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Glamorama (Vintage Contemporaries)
By Bret Easton Ellis
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Annals of Japery
My Sophomore Years
Jacob Lambert
On a recent foray into the deepest, dankest corners of my basement, I came across a box of college mementoes — old photographs, bottlecaps, blue-book exams. As I dug through the strata, I uncovered a largely-forgotten treasure: a stack of novels that I'd read and loved as an idealistic, horny, often hungover student. These books helped usher me from my teens into adulthood — and opened my eyes to the breadth, and often the harshness, of the surrounding world. I'd adored these books. So why had I left them in this box, like discarded memories? Looking through them again, I may have found the answer.
Dancing Soup with Coyote Girl • Tom Robbins
As a sophomore, I discovered Robbins's Another Roadside Attraction and was blown back by his sentences' studied freedom and his generous worldview. I quickly read Still Life With Woodpecker and enjoyed it slightly less; Skinny Legs and All, less still. By the time I got to Jitterbug Perfume, I was openly annoyed by the patchouli miasma that hovered over everything. The last Robbins book I read was Dancing Soup With Coyote Girl, published in 1992. The more Coyote Girl I read, the more I felt almost physically ill, as if a sketchy-bearded hippie was talking me through a brown-acid trip. I couldn't finish the book. And when I saw Dancing Soup With Coyote Girl's long-forgotten cover — a purple can of mushroom soup hovering above a desert mesa — I had a sweaty flashback that left me shivering under the utility sink.
Monsters of Privilege • Bret Easton Ellis
Of all the Ellis novels I ripped through in college — American Psycho, Glamorama, Less Than Zero — I remember very little about Monsters of Privilege aside from the fact that it featured hard drugs, an anorexic girl seeming to die without anyone caring, and lots of dead-eyed sex. As I flipped through my copy — the cover shows a backlit silhouette of a high-cheeked young man and a bold san-serif font — my eye landed on a passage that seemed representative: "Derek looked around, blood draining from the wound. The glass vase lay smashed on the Italian marble. 'I need some coke,' Derek muttered to the empty foyer. Out by the pool, someone had put on a Tears for Fears cassette."
Garbageman • Charles Bukowski
Bukowski's third novel, the autobiographical Garbageman, is about Los Angeles trash collector Henry Chinaski, who, when not working for the city's Public Works Authority, writes short stories on a broken typewriter in his grimy cold-water flat. Chinaski rages against his circumscribed lot with a steady, heroic intake of hard booze and cheap women, unconcerned by the bleakness of it all. While some have criticized Garbageman as a carbon-copy of much of his other work — Post Office and Factotum come to mind — the differences are obvious. In Post Office, he's a postal worker, and in Factotum, he's a factotum (or handyman). In Garbageman, he's a…well, I won't ruin it for you.
The Gutter • Hubert Selby, Jr.
What I'd consider to be Selby's lightest, frothiest novel, The Gutter follows the exploits of a heroin-addicted gigolo named Bunny. At the book's outset, we find Bunny writhing in a flophouse basement, covered in blood and vomit while scratching at infected boils. Two hundred forty-seven pages later, Bunny is near death, "bad skag" spreading through his veins, spittle at his purple lips, as he moans in the titular gutter. "I always wanted to write a comedy," Selby said to The New York Review of Books in 1987, upon The Gutter's publication. "This is my Without Feathers."
Ishmael 3: Going Ape • Daniel Quinn
I read the gorilla-philosophy classic Ishmael at the precise moment I should have, when I was about 19 and, like its narrator, had "an earnest desire to save the world." Its message — basically, that we're a species of selfish bastards, and we need to stop hacking everything to pieces — seemed sound, and I became a vegetarian not long after reading it. A sequel, My Ishmael, offered more of the same, and I responded in kind, cutting dairy from my diet and riding my 10-speed everywhere, no matter the distance. I was nearly at my limit — and the Gaia-minded self-sacrifice urged in Ishmael 3: Going Ape pushed me over the edge. After reading it, I sought out a remote yurt-based community, where we drank home-brewed scallionmilk and fashioned socks from dryer lint. It was a rough period, to say the least (it was the year of the Great Eastern Chigger Invasion), and as the memories flooded back, I shoved Ishmael 3: Going Ape into the deepest recesses of the box, along with its companions: the Selby, the Ellis, the Bukowski, the Robbins. I sealed it with fresh tape, hurried up the basement steps, and shut off the light. Upstairs, slightly shaken, I laid on my living-room couch and continued reading a book that, I'm positive, will never seem embarrassing in retrospect.
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The Millions Interview
An Alternate Universe of Pop Culture: A Conversation with Teddy Wayne, Author of The Love Song of Jonny Valentine
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I first came across the work of Teddy Wayne in his debut novel, Kapitoil, the story of a Qatari computer programmer living in Manhattan. Daring in subject matter yet impeccably relatable in its concerns — how does one live well? — Kapitoil marked the arrival of a new voice in fiction with something important to say about our relationship to not only the complex machinations of the stock exchange but to pop culture as well. Now, Wayne returns with his sophomore effort, The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, a coming-of-age novel about a tween singer in the vein of Justin Bieber. Once again, Teddy Wayne examines the role pop culture plays in our lives. Who creates it? Who benefits from it? What is its effect on us? In January, I had the opportunity to read with Wayne in Manhattan, and almost immediately after, we set up this interview to discuss some of these questions.
The Millions: The lame cliché writing instructors often tell their students is to avoid dropping pop culture references in their work so that it'll be more timeless. Yet both of your novels are steeped in their time and place. Kapitoil touches on fantasy baseball and samurai flicks, and the plot hinges on the paranoid run-up to Y2K. Your new novel, The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, discusses Jonny's music, his concerts, his Twitter feed, even his staged relationship with another teeny bopper. What is it about popular culture that interests you? Why do you think it keeps popping up in your work? And do you think the old advice about avoiding pop culture in fiction is old-fashioned or esoteric?
Teddy Wayne: David Foster Wallace got into arguments about this in graduate school, when he wanted to depict the heavily mediated space around him — subject matter his professors thought was inconsequential or un-literary. As he pointed out, he'd see hundreds of ads and commercials each day, and they constituted an integral part of his mental activity. Writing about this material gets pejoratively labeled "postmodern" or "experimental," but what's more "realist" than describing the physical world, even if billboards and 30-second spots replace trees and rivers?
Likewise, it misses the point to discard fiction simply because it's about social media or the celebrity-gossip machine and not Iraq or divorce. By focusing on areas that seem marginal through a narrow aperture, you can sometimes render a much more expansive portrait of a country. I'm an advocate of critic Manny Farmer's agile, industrious "termite art" (as opposed to bloated, self-important "white elephant art"):
The most inclusive description of the art is that, termite-like, it feels its way through walls of particularization, with no sign that the artist has any object in mind other than eating away the immediate boundaries of his art, and turning these boundaries into conditions of the next achievement.
Moreover, James Joyce and Jane Austen — and nearly all writers, ever — also wrote about the popular culture of their times; it just wasn't called "pop culture" then. Disposable songs of the day frequently recur in Ulysses, for instance, including "What-Ho! She Bumps!," which sounds like a Black Eyed Peas' single.
Many Americans no longer have physical communities. We don't know our neighbors or live in the same place for our whole lives; our kids don't play together in the street; we don't socialize in organized groups, whether in a house of worship or a bowling alley. What we do have is mass culture that binds us, so that two coworkers who have little in common can still discuss last night's episode of American Idol around the water cooler. (And that ritual, too, is getting fragmented now that people watch television shows on their own time and the culture is further splintering into yet more tribes.) This has become our ersatz religion, and it's important to document and analyze its effects on us.
TM: Even though The Love Song of Jonny Valentine is drenched in our tween-sensation, YouTube landscape, there are very few references to real life pop culture phenomena within the book. Jonny's favorite video game sounds appropriately complex and plausible, yet it doesn't exist. Jonny speaks about the artists that have influenced him, but they're rarely, if ever, real-life singers. Even his hero, Michael Jackson, is only referred to as MJ throughout. What prompted you to go this route with the novel? Why create an entire alternate universe of pop culture for Jonny to exist in? And did you ever consider using real life singers and video games in the novel?
TW: I generally find it hacky when public figures show up fictionalized in books (or TV shows or movies) in cameos, because it lends itself to caricatures, unless the writer does something radically revisionist with the received persona (as Wallace, for example, does with Alex Trebek and Pat Sajak in the story "Little Expressionless Animals"). It feels like gratuitous name-dropping, in the same way that it annoys me when writers use a historical event, completely independent from the story, to ground us in time and place (the way Mad Men does far too much, for my taste).
So while Jonny and the novel refer to real musicians and songs throughout — from the aforementioned MJ and "Billie Jean" to The Clash and "Complete Control" — the two other musical performers who dominate the book are fictional: pop megastar Tyler Beats, whose career Jonny is trying to emulate, and Zack Ford, the front man for the Latchkeys, Jonny's opening rock band. The late-night talk-show host who interviews him might strike some readers as similar to a real figure, but by naming him, it reduces the character to that sole possibility. I'd like the book to operate, as you suggest, as an alternate universe, both to preserve this potential and to invite in readers who have limited knowledge of contemporary music. Ideally, you should be able to enjoy this even if you stopped listening to new music after 1970.
A friend proposed I name the video-game system Jonny plays, but I declined to, for the same reason; if it's a PlayStation, then it can be only that system, and the game Jonny plays incessantly has to accord to its real-life standards. Incidentally, the game, called The Secret Land of Zenon, is based off a real role-playing game series (does this make me sound incredibly cool or what?), Ultima, that I played for a few years when I was much younger. It's always a catalyst for bonding — since I'm not in a bowling league — when I find out someone else has a nostalgic attachment to the same semi-obscure object from their youth. I got a lot of emails for a throwaway allusion to the "purple stuff" Sunny Delight commercial in Kapitoil.
TM: I also steep my work in the details of the era. My novel Last Call in the City of Bridges is set during the first Obama campaign, and the characters routinely voice their triumphs and failures on Facebook and Twitter. Even in four short years, the way people interact over social media is totally different. People don't write things like "Teddy Wayne is answering questions for an interview" anymore, but they did back in 2008. So I'm wondering if you share my fear, that perhaps we're dating our work by relying so much on the internet and pop culture. In Chuck Klosterman's Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, he worries that his book will one day be "as outdated as a 1983 book about Fantasy Island." I teach Klosterman's essay about Saved by the Bell, and it's always astounding to see how and if undergraduates can interact with it if they have no knowledge of the show. Do you ever worry about prematurely dating your book, or do you think it's almost impossible not to date your work?
TW: I really like that Klosterman essay, having parlayed my years of committing every episode to memory into a single humor piece years later. Efficient use of my youth. And I'll resist the urge to make a bad joke about dating my book by taking it out to dinner and a movie and we'll see where the night takes us. I'll strongly resist it.
My aim for this book, and my first one, was to capture something about the era it portrays (and in the case of Kapitoil, set in 1999, also the era it was published in) while doing my best to write a story that transcends the time period. It's true that, 50 years from now, we won't be using Twitter as we currently do, but we don't ride in stagecoaches or believe in the Olympian gods, either, and plenty of those narratives remain relevant. Investigating your contextual surroundings confines you to that spatial-temporal sphere only if that's your one concern. I recall reading an interview with Bret Easton Ellis about Glamorama, in which he responded to concerns that its extensive cast of millennial celebrities might soon be outdated, as this list from the first chapter makes clear:
Naomi Campbell, Helena Christensen, Cindy Crawford, Sheryl Crow, David Charvet, Courteney Cox, Harry Connick, Jr., Francisco [sic] Clemente, Nick Constantine, Zoe Cassavetes, Nicolas Cage, Thomas Calabro, Cristi Conway [sic], Bob Collacello, Whitfield Crane, John Cusack, Dean Cain, Jim Courier, Roger Clemens, Russell Crowe, Tia Carrere and Helena Bonham Carter — but I'm not sure if she should be under B or C.
Ellis's answer was that of course it would be outdated — that was exactly his point. (This seems like an easy point to make, but that's another matter. When a novel's major project is to expose the shallowness of the culture, it risks being equally shallow. Also, check out how outdated that New York Times page looks by now.) If your entire mission is to traffic in the there-and-gone minutiae of our culture, then, yes, I think you flirt with early obsolescence. If you marshal it as the trappings for a complete story, though, you have a chance to pinpoint exactly what it is about the epoch that is also universal.
It's ironic, though, that we sometimes criticize contemporary work steeped in modern detail for its triviality, yet lavish praise on period fiction or entertainment with hyper-accurate attention to historical detail (again, Mad Men). To me, that sometimes also feels like the name-dropping of celebrities, or an occasion for the writer — or set and costume designers — to prove to the reader that he's done his homework.
TM: This is a bit of a softball question, but it's one I kept coming back to while reading Jonny Valentine. You seem like a very well-adjusted, adult man. What prompted you to write a book from the perspective of a prepubescent tween heartthrob? What is it that interests you about this world? What do you think it says about us as a society when Justin Bieber can go from a completely normal kid singing on YouTube to an overnight sensation recording tracks with Kanye West and the Rza? Does it say anything?
TW: You'd have to canvas my friends to gauge how well-adjusted and adult I really am. Though I'm not an 11-year-old, I certainly share many of Jonny's anxieties, especially his professional ones. He gets nauseous before sold-out performances at corporate arenas; I get a few butterflies before reading in front of four people at a bookstore. He's promoting his second album; this is my second book. He chronically masturbates in hopes of achieving his first ejaculation; I…never mind.
I've always been interested in child stars and prodigies. It's a strange phenomenon, to have an adult mind or adult responsibilities but the restricted emotional comprehension of a child. We've had huge child stars in this country for a long time, ever since Jackie Coogan and Shirley Temple in the 1920s and '30s, and many more the last few decades, especially this most recent one. We're fascinated by the contrast of outsized talent in somebody so small, and we impute qualities to them — usually angelic innocence — that may not necessarily reflect their private personae. And their histories are often profoundly tragic; I don't need to list the examples.
I don't know what the overnight-sensation trend says about us other than that we've always been a country fixated on get-rich-quick schemes and the dream that someone with power will discover us at the drugstore soda fountain and turn us into a star. The difference, now, is that nearly everyone has the potential to make him or herself famous for fifteen seconds (perhaps not minutes) — especially if you don't mind public humiliation.
TM: How deeply did you research this world? In the acknowledgments section, you bring up some influential nonfiction books, but I want to focus on the music here. Did you go out and buy a bunch of tween albums? Did you listen to them incessantly? Do you have favorites? Did you listen to any while writing?
TW: I listened to more tween pop than I cared to, to get a feel for the public images but also the lyrics, so that Jonny's own songs sounded plausible and not like satirical send-ups. But I also read some child-star autobiographies, from the somewhat more serious (Tatum O'Neal's A Paper Life) to the semi-trashy (Drew Barrymore's Little Girl Lost) to the propagandistic-advertorial (Miley Cyrus's Miles To Go). And I read a number of tween-celebrity websites and magazines, sometimes in public, which can be hard to explain to onlookers.
I'm partial to One Direction's "What Makes You Beautiful." I think that would be the way to be an adolescent pop star: in a quintet, so that you're among friends, even if everyone knows that just one of you will make it out alive (Mark Wahlberg, Justin Timberlake).
TM: On the surface, Kapitoil and The Love Song of Jonny Valentine couldn't be more different; however, they share some similarities. Both are told in very convincing first-person voices from characters with extremely different backgrounds from your own, and, reduced to their most basic levels, both involve young men finding their place in the world. Do you find it easier to write in first person than third? Did you ever attempt to write either of these books in third person? Is third person something you want to work toward in future novels, or do you not obsess about the divide between third and first as much as I do?
TW: I do find it easier to write in first person, when I'm able to stretch out the fullest possibilities of a character's voice, which is the most pleasurable part of writing for me. I'm always drawn to ventriloquism, especially of characters with idiosyncratic speaking styles. This is not to say I won't ever write in the third person, but reading first person typically inspires deeper empathy for me. It also feels like it best exploits the native advantages of fiction — interiority and subjective language — whereas film can sometimes surpass what third-person narration does. (Film can use voice-over, of course, but it's usually clunky.)
Kapitoil didn't sell in its first round of submissions, and several editors complained about Karim Issar's voice, an English-as-a-second-language hybrid of technofinancial jargon and mathematically precise grammar. My agent thought I should see what it would look like in the third person, so I "translated" a page. It was lifeless, lacking everything that a reader might gravitate to in the book, so I stopped. (I did revise the last third of the book, among other things, which was a more necessary fix.)
TM: Kapitoil was released in April 2010, and The Love Song of Jonny Valentine will be published this February. That's less than three years. How do you manage to produce so many pages? Do you write every day? Or are you someone who writes in quick bursts? Do you think your process informs the work you do? And finally, what's next? Are you going to take some time off between books, or are you already imagining what your third novel will be?
TW: Before and after Kapitoil was published, I was slogging through another novel for about a year. I wasn't having fun with it and the words were coming slowly; I think I produced about 100 pages. Then, one morning in October 2010, a friend emailed me asking if I had any ideas for a humorous book we could collaborate on. Without much premeditation, I suggested a parody of the pop-star autobiographies I would later go on to read for research. He liked the idea; an hour later, I realized it could make a good novel if I treated it with more gravity. I wrote 3,000 words that afternoon, a torrent for me. (I usually aim for 500 a day and am ecstatic if I get 1,000.)
Soon after, I signed up at Paragraph in New York, a writers' room, and used an old computer with no Internet so that my only entertainment was writing the novel itself. I finished a first draft in six months, also speedy for me, and spent about a year revising until my agent tried to sell it (and then several more months of work with my diligent, brilliant editor, Millicent Bennett, after Free Press bought it). It was a lesson that if a project is proceeding torturously, maybe you should abandon it, and if something is coming (relatively) easily, it might be a good sign. I mix in a decent amount of freelance writing, too, so I try to write something most weekdays and sometimes on the weekends, though I don't hold myself to a strict schedule. With fiction, I can concentrate for about four hours at a time; for nonfiction or humor writing, I can last much longer.
In the near future, I'll be working on a screenplay with the writer Amber Dermont, author of The Starboard Sea and the forthcoming story collection Damage Control, and on a TV pilot with her and director/screenwriter Yaniv Raz. I have a vague idea for a new novel, but if the past is any indication, it will also be a bust (I finished a failed novel before Kapitoil, too). I look forward to referring back to this interview several years from now to tell an anecdote about the misguided novel I'd been struggling with before I righted my ship.


Talk2 is a free communication application which gives you the opportunity to have a Philippine mobile number and receive calls at local rates.
This calling app is very popular and in our opinion it is very useful for communication purposes. All you need to do is just to connect your Talk2 number and you will be ready to receive and make calls.
Unfortunately there is no official PC version of Talk2 but you can emulate the app on your PC or Mac by using an Android emulator such as BlueStacks or Andyroid.
All you need to do is to download BlueStacks or Andyroid, then install the software and search for Talk2 into the app market.


Lin, Y., Caia, X., Wang, G., Ouyang, G., Cao, H.
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Lin, Y., Caia, X., Wang, G., Ouyang, G., Cao, H. (2018) Model construction of Niemann-Pick Type C disease in zebrafish. Biological chemistry. 399(8):903-910.
Niemann-Pick Type C disease (NPC) is a rare human disease, with limited effective treatment options. Most cases of NPC disease are associated with inactivating mutations of the NPC1 gene. However, cellular and molecular mechanisms responsible for the NPC1 pathogenesis remain poorly defined. This is partly due to the lack of a suitable animal model to monitor the disease progression. In this study, we used CRISPR to construct an NPC1-/- zebrafish model, which faithfully reproduced the cardinal pathological features of this disease. In contrast to the wild type, the deletion of NPC1 alone caused significant hepatosplenomegaly, ataxia, Purkinje cell death, increased lipid storage, infertility and reduced body length and life span. Most of the NPC1-/- zebrafish died within the first month post fertilization, while the remaining specimens developed slower than the wild type and died before reaching eight months of age. Filipin-stained hepatocytes of the NPC1-/- zebrafish were clear, indicating abnormal accumulation of unesterified cholesterol. Lipid profiling showed a significant difference between NPC1-/- and WT zebrafish. An obvious accumulation of seven sphingolipids was detected in livers of NPC1-/- zebrafish. In summary, our results provide a valuable model system that could identify promising therapeutic targets and treatments for the NPC disease.


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HomeOpinionReminder As Twitter And Facebook Purge Conservatives: Social Media Use Increases Depression, Loneliness
Reminder As Twitter And Facebook Purge Conservatives: Social Media Use Increases Depression, Loneliness
January 10, 2021 C. Kramer
This past week Big Tech monopolies Twitter and Facebook banned President Donald Trump from their platforms. The "purge" expanded in a surprise move when Parler, a conservative version of Twitter, announced Amazon would be shutting them down as early as Sunday night.
However, conservatives and others were warned that the social media platforms were not their friends and researched showed that they were not good for their mental health.
That research by psychologist Melissa G. Hunt, who published her findings in the December 2018, Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology.
Hunt explored the link between a decreased well-being and the use Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram.
Hunt's research team designed their experiment to include the three platforms most popular with a cohort of undergraduates, and then collected objective usage data automatically tracked by iPhones for active apps, not those running the background.
Each of 143 participants completed a survey to determine mood and well-being at the study's start, plus shared shots of their iPhone battery screens to offer a week's worth of baseline social-media data. Participants were then randomly assigned to a control group, which had users maintain their typical social-media behavior, or an experimental group that limited time on Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram to 10 minutes per platform per day.
For the next three weeks, participants shared iPhone battery screenshots to give the researchers weekly tallies for each individual. With those data in hand, Hunt then looked at seven outcome measures including fear of missing out, anxiety, depression, and loneliness.
"Here's the bottom line," said Hunt in 2018. "Using less social media than you normally would leads to significant decreases in both depression and loneliness. These effects are particularly pronounced for folks who were more depressed when they came into the study."
According to Hunt, because this particular work only looked at Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat, it's not clear whether it applies broadly to other social-media platforms. She also hesitated to say that these findings would replicate for other age groups or in different settings.
What is clear is that those who have been purged might use the time they spent on the social media platforms to organize efforts to ensure election victories in the future.
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It sounds crazy to say this but the truth is: Ever since I came out of the womb, he just DID it for me. Whenever we connected, I lost my appetite, track of time, and quite frankly, a whole lotta money. My friends and family were always in awe of my thick skin, watching me tolerate him come and go as he pleased, but I assured them I was ok and that there's no one else I wanted to be with more, than Acting.
Thankfully, I finally realized it too when it hit me that he hadn't made a valiant effort since he let me appear on NBC's About a Boy, all the way back in November 2014.
Yep-- the two years of radio silence was the deal-breaker, and I finally decided to say goodbye to Acting last month.
I met with a matchmaker to go over the possibility of dating AVAILABLE men-- you know, the kind who want me around Mondays through Fridays from 9-5, who pay for my vacation time, and feel as strongly about monogamy as I do.
My heart sank during the meeting-- I knew I wasn't head over heels for these potential suitors, despite the list of several enticing credentials they offered. And the life coach in me felt like a fraud, taking on the limiting belief that I HAD to choose between an abusive relationship of passion OR a secure relationship of boredom.
So I left the meeting, cried to my best friend, and decided that even though I was clairely over acting, I wouldn't officially break up with him until Mr. Right came along.
As soon as I made this very claire decision, the mofo came outta nowhere just DAYS after the meeting, and whisked me off to the set of FOX's Sleepy Hollow in Atlanta last week, for the most rewarding role of my life to date.
I fell in love with Acting all over again--perhaps on an even deeper level. He profusely apologized and explained he had been doing a lot of work on himself over the last two years in therapy-- pretty much everything I'd been dying to hear him say my whole life, right when I didn't need to hear it anymore. He begged me to give him another chance and I just couldn't resist his charm.
Do I think he changed? Nooot entirrrrrely but most importantly, I CHANGED.
I got the clearest I'd ever been about about my needs, I authentically took my power back, and for the first time ever, I put me before him.
What or who are your grasping at, with little to no reward in return? Are you giving too much and therefore sacrificing your most precious essential self's needs? Is there a turtle step you can think of that would help tap into your self-empowerment? Try it out and see how the Universe responds to YOU PUTTING YOU FIRST! Let me know how it goes in the comments below!
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Man diving at National Park "Krka".
Girl posing at National Park "Plitvice" in Croatia.
Photo captured in Split at random balcony.
Man diving from Old Bridge in Mostar during traditional jump.
Participants of the traditional marathon in Pittsburgh.
Break-dancers in center of Sarajevo.


The Tilapia Field is 1.8km offshore of the Republic of the Congo, located in the Lower Republic of the Congo Basin. It is drilled from onshore and has production and storage facilities onshore. It is a 45 minute drive from Point Noire and 17km from the nearest refinery.
The Tilapia Field has been in production since 2007 and is currently producing 38/bopd of 39-41 API light sweet crude, from wells in the R1/R2 horizon. With workover and enhanced oil recovery techniques, AAOG expects to increase production from this horizon and continue production for many years. P90 reserves in R1/R2 are estimated at 7.6 million barrels.
AAOG believes that with the application of enhanced oil recovery techniques, wells TLP101 and TLP102 can substantially increase production. The first workover involves reperforation and acidisation of the R1 and R2 reservoirs in well TLP102 which will be drilled and connected to the manifold. The second workover involves the setting of a progressive cavity pump over the R2 reservoir in well TLP101.
Within the Tilapia Field, developments in seismic techniques have recently been able to interpret the presence of hydrocarbons in the Djeno Sands, which lie below the pre-salt layer. In neighbouring fields ENI, SOCO International and Oryx are already producing or in the final stages of testing prior to production from the Djeno Sands.
The seismic material indicates that the Djeno Sands have high volumes of reserves, and the presence of hydrocarbons in the AAOG block is confirmed with conventional flow rates. This was not brought into production within Tilapia when originally tested because the necessary techniques to kick-start production did not then exist.
The Djeno Sands have been shown to have reservoirs that, in neighbouring fields, have been in production since 2013, with production of 4,750-5,000 bopd per well. These other fields have enjoyed high flow rates, which are caused by the oil layer itself being naturally pressurised by lower lying high-pressure gas deposits.


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NorCal Tip-Off Classic Recaps
By Ronnie Flores | Published: November 27, 2021 Follow @RonMFlores
Shane O'Reilly (left) from NorCal No. 1 Campolindo of Moraga & B.J. Davis of No. 2 Modesto Christian were MVPs in the final two games of the NorCal Tip-Off Classic. Photos: Gerry Freitas.
Here's the results and recap from the 14th Annual NorCal Tip-Off Classic at Dublin. NorCal No. 1 and state No. 4 Campolindo opens its season with a quality win over No. 26 and host Dublin in the marquee game. Preseason state No. 6 Modesto Christian takes down No. 15 San Joaquin Memorial of Fresno and it was a big debut for a new player and new head coach at De La Salle.
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2021 NorCal Tip-Off Classic Results
(Teams listed by CalHiSports.com preseason state ranking)
Game 8: No. 4 Campolindo (Moraga) 50, No. 26 Dublin 42
The marquee game of an event that resumed after a year hiatus saw NorCal's top-ranked team up its winning streak to 20 games with a tough win over the host club. Campolindo (1-0) came out firing on all cylinders and took a 16-4 lead after one period with good shooting, crisp cutting and passing. Dublin (0-1) settled down and eventually got some quality looks for top scorer Courtney Anderson, one of the top juniors in the state, despite blanket defense from junior Cade Bennett and Aidan Mahaney, the 2020 Bay Area Player of the Year who came off the bench in the Cougars' season-opener.
Dublin trailed at halftime, 31-22, and was able to get back into the game by holding Campolindo to four points in the third quarter, but could never get over the hump down the stretch in the fourth quarter. Dublin was in the bonus with 7:22 to go in the game down 37-31.
The Cougars' transition defense was on point and they made their free throws, going 7-of-8 from the line. Dublin missed eight free throws (14-of-22) and made 2-of-16 on 3-point shots. The Gaels had their chances in front of a raucous home crowd, but could get no closer than four points in the final period.
Anderson finished with 17 points for Dublin, but nobody else finished in double figures for coach Tom Costello. Donovan Cooks, a 6-foot-1 junior, finished with nine points and five rebounds.
Shane O'Reilly, a returning all-league guard, had 19 points for the Cougars, including 14 in the first half. Senior guard Cade Bennett, the son of St. Mary's coach Randy Bennett, had 10 points and six assists. Mahaney chipped in six points before cramping late in the game when it was still in the balance.
For Campolindo, the 2020 NorCal D1 champs who went 15-0 last season, have not lost since the 2020 North Coast Section playoffs when it lost to Dublin, 64-55. Campo is in D2 in its section and Dublin is in D1, but these two teams could meet again in the 66th Annual Gridley Invitational, December 9-11. A potential roadblock to a rematch in the eight-team field is preseason state No. 18 Salesian of Richmond.
Ryan Beasley bombed away for 44 points in a morning game at Saturday's Nor-Cal TipOff Classic. Photo: Gerry Freitas.
Game 7: No. 6 Modesto Christian 86, No. 15 San Joaquin Memorial (Fresno) 71
Both teams looked to get out on the break and make things happen offensively, but it was the Crusaders that had a bit more firepower and showed why they are the No. 2 team in NorCal to begin the season. San Joaquin Memorial (1-1) got a big game for Fresno State-bound JoJo Hunter as it needed to, but as had been the case in games in this event, one team started off slow and it happened to be the Panthers.
Modesto Christian (1-0) went up 9-0 and 12-2, before the Panthers started to settle in. The Panthers trailed 22-15 after one period and 45-34 at halftime, a score that would seem to give the CIF Central Section club some life considering how it played. Hunter got in a scoring duel with Modesto Christian sophomore guard Jamari Phillips and it made the game entertaining. Hunter, a returning first team all-state selection, scored 32 points on 10-of-21 shooting. Phillips, considered one of the nation's top sophomore recruits, connected on 9-of-18 field goal attempts and finished with 29 points.
San Joaquin Memorial was unable to cut its deficit to single digits, but the difference was the play of B.J. Davis, a returning all-state underclass guard who is quickly rising up in the Cal-Hi Sports Hot 100. His speed and shot making was something the Panthers couldn't match, as Davis finished with 27 points, seven rebounds and seven assists. Many of the seven assists in the second half went to sophomore forward Manassee Itete, who scored 12 points after intermission.
Modesto Christian also got a good contribution from sophomore Ty Virgil, who finished with nine points and eight rebounds.
San Joaquin Memorial got a terrific effort from junior forward Mike Davis Jr., who kept working against Itete and 6-foot-9 Prince Oseya to finish with 20 points and eight rebounds.
The Panthers made 16-of-19 free throws, but were out-rebounded by NorCal's No. 2 ranked team, 41-27.
Game 6: Oakland Tech 71, No. 33 Vanden (Travis AFB) 67
The Vikings came in looking to make a statement as one of NorCal's best teams, but it was the Bulldogs that served notice they could be major OAL contenders with a dominant victory. Oakland Tech (2-0) jumped out to leads of 7-1 and 17-6 and never looked back. To make matters worse for Vanden (0-1), leading senior Takai Emerson-Hardy picked up his second foul with 3:47 remaining in the first period. Emerson-Hardy then picked up his third with 30 seconds remaining in the first half. It was a microcosm of the game for Vanden, which turned the ball over in the backcourt on plenty of occasions in the first half and took poor, unforced shots.
Oakland Tech led 43-24 at halftime and 61-41 entering the fourth period and was cruising until the Vikings made a late push to make things interesting. They could have cut their deficit to four points on a three-point attempt by sophomore Tyler Thompson with just under a minute remaining, but the attempt was off. They eventually did cut it to four points on two free throws by senior Mikey Johnson with 26.1 seconds remaining, but junior guard Ahmaree Muhammad iced the game for Oakland Tech with two free throws with 22.6 seconds remaining.
Muhammad finished with 20 points for the Bulldogs, with Mahlik Smith, a six-foot junior, netting 18 points. He made a free throw with under three seconds to make it a two possession game.
Emerson-Hardy scored a game-high 19 points for Vanden. The Vikings connected on 28-of-41 free throws.
Game 5: Grant (Sacramento) 61, Riordan (San Francisco) 50
The difference in this game was the start, as Grant jumped out to a 13-0 lead and never looked back. Riordan (0-1) scored its first basket with 4:20 to go in the first quarter.
Grant (1-0) went up 24-10 in the second quarter and Riordan showed signs of life late in the second quarter, but was never able to put together a sustained run and get over the hump. The Pacers trailed 30-22 at halftime and 44-27 at the end of the third quarter.
Grant had four players in double figures, led by Bethune-Cookman bound point guard Jayson Matthews with 14 points and senior guard Rishod Brown with 13 points.
Riordan, which graduated a strong senior class and lost two talented underclass players to non-CIF program Prolific Prep of Napa, made only 3-of-12 3-pointers and 9-of-17 free throws. Achillies Woodson, a 5-foot-11 junior, led the Crusaders with 11 points.
Game 4: No. 37 Inderkum (Sacramento) 80, Bishop O'Dowd (Oakland) 54
The Tigers outplayed the Dragons in nearly every aspect of the game and pulled away from one of the traditional NorCal powers in the second half. Inderkum (2-0) got balanced scoring and solid play from a host of players despite foul trouble for star senior Derrick Claxton. He picked up two fouls in 10 seconds to give him four with 6:30 to go in the 3rd period and his team up 44-30. It hardly mattered, as the Tigers continued to pour it on offensively.
Claxton finished with 18 points, while game MVP Isaiah Chandavong, a junior, finished with 14 points. Chandavong added four assists and four steals. Seniors Damarieh Osby (6-0) and Anthony Williams (6-8) added 11 points apiece.
Bishop O'Dowd (0-1) was led by senior Cameron Brown with 15 points, as the Dragons must re-group and show improvement if they are to be any factor in the weekly state rankings.
Game 3: De La Salle (Concord) 58, Elk Grove 47
The Thundering Herd trailed 26-15 at halftime, but outscored the Spartans, 21-14, in the third period to get back in the game. Elk Grove (2-1) had momentum in the game, until top player Ameere Britton had back-to-back fouls to get disqualified with 4:37 to go and his team trailing 43-38. He finished with 18 points.
Freshman Alec Blair of De La Salle (1-0) hit a 3-pointer to ice the contest, giving his team a 52-41 advantage with 2:30 remaining. The 6-foot-5 Blair, one of the top first-year players in the region, was named player of the game after scoring 16 points, grabbing 12 rebounds and getting three steals. It was not just an impressive debut for Blair, but also for new Spartans' coach Marcus Schroeder, a member of the 2006 D1 state title winning team.
Game 2: Clayton Valley (Concord) 72, Lincoln (Stockton) 53
The Ugly Eagles played a terrific overall game, jumping out to a 30-20 lead after one period of play. The Trojans then went cold for the next two quarters, scoring only 18 points as Lincoln (1-1) faced a 63-38 deficit entering the fourth period.
Jeremiah Dargan, one of the top unsigned senior prospects in the state, scored on a variety of baskets and led Clayton Valley (1-0) with 28 points. Junior Jake King added 14 points for the Ugly Eagles.
San Diego St-bound Miles Byrd had a tough shooting morning, making only 3-of-14 field goal attempts for Lincoln (1-1). He finished with nine points. Senior Andre Warren led the Trojans with 13 points.
Game 1: Dougherty Valley (San Ramon) 92, Woodside Priory (Portola Valley) 59
Junior guard Ryan Beasley was too much for the Panthers to handle, as he lived in the painted area and at the charity stripe on route to 44 points. The Wildcats, which upped their record to 2-0 on the young season, led 49-27 at halftime and the younger brother of Montana standout Robbie Beasley had 18 pts.
Woodside (1-1) was led by sophomore center Steve Emeneke with 14 points.
The event record for individual points is by Kendall Smith (UNLV/Cal-St. Northridge/Oklahoma), who scored 52 for Deer Valley of Antioch in 2012 during a double overtime victory over Sacramento.
Ronnie Flores is the managing editor of CalHiSports.com. He can be reached at ronlocc1977@gmail.com. Don't forget to follow him on Twitter: @RonMFlores
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By Patricia Danflous
What's the difference between blue and pink? Kathleen Sheffer can answer that question with exuberance and energy. It's the difference between living a step away from death and having a second chance for living a full life.
For most of her 27 years Sheffer's complexion was tinged with blue. Now she is pink, rosy and occasionally celebrates when her skin breaks out–just like a normal, healthy young woman. The color of her life changed July 1, 2016, when she received a heart and double lung transplant.
"I can't say that I felt great when I came out of the transplant surgery," the San Francisco native said. "But when my sister showed me a picture of my pink and healthy hand, I knew my life had changed."
A surgical patient at seven days old, Sheffer's congenital heart defect would limit and sometimes restrict her life for more than 20 years as her heart worked overtime to keep blood flowing through her body. "Today, surgery can correct the congenital arterial problem I had," she explained. "I had a repair procedure that had an impact on my lungs with the potential for a heart transplant always a concern."
You know how easy it is to jump in the shower after exercising or to get ready for a special event? For Sheffer, the process required 30 minutes of preparation and after care. "For 16 years I was on continuous intravenous medications with a central line in my chest," she noted, explaining that bandaging the area was a precise necessity.
While sitting on the sidelines watching her sister's success as a competitive swimmer could be disheartening, Sheffer didn't take time to feel sorry for herself. "I could be competitive in a different way," she stated. "I focused on academics and even though my parents were nervous and worried, I made my way to the University of California–Berkley, not too far away from home."
With a degree in Architecture, Sheffer took a detour from that field, turning her sharp appreciation for detail and creative vision toward photography. A highly respected corporate event photographer, her first out-of-town assignment not only acknowledged her talent and reputation but also raised a red flag on her medical problems.
"I flew to Seattle for that first corporate assignment and stayed with a friend from college," she said. "I woke up in the middle of the night, couldn't breathe and was soon coughing up blood. My friend called a Seattle hospital hotline and I experienced a 15-day stay in intensive care."
"This is not good," she remembered her Stanford doctor explaining when she was able to transfer back home. Sheffer's condition was rapidly progressing. It was transplant time.
Twenty-eight days later, and sooner than anticipated, she got the call that one family's loss and the generosity of an organ donation was her lifeline. "I spent the fourth of July holiday recovering from surgery to replace a heart that had worked so hard it was four times the normal size, and lungs that could no longer function. It was a total remodel of my chest area," she said smiling. "During the days after surgery I also celebrated and silently thanked those I didn't know for helping me to live," she emphasized.
The color of her skin is not the only thing that changed post-transplant. "I never imagined how transformative good circulation can be," Sheffer said. "I can exercise, do laundry and make dinner without stopping to rest every few minutes. I never learned how to exercise because I couldn't. Now I have started to play tennis and the first Christmas after the transplant I went on a seven-mile hike with my parents in Sedona, Arizona."
Sheffer's isn't just exercising and adding sports to her repertoire of life experiences. She's winning medals. Two years after her transplant she joined Team NorCal, a group of transplant recipients, living donors, donor families and caregivers, participating in the Transplant Games of America. The highly competitive event showcases the impact of organ, eye, and tissue registration while celebrating life and remembering donors. A member of the badminton, cycling and table tennis teams, she brought home a gold medal in badminton and two gold medals in a cycling competition–racing through the high altitude of Salt Lake City, Utah. "The 2020 Games were canceled due to COVID-19, but I am looking forward to the upcoming games, especially 2022 when they will be in San Diego, close to home," she said. "I would like to honor my donor by wearing their name on my team shirt, but I have yet to make contact with them. I have written letters of thanks, which the organ procurement agency passes on, but haven't gotten a response. I may never hear from the donor family, but I do want them to know how grateful I am."
As an organ recipient, Sheffer fell into the high risk category when COVID-19 made its impact on the world. "Just a few days after we had finished remodeling my childhood home, now my home and studio, the country went into lockdown," she said. "I am anxious to return to shooting corporate events and had to be a little creative while isolating. Taking photos of food and products is not as much fun as interacting with people, but it is a challenge that is sharpening my techniques."
Sheffer accepts the gift of life from her unknown donor seriously, making health a priority as well as compliance with COVID guidelines. "I have a responsibility to the donor and their family to take good care of the organs they generously donated," she said. "I want to stay healthy for all of us."
To see more and learn more about Kathleen Sheffer, visit her website at www.kathleensheffer.com or find her on Instagram @kathleen.s.photography.
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Joe Burrow Flexes on NFL After Game is Flexed Out of Sunday Night Football
Bruce Mikells Published: November 9, 2022
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Joe Burrow, the NFL star who grew up in far north Louisiana, also known as Ohio, has never been at a loss for words. Joe, from his playing days at LSU and now with the Cincinnati Bengals of the NFL has always been "good copy" to quote those in the media.
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