We have always associated blackness with failure, negativity, and witchcraft. We have always associated darkness with less than, disapproval, and unattractiveness. We have always associated blackness with inequality, injustice, and incrimination. However, it is in the midst of the darkness that things began to adapt and organize. It is in the middle of the night that things start to grow and develop. It is in the midst of the darkness that things ultimately reproduce as in the story of the Black Diamond.
Hitting the Reset Button takes you inside Vanessa Smokes world of six marriages and six divorces. She allows you to peek into her private mind filled with bipolar illness. Chronic optimism was one of her secret weapons. What other secrets kept a smile on her face in spite of her terrible brain disease and the disappointments of divorce? If anyone has learned how to reset their life, she has. Vanessa Smoke has shown that it can be done with grace and dignity. You too can hit the reset button in your life (if needed) by following her lead.
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency, PETRI NETS 2022, which was held virtually in June 2021. The 19 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. The papers are categorized into the following topical sub-headings: application of concurrency to system design; timed models; tools; applications; synthesis; petri nets architecture; and process mining.
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