they were.” Rootenberg made friends with Drabinsky’s associate, Myron Gottlieb, who’d also been convicted of fraud, and he would later assist Rootenberg with setting up Trivia for Good. In prison, they ordered special kosher meals, even though Rootenberg didn’t keep kosher at home. When Rootenberg was released in 2012, he tried to pick up where he’d left off. At first, he was successful. He persuaded a new business partner to lease an opulent condo near Eglinton and Bathurst under his company name. After a few months, Rootenberg stopped paying rent and then brought a suit against the landlord, claiming water damage. He bought another Porsche, which he would drive to his rec soccer games, regaling his teammates with outlandish stories of business victories over post-game beers. He’d call up old acquaintances to ask if they wanted to join him for a golf game. When they’d say they couldn’t, he’d impersonate them on the course, blowing puffs of smoke from cigars he’d charged to their account. He was right back into his old life of luxury, but he was smart enough to know it couldn’t last. His mug shot had been in the paper, and the word was out on Bay Street. His Ponzi days were over. Ever the problem solver, Rootenberg needed a new scheme where he could put his skills of deception to use. And he found it in online dating. Like what you’re reading? Subscribe now for $29.95 Subscribe Now! It was eight months after Rootenberg’s release from prison that Victoria Smith, the divorced mom who loved to travel, fell for him. She had no idea that her boyfriend had spent three years in prison and was a career con artist. And within months of meeting him, she had handed over $160,000. Sensing an even bigger windfall, Rootenberg asked if she wanted to invest the rest of her savings. Smith didn’t know much about finance, but she felt uneasy about the stock market’s volatility and wanted something steadier, something like real estate. Rootenberg said that made sense. He said he’d done deals with a company that provided second mortgages. If she invested the rest with him, she’d earn generous dividends. If she wanted, he said casually, he could handle the investment through his company, B-G Enterprises. The corporation was named after his big gonads, he told her. They laughed. (It was in fact Gottlieb’s company and named after Gottlieb’s wife, Bonnie.) In October 2013, Smith gave him a bank draft for $435,000, the rest of her savings. He went to a car dealership and walked out twirling the keys to a shiny black BMW worth $50,000. At the time, Smith had no reason to think anything was amiss: what seemed like legitimate dividend cheques arrived regularly, and their relationship seemed better than ever. Rootenberg paid for three vacations to the Bahamas, once bringing along his sons and Smith’s daughter. From the beginning, Smith had asked for documentation of her transactions. What if something happened to him, she wanted to know? “Of course,” Rootenberg said. He emailed her trust deeds with the subject line: “In case this plane goes down.” But there was no investment, and the deeds were fake. While Rootenberg was dating Smith, he would visit his other girlfriend, Kim Barker, the medical officer of health in Sault Ste. Marie. Rootenberg had already convinced Barker to invest $100,000, but he was looking for another payday. Barker had explained that she was having trouble finding a qualified candidate to serve as chief financial officer to oversee Algoma Public Health’s $23-million annual expense budget and $25 million worth of assets. Shaun offered to introduce Barker to an executive recruiter named Ron Hulse, who would later become the president and COO of Trivia for Good. Barker accepted. Hulse’s suggestion? His old friend Shaun. Hulse knew about Rootenberg’s criminal past, but Rootenberg had told him he was trying to change, and Hulse believed in second chances. And so, Barker hired her boyfriend as interim chief financial officer, with a salary of $205,400, without disclosing their relationship to the board. For Barker, warning signs abounded. But she loved him and wanted the relationship to work. Besides, he explained away his odd behaviour so well. When he’d pay for everything in cash, even big-ticket items, he said it was a matter of privacy. She agreed to open a joint bank account in her name because he said his criminal record prevented him from doing so. She also applied for a MasterCard and added him to the account, which meant the bank didn’t complete a background check on Rootenberg. When he started ringing up the account, she was unaware: he’d signed them up for paperless billing, and only he knew the password to the online account. Eventually, Rootenberg struggled to manage both relationships. To cover his tracks in case they ever met, he told Smith that Barker was his boss, which she was, but told Barker nothing about Smith. At the same time, he told friends that he was in open relationships with both women. For a year or so, his double life worked. Then, in November 2014, he and his ex-wife hosted a joint bar mitzvah for his sons at a giant hall in North York. Rootenberg invited both of his girlfriends and seated them at different tables, mixed in with family, colleagues and friends from prison. Inevitably, Smith and Barker crossed paths. Smith introduced herself, but Barker didn’t know who she was. Smith was surprised. She assumed her name would have come up in conversation between her boyfriend and his boss. Days later, Rootenberg’s scheme was spoiled by the unlikeliest culprit: dessert. Smith took some leftover dessert home, and her son’s friend took some to his girlfriend’s house. There, her father asked where the sweets had come from. When he said a bar mitzvah thrown by a guy named Shaun Rothberg, he looked startled. That name sounded familiar, he said. He remembered reading about a serial fraudster who’d used it and was convicted years earlier. He found a photo online and the young man recognized it as the man he’d seen at Smith’s house. Smith’s son’s friend told her what he’d learned: that her boyfriend’s last name wasn’t Rothberg, but Rootenberg. He’d served time in jail for fraud. He was a career con man, a professional liar. Smith’s world began to quake. The warning signs she’d ignored wailed like sirens in her head. Why had she never seen his home? He said it was because he lived with an ex. Why did he pay for everything in cash? The man she loved was an imposter. And he had her life savings. When Rootenberg walked into her house hours later, she confronted him. Rootenberg apologized and spun his sob story: he admitted to lying and to the crimes he’d committed but assured her he’d changed. “That’s not who I am anymore,” he said. That’s why he’d given her a different name and why he’d been vague about his past. A surge of panic rose in her. Where was her money? She asked for it back. But he convinced her it would all work out if she just gave him her trust and some time. She decided not to call the police. If she stayed in the relationship, she thought, she might get her $600,000 back. “When Smith finally realized that her life savings were gone, she was devastated. Her days became a haze of panic attacks and tears” Her decision didn’t last. It was too hard to be with someone she didn’t trust. After one last trip together, to New York, she broke up with him. Still, they stayed in touch, exchanging texts and talking on the phone. Where she had before asked politely for her money, now she insisted. He’d respond by toying with her, proposing a date to meet to sign the necessary documents and then rescheduling again and again. When Smith finally realized, deep down, that her life savings were gone, she was devastated. Her days became a haze of panic attacks and tears. She became deeply depressed and stopped seeing most of her friends, swallowed by shame and uncertain how she’d tell anyone what had happened. She couldn’t keep food down. She attempted suicide. She went to rehab. When she texted Rootenberg to tell him she was thinking about trying to kill herself again, he texted back: “Please don’t, and I wish you would get together with me.” Smith moved out of her home and in with a friend. Her family kept her close, calling every few hours to make sure she was still alive. The sick carousel of broken promises Rootenberg spun for Smith lasted two years. Finally, she called the police and reached a detective named Paul Mackrell, a cop who’d made his career going after fraudsters. He’s gruff, with a buzz cut and leathery skin. Not every reported fraud turns into a case, but something in the fragility of Smith’s voice stuck with him. The police took statements from her and met with Rootenberg’s former business partners, who told him they’d been scammed too. Fraud cases can be difficult to prove. In his decade in the unit, Mackrell had spent months on other cases poring over stacks of bank documents looking for the tiniest discrepancies. Smith’s case was straightforward by comparison, and he thought it would hold up in court. He was right. Rootenberg was charged with fraud and money laundering, and in June of 2017, he turned himself in again. “I just want to get this dealt with,” he said haughtily as he was handcuffed. Mackrell was taken aback. “I think fraudsters believe their own bullshit,” he says. “It’s easier to live with yourself that way.” In January 2015, three months after Smith finally saw through Rootenberg’s lies, Barker had her own reckoning. Jonathan Rootenberg, the forensic psychiatrist, came to examine a patient in Sault Ste. Marie, where his brother was still known as Shaun Rothberg. When Barker invited Jonathan to use one of the clinics at the Algoma Public Health offices, the receptionist there googled the psychiatrist’s name and Shaun’s mug shot came up. She called her boss. The town exploded. The mayor called Barker, incensed. Barker was mortified. She resigned in disgrace and took a job in Iqaluit as the territory’s health officer. But despite the major transgression, she stayed with Rootenberg. She still loved him, still believed he’d been mistreated by the courts and was still fearful she wouldn’t find another partner to spend her life with. They vacationed together in the Bahamas. By then, they’d been together for almost three years. “I’m so impressed that you maintain such a faithful relationship to me when you could be with so many other women and we’re so far apart,” she told him one night on the phone. “That’s just who I am,” he replied. Yet as evidence of Rootenberg’s little lies piled up, Barker began to wonder if he was worth all the drama that seemed to follow him. Then, CIBC called to tell her that he’d rung up $28,000 in overdraft on their shared accounts. Barker was stunned. She called Ron Hulse—they had kept in touch—to discuss the situation. Hulse offered his sympathy. It seemed, he said, that Rootenberg was conning again. “I feel so sorry for Victoria,” he added, calling Smith by her first name. Barker replied, “Who?” “Oh,” Hulse replied. “I thought you all knew about each other. He told me the two of you were in an open relationship.” Barker flinched. An open relationship? What was he talking about? Hulse told her about Smith. Barker called Rootenberg and asked him to meet her for dinner. Outside the Keg at Yonge and Eglinton, she called him and said: “Did you book a table for three?” Rootenberg was speechless for what seemed to her like the first time ever. “I guess I shouldn’t come,” he said. That, she told him, was up to him. It was Christmastime in 2016, and she sat alone in a leather booth. When he finally slid onto the opposite bench, his face expressionless, she knew it was over. “How could you do this to me?” she asked him. “Why did you think I deserved this?” “My intent was never to hurt you,” he told her. “I loved you more than I’ve ever loved any woman in my life.” She started to cry. He stood up and walked away. When Barker stopped crying, she looked up. He’d left her with the bill.