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En 1832, tandis que le choléra s'apprête à ravager la France, le commissaire Hector Auzaguet est envoyé secrètement sur les côtes du Nord pour en découvrir l'origine. Sa route le conduit à un village enfoui au cœur des marais, où l'on murmure qu'une femme spectrale hante les nuits. Entre épidémie, contrebande et croyances anciennes, il devra affronter la peur et choisir entre raison et surnaturel. Moyenne 17.0 1 vote - EXCELLENT TRES BON BON MOYEN FAIBLE MAUVAIS
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Zen and the Scary Stuff
Last Saturday, during our monthly book study group that takes place on the 2nd Saturday of the Month. I was reminded of one of the great shames of my life. Our group is studying The Book of Householder Koans, by Eve Marko & Wendy Nakao. Last week were studying the chapter Titled Enju: The Black Abyss which explores ideas of loss, illness, old age, and death. In the conversations that ensued I was reminded of the time my favorite cat, Kitty, was to be put to sleep.
The #1 Reason We Can't All Get Along
By Chris Hoff, PhD Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Have you ever tried to merge onto the 405 Freeway, in Los Angeles, during rush hour traffic? If you have, you probably learned a valuable lesson that continues to influence you to this day. That not everybody can be trusted to do the right thing. I believe many of the problems we face today amount to a crisis of trust. Who we trust and what we trust is becoming smaller every...
Zen and Recovery: The Zombie Apocalypse
Why have there been so many apocalyptic Zombie movies and TV shows over the last several years? I think I have an idea. Photo by Simon Wijers on Unsplash When I used to teach beginning meditation in a yoga studio near me, I would ask this same question. As a set up. To show how Zen meditation might be useful to people in ways other than lowering blood pressure or stress reduction.
Zen and the Art of Abstinence
By Chris Hoff, PhD A while back I was in New York City, a city famous for its sights, and not so famously for its smells. During our time in NYC there was one smell that seemed to dominate the rest in this bustling city. Weed. The smell of cannabis was everywhere. Now, for the record, I am completely in favor of the full and complete legalization and decriminalization of Marijuana. I am also in favor of...
Zen and Recovery: Abstinence is Radical
A while back I was in New York City, a city famous for its sights, and not so famously for its smells. During our time in NYC there was one smell that seemed to dominate the rest in this bustling city. Weed. The smell of cannabis was everywhere. Now, for the record, I am completely in favor of the full and complete legalization and decriminalization of Marijuana.
Zen and Recovery: Why Buddhism and Recovery?
Zen and Recovery: Why Buddhism and Recovery? October 4, 2022 Dr. Chris Hoff, PhD, LMFT This is a piece on how the practice of Zen Buddhism can support and sustain a person on the journey of recovery. So to begin, how might we define recovery? The term “recovery” is increasingly used in connection with healing from mental illness, but it is perhaps most commonly associated with overcoming addiction to Alcohol and other drugs, as in my case.
How Should Companies Handle Ransomware?
What is the threat of ransomware to your company? According to the Veeam 2022 Data Protection Trends Report, 76% of companies admitted to being attacked by ransomware in 2021. If we broaden the question and asked how many companies experienced a cyberattack, the number would be closer to 100%. Some of the main reasons ransomware has been so successful include the low cost of entry and high return on investment for the attackers. Let’s unpack that a bit.
Zen and Recovery - Die Before You Die
There’s a phrase I have heard in Zen circles that goes “Die before you die.” My understanding is that this idea has its roots in the Sufi spiritual tradition, but many Zen folk have picked it up as a teaching tool. I was thinking about this teaching recently because I had a moment where I experienced a little death.
Your Therapy Model is Meaningless. Your Therapy Model is Everything.
By Chris Hoff, PhD Why does the field continue to ask, 'which treatment is most effective?' Seriously. What does it say about the state of the field that method continues to dominate professional discourse and practice? - Scott Miller
Composition and Curiosity in Therapy
By Chris Hoff, PhD Originally published in February 2021 by Thick Press as a Book Emerging project By Chris Hoff & J. D'Arrigo Introductory Thoughts SIGNATURE #1 The contemporary family therapy and counseling fields are at a crossroads. If we are to remain impactful in these contemporary times, it is necessary for...
Welcome to Zen and Recovery
How Might Zen Buddhism Support and Sustain Addiction Recovery? Welcome to the Zen and Recovery blog on Patheos. My name is Dr. Chris Kaishin Hoff, and I will be your liminal space tour guide on this journey of discovery that I hope you will join. A little about my Zen and Recovery journey. Saving all the dirty details, I entered recovery after years of alcohol and drug misuse at the age of 26. I discovered meditation shortly thereafter.
Zen and the Dark
This week I visited Sedona Arizona. Sedona is a place I have visited regularly since the first time I visited over 25 years ago. I know this might be cliché but, I just like the vibe. And its beauty of course. Sedona is known for a lot of things, but Zen? Not so much. That might be changing as I discovered that there is a Dharma successor of Roshi Pat Enkyo O'Hara of the Village Zendo in New York with a center in Sedona now. But I...
Ransomware: Secure Backup is Your Last Line of Defense
Cybercrime , Email Threat Protection , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Chris Hoff • May 9, 2022 According to the Veeam(R) 2022 Data Protection Report, 90% of organizations can't recover data to meet their SLAs. This is compounded during a ransomware attack when you must verify your data is clean before beginning the restore process. We believe that having a software-driven approach to backup and recovery that verifies your data is safe is the last line of defense against ransomware.
Why You Shouldn’t Hire a Chief Well-Being Officer: And What You Can Learn from the Military About How to Do Mental Health Right
Photo by Japheth Mast on Unsplash I think it’s clear now that mental health and well-being are becoming prioritized in organizations. According to Business Wire in 2021 mental health and employee well-being were the top strategic priorities for 68% of the organizations surveyed. In 2022 it’s expected for the number to grow. These growing strategic priorities have organizations getting creative and adding a new C to the C-suite. Chief Well-being officers.
Composer creates a musical piece with the sounds of drawing and writing
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: What does the letter F sound like as it's being written? How about S? Experimental composer Leah Reid composed an entire musical work with the sounds of drawing and writing. It is called "Sk(etch)." Chris Hoff of "The World According To Sound" podcast has the story.
Composer creates a musical piece with the sounds of drawing and writing
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: What does the letter F sound like as it's being written? How about S? Experimental composer Leah Reid composed an entire musical work with the sounds of drawing and writing. It is called "Sk(etch)." Chris Hoff of "The World According To Sound" podcast has the story. CHRIS HOFF: Leah Reid is a professor of music at the University of Virginia, and she composes pieces of musique concrete - or music made up of recorded sounds.
Composer creates a musical piece with the sounds of drawing and writing
Composer creates a musical piece with the sounds of drawing and writing What does the letter "e" sound like as it's being written down? Capital "A?" The word "steak?" Experimental musician Leah Reid creates new music with the sounds of writing different letters and words.
Want To Hear The First Advertisement For A Soda, Recorded A Century Ago? Now You Can
Start your day with LAist Sign up for the Morning Brief, delivered weekdays. The first audio advertisement for a soda. A vaudeville act about sneezes. A home "exercise tape" from the 1920s, featuring a man giving calisthenics instructions accompanied by an orchestra. One of the first live music performances recorded, a 4,000-person choir in London singing Handel.
Want to hear the first advertisement for a soda, recorded a century ago? Now you can
Hulton Archive / Getty Images American inventor and businessman Thomas Edison with an Edison Standard Phonograph, at his lab in West Orange, New Jersey, 1906. The first audio advertisement for a soda. A vaudeville act about sneezes. A home "exercise tape" from the 1920s, featuring a man giving calisthenics instructions accompanied by an orchestra. One of the first live music performances recorded, a 4,000-person choir in London singing Handel.
Want to hear the first advertisement for a soda, recorded a century ago? Now you can
Hulton Archive / Getty Images American inventor and businessman Thomas Edison with an Edison Standard Phonograph, at his lab in West Orange, New Jersey, 1906. The first audio advertisement for a soda. A vaudeville act about sneezes. A home "exercise tape" from the 1920s, featuring a man giving calisthenics instructions accompanied by an orchestra. One of the first live music performances recorded, a 4,000-person choir in London singing Handel.
Want to hear the first advertisement for a soda, recorded a century ago? Now you can
The first audio advertisement for a soda. A vaudeville act about sneezes. A home "exercise tape" from the 1920s, featuring a man giving calisthenics instructions accompanied by an orchestra. One of the first live music performances recorded, a 4,000-person choir in London singing Handel. A 1913 recording where a scoutmaster demonstrates all of the patrol calls used at the time by the Boy Scouts (you will not believe how well this man could imitate a bird).
Fill security ops gaps with context-driven threat analysis
Today’s columnist, Chris Hoff of ReversingLabs, says the SolarWinds attack has caused us to forget that most breaches are more like the Target hack, where a little-noticed HVAC system was exploited. Hoff says organizations have to start by improving visibility. JeepersMedia CreativeCommons Credit: CC BY 2.0 The acceleration of digital business and work-from-home policies has unleashed a new level of alert volume on security operations center (SOC) staff.
Scale Up Threat Hunting to Skill Up Analysts
This site is operated by a business or businesses owned by Informa PLC and all copyright resides with them.Informa PLC's registered office is 5 Howick Place, London SW1P 1WG. Registered in England and Wales. Number 8860726. TK Chris Hoff is Product Marketing Manager at ReversingLabs CHECK FOR CORRECT BIO Commentary Security operation centers need to move beyond the simplicity of good and bad software to having levels of "badness," as well as better defining what is good. Here's why.
Crosscurrents: May 10, 2012
It’s our planet’s most valuable resource, cities are powered by it, wars are fought over it, and life depends on it... “We think of it as air, infinite and inexhaustible, but when you use water in such quantities that it exceeds the system’s capacity to renew itself, we’ve got a problem,” states the trailer for the new documentary film Last Call at the Oasis (view trailer below).
"Let's Stay Together" by Al Green
For the last twenty years, San Francisco city leaders have promised to address the long-standing challenges facing the Mid Market Street neighborhood, but nothing has really changed.Now, San Francisco is taking a fresh approach to revitalizing Mid Market Street that includes attracting tech businesses and actively reaching out to arts organizations, community groups and residents to create a new vision for this diverse neighborhood.
Interview with Tim Schwab
Irvine resident Tim Schwab dons a few different hats. During business hours, he’s director of design and installation at Laguna Art Museum. When he’s not on the clock, he does freelance graphic design for several local companies and makes ceramic art. Trained as a bronze sculptor, Schwab now finds his passion creating artistic pottery. The BFA graduate of Laguna College of Art + Design is showcasing his recent clay creations in a show with painter David Michael Lee at F+ Gallery in Santa Ana.
The World According to Sound: The Hour of Charm Orchestra
This all-female orchestra was popular in the 1930s and' 40s. ( Courtesy of Columbia Records ) With the Hour of Charm Orchestra, the show revolved more around who the performers were and what they looked like rather than the music they produced. The band was popular in the 1930s and 1940s, and the schtick was that the orchestra was all female — except, of course, for the bandleader and boss, Phil Spitalny.
Meet the Naturalist Who Sang Like an (Actual) Bird
Charles Kellogg and the RV he built out of the trunk of a fallen redwood. He traveled across the country in it four times, trumpeting the virtues of the sequoia. He claimed he was born with the throat of a bird. ( Humboldt Redwoods Interpretive Assocation ) Charles Kellogg is remembered as a naturalist, a man who spent his life fighting to protect California’s forests in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. But Kellogg’s first claim has to do with his throat, not his activism.
With multiple SF mayoral candidates, how does ranked-choice voting work?
Several candidates are on the ballot of this year's San Francisco election -- In such a case, how does the city guarantee that someone actually wins the race, when the vote is split so many ways? CHRIS HOFF: Let's say nobody wins a majority after round one ... Instead of doing a run off election ... we can resolve the issue right away, thanks to ranked-choice voting. Click the audio play above to hear the full story. This piece originally aired in October 2010.
9/29 - Commuting Cops
Police officers in Oakland who don't live there, another First Days story of an immigrant's first impressions of the US, and local musician Pat Wilder.
9/28 - Coming to America
San Francisco as a sanctuary city, labor trafficking in the Bay Area, the first episode in a new series of immigrants coming to America, plus local musician Yassir Chadly.
My Mixtape: "Beam me up" by Midnight Magic
Tom DeCaigny shares a song that gets him up and dancing.
9/3 - Forgiveness
A San Quentin Prison report about forgiveness, Rupa and the April Fishes, this week's Audiograph game answer, and local musicians La Peña Community Chorus.
9/2 - Native Californians
Bringing different tribes together onto one urban reservation, a sacred Native American site in Emeryville, fighting to keep Native American heritage alive, and local musician Mike Greensill.
9/1 - Black Church as Therapist
The church as therapy for African Americans, the sushi mosque, and local musician Tia Carroll.
8/31 - Black Mental Health
The stigma for African Americans in seeking out mental health care.
8/27 - Musical Healing
Using music to stay off the streets in Richmond, another story from a San Francisco 18 year-old, a Book Report from Adam Johnson, this week's Audiograph game answer, and local musician Tim Hockenberry.
8/26 - Giving Care
Caregivers who lack medical training, another story from an 18 year-old, a Bay Area Beats with Dom Jones, the Rose Garden in San Francisco, and local musician Heather Combs.
8/25 - Waste | KALW
The waste of Keurig single-serving coffee pods, illegal dumping in Oakland, and more stories from 18-year-olds.
8/24 - Public and Private Art
Poster art on the streets, the Academy of Art in San Francisco profits by violating housing laws, a new series about high school students called "18 in the Bay," and local musician Sony Holland.
8/20 - A Visit to The Tonga Room
Unregulated caregivers, The Cadillac Hotel in San Francisco, this week's Audiograph game answer, and local musicians The Goat Family.
8/19 - Public Education
The state of California's public university system, re-examining how we evaluate public schools, and local musicians The San Francisco Lyric Chorus.
Crosscurrents: August 18, 2015
Cashing in on police body cameras, the gods of tango, an artist who sings for women caught in the criminal justice system, and local musicians La Mixta Criolla.
8/13 - Rising Seas, Rising Rents
Rising sea levels, rising rents and what foreigners go through to find housing inthe Bay Area, this week's Audiograph game answer, and local musicians The Sugar Ponies.
Crosscurrents: August 10, 2015
Birthing and parenting: doulas, a home visitation program that helps first-time moms, and the severe issues that pregnant women of color face. Plus local musicians Cash Pony.
The sound of mud pots
This is the broadcast premier of a new, 90-second audio show called, The World According to Sound. It's made by KALW's Chris Hoff and Marketplace reporter Sam Harnett. Today's episode brings us to the mud pots of Southern California. To hear the first few pilot episodes of The World According to Sound, check them out here!
Crosscurrents: August 5, 2015
Seniors taking a leap across the digital divide, a new technology that can help aging adults stay safe at home, the origin of the internet symbol # (hashtag), and local musician Harvey Wainapel.
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