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Last weekend, while at the PNWA writers' conference in Seattle (which I highly recommend), I inadvertently found myself at the heart of a pretty fascinating debate. Namely, what exactly is "new adult" literature? What started off as an innocent question by an attendee quickly turned into a point of keen interest for industry professionals and writers alike.
And little old me was one-half of the inciting incident. Oops.
But while the conversations that arose from the kerfuffle were accidental, they were a great way to discuss something that is still rather tenuously defined. New Adult has been a largely confusing label for a while now — is it a genre, or a marketing category? Is it a legit thing, or was it a passing trend that's already died? No one seems to know, and the answers will vary drastically, even among industry pros.
Originally coined as a marketing category by St. Martin's Press in 2009, the idea behind New Adult has always been that of any literature category: connect readers with the type of books that resonate with them. So why all the confusion? Seems pretty straightforward, doesn't it?
Well, the confusion seems to have stemmed from both a lack of bookseller and sales support (stuck somewhere between YA and adult literature, booksellers weren't quite sure what to do with NA titles and readers weren't aware of them) and a surge of genre-specific entries spawned in part by one very infamous title. So, while traditional publishing tried to figure out what to do with NA, and whether or not there truly was a need for it, independent/self-published writers (particularly romance writers) adopted it wholeheartedly.
From there, it sort of became synonymous with steamy, college-aged contemporary romance, to the point that it started to be known as a romance sub-genre rather than a market category. Now, I believe the reason this happened is entirely because of sales. Romance readers are voracious (seriously, there's a reason this is one of the best-selling forms of literature out there), and indie publishing moves at light speed when compared to traditional methods. So not only was there suddenly a flood of titles in this specific genre, but the sales figures were there to support it. Making it seem like a viable sub-sect of romance, and not much else.
Which brings us to today, where you'll hear people say that NA is "contemporary romance only," and then turn around to hear people like me say that NA is a market category and does in fact exist in speculative fiction too. (This is the heart of the kerfuffle I referenced above, by the way.)
But where does that leave querying authors? If the industry itself can't decide whether or not NA is a thing, what are you guys supposed to do? Well, I may have stumbled on the answer. But before I elaborate on the conclusion I came to over the course of the weekend, let me talk about NA as a market category in general. Because trust me, it is still very much a thing — in certain circles.
As you all likely know by now, I work for REUTS Publications, a boutique publisher specializing in YA and — you guessed it — NA fiction. And all three of our current top-sellers are NA spec-fic. So we're fairly confident in our stance that NA is still a marketing category and that there is a readership out there for non-romance NA.
Part of the reason we feel that way is because REUTS, and many other small/independent publishers, have heard readers ask for it. We've heard people complain about the lack of non-romance NA, heard them wish for books that contain characters more like them: people who are crossing into that post-adolescence stage of life and want to see their struggles reflected in the fiction they read.
There is an entire sect of readers who are more or less aging out of YA, but feel left adrift in adult. Too old for the high school shenanigans and angst of YA, but too young to identify with the 40+ mature characters often found in adult (and speculative fiction especially), this is a category of readers with nothing to read. And more importantly, they're a group who grew up loving books and who are used to having an entire section of bookstores and libraries cater to them. Are you really going to tell me that those people aren't prime material for a category like NA?
So now that we've established the backstory of the debate, let's answer the original question. What the heck is "new adult" literature?
REUTS defines it as a marketing category targeting readers aged 18-25 (I've seen it go as high as 30, but that's really just adult at that point, don't you think?). It can be any genre, but much like YA, it has to revolve around themes which resonate with early twenty-something readers. This includes things like leaving home for the first time, discovering/exploring sexuality, establishing a career, forming serious relationships, having children, and otherwise transitioning from being an adolescent to an adult.
You'll notice that some of those themes are also covered by YA, but the difference between the two is that YA is very insular. It focuses on the internal growth of a character coming into their own identity and independence. NA is external; it's about that character finding where they fit in the larger world. Their sense of identity is a little more fully formed, and now they're stepping out into the world to make their stamp on it. So yes, the two categories are very similar, but they're also different enough that readers yearn for the added maturity NA brings to the table.
This maturity also translates to the writing styles seen in YA and NA. YA features simplistic, to-the-point narration, with mature content being carefully administered as necessary. (Mature content = sex, swearing, etc.) NA takes the character-driven narration of YA and layers the more sophisticated, sometimes wandering sentence structure of adult over the top. Swearing is fine, sex is definitely present and often very explicit, and the prose just has a more mature feel than its YA counterpart, which, again, points back to this idea of NA being a bridge for readers graduating from the ranks of YA and moving into those of adulthood.
But that's not the definition many in the industry will tell you. Which brings us full circle to the conclusion I came to — NA is largely a small press, indie-publishing thing.
So, Now What?
The consensus from agents is that the Big 5 presses have more or less given up on NA being a lucrative category, with the exception of contemporary romance. But NA is doing well, and even sort of thriving in the ecosystem of small press, indie-publishing. There is a readership demanding these kinds of books, and authors can find homes for them. But, as with all things publishing, it comes back to understanding the industry and which of the many publication paths is best for your particular project.
If you're targeting agents with something other than contemporary romance, don't mention "new adult," unless they specifically say they represent that in other genres. If you're targeting small presses or self-publishing, slap that NA tag on your work. It won't be a deterrent. But understand the difference. Publishing really is an ecosystem. There are many layers, many ways to find publication. Figure out which is the right fit for you, and adjust your approach accordingly. And who knows, maybe NA will eventually become a bookstore staple. After all, I remember the days before YA was a legitimate thing too. 😉
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For most of his career, he's been well-known for the his hatred of vegans and vegan food.
But significantly, even the man who famously said he was part of PETA – 'People Eating Tasty Animals' – has been forced to adapt to a changing market, with millions taking up a plant-based diet in the UK alone.
Back in 2005 when veganism was a blip on the radar compared to today, Ramsay hit the headlines when he tricked a vegetarian to eat meat.
On his show Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, the celebrity chef offered a pizza sample to a volunteer at Italian restarant La Lanterna in Letchworth, Hertfordshire.
He told to the vegetarian volunteer the pizza was vegetarian. But once he took a bite, Ramsay said: "Unfortunately, that pizza has got a lot of mozzarella and tomatoes, but underneath all that there is parma ham.
Ramsay followed up the prank by laughing at the man and asking him if he would like to eat more.
The trick unsurprisingly infuriated vegetarians, describing his actions as offensive and unethical.
And in an interview to promote the BBC's Comic Relief programme in 2003, he was asked about his most recent lie.
The Telegraph reported his reply: "To a table of vegetarians who had artichoke soup. I told them it was made with vegetable stock when it was chicken stock," he replied.
Two years later in 2007, Ramsay again revealed the extent of his distaste for vegetarians.
He said in an interview with Daily Mirror: "My biggest nightmare would be if the kids ever came up to me and said 'Dad, I'm a vegetarian'.
Fast-forward to 2016, and his views had barely changed. When asked by a fan about his allergies, Ramsay immediately replied with the one word answer: "vegans". The original tweet has since been deleted.
Vegans were quick to put the celebrity chef in his place for the petty comment.
Ramsay has often taken to Twitter to put down veganism and animal rights activists.
And the outspoken chef also took a dig at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) as recently as February 2018.
This was at first criticised as being simply a marketing gimmick for a vegan pizza launch in his restaurant, but it was still hailed as a sign of the growing influence of veganism.
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A conversation: Ten Questions with Edward Docx
Edward Docx's book, The Devil's Garden, is out now, so we thought we'd sit him down and ask him a few questions about it.
We sat down with Ed Docx, highly-acclaimed author of The Calligrapher, Self-Help and more recently The Devil's Garden to find out more about his most recent and much-anticipated book.
'A woman told me a story about a scientist who disappeared in terrifying circumstances and that got me thinking . . .'
1. Can you summarise The Devil's Garden in fifty words?
It is about love and corruption and ancient tribes and violence and grief and sex and science and religion and ants and anthropology and the clash between the individual and the big opposing forces of the twenty-first century. Most of all it's about what lies hidden in the human heart.
2. What inspired you to write a novel set in the jungle?
In a place called Puerto Maldonado in Peru, a woman told me a story about a scientist who disappeared in terrifying circumstances and that got me thinking…
3. How did you research this novel?
I went to the Amazon a couple of times. The first trip was with a friend and fellow writer. We met up in Lima and - after variously ill-advised diversions – we put ourselves in a small boat heading upriver. I remember I was suffering from a combination of sunstroke, dodgy malaria tablets and altitude sickness. Plus, I had been out until six in the morning. So I just lay in the bottom of the boat with my skin covered in this death-white sun block and a cheap leather hat over my face. When we got to the river station, there were these two German postgraduate students busy doing ant research right in the middle of all the bad stuff that was going on with the drugs and the logging and the tribes.
For the first day, I didn't really see the jungle so much as hear it since I was lying in the dark. But even later, when I was able to explore with our guide, I had no idea that some kind of novel was forming in my subconscious. So, four years after that, when I began to write what became The Devil's Garden, I knew I would have to go back and make some proper notes. The book eventually became a combination of the mildly hallucinogenic memories I had from the first trip and the detailed observations I took on the second – that time in Brazil.
As for the science, I began by reading the journals and various papers. Then I got in contact with the myrmecologists (ant-studying scientists) who are actually doing the work I describe in the book. I interviewed them and then stayed in touch so that we could speak or email as the writing progressed. A friend from Cambridge – also a myrmecologist – helped whenever I got stuck on things like reproduction.
4. Were there any stand-out moments?
Sleeping in the jungle in a hammock and watching the darkness turn slowly to the bluish-grey light of dawn in the canopy above me. Being left alone in the forest and trying unsuccessfully not to be afraid.
5. What was the hardest thing to write in The Devil's Garden?
Love because, in this case, it was so intimate and so unspoken and beneath the surface and yet the subject is the most generally written about in all of history.
6. Would you call Forle [the main character in The Devil's Garden] a hero?
I don't know. That term is pretty hard to pin down these days. (I blame the literary theorists…) I suppose I wanted to mine that British tradition where the main guy has got it all going on unspoken beneath the surface. I wanted to get away - for a while at least - from the American vogue for forensic explanation and (what I think of as) photographic fiction. In different moods, I love and admire that stuff - and Self Help was emotionally exact and overt in that way. But its not the only thing that a novel can do – indeed, it may not even be what the novel is best at. I'm not sure. It's important to think about these big questions some times. But it's also important not to…
7. Like Sole, there are a lot of strong women in your books – where do they come from?
My mother is a strong woman. She had seven children and runs her own small classical music business. I have three sisters and we're close. And then there are the few women whom I have loved in the past and the one I love most of all and with whom I share my life. None of them take any shit. I sometimes wish they did.
8. What do you read?
I read anything and everything - although I try to champion good writing as much as possible since the schlock already gets plenty of notice and there's nothing wrong with sticking up the stuff that is well written.
I love a good memoir like Alexandra Fuller or Daniel Mendelsohn, or good genre like Stephen King or Martin Cruz Smith. Randomly, I listen to C J Sansom in the car because I like Anton Lesser's reading voice. I just finished Even The Dogs by Jon Macgregor which someone sent me and which I admired greatly. And – actually – I'm interested in the blockbusters too – though mainly if I'm honest because I want to know what it is about those books that works so well in order that I can learn from it and get better myself.
I see myself as a student who is lucky enough to have a thousand of teachers instantly available on my shelf. And so it's important to read the Browns and the Larssons and try to understand them. Indeed, I think the importance of reading can't be overstated - any sort of reading. I think they should hand out novels for free at train stations since reading is surely the mark of a civilized mind and a civilized society – particularly the novel. The novel doesn't rant at you or hector you or bother you or make you feel you should be like this, or like that, or go there, or come back, or act now, or stop acting now, or get this, or lose that, or be quicker or slimmer or happier or better or more connected, it doesn't shout or scream or flash like a magazine or an app or an ad or so much that's on the Internet, rather the novel offers you a conversation – a conversation with other generations, other places, other peoples and a conversation that respects your intelligence and admits of the most interesting and central subjects of existence: human psychology, human sensibility, human morality, human relationships, human truth. Nothing replaces that. And no other art form does it better.
9. OK, so name your five best modern novels…
Now we're getting down to it. OK, so, it changes all the time, of course. But as of today and in no particular order I would say: Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, which is a breathtaking technical masterpiece as well as being a triumph of the imagination in all the ways so justly celebrated. Alan Holinghurt's Line of Beauty – for me he is the most elegant and all-round accomplished novelist in the UK and his last book had not a single slip of style or substance. Philip Roth's Sabbath's Theatre, which is truly staggering in terms of the sheer visceral energy and power of the writing and its great giddying Shakespearean reach; JM Coetzee's Disgrace, which is, similarly, a novel of extraordinary force and resonance although achieved with a plain-song style so completely opposite to Roth that together they seem to me to represent the twin poles of what's possible. Then I'd have to say Martin Amis's London Fields because whether or not you like his novels, there is nobody writing in the English language who can turn a better sentence. Actually, I would have to include The Corrections, too, and The Shipping News. How many is that?
10. The staff at the Amazon website in the US listed Self Help as one of their top books of the year and said that it was 'the equal of better-known peers like Zadie Smith and Jonathan Franzen?' Do you think that being well known is a major factor in success these days? How will you measure success with regard to The Devil's Garden?
That's a very complex question. But again the short answer is that a novel can be successful artistically (in that it's well written and coheres) and/or it can be successful commercially (in that it is popular and sells). I always aim for the first, which I can control, and I hope for the second, which I can't. As to the comparisons, I have never read any of Zadie Smith's novels so I can't really say about that – though I like the spirit in her essays whenever I come across them. And in my view, The Corrections was more or less a masterpiece, so I'm very happy and honoured and delighted by such things – though I'm not at all sure that they are justified. In any case, I hear Jamie Oliver is the biggest selling author in the UK. I met him once and we went to McDonalds together. Thirty minute meals – now that's successful fiction.
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Minimum wage hikes. Low-skilled immigrants: Liberals' recipe for economic disaster
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The Financial Post reports: "Evidence shows immigrants will get fewer jobs as Ontario ratchets up minimum wage to $15."
Alberta is doing the same thing. But McDonald's can't afford $15 dollars an hour to hire low-skill, low-experience workers. So they've brought in giant iPads to take orders instead. They're not the only company doing this, either.
Now a new study shows that minimum wage raises hit everyone hard, but especially immigrants. Employers can't afford to pay more for people who don't speak English well, and don't have skills or experience.
But it's the express policy of the Trudeau government to continue to bring in low-skill, low-experience, low-English workers to Canada, then dump them in high unemployment Atlantic Canada.
So we're dooming Syrian migrants to a life of unemployment, but Canadian-born low-income workers and low-skill workers, too.
What about other social services we're straining, such as food banks and health care?
That's not economics. That's Liberal vote-buying.
And it's wrecking our country.
NEXT: I'm joined by Paige MacPherson, Alberta Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, to talk about the Alberta NDP's disastrous money management policies, as revealed in the latest budget update.
THEN: Joel Pollak, Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart, says Democrats have to stop aligning themselves with the so-called Resistance movement, especially after the attempted assassination of a Republican lawmaker.
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Mark Chadwick commented 2017-07-06 08:29:23 -0400
Stop putting Fud on video , talk about unskilled labour . Talk about the duh factor of putting immigrants into high unemployed areas .
Unskilled can always get a government job .
Just watch the trained monkeys stand and clap when Trudeau talks in parliament .
Not un Canadian not celebrating Canada day . Kind of like celebrating at a funeral .
- The basis of selling socialism to the masses is to promise them something for nothing. "Free" healthcare, education, etc. make those fat cats pay. This is a variation of this. They're bringing in unemployable fake refugees & putting them in high unemployment areas because they want them dependent on government (taxpayer) handouts. Who do you think they'll vote for in the future?
- Alberta (Canada) could use a serious tax revolt.
- Celebrities are great ones for calling for violence. They hope one of their brain dead fans will do the violence for them while they hide safely in one of their mansions with their security team. The Russia narrative has fallen apart, people are distancing themselves from the left as they go deeper & deeper into this fanaticism. They are ensuring a Trump/Pence victory in 2020.
Andrew Stephenson commented 2017-07-01 13:17:01 -0400
We SHOULD be encouraging automation of mundane tasks, including the aforementioned self-ordering at McDs. The increased productivity of such labour saving devices more than compensates for paying workers better, and those better paying workers spend more, creating jobs to replace the ordering desk ones lost at McDs… total employment numbers change little, but everyone ends up better off.
Except the truly unskilled, of course (as per the Seattle study) who can't adjust to this advancement, but at some point we need to discuss personal responsibility.
Liz Rosie commented 2017-07-01 11:14:20 -0400
@ Daryl, where will all that $$ come from??
We will all be on the teat as long as there is some money to suck from the few 'producers' left employed. Yes, as the producer's dwindle and the money dries up we will have Venezuela. It is going to get ugly if we are unable to stop this manufactured decline.
This is the saddest 'celebration' of my country I will ever take part in. I am already mourning what we as a country have lost in such a short time span and I am terrified of what more bad news is on its way.
God bless Canada.
Robert McClelland commented 2017-07-01 09:14:36 -0400
The Libs and Dippers know that automation will put many lower skilled minimum wage employees out of work. Their answer is a guaranteed minimum wage funded by the government. The problem is, they will eventually run out of other peoples money just like Venezuela, Greece, Illinois etc., etc., etc…..
Drew Wakariuk commented 2017-07-01 03:56:10 -0400
And of course the lefties will not give a damn, their imagined utopia will be all that matters to them. Meanwhile reality will destroy peoples lives.
Carole Massé commented 2017-07-01 00:32:45 -0400
The Comptroller of the State of Illinois said this week that the state is technically bankrupt, and soon will be unable to pay his employees, maintain an health system, seniors' program and honor hundreds of billions of unfunded pensions. The state has been run by democrats. Porto Rico is also bankrupt, closing down 170 schools. For how long do Canadians believe they'll enjoy their benefits systems when they elect radical leftist gov'ts like the liberals and the NDP who have no clue of what balancing a budget means. On top of their absolute ignorance of financial management, they import hundreds of thousands of uneducated, unassimilable muslims who, like you said, will never work. This will end very badly, and for everybody in this country.
Happy Canada Day, still.
Mette Reed – where will all that $$ come from?? The Libtards act like $$ just grows on trees – socialism welfare only works by taking that $$ from someone (tax-payers!) – if everyone is on welfare – no one will be paying taxes!!
This alone proves that Lieberalism is a mental disorder – of the severest kind! – this is what is happening in Venezuela at this very moment.
And believe me, the TruDopes, Nutleys & those types are pretty damn stingy!
Cindy Churcher commented 2017-06-30 22:23:18 -0400
Liberals want everyone on Social services! That way they have more control! The whole idea is to devastate the economy! Destroy the whole country in every way.
Peter Babich commented 2017-06-30 22:01:00 -0400
God did bless Canada. But what have we done for heavens sake?
The minimum wage jobs takes me back to "Fast times at Ridgemont High"
I wouldn't have a car if I didn't have that job.
What will our culture be?
Einstein said. "I fear the day technology surpasses humanity, we will be left with a world of idiots."
Jesus said. " My people perish for lack of knowledge.
Rebelation . commented 2017-06-30 21:37:39 -0400
I also think it's a great opportunity for Conservatives. The left have always hated the West. Now they're saying so – GOOD!! Point it out! Why would you elect someone that hates this country???
The self-hatred of lefty's, that is now spilling onto the country, is very dangerous and disconcerting. They're not going to fight to maintain a country they hate, and will hand it over to the first assertive group that comes along – like Muslims.
I think this fight parallels the Free Speech fight Ezra. I think the way to do so, is to confront these Lefty's in person. Ask them why they don't leave and ask them who would they have preferred come after the Natives? They must realize more humans would follow eventually, so who would they have preferred? Russians? Communist Chinese? Spanish? Islamists? Nazi's? Who? Who would've been better than the British to settle Canada? Confront them – in person!!
steve hicken commented 2017-06-30 21:10:42 -0400
You cannot train anyone with grade 4 or 5 . and cannot read or write. Even where I worked in the auto industry. You need some smarts. I did forge work machining welding and later Inspection. You cannot get hired with in that industry with no education. I fear Canada is doomed to economic collapse
Lee Horsman commented 2017-06-30 20:55:58 -0400
I went to a McDonalds a few days ago, ordered and tapped my debit card at a self-service kiosk. Punched in a burger, fries and coffee, 'to eat in,' and waited. When my number came up, the 'former cashier' tried to serve me a cold stale, dried-out burger, fries, and an empty soft drink cup, and it was packaged to take out. The available tables looked like they had not been wiped down for hours, and the washroom? Let's just not go there, OK?
Welcome to the future.
Charles White commented 2017-06-30 20:47:38 -0400
Regarding the Ms. MacPherson interview. It never ceases to amaze how quickly decades of constructive building can be so thoroughly destroyed in months. It proves that a negative ideology can destroy faster than a positive ideology can construct. The sad thing is the negative ideology destroys families and lives, some lives literally through suicide, while it destroys institutions.
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Starting early when it comes to taking care of your beautiful black skin is the very first thing for you to do. Skin care does have its personal approach, but some genetic makeup may cause some specific problems.
African-American men present higher risks for developing small bumps on the face due to texture and growth pattern. Razor bumps and ingrown hairs are common skin issues for black men, even though they're caused by shaving most of the time.
Hyperpigmentation (dark spots) is another typical problem among African-American men, but so is dry skin. Going through the skin care basics is in fact essential when addressing the skin care tips so scroll down for a full explanation.
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The first thing to begin with is to know which type of skin you have, so you get an idea about which type of daily care you should develop. Skin types may be normal, oily, dry, sensitive and a combination of them. You should know which type of skin you have so that you get the right cosmetic products, after all.
A great choice for sensitive and dry skin are cream cleansers, but your skin is normal or oily, you could give it a try with some foaming cleansers.
Washing isn't always enough for getting rid of dead skin or some deeply buried dirt (like in blackheads). You should also consider exfoliating from time to time, just to give your skin a proper and deeper cleansing. Don't overdo it though and exfoliate daily as the whole scrubbing action may be too hard on your skin.
Once a week should be enough for exfoliating, but you should pay attention to your skin's needs and do it as often as you feel like it.
If this is the first time you read about skin toners, it's important to know that they're a liquid that you apply to face with a cotton ball or a pad. A skin toner is going to help you remove any traces of dirt on your face after you washed it, but it's also great as it minimizes your pores.
Try to use a gentler toner if your skin is sensitive, but do use a stronger astringent on your nose, where the risks for developing blackheads are higher.
This is the final step for you to take when it comes to a proper skin care routine and you shouldn't skip it under any circumstances. You are able to maintain your skin youthful and firm when you're hydrating it and the market gives you plenty of options for moisturizers.
For better results, it's wiser to use a different moisturizer for your eyes. The skin around your eyes is more delicate and it's typically the first area where wrinkles show up.
In order to address any skin condition that you may develop, you need to be able to recognize it so knowing a bit about most common issues when it comes to African-American skin is quite important.
African-American men who have dry skin may also notice a gray appearance to their skin. Not only your skin doesn't feel at its best, but it's also not looking very well.
Your facial wash is the first thing to pay attention. You don't want to use a strong or a stripping cleanser, but a gentle and hydrating one. Use some lukewarm water as hot water is only going to dry your skin even more.
Don't forget to use a good moisturizer for hydrating your skin, as it's better to be safe than sorry. An oil-free moisturizer is a great option since you don't want to clog your pores either.
Try to get a moisturizer that contains natural ingredients as Vitamin A and E and make a habit from applying it every single day. Keep dry skin away by hydrating it accordingly, getting rid of that ashy feel so that your skin keeps its healthy and youthful glow.
This is not a skin problem only for the African-American men, but for men in general too. When your hair is cut bluntly from shaving, you do end up with a sharp edge of the hair when it's growing back. Let's not forget the curl pattern of your hair growth that adds up to the sharp edge, which raise the risk for your hair to curl back into the skin, making the hair grow inward.
The main problem with inward growing hair is bacteria and fluid forming, leading to bumps to the skin. Make sure though not to mistake the bumps as pimples, trying to picking them. You're only going to cause dark spots on your skin if you do it.
Long story short, you need to use the right shaving methods to help cut down ingrown hairs, but as an African-American man you may have to step up your game. The moment the bumps show, use a warm washcloth and some gentle exfoliator to carefully scrub in a circular motion over that inflamed area. This way you're going to ease and open the pore for the ingrown hair to come to the surface.
You should also consider using a product with glycolic or salicylic acid on regular basics.
The increased melanin that happens due to various reasons translates into darkening skin. Acne, sunburns, scarring and some specific illnesses may lead to hyperpigmentation of your skin. This is why a darker skin presents higher risks for developing this kind of skin condition.
Many make the mistake of considering using skin lightening products, but it's far more important to talk to a dermatologist first. Taking products containing Vitamin C, retinol or Alpha Hydroxy Acids is something you need to do only with prescription from your dermatologist. For instance, if you have dark circles under your eyes, chances are it's a superficial pigmentation as a main cause. Some lightening cream prescribed by your dermatologist may work its magic.
Don't forget to protect your skin from the sun as well and use a moisturizer with a high level of UV protection. Even though many think that African-American skin cannot be affected by sun, all skin types need protection from the harmful UVA and UVB rays. Your moisturizer should be at least SPF 15. When you're protecting your skin from sun, you're lowering your risks for developing dark spots on your skin.
Taking care of your beautiful African-American hair isn't that difficult, as long as you keep in mind some useful tips. Scroll down and give a read at the most important questions relating to black hair care.
Shampooing every day to get rid of the gunk and grease from your hair is an option for many. Most shampoos out there include SLS (sodium lauryl sulfate), which is in fact a detergent that cleans your hair, stripping away the natural oils produced by your scalp to protect your hair.
The more you're exposing yourself to SLS (this means shampooing very often), the higher the chances for your hair to become dry and brittle.
This is why you need to consider to shampoo only twice a week. You may also want to change your shampoo and get one that doesn't include SLS. A sulfate-free shampoo that also contains natural oils is going to maintain moisture in your hair, while cleaning it.
Taking proper care of your hair also means that you should consider several ways to wear weaves, short curls or some longer styles, based on your hair type.
Don't be shy and ask an expert groomer about what to do with your hair. A low cut is a great solution for many, but this doesn't mean you shouldn't take a leap of faith and try something out of your comfort zone every once in a while. As long as it doesn't take you hours to style it, you're good to go!
Now that we're on it, you may also want to double check the hair styling products that you're using at the moment. This may come as a shock to you, but most hair styling products in your local drug store may be full of grease (causing a flat appearance of your hair) or aren't even formulated for your hair type.
This is why you should take the extra mile and get to the ethnic section that is a bit more curly-hair friendly. Try to stay away from anything including alcohol, mineral oil or petrolatum. Even though they're efficient when it comes to holding things in place, they do dry out your hair, not to mention the crazy shiny look.
A more natural solution like a pomade, infused with grapefruit seed oil that moisturizes your hair, while holding your hair as well, it a great choice. It doesn't leave any greasy residue either, which is quite important.
Your African-American hair does tend to dry out throughout the day so moisturizing it properly is essential. The reasons for drying are numerous: indoor heating in the winter, wearing hats in the summer, dry air in the fall. Hydrating your scalp is going to maintain your hair soft and easy to handle when styling too.
As you don't shampoo daily, you may instead use a rinse-out conditioner to give back your hair and scalp the moisture. Another efficient solution is a hydrating cream that includes various oils (sweet almond oil and coconut oil are great) and to apply it straight to your scalp. Make sure you distribute it evenly all over your scalp and hair.


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Park Bo Young & Kim Young Kwang's Romance Movie 'On Your Wedding Day' Will Be Remade into a Webtoon
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Park Bo Young and Kim Young Kwang's romance movie On Your Wedding Day will be adapted into a webtoon.
According to media outlets, On Your Wedding Day, released in August 2018, has recently confirmed its adaptation. Along with the news, the animated poster was also released. Especially, the cartoon drawings of the two characters raise expectations for the romance that will unfold on paper.
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Earlier, KBS's two hit series – Healer and Fight For My Way – also confirmed their webtoon production.
On Your Wedding Day is a rom-com film that chronicles two people's ten-year love and friendship from teenage to adulthood. The story revolves around a girl who believes in falling in love in 3 seconds and a man who has eyes for only one woman.
At the time of the release, the film received great love, totaling 2.82 million admissions. The Chinese remake, My Love, was recently released and became the highest-grossing Chinese remake of Korean films.
Meanwhile, the webtoon version of On Your Wedding Day will be published on Naver and Kakao's webtoon platforms.
Translator Kim Hoyeun: If you are a fan of K-drama, K-movie, and K-pop, I am your guy. I will continue to provide you with up-to-date K-entertainment news.
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Less is more. That's a natural state of mind at Jil Sander. This season, creative director Rodolfo Paglialunga stressed the minimal factor to the max with a collection rooted in an elegant, essential aesthetic.
Following a fall lineup which felt too intricate with a cascade of military-style belts and straps on outwear and tailoring, spring came with a more practical and functional attitude. Although everything was cut in sharp silhouettes, Paglialunga steered clear of stiffness and opted for a more comfortable ease.
Jil Sander men's spring '17 collection on the runway at Milan Men's Fashion Week.
The lineup was strong on softly constructed staples, such as oversized trenches, graphic leather jackets, slim pants, lightweight suits and knits with a luxurious feel. A workwear-inspired, utilitarian theme was introduced via shirts and jackets embellished with multiple pockets.
Despite the overall simplicity, the collection had a charming twist, which emerged in particular in the suits and lightweight coats featuring chic degrade effects. While focused on monochromatic looks, the lineup included a captivating blurred floral print, which was subtle and discreet.
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Ecologists don their research in an 'eco-fashion' show at #ESA2016
Ecological scientists are not known for elevated fashion sensibilities. Many take pride in a sartorial identity rooted in a field work chic of practical hats, cargo pants, and judicious applications of duct tape. Button-downs in botanical prints and ties in tiny repeating motifs of anatomically correct fish are favored formal attire when researchers gather for the Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) each August.
But this year, ESA's leadership will sport designer frocks inspired by the living objects of their research, breaking out of their comfort wear comfort zones to excite curiosity about science and the natural world outside of their usual cultural niche.
They will model their eco-finery on the runway in an eco-fashion show directly following the first scientific plenary ("Ecological homogenization of Urban America") on Monday, 8 August 2016 from 10:15-11:30 AM in the Greater Fort Lauderdale/ Broward County Convention Center, in southern Florida.
"I love it when I wear my jacket and people stop me on the street to ask me about it," said organizer Nalini Nadkarni, a professor at the University of Utah and ESA's vice president of education and human resources. Spangled in overlapping leaves, her jacket evokes the forest canopies of Costa Rica, where she conducts research high up in the trees.
Nadkarni will narrate the fashion show with fellow organizer and master of ceremony Doug Levey, a program director at the National Science Foundation, explaining the research connections as the scientists walk the runway.
Reporters are welcome to come for the show and stay for the 2,000 research presentations scheduled throughout the week on biodiversity, animal behavior, climate change, coastal communities, mosquito ecology & infectious disease, and more. With a theme of "Novel Ecosystems in the Anthropocene," this year's meeting has a wealth of presentations on the ecological communities in our urban spaces.
Designer Brenda Van der Wiel and tailor Eugene Tachinni will be on site at the fashion show to talk about translating scientific research into styles that are beautiful and compelling conversational focus points. The design team learned about ecology in order to create personalized garments for each scientist, but the learning flowed both ways; Nadkarni said she gained a new respect for the art of apparel design. A self-professed thrift store shopper, she said that before embarking on the project she did not appreciate the self-expression many people invest in their attire.
"Ecologists don't care much about what we shlup around in in the field," said Nadkarni. "But other people care. It's a lesson about listening. By adopting something I had not valued, I gained a portal into new conversations."
Nadkarni has a history of creative outreach and public engagement. She created "Treetop Barbie" to encourage girls to imagine themselves as scientists. She took nature into prisons, inviting inmates to cultivate native plants and fish. When she started thinking about connecting with people through fashion, she knew she had to build her own designs. Existing nature-inspired clothing just wasn't very natural.
"There is nature clothing out there, but things like camo clothing are all wrong! A maple leaf on an oak branch! It just drives you crazy," said Nadkarni.
Nadkarni reached out to Van der Wiel, head of the Preforming Arts Design Program at Utah. Then she started asking ESA's fellows, award winners, and elected governing board members to model. If she could get the rock stars of ecology on board, she thought, other ecologists would take it seriously.
"Amazingly all of them said yes, they would like to do this! These people, who are like gods in ecology, felt as I do--that ecologists in this age need to engage people in ways we haven't before," she said. "In this new century of our society, we need not only stellar research but innovative education outreach and policy action as well. It's as much a part of being an ecologist in 2016 as getting that grant out, or writing the next paper."
By modeling the eco-fashion collection at the largest yearly gathering of professional ecologists, Nadkarni hopes to inspire her colleagues, especially those just starting their careers, to brainstorm more ideas for public engagement. And she wants them to pitch their ideas to her. She is looking for future science, technology, engineering, and mathematics ambassadors for her National Science Foundation funded STEM Ambassadors Program.
"If we stay in the ivory tower it will be too late; the problems are too big wait."
101st Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America
Online meeting program
Meeting hashtag: #ESA2016
Special Session 1 - Ecology on the Runway: An Eco-Fashion Show and Other Non-Traditional Public Engagement Approaches
Monday, August 8, 2016: 10:15 AM-11:30 AM
Grand Floridian Ballroom B, Ft Lauderdale Convention Center
Nalini Nadkarni, professor of biology, University of Utah, nadkarni@utah.edu
Douglas Levey, program direct, National Science Foundation, dlevey@nsf.edu
Ecology on the Runway program guide from the University of Utah (pdf)
The Ecological Society of America, founded in 1915, is the world's largest community of professional ecologists and a trusted source of ecological knowledge, committed to advancing the understanding of life on Earth. The 10,000 member Society publishes six journals and a membership bulletin and broadly shares ecological information through policy, media outreach, and education initiatives. The Society's Annual Meeting attracts 4,000 attendees and features the most recent advances in ecological science. Visit the ESA website at http://www.esa.org.
Ecological Society of America
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Q: How can I preview my web page on mobile platforms via the inspect element in Google chrome? I'm trying to develop a website that is mobile compatible and I want to see a preview of how my pages would look like on the phone.
I'm using Google chrome to preview my pages, is there a way to preview the mobile version in Chrome's inspect element?

A: I found the way:
in the devTool (inspect element in Chrome) go to drawer then the tab emulation then choose the device you want and click on emulate.

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Lafayette public school enrollment now over 30,000
District hits record high in students
Lafayette public school enrollment now over 30,000 District hits record high in students Check out this story on theadvertiser.com: https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/news/local/education/2017/08/09/lafayette-public-school-enrollment-now-over-30-000/479087001/
Amanda McElfresh, amcelfresh@theadvertiser.com Published 5:50 p.m. CT Aug. 9, 2017 | Updated 6:05 p.m. CT Aug. 9, 2017
Buses line up to drop off students at L.J. Alleman Middle on the first day of school on Aug. 9, 2017.(Photo: Docq Gaspard/Special to the Adve)
There are a record number of students in Lafayette Parish public schools this year.
The enrollment for the first day on Wednesday was 30,280 students in kindergarten through 12th grades, Superintendent Donald Aguillard said at the school board meeting.
"We have 721 students above our Oct. 1 count from last year," Aguillard said.
When pre-kindergarten students are added, the Lafayette Parish School System is educating 31,142 students this year, Aguillard said.
Assistant Human Resources Director Suzanne Thibodeaux said 280 employees were hired in the district this summer.
To prepare for the year, a total of 1,402 teachers attended an optional in-service day on Aug. 4, Aguillard said. That represents about 70 percent of the district's teachers.
One milestone for the district this year was the opening of Southside High for freshmen and sophomores. Construction on the school started in April 2016.
In addition, students and faculty from Westside Elementary in Scott are now all at Scott Middle.
Westside flooded in August 2016 and has remained closed for repairs and renovations since then. Last year, students and staff were split between N.P. Moss Prep and Scott Middle.
This year, the entire temporary Westside campus is at Scott Middle. Aguillard said several staff and families expressed happiness at being "back home" at school in their community.
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Australian Girls Choir > 2019 > AGC x AFLW
April 26, 2019 Australian Girls Choir
On Sunday March 31, our Adelaide choristers had the honour of entertaining AFL fans at Adelaide Oval throughout the AFLW Grand Final.
Minutes before the first bounce, 53,034 spectators and players from the Adelaide Crows and Carlton Football Club, stood in silence as two Performing choristers sang the Australian National Anthem. The girls were joined by 38 other AGC choristers to perform at half time for an excited crowd who were about to win their first premiership on home soil. The audience danced and sang along to our uplifting and powerful rendition of 'Celebration' and the Aussie classic 'You're the Voice'.
It was an empowering opportunity for all of the girls involved and it was a privilege to share the ground with some of Australia's best female athletes! Congratulations to the Adelaide Crows on their second premiership.
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The former manager and co-owner of Michelin-starred Charlotte Street's Pied á Terre has acquired a London property to launch his flagship solo restaurant.
The restaurant decor and menu will take influence from France's Loire Valley, where Germond grew up, and will focus on simple, seasonal ingredients.
The kitchen will be led by former head chef at Pied á Terre Ed Dutton, who worked at the Pied Nus pop-up with Germond. As well as Germond and Dutton Pied á Terre owner David Moore is also set to join Noizé.
Davis Coffer Lyons, which acted for the vendor Ollie Dabbous on the sale, noted that the site's lease secured a six figure premium and includes both the ground floor and basement.
Germond purchased the site, which was recently vacated by Dabbous. Ollie Dabbous and Oskar Kinberg announced the closure of business earlier this year, and announced they would working of a project due to launch in 2018.


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import ant

tech = Tech()
tech.readLef("ant_check.lef")

design = Design(tech)
design.readDef("ant_check.def")
ack = design.getAntennaChecker()

ack.checkAntennas(verbose=True)

count = ack.antennaViolationCount()
print(f"violation count = {count}", flush=True)

net_name = "net50"
net = design.getBlock().findNet(net_name)
viol = len(ack.getAntennaViolations(net, None)) > 0

print(f"Net {net_name} violations: {int(viol)}")

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Baby Hero is a boutique children's clothing brand founded by Mums who wanted to provide long-lasting clothes with chemical-free organic fabric whilst ensuring ethical practices were implemented throughout their company. Their products are made not only to protect the health of our children but also to protect our planet and help those less fortunate whilst ensuring the men and women who make their products are fairly treated. Baby Hero is a truly amazing company whose cozy and comfy product range is available in a variety of fun designs and are all made from Organic Cotton.
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Future and the Arts: AI, Robotics, Cities, Life - How will our lives be in twenty years time?Words by Arnau Salvadó
Future and the Arts: AI, Robotics, Cities, Life
How will our lives be in twenty years time?
How will we live in ten, twenty or thirty years time? How will biotechnology, AI, blockchain or robotics influence the way we eat, dress, buy, think and interact with each other and with the environment? As new technologies keep evolving at an unstoppably fast pace and change the world we live in, Tokyo's Mori Art Museum presents the exhibition Future and the Arts: AI, Robotics, Cities, Life – How Humanity Will Leave Tomorrow, sparking some pressing and fundamental questions about what it means to be human and our future as a species. Until March 29, don't miss the exhibition presenting over one hundred artworks and projects questioning the present and future of humankind.
With artworks and projects by artists, collectives, labs as well as studios (research, architecture, etc.) like Aida Makoto, Memo Akten, Bjarke Ingels Group, Dijiro Moroshi, Patricia Piccinini, Rafel-Lozano Hemmer, Yuima Nakazato, Daan Roosegaarde and Osamu Tezuka, among others, the exhibition is divided into five sections tackling specific issues: New Possibilities of Cities, Toward Neo-Metabolism Architecture, Lifestyle and Design Innovations, Human Augmentation and its Ethical Issues, and Society and Humans in Transformation.
In the first section, the projects and artworks explore urban design and planning, cities and how we're building them in unconventional areas – like the desert or the sea. With new technological improvements and research, architecture studios are going back to 1960s Metabolism movement (a unique architectural movement and theory developed in Japan by Kisho Kurosawa and Fumihiko Maki, among others) to get inspired to build cities that are sustainable and environmentally-sound. Still focusing on architecture, the second section introduces and discusses "possibilities of today's architecture as exemplified by the development of environmentally-friendly organic building materials and some new construction methods", the exhibition text explains, such as 3D printers, robotics, or drones.
Moving to human lifestyle, the third section explores how technical innovations like 3D printing have altered – and will keep altering – the way we eat, dress and live. On Human Augmentation and Its Ethical Issues (fourth section), the exhibition moves to more philosophical and moral questions about our species. As advances in robotics and biotechnology help expand human capacity while making it possible to overcome incurable diseases, we must ask: where are the limits of body and even genetic modification and manipulation? To conclude the exhibition, the section Society and Humans in Transformation focuses on hypothetical questions about our society that make us rethink the definition of concepts such as 'human', 'life' and 'happiness'.
The exhibition Future and the Arts: AI, Robotics, Cities, Life – How Humanity Will Leave Tomorrow is on view until March 29 at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Minato City, Roppongi, 6 Chome−10−1, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, 53階.
Kioku Keizo - Courtesy: Mori Art Museum, Tokyo


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Pfizer nod gives confidence boost
A health care worker fills a syringe with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in the US last year. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
As of Wednesday, August 25, 2021
By EARYEL BOWLEG
Tribune Staff Reporter
ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
THE US Food and Drug Administration's full approval of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine gave more confidence to those who received the vaccine at the Kendal G L Isaacs National Gymnasium yesterday.
Pfizer is now the first COVID-19 vaccine to be FDA approved and will now be marketed as "Comirnaty for the prevention of COVID-19 disease in individuals 16 years of age and older," according to the FDA.
When The Tribune visited the gym, many people expressed hesitancy about getting the jab but were motivated to do so for various reasons such as protecting loved ones and themselves from the virus or having seen how the virus affected others. Yet, the news of the approval did give them more confidence in the vaccine.
"I had made my decision prior to the FDA approval, but having read that the FDA had approved this vaccine, yes it was a little more comforting knowing that you know that it is approved by the Food and Drug Administration," said Michelle Knowles. She went to the gym with her mother and sister to take her first dose. Ms Knowles recounted her hesitancy at first, but noted a personal experience that highlighted the reality of the virus.
"Well, early in the year when there were so many unknowns even with the virus itself hearing so many different versions of it," she said. "My husband had COVID earlier in the year. It came [front and] centre for me in my home so at that point you realise it's not propaganda. COVID is real and people do get sick and they do die."
Monique Mckenzie was hesitant in getting the vaccine but decided she needed to take it after doing research and the nature of her job as a social worker.
She also knows of at least three people who died as a result of getting COVID.
Ms McKenzie remembered: "For me, it was very heart-wrenching for the last [person] who just died two nights ago… on the Family Island, wasn't able to come to Nassau because there were no beds or anything. So definitely that also helped me to realise that I was doing the right thing by getting the vaccination today."
The stamp of approval from the FDA was good news to her. "Yes that was good to hear because you know even though I had made up my mind to get it I was a bit hesitant but after hearing that it has been FDA approved, yes I feel so much better now," she added.
For Michael Lewis, the Pfizer FDA approval made him feel a bit "more confident".
"I mean I already had my date booked before they approved it yesterday so it made me feel a bit more confident."
bcitizen 1 year, 5 months ago
Most important thing is don't go to a vaccination center, don't listen to the news, don't listen to your pal, or a politician but, talk to a doctor you trust and knows your medical history and can answer questions to give you advice about if a vaccine or any medicine etc. is right for you or not. You and your Doctor should together be deciding what is right for you or not and your private medical information is between you and your doctor,
John 1 year, 5 months ago
'Pfizer and BioNTech have started the process for a full approval of a booster dose of their Covid-19 vaccine in people aged 16 years and older, the drugmakers said on Wednesday.
The companies intend to complete the submission by the end of this week. This could potentially pave the way for a third dose that can be offered to people with compromised immune systems.' Pfizer wants to start issuing third doses six months after a person is fully vaccinated rather than eight months. Why the big change? For one, the US cases are again skyrocketing and now exceeds 170,000 daily cases. The new cases can exceed 200,000 in a matter of days. Florida leads the list in the number of new cases and deaths. With the exception of Indonesia ) 1,000 plus daily deaths ) the US is recording twice as many deaths as any other country. A confirmation that vaccines alone are not effective in combating the virus. Florida is one of the states that doesn't want to enforce mandatory mask laws, especially amongst school children. Johnson and Johnson also is pondering giving its vaccinated a second dose. The vaccine manufacturer says a second dose will dramatically increase the protection against the Delta strain especially.
DDK 1 year, 5 months ago
KaChing! KaChing!
whogothere 1 year, 5 months ago
Buys you six months - go for it...but as a few of us having saying for a while...all that glitters ain't gold and the vac won't provide Providence either.
www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/isra...
ThisIsOurs 1 year, 5 months ago
cnn.com - "large study involving close to 2 million people in Israel shows the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine slightly raises the risk of heart inflammation, swollen lymph nodes and shingles. But it also finds that Covid-19 infection raises the risk of heart inflammation even more -- plus it raises the risk of blood clots, heart attacks and other deadly events."
"It's the first large study to compare the risks of vaccination versus infection head to head in the same population during the same time, and it shows the risks of infection far outweigh any risks from the vaccine, the researchers said."
See here these researchers just followed data. They didnt "create" anything. We could be doing this. We have a unique population, the world could get key insights from our data. It just takes big thinking, planning and intention. Maybe too late were already 100k+ in with incomplete data.
Its nice that they acknowledge that fear of the vaccine isnt unfounded and "stupid". There are indeed reasons to fear vaccination but their data shows that even with those risks youre better off vaccinated because the risks on the other side are much greater. And you can respect that messaging.
tribanon 1 year, 5 months ago
It's unfortunate for us that Israel doesn't have a large enough black population to give us any statisticly reliable information about the potential longer term side-effects of these novel mRNA vaccines on black people. And Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson now seem to be only concerned about producing data to determine the possible side-effects for children under 12, pregnant women, those with immune-suppressed systems, etc., etc., but not black people even though the vaccination hesitancy rate among our ethnic group is understandably one of the highest if not the highest.
Oops......"statisticly reliable" in first sentence should be "reliable statistical".
Agreed. Their data is instructive for us. It should have been enough to say lets make sure we're ok here. Lets make sure "our" data also shows the vaccine isnt causing "us" harm biologically. We may find the same results but now we have confirmed data on a majority black hypertensive nation. But its like we're deaf and blind to reasonable suggestions.


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A general election was held in the U.S. state of Florida, on November 4, 2014.

State elections

Governor and Lieutenant Governor

Incumbent Republican Governor Rick Scott and Lieutenant Governor Carlos López-Cantera sought re-election. Scott faced Elizabeth Cuevas-Neunder, a conservative activist and candidate for governor in 1998 and Yinka Adeshina, a pharmacist, in the Republican primary. Scott and López-Cantera faced former Republican governor and independent candidate for Senate in 2010 Democrat Charlie Crist and Annette Taddeo-Goldstein in the general election. Scott was re-elected to a second term.

Attorney General

Incumbent Republican Attorney General Pam Bondi sought re-election and won the Republican primary unopposed. Other candidates include Democrats George Sheldon, former Assistant U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services for Children and Families and Perry E. Thurston, Jr., Minority Leader of the Florida House of Representatives. Sheldon won the primary, but lost the general election to Bondi.

State Commissioner of Agriculture

Incumbent Republican Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam sought re-election and won the Republican primary unopposed. Democrat Thad Hamilton, Broward County Soil and Water Conservation District supervisor and Independent candidate for Commissioner of Agriculture in 2010 won the Democratic primary unopposed. Putnam was re-elected to a second term.

State Chief Financial Officer

Incumbent Republican  Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater sought re-election and won the Republican primary unopposed. He faced Democrat Will Rankin, a former Ohio Treasury officer and businessman in the general election. Atwater was re-elected to a second term.

Florida Senate

20 of the 40 seats in the Florida Senate were up for election. The Republican Party of Florida won a majority of seats.

Florida House of Representatives

The Republican Party of Florida won a majority of seats.

Federal elections

United States House of Representatives

All of Florida's twenty-seven seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election. Gwen Graham defeated incumbent Steve Southerland in Florida's 2nd congressional district. Carlos Curbelo defeated incumbent Joe Garcia in Florida's 26th congressional district. No other seats changed hand.

References

External links
 Division of Elections - Florida Department of State

Florida

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