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Forget diets I can train your mind to think its had a gastric band and heres how… – The Sun

Posted: July 31, 2022 at 8:57 pm

PAUL McKENNA has called for hypnotic gastric bands to be made available on the NHS to tackle Britains obesity crisis.

The hypnotist spoke out after it was revealed this week that almost half of women have done no vigorous exercise in the past year, while a third of men have also given it a miss.

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The figures, from the Nuffield Health charity, come as Britains weight crisis is soaring.

Latest figures reveal 64 per cent of adults were either overweight or obese in 2019.

However, Cancer Research UK predicted last month that more than 42million adults will be overweight by 2040 a shocking 71 per cent of us.

So today Paul shares techniques from his updated international best-selling book The Hypnotic Gastric Band and an online trance exclusively to help Sun readers get thin this summer.

He is also offering a special discount on his Hypnotic Gastric Band app.

In an exclusive interview, Paul said: This is the closest thing to real magic Ive ever witnessed, as a hypnotic gastric band can help you smash off the pounds and get thin.

We should be prescribing this procedure on the NHS.

You can get CBT, EMDR, hypnotherapy, counselling why is this any different?

This summer Britain is facing an epidemic of obesity. As a nation we have never been fatter. But the reasons why people become overweight are very complex.

The scientific research is overwhelming for most people diets dont work.

Additionally, during these times of massive anxiety, stress, boredom and emotional challenges due to the pandemic, millions have been trying to change the way they feel through drinking, drug-taking, gambling, sex, shopping, television and the worlds drug of choice food, and particularly sugary food.

Thats why Im sharing what Ive learned over the past decades, along with additional techniques so Sun readers can change their lives.

As I guide them through the process in my trance audio online, I will get readers to do all the things they would have done, had they had a real gastric band fitted.

As we know, the real band is very expensive, and there is a potential risk, as with any medical procedure.

The beauty of the hypnotic, or psychological gastric band, is that it is safe. You go into a trance, you are told you are having this procedure, but you dont have to worry about physically going under the knife.

Your unconscious mind is instructed that the hypnotic gastric band has shrunk your stomach from the size of a melon to the size of an apple, so you will feel full faster.

You eat far less, without feeling that you are missing out.One man who lost 300lb later told me, Its like a switch has been flipped in my head.

It wont work for everyone, but in studies weve done, we have found significant success rates, with seven in ten people finding it works for them.

The eyes of love

PEOPLE who are overweight often tell themselves: I hate myself because Im fat.

One lady told me shed look in the mirror and her internal voice said: Fat cow.

You need to stop dishing out abuse to yourself, as in the past the solution to stop the feeling was to eat.

This technique gets you to a place where you love and accept yourself.

And by respecting yourself, you can lose weight.

Read through this whole exercise before you do it, so you know what to do.

1. Close your eyes and think about someone who loves and respects you.

2. Imagine that person is standing in front of you now, looking at you and smiling.

3. Next, imagine floating out of your own body and into theirs, and look at yourself through their eyes. See yourself through the eyes of love and respect. Feel the smile on their face as they look at you. Notice how you smile in return.

4. Notice all the things they love and respect about you. Take all the time you need to do that. Notice absolutely everything, even the little things, that you can see. Notice how it makes you feel.

5. Finally, take a snapshot of yourself in your mind and imagine seeing it up to the right in front of you.

6. Keep this feeling in mind, and any time you want to be reminded of it, look up to your right and see that picture again.

ALONGSIDE my online trance, these four golden rules are the foundation of my system and will help to support the changes you are making.

1. When you are hungry, eat: It is important to make a distinction between true physical hunger and emotional hunger. Real hunger comes on gradually. It is clear, constant and you feel it in your belly. It is not a reaction to fear, embarrassment, stress or anger, or a distraction when you are bored.

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2. Eat what you want, not what you think you need: All diets involve limiting and depriving the body. Healthy people eat what their body really wants. After hypnotic gastric band surgery you can eat what you wish.3. Whatever you eat, do it consciously: Give your food your complete attention. Turn off the TV. Slow your eating speed right down to about a quarter of your usual speed. With each mouthful, put your knife and fork down and chew your food 20 times.4. When you think you are full, stop eating: Listen for the signal from your brain that you are full, then stop. Its like a muscle the more you use it, the stronger it gets.

If at first you are not quite sure if you are feeling the full signal correctly, stop eating for three or four minutes and see if you are still actually hungry. If you are still hungry, eat a bit more and watch out for the signal again.

ITS important to no longer use food to change your feelings, or you will put on weight.

To feel good and interrupt or change your emotions, use this Havening technique, created by my friend Dr Ronald Ruden.

Please read through the following exercise before you do it.You should practise this sequence of eye movements, body touches and visualisations several times until you know it off by heart.

Then you will be able to use it any time you need to get rid of unhappy feelings and swiftly feel calm and relaxed. Many people experience remarkable positive changes immediately after a Havening session. Even if you are one of those people, keep doing this Havening exercise regularly.

1. Pay attention to any stress or unhappiness you wish to remove and notice what it looks like in your imagination and how stressful it feels.Now rate its strength on a scale of one to ten, where ten is the most powerful and one is the least. This is important, as it lets you measure how much you are reducing it.

2. Cross your arms, place your hands on the tops of your shoulders and close your eyes.

3. Now stroke your hands down the sides of your arms from the top of your shoulders down to your elbows, and keep doing this downward-stroking motion again and again throughout this process.

4. Now clear your mind, or just think about or imagine something nice.

5. As you carry on stroking the sides of your arms, imagine you are walking on a beautiful beach, and with each footstep you take in the sand, count out loud from one to 20. One, two, three...

6. Keeping your head still, while continuing to stroke your arms, move your eyes laterally to the left and laterally to the right ten times.

7. Still stroking the sides of your arms, imagine you are walking outside in a beautiful garden. With each footstep you take in the grass, count out loud from one to 20. One, two, three...

8. Now open your eyes and check on your scale from one to ten how much lower the number of the stress feeling is now.If it is way down the bottom of the scale, congratulations you have personally changed your feelings.

If you think that the stress feeling is not yet reduced enough, just repeat the Havening sequence until it is reduced as far as you want.

PEOPLE who are overweight tell me they are either hungry all the time, or they dont know when they are full.

From now on, never go below three or above seven again.

1. Physically faint

2. Ravenous

3. Fairly hungry

4. Slightly hungry

5. Neutral

6. Pleasantly satisfied

7. Full

8. Stuffed

9. Bloated

10. Nauseous

As you find it easier to live in the middle section of the scale, your relationship with food, your self-control and your body will all change for the better.

Offer: get the hypnotic gastric band app for 4.99

SUN readers can get an exclusive discount on Paul McKennas hugely popular The Hypnotic Gastric Band app.

For the next 72 hours you can buy it at the reduced price of 4.99 (usual price 6.99) from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store using this QR Code until 23.59 on Monday 1 August.

Readers can also listen to Paul McKennas online trance all this weekend for free at thesun.co.uk.

THIS simple technique helps to recalibrate your hunger settings.

1. I want you to remember a time when you felt really hungry remember what it felt like in your stomach and your mind, and your feelings.

2. I want you to remember a time when you felt really stuffed remember what it felt like in your stomach and mind.

3. Again, I want you to remember a time you felt really hungry.

4. Now I want you to remember a time when you felt stuffed.

5. Once more, I want you to remember a time you felt really hungry.

6. And again, I want you to remember a time you felt really stuffed.

Can you notice the difference now, between feeling hungry and feeling full?

You can listen to the gastric band trance here

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Dad meticulously vacuums every single tassel on the living room carpet in hilarious TikTok – Yahoo Sports

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Viewers are losing it over this hysterical TikTok video of a dad vacuuming every individual tassel on the living room carpet.

When it comes to cleaning, everyone has different standards. No one knows this better than parent and TikToker Ally Cormier (@allyycormier), who recently shared a hilarious video of her husband meticulously vacuuming each tassel on the living room carpet, and viewers have many questions, particularly in the context of his astrological sign.

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The clip opens with a shot of Cormiers husband in their living room, vacuuming the carpet with a handheld vacuum while their toddler plays in the background.

Yeah, I would love to go with the flow, but like, what time does the flow start? asks the videos audio as the camera slowly zooms in on Cormiers husband in a trance-like state, gingerly vacuuming each of the carpets tassels from right to left.

Hes dead serious, Cormier notes in the on-screen text while her husband goes to painstaking lengths to clean and straighten every last tassel.

As the video comes to a close, Cormiers toddler crawls across the room, reminding viewers that those carpet tassels wont stay neat for long.

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Viewers found Cormiers video to be highly amusing and relatable.

This is the same man that cleans the garage when company comes into town, joked one user.

My dad always used a comb, lol, one TikToker shared

[I] read that they make fringe rakes on Amazon for this very thing, another viewer mentioned.

Many were especially fascinated by the astrological aspects of the mans cleaning habits.

Gemini sun, Virgo moon, Capricorn rising. Locking in my answer, affirmed one TikToker.

Im an Aquarius, and [I] do the same but with a comb, shared another astrology aficionado. While the correlation between zodiac signs and cleaning habits remains a mystery, Cormier ensured viewers that her husband is a Gemini who takes carpet cleaning very seriously.

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Conservationist witnesses wonder of sea turtles in Brevard | Opinion – Florida Today

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One night on a moonlit beach, I witnessed a natural wonder that I will not soon forget, as aloggerhead turtle made her way from the Atlantic Ocean to lay eggs in the sandy dunes of Canaveral National Seashore.

This incredible experience was made possible by the Seashores Turtle Watch program. We gathered at dusk in the parks visitor center, where a ranger gave a presentation about these magnificent animals and ongoing conservation efforts by the park service to protect them. All of us then eagerly awaited a call from scouts scouring the beach to say they found a nesting turtle.

The turtle, who we named Aria, paced along the dunes until she found a spot in the sand that was just right. We were guided to Aria while walking along the dark beach, illuminated only by the moon and our red flashlights so as to not disturb the turtle when she was making her nest.

As we slowly approachedher, she began laying eggs in a trance-like state, solely focused on laying all of them. The park ranger told us they operate mainly by instinct. We were shown a sea turtles skull earlier that evening and saw the very small slot where the brain had been.

We stood in awe around Aria as she laid approximately 100 eggs, watching each contraction as she raised her back flippers and dropped eggs into the nest. After time passed, we quietly followed her as she went back into the ocean.

I will remember this excursion for a long time to come not only because it taught me more about sea turtles, but I was also able to better understand the Seashores environment, and the ecosystem-wide issues facing the turtles.

One such issue is that turtles gender is determined by temperature. As the ranger said, warm sand brings hot chicks and cold sand brings cool dudes. With the warming climate, there is concern that more females will be born, causing an imbalance in population numbers.

So far though, thanks to the park's conservation efforts, nesting numbers have thrived. Canaveral National Seashore is 24 miles long, the longest stretch of undeveloped land along Floridas east coast. Thousands of sea turtle nests have been recorded here since 1985. The nesting season runs from April to October, with most loggerheads nesting between May and August. As I write this, there have been 7,333 nests recorded at the Seashore this season, 5,124 of which have been loggerheads like Aria.

Prior to human intervention, about 98% of the nests succumbed to predation by raccoons. For a period of time, the park placed wire frames over nests to prevent them from reaching the eggs. As a result, 80% of the nests survived. Raccoons also consume ghost crabs, another predator, so maintaining a balanced ecosystem is important. Currently, wild pigs are the biggest threat to the turtle nests.

Without the Turtle-Watch program I would have never known the complex variety of threats and management efforts targeting sea turtles at Canaveral. Participating in events like these helps everyday peoplelike me become educated about how our actions impact these animals, and ways we can help at the local level.

One quick step that goes a long way in protecting turtles is making sure to clearyour sand castles and filling in holes youve dug before leaving the beach. Nesting turtles and hatchlings are at risk of getting trapped in these structures and dying as a result. This has been exacerbated by a recent TikTok challenge encouraging users to dig deep holes.

After seeing Aria lay her eggs, I hope to one day witness a nest "erupting"with hatchlings and guide them to the ocean. Only one out of 1,0 turtles reach adulthood. Therefore, it's important we protect these incredible animals through effective local action and continue to stay educated about them.

Luke Strominger is a Florida native and member of the American Conservation Coalition.

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Automated Captioning Rises To The Cloud – TV News Check – TV News Check

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Artificial intelligence and machine learning are driving improvements in accuracy and decreasing latency of automated captioning for broadcast content.

The technologies supporting automated captioning have improved significantly over the last few years while dropping in costs, making it possible for broadcasters to more economically caption their content than relying on human captioners alone. The trend toward using hybrid and cloud models rather than only on-prem for the captioning portion of the workflow continues.

Vendors say the benefits of using automated captioning and transcription services extends beyond meeting regulatory requirements and makes it easier for people in noisy environments, such as bars, to enjoy content, because it makes content searchable and therefore more useful to the broadcaster and prepares it for translation or translates it verbatim on the fly with minimal latency.

Improving technologies have managed to overcome some of the issues that made accurate and fast automated captioning difficult.

Auto-transcription, auto-translation and natural language processing are the main tools we have today, and they are helping us in a big way, says Sana Afsar, engineering manager at Interra Systems.

In the last few years, these technologies have improved dramatically while becoming more affordable, she says. Languages are evolving, and machines are getting better and better, but they are not 100% accurate.

Things like background noises, dialect and slang can lower accuracy, as can switching languages in mid-speech, which might happen when words are adopted from one language into another, Afsar says.

Even with these challenges, the companys Baton Captions automated captioning still works well, and machine-assisted review processes can flag sections of the captioning where confidence is low in the accuracy, she says.

Matt McEwen, VP of product management for TVU Networks, says accuracy of speech to text can depend on many factors.

AI [artificial intelligence] engines are getting better at detecting accents and different languages, he says. Theyre learning engines, getting better and better. Its amazing to me in the time weve been doing this, how much its improved.

TVU Transcriber is an independent microservice that can be added to any TVU Networks product, McEwen says. It is available in the cloud on a pay-by-the-minute model, although the module started out on-prem in a TVU hardware box, he says. TVU Transcriber can automatically detect if a stream has captions, then add captioning when they are not present, he says.

Some customers use us just for captioning, he says.

Background noise can be a factor, so ENCOs enCaption tool focuses on the vocal range and ignores sounds outside the vocal range, Bill Bennett, media solutions and accounts manager for ENCO, says. Its all about accuracy. But its also all about speed. Theyre intertwined, he says.

Bennet calls enCaption a solution that is cost effective and as accurate as humans in traditional live situation and faster than humans for file-based captioning. We have been honing the technology for almost two decades to get it to a sweet spot where both live and file-based workflows are handled by a single product, he says.

EnCaption started out on-prem, but ENCO has been evolving to meet the move toward hybrid and cloud workflows, Bennett says.

Were growing a native cloud version of our enCaption product, he says. Its completely being rebuilt from the ground up.

Voice Interactions Audimus.Media uses deep neural networks and machine learning algorithms along with a large amount of data to be able transcribe speech to text automatically, Voice Interaction CEO Joo P. Neto says.

Audimus.Media can produce live English-to-Spanish translation.

Transcribing content creates time stamps of certain words in a video, making it easier to search and index the content, Neto says.

We are getting very accurate results, which is much better than a manual operator who might have more errors, deletions and dropped words or sections of content, he says.

Latency still persists, however. He says even with a fast engine that transcribes from speech to text, latency can be necessary as the engine waits to gather enough context to determine what the speaker said to provide an accurate transcription, he says. Low latency, he says, is two to three seconds between spoken words and the output of the words on closed captioning.

Russell Vijayan, Digital Nirvanas director of product, says a number of different technologies, like natural language processing algorithms and speech to text, are the foundation of captioning tools.

All the technologies combined is what helps broadcasters produce quality captions, he says.

User interface for Digital Nirvanas Trance captioning software.

Ed Hauber, director of business development at Digital Nirvana, says, The machine-generated process can produce a highly accurate transcript, meaning 90% or greater in terms of accuracy.

Incorporating quality automated speech to text technology helps broadcasters in two fundamental ways by reducing costs and time, he adds.

Vijayan says using a hybrid or cloud-based system for automated captioning provides the ability to update dictionaries when names or words such as COVID Omicron are not spelled properly but says an on-prem only system cannot be updated in the same way.

The first time, it will get Omicron wrong, but the cloud communicates to the system on-prem, so next time, on the fly, it will give you an accurate spelling, he says.

Digital Nirvanas Trance is a web-enabled enterprise-class tool that Hauber calls a DIY self-service captioning tool

It enables operators to do the work themselves. They have the staff and workflow to produce the media, he says.

Caption Services is a turnkey version of Trance that delivers the captioned content back to the client.

ENCOs enCaption5 HTML5 Web browser interface showing in-browser editing and viewing of automation schedule for Word Model loading, and encoder and speech engine control.

Matt Mello, technical sales manager at EEG, an Ai Media company, says that human captioning will remain an option but that the technology behind automatic captioning is getting better all the time and costs are going down for it.

Ai Medias Lexi is an automated closed captioning system, while Smart Lexi adds human intervention.

With Lexi, you can also add custom words, phrases, peoples names, teach it what it should be listening for, Mello says.

Mello anticipates that broadcasters will need to caption all OTT content, saying regulations in place now are somewhat vague in how they related to closed captioning for OTT.

Broadcasters are starting to add closed captioning into workflows that are different to what they do live, he says.

And that means more demand for closed captioning.

Bennett says that captions do more than help broadcasters meet FCC regulations.

When captions exist for video, they can find the nugget they are looking for directly in that video, making it searchable, he says.

That helps viewers as well as producers and editors, he says.

Additionally, he says, captioning does more than serve the audience of hard of hearing and deaf people. Its useful in noisy environments or where the video may be muted

If you dont caption your content, you miss getting in touch with your audience, Bennett says.

And transcribed is just a short step away from translated.

In early July, ENCO bought TranslateTV as part of its drive toward real-time translation between multiple languages

Its a form of universal translator. You feed in English words and get English text and Spanish text and ultimately the other way around as well, and far more languages in the future, he says. Were a multi-language, multinational world now.

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Massive Night 2 Trance-Dance Fest with Guavatron at Dunedin Brewery MUSICFESTNEWS – Music Fest News

Posted: July 21, 2022 at 12:55 pm

Guavatron threw down an astonishing set Friday, July 15, at Dunedin Brewery, along with new St. Petersburg jamsters MiniM. How would they follow that up on Saturday?

Answer: with two completely mind-blowing sets of jamtronica, fusion, trance-dance, prog rock, and a Talking Heads cover!

Importantly, this was the 26th anniversary of the local landmark, and this Guavatron performance was the perfect pairing for this auspicious event.

Set one opened with three tracks from the groups album Momentous, released earlier this year. Things I Forgot get the night rolling before Awake, a tune that has been in the repertoire for some time. After that 15-minute gem, they played the familiar chords of Spring Roll, a song that has been in rotation for years. It was amazing.

Observers had noted that there was a synthesizer set up next to Roddy Hansens keyboards that looked suspiciously like Michael Lyn Bryants Korg Prologue. A dozen minutes into the heady Spring Roll jam, Bryant came up to twist some knobs and make things weird in the very best way.

At some point, it became just drummer Casey Luden and bassist Conor Crookham playing with Bryant. Then Adonis Guava and Roddy Hansen grabbed drum sticks and attacked the cymbals and drums. Even sound engineer Chris Fama (who had the boys dialed in perfectly both nights) got in on the percussion orgy.

From there, the group fell into a cacophonous section before Spring Roll proper re-emerged, a magnificent 32-minute romp. To close the first set, they offered up a tight Cousin Kelly. As they reached the jam section after the incendiary beginning, Guavatron hit that very Dead-like groove they often achieve, with Adonis Guavas guitar so reminiscent of Jerry Garcias, reminding of the transition from China Cat Sunflower to I Know You Rider. Just WOW.

Set two exploded instantly as they tore into the very metal tune GRIT, crammed with Conor Crookhams space bass, prog rock, screaming metal and more. They took a breather after that 27-minute outing before kicking into another great song, Get It On. Hansen, already all over synths, electric piano, and organ, added clavinet to this one, which almost picked up a reggae lilt at times.

The Guavatron boys were on fire. They played killer funk (Hot Sauce), a short one to shut down the show (almost). But of course there was one more. This encore featured the only cover tune, Talking Heads This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody). After playing the head of the tune, with Hansen nailing that little synth part, the groove once again turned into a Dead-like jam, the perfect way to send us home happy, sated, and ready for the next show.

Mazel Tov to Dunedin Brewery for 26 years of great music, great beer, great food, great service, and great friendship. On to the next 26!

[GUAVATRON: SET 1: Things, Awake, Spring Roll, Cousin Kelly; SET 2: GRIT, Get It On, Hot Sauce; E: This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)]

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Eric Dont’s ‘Ghetto Trance’ Is Taking Over St. Louis – Riverfront Times

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Released in April, Eric Dont's five-song EP Dont Play With Me fearlessly melds fantasy and reality.

It just comes from being an alt black boy from the hood that likes experimental music, Dont says of his self-defined genre ghetto trance, which he describes as a combination of hip-hop, R&B, punk and trance, with a taste of experimental and cutting-edge atmosphere.

While many may be familiar with Eric Dont, who has been performing in the city since around 2016, it can be hard to keep up with the prolific artist. Donts first full-length album God Dont Like Ugly, came out that year, and his EP A Lamp in the Room was released in 2018, featuring standout single and video Nothing. Since that time the rapper has stayed busy, posting freestyle videos, new singles and collaborations with local musicians including singer-songwriter and producer Zaethone.

The past six months have been an especially fruitful time. Dont put out the stellar EP Dont Play With Me, started a new rave collective, opened for New York rapper billy woods at Columbia venue Cafe Berlin and was featured on Paris-based musician Sicaas song Departure Unknown, with a music video collaboration with St. Louis royalty Maxi Glamour.

Filmed by Donts longtime videographer and collaborator Dylan Schnitker, the video came out in March, starring Dont and Maxi as futuristic green and blue aliens. Sicaa and Dont met through the Black Marble Collective, and their track Departure Unknown echoes a glittery outer space beat alongside the music videos dream-like gauziness. Glowing in their sprite ears, Dont and Maxi excitedly roam around south city in search of gas station treats.

Dont says that his music videos are very important to him. When Im writing music, I already see how I would like to be performing in the music video, he notes. The collection of videos he's released over the years feels like a treasure trove, where one might reach in and find goth vampires, fairy-tale makeovers and a big rainbow wig.

Prior to the pandemic, Dont lived in Chicago for a couple years, where he continued performing and writing music. At a party in Chicago one night, Dont met producer Jeremiah Meece. The two quickly hit it off.

I had already heard of [Meece] because they had produced for other artists I love like Mikki Blanco and Mister Wallace, Dont says, The night we met, I just put it out there that we could snap on a track together. I could tell they got that all the time so I didnt really force anything. About a year later, they hit me up.

Out of the beats that Meece sent over, Dont picked the ones he loved, creating the five songs for his latest EP Dont Play With Me. Released in April of this year, the record fearlessly plays with fantasy and reality, seduction and humor, vulnerability and coolness. Even its shortest song, the intro Tried to Take Me Out, carries one of the catchiest choruses, managing to sound both soulful and spooky. Meeces beats and keys provide a retro and often hypnotic force over which Dont adds playfulness with his versatile voice.

Every track beckons a different mood: Homie Whaddup imagines a good day from good sex, getting paid, or maybe you might be high. Horror Movie revolves around Donts love for scary movies. Perhaps Donts voice is the director of the movie, and we, the listeners, are the main characters instructed to keep running from the scream around the corner. Feel So Good, the last track, switches to a more ethereal and misty place than the rest of Dont Play With Me. Dont rhymes and sings intimately (your stomach, I kiss it) about feelings between two people, where nothing else matters.

Although under a singular moniker, Eric Dont is always surrounded by collaborators and community. His music videos naturally incorporate groups of fellow local artists, and this culture of inclusion is a huge part of Donts ethos.

Think back to the 1990s rave scene in St. Louis: The address to the rave was often kept secret, revealed at the very last second to a select group. Today, Materia, a new arts collective which Dont helped form, is bringing rave parties to St. Louis, with yes, an address attached to each flier. Materia is composed of other electronic musicians and DJs Nadir Smith, Manapool, Umami and Sweeet, who all had the same vision for experimental music raves, which dont happen often here, in Donts telling. The monthly shows have mainly been inhabiting house venues and basements, influenced by a lack of club venues in the city since the pandemic and perhaps by an experimental desire to stray away from the constraints of traditional venues. Dont defines their audience as the weirdos, the outcasts. Our events make everyone feel comfortable, everyone is welcomed.

Donts carefree party-performer persona doesnt hide his genuine vulnerability.

I grew up feeling unheard, and when I started doing music, I think people really started paying attention to how I may really feel. My music is the more assertive version of me, Dont explains. All of [my] music is about things I actually experience and go through. I want people to know you are in control of your own narrative. I want my music to make people feel like they can rule the world.

Eric Dont seems ready for a world takeover guided by his stacked future plans: a possible headline show, Dont Play With Me music videos, learning how to DJ and a promise of more songwriting. I have so much in the vault I cant wait to put out, he says.

Like many St. Louis musicians, Dont wants the wider country (or intergalactic universe) to notice St. Louis as a place of creative gravity, and also really fun shows. He has hopes to show the world what STL is made of through vibes and song, he says.

So far, everyone tells me they wanna visit here. I make it look fun. Im like, it isss!

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Cast: James McAvoyVincent CasselRosario DawsonDanny SapaniMatt Cross

Geners: ThrillerCrimeDramaMystery

Director: Danny Boyle

Release Date: Mar 27, 2013

A violent gang enlists the help of a hypnotherapist in an attempt to locate a painting which somehow vanished in the middle of a heist.

Trance never made it to Netflix, unfortunately. Still, Netflix holds a variety of shows one can watch for subscription plans that costs $9.99 per month for the basic plan, $15.49 monthly for the standard plan, and $19.99 a month for the premium plan.

At the time of writing, Trance is not available to stream on Hulu through the traditional account which starts at $6.99.However, if you have the HBO Max extension on your Hulu account, you can watch additional movies and shoes on Hulu. This type of package costs $14.99 per month.

No, Trance is not streaming on Disney Plus. With Disney+, you can have a wide range of shows from Marvel, Star Wars, Disney+, Pixar, ESPN, and National Geographic to choose from in the streaming platform for the price of $7.99 monthly or $79.99 annually.

Sorry, Trance is not available on HBO Max. There is a lot of content from HBO Max for $14.99 a month, such a subscription is ad-free and it allows you to access all the titles in the library of HBO Max. The streaming platform announced an ad-supported version that costs a lot less at the price of $9.99 per month.

As of now, Trance is not available to watch for free on Amazon Prime Video. You can still buy or rent other movies through their service.

Trance is not available to watch on Peacock at the time of writing. Peacock offers a subscription costing $4.99 a month or $49.99 per year for a premium account. As their namesake, the streaming platform is free with content out in the open, however, limited.

Trance is not on Paramount Plus. Paramount Plus has two subscription options: the basic version ad-supported Paramount+ Essential service costs $4.99 per month, and an ad-free premium plan for $9.99 per month.

Trance isn't on Apple TV+ at the moment, sorry! In the meantime, you can watch top-rated shows like Ted Lasso on Apple TV with a subscription cost of $4.99 a month.

No dice. Sadly, Trance hasn't made its way onto the Chili streaming service yet.

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Ora and Q Nightclub hosting dual Group Therapy Weekender pre-parties this Thursday – Dance Music Northwest

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As you all know, Above & Beyond are coming to The Gorge this weekend. This Thursday, July 21, two of Seattles most prominent clubs, Q Nightclub and Ora, will be hosting a slew of Anjuna artists to warm us up before heading to The Gorge for the main event, Group Therapy Weekender 2022!

If your sonic tastes are a blend of trance and progressive house, Ora will be hosting Amy Wiles, Fatum, and Genix. If you gravitate toward the deeper sounds, Q Nightclub will have Eli & Fur, Marsh, and Olan.

The rosters are an excellent reflection of whats currently hot and Anjunas current direction and vision. It features a combination of the up-and-coming and solidified mainstays. Learn about all the artists at Anjunas Seattle showcases below!

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Long-time friends of the label, the U.K. duo has the flair for moody and dark dance paired with mysterious, brooding vocals. They have releases on Defected, Spinnin Deep, Anjunadeep, and their own imprint NYX Music. The duo has proven that their songwriting roots can be successfully paired with a club-oriented side. Check out their recently released Cercle Set live from the snowy mountains of Italy.

U.K. born, California-based DJ and producer Marsh is easily the labels current superstar and a fan favorite (a personal favorite too). Showing no signs of slowing down, Marsh has taken on Europe, Asia, South America, and North America. His enchanting deep and progressive house instills hope and healing. As he continues his incredible upward path, he has already solidified modern classics with Come Together and My Stripes.

A quickly-rising star and newcomer to the Anjuna family. Olan got her start with the label from her collaborations with Mat Zo and Nourey. Her sound is an eclectic melting pot, serving as a reflection of her own diverse upbringing and background. Aside from her electronic prowess, she sings and plays guitars behind the decks. She is an inspiring figure, being a colored queer woman in an industry dominated by straight white males. She is one to watch closely.

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London-based DJ & producer who got her start with Anjuna as a resident DJ in 2018. Wiles eventually took the reigns as the labels product manager. She has showcased for Colorized and Anjunabeats at Creamfields and Tomorrowland. Her performances have been primarily U.K. based, so this will be the beginning of her debut U.S. tour.

Genix has deep roots in the trance scene going back to 2003 and has become one of the most exciting acts on Anjunabeats. His formidable sounds take fans on unexpected twists and turns. He provides a high octane cocktail of trance, techno, and progressive house. Fun fact: he holds the Guinness World Record for the longest DJ set which clocks in at 84 hours.

The U.S.-based duo has been a solidified global dance music act. Fatum are Grammy nominated, Billboard Dance toppers, and winners of best EDM via Hollywood Music in Media. They have releases on huge labels such as Armada, Ultra, and of course, Anjunabeats. They capture the essence and euphoria of trance, showcased with strong notions of industrial techno. As curated tastemakers of dance music, they continue to put out their forward-thinking tunes.

Where will we be seeing you before Group Therapy Weekender? Let us know on social media and check out more of local nightlife events happening here!

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Manila Killa Drops Dusk: I Saw A Shooting Star Go Over The SkyI Wanted To Share That Feeling – Forbes

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Manila Killa.

Chris Gavino, known best as his Manila Killa moniker, fuses emotional music and melodic dance to create his signature sound. Today, July 21, the artist does it again with the release of Dusk.

The 12-track body of work is sonically diverse, featuring everything from melodic dance to drum and bass, uplifting melodies and progressive sounds. The first song, Soul, brings listeners into a sonic trance, one that emanates the feeling of being in outer space amongst the stars, while closing out the LP is The End, an emotion-filled yet wordless record. The albums title track boasts catchy lyrics, enchanting vocals and elated melodies. Dusk is indeed an impressive album by the Philippine-born producer.

Here, Gavino shares with Forbes the inspiration behind Dusk, what its like living in a house with other deejays, the biggest inspiration on the music he makes today and more.

This transcript has been edited for length and clarity.

Lisa Kocay: Can you describe your sound in three words?

Chris Gavino: The three words that come to mind are tension, liminal and introspective. Tension, because I feel like I'm really honing into dance music for this album, and dance music is all about tension and release. So that's something that I really focused on. Liminalthe traditional meaning is in between, and I touch on that a lot in the album, tookind of in between the night and day. So that's something I really wanted to convey in my sound more recently. And introspective is mainly because I did a lot of reflection, especially over the quarantine, about how I wanted to craft my sound with the album. Youre going to hear a lot of my own reflection throughout the album.

Kocay: What was the inspiration behind Dusk?

Gavino: There's one moment in my life that I kept coming back to when I was working on the album. I took a trip to Joshua Tree right before quarantine happened. There was one moment in time where I was sitting outside during the nighttime and the stars were just all out and it was really beautiful. I was listening to Andrew Bayer, a prominent trance artist who's released a lot of stuff on Anjunabig fan of his. I was also listening to The 1975, more so their ambient works. There was one moment in time where I saw a shooting star go over the sky. I found that feeling so beautiful, and that was something that felt like a feeling I wanted to share with the world. I wanted people to feel what I was feeling. So that was the main inspiration behind the entire album. [It] was trying to get people to understand that specific feeling. And with the music side, I wanted to make the music feel organic, but still sound like electronic music. I think with electronic music, EDM kind of lives in the dusk time of day where there's like one foot in the daytime and one foot in the nighttime. I wanted to convey that feeling.

Kocay: I know you said you wanted to convey the feeling of when you saw the shooting star. What exactly was that feeling?

Gavino: I felt at peace for one of the first times in my life. I felt like everything was okay in the world because it felt like I was kind of in outer space but on earth at the same time. It was kind of a feeling I never really felt before. I just wanted to share that with everybody.

Kocay: Can you share any stories behind some of the tracks and how they were made?

Gavino: Theres a song that I put out, a single called Take Me Higher (feat. fknsyd), which is a new style of electronic music for me. Its a drum and bass song. It was the first time I ever tried making drum and bass. The story behind that stems from during the quarantine, I used to live in a house with other producers and one of those producers was Robbie from Louis the Child. He told us all one night that we should watch this documentary called Drum & Bass: The Movement. I started to learn about the history of drum and bass, where it came from and why it is the way it is now. Later on in the year, after listening to drum and bass a little bit, I saw that Brownies & Lemonade. They throw a bunch of parties in [Los Angeles]. They put on a drum and bass event in [Los Angeles] with a secret lineup, and I wasn't able to go but I saw a bunch of Instagram stories.

They had this one artist named Dimension from the UK play, and I just instantly fell in love with his sound. I got super inspired by his sound. So a couple days before my New Year's show this past year, I decided to make a drum and bass song just to throw into the middle of my set. I wasn't expecting much at all, but I played it out, and that was the craziest reaction I had ever gotten from a crowd. So at that point I was like, All right, I got to finish this song. I got to make it crazier. I had this singer from Texasshe goes by fknsyd. She's done a lot of work with Rezz and stuff. She was perfect for something more dark.

I think one of the coolest, serendipitous moments [with] how one of the tracks were made ... [+] wasDusk, featuring the singer Lights from Canada, Manila Killa says. I had been such a fan of hers for years and years. I was listening to her back in high school, and she was actually one of the first people I saw in concert. She was always a bucket list collaborator for me.

Kocay: You mentioned you were living in a house with a number of other deejays. What was that like? Was it nice to be able to bounce off ideas with each other?

Gavino: I'd say yes and no. I think there are definitely positives and negatives to living in a house with other producers. The positives are definitely being able to bounce around ideas. If you get stuck, you can hit someone up in the other room and try and work on it. But I think for me, personally, I think I work best when I'm on my own and I have my own space to think. The funny thing about living with other producers is that it's never quiet. It's always loud. People are blasting music all the time. We lived in a house with pretty thin walls. So it was sometimes hard to just have a little space to myself, so that was the negative side of it. But [it] was still a really great experience.

Kocay: Who has been the biggest influence on the music that you make today?

Gavino: Honestly, especially throughout the album, I think it was like my girlfriend because she's a visual artist, but I think she has such a great taste in music. I think she was a blessing in disguise throughout the creation of this album because there came a lot of points where I was working on this over the quarantine where I felt like I was getting stuck. I felt like I was boxed in, quite literally as well because we weren't going anywhere. There were a lot of times where I felt stuck, and I think she was able to help push me out of those boundaries. I'd be working on a song for like two days and then she'd be like, Hey, why don't you try this? Then all of a sudden ideas started to flow out. So I found that super helpful and I really appreciated her for all of that. She was a big influence on the album.

Kocay: Do you remember the first electronic music song you heard that made you fall in love with the genre?

Gavino: I was actually in first grade. I had no idea what was happening. I was living in the Philippines at the time and I was watching a lot of TV. I was always interested in watching music videos and music video channels, because those are really big in the Philippines. There was one time where I heard Daft Punks One More Time, and what I found so compelling about that song in particular was that it was so unconventional compared to all the other music videos that I had seen as a kid. It was an animated music video. So it was all animation and I couldn't really put a human face to the voice that I was hearing. I just remember loving that song.

Unfortunately, I got disconnected from electronic music after that because my parents weren't into electronic music. No one I knew was into electronic music. I kind of grew up with the radio, and then eventually in high school was when I found a group of friends who were listening to electronic music. Then they showed me artists like Justice and Daft Punk. This was like in ninth grade. It was sort of a rediscovery for me, and from that point on, I kind of lost interest in all other genres of music and I just dove really deep into electronic music. I never looked back after that.

Kocay: If you could give yourself one piece of advice for when you first started making music, what would it be?

Gavino: I would say take the time to learn music theory. I don't know that much about it now, but I started to learn a little piano during quarantine, and I started to realize that understanding music theory is such an important tool because it'll help you find resolve in core progressions and it'll help you kind of extend your songwriting abilities. This advice would go to anybody who's starting out and producing music, toolearn the tools of the trade. You don't have to understand everything, but understanding music theory, at least the base of it, is really helpful in any type of music that you make.

Kocay: If you didn't go into making music, where would you be today?

Gavino: I would be in an office nine-to-five job. I believe that for sure, because l actually studied business management in college. I got my degree and I had a job lined up for me after college, but obviously that didn't happen because somehow my music got known by other people around me. But more recently, I started learning how to [make] pottery. I kind of feel like it gives me the same feeling that I felt when I started music in the sense that you're creating something out of nothing. I think that if I had found pottery earlier in my life, that could have been something that I would've done aside from music.

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God, Give Me The Patience To Survive The Early Reader Stage – Scary Mommy

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Even if your childhood was devoid of the Reading Rainbow theme song or the thrill of a Scholastic Book Fair, youve almost certainly gotten the message that reading is essential, its benefits manifold. Parents are told constantly to read to their children right from the start, silly as it may feel to flip those pages before the glazed-over eyes of a newborn.

I am here for that. Bring on the comb, the brush, and even that bowl full of mush. Voices for heroes and villains? Ive got them covered. Ill read to these kids all day. Its all dinosaur dances and bear hunts right up until that to becomes a with. But reading with a child, or rather, mustering the patience of a saint to sit there while they stammer through the basic phonetics of early literacy? Well, thats something different.

Ive got two early readers at my house, plus one who we thought for a second might be a prodigiously literary toddler until we realized hed just memorized the entirety of Sandra Boytons portfolio. He still has a few more years before sight words. The other ones are running their fingers along pages and sometimes sounding out words with such impossible longevity that I am certain they are just delaying bedtime. I need to say a serenity prayer: Grant me all your calm to survive the agony of sitting next to my precious child with his shower-wet hair neatly combed, as he stares at the word bag, and takes an eternity to say buh then aaa then guh. Give me the strength to stay quiet while he runs the sounds together, when he finally shouts BAG! and I must act surprised, nay thrilled, at the identification of the brown sack with handles.

Its nice to remember that we do this for good reason. Reading with young children gives them better communication and speech skills, enhanced cultural understanding, and higher academic performance, just to name a few. Reading has been shown to bring about the health benefits of meditation, putting our brains into a pleasurable trance-like state. As for me, Im sharpening my self-control skills. How many times must we read the same Black Panther book?

And then, when a new book enters the rotation, I lie there thinking that since the dog has fallen off his scooter twice now, this one must be the time he gets it. Surely, we are at the climax. Im on the bottom bunk, head on a dinosaur pillow, trying to look convincingly interested or even just awake as my son holds a finger under the word celebrate, saying: Calibrate? No, no dont tell me, trying not to think about the dark chocolate peanut butter cups awaiting me downstairs, or perhaps even a book of my own.

Of course, of course, these are moments to be cherished. I am grateful for my childrens developing minds, for their love of books and desire to read them. Stephen King called books a uniquely portable magic. And anyone who has ever experienced Maxs sailing into the night of his very own room, or Harrys first run into the wall of Platform 9, or Jo Marchs writing by candlelight in her attic, knows it to be true. To think of the worlds my children will discover in the backs of wardrobes and in the slopes of shires thatll keep me propping up my dinosaur pillow, nodding along, and when its getting really late, offering to read the next page (or five).

Hampton Williams Hofer lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she writes and raises babies. Her work has appeared in Flying South, Walter Magazine, Architectural Digest, and Food 52, among others. Family aside, her great loves are a South Carolina beach, a Roger Federer backhand, a Charlottesville lawn, andmost of alla good story.

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