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How You Gave Birth Doesn’t Define Your Strength As A Woman – HuffPost

If you're a mom, have a mom, or know a mom, there's a chance you're familiar with those vivid and sometimes horrifying stories being swapped back and forth between women about how they gave birth.

When moms rehash their labor/birthing experiences, there's usually a discussion about whether or not they had an epidural, a natural (vaginal) birth, C-section, and how long they were in labor for.

Occasionally, you may even hear a somewhat competitive tone slip into these conversations as to which mom was in the most pain or who had it worse during the whole birthing process.

Sharing and comparing is normal human behavior and we all do it.

But sometimes moms who are feeling inadequate or insecure can get caught up in that whole idea that you've got to have that raw, drug-free, natural birth, exclusively breastfeed once the baby is born, and just be an all around super-human mother in general.

I fell into this kind of trap in regards to breastfeeding (you can read my story about that here) and I still have days where I battle those unattainable expectations in other areas of motherhood.

My first (and only) story about giving birth sounds and reads much differently than the actual experience was for me. It was a vaginal birth and I did not get an epidural. I've had people tell me how amazing and cave-woman-strong I am for giving birth in this manner all the time.

But do you want to know the truth?

The truth is that I desperately wanted an epidural and I had planned on getting one. I literally screamed for my epidural! But it never came. It was too late. My daughter was already making her way out like a human torpedo. There was no time for any of that.

There are no words to describe the pain of labor without an epidural from my own personal experience other than to say I quite literally thought I was dying. (See, I just shared my horrifying birth experience with you)

The entire birth process for my daughter lasted about 6 hours. As soon as I tell some moms that, they're usually quick to tell me how easy I had it compared to their experience of a much longer labor period.

I get it. I'm certainly relieved mine wasn't any longer.

But should you feel less proud of yourself for producing a human being from your own body if your labor finished in less time than the next mom? Nope. Are you more of a woman if you pushed a baby out the "natural" way or had a C-section instead? Nope.

No matter how you did it, you're still bringing an actual human being (or in many cases more than one!) into this world. A baby's not coming out any other way other than via YOU.

You don't need anyone else to validate your journey or give you permission to have pride in how you gave birth to your child or children.

Every mother has her story, her legend, her claim to the physical, emotional, and mental initiation into motherhood. One mother is not stronger than the other for being in labor longer, faster, drugged up, drug-free, or somewhere in between.

It's great to have that story that legend that is your tale of birthing your child or children. Embrace it in all its chaos, flaws, and bloody glory.

My original intention was to be completely drugged up for the birth of my daughter. It didn't play out like that and I ended up freaking out.

Do I wish I'd been all zen and prepared for what was coming? Sure.

All birth experiences are the stunning tapestries that make a life. One is not better than the other, or more amazing than the other. They're just different and we all come with varying degrees of expectation, preparation, fear, hope, and circumstance.

No woman should ever feel less-than for not giving birth in a way that someone else thinks is more superior based on a level of pain or any other factor.

I know many women couldn't care less about what other people think of their birth story, which is awesome. But there are some out there who do feel inadequate about it for one reason or another.

Life comes in many forms, avenues, and journeys. It is a true miracle that should always amaze us no matter how it came to be.

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What makes people tick – The Daily News of Newburyport

At the age of 16, I went to a summer camp in the Berkshires to work as a waiter.

It was my first extended solo trip away from home. Soon after my arrival, I developed a crush on a beautiful girl named Cindy and I began courting her. Much to my dismay, I had a rival for her affections Howard.

One starry night, Cindy agreed to leave the canteen with me and take a walk along the camps lake. This was a big league move for me.

We strolled for a while, enjoyed easy conversation, and then found a couple of rickety Adirondack chairs a few yards from the shoreline. I deftly moved the chairs close together and once seated, our hands met on her armrest.

Just as our fingers started moving rhythmically, I heard the awful sound of Howards voice behind us: Hi Cindy, Hi Richie; what are you all doing down here?

He pranced to a spot directly in front of us and said to Cindy watch this and proceeded to demonstrate his superior athleticism by doing a handstand and a couple of cartwheels. Then, he silently strutted away with a smug smile on his toothy face as if to say, Bet you cant do that, Ross. I could not.

Cindy shrugged her shoulders and declared Howard to be a showoff. Our excursion ended with a quick kiss on my cheek at her cabins door.

Lying in my bunk that night, I thought more about Howards antics than Cindys dry kiss. Was that a stunt performed by an immature, insecure fool with no other means to get Cindys attention?

Or was it a confident move by an athletic guy who knew girls liked that kind of stuff? Either way, that event is what started me thinking about human behavior, and specifically, what makes people tick. I was oblivious until then.

It is often difficult to figure out what motivates a persons behavior. The context often helps but there are always unknown or unknowable factors. Is it an overbearing parent, emotional insecurity, a physical impediment, fear of failure?

In a world where the end justifies the means, it may not matter. In a more reflective world, the answer to the why question is a mapping system for human behavior. Learning about someones motivation to commit a murder or lead a life of crime can be as interesting as knowing what drove Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey to achieve their extraordinary success.

The criminals mind is a detectives workplace and is fascinating as a form of entertainment as evidenced by the plethora of crime dramas on television and in literature. But the forces powering Gates and Winfrey to their heights might serve as inspiration for our achievements or the way we raise our children.

We have all heard of the Napoleonic complex, which is a reference to short men who are some combination of false machismo, domineering social behavior and disproportionate aggression. The theory is that some short men have feelings of insecurity and inferiority resulting from their height that causes them to overcompensate behaviorally.

I had a friend who was a very successful businessman who only cared about making money. He never had or wanted children. No matter how much money he had, it was never enough.

Although I knew him to have a good heart, his obsession with money made it difficult for him to have friends; yet that never concerned him.

One night over drinks, he confided that he lived in constant fear of waking up one morning to a changed world and all of his money was gone. He explained that he grew up heavily influenced by a grandfather who repeatedly told him stories of the Great Depression and the Holocaust, and that having a lot of money was the only way to be safe if those events, or anything like them, occurred again.

In the context of current events, do we know what forces drive President Trumps persona? A psychologist might explore an enduring need to prove he is bigger and better than his successful father.

From this laymans perspective, it seems that Mr. Trump is driven primarily by an insatiable need for applause, adoration and money. While these forces work well for reality TV stars and real estate developers, I am not alone in wondering whether they are suitable for a president.

I never made it beyond first base with Cindy that summer, but neither did Howard.

Richard Ross resides in Amesbury and mediates business- and real estate-related disputes. http://www.rossmediationservices.com.

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Book Review: A handy guide to human behavior – India New England

By Vikas Datta

Title: Hands: What We Do with Them and Why; Author: Darian Leader; Publisher: Penguin Random House UK; Pages: 128; Price: Rs 499

If you think the current trend of people, publicly and privately, paying ferocious attention to their smartphones or other hand-held devices and furiously typing, clicking or scrolling away is technology making a travesty of human nature, you may well be wrong. For these habits may represent its crucial parts latest preoccupation.

While the radical effect of the internet, the smartphone and the PC is said to be on who we are and how we relate to each other and whatever we make of the changes, psychoanalyst Darian Leader notes that experts stress that these are changes which have made the world a different place and the digital era is incontestably new.

But what if we were to see this chapter in human history through a slightly different lens? What if, rather than focusing on the new promises or discontents of contemporary civilisation, we see todays changes as first and foremost changes in what human beings do with their hands? he poses.

For while the digital age may have transformed many aspects of our experience, but its most obvious yet neglected feature is that it allows people to keep their hands busy in a variety of unprecedented ways.

Leader, in this slim but more than a handful of a book, contends that the body part that most defines us humans is not our advanced brain but rather our restless upper pair of limbs. Thus, a considerable amount of our history and habits can be related to what we can do or cannot do with our hands and why we must keep them busy.

This, he says, brings us to examine the reasons for this strange necessity to know why idle hands are deemed dangerous, how their roles for infants changes as they grow, what links hands to the mouth, and what happens when we are restrained.

The anxious, irritable and even desperate states we might then experience show that keeping the hands busy is not a matter of whimsy or leisure, but touches on something at the heart of what our existence embodies.

And to ascertain this something, Leader goes on to draw from popular culture (especially films, mostly horror and science fiction but also classics like Dr Zhivago), language, religion, social and art history, psychoanalysis, modern technology, clinical research, the pathology of violence and more to find the what, why, and how.

In this process, we come to know why zombies and monsters (like Frankenstein) are shown walking with outstretched arms, why newborns grip an adult finger so tightly that they can dangle unsupported from it, the reason for prayers beads in various religions (Leader misses out Hinduism), why nicotine patches may not help smokers, the constant preoccupation (for some of us) with texting, tapping and scrolling and our behaviour on public transport.

And as Leader is a founding member of the Centre for Freudian Research and Analysis, people will expect sex to figure somewhere and they will not be wrong or fully right. For he only tackles one aspect, which involves the hand.

He recalls when friends and others asked him what he was working on during the preparation of this book, my reply that it was to be an essay about hands produced the almost invariable response, Oh! A book about masturbation!'. He dryly notes that the association appeared to be so intractable that it seemed foolish not to at least devote a chapter to this.

His observations on hands and their motivations and manifestations break new ground and it will suffice to say that you will never look at fairy tales, from those of the Grimm Brothers to Arabian Nights to J.R.R. Tolkien, the same way again.

His chapter on violence seems a bit out of place, but Leader brings his argument a full circle as he closes on the compulsive use of technological devices what we (and their makers) must know about them.

More of a long essay than a book, it brings to fore to the issue that, despite all our technical prowess, we are still to plumb the mysteries of our mind and body, which can be more complex than anything we invent. (IANS)

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Wild dogs in Africa engage in unmistakable voting behavior – Ars Technica

Wild dogs in Botswana are an endangered species, and they offer us a rare window into undomesticated dog behavior. Researchers followed five packs of them for a year, recording their social interactions.

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When they greet each other, wild African dogs often jump around, bark, and touch each other playfully. This is called a "rally."

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One of the major reasons for dog rallies is to gather up pack members and start on a new hunting mission. Researchers found that the dogs were "voting" on whether to hunt again by making a sneezing noise.

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The more "sneezes" the researchers recorded, the more likely it was that the pack would move along and start hunting. If a pack leader initiated the rally, fewer sneezes were needed to get started.

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Though humans like to think of themselves as the only creatures on Earth who vote on what to do, they aren't. Many social animals engage in consensus-seeking behavior, from meerkats to honeybees to Capuchin monkeys. In these species and more, members of the group weigh in about what their next move should be.

Now, a new study of African wild dogs in Botswana adds another animal to the voting pool. It turns out that these endangered, undomesticated dogs "vote" on whether to start hunting by making noises that sound just like sneezes.

Neil Jordan, a fellow at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, worked with a team to follow five packs of these dogs for roughly 11 months, observing their behavior and recording the sounds they made. Based on previous research, he and his colleagues were fairly certain that the dogs had to reach a consensus before setting out on a collective hunt. The scientists already knew that the dogs had a very specific social pattern, called a "rally," wherein the pack would come together and boisterously greet each other. Writing in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Jordan and his team describe how they figured out that rallies were generally initiated by one dog, who "rose from rest in the distinctive initiation posture: head lowered, mouth open, and ears folded back."

After witnessing several rallies, the researchers noticed something strange. They started hearing patterns of sneezes. Jordan said in a release that they "noticed the dogs were sneezing while preparing to go." So the researchers went over recordings of 68 rallies and "couldn't quite believe it when our analyses confirmed our suspicions... The more sneezes that occurred, the more likely it was that the pack moved off and started hunting. The sneeze acts like a type of voting system."

You can hear some sneeze votes in this video.

Even more interesting, however, is that dog democracy is as imperfect as the human version. When a dominant male or female dog called the rally, fewer sneezes were needed to start the hunt. Study co-author Reena Walker added, "If the dominant pair were not engaged, more sneezes were neededapproximately 10before the pack would move off." In other words, some votes count more than others.

Walker told The New York Times that the noise they called "sneezes" isn't really like a human sneeze. There's no inhalation, just an "audible, rapid forced exhalation through the nose." We also aren't sure that this noise is involuntary, like a sneeze, or more like a person making a grunt of assent. What is certain is that the more of these sounds you hear during a dog vote, the more likely they are to move along to do some dog business together.

Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2017. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0347 (About DOIs).

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This Start-Up Wants To Use CCTV Footage To Develop Self-Driving Car Technology – Jalopnik

Autonomous tech start-ups have offered a number of waysall of which they believe to be the most appropriate and correctto approach the development of self-driving cars. A new company out of the United Kingdom, FiveAI, has a fresh take, though: CCTV cameras.

What to do when you get rear-ended: remain calm and exchange information. What not to do:

The company has raised about $31 million, and its hoping to deploy autonomous cars on the streets of London by 2019, according to Wired UK. Like most developers in the field, FiveAI is going to use LiDAR and other sensors to make their cars function appropriately, but it has to figure out how to handle a similar issue that makes perfecting the technology difficult: what to do with big, dumb humans.

Theres a big difference in human behavior and the human behaviors in one city vary to the next city, Stan Boland, FiveAIs CEO, told Wired.

So, Boland and his firm want to lean on Londons existing, insanely expansive CCTV camera system.

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A lot of London, for example, does have CCTV camera footage which we can use. By transforming CCTV footage to a birds-eye view, using computer simulations, Boland says it will be possible to build models of what happens at street junctions.

The self-driving car race is going to be a heated bloodbath thats going to cost billions in failed investments, and who knows where FiveAi is going to come out in the end. Its still early! But relying on an endless stream of CCTV footage is novel, so FiveAI at least has that going for it.

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Sociology professor retiring after 41 years at Paine – The Augusta Chronicle

High up on a bookcase in Dr. Philip Thomass office at Paine College is a row of binders with one at one end marked 1977 and others that go on up from there. After 41 years at Paine, the founder of its sociology program is retiring but he is planning for a legacy to leave behind.

Thomas will retire as a professor of sociology and likely be named faculty emeritus in coming months, said Helene Carter, assistant vice president for institutional advancement at Paine. He will also rotate off Paines board of trustees, where he served on the search committee that brought in new President Jerry Hardee. But he will miss the classroom and the students, Thomas said.

I have already taught two generations, he said. A lot of people come and tell me, Dr. Thomas, you taught my mother.^ He jokes that he is retiring before he can teach a third generation so that no one will come up to him and say, Dr. Thomas, you taught my grandmother.

Part of it is to spend more time with family.

I have grandchildren and I am trying to spend some time with them, Thomas said. The grandchildren are in Boston and he just spent a week up there with them.

If I am teaching I wont be able to do that, he said.

He came to Paine before he finished his doctorate at Emory University when he needed to get a teaching job. He applied to every college in Georgia, and Paine was the first to respond. When he got there in 1976, he liked the beautiful small campus and was impressed by his faculty colleagues.

They were people who got their degrees from Yale University and Cornell University and Syracuse University, they were committed people, Thomas said. They were my role models so when I got to be friends with them, that made me stay here.

He also liked the man who hired him, then-President Julius Scott.

I worked very well with him, thats why I stayed here, Thomas said.

His field, sociology, is the study of human behavior but is different from similar fields, he said.

Sociology focuses primarily on the groups, psychology focuses on the individual and the mind, Thomas said. Here we are looking at the influence of the environment on the person.

That field, too, has changed over the course of his career.

Many fields have come out of sociology, Thomas said. Criminology is a separate field now.

In fact, there is a movement now in medicine to focus more on some of those same factors in looking at population health and sociology has always been well-positioned to do that, he said.

A lot of people go into the medically-related fields from sociology, Thomas said. A lot of them go for a (master of public health). The University of Georgia and the University of South Carolina, they are always looking for our students from the sociology department. We are proud of that.

Even though Paine is in the midst of a lawsuit with its accrediting body and technically on probation for not meeting certain financial standards, he sees things working out for the future.

We hope the situation will turn around, Thomas said. We need a person who is able to recruit students.

Hardee has already said that will be one of his major initiatives and Thomas sent him a note recently urging him to take a broader approach at attracting new students, including more Hispanics.

He has always been concerned about students in need and is starting an endowment at Paine to help them, particularly those with good grades who are interested in sociology. At his retirement party Sept. 23, Thomas is asking in lieu of gifts that people donate to this endowment. And he will be doing his part as well.

Our family will match whatever they contribute, Thomas said.

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Children’s books with humans, not animals more effective, study says – KIRO Seattle

by: Brianna Chambers, Cox Media Group National Content DeskUpdated: Sep 3, 2017 - 8:33 PM

Charlottes Web,Stellaluna andThe Ugly Duckling are among the innumerable childrens books written to teach kids lessons through situations and images involving animals.

But a new study says books that feature humans learning lessons, instead of animal characters, stick with children more and allow for more insight into application of values and morals.

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The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Torontos Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) and published in the journal Developmental Science,found that children who read a book with human characters were more affected than those who read a book with animal characters.

In an experiment, nearly 100 children between the ages of 4 and 6 were read one of three books:Little Raccoon Learns to Shareby Mary Packard, which illustrates a fictional raccoon who learns that sharing makes one feel good and proves beneficial to all involved in the action; a version of the story in which the animal illustrations were replaced with human characters; and a control book about seeds.

The experiment found that children who were read the book with the human characters were more willing to share later in the day than those who were read the book with animal characters. Andthere was no difference in generosity between children who read the book with anthropomorphized animal characters and the control book; both groups showed a decrease in sharing behavior, the researchers found.

Reading a book about sharing had an immediate effect on childrens pro-social behavior, according to the study. However, the type of story characters significantly affected whether children became more or less inclined to behave pro-socially. After hearing the story containing real human characters, young children became more generous. In contrast, after hearing the same story but with anthropomorphized animals or a control story, children became more selfish.

A growing body of research has shown that young children more readily apply what theyve learned from stories that are realistic ... (but) this is the first time we found something similar for social behaviors, said Patricia Ganea, who led the study, according to The Guardian. The finding is surprising given that many stories for young children have human-like animals.

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Will Behavioral Health Benefit from Patient-Generated Data? – MedPage Today

Behavioral health is rather specific, and technology-powered distant care is only cautiously developing in this realm. While providers recognize the need to employ technology for treating patients with anxiety, chronic stress, eating disorders, substance abuse, and other conditions, it is challenging to create a solution capable of effective intervention in human behavior that brings measurable and positive outcomes.

But there's more to this challenge. Behavioral disorders often go hand-in-hand with physical conditions. For example, a study initiated by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation revealed that patients with asthma are nearly 2.5 times more likely to develop depression. Another viewpoint published in JAMA states that diabetes patients are twice as likely to suffer from a major depressive disorder during their lifetime.

Accordingly, some patients have to simultaneously take care of their physical and behavioral conditions, which is a huge burden. Good news is, technology is here to back up patients' efforts in-between support group meetings and one-on-ones. We are talking about patient-generated health data (PGHD) and its processing through the health data analytics methods.

Why PGHD for Behavioral Health?

Behavior is a constantly changing aspect of identity, which gives hope to patients who are feeling helpless in controlling their anxiety, depression, eating disorders, or other problems. But to initiate a positive change in a patient's condition, providers need more data. EHR data is great as a foundation for a patient profile, but it isn't enough to show gradual progress in treatment and establish short-term goals for patients to achieve.

PGHD can help in supporting patients with behavioral disorders in their daily struggle. It includes subjective and objective data collected by a patient (or their family) using wearables or medical devices, and is usually shared with caregivers through mHealth apps.

Subjective Data

A patient's self-evaluation is critical to successful treatment and recovery, be it depression, eating disorder, substance abuse, or another behavioral health condition. While each condition might require additional data on patients' feelings and emotions, the general list of subjective items to report can include:

Additionally, some objective information can be turned subjective with advanced wearable technology. For example, Spire tracks breathing patterns and analyzes them to understand how an individual feels, even before someone can recognize their own emotional state.

By continuously defining and reporting emotions, both patients and providers can understand certain patterns of how well the patient dealt with anxiety last week and how helpful the support group is (looking at the overall mood after each session). Moreover, strong negative trends in subjective items can indicate that the patient is on the edge of relapse, and the provider would get an automated notification about the possible problem. In this case, the caregiver would be able to discuss the patient's problem and take necessary actions, such as scheduling an appointment.

Objective Data

From the behavioral health perspective, objective data is supportive to the subjective data, a physiological reflection of a patient's mental and emotional state. The following vitals can help a caregiver understand the full picture of a patient's progress and current health status:

The readings from smart trackers can be aggregated and sent to the provider's health data analytics system to analyze the results and match them with previous measurements. If the analysis reveals any negative trends (e.g., weight loss dynamics for a patient with anorexia or decrease in activity because of a reduced number of steps), an application will notify the care team about possible risks to a patient's health status (via emails or text messages).

PGHD Supports Patients

Mental health is about keeping people strong and resourceful in the face of challenges. But with anxiety or depression crawling inside their mind, food becoming an obsession, or substance addiction developing, individuals can't think straight and can't live their lives to the fullest.

While there are various ways to help patients recover from disorders, including support groups, medications, and one-on-ones with a psychologist or psychiatrist, most of these measures are short-term interventions. Patients, in their turn, need continuous support, and PGHD can enable it.

A patient will be able to see the summary of their progress via their mHealth app. They can track mood swings during the month, relate anxiety bursts to insomnia cases, or celebrate the weight gain trend (this can be especially motivating for patients with anorexia) -- all backed up with automated push notifications if there's anything to worry about.

Not pretending to be a full-blown substitute for therapy, PGHD serves as a bridge between care points. This way, both a patient and their provider will be informed of the individual's overall progress with ups and downs, streamlining the process of tracking achievements, recognizing plateaus and, ultimately, patient recovery.

Lola Koktysh is a healthcare industry analyst at ScienceSoft, an IT consulting company headquartered in McKinney, Texas, where she focuses on healthcare IT including the industry's challenges and technology solutions.

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New Book Examines the Core of Human Behavior – Broadway World

Society is comprised of various individuals with a unique set of hopes, dreams and emotions. Attempting to understand each person's motives is a complexing feat to say the least. Author Duane Shoebridge tackles the challenge head-on and helps readers decipher why we do the things we do in his new book, "Getting Around the Humans: Figuring Out Why People Do What They Do."

"Getting Around the Humans" educates readers on how to discern the root of human behavior. Shoebridge identifies three primary desires - wealth, riches and honor - and shares how these wants are translated into action and help shape personality. He shows how to identity these concepts and how to interact with others who prioritize such desires differently. Featuring a Biblical perspective, "Getting Around the Humans" sheds light on why we do what we do.

"Each human being has a distinctive combination of aspirations, wants and hopes that they can only fully comprehend," Shoebridge said. "Getting Around the Human teaches readers to recognize these desires - both in ourselves and others - and work with their strengths and weaknesses."

"Getting Around the Humans: Figuring Out Why People Do What They Do"By Duane ShoebridgeISBN: 9781512779493 (hardcover), 9781512779486 (softcover), 9781512779479 (e-book)Available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Westbow Press

About the authorDuane Shoebridge is a husband and a homeschool father of three. He has his bachelor's in psychology and Bible from Northwestern College. His passion has been in youth ministry since 1990. He has been working as a business information consultant and programmer for a business he started since 2010.

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