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L'église Saint-Lucien est une église catholique située rue de la Convention à la Courneuve (Seine-Saint-Denis). Elle dépend du diocèse de Saint-Denis et elle est dédiée à saint Lucien.

Histoire

Cet emplacement est habité depuis l'Antiquité: Des fouilles pratiquées à l'extérieur de l'église, dans le vieux cimetière, ont permis la mise au jour de sépultures médiévales et modernes, de huit sarcophages mérovingiens et ont également livré une dizaine de tessons de poterie attribuables au Hallstatt ou à La Tène, des tessons de céramique sigillée des  ainsi que des tuiles antiques.

On suppose l'existence, à cet endroit, d'un lieu de culte chrétien vers le . Robert le Pieux y aurait fait construire un oratoire en 1015. Une église d'origine mérovingienne s'y élève encore vers l'année 1180, qui sera détruite par les Huguenots puis reconstruite en 1580 et consacrée le  de la même année.

C'est une étape de la procession des moines de Saint-Denis jusqu'en 1629. Au , une nouvelle façade est ajoutée et, en 1839, une horloge agrémente l'ensemble. En 1929, l'église est encore agrandie.

Description

L'édifice comporte trois nefs dont les fondations correspondent à peu près à celles du bâtiment actuel.

Elle abrite des statues en bois polychrome offertes à la paroisse par le sculpteur Pierre Dubos (1889-1974), élève de Bourdelle, et notamment un triptyque, réalisé en terre cuite et en bois, représentant la Pentecôte, Le Baptême de Jésus et la parabole de l'Enfant prodigue.

Paroisse
Elle fait aujourd'hui partie de l'ensemble pastoral de La Courneuve et elle est desservie par les Fils de la charité, congrégation fondée en 1918.

Article connexe

 Jean-Édouard Lamy qui fut curé de cette paroisse tout en étant proche de Jean Cocteau et d'Érik Satie.

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Reno report — round four
After the first four rounds of the Western States Open, the two biggest stories are upsets and youth. Both of the two top seeds went down to defeat in the first two rounds. In round one, GM Jaan Ehlvest (seeded #2) blundered a piece against veteran master Andrew Karklins and immediately resigned. In round two, GM Loek van Wely, the top seed who was making his first appearance ever at the Western States Open, ran up against junior superstar Steven Zierk. You can see the game in Michael Aigner's blog. There's a good chance that I will lecture about this game for ChessLecture, too — especially if Zierk somehow wins the tournament. This was just a beautiful game. Van Wely got a space advantage in the opening but played just a bit too slowly. Zierk smashed the position open with a piece sacrifice, then sacrificed another piece and a rook to force mate. Welcome to the States, Loek!
There is absolutely a generational tidal wave in this year's tournament. Usually the lower sections have a higher proportion of young players — but this year, the Open section has been overrun by kids and teenagers. In round three, each of the top three boards featured a teenage prodigy! Darwin Yang was on board one, Daniel Naroditsky was on board two, and somehow Steven Zierk was only on board three in spite of his brilliancy against van Wely. This is such a refreshing change. I have nothing against Russian emigres, but it does get a little bit tiresome to see the same old faces on the top boards year after year. But this year, it's a different ballgame!
The standings after four rounds:
1-5. Ildar Ibragimov, Melikset Khachiyan, Alexander Ivanov, Eugene Perelshteyn, Steven Zierk — 3.5/4
6-11. Loek van Wely, Jaan Ehlvest, Sergei Kudrin, Mikhail Gurevich, Amun Simutowe, Darwin Yang — 3/4.
As for yours truly, I started out okay with a draw as White against Gregg Small. Then came a disappointing loss as White against IM Edward Formanek. I have beaten Formanek twice previously — in fact, he was the first IM that I ever beat. However, in this game I got confused in the opening, had a dreadfully passive position in the middle game, somehow pulled through to what I thought was a drawn double-rook endgame, but then in time pressure I wandered into a mating net. That's surprisingly easy to do in double-rook endgames; it has happened to me before.
Yesterday was much better, as I had two wins with Black. I might post some positions and analysis of them later. In round three I went up against IM Walter Shipman, always a tough guy to beat. He won a pawn and could have easily drawn, but of course he was not interested in a draw — he wanted to win! He pushed his pawns too fast, and I won a pawn back and we went into an even material B-versus-N endgame (I had the bishop). It came down to a pawn race where we both queened but I was able to win his queen with a skewer. A very exciting endgame!
Finally, in round four I played my first junior of the tournament, Adarsh Jayakumar. It was a seesaw game. I thought I came out of the opening with a slight edge, but then one or two stupid move turned it back around and I was in great difficulty, with his Catalan bishop on g2 and his other bishop on e3 bearing down on my pitiful queenside pawns (a7 and b7). However, I kept finding creative threats to keep his monster bishops at bay. He finally did win the b-pawn, but I was able to demolish his kingside pawn structure and catch his king in a mating net. An old, old tale — chasing after a pawn but forgetting about your king. Penny wise, pound foolish.
So after four rounds I'm pretty happy with where I am — 2.5 out of 4, with all four games against masters. I couldn't ask for more.
Stay tuned for final results tonight!
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Pragyan Ojha Reacts On Haters' Comments On CSK, Dhoni & You Will Agree With Him
"Aussies Are Bad Losers, Can't Take Defeat," Pragyan Ojha Slams Aussies For Trying To Upset India
Suresh Raina Breaks His Silence On Pulling Out Of IPL 2020, "Why Would There Be Any Regret?"
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"Respect His Personal Life," Pragyan Ojha Slams Trollers Questioning Virat Kohli's Paternity Leave
The IPL 2020 started on a good note for Chennai Super Kings and MS Dhoni; however later on, nothing seems to be going in their favour. CSK has won the tournament three times so it is kind of obvious that the expectations of fans are pretty high in this season as well and the Chennai team also started the league with a win against Mumbai Indians so the fans got excited. But since then, the team has been struggling and the skipper MS Dhoni is also not able to change the fortunes of his team.
Dhoni has been receiving a lot of hatred because of his poor form and the fans lost it completely after CSK lost the match against Kolkata Knight Riders. Some haters took to social media networks and started posting hate comments. Quite shockingly, there were some jerks who even went on to give rape threats to Dhoni's 5 years old daughter. CSK player Kedar Jadhav was also getting targeted by the trollers because he is also not in good form and is not able to make an impact with the bat.
Such behaviour of fans is undoubtedly unacceptable and irresponsible. The former Indian cricketer Pragyan Ojha has strongly objected to it and demanded that the matter should be handled properly as it is not just about an individual, it is about the country. While speaking to a sports portal, Pragyan says that reading something like this is really disturbing as we all have families.
Pragyan Ojha expresses annoyance over the fact that MS Dhoni needs to be defended in his own country. He further adds that the use of technology should be done in a constructive way and people are really fortunate enough that they are using technology even in the times of the coronavirus pandemic.
According to him, social media networks should be used for communicating and not for the purpose of hurling abuses on the legends such as Dhoni or Sachin Tendulkar. Pragyan says that people are writing disgusting things sitting in dark rooms about those who have made the country proud. He goes on to say that it is sad he and people like him has to defend the legends who are the pillars of the sport.
We also agree with Pragyan Ojha that fans should behave responsibly and targeting the family members is absolutely not needed. In fact, trolling and abusing the players is also not justifiable even if they are not able to perform well.
Related Topics:Chennai Super Kings, CSK, IPL 2020, MS Dhoni, Pragyan Ojha
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Home » Farm Hands on the Potomac: Bayer appoints two in company's public affairs leadership
Farm Hands on the Potomac: Bayer appoints two in company's public affairs leadership
03/16/22 6:00 AM By Hannah Pagel
KEYWORDS American Farmland Trust Arm & Hammer Animal and Food Production Bayer Biotechnology Innovation Organization Farmer Focus Honeywell International Plant Protection Convention Michael Parrish Osama El Lissy
Bayer has appointed Michael Parrish to the position of vice president of public affairs, science and sustainability, U.S. Parrish has served as the interim leader of U.S. public affairs since April 2021. Bayer has also promoted Duane Simpson to vice president of the North America crop science public affairs, science and sustainability team. He was previously the vice president of North American government and industry affairs.
Michael Parrish
Osama El Lissy has been appointed to serve as the secretary of the International Plant Protection Convention. Lissy retired as deputy administrator of USDA's Plant Protection and Quarantine program earlier this year and held USDA leadership roles for the past 22 years.
Atashi Mukherjee Bell has joined Honeywell as its new senior director of global government relations. Bell previously worked for two years at Biotechnology Innovation Organization as the director of scientific and regulatory affairs of agriculture and environment. Before that, she worked for BASF as global regulatory specialist.
Arm & Hammer Animal and Food Production has promoted Joel Pankowski as the new senior technical services manager, dairy, Andy Schwytzer as the new strategic account manager, dairy and Wayne Hurst joins the team as a dairy account manager for the west team. Pankowski has been with the company since May 2011, supporting the east region dairy sales team. Schwytzer has been with the company since October 2016 in dairy sales. Hurst brings over 30 years of dairy experience to his role, most recently working for Forage Genetics International, a subsidiary of Land O'Lakes.
Matthew Dillon has been hired as the new chief sustainability officer for Farmer Focus. Dillon previously served as vice president of government affairs and social impact at Clif Bar & Company.
American Farmland Trust New York regional director Erica Goodman has been named director of the Farms for a New Generation program. Goodman has served in the roles of AFT New York deputy director and then New York regional director since December 2017. She succeeds Julia Freedgood, who steps down to write a book on policy and planning tools for resilient food systems.
The IR-4 Project Commodity Liaison Committee has elected Todd Scholz and Keith Pitts as the committee's new chair and vice chair, respectively. Scholz works for USA Dry Pea and Lentil Council and Pitts works for Marrone Bio Innovations.
Erica GoodmanMamie Parker has been selected to serve on Ducks Unlimited's national board of directors. Parker has spent her career as a biologist and senior executive in the federal government, previously working at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) as chief of staff and assistant director of habitat conservation/head of fisheries. After retiring from USFWS, Parker continues to serve as a professional fish and wildlife biologist, success coach and principal consultant at Ecologix Group.
Nicole Berg has been elected as the new National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG) president. Berg is a 4th generation farmer from Paterson, Washington, where she farms alongside her dad and two brothers. Berg also sits on the board of the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation. NAWG's board of directors also elected a new slate of officers. Dave Milligan of Cass City, Michigan, transitioned to the role of past president. Brent Cheyne, a wheat farmer from Klamath Falls, Oregon, became NAWG's new vice president. Keeff Felty of Altus, Oklahoma, will serve as NAWG's new treasurer, and Pat Clements of Springfield, Kentucky, was elected as the new secretary.
The National Wheat Foundation has tapped Joe Kejr as its new chair of the board. Kejr farms in Salina, Kansas, with his sons, brother, and nephew. Kejr has previously served as president of the Kansas Association of Wheat Growers and served as a legislator on the Kansas House of Representatives for three terms. Bernard Peterson was elected as vice chair. He is a managing partner in Peterson Farms. Scott Brown was elected as secretary and treasurer. He farms in southern Idaho with his son-in-law and nephew, where they raise wheat, barley and mustard.
Farm Hands on the Potomac: Autumn Price moves to a new role and AFT hires two in climate scientist roles
Farm Hands on the Potomac: USDA names senior staff positions in DC, state FSA and RD leadership
Farm Hands on the Potomac: Perdue appoints Chitnis as NIFA acting director
The U.S. Soybean Export Council has selected Doug Winter as the new chair of its board of directors. Stan Born was elected as vice chairman, Dawn Scheier will serve as secretary, and Chris Arnold as treasurer.
The National Pork Producers Council has installed new officers and elected members to its board of directors. Terry Wolters, owner of Stoney Creek Farms, was elevated to president of the organization. He also serves as chairman of NPPC's Animal Health Food Security Policy Committee. Wolters succeeds Jen Sorenson, communications director for Iowa Select Farms, who becomes NPPC's immediate past president and chairman of the council's trade and nominating committees. Scott Hays, a fifth-generation pork producer and the CEO of Two Mile Pork, became NPPC's president-elect. Lori Stevermer was elected as vice president. She is co-owner of Trail's End Farm in Easton, Minnesota.
Jacqueline Olvera has been promoted to legislative assistant handling the agriculture portfolio for Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla. She previously was a legislative correspondent. Before coming to the Hill, Olvera worked at Steptoe and Johnson and the National Parks Conservation Association. Chase Clanahan has left the office of Rep. Gimenez. He served as legislative director.
Malcolm McGeary has left the office of Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. He served as the natural resources director from 2019 to 2022. He was previously the energy, natural resources, and agriculture adviser for Wyden.
Clark Mica has left The Fertilizer Institute where he was the vice president of government affairs. Mica now serves as the president of the Institute of Makers of Explosives. He was with TFI for the past 12 years and before that worked as the acting deputy assistant secretary for intergovernmental relations at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
After a 40-year career, Michael Heller, a regenerative farmer and environmental advocate, has retired from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. Heller joined CBF in 1982 to manage Clagett Farm, a 285-acre farm in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Before joining CBF, Heller taught plant ecology at the University of Maryland. He co-founded the nonprofit Future Harvest in 1998 to help train farmers about rotational grazing, limited use of pesticides, and how to increase organic matter in the soil.
Dale Moore plans to step down from his role as the top staffer at the American Farm Bureau Federation this year, ending a career spanning more than 40 years. Moore has been AFBF's executive director since 2018 after first joining the organization in 2011. Before his time at Farm Bureau, Moore worked at the Department of Agriculture during the George W. Bush administration, serving as chief of staff for three different secretaries as well as an interim leader of the department. His career also included a stint at the National Cattlemen's Beef Association's Washington office, a position he held after more than a decade on Capitol Hill working for Kansas Republican Pat Roberts in both his personal House office and as an Ag Committee staffer.
For more news, go to www.Agri-Pulse.com.
Hannah Pagel


Told solely through rare and never before seen historic footage of Frank Zappa's highly acclaimed 30-year career, this unique 90 minute documentary is an energetic celebration of an often outspoken and brilliant musician. Unforgettable Zappa interviews and performances from one of rock and roll's most legendary self-taught musicians have been painstakingly gathered across decades by director Thorsten Schütte from the obscure vaults of TV stations around the world to create this unparalleled look at one of the brightest minds popular music has ever witnessed.
Critics Consensus: Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words offers an illuminating primer for Zappa novices as well as an entertaining retrospective for diehard fans.


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MOSTYN new exhibition season, opening Sat 9 October 2021 – "Jacqueline de Jong: The Ultimate Kiss" and "Anathemata" feat. Antonin Artaud, Martin Bladh, Pierre Guyotat, Paul-Alexandre Islas, David Jones, Sarah Kane, James Richards, Karolina Urbaniak
Posted in nEws and rEleases by Curatorview on October 8, 2021
Jacqueline de Jong: The Ultimate Kiss
Opens 9 October 2021 9 October – 6 February 2022
Jacqueline de Jong is considered one of the crucial artistic figures of the post-war avant-garde. This exhibition is the first institutional solo presentation of her work in the UK. Throughout her career spanning half a century, de Jong has developed a unique painterly practice. Expressive in style, her work exhibits uninhibited eroticism, violence and humour. In parallel to her work as a painter, she was editor of The Situationist Times (1962-1967) and a member of the Situationist International during her early years in Paris in the 1960s.
Jacqueline de Jong was born in 1939 in Hengelo, The Netherlands. She lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
The Ultimate Kiss is curated by Juliette Desorgues (Curator of Visual Arts, MOSTYN) and organised in collaboration with WIELS, Brussels where the exhibition was presented by Devrim Bayar (Curator, WIELS) and Xander Karskens (Director, De Ateliers) (May 1 – August 15, 2021). The exhibition will travel to the Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Germany in 2022.
The exhibition is kindly supported by: The Mondriaan Fund, The Dutch Embassy, London, The Tyrer Charitable Trust, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, Gallery, The Hague and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London.
An exhibition catalogue Jacqueline de Jong: The Ultimate Kiss, featuring texts by Devrim Bayar, Juliette Desorgues, Alison Gingeras, Xander Karskens and Niña Weijers, and published by Fonds Mercator, is available to purchase from the MOSTYN Shop or is available to order online.
Anathemata
Antonin Artaud, Martin Bladh, Pierre Guyotat, Paul-Alexandre Islas, David Jones, Sarah Kane, James Richards, Karolina Urbaniak
Curated by Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou
Anathemata is a display that interrogates the tradition of epic poetry within a tetrad of 20th century avant-garde artists; David Jones, Antonin Artaud, Sarah Kane and Pierre Guyotat. These four artists are presented alongside contemporary artists Martin Bladh, Paul-Alexandre Islas, James Richards and Karolina Urbaniak through a display of manuscripts, drawings and videos.
The exhibition title is borrowed from David Jones's eponymous poem published in 1952. A British poet and artist of Welsh descent, Jones is considered a leading figure within modernist poetry along with James Joyce and T. S. Eliot. His poem, The Anathemata, investigates the importance of mythology within the history of humanity from a modernist perspective. Written in the aftermath of the Second World War and interweaving Welsh and English late medieval sources, it defends the importance of epic narratives, fables and myths against the desacralising effect of modernism. Considered Jones' seminal work, The Anathemata narrates the thought processes of a cambrophile over the span of roughly seven seconds at an English Catholic Mass. Using Old, Middle and Early-Modern English, Welsh, and Latin, The Anathemata questions the importance of past mythology within human history – from the Iron Age in Cornwall and Tudor London to Penda's Mercia and the Welsh "Otherworld" – in a highly allusive and nonlinear fashion. In this text, Jones also stresses the importance of the artist as an inventor and bearer of myths.
Antonin Artaud is a French artist considered one of the major figures of early 20th century avant-garde. His texts revolve around transcendence, mysticism, drugs, and extreme corporeal experiment. Like Jones, a large part of Artaud's writing practice challenged and gathered different languages (French, Latin, Arabic), myths and temporalities (from Ancient Greek to Aztec and Early Christian civilisations). Both were concerned with the idea of the impending apocalypse. In his Letters from Ireland which he wrote while in exile in Dublin, he details an imagined forthcoming apocalypse, and plans his own role within it as « the revealed one ». Also on display are several of his magic spells, intended to curse his enemies and to protect his friends from Paris' forthcoming incineration and the Antichrist's appearance at the Deux Magots café, an important meeting point for artists and writers in Paris in the post-war era. Artaud's depictions of the human body as dismembered, surrounded by flying nails, translated the agonies of his physical as well as psychical life. Indeed, between June 1943 and 1944, Artaud was subjected several times to electroshock therapy in Rodez (France). Cast aside from his community and finishing his life in an asylum, Artaud was in a sense the subject of an anathemata. In Artaud's work, the body experiences a form of disfiguration, it is "outside the figure of being". Caught between life and death, the visible and the invisible, it is ultimately traced by the lines of forces drawn from the electromagnetic spectrum.
Pierre Guyotat was a preeminent French artist who died in 2020. Like David Jones, he was a poet interested in the epic format, the fragmentation of words, and the use of heterogeneous languages from various historical periods and geographies. Similarly to Jones, he was a soldier. He was enlisted in the Algerian war, an experience that inspired him to write Tomb for 500,000 Soldiers. Written in 1967, this book was censored and, in a way, anathematised. Composed of seven songs, it can be perceived as a cataclysmic incantation. Moreover, he is maybe one of the last mythical figures of the French literary scene that could be affiliated with poets such as the Marquis de Sade, Arthur Rimbaud or Artaud. Guyotat works with a mutant language, inhabited by bodies, animals and ghosts. He incorporates and carries in each of his works the cursed part of humanity. His visions are dazzling, the body triturated, wounded, exalted, entangled, seen in its convulsive materiality. Words and bodies function as apparitions in constant metamorphosis.
Sarah Kane is a renowned British dramaturge whose radical conception of theater has been compared to Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty. While her plays examine human atrocities such as cannibalism, sexual violence and war abjections, her mise en scène is devoid of any affectation. Her subjects are stripped to the bone, laid bare like a cadaver. Her first play, Blasted, which opened at the Royal Court Theater Upstairs on 12th January 1995, presents a brutal vision of war-torn society through a series of violent acts. The title could also echo the avant-garde poetry magazine founded by Wyndham Lewis, Blast, which presented ideas about art that are close to those of Sarah Kane: injecting reality directly into people's heart. Like David Jones, she considered history as a palimpsest of myths and rituals that could be found in one of the most popular epic spectacles of her time, football. She saw in the matches played by Manchester United the representation of a myth in which the Gods fought for possession of the sun.
Martin Bladh and Karolina Urbaniak are artists, photographers, multimedia players and founders of the publishing house Infinity Land Press. Along with Stephen Barber, they have participated in the dissemination of authors such as Antonin Artaud within the British cultural scene through their work as publishers. Established in 2013, Infinity Land Press is self-described as a "realm deeply steeped in pathological obsessions, extreme desires, and private aesthetic visions". For the exhibition, they will notably present On The New Revelations of Being, a video based on Antonin Artaud's apocalyptic manifesto from 1937. It envisions the end of the world and the death of God through a series of cataclysmic occurrences of Artaudian cruelty.
Artist James Richards is known for working across moving image, sound and installation. A newly commissioned work, Phrasing, based on precedent research and developed through 80 slides, is exhibited for the first time as part of the display. Cutting and recombining images from various sources such as radiographies, comics, and medieval engraving, he digs into what could be called a modern epic. His use of X-Rays acts as an inner search, an opening of bodies and objects, an effraction of envelopes that deals with the secret of interiority. In that sense, his quest finds echoes in the introspective voices of Jones, Artaud, Guyotat and Kane and becomes a receptacle for the tumults and hubbubs of the world.
Finally, Paul-Alexandre Islas, is an artist, musician and Artaud's reader who notably questions the violent dimension of art, its personal cost and the legitimacy of the people who allow themselves to practice it. Similarly to Artaud, Islas doesn't have superstition about the already written poetry. If poetry is already written, let it be destroyed.
From Jones' lecture of Arthurian legends to Islas' contemporary incantations, the exhibition Anathemata tries through myths, violence, desire, war, and the superhuman devotions that are found in the works presented, to bring forth a spectacle capable of stirring up the forces that are boiling within them.
Photo: Martin Bladh, After Rembrandt's The Blinding of Samson, 1636, 2014. Courtesy of the artist.
Tagged with: Anathemata group show, Antonin Artaud, Charles Teyssou, David Jones, Devrim Bayar, Jacqueline de Jong, James Richards, Juliette Desorgues, Karolina Urbaniak, Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Martin Bladh, modernist poetry, MOSTYN new exhibition season, mythology, Paul-Alexandre Islas, Pierre Guyotat, Pierre-Alexandre Mateos, Sarah Kane, The Situationist Times, The Ultimate Kiss, WIELS, Xander Karskens
MOSTYN: Exhibition Programme 2020
Posted in nEws and rEleases by Curatorview on March 3, 2020
Exhibition Programme 2020
MOSTYN
12 Vaughan Street
Llandudno LL30 1AB
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MOSTYN, Wales UK is thrilled to announce its programme of exhibitions for 2020 which includes solo presentations by artists Kiki Kogelnik, Athena Papadopoulos, Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings, Nick Hornby, Richard Wathen, and Jacqueline de Jong.
March 14–July 5, 2020
Kiki Kogelnik: Riot of Objects
Riot of Objects is the first institutional presentation in the UK to focus on Kiki Kogelnik's ceramic works. Considered one of the key figures of the post-war avant-garde, Kogelnik's multidisciplinary oeuvre spans five decades. Her multi-faceted artistic style evolved from painterly abstraction to Pop Art and the representation of the (female) body. This exhibition demonstrates Kogelnik's boundless capacity for invention and restless commitment to making. Kiki Kogelnik was born in 1935 in Bleiburg, Austria. She lived and worked in New York and Vienna. She died in 1997 in Vienna, Austria. Curated by Chris Sharp in partnership with the Kiki Kogelnik Foundation.
Athena Papadopoulos: Cain and Abel Can't and Able
This exhibition presents a new body of work by artist Athena Papadopoulos. Using her ever-expanding vocabulary of materials and ancient narratives, which she combines with unlikely elements, this new series of works includes sound, sculpture and painting, and explores human dichotomies, questioning the complicated duality of reason and emotion. Athena Papadopoulos was born in 1988 in Toronto, CA. She lives and works in London. Curated by Alfredo Cramerotti, Director, MOSTYN.
July 18–November 1, 2020
Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings: In My Room
Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings' first solo institutional exhibition develops the artists' enquiry into the politics, histories and aesthetics of queer spaces and culture. This newly conceived body of work includes a fresco painting, wall rubbings and a film, and highlights the impact of gentrification upon the city and its gay communities, whilst also exploring the relationship between masculinity, capitalism and power within the urban landscape. Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings were both born in 1991 in Newcastle and London. They live and work in London. Curated by Juliette Desorgues, Curator of Visual Arts, MOSTYN. Commissioned by Focal Point Gallery, In My Room is presented in partnership with MOSTYN and Humber Street Gallery, Hull.
This exhibition includes new photo-sculptural works by Nick Hornby, MOSTYN Open 21 "Audience Award" winner, and continues his enquiry into hybridity. Mining the collective index of cultural history, Hornby uses technology not only as a way of invoking potential new worlds but as a way of investigating alternative ways of seeing history. Nick Hornby was born in London in 1980. He lives and works in London and New York. Curated by Alfredo Cramerotti, Director, MOSTYN.
Richard Wathen
MOSTYN Open 21 "Exhibition Award" winner, Richard Wathen's solo exhibition comprises a new series of paintings. Rooted in the historical canon of painting, his work focuses largely on portraiture, depicting figures in states of hesitation and contemplation. Through the use of subtle details, his paintings retain a sense of ambiguity by refusing to be fixed in time and place. Richard Wathen was born in London in 1971. He lives and works in Suffolk, UK. Curated by Alfredo Cramerotti, Director, MOSTYN.
November 14, 2020–February 28, 2021
Jacqueline de Jong is considered one of the crucial artistic figures of the post-war avant-garde. This exhibition is the first institutional solo presentation of her work in the UK. Throughout her career spanning half a century, de Jong has developed a unique painterly practice. Expressive in style, her work exhibits uninhibited eroticism, violence and humour. In parallel to her work as a painter, she was editor of The Situationist Times (1962-1967) and a member of the Situationist International during her early years in Paris in the 1960s. Jacqueline de Jong was born in 1939 in Hengelo, The Netherlands. She lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Curated by Juliette Desorgues (Curator of Visual Arts, MOSTYN) and organised in collaboration with WIELS where the exhibition will be presented by Xander Karskens (Director, De Ateliers) and Devrim Bayar (Curator, WIELS) (June 12-August 16, 2020).
Tagged with: 2020, alfredo cramerotti, Athena Papadopoulos, Cain and Abel Can't and Able, Chris Sharp, contemporary art, Devrim Bayar, exhibition, Focal Point Gallery, Hannah Quinlan, Humber Street Gallery, In My Room, Jacqueline de Jong, Juliette Desorgues, Kiki Kogelnik, mostyn, museum, Nick Hornby, programme, Richard Wathen, Riot of Objects, Rosie Hastings, WIELS, Xander Karskens


"If I could reach higher, just for one moment to touch the sky…"---this is from my favorite song Reach.
this Cuban singer was knocked down in a traffic accident, and the doctor declared that she might never walk again. But Gloria did not give up and kept up constant exercising. Just one year after the disaster, she stood up again and presented this encouraging song at the Atlanta Olympics.
Whenever I think of Gloria, I can't help recalling my memory seven years ago, when I first entered university. Naturally shy, ordinary looking, average scores in study, just like an ugly duckling, I seemed to be the least outstanding one in my class. And the successive failures in the beginning led me into despair. "Am I destined to take the back seat to others?" Unwilling to submit to the fate, I paid more efforts on my study as well as many other activities, film dubbing, recital, drama… cause I just want to catch every little opportunity to prove myself. Constant effort yields sure success. Thanks to the competition, I received some awards and most of all, I gained the courage and confidence to face any difficulties in my life journey.
Life is just like farming, and what you can reap depends a lot on your sowing and dedication. Once you have a dream, don't be hesitant. Your next difficult step may be the one to the top. Keep going forward, even in the toughest time, and never give up.


4 Trimesters is an annual perinatal conference that aims to support and educate budding families in Toronto. Aimed at parents who are trying to conceive, are expecting a child, or caring for a newborn, the conference's uniquely streamed content is designed to connect parents with the information and resources they need, right when they need them.
Founded and programmed by trained midwife, infant mental health specialist, holistic nutritionist and cookbook author Jae Steele, the conference offers a holistic view of pregnancy and baby care. In 4 Trimesters' first year, she reached out to more than a dozen of her most respected colleagues in the perinatal support community to create four different workshop streams -- each one designed for a different stage of the baby-making journey. For this second conference, word has gotten around, so new practitioners applied to facilitate, and an additional stream of workshops has been added to support partners.
Pregnancy, in clinical terms, has three trimesters. The first trimester is approximately the first three months of a nine-month pregnancy. The second trimester is the second three-months, and the third trimester is the last three months. Each of these trimesters has its own flavour, because of the physical changes of pregnancy and fetal developments. For example, during the second trimester, a pregnant person might have less nausea and more energy than they did in the first. They will also start to feel fetal movement during this trimester.
In recent years, the idea of a "fourth trimester" has become a popular way to describe the first few months of a newborn's life. Baby is still small and vulnerable and needs to be kept close, in conditions that mimic the womb. As well, gestational parents need extra nurturing and support during this sensitive time.
4 Trimesters aims to foster relationships – both professional and social – for people in each of the four trimesters. For example, during the first trimester, parents may be thinking about detoxing their homes. In the second trimester, families may be making a plan for birth. In the third trimester, caregivers often have questions about sleeping arrangements and baby carrying. In the fourth trimester, families are adapting to the new normal.
The presenters at the 4 Trimesters Conference are local practitioners with a variety of specialties, but they are brought together by common goals.
Families have never just occurred in one uncomplicated nuclear unit. We're grateful to be living in a time and society where there is more openness about (and support for) families of all descriptions. In that spirit of openness, and from an intersectional feminist framework, 4 Trimesters wishes to state clearly that the intention of this conference is to be inclusive of the diverse paths and shapes of Toronto families.
We want you to feel welcome as you are, no matter who you are.
Should you, at any time, feel that your needs for inclusion are not being met, please reach out by sending us an email. We want to learn more about how we can accommodate you.


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This Clinic will focus on simple and effective techniques that are east to remember and use under the stress of an actual attack, developing the student's ability to anticipate and avoid conflict as a first line of defense.
Great for all ages, abilities both men and women! Bring the important people in your life so they can learn how to protect themselves!!!!!


Jisheng isn't afraid of anything.
How do you think Marlena will convince Keith to marry him?
I didn't forget about you, Malcolm.
Rudy wandered into a decommissioned factory.
Alexander didn't want to go there by himself.
Elwood wrote to Cris this week.
Chip threw himself into his work.
Elric and Robert won't be happy to see you here.
The boss considered firing Romain, but decided against it.
You had dinner with Mike last night, didn't you?
Do you know much about Matthew?
Do you think Olson is making a mistake?
Kamel isn't good at telling jokes.
Rebecca doesn't know how to use a snorkel.
Jarmo said that the house was haunted.
Leif likes to write poems and song lyrics.
Will's foot slipped on a rock and he lost his balance.
Edwin wasn't really trying to convince Vivek to do anything.
Do you think Joni would help us?
Have you seen Pratapwant today?
Dieter doesn't speak any French.
I can try to talk to Diana about that.
I'm not quite sure what to tell Sofoklis.
Joni is cute, isn't she?
A person like Amos probably knows how to swim.
I have a problem and he's called Cecilia.
I only know what Alexis told me.
I could hear Siegurd playing his guitar and yodeling.
Barbara isn't really sick. She's just pretending to be sick.
I hope Sanjeev goes home soon.
Did Trevor suggest to you a course of action?
Niels looked at himself in the mirror.
Naoto shot at Knudsen with a revolver.
Bea is a Red Sox fan.
Masanao didn't know all the facts.
Mariou is so fat he needs two seats on an airplane.
Oleg thinks Steen is mentally ill.
Toerless spoke to me last night.
Johnnie can't speak much French.


PPC Live is a trade exhibition and conference designed for technicians, surveyors and company owners to help improve technical knowledge and keep up-to-date with the latest industry changes and products.
Ovibeja is an agricultural fair but also of transformation, services, institutional shows, a business center, with presentation and discussion of topical issues.
Cratian Pest Control and Agricultural Stored Products Protection Seminar.


BTG Labs' Surface Analyst™ uses patented Ballistic Deposition™ to deposit a stream of micro drops that coalesce into a single drop on the surface. By constructing a drop of highly purified water out of these micro droplets, the Surface Analyst is able to take measurements on various surfaces—non-planar, textured, non-horizontal—without threat to the user or damage to the material.
The article delves deeper into this topic and discusses a comparison between the Surface Analyst and a goniometer.


I can't repeat this behavior with my 7000 (non MKII).
on the UDP data going between the SDR and HOST (all ports)?
Topic: 7000 and 8000 Protocol 2 users: what say you?
Re: 7000 and 8000 Protocol 2 users: what say you?
v1.6 is on the repo.
works better than whats on the repo.
It would be helpful to know how it is working for others.
Topic: 100D Protocol 2 users: what say you?
Tnx for taking the time to do that. Its very helpful.
using DHCP. I'm running it OK with a static IP.
I'll check that code later tonight.
I notice the same here, even running on bare Linux.
level signals are very weak in volume.
Topic: 8000DLE and vers 2.3/2.3(N1GP) CW issue.
Re: 8000DLE and vers 2.3/2.3(N1GP) CW issue.


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NIH Awards over $107 Million to Support Innovative Approaches to COVID-19 Testing and Surveillance
by: Heather Scott
Category: NINR News
NINRNursing Research
NIH awarded over $107 million to support innovative approaches to COVID-19 testing and surveillance. This will support over 40 research projects and grant supplements at 43 institutions.
NINR is supporting the following awards through the RADx initiative:
NIH Launches Funding Opportunities to Recruit Diverse Research Faculty
NIH is providing funding opportunities to recruit diverse research faculty. Applications for the Funding Opportunity Announcements are due March 1, 2021, with awards to be announced in 2021.
You can read the NIH press release on these funding announcements here: NIH to fund cohort recruitment and development program to enhance diversity and inclusion among biomedical faculty.
NINR is Accepting Applications for Program Officer / Health Scientist Administrator
NINR
The National Institute of Nursing Research is accepting applications for the position of Program Officer / Health Scientist Administrator.
The role of the Program Officer / Health Scientist Administrator is to initiate, develop, manage, and provide insights for the extramural research portfolio of the NINR.
Dr. Shannon Zenk Giving 2020 Straus Distinguished Lecture
All Health Is Not Created Equal: Where You Live Matters
By: Dr. Shannon Zenk
December 9, 2020 at 12:00 pm ET
NINR Director, Dr. Shannon Zenk, will give the 2020 Stephen E. Straus Distinguished Lecture. The lecture will be streamed via Videocast. Learn more about the event here.
NINR's GPP 2021 Applications Now Open
NINR is now accepting applications for its 2021 Graduate Partnerships Program (GPP). The GPP is an Institutional Partnership that combines the academic environment of a university with the comprehensive research resources available at NIH.
Those selected conduct doctoral coursework at the partnership university. After all coursework is completed, the fellow then comes to the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland, to begin research toward a doctoral dissertation. Applications are due by 11:59 p.m. ET on Tuesday, December 1, 2020. Three letters of reference are due by 11:59 p.m. ET on Thursday, December 3, 2020. Click here for more information.
NINR Provides Insight on Palliative Care
NINR is the lead Institute on end-of-life care at NIH. In honor of National Family Caregivers Month and National Hospice and Palliative Care Month, NINR is discussing Palliative care and its critical role of maintaining quality of life at any stage of illness, not just at the end of life. NINR provided science-based resources that are designed to support individuals, families, clinicians, and communities who are managing the symptoms of serious illnesses and planning for end-of-life decisions.
NINR published "What is Palliative Care?" to help answer questions for patients and families. You can find more resources here: ninr.nih.gov/newsandinformation/newsandnotes/pubs-2020
NINR Taking Applications for Director, Division of Extramural Science Programs
NINR's Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), is accepting applications for the position of Director, Division of Extramural Science Programs (DESP). This division develops proposals for new research initiatives and manages the funding programs that support nursing research to attain program objectives.
The Director would work closely with the NINR Director in shaping the vision and direction of the Institute through strategic planning, priority setting, and coordinating resources to implement these plans and priorities.
NINR is Seeking Program Director Positions
Program Director Positions
NINR Graduate Partnership Program 2021 Now Open for Applications
The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) is now accepting applications for its 2021 Graduate Partnerships Program. The NINR GPP is an Institutional Partnership that combines the academic environment of a university with the comprehensive research resources available at the NIH.
To be eligible for the GPP, applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents and have completed all doctoral coursework before joining the NINR GPP. Applicants must also submit an up-to-date curriculum vitae. Applications are due by 11:59 p.m. ET on Tuesday, December 1, 2020.
AAN Selects Dr. Paule V. Joseph for 2020 Class of Fellows
Dr. Paule V. Joseph has been selected by the American Academy of Nursing as one of 230 distinguished nurse leaders to join their 2020 Class of Fellows.
Dr. Joseph PhD, MS, FNP-BC, RN, CTN-B is a Tenure-Track Investigator and Chief of the Sensory Science and Metabolism Unit (SenSMet) in the NINR Division of Intramural Research. Her topics of research include chemosensory symptoms and metabolic conditions such as Type 2 diabetes, obesity, and related comorbidities. She will be recognized at the Academy's annual Transforming Health, Driving Policy Conference, taking place virtually October 29-31, 2020. You can view the full announcement here.
Source: https://www.ninr.nih.gov/newsandinformation/newsandnotes/pjoseph-aan
NCC Reiterates COVID-19 Priorities to Congress
Category: Legislative Updates
On August 18, fifty-eight members of the Nursing Community Coalition reiterated in a letter to House and Senate Leadership and key Congressional Committees outlining their shared priorities for any COVID-19 legislative package working its way through Congress. These requests include bolstering efforts to protect all nurses on the front lines, increasing funding for Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development Programs, supporting nursing education infrastructure and research, strengthening investments in public health, and promoting access to telehealth.
Read the full letter here
Director's Message from Dr. Shannon Zenk
Dr. Shannon Zenk posted a new Director's Message on beginning her tenure as director of the National Institute of Nursing Research. She highlights the role of nursing science in promoting and improving the health of the Nation as well as her thoughts on the future of nursing research.
Read the Full Director's Message Here
NINR Welcomes New Director, Dr. Shannon Zenk
On September 14, 2020, Shannon N. Zenk, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, joined NIH as the director of the National Institute of Nursing Research. Dr. Zenk will oversee the institute's research and training programs. She is a registered nurse and leading nurse researcher, whose research focuses on social inequities and health with a goal of identifying effective, multilevel approaches to improve health and eliminate racial/ethnic and socioeconomic health disparities.
You can read the full announcement here.
NINR Artificial Intelligence Boot Camp Recording New Available
NINR's 2020 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Boot Camp was held virtually on August 3-6, 2020. Recordings of the event are now available. The Boot Camp consisted of four sessions:
Session I: Innovations and Improvements in Health Outcomes
Session II: Clinical Applications
Session III: Ethical, Legal, And Social Implications
Session IV: Collaborative Science
View Recordings Here
NCC Welcomes NINR Director, Shannon Zenk
On August 31, members of the Nursing Community Coalition sent a letter welcoming the new National Institute of Nursing Research's (NINR) Director, Dr. Shannon Zenk. The NCC works with NINR by promoting the work of nurse scientists, advocating for investments in research and future researchers, and sharing the Institute's foundational work to improve healthcare delivery across the care continuum.
Dr. Zenk to Speak at the State of the Science Congress on Nursing Research
Join NINR Director Designee, Dr. Zenk, among other nurse scientists that will be speaking at the 2020 State of the Science Congress on Nursing Research on September 17-18.
NINR Opportunities
A Dialogue with Director Designee Dr. Shannon N. Zenk
Opening Keynote
From Florence to Fossil Fuels: Nursing Has Always Been About Environmental Health
Linda A. McCauley
Closing Keynote
Healing the Acute Care Environment; Remedy 2020
Martha A. Q. Curley
NINR Virtual Workshop Tuesday, September 29
Innovative Models of Care for Reducing Inequities in Maternal Health
9:00 am - 3:45 pm ET
The workshop will explore how nurses, midwives, and birth companions can improve maternal and infant health, specifically for women in U.S. communities affected by structural and health inequalities. Registration not required. Learn more about this workshop here.
Source: https://www.ninr.nih.gov/newsandinformation/events/maternalhealth2020?utm_campaign=maternalhealth2020&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
Symptom Science Across the Lifespan: Metabolites, Microbes, and Maternal Health
NINR Director's Lecture Presented by Dr. Elizabeth Corwin
September 15 10:00 am - 11:00 am ET
Dr. Corwin will discuss symptom science and the biological mechanisms contributing to symptom development and health outcomes among pregnant and postpartum women. Read more about this lecture and register here.
Source: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/symptom-science-across-the-lifespan-metabolites-microbes-maternal-health-tickets-112855397532?aff=NINRstaff&utm_campaign=&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
NINR Staff Updates
On July 27, Dr. Kay L. Wanke joined NINR as Acting DESP Director, along side recently appointed Deputy Director, Dr. Martha Matocha. The position was previously held by Dr. Kathleen Anderson, who will be leaving in August to assume a leadership position at another NIH Institute. Dr. Wanke is responsible for scientific leadership and overseeing policy and management for grants and contracts to support NINR research and training.
Other staff updates include current NINR Acting Deputy Director, Dr. Jessica Gill, who will return to the role of Acting Scientific Director. Check out other NINR staff updates here.
NINR Campaign: What Nursing Research Means to You
The World Health Organization has designated 2020 as the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife.
In honor of the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, NINR would like your help in capturing what nursing research means to those who live it. This information will help NINR learn more from the community and collectively begin describing the next frontiers in nursing science.
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Rights to enforce school discipline
Main articles: School discipline and School punishment
Throughout the history of education the most common form of school discipline was corporal punishment. While a child was in school, a teacher was expected to act as a substitute parent, with all the normal forms of parental discipline open to them.
In past times, corporal punishment (spanking or paddling or caning or strapping or birching the student in order to cause physical pain) was one of the most common forms of school discipline throughout much of the world. Most Western countries, and some others, have now banned it, but it remains lawful in the United Statesfollowing a US Supreme Court decision in 1977 which held that paddling did not violate the US Constitution.[1]
30 US states have banned corporal punishment, the others (mostly in the South) have not. It is still used to a significant (though declining) degree in some public schools in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. Private schools in these and most other states may also use it. Corporal punishment in American schools is administered to the seat of the student's trousers or skirt with a specially made wooden paddle. This often used to take place in the classroom or hallway, but nowadays the punishment is usually given privately in the principal's office.
Official corporal punishment, often by caning, remains commonplace in schools in some Asian, African and Caribbean countries. For details of individual countries see School corporal punishment.
Currently detention is one of the most common punishments in schools in the United States, the UK, Ireland, Singapore and other countries. It requires the pupil to remain in school at a given time in the school day (such as lunch, recess or after school); or even to attend school on a non-school day, e.g. "Saturday detention" held at some schools. During detention, students normally have to sit in a classroom and do work, write lines or a punishment essay, or sit quietly.
A modern example of school discipline in North America and Western Europe relies upon the idea of an assertive teacher who is prepared to impose their will upon a class. Positive reinforcement is balanced with immediate and fair punishment for misbehavior and firm, clear boundaries define what is appropriate and inappropriate behavior. Teachers are expected to respect their students; sarcasm and attempts to humiliate pupils are seen as falling outside of what constitutes reasonable discipline.[verification needed]
Whilst this is the consensus viewpoint amongst the majority of academics, some teachers and parents advocate a more assertive and confrontational style of discipline.[citation needed]Such individuals claim that many problems with modern schooling stem from the weakness in school discipline and if teachers exercised firm control over the classroom they would be able to teach more efficiently. This viewpoint is supported by the educational attainment of countries—in East Asia for instance—that combine strict discipline with high standards of education.[citation needed]
It's not clear, however that this stereotypical view reflects the reality of East Asian classrooms or that the educational goals in these countries are commensurable with those in Western countries. In Japan, for example, although average attainment on standardized tests may exceed those in Western countries, classroom discipline and behavior is highly problematic. Although, officially, schools have extremely rigid codes of behavior, in practice many teachers find the students unmanageable and do not enforce discipline at all.
Where school class sizes are typically 40 to 50 students, maintaining order in the classroom can divert the teacher from instruction, leaving little opportunity for concentration and focus on what is being taught. In response, teachers may concentrate their attention on motivated students, ignoring attention-seeking and disruptive students. The result of this is that motivated students, facing demanding university entrance examinations, receive disproportionate resources. Given the emphasis on attainment of university places, administrators and governors may regard this policy as appropriate.
Pedagogy and teaching | Obligation to honor students rights


The verdict is still out regarding the effects of Facbook use on well-being. Photo from www.pexels.com licensed under CC0.
There's been a lot of talk in the news recently about Facebook, and much of the discussion has centered on Facebook's role in politics and journalism and user privacy. But there are other discussions about Facebook's product itself, focusing on users' well-being and psychological health. Specifically, some political commentators are making somewhat inaccurate and exaggerated claims about the psychology of Facebook—that it's unhealthy, making users feel depressed and/or lonely. It's important that we think critically about this topic, so this article is devoted to fact-checking such claims.
But is the scientific consensus about Facebook really so one-sided? Actually, the psychological research evidence is far more mixed than Yglesias would have readers believe. There are plenty of studies showing positive associations between Facebook and well-being (rather than negative associations), while other studies find no significant effects for most people.
For example, a 2016 study out of Germany found that Facebook users scored higher on measures of life satisfaction, happiness, self-esteem, and social support, and were somewhat less depressed, compared to non-users. A 2017 study out of Hong Kong found no evidence for "Facebook depression" in their sample, except for those who scored high in the personality trait neuroticism. Only for highly neurotic individuals was time spent on Facebook linked with depressive symptoms. Another study from researchers at Singapore and the U.S. found that Facebook was linked with depression only when people felt envious of others. After controlling for feelings of envy, Facebook use actually reduced depression. The authors suggested that having emotional intelligence may help people regulate envious feelings to allow for enjoyable Facebook usage.
These data, however, are correlational, so not much can be inferred about causation. But a 2012 study from researchers in Germany and the U.S. used an experimental design, in which some participants were randomly assigned to a condition where they received a daily email instructing them to post more status updates. Compared to the control group, participants in the "post more updates" group reported less loneliness over a 7-day period, and results showed that they felt more socially connected to their friends.
But doesn't Facebook itself say that Facebook is bad? According to Yglesias, Facebook's own people admitted that it's bad for mental health, and the company discourages its employees from using it the way most people do. But it appears that Facebook's commentary was more general. In a blog post, Facebook scientists said that they are in the process of studying the positive and negative effects of Facebook usage, and are working to design Facebook in a way that helps everyone consume it in a way that is healthy and beneficial. I see no evidence that Facebook employees use it differently than consumers, or that Facebook discourages its employees from the way it is popularly used.
In summary, while some studies have shown negative associations between Facebook usage and well-being , other studies have found dramatically different results. So what's the answer? Is Facebook good or bad for our mental health? Well, it might be a bit of both, depending on how Facebook is used. Consider the variety of activities people engage in on Facebook. Some use it for entertainment (e.g., funny memes), others use it for information (e.g., news). Some use it to connect with others they already know (friends & family), while others use it to connect with strangers. Most importantly, some Facebook usage is active, involving direct communication with others, while passive usage involves mindless scrolling and viewing content. Passive usage can be problematic for well-being, but the same cannot be said about active usage. Considering the diverse types of activity people exhibit on social media sites, does it really make sense to lump them all together and make overgeneralized conclusions that Facebook is "bad"? Of course not. In fact, some researchers noted that most studies do not differentiate between the various activities people engage in on social media, and that ''aggregating over'' these activities can be problematic. It doesn't make any sense to suggest a singular harmful mechanism for Facebook consumption.
Research findings on the question of Facebook usage and well-being are (at best) mixed. One thing, however, is clear. The bold claims made by political commenters about the psychological effects of Facebook usage are exaggerated. But why are so many people convinced that Facebook is so bad for wellness? Do we have a massive misunderstanding? Some suggest that people are exhibiting a moral panic about Facebook, which may be based in superstitions about new technologies. A moral panic is an extreme and exaggerated concern about something that may not be very problematic. This is why it's so important for journalists and pundits not only to get their facts right when reporting on psychological studies, but to give their audiences the right context. We don't want the American public (or lawmakers) to overreact, which may accidentally create additional problems.
 Brailovskaia, J., & Margraf, J. (2016). Comparing Facebook users and Facebook non-users: Relationship between personality traits and mental health variables—An exploratory study. Plos ONE, 11(12).
 Kross, E., Verduyn, P., Demiralp, E., Park, J., Lee, D. S., Lin, N., & ... Ybarra, O. (2013). Facebook use predicts declines in subjective well-being in young adults. Plos ONE, 8(8).


Tonight we announce a giveaway for 3 Tiny Treasures Kids Sale Pre-Sale passes! Tiny Treasures is the Pocono's and NJ's premiere children's consignment event. They are offering tens of thousands of kids items from clothing to toys to baby gear all weekend to local parents, grandparents and caregivers at fantastic prices.
The sale begins with their private pre-sale which allows people to shop before the general public gets in meaning getting a head start on all that is available before everyone else! The pre-sale runs from 4pm to 7pm on Thursday July 11th at Stroud Mall.
You can enter the giveaway beginning on 12AM on Saturday July 6th.
Earn entries by liking sharing and subscribing. You enter each day by sharing the giveaway!
Just in case you miss out on a pass make sure to plan to visit the sale during the public shopping hours next weekend there will still be lots of deals to be had!
PUBLIC SHOPPING HOURS: Friday, July 12 - 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. Saturday, July 13 - 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.Sunday (Half Price Day), July 14 - 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.