There is nothing categorically wrong with labels. Labels are short-hand descriptions, a fast and easy method of classification – much like words. There is nothing wrong with labels just as labels. But labels, like everything else in this world, can go wrong. Some labels are active lies; others (not nearly so bad) are so insufficient they create more confusion than clarity, or so vague they are almost useless in conveying information.
Which brings us to the label "a creative". As you know, this word (recently converted from an adjective to a noun) has become a popular self-label in recent years. It's thrown out in blog posts, claimed in profiles. It appears to be roughly synonymous with "artist" – not by definition but by use (one senses that the "creatives" are not accountants).
The primary failing of this label is that it lacks a clear and specific definition. If you tell me that you're a creative, I believe you, but I don't know what you mean by it. Are you a musician, a writer, a painter, an actor? Or is it less a single talent or pursuit and more a way of thinking? Let me put it this way: An artist is defined by what he does (art). Is a creative likewise defined by what he does, or is he defined by what he is (creative)? I don't know. I don't understand the label.
I've poked around the Internet and discovered eloquent and elaborate definitions of what a creative is; these people aren't pulling definitions out of a Dictionary. Some people understand the label. But they don't always understand it the same. If they were operating out of a Dictionary, we would have a simple and reigning definition. But since they are instead spilling four hundred words to define a creative as they understand one to be, the meaning of the label is fluid. And the usefulness of a label is inversely proportional to the fluidity of its meaning.
While the label of "a creative" is in one way too vague, it is in another too exclusive. The label is generally applied to people who are creative in an artistic sense, but there are a thousand other ways to be creative. A person who can take a recipe off the Internet and make it twice as good is creative. People who come up with new and better operating procedures, that engineer or programmer or CEO who can see the way around the obstacle – they are all creative. Whoever first invented the assembly line was very creative. By God's many and marvelous gifts, the world is overrun by creative people. A label for creatives that acknowledges only one kind of creativity is flawed; it encourages a false distinction, an unhelpful delineation between us and them.
Labels matter – because they are categories, because they are descriptions in brief, because they share the fundamental purpose of all words: to build a bridge. It is important, then, to choose your labels carefully. Before adopting, or bestowing, a label, we must consider what information the label conveys, and what judgments it implies.
Not long ago, I was reading a review of a new album, released by a Christian artist who was known for his edginess and is now, perhaps, over the edge. The reviewer said (here I roughly, but accurately, paraphrase) that he had always liked this artist because he used raw words just to rile up evangelicals. And I thought that this was not truly a noble endorsement.
And it's not because of the words he used, or because people were upset or offended, or because evangelicals were upset or offended (though I do think that, on the long road of learning to love each other as Christ has loved us, not taking positive pleasure in seeing each other offended is one step). As a reason to approve of anything, Look, he offends them! possesses doubtful worth. It seems a superficial judgment at best, an uncharitable motive at worst.
It's unfortunate, then, that these days, it's all around us. People have made lucrative careers of giving offense. In Exhibit 1,873 of our current societal dysfunction, certain citizens of this republic value most, in their elected officials, a demonstrated ability to offend their fellow citizens. You don't have to look far in the broader culture to find the same impulse, to see real appreciation of the writer or artist or celebrity who offends the right people. In art, too, transgressing other people's boundaries is often taken as a pleasure, and sometimes as an end in itself.
I understand the phenomenon; it's all human nature, even if not the best part of it. We have all known people so annoying that they almost deserved to be offended. We have all seen boundaries so misdrawn that they deserved to be transgressed. No matter who you are, someone out there has sensibilities that are, by your measure, so hopelessly narrow or warped that they are begging to be offended. This judgment of others' boundaries and sensibilities must, in some cases, be false. By the same rule of logic, it must, in some cases, be true. So if the sensibilities are narrow and the boundaries are skewed, isn't there some value in offending them?
No, not intrinsically. It doesn't follow that, because the boundaries are wrong, the offense is right. In this, as in other disputes, it is not possible that everyone is right, but it is possible that everyone is wrong. One can be politically incorrect by telling the truth, but one can also be politically incorrect by being a jerk; one can violate Victorian sensibilities in art by being better than they would permit, but also by being worse. The idea of offending the right people is tribal and superficial. Beyond the superficiality lies the lack of charity. It's not charitable to enjoy upsetting or offending other people, nor is it worthy as an aim. What do you really achieve by bothering people?
Offense, as such, has very little meaning; it proves neither right nor wrong. As an insignificant thing, it ought to be incidental to what you are really doing. Tell the truth, or pursue artistic superiority – and perhaps people will be offended and perhaps not, but neither will be the point.
During the blog tour of Angel Eyes, I wrote a post considering different aspects of the angels' portrayals and their foundation in Scripture. Now that Shannon Dittemore has continued her series, I will continue mine. The portrayal of angels may be classified one of three ways: biblical (taught in Scripture), anti-biblical (contradicted by Scripture), and speculative (neither confirmed nor denied by Scripture).
But the Sabres can't be the four living creatures. For one thing, there are twelve of them, and for another, they aren't covered with eyes. Nor does their description match that of the seraphim. Although the Sabres have some biblical antecedent, they are speculative inventions.
Cherubs are small – Pearla, the Cherub, is a small angel; the demonic counterparts of her "cherubic order" – "impish" spies – are apparently small, too.
The Bible makes some mention of cherubs, or cherubim. They were a prominent aspect of the holy art of the tabernacle and the temple, and the Ark of the Covenant was overshadowed by golden cherubim. In the desert, when Bezalel crafted the Ark, he made the "cherubim of the Glory" of one piece with its cover. Centuries later, when Solomon built the temple, they made "the chariot" – two sculptured cherubim who spread their wings above the Ark in the Most Holy Place.
It is clear that those sculptured cherubim – whose design God had given to David – had two wings. We'll get to the importance of that later.
The walls of the temple Ezekiel saw – like the walls of the temple Solomon built – were decorated with cherubim. In the temple of Ezekiel's vision, each cherub had two faces.
Pearla, the Cherub, was called "little one" by the archangel Michael. One cannot imagine Michael extending the same endearment to the cherubim guarding Eden, or the four living creatures, or the "guardian cherub" of Ezekiel's prophecy. One word you would not associate with the cherubim of Scripture is "small".
In making imps and cherubs small, Broken Wings is drawing from culture and art, not the Bible. Indeed, the small cherubs make a very different impression than the cherubim of Scripture. Yet given the diversity of cherubim even in Scripture – two wings, four wings, two faces, four faces, covered with eyes, covered with jewels – I am reluctant to call Pearla the Cherub anti-biblical.
God assigns to human beings Shields (guardian angels) – In Acts, after Peter's miraculous escape from prison, he came to the house of John Mark's mother, where the believers initially thought he was "his angel". Christians have believed in guardian angels since the beginning of the Church.
Two verses in Scripture support the idea. In Hebrews, the author writes, "Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?" The Gospel of Matthew recounts Jesus saying, "See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels always see the face of my Father in heaven." This is even more in the way of guardian angels, because it implies that God does attach specific angels to specific people.
The details of "our" angels, and how they minister to us, are unknown to us. Maybe the popular idea of an angel who is always near us is correct; maybe the angels watch from heaven; maybe they come, from time to time, as God directs. The "Shields" in the Angel Eyes Trilogy are a sound biblical idea, even though the specifics are by necessity speculative.
Some Christians place little value on art. But I'm not going to complain about them. I intend, rather, to complain about Christians who place too much value on art.
I'm convinced that bad art derives, like bad literary theory, from bad theology. To know God falsely is to write and paint and sculpt and cook and dance Him falsely. Perhaps it's not poor artistic skill that yields bad Christian art, in other words, but poor Christianity.
I am certain that bad art does sometimes arise from bad theology; more often it merely shows it. But to treat art as a barometer for soundness of belief is to highly overrate art. Bad Christian art = bad Christianity is a false equation; it assumes a connection between good religion and good art that does not exist.
It's unquestionably true that knowing God falsely means writing and painting and sculpting Him falsely. If that means writing and painting and sculpting badly, we will have to denounce as bad art every movie with New Age overtones, every humanistic piece of sci-fi, every sculpture made by a pagan and every song written by an atheist.
I think we all know better than that; I think we all would acknowledge that there have been great artists who have not known God, and some who have hated Him. And that should remind us of something that, in the great debate of Good Art and Bad Art, we sometimes lose track of: Art has value in and of itself – the same passing value of a good meal and a well-made table and all other good, earthly things. We might say of art, as Augustine said of beauty, that it is a good gift of God, but in order that the good might not think it too great a good, He gives it even to the wicked.
Anything can have heavenly value, but only through being offered up to Heaven. Art is no further from heaven, and no closer to it, than anything else. They say that you can peel a potato to God's glory if you peel it to perfection. You can also paint and write and film to God's glory, but that is the real value – not art for art's sake, but art for God's sake.
What is done for God must be done well. The mistake of Christians is not in wanting to find – or create – messages in art, but in forgetting that the art as well as the message should be good. The ham-handedly preachy movie and the schmaltzy, overdone book have errors that bear correcting. It's good that someone points it out; maybe it will help us all to do better.
But we have to hold on to this thought: It may very well be that the preachy movie and the schmaltzy book please God more than the most beautiful sculptures of Greece. Because God never judges by mere appearances; He looks deeper and makes a right judgment.


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'The Babadook' Cements Status as Queer Classic With Limited Edition Gay Pride Release
Jennifer Kent's "The Babadook" has been a regular title on lists of the best horror movies ever made since it made its debut at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, but, in the years, since the film has unexpectedly become a queer classic. It all started when the eponymous boogeyman started popping up at gay pride events in 2017. The internet turned images of the Babadook at pride events into a full blown meme, and the rest was history (there's also a lot of gay subtext in Kent's movie, which you can read about here).
Now distributor IFC Films is taking the meme and making some good out of it. IFC has announced it is partnering with Shout Factory for a gay pride limited edition Blu-ray release of "The Babadook." The special release is debuting this June in celebration of gay pride month and a portion of all proceeds will be donated to the Los Angeles LGBT Center.
IFC Films originally opened "The Babadook" in November 2014, where it grossed over $7 million on a $2 million budget. The film stars Essie Davis as a single mother haunted by the violent death of her husband. The mother's troubled son (Noah Wiseman) begins experiencing visions of a monster lurking in their house, and it's not long before his fear becomes her fear as a sinister boogeyman begins haunting them both.
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IndieWire recently ranked "The Babadook" the ninth best horror movie of the 21st century. Senior film critic David Ehrlich writes the film is "one of the most harrowingly accurate movies ever made about living with grief and the guilt that comes with it. He adds, "It leverages dozens of traditional horror tropes into a wrenching portrait of the human pain to which no other genre has such immediate access."
Kent is returning to theaters later this year with "The Nightingale," her long-awaited follow up to "The Babadook." IFC Midnight is handling the release and will begin its theatrical rollout August 2.
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Kuala Lumpur literally means 'muddy estuary', a name derived from its history as a tin mining town in the 1800s. It has a highly efficient subway system, world-class highways, beautiful architecture and some of the tallest skyscrapers in the world.
The cost of living in Kuala Lumpur is more expensive than most other places to live in Malaysia, but when confronted with all the modern conveniences that the city offers, the added cost is understandable. It is, however, one of the cheaper Asian cities in which to live, especially when compared with neighbouring Singapore or Jakarta, and particularly Hong Kong, which is only a short flight away.
It has a developed transit system with buses and trains connecting all areas of the city. Traffic can be a problem, especially during peak hours, and most expats will find that public transport is the most viable option. A popular shopping destination, it has developed large shopping centres and boutiques. Expats travelling with children are sure to be impressed with the number and quality of international schools situated around the city.
There are a number of perfect weekend getaways surrounding Kuala Lumpur. The Cameron Highlands and the seaside town of Malaka are popular holiday destinations, while Singapore, Bangkok and Bali are merely a quick and cheap flight away.
Kuala Lumpur is making its mark on the international business map, and is a great destination for expats wanting a dose of adventure mixed with modern conveniences. The city is perfectly situated in Asia along international travel routes, ensuring home is never too far away.
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Public health officials may want to "boost people intermittently" with vaccines for the Chinese coronavirus, Dr. Anthony Fauci told Face the Nation's Margaret Brennan on Sunday.
Brennan asked Fauci if people will need to be boosted "every six to eight months," and he left the door wide open to that possibility.
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"And that's what we don't know," Fauci said, explaining it could be "conceivable" that a booster shot will provide a mild form of protection and "make the durability go well beyond six months and even longer."
"Or it may be that we will have to boost people intermittently the way we do it with influenza," he said, emphasizing that they "do not know definitively what that course is going to be. "
"Whether it's going to be a three shot and you're done or three shots and then every once in a while you have to reboost. We'll have to see how things roll out. Otherwise, we just can't say something and guess about it," he said.
Those remarks highlight concerns from critics, such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), who have cautioned that public health officials will continue to move the goalposts in their effort to mandate the shot. Mere days ago, Fauci affirmed those suspicions, admitting that officials are evaluating changing the definition of fully vaccinated to apply only to those who also received a booster shot.
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When asked about breakthrough infections — infections contracted by people who have been vaccinated — Fauci said officials "really need to find out when you do boost an individual, how long does that immunity last, both from a laboratory standpoint and from a protection standpoint."
"So the one thing we want to make sure, now that we're getting full blown into the booster phase, we've got to make sure we know what that means from a clinical standpoint," he said as Brennan pressed the White House medical adviser on why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is seemingly not tracking breakthrough infections.
Fauci simply said it is a "very complicated situation" and suggested that the general public "doesn't hear yet in time things that are being collected."
"So there's a lot of data, clearly a lot of data, that's being collected by the CDC that people don't know about yet," he said, failing to sufficiently explain why comprehensive data on breakthrough infections is not easily accessible.
During the interview, Fauci added that the U.S. "certainly" has the potential to go into a fifth wave of the virus but said it will "be dependent upon what we do in the next few weeks to a couple of months," pointing directly to vaccinations, despite the emergence of breakthrough infections:
For example, we have now about 62 million people in the country who are eligible to be vaccinated, who have not yet gotten vaccinated. Superimpose upon that, the fact that, unquestionably, the people who got vaccinated six, seven, eight, nine, 10 months ago, we're starting to see an understandable diminution in the level of immunity.
However, given the waning of immunity, right now boosters are going to be very important. A third shot for those who got the two mRNAs and another additional shot for those who got the J&J. If we have a combination of getting as many people as we can get vaccinated as possible who have not yet gotten vaccinated, add on to it the children who are now eligible, the five to 11, there's twenty eight million of those, and getting the many, many people now, 70% of the entire population of adults has been vaccinated- about 80% has been vaccinated.
"If we do that successfully in a very intensive way, we can mitigate any increase," he added.
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These are the irreversible facts of the ties between Egypt and Gaza. In other words, when Egypt sneezes, Gaza catches a cold.
Now some people are trying to drive a wedge between Gaza and Egypt, but they will fail. Even at the lowest point of relations between Gaza and the ousted regime of Hosni Mubarak, few challenged the fact that Gaza and Egypt care for one another.
Today, we hear analysts in the West Bank and Israel predicting the end of Hamas rule in Gaza, just because the Muslim Brotherhood was ousted from power in Egypt.
To those, I wish to say that Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood never hid their ties, were proud of their connections, and made no secret of their cooperation. But the political adversaries of both Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt would have us believe that anything that befalls the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt will befall Hamas in Gaza, which is a massive exaggeration.
It is true that the recent events in Egypt have put an end to the high hopes Hamas had of strategic cooperation between Gaza and Egypt. It is also true that the image of Hamas as a resistance movement has been shaken. But let's not believe everything the political adversaries of Hamas say. Let's not believe their lies, for their only aim is to undermine the Palestinian resistance.
It has to be said, however, that Hamas was optimistic about the Arab Spring and was pleased to see like-minded governments take over in some Arab countries. It is also true that Hamas, perhaps too hastily, assumed that an alliance with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and its backers in Qatar would make up for the loss of its allies in Syria and Iran. Still, we must not forget that Hamas is a resistance movement first and foremost. Its connections with the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt don't change this fact.
Hemmed in by the Israelis, Hamas was always hoping for Egypt to come to its rescue. But even during Mohamed Morsi's presidency, relations between Egypt and Hamas were not free from tensions and differences. Hamas also had problems with Qatar's view of the Arab peace plan.
Now Hamas stands accused of interfering in Egypt's domestic affairs. This accusation was made when Morsi was in power and after he was removed from power. Hamas denied time and again that it interfered in Egypt or in any other Arab countries. And the Palestinian ambassador to Cairo, Barakat Al-Farra, said that no such accusation was ever made by Egyptian officials.
Those who make such allegations not only harm the Palestinians, but also may cause lasting damage to ties between Gaza and Egypt.
I recently heard someone claiming that the Muslim Brotherhood's fall from grace in Egypt will weaken Hamas to the point that makes it more amenable to Palestinian reconciliation. This is nonsense. For one thing, the Palestinian schism predates the Muslim Brotherhood's accession to power in Egypt, and it has nothing to do with Hamas-Muslim Brotherhood ties. In fact, the real reason for the delay in reconciliation is that Mahmoud Abbas is still hoping that US Secretary of State John Kerry will succeed in restarting peace talks with Israel.
Implicating the Palestinians in Egypt's currently divisive scene is neither to the benefit of Palestinians nor Egyptians. But it is good news for Israel.


A Stage Four cancer patient is allegedly being denied her right to choose whether or not she should take chemotherapy to help combat her illness.
The 50-year-old, who was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer in 2017, said the doctors did not explain clearly to her why she still had to have the treatment despite showing no signs of cancer, and she was concerned about some of the practices she saw at the island's primary healthcare institution.
"I noticed that Stage 4 patients who got chemo on the ward, both men and women, died within a day or two of receiving it, and 28 patients died during the ten weeks I was on Ward C12 (the cancer specialty ward)." She also claimed that some patients were forced to take medication.
She added that when the fluid was removed from her lungs, the procedure caused her body to swell up and she could not move, and according to her, other patients experienced a similar thing.
In response to the patient's concerns, President of the Barbados Cancer Society, Dr. Dorothy Cooke-Johnson, acknowledged that patients had the right to choose their treatment and doctors should not pressure them to do otherwise. Nevertheless, it was a common practice to administer chemotherapy to Stage 4 cancer patients as a precautionary measure.
She, however, recommended that the mother of two sons in their early twenties discuss the matter further with the doctors, either alone or in the presence of her children, in an effort to outline the best way to proceed under the circumstances. The other charity which looks out for the interests of cancer patients in Barbados, Cancer Support Services, declined comment on the matter.
When Barbados TODAY approached the QEH on this matter, it issued the statement: "Patients do have the right to choose the treatments best suited for them and the chemotherapeutic treatments prescribed are within acceptable international best practices, and are recommended based on a number of factors including the individual's diagnosis, life expectancy with and without treatments, and client preference.
They are several things in this article that bothers me.
If in fact the patient was "denied her right to choose whether or not she should take chemotherapy to help combat her illness," that would be a fundamental and universal violation of medical ethics on the part of the Oncologist(s).
Secondly, a simple explanation to the patient and family that with Stage 4 cancer there is already cancer metastasis and hence the chemo-treatment would extend life by at most 6 months; patient and family can then decide if the side effects of chemo is worth it.
Fourthly, the sudden deaths of 2 patients after chemo treatment. If in fact true, and coupled with the deaths of "28 patients" during the 10 weeks of chemo, there may be much more than we know. The Clinical Risk Management Unit should take a very hard look at this and if possible involve external independent experts to assess the Policies and Procedures involve in Chemotherapy.
Admittedly, we are only hearing one side of the story so judgement is reserved until, if ever, full facts are known.
What type of Doctor is Cooke Johnson?
Best of luck to u… I do hope u remained in remission and that ur name was not divulged!
They can't force you lady. Seek out someone who can help you. Chemo does not buy you time; it kills you quicker. The truth is stranger than fiction. They do not own you. Do not allow them to frighten you. They are no knights in shining armour. Tell them to know their place. In the know.
Hate to say it but your medical staff is fibbing on this one.
It's too easy for unnamed persons to make public complaints against medical institutions and personnel because they hide behind the laws of confidentiality.
And they know " the accused " cannot respond with the facts.
So the public gets one side. And truth is never one-sided.
Patients need to direct their complaints to the relevant authorities so that fair investigation can be made-and documented. There are steps beyond that if that is ineffective.
Lastly, I believe all mentally competent adults have the right to sign a self-discharge from QEH if they do not want treatment, unless that has changed.
@CH. You would be surprised. I was in there once and you know what someone who came to visit me look me in my face and tell me. You are now the property of the state. I had to let her know which GOD she serving. So I decided to test and they tied me to the bed and then I let them see my good side. I was not in there much longer. Furthermore, they talk out your business.


The ND Dental Foundation is rolling out their ND Toothbrush Project with ND Head Start and Early Head Start Programs. The ND Dental Foundation will provide free of charge toothcare kits to eligible organizations to encourage good oral health to the kids in their care. Each kit includes a toothbrush, toothpaste and floss. Infant kits include a brush only. Each toothbrush is meant to be replaced every three months.
The ND Head Start and Early Head Start Programs are very grateful for these toothcare kits! Thank you ND Dental Foundation!
What is the ND Dental Foundation?
The ND Dental Foundation began with the belief that dentists are well positioned to address issues that prevent people from getting dental care, and is deeply committed to helping those who can't afford care.
Dental care is a foundation of good health. People who have good oral health – free of cavities and painful, debilitating fractures or oral disease – are able to work, learn and socialize in ways that lead to quality of life. People in poor oral health are held back and suffer physically, financially and emotionally. It's especially tough on kids.


Adorable and super kitschy small pair of vintage blue, tan, and brown ceramic pottery candlestick holders. This pair that are very mid century kitsch, are a royal blue color on the bases and on the candle insert holder area. On this little holder itself, is the outlines of a slightly lighter blue leaf shape that go around the holder 4 times.
The baby/angel/cherubs that are seated on the base and hold the candle holder itself are a light tan with brown hair, dark eye brows, lashes and red lips. The painting on the faces is quite detailed. There is a blue drape on their backsides to cover their assets. The bases are an oval shape and are hollow - see photo.
Each measure approx. 3" x 2" at the base. They are 2 5/8" high.
In nice vintage condition with no cracks. Some light chipping on the top rim of one - see photo closeup. Light wear consistent with vintage age and light use marks on the bottoms as well as some remains of tape (see close up photos for details).


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Greece: ECtHR Condemns Greece in Prominent Ruling, New Evidence of Pushbacks, Renewed EU Critique – Same Old Denials, Government Ignores European Courts and Continue Crack-Down on Solidarity
8th July 2022 | News
In a unanimous judgment of the Safi and Others v. Greece case the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) condemns Greece for multiple violations. A month-long joint investigation by European media outlets confirms the use of third-country nationals – people on the move themselves – in pushbacks operations by Greek authorities. While the investigation has generated strong reactions at EU level the Greek government continue to deflect and deny. Meanwhile, Greece ignores interim measures by ECtHR and continue criminalization of solidarity.
On 7 July, ECtHR delivered a unanimous judgment in the Safi and Others v. Greece case concerning the sinking of a fishing boat transporting 27 foreign nationals in the Aegean Sea on 20 January 2014 resulting in the deaths of 11 people, including relatives of the applicants. According to the applicants, the tragedy was the result of a Greek coastguard vessel "travelling at very high speed in order to push the refugees back towards Turkish waters" causing the fishing boat to capsize. The court condemns Greece multiple violations, stating it "held, unanimously, that there had been: a violation of Article 2 (right to life) of the European Convention on Human Rights under its procedural head. The Court found that there had been shortcomings in the proceedings and concluded that the national authorities had not carried out a thorough and effective investigation capable of shedding light on the circumstances in which the boat had sunk. A violation of Article 2 (right to life) on account of the failure to comply with the positive obligation under this Article. The Court found that the Greek authorities had not done all that could reasonably be expected of them to provide the applicants and their relatives with the level of protection required by Article 2 of the Convention. A violation of Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment), concerning 12 of the applicants who had been on board the boat and who, after it had sunk, had been subjected to degrading treatment on account of the body searches they had undergone on arriving in Farmakonisi". Greece was ordered to pay a total of "330,000 euros (EUR) in respect of the non-pecuniary damage sustained by the applicants, broken down as follows: EUR 100,000 to one of the applicants, EUR 80,000 to three of the applicants jointly, EUR 40,000 to another of the applicants, and EUR 10,000 to each of the remaining 11 applicants". ECRE member the Greek Council for Refugees (GCR) expresses "its deep satisfaction with the landmark decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), which vindicates the children and their mothers who lost their lives in the 2014 shipwreck of Farmakonisi". Alongside the Network of Social Support to Refugees and Migrants, the Hellenic League for Human Rights, the Group of Lawyers for the Rights of Refugees and Migrants, and Refugee Support Aegean (RSA) / PRO ASYL, GCR represented the tragic survivors before the ECtHR and accompanied them in their moments of grief and despair.
A months-long joint investigation by Lighthouse Reports, The Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel and ARD Report München confirms the numerous accounts from NGOs and survivors of the use of third-country nationals in pushback operations by Greek authorities. According to Lighthouse Reports, the investigation: "has for the first time identified six of these men – who call themselves slaves – interviewed them and located the police stations where they were held. Some of the slaves, who are kept locked up between operations, were forcibly recruited themselves after crossing the border but others were lured there by smugglers working with a gangmaster who is hosted in a container located in the carpark of a Greek police station. In return for their "work" they received papers allowing them to stay in Greece for 25 days". The six Syrian and Moroccan nationals participated in pushback operations on the Evros river, witnessing: "Greek police strip, rob and assault asylum seekers before they were put back into overcrowded inflatable boats that the men were then ordered to transport back across the deep and fast-running river to the Turkish bank".
Following a meeting with several Greek ministers, European Home Affairs Commissioner, Ylva Johansson warned: "violent and illegal deportations of migrants must stop, now". The commissioner noted that, Commission: "funding is linked to EU fundamental rights being correctly applied". Further, she welcomed a "new proposal to mainstream fundamental rights" with Greece's asylum system, saying she was: "Pleased with their info that this will be in place by 1 September. However, the details of such an initiative remain somewhat unclear. MEP and member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), Tineke Strik commented on the remarks by the Commissioner, stating: "Good first step, but linking funding border management to fundamental rights is not enough. We urgently need conditionality". On 5 July, Strik told Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis during his meeting with European lawmakers in Strasbourg: "that covering up evidence of pushbacks won't work. Evidence is recorded by UN bodies, NGOs and investigative journalists. European judges refuse to accept a reality that violates core EU values". However, Mitsotakis refuted the ever mounting evidence of systematic pushbacks saying Greece fully respects fundamental rights and doubling down on often repeated claims that such allegations are orchestrated by Turkiye.
A new report from Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN) documents "the recent increase in use of Rule 39 measures on the Greek mainland, in order to secure access to international protection". It details three case studies involving groups stranded on islets in the Evros river in May and June 2022 and being pushed back to Turkiye after days without food, water and medical care despite interim measures by ECtHR "binding the Greek state to provide temporary access to Greece and material reception conditions". Greek authorities have accused NGOs of coordinating with human smugglers – that are allegedly encouraged and tolerated by Turkish authorities – to circumvent border controls by making appeals to the European Court, and the report observes a "concerning trend of criminalisation of civil society organisations and the use of smear campaigns to restrict migrant rights defenders from operating". The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders recently expressed similar concerns.
Almost 50,000 people granted refugee protection in Greece have launched an asylum application in Germany. The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) restarted the processing of cases in March 2022, after a suspension due to interventions by German courts preventing returns based on the shortcomings of the Greek reception system. Since then close to 8,000 cases have been processed resulting in the granting of protection in 89 per cent or roughly 7,200 cases.
ECRE, Greece: Minister Accuses MEPs of Being Manipulated by Propaganda and NGOs of Coordinating with Human Smugglers, Reports of the Use Third-Country Nationals in Pushbacks Operations Amid War of Words with Turkiye, June 2022
ECRE, Greece: Authorities Ignore ECtHR Interim Measures and Distress Calls as Turkiye Increase Return Efforts of Refugees, Systematic Detention of Asylum Seekers Persists,17 June 2022


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Statue of Liberty Ticket, 9/11 Memorial and Wall Street Tour
Discover three of New York City's most memorable sites on this Viator Exclusive tour, available nowhere else. Hear the history of Wall Street on a guided walking tour, then visit the 9/11 Memorial to learn about one of the most significant events in NYC history. Finally, ride the ferry to Liberty Island and enjoy an audio tour of the Statue of Liberty and its museum.
Radio City Music Hall Stage Door Tour
Secure an advance ticket for this behind-the-scenes tour of Manhattan's legendary Radio City Music Hall. Save time and guarantee a place for your preferred time by prebooking, and gain insight into this historical entertainment hall that you wouldn't get by attending a show. Learn all about the venue, its Rockette dancers, and past performers; explore the art deco foyer and backstage; and enjoy a photo op with a real-life Rockette.
Go behind-the-scenes at the Basilica of St. Patrick's Old Cathedral, and see parts of the church that are otherwise off-limits to visitors, during this catacombs tour. Meet your guide at a convenient location in Lower Manhattan, and follow them into the church. As you explore, learn all about the landmark's place in New York history and discover the final resting place of famous New Yorkers past.
Tuck into the flavors and traditions of two of New York's top foodie neighborhoods on this Chinatown and Little Italy food tour. While exploring these neighborhoods can be overwhelming on your own, traveling with a guide enables you to focus on the food rather than worrying about getting lost. Plus, the guide takes you to off-the-beaten-path establishments where you can sample items such as homemade mozzarella and dim sum.
Woodbury Common Premium Outlets Shopping Tour, from NYC
New York is a fashion-forward city, so if you want to shop in the Big Apple don't miss this bargain hunter's dream excursion to the famous brand-name outlet shops at Woodbury Common. Just hop on your bus in Midtown Manhattan, and enjoy direct travel to an outlet mall that's packed with 220 designer and brand-name stores to suit every taste. Best of all, with a variety of convenient departure and return times, you can easily pick a visit that fits your schedule and enjoy ample time to shop.
Woodbury Common Premium Outlets Shopping Tour from Manhattan
Shopping lovers can leave behind the overpriced shops in the heart of New York City and instead shop and save on a trip to Woodbury Common Premium Outlets. This tour handles all the logistics for you. Just show up at one of the convenient departure locations, spend the day shopping, and catch one of the many return busses. That way, you don't have to worry about traffic, parking, or transportation costs.
SoHo, Little Italy, and Chinatown Walking Tour in New York
Pack highlights of New York City's most interesting neighborhoods—SoHo, Little Italy, and Chinatown—all into one day with this walking tour. In SoHo, visit the Cast Iron Historic District and learn about 19th-century architecture. In Little Italy, see mob sites and hear about John Gotti, an American mobster. In Chinatown, soak up the sights, smells, and sounds of the neighborhood.
45 Minutes Central Park Tour
A horse and carriage ride through Central Park is one of New York's most magical experiences, with a history dating back over 150 years. Whether you're on honeymoon or a family vacation, don't leave this precious ritual to chance. Book ahead to guarantee your perfect time slot without the wait. Your 2-mile (3-kilometer) ride covers sights including the Lake, Strawberry Fields, Tavern on the Green, Rumsey Playfield, and Conservatory Water.
NYC TV & Movie Tour (On Location Tours)
Step into the scenes of your favorite movies and TV shows with this guided tour of New York City's famous filming locations. A guide helps you to recognize the buildings, shops, landmarks, and parks that have been featured in famous shows and movies such as 'Friends,' 'Seinfeld,' 'Girls,' and 'Spiderman.' Plus, TV buffs can get the inside scoop most tourists miss by exploring the sites with a guide/local actor.
3 New York Neighborhoods Semi-Private Tour : SoHo, Chinatown and Little Italy
New York City is so big, it can be difficult to fit everything into one visit. This tour makes seeing NYC's most interesting neighborhoods—SoHo, Little Italy, and Chinatown—in one day easy. In SoHo, visit the historic Cast Iron District, and learn about 19th-century architecture. In Little Italy, see mob sites, and hear about John Gotti, an American mobster. In Chinatown, see top highlights and where get the best bargain.
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Explore the expansive American Museum of Natural History by booking full-day admission tickets. General admission tickets grant you access to about 50 exhibits, including the Rose Center for Earth and Space. You can make the most of your time in the acclaimed museum by upgrading to a Super Saver pass, which includes access to highlights such as Hayden Planetarium and 3D films.
Speakeasy Drinks and Prohibition History Tour NYC
While prohibition made alcohol illegal in 1920s New York, the city still retained an illicit bar scene. This prohibition-themed Manhattan tour visits some of the city's self-styled "speakeasies"—cocktail dens and taverns that mimic the era's outlawed bars—to enjoy drinks (own cost) with a dose of history—an experience hard to replicate independently. See prohibition-period sights, and savor each bar's atmosphere alongside prohibition and bootlegger stories from your guide.
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Electric companies increasingly are using innovative technologies such as energy storage and microgrids to develop a smarter energy grid that delivers energy safely and reliably to customers.
Energy storage offers multiple benefits for the energy grid and for electricity customers. It facilitates the integration of renewable energy resources, such as wind and solar, into the grid by keeping supply and demand balanced at all times. Energy storage also helps to improve electric reliability by providing grid stability services, reducing transmission constraints, and meeting peak demand.
Energy storage is also used in microgrids, which give customers more control over their own energy needs, while also being able to help electric companies enhance the resilience of the entire energy grid and provide numerous public benefits that extend beyond the microgrid users to the general grid and all customers.
According to the most recent data, electric companies represent roughly 70 percent of total investment in battery storage technology. Electric companies own, procure, or utilize 98 percent of all mostly grid-connected energy storage today, of which roughly 92 percent is pumped hydropower storage.
Investment in advanced energy storage is growing rapidly, with an estimated 280 megawatts installed in 2017 alone, up 400 percent from 2014.
Energy storage improves reliability and resiliency for the energy grid and electricity customers.
Energy storage enables the expanded use of renewable energy.
Energy storage helps to	control energy costs by reducing downtime and production losses.
Energy storage helps to manage supply and demand variability and improves operations in generation, transmission, and distribution.
Battery storage is the fastest growing energy storage technology today.
Over the last five years, electric companies were responsible for approximately 70 percent of total battery storage capacity deployed.
Businesses and households rapidly are adopting batteries and are using them alone or in combination with other distributed energyresources.
As the owners and operators of the energy grid, electric companies are essential to harnessing the benefits of energy storage and microgrids for customers and can help maximize and optimize the services that these technologies can provide.
Microgrids provide numerous benefits to the customers they serve, but also provide important public benefits, like enhanced resilience of the entire grid, improved protection of critical infrastructure, and advanced learning of smart grid technologies.
The autonomous microgrid at Oncor's System Operating Services Facility consists of four interconnected microgrids and nine different distributed generation resources: two solar PV arrays, a microturbine, two energy storage units, and four generators. The microgrid project aims to test Oncor's ability to operate a microgrid, as well as to showcase how solar, microturbines, and battery storage can integrate renewable energy sources into the energy grid through advanced hardware and software. The two batteries enable integration of solar power, allow for voltage control, and release stored energy during an outage. The project is operational since 2015. Learn More.
APS installed two, 1 MW/4 MWh Advancion (AES/Fluence) battery energy storage systems in Punkin Center, a small town 90 miles NE of Phoenix, as a cost-effective alternative to upgrading about 20 miles of 21 kV cable. During the 20 to 30 peak demand days each year, APS can deploy battery storage capacity to meet the area's energy needs.
The Escondido Substation Storage in California is the largest lithium-ion battery storage project in North America. Owned by San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) and built in partnership with Fluence, the 30 MW storage facility is comprised of approximately 400,000 batteries installed in 20,000 modules within 24 containers. At capacity, it can provide electricity to 20,000 homes for four hours. The facility has two primary purposes. First, it helps balance the large amount of solar generation entering the Southern California energy grid during peak daylight hours. Second, the facility enables energy time shift, which allows SDG&E to make smart financial decisions about when to supply and to store energy; these decisions directly benefit customers. Learn More.
EEI's Energy Storage and Microgrids Workroom provides members with an online forum to facilitate policy development, information exchange and networking. Members can communicate and share ideas, participate in discussion forums, send email blasts, create file libraries, organize conference calls, and keep track of important dates and upcoming events. If you are interested in learning how to join the workroom, please contact Olga Chistyakova at ochistyakova@eei.org.


Microbial VOCs and Health – report from Basel conference Indoor Microbiome Symposium – microBEnet: the microbiology of the Built Environment network.
Many indoor environmental investigators have attempted to use volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted by microbes as an indicator of the presence or potential health relevance of the indoor microbiome. These compounds emitted by microbes are generally referred to as MVOCs. The airborne concentrations of MVOCs is usually too low for characterization by the usual indoor air VOC sampling and analytical methods, but extraction of MVOCs from dust appears to be an effective way to identify and quantify the presence of MVOCs indoors. Of course the MVOCs in dust will not be representative of all MVOCs present since those on dust are in the "condensed phase" (non-gasesous) and what is found on dust will be skewed toward the less volatile compounds (those with the lowest vapor pressures).
Martin Täubel of the Finnish National Institute of Health and Welfare reported on a study of microbial VOCs that was part of the European Commission's HITEA project ("Health Effects of Indoor Pollutants"). The HITEA project's aims include integrating microbial, toxicological and epidemiological approaches.
The HITEA project includes a study of 99 schools in Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Helsinki. In each country, at least 10 schools with and 10 schools without reported dampness, moisture damage, and/or visible mould were included from each country — the included schools were within a convenient geographical distance to the conducting study centers.
– The results raise questions about the relevance of outdoor sources on the occurrence of microbial toxins indoors.
– An effort to investigate the health implications of the presence of MVOCs resulted in limited evidence of a health effect and questions as to whether there is actually any difference between the effects of exposure to MVOCs from outdoors and those from indoors.
In his presentation, Täubel summarized results from a paper from the HITEA project by Peitzsch et al (Täubel is a co author) reporting some of the early results of the HITEA project.
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Happy, happy fall! It's me, Tessa from tessacotton. I for one am pretty darn psyched about the changing seasons. Fall colors, fall flavors, and fall weather are all reasons this is my favorite time of year. I've created a manicure that's the perfect embodiment of fall, combining a deep burgundy with a pretty copper glitter. The best thing is that you'll only need polish for this nail look, a base coat, a glitter, and a clear top coat.
Begin with a solid base coat, two if your polish needs it. I love this wine colored burgundy for the autumn months, the polish I'm using here is Toni by Zoya. It's a super rich formula and only needed one coat. I know that this is going to be one of my go-to colors for this fall.
For the glitter polish on the tip of the nail, it's okay to really glob it on there! The top coat will help smooth everything out, so it's alright if the polish is a little thick. I love a glitter gradient, and the best way to achieve it is to go bold or go home. For this look I used Orly in 'Watch It Glitter'.
There you have it! If you try this look I'd love to see the result. Hit me up on instagram or twitter and send me a pic so I can see those beautiful nails.
I love that color! I can't wait to do my manicure. I like the glitter on the tips, it looks like leaves.


There is a clear focused movement in inter-Korean and U.S.-North Korean talks, prior to formal difficult negotiations among the heads of government, which hopefully could lead to eventual peace in the Korean Peninsula, long awaited by Asia and the global community.
The news in the earlier weeks is that CIA Director Mike Pompeo, who assumed the post of U.S. Secretary of State following his U.S. Senate confirmation, quietly met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, which led later to the meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. The South Korean President, Moon Jae-In, initiated the fast-moving diplomacy with the North Korean leader.
Kudos as well to our colleague in the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP), which we founded in Manila in September 17-20, 2000. He is our friend Ambassador Chung Eui-yong, whom, upon his retirement from the Korean foreign service, we designated to the post of Secretary-General of ICAPP, and then later, we promoted him as our Co-Chairman. He is now on leave from ICAPP and is serving as National Security Adviser to the President of South Korea.
His replacement as ICAPP Secretary General is the former Korean Ambassador to Moscow, the active Park Rob-yug.
In the last two months events and pace-setting talks moved rapidly and led to the apparently successful Summit talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and the young North Korean leader that could subsequently lead to denuclearization in the Korean Peninsula.
We have always believed the objective of the talks is to achieve North Korean denuclearization, which is not easily achievable considering that it will mean that North Korea will give up its nuclear weapons, atomic and hydrogen bombs, and delivery systems, after great North Korean expense and sacrifice in their development.
But the fact that North Korean Kim agreed to the convening of the talks with President Trump in Singapore, which were apparently successful and could lead to more specific and substantial and far-ranging talks supported by the South Korean President Moon Jae-In, says a lot.
Consider a state of Neutrality for the two independent Koreas which shall actively interact with the regional and global economy so that the North, with its hydrocarbons potential, mining, and hydro-electric resources, etc., can join the South, which has already developed much earlier, into a credible major economic power.
We had pointed out before that the successful dynamics of North Korea's nuclear development and delivery system could be channeled to economic mobilization.
We believe that the potential of the two Koreas in cooperating together or united in peace could eventually lead to a prosperous second- or first-world nation in the third decade of the 21st century.
In our last 1990 visit to Pyongyang, as acting Chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee, we conferred with North Korea's founding President Kim Il-Sung, in his mountain retreat near the capital. That meeting with the grandfather of today's young leader Kim Jong-un, immediately led to the establishment of Philippine-North Korean (DPRK) diplomatic relations. Our breakthrough was heartily supported then by the late Philippine President Corazon Aquino and late Foreign Secretary Raul Manglapus. The diplomacy was fast-moving in that on our invitation, President Kim instructed North Korea's Deputy Premier Kim Dahl Hyun to visit Manila in the next few weeks which led to formal diplomatic relations.
We hoped then that at some point, no matter how long, the long crisis and twilight struggle in the Korean peninsula could also come to an end.
We are meeting in London for the second conference of the Asian and European political parties on May 17-20, and then in Moscow in October 24-26 for the 10th General Assembly of the Asian political parties (International Conference of Asian Political Parties, ICAPP)… parties of the Left, Center, and Right, including most likely senior representatives of our old friends in the North Korean Workers Party, and hopefully we can make even an appreciable contribution to the long struggle for peace in the Korean peninsula.
Now the key is to move towards a reasonable deal with North Korea (DPRK): We believe the key is to forge initially a respectable Confederation between North and South, no harm to the South, which is far bigger, already industrialized and wealthy, and for the North, to begin to build its economy, industries, agriculture and trade, and a common North-South railway extending all the way to Pusan in the south, to Russia and onwards to Europe.
In earlier days, atomic powers like Kazakhstan, which is almost as large as Western Europe, also voluntarily demilitarized and gave up its nuclear weapons and today leads in Eurasia.
Indeed North Korea could leverage and give up its nuclear weapons in exchange for large-scale cash, economic assistance, investments and trade, rapidly build up its economy, and eventually be equal in status as sovereigns with South Korea, although the North has a much lesser population.
I was invited last week to North Korea to visit and attend the 70th Founding Anniversary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) beginning September 8. I am reminded of my last visit in 1990, which immediately led to a return visit by North Korean Deputy Premier Kim Dalh Hyun after a few weeks, which immediately led to Philippine-North Korean diplomatic relations. I also asked for a halt to North Korean assistance to the Philippine New People's Army (guerillas) and the North Korean leader agreed.
Today, I truly and earnestly long for the dawning of peace among the peoples of North and South Korea, perhaps leading to a confederation between North and South.
In a Confederation, North and South would be co-equal sovereign nations, with some centralizing connectivity, and in the fullness of time, if both Koreas will it, could decide to unite as one nation-state like the two Germanys and the two Vietnams.


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Tinnitus is a very frustrating and distracting medical condition to cope with, but often it will spontaneously stop on its own. In addition, methods do exist that can alleviate the problems you are experiencing. This article will provide you with tips that can help you to deal with this condition.
Think about how to relax yourself before bed. Develop a routine to help yourself calm down and unwind. Many people with tinnitus have trouble falling asleep, or staying asleep. A relaxing bedtime ritual can be very useful in alleviating this frustrating problem. A couple things to consider incorporating into your routine are stretching exercises and meditation. This relaxes you, along with lowering your blood pressure.
Try to stay busy to avoid tinnitus. The more tired you are when going to bed, the less difficult it will be to drift off to sleep. An exercise regime will possibly even ease tinnitus side effects, and create a smoother transition through your day.
Be sure to stay organized since stress can make tinnitus worse. Try to get a job that you work at by yourself and at your own speed, then find time to relax.
There are millions of people around the world who are currently living happily with tinnitus. For some people, the problem goes away on its own in a short time; others are not so lucky. No matter what situation you are in, you can deal with it in your life.
Try filling your days with things you like to do, or that you're interested in. Doing this frees your mind to enjoy things other than your affliction. It's up to you to take control of your life back! Enjoy yourself and stay distracted.
Work hard to reduce the stress in your life. Tinnitus can be a very real and distressing condition to deal with and added stress only makes it worse. Organized your activities to avoid feeling rushed, and take the time to find happy solutions to any emotional issues. In this way, you can reduce your stress level when your tinnitus bothers you.
When you experience tinnitus symptoms, it is important to do all you are able to do to reduce the stresses in your life. When your stress is chronic, it can be significantly more damaging to your overall health. The greater amount of stress you feel will aggravate even tiny discomforts you feel. You can concentrate more fully on managing your tinnitus if other problems in your life aren't making you tense and distracted.
It may be a good idea to keep earplugs in your pocketbook or some other easy to access location if you experience tinnitus. You should also make an earnest effort to stay away from extremely noisy environments, and vibrations. To the maximum extent possible, stay away from areas that make your tinnitus condition worse.
Acne can cause scars and make many people uncomfortable in social settings. Acne is seen a lot in teens, but adults can have it, too. The following article will give you some good knowledge on what causes acne and what kinds of treatment plans are available.
The temptation can be hard to ignore, but it is imperative that you don't pick or pop your acne. Turn to treatment creams instead. By picking at the skin, you can introduce bacteria from your hands into the open sore. This can cause infection and scarring. You can scar your face for years if you pick at your pimples.
Cutting down on dairy products and meats can diminish acne. Many people feel that hormones in meat and milk can adversely affect acne; therefore, reducing your consumption of them will probably help your acne.
If you typically wear makeup, avoid wearing it for a few days. You can also treat acne by switching to a foundation that is water-based. Do not try to cover up your acne with make up; it will only clog your pores. Not using it will help your pores stay clean and free of clogs.
Never combine acne medications. Some people get overzealous about their acne treatment efforts and use every lotion and cream they can find. Acne creams contain harsh ingredients that can greatly damage your skin if they are combined haphazardly.
Simply changing your sheets more often can really decrease some of the problems you have been having with acne. Your sheets will retain the oil from your skin. Then they go back to your skin. Wash your bed sheets regularly to break this cycle.
Garlic is an antioxidant, and antioxidants help fight acne. It functions by purging toxins within your body and helps develop new layers of skin. Add garlic to your diet in any way that you find sensible; some ideas include adding it to foods or drinks.
One would avoid touching one's face or popping existing pimples to minimize acne outbreaks. Your hands tend to have oils on them which then transfer to your face, so the less you touch your face, the less oil your skin has to deal with. Additionally, popping blemishes is risky and can sometimes result in pain, infections and scarring.
Have you given up trying to do anything about your acne problem? Another common reason for chronic acne is weather related allergies. It is also important that you avoid stress. Stress hormones can cause acne problems too.


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Physical Pain, Cerebral Palsy and Life. What's the Hardest Part?
The hardest part of living with a chronic illness is not the years you spend waiting for a diagnosis. It's not the hundreds of doctor appointments and different specialists you see when you're trying to get someone to listen to you and understand something is really wrong with you. It's not the waiting game you play in the waiting room with yourself as you look around at people who look more ill than you. It's not the mountains of paper work and referral papers you constantly have to fill out and hang onto. It isn't how long it takes to find the right combination of medicine to treat your symptoms, and it's not the fact that you start your day with a cocktail of medications just to be able to function as you did before.
No. The hardest part about living with a chronic illness is crying on the way to the 12th doctor you've seen this month because you're in pain and you fear this doctor won't believe you either. It is the guilt that comes with having to call off another day of work — the 3rd day this week. It is looking around the waiting room and seeing people in much worse states than yourself, and feeling guilty. It is the guilt that washes over you when you have to cancel plans on your friends and family, again. It is the time you spend trying to come up with a way to get out of the plans that you have. It is the back and forth game you play with honesty, because you don't want your mother to know how bad you are feeling or that anything is wrong.
The hardest part about living with a chronic illness is having to start over.
The hardest part about living with a chronic illness is having to find a new career, new passions, a new group of friends.
The hardest part about living with a chronic illness is feeling like you don't know yourself anymore, and feeling like a stranger in your own body as it transforms beyond your control.
The hardest part about living with a chronic illness is suddenly having new or worsening mental health problems that no one seems to understand — not even yourself.
The hardest part about living with a chronic illness is having to explain your new life to people.
The hardest part about living with a chronic illness is having to explain your new life to yourself. It is finding a new normal.
The hardest part about living with a chronic illness is finding peace with the life that you lived and the life that you will live.
The hardest part about living with a chronic illness is finding new friends and finding support from your family. It is having to make the choice that some relationships are not worth continuing or trying to repair.
The hardest part about living with a chronic illness is knowing that your illness is chronic — you won't die, you have to live with it.
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5 Things to Know About Arizona Democrat Mark Kelly
Mark Kelly, the former astronaut and husband of former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ), announced this week he's jumping in the Arizona Senate race. If he successfully navigates the Democratic primary, which remains unclear as Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) openly mulls a Senate run, he will face Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ), who was appointed to fill Sen. John McCain's seat.
Though Kelly has been in the public eye for years, much is unknown about certain policy positions and how he might hold up as a candidate. AR Intel dug into the available information on Kelly and put together a list of five things to know about the newest Democrat in the Arizona Senate race:
1) Strong gun control advocate
Perhaps best known as the husband to Giffords, Kelly became a strong advocate for gun control after his wife was shot and injured by a gunman in Tucson. In early 2013 Kelly and his wife formed Americans for Responsible Solutions, which later became Giffords, a political organization with a super PAC, 501(c)3, and 501(c)4 arms.
Giffords spent $7 million aiding Democrat candidates in 2018 but not without controversy. In September, the group was forced to alter an ad that used the death of a 16-year-old girl to attack Rep. Mike Coffman in Colorado. They also received harsh criticism for an unfair ad they ran against McSally in 2014.
2) An environmentalist group drafted him to run
In his four-and-a-half-minute announcement video, Kelly put a placed a fair amount of emphasis on environmental issues, which was likely no mistake. In January 2019, environmental group 314 Action launched a six-figure digital ad campaign designed to convince Kelly to run. 314 Action is a group "committed to electing more STEM candidates to office, advocating for evidence-based policy solutions to issues like climate change, and fighting the Trump administration's attacks on science."
3) That environmentalism has drawn scrutiny in the past
Kelly and Giffords joined a massive congressional delegation trip in 2009 to Copenhagen for a UN Climate Conference that wound up costing the government $1.1 million and required "three military jets" to transport everyone. The trip "produced enough carbon dioxide to fill 10,000 Olympic swimming pools."
Ten years later, voters may care less about the details of such a trip, but the hypocrisy shows Kelly is vulnerable to similar attacks in a potential Democratic primary.
4) Swore off PAC money
The latest trend in Democratic campaigns is swearing off corporate PAC money, and Kelly's announcement included such a pledge. But as the Atlantic pointed out in August 2018, the gesture is mostly symbolic because "[m]ost nonincumbents don't receive any corporate-pac donations, and they generally constitute only a small percentage of total contributions for those running for reelection."
The move is a bit hypocritical, too, considering Kelly helps run a massive super PAC that shells out millions each cycle to political candidates. Giffords might not be a corporation, but if Kelly's gesture is to appease those who want to remove money from politics, it's a bit hollow.
5) Largely undefined on numerous policy positions
The Huffington Post noted on Wednesday that Kelly is "still ideologically undefined" as a Democratic candidate for office. While we can expect Kelly to take up all of the token Democratic issues in a general election, a primary challenge from Gallego or any other serious Democrat could force Kelly to take positions that may result in making him more vulnerable in the general election. Even without a primary challenger, expect Kelly to be asked about his positions on the Green New Deal, eliminating private health insurance though Medicare for All, and other hot-button liberal issues.
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An ancestor of John Turk is buried just inside the door of St Michael's Church Playden. John had 2 sons Thomas and William by Elisabeth Dale. Both boys were illigitimate but John left them his estate. Unfortunately William died before inheriting. It is believed that Thomas gambled his inheritance away and then ran a pub in Rye from approximately 1801 until he died in 1846. Does anyone know which pub he ran or where I could find this information out? It is possible Thomas either used the surname Dale or Turk.


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The terms Muisca religion and mythology refer to the pre-Columbian beliefs of the Muisca indigenous people of the Cordillera Oriental highlands of the Andes in the vicinity of Bogotá, Colombia. The tradition includes a selection of received myths concerning the origin and organization of the universe. Their belief system may be described as a polytheistic religion containing a very strong element of spirituality based on an epistemology of mysticism.

Muisca religion

Creation of the universe
Bachué ("the Grandmother") is a non-material principle of creation, the will, the thought and the imagination of all  the things to come. She is a similar concept  to the principle of tao in the Chinese mythology.

The time of unquyquie nxie ("the first thought") is the time of the cosmic origin, when the thoughts of Bague became actions. This is the time when Bague created the builders of the universe and ordered them to create.

Beginning of the world
The world started with Chimi ("the pulp"), the first material object in the world. Then, in the inners of tomsa, were incubated the embryos of stars, embryos of land and embryos of stone. When tomsa was full, the seeds of the earth emerged and the remains were thrown away, forming the Milky Way.

The elements were distributed to the deities: the heat to Sué – the sun, the cold to Chía – the Moon, and the clouds and smoke to the Earth, but all the things were still seeds and nothing was germinated. Then, Mnya, gold, energy, was united with Chimi, the pulp, and became Chímini, the creative force, which caused the germination of the seeds of all things.

Origin of mankind
According to Muisca legends, mankind was originated in Lake Iguaque, when grandmother goddess Bachué came out from the lake with a boy in her arms. When the boy grew, they populated the earth. They are considered the ancestors of the human race. finally, they disappeared unto the lake in the shape of snakes.

Great flood
Due to transgressions against the divine laws, Chibchacum brought forth a flood that covered the world and nearly destroyed the human race. Then, the protective god Bochica drove away the waters through the Tequendama Falls, and taught humans the basis of civilization, agriculture, religion, the arts, and crafts. When he was about to leave to his heavenly kingdom, Cuchavira (the rainbow) appeared and Bochica announced his second coming, far away in the future, in an event marked by death and disease. These events are similar to the biblical histories of Genesis and Apocalypse.

Deities
The first gods, constructors of the universe, built the first cuca or ceremonial temple. They were:
 Bachué ("The one with the naked breasts"): the mother goddess who raised from the underworld to give birth to the human race
 Bochica ("The father of civilization") also called Nemqueteba, Nemquereteba, Sadigua, Chimizapagua
 Chía: the Moon goddess of the Muisca
 Chibchacum ("The one who holds the earth"): the universal legislator
 Chiminigagua: trinity deity, constituted by  Chí, Chímini and Chiminigagua
 Cuchavira: god of the rainbow
 Cuza ("The one who is like the night"): the male principle of creation
 Huitaca: rebelling goddess of sexual liberation
 Nencatacoa ("The protector of festivities, beer, and the arts")

The gods danced a very long dance (sas quyhynuca), with the music of the fo drum, in the first ceremony. This ceremony gave origin to space and time.

Then, the gods created the first materials of the universe: fiva (the air),  faova (the cosmic cloud) and ie (the smoke). Then, they created the six directions of the material dimension, and in the middle of itugue, the emptiness, they created the centre of power tomsa (bellybutton of the universe). But, still the universe had no consistence, and they waited many bxogonoas aeons until the sas bequia, the beginning of the world.

See also
El Dorado, a legend that grew out of a Muisca ritual
Lake Iguaque, a lake involved in creation, in the mythology of the Muisca
Lake Guatavita, a sacred ceremonial lake of the Muisca
Guarani mythology

References

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By Valerie Tejeda 02/09/12
The program is launched just as some controversial steroid-using players are set to appear on Hall of Fame ballots.
MLB is trying to clean up its image.
The Baseball Hall of Fame is starting a new program to help educate young adults and students about performance-enhancing drug use. The program—named "Be a Superior Example" (BASE)—comes in the same year that players like Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, and Roger Clemens will appear on Hall of Fame ballots for the first time following steroid accusations. The Hall of Fame museum in Cooperstown, New York, will start launch interactive educational kiosks on site, as well as learning programs online. Museum president Jeff Idelson insists the program has been years in the making and has nothing to do with the controversial players on the ballot this year. "We're launching it now because it's taken that long to build the curriculum, the program elements, and find the funding to launch BASE," he says. "We still need to find more funding to sustain it, but we now have enough to launch it and keep it up and running." The Hall of Fame museum houses many Major League artifacts, as well as plaques representing the inductees. Idelson stresses that "character, sportsmanship and integrity" are the qualifications for ballot selection and that the new educational program "is not intended to cast a directive to voters about Hall of Fame-worthy candidates."
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