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From Bosnia to Bengal: City-States or Universal Imperia of Humanity
Jadde-ye-Kabir
Annia Ciezadlo's "Be Like Water" in Guernica — Mytilene and the refugees
It was Mytilene's (Lesbos) karma, I thought, from the beginning of the refugee crisis, to become the portal for the whole tragic flood of humanity that's entering Europe right now. At the time of the ugly and brutal Population Exchange between Greece and Turkey of their respective minorities that was decided by the Treaty of Lausanne and began in 1923, Mytilene was the only Greek island off the Aegean coast that had a large number of Muslims, probably more then one quarter of its population. Chios (Sakız), and Samos had very few, almost none in the case of Samos, while the islands further south, the Dodecanese, had already been given to the Italians by the victorious Entente/Allies and so the ancestors of the some 5,000 Turks (Greece's Turkish minority that we tend to forget about) that still live in Kos and Rhodes were exempt.
Across exactly from Mytilene is the Turkish town of Ayvali (Ayvalık). Ayvali was one of those products of the Ottomans' improvisatory policies for managing the multiple ethnic and religious corporate groups that constituted the empire, and usually worked; in the 18th century, the coast of the Anatolian Aegean being underpopulated and underutilized economically, a grant was given to Greeks to settle there that didn't just encourage Greeks, but excluded Muslims from settling there, to make the area even more attractive for Greek settlers.*
And very soon, Ayvali grew, out of its seafaring activities and the fertility of its hinterland, into a prosperous and what is, architecturally, still a beautiful small Greek city, the object of much nostalgia in the Greek genre of Anatolian martyrology, but more, the symbol of what Patricia Storace calls "the voluptuous domesticity" that Greeks associate with their former paradisiacal life on the Aegean coast.
[It's also made Ayvali, the neighbouring island of Cunda, Tenedos and Imvros to some extent, newly fashionable for White Turk hipster tourists, since their parents' generation didn't get a chance to turn it all into Bodrum or Benidorm. They're the Aegean coast equivalent of Pera/Karaköy and like neighborhoods in Istanbul.]
So the two regions came to fit into each other like a Yin/Yang symbol, and when the Exchange came, most Ayvali Greeks were settled in Mytilene, while the Turks of the island were shipped just across the water – the often treacherous channel were so many refugees today have drowned (it's a great error – popular and tourist-based — to see the Aegean as a benign sea), and settled in Ayvali and its neighboring villages.**
Mytilenioi, a population of around 80,000, in a country sunk into the deepest economic pit of any country in the European Union, have seen over 400,000 refugees pass through their island in 2015. And yet, despite a few outbreaks, the islanders' acceptance of this flood of humanity has been exemplary: full of patience, humanity and humor even – as Roger Cohen reported: "Battered Greece and Its Refugee Lesson" — with a deep empathy that I had thought from the beginning was due partly to so many of the islanders' descent – only one or two generations – from refugees themselves.
When I'd say so here in Greece, many responded to me with the usual Greek cynicism: our deepest, most tragic flaw, that no one is ever doing anything in good faith. Yet at least one Greek journalist and blogger, Michalis Gelasakis,had the same idea, posting this photo of old Greek women on Mytilene cradling and feeding the baby of a Syrian refugee woman:
"Γιαγιάδες στη Μυτιλήνη ταΐζουν το μωρό μιας προσφυγοπούλας. Πιθανό και οι ίδιες να είχαν φτάσει κάπως έτσι στις βορειοανατολικές ακτές του νησιού."
"Grandmothers in Mytilene feed the baby of a refugee woman. Likely themselves to have arrived like this in North-East Coast of the island."
And now, to confirm my own sentiments, comes this stunning article, "Be like Water" in Guernica by Annia Ciezadlo, a Beirut-based journalist, that weaves together the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange, Indian Partition, Mytilene's place in the current refugee crisis, Homer and ancient concepts of hospitality, all in one tender, moving piece:
"Philoxenia: love for the stranger, the traveler, the guest. Who might be a god or goddess in disguise. Or Odysseus, returning from his travels in the guise of a beggar in order to test the loyalties of his servants."
"Old man, the dogs were likely to have made short work of you, and then you would have got me into trouble. The gods have given me quite enough worries without that, for I have lost the best of masters, and am in continual grief on his account. I have to attend swine for other people to eat, while he, if he yet lives to see the light of day, is starving in some distant land. But come inside, and when you have had your fill of bread and wine, tell me where you come from, and all about your misfortunes."
[My emphasis]
—Eumaeus, the Syrian [how did she find this idea?], to the disguised Odysseus; The Odyssey, Book 14
I know that the people of Mytilene – and their "philoxenia" or even more, their "philotimo,***" have done us proud as Greeks, and deserve a collective Nobel peace prize for 2015, while the rest of Europe has acted more like Eumaeus' dogs.
Read Ciezadlo's beautiful tapestry of a piece – now…
Greek refugee ship leaving Smyrna. September, 1922. Image source: Drexel University College of Medicine, Archives and Special Collections.
By Annia Ciezadlo
The Nonviolent State of Iraq and Syria. The Republic-in-Motion of Lovers Not Fighters. The Government-in-Exile of People Who Just Want to Go to School.
"I came to Mytilene, believe it or not, for vacation…"
The rest here.
* Yeah, the Ottomans did odd shit like this, to keep everybody happy and for the most part it worked. Like Ayvali and its environs, for example, in Istanbul in the 17th century the Porte granted the mostly Chian shipyard workers from the tershana in Hasköy on the Golden Horn/Keratio, the right to establish a village around the pre-existent shrine of St. Demetrios on the hilltop which the gulley up through Dolapdere led to, and where no Muslims, weirdly, were allowed to settle. This was the nucleus out of which the legendary Greek neighborhood of Tatavla grew, and which, due to its rough, working class character, was an intimidating place for Muslims to enter until the end of the Empire. Except for its famous Carnival, when everyone was allowed.
The same would happen in highland regions of Greece, Epiros especially — where remittances from emigrant locals provided the wealth to pay for it — where autonomous privileges were bought from the Ottoman authorities in return for a modest amount of self-government and the right to not have Muslims settle there and not be subject to Islamic proselytizing of any sort — violent or otherwise. "…και παππού σε μέρη αυτόνομα μέσα στην τουρκοκρατία…" as Savvopoulos once sang.
** The truth is that refugees from neighboring Mytilene were probably outnumbered by Cretan Turks in Ayvali, like along much of the Aegean coast left empty by departing Greeks, along with Ayvali, Smyrna itself and the neighboring peninsula of Karaburna. The irony here is that many of the Mytilene Turks that came were Turkish-speaking, while the massive flood of Cretan Turks spoke Greek, so that much of the Aegean coast remained Greek-speaking, albeit Greek of a markedly different dialect, until a couple of generations or so ago. And despite the disappearance of the language, of all the Turkish exchangees, it's Cretan Turks who have most preserved a solid identity and group consciousness.
*** Philotimo: a complex word I'll have to explain in another post, though I give it a go here:
"Honor" is a bad translation for "φιλότιμo," which means honor and amour propre and sense of dignity and reciprocity, all in one complex structure of emotions and social acts. Basically, "philotimo" is the sense of self-respect that's intimately tied up with the upholding of your obligations to others that held Greeks together for centuries. All readers here know I'm a fanatic opponent of reading Classicizing virtues – or Classical anything — into Neo-Greek society, but the importance of "philotimo," I feel, even if just discursive, even if only in its lapses, is a millennia-long constant.
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Tags: "Battered Greece and Its Refugee Lesson", 2015 refugees, Aegean, Annia Ciezadlo, Ayvali, Ayvalık, "Be like Water", "the voluptuous domesticity", Cretan Turks, Dodecanese, Eumaeus, the Syrian, Greco-Turkish Population Exchange, Greek cynicism, Guernica, Homer, Indian Partition, Karaburna, Kos, Michalis Gelasakis, Mytilene, Odyssey, philotimo, Philoxenia, Rhodes, Roger Cohen, Sakız, Samos, Tatavla
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Obituary of Thomas Jefferson
April 19, 2020 /0 Comments/in Featured /by Editor
Occasionally we run across interesting articles that we would like to pass on. On further refection we realize that what interests one person may not excite another. But this time we will make an exception because we are very interested in Jefferson, and so should you.
Barton Family Funeral Service is a family run funeral service in Kirkland Washington, which happens to be almost ground zero for the coronavirus pandemic in the United States. The press reported that some of the early deaths from coronavirus occurred at the Life Care Center in Kirkland. So out of curiosity, we started to search on coronavirus in Kirkland WA and we ran into the Barton web site. Assuming that obituaries would be the place to look, we encountered an interesting chain of pages that ended in the Obituary of Thomas Jefferson, almost 200 years late. (Date of death: July 4, 1826)
Chain of Pages
The chain of pages that led us to the obituary involved showing people how to upload pictures to put in an online obituary.
https://bartonfuneral.com/how-to-submit-an-obituary/
This page describes how to submit an obituary to Barton Family Funeral Service
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Many people do not have scanners, This page shows how a smartphone can make an excellent image of a photograph that can be emailed directly from the smartphone.
https://bartonfuneral.com/2008/07/02/thomas_jefferson/
This page isn't written like a real obituary but it is an interesting commentary. The previous link refers to it as a commentary in the last link on the page but as an obituary at the halfway point in the page.
The second of the above three links had links to information about Jefferson, and since he is one of our favorite founding fathers, we followed the link to the last page, which was the obituary. We called Barton Family Funeral Service. They were a bit surprised we found the page. It has been on their site for a long time and no one has commented on it before.
We asked permission to post the article in its entirety and they were more than please to let us do so, asking only that we include their credits and copyright. So here is the Obituary of Thomas Jefferson 200 years late. It has the advantage of historical perspective to make an important point. As stated in their article about the American Revolutionary War against England, "Their revolution was to be free from England. Ending slavery would have required another revolution and would have been the death of the union, as it almost was in 1861-1965."
Obituary of Thomas Jefferson 200 Years Late.
April 13, 1743, (Shadwell, Colony of Virginia, British America)-July 4, 1826 (Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.)
Thomas Jefferson is counted among the Founding Fathers . He was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. Previously, he served as vice-president under John Adams from 1797 to 1801.
Jefferson was a prolific writer. John Adams, who also made major contributions to the Declaration of Independence, asked Jefferson to edit the document because he felt Jefferson had "A peculiar felicity for expression."
Jefferson is regarded as one of the most intelligent of U.S. presidents. President Kennedy is reported to have said to a gathering of scientists in the White House, that "I'd like to welcome you all to the greatest gathering of minds to assemble here since Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
He was a genius by any standard but was just one among other geniuses of the day including, Washington, Adams, and Benjamin Franklin.
De mortuis nil nisi bene dicendum
(Speak not ill of the dead)
It has recently become fashionable among a self-righteous and arguably self-centered portion of the population to condemn many of the Founders of the Republic because they did not write or speak about the evils of slavery. Indeed Jefferson owned slaves. He also lived beyond his means, made bad investments, and may have had some personal relationships that used to be illegal in Utah.
Five of the Founders, Washington, Adams, Franklin, Hamilton, and Madison are on record for opposing slavery. They condemned it eloquently. Some are on record for wondering why their colleague Jefferson did not use his eloquence to denounce slavery.
Their legacy as founders, and indeed their very lives, depended on uniting a nation and winning the Revolution.
Their revolution was to be free from England. Ending slavery would have required another revolution and would have been the death of the union, as it almost was in 1861-1965.
Wise people know that they cannot always achieve their objectives as quickly as they may want. The ability to delay gratification has been show to be a characteristic of successful individuals.
Jefferson, like all of us when we die, should be remembered for the incalculable good things that he accomplished. He may have wanted to do more. Perhaps he knew he could not live long enough to see it all happen.
Thomas Jefferson's Grave Stone
Jefferson instructed that his grave stone be made of "coarse stone … that no one might be tempted hereafter to destroy it for the value of the materials."
Nevertheless people chipped off pieces for souvenirs rendering the monument in such poor repair that it was replaced by a new one in the family cemetery at Monticello and the old one was donated by the family to University of Missouri on July 4, 1885.
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"Cisco's collaboration business is already seeing the impact of this trend, with 17 percent year-over-year growth in the first quarter of fiscal year 2016."
Cisco has announced its intent to acquire Acano Limited for $US700 million, a privately held company based in London that provides collaboration infrastructure and conferencing software.
Acano's hardware and software includes gateways, and video and audio bridging technology that allows customers to connect video systems from multiple vendors across both cloud and hybrid environments.
According to the tech giant, this acquisition will accelerate Cisco's collaboration strategy to deliver video everywhere, across every endpoint, every screen, every workspace, and to every user.
"People, companies and organisations are more geographically dispersed than ever before, and collaboration is essential to helping teams increase productivity and drive growth," says Rob Salvagno, vice president, Corporate Development, Cisco.
The Acano team will join the Cisco Collaboration Technology Group led by Rowan Trollope, senior vice president and general manager with the acquisition expected to close in the third quarter of fiscal year 2016.
Salvagno says that today, less than 10 percent of the conference rooms in the world are connected via video.
However, there is a massive market shift underway in collaboration - customers want the ability to easily connect from anywhere, from dedicated hardware endpoints to sharing video on a mobile phone.
"Cisco's collaboration business is already seeing the impact of this trend, with 17 percent year-over-year growth in the first quarter of fiscal year 2016," Salvagno adds.
"As the momentum continues, there is a need to deliver solutions that will connect any system, regardless of vendor, at a scale that is dramatically higher than ever before.


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The Apprentice 2022 star Navid brutally friend-zoned in Eating With My Ex
The Apprentice 2022 candidate Navid Sole was left 'flabbergasted' when his 'ex-girlfriend' told him she 'never saw him as a boyfriend' during an episode of Eating With My Ex.
The 27-year-old pharmacist is one of the 16 contestants competing for Lord Alan Sugar's £250,000 investment and previously appeared on the second series of the BBC Three series in 2020.
Navid sat down with Charlotte, who he thought he was in a relationship with for four years, only to find out that she did not ever see him in a romantic way.
'I never saw you as a boyfriend,' she savagely told him. 'Nothing's happened, nothing's happening, nothing will ever happen because I don't see you like that.'
'I genuinely thought we were in a relationship,' Navid responded.
'It was four years of us going out twice a month,' Charlotte explained. 'We didn't talk every day.'
Charlotte went on to ask Navid what his opinion of a romantic relationship was, before going to highlight that the pair never had any sexual attraction.
'I've not kissed you, we don't hold hands, we don't do anything,' she pointed out. 'I don't see you like that anyway so nothing will ever happen.'
Speaking privately to the camera, Navid admitted: 'I'm hurt but life is life, what can you say?'
Navid and Charlotte ended their date by stating they were friends.
As one last kick in the teeth, Charlotte stressed: 'Nothing has gone on, nothing will ever go on.' Yikes.
Viewers were stunned by the scenes at hand and struggled to comprehend how Navid went four years thinking they were an item.
'Wow. That was rough. He didn't know she was a vegetarian or that she didn't think they were dating at all for four years? Ouch,' wrote one.
Echoing a similar sentiment, another penned: 'Wow, how clueless is this guy? He actually believed they were in a relationship for 4 years? Yikes. This is why communication is important.'
Hopefully, Navid will be more successful in attempting to woo Lord Sugar into investing in his business plan.
'Nothing intimidates me because I just feel like I'm a strong character, strong person, strong mindset,' he said.
The Apprentice returns on Thursday 6 January from 9pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer and Eating With My Ex is available to stream on BBC iPlayer.
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The Fashion of Ancient Humans
We might have to reconsider our view on how prehistoric humans lived and survived. Of course, practicality is the most important quality in their tools and garments. But it wasn't the only thing they thought abou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/01/28/The-Fashion-of-Ancient-Humans/
An Inside Look of the Thai Cave Rescue
One of the greatest rescue missions in recent history has to be the Thai cave rescue. It was a near-impossible task to get 12 teenage boys and their adult coach out of a flooded cave. But they tried and succeeded...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/01/28/An-Inside-Look-of-the-Thai-Cave-Rescue/
The Fleischer Popeye Color Specials (1936-1939)
When Popeye was first introduced into the comic strip _Thimble Theater_ in 1929, he was just a hired hand, a minor character. But just a few years later, he had taken over the comic strip, and beginning in 1933 t...
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Apollo 11 Trailer
A spectacular documentary premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last week. Apollo 11 relives the NASA moon mission 50 years after the fact, with narration-free archival footage that will bring back memories to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/01/28/Apollo-11-Trailer/
NASA Blew Up A Jetliner for Safety Test
One of the best ways to improve something is to fail at something and try to figure out what went wrong. Another is to just break something down and try to build it back up. [For NASA, they blew up a jetliner](ht...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/01/28/NASA-Blew-Up-A-Jetliner-for-Safety-Test/
RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World
Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Prize winning documentary **Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World,** tells the story of the Native American influence on popular music. _RUMBLE tr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/01/28/RUMBLE-The-Indians-Who-Rocked-the-World/
Car 54, Where Are You? (1961-1963)
One of the joys of being a kid in the early 1960's was the ability to watch TV series that are long gone, almost forgotten, and completely unknown to today's typical Neatoramanaut. One such series was _Car 54, Wh...
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Hell on Wheels: The Sordid History of Ted Bundy's VW Beetle
True crime fans know Ann Rule as the queen of the genre. But she had yet to write her first book when she worked at a crisis hotline in the early 1970s. There she befriended a co-worker named Ted Bundy, and even gave him...
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Very Special Wedding Gowns
My friend got married last month and her dress and the bridesmaids' dresses ALL HAD POCKETS.And yes, we did use them for storing snacks, thank you for asking. pic.twitter.com/3fRWtmJS2F— Nell Goddard (@alia...
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Reconstructing the Face of a Napoleon's Trooper Who Survived a Gruesome Saber Wound
When a French-Russian archeology team discovered the skull of a French soldier, they noticed the horrific saber wound that split the man's jaw and knocked out most of his teeth.The soldier, part of Napoleon's army that a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/01/28/Reconstructing-the-Face-of-a-Napoleon-s-Trooper-Who-Survived-a-Gruesome-Saber-Wound/
The Science Behind Black Holes
Before Stephen Hawking, the concept of black holes seemed to contradict one of the laws holding modern physics together, though we cannot deny the existence of these massive objects in space. >For many years,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/01/28/The-Science-Behind-Black-Holes/
How the 15-Puzzle Could Help Explain The Underlying Principles of Magnets
For lay people like us, it is enough to say that magnets stick to some metals. What makes it happen is something far too complex for us to understand. Even physicists have been looking for a more detailed model of how ma...
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An Ice-Filled Landscape For Over 40,000 Years
A glacial paradise, an eternal winter wonderland, a land of white snow. These are things that can only be said and seen when we go closer up north or down south toward the poles. Places like them still exist but...
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Dog Owners Beware, Coyotes Could Attack Your Dog's Toys
Photographer Pamela Underhill Karaz regularly sees wildlife on her 48-acre rural property in Trenton Falls, New York. One of the animals she sees (and often hears) are coyotes. A few years ago, Pamela experienced...
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Sharks Like ... Jazz Music?
Who knew that sharks, the feared predators of the ocean, are actually quite sophisticated? Strangely enough, classical music is not their cup of tea - instead, they like jazz: >Scientists at Australia's Macqu...
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Book Cover: The Pink Princess
My journey to designing my own book covers begins with this first attempt at creating a contemporary or chick lit book cover. To be quite honest I believe this comes out more as a book cover for a young teen or childrens book. Either way, I decided to call it, 'The Pink Princess'.
How about a flash snippet of fiction?
Why pink was Alania's favorite color no one could quite say. Nor could one tell you when exactly she started to wear only pink. What could be said is that the young girl wore it on everything no matter the occasion. The village gossipers even whispered that she wore pink to her aunt's funeral!
What a peculiar girl right? Or rather, she's absolutely intriguing. I'll add her character to my notebook for future stories. At any rate, I started out with the theme of pink and similar colors. I also came up with this book cover as the first concept design.
The font for the title was perfect. However, I also noted that the text didn't quite pop out. Something else that has to happen to catch a reader's eye is being able to read the title at a thumbnail size. This wasn't happening with those flat colors.
This is my second attempt at the book cover. I decided to give the pictures more of a pastel watercolor splash to soften it up. I also switched out the script font for the author name for a font that gave a more 'magical' appeal. At thumbnail size the text is nicely readable.
Which book cover did you think was best? For a first try I think I didn't do too bad but I certainly have a long way to go. I don't mind it at all. The challenge to create my own book covers is thrilling. I'll keep practicing and give it my best shot.
I went ahead and tweaked the cover yet again. This time I fixed the title and took away the bottom illustration. I think the new version is better fitting right? Somehow it works out quite nicely all around.
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Romantic Adventure Awaits in Feral Hearts
For as long as Acalia could remember the Zephyr were the only wolf clan in Zaloria, and her grandmother was a hero from battles long past. In an instant, everything she believed to be true is tested, when she's told her entire life is a lie. Tormented by her world falling apart around her, Acalia struggles to find a way to the truth while being hunted by an ancient evil. And then, unexpectedly, a powerful warrior appears stirring a dangerous fire within her blood. Bound by fate, will their love be possible when a legacy of revenge closes in fast, hellbent on destroying the peace of the realm?
Find out here: Feral Hearts: The Chronicles of Zaloria - Book 1
Fantasy & Magic Love Story
Chronicles of Zaloria is a novel series based on a Fantasy & Magic love story with Humanoid Wolves. The Varul society is based on a warrior's life with a sole king that rules over the entire realm. A mystical land where mortals are not allowed to set foot. This story spans the lives of the royal family with themes of life & death, friendship & love, and learning to accept that it's okay to be yourself.
Meet Acalia Itzchel. A young woman that seeks to find her place among her own clansmen. Despite her royal title of 'princess' she is seemingly blessed(or in her POV - cursed) with the appearance of a she-wolf. In Zaloria, the males appear like humanoid wolves while all the female Varul very much seem like humans. However, Acalia has wolf ears, tail, claws and fangs like the male warriors.
There's only one other that shares similar attributes as her and that's Acalia's grandmother. A former legendary heroine that is ostracized by all the clans.
Danielle Steel's The Right Time Book Review
It's a man's world out there but Alexandra Winslow is determined to prove otherwise. Her young life is beset in tragedy but it only serves to push her forward. Set in a somewhat contemporary time this is a story of how a young girl overcomes the challenges life sets before her and keeps on moving forward. Read on to see if 'The Right Time' is the novel for you...


Most women are concerned about those signs of age that appear when the skin begins to lose its firmness and elasticity.
While there are many methods to prevent and treat it, many have difficulty incorporating them into their beauty routine.
In addition, the cosmetic products of the market tend to be too expensive and not all have sufficient resources to acquire them.
Fortunately, there are economic and natural alternatives that, prepared at home, help to improve the state of the skin without causing aggression.
On this occasion we will teach how to prepare a simple antiflacid cream , whose composition helps to achieve visible changes in a short time.
Its compounds promote natural elasticity and reduce the loss of substances that keep it firm and young.
These products contain essential nutrients for the skin and, therefore, are useful to keep it in perfect condition.
In this case we propose to prepare one based on 100% natural ingredients that, due to their properties, control flaccidity as well as the formation of wrinkles, stretch marks, cellulite and other alterations.
It is a combination of clay with , olive oil, coffee residues and hazelnut extract.
These ingredients penetrate easily through the pores and, in turn, serve to promote blood circulation and skin oxygenation.
It is a product suitable for all and the best thing of all is that its ingredients are very easy to acquire in the market.
Put some water on heat and, when it reaches a boil, add the black tea bag.
Let it stand for a moment and pour it into a glass jar.
Add the remains of coffee and, while stirring, add olive oil and hazelnut extract drops.
Make sure everything is well integrated and that the texture is creamy.
If you think the pasta is too hard, add a little more tea or olive oil.
Let it rest in a cool place, away from any source of heat.
Note: Keep in mind that, in order not to lose its properties, clay should not be handled with metal utensils.
Since its texture is soft and easy to apply, you can use this product in any area of the body that is flaccid.
Thoroughly clean the area you want to treat and, preferably, do a pre-exfoliation so that the nutrients are absorbed more easily.
Take the necessary amount of cream and rub it with gentle ascending and circular massages.
Use the fingertips to press gently, either on the , legs or any flaccid part.
In fact, you can apply a little on the neck and the neckline, two areas susceptible to premature wrinkles.
Leave a thin layer of the product, 20 or 30 minutes, until it dries well.
After the recommended time, rinse with warm water and a soft sponge that facilitates the total elimination of the ingredients.
Immediately you will have a feeling of firmness and, above all, a smooth skin free of dead cells.
Although this natural cream is a great help to combat flaccidity, its main effects are not achieved from the first application.
It is necessary to use it, at least three times a week, for several months, to feel a firmer and rejuvenated skin.
As a complement, it is essential to increase the consumption of water and natural beverages , since hydration is essential to preserve the firmness of the skin.
Likewise, it should be considered that flaccidity is not always cutaneous and may have its origin in muscle weakness.
In the latter case it is necessary to multiply the efforts, and adopt a and a diet that benefits the health of the muscles.
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Rochester, Minn. – Former Madison Mallard Pete Alonso, made his Major League debut for the New York Mets on Thursday, March 28, 2019. Alonso is the 208th former Northwoods League player to reach the Major League level.
Alonso, who played collegiately at the University of Florida, played for the Madison Mallards in 2014. He was drafted by the New York Mets in the 2nd round of the 2016 MLB draft.
In 59 games with the Mallards during the 2014 regular season, Alonso hit .354 with 18 home runs, five doubles and 53 RBI. He also stole two bases and walked 20 times. In the Northwoods League All-Star Game he went one for three with a three-run home run.
Alonso began his minor league career in 2016 with the Brooklyn Cyclones of the Short-Season A New York-Penn League. Over 30 games he hit .321 with five home runs, 12 doubles and 21 RBI.
Alonso started the 2017 season with the St. Lucie Mets of the Hi-A Florida State League. After 82 games he was promoted to the Binghamton Rumble Ponies of the AA Eastern League to finish the season. He would end the year with a combined .289 average with 18 home runs, 27 doubles and 63 RBI. He also walked 27 times and stole three bases.
For the 2018 season, Alonso started the year in Binghamton and was then promoted to the Las Vegas 51s of the AAA Pacific Coast League. Over 132 games he hit .285 with 36 home runs, 31 doubles and 119 RBI.
In his Major League debut against the Washington Nationals, Alonso started the game at first base. He would go 0 for 3 facing former La Crosse Logger Max Scherzer before singling in his fourth at bat off of Nationals reliever Justin Miller.


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Fat cell discovery could help combat obesity-related health issues
Immunofluorescence staining inside an adipocyte (fat cell) showing proteins in green and lipids in red. Image supplied
Researchers have discovered differences in fat cells that could potentially identify people predisposed to metabolic diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular and fatty liver disease.
The world-first discovery also identified 'fast burning' fat cells that if unlocked might help people lose weight.
About 70 per cent of Australians are overweight or obese, which has been linked to metabolic disease risk. The University of Melbourne research found that an individual's level of risk might depend upon the type of fat they store.
Published in Cell Reports, the study took samples from human volunteers and discovered three specific subtypes of precursor cells that went on to become fat cells.
The first released lots of fat into the bloodstream, the second burned energy at a high rate and the third was 'rather benign' and did what a fat cell should normally do but slowly.
All three cell subtypes were present in fat tissue throughout the body, and not confined to a particular part. All were present in all fat samples. Some people had more of some cell subtypes and less of others.
Senior author Matthew Watt, who is Head of Physiology in the University of Melbourne's School of Biomedical Sciences, said the results indicated that the makeup of these cells in a person's body could help to determine their health.
Professor Watt said the first subtype might increase the risk of fatty deposits around the body and on organs, regardless of whether they were overweight or not, while the second could possibly prevent weight gain. The third was neutral.
While it is early days, he said further research could potentially determine ways to 'switch off' the fat releasing cells and 'switch on' the fat burning cells. This would involve developing drug therapies and could take at least 10 years.
Professor Watt said if developed, such treatments could help prevent some illnesses and and be less invasive than bariatric surgery. But they should also involve lifestyle changes.
"Whilst we advocate new discoveries to inform the development of anti-obesity therapies, a healthy lifestyle, including daily activity and reduced food intake, is also important," he said.
Professor Watt's team separated different cell types, investigated their genes and assessed proteins and metabolism. They found three subtypes of fat cells, which are also known as adipocyte progenitor cells (APCs).
"The discovery is important because it tells us that not all fat cells are the same and that by understanding the fat subtypes in a human, we might be able to predict their future metabolic health," Professor Watt said.
While the results indicated certain cell subtypes might increase risk of metabolic disease, Professor Watt said a clinical trial was now needed to accurately answer that question. At this stage it was not practical to routinely test fat composition.
"This requires very detailed and expensive tests," Professor Watt says. "Until we show a link between certain fat cells and health traits this will not be a useful test.
"We first need to determine whether the number of the fat cell subtypes affects disease development. Then we can work out ways to decrease or increase a certain type of fat cell type to improve health, but again this will require further experimentation."
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London - Gennady Golovkin and Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez's eagerly-anticipated bout will be watched by a global television audience, but it is not the only world middleweight title fight on Saturday.
Billy Joe Saunders's second defence of his World Boxing Organisation (WBO) belt against Willie Monroe Jr in London will not attract the same attention or glamour but is nevertheless significant since the winner is likely to face the victor of Golovkin-Alvarez clash, which takes place a few hours later in Las Vegas.
Golovkin, from Kazakhstan but based in California, defends the other three versions of the world title (World Boxing Council, World Boxing Association and International Boxing Federation) against Mexico's Alvarez in a clash between boxing's biggest stars now that Floyd Mayweather Jr has gone back into retirement.
For Saunders, there can be no more excuses about motivation after an inactive and frustrating reign as champion.
The 28-year-old English boxer won the WBO belt from Ireland's Andy Lee in December 2015 but due to injuries and postponements has only fought once since, an unimpressive points win over Artur Akavov at a leisure centre in Scotland in December.
But Saunders (24 wins, 0 defeats, 12 KOs) feels rejuvenated and credits new trainer Dominic Ingle with improving his conditioning ahead of facing American Monroe (21 wins, 2 defeats, 6 KOs).
"You can say lack of motivation but when you're in touching distance of something great, that alone gives me motivation," Saunders told reporters on a conference call from his training base in Fuerteventura, one of the Spanish Canary Islands.
"The way the Ingles go about their business is second to none. My fitness is on a different level. I'm fit enough now to fight 15 rounds, every minute of every round. That alone boosts my confidence by leaps and bounds.
"I know what is around the corner, I want to test myself against one of the greats. Willie had his chance (against Golovkin in May, 2015). I want to beat Willie Monroe in a better way than Golovkin did."
Golovkin, 35, and Alvarez, 27, are recognised as the best middleweights in the division and Saunders thinks the champion will prevail this weekend.
"I think it will be a very close fight but Canelo looks like he has overdone it in training, he looked fatigued in training and he's overdone it,' said Saunders, from Hertfordshire, northwest of London.
Saunders' promoter Frank Warren is confident his boxer will face the winner of Golovkin-Alvarez should he beat Monroe Jr.
"If Bill comes through he will fight the winner of Canelo-Golovkin," said Warren. "It's all in his hands now. He knows what he gets out of this fight if he wins and I believe he will deliver."
Monroe, 30, is boxing for the first time in a year and has registered two points-wins since being stopped in six rounds by knockout specialist Golovkin.
"He took a beating before and if he quit before when there were three belts on the line, he will certainly quit when there's one belt on the line," said Saunders.
Monroe, from New York, refused to be drawn into trash talk but is hoping Golovkin beats Alvarez so he can have a re-match.
"It's a shot at redemption," said Monroe. "I think Canelo is just going to win but I want Triple G (Golovkin) to win so I can get him back.
"If you look at my fight with Golovkin and his fight against Kell Brook and Danny Jacobs, he doesn't deal with fast fighters.
"I've had a 12 week camp for Billy Joe, but I only got six weeks' notice for Golovkin. I never had big backers and money guys in my corner to make things happen, so when a shot like that comes up you take it."
He added: "Billy Joe has had a great promoter like Frank Warren in his corner. All the fights have been in his own backyard.
"He hasn't had to go into a lion's den with all these screaming fans against him."