The government's goal to create prosperity is very attainable if there is rational prioritisation of the key sectors. Nepal was ranked 89th in the 2017 Legatum Prosperity Index, up five places from 2016. Since the index was launched in 2006, the country has risen 19 places in the rankings. The major variables that are considered in the prosperity index are economic quality, business environment, governance, education, health, safety and security, personal freedom, social capital and natural environment. How has Nepal been able to make such progress? Agriculture, livestock, forest and environment are the great assets and marvels within the broader framework of development. These sectors play a crucial role in meeting the basic needs of the people, generating employment and raising incomes which is the foundation of development.
Nepal is blessed with scenic Himalayan peaks, mountains, mid-hills and plains. Most of these mountains including the flat lands are covered with green jungles. Forests not only provide timber but also fresh air, water and tourist attractions. It is very encouraging to note that the country's forest coverage has increased to 44.5 percent of the total land area. Despite the numerous benefits of forests, their tangible contribution to the gross domestic product (GDP) is small, which is a pity.
One of the ways to increase their contribution is tree planting and conservation of forests along with utilisation through scientific forest management. If we take the example of an important type of tree found in Nepal, the sal tree (Shorea robusta) turns into waste after about 70-80 years. Similarly, the economic life of the pine tree (Pinus) is considered to be 40-50 years. However, there is widespread hesitation in utilising forest resources following a scientific or sustainable use plan. Questions are being raised from different quarters about why we are wasting our valuable forest resources.
The Forest Act is a cumbersome document limiting the rational utilisation of forest resources. The message is that judicious use of forest resources can be made while maintaining stocks through enhanced tree planting and conservation. Considering the example of Malaysia, forest resources in Nepal can also be used sustainably to contribute to the national GDP while maintaining or even increasing our forest stocks. In fact, Nepal will not have to import timber from Malaysia, China and other countries if it adopts a sustainable plan for wood production and harvest while continuing tree planting and conservation. Old stocks removed through scientific forest management may contribute significantly to the national budget. It is high time that the country streamlined and delineated the revenue collection system in the federal system.
Currently, agriculture is the main source of food, income and employment for the Nepali people. It accounts for about 29 percent of the GDP. Many people link agriculture with our culture, religion and livelihood, and as a result, it has not been developed as desired from the subsistence level. Its growth is rather sluggish and it does not meet the needs of the people. There is unequal balance between agricultural growth and population growth. Despite the huge potential, we have been forced to experience this situation. In this context, we urgently need to review our past efforts and examine our vision, mission and action in the context of present needs.
Broadly speaking, programme, budget and manpower are the three factors of production. In our situation, there seems to be a mismatch either in the budgetary aspects or in the programme. Land is one of the important factors of production, but it is constantly being encroached upon due to real estate development. Land fragmentation leading to a peasant agricultural system is inevitable under our inheritance practices. Timely availability of fertilisers in desired quantities has been limited by lack of a fertiliser manufacturing industry in the country. Poor accessibility of high yielding crop seeds and livestock breeds has added to the cost of production. The capacity to cope with climate change impacts in the agriculture sector is another added burden.
Crop intensification has been held up as only one-third of the farm land is served by irrigation systems. Technical services are inadequate to meet growing demand due to insufficient and semi-skilled staff. Effective implementation of farm machinery and tools has been limited by a peasant farming system and geophysical situation. Industrialisation through value addition has been held up mainly by the small scale of production and lack of availability of facilities like collection, grading, packaging, cooling and processing. Production costs have also been skyrocketing due to high dependence on external inputs, improved technology and dominance of middle men in marketing. Despite these shortcomings, the agriculture sector has been driving the country's economy, and it has not lost hope of achieving prosperity.
Nepal's wealth of natural resources need to be utilised for the country's prosperity while protecting them. Over-exploitation through misuse, overuse or abuse, especially in the forest and environment sectors, is not acceptable. The concerned stakeholders need to focus on value addition through better harvesting, processing and industrialising of timber. People's participation in tree farming should be enhanced, and the forest sector's contribution to the national economy will become visible. Tree planting and conservation with scientific forest management should go side by side.
fertilisers, irrigation, farm machinery and tools) and infrastructure (such as collecting, grading, packaging and storing in cold storage), promoting value addition and breaking up cartels in the market are some of the ways to reduce production costs. It is a pity that middlemen earn greater profits than the real producers.
The minimum support price for some imperishable commodities like rice needs to be urgently reviewed. The establishment of large rice godowns and cold stores in all seven provinces needs to be done without further delay. The accomplishment of these activities through enhanced coordination and support from all stakeholders is possible. The prime lead will be taken by the ministry with greater expectation of support from the public-private and cooperative partnership concept. In this endeavour, the arrangement of financial resources needs to be ensured. Hence, financial resources need to be mobilised and programmes need to be streamlined, and this will be reflected in the upcoming programmes.


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The great number of pigeon populations in many European cities promotes the spread of the European pigeon tick (Argas reflexus), the bites of which cause local and systemic reactions. The aim was to study the occurrence of A. reflexus in several cities of Upper Silesia, and skin lesions caused by A. reflexus tick bites in humans.
The results of investigations carried out in 1995–2002 in five cities located in the Upper Silesian conurbation are presented. Specimens of A. reflexus were collected for one hour in attics and lofts inhabited by these ticks. A history of skin lesions caused by bites was taken from residents who had been infested by A. reflexus. The development of skin lesions was monitored for three months in two individuals who had been bitten several times by these arthropods.
In the localities, 987 A. reflexus specimens were collected, including 334 females, 269 males, and 384 various nymphal stages. Within one hour, 38–109 ticks specimens were collected at the study sites. Cases of attacks by unengorged A. reflexus were reported in all the habitats located in the residential buildings; the ticks were also found in residents' flats and in staircases. Residents who had been repeatedly attacked by European pigeon ticks developed a strong inflammatory reaction to the components of tick saliva, and had purple papules with necrosis in the centre of the lesion. The tick bite areas exhibited scars and hyperpigmentation.
Individuals attacked by A. reflexus several times are at risk of development of severe persistent local reactions to bites. Pigeon ticks, trophically associated with pigeons present abundantly in the Upper Silesian conurbation and other European urban habitats, pose a serious threat to public health.
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Defraggler is a free product from the good guys who make CCleaner, which I use often. It has been in a beta program for months, and the improvements being made are impressive.
It's simple, but fast. I can't think of a single program that is able to analyse a hard drive quicker. And often the file defrag time is faster than I have come to expect. I always assumed that contig would remain my simple defrag utility of choice, but I am finding Defraggler indispensable.
I use an external USB hard drive for making backups, and once I have used SyncToy to make the backups, I do a quick check with Defraggler to make sure that nothing is fragmented. (See screen shot). A quick selection of the fragmented files, and a click on the "Defrag"button and the files are tidied up in no time.
Defraggler is not a full-featured defrag tool yet. It makes no attempt to optimise file placement, and relies on the availability of a block of free space big enough for the entire file being defragged. But when speed is required, or a quick check to see if there are a lot of fragmented files on a drive, this has become my first port-of-call.
It does not attempt to compete with fully-featured products like JkDefrag or PerfectDisk, especially with regard to file placement, but if you're used to using the built-in Windows defrag utility, then give Defraggler a try at www.defraggler.com. It's a small 445kb download, with no nagware or annoying ads: just a quick and simple way to tidy up your hard drive quickly.
Stephen Blewett, the MD of Autopage called me this morning to apologise about the Look4Me, Look4Help issues. He told me that Autopage does not give out its customer information to anyone, and that if he catches any Autopage employee doing so he will fire them personally.
He explained to me that the call centres guess the number ranges of his and other companies, and then make calls without their knowledge. The first time they hear of the billing is when it comes from the network provider (i.e. Vodacom) as a WASP billing record. This system is full of problems, and can be abused by the WASPs. As an example of call centres guessing cell phone numbers, he told me of his wife being called to be offered a "better deal" on her phone.
Stephen also personally apologised on the HelloPeter web site.
I guess the question is why Cellfind claims to have obtained my number from Autopage and why they say they have contacted Autopage to ensure I am on their DNC list. Is it more ducking and diving? Eugenie from Autopage was also extremely doubtful that Autopage had supplied my number to Cellfind. Yet both Carla Legatt and Neil Barnard from Cellfind say it was so. Perhaps they are getting confused with who they sent the billing info to.
Update 11:30am: Andre Geboers from Digicall phoned to accept responsibility for his call centre's part in the process. They didn't check the numbers against the DMA list at the time of making the call, because they received their first list from the DMA on 1st December. They are doing checks against the DMA's list now. Because he was willing to accept personal responsibility for the call, I have dropped my demand for an advert in the Sunday Times.
Not only did the Sunday Times fail to read David Bullard's column before publishing it, but they failed to uphold the press freedom they so ardently espouse. We are expected to become alarmed when a media buyout threatens their independence, or the editor is arrested, but agree with them when they fire a columnist without even the option of an apology. Clueless.
Imagine for a moment what life would be like in South Africa if the evil white man hadn't come to disturb the rustic idyll of the early black settlers.
Ignored by the Portuguese and Dutch, except as a convenient resting point en route to India. Shunned by the British, who had decided that their empire was already large enough and didn't need to include bits of Africa.
The vast mineral wealth lying undisturbed below the Highveld soil as simple tribesmen graze their cattle blissfully unaware that beneath them lies one of the richest gold seams in the world. But what would they want with gold?
There are no roads because no roads are needed because there are no cars. It's 2008 and no one has taken the slightest interest in South Africa, apart from a handful of botanists and zoologists who reckon that the country's flora and fauna rank as one of the largest unspoilt areas in a polluted world.
Because they have never been exposed to the sinful ways of the West, the various tribes of South Africa live healthy and peaceful lives, only occasionally indulging in a bit of ethnic cleansing.
Their children don't watch television because there is no television to watch. Instead they listen to their grandparents telling stories around a fire. They live in single-storey huts arranged to catch most of the day's sunshine and their animals are kept nearby.
Nobody has any more animals than his family needs and nobody grows more crops than he requires to feed his family and swap for other crops. Ostentation is unknown because what is the point of trying to impress your fellow citizens when they are not impressible?
The dreaded Internet doesn't exist in South Africa and cellphone companies have laughed off any hope of interesting the inhabitants in talking expensively into a piece of black plastic. There are no unsightly shopping malls selling expensive goods made by Asian slave workers and consequently there are no newspapers or magazines carrying articles comparing the relative merits of ladies' handbags.
Whisky, the curse of the white man, isn't known in this undeveloped land and neither are cigars. The locals brew a sort of beer out of vegetables and drink it out of shallow wooden bowls. Five-litre paint cans have yet to arrive in South Africa.
Every so often a child goes missing from the village, eaten either by a hungry lion or a crocodile. The family mourn for a week or so and then have another child. Life is, on the whole, pretty good but there is something vital missing. Being unaware of the temptations of the outside world, nobody knows what it is. Fire has been discovered and the development of the wheel is coming on nicely but the tribal elders are still aware of some essential happiness ingredient they still need to discover. Praying to the ancestors is no help because they are just as clueless.
Then something happens that will change this undisturbed South Africa forever. Huge metal ships land on the coast and big metal flying birds are sent to explore the sparsely populated hinterland. They are full of men from a place called China and they are looking for coal, metal, oil, platinum, farmland, fresh water and cheap labour and lots of it. Suddenly the indigenous population realise what they have been missing all along: someone to blame. At last their prayers have been answered.
At the outset, I must state that the column should never have been published in the first place.
The Sunday Times respects its readers and — while it is our mission to provoke, challenge and entertain — will not insult or abuse them.
The sad fact is that this idyllic pre-colonial existence is taught in schools and universities, but the irony is that this myth is the invention of a French colonialist. Once again, euro-centric political correctness is suckered by euro-centric colonial claptrap.
It seems to be a national pastime that whenever someone is accused of incompetence or stupidity, the race card is played. And if it isn't the race card, it's the colonial/imperial card.
Face it: Africa is a hard place with hard leaders who cling to power and amass vast personal fortunes while destroying their country. While some of the moderate leaders sing songs about machine guns, others buy them in bulk and use them against their rivals, when they are not torturing them or locking them up on Robben Island.
"David Bullard's weekly Out to Lunch column is the finest example of the benefits of a free and unshackled press. Let's hope it continues to be so."
Quote from the dust jacket of Bullard's book "Screw it, Let's Do Lunch", written by Sunday Times Editor Mondli Makhanya, the same person who fired him!?
Confirmation: Your wife's number was added to our internal Do Not Call when you spoke to Carla yesterday. Your number was added this morning after you responded to my initial e-mail.
Cellfind notified you/your wife on at least 12 occasions via SMS of the changes. [Earlier in the day you told me that you had only sent 4 messages on 30-11-2007 and 2 on 10-04-2008. I wonder when the other 6 were sent, if at all?] I cannot speak for them but Autopage as a rule notify every customer, every time a new service is added to their account (Also via SMS).
Let me ensure [sic] you that I take this very seriously and even though in our view, we are not in contravention of any law, we have made every effort possible to ensure we don't have a repeat occurrence and have provided you with as much assistance as humanly possible. So, please let me know what you see as adequate?
Since you ask, Mr Barnard, it would be helpful if you actually stopped ducking and diving and pushing responsibility onto someone else. Autopage did not make the call or send the first 4 SMS messages. Each one of those messages violates the ECT Act, even though you claim you didn't know that I should have been on your list. That was due to your negligence, not mine. Ignorance is no excuse. A thief who gets caught with the stolen goods is still a thief, even if he says "sorry" and gives the goods back.
Secondly, adding someone onto your database without their permission is dishonest, and expecting them to opt out is even more so. In fact it's a bloody cheek, and not the best way to treat your customers. The correct option is "Opt-in", where customers confirm that they WANT the service, rather than being expected to say if they don't, assuming they heard the question.
Thirdly, your call centre first told me that they had obtained the number from Vodacom, and then the story changed later to Autopage. They have yet to confirm that they did, in fact, supply the number. Who am I supposed to believe?
It's all very well to "fire" the person who called my wife, but when are you going to tell me that your company or Digicall made any attempt to contact ALL the people this person subscribed, to make sure they were aware of paying for the service. This could be done by sending an SMS to all the "subscribers", asking them to confirm that they still WANT the service. Clearly this did not happen because we did not receive any messages "several months ago" when the alleged bad apple was "fired".
Either your company is completely incompetent and cavalier in its approach to customer privacy; or you are systematically exploiting loopholes and using convenient excuses to pacify irate customers while you continue to deduct money on a monthly basis from thousands of unsuspecting consumers. I don't know which of the two it is, but neither is a good idea.
If you are genuinely concerned about people being subscribed without their knowledge or permission, then change your business model to an "opt-in" one, and send an SMS to all your existing subscribers asking them to confirm that they still want the service. Also, publish an apology on your web site for the inconvenience caused by your current dodgy practices. Then I'll believe you. Until then, CellFind is the company who got caught with its hands in the cookie jar.
Update Monday 14 th April: Autopage company policy is that they don't give out lists of numbers to anyone. What do you say to that, Mr Barnard? You were very vague about who you got the numbers from.
Update 21 November 2008: It seems that their practices have not changed. Here is an article from the Independent Online web site.
In November a call centre agent phoned my wife's cell phone and offered her services called "Look4Me" and "Look4Help". We don't like marketing calls and she did not agree to anything. Even so, we started getting billed for this service, in spite of the fact that no permission was obtained from the account holder, i.e. me, violating AutoPage's own policy on customer accounts.
So I called AutoPage (0860 23 2424) and they promised to cancel the service. I also asked for a refund. Judging by the complaints on HelloPeter, I am not the only one to be billed in this way. As far as I can tell this is a case of fraud.
Then I called the Look4Help call centre for on 086 010 5774, and was told that Vodacom had supplied them with my wife's number. Later I received an email from Carla Leggatt who claimed that AutoPage had supplied them with the number. Since AutoPage has done this before, I am not surprised, but now CellFind have added an ECT Act violation to their billing fraud. By phoning a number that is already marked as a Do Not Call (both by Autopage and the Direct Marketing Association), they violated the ECT Act, and the penalty for this is 1 year in jail, with no option of a fine.
What also gets me is that at no point was I, as the account holder, notified, either by mail, email or SMS, that we had been signed up for this service, and it was only because I checked my cell phone bill that I noticed the problem. Scumbags like this should rot in jail, and I am considering charges against them for both fraud and privacy violations, unless they make a public apology, preferably in the national newspapers, and request anyone else billed in this way to contact them for a refund.
Update Friday 10am: Niel Barnard from CellFind confirmed that the details were obtained from AutoPage, and admitted that they did not check the data against the DMA's list. He has promised to send me a copy of the recording of the original call. I spoke to the secretary for the MD for AutoPage, who put me through to customer services without really listening to my enquiry. I spoke to Andre Geboers at Digicall, the call centre company in Cape Town (021-405-1425), and he explained that they only get cell numbers from AutoPage, not ID numbers, so they can't really do any checks against the DMA list. It seems to me like a deliberate loophole to avoid prosecution, and the call verification process sounds a little vague. I have asked for a copy of the "script" used by the call centre agents, to see how well it complies with the DMA's Code of Conduct.
The person who spoke to your wife has in actual fact been fired a few months ago. I have an agreement with Digicall that any transgression of the script, etc will lead to an immediate dismissal of the offending agent on their side.
How convenient. Employ a temp worker for a few months (say November and December), sign up as many people as possible, legally or not, and then when anyone complains tell them that the person was fired. But they cannot tell me who this person was, or whether any of the people he/she called have been contacted to confirm that they did, in fact, agree to the service. So the firing does not absolve the company of the ECT Act violations or the billing fraud, for which the company as a whole is responsible.
So if you don't get the messages, ignore them, or just delete them as spam, you have effectively "agreed" to their service by not doing anything. Not only is this dishonest and unethical, it's also a violation of the DMA's Code of Conduct.
Update Monday 14 th April: Autopage company policy is that they don't give out lists of numbers to anyone.


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Gold Coast United have responded to their breach notice from the FFA claiming they intend to continue to wear a strip emblazoned with 'Freedom of Speech' for the rest of the season.
In a statement released on Monday, the club launched a staunch defence of its decision to display the slogan 'Freedom of Speech' on the front of its jerseys and on advertising boards at its home ground, Skilled Park on Saturday night.
United did so against the permission of the FFA, leading the governing body of football in Australia to slap the club with a material breach of their club participation agreement.
The message was used in place the club's usual major sponsor, Hyatt Regency Coolum, because chairman Clive Palmer is embroiled in a legal dispute with global hotel management giants Hyatt, the company which operates his recently-acquired resort.
Chief executive Clive Mensink vowed to stick with the new branding for the rest of the season and possibly next season as well, claiming the message was not meant to cause controversy.
"We were totally dismayed by FFA's objection to the club-s decision," Mensink said.
"It is public knowledge that Mr Palmer-s group of companies are in a legal dispute with the Hyatt and as a result, the club wasn-t comfortable playing with the Hyatt brand on the playing strips."
"It was suggested internally that as a replacement, something non-controversial would serve as a message to the broader community."
"We currently have two African refugees playing for the club who have experienced what it is like to live in a country fighting for freedom of speech."
"We thought it was an innocent term as we all recognise in Australia that freedom of speech is something we all respect."
"Currently we are all concerned for those in Syria fighting for their freedom. Australians have fought in world wars and other actions to protect our freedoms, there was no way we would condone any disrespect for freedom of speech."
"It is our constitutional right to embrace this message and we don't believe FFA should have the power to intervene."
"Fans and the public deserve to know and have the right to freedom of speech."
These are the views of the author and are by no means the views of the FFA or Hyundai A-League.


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Q: Matrix exponentiation problem I have a problem with figuring this out. I looked at wikipedia article, but I'm not understanding it obviously. I have a matrix
$$
A=\left(\begin{array}{cc}0&a\\a&0\end{array}\right)
$$
And I need to find matrix exponential of that matrix. The solution is given as:
$$
\exp\left(\begin{array}{cc}0&a\\a&0\end{array}\right)=\sum^\infty_{k=0}\frac{1}{k!}\left(\begin{array}{cc}0&a\\a&0\end{array}\right)^k=\left(\begin{array}{cc}1&0\\0&1\end{array}\right)+\left(\begin{array}{cc}0&a\\a&0\end{array}\right)+\frac{1}{2}\left(\begin{array}{cc}a^2&0\\0&a^2\end{array}\right)+\frac{1}{6}\left(\begin{array}{cc}0&a^3\\a^3&0\end{array}\right)+\ldots
$$
But how? Shouldn't it be just writing a Taylor expansion for exponential function with $A$ as exponent? Why are the terms alternating? Can someone clarify this a bit for me? Thanks.

A: Multiply out a few and you will see:
$$\left(\begin{array}{cc}0&a\\a&0\end{array}\right)\left(\begin{array}{cc}0&a\\a&0\end{array}\right)=\left(\begin{array}{cc}a^2&0\\0&a^2\end{array}\right),$$
$$\left(\begin{array}{cc}0&a\\a&0\end{array}\right)\left(\begin{array}{cc}a^2&0\\0&a^2\end{array}\right)=\left(\begin{array}{cc}0&a^3\\a^3&0\end{array}\right),$$
and so forth.

A: We have
$$
A^2=\left(\begin{array}{cc}0&a\\a&0\end{array}\right)\left(\begin{array}{cc}0&a\\a&0\end{array}\right)=\left(\begin{array}{cc}a^2&0\\0&a^2\end{array}\right)=a^2I_2
$$
so it's simple to see that
$$A^k=a^kI_2\;\text{if $k$ is even and}\; A^k=a^{k-1} A\;\text{if $k$ is odd}$$
so
$$\exp(A)=\sum_{k=0}^\infty\frac{A^k}{k!}=\sum_{p=0}^\infty\frac{A^{2p}}{(2p)!}+\sum_{p=0}^\infty\frac{A^{2p+1}}{(2p+1)!}= \left(\sum_{p=0}^\infty\frac{a^{2p}}{(2p)!}\right)I_2+\left(\sum_{p=0}^\infty\frac{a^{2p}}{(2p+1)!}\right)A\\=\cosh(a)I_2+\frac{1}{a}\sinh(a)A=\left(\begin{array}{cc}\cosh(a)&\sinh(a)\\\sinh(a)&\cosh(a)\end{array}\right)$$

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Published June 15, 2022 11:43 AM
Redmond home added to National Register of Historic Places, with guidance for more homes to follow
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Norman and Frances Swanson House, a new entry to the National Register of Historic Places
SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – Two National Register applications from the city of Redmond, recommended by the Oregon's State Advisory Committee on Historic Preservation, have been accepted by the National Park Service and listed in the National Register of Historic Places as of June 6.
Historic Residential Resources of Redmond, Oregon, Multiple Property Document (MPD) is a cover document designed to facilitate the individual listing of historic Redmond residences in the National Register of Historic Places.
The MPD describes the settlement and residential development of Redmond from 1900 to 1970, and defines the types of associated residential properties such as single-family residences and their associated outbuildings, multi-family residences and their associated outbuildings and residential historic districts. The document then provides guidance on determining the eligibility of such properties for listing in the National Register.
Norman and Frances Swanson House, 327 NW Canyon Drive, Redmond, Oregon, is the first residential property successfully listed in the National Register through the Historic Residential Resources of Redmond Oregon MPD.
Built in 1966, the Swanson House is one of only a few Contemporary-style, single-family residences and associated outbuildings in Redmond.
Designed by the Eugene architectural firm of Balzhiser, Seder and Rhodes, the property is listed for its architectural design, highly reflective of the modernist architectural movement in the Pacific Northwest, characterized by its use of local, natural materials, low-pitched gable roof with broad overhanging eaves, have retained their location and setting integrity, historic associations, overall massing, low-pitched roof and natural materials, open floorplan, and extensive use of large windows as a means of blending interior and exterior living spaces.
The National Register is maintained by the National Park Service under the authority of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. More information about the National Register and recent Oregon listings are online at oregonheritage.org (listed under "Designate").
Properties listed in the National Register are:
Recognized as significant to the nation, state, or community;
Considered in the planning of federal or federally-assisted projects;
Eligible for federal and state tax benefits;
Qualify for historic preservation grants when funds are available;
Eligible for leniency in meeting certain building code requirements;
Subject to local laws pertaining to the conservation and protection of historic resources.
National Register listing does not place any restrictions on a property at the state or federal level, unless property owners choose to participate in tax benefit or grant programs.
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Anarchist criminology is a school of thought in criminology that draws on influences and insights from anarchist theory and practice. Building on insights from anarchist theorists including Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Peter Kropotkin, anarchist criminologists' approach to the causes of crime emphasises what they argue are the harmful effects of the state. Anarchist criminologists, a number of whom have produced work in the field since the 1970s, have critiqued the political underpinnings of criminology and emphasised the political significance of forms of crime not ordinarily considered to be political. Anarchists propose the abolition of the state; accordingly, anarchist criminologists tend to argue in favour of forms of non-state justice. The principles and arguments of anarchist criminology share certain features with those of Marxist criminology, critical criminology and other schools of thought within the discipline, while also differing in certain respects.

Background and precursors

Anarchism is not a single ideology but rather a tradition that encompasses a variety of belief systems and practices, united by a belief that the state is coercive, exploitative, and destructive, and by advocacy on behalf of non-hierarchical organisational forms and mutual aid. Anarchism is anti-authoritarian: whereas ideologies such as Marxism and feminism oppose particular forms of power, anarchists oppose power as such, including capitalism, the state, organised religion and patriarchy, which they see as interwoven with one another. Accordingly, anarchism questions the conventional wisdom produced by these forms of power, including ideas about universality, and pursues pluralism and multiplicity in the epistemic and aesthetic domains. "Anarchy", for anarchists, means a society without rulers, but not one without order.

The roots of anarchist criminology lie in the critiques of law and legality formulated by classical anarchists including Mikhail Bakunin, Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman, William Godwin, Peter Kropotkin, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Max Stirner, each of whom envisioned forms of social order that would, in the absence of the state, maximise individual freedom and encourage self-organisation. Kropotkin developed an expansive account of the sociology of law, in which he argued that aspects of existing legal structures serve primarily to protect the wealthy or to protect the state, and was among the first criminologists to examine crime's social causes. Kropotkin argued that law, especially law protecting private property and the state, was to blame for sustaining criminality and generating social pathologies. Rather than preventing crime, Kropotkin argued that punishment only brings out the worst in people and enhances the power of the state over people's lives. Kropotkin thought that most crime would vanish following the abolition of private property and the replacement of profit and competition by cooperation and human need as society's guiding principles. In this framework, alternative notions of social justice and alternative forms of solidarity would supersede existing structures of criminal justice and the rule of law as tools for mitigating anti-social behaviour.

Jeff Shantz and Dana M. Williams argue that "grappling with an anarchist criminology means engaging more directly and more fully with the history of anarchist writings on crime and social order", and that Proudhon's work in particular anticipates the insights of left realist criminology, while also transcending it by maintaining a critical attitude toward state power. Shantz and Williams argue that Proudhon's thought is "an antidote to the authoritarian, mythic conceptions of justice presented by social contract theory and mainstream criminology but also the limited and constrained notions of justice posited by statist critical theory and socialism" and a precursor to peacemaking criminology and theories of restorative justice.

The anarchist criminologist Jeff Ferrell also identifies the anarcho-syndicalist Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) as a precursor of anarchist criminology: in the United States in the early 20th century the IWW identified "law and order" as a form of power instantiated by the ruling class at the expense of the working class, and developed the tactic of the "on the job strike", in which workers stringently obey rules and regulations in order to slow work. Ferrell argues that criminologists can draw on the anarchist tradition in order to oppose "an increasingly authoritarian social order". Within this framework, anarchist perspectives aid in understanding forms of both authority and resistance.

Overview

Causes of crime

Anarchist criminologists hold that crime is caused by structures of oppression and domination. Accordingly, their priority is often to critique these structures, with the goal of replacing them, rather than to develop detailed analyses of how they cause crime.

Anarchist criminologists have theorised the law as a "state protection racket", arguing that phenomena such as speed traps and seizure laws are similarly backed by the threat of violence. They argue that these and similar phenomena are a feature of all legal systems—found in democracies as much as in dictatorships—and that their ubiquity indicates that law does not protect from harm, but is itself a form of harm.

Anarchist criminologists also emphasise the "definitional" role of criminal justice systems, through which such systems are empowered to define certain behaviours as criminal, and argue that many acts considered criminal are only deemed so because they are associated with less powerful social groups or with efforts to dislodge existing power structures.

Ferrell argues that anarchist criminology is a critique of the way that human relationships become submerged in, and immobilised by, structures of legal authority. Anarchist criminology contends that law solidifies and reproduces existing structures of power, thereby placing limitations on possible social relations and exacerbating crime and violence.

Approach to the discipline

Anarchist criminology argues that the state is not politically neutral, and that criminology cannot be neutral either. Within this framework, anarchist criminologists argue that while much criminology takes the side of the powerful, other traditions in criminology side with the oppressed and exploited.

Anarchist criminologists argue that state law and criminalisation are inherently political, so acts of crime are by extension always imbued with political significance. As such, anarchist criminology calls for close attention to be paid to criminal (or criminalised) behaviour such as graffiti writing, "obscene" artistic and musical performances, pirate radio broadcasts, illegal strikes, shoplifting, drug use and hacking, and finds forms of political resistance in behaviours and lifestyles commonly considered criminal.

Ferrell describes anarchist criminology as invested in a process of demystification through which the epistemologies of certainty, truth and justice that are used to justify authority are called into question. Ferrell expresses hope that this process of "dismantling" the mythologies surrounding the law will "contribute to a more general disrespect for law and authority" by calling law's legitimacy into question.

Ferrell argues that instead of adhering to a single masterplan, anarchist criminology is characterised by a "spirit of eclectic inclusivity" and an embrace of "fluid communities of uncertainty and critique." He also proposes that anarchist criminological orientations "can serve not as some rigid corrective, nor competing paradigm, but as analytic sparks within an already lively alternative criminology." Ferrell argues that anarchist criminology does not purport "to incorporate reasoned or reasonable critiques of law and legal authority," but rather argues that social change requires "unreasonable" approaches.

Practical implications

Anarchist criminologists propose the replacement of existing legal systems with decentralised, negotiated, participatory justice. Such a system would, it is thought, encourage individuals to accept responsibility for their behaviour by reminding them of their connections to others in society. Anarchist criminology argues that if law must exist, its function must be transformed so that instead of protecting private property, social privilege and state power, it would ensure tolerance and diversity. Anarchist criminology tends to favour holistic transformative justice approaches over restorative justice, which it tends to argue is too beholden to the existing criminal justice system.

Many anarchist criminologists endorse prison abolition, arguing that prisons encourage recidivism and should be replaced by efforts to rehabilitate offenders and reintegrate them into communities. Ferrell argues that anarchist criminology must oppose moral entrepreneurs and associated "wars" (the War on Drugs, War on Gangs, etc.), which he argues "operate as well-planned exercises in victimization and blame, deflecting the public gaze from those in authority and toward those least able to resist it." Declaring "war" in this way, Ferrell argues, "exacerbates and perpetuates the very problems it claims to address" and leads to heightened violence.

Larry Tifft and Dennis Sullivan argue that advocates of anarchist criminology "are interested not only in pointing to those persons, groups, organizations, and nation-states that deny people their needs in everyday life but also in fostering social arrangements that alleviate pain and suffering by providing for everyone's needs." Tifft and Sullivan argue that "an anarchist needs-based criminology should transcend criminology", resulting in "changes in our daily lives: interacting with your intimate partner differently, living with your children differently; collaborating with coworkers differently; helping children develop their talents differently; making collective investment decisions differently; and making self-development decisions differently."

Relation to other schools of criminological thought

The core principles of anarchist criminology are linked to those of abolitionism, critical race theory, left realism, peacemaking criminology and restorative justice. Anarchist criminology also informs new criminology, labeling theory, postmodern criminology and cultural criminology. Stuart Henry and Scott A. Lukas argue that anarchist criminology is related to constitutive criminology, cultural criminology, left realism and critical race theory, all of which they argue represent divergences from a single perspective but which also have in common the themes of peacemaking criminology and restorative justice. Peacemaking criminology, which argues that violent responses to social problems result in further violence and seeks to develop ways to transform violent relationships into safe and respectful relationships, also emerged from work in anarchist criminology. Ferrell also identifies anarchist criminology as a type of newsmaking criminology.

Anarchist criminology shares with postmodern criminology the belief that domination can work through structures of information and knowledge. It also shares with Marxist criminology the view that crime has its origins in an unjust social order and that a radical transformation of society is desirable. Unlike Marxists, however, who propose that capitalism be replaced with state socialism, anarchists reject all hierarchical or authoritarian structures of power. Anarchist criminology is associated with critical criminology, though Anthony J. Nocella II argues that differences between the two schools reflect divergences between anarchism and Marxism: anarchist criminology foregrounds anti-authoritarianism, while critical criminology shares with Marxism a willingness to accept authority when exercised by the proletariat. While many critical criminologists argue that state law in many cases reproduces economic inequality, patriarchy and racism, anarchist criminologists go further by arguing that state law is inherently harmful to people and society even when it is not overtly discriminatory.

In his case study of graffiti writing, Ferrell argues that anarchist criminology must combine aspects of interactionism and political or economic criminology, as "we cannot understand the nature of crime without understanding both its immediate construction out of social interaction and its larger construction through processes of political and economic authority." Ferrell proposes that this entails "that anarchist criminologists must look up and down at the same time—that is, must pay attention to the subtleties of legal and political authority, the nuances of lived criminal events, and the interconnections between the two." However, while anarchist criminologists "look up" disrespectfully at hierarchical and authoritarian power structures, they "look down and around at the lived experience of criminality ... respectfully—not with respect for any and all criminal acts, but for the possibilities of meaning that are embedded in them."

Ferrell also writes: Anarchist criminology certainly incorporates the sort of "visceral revolt" that characterizes anarchism itself, the passionate sense of "fuck authority," to quote the old anarchist slogan, the comes from being shoved around by police officers, judges, bosses, priests, and other authorities one time too many. Moreover, anarchists would agree with many feminist and postmodernist theorists that such visceral passions matter as methods of understanding and resistance outside the usual confines of rationality and respect. But anarchist criminology also incorporates a relatively complex critique of state law and legality which begins to explain why we might benefit from defying authority, or standing "against the law."

Anarchist criminologists
Prominent anarchist criminologists since the 1970s have included Randall Amster, who has explored anti-authoritarian forms of conflict resolution in anarchist communities; Bruce DiCristina, whose work draws on the thought of Paul Feyerabend in order to critique criminology and criminal justice; Jeff Ferrell, whose work examines the relationships between legal authority, resistance and criminality; Harold Pepinsky, who in 1978 published an article on "communist anarchism as an alternative to the rule of criminal law", which introduced an approach that later came to be known as peacemaking criminology; Dennis Sullivan; and Larry Tifft, who argued for the replacement of state law with a face-to-face form of justice grounded in humans' needs. David Gil and Richard Quinney have also published similar critiques and proposals to those that feature in anarchist criminology.

Evaluation
Eugene McLaughlin argues that anarchist criminology furnishes criminologists with "an uncompromising critique of law, power and the state; the promise of un-coercive social relationships; the possibility of alternative forms of dispute settlement and harm reduction; a form of political intervention that may be appropriate to an increasingly complex and fragmented world where conventional forms of politics are becoming increasingly redundant; [and] the basis to develop both libertarian and communitarian criminologies." Michael Welch argued in 2005 that although its application to the study of lawlessness remains limited to a handful of works, anarchist criminology offers the field a valuable framework for deconstructing the state, its authority, and its machinery of repressive social control, as well as the resistance it evokes .... Anarchist criminology has the potential to further advance critical penology by offering a fluid approach to law and justice, inviting scholars to incorporate an array of sociological concepts into their analyses of the state, the criminal justice system, and the corrections apparatus.

Stanislav Vysotsky argues that anarchist criminology's emphasis on restorative justice, as a set of methods applied after crimes or violations of norms have occurred, has resulted in it lacking accounts of how to prevent crime, and that militant anti-fascism, understood as an unorthodox form of policing, can serve as a model for such a preventive approach. Such methods, Vysotsky suggests, are in keeping with the central tenets of anarchism, and so "represent a challenge to the pacifist orientation of anarchist criminology". Anarchist criminology has also been criticised for its perceived romantic idealism, conceptual confusion, lack of a theoretical foundation for its opposition to punishment, and lack of a practical strategy for dealing with dangerous individuals.

Notes

References

Further reading

External links
 Criminology reading list, Anarchist Studies Network

Criminology
Anarchism


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Q: Does gravity play a role in the Earth's equatorial bulge? I'm trying to understand why the Earth bulges at the equator. But before looking at the Earth, which introduces gravity, I wanted to make sure I understood the shape of some rotating objects and if/why they have a bulge.
A metal sphere: A very rigid object. If this is rotated then there is no bulge because it requires a lot of energy to deform the object.
A ball of sand: Nothing is connected. If this rotated then all the sand is simply thrown off due to inertia, leaving nothing behind after a time.
A ball of dirt: Somewhat rigid. The dirt wants to "fly off" due to inertia but tension keeps the object pulled together, as a result there is bulge at the equator - where the velocity is fastest and thus more "tension" (more bulge) is needed.
Does the "ball of dirt" situation accurately resemble Earth? If so, then does this not suffice to explain why the Earth bulges without even needing to mention gravity? Or is Earth more like the "ball of sand" which is can only be kept together (while rotating) under the force of gravity? Or is it something between or neither at all?
I'm afraid I'm terribly confused as to how the various effects come in to play and interact to create an equatorial bulge. Some sources have tried to explain in terms of an energy equilibrium but I'm not entirely satisfied with that as an explanation (actually that source even indicates the equilibrium approach is not so straightforward).

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Does gravity play a role in the Earth's equatorial bulge?

Absolutely.

A metal sphere: A very rigid object. If this is rotated then there is no bulge because it requires a lot of energy to deform the object.

Of your three models, this is the closest to the truth. Metal is not quite as rigid as you think. It compresses under pressure, bends under strain. Solid metal can be quite ductile and malleable, particularly when it's warm.
Most of the Earth is solid rock. It, too, is ductile and malleable.
That ductility and malleability, combined with gravitation, is all that is needed to explain the Earth's equatorial bulge. The Earth's self-gravitation forces the Earth to take on a shape whose surface is very close to an equipotential surface. The equipotential surface for a rotating object is not spherical. It is instead ellipsoidal. In other words, an object with an equatorial bulge.

A: The inside of the earth is still, partly liquid, source: Mantle  So, it's very viscous, slow moving under very high pressure, but it's still liquid enough and the Earth's crust is really quite thin and not nearly rigid enough to resist forces from below.
Taking the earth as a whole, I'm not sure there's a really good single single analogy.

A metal sphere: A very rigid object. If this is rotated then there is
  no bulge because it requires a lot of energy to deform the object.

OK, I can't do the math here, but in a nutshell, an Earth made of Iron and an earth made of water would have the same bulge - er, almost certainly.    Certainly a hot earth made of iron would have the same bulge as the earth does now, cause the inside would be liquid (and the formation of planets tends to get them very very hot).   The bulge has nothing to do with density or tension.  Just angular momentum vs gravity.  An earth made of fluffy marshmallow vs an earth made of iron would have very different gravity but the corresponding angular momentum would be equivalent to the ratio in gravity so the bulge would be the same no matter what the material.
Now, if you could construct an entire earth - cold and solid all the way through, made of Iron into a perfect sphere, maybe such an earth could resist the centrifugal forces that makes planets bulge. - MAYBE, but it would have to be artificially constructed and even then, I'm not sure it would hold and even if the strong metallic bonds did hold, there would still be stretching around the middle due to rotation anyway.   It's roughly the same principal of how high can you build.   At a certain point, even the strongest metals won't support themselves if you keep building bigger and bigger - so generally speaking, hardness isn't a factor at all in planetary bulges any more than mass is - at least at the size of a planet.   All that matters is the ratio between gravitation and rotation.   At the size of a large asteroid or small moon, then hardness matters, but not for an earth sized planet.

A ball of sand: Nothing is connected. If this rotated then all the
  sand is simply thrown off due to inertia, leaving nothing behind after
  a time.

You have to compare the gravitational force to the centrifugal force.   If the Earth spun some 18 times faster, sand could fly off the equator, effectively weightless.   The Earth spins much to slow for that to happen though when the moon formed, the Earth may have spun some 5 or 6 times faster than it does today - enough that, at that speed of rotation, you'd feel noticeably a little lighter on the equator, but not enough for stuff to fly off.   in other words, Gravity 42, Inertia 0.  It's not even close.
On Jupiter, which spins faster than any other planet, and assuming it had a hard surface you could stand on, you would notice a measurable difference in your weight at the pole vs on the equator.  Source:   Jupiter
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A day on Jupiter is only 9 hours and 48 minutes long. Such fast
  rotation causes Jupiter to be somewhat squashed due to centrifugal
  force: its polar radius is 4000 km less than its equatorial radius
  (the latter being 71,392 km). That means you'd weigh almost 25% more
  at Jupiter's poles than at its equator, that is, if you could find a
  place to stand! So a 100 pound person (on Earth) would weigh 230
  pounds at Jupiter's equator but 285 pounds at the pole!

Now, if you get small enough objects with very low gravity, what you suggest can happen.  There are comets and asteroids that spin fast where anything lose on their rotation flies off, or, effectively negative gravity.   That can't happen with a planet, it can only happen with small objects and even then, it's pretty rare.
Example:  negative gravity asteroid
OK, moving on:

A ball of dirt: Somewhat rigid. The dirt wants to "fly off" due to
  inertia but tension keeps the object pulled together, as a result
  there is bulge at the equator - where the velocity is fastest and thus
  more "tension" (more bulge) is needed.

As discussed above, inertia would need to be sufficient to effectively make gravity zero.   At the size of a water balloon, gravity makes no sense, and things like surface tension is what you can see.   Small things don't have gravity to speak of.   At the size of a planet, bulges happen, but nothing flies off.   The bulge and "flying off" is the same force, but Gravity wins and it's not even close.

I'm afraid I'm terribly confused as to how the various effects come in
  to play and interact to create an equatorial bulge. Some sources have
  tried to explain in terms of an energy equilibrium but I'm not
  entirely satisfied with that as an explanation (actually that source
  even indicates the equilibrium approach is not so straightforward).

Gravity and the inertia from spinning can seem counter intuitive.  I get that.  The idea that standing on the Earth's equator and knowing that you're spinning at over 1,000 MPH, you might think, moving that fast, maybe I should fly off the earth and for what it's worth, that confused Ptolemy too, that's why he rejected the rotating earth idea that Aristarchus of Samos had proposed.  (Aristarchus followed Aristotle and I sometimes wonder what might have been had Aristotle and Aristarchus met and had that discussion, but Aristarchus was born 12 years after Aristotle died, and by then Aristotle's writings, which were accepted as scientific gospel for nearly 1,800 years, had been finished.   And, I'm not trying to put down Ptolemy or Aristotle, that's probobly not fair.   I only bring up the example to point out that the idea that the Earth was rotating was sufficiently confusing that many of the brightest people on earth doubted it was possible for many centuries.
So lets use a real world example:
You're in a car and the car takes a turn, or banks, if you like and you feel yourself pulled in the opposite direction of the bank.   That's quite similar to the interaction between gravity and centrifugal force on the surface of the earth.   Now in a car, gravity pulls you down and when the car banks a hard turn - that pulls you sideways, the forces are at a 90 degree angle.   Gravity down stays constant but gravity sideways depends on the speed and tightness of the turn.
On earth, lets say the earth's equator - same thing, except Gravity is down and the centrifugal force, or inertia, or bank - whatever you want to call it, is effectively up, not sideways.
OK, back to the car.   The car is driving very fast, just over 1,000 MPH, but it banks the turn very slowly, in fact, the turn on the wheel is so slight, you barely even see it and it takes 6 hours and over 6,000 miles of driving to complete 1 90 degree turn.   Because the turn takes so long, the force you feel sideways in that car is very slight - about 3 OZ to a 200 lb person.
Same with the earth.  The Inertia, reduces your gravity less than 1/2 of 1 percent - so little, in fact, you don't even feel it.
hope that wasn't too long.  :-)


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Carrie Fisher, 56, is working out with a trainer to play Princess Leia one more time.
Cue the slave Leia and metal bikini references.
Carrie Fisher is "reportedly trying to slim down" for her role as the "iconic Princess Leia" in the upcoming latest installment of "Star Wars," according to the San Jose Mercury News.
The actress, 56, has had her career defined by her turn as the heroine in the original trilogy -- a "highlight" of which was the scenes in which she donned a "metal bikini" in Jabba the Hutt's palace.
"I'm glad they are doing a new movie because they are sending a trainer to my house so I can get in really good shape," Fisher told the Calgary Herald. "So I'm really eating a lot of sugar in advance, as you can see. By the time I really get down to it, I will have eaten everything."
Fisher has adopted a sense of humor about the situation. Fisher is a fan of Disney, the new owner of the Star Wars franchise following George Lucas's multi-billion dollar sale.
"I like being bought by Disney, because they never wanted to buy me before," she said.


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The Top Shelf Has Some Really Great Beauty Advice
Everyone's the CEO of their own beauty startup: when it comes to figuring out a routine that works, there's a lot of learning-by-doing. What do you budget for? Where should you splurge? How do you get this to work like that, or even just run smoothly? There's a whole vocabulary to learn, processes to get familiar with, and at the very beginning, no one knows what the heck they're doing. True to form, it helps to network. Through The Top Shelf, we're constantly learning new tips to navigate our way through the beauty aisle—think of the interviewees as beauty mentors, and you their bright eyed and bushy tailed beneficiary. Beyond just product recommendations, there were so many nuggets of wisdom from this year's Top Shelf cohort that made us say "ohhhh." Just some we have bookmarked:
Beauty, at its best, should help you feel more like yourself
It doesn't have to be expensive
But a lot of it is
There's always something new to learn
And a solution to even the most persistent woes
But if you can't find one… most rules are meant to be broken
"One of the best tips a makeup artist gave me was to decide on three things in your routine that matter the most to you, and make them a part of your consistent casual look. My three things are mascara, lip gloss, and eyebrows, for sure." —Poppy, Musician
"When I wear a red lip, I can't wear any cheek color. I like for my face to feel very matte, almost like a cross between that dramatic Gwen Stefani look and Snow White. If I don't wear a red lip, the only other lip product I'll use is balm. And that's when I'll do a more flushed cheek." —Athena Calderone, Interior Designer, Author, + Chef
"When I was younger, my mom would say, 'Don't wear red lipstick because it looks garish on dark skin.' But as soon as she said that, it made me want to go out and buy all the red lipsticks. I actually think that bright lipsticks and really bold, dark lipsticks look really cool with dark skin tones. And especially because I don't know what to do with everything else, makeup-wise, lipstick has always been a way to feel like I've put a look together." —Zeba Blay, Writer
"I think people always want to think they got a steal, but just because two creams are good doesn't mean they're dupes! It just shows you that cheaper formulations can be excellent." —Charlotte Palermino, Founder, Dieux Skin
"The Body Shop is my small secret. If I want to buy beauty and don't want to go broke, I go there—everything is so affordable and so good." —Molly Goddard, Co-Founder, Desmond & Dempsey
"I alternate between using a makeup wipe or Pond's Cold Cream to take off my foundation. Pond's you can buy for just a few dollars, and it's amazing. [And] I wash my face with the original Dove Beauty Bar. Dove bars are 25-percent moisturizer, so it cleanses while protecting the moisture barrier of your skin." —Toni Ko, Founder, Nyx Cosmetics & Bespoke Beauty Brands
"My grandmother used [Pond's], my mama used it, and it's very inexpensive. Same thing with Vaseline, which is my favorite eye cream—I will fight crow's feet at all costs. [Another thing I love is] to get in a warm bath covered in Johnson and Johnson jelly baby oil, and let that soak." —Lala Kent, Vanderpump Rules
"I'd never really invested in my skin until last year—I didn't even know where to start. You know, let's be real, these things are expensive. You have to have a certain level of income, which I felt privileged to have. Everyone's like, 'What's the celebrity's secret?' It's money! Really, it's money." —Peyton Dix, Social Media Strategist
"The best tip I've gotten from a makeup artist on set was to wet my Beautyblender with warm water, not cold water. It makes such a difference in the way it distributes product." —Tabria Majors, Model
"Over winter break in college I went to work on a Manuka honey farm for fun because I'd always wanted to go to New Zealand. It was so much fun, but I got really sunburnt. The mom of the family that owns the farm told me to try the honey we were harvesting on my face. Every night, we'd sit in front of the TV with Manuka honey dripping off our faces." —Michelle Li, Stylist + Creative
"There are only a few gemstones that you have to be careful about oils and alcohols with, the most common ones being pearls, coral, and turquoise. They're porous, so anything you put on will get absorbed and damage or discolor your jewelry. You don't have to take off gold, or faceted gemstones like diamonds, sapphires, and garnets when you wash your hands, but I take them off before applying hand cream. Oil will stick onto the gemstones and make them look dull." —Joanna Gong, Private Sales Director Specialist, Sotheby's
"A lot of Black women suffer from seborrheic dermatitis and just don't know it, but, fun fact: [ketoconazole] is usually prescribed as a shampoo, and those shampoos are not formulated for highly textured, Black hair. Eventually I learned that it's also available as a foam, which is great because I can spray it directly on my scalp, even if I have braids." —Rinny Perkins, Comedian, Writer, Visual Artist
"Lily wanted to go blonde, but what we did was highlight it and then root it. I lightened up the whole head and then put dark ammonia-free hair color on the roots, so her own color never went red. I toned the middle with a level 8 or 9, and then I just left the bottom area raw. It was fantastic because she could go six months without a touch up." —Tracey Cunningham, Colorist + Owner, Mèche Salon
"Every two weeks I dry brush. My legs can get flaky no matter what I do, and when I do dry brush I see all the flakes go away. That's the only reason why I do it." —Diarrha N'Diaye-Mbaye, Founder & CEO, Ami Colé
"I have lots of baby hairs, and it's taken years to figure out how to slick my hair back. V76 by Vaughn Molding Paste really helps. I put a little bit on the surface of my hair, especially on the top around my part where it sticks out most, and really press it down. Then I use a regular comb to slick it back. That holds better than hairspray for me." —Mistress Iris, Dominatrix
"I put on [Milky Jelly Cleanser] before I shower, leave it on in the shower for about five minutes, and then I take it off with water. Also, I don't know if this is right, but if I have small spots, I put some on in the night and then sleep with it on. My spots are always gone the next day. It just balances my skin in some way—it's very good for me." —Julie Fagerholt, Head of Design, H2OFagerholt
"Take a chunk of your hair in a straightener, flip it, pull it away from your face, and let it glide away from you. That creates a perfect corkscrew curl." —Emily DiDonato, Model + Founder, Covey
"People always ask me if I use The Ordinary, and I do, but I never want to tell them how I use it. It's a body brand for me—their Glycolic Acid 7% Toning Solution goes on the back of my arms too, and I use the red AHA 30% + BHA 2% Peeling Solution on my feet to get rid of calluses." —Charlotte Palermino
"I've been playing with RMS' Beauty Eye Polish in Utopia on my cheeks, because I don't like how it looks on my eyes. I do the same thing with the Givenchy Ombre Couture Waterproof Cream—I really like products that are multipurpose." —Youri Park, Co-Founder & CTO, Newness
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It's that time of year- ramping up for party season! Fall brings more family gatherings, Thanksgiving, and the never-ending carousel of holiday parties won't be far behind. Here we've put together a review of the best way to remove the most common party stains: Red wine, oils (olive, avocado, safflower, etc.), candle wax, coffee and chocolate.
Read on, and you'll be prepared for anything at your next party!
Sprinkle salt liberally over the red wine mark , as much as needed to help absorb the wine. When as much is absorbed as possible, vacuum up the salt and pour club soda over it to help dilute the remaining wine. Then apply full strength Eucalan to any remaining marks, and let sit for 15 minutes. Wash item as normal.
Blot the oil immediately with a paper towel, and sprinkle baking soda or cornstarch onto the remaining oil mark and let sit. In the morning, apply full strength Eucalan to the remaining oil mark, and let sit for 15 minutes. Then wash item.
Let the wax dry completely before trying to clean it. Apply an ice pack to make sure that the wax is completely solid before beginning to remove it. Remove as much wax as possible by scraping it with a butter knife. Get two paper bags, and place one underneath the fabric and another on top of it- you will be using a clothes iron to remove the rest of the wax. Gently iron the area with the wax on it repeatedly, moving the paper bags around so that any wax that transfers from the fabric to the paper bags isn't being reapplied to the fabric again.
Blot spill immediately until no more colour is coming away on a cloth or paper towel. Apply full strength Eucalan directly to the remaining coffee marks, and leave for at least half an hour before washing item as normal.
If possible, flush the fabric from the wrong side with warm water to help prevent the chocolate from being driven further into the fibres. When as much chocolate has been rinsed off as possible, saturate the remaining mark with full strength Eucalan, and let sit for 30 minutes. Gently scrub at the stain after 30 minutes, and repeat if necessary. Launder as usual once the mark is removed.


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The Economic Burden of PTSD in Northern Ireland
Finola Ferry, Sharon E. Brady, Brendan Bunting, Samuel D. Murphy, David Bolton, Siobhan O'Neil
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